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he grip, step, and grand word may be exchanged between members of various golden dawn orders the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of the following: heat and dryness fire heat and moisture air cold and dryness earth cold and moisture water there are twelve zodiacal signs, and they are: 1 aries, the ram a 2 taurus, the bull _b 3 gemini, the twins c 4 cancer, the crab d 5 leo, the lion e 6 virgo, the virgin f 7 libra, the scales g 8 scorpio, the scorpion h 9 sagittarius, the archer i 10 capricorn, the goat j 11 aquarius, the water-bearer k 12 pisces, the fishes l these twelve signs are distributed among the four triplicities, or sets of three signs, each attributed to one of the four elements. they represent the operation of the elements in the zodiac. thus, to fire are

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tellations of the zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve leaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, symbolized by the letter heh, the first of the single letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse

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t abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. also there is the vision of the fire flashing courser of light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery or clothed with gold, or naked or shooting with the bow shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse. but if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of the lion. then when no longer are visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, the mass of the earth, when to thee the stars have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled when the earth abideth not, and around thee is the lightening flame, then call not before thyself the visible image of the soul of nature. for thou must not behold it ere thy body is purged by the sacred rites. since ev

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nd elohim said, let us make adam in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion. in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator. hiero: takes the incense from before the tablet, and making therewith the sign leo in the air before it. hiero: in the name of michael the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the lion, spirits of fire, adore your creator (making with incense the sign of cross) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, revealed unto enoch by the angel ave, spirits of fire, adore your creator (holding incense on high) in the three great secret names of god, borne on the banners of the south, oip teea pedoce spirits of fire, adore your creator. in the name of edelperna, g

heir 12 princes, who are the heads of the 12 months of the year. in the central square are placed samael and asmodai. at the south east are the man, the serpent and the elder lilith, the wife of samael. at the north east angle are the ox and the ass, the aggareth, the daughter of machalath. at the north west angle are the scorpion and asimon the unnamed one, and nehemah. and at the south west are the lion and the horse, the younger lilith, the wife of asmodai. hiero: i have much pleasure in conferring upon you the title of lord (lady) of the 27th path. you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return the ceremony of your reception in the grade of philosophus will take place. part iv temple officers hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

enly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury. cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the moon. leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the sun. virgo, the maiden: 24 august to 22 september. colour: green or pale blue. a mutable earth sign, for spells to increase efficiency, for bringing order to a chaotic situation, for self-improvement and for healing. ruled by mercury. libra, the

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n therefore do more, and be also independent of astrological considerations, because the matter is relegated to a higher plane than this' and one wherein the laws of physical nature do not obtain. but certainly when working with the rays of the sun, we shall more easily find his occult force of heat attainable when he himself is producing that effect upon the earth, i.e, when he is in the sign of the lion; while when he is in that of the bull' his force will be rather that of germination, etc, when in the northern hemisphere. and the same with the other planets. also if working by the indian tatwas, we shall find it necessary to consider the position of the moon, the time in the day, and the course of the tatwa in the period of five gharis. of the sacred magic 112 course abraharn could not

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place aloud to which you wish to travel, and place the symbol upon your head under the bonnet or the hat; but take well heed that it does not fall from you, which would be very dangerous. do not as a rule travel by night; and select a calm and serene day for the operation (e) no. b is a square of c f squares. tasma implies protection. trms is the hebrew word used in the verse, thou shalt go upon the lion and the adder. no. c consists of i squares taken from a square of b g. anan means great labour. no. d is a square of c f squares. holop means to travel. no. e is a square of b g squares. odac means to pass on from one place to another. no. f is a square of c f squares. rolor is perhaps from rol to move hurriedly. no. g is a square of c f squares. natsa means to flee or fly quickly. the sa

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apdoce they may be said to symbolize the triad of the supernals, the tetrad of the elements, and the o. again. in the commencing triad of the linea spiritus sancti of each tablet, it may be said that: oro will be symbolical of the voice of the man kerub. mph will be symbolical of the cry of the eagle kerub. mor will be symbolical of the low of the bull kerub. oip will be symbolical of the roar of the lion kerub. there are various ways of looking at the pyramids prior to undertaking the practical work of using them as the symbol for skrying in the spirit-vision. s.r.m.d. suggests a useful mode of meditation which elaborates in a most illuminating way the ordinary attributions. he says: thou mayest regard the upper triangle (no. 2) as representing a force acting downwards. the lower triangle

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

h i am appointed to find, and do that therein which must be done. there fore with faith and confidence do i who was- in a certain mystical sense- the priest of the princes, ankh-f-na-khonsu, child of ta-nech, the holy and mighty one, and of bes-na-maut, priestess of the starry one, set myself to tell myself the strange things that befell me in that life. thus. at my birth aphruimis in the sign of the lion was ascending, and in it that strange hidden planet that presides over darkness and magic and forbidden love. the sun was united with the planet of amoun, but in the abyss, as page 1 gulf.txt showing that my power and glory should be secret, and in aterechinis the second decanate of the house of mast, so that my passion and pleasure should likewise be unprofance. in the house of travel in

ft body in mine arms, drinking the wine of her eyes, feeding upon the honey of her mouth. then at last i counselled her that she should bid him to a secret banquet, and that i should serve them, disguised in my old dress as a serving-man. on the next night after this he came, and i served them, and she made open love (though feigned) to him. yet subtly, so that he thought her the deer and himself the lion. then at last he went clean mad, and said "i will give thee what thou wilt for one kiss of that thy marvellous mouth" then she made him swear the oath by pharaoh- the which if he broke pharaoh would have his head- and she kissed him once, as if her passion were like the passion of nile in flood for the sandy bars that it devoureth, and then leaping up, answered him "give me thine office o

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

as started on this path. the word out is then analysed, and treated as a noun. besides the explanation in the note, o is the yoni; t, the lingam; and u, the hierophant; the 5th card of the tarot, the pentagram. it is thus practically identical with iao. the rest of the chapter is clear, for the note. notes (12) o= character "the devil of the sabbath. u= 8, the hierophant or redeemer. t= strength, the lion (13) t, manhood, the sign of the cross or phallus. ut, the holy guardian angel; ut, the first syllable of udgita, see the upanishads. o, nothing or nuit. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 55 [57] 24 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-delta the hawk and the blindworm this book would translate beyond-reason into the words of reason. explain thou snow to them of anda

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and c. the waxing moon in 4; waning in 5; full in 6. col. xi. the elements, of whose nature the signs of the zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol against them. col. xii. let 45 be a strai

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

take a simple example, suppose that, in an evocation of bartzabel, the planet mars, whose sphere is geburah (severity) were situated (actually, in the heavens) opposite to the square of chesed (mercy) of the tau in the circle, and the triangle placed accordingly. it would be improper for the magus to stand on that square unless using this formula "i, from chesed, rule geburah through the path of the lion; while- taking an extreme case- to stand on the square of hod (which is naturally dominated by geburah) would be a madness which only a formula of the very highest magick could counteract. certain positions, however, such as tiphareth<<tiphareth is hardly "dominated" even by kether. it is the son rather than the servant, are so sympathetic to the magus himself that he may use them without

tual. now let him not only fill his whole being to the uttermost with the force of the names; but let him formulate his will, understood thoroughly as the dynamic aspect of his creative self, in an appearance symbolically apt, i say not in the form of a ray of light, of a fiery sword, or of aught save that bodily vehicle of the holy ghost which is sacred to baphomet, by its virtue that concealeth the lion and the serpent that his image may appear adorably upon the earth for ever. let then the adept extend his will beyond the circle in this imagined shape and let it radiate with the light proper to the element invoked, and let each word issue along the shaft with passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it should thrust itself leapingly forward. let also each word accum

all these folk of fear are driven before the avenging levin that rives the opening skies, behold that formless and that holy flame 292 that hath no name; the fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps snake-wise in royal robe wound round that vanished glory of the globe, unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, beyond the toils of time- then formulate in thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, the lion of the light, a child that stands on the vast shoulders of the steed of god: or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod with the flame-sandals. then, lift up thine hands! centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought limpid with brilliance of the light above! drawn into naught all life, death, hatred, love: all self concentred in the sole desire- hear thou the voice of fire- 293 point

ng 31 "sh" is fire as t is force; conjoined they express ra-hoor-khuit "the angel" represents the stele 666, showing the gods of the aeon, while "strength" is a picture of babalon and the beast, the earthly emissaries of those gods "sht" is the dynamic equivalent of "la" and "al "sh" shows the word of the law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31 "t" shows the formula of magick declared in that word; the lion, the serpent, the sun, courage and sexual love are all indicated by the card. in "la" note that saturn or satan is exalted in the house of venus or astarte, and it is an airy sign. thus "l" is father-mother, two and naught, and the spirit (holy ghost) of their love is also naught. love is ahbh, 13, which is achd, unity, i, aleph, who is the fool who is naught, but none the less an individ

d beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove; leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph the fool impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it affirms regression of types. instead of a man-god conceived of the spirit of god by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of a whore and a brute, begotten in shamefullest sin and born in most blasphemous bliss. this is in fact the formula

reated, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name 346 chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breaths. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, love and liberty, the word of whose law is gr:theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereb

de fluctibus, johannes dee "sir edward kelly" thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner "alphonse louis constant" friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard burton, sir richard payne knight, paul gauguin, docteur gerard encausse, doctor theodor reuss "and sir aleister crowley" oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant, and paternal to perfect this feast"(at each name the "deacon "signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicised, with wording as is shown" the people. s

as "t" or "s" or "m; use a paraphrase (c) avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine own ingenium devise others. 427 2. on each occasion that thou art betrayed into saying that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. feareth not the unicorn the claws and teeth of the lion? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. ii. 0. the horse is action. man, rule thine action. how else shalt thou master the father, and answer the fool

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

mohammed. next was a name sore blurred: sir edward kelly, with one writ in cipher. and in the centre of all, within the emblem of a ruby rose of five petals upon a golden cross was engraved: christian rosencreutz (for so were the brethren discreet to conceal his true name. after whom came three names great and terrible that i write not in this place. lastly appeared this newly-writ hieroglyph of the lion, and the name of that brother was hidden from me. then was i shewn the mystery of the words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from woman alone, and worked by the formula of isis, worshipping nature chaste and kindly, not understanding death, or the arcanum of love. so, when the time was ripe, appeared the brethren of the formula of osiris, whose word

er the master whose word is thelema, whose name is yet hidden under the form of a lion. for it was most needful to prepare his way that he might proclaim his law in every land that is upon the surface of the earth "and this work has been done by the society founded to that end by our sister. yet even so, behold! full fifty years have passed, and only now is the hour of power come upon our brother the lion to utter his word with full efficacy to the whole earth" now was he silent and my spirit was sore troubled; my face darkened, for i approached the mystery of sin. but the countenance of my teacher was glad; and his years fell from him like a mask; and his voice thrilled with the rapture of release. the mystery of sin "the word of sin is restriction. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ins beneath atlas, and the character of the servile race .pa ii. of the race of atlas in the city or 'house' which was formed from the crest of every mountain, dwelt a race not greatly superior in height to our own, but of vaster frame. the bulk and strength of the bear is not inappropriate as a simile for the lower classes; the higher had the enormous chest and shoulders and the lean haunches of the lion. this strength gave an infallible beauty, made monstrous by their most inexorable law, that every child who developed no special feature in the first seven years should be sacrificed to the gods. this special feature might be a nose of prodigious size, hands and wrists of gigantic strength, a gorilla jaw, an elephant ear--or any of these might entitle its owner to life* for in all such va

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

nd made into mutton like so many voters! i decline to be bellwether, who am born a lion! i will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. i refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. wise in your generation, ye sheep, are ye to scamper away bleating when your ears catch my roar on the wind! are ye not tended and fed and protected- until word come from the stockyard? the lion's life for me! let me live free, and die fighting! now one more point about the obeah and the wanga, the deed and the word of magick. magick is the art of causing change in existing phenomena. this definition includes raising the dead, bewitching cattle, making rain, acquiring goods, fascinating judges, and all the rest of the programme. good: but it also includes every act soever? yes; i

suggest: the- the essential aleph-taw, azoth, etc. word- chokmah, thoth, the logos, the second emanation. of- the partative, binah, the great mother, the- chesed, the paternal power, reflection of the "the" above. law- geburah, the stern restriction. is- tiphereth, visible existence, the balanced harmony of the worlds. thelema- the idea embracing all this sentence in a word. or: theta the- teth, the lion "thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of a lion" epsilon word- he, the letter of breath, the logos. lambda of- lamed, libra the equilibrium. eta the- cheth, 418, abrahadabra. mu law- mem, the hanged man, or redeemer. alpha is- aleph the 0 (zero, nuit, which is existence. thelema- the sum of all. the new comment by 'the word' one means the magical formula, symbol, or expression

earth, pe, the blasted tower. the 3 keys add up to 31- lamed-aleph, not and aleph-lamed, god. thus is the whole of thelema equivalent to nuit, the all-embracing. 31 x 3= 93. see the tarot trumps for further study of these grades. theta-epsilon= 14, the pentagram, rule of spirit over ordered matter. strength and authority( teth and he) and secretly 1+ 4= 5, the hierophant, vau, v. also leo aries, the lion and the ram. cf. isaiah. it is a "millennial" state. lambda-eta= 38, the key=word abrahadabra, 418, divided by the number of its letters, 11. justice or balance and the charioteer of mastery. a state of progress; the church militant. mu-alpha= 41, the inverted pentagram, matter dominating spirit. the hanged man and the fool, the condition of those who are not adepts "do what thou wilt" ne

ate to assess the absolute. to him, the pettiest personal whimsy outweighs all wisdom, all philosophy, all private profit and all public prudence. the sexual obol of the meanest is stamped with the signature of his own sovereign soul, lawful and current coin no less than the gold talent of his neighbour. the derelict moon has the same right to drift round earth as regulus to blaze in the heart of the lion. collision is the only crime in the cosmos. the beast refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. a canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity. it is better for a person of heterosexual nature to suffer every possible calami

r aleph, and is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, the all-mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor, and so referreth to him that walketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badawi that became king, in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the

d comment 8. he is symbolized by harpocrates, crowned child upon the lotus whose shadow is called silence. yet his silence is the act of adoration; not the dumb callousness of heaven toward man, but the supreme ritual, the silence of supreme orgasm, the stilling of all voices in the perfect rapture. the new comment harpocrates is also the dwarf-soul, the secret self of every man, the serpent with the lion's head. now hadit knows nuit by virtue of his 'going' or 'love' it is therefore wrong to worship hadit; one is to be hadit, and worship her. this is clear even from his instruction "to worship me" in verse 22 of this chapter. confer, cap.i, v.9. we are exhorted to offer ourselves unto nuit, pilgrims to all her temples. it is bad magick to admit that one is other than one's inmost self. on

"the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour, that is, the being symbolized by the egg and serpent hieroglyph of the phoenician adepts. the second kind is also a form of baphomet, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the lion-serpent in its original form. the process of softening and smoothing down is thus in this case that of vitalizing the eagle. it is inadvisable to word this explanation, in terms too intelligible to the profane, since uninitiated attempts to make use of the formidable arcana of magick presented in this passage could lead only to the most fulminating and irremediable disaster. al iii,25 "th

formula of hadit "come unto me" is a foolish word; for it is i that go. now the semen is god (the going-one, as shown by the ankh or sandal-strap, which he carries) because he goes in at the door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that seed of going (the birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true going-principle is the lion-serpent, or dragon; the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions) weh note: shall we simply say that crowley had a problem with misogyny in general? his love for the specific seems not to have been effected, witness the latter part of "confessions. liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herse

ow, to will, to dare and to keep silence. yes, i, the beast, my scarlet whore bestriding me, naked and crowned, drunk on her golden cup of fornication, boasting herself my bedfellow, have trodden her in the market place, and roared this word that every woman is a star. and with that word is uttered woman's freedom; the fools and fribbles and flirts have heard my voice. the fox in woman hath heard the lion in man; fear, fainting, flabbiness, frivolity, falsehood- these are no more the mode. in vain will bully and brute and braggart man, priest, lawyer, or social censor knit his brows to devise him a new tamer's trick; once and for all the tradition is broken; vanished the vogue of bowstring, sack, stoning, nose-slitting, beltbuckling, cart's tail-dragging, whipping, pillory posting, walling

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

eated, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is velhma. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the mira

luctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, paul gaugin, sir richard francis burton, doctor grard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley--oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be. the earth the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's fire, womb of all life, recurring g

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

own, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.75 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero. and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign76) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.77 74 364= inter alia, alpwm rua, the hi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ree keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back

he out-dared her in riddling: deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. but that would he not, my brethren; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. as a hermit ever he travelled and the lamp and wand were his. in his path a lion roared, but to it ran a maiden, strong as a young elephant, and held its cruel jaws. but force he ran to her: he freed the lion one buffet of his hand dashed her back six paces! and with another blow smote its head from its body. and he ran to her and by force embraced her. struggled she and fought him: savagely she bit, but it was of no avail: she lay ravished and exhausted on the lybian plain. across the mouth he smote her for a kiss, while she cried: o! thou hast begotten on me twins. and mine also is the serpe

and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he said, thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but him-self only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler mocks him and cries: four fool s bargains hast thou

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left spiral horn of two loops to a point- try reading that in one breath! ranked on the right edge in a column occupying the center half of the edge is a column of seven silver stars of seven points each, one point to top. at the lower right, just above the tip of the serpent's tail (described below) is a lion of assyrian style between two outward arched cresents. the lower crescent is golden and the lion's only visible hind foot rests on the center of the crescent. the upper crescent is silver and gripped by the lion's left paw at the lower horn. the face of the lion is directly at but not touching the center of this crescent. the right paw of the lion touches the lower quarter of this crescent with talon tips only. these two crescents are so aligned that their horn tips could be connecte

and gripped by the lion's left paw at the lower horn. the face of the lion is directly at but not touching the center of this crescent. the right paw of the lion touches the lower quarter of this crescent with talon tips only. these two crescents are so aligned that their horn tips could be connected by parallel lines about 45 degrees from the horizontal, upper to the left and lower to the right. the lion is green on white with gold accents, tail arched upward in a crescent and tipped in gold. the eye is red and the tongue extends in red as well. there are black accents about the edges of the mane and below the chin. at the lower left, framed by the serpent to left and below, is an assyrian winged bull, flank view and facing right. the fore quarters stand on a silver sphere, while the hind

ck, as the mystic rites ordain; and these did he heat furiously in his alembic, yet with vegetable heat alone, while he kept them ever moist, dropping upon them of his lunar water, whereof he had three and seventy minims left of the eight and seventy that his father had given him; and these he had borne upon a camel through the desert unto this place where he now was, which is called the oasis of the lion, even as the whole regimen that in the end he accomplished is in the form of a lion. this then his lion waxed exceeding thirsty, and licked up all that dew. but the fire being equal thereunto, he was not discomforted "he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches" so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tinctur

licked up all that dew. but the fire being equal thereunto, he was not discomforted "he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches" so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull's. 90 moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working "he slayeth sir merlin the wizard" yet our brother perardua- and by now he was right skilful at the athanor- determined to attain to that higher pr

trant; and our egyptian brethren have called it the pavement of the firmament of nu. 91 "he slayeth king astur of the arms argent" now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metals; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant, that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virtue of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mineral gold cannot be changed into any other substance by any means. this vegetable gold is fluidic; it must increase wonderf

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a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of misery. 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime zero "and therefore their breaths stink" 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign) and sol, 6,666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary 118 to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418. this all seemed to me so important tha

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gold of the rosy cross. now there comes an angel with bright wings, that is the angel of the 25th aire. and all the aire is a dark olive about 21 him, like an alexandrite stone. he bears a pitcher or amphora. and now there comes another angel upon a white horse, and yet again another angel upon a black bull. and now there comes a lion and swallows the two latter angels up. the first angel goes to the lion and closes his mouth. and behind them are arrayed a great company of angels with silver spears, like a forest. and the angel says: blow, all ye trumpets, for i will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roaring shall enkindle the worlds. then the trumpets blow, and the wind rises and whistles terribly. it is a blue wind with silver specks; and it blows through the whole aethy

nd behind them are arrayed a great company of angels with silver spears, like a forest. and the angel says: blow, all ye trumpets, for i will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roaring shall enkindle the worlds. then the trumpets blow, and the wind rises and whistles terribly. it is a blue wind with silver specks; and it blows through the whole aethyr. but through it one perceives the lion, which has become as a raging flame. and he roareth in an unknown tongue. but this is the interpretation thereof: let the stars be burnt up in the fire of my nostrils! let all the gods and the archangels and the angels and the spirits that are on the earth, and above the earth, and below the earth, that are in all the heavens and in all the hells, let them be as motes dancing in the beam

e name by which i am blasphemed. my name thou shalt not know, lest thou pronounce it and pass by. and now the angel comes forward again and closes his mouth. all this time heavy blows have been raining upon me from invisible angels, so that i am weighed down as with a burden greater than the world. i am altogether crushed. great millstones are hurled out of heaven upon me. i am trying to crawl to the lion, and the ground is covered with sharp knives. i cut myself at every inch. and the voice comes: why art thou there who art here? hast thou not the sign of the number, and the seal of the name, and the ring of the eye? thou wilt not. 23 and i answered and said: i am a creature of earth, and ye would have me swim. and the voice said: thy fear is known; thine ignorance is known; thy weakness

th, and ye would have me swim. and the voice said: thy fear is known; thine ignorance is known; thy weakness is known; but thou art nothing in this matter. shall the grain which is cast into the earth by the hand of the sower debate within itself, saying, am i oats or barley? bond-slave of the curse, we give nothing, we take all. be thou content. that which thou art, thou art. be content. and now the lion passeth over through the aethyr with the crowned beast upon his back, and the tail of the lion goes on instead of stopping, and on each hair of the tail is something or other- sometimes a little house, sometimes a planet, at other times a town. then there is a great plain with soldiers fighting upon it, and an enormously high mountain carved into a thousand temples, and more houses and fi

, a black bull, furiously pawing up the ground. the flames from his mouth increase and whirl, and he cries: behold the mystery of toil, o thou who art taken in the toils of mystery. for i who trample the earth thereby make whirlpools in the air; be comforted, therefore, for though i be black, in the roof of my mouth is the sign of the beetle. bent are the backs of my brethren, yet shall they gore the lion with their horns. have i not the wings of the eagle, and the face of the man? and now he is turned into one of those winged assyrian bull-men. and he sayeth: the spade of the husbandman is the sceptre of the king. all the heavens beneath me, they serve me. they are my fields and my gardens and my orchards and my pastures. 29 glory be unto thee, who didst set thy feet in the north; whose f

mplish this. he then repaired the circle. the discomfited demon now continued) all is dispersion. these are the qualities of things. 99 the tenth aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein (now returneth the beautiful woman who had before tempted the scribe. she prevailed not) i am afraid of sunset, for tum is more terrible than ra, and khephra the beetle is greater than the lion mau. i am a-cold (here choronzon wanted to leave the triangle to obtain wherewith to cover his nakedness. the scribe refused the request, threatening the demon. after a while the latter continued) i am commanded, why i know not, by him that speaketh. were it thou, thou little fool, i would tear thee limb from limb. i would bite off thine ears and nose before i began with thee. i would tak

ong" i silence! the moon ceaseth (her motion, that also was sweet in the air, in the air, in the air! who will shall attain! who will shall attain by the moon, and by myself, and by the angel of the lord! ii now silence ceaseth and the moon waxeth sweet (it is the hour of) initiation, initiation, initiation. the kiss of isis is honeyed; my own will is ended, for will hath attained. 162 iii behold the lion-child swimmeth (in the heaven) and the moon reeleth (it is) thou (it is) thou (it is) thou! triumph; the will stealeth away (like a thief, the strong will that staggered before ra hoor khuit- hadit- nuit! iv to the god oai be praise in the end and the beginning! and may none fall who will attain the sword, the balances, the crown! and that which thou hearest is but the dropping of the dew

s the holiness of fruitless love and aimless toil. for in doing the thing for the things's sake is concentration, and this is the holiest of them that suit not 164 the means to the end. for therein is faith and sympathy and a knowledge of the true magick. oh my beloved, that fliest in the air like a dove, beware of the falcon! oh my beloved, that springest upon the earth like a gazelle, beware of the lion! there are hundreds of visions, trampling over one another. in each one the angel of the aethyr is mysteriously hidden. now i will describe the angel of the aethyr until the voice begins again. he is like one's idea of sappho and calypso, and all seductive and deadly things; heavy eye-lids, long lashes, a face like ivory, wonderful barbaric jewellery, intensely red lips, a very small mout

shalt be initiate in holy things. and thou shalt be learned in the things of love. and thou shalt be mighty in the things of war. and thou shalt be adept in things occult. and thou shalt interpret the oracles. and thou shalt drive all these before thee in thy car, and though by none of these canst thou reach up to me, yet by each of these must thou attain to me. and thou must have the strength of the lion, and the secrecy of the hermit. and thou must turn the wheel of life. and thou must hold the balances of truth. thou must pass through the great waters, a redeemer. thou must have the tail of the scorpion, and 170 the poisoned arrows of the archer, and the dreadful horns of the goat. and so shalt thou break down the fortress that guardeth the palace of the king my son. and thou must work

e son of a virgin, a magus, is to bring the aeon to pass. and she, the herald, her function fulfilled, withdraws within her mystic veil. 26. the death of the past aeon, that of jehovah and jesus; ends with adumbraiton of the new, the vision of the stele of ankh-f-n-khonsu, whose discovery brought about in a human consciousness the knowledge of the equinox of the gods, 21. 3. 04. 25. appearance of the lion god of horus, the child of leo that incarnates him. the first angel is isis its mother. 173 24. now appears his mate, the heavenly venus, the scarlet woman, who by men is thought of as babalon as he is thought of as chaos. 23. here appear the cherubim, the other officers of the new temple, the earth and water assistants of the fire and air beast and scarlet woman. 22. here is the first ke

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yet now ah now! i am but a dead man. within me and without still stirs that life of sense that is not life, but is as the worms that feast upon my corpse. adonai! adonai! my lord adonai! indeed, thou hast forsaken me. nay! thou liest, o weak soul! abide in the meditation; unite all thy symbols into the form of a lion, and be lord of thy jungle, travelling through the servile universe even as mau the lion very lordly, the sun in his strength that travelleth over the heaven of nu in his bark in the mid-career of day. for all these thoughts are vain; there is but one thought, though that thought be not yet born he only is god, and there is none other god than he! 3.30. walking home with mantra; suddenly a spasm of weeping took me as i cried through the mantra "my god, my god, why hast thou

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lost life. i see him dress the godhead. up he bounds and brays- the wild ass of the wilderness, the soul that sees, the soul that slays! inhabit the untrodden ways; set! thou my god and i thy priest, thy temple hidden in the haze of deserts death to god or beast! thou who art both shalt foin and feast with me who am both, thy hate's co-heir, lord of the west and of the east- the scorpion's hole, the lion's lair! i kissed his mouth- sublime despair! our souls were one; our bodies met- yea! darkness cover everywhere the secret of the house of set! alys cusack. 204 the sphinx at gizeh 205 the sphinx at gizeh i saw the other day the sphinx's painted face. she had painted her face in order to ogle time. and he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers. delilah was younger than

er soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, 211 i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i career, pointing my flaming way with the spasm of night for a spear! o moon! o secret sweet! chalcedony clouds of caresses about the flame of our feet, the night of our terrible tresses! is it a wonder, then, if the people are mad with blindness, and nothing is stranger to men than silence, and wisdom, and kindness? nay! let him fashion an arrow whose heart is sober and stout

the sign of the man, child of air, art thou purified- pass thou on" illustration on page 267 approximated below. hb:taw_ hb:shin_ hb:qof tablet of air_ lamp/ dais pentacle_ h fan. lights shaded_ black white_ kerux hegemon_ tablet of earth_ fan_ hell_ eden/ salt salt/ red lamp) o_ cup_ hiereus_ diagram 20. arrangement of the temple for the 32nd path in the 2= 9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heave

path of fire leading into the 3= 8 of practicus 'also there is the vision of the fire-flashing courser of light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery and clothed with gold, or naked, and shooting from the bow shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse. but if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of the lion.'27 for thus wilt thou cleave upwards by the path of hb:samekh, through the sixth sephira unto the path of hb:tet answering unto leo, the lion, the reconciling path between mercy and severity, chesed and geburah; beneath whose centre hangs the glorious sun of tiphereth "v.h. associate adept, will you explain to the philosophus the 13th key of the tarot" 27 "see" preface "associate adept"

sing the five principles of nature, the concealed spirit and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. about her head is a halo of light. on her breast is the sun of tiphereth. the five-rayed crown further alludes to the five sephiroth of kether, chokmah, binah, chesed and geburah. chained to her waist are a lion and an eagle, between which is a large cauldron whence arise steam and smoke. the lion represents the fire of netzach, the blood of the lion; and the eagle represents the water of hod, the gluten of the eagle; whose reconcilement is made by the air in yesod uniting with the volatised water rising from the cauldron though the influence of the fire beneath it. the chains which link the lion and the eagle to her waist are symbolic of the paths of hb:nun and hb:ayin, scorpio an

tion all-devouring. i give thy sign, asar re-risen- break, o my spirit, from thy prison! i match &c. gimel (with the crossing of the path of teth) hail, virgin moon, bright moon of her that is god's thought and minister! snow-pure, sky-blue, immaculate hecate, in thy book of fate read thou my name, the soaring soul that seeks the supreme, sunless goal! and thou, great sekhet, roar! arise confront the lion in the way! thy calm indomitable eyes lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! i am past. hail, hecate! untrod thy steep ascent to god, to god! lo! what unnamed, unnameable sphere hangs above inscrutable? there is no virtue in thy kiss to affront that soulless swart abyss. i match &c. 328 da th i am insane. my reason tumbles; the tower of my being crumbles. here all is doubt, distress

e deep waters, and my footsteps are in the unknown. vast before me is the portal of geburah: behind it is gleaming the fire of the wrath of god: i cry against thee in the name of elohim gibor: open unto me, gateway of god the mighty! lift up your heads o ye gates &c. i am come forth from the path of the waters: i stand in the world of the power of god: i turn my face to the right, and the gate of the lion is before me- gate of the path of the lion, in the sign of the lion do thou open before my face. lift up your heads o ye gates &c. i advance over the path of the leader of the lion, by the power of the daughter of the flaming sword. about me the lions are roaring for their prey; but i am sekhet, of the flaming eyes. turned is my face to the left, and the priestess of the silver star is my

e lion, in the sign of the lion do thou open before my face. lift up your heads o ye gates &c. i advance over the path of the leader of the lion, by the power of the daughter of the flaming sword. about me the lions are roaring for their prey; but i am sekhet, of the flaming eyes. turned is my face to the left, and the priestess of the silver star is my guide. now am i come forth upon the path of the lion, and my thought in the place of the gathering of the waters. i am the established one in da th! in me is the knowledge of good and of evil! in me is the knowledge of the light supernal! and my face is turned downward unto malkuth. 332 like all other methods, these, travelling in the spirit vision and rising on the planes, are only to be judged by their success. it is impossible to lay dow

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om has a human head with neck and start of chest, facing forward, vau above head. the left has an eagle head facing left, hay above head. the right has a bull headfacing forward, hay above head. all four have two wings extending from the bottom and arched around the sides within the inner circle, like laurels. the lettering in the wide rings on these four circles arcs across the top of each. over the lion "neqva qvam vacuum. over the bull "legis jvgvm. over the human "dei gloria intacta. over the eagle "libertas evangelii. the outer white ring of the large circle has the following text: top, oriented to be read from outside "a.c.r.g- a.g.r.c. upper right, read from inside "hoc. right, read from inside "vnversi. lower right, read from inside "compendivm. bottom, read from inside "vnivs. low

stulant: his nephesch being thus ready to be glorified. the attention of the postulant is at once called to the roof; his lower will looketh upwards, and he sees at last the "invisible lignt" the altar shows (1) the great work as the compendium of unity (2) ihsvh symbol accomplishing this and expanded within into five circles. this shows that the five principles of man must be united perfectly.25 the lion and hb:yod with the rose cross represents the first cause, the dawn, the virgin mother, and the great work "nequaquam vaccum"26 shows that "before abraham was, i am" the eagle and hb:heh with the cup represent the blood shed for the remission of sins, and the chalice of the stoistes "libertas evangelii" shows free-will. the man with hb:vau and the dagger shows the "last result" hb:vau is

magic. he was disgusted with his results. he had attained a rank which few arrive at, namely, that of adeptus major; and now, even though he had attained to the powers of hecate, for which he had so long striven, he saw that the great attainment lay far, far beyond. and so it happened that by renouncing all his magical strength to gain a greater power, a nobler art, he set forth upon the path of the lion that bridges the great gulf between the two highest grades of the second order, as it is written "a similar fire flashingly extending through the rushings of air, or a fire formless whence cometh the image of a voice, or even a flashing light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. also there is the vision of the fire flashing courser of light, or also a child, borne aloft on

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ier of blue ocean, whose castle is built upon the sands of life and death; i swear to thee by the glittering blades of the waters, to cleave my way within thine armed hermitage, and brood as an eyeless corpse beneath the coffin-lid of the mighty sea. 3. o thou incandescent ocean of molten stars, surging above the arch of the firmament; i swear to thee by the mane-pennoned lances of light, to stir the lion of thy darkness from its lair, and lash the sorceress of noontide into fury with serpents of fire. 4. o thou intoxicating vision of beauty, fair as ten jewelled virgins dancing about the hermit moon; i swear to thee by the peridot flagons of spring, to quaff to the dregs thy chalice of glory, and beget a royal race before the dawn flees from awakening day. 5. o thou unalterable measure of

thy mouth, as a leaf cast into the flames of a furnace. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 21 the chapter known as leo the twelvefold glorification of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve glorifications and by the unity thereof. 1. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the lion rampant of the dawn: thou hast crushed with thy paw the crouching lioness of night, so that she may roar forth the glory of thy name. 2. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the lap of the fertile valleys: thou hast adorned their strong limbs with a robe of poppied corn, so that they may laugh forth the glory of thy name. 3. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold

e milky rivers, so that they may roll forth the glory of thy name. 12. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the amber combers of the storm: thou hast laid thy lash upon the sphinxes of the waters, so that they may boom forth the glory of thy name. 13. o glory be to thee, o god my god; for i behold thee in the lotus- flower within my heart: thou hast 23 emblazoned my trumpet with the lion- standard, so that i may blare forth the glory of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 24 the chapter known as virgo the twelvefold beseechment of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve beseechments and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou mighty god, make me as a fair virgin t

adore thee, iao! o thou burning tower of fire, that art set up in the midst of the seas! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unvintageable dew, that art moist upon the lips of the morn! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou silver crescent of love, that burnest over the dark helm of war! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou snow-white ram of the dawn, that art slain by the lion of the noon! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou crimson spear-point of life, that art thrust through the dark bowels of time! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou black waterspout of death, that whirlest, whelmest the tall ship of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou mighty chain of events, that art strained betwixt cosmos and chaos! i adore thee, evoe!

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the first true sights. bright images throng the clear mind at first, a crowd of gods, lights, armies, landscapes; loud reverberations of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there's the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald 23 waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god's beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lor

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t is hoarded the richer becomes the discoverer, and then one day will come wherein he will be able to pay his own ransom, and this is the only ransom that is acceptable unto god. ultimately he proved that it was rather by the restraint of these occult (mental) powers than that of the bodily ones that ojas is produced.297 by now he was beginning to learn that there was more than one way of opening the lion's jaws; and that gentleness and humility would often succeed where brutality and much boasting were sure to fail. the higher he ascended into the realms of the ruach the more he realized the irrational folly of performing wonders before a mob of gargoyle-headed apes, of pulling the strings of mystical marionettes and reducing himself to the level of an occult punch and judy showman. he ha

universe; his breath was the breath of very life; his being was the mahalingam of the first, beyond life and death the generator from nothingness. his armour was the primal water of chaos. the infinite moon-like curve of his body; the flashing swiftness of his word, that was the word that formulated that which was beyond chaos and cosmos; the might of him, greater than that of the elephant and of the lion and of the tortoise and of the bull fabled in indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the name; the glory of him, that was even as that of the sun which is before all and beyond all suns, of which the stars are little sparks struck off as he battled in the infinite against the infinite- all these points the great white spirit noted and appreciated. this is certainly the perso

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ch as "t, or "s. or "m; use a paraphrase. xi. avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. on each occasion that thou art betrayed into saying that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. feareth not the unicorn the claws and teeth of the lion? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. 12 ii 0. the horse is action. man, rule thou thine action. how else shalt thou master the father, and answer th

t in ra-hoor-khut and in hoor-pa-kraat! twins they shall rise; being twins they are one, the lord of the sword and the son of the sun! silence, coeval colleague of the voice, the plumes of amoun- rejoice! lo! i rejoice. i heal the sanguine scar of slain asar. i was the past, nature the mother. he was the present, man my brother. look to the future, the child- oh paean the child that is crowned in the lion-aeon! the sea-dawns surge an billow and break beneath the scourge of the star and the snake. to my lord i have borne in my womb deep-vaulted this babe for ever exalted! aleister crowley 40 the temple of solomon the king iv. the hermit with the seventh stage in the mystical progress of frater p. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. during the last two years he had grown stron

the vajr sana (siddh sana) posture, should firmly fix his gaze upon ajna, and reversing the tongue backwards, fix it in the hollow under the epiglottis, placing it with great care on the mouth of the well of nectar.105 6 "uddiyana mudra" the drawing up of the intestines above and below the navel (so that they rest against the back of the body high up the thorax) is called uddiyana bandha, and is the lion that kills the elephant death.106 7 "mula mudra" pressing the yoni with the ankle, contract the anus and draw the ap na upwards. this is mula bandha.107 8 "jalandhara mudra" contract the throat and press the chin firmly against the breast (four inches from the heart. this is jalandhara bandha..108 9 "viparitakarani mudra" this consists in making the sun and moon assume exactly reverse pos

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its thrall. love me, love me over all, spirit in the spirit shape! all is one! i murmur. distant sounds the shout, evoe, evoe! evoe, iacche! soft, insistent like to echo's voice persistent- hail! agave! autonoe [typhon "goes up stage" agave. evoe, ho! iacche! hail, o hail! praise him! what dreams are these? 35 autonoe. sisters, o sisters! agave. say, are our brothers of the rocks awake? autonoe. the lion roars. maenads. o listen to the snake! autonoe. evoe, ho! give me to drink! agave. run wild! mountain and mountain let us leap upon like tigers on their prey! maenads. crush, crush the world! agave. tread earth as 'twere a winepress! autonoe. drink its blood, the sweet red wine! maenads. ay, drink the old earth dry! agave. squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse like an old win

efore me, and worship at my feet. aries. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? leo. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? scorpio-apophis. i am the mother of the gods and the sister of time and the daughter of space. i am nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. brother leo, i am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the lion. behold! i strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. i command thee to declare me unto the multitude. leo. lo! in the interstellar space of night clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces abide the dawn of deity and light, vibrate before the passionless pale faces 74 shrined in exceeding glory, eremite. the tortoise skies in sombre carapaces await the expression and the hour of bi

f her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul, in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i career, pointing my flaming way with the spasm of night for a spear! o moon! o secret sweet! chalcedony clouds of caresses about the flame of our feet, the night of our terrible tresses! is it a wonder, then, if the people are mad with blindness, and nothing is stranger to men than silence, and wisdom, and kindness? nay! let him fashion an arrow whose heart is sober and stout

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as the key, and it opens the way for a real study of "st john" by a person of greater ability. it is a very remarkable fact, however, that akrasia (333) and akolasia (333) should so accurately describe choronzon (333. no higher test of the truth of "the vision and the voice" could be desired. again, 666 is gr:'eta phi-rho-eta-nu, not the lower mind, as mr pryse unhellenically says, but tiphereth, the lion that lieth down with the lamb. nor, by the way, is iacchos a phallic god except as 'omicron nu-iota-kappa-omega-nu himself is phallic, and has his mystic 167 name written upon that organ, according to mr pryse! iacchus= iao= jehovah, and concentrates i.n.r.i. we recommend the book for its suggestion and insight; it is one of the best of the kind. nick lamb. salaman et absal, poeme allegor

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

and squirrel. birds: parrot and linnet. metal: quicksilver. colours: white, silver, yellow, light green. cancer the crab. 22 june to 21 july. lucky stones: emerald, moonstone, eat's eye, pearl. lucky numbers: cancer, two; moon, seven. lucky day: monday. flowers: poppy, water-lily. trees: willow, sycamore. animals: otter, seal. birds: seagull, owl. metal: silver. colours: emerald green, white. leo the lion. 22 july to 21 august. lucky stones: amber, topaz, sardonyx, ruby. 153 lucky numbers: leo, four. sun, one. lucky day: sunday. flowers: marigold, sunflower,.cowslip, heliotrope. trees: palm laurel. animal: lion. birds: cock, eagle. metal: gold. colours: gold, orange. yellow, green, white. vrsco, the virgin. 22 august to 21 september. lucky.stoncs: cornelian, jade, diamond, jasper. lucky nu

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

and formulas which embody the knowledge whereby- 97- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust they can eventually work. these formulas are based upon nine symbols which are now recognised: 1. the cross in its varying forms. 2. the lotus. 3. the triangle. 4. the cube. 5. the sphere and the point. 6. eight animal forms, the goat, the bull, the elephant, the man, the dragon, the bear, the lion, and the dog. 7. the line. 8. certain signs of the zodiac, hence the need for the study of astrology. 9. the cup, or the holy grail. all these symbols allied, interwoven, or taken in part, are combined to express one or other of the seven secrets. the initiate has to recognise them by sight as well as to hear them, and by an effort of the will to imprint them irrevocably upon his memory

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

of this tendency towards lucidity is seen in the faculty of the plant to turn towards the sun. it is practically non-existent in the- 160- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust mineral kingdom. divisions. first, the higher animals and the domestic animals, such as the dog, the horse and the elephant. secondly, the so-called wild animals, such as the lion, the tiger, and the other carnivorous and dangerous wild animals. thirdly, the mass of lesser animals that seem to meet no particular need nor to fill any special purpose, such as the harmless yet multitudinous lives found in our forests, our jungles and the fields of our planet. instances of these in the west are the rabbits and other rodents. this is a wide and general specification of

which later see, though the right eye sees more clearly than the left. the first dim indication of this tendency towards lucidity is seen in the faculty of the plant to turn towards the sun. it is practically non-existent in the mineral kingdom. divisions. first, the higher animals and the domestic animals, such as the dog, the horse and the elephant. secondly, the so-called wild animals, such as the lion, the tiger and other carnivorous and dangerous wild beasts- 272- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust thirdly, the mass of lesser animals that seem to meet no particular need nor to fill any special purpose, such as the harmless yet multitudinous lives found in our forests, our jungles and the fields of our planet. instances of these in

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

es into the city, saying "behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in."9 this is the zodiacal sign into which we are entering. it might be as well to point out that this is astronomically true and not simply a pronouncement of the astrologers. the symbol which stands for the zodiacal sign leo, is the lion. this sign is the symbol of individuality, and under its influence the race arrives at self-consciousness and men can function as individuals. christ, in his teaching, emphasised the significance of the individual and in his life demonstrated the supreme value of the individual, his perfecting, his service and- 113- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust his ultimate sacrifi

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

teadily draws closer. to this end, the ray influences will increasingly and steadily be directed- 79- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity has reached a stage where the sense of individuality is rapidly emerging. in every field of human expression, men and women are becoming definitely self-assertive. the old commentary refers symbolically to this in the following words "the lion begins to roar. he rushes forth and, in his urge to live, he wields destruction. and then again he roars and rushing to the stream of life drinks deep. then, having drunk, the magic of the waters works. he stands transformed. the lion disappears and he who bears the water pot stands forth and starts upon his mission" those with vision can see this happening upon every side today. the wate

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

es of force in aquarius. 7. the two fishes in pisces- 34- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust these seven constellations are, therefore, closely related to six of the seven sacred planets and to one non-sacred planet. there are two signs which are simple figures and have no significance of duality. they are 8. the symbol for leo, which is simply the lion's tail. 9. the arrow in the symbol depicting sagittarius. they embody the idea of isolated separation and one-pointed desire. two signs are definitely triple in construction and this has a clear meaning to the esotericist. 10. virgo is a triple sign. 11. scorpio is also a triple sign, closely resembling the symbol of virgo. these two signs are crucial in the experience of the human being

d yet the cross of liberation. it is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. behind the cross, another cross appears, but that he may not reach (the angel guards the way) until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the serpent dread has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, and then the revelation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and then the flowing of the stream of life will fill his water-pot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the f

from the great bear, are transmitted into our solar system through the medium of three constellations and their ruling planets. the following tabulation makes this clear but must be interpreted only in terms of this present turn of the great zodiacal wheel (25,000 years: tabulation viii ray constellations planets p lanets (orthodox( esoteric) aries, the ram. mars. mercury. i. will or power. leo, the lion. sun. sun. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. gemini, the twins .m ercury .v enus. ii. love-wisdom .v irgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon (veiling a planet. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn

s, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. conflict sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. leo, the lion. sun. sun. v. concrete science. sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. aquarius, the watercarrier. uranus. jupiter. virgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon. vi. idealism. devotion .s agittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. aries, the ram. mars. mercury. vii. ceremonial order. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. it will b

ention of the man becomes focussed upon spiritual attainment. he treads the path of discipleship. 2. in leo the self-centred man becomes eventually the soul in life expression and focussed on the achievement of the spiritual goal of selflessness. in this sign, he undergoes preparation for the first initiation and takes it also in this sign, or under this sign when it is the rising sign, becoming "the lion who seeks his prey" that is the personality who becomes the captive of the soul. 3. in scorpio in this sign, the disciple undergoes those tests which will enable him to take the 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

s far as humanity is concerned the key or clue to the entire zodiac and around the constellation leo two great mysteries are found: 1. the mystery of the sphinx, connected with the relation of leo and virgo, and tied up with the secret of the solar angels. this is not the mystery of soul and form, but the mystery of the higher and the lower mind and their relation to each other. 2. the mystery of the lion and the unicorn. this secret is preserved for us in the ancient nursery rhyme about the "lion and the unicorn going up to town" and contains in a peculiar way the secret of initiation and the "going up" of the human being to the portal of admittance into the hierarchy as well as the "mystic raising" of which masonry holds the key. this deals with the emergence of the consciousness of the

. there are three of the zodiacal signs which are more closely connected with man than are any of the others. these are: leo, sagittarius and aquarius. in one peculiar (but not yet provable) manner, they are related to the three aspects of body, soul and spirit. the following tabulation or concise statement of rather momentous implications may serve to make this clearer: leo sagittarius a quarius the lion. the centaur .t he water-carrier. the man. the archer. the server. self-consciousness. focussed consciousness. group consciousness. physical nature. emotional nature .l ower mental nature. integrated man .a spiring man .i ntuitive mental man. human soul. spiritual human soul. spiritual soul. individualisation. discipleship. initiation. personality .e goic focus. monadic focus. the fixed c

path of return. then takes place the reversal of the wheel and the beginning of the new orientation and of discipleship in scorpio, the directed, controlled life of the disciple in sagittarius, initiation in capricorn, followed by service in aquarius and the work of a world saviour in pisces and final liberation. in this world period we have the division of the sign of the sphinx into two signs (the lion and the virgin, soul and form) because the state of human evolution and conscious realisation is that of a recognised duality; it is only at what is called the "final judgment" that another fusion will take place and virgo-libra will form one sign, for then man's sense of antagonistic dualism will be ended and the scales will have been turned finally in favour of that which the virgin-mot

hesis and teaching and know that you yourself have said the first word as the soul, descending into the womb of time and space in a far and distant past. the time has now come when you can, if you so choose, proclaim your identity with both divine aspects matter and spirit, the mother and the christ- 169- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust leo, the lion passing as we are into the aquarian age in which the spirit of aquarius will be exemplified in its universality and its sense of "general distribution" it is inevitable that a point of crisis should be reached. the true leo type must react in a new and unique manner to the proffered opportunity, and when i say type, i refer to those people whose sun is in leo or who have leo rising. the r

oncisely the objective which is attained by the man upon the fixed cross; the effect of that cross is to bring light and liberation. this can be clearly seen if we contrast the energies of the four arms of the cross as they are demonstrated by the man both before and after the long and drastic experience upon the cross. 1. taurus. the bull of desire. the light of aspiration and knowledge. 2. leo. the lion of self-assertion. the light of the soul. 3. scorpio. the agent of deception. the light of liberation. 4. aquarius. the chalice of self-service. the light of the world. the fixed cross is the cross of light. and playing through this cross all the time, and emanating from leo, are the "fires of god" cosmic, solar and planetary producing purification, the intensification of the light and ev

is what the sun and the moon have become to him simply planets to be ruled. this is a great mystery and i simply state the fact. sirius, leo, the sun, the moon and mercury are now the influences with which the initiate is concerned. the influences of sirius, three in number, are focussed in regulus, which is, as you know, a star of the first magnitude and which is frequently called "the heart of the lion" there is more real occultism hidden in the names given to the various stars by astronomers down the ages than has yet been realised, and here you have a case in point. it will be apparent to you (given a little thought) that the sun, as it veils neptune, produces a potent effect upon the personality, symbolised for us here by the astral body, whilst uranus (which is also veiled by the su

ld- 254- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust commentary which if studied carefully will throw much light upon the theme of this particular subject: i "the sevenfold light of the father brought from chaos into the ordered day his purpose and his plan. the seven supreme gods bent to this purpose and with united will ordained the plan. the bear and the lion met together and laid their plans in conformity with the plan and with the purpose of their controlling lord. they called on father time (saturn. a.a.b) for aid and strength and he responded to their triple call. to this call likewise the eternal youth responded (sanat kumara, lord of shamballa; he set himself anew to learn the plan, aided by father time yet unaffected by the lord of time

dea portrayed. then, as the minds of men ponder upon it and the intuitives of the world pick up the thought, it serves as a seed thought which eventually comes to fruition with the presentation and the unfolding of a revelation which serves to lead the race of men nearer to their goal. tabulation x ray planets constellations orthodox esoteric a ries. the ram..mars..mercury i. will or power. l eo. the lion..the sun..t. he sun c apricorn. t he goat..saturn..saturn g emini. the twins..m. ercury..v. enus ii. love-wisdom. v irgo. t he virgin..m. ercury..t. he moon p isces. the fishes..j.upiter..pluto c ancer. t he crab..the moon..neptune iii. active intelligence. l ibra. the scales..v. enus..uranus c apricorn. t he goat..saturn..saturn iv. harmony through t aurus. t he bull..venus..vulcan confl

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

st. i killed my teachers, and in my search for liberty, i now stand free. i seek to know myself, within myself and through myself "my son, that was a deed of wisdom, and now you can stand [15] free. proceed to labor now, remembering as you do, that at the final turning of the wheel will come the mystery of death. forget this not. what is your age, my son "i had turned eighteen summers when i slew the lion, and hence i wear its skin. again at twenty-one, i met my bride. today i stand before you trebly free- free from my early teachers, free from the fear of fear, and free indeed from all desire "boast not, my son, but prove to me the nature of this freedom which you sense. again in leo, will you meet the lion. what will you do? again in gemini, the teachers whom you slew will cross your pat

othing frightened him, and one-pointedly he went his way. the ancient motto that has governed the activities of all active disciples became his and his soul enjoined upon him the need of "the power to do, the power to dare, the power to be silent, and the power to know "the power to do" is the motto of taurus, and this he exemplified in his twelve labors. he symbolized leo, because he always wore the lion's skin as a proof of his courage, and the motto of that sign being "the power to dare" no danger affrighted him and no difficulty turned him back. perhaps his outstanding achievement was what he accomplished in the sign scorpio; for the great work was to overcome illusion. it was consummated and carried to completion in the sign scorpio. the motto of that sign is silence. in capricorn he

the four corners of the cardinal cross of the universe, which have become the four fixed signs of the zodiac, and as the four powerful sacred animal signs are both cosmical and spiritual, they represent the basic elements resembling our human principles. the sign leo represents fire or spirit; taurus, earth or body; aquarius, air or mind; and scorpio represents water likened to the soul. leo, as the lion, is the strength of the lower nature, and is the serpent of force which, if directed upward, overcomes. taurus, the bull, is always the symbol of creative force. aquarius, the man, is the light-bearer, or light-bringer. scorpio, the scorpion, is often transmuted with aquila, the eagle. which rises at the same time with scorpio; they are closely linked in symbolism. scorpio is 'the monster

what do i here "a call has sounded forth, o hercules, a call of deep distress. your outer ears have not responded to that call, and yet the inner ear knows well the need, for it hath heard a voice, aye, many voices, telling you of need and urging you to venture forth. the people of nemea seek your aid. they are in deep distress. word of your prowess has gone forth. they seek that you should kill the lion that devastates their land, taking its toll of men "is that the savage sound i hear" asked hercules "is it the roaring of a lion i hear, upon the evening air" the teacher said "go, seek the lion which ravages the land lying upon the further side of the fifth gate. the people of this ravaged land live silently behind locked doors. forth to their tasks they venture not, nor till their land

oll of men "is that the savage sound i hear" asked hercules "is it the roaring of a lion i hear, upon the evening air" the teacher said "go, seek the lion which ravages the land lying upon the further side of the fifth gate. the people of this ravaged land live silently behind locked doors. forth to their tasks they venture not, nor till their land, nor sow. from north to south, from east to west the lion prowls and prowling seizes all who cross his path. his shocking roar is heard throughout the night and all are trembling behind locked doors. what will you do, o hercules? what will you do" and hercules, with listening ear, responded to the need. upon the nearer side of the great gate which guarded firm the country of nemea, he dropped the panoply of war, retaining for his use the club, c

etaining for his use the club, cut by his hands from a young and springing tree "what do you now, o son of man, who are likewise a son of god? where are your arms and where your strong defence "this fine array of arms but loads me down, retards my speed and hinders my departure on the way. i shall require naught but my stalwart club, and with this club and my stout heart, i go upon my way to seek the lion. send word unto the people of nemea that i go upon the way, and bid them cast out fear [97] from place to place passed hercules, seeking the lion. he found the people of nemea, hiding behind locked doors, save but a few who ventured forth because of need or desperation. they trod the highway in the light of day, yet full of fear. they greeted hercules with joy at first, with questioning l

ing behind locked doors, save but a few who ventured forth because of need or desperation. they trod the highway in the light of day, yet full of fear. they greeted hercules with joy at first, with questioning later, as they saw the manner of his travel; no arms, small knowledge of the ways of lions, and naught save a frail wooden club "where are your arms, o hercules? have you not fear? why seek the lion without defence? go find your weapons and your shield. the lion is fierce and strong, and numbers vast he has devoured. why take this chance? go seek your arms and panoply of strength" but silently, without response, the son of man, who was the son of god, went forth upon the way, seeking the footstep of the lion and- 57- the labours of hercules following its voice "the lion is where" ask

out defence? go find your weapons and your shield. the lion is fierce and strong, and numbers vast he has devoured. why take this chance? go seek your arms and panoply of strength" but silently, without response, the son of man, who was the son of god, went forth upon the way, seeking the footstep of the lion and- 57- the labours of hercules following its voice "the lion is where" asked hercules "the lion is here" came the reply "no, there" enjoined a voice of fear "not so, replied a third "i heard its roar about the mountain wild this week "and i, likewise, within this valley where we stand. and yet another said "i saw its tracks upon a path i trod, so, hercules, list to my voice and track him to his lair. thus hercules pursued his way, afraid yet unafraid; alone, yet not alone, for on th

d i, likewise, within this valley where we stand. and yet another said "i saw its tracks upon a path i trod, so, hercules, list to my voice and track him to his lair. thus hercules pursued his way, afraid yet unafraid; alone, yet not alone, for on the trail he followed others stood, and followed him with hope and fearful tremblings. for days and several nights he searched the way and listened for the lion's roar whilst the people of nemea crouched down behind closed doors. suddenly he saw the lion. upon the edge of a deep thicket of young trees it stood. seeing an enemy draw near and one who seemed quite unafraid, the lion roared, and with his roar the young trees shook, the nemeans fled and hercules stood still [98] hercules grasped his bow and sheath of arrows and with sure hand and eye

ouched down behind closed doors. suddenly he saw the lion. upon the edge of a deep thicket of young trees it stood. seeing an enemy draw near and one who seemed quite unafraid, the lion roared, and with his roar the young trees shook, the nemeans fled and hercules stood still [98] hercules grasped his bow and sheath of arrows and with sure hand and eye of skill planted an arrow in the shoulder of the lion. straight to the mark it flew. upon the ground the arrow fell and failed to pierce the shoulder of the lion. again and yet again, he shot the lion until there rested not an arrow in his quiver. then towards him came the lion, untouched, unscathed and fierce with rage, quite unafraid. throwing his bow upon the ground, the son of man, who is a son of god, rushed with wild shouting towards t

. again and yet again, he shot the lion until there rested not an arrow in his quiver. then towards him came the lion, untouched, unscathed and fierce with rage, quite unafraid. throwing his bow upon the ground, the son of man, who is a son of god, rushed with wild shouting towards the lion who stood upon the way, blocking his path, amazed at prowess hitherto unmet. for hercules came on. suddenly the lion turned and rushed ahead of hercules into a thicket on the rocky sides of the sharp mountain way. and so the two went on. and suddenly, as he travelled on the way, the lion disappeared and was no more seen or heard. hercules paused upon the way and silent stood. he searched on every hand, grasping his trusty club, the weapon he himself had made, the gift that to himself he had bequeathed i

f he had bequeathed in days long past, his trusty club. on every hand he sought; on every way he passed, travelling from point to point upon the narrow way that ran athwart the mountain side. suddenly, upon a cave he came and from the cave there came a lusty roar, a rumbling savage voice which seemed to bid him stay or lose his life. and hercules stood still, shouting unto the people of the land "the lion is here. await the deed that i shall do" and hercules, who is a son of man and yet a son of god, entered that cave and passed throughout its darkened length into the light of day and found no lion, only another opening in the cave that led into the light of day. and as he stood, he heard the lion behind him, not before "what shall i do" said hercules unto himself "this cave has openings t

the deed that i shall do" and hercules, who is a son of man and yet a son of god, entered that cave and passed throughout its darkened length into the light of day and found no lion, only another opening in the cave that led into the light of day. and as he stood, he heard the lion behind him, not before "what shall i do" said hercules unto himself "this cave has openings twain and as i enter one the lion passes out and enters by the one i left behind. what shall i do? weapons avail me not. how kill this lion and save the people from its teeth? what shall i do [99] and as he cast about for things to do and listened to the roaring of the lion, he saw some piles of wood and sticks lying in great profusion near his hand. pulling them towards him, dragging with his might, he placed the piles o

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the first time, his lower will sees at last the irresistible light. the altar is a potent glyph of the" great work" it is a compendium of achad. the center c helps to compose the name hcwhy. this fire of life expands outward within the four elemental circles. in this, it is an example of the five principles of man that must be united into perfection and for this the adept does work continuously. the lion and red rose are a symbol of first cause, the beginning, the dawn. it is further symbolized by the virgin mother and the great work. nequaquam vacuum means "nowhere a void" this is the motto written about the lion. it can be summed up in saying that "before abraham was "i am" the eagle and the chalice stand for the blood that must be shed for the remission of sins. it is the purifying wat

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

gh on account of its name it be subject to the sway of warlike mars, is by birth the offspring of ancient saturn, and is found in the valleys and mountains of the world, where he roams about savage with hunger. cast to him the body of the king, and when he has devoured it, burn him entirely to ashes in a great fire. by this process the king will be liberated; and when it has been performed thrice the lion has overcome the wolf, and will find nothing more to devour in him. thus our body has been rendered fit for the first stage of our work. know that this is the only right and legitimate way of purifying our substance: for the lion purifies twelve keys of basil valentine 26 of 95 himself with the blood of the wolf, and the tincture of its blood agrees most wonderfully with the tincture of t

m. thus our body has been rendered fit for the first stage of our work. know that this is the only right and legitimate way of purifying our substance: for the lion purifies twelve keys of basil valentine 26 of 95 himself with the blood of the wolf, and the tincture of its blood agrees most wonderfully with the tincture of the lion, seeing that the two liquids are closely akin to each other. when the lion s hunger is appeased, his spirit becomes more powerful than before, and his eyes glitter like the sun. his internal essence is now of inestimable value for the removing of all defects, and the healing of all diseases. he is pursued by the ten lepers, who desire to drink his blood; and all that are tormented with any kind of sickness are refreshed with this blood. for whoever drinks of thi

he present state of things is passing away, and a new world is about to be created, and one planet is devouring another spiritually, until only the strongest survive. let me tell you allegorically that you must put into the heavenly balance the ram, bull, cancer, scorpion, and goat. in the other scale of the balance you must place the twins, the archer, the water vbearer, and the virgin. then let the lion jump into the virgin s lap, which will cause the other scale to kick the beam. thereupon, let the signs of the zodiac enter into opposition to the pleiads, and when all the colours of the world have shewn themselves, let there be a conjunction and union between the greatest and the smallest, and the smallest and the greatest. twelve keys of basil valentine 63 of 95 if the whole world s na

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ight a fire (kenealy. the christian kabalists and symbologists who disfigured pymander- prominent among them the bishop of ayre, francois de tours, in the 16th century- divide the elements in this way- the four elements formed from divine substances and the spirits of the salts of nature represented by[[diagram. st. matthew. angel-man. water (jesus-christ, angel-man, mikael) a[[diagram. st. mark .the lion. fire e- y. st. luke. the bull. earth i- o. st. john. the eagle. air[[footnote(s* to those who would inquire "what has hydrogen to do with air or oxygena[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 115 sons of yoga. h, the quintessence[[hephlox, flamma-virgo (virgin oil, flamma durissima, virgo, lucis aeterna mater. the first race of men were, then, simply the images, the astral doubl

choose to recognise. hence the perversion in the order of the elements, in order to make them dovetail with the order of the gospels, and to identify the angel-man with christ. with the chaldees, the egyptians, from whom moses adopted the chroub (cherubs in their animal form, and the ophites; with all these, the angels, the planets, and the elements, were symbolized mystically and alchemically by the lion (mikael; the bull (uriel; the dragon (raphael; the eagle (gabriel; the bear (thot-sabaoth; the dog (erataoth; the mule (uriel or thartharaoth. all these have a qualificative meaning[[vol. 2, page] 116 the secret doctrine. puranic text. yoga here is the same as dhyana, which word is again synonymous with yoga in the tibetan text, where the "sons of yoga" are called "sons of dhyana" or of t

ogy. abyssinia was once upon a time an island; and the delta was the first country occupied by the pioneer emigrants who came with their gods from the north-east. when was it? history is silent upon the subject. fortunately we have the dendera zodiac, the planisphere on the ceiling of one of the oldest egyptian temples, which records the fact. this zodiac, with its mysterious three virgos between the lion and libra, has found its oedipus, who understood the riddle of these signs, and justified the truthfulness of those priests who told herodotus that (a) the poles of the earth and the ecliptic had formerly coincided; and (b) that even since their first zodiacal records were commenced, the poles have been three times within the plane of the ecliptic, as the initiates taught. bailly had not

in that position; but the first- after the zodiacs had been traced "capricorn" he adds "is represented at the north pole, and cancer is divided, near its middle, at the south pole; which is a confirmation that originally they had their winter when the sun was in cancer; but the chief characteristics of its being a monument commemorating the first time that the pole had been in that position, are the lion and the virgin (see in part ii "a mystery of the zodiac) broadly calculated, it is believed by the egyptologists that the great pyramid was built 3,350 b.c (see proctor, knowledge, vol. i. pp. 242, 400; and that menes and his dynasty existed 7 50 years before the fourth[[footnote(s "the mythological astronomy of the ancients demonstrated" by a strangely intuitional symbologist and astrono

india, as on the dendera zodiac, the same characteristics of the signs are found. those who know well the hindu symbols and constellations, will be able to find out by the description of the egyptian, whether the indications of the chronological time are correct or not. on the dendera zodiac as preserved by the modern egyptian coptic and greek adepts, and explained a little differently by mackey, the lion stands upon the hydra and his tail is almost straight, pointing downwards at an angle of forty or fifty degrees, this position agreeing with the original conformation of these constellations "but in many places we see the lion (simha[[vol. 2, page] 433 theories of a self-made adept. mackey adds "with his tail turned up over his back, and ending with a serpent's head; thereby showing that

ee the lion (simha[[vol. 2, page] 433 theories of a self-made adept. mackey adds "with his tail turned up over his back, and ending with a serpent's head; thereby showing that the lion had been 'inverted; which, indeed, must have been the case with the whole zodiac and every other constellation, when the pole had been inverted" speaking of the circular zodiac, given also by denon, he says- there "the lion is standing on the serpent, and his tail forming a curve downward, from which it is found that though six or seven hundred thousand years must have passed between the two positions, yet they had made but little difference between in the constellations of leo and the hydra; while virgo is represented very differently in the two. in the circular zodiac, the virgin is nursing her child; but

ween the two positions, yet they had made but little difference between in the constellations of leo and the hydra; while virgo is represented very differently in the two. in the circular zodiac, the virgin is nursing her child; but it seems that they had not had that idea when the pole was first within the plane of the ecliptic; for in this zodiac, as given by denon, we see three virgins between the lion and the scales, the last of which holds in her hand an ear of wheat. it is much to be lamented that there is in this zodiac a breach of the figure in the latter part of leo and the beginning of virgo which has taken away one decan out of each sign" nevertheless, the meaning is plain, as the three zodiacs belong to three different epochs: namely, to the last three family races of the fourt

he prophets, with the jews, and to the temples with the gentiles. interpreted with the help of merely the symbolical key, enoch is the type of the dual nature of man- spiritual and physical. hence he occupies the centre of the astronomical cross (given by eliphas levi from a secret work, which is a six-pointed star "the adonai" in the upper triangle is the eagle; in the left lower triangle stands the lion; in the right, the bull: while between the bull and the lion, over them and under the eagle, is the face of enoch or man (vide illustrated diagram in isis unveiled, vol. ii, p. 452. now the figures on the upper triangle represent the four races, leaving out the first- the chhayas or shadows- and the "son of man" enos or enoch, is in the centre, because he stands between the two (the fourt

e grounds of comparative analogy that garuda, the allegorical and monstrous half-man and half-bird- the vahan or vehicle on which vishnu (who is kala "time) is shown to ride- is the origin of all other such allegories. he is the indian phoenix, the emblem of cyclic and periodical time, the "man-lion" singha, of whose representations the so-called "gnostic gems" are so full "over the seven rays of the lion's crown, and corresponding to their points, stand, in many cases, the seven vowels of the greek alphabet [gk char, testifying to the seven heavens" this is the solar lion and the emblem of the solar cycle, as[[footnote(s* as confessed by king, the great authority on gnostic antiquities, these gnostic gems are not the work of the gnostics, but belong to pre-christian periods, and are the w

, and very unlucky. if number 6 was the symbol of our globe ready to be animated by a divine spirit, 9 symbolized our earth informed by a bad or evil spirit. ten, or the decade, brings all these digits back to unity, and ends the pythagorean table. hence this figure[[diagram, unity within zero- was the symbol of deity, of the universe, and of man. such is the secret meaning of "the strong grip of the lion's paw, of the tribe of judah" between two hands (the "master mason's grip, the joint number of whose fingers is ten. if we now give our attention to the egyptian cross, or the tau, we may discover this letter, so exalted by egyptians, greeks, and jews, to be mysteriously connected with the decade. the tau is the alpha and the omega of secret divine wisdom, which is symbolized by the initi

hopping of the early palaeolithic haches, to the relatively graceful stone celts of that part of the neolithic period immediately preceding the use of metals. but this is in europe, a few portions only of which were barely rising from the waters in the days[[footnote(s* in such a case palaeolithic man must have been endowed in his day with thrice herculean force and magic invulnerability, or else the lion was as weak as a lamb at that period, for both to share the same dwelling. we may as well be asked to believe next that it is that lion or hyaena which has engraved the deer on the antler, as be told that this bit of workmanship was done by a savage of such a kind[[vol. 2, page] 723 entrapped by the reindeer. of the highest atlantean civilizations. there were rude savages and highly civil

grade motion of the equator, and about 31,000 years ago aldebaran was in conjunction with the vernal equinoctial point. the part assigned to taurus, even in christian mysticism, is too well known to need repetition. the famous orphic hymn on the great periodical cataclysm divulges the whole esotericism of the event. pluto (in the pit) carries off eurydice, bitten by the (polar) serpent. then leo, the lion, is vanquished. now, when the lion is in the pit, or below the south pole, then virgo, as the next sign, follows him, and when her head, down to the waist, is below the south horizon- she is inverted. on the other hand, the hyades are the rain or deluge constellations; and aldebaran (he who follows, or succeeds the daughters of atlas, or the pleiades) looks down from the eye of taurus. it

d the oceanic interspaces? or if it is asserted that the horse originated in the new world, how did such forms as the hipparion, etc, get into america in the first instance on the migration hypothesis? again "buffon had. remarked in the repetition of the african in the american fauna, how, for example, the lama is a juvenescent and feeble copy of the camel, and how the puma of the new represented the lion of the old world (schmidt "doctrine of descent and darwinism" p. 223 (7) the following quotation runs with no (2, but its significance is such and the writer cited so authoritative, that it deserves a place to itself "with regard to the primitive dolichocephalae of america, i entertain a hypothesis still more bold, namely, that they are nearly related to the guanches of the canary islands

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as now fallen into the depths of degradation: it is old cooks and fortune-tellers who read their future to servant-girls in search of husbands, by means of the white of an egg in a glass. nevertheless, even christians have to this day their sacred birds; for instance, the dove, the symbol of the holy ghost. nor have they neglected the sacred animals. the evangelical zoolatry- the bull, the eagle, the lion, and the angel (in reality the cherub, or seraph, the fiery-winged serpent, is as much pagan as that of the egyptians or the chaldeans. these four animals are, in reality, the symbols of the four elements, and of the four lower principles in man. nevertheless, they correspond physically and materially to the four constellations that form, so to speak, the suite or cortege of the solar god

rth and even the heliocentric system; while, at about thrice 600 years after the chinese philosopher, the popes of rome threatened and even burnt "heretics" for asserting the same. he is laughed at for speaking of the "sacred tortoise" no unprejudiced person can see any great difference between a tortoise and a lamb as candidates for sacredness, as both are symbols and no more. the ox, the eagle* the lion, and occasionally[[footnote(s* he may be laughed at by the protestants; but the roman catholics have no right to mock him, without becoming guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege. for it is over 200 years since confucius was canonized as a saint in china by the roman catholics, who have thereby obtained many converts among the ignorant confucianists* the animals regarded as sacred in the bible

led devils, when appearing under the names of other gods* the choice is curious, and shows how paradoxical were the first christians in their selections. for why should they have chosen these symbols of egyptian paganism, when the eagle is never mentioned in the new testament save once, when jesus refers to it as a carrion eater (matt. xxiv. 28; and in the old testament it is called unclean; that the lion is made a point of comparison with satan, both roaring for men to devour; and the oxen are driven out of the temple. on the other hand the serpent, brought as an exemplar of wisdom to follow, is now regarded as the symbol of the devil. the esoteric pearl of christ's religion degraded into christian theology, may indeed be said to have chosen a strange and unfitting shell to be born in and

r chemical affinities become deadened; but the enormous pressure of the gravitation of the mass of atomic matter, outside what i may for brevity call the birth-shell, would counteract the action of heat "beyond the birth-shell would be a space in which no chemical action could take place, owing to the temperature there being above what is called the dissociation-point for compounds. in this space the lion and the lamb would lie down together; phosphorus and oxygen would mix without union; hydrogen and chlorine would show no tendency to closer bonds; and even fluorine, that[[footnote(s* says mr. crookes in the same address "the first riddle which we encounter in chemistry is 'what are the elements' of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of th

thummim, and on the 12 wings of the cherub. leaving the proof of exactitude in the alleged correspondence to the said mystics, it is as follows: man, or the aquarius, is in the sphere of reuben, who is declared as "unstable as water (the vulgate has it, to be "rushing like water; gemini, in the strong fraternal association of simeon and levi; leo, in that of judah "the strong lion" of his tribe "the lion's whelp; the pisces, in zabulon, who "shall dwell at the haven of the sea; taurus, in issachar, because he is "a strong ass couching down" etc, and therefore associated with the stables; virgo-scorpio, in dan, who is described as "a serpent, an adder in the path that biteth" etc; capricornus in naphtali, who is "a hind (a deer) let loose; cancer, in benjamin, for he is "ravenous; libra, t

it does not seem possible to doubt the existence in antiquity of observations of this date. the persians say that four beautiful stars were placed as guardians at the four corners of the world. now it so happens that at the commencement of kali yug, 3000 or 3100 years before our era, the "eye of the bull" and the "heart of the scorpion" were exactly at the equinoctial points, while the "heart of the lion" and the "southern fish" were pretty near the solstitial points. an observation of the rising of the pleiades in the evening, seven days before the autumnal equinox, also belongs to the year 3000 before our era. this and similar observations collected in ptolemy's calendars, though he does not give their authors, these observations, which are older than those of the chaldeans, may well be

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eated, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is thelema. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the mir

, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavari, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, sir richard francis burton, doctor g rard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley.oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be (the earth) the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun.s fire, womb of all life, recurring

vegetable he is advanced upon the path of evolution. it is not so. minerals have no inherent power of motion save intramolecularly. plants grow and move, though but little. animals are free to move o every direction, and space itself is no hindrance to the higher principles of man. advance is in the direction of more continuous and more untiring energy. 31. the blessed ones have scorned to do so. the lion of the law, the lord of mercy, perceiving the true cause of human woe, immediately forsook the sweet but selfish rest of quiet wilds. from aranyani he became the teacher of mankind. after julai had entered the nirvana, he preached the equinox 46 on mount and plain, and held discourses in the cities, to devas, men and gods. reference is here made to the attainment of the buddha. it was onl

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red crowns like souls [who are in] their lands. ye who belong to the tuat produce your own offerings therein. make ye to be maat your sceptres, let your souls live, and let your throats have food to swallow, and ye shall come into being upon the land. their souls shall rise up in the tuat on their sceptres, they are provided p. 129 with knives, and no violence shall be done to them. goddess" 13. the lion ka-hemhemet, couchant, and facing the two companies of the gods described above. above his back are the two utchats, between which is the sign. 14. a form of the goddess isis, in a sitting position, but without a throne. click to view thath-neteru. hetchefu. isis-thaith. ka-hemhemet. 15. the god hetchefu. 16. the god thath-neteru, in mummied form, holding a sceptre in one hand and a knife

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ressed in many ways. the name of god, i h v h, is four-lettered, each letter corresponding to one of the four elements and to one of the four qabalistic worlds. the letters of this name are represented by the four animals described in the vision of ezekiel "they four had the face of a lion, of an eagle, of a man, and of an ox" these living creatures correspond to the four aspects of the absolute. the lion corresponds to life, to the element of fire, to atziluth, the archetypal world, to yod in i h v h, and to the sephirah chokmah, root of fire. the eagle corresponds to mind, to the element of water, to briah, the creative world, to the first heh in i h v h, and to the sephirah [189] t h e book of t o k e n s binah, the root of water. the man corresponds to the third aspect, truth or law, t

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury [symbol- sym04] cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the moon [symbol- sym05] leo, the lion: 23 july to 23 august. colour: gold. a fixed fire sign, for rituals for courage and leadership, sensual pleasures and love affairs. ruled by the sun [symbol- sym06] virgo, the maiden: 24 august to 22 september. colour: green or pale blue. a mutable earth sign, for spells to increase efficiency, for bringing order to a chaotic situation, for self-improvement and for healing. ruled by mercu

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ting scripture and history; he concludes that the world is on the verge of the period just before the advent of antichrist. c. 1180 sefer bahir 1180 "comte del graal" of chrestien de troyes 1189-92: the third crusade, responding to saladin's conquest of jerusalem in 1187, results in the accidental death of holy roman emperor frederick i barbarossa and some great stories for english king richard i the lion-hearted, who stops on his way out to visit joachim. the crusade does not, however, re-take jerusalem. 1189-1245 ibn al-farid egyptian poet sufi way of love intoxication c.1190- 1260 richard de fournival. trouv re 1190: rambam writes the moreh nebukhim, or guide to the perplexed, using rationalism to reconcile judaism with aristotle's laws of nature, and shloshah-asar ikkarim, the thirteen

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e other, yet it was adorned with images and mystic significations. on the affixed tablet was date et dabitur vobis( give and it shall be given unto you. under this gate lay a terrible grim lion chained, who as soon as he saw me arose and made at me with great roaring; whereupon the second porter who lay upon a stone of marble woke up, and asked me not to be troubled or afraid, and then drove back the lion; and having received the latter which i gave him with trembling, he read it, and with very great respect said thus to me: now welcome in god s name to me the man who for a long time i would gladly have seen. meanwhile he also drew out a token and asked me whether i could purchase it. but having nothing else left but my salt, i presented it to him, which he thankfully accepted. upon this t

ecently was quite full, was soon emptied, so that besides the soldiers there was not a man left. now as soon as this was done, and silence had been kept for the space of five minutes, there came forth a beautiful snow-white unicorn with a golden collar (having on it certain letters) about his neck. in the same place he bowed himself down upon both his forefeet, as if hereby he had shown honour to the lion, who stood so immoveably upon the fountain, that i had taken him to be of stone or brass. the lion immediately took the naked sword which he had in his paw, and broke it in two in the middle, and the pieces of it, it seemed to me, sunk into the fountain; after which he roared for so long, until a white dove brought a branch of olive in her bill, which the lion devoured in an instant, and

a day to live. for besides many other glorious antiquities, the royal sepulchre was also showed to me, by which i learned more than is extant in all books. there in the same place stands also the glorious phoenix (about which, two years ago, i published a particular small discourse. and i am resolved (in case this narration shall prove useful) to set forth several particular treatises concerning the lion, eagle, griffin, falcon and the like, together with their draughts and inscriptions. it grieves me for my other companions, that they neglected such precious treasures. and yet i cannot but think it was the special will of god that it should be so. i indeed reaped the most benefit from my page, for according as each one s genius lay, so he led whoever was entrusted to him into the quarter

ul news, that indeed the time was not yet, but i had only overslept my breakfast, they being unwilling to awaken me because of my age. but now it was time for me to go with him to the fountain where most of them were assembled. with this consolation my spirit returned again, so i was soon ready with my habit, and went after the page to the fountain in the aforementioned garden, where i found that the lion, instead of his sword, had a pretty large tablet by him. now having looked well at it, i found that it was taken out of the ancient monuments, and placed here for some special honour. the inscription was somewhat worn out with age, and therefore i have a mind to set it down here, as it is, and give everyone leave to consider it( hermes the prince. after so many wounds inflicted on humanki

n them; and with this he commanded that the child should be tenderly nursed, and to make preparation against the moor. now this provision, and the disciplining of the young lady (who after she had grown up a little was committed to an ancient tutor) took up all the first act, with many very fine and laudable sports besides. in the interlude a lion and griffin were set at one another to fight, and the lion got the victory, which was also a pretty sight. in the second act, the moor, a very black treacherous fellow, came on too. he, having with vexation understood that his murder had been discovered, and that a little lady was craftily stolen from him too, began thereupon to consult how by stratagem he might be able to encounter so powerful an adversary; on which he was eventually advised by

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en control of anatolia, now turkey. this was ishkur or "he of the mountain land" and he became the god of the nordic-aryan hittites. the old testament calls him adad and the hadad. r.a. boulay believes this is also the hebrew god, yahweh/yahveh or jehovah. the daughter of sin, known as inanna or ishtar (semitic, was a warrior goddess deity of many lands under different titles. ishtar's symbol was the lion and also the pleiades and venus. together with sin (shamash) and ishkur (adad, she became part of another ancient trinity of gods under many different names. sin was the father, ishkur the son, and ishtar the female. from ishkur and ishtar, we get the new age myth of the "ashtar command. many new agers claim this is a force of extraterrestrial "saviours" who are preparing to take the chos

with them they carried their own secret language, the language of symbols, which their initiates were taught to read and understand. i call this network the serpent cult, the serpent brotherhood, or the illuminati. those three are the same force. their secret language includes the lighted torch (illuminated ones; the pyramid and all-seeing eye (apparently used by the serpent sirians in atlantis; the lion (the "sun" and symbol of the serpent cult; the snake, fish, and flying reptile (gargoyle, and other reptilian symbolism; the hard "k" sound used in names and words (ka, ki, etc; the red cross or fire cross on the white background (the flag of england; and the trinity, symbolised as the trident and later the fleurde- lis and other three-pointed forms. the reptilian-illuminati know that the

d into the black sea. the edda says that thor fought and defeated the serpent worshippers of phrygia (in turkey, a word that comes from the sumerian name, firig or pirig, and it means literally "land of the lions".21 thor is depicted on ancient carvings symbolically fighting and taming "lions" in this battle with the phrygians (figure 19) and so we have the symbolic hebrew story of dan-iel taming the lion. thor was also "midas, the king who turned everything into gold with the "midas touch".22 his victory over the phrygians was commemorated in those ancient lands in a monument known as the tomb of midas, although it is not actually a tomb. on it are nine enormous crosses of st george (another name for thor-indara) and dates to about 1000bc.23 figure 19: this image of thor or oar defeating

er and matriarch, rann-t, in egyptian myth, or vice versa.34 serpent cult symbolism the obsession with troy and the trojan war by descendants of the merovingian bloodline can be understood when you read the edda. it tells of how thor's troy was raided by the "edenite" serpent cult led by wodan. the phrygians were serpent worshippers before their defeat by thor, and totems of the serpent cult were the lion and the wolf. this is why phrygia means "land of the lions. still today the illuminati use the lion profusely in their symbolism- look at britain and the british 158 children of the matrix figure 20: the highly symbolic royal crest depicting the lion (the serpent cult/illuminati) and the chained and tethered unicorn (nordics/humanity) figure 21: the crest of the reptilian house of rothsch

ing reptiles hold (control) the cross of st george. i took this picture at burnham beeches royal family alone. this same serpent cult described in the edda continues to manipulate the world to this day. we call it the llluminati. the british royal family are reptilian "host (possessed) entities who work for the serpent cult/ llluminati and we can now see the true symbolism of the royal crest with the lion facing a chained unicorn (figure 20. the symbol of thor/indara and his nordics was the goat and this later evolved into the unicorn.35 thus we have the symbolism of the lion (serpent cult) controlling and imprisoning the tethered human race and their great enemies, the nordics (unicorn. notice also the great similarity between the royal crest and that of the house of rothschild, complete

another important sun goddess site and the location of a famous cathedral much beloved of prince charles. when the romans came to britain they worshipped this goddess as sol minerva. her symbol was an owl- the symbol of the rituals at bohemian grove in northern california. the road system around the congress building in washington dc is also shaped unmistakably as an owl (see the biggest secret. the lion became the symbol of the "male" sun when the open became hidden, but once again the lion had more commonly symbolised the goddess. the mother goddess hathor was depicted as a lion-headed sphinx. mystery babylon the mystery school/secret society network designed to advance the reptilian agenda expanded rapidly from the time of babylon after 2000bc. in this same period the royal court of th

les. the book of genesis is an edited version of the sumerian accounts and it is a mass of goddess symbolism. the "mana from heaven, which the moses-led israelites were supposed to have received from "god" or yhvh/jehovah, is actually a name for the goddess, mana, who, like el, ruled the underworld.8 the romans knew her as mana or mania. her ancestral spirits were called "manes, as in the mane of the lion, so associated with the serpent cult, and of the horse, so connected with the amazons or valkeries. from the names mana and mania we get the word to describe crazed behaviour. this is derived from worship of the moon goddess, as in moon-madness or "lunacy. mantra, the sanskrit term for projecting vibrations by chanting words or sounds, comes from the same root. manu was the name for the i

ed day was sunday because he was, like jesus, symbolic of the sun. mithra worshippers called this the "lord's day" and they celebrated the main mithra festival during what is now easter. mithra initiations were held in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter and summer solstices. he was portrayed as a winged lion (the sun) standing within a spiralling serpent. the lion and the serpent are, of course, major symbols of the serpent cult/illuminati. the roman church encompassed the mithra eucharist into its "christian" rituals. mithra was claimed to have said "he who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood, so that he may be one with me and i with him, shall not be saved" the very site on which the vatican was built was a sacred place of mithra worsh

dian jewish congress and the world jewish congress. these organisations that control the "christian" and "judaic" con men are themselves controlled by the same force. as i was completing this book, george w. bush nominated senator john ashcroft to be his top law officer as attorney general. ashcroft is another member figure 39: the logo of pat robertson's christian broadcasting network figure 40: the lion, white horse, and dove, of the trinity broadcasting network "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen 319 of the religious right who appears to have emerged from the same do-what-i saynot- what-i-do-mould that spawned pat robertson. he describes himself as a christian conservative who doesn't smoke, drink, or dance. he is against abortion because it takes a human life created by god and

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ring from the cataclysm of 11,000 bc andrebuilding their civilisation. the author and researcher, robert bauval, says that thepyramids at giza align with the stars on the belt of orion as they would have been in10,500 bc when orion was at the lowest point in its cycle (the orions are anotherextraterrestrial race operating on this planet, i understand. and hancock and otherresearchers suggest that the lion-bodied sphinx at giza, which is believed to be farolder than originally dated, would have directly faced the constellation of leo the lionat that same time, 10,500 bc. research continues under the ocean off japan into afantastic structure which could also date to 10,500 bc at least. there are many whohave questioned these findings, especially the synchronisation of the giza pyramids toori

in the upperindus valleys between kashmir and afghanistan. again it is not a coincidence that thereligion of buddhism emerged from lands occupied by the sakka (aryan scythians. atleast by 500 bc a tribe called the sakyas lived in the area where buddha is supposed to62have been born around 63 years earlier. guatma (lord buddha) was called sakyashina,sakamuni, the sakya sage, sakya the teacher and the lion of the tribe of sakya. all thiswill become highly significant when we look at the single origin of all the major, andmost minor, religions and their heroes. the scythian/sakka and the cimmerians/cimbri were in fact all the same people and this is confirmed by inscriptions scored intothe behistun rock in the zargos mountains on an old caravan trail from babylon. theinscriptions were ordere

ons of aryan kingsin cilicia have them wearing the gothic style of dress. the name of keswick itself meansabode of the kes- the cassi or khatti clan of the hittites- and the county ofcumberland has evolved throughnames like cymry and cumbersfrom its origin, sumer. the termaryan comes from a phoenicianword, arri, meaning noble one.thus we get the names sum-arianand aristocracy or arian-stock-racy. the lion has always beena major symbol through the agesbecause it was an aryan symbol forthe sun and was often placed at theentrances to temples and sacredplaces. hence the lion-bodiedsphinx which also relates to theastrological sign of leo, againconsidered in astrology to be thesign ruled by the sun. the wholefoundation of british culture andlegend came from the phoenicians.the famous legend of s

d their birthdays were on. december 25th!mithra was crucified, but raised from the dead on march 25th- easter! mithran initiationstook place in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter90and summer solstices, the high and low points of the sun. mithra was often portrayed asa winged lion, a symbol for the sun still used by the secret societies today. referencesto the lion and the grip of the lions paw in the master mason degree of freemasonryoriginate with this same stream of mystery school symbolism. initiates into the rites ofmithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross.the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing theirspiritual self, and this crown, symbolising the rays of the s

tely, on apublic gate to the white house in washington, another home of the bloodlines. thethree-leafed shamrock in ireland is likewise an ancient symbol of the bloodline and theword shamrock comes from the north african term: shamrukh. all these symbols relateto the three horned depiction of nimrod in babylon and to other esoteric principles.other merovingian symbols were the fish (nimrod again, the lion (leo, the sun,authority, and the bee. three hundred golden bees were found on the burial cloak ofking childeric i, the son of meroveus, who died in the 5th century. bees are an ancientsymbol of the love goddess (semiramis) and symbolised royalty in egypt. they alsofocus on the queen bee, symbolic of isis/semiramis.the merovingians were another name for a babylonian brotherhood bloodline a

th goodreason, it turned out. he was bludgeoned to death by someone he clearly knew and trusted,because he opened his door to them and a bell alarm gelis had installed was not activated.despite the violence of his death and the intense struggle which preceded it, his body wasleft neatly laid out on the floor in almost ritualistic fashion.32 in his church at coutaussawere the now familiar symbols, the lion paws, the grapes and the vine, and a form of thestar of david, the six pointed star, with one triangle superimposed on the other instead ofbeing interweaved as normal. exactly the same symbol was found on saunieresbookplate.33 on geliss grave, topped by a maltese/templar cross, is the word assassineand the headstone is adorned with a rose, the symbol of the rosicrucians and of prematurede

black magic ritual and the templars were accused of what today we call satanism and ofrejecting christianity by denying christ and spitting on the cross. they were said toworship a demon power called baphomet, a black magic symbol, also known as the goatof mendes. capricorn (the goat, also symbolised by the unicorn) is the sign of the initiateand it represents political power, while leo (the sun, the lion) represents royal power.hence the lion is the king of the jungle and is the main symbol on the flag of the britishroyal family. the planet saturn rules capricorn while the sun rules leo and satanists andblack magicians are very much focused on the sun and saturn in their rituals. the saturnvibration has a much bigger impact on the earth than is recognised. in astrology it is theplanet of

ackpyramid has been built with amassive sphinx and an obeliskin that brotherhood city, lasv egas.figure 39: the sun and zodiac circle at the entrance to a financialbuilding in the city of london, near st pauls cathedral in the heart ofthe brotherhood spiders web. the black sun represents themalevolent use of solar energy and the galactic sun, and this oneincludes the face of winston churchill. 362the lion is seen so often in heraldry and flags because it is an ancient symbol of thesun, as is the sphinx most probably. the fish symbolises the sign of pisces and also thelegendary king of babylon, nimrod, who was depicted as a fish. the dove symboliseshis partner, queen semiramis, and it is more reverse symbolism. while the dove meanspeace to most people, it symbolises death and destruction to

e died on the site of an ancient sacrificial chamber of the goddess diana. she was alsohunted and used by the windsors to produce heirs and diana was the ancient goddess ofhunting, fertility and childbirth.when prince charles and dianas sisters went to paris to escort her body back tolondon, the coffin was draped in the royal standard, the flag of the windsors which iscovered with the sun symbol, the lion. not the flag of the country, youll note, but theflag of the windsors. another strange coincidence happened at the hammersmithmortuary in london. as her coffin arrived, the one carrying dodi was leaving and they448apparently crossed at the entrance. what are the statistical chances of that when bothmade such very different journeys from paris? dodi, we were told, had to be buriedwithin 24

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. lbrp: the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. a general method of abjuration (q.v. a powerful technique popularized by the hermitic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) to rid your area of unwanted negative influences. also a good technique of psychic self defense, as this ritual strengthens, fortifies, and magnifies the aura. this ritual is terrestrial in nature. lemures: see larvae. leo "the lion" in astrology (q.v, the fifth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet sol (the sun (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow. keywords include: loudly, proudly, powerfully, creatively, dramatically, heartily, need for recognition, pleasure seeking, dramatically. levi-zaed, e

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at her feet, a trident in her hand, a helmet on her head, and the sea in the back ground. analysing this figure as we would a qabalistic symbol, we realise that these individual symbols in the complex glyph have each a significance. the various crosses which make up the union jack refer to the four races united in the united kingdom. the helmet is that of minerva, the trident is that of neptune; the lion would need a chapter to himself to elucidate his symbolism. in fact, an occult glyph is more akin to a coat of arms than anything else, and the person who builds up a glyph goes to work in the same way as a herald designing a coat of arms. for in heraldry every symbol has its exact meaning, and these are combined into the coat of arms that represents the family and affiliations of the man

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rom the floor on to a sofa when in this state. it is quite true that, being rigid as a board, he was much easier to handle than the ordinary limp, unconscious human form; but there is a certain ratio between the weight of a grown man and the strength of a woman of average physique. what became of the missing weight on these occasions i found out one night. he had been ill, with some delirium, and the lion's share of the nursing, especially the night work, had fallen to my lot. there came a time, however, when we decided that he was so far recovered that it was unnecessary for anyone to sit up with him, so to bed we all went, for the first time for several days. i shared a room with another member of the community. it was a comparatively small cottage we were in, and our two beds were close

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ccomplish this. he then repaired the circle. the discomfited demon now continued) all is dispersion. these are the qualities of things. the tenth aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein (now returneth the beautiful woman who had before tempted the scribe. she prevailed not) i am afraid of sunset, for tum is more terrible than ra, and khephra the beetle is greater than the lion mau. i am a-cold (here choronzon wanted to leave the triangle to obtain wherewith to cover his nakedness. the scribe refused the request, threatening the demon. after a while the latter continued) i am commanded, why i know not, by him that speaketh. were it thou, thou little fool, i would tear thee limb from limb. i would bite off thine ears and nose before i began with thee. i would tak

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gyptiennes, t. i, p. 173; for english translations, see trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. iii, p. 386, and records of the past, 1st ed, vol. iv, p. 117. 3 according to the westcar papyrus, herutataf informed his father khufu of the existence of a man 110 years old who lived in the town of tettet-seneferu: he was able to join to its body again a head that had been cut off, and possessed influence over the lion, and was acquainted with the mysteries of thoth. by khufu's command herutataf brought the sage to him by boat, and, on his arrival, the king ordered the head to be struck off from a prisoner that tetteta might fasten it on again. having excused himself from performing this act upon a man, a goose was brought and its head was cut off and laid on one side of the room and the body was placed

ises and glorifyings of coming out from, and going into, the underworld in the beautiful amenta; of coming out by day, and of making transformations and of changing into any form which he pleaseth; of playing at draughts in the seh chamber; and of coming forth in the form of a living soul: to be said by the deceased after his death. vignette: the deceased playing at draughts; the deceased adoring the lion-gods of yesterday and to-day; the bier of osiris with isis and nephthys at the foot and head respectively; and a number of mythological beings referred to in the text. chapter xviii. without title. vignette: the deceased adoring the groups of gods belonging to various cities. chapter xix* the chapter of the crown) of victory. this chapter has no vignette. chapter xx. without title. this c

the young bull with sharp pointed horns, and he protecteth the world in his great name 'eternity cometh with its power and bringing therewith the bounds) of everlastingness' he is the firstborn god, the god who existed from the beginning, the governor of the world by reason of his strength, the terrible one of the two lion-gods,[2] the aged one, the form of khepera which existeth in all the gods, the lion of fearsome glance, the governor terrible by reason of his two eyes,[3] the lord who shooteth forth flame [therefrom] against his enemies. he is the primeval water which floweth forth in its season to make to live all that cometh forth upon his potter's wheel.[4] he is the disk of the moon, the beauties whereof pervade heaven and earth, the untiring and beneficent king, whose will germina

. on each side is a figure of the deceased, but that on the left faces to the left and that on the right faces to the right (1) compare also the variant from the papyrus of mut-em-uaa (2) 2. see page 281, note i] p. 277 3. a table of offerings, upon which are laid a libation vase, plants, and lotus flowers[1. 4. two lions seated back to back and supporting the horizon, over which extends the sky. the lion on the right is called sef, i.e "yesterday" and that on the left tuau, i.e "tomorrow (to illustrate lines 13-16. 5. the bennu bird,[2] and a table of offerings (to illustrate lines 26-30. 6. the mummy of ani lying on a bier within a funereal shrine; the head and foot are nephthys and isis in the form of hawks. beneath the bier are vases painted to imitate variegated marble or glass,[3] a

te viii. i.[5] the god heh "millions of years" wearing the emblem of "years( upon his head, and holding a similar object in his right hand; he is [1. in many papyri a figure of the deceased, kneeling in adoration before the lions supporting the horizon, takes the place of the table of offerings. here the artist probably intended to represent the souls of ani and his wife making these offerings to the lion-gods. 2 the name of the sanctuary in which the bennu bird was worshipped was het-bennu. greek writers called this bird the phoenix, and the egyptians considered it as a symbol of osiris. in a text quoted by brugsch (w rterbuch, p. 397, it is said plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (1 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] to have created itself. the bennu was also worshi

provided [with all things] and whose name is unknown. i have passed by the mighty one of the shoulder (7) the flood of osiris hath been passed through by me, and thoth-hapi-tmu, the lord of the horizon, hath opened unto me the flood in his name 'thoth, the cleaver of the earth (8) i have gained power over the water, even as set gained power over his foes. i have sailed over heaven. i am ra. i am the lion-god. i am the young bull (9. i have devoured the thigh, i have seized the flesh. i have gone round about the streams in seket-aru. boundless eternity hath been granted unto me, and, behold (10) i am the heir of eternity; to me hath been given everlastingness" closely connected with the above chapter are the two following short chapters-[1] vignette: the deceased drinking water from a runn

he saith "i am the oar (2) made ready for rowing, wherewith ra ferried over the aged godlike ones (3) i plate xv. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod22.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:28:11 am] carry the moistures of osiris to the lake away from the flame which cannot be passed (4; he is turned aside from the path thereof and he is not burned in the fire. i lie down with the hamemu (5) i come unto the lion's lair, killing and binding; and i follow the path by which he came forth" vignette: ani carrying a sail, emblematic of breath and air. text [chapter liv (1) chapter of giving breath in the underworld. saith osiris ani "i am the egg of the great cackler, and i watch and guard that [1. for the texts see naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bll. 73, 74. 2. the variants are# and] p. 311 great place[1

of his father osiris (6. i have become a ruler, i have become glorious, i am furnished [with what i need. hail, all ye gods, and all ye shining ones, make ye a way for me, the osiris, the scribe ani, triumphant" vignette: ani, with a staff in his left hand, standing before a door. text [chapter cxxxii: the chapter of making a man to return to see again his home upon earth. saith osiris ani "i am the lion-god (2) coming forth with strides. i have shot forth arrows, i have wounded [the prey, i have wounded the prey. i am the eye of horus; i have opened the (3) eye of horus in his hour. i am come unto the furrows. let osiris ani come in peace" vignette: ani piercing a serpent. text [chapter x [xlviii: another chapter of one who cometh forth by day against his foes in the underworld. saith os

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t the north; that of the salamanders at the south; that of the sylphs at the east; and that of the undines at the west. they influence the four temperaments of men (i. e, the gnomes, the melancholic; the salamanders, the sanguine; the undines, the phlegmatic; and the sylphs, the bilious. their signs are as follows: the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes, and we command them with the sword; of the lion for the salamanders, and we command them with the forked wand, or the magic trident; of the eagle for the sylphs, and we command them with the holy pentacles; finally with aquarius for the undines, and we evoke them with the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are, gob for the gnomes, djiu for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs, and nicksa for the undines. when an elementar

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lls into our hands, he shall be immediately returned to him. that is the most i can say, for in no circumstances will i permit lieutenant chichester to go back to your camp "and i may add that if you gave such permission, i should refuse to take him with me to certain death "and if you will allow a word from me, no permission of the lieutenant nor wish of mr. jennings would induce me to walk into the lion's den again. so that phase of the question is closed. that which now concerns me, mr. jennings, is how this is going to affect you "what do you mean" asked my friend "will geronimo accept your explanation? will he not believe that we are retaining martana alive, or, if he is dead, that he was slain by us after capture "i will attend to that" replied jennings with a shrug of his massive sh

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hair, and blue or gray eyes. the native is phlegmatic and heavy in disposition; weak in constitution, and of a small voice. places associated with cancer are the sea and all rivers, swamps, ponds, lakes, wells, ditches, and watery places. the key phrase for cancer is i feel. leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac, is a fixed fire sign. it is a positive, masculine sign, ruled by the sun. its symbol is the lion, and its glyph is said to be a modified version of the initial letter of its greek name. it takes its name from the latin word for lion. leo is associated with the back and, especially, the heart. the association of leo with the heart is the astrological basis for the common expression lion hearted. leo is hot, dry, commanding, and very barren. when this sign ascends in a nativity, the in

se. he has his own means of identification. from the sensation produced in the hand the automatist recognizes the presence of the well-known control of the appearance of an intruder. occasionally the writing is attributed to preposterous sources. victor hugo received automatic messages from the shadow of the tomb and the ass of balaam. and jules bois quoted questions in le mirage moderne to which the lion of androcles gave the answers. the communicator often avails himself or herself of the services of an amanuensis who appears to have more skill in performing the psychic feat of communication. in the seances of stainton moses, rector acted as amanuensis for imperator and many others, producing a large part of the automatic script. in leonora piper s case, the communicators were often unco

ally as christian leaders interpreted it as a foretelling of the appearance of christ. the prophecy, recorded in the fourth eclogue, included in its text, the first-born of the new age is already on his way from high heaven down to earth. with him, the iron race shall end and golden man inherit all the world. smile on the baby s birth. this glorious age will dawn. the ox will not be frightened of the lion. justin martyr, the first of the post-apostolic church fathers, had high praise for the sibyl at cuma. he described her as teaching the people after ascending to a high place and that she had left behind a prophet of the christ child. no less a personage than the roman emperor constantine (the first to convert to christianity, speaking before the first council of nicea in the fourth centu

are was a famous poet of great sensitivity who also published several beautifully written short stories of the supernatural, including all hallows, the recluse, and the looking-glass. collections of his short stories include: the riddle (1923) and on the edge (1930. a later collection is ghost stories (1956. williams was a sensitive writer of fantasy stories. war in heaven (1930) and the place of the lion (1931) deal with demonic themes. other stories include descent into hell (1937, witchcraft (1941, and all hallow s eve (1945. the irish writer lord dunsany was an acclaimed master of fantasy fiction. his books include time and the gods (1906, the sword of welleran (1908, a dreamer s tales (1910, the book of wonder (1912, the last book of wonder (1916, the king of elfland s daughter (1924

first refused to attend the seance but was greatly moved when the table spelled out the name of his lost daughter leopoldine. soon regular communications were established. the sitters included general le flo, count paul teleki, charles hugo, one vacquerie, and mme. hugo. victor hugo himself was never at the table, sometimes not even in the room. many symbolical personages came through, including the lion of androcles, the ass of balaam, and the dove of noah. the shadow of the tomb expressed itself in verse in the style and language of victor hugo, with all the grandiloquence of romantic poetry. sometimes verse in the same style was signed by aeschylus. shakespeare challenged hugo to a poetic competition. andre chenier, the guillotined poet, finished the fragmentary poem that was interrupt

o which lithomancy was attributed. a physician named eusebius used to carry one of these wonderworking stones about with him. the story is told that one night he had an unexplained impulse to wander out from the city emesa to the summit of a mountain dignified by a temple of minerva. there, as he sat down fatigued by his walk, he saw a globe of fire falling from the sky and a lion standing by it. the lion disappeared, the fire lippares encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 926 was extinguished, and eusebius ran and picked up a boetulum. he asked it to what god it appertained, and it readily answered, to gennaeus, a deity worshiped by the heliopolitae, under the form of a lion in the temple of jupiter. during this night, eusebius said he traveled not less than 210 stadia (more

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panying him always was a rapacious beast, the size of a very big dog, of a tawny colour, with slender neck, mouth full of large teeth, eyes which glowed in the darkness like a cat s, and which reminded the company of a maneless lion. it was occasionally wild in its behaviour, especially if persons were afraid of it, and neither the human nor the animal apparition was much welcomed by the sitters. the lion, as we may call him, liked to lick the sitters with a moist and prickly tongue, and gave forth the odour of a great feline, and even after the seance the sitters, and especially the medium, were impregnated with this acrid scent as if they had made a long stay in a menagerie among wild beasts. according to one professor pawlowski s account in the journal of the american society for psychi

se, white resin, camphor, and sulphur therein, and by thrice pronouncing the three names of the genii of fire: michael, samael, and anael, and then by reciting the prayer of the salamanders. the earth is exorcised by the sprinkling of water, by breathing, by fire, and by the prayer of the gnomes. their signs are the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes who are commanded with the magic sword; of the lion for the salamanders, who are commanded with the forked rod, or magic trident; of the eagle for the sylphs, who are ruled by the holy pentacles; and finally, of aquarius for the undines, who are evoked by the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs, and necksa for the undines. these names, it will be noticed, ar

almost totally fraudulently produced. according to the testimony of the bible, teleportation is by no means new in human experience. we find in ezek. 11:1, moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the lord s house which looketh eastward. elijah, walking with elisha, was carried away by a whirlwind. habakkuk was carried from judea to babylon to bring food to daniel in the lion s den, then carried back to judea through the air. in the acts of the apostles 5:23, the warders of st. peter s prison testify: the prison house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing before the doors; but when we opened we found no man within. when st. philip baptized the ethiopian, the author of the acts of the apostles notes (8:39.40, and when they were come up out of th

m& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1672 telonic research center, but soon moved to peru. there, under the name brother philip, he founded the brotherhood of the seven rays, an occult community that attracted not only other contactees, but many of a theosophical inclination. this was williamson s most productive period as a writer. he authored secret of the andes (as brother philip (1958, secret places of the lion (1958, ufos confidential (with john mccoy (1958, and road in the sky (1959, and a volume he had written earlier, other tongues.other flesh, was also published (1957. he was the first to call attention to the nasca lines as a possible artifact related to extraterrestrials. by 1958 the peruvian experiment had come to an end, and williamson spent the next years touring the world and lecturin

mber 1963: 9.10. ward, gary l. independent bishops: an international directory. detroit: apogee, 1990. williamson, george hunt. other tongues.other flesh. amherst, wis: amherst press, 1957. road in the sky. london: neville spearman, 1959. the saucers speak. london: neville spearman, 1963 (under pseudonym brother philip. secret of the andes. clarksburg, w.va: sucerian books, 1958. secret places of the lion. amherst, wis: amherst press, 1958. williamson, marianne (1953) marianne williamson, a popular metaphysical teacher of the channeled text a course in miracles (acim, was born in houston, texas, the daughter of a prominent jewish lawyer who specialized in immigration law. her father, alan vishnevetsky, had changed the family name when he moved to the united states from his birthplace in ru

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surface-dwellers. lemuria was incorporated into the flying saucer-based alternative realities proposed by 156 lemuria the contactees and channelers who came along in the late 1940s and 1950s amid popular speculation about visitation from other planets. the pacific lost continent played a prominent role in george hunt williamson s speculative books other tongues other flesh (1953, secret places of the lion (1958, and road in the sky (1959, which laid out an ancient history in which lemurians and atlanteans interacted freely with a variety of extraterrestrial races. now an assumed reality in just about any metaphysical, new age, hollow earth, or saucerian worldview, lemuria sooner or later enters just about any discussion predicated on the assumption that everything humans think they know ab

dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. scott-elliot, w, 1925. the story of atlantis and the lost lemuria. london: theosophical publishing house. shaver, richard s, 1945. i remember lemuria! amazing stories 19, 1 (march: 12 70. williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongues other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press, 1958. secret places of the lion. london: neville spearman, 1959. road in the sky. london: neville spearman. lethbridge s aeronauts in the spring of 1909, the british isles were inundated with sightings of enigmatic objects that some people called airships. popular and official opinion concurred that german spies were involved, though it is now known that no such german surveillance was occurring or, for that matter, was

ing saucers have landed. new york: british book centre. moseley, james w, and michael g. mann, 1959. screwing the lid down on doctor williamson. saucer news 6, 2 (february/ march: 3 5. swords, michael d, 1993. ufos and the amish. international ufo reporter 18, 5 (september/ october: 12 13. williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongues other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press, 1958. secret places of the lion. amherst, wi: amherst press, 1959. road in the sky. london: neville spearman. williamson, george hunt, and alfred c. bailey, 1954. the saucers speak! a documentary report of interstellar communication by radiotelegraphy. los angeles: new age publishing company. williamson, george hunt, and john mc c oy, 1958. u f os confidential! the meaning behind the most closely gu a rded se c ret of a

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l light; us into darkness he has brought; to you are suited only day and night. faust ah, but i will! mephistopheles well said and right! and yet i fear there is but one thing wrong; for life is short and art is long. i d think you d let yourself be taught. associate you with a poet; then, in thought, you leave the gentleman full sweep, upon your honoured head to heap each good and noble quality: the lion s mood, the stag s rapidity, the fiery blood of italy, the northman s hardihood. the secret for it? let him find how magnanimity and cunning are combined, how with a youth s hot impulse you may fall in love according to a plan. might i myself know such a gentleman, him mr. microcosm i would call. faust what am i if i strive in vain to win the crown of all mankind which, though afar, all s

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

erroneous ascription. however, from the perspective of reincarnation, was master mohammed inferring that the later miryam was a reincarnation of the former, much in the same way as john the baptist is identified as a reincarnation of prophet eliyahu in the peshitta* rabbi yitza aq luria (1534-1572 ce) is a highly esteemed jewish kabbalist who lived in safed in israel. he is widely known as haari (the lion. the expulsion of the jews from spain in 1492 set into motion a tide of momentum that led to safed becoming a center for the revitalized study of the jewish kabbalah, in which luria was a central figure. rabbi luria dictated the etz hachayyim (tree of life) to his student chayyim vital. it is composed of ten branches and is deeply rooted in the zohar (book of splendor. it is clearly the m

mentum that led to safed becoming a center for the revitalized study of the jewish kabbalah, in which luria was a central figure. rabbi luria dictated the etz hachayyim (tree of life) to his student chayyim vital. it is composed of ten branches and is deeply rooted in the zohar (book of splendor. it is clearly the most intellectually complex of the principal works of written qabalah, and attracts the lion s share of interest amongst present-day (nonoccult) qabalists. the text of the etz hachayyim describes the emanation of the smooth and simple light of the endless (rva [vc ]ya, ayn sof or, from its unmanifest condition into the pattern of the sefiroth of the tree of life within the sphere of contraction(,vomo, tzimtzum).34 in the etz hachayyim, the central column of the tree is called the

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kness retreat into their lairs, but man and the creatures of light go out to their work. dark creatures, sacred to night and to pluto, are witches, toads, basilisks, owls: these are banished. creatures of light are the cock, the phoenix, the swan, the goose, the eagle, the lynx, the ram, and 1 bruno, op. lat, ii(i, pp. 1 ff. 2 ibid, p. 6. 3 ibid, pp. 7 ff. 192 giordano bruno: first visit to paris the lion; these are awake and working. the herbs and flowers of light such as the heliotrope or the lupin banish the growths of night. hermes describes the illumination contained within the art, not only in these terms of animals and plants astrologically affiliated to the planet sol, but also in terms of a philosophy which is based on the "unerring intellect, rather than on "fallacious sense. he

to their capacity and measure. whence god as a whole (though not totally but in some more in some less cxcellendy) is in all things. for mars is more efficaciously in natural vestiges and modes of substance, in a viper or a scorpion, nay even in an onion or garlic, than in any inanimate picture or statue. thus one should think of sol as being in a crocus, a daffodil, a sunflower, in the cock, in the lion; and thus one should conceive of each of the gods through each of the species grouped under the divers genuses of the ens. for as the divinity descends in a certain manner inasmuch as it communicates itself to nature, so there is an ascent in the cena de le ceneri (marlowe, tragical history of dr. faustus and greene, honourable history of friar bacon and friar bungay, ed. a. w. ward, oxfo

argo of avarice, the cup of insobriety, the balance of iniquity, the cancer of slowness, the capricorn of deception. let not the scorpio of fraud come near us, nor the centaur of animal affection, the altar of superstition, the crown of pride, the fish of unworthy silence. may the twtns of indecent familiarity fall with them, and the bull of concern for mean things, the ram of inconsiderateness, the lion of tyranny, the aquarius of dissoluteness, the virgin of fruitless conversation, and the sagittarius of detraction' in the nova de universis phihsophia, ferrara, 1591, and venice, 1593. see above, p. 182. on patrizi's publication of the stobaeus fragments, see scott, i, p. 40. 2 the anthologium of stobaeus, compiled circa a.d. 500, is a collection of extracts from greek writers amongst wh

ue of apollo or the monad. he stands in his chariot to signify the absolute one; he is naked to signify the one simplicity; the constancy and solidity of his rays signify the one pure truth. one crow flying before his face signifies unity by the negation of multitude. he denotes one genus because he illuminates all the stars; one species because he illuminates the twelve signs; one number through the lion his sign; one congregation through the chorus of the muses over which he presides; one harmony or consonance, one symphony of many voices, denoted by the lyre of apollo which is called the spirit of the universe.3 this sounds like a fairly normal statue of apollo, but its magical or talismanic nature is indicated by some of the ingredients, for instance the "one crow" which flies before h

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how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jehovah. at that time he was given a new hammer and a new word. the hammer was in the form of a cross. the word was written upon a disc, before he was finally slain by his adversaries. and so he slept until as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, he was raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw, the lion of judah. then the disc was found, also the new cruciform hammer, and upon the disc the mystic symbol, the rose. in these two symbols lie hidden the great secret of life, the blending of water and fire, as symbolized by the earthborn fluidic sap ascending through the stem and calyx of the flower to the fire tinted petals, born in the purity of the sun, but still guarded by

ghteenth (1 plus 8) degree, which is the degree of the rose croix. this is the ultimate of the thirty-third degree, for three times three are nine, and one plus eight are nine. nine being the highest degree in the lesser mysteries, he who has passed this degree of the genuine mystic order is then, and then only, the widow's son of nine, or nain, ready to be raised by the strong grip of the paw of the lion of judah, to the kingdom of the heavens, there to receive the "well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your lord" for "him that overcometh will i make a pillar in the house of god, thence he shall no more go out" he is then immortal, loosed from the wheel of birth and death. summary in conclusion, it may be well to sum up the points which have been made in these a

point in time the other actors in the world drama were also brought to birth that they might serve their brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hiram abiff had been given the baptism of fire by cain, which freed him from the lucifer spirits; he was also given a new hammer and a new word. when the new era dawned, he was born as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, and raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw to the rank of immortals as christian rosenkreuz. solomon, the son of seth, was reborn as jesus. the baptism of water administered by john as representative of jehovah freed him also. he yielded his body at that moment to the descending christ spirit and ranged himself with the new leader. religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since

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life. it may blindly butt its head against the cosmic forces typified by the first of the fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of cunning, as a means of attaining mastery over others, which characteristic is indicated in the second of the fiery signs, leo, the lion, the king of beasts; or perchance it may rise above the animal nature, and aim at the stars with the bow of spiritual aspiration, typified by the last of the fiery signs, sagittarius, the centaur. the centaur is just ahead of the watery sign scorpio, a warning that one who tries to reach that prerogative as "phree messen" a son of fire and light, will surely feel the sting of the scorpion

ture and uttered a prophecy which has been partially fulfilled; what remains is in process of realization day by day, and as surely as time goes on all will come to pass "you, hiram" said cain "are destined to die with hopes unfulfilled, but many sons will be born to the widow and keep your memory green through the ages, and at length one will come who is greater than you. you shall not wake till the lion of judah raises you with the powerful grip of his paw. this day you have received your baptism of fire, but he shall baptize you with water and with spirit; you, and every son of the widow, who will come to him. greater than solomon, he will build a new city and a temple wherein the nations may worship. the sons of cain and the sons of seth shall there meet in peace, at the sea of glass

the king face to face. hiram was again conducted to the surface of the earth and as he walked from the scene of his shattered ambition, the conspirators set upon and fatally wounded him; but before he expired, he hid the hammer and disc upon which he had inscribed the word. this was never found until ages later when hiram "the widow's son" was reborn as lazarus and became the friend and pupil of the lion of judah, who raised him from death through initiation. when the hammer was found it had the shape of a cross, and the disc had become a rose. therefore hiram took his place among the immortals under the new and symbolical name christian rosenkreuz. he founded the order of temple-builders which bears his name; in that order aspiring souls are still instructed how to fuse the base metals a

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of the mythologies" and as "the great first cause" she represented the past and the future. she was the source whence all that was and is had proceeded. in its earliest representations, the sphinx is figured with the head of a woman and the body of a lion. by various writers it is stated that the sphinxes which were brought as spoils from asia, the very cradle of religion, were thus represented. the lion, which symbolizes royal power and intellectual strength, is always attached to the chariot of cybele. the sphinx is supposed to typify not only cybele, but the great androgynous god of africa as well. however, as cybele and muth portrayed the same idea, namely, female power and wisdom, we are not surprised that they should have been worshipped under the same emblem. neither is it remarkab

ndane revolution begins afresh. now the virgin astrea returns from heaven; and the primeval reign of saturn recommences; now a new race descends from the celestial realms of holiness. do thou, lucina, smile propitious on the birth of a boy who will bring to a close the present age of iron and introduce throughout the whole world, a new age of gold. then shall the herds no longer dread the fury of the lion, nor shall the poison of the serpent any longer be formidable. every venomous animal and every deleterious plant shell perish together. the fields shall be yellow with corn, the grape shall hang its ruddy clusters from the bramble, and honey shall distil spontaneously from the rugged oak. the universal globe shall enjoy the blessings of peace, secure under the mild sway of its new and div

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gypt: a perfect symbol of what man must do to be comparable with the omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence of god, typi255 fied by the same emblems. now the four elements of the sphynx are equally applicable to the expression of god in the natural forces of the earth the four-parted action of the astral light working in heat, light, magnetism and electricity: the man is light, the bull heat, the lion's grip is the attraction of the magnet, and the eagle's wings are types of the far-reaching flashes of the electric fluid. ezekiel's additional imagery of the wheel has supplied the enigma of the wheel of past ellus, intimately connected with the156themagical masontetrad of god; hisrota, the latin word for which is also torah, the hebrew 'law, and taro the mystical keys of the paths of ye

alled the man of the secret or the occult man.3. in the 3rd grade of milesor soldier we know from tertullian that a crown was offeredtothe aspirant, who refused it saying,'no,mithras is my crown, and he never after could wear a garland on the head.4. in the 4thgradeofthe lionwe read that the aspirant's hands and lips were anointed with honey, the food of the blessed in heaven; this association of the lion with the bee and honey reminds us of the riddle of sampson; see judges xiv.5.the 5thgradeofperses,conferred the special cap of the persian mithra, now called the phrygian cap of liberty.6. the 6thgradeofheliodromusonce more marked theresemblances of freemasonry to mithra 255identity of mithras with helios, sol, the sun in the heavens; type of heat, light and benevolence.7. the 7th gradeof

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tly follow that path of spiritual purity which alone willleadhimto the divine light. now astrology points out that the signs of the zodiac partake of the nature of the elements, and that the four most important periods in the year are the respective entries of the sun into the four signs of taurus, leo, scorpio and aquarius, which are represented in the hebrew cherubim with the heads of the bull, the lion, the eagle (for the eagle replaces the scorpion, unless the symbolism is intended to be of destructive nature, and the man. for when the sun enters the sign of the bull, in april, he stirs up the earth to vegetation, and the ancients said that this showed that the sign of the bull especiallyhad an earthly operation. in the lion, in july, the fiery heat is mostthe symbolism of the 4 ancien

ionofthea:.0..copied from mathers' msbyj.w..brodie-innes,c.1910.)5.twelve signs and twelve tribesthetwelve tribes are thus attributed to the twelve zodiacal signs:[aries]'y'gad[taurus]c$ephraim[gemini]iimanasseh[cancer]l2z5issachar[leo]stjudah[virgo]tij1naphtali[libra==asher[scorpio]111dan[sagittarius]tbenjamin[capricorn]v")zebulon[aquariusj=reuben[piscesjv;simeonofthese especially(c$)thebull (j )the lion (111) the scorpion (but in good symbolism the eagle) and=)the man are to be noted as forming the kerubic figures of ezekiel and john. to these signs are allotted the tribes of ephraim. judah,danand reuben, who, as we shall presently see, encamped towards the cardinal points around the tabernacleofthecongregation, and as leadersoftheothers.thesigns of(ii)the twins) the fishes, and in a cer

h (a daughter. rachel bore joseph, whose sons were manasseh (n) and ephraim::s),but died at the birth of benjamin (t),whom she wishedtocall ben-oni. in the wilderness the tabernacle was pitched in the midst, and immediately surroundingitare the tents of levi. at a distance towards the four cardinal points are the standards of the twelve tribes erected there. on the east, judah=the kerubic sign of the lion, with issachar=(qo )and zebulon=(11).on the south, reuben=the kerubic sign of the man, aquarius, with simeon),and gad('y).on the west, ephraim=the kerubic sign of the bull, with manasseh( n) and benjamin (t);and on the north, dan=the kerubic sign of the eagle(tl),with asher=)and naphtali (ji.l7).save the kerubic emblems the arrangement seems at first very confused,butwhen we notice the ma

on (while in some packs a tiger, in others a dog, attacks him from behind).itsignifiesfolly, expiation. 21. the universe.within a flowery wreath is a female figure nude save for a light scarf. she represents nature and the divine presence therein. in each hand she should bear a wand.atthe four angles of the card are the four cherubic animals of the apocalypse. above, the eagle and the man; below, the lion and the bull.itrepresentscompletion, reward.thus the whole series of the twenty-two trumps will give a connected sentence which is capable of being read thus: the humanwill(1)enlightened byscience(2) and manifested byaction(3) should find itsrealisation(4) in deeds ofmercyandbeneficence(5. thewise disposition(6) of this will give himvictory(7) throughequilibrium(8) andprudence(9, over the

he attribution, for these are cognate symbols. but at one time the82thesorcerer and his apprenticesword of justice wastheegyptian 'knife' symbol of the*'sickle of leo, while the scales represented the sun having'.just quitted the balance point of highest declination. similarly the female and the lionrepresentedthe idea of venus (lady) offire of vulcan (hinexalted).but'the earliest attribution was the lion-goddess (or lion-god of.'horus)to.q.andmatthegoddess oftruthwith herscales'to, and this is therefore better. alsowas attributed to.225..horus at one time. so unto the 'foolish man' is attributed air, moveable .and'.never permanent.the'juggler' isthenatural symbol of mercury, the god of tricksters and also of thedeeper.knowledge.the'high priestess'267 findeth her natural correla. tive in t

the zodiac of dendera among others, and the hindu and burmese zodiacs- present many points yet unsolved. the three virgins-theone holding a child, another nursing a child, and thethirdholding an ear of com--might seem to indicate three separate stellar years. and these three separate positions of virgo appear in the zodiac of dendera.aliother problem is the esne lion, and the altered position of the lion's tail- probably pointingtoisomeparticular object, someparticularstar, probably indicating the position of the lion at.the time that was indicatedbythalzodiac. this again should be looked at with regard to the exaet positionofthe gallery in the great pyramid.thegallery of the great pyramid was seentopoint at the timeofits construction to alpha draconis, as the hieroglyphics are said to gi

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s is also sometimes seen as the fisherman. there are many ways to image the astrological ages, in one egypt tradition isis is related to taurus, osiris to aries, horus to pisces and maat to aquarius. the start of the pyramid age was linked to leo and many believe that the sphinx was carefully ligned to the image of leo at the horizon, while it forms embodied the priestess of virgo and the form of the lion as it represented the change from one astrological age to the next (virgo to leo. heraldic cycles the platonic year is 25,920 years long and hence each sign cover 2160 years. each of these signs can be further sub-divided into minor precessional cycles, each of which is 180 years long. in each astrological age the first minor cycle is of the same characteristic as that of the greater, hen

inx has a major effect on how we evaluate history. from geological research by prof. robert schloch of boston university, it has been conclusively proven that the sphinx shows signs of major erosion from rain-water. the evidence suggests that this level of erosion would have demanded a very different environment from today. when this is coupled with the astrological image that the sphinx encodes (the lion head represents leo, a likely dating is found around 10,500 bce. this is when the feet of the sphinx would be aligned with leo on the horizon. it also fits well with the erosion evidence. many see this period, when great cataclysms such as the onset of the last ice age changed the face of the earth and arctic man was driven to migration as the source from which later scattered esoteric tr

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ng "o thou mighty angel bziza who art ruler and president over the four angels of the fiery lesser quadrangle of o, i invocate thee to impress into this weapon the force and fiery energy of thy kingdom and servants, that by it, i may control them for all just and righteous purposes" using the sword, trace over the fire wand the invoking active spirit pentagram and the invoking fire pentagram with the lion kerub within a circle. note: when using the magical sword of the art in this case, use the pommel and not the point to do the tracing. empowering the lesser angle of n holding the chalice on high, and recite the following "o thou mighty angel banaa, ruler and president over the four angels of fluid o, i beseech thee to impress into this weapon thy magic power, that by it, i may control th

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mless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire" chief adept (on reaching the south, he faces south, and makes with the cross the invoking pentagram of fire, saying "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the south (chief adept replaces the cross on the lion. takes the cup, goes to the west, sprinkles water, and circumambulates with sol, saying) 3 "so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud, resounding sea (on reaching west, he faces west, and makes the invoking pentagram of water with the cup, saying "empeh arsel gaiol. in the names and letters of the great western quadrangl

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hey may be said to symbolize the triad of the supernals, the tetrad of the elements, and the pentagram. again, in the commencing triad of the linea spiritus sancti of each tablet, it may be said that: oro will be symbolical of the voice of the man kerub. mph will be symbolical of the cry of the eagle kerub. mor will be symbolical of the low of the bull kerub. oip will be symbolical of the roar of the lion kerub. the adept will soon realize that there are numerous methods of working with the pyramids. thou will surely discover that each pyramid is an entire world. this thou mayest discover through scrying in the spirit vision. thou mayest regard the upper triangle (no. 2) as representing a force acting downwards. on the contrary, the lower triangle (no. 4) is a force striving upwards. the l

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the fire tablet, make the active and passive spirit pentagrams and invoking fire pentagram with the leo kerub in the center, using the lotus wand. say: 3 "and the elohim said 'let us make adam in our own image, after our likeness, and let him have dominion' in the name yhvh tzoboath, lord of hosts, spirits of fire adore your creator. sign the leo kerub with the fire wand. say "in the sign of leo the lion, and in the name of michael, great archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator" make the cross with the wand. say "in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, spirits of fire, adore your creator" hold the lotus wand on high. say "in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the west, oip teaa pdoce, and in the name of,edlprnaa great king o

e are the wheels 11 of thy chariot. yhvh tzboath, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i trample under foot because he hath set his love upon me. he will set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in" step 30 make over the talisman the sign of the rending of the veil, and say "let the white brilliance of the divine spirit des

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le stations of the gods, and descriptions of the forms which an adept officer builds upon as a focus of force are given in another paper. the invisible stations these are: 1. the stations of the kerubim. 2. the stations of the children of horus. 3. the stations of the evil one. 4. the station of harpocrates. 5. the stations of isis, nephthys, and aroueris. 1. the kerubim: the stations of the man, the lion, the bull and the eagle are at the four cardinal points without the hall, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple. they are placed according to the winds beyond the stations of hierophant, 15 dadouchos, hiereus, and stolistes and in this order do their symbols appear in all warrants of temple. the kerub of m formulates behind the throne of hierophant. she has a young girl's cou

hat the kerub representeth a far more sublime potency, yet acting by a harmonious sympathy through the particular sign allotted unto their correspondence" the kerub of o has the face and form of a lion with large and clashing wings. he formulates behind the throne of the dadouchos and he is a power of the great goddess tharpesh or tarpheshest, the latter syllable being nearly pasht. the action of the lion kerub is through the flaming o of e of which the egyptian name is labo-ae. the kerub of n has the face and form of a great eagle with large and glistening wings and he formulates behind the throne of hiereus. he is a power of the great god tho-om mo-oo, and his operation is by the sign of h, which is called in egyptian szlae-ee. the kerub of l has the face and form of a bull with heavy an

a temple, represents the temple itself of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of the rivers. ameshet (man-headed) is placed in the northeast, between the man and the bull. ameshet or amesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invoked by the letters. tou-mathaph, jackal-headed, is placed in the southeast between the man and the lion. tmo-oumathu or tmoumathv. ahephi, ape-faced, is placed in the southwest between the lion and the eagle. ahephi or ahaphix. kabexnuv, hawk-faced, is placed in the northwest, between the eagle and the bull. kabexnuv or dabexnjemouv. 3. the station of the evil one: this station is in the place of dwsy and is called the station of the evil one, the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuse

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM16

. la, ab, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high, even amoun have i called my habitation. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i trample under foot because he hath set his love upon me. he will set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in" step 30 make over the talisman the sign of the rending of the veil, and say "let the white brilliance of the divine spirit des

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and to impostors, and to those who seek other things than wisdom, we witness by these presents publicly, we cannot be betrayed unto them to our hurt, nor be known to them without the will of god, but they shall certainly be partakers of that terrible commination spoken of in our fama, and their impious designs shall fall back upon their own heads, while our treasures shall remain untouched, till the lion shall arise and exact them as his right, receive and employ them for the establishment of his kingdom. chapter vii one thing should here, o mortals, be established by us, that god hath decreed to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, an influx of truth, light, and grandeur, such as he commanded should accompany adam from paradise, and sweeten the misery of man

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wand and take therefrom the fire wand. face south, raise the wand above your head, and slowly circumambulate in the path of a, saying "and when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless o, that o which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of o" step 3 on reaching south, make the invoking fire pentagram and the sign of the lion's head. say "oip teaa pedoce. in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the south" step 4 replace wand on altar, take cup and go west. sprinkle to the west and circumambulate temple in the path of a, saying "so therefore, first, the priest who governeth the works of o must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding

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mless and void" 5 chief adept (moves to the west of the altar of the universe and draws both invoking spirit pentagrams, active and passive, in the air with the spirit wheel in the center, vibrating "exarp, bitom, eheieh, hcoma, nanta, agla. in the sign of the head of the man (draws aquarius symbol. before us raphael. in the sign of the eagle (draws eagle symbol. behind us gabriel. in the sign of the lion (draws leo symbol. on our right michael. in the sign of the head of the ox (draws taurus symbol. and on our left auriel (second adept draws invoking pentagrams, of each element in each quarter using lotus wand, starting in the east) chief adept "for before us flames the pentagrams and behind us shines the six rayed star (perform the qabalistic cross (remaining behind the altar "prepared i

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vibrate twabx hwhy. say: and the \yhla said, let us make adam in our own image, after our own likeness and let him have dominion. in the name of \yhla, mighty and ruling, and in the name of twabx hwhy, spirits of o adore your creator! step 3 take the incense before the fire tablet and make the sign of e within the pentagram. say: in the name of lakym, the great archangel of o and in the sign of e the lion, spirits of o adore your creator! step 4 make a cross with the incense. say: in the name and letters of the great southern quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the great angel ave, spirits of o, adore your creator! hold incense on high. say: in the three great secret names of god borne upon the banner of the south, oip teaa pdoce, spirits of o, adore your creator! step 5 still facing south

er, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. step 2 hold the sword back up. set talisman back down. say: 19 he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high, even ra have i called to my habitation. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in (make the sign of the rending of the veil over the talisman) let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend upon this creature of talismans to fill it with the glory of thy majesty, tha

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a pyramidal base, dominated by a narrow, four-storied tower, thought to have been used as an observatory by maya priests. around about me, where bright-feathered parrots and macaws skimmed the treetops, a number of other spectacular buildings lay half swallowed by the encroaching forest. these were the temple of the foliated cross, the temple of the sun, the temple of the count, and the temple of the lion all names made up by archaeologists. so much of what the maya had stood for, cared about, believed in and remembered from earlier times was irretrievably lost. though we d long ago learned to read their dates, we were only just beginning to make headway with the deciphering of their intricate hieroglyphs. i stood and climbed the last few steps into the central chamber of the temple. set i

sion of god. behind me, to the south-west, the top 22 courses of khafre s pyramid, still clad with their original facing stones, seemed to float like an iceberg on the ocean of moonlight. knowing that we could not stay long in this bewitching place, i sat down and gazed around at the heavens. over to the west, across limitless desert sands, regulus had now set beneath the horizon, and the rest of the lion s body was poised to follow. the constellations of virgo and libra were also dropping lower in the sky and, much farther to the north, i could see the great and little bears slowly pacing out their eternal cycle around the celestial pole. i looked south-east across the nile valley and there was the crescent moon still spreading its spectral radiance from the bank of the milky way. 18 ibid

was only one epoch when the celestial symbolism of a leonine equinoctial marker would have been appropriate. that epoch was, of course, the age of leo, from 10,970 to 8810 bc.27 why, therefore, should an equinoctial marker have been made in the shape of a lion? because it was made during the age of leo when the sun on the vernal equinox rose against the stellar background of the constellation of the lion, thus marking the coordinates of a precessional epoch that would not experience its great return for another 26,000 years. around 10,450 bc the three stars of orion s belt reached the lowest point in their precessional cycle: west of the milky way, 11 08 above the southern horizon at meridian transit. on the ground west of the nile, this event was frozen into architecture in the shape of

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

eminine space 28 bag masculine guilt 29 rii both 30 tex both 'aethyr contains an especially strong sexual current. 157 the three degrees of sex magick take an athanor and cucurbite, and prepare a flask for this wine of the holy ghost. thou needest also a flame for the distillation. in the athanor is thy lion, in the cucurbite thine eagle. use a gentle heat, increasing at last to full flame until, the lion passeth over. pour immediately thy distillation into the flask prepared for it. the elixir being then prepared solemnly and in silence, do thou consume it utterly. this elixir is the germ of life. aleister crowley, the book of the unveiling of the sangraal sex magick has many variations and expessions. in conjunction with enochian magick there are three major degrees. these three degrees

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

st be one of long standing: the 12th cent, poet of the urstende (halm 105, 35) uses' daz wuetiinde her' of the jews who fell upon the saviour; in rol. 204, 16 pharaoh's army whelmed by the sea is* sin wstigez her/ in strieker 73 'daz wiietunde her; reinfr. v. brnswg. 4 'daz wiletende her; mich. beheim 176, 5 speaks of a 'crying and whooping (wufen) as if it were das ivatend her; the poem of henry the lion (massm. denkm. p. 132) says' then came he among daz ivoden her, where evil spirits their dwelling have' geiler v. keisersperg preached on the iviitede or iviitische heer? h. sachs has a whole poem on the wiltende heer, agricola and eiering relate a mansfeld legend. it is worth noticing, that ace^ loccenii antiq. sveog. cap. 3. geijer sv. hiifd. 1, 268^ nilsson's skandinavisk fauna 2, 106^

is urgent need of their pi-esence there: some mai-riage is contemplated, that would rob them of wife or lover. thus king charles (in the spagna, canto xxi) rides a devil, converted into a horse, from the east to france in one night; later legends make an angel appear to him instead, and shew him a strong horse, ds. no. 439. the angel visits the gentle moringer in like distress (no. 523. but henry the lion and gerhart (caes. heisterb. 8, 59) travel with the devil's aid. the mere fact that angel and devil can change places here, shews that no evil spirit was originally meant; it is no other than wuotan carrying through the clouds his foster-son (p. 146; and so we get at the real meaning of the question, what devil brings you here? a devil carries a belated canon from bayeux to rome iu time f

alls out on the spot where a magpie has sat' zigi, zigi, dgest, i ha dreu auga (pve 3 eyes, ond du gad zwa' he gets rid of his mag-pie's eye. the flying gout is cured by the patient being completely swathed in clean flax: when he lies in it snug as a bug in a rug, a sheepskin is spread over him, and the sweating* medicine administered. this envelopment is a remedy renowned in the old beast-fable. the lion taken with a fever is to iv7'ap himself in the hide of a wolf of oi years who has been flayed alive, and to sweat; this we have already in the aesopic fable (reinh. cclx. our old german poem goes more into minutias: the lion's illness was caused by an ant having crept into his brain; reynard prescribes wrapping the hide of an old ivolf about him, putting a bearskin on him, and a catskin h

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all other deities. in some versions the chosen divine messenger is onuris (inhur. onuris was a hunter god whose name means the one who brings back the distant one. the onuris myth is only known from scattered allusions. it seems that as the most powerful and cunning of hunters, onuris is able to track down and subdue the solar lioness. he brings her back to egypt and is rewarded with marriage to the lion goddess. mythical time lines 71 other texts name shu as the one who goes to persuade his sister-consort tefnut to return. a reference to shu in coffin texts spell 75 as having pacified her who is in the middle of her rage may allude to this mythical role. thoth sometimes accompanies shu or undertakes the mission on his own.21 as the heart and tongue of the gods, thoth uses wise words to a

dancing she will receive in the 72 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 14. a dwarf god celebrating the return of the distant goddess. a relief in a temple which originally stood on the island of philae (courtesy of geraldine pinch) temples of egypt if she returns. thoth also tells her a series of entertaining animal fables on the theme of cosmic justice. the best known of these is the story of the lion and the mouse.22 it tells of a mighty lion who (like the distant goddess) inspired fear wherever he went. one day, in the remote mountains where the lion lived, he met a panther suffering horrible wounds. the lion asked the panther who had pulled out his fur and ripped his skin. the panther replied that it was man. the lion did not know what men were, but he resolved to find man and punis

ess) inspired fear wherever he went. one day, in the remote mountains where the lion lived, he met a panther suffering horrible wounds. the lion asked the panther who had pulled out his fur and ripped his skin. the panther replied that it was man. the lion did not know what men were, but he resolved to find man and punish him. on his journey he encountered chained horses, donkeys, cows, and oxen. the lion asked them who had imprisoned them, and they all replied man. then the lion found a bear and another lion who had both been tricked and tortured by man. the lion vowed that he would make man suffer the same pain he had inflicted on all these animals. as the lion searched for man, a tiny mouse ran under his paw. the mouse begged the lion not to crush him. he pointed out that he was too sma

them who had imprisoned them, and they all replied man. then the lion found a bear and another lion who had both been tricked and tortured by man. the lion vowed that he would make man suffer the same pain he had inflicted on all these animals. as the lion searched for man, a tiny mouse ran under his paw. the mouse begged the lion not to crush him. he pointed out that he was too small to satisfy the lion s appetite. the mouse promised that if the lion gave him his life, he would one day save the lion in return. the lion laughed at this, because he thought that no one was powerful enough to endanger him, but he let the mouse go anyway. the lion did not realize how cunning man was. a hunter had set a net over a hidden pit. the lion fell into the trap and was caught in the meshes of the net

s, because he thought that no one was powerful enough to endanger him, but he let the mouse go anyway. the lion did not realize how cunning man was. a hunter had set a net over a hidden pit. the lion fell into the trap and was caught in the meshes of the net and bound with leather straps. he struggled for hours but could not free himself. in the middle of the night, the little mouse came and told the lion that he had come to repay him for the gift of life, because it is beautiful to do good. the mouse gnawed through the straps and ropes until the lion was free. then the mouse climbed into the lion s mane, and they went back to the mountains together. the implication of this and the other fables is that if the destructive anger of the solar eye is not balanced by the justice and truth perso

th an attack on the goddess while she is sleeping. thoth wakes her in time, and the forces of chaos are defeated. eventually the goddess reaches memphis, the capital of egypt, where she is transformed into hathor of the southern sycamore and joyfully reunited with her father. she is mythical time lines 73 needed to defend the creator sun god from his enemies. chief among these, as in the fable of the lion and the mouse, is man. in many mythologies, the gods make several attempts at creating people before they are satisfied. such myths usually involve the destruction of the unsatisfactory part of humanity. as early as the middle kingdom, there are references to the creator deciding to destroy humanity and abandon the earth.24 the fullest version of this myth is given in a text known as the

palinger, the destruction of mankind: a transitional literary text, studien zur alt gyptischen kultur 28 (2000: 257 282. 26. these cosmic beings are treated here as courtiers attending the king of the gods. it is a characteristic of egyptian deities that they can manifest themselves in different forms and different locations at the same time. 27 (female) powerful one is the meaning of the name of the lion goddess sekhmet. egyptian myths are full of wordplay of this kind. 28. this would be a depth of about 9 inches/ 22.5 centimeters. the mineral used to dye the beer was probably either ocher or hematite. 29. one of hathor s epithets was lady of drunkenness. a calendar for the temple of mut at karnak records the serving of special red beer at a festival celebrating the pacification of the so

he philistines as ashtoreth and the canaanites as ashera. she also had much in common with the important mesopotamian goddess ishtar (ashtar, the lady of battle. in egyptian art, astarte was usually shown naked, brandishing weapons and riding on horseback or driving a chariot. this made her a very alien figure. egyptian goddesses were not usually shown naked, and egyptian women never rode horses. the lion was one of astarte s sacred animals, and astarte was sometimes given a lion s head. this identified her with the eye of the sun: the solar lioness who protected her father ra. like other goddesses who play this role, astarte could also appear as a beautiful seductive woman. in a new kingdom story, seth is offered the goddesses astarte and anat as compensation for losing the throne to horu

rs. bes and taweret were also the guardians of the divine infants worshipped in the birth houses of temples of the first millennium bce. temple and magical texts give bes or bes-shu the role of opening the womb to allow a child to be born. the symbolism of birth was reproduced in tombs to help the dead to new life. some royal tombs and sarcophagi show bes with hippopotamus-faced demons protecting the lion-shaped bed on which the deceased hoped to be reborn. a painted statue of bes dominates a tomb chamber in the recently discovered valley of the golden mummies. see also eye of ra; feline deities; hathor; hippopotamus goddesses; horus the child; shu and tefnut references and further reading: m. malaise. bes. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. redford. oxford and ne

000 bce. cats were chiefly prized for their ability to kill pests such as rats, mice, and snakes. similar predators, such as mongooses and genets, seem to have been regarded as 132 handbook of egyptian mythology members of the cat family by the egyptians. the characteristics of several feline species were sometimes combined in a single image. lion gods were not as important as lion goddesses, but the lion was an ancient symbol of royal power. male leopards and panthers (black leopards) were associated with the uncontrollable rage of the god seth, whereas female leopards played a protective role. leonine goddesses usually have a short mane or ruff like that of a lynx or an adolescent male lion. since they function as a manifestation of the wrath of the sun god, their gender is ambiguous. th

d as a cheetah or a lynx. as the divine executioner, mafdet served justice by running down and slaughtering the enemies of ra. her symbol was a harpoon fixed to a block. the coffin texts mention pakhet the great who hunts by night as a lioness or a panther. her name means the one who scratches. the claw amulets worn by egyptian queens and princesses may evoke the protective might of this goddess. the lion-headed barque of pakhet provided an escort for the solar barque. like other feline deities, she could also take the form of the fire-spitting cobra who protected the sun god s heirs. unnamed lions, lionesses, panthers, and cats are shown on magical objects fighting the traditional enemies of the divine order (see, for example, figure 30. the images of lions and cats tearing out the throat

nesses, panthers, and cats are shown on magical objects fighting the traditional enemies of the divine order (see, for example, figure 30. the images of lions and cats tearing out the throats of foreign captives may allude to the myth of the eye of ra being sent down in her lion form (sekhmet) to destroy the humans who had rebelled against the sun god. other goddesses who could be identified with the lion form of the creator s eye included bastet, hathor, mehit, mut, tefnut, and wadjyt. when the eye who was the first-born daughter of ra became alienated from her father, she wandered the deserts in the form of a lion or a cat (see the distant goddess under linear time in mythical time lines. a relief in the temple of el-dakka in nubia showed this goddess with the full mane of a lion and the

chaos monster apophis. one terrible night ra himself took the form of the great tom cat and fought the apophis serpent under the ished tree at heliopolis. he sliced up apophis with his knife and split the ished tree in two, creating the twin trees of the horizon (see figure 22. in her pacified form, the feline daughter of ra united with the creator sun god to produce a divine child. at bubastis, the lion god mahes (mihos, myusis) was the cub of bastet and atum-ra. in the first millennium bce, bastet was increasingly represented as a fertile mother, suckling or surrounded by many kit- 134 handbook of egyptian mythology tens. her dangerous leonine form was played down but not forgotten. an instruction text of the greco-roman period warns egyptian men that women are like a friendly cat when

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ds, and the face of horus of the tuat is towards the rising sun. on the left of the path of afu-ra we see a hawk-headed lion called heru-am-uaa, i.e "horus in the boat" wearing the crown of the south; on his back p. 186 stands the two-headed god horus-set (vol. ii, p. 247, whose faces typify day and night, and light and darkness, and the sun-gods of the south and north. above the hind-quarters of the lion is the head of the god ana, wearing the crown of the south; on the one side we have four gods of the south assisting in the raising of a column surmounted by the crown of the south, and on the other four gods of the north assisting in the raising of a column surmounted by the crown of the north. these ceremonies appear to have some connexion with the magical rites which were performed in

ISIS UNVEILED

1-2. digitizecoy google isis unveiled where b ra tliou mrt thrown wiati t vndtan tpiril bt put lofii^d. amm exoreuwi rf wattr "cmtutc of the water, in the nvde of the ahni^ty god, the fstber, the scm, tua the h0i7 ghort. be tatreiud. i ftdjure thee in the name of the l mb [the nukgidmi nyt bull at at ptr auu tmirh, d the liunb tlmt trod upon the b "l^ and the aqtic, and ihio cniihea under hu toot the lion and the bodia. thniugfa 'hokbmad (wcstl god of wudom, and the power d rva'k hokhmael [spirit d the h0i7 ghort] may the ^lirits of matter [bad ipirits] recede be- fore it. amtri" exonim qf wattr (and adut "creatnre (d the water. i ezorciw thee .hy tkt ikrtt name* which are netxali, hod, and ytaod [kabalirtic trinity, in the beginning and in the end, by alpha and om^a, whkji are in the spir

n the beginning and in the end, by alpha and om^a, whkji are in the spirit aaoth [holy ghoet. or the 'vitimrmtu soui. i ezorciie and adjure thee? wandoing eagle, may the lord command thee by the winfj^ ike buli and ku flaming naird" ciim dicrub placed at the eaat gate of edn.j etoreim i4 on eiemadti spirit "serpent, in the name of the tetra- grammafam, the lord; he commandi thee, by the angel and the lion" angel of darkness, obey, and run away with this hoty [eurdaed] wattr. eagle in cfaaiu, obey thia aign, and retreat bdon the breath. moving aerpent, crawl at my feet, or be tortured by titii toured fire, and ev^kirate before this holy incense. let wato' return to water itbe elemental spirit of waterji let the fire bom, and the air drculate; let the earth return to earth by the tirtue o( t

ife and sufferings* in the mithraic sacrifices, during the initiation, a pre- liminary scene of death was simulated by the neophyte, and it pre- ceded the scene showing him himself "being bom agiun by the rite of bapti m" a portion of this ceremony is still enacted at the pres- ent day by the masons, when the neophyte, as the grand master hiram abiff, ues dead, and is raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw. the priests were circumcised. the neophyte could not be initiated without having beea present at the solemn mysteries of the lake. the nazarenes were baptized in the jordan; and could not be baptised elsewhere; they were also circumcised, and had to fast before as well as after the purification by baptism. jesus is said to have fasted in the wilderness for forty days, immediately a

says the zohar, holding to the doctrine of the pre-existence of souls in the worid of emanations "each soul separately appears before the holy king, dressed in a sublime form, with the features in which it is to appear in this worid. it is from this sublime form that the image proceeds* then it goes on to say that the types or forms of these faces "are four in number those of the angel or man, of the lion, the bull, and the eagle" furthermore, we may well express our wonder that irenaeus should not have re-enforced his argument for the four gospels by citing the whole pantheon of the four-armed hindfi gods! ezekiel in representing his four animals, now called cherubim, as ^jrpes of the four symbolical beings which in his visions support the throne of jehovah, had not tar to go for his mode

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eflects this new way of being nourished. it is said that when we first took form on this planet we had a different bio-system that was self-sustaining and needed neither food nor fluid; we have evolved over time to our current system and our future bio-system evolution depends on our lifestyle and choices. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 95 question 2: can the lion really lay down with the lamb as per the biblical prophecy of true peace among all kingdoms? answer q2: again this is to do with the morphogenetic field. if we eliminate the aggressive nature of human kind and cease the slaughter of human and animal life, this will change the social and planetary biofield resonance powerfully enough to imprint all kingdoms. if we then ensure that all indi

fulfilled and become altruistic, aware and begin to act like loving respectful masters; then obviously this too will also imprint all kingdoms. i have often said as i travel that the level of aggression we see in the animal kingdom is a mirror of the level of aggression that we see in the human kingdom. eliminate our human aggression, and boost our divine love radiation capacity, and we will see the lion laying down with the lamb reality. question 3: how do people who are nourished by just prana, maintain their body weight? answer q3: simplistically this is to do with attitude and programming and faith. it is also to do with the science of our mind/body connection and how convinced we are that each cell of the body truly listens to our thoughts and commands and how if we act like masters

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gic, or angelic, or sacred stone. this red colour is male it signifies the salvator. the following is the recognitory mark or talisman of the ophidi: f. the scarabaeus, bee, ass, typhon, basilisk, saint-basil, the town of basle (basil, or bale, in switzerland (of this place it may be remarked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged horse, the python, the hydra, the bull (osiris, the cow (or io, are mythological ideas which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedra

propriation of these crosses (the ancient irish crosses, as that animal can have no possible relation to christianity; whereas, by the tuath-de-danaans, it was accounted sacred, and its maintenance enjoined by the ordinances of the state, as it is still in the zend books, which remain after zoroaster. o brien's round towers of ireland, 1834, p. 359. i apprehend the word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or

ured on 208 the rosicrucians. the right, white, on the left, red. these imply masculine and feminine, ideas. fig. 42. fig. 43. fig. 44. the accompanying figure is the winged human-headed lion. it comes from the nineveh gallery. it may be fig. 45. fig. 46. pyramid fig. 47. tower or tor. recognised as the winged bull, and also as the winged lion of st. mark. fig. 48. tower. fig. 49. tower of babel. the lion, bull, eagle, man, are the symbols of the evangelists; the man, or angel, standing for babylonian mythic tors. 209 st. matthew, the lion for st. mark, the bull for st. luke, and the eagle for st. john. in these strange fig. 50. pyramid. fig. 51. scarab us. fig. 52. egyptian colossus. aspects the evangelists figured in many ancient churches, and on most fonts. these representative forms ar

l those countries, explaining their general principles. your popular societies are an emanation from the lodges of the freemasons, in like manner as these proceeded from the funeral pile of the templars( castle of the tuilerics, year viii) thus the egg-and-tongue moulding( egg and adder's tongue, for the egg and the serpent were two of the emblems of the egyptian and greek mysteries, the griffin, the lion of st. mark, the honeysuckle-and-lotus ornament the convolutions and volutes, the horns as floriations springing from the lighted candelabra, the lotus and tori of egypt, and the greek ornaments and roman templar ornaments, are all related in their religious meanings. the names of the three kings, or shepherds, who descried the star of annunciation in the east, are caspar, melchior, and b

man alone in his world? are there others in it with him? the ancients universally held virginity as a real magic, transcendental, mysterious something, which exercised power supernaturally both through heaven and through earth. it was an unnatural-natural outspring set apart and sacred of the gods. none but the barbarous touch, the brutal touch, could profane it. it worked miracles. tis said that the lion will turn and flee from a maid in the pride of her purity. for maidhood and virginity is a phenomenon independent of creation, and bears through the worlds visible and invisible the worlds immortal the impress and seal upon its forehead of god s rest, not of his activity. hence its sacredness in all religions and under all beliefs. voila pourquoi, pendant les pers cutions, il y eut taut d

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ork beach: samuel weiser, inc, 1990. kaplan s sy is the most extensive of the works reviewed thus far. we are given four recensions: the short and long versions, the saadia version, and the gra version or gra-ari version, being the edition produced by rabbi eliahu, gaon of vilna (gra, from the initials of gaon rabbi eliahu) according to the text of sy refined by rabbi isaac luria (called the ari, the lion. it is this last version on which kaplan bases his extensive commentary chosen because it is the most consonant with the kabbalah. kaplan offers a magnificent survey of commentaries and interpretations of sy, with all sources fully noted. the book provides a wealth of information and 20073 14 insight into the practical and speculative workings upon sy as no other book reviewed in this pap

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orm that i had made him and banished sleep's sluggish grasp. now, set upon the ground, he ran hither-thither, chasing birds and beetles alighting, then flying the eager hand of man, else plucking some bright blossom that enchanted the young eyes that beheld its colour. now his gaze was drawn to woman who had this time watched him from amongst the trees with her own wonder at their world. now with the lion-cubs novice grace he went to her to seize, like bird, beetle or blossom, her jet-black hair, coiling like snakes in the breeze, glistening with rain and moonlight. now, like the dancing sparrow she went there and there, eluding each snatch he made and, on swift feet, 150 ran before his earnest pursuit. now, hiding within some bush's verdant growth, she taunted him with song and laughter

the slumb'ring pair and, with a gentle hand, aroused them from their rest. now, appearing as a shining giant before them, clad in resplendent light and of awesome aspect, tiger-headed, eagle-wings spread so wide that it seemed that they would enfold the world, striking, with a burning gaze, awe and terror into their hearts, he addressed the trembling, naked creatures with a voice of thunder, like the lion's roar, breathing, with his words, incandescent flame "infant children, unknowing of the world, i have been dispatched by the king of heaven, benign and most merciful, well-inclined to your most noble spirits and pitying of your plight, forsaken here, as you are within this valley's walls. forsaken no more, is man, but redeemed by the loving countenance of heaven and its great king, adona

t nephilim-king that he had thought to oppose. now the bellow of battle-horns sounded, commanding the charge of shurupuk and proclaiming of lamech 'calamity' into confusion was the line of lamech cast as the foremost ranks turned to flee even as the hindmost advanced against a foe they perceived not well. in that disorder the sounding of retreat was unheeded and lamech's people were as gazelle in the lion's jaw. lamech himself could not draw his gaze from the white stallion and its rider, throwing up a froth, as the dread king came across the river to meet him, the iron sceptre raised high like the tail of the scorpion that has within its claws its prey. all courage then left the heart of lamech. in the shallows of the river, before the king, utanapishtim, lamech fell upon his knees, casti

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raphrase (c) avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine own ingenium devise others- 1 (i.e. the matter of cereberus. 2. on each occasion that thou art betrayed into saying that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the writs or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. feareth not the unicorn the claws and teeth of the lion? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. ii. 0. the horse is action. man, rule thine action. how else shalt thou master the father, and answer the fool

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eaning, and any investigator who has ever had the privilege of seeing the mighty four will at once recognize that s. john and the prophet ezekiel had seen them too, however inadequate are their descriptions. the beast with the face of a man stands for the physical body (earth; the ox or the bull (as in the case of the bull of mithra and the apis bull) typifies the emotional or astral body (water; the lion symbolizes the will or the mental aspect (air; and the soaring eagle is taken to indicate the spiritual side of man s nature (fire. the egyptian forms were a little different; but the same four elements and their rulers are depicted in that ancient symbolism, which indeed we find in all religions. there is a four-faced brahma; there is the fourfold jupiter, who is aerial, fulgurant, marin

229. the main worship appears to have centred round the feminine aspect of the deity already mentioned who, like isis amongst the egyptians and demeter amongst the later greeks, symbolized the creative power and fostering care of mother-nature. connected with her worship was the sacred tree, depicted in so many presentations of minoan shrines, while the deity herself was associated with the dove, the lion, the fish and the snake, typifying her dominion over air, earth, water and the fire within the earth. 230. as i have written above, the most sacred symbol in minoan worship was the double axe or labrys. this, mounted on a stone column, is found in the shrines of ancient crete, and when depicted on any object or building invariably denotes its sacred character (see plate i, 1 and plate iv

ve it must here be regarded as the equivalent, in an epitomized shape, of the roof beams and entablature of a building. in other words, they are the pillars of the house, and the doves settled above them are the outward and visible sign of the divine presence and protection. a clay seal with a similar device of a dove perched above roof-beams resting on a column, itself set on an altar base as in the lion s gate scheme, has now come to light at mycenae- a singular illustration of the minoan source of its cult. 243. of the columns themselves, each one may be regarded as a separate religious entity, since in place of a common entablature the superstructure is in each case separately rendered by a kind of architectural shorthand. this trinity of baetylic pillars (which has many parallels in s

koi of the pytagoreans, and the fact that the due-gard of the 1 shows that the e.a. must confine himself to what is taught in the v.s.l) cryphius, the occult, a degree in the taking of which the mystic was perhaps hidden from others in the sanctuary by a veil, the removal of which was a solemn ceremonial; miles, the soldier, signifying the holy warfare against evil in the service of the god; leo, the lion, symbolic of the element of fire, which played so great a part in the persian faith; perses, the persian, clad in asiatic costume, a reminiscence of the ancient origin of the religion; heliodromus, the courier of the sun, with whom mithra was identified; and pater, the father, a degree bringing the mystic among those who had the general direction of the cult for the rest of their lives. 4

ith our modern masonic system. they were organized into masters and disciples under the rule of a gastaldo or grand master. their working-places were called lodges. they had masters and wardens, signs, tokens, grips, pass-words and oaths of secrecy and fidelity. the four crowned martyrs were their patron saints; they wore white aprons and gloves, and among the symbols associated with them we find the lion of judah, king solomon s knot, the square and compasses, the level and plumb-rule, and the rose and compasses. 516. on a pulpit at ravello, in one of their buildings of the thirteenth century, jonah is seen coming out of the whale s mouth, making the f.c.h.s(*freemasonry and the ancient gods, j. s. m. ward, ch. xviii, passim) at coire cathedral in switzerland, which is romanesque in style

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

of the bardo, one either enters nirvana, an ineffable state, or returns to earth for another reincarnation. only the most enlightened avoid reincarnation. it is of paramount importance that the dying person remain fully conscious for as long as possible, for the last thoughts of the dying influence the quality of the after-death experience and the subsequent reincarnation. he or she is placed in the lion posture (lying on one s right side, and his or her neck arteries are pressed to prevent loss of consciousness. the dying person is guided by a guru or lama, who provides advice on what to prepare for. the first stage of the bardo commences at the moment of death and lasts from a half day to four days; this is how long it takes for the deceased to realize he or she has been separated from

merge after crowley s death was karl johannes germer, who had worked with crowley in england, but had returned to his native germany in the 1930s. arrested and placed in a concentration camp during a nazi purge of occultists, germer was fortunate enough to be deported from germany in 1941.arriving in america, he sold heavy equipment in new york city, and lived on a fraction of his salary, sending the lion s share of it to crowley in england, so that crowley could have some money to survive on in his last couple of years. crowley made him a high initiate in the aa for this, and at crowley s death in december 1947, karl germer became the heir of his literary estate and the supreme and holy king of the oto. at this point parsons refused to recognize germer s authority, and defected from the o

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tiate, replace this essential power of the priest over that of which he is but the vehicle and guardian. for this reason the ninth degree is not so easy to be made effective by woman initiates. of what may be the result of a development parallel to that indicated above among the noble and chaste ladies of the order, it is at present impossible for us to declare; but a priori it seems that, though the lion and the eagle are best in combination, the lion is more likely to be able to dispense with the assistance of the eagle, than the eagle to make shift in the absence of the lion. for the gluten is but a menstruum or solvent, and containeth nothing in itself. the tradition also of certain lesser initiations confirmeth this. yet considerations of divinity and of philosophy, and even of physic

ious will choose inevitably the appointed vehicle of the work. it is for this reason that already in the seventh degree the sir knights are sworn to chastity. and this chastity is an abstinence from all gross sexual acts of every kind. moreover, this is further to be observed in the choice, that the second party must be consenting enthusiastically to co-operate physically with the priest, so that the lion be perfectly dissolved in a full portion of the gluten. and whether this preparation be truly and duly done is known by the appearance of the matter of the sacrament, and also by its taste. for not idly is it written in the book of judges "what is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion" and that this secret is here manifested by the holy ghost is clear from the rejoinder of

e temple, the mystery of baphomet, our war on those never wholly subdued foes of humanity, tyranny and superstition. 5. the secret of the v: the mystery of the rose and cross; and the one law do what thou wilt. 6. the secret of the lesser degrees: the cycle of existence- ex nihil nihil fit. 7. the secret of these things reverenced: the sun, the moon, the phallus, the tree, the ancestor, the fire, the lion, the snake, and the mountain [of these is discourse in our epistle de natura deorum] xxi valediction now therefore all is said, most holy, most illuminated, most illustrious and most dear brother. in the name of the secret master hail and fare well. given from the throne of ireland iona and all the britains this day of jupiter an x sol in 0 libra 35'21" luna in sagittarius 28'6" valley of

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essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and c. the waxing moon in 4; waning in 5; full in 6. col. xi. the elements, of whose nature the signs of the zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol against them. col. xii. let 45 be a strai

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t value of every living soul. learn this also, that even the will to the great work may be misunderstood of men; for this work must proceed naturally and without overstress, as all true works. right also is that word that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. but except thou be violent by virtue of thy true nature, how shalt thou take it? be not as the ass in the lion.s skin; but if thou be born ass, bear patiently thy burdens, and enjoy thy thistles; for an ass also, as in the fables of apuleius and matthias, may come to glory in the path of his own virtue. u liber aleph vel cxi 8 h altera de via natur (further concerning the way of nature) ayest thou (methinks) that here is a great riddle, since by reason of much repression thou hast lost the knowled

mula and nature. here, o my son, is the one secret of success in this great work: invoke often. t the book of wisdom or folly 91 gm de formula lun (of the formula of the moon) hus then concerning operations of the tao with the yang and the yin is there enough; for thine own art of beauty shall divine for thee, and devise new heavens. but in all these is the formula of the serpent with the head of the lion, and all his magick is wrought by the radiance and creative force hereof. and this force leapeth continually from plane to plane, and breaketh forth from his bonds, so that constraint is labour. now then learn that the yin hath also a formula of force. and the nature of the yin is to be still, and to encircle of limit, and it is as a mirror, reflecting diverse images without change in its

nce how the death of the sun is in truth but the shifting of a shadow; and in this on (o my son, i lift up my voice and i make prophecy) so shall it be proven as to death. for the body of man is but his shadow, it cometh and goeth even as the tides of ocean; and he only is in darkness who is hidden by that shadow from the light of his true self. now therefore understand thou the formula of horus, the lion god, the child crowned and conquering that cometh forth in force and fire! for thy changes are not phases of thee, but of the phantoms which thou mistakest for thy self. c liber aleph vel cxi 100 gu de sirenis (of syrens) oncerning the love of women, o my son, it is written in the book of the law that all is freedom, if it be done unto our lady nuit. yet also there is this consideration

d during the on of the slain god. but now it has been given unto me to understand the heart of her mystery, wherefore, o my son, by right of the great love that i bear unto thee, i will inform thee thereof. i liber aleph vel cxi 152 eu de natura s#inu (of the nature of the sphinx) irstly, this sphinx is a symbol of the coition of our lady babalon with me the beast in its wholeness. for as i am of the lion and the dragon, so is she of the man and the bull, in our natures, but the converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to

thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish them. this then is the adept, who doth will with solid energy as the bull, doh dare with fierce courage as the lion, doth know with swift intelligence as the man, and doth keep silence with soaring subtilty as the eagle or dragon. moreover, this sphinx is an eidolon of the law, for the bull is life, the lion is light, the man is liberty, the serpent love. now then his sphinx, being perfect in true balance, yet taketh the aspect of the feminine principle that so she may be partner of the pyramid, that i

ar in their nature, save as the slaves of the slave-gods have read their own formula into the simplicity of truth. for there is naught so plain that ignorance and malice may not confuse and misinterpret it, even as the bat is dazzled and bewildered by the light of the sun. see then that thou understand this bull in terms of the law of this our on of life. c liber aleph vel cxi 154 ec de leone (of the lion) f this, lion, o my son, be it said that this is the courage of thy manhood, leaping upon all things, and seizing hem for their prey. his letter is teth, whose implication is a serpent, and the number thereof nine, whereof is aub, the secret fire of obeah. also nine is of jesod, uniting change with stability. but in the book of thoth, he is the atu called strength, whose number is eleven

ourage of thy manhood, leaping upon all things, and seizing hem for their prey. his letter is teth, whose implication is a serpent, and the number thereof nine, whereof is aub, the secret fire of obeah. also nine is of jesod, uniting change with stability. but in the book of thoth, he is the atu called strength, whose number is eleven which is aud, the light odic of magick. and therein is figured the lion, even the beast, and our lady babalon with her hands upon his mouth, that she may master him. here i would have thee to mark well how these our symbols are cognate, and flow forth the one into the other, because each soul partaketh in proper measure of the mystery of holiness, and is kin with his fellow. but now let me show how this lion of courage is more especially the light in thee, as

e also is his nature strong with hardihood and lust of battle, else shouldst thou fear that which is unlike thee, and avoid it, so that thy separateness should increase upon thee. for this cause he that is defective in courage becometh a black brother, and to dare is the crown of all thy virtue, the root of the tree of magick. o the book of wisdom or folly 155 ey altera de leone (futher concering the lion) o! in the first of thine initiations, when first the hoodwink was uplifted from before thine eyes, thou wast brought unto the throne of horus, the lord of the lion, and by him enheartened against fear. moreover, in minutum mundum, the map of the universe, it is the path of the lion that bindeth he two highest faculties of thy mind. again, it is mau, the sun at brightness of high noon, th

in the first of thine initiations, when first the hoodwink was uplifted from before thine eyes, thou wast brought unto the throne of horus, the lord of the lion, and by him enheartened against fear. moreover, in minutum mundum, the map of the universe, it is the path of the lion that bindeth he two highest faculties of thy mind. again, it is mau, the sun at brightness of high noon, that is called the lion, very lordly, in our holy invocation. sekhet our lady is figured as a lioness, for that she is that lust of nuith toward hadith which is the fierceness of the night of the stars, and their necessity; whence also is she true symbol of thine own hunger of attainment, the passion of thy light to dare all for its fulfilling. it is then the possession of this quality which determineth thy manh

that he may do that will, and no more another.s. arise therefore, o my son, arm thyself, haste to the battle! l liber aleph vel cxi 156 ew de viro (of the man) earn now that this lion is a natural quality in man, and secret, so that he is not ware thereof, except he be adept. therefore is it necessary for thee also to know, by the head of the sphinx. this then is thy liberty, that the impulse of the lion should become conscious by means of the man; for without this thou art but an automaton. this man moreover maketh thee to understand and to adjust thyself with environment, else being devoid of judgment, thou goest blindly upon an headlong path. for every star in his orbit holdeth not his way obstinately, but is sensitive to every other star, and his true nature is to do this. oh how many

hee which saith .i. is abolished in its conjunction with the beloved. for this cause also is its letter nun, which in our rota is the trump death; and nun hath the value of fifty, the number of the gates of understanding. t liber aleph vel cxi 158 #b de quattuor virtutibus s#inu (of the four powers of the sphinx) ee now our sphinx, with what subtility and art is she made whole! here is thy light, the lion, the necessity of thy nature, fortified by thy life, the bull, the power of works, and guided by thy liberty, the man, the wit to adapt action to environment. these are three virtues in one, necessary to all proper motion, as i may say in a figure, the lust of the archer, the propulsive force of his arm, and the equilibrating and directing control of his eye. of these three if one fail, h

on) erily, o my son, herein lieth the danger and the treason of thy scorpion. for his nature is against himself, being the deepest ego, that is, a being separate from the universe; and his is the root of the while mystery of evil. for he hath in him the magick power, which if he use not, he is self-poisoned, even as any organ of the body that refuseth its function. so then his cure is in his ally the lion, that feareth not the crocodiles, nor hideth himself, but leapeth eagerly forward. the path of the mystic hath this pitfall; for though he unite himself with his god, his mode is to withdraw from that which him seemeth is not god. whereby he affirmeth and confirmeth the demon, that is duality. be thou instant therefore, o my son, to turn from every act of love at he moment of full satisfa

eof, making the duality of conflict, which is the falling away to choronzon. v liber aleph vel cxi 164 #h de sua carta c.lorum (of his horoscope) pray thee to mark, o my son, how the grace of nature was benignant at my nativity, to the right balance and formulation of my sphinx. for neptune was in the sign of the bull, giving strength and stability to my spiritual essence. uranus was ascending in the lion, to fortify my magical will with courage, and to turn it to the salvation of man. in the waterman was saturnus, to make mine intelligence sober, profound, and capable of labour. jupiter, with mercury his herald, was in scorpio, harmonizing me and my word according o the essence of my nature. then of the others, mars was exalted in the goat, for physical endurance of toil; sol was conjoine

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s in all things, forcing fire into fire, and ordering all things in the stable abode of the kings of agypt. 10. he hath established his rule in his kingdom. 11. yet the father also boweth unto the power of the star 418 and thereby 12 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 12. in his subtlety he expandeth it all into twelve rays of the crown. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 13 vii a 0. then in the might of the lion did i formulate unto myself that holy and formless fire, cdq, which darteth and flasheth through the depths of the universe. 1. at the touch of the fire qadosh the earth melted into a liquor clear as water. 2. at the touch of the fire qadosh the water smoked into a lucid air. 3. at the touch of the fire qadosh the air ignited, and became fire. 4. at the touch of the fire qadosh, o lord, t

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in thick night and darkness he abideth [the stage now darkens. even the light shed by the jewels of the lady psyche is extinguished. then, from the gate of the palace between the man-bulls there issueth a golden hawk. in his beak is a jewel which he drops into the lamp that hangs from the height above the head of the lady adonis 29 psyche. this lamp remains dark. during this darkness the unicorn, the lion, and the peacock disappear] love me and lead me through the blind abysses! fill me and feed me on the crowning kisses, like flowers that flicker in the garden of glory, pools of pure liquor like pale flames and hoary that lamp the lightless empyrean! ah! love me! all space be sightless, and thine eyes above me! thrice burnt and branded on this bleeding brow, stamp thou the candid stigma.e

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st true sights. bright images throng the clear mind at first, a crowd of gods, lights, armies, landscapes; loud reverberations of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find aha! 9 no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there fs the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god fs beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lord

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that is not life, but is as the worms that feast upon my corpse. adonai! adonai! my lord adonai! indeed, thou hast forsaken me. nay! 1 [ac is paraphrasing chaldaan oracles, fragment 198 in westcott edition] liber dccclx 24 thou liest, o weak soul! abide in the meditation; unite all thy symbols into the form of a lion, and be lord of thy jungle, travelling through the servile universe even as mau the lion very lordly, the sun in his strength that travelleth over the heaven of nu in his bark in the midcareer of day. for all these thoughts are vain; there is but one thought, though that thought be not yet born.he only is god, and there is none other god than he! 3.30. walking home with mantra; suddenly a spasm of weeping took me as i cried through the mantra..my god, my god, why hast thou fo

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e (i.e. the matter of cerberus. liber iii 2. avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. on each occasion that thou art betrayed* into saying that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. feareth not the unicorn the claws and tooth of the lion? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. ii 0. the horse is action. man, rule thou thine action. how else shalt thou master the father and answer the fo

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ree keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back

he out-dared her in riddling: deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. but that would he not, my brethren; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. as a hermit ever he travelled and the lamp and wand were his. in his path a lion roared, but to it ran a maiden, strong as a young elephant, and held its cruel jaws. but force he ran to her: he freed the lion.one buffet of his hand dashed her back six paces .and with another blow smote its head from its body. and he ran to her and by force embraced her. struggled she and fought him: savagely she bit, but it was of no avail: she lay ravished and exhausted on the lybian plain. across the mouth he smote her for a kiss, while she cried .o! thou hast begotten on me twins. and mine also is the serpe

and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he said .thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but himself only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler mocks him and cries .four fool.s bargains hast thou

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al. now let him not only fill his whole being to the uttermost with the force of the names; but let him formulate his will, understood thoroughly as the dynamic aspect of his creative self, in an appearance symbolically apt, i say not in the form of a ray of light, of a fiery sword, or of aught save that bodily vehicle of the holy ghost which is sacred to baphomet,22 by its virtue that concealeth the lion and the serpent that his image may appear adorably upon the earth for ever. let then the adept extend his will beyond the circle in this imagined shape, and let it radiate with the light proper to the element invoked, and let each word issue along the shaft with passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it should thrust itself leapingly forward. let also each word accu

fter all these folk of fear are driven before the avenging levin that rives the opening skies, behold that formless and that holy flame that hath no name; the fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps snake-wise in royal robe, wound round that vanished glory of the globe, unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, beyond the toils of time.then formulate in thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, the lion of the light, a child that stands on the vast shoulders of the steed of god: or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod with the flame-sandals. then, lift up thine hands! centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought limpid with brilliance of the light above! draw into nought all life, death, hatred, love: all self concentred in the sole desire. hear thou the voice of fire! 29 point i

LIBER V VEL REGULI

v vel reguli sh is fire as t is force; conjoined they express ra-hoor- khuit .the angel.8 represents the stele 666, showing the gods of the aon, while .strength.9 is a picture of babalon and the beast, the earthly emissaries of those gods. sht is the dynamic equivalent of la and la. sh shows the word of the law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31. t shows the formula of magic declared in that word; the lion, the serpent, the sun, courage and sexual love are all indicated by the card. in la note that saturn or satan is exalted in the house of venus or astarte and it is an airy sign. thus l is father- mother, two and naught, and the spirit (holy ghost) of their love is also naught. love is ahbh, 13, which is achd. unity, 1, aleph. who is .the fool. who is naught, but none the less an individua

beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph .the fool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion, and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it affirms regression of types. instead of a man-god conceived of the spirit of god by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of a whore and a brute, begotten in shamefullest sin and born in most blasphemous bliss. this is in fact the formul

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

n, a few years before the date of my visit, the philosopher kwaw landed at nagasaki after an exhilarating swim from the mainland. ii( gstanding alone. h) kwaw, when he crossed the yellow sea, was of the full age of thirtytwo years. the twenty previous equinoxes had passed over his head as he wandered, sole human tenant, among the colossal yet ignoble ruins of wei hai wei. his only companions were the lion and the lizard, who frequented the crumbling ruins of the officers f quarters; while in the little cemetery the hoofs of the wild ass beat (useless, if he wishes to 1 [keir hardie, an english socialist politician of the period. t.s] 6 liber xli wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged these desolate halls. during this time kwaw devoted his entire attention to the purs

aceful shall rejoice thereat; a greater than darwin, and the minister in his pulpit give open thanks to god. gthe instructed infidel shall no longer sneer at the church-goer, for he will have been compelled to go to church until he saw the good points as well as the bad; and the instructed devotee will no longer detest the blasphemer, because he will have laughed with ingersoll and saladin. ggive the lion the heart of the lamb, and the lamb the force of the lion; and they will lie down in peace together. h kwaw ceased, and the heavy and regular breathing of juju assured him that his words had not been wasted; at last that restless and hurried soul had found supreme repose. kwaw tapped the gong. gi have achieved my task, h said he to the obsequious major-domo, gi pray leave to retire from t

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

ck, as the mystic rites ordain; and these did he heat furiously in his alembic, yet with vegetable heat alone, while he kept them ever moist, dropping upon them of his lunar water, whereof he had three and seventy minims left of the eight and seventy that his father had given him; and these he had borne upon a camel through the desert unto this place where he now was, which is called the oasis of the lion, even as the whole regimen that in the end he accomplished is in the form of a lion. thus then his lion waxed exceeding thirsty, and licked up all that dew. but the fire being equal thereunto, he was not discomforted. he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches. so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tinctur

licked up all that dew. but the fire being equal thereunto, he was not discomforted. he slayeth sir lionel the warder of the marches. so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull fs. moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working. he slayeth sir merlin the wizard. yet our brother perardua.and by now he was right skilful at the athanor!.determined to attain to that higher proje

reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it the pavement of the firmament of nu. he slayeth king astur of the arms argent. now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metal; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virture of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mineral gold cannot be changed into any other substance by any means. this vegetable gold is fluidic; it must increase wonderf

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

he artist has given us a detailed picture in figure 20 which is a beautiful representation of the chapter of the royal figure 19. tracing board of the royal arch degree, john harris, c. 1820. figure 20. a representation of a chapter of the royal arch, john harris, c. 1820. arch. there are many openly kabbalistic symbols here. in the east there are banners depicting the four sacred beasts, the ox, the lion, the eagle, and the man: the archetypes of the inhabitants of the four worlds taken from the vision of ezekiel. arranged down the sides of the picture are banners with the devices of the twelve tribes of israel, they are analogous to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and they represent the twelve archetypal human groups. the central feature of this space is the pedestal surrounded by six ca

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

did not reach the philosophic heights attained by zarathustra, its effect upon the civilization of the western world was far-reaching, for at one time nearly all europe was converted to its doctrines. rome, in her intercourse with other nations, inoculated them with her religious principles; and many later institutions have exhibited mithraic culture. the reference to the "lion" and the "grip of the lion's paw" in the master mason's degree have a strong mithraic tinge and may easily have originated from this cult. a ladder of seven rungs appears in the mithraic initiation. faber is of the opinion that this ladder was originally a pyramid of seven steps. it is possible that the masonic ladder with seven rungs had its origin in this mithraic symbol. women were never permitted to enter the m

to egypt. the priority of the hindu mysteries would further substantiate such a theory. among other meanings suggested for the word serapis are "the sacred bull "the sun in taurus "the soul of osiris "the sacred serpent" and "the retiring of the bull" the last appellation has reference to the ceremony of drowning the sacred apis in the waters of the nile every twenty-five years. click to enlarge the lion-faced light-power. from montfaucon's antiquities. this gnostic gem represents by its serpentine body the pathway of the sun and by its lion head the exaltation of the solar in the constellation of leo. click to enlarge a symbolic labyrinth. from montfaucon's antiquities. labyrinths and mazes were favored places of initiation among many ancient cults. remains of these mystic mazes have bee

h. again, hercules is the solar deity, for as this mighty hunter performed his twelve labors, so the sun, in traversing the twelve houses of the zodiacal band, performs during his pilgrimage twelve essential and benevolent labors for the human race and for nature in general, hercules, like the egyptian priests, wore the skin of a lion for a girdle. samson, the hebrew hero, as his click to enlarge the lion of the sun. from maurice's indian antiquities. the sun rising over the back of the lion or, astrologically, in the back of the lion, has always been considered symbolic of power and rulership. a symbol very similar to the one above appears on the flag of persia, whose people have always been sun worshipers. kings and emperors have frequently associated their terrestrial power with the cel

back of the lion, has always been considered symbolic of power and rulership. a symbol very similar to the one above appears on the flag of persia, whose people have always been sun worshipers. kings and emperors have frequently associated their terrestrial power with the celestial power of the solar orb, and have accepted the sun, or one of its symbolic beasts or birds, as their emblem. witness the lion of the great mogul and the eagles of c sar and napoleon. click to enlarge the winged globe of egypt. from maurice's indian antiquities. this symbol, which appears over the pylons or gates of many egyptian palaces and temples, is emblematic of the three persons of the egyptian trinity. the wings, the serpents, and the solar orb are the insignia of ammon, ra, and osiris. p. 50 name implies

the spirit of darkness. as the battle between good and evil centers around the use of the generative forces of nature, winged serpents represent the regeneration of the animal nature of man or those great ones in whom this regeneration is complete. among the egyptians the sun's rays are often shown ending in human hands. masons will find a connection between these hands and the well-known paw of the lion which raises all things to life with its grip. solar colors the theory so long held of three primary and four secondary colors is purely exoteric, for since the earliest periods it has been known that there are seven, and not three, primary colors, the human eye being capable of estimating only three of them. thus, although green can be made by combining blue and yellow, there is also a t

* this visible connection between the constellation leo and the return of the sun to his place of power and glory, at the summit of the royal arch of heaven, was the principal reason why that constellation was held in such high esteem and reverence by the ancients. the astrologers distinguished leo as the 'sole house of the sun' and taught that the world was created when the sun was in that sign 'the lion was adored in the east and the west by the egyptians and the mexicans. the chief druid of britain was styled a lion (stellar theology and masonic astronomy) when the aquarian age is thoroughly established, the sun will be in leo, as will be noted from the explanation previously given in this chapter regarding the distinction between geocentric and heliocentric astrology. then, indeed, wil

of britain was styled a lion (stellar theology and masonic astronomy) when the aquarian age is thoroughly established, the sun will be in leo, as will be noted from the explanation previously given in this chapter regarding the distinction between geocentric and heliocentric astrology. then, indeed, will the secret religions of the world include once more the raising to initiation by the grip of the lion's paw (lazarus will come forth) click to enlarge the circular zodiac of tentyra. from cole's treatise--the circular zodiac of tentyra, in egypt. the oldest circular zodiac known is the one found at tentyra, in egypt, and now in the possession of the french government. mr. john cole describes this remarkable zodiac as follows "the diameter of the medallion in which the constellations are s

racters; this second circle is enclosed in a square, whose sides are seven feet nine inches long* the asterisms, constituting the zodiacal constellations mixed with others, are represented in a spiral. the extremities of this spiral, after one revolution, are leo and cancer. leo is no doubt at the head. it appears to be trampling on a serpent, and its tail to be held by a woman. immediately after the lion comes the virgin holding an ear of corn, further on, we perceive two scales of a balance, above which, in a medal lion, is the figure of harpocrates. then follows the scorpion and sagittarius, to whom the egyptians gave wings, and two faces. after sagittarius are successively placed, capricornus, aquarius, pisces, the ram, the bull, and the twins. this zodiacal procession is, as we have a

are shown by the figures in the center pane of the tablet" the upper panel contains the twelve figures of the zodiac arranged in four triads. the center figure in each group represents one of the four fixed signs of the zodiac. s is the sign of aquarius; z, taurus; c, leo; and g, scorpio. these are called the fathers. in the secret teachings of the far east these four figures--the man, the bull, the lion, and the eagle--are called the winged globes or the four maharajahs who stand upon the corners of creation. the four cardinal signs--p, capricorn; x, aries; b, cancer; f, libra--are called the powers. the four common signs--v, pisces; a, gemini; e, virgo; h, sagittarius- are called the minds of the four lords. this explains the meaning of the winged globes of egypt, for the four central f

aturn, the old man who lives at the north pole, and brings with him to the children of men a sprig of evergreen (the christmas tree, is familiar to the little folks under the name of santa claus, for he brings each winter the gift of a new year. the martyred sun is discovered by aries, a fellow-craftsman, and at the vernal equinox the process of raising him begins. this is finally accomplished by the lion of judah, who in ancient times occupied the position of the keystone of the royal arch of heaven. the precession of the equinoxes causes various signs to play the r le of the murderers of the sun during the different ages of the world, but the principle involved remains unchanged. such is the cosmic story of chiram, the universal benefactor, the fiery architect: of the divine house, who c

tablish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. the great seal is the signature of this exalted body--unseen and for the most part unknown--and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the united states government was dedicated from the day of its inception. animals the lion is the king of the animal family and, like the head of each kingdom, is sacred to the sun, whose rays are symbolized by the lion's shaggy mane. the allegories perpetuated by the mysteries (such as the one to the effect that the lion opens the secret book) signify that the solar power opens the seed pods, releasing the spiritual life within. there was also a curious belief among the ancien

is the king of the animal family and, like the head of each kingdom, is sacred to the sun, whose rays are symbolized by the lion's shaggy mane. the allegories perpetuated by the mysteries (such as the one to the effect that the lion opens the secret book) signify that the solar power opens the seed pods, releasing the spiritual life within. there was also a curious belief among the ancients that the lion sleeps with his eyes open, and for this reason the animal was chosen as a symbol of vigilance. the figure of a lion placed on either side of doors and gateways is an emblem of divine guardianship. king solomon was often symbolized as a lion. for ages the feline family has been regarded with peculiar veneration. in several of the mysteries--most notably the egyptian--the priests wore the s

nce. the figure of a lion placed on either side of doors and gateways is an emblem of divine guardianship. king solomon was often symbolized as a lion. for ages the feline family has been regarded with peculiar veneration. in several of the mysteries--most notably the egyptian--the priests wore the skins of lions, tigers, panthers, pumas, or leopards. hercules and samson (both solar symbols) slew the lion of the constellation of leo and robed themselves in his skin, thus signifying that they represented the sun itself when at the summit of the celestial arch. at bubastis in egypt was the temple of the famous goddess bast, the cat deity of the ptolemies. the egyptians paid homage to the cat, especially when its fur was of three shades or its eyes of different colors. to the priests the cat

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

e able by means of what i have taught thee to make them submit unto thine orders, they will be happy to give thee, and to make thee partaker in that which they uselessly possess, provided that thine object and end shall be to make a good use thereof. the manner of performing the operation. on a sunday before sunrise, between the 10th of july and the 20th of august, when the moon is in the sign of the lion, thou shalt go unto the place where thou shalt know either by interrogation of the intelligences, or otherwise, that there is a treasure; there thou shalt describe a circle of sufficient size with the sword of magical art wherein to open up the earth, as the nature of the ground will allow; thrice during the day shalt thou cense it with the incense proper for the day, after which being cl

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

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

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

at thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence. editor s note. around the figure of the scorpion is the word hvl. the versicle is from psalm xci. 13 "thou shalt go upon the lion and added, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet" figure 30. the sixth pentacle of mars. it hath so great virtue that being armed therewith, if thou art attacked by any one, thou shalt neither be injured nor wounded when thou fightest with him, and his own weapons shall turn against him. editor s note. around the eight points of the radii of the pentacle are the wo

MEANING OF MASONRY

f being the measure of the universe; he realizes that the earth, the heavens, and all their contents, are externalizations, projected images, of corresponding realities present within himself. as the perfected head of creation, he beholds how he sums up in himself all the lower forms of life through which his organism has passed to attain to that perfection. the four symbolic standards exhibiting the lion, ox, man and eagle are a very ancient glyph, declaring among other things the story of the soul's evolution and its progress from the passional wild-beast stage to one which, while still sensuous and animal, is docile and disciplined for service, and thence to the stage of human rationality, which at length culminates in upward-soaring spirituality. similarly the displayed banners of the

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coils of the dragon are the shells of the dead, the spirits or lower demonic energies which flow between the dreams of the serpent. these demonic forces must not be trusted, however but controlled and sent forth to work your will. the vampiric sorcerer will over time, gain enough psychic strength to open the qliphoth and begin to transverse the current of this shadow astral plane. this means also the lion trainer will be sleeping with the lions. such daemonic forces should be dealt with carefully in this aspect, for the formula is of the blackest magick. from this region many vampiric elementals can be evoked to do the sorcerer's bidding, however the price is generally the gift of the sorcerer's own blood. the qlipoth are energy currents which spring from da ath, which lies within the hear

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

er half was not yet well formed. this son was aruna, the charioteer of surya, the sun god. his brother was the powerful garuda, divineeagle, who became the carrier of vishnu. garuda is an avowed enemy of serpents who are his food.krishna mentions him among the most prominent representatives of his power: among the daityademons i am the devoted prahlada, among subduers i am time, among beasts i am the lion, and amongbirds i am garuda (bhagavad-gita 10.30) appendix e: dragons and serpents312atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation nilamata purana, the ancient history of kashmir, is centered around the original inhabitants of kashmir,the nagas. in the verses 232-233 it mentions their capital: o naga, the dwelling of the nagas is the citynamed bhogavati. having become a yogi that n

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nd evolution of humanity (and they re not, then it means these stories stem from the time when man was of one blood (race) and in one location. that was, admittedly, a long time ago; 15,000 years at bare minimum (according to the timelines established by evolutionists. how, and why, did collective humanity cling to such stories for so long? i can t believe it s not fiction set, osiris, and horus: the lion king (1994) the great name game [1.5] mythological stories are loaded with fanciful, and often racy imagery, characters, and storylines. the coming and goings of the gods seem more akin to the machinations of a drunk poet, rather than a true record of history; it s easy to see how men like freud came to their conclusions about mythology (being nothing more than stories that symbolically r

or. the first of these, the wand, is used to direct energy and draw invoking symbols in the air. the element associated with the wand is fire, and fire represents the spark of life; in other words, the ability to give life. the wand is a phallic symbol and represents the active force; the male s ability to jump-start life. fire, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the lion, the south, the color red, and arch-angel michael. fire also represents the will (desire. the second main implement is the dagger, or sword. the dagger represents the element of air, and is used to draw banishing symbols in the air (as opposed to the wand, which invokes. air represents the mind and intellect. air, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle with a horizontal line through

MORALS AND DOGMA

d in the fourth _grizzled "and these were the four winds of the heavens, that go forth from standing before the lord of all the earth" ezekiel saw the _four_ living creatures, each with _four_ faces and _four_ wings, the faces of a _man_ and a _lion, an _ox_ and an _eagle; and the _four_ wheels going upon their _four_ sides; and saint john beheld the _four_ beasts, full of eyes before and behind, the lion, the young ox, the man, and the flying eagle _four_ was the signature of the earth. therefore, in the 148th psalm, of those who must praise the lord on the land, there are _four_ times _four, and _four_ in particular of living creatures. visible nature is described as the _four_ quarters of the world, and the _four_ corners of the earth "there are _four" says the old jewish saying "which

ard to a moderate and reasonable degree of general and individual prosperity, it is a nation possessed by the devil of commercial avarice, a passion as ignoble and demoralizing as avarice in the individual; and as this sordid passion is baser and more unscrupulous than ambition, so it is more hateful, and at last makes the infected nation to be regarded as the enemy of the human race. to grasp at the lion's share of commerce, has always at last proven the ruin of states, because it invariably leads to injustices that make a state detestable; to a selfishness and crooked policy that forbid other nations to be the friends of a state that cares only for itself. commercial avarice in india was the parent of more atrocities and greater rapacity, and cost more human lives, than the nobler ambiti

d 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 semitic languages) it also means an ancestor, originator, inventor, head, chief or ruler, manager, overseer, master, priest, prophet [hebrew] s

stolkin, are types of the true mason, who seeks for knowledge from pure motives, and that he may be the better enabled to serve and benefit his fellow-men; while the discontented and presumptuous masters who were buried in the ruins of the arches represent those who strive to acquire it for unholy purposes, to gain power over their fellows, to gratify their pride, their vanity, or their ambition. the lion that guarded the ark and held in his mouth the key wherewith to open it, figuratively represents solomon, the lion of the tribe of judah, who preserved and communicated the key to the true knowledge of god, of his laws, and of the profound mysteries of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty

; and she was the type of wisdom, and they of the seven planetary spirits of the gnostics, that with her presided over and governed the sublunary world. in this degree, unknown for a hundred years to those who have practised it, these emblems reproduced refer to these old doctrines. the lamb, the yellow hangings strewed with stars, the seven columns, candlesticks, and seals all recall them to us. the lion was the symbol of athom-re, the great god of upper egypt; the hawk, of ra or phre; the eagle, of mendes; the bull, of apis; and three of these are seen under the platform on which our altar stands. the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them th

himself. these three hundred and sixty-five intelligences compose altogether the fullness or _plenitude[[greek? a] of the divine emanations. with the ophites, a sect of the gnostics, there were seven inferior spirits [inferior to ialdabaoth, the demiourgos or actual creator _micha l, suri l, rapha l, gabriel, thauthabaoth, erataoth, and _athaniel, the genii of the stars called the bull, the dog, the lion, the bear, the serpent, the eagle, and the ass that formerly figured in the constellation cancer, and symbolized respectively by those animals; as _ialdabaoth, iao, adona, elo, ora, and _astapha_ were the genii of saturn, the moon, the sun, jupiter, venus, and mercury. the word appears in all these creeds. it is the _ormuzd_ of zoroaster, the _ainsoph_ of the kabalah, the _nous_ of platon

us, among the persians and magi. it was held in the east and the west, and that from the remotest antiquity. herodotus found it among the egyptians, who made the term of the circle of migrations from one human body, through animals, fishes, and birds, to another human body, three thousand years. empedocles even held that souls went into plants. of these, the laurel was the noblest, as of animals the lion; both being consecrated to the sun, to which, it was held in the orient, virtuous souls were to return. the curds, the chinese, the kabbalists, all held the same doctrine. so origen held, and the bishop synesius, the latter of whom had been initiated, and who thus prayed to god "o father, grant that my soul, reunited to the light, may not be plunged again into the defilements of earth" so

d below the equator. clemens, the learned bishop of alexandria, and philo, adopt all these explanations. hermes calls the zodiac, the grent tent--tabernaculum. in the royal arch degree of the american rite, the tabernacle has four veils, of different colors, to each of which belongs a banner. the colors of the four are white, blue, crimson, and purple, and the banners bear the images of the bull, the lion, the man, and the eagle, the constellations answering 2500 years before our era to the equinoctial and solstitial points: to which belong four stars, aldebaran, regulus, fomalhaut, and antares. at each of these veils there are three words: and to each division of the zodiac, belonging to each of these stars, are three signs. the four signs, taurus, leo, scorpio, and aquarius, were termed

, taurus, leo, scorpio, and aquarius, were termed the _fixed_ signs, and are appropriately assigned to the four veils. so the cherubim, according to clemens and philo, represented the two hemispheres: their wings, the rapid course of the firmament, and of time which revolves in the zodiac "for the heavens fly" says philo, speaking of the wings of the cherubim: which were winged representations of the lion, the bull, the eagle, and the man; of two of which, the human-headed, winged bulls and lions, so many have been found at nimroud; adopted as beneficent symbols, when the sun entered taurus at the vernal equinox and leo at the summer solstice: and when, also, he entered scorpio for which, on account of its malignant influences, aquila, the eagle was substituted, at the autumnal equinox; an

ted in presenting the candidate a crown, supported by a sword. it was placed near his head, and he repelled it, saying "mithras is my crown" then he was declared the soldier of mithras, and had the right to call the other initiates fellow-soldiers or companions in arms. hence the title _companions_ in the royal arch degree of the american rite. then he passed, porphyry says, through the degree of the lion--the constellation leo, domicile of the sun and symbol of mithras, found on his monuments. these ceremonies were termed at rome leontic and heliac; and _coratia_ or _hiero-coracia, of the raven, a bird consecrated to the sun, and a sign placed in the heavens below the lion, with the hydra, and also appearing on the mithriac monuments. thence he passed to a higher degree, where the initiat

e birds mated and builded their nests, the seeds germinated, the grass grew, and the trees put forth leaves. with the summer solstice, when the sun reached the extreme northern limit of his course, came great heat, and burning winds, and lassitude and exhaustion; then vegetation withered, man longed for the cool breezes of spring and autumn, and the cool water of the wintry nile or euphrates, and the lion sought for that element far from his home in the desert. with the autumnal equinox came ripe harvests, and fruits of the tree and vine, and falling leaves, and cold evenings presaging wintry frosts; and the principle and powers of darkness, prevailing over those of light, drove the sun further to the south, so that the nights grew longer than the days. and at the winter solstice the earth

en he had reached the northern tropic and began to _retreat_ southward, were termed, from his retrograde motion, the crab (cancer. as he approached, in autumn, the middle point between the northern and southern extremes of his journeying, the days and nights became equal; and the stars among which he was then found were called stars of the balance (libra. those stars among which the sun was, when the lion, driven from the desert by thirst, came to slake it at the nile, were called stars of the lion (leo. those among which the sun was at harvest, were called those of the gleaning virgin, holding a sheaf of wheat (virgo. those among which he was found in february, when the ewes brought forth their young, were called stars of the lamb (aries. those in march, when it was time to plough, were c

unjik and nimroud, like which were the cherubim set by solomon in his temple: and hence the twelve brazen or bronze oxen, on which the laver of brass was supported. the celestial vulture or eagle, rising and setting with the scorpion, was substituted in its place, in many cases, on account of the malign influences of the latter: and thus the four great periods of the year were marked by the bull, the lion, the man (aquarius) and the eagle; which were upon the respective standards of ephraim, judah, reuben, and dan; and still appear on the shield of american royal arch masonry. afterward the ram or lamb became an object of adoration, when, in his turn, he opened the equinox, to deliver the world from the wintry reign of darkness and evil. around the central and simple idea of the annual dea

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

made into mutton like so many voters! i decline to be bell-weather, who am born a lion! i will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. i refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. wise in your generation, ye sheep, are ye to scamper away bleating when your ears catch my roar on the wind! are ye not tended and fed and protected until word come from the stock-yard? the lion's life for me! let me live free, and die fighting! this is again directed at the capitalistic system of the so-called democracies, and an outburst of enthusiasm unseemly in one who (see verse 15) was commanded to gather my children into their fold. one must remember, however, that he was then very young. as to the 'socialist' states from which he hoped so much, they have proved just as sk

ate to assess the absolute. to him, the pettiest personal whimsy outweighs all wisdom, all philosophy, all private profit and all public prudence. the sexual obol of the meanest is stamped with the signature of his own sovereign soul, lawful and current coin no less than the gold talent of his neighbour. the derelict moon has the same right to drift round earth as regulus to blaze in the heart of the lion. collision is the only crime in the cosmos. the beast refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. a canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity. it is better for a person of heterosexual nature to suffer every possible calami

fairs! 8. who worshipped heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. again hadit (aiwass speaking for him, of course) lays down the law in no uncertain manner. he is heru-pa-kraath, and who worships him is doing ill, not only to himself or herself, but to mankind as a whole "i am the worshipper. harpocrates is also the dwarf-soul the secret self of every man, the serpent with the lion's head. now, hadit knows nuit by virtue of his 'going' or 'love. it is therefore wrong to worship hadit; one is to be hadit, and worship her. this is clear even from his instruction "to worship me" in verse 22 of this chapter. confer cap. i, verse 9. we are exhorted to offer ourselves unto nuit, pilgrims to all her temples. it is bad magick to admit that one is other than one's inmost sel

"the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour, that is, the being symbolized by the egg and serpent hieroglyph of the phoenician adepts. the second kind is also a form of baphomet, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the lion-serpent in its original form. the process of softening and smoothing down is thus in this case that of vitalizing the eagle. it is inadvisable to word this explanation in terms too intelligible to the profane, since uninitiated attempts to make use of the formidable arcana of magick presented in this passage could lead only to the most fulminating and irremediable disaster. menstrual bloo

ormula of hadit"'come unto me' is a foolish word; for it is i that go" now, the semen is god (the going-one, as shown by the ankh or sandal-strap, which he carries, because he goes in at the door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that seed of going (the birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true going-principle is the lion-serpent, or dragon; the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions" perhaps the birth of a girl is a misfortune in some countries; but this is due to the 'sin' syndrome of the aeon of os iris. in this aeon, the sexes are complementary. it would be a much greater misfortune if no girls were born! liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blas

now, to will, to dare and to keep silence. yea, i, the beast, my scarlet whore bestriding me, naked and crowned, drunk on her golden cup of fornication, boasting herself my bedfellow, have trodden her in the marketplace, and roared this word that every woman is a star. and with that word is uttered woman's freedom; the fools and fribbles and flirts have heard my voice. the fox in woman hath heard the lion in man; fear, fainting, flabbiness, frivolity, falsehood these are no more the mode. in vain will bully and brute and braggart man, priest, lawyer, or social censor knit his brows to devise him a new tamer's trick; once and for all the tradition is broken; vanished the vogue of bowstring, sack, stoning, nose-slitting, belt-buckling, cart's tail-dragging, whipping, pillory posting, walling

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

m at the foot of the capitoline hill, in which were deposited the public treasury and the laws of the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother and unceasing producer of all plant-life. she was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion, the noble king of beasts. rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and page 19 seated on a throne, with lions crouching at her feet. she is sometimes depicted sitting in a chariot, drawn by lions. the principal seat of her worship, which was always of a very riotous character, was at crete. at her festivals, which took place at night, the wildest music of flutes

ught once more his rural home, where he was informed that on mount citharon, at the foot of which the herds of amphitryon were grazing, a ferocious lion had fixed his lair, and was committing such frightful ravages among the flocks and herds that he had become the scourge and terror of the whole neighbourhood. heracles at once armed himself and ascended the mountain, where he soon caught sight of the lion, and rushing at him with his sword succeeded in killing him. the hide of the animal he wore ever afterwards over his shoulders, and the head served him as a helmet. as he was returning from this, his first exploit, he met [237]the heralds of erginus, king of the minyans, who were proceeding to thebes to demand their annual tribute of 100 oxen. indignant at this humiliation of his native c

ing oblivion of the past decided him to enter, without delay, upon the tasks appointed him by eurystheus. 1. the nemean lion..his first task was to bring to eurystheus the skin of the much-dreaded nemean lion, which ravaged the territory between cleone and nemea, and whose hide was invulnerable against any mortal weapon. page 268 heracles proceeded to the forest of nemea, where, having discovered the lion's lair, he attempted to pierce him with his arrows; but finding these of no avail he felled him to the ground with his club, and before the animal had time to recover from the terrible blow [239]heracles seized him by the neck and, with a mighty effort, succeeded in strangling him. he then made himself a coat of mail of the skin, and a new helmet of the head of the animal. thus attired, h

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

sing of the constellations. ye ultimate rites shall be performed only in the seasons proper to them, these be: at candlemas (on the second day of the second month, at beltane (on the eve of may, at lammas (on the first day of the eighth month, at roodmas (on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, and at hallowmas (on november eve. call out to dread azathoth when the sun is in the sign of the ram, the lion, or the archer; the moon decreasing and mars and saturn conjoin. mighty yog-sothoth shall rise to ye incantations when sol has entered the fiery house of leo and the hour of lammas be upon ye. evoke ye terrible hastur on candlemas night, when sol is in aquarius and mercury in trine. supplicate great cthulhu only at hallowmas eve when the sun abides within the house of the scorpion and ori

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

f the word for glion h [aryeih. it tends toward the right in order that [chesed and gevurah] inter-include. therefore, since it is so hot, it draws to itself all types of moisture and thereby cools off, and then fans the heart. this is why the chief butler corresponds to the trachea. we exile hot air, indicating the the lungs are naturally hot. heat and fire exemplify gevurah, power and strength. the lion, the strong beast, also exemplifies gevurah, yet in ezekiel fs vision of the chariot,13 it is on the right side, the side of chesed. this signifies rectified gevurah, i.e, gevurah tempered by chesed. gevurah: gimel-beit-vav-reish-hei= 3+ 2+ 6+ 200+ 5= 216. aryeih: alef-reish-yud-hei= 1+ 200+ 10+ 5= 216. the chief baker corresponds to the esophagus, which in turn corresponds to gevurah. th

gevurah, and (2) as the ideal blend of chesed and gevurah, tiferet is a direct revelation of g-d fs goodness and glory rather than an indirect one.18 the name we are concerned with is the second of the 72. it presumably is associated with gevurah since it is the second. the four faces of the beasts that carried the divine throne in ezekiels vision were that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. the lion-face signified chesed, the ox-face gevurah, the eagle-face tiferet (and the midot below it, and the man-face malchut. thus, this name (yud-lamed-yud) and the ox-face are related by virtue of their mutual association with gevurah. the difference is that in [the initials from] this verse, the yud fs are ascendant. they indicate the force of chesed. the lamed is left to be last. it indicates

braham, isaac, jacob, and david. the hebrew term for gprinciple categories h is avot, which literally means gfathers, h since the principle categories give rise to goffspring, h i.e, secondary or derivative categories. hence the analogy between the gfathers h of damages and the fathers of the jewish people. the ox corresponds to the attribute of isaac, i.e, gevurah, as it is written, gthe face of the lion to the right, and the face of the ox to the left. h7 left is the side of gevurah. the verse quoted is from the prophet ezekiel fs vision of the divine chariot, the image of the sefirotic array in the spiritual worlds. the holy gox, h holy gevurah, is power harnessed in the service of g-d. the evil ox is power misused in order to cause damage. the pit corresponds to [the attribute of] abra

corresponding to this gdivine chariot h is an gimpure chariot, h or the array of powers through which g-d channels life force into the realm of evil, in order to create and sustain it until such time as its purpose has been served and it can be dispensed with. the soul[s] of the domesticated animal descend from the face of the ox of the chariot [those of] the wild animals descend from the face of the lion in the chariot [those of] the fowl descend from the face of the eagle of the chariot. the permitted (kosher) domesticated animals of this world are derived from the face of the ox in the chariot; the permitted wild animals are derived from the face of the lion (even though lions themselves are not kosher; the permitted birds are derived from the face of the eagle. forbidden animals and fo

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

e altar, and the two pillars may be dispensed with but formulated in the imagination as present. he may find it very uskful to paint flashing angelic tablets according to the instructions found elsewhere, as well as the banners of tvhe east and west, pla&g these in the appropriate cardinal quarters of his improvised temple. if he is able to obtain small plaster-casts of the heads of the kerubirn- the lion, the eagle, bull and man- and place these in the proper stations, they will be found together with the tablets to impart a considerable amount of magical vitality and atmosphere to the temple. what actually they do bestow is rather subtle, and perhaps indefinable. they are not absolute essentials, however, and may be dispensed with. but since magic works by the intervention of symbol and

world passes and a great light shines over the splendid sea" book one <99> book one first knowledge lecture 1. the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of: heat and dryness fire a heat and moisture air a cold and d yness earth b cold and moisture water v 2. the signs of the zodiac are twelve: 1. aries, the ram 2. taurus, the bull 3. gemini, the twins 4. cancer, the crab 5 .leo, the lion 6. virgo, the virgin 7. libra, the scales 8. scorpio, the scorpion 9. sagittarius, the archer 10. capricorn, the goat 11. aquarius, the water-bearer 12. pisces, the fishes these twelve signs are distributedamong the four triplicities or sets of three signs, each being attributed to one of the four elements, and they represent the operation of the elements in the zodiac. thus to fire

tellations of the zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve loaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, syrnbolised by the letter heh, the first of the simple letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalyps

: hiereus i am osiris, the soul in twin aspect, united to the higher by purification, perfected by suffering, glorified through trial. i have come where the great gods are, through the power of the mighty name. 158 the golden dawn: volume iz book two kerux and zelator have now reached hegemon who bars their way, lamp in <76> right hand- banner of west in left hand. heg the priest with the mask of the lion, spake and said "thou canst not pass by the gate of the southern heaven unless thou canst tell me my name" keyux mau the lion, very powerful, lord of fire, is thy name. thou art ra, the sun in his strength. heg in what signs and symbols do ye come? kerux in the letter shin; in the banner of the east, and the symbol of the cubical cross. heg (standing back and signing leo q before zelator

thou canst not pass by the gate of the southern heaven unless thou canst tell me my name" keyux mau the lion, very powerful, lord of fire, is thy name. thou art ra, the sun in his strength. heg in what signs and symbols do ye come? kerux in the letter shin; in the banner of the east, and the symbol of the cubical cross. heg (standing back and signing leo q before zelator with lamp) in the sign of the lion, child of fire, thou art purified. pass thou on. he replaces lamp and takes the place of kerux, who returns to his seat in the north. hegemon leads zelator past hiereus, to whom he hands banner of the west. meanwhile, hiereus reads for the third time, hegemon being careful to lead zelator slowly round the temple, returning to hiereus when the speech is finished. hiereus (as they go round

then to heg. who awaits them in the s. heg. the seraphim in the vision of isaiah are described as having six wings-'with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."that is, his synthesis is to be found in the hexagram and in the idea of the seven, more especially dominating the planetary region. but the kerubim of ezekiel have each 4 faces- those of the lion, the bull, the man and the eagle <173> counterchanged with each other by revolution, whence the symbolic forms of the wheels beside them, wherein was the spirit; and with two of the wings they covered their bodies and two were stretched upwards one to another. so the synthesis of the kerubim is found in the revolving cross, in the pentagram, and in the idea of one spirit dominating the fo

upon the shoulders of the celestial <186> steed, fiery or clothed with gold, or naked and shooting from the bow, shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of a horse. but, if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of a lion" for thus wilt thou cleave upward by the path of sagittarius, through the sixth sephirah into the path of teth, answering to leo, the lion- the reconciling path between mercy and severity, chesed and geburah, beneath whose centre hangs the glorious sun of tiphareth. therefore, by the straight and narrow path of sagittarius, let the philosophus advance, like the arrow from the centre of qesheth, the bow. and as this sign of sagittarius lieth between the sign of scorpio- death and capricomus the devil, so had jesus to pass thr

the five principles of nature, the concealed spirit and the four elements of earth, air, water and fire. about her head is a halo of light. on her <192> breast is the sun of tiphareth. the five-rayed crown further alludes to the five sephiroth kether, chokrnah, binah, chesed and geburah. chained to her waist are a lion and an eagle, between which is a large cauldron whence arise steam and smoke. the lion represents the fire in netzach -the blood of the lion, and the eagle represents the water in hod, the gluten of the eagle- whose reconcilement is made by the air in yesod, uniting with the volatilised water arising from the cauldron through the influence of the fire beneath it. the chains which link the lion and the eagle to her waist, are symbolic of the paths of scorpio and capricornus

entre, and is always depicted unchanged in black upon white. upon the side there are always the 4 kerubic emblems- zodiacal, yet different, for the eagle replaces scorpio (scorpio has three forms, the scorpion, the eagle, and the snake for the evil aspect) these kerubim represent the letters of the name yhvh, and <285> note that they are always arranged in the hebrew order of the letters. yod for the lion, heh for the eagle, vau for the man, heh final for the ox, the tauric earth. note that these four zodiacal signs are not in their own colours, but as symbols of the elements have elementary colours. as zodiacal signs, then, they are found to be compounds of the zodiacal and planet colours; but they are here as kerubic emblems compounded of the elemental colour and the planetary colour of

t. also, revile not evil spirits- but remember that the archangel michael of whom st. jude speaketh, when contending with satan, durst not bring a railing accusation against him but said 'the lord rebuke thee. now, if thou wilt draw the pentagram to have by thee as a symbol, thou shalt make it of the colours already taught, upon a black ground. there shall be the sign of the pentagram, the wheel, the lion, the eagle, the ox, and the man, and each hath an angle assigned unto it for dominion. hence ariseth the supreme ritual of the pentagram, according to the angle from which the pentagram is traced. the circle or wheel answereth to the all-pervading spirit: the laborious ox is the symbol of earth; the lion is the vehemence of fire; the eagle, the water flying aloft as with wings when she is

rating however the force upon a symbol or talisman, thou shalt make the circle with the pentagram upon it so as to gather the force together thereon <13> diagram 3 invoking earth banishing pentagram ritual 283 <14> rule: invoke towards, and banish from, the point to which the element is attributed. air hath a wate y s r b o l, because it is the container of rain and moisture. fire hat t e form of the lion-se ent. water hath the alchemic eagle of distillation a.harth hath the'p,borious u. spirit is produced by the one operating in all things. the elements vibrate between the cardinal points for they have not an unchangeable abode therein, though they are allotted to the four quarters in their invocation in the ceremonies of the first order. this attribution is derived from the nature of the

office as defined. since the sentinel is an office only open to a neophyte, we believe that it should only appear in the neophyte ritual and not in any of the elemental grades. g.w. enterer of the threshold 2. the stations of the children of horus. 3. the stations of the evil one. 4. the station of harpocrates. 5. the stations of isis, nephthys, aroueris. 1. the kerubim: the stations of the man, the lion, the bull, and the eagle are at the four cardinal points without the hall, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple. they are placed according to the winds- beyond the stations of hierophant, dadouchos, hiereus, and stolistes- and in this order do their symbols appear in all warrants of temples. the kerub of air formulates behind the throne of hierophant. she has a young girl's

hat the kerub representeth a far more sublime potency, yet acting by a harmonious sympathy through the particular sign allotted unto their correspondence. the kerub of fire has the face and form of a lion with large and clashing wings. he formulates behind the throne of dadouchos and he is a power of the great goddess tharpesh or tharpheshest, the latter syllable being nearly pasht. the action of the lion kerub is through the flaming fire of leo of which the egyptian name is labo-ae. the kerub of water has the face and form of a great eagle with large and glistening wings and he formulates behind the throne of hiereus. he is a power of the great god thoomoo, and his operation is by the sign of scorpio, which is called in egyptian szlae-ee (note: in egyptological works the name of this god

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

e nimrod a hot burning fire. and i am he that guided ahmet mine elect, i gifted him with my way and guidance. mine are all existences together, they are my gift and under my direction. and i am he that possesseth all majesty, and beneficence and charity are from my grace. and i am he that entereth the heart in my zeal; and i shine through the power of my awfulness and majesty. and i am he to whom the lion of the desert came, i rebuked him and be became like stone. and i am he to whom the serpent came, fr. 1 and by my will i made him like dust. and i am he that shook the rock and made it tremble, and sweet water flowed therefrom on every side. and i am he that brought down an authentic verity- a book whereby i will guide the prudent ones. and i am he that enacted a powerful law, and its pro

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

crucianis in angliaphilosophus39 ancient out.suffragan, 7th sign: observe the human species in his completeness of stature, the fullness of his physicalstrength, and mental amplitude from instruction of the heart: he sees god222s sacraments spread outbefore him, and in his dual character, as body and spirit, partakes of food mortal and immortal,visible and invisible.he has grown in his power like the lion in whose zodiacal sign he resides, in leo, the 5th sign of222the ascending series, in whose measure the lustrous regulus and denebola sparkle in their creator222spraise.conductor with companions proceed to treasurer, whose four lights have just been lit. lights ofsecretary out.treasurer, 8th sign: the world grows old space to man, and bids him prepare the sickle for the ripeningharvests

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

ater, earth and fire; but to reign over these four living creatures of symbolism, it is necessary to conquer and enchain them. he who aspires to be a sage and to know the great enigma of nature must be the heir and despoiler of the sphinx: his the human head, in order to possess speech; his the eagle's wings, in order to scale the heights; his the bull's flanks, in order to furrow the depths; his the lion's talons, to make a way on the right and the left, before and behind. you therefore who seek initiation, are you learned as faust? are you insensible as job? no, is it not so? but you may become like unto both if you choose. have you overcome the vortices of vague thoughts? are you without indecision or capriciousness? do you consent to pleasure only when you will, and do you wish for it

xiliaries to this end. the seven magical animals are (a) among birds, corresponding to the divine world, the swan, the owl, the vulture, the dove, the stork, the eagle and the pewit (b) among fish, corresponding to the spiritual or scientific world, the seal, the catfish, the pike, the mullet, the chub, the dolphin, the sepia or cuttlefish (c) among quadrupeds, corresponding to the natural world, the lion, the cat, the wolf, the he-goat, the monkey, the stag and the mole. the blood, fat, liver and gall of these animals serve in enchantments; their brain combines with the perfumes of the planets, and it is recognized by ancient practice that they possess magnetic virtues corresponding to the seven planetary influences. the talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stone

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

gnomes is at the north, that of salamanders at the south, that of sylphs at the east, and that of undines at the west. these beings influence the four temperaments of man; that is to say, the gnomes affect the melancholy, salamanders the sanguine, undines the phlegmatic and sylphs the bilious. their signs are: the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes, who are commanded with the sword; those of the lion for salamanders, who are commanded with the bifurcated rod or magic trident; those of the eagle for the sylphs, who are commanded by the holy pantacles; finally, those of the water-carrier for undines, who are commanded by the cup of libations. their 32 the ritual of transcendental magic respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs and nic

ne hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following manner: caput mortuum, the lord command thee by the living and votive serpent! cherub, the lord command thee by adam jotchabah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull! serpent, the lord tetragrammaton command thee by the angel and the lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, and anael! flow moisture, by the spirit of eloim. earth, be established by adam jotchabah. spread, firmament, by jahubehu, zebaoth. fulfil, judgment, by fire in the virtue of michael. angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water! work, winged bull, or revert to the earth, unless thou wilt that i should pierce thee with this sword! chained ea

escaped from the chain of instincts will first of all realize his omnipotence by the obedience of animals. the history of daniel in the lions den is no fable, and more than once, during the persecutions of infant christianity, this phenomenon recurred in the presence of the whole roman people. a man seldom has anything to fear from an animal of which he is not afraid. the bullets of jules gerard, the lion-killer, are magical and intelligent. only once did he run a real danger; he allowed a timid companion to accompany him, and, looking upon this imprudent person as lost beforehand, he also was afraid, not for himself but for his comrade. many persons will say that it is difficult and even impossible to attain such resolution, that strength in volition and energy in character are natural gi

s the name of a genius, be he good or evil. it is known that the signs of the zodiac correspond to various celestial influences and consequently signify an annual alternative of good or evil. the names of the genii designated by the above characters are: for the ram, sataaran and sarahiel; for the bull, bagdal, and araziel; for the twins, sagras and saraiel; for the crab, rahdar and. phakiel; for the lion, sagham and seratiel; for the virgin, iadara and schaltiel; for the balance, grasgarben and hadakiel; for the scorpion, riehol and saissaiel; for the archer, vhnori and saritaiel; for the goat, sagdalon and semakiel; for the water- bearer, ssakmakile; for the fishes, rasamasa and vacabiel. the wise man, seeking to read the sky, must observe also the days of the moon, the influence of whic

emphis and thebes by the four forms of the sphinx. man, eagle, lion and bull. corresponded with the four elements of the old world, water being signified by the cup held by the man or aquarius; air by the circle or nimbus surrounding the head of the celestial eagle; fire by the wood which nourishes it, by the tree fructifying in the heat of earth and sun, finally, by the sceptre of royalty, which the lion typifies; earth by the sword of mithras, who each year immolates the sacred bull, and, together with its blood, pours forth that sap which gives increase to all fruits of earth. now, these four signs, with all their analogies, explain the one word hidden in all sanctuaries, that word which the bacchantes seemed to divine in their intoxication when they worked themselves into frenzy for io

cealed in the before-mentioned chapter of judges, says that michas made three gimages of young boys and three young calves, three also of a lion, an eagle, a dragon and a dove, all of fine gold and silver; so that if anyone sought him to discover a secret concerning his wife, he interrogated the dove; concerning children, the young boy; concerning wealth, the eagle; concerning strength and power, the lion; concerning fecundity, the cherub or bull; concerning length of days, the dragon. h this revelation of philo, though deprecated by gaffarel, is for us of the highest importance. here, in fact, is our key of the tetrad, and here also are the images of the four symbolical animals found in the twenty-first key of the tarot; that is, in the third septenary, thus repeating and summarizing all

he drew by lot the teraphim or tablets of gold, which bore the images of the four sacred words, and placed them by threes round the rational or ephod; that is, between the two onyx stones which served as clasps to the little chains of the ephod. the right onyx signified gedulah, or mercy and magnificence; the left referred to geburah, and signified justice and anger. if, for example, the sign of the lion were found on the left side of the stone which bore the name of the tribe of judah, the high priest would read the oracle thus: gthe staff of the lord is angered against judah. h if the teraphim represented the man or cup and were found also on the left, near the stone of benjamin, the high priest would read: gthe mercy of the lord is weary of the offences of benjamin, which outrage him i

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nt warfare and exposure to novel situations, and because of the role of language, there was considerable selective pressure in favor of the tactical "right. yet at an earlier time, it's possible that the human who simply looked at the terrain, grunted, and led the group to a position with a safer vantage point might do just as well. or even better. than the one who relied on dexterity to fend off the lion that lay waiting in the shrubbery. were you to ask the seer, the human who appeared to foresee the danger, just why he or she decided to avoid the first approach, you'd probably get either a lot of mumbo-jumbo, or nothing at all! mysterious business, that, but nothing more than the ordinary function of the pattern-seeking nonverbal mind. the dichotomy between tactical and strategic (posit

on a truly emotional and eventually rational scale. this being the case, i went about creating the "nutritional" atmosphere of knowledge and understanding that were required for growth. as the moment of growth began, the host realized that changes were indeed occurring. comprehension had now begun to manifest. ammit is pictured as a monster that is a composite of three animals. these animals are the lion, the hippo, and the crocodile. those aspects which comprised ammit have been historically considered the fiery aspects. the destructive aspects of the creatures. please keep in mind that the fire that destroys may also purify, and will often do both. in accord with ammit's function of absorption, she has been historically called the "devourer of the heart" and the "eater of the dead" cons

ow the divinity of your creation, the beauty of your own divinity. memory's mirror in darkness, a vision of red; the center of being. we are the gods of time, for we have created it. search for that which cannot be forgotten. in memory exists the mirror, in which we may find our ancestor. remembering us. classification: v4- a47.m- 3 author: ronald k. barrett iv date: october 31, xii reading list: the lion rite the lion was used through a series of visualisations in a ritual to enhance the five senses. sekhmet was the deity for this rite, and the bridge to primal currents. preparation i used various exercises to improve breathing, relaxing, and visualisation. i thought about the format that the ritual would take, and how to apply it to the five senses of the body. i created a sigil for each

wledge your desire, and burn the sigil. visualise a lion poised on the edge of darkness] i open myself to the night, and breath in the scent of the night air. i smell the dry dessert soil, the dusty earth, the scent of all living things; i evoke the powers of scent [prowl, and crouch at the altar for sound. light the candle and begin to drum, acknowledge your desire, and burn the sigil. visualise the lion alert and prepared to act on the slightest sound] i listen, and hear the beat of another's heart, i let this beat sink into my bones, and become one with the night; i evoke the power to hear [prowl, and crouch in front of the altar for taste. light the candle, and drink from the grail. acknowledge your desire, and burn the sigil. visualise the lion about to feed] i am a lion of the plains

of taking the oath] this is the secret of the bat: with the fangs of the soul you can take and give energy as the act of darkest love. what is exchanged lives forever [magus flowers walks to the next station. adept charles lamkin lights the two candles, and priest zimmer speaks] i am sakhmet who nearly destroyed mankind in my bloodlust. i am mut, who purrs at the touch of the fearless hand. i am the lion whom all of mankind has made a symbol of strength. if you would hear my secret, you must swear a terrible oath [magus flowers] we would learn your secret even if the knowledge damns us [sakhmet] this is the oath: i will master my rage and use it only when it is needed. this is the sign of the oath [priest zimmer flexes his left hand like a claw, then relaxes it, drawing the hand back to h

must swear a terrible oath [magus flowers] we would learn your secret even if the knowledge damns us [sakhmet] this is the oath: i will master my rage and use it only when it is needed. this is the sign of the oath [priest zimmer flexes his left hand like a claw, then relaxes it, drawing the hand back to himself. the other initiates do likewise as a sign of taking the oath] this is the secret of the lion: you can make the world your plaything- mercy and justice lie within your talons [magus flowers walks to the next station. adept gyori lights the candles, and priest rigby speaks] i am fenris, whose howls shake the world tree. i am fenris, who swallowed the hand of tyr and one day will swallow your sun. i am the wolf whose packs persist despite the evil of men. if you would hear my secret

nd of fiercely protective love. i add my voice, my power, and my will to that of shuti, once an apprentice to your meren-sekhmet, and an initiate of your order. we call upon you sekhmet, we call you forth, and direct your manifestation, your participation in the war with iraq. as you join in glorious battle, fighting alongside the courageous warriors of this time and place, be and remain aware of the lion cubs of the left hand path there, the setians who risk their lives in support of their faith in ma'at, duty and justice. watch over adept clayton bozeman and other setians. keep them healthy, and help them return to their family [visualize the desert, and the war. visualize a wall of fire and flame between the allied and iraqi forces, a wall of flames advancing on the iraqi forces. visual

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rd "more than anything in the world" he growls at the papery valet who has served him in war and peace for forty-four years "i hate admitting that my enemies have a point. damn sight better to kill the bastards, i've always thought. neatest bloody solution" the sword has remained sheathed in its leather scabbard since the day of his conversion by his nephew, but tonight, he confides to the valet "the lion is loose. peace will have to wait" it is the last night of the festival of ibrahim. jahilia is masquerade and madness. the oiled fatty bodies of the wrestlers have completed their writhings and the seven poems have been nailed to the walls of the house of the black stone. now singing whores replace the poets, and dancing whores, also with oiled bodies, are at work as well; night-wrestling

t pilgrims who lie unconscious while cutpurses earn their living. he hears the wine--blurred carousing through every golden-gleaming doorway, and feels the song and howling laughter and coin-chinkings hurting him like mortal insults. but he doesn't find what he's looking for, not here, so he moves away from the illuminated revelry of gold and begins to stalk the shadows, hunting the apparition of the lion. and finds, after hours of searching, what he knew would be waiting, in a dark corner of the city's outer walls, the thing of his vision, the red manticore with the triple row of teeth. the manticorc has blue eyes and a mannish face and its voice is half- trumpet and half-flute. it is fast as the wind, its nails are corkscrew talons and its tail hurls poisone& quills. it loves to feed on

ol they were soon not just intoxicated but stupid-drunk. they stood in a small piazza and started abusing the passers--by, and after a while the water--carrier khalid brandished his water- skin, boasting. he could destroy the city, he carried the ultimate weapon. water: it would cleanse jahilia the filthy, wash it away, so that a new start could be made from the purified white sand. that was when the lion--men started chasing them, and after a long pursuit they were cornered, the booziness draining out of them on account of their fear, they were staring into the red masks of death when hamza arrived just in time. gibreel floats above the city watching the fight. it's quickly over once hamza gets to the scene. two masked assailants run away, two lie dead. bilal, khalid and salman have been

re cornered, the booziness draining out of them on account of their fear, they were staring into the red masks of death when hamza arrived just in time. gibreel floats above the city watching the fight. it's quickly over once hamza gets to the scene. two masked assailants run away, two lie dead. bilal, khalid and salman have been cut, but not too badly. graver than their wounds is the news behind the lion--masks of the dead "hind's brothers" hamza recognizes "things are finishing for us now" slayers of manticores, water-terrorists, the followers of mahound sit and weep in the shadow of the city wall. o o o as for him, prophet messenger businessman: his eyes are open now. he paces the inner courtyard of his house, his wife's house, and will not go in to her. she is almost seventy and feels

vangelical hysteria he'd imagined; it was quiet, worried, wanting to know what could be done. there was a young black woman standing near him who gave his attire an amused once-over; he stared back at her, and she laughed "okay, sorry, no offence" she was wearing a lenticular badge, the sort that changed its message as you moved. at some angles it read _uhuru for the simba; at others _freedom for the lion "it's on account of the meaning of his chosen name" she explained redundantly "in african" which language? saladin wanted to know. she shrugged, and turned away to listen to the speakers. it was african: born, by the sound of her, in lewisham or deptford or new cross, that was all she needed to know. pamela hissed into his ear "i see you finally found somebody to feel superior to" she cou

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wah (revelations. the al-jilwah, combined with the mashaf rei, which was compiled in the following century, became known as the black book-the words spoken by satan to his people. the black book not only contains the credo of the yezidi, but their rites as well the yezidis entered their temples through portals bearing the images of a lion, snake, double sided axe, man, comb, scissors, and mirror. the lion represented strength and dominion; the snake, procreation; the axe, potential for good or harm; the man, the god; and the comb, scissors and mirror represented pride. but greater as a symbol of pride, however, was the form taken by satan in the yezidi liturgy-the peacock. because they could not utter the name of satan (shaitan) for fear of persecution, the name melek taus (peacock king) w

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ollo and artemis, as well as for eros, god of love; for the romans the arrow was the symbol of cupid, god of love. the arrow was also used on roman coins to represent the god mithra. the lightning bolt was a symbol for zeus and his roman equivalent, jupiter. it would be thrown by these sky gods to punish, water, or fertilize the earth or its creatures. the greeks also adapted the egyptian sphinx, the lion with a person s head. the sign or symbol of the sun was also worshipped by the greeks and romans as a life-giving source. this could be simply a circle or a stylized sun with rays. the frog was a symbol for fertility for the romans, often representing venus, their version of the greek goddess aphrodite. worship the major form of worship for both greeks and roman was sacrifice and prayer

these people believe that the muslim leader should come from the direct descendants of muhammad. the opposite and larger branch of islam is known as the sunni. the sunni do not want to accept the authority of the direct descendants of muhammad and choose instead to follow the sunna, or practices of muhammad himself. the murder of ali in 661 is one of the major events in islamic history. known as the lion of god and commander of the faithful to both branches of islam, ali is honored by pilgrimages to his shrine 17 in najaf, iraq. muslims view ali as a great man of learning. his speeches, letters, and sayings are gathered in his nahjul belagha( peak of eloquence. a youth in muhammad s household ali was born in mecca, part of modern-day saudi arabia, in about 600 ce. the shi a muslims say th

out the world that follow the teachings of nichiren. little focus is placed on ritual or formal teachings. nichiren buddhists put more emphasis on making a difference in the world through social action, such as campaigning for world peace. for more information books christensen, j. a. nichiren: leader of buddhist reformation in japan. fremont, ca: jain publishing, 2001. kirkpatrick, marge. waking the lion: the writings of nichiren daishonin. bloomington, in: authorhouse, 2004. watson, burton, trans. the lotus sutra. new york, ny: columbia university press, 1993. web sites what is the buddhism of nichiren? soka gakkai international-usa. http/ sgi-usa.org/buddhism/bofnd.html (accessed on may 26, 2006. 300 world religions: biographies nichiren saint paul born: 3 tarsus, cilicia died: c. 67 ro

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ations of matter "and think you that wall never can be removed" asked young glyndon, abruptly "are the traditions of sorcerer and wizard, universal and immemorial as they are, merely fables "perhaps yes, perhaps no" answered the stranger, indifferently "but who, in an age in which the reason has chosen its proper bounds, would be mad enough to break the partition that divides him from the boa and the lion, to repine at and rebel against the law which confines the shark to the great deep? enough of these idle speculations" here the stranger rose, summoned the attendant, paid for his sherbet, and, bowing slightly to the company, soon disappeared among the trees "who is that gentleman" asked glyndon, eagerly. the rest looked at each other, without replying, for some moments "i never saw him b

cet, high-hearted malesherbes! wits, philosophers, statesmen, patriots, dreamers! behold the millennium for which ye dared and laboured! i invoke the ghosts! saturn hath devoured his children("la revolution est comme saturne, elle devorera tous ses enfans" vergniaud, and lives alone, i his true name of moloch! it is the reign of terror, with robespierre the king. the struggles between the boa and the lion are past: the boa has consumed the lion, and is heavy with the gorge, danton has fallen, and camille desmoulins. danton had said before his death "the poltroon robespierre, i alone could have saved him" from that hour, indeed, the blood of the dead giant clouded the craft of "maximilien the incorruptible" as at last, amidst the din of the roused convention, it choked his voice("le sang de

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h is emmanuel; he it is who has bound us, and who will then come and plunge us from the steep [1] under water. he is noised abroad in the three letters which bring him down [2 [1. the allusion is to the swine of gadara. 2. the three characters are apparently the numbers 644] 53. and i solomon, on hearing this, glorified god, and condemned his legion to carry wood from the thicket. and i condemned the lion-shaped one himself to saw up the wood small with his teeth, for burning in the unquenchable furnace for the temple of god. 54. and i worshipped the lord god of israel, and bade another demon come forward. and there came before me a dragon, three-headed, of fearful hue. and i questioned him "who art thou" and he answered me "i am a caltrop-like spirit [1, whose activity in three lines. but

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sible life that underlies the forms of all living beings. later they raise their voices in response to the sound of the trumpets that is, when the life contained in physical forms is transformed and spiritualized. the book with seven seals the one who sits enthroned holds in his right hand a book, which marks out the path to the summit of wisdom. only one person is worthy to open this book: look! the lion of the tribe of judah, the root of david, has triumphed. he is able to open the book and its seven seals. 138 the apocalypse of john 131 the book has seven seals human wisdom is sevenfold. once again we encounter the holiness of the number seven. seals, in the mystical philosophy of philo judaeus, are the eternal cosmic ideas that come to expression in things.139 human wisdom is the quest

he holiness of the number seven. seals, in the mystical philosophy of philo judaeus, are the eternal cosmic ideas that come to expression in things.139 human wisdom is the quest for these creative ideas. only in the book sealed by them can divine wisdom be found. the archetypal ideas behind the created world must be unveiled the seals opened and the contents of the book will be revealed. jesus is the lion who can break open the seals; he has given a meaning to the ideas of creation so as to point the way to wisdom. the lamb that was slain, which god has dearly bought with the price of his own blood, is jesus who, as the bearer of the christ, has passed in the profoundest sense through the mystery of life and death; it is he who opens the book.140 each time one of the seals is opened, the l

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

el to pittsburgh right after he was elected to speak at a masonic lodge? read as svali provides answers to the significance of pittsburgh in the illuminati plans. deep within the bowels of the vatican and illuminati: the small public chapter of svali's life coming to an end svali says no more interviews but will still try and spread the word of truth through her christian fellowship group called 'the lion and the lamb ministries' 19 jan 2006 by greg szymanski part iv the final curtain on this public chapter of svali's life is coming to a close. one radio interview and a series of print articles about her involvement in the feared illuminati and then back to private life, a life of spreading truth in a christian fellowship group she founded called lion and lamb ministries "i was up all nigh

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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's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "r

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's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "raised" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation

also commend the triangle within the circle, the very logo of alcoholics anonymous. from a page right out of a rosicrucian manual, the figure at left is the "symbol of creation" nehushstan the serpent, also called oroboros, the serpent swallowing its own tail. this symbolizes perpetual movement (hegelian dialectic) and the occult conception of the "circle of life" the slogan that disney's movie, the lion king, made famous. the book of revelation in the holy bible calls satan "that old serpent" and for good reason! the triangle inside the serpentine circle represents the unholy trinity, which the occult teaches is the spiritual element soon to manifest, already operating at the very center of the material universe. 386 codex magica (from the book, satan wants you, by arthur lyons, the myst

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

he two truths, the portions of ahephi and kabexnuv are reversed, and the order becomes: east--ameshett south--tmo-oumathu north--kabexnuv west--ahephi 5 now, these, being thus arranged, do partake of the symbolism of the elements to which they belong. for ameshett, being to the east, the quarter of m, has the head of a man. tmo-oumathu, to the south has the head of a jackal who is the purveyor of the lion (for these are the vice-gerents of the elements, while the kerubim are the lords thereof; so tmo-oumathu is properly a jackal. kabexnuv in the west, in the region of n, has the form of a hawk, the subordinate form to the alchemic eagle of distillation, and the form also, of horus, the hiereus, beside whom is his station, and of whose symbolism he partakes. ahephi in the north, has the hea

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alices filled with the dark, holy elixir of life over thousands of altars stained with both animal and human blood. as respect for the spiritual quality of human life evolved, the sacrifice of men, women, and children was considered forbidden. and while in less civilized times the drinking of an animal s vital fluid had been deemed an appropriate way in which to absorb the strength or virility of the lion, the bear, or the boar, religious law now admonished against both the drinking of animal blood and the eating of meat from which the blood had not been thoroughly drained. the old testament book of leviticus (17:14) acknowledges that blood is the life of all flesh, the blood of it is the life thereof, but the children of israel are instructed that they shall not eat of the blood of no man

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years, then moved to acre in 1191. a third transfer of the templar seat was made in 1217 when the grand master moved to the pilgrim fs castle near cesarea. when the muslims captured acre in 1291 and overthrew the christian kingdom, the templars had bravely fought until they were exterminated almost to the man. the surviving templars retreated to cyprus, which they had purchased from king richard the lion-hearted (1157.1199) for 35,000 marks. although defeated by the soldiers of the prophet muhammad and driven out of the holy land, the knights templar retained their many estates and their enormous wealth in europe. however, especially in france, the templars were becoming diminished in popularity, and the jealousies of the government had been aroused against them. lords, dukes, and princes

were arrested and sent to prison. eventually, 39 of them were sentenced to death and hanged in abak prison, their executions witnessed by a number of local tribal chiefs who could testify to their villages that the leopard men were not immortal. interestingly, on january 10, 1948, just a month before the leopard men were hanged in nigeria, three women and four men were executed for their part in the lion men murders in the singida district in tanganyika. the lion people had dressed in lion skins and murdered more than 40 natives in ritual slayings that left wounds on their victims that resembled the marks of a lion fs claws. m delving deeper daraul, arkon. a history of secret societies. new york: pocket books, 1969. 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

provide supernatural assistance in their performance of magic and predictions. in many lands where the christian missionaries planted their faith, various saints provided an acceptable substitute for the ancient practice of asking favors or help from the witches f familiar. interestingly, many of the saints of christendom are identified by an animal symbol, for example, the dog with st. bernard; the lion with st. mark; the stag with st. eustace; and the crow with st. anthony. however, in those regions where the country folk and rural residents persisted in calling upon their familiars, the church decreed the spirit beings to be demons sent by satan to undermine the work of the clergy. all those accused of possessing a familiar or relying on it for guidance or assistance were forced to rec

rs this sign. cancers have great imaginations, and they glory in fantasies of love and romance. cancers hate to be flustered, and they like to take their time over important decisions. cancer people usually strive to be cheerful and avoid depressions. because of their natural affinity for water, whenever possible they make their homes on the coast or close to a lake or a large body of water. leo, the lion, july 23 to august 23, is a fire sign. leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac, represents the lion, king of beasts, and according to roman astrologers, the savage lion of nemea, slain by hercules. the typical leo is a rather impressive person who dearly loves to 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 prophecy and divination 121 thefour kinds o

speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. h although totems are most often associated with native americans, many cultures have at some time in their past used animal totems. local sport teams use names such as the tigers, lions, bears, cardinals, and falcons. various religions and sects use expressions like the lamb of god, the dove of the holy spirit, and the lion of judah. people through history have even had such surnames as bear, beaver, wolf, crane, crow, drake, finch, fish, fox, hawk, robin, pike, lamb, partridge, and salmon. for many centuries, humans have allowed animals to be both surrogates and teachers. the ethnologist ivar lissner has pondered the provocative mystery of why those anonymous franco-cantabrian cave artists of more than 20,0

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

gervase of tilburyand william of newbury record how a cup was once stolen by a man from a fairy; it was "of an unknownmaterial, extraordinary colour, and unusual form. it was given by the stealer to the earl of gloucester, andby him presented to henry i, who in his turn gave it to his queen's brother, david of scotland; afterremaining many years in the scotch treasury it was presented by william the lion to henry ii. in kirkmalew, in the isle of man,[37] the silver chalice was a cup stolen from the fairies; a similar story is told ofother places. the luck of edenhall is a painted glass cup; it came into the possession of the family throughthe butler, who accidentally surprised a party of fairies at a feast; the terrified fairies fled leaving the cupbehind. at frensham, in surrey, there is

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e hieroglyphs which gave it birth. for the sage who understands the analogies of the transcendental qabalah, and the exact relation of ideas with signs, this fabulous country of the fairies is a country still fertile in discoveries; for those truths which are too beautiful, or too simple to please men, without any veil, have all been hidden in these ingenious shadows. yes, the cock can intimidate the lion, and make himself master of him, because vigilance often supplants force, and succeeds in taming wrath. the other fables of the sham natural history of the ancients are explained in the same manner, and in this allegorical use of analogies, one can 189 already understand the possible abuses and predict the errors to which the qabalah was obliged to give birth. the law of analogies, in fac

to accomplish, one must will; to will really, one must dare; and in order to gather in peace the fruits of one's audacity, one must keep silent. to know, to dare, to will, to keep silent, are, as we have said elsewhere, the four qabalistic words which correspond to the four letters of the tetragram and to the four hieroglyphic forms of the sphinx. to know, is the human head; to dare, the claws of the lion; to will, the mighty flanks of the bull; to keep silent, the mystical wings of the eagle. he only maintains his position above other men who does not prostitute the secrets of his intelligence to their commentary and their laughter. all men who are really strong are magnetizers, and the universal agent obeys their will. it is thus that they work marvels. they make themselves believed, the

al sins is inertia. 237 axiom xvii to suffer is to work. a great sorrow suffered is a progress accomplished. those who suffer much live more than those who do not suffer. axiom xviii voluntary death from devotion is not suicide; it is the apotheosis of the will. axiom xix fear is nothing but idleness of the will, and for that reason public opinion scourges cowards. axiom xx succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you. say to sorrow "i will that you be a pleasure, more even than a pleasure, a happiness" axiom xxi a chain of iron is easier to break than a chain of flowers. axiom xxii before saying that a man is happy or unhappy, find out what the direction of his will has made of him: tiberius died every day at capri, while jesus proved his immortality and even his divinity o

fierce animals conquer lions by making themselves mentally and magnetically stronger and fiercer than lions. jules gerard, the intrepid hunter of the african lion, would be devoured if he were afraid. but, in order not to be afraid of a lion, one must make one's self stronger and more savage than the animal itself by an effort of imagination and of will. one must say to one's self: it is i who am the lion, and in my presence this animal is only a dog who ought to tremble before me. fourier imagined anti-lions; jules gerard has realized that chimera of the phanlasterian< dreamer. but, one will say, in order not to fear lions, it is enough to be a man of courage and well armed. 272 no, that is n

and lower points excepted. above the upper point are the words "keter pole arctique" and there is a nob at that spot with a line pulled diagonally upward to the left by an eagle, facing counter clockwise. above the eagle is the word "netsah, to the right "l air. the line from the upper right point has "l' ete" above it and the figure of a winged lion below, facing outward and progressing upward. the lion has "hod" written to the right of its head and vertically extended left foreleg "le feu" below its tail and downwardly extended right hind leg. the line from the lower right point is below this figure, and "l' automne" is below this line. the line from the upper left point has "les printemps" written above it. below this is a bull, no wings and facing downward "jesod" is above the bull's

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changes behaviour and not cause. working for reward, again whether self-reward or peer-reward goes against the dictum of working "without lust of result" which is central to success. as already noted, the "trick" of working the two sephiroth is, as one should expect from the system, pictured on the tarot card connecting the two, which is strength. the woman (mercy) rests her hand upon the head of the lion (severity) without conflict. the key represents an act of tikkun "restoration and reintegration, or restoring elements to their appropriate role in the creative process. sturzaker states that geburah is the "centre of the dark night of the soul, which relates to the progress between tiphareth and binah, and the crossing of the abyss. dion fortune terms the sephiroth as the "sacrificial pr

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s than wisdom, we say and witness by these presents publicly, we cannot be made known, and be betrayed unto them; and much less they shall be able to hurt as any manner of way without the will of god; but they shall certainly be partakers of all the punishment spoken of in our fama; so their wicked counsels shall light upon themselves, and our treasures shall remain untouched and unstirred, until the lion doth come, who will ask them for his use, and employ them for the confirmation and establishment of his kingdom. we ought therefore here to observe well, and make it known unto everyone, that god hath certainly and most assuredly concluded to send and grant to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, such a truth, light, life, and glory, as the first man adam had

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

discover the blending of all opposites in one harmonious light; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart, wherein our god is born, whose name is ineffable, a crown of glory, exalted forever above the balance of righteousness and truth. t.a.r.o. as author of the following essay to you my readers, i can but say with the four beasts of the apocalypse: gcome and see. h gbehold the lion c hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. h for until now gno man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. h yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart aleister crowley has opened the book, breaking not only the first six seals, but the seventh also. for those who read and

and evil very clearly in gthe marriage of heaven and hell. h gi tell you no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments, h he says, referring to the decalogue. further back in his gproverbs of hell, h he writes: you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. the pride of the peacock is the glory of god. the lust of the goat is the bounty of god. the wrath of the lion is the wisdom of god. the nakedness of woman is the work of god. for everything that lives is holy. in samuel butler fs gerewhon h we find much the same idea in the following couplet. he who sins aught sins more than he ought, but he who sins naught, has much to be taught. blake further writes in gthe marriage of heaven and hell h: a man carried a monkey about for a show, and because he w

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ured by the image of a young girl who opens and closes without effort, with her hands, the jaws of an angry lion. the maiden wears a crown surmounted by a vase and crowned eagles, and at her brow the sacred serpent. the vase is symbol of the affections, and the crowned eagles represent force spiritualized. the sacred serpent signifies that she acts in full knowledge of her power, and not blindly. the lion symbolizes force, also the animal desires in man which are subdued by the spiritual nature. the whole ensemble symbolizes the power over violent forces of nature that faith in oneself and an innocent life will give; also the spiritual power that is the natural result of unsullied affections which dominate and rule the animal instincts. it signifies that purity is the touchstone, and that

ife. the harp has three strings, signifying harmony of body, intellect and emotions. the twelve flowers of the wreath above are the twelve zodiacal signs in which all experience is gained. the three blossoms of each flower indicate that both souls, as represented joined in the winged linga, have garnered the flowers of zodiacal experience on all planes, physical, astral and spiritual. the head of the lion signifies the creative forces of the solar sign, leo, and the courage which is necessary to all real attainment. the head of the bull represents the fructifying agent of nature and points out the necessity of labor in all progress. the eagle signifies that sex, as signified by the sign scorpio, has been turned into channels which lead to spirituality. and the head of the man indicates tha

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then begin to learn of ourselves and the very potential we hold. the four flying witches is a gateway of lust and deep set desire; this would belong to the instance of the celestial or luciferian sabbat; the spirit does not regress to therion form, rather remains and seeks the element air to guide inspiration. this is the aethyr of the liberated spirit, the luciferic guide to the emerald crown of the lion serpent. when thy seed spills, invigorate it in the name of the moon and the sun. when one goes forth to the sabbat, allow no restrictions to hinder you, listen to your guide and familiars which are the very messengers of the luciferic angel. death posture preliminary sensation. here we are able to see the alphabet of witches, the alphabet of desire as spare termed it. this very sigillic

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erenced as the home of the gods, the visible place of the rising of sol, and as by shape symbolical of the phallus. some mountains are female, from shape or tradition. the ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the phallus. the yoni or kteis; revered as the house of the phallus, and his complement. the snake; revered as giver of death, and as a symbol of the spermatozoon. he has often the head of the lion; to indicate the mighty power of the spermatozoon. the egg; revered as solar, and in itself as the vehicle of phallic energy. the eagle; and many other winged creatures; also wings attached to the symbols. this represents the flight of life from one resting-place to another, and is therefore a proper attribute of the phallus. the tree; is but the flowering phallus. the stars; these being

ed. behold the spirit of the lord is upon me and i prophesy. unless ye repent, then will the lord root out your order from its place. i the lord will laugh at your calamity; i will mock when your fear cometh. ye shall be the scorn of evil men and your reproach shall be in the mouths of women. in the great name of baphomet do i exhort you that ye turn swiftly to the lord if so be that the mercy of the lion and the serpent may be upon you in the name of meithras abraxas iao sabao. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (4 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. go then, sir knights, rejoice in dame and squire, but let not your understanding be darkened, or your wisdom be baulked of its effect. in beauty behold the cr

neither solid nor liquid. it will contain all possibilities, and without it no possibility could be. it is the fire of prometheus in the well-tended lamp of vesta; it is the kneph of the priests of memphis, the disc of the sun in the arms of khephra; and the serpent entwined about the egg. ask of our brethren the alchemists, and of the adepts of the rosy cross. the first answer: it is nothing but the lion with his coagulated blood, and the gluten of the white eagle; it is the ocean wherein both sun and moon have bathed. the others: it is the dew upon the rose that hath concealed the cross. ask of the ancients: they reply that the oldest of the gods is saturn. beware lest thou also be deceived! blessed be he that hath discovered unto us the arcanum arcanorum! this is the dissolved stone; th

canorum! this is the dissolved stone; this is the elixir of life, this is the universal medicine, this is the tincture, this is the potable gold. take an athanor and cucurbite, and prepare a flask for this wine of the holy ghost. thou needest also a flame for the distillation. in the athanor is thy lion, in the cucurbite thine eagle. use first a gentle heat, increasing at last to full flame until the lion passeth over. pour immediately thy distillation into the flask prepared for it. of the elixir all being now clear to you, very illustrious sir knights and my illuminated brethren, hasten not to the sacrament. for this festival is holy; this wedding is of the soul with our lord jesus christ; and thou must be adorned, as it is written, the king s daughter is all glorious within; her raiment

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old, a young lion roared against him. 14:6 and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. 14:7 and he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased samson well. 14:8 and after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold [there was] a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. 14:9 and he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion. 14:10 so his father went down unto the woman: and samson made there a feast; for so used the young me

r thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 17:34 and david said unto saul, thy servant kept his father s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 17:35 and i went out after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, i caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 17:36 thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living god. 17:37 david said moreover, the lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this philistine. and saul said unto david, go, and the lord be with thee. 17:38 and saul armed david with his armo

say to thee, eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. 13:23 and it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass [to wit] for the prophet whom he had brought back. 13:24 and when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. 13:25 and, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. 13:26 and when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof] he said, it [is] the man of god, who was disobedient unto the word of the lord: therefore the lord hath delive

stood by the carcase. 13:25 and, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. 13:26 and when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof] he said, it [is] the man of god, who was disobedient unto the word of the lord: therefore the lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the lord, which he spake unto him. 13:27 and he spake to his sons, 1 kings page 206 saying, saddle me the ass. and they saddled [him] 13:28 and he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. 13:29 and the prophet took up the

art troubled. 4:6 [is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 4:7 remember, i pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 4:8 even as i have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 4:9 by the blast of god they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 4:10 the roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 4:11 the old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion s whelps are scattered abroad. 4:12 now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 4:13 in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 4:14 fear came upon me, and trembling, which made

8:4 the flood breaketh out from the inhabitant [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 28:5 [as for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. 28:6 the stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 28:7 [there is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture s eye hath not seen: 28:8 the lion s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 28:9 he putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 28:10 he cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. 28:11 he bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light. 28:12 but where shall wisdom be found? and where [i

of waters may cover thee? 38:35 canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, here we [are] 38:36 who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? 38:37 who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, 38:38 when the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? 38:39 wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 38:40 when they couch in [their] dens [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait? 38:41 who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto god, they wander for lack of meat. 39:1 knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 39:2 canst thou number the months [that] the

passed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 22:17 i may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me. 22:18 they part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 22:19 but be not thou far from me, o lord: o my strength, haste thee to help me. 22:20 deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 22:21 save me from the lion s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22:22 i will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will i praise thee. 22:23 ye that fear the lord, praise him; all ye the seed of jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of israel. 22:24 for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face

of the wicked. 91:9 because thou hast made the lord [which is] my refuge [even] the most high, thy habitation; 91:10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 91:11 for he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 91:12 they shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 91:13 thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 91:14 because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will i deliver him: i will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 91:15 he shall call upon me, and i will answer him: i [will be] with him in trouble; i will deliver him, and honour him. 91:16 with long life will i satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. p

s shall he slay the wicked. 11:5 and righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 11:6 the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 11:7 and the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 11:8 and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. 11:9 they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord, as the waters cover the sea. 11:10 and in that day there shall be a root of jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of

k his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 31:3 now the egyptians [are] men, and not god; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. when the lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 31:4 for thus hath the lord spoken unto me, like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the lord of hosts come down to fight for mount zion, and for the hill thereof. 31:5 as birds flying, so will the lord of hosts defend jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over he w

the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 65:23 they shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they [are] the seed of the blessed of the lord, and their offspring with them. 65:24 and it shall come to pass, that before they call, i will answer; and while they are yet speaking, i will hear. 65:25 the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent s meat. they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the lord. 66:1 thus saith the lord, the heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest? 66:2 for all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have

come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it] because of the evil of your doings. 4:5 declare ye in judah, and publish in jerusalem; and say, blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 4:6 set up the standard toward zion: retire, stay not: for i will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 4:7 the lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. 4:8 for this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the lord is not turned back from us. 4:9 and it shall come to pass at that day, saith the lord [that] the heart of

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flaming lion;8 which shows that the most bloody and destructive, as well as the most 1 il, w, v. 527. 2 damm. lex. etymol. 3 hymn. x, v. 13. 4 sat. lib. i. c. 23. 5 sat. lib. i. c. 3. 6 hymn lxxii, ed. gesn. 7 plutarch, de is& os. 8 v. 1015. 70 on the worship useful of animals, was employed by the greeks to represent some personified attribute of the god. m. d hancarville has also observed, that the lion is frequently employed by the ancient artists as a symbol of the sun;1 and i am inclined to believe that it was to express this destroying power, no less requisite to preserve the harmony of the universe than the generating. in most of the monuments of ancient art where the lion is represented, he appears with expressions of rage and violence, and often in the act of killing and devouring

us found in sicily he is represented devouring a horse,2 and on the medals of velia in italy, devouring a deer;3 the former, as sacred to neptune, represented the sea; and the latter, as sacred to diana, the produce of the earth; for diana was the fertility of the earth personified, and therefore is said to have received her nymphs or productive ministers from the ocean, the source of fecundity.4 the lion, therefore, in the former instance, appears as a symbol of the sun exhaling the waters; and in the latter, as whithering and putrifying the produce of the earth. on the frieze of the temple of apollo didym us, near miletus, are monsters composed of the mixt forms of the goat and lion, resting their fore feet upon the lyre of the god, which stands between them.5 the goat, as i have already

he latter, as whithering and putrifying the produce of the earth. on the frieze of the temple of apollo didym us, near miletus, are monsters composed of the mixt forms of the goat and lion, resting their fore feet upon the lyre of the god, which stands between them.5 the goat, as i have already shown, represented the creative attribute, and the lyre, harmony and order; therefore, if we admit that the lion represented the destroying attribute, this composition will signify, in the symbolical language of sculpture, the harmony and order of the universe preserved by the regular and periodical operations of the 1 recherces sur les arts. see also macrob, sat. i, c. 21. 2 houel, voyage de la sicile, plate xxxvi. 3 plate ix, fig. 5, engraved from one belonging to me. 4 calliamch, hymn. addian. v

destroy one generation of plants and animals, and produce another in constant and regular succession. this contention between the powers of creation and destruction is represented on an ancient medal of acanthus, in the museum of the late dr. hunter, by a combat between the bull and lion.1 the bull alone is represented on other medals in exactly the same attitude and gesture as when fighting with the lion;2 whence i conclude that the lion is there understood. on the medals of celenderis, the goat appears instead of the bull in exactly the same attitude of struggle and contention, but without the lion;3 and in a curious one of very ancient but excellent workmanship, belonging to me, the ivy of bacchus is placed over the back of the goat, to denote the power which he represents.4 the mutual

ll rising generations of sensitive beings. the chim ra of homer, of which the commentators have given so many whimsical interpretations, was a symbol of the same kind, which the poet probably, having seen in asia, and not knowing its meaning (which was only revealed to the initiated) supposed to be a monster that had once infested the country. he describes it as composed of the forms of the goat, the lion, and the serpent, and breathing fire from its mouth.3 these are the symbols of the creator, the destroyer, and the preserver, united and animated by fire, the divine essence of all three.4 on a gem, published in the memoirs of the academy of cortona,5 this union of the destroying and preserving attributes is 1 plate iv, fig. 5, from a medal of agathocles, belonging to me. the same head is

s is 1 plate iv, fig. 5, from a medal of agathocles, belonging to me. the same head is upon many others, of syracuse, metapontum &c. 2 in nums. 3 il. z, v. 223. 4 for the natural properties attributed by the ancients to fire, see plutarch, in camiilo, plin. hist. nat. lib. xxxvi, c. 58. 5 vol. iv. p. 32. see also plate v. fig 4, copied from it. 74 on the worship represented by the united forms of the lion and serpent crowned with rays, the emblems of the cause from which both proceed. this composition forms the chnoubis of the egyptians. bacchus is frequently represented by the ancient artists accompanied by tigers, which appear, in some instances, devouring clusters of grapes, the fruit peculiarly consecrated to the god, and in others drinking the liquor pressed from them. the author of t

, in which that god was represented as the destroyer of life, of which the serpent was a symbol. pliny mentions a statue of him by praxiteles, which was much celebrated in his time, called sauroktwn (the lizard-killer).2 the lizard, being supposed to live upon the dews and moisture of the earth, is employed as the symbol of humidity in general; so that the god destroying it, signifies the same as the lion devouring the horse. the title apollo, i am inclined to believe, meant originally the destroyer, as well as the deliverer; for, as the ancients supposed destruction to be merely dissolution, the power which delivered the particles of matter from the bonds of attraction, and broke the desmon peribriqj erowtoj, was in fact the destroyer.3 it is, probably, for this reason, that sudden death

l. platon. lib. i, c. 28. 2 lucian, de dea syri. 3 matth. ch. iii, ver. 17. 4 see plate iii, fig. 5. kalousi de thn artemin qrakej bendeian, krhtej de diktunnan. pal ph. de incred. tab. xxxi. see also diodor. sic. lib. v& euripid. hippol. v. 145. 5 pausan. lib. ii, c. 38. 86 on the worship in the vision of ezekiel, god is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion,1 the emblems of the therial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the ide

c, is placed over a figure sitting, who holds in his hands an arrow, whilst a bow, ready bent, of the ancient scythian form, 1 see plate xxi, fig. 4, from one belonging to me. 2 see plate xxi, fig. 5 and 6, from coins belonging to me. 3 abury, p. 93. 4 see plate ii. fig. 1, and plate iii. fig. 2. of priapus 91 lies by him.1 on his head is a large loose cap, tied under his chin, which i take to be the lion's skin, worn in the same manner as on the heads of hercules, upon the medals of alexander; but the work is so small, though executed with extreme nicety and precision, and perfectly preserved, that it is difficult to decide with certainty what it represents, in parts of such minuteness. the bow and arrows, we know, were the ancient arms of hercules;2 and continued so, until the greek poet

y he was well acquainted with. the description however applies in every particular to the allegorical personage. his attitude, ever fixed in the act of letting fly his arrow,1 with the figures of lions and bears, battles and murders, which adorn his belt, all unite in representing him as the destructive attribute personified. but how happens it then that he is so frequently represented strangling the lion, the natural emblem of this power? is this an historical fable belonging to the theban hero, or a physical allegory of the destructive power destroying its own force by its own exertions? or is the single attribute personified taken for the whole power of the deity in this, as in other instances already mentioned? the orphic hymn above cited seems to favour this last conjecture; for he is

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the earth. this sounds obvi- ous, but the reason it has not been done is because the signs in the heavens must be inverted before they can be applied to the earth. imagine that you are looking at the zodiac in the sky, and further imagine that the zodiac is not an arc across the heavens, but is elevated high enough above the earth so that it becomes a circle. if the zodiac is rotated so that leo, the lion, emblem of fire, falls to the bottom (equivalent to the south) and the beasts are applied to the compass, then the eagle, emblem of water, will touch the east. but this is clearly wrong: the west is accepted as the quarter assigned to elemental water. however, if you imagine the zodiac shrinking and falling flat onto the earth and yourself viewing it from the back, the eagle touches the w

emblem of fire, falls to the bottom (equivalent to the south) and the beasts are applied to the compass, then the eagle, emblem of water, will touch the east. but this is clearly wrong: the west is accepted as the quarter assigned to elemental water. however, if you imagine the zodiac shrinking and falling flat onto the earth and yourself viewing it from the back, the eagle touches the west while the lion is in the south, a reasonable assignment when all else is considered: angel* eagle heavens bull lion horizon (east) bull earth (south) lion (north) angel (west) eagle fire is most appropriate to the south, region of blazing heat. water is the tra- ditional element of the west, where for the ancients the shoreless atlantic lay. earth can be assigned to the east, the direction of the unmeas

ts the shoreless atlantic lay. earth can be assigned to the east, the direction of the unmeasured steppes that led to fabled china. north is the empty quarter where the winds were supposed to make their home, appropriate to air. adam kadmon stands with the axis of the earth along his spine, circled by the moon and stars. on his brow is the angel, elemental air, symbol of his higher aspi- rations. the lion, fire, lies curled around his lower body, symbol of strength and generation. on his right hand sits the eagle, symbol of life-giving water, of mercy and love. at his left is the bull and in his left hand, the dry, hard clay of earth. in western magic, the beasts were considered too fierce and dangerous to be used as emblems of the elements. over a period of time a sublimation took place a

ited understanding that humanity and the pentagram are closely bound together. the ordering of the points of the star is of some importance in practical work- ing. it defines the structure of many rituals. the lower four points, which form a rough square, are given to the four elements and have been set in their order for thousands of years. they are emblematically depicted by the four beasts: 1) the lion (fire) on the lower right, 2) the eagle (water) on the upper right, 3) the angel (air) on the upper left, 4) the bull (earth) on the lower left. the fifth point of spir- it, or light, emanates the four and is their origin. spirit is the fifth element, the quintessence, of ancient philosophy. here is one way of drawing the five-pointed figure that shows the relationship of the elements. in

ent species of fish. there is a curious and striking balance to be observed in this division of ani- mal life. the lowest level is presented as a trine-the fish, wholly water creatures; the crab, which lives both in the sea and on the land; and the scorpion, wholly a land dweller. the middle level is given as a quaternary-two domesticated beasts, the goat and the bull (earth; and two wild beasts, the lion and the ram (fire. the highest level presents the five kinds of human occupation. the water- bearer is a laborer. the virgin is a priestess of the mysteries. the lady of the scales represents law and social order. the archer stands for warfare. the twins are still in their becoming and suggest the higher evolution of the human race as expressed through art. these occupations may also be s

essed for the benefit of social humanity. the role now imperfectly filled by the sci- entist. vi. lovers-hermetic union of opposites. from the mire arises fine gold. the necessary prelude to creation. vii. chariot-a fresh rain that washes old sediment aside. wind of change. conquering hero. viii. strength-spirit ascendant over the tyranny of flesh. faith. victory of martyrs. the mouse confronting the lion. ix. hermit-search for truth. the urge to return to the light of spirit. desire to know the right and to follow it. recognition of the futility of the world. x. wheel-cycles of life. the way force acts in nature. reciprocation. motion in a spiral. karma. xi. justice-regulator of the wheel. the will of god acting in the world. she is often pictured as blind because she does not share human

ppose you wanted to create a protective spirit to watch over a friend. some of the features you might desire in such a being are strength, fierceness, a terrifying aspect, a loud voice, great size, and the like. from the list of qualities, extract a list of corresponding symbols. these might include the color red, the metal iron, thunder and lightning, screaming wind, the ax of war, flaming eyes, the lion, the bear, and the eagle. these symbols can be var- ied and multiplied until they can be made to fit together into a symmetrical figure. the result might be a great creature with the head of a lion, a flaming red mane, fiery eyes, the roaring voice of a storm, the wings of an eagle shining with flashing colors, the black skin of a bear, and an ax in its hands. a fearsome creature indeed!

to alter- ation, assigning the proper colors to the signs is simply a matter of rotating the twelve colors of the wheel over the twelve signs of the zodiac until the best match occurs, while bearing in mind that the primary colors must fall on appropriate signs of motion. it is necessary to reflect the zodiac and view it from the back, just as it was in assigning it to the four emblematic beasts-the lion, eagle, angel, and bull. this act brings the zodiac to earth, where it may be integrated with earthly systems. it does not affect the relative order of the signs or the colors. considering the first sign, aries, as the most strongly red and placing it on the color wheel in the red panel, blue will fall on leo and yellow on sagittarius: twelve zodiacal signs the entire system of colors can

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a question of them, the answer, if it is favorable, is delivered from the mouth of the white sphinx. but if it predicts ill fortune, the black sphinx will utter it. viii strength hebrew letter: teth (snake) correspondence: leo path: nineteenth a graceful woman in a long white gown, with a garland of roses in her hair, gently closes the gaping jaws of a male lion with her bare hands. the tongue of the lion lolls out the side of his mouth to lick her on the hand. on the waite design, the garland of roses around her waist extends down to wrap around the neck of the lion, joining her to the lion. the landscape in which they walk along together is pastoral and pleasant with rolling green grasses and stately shade trees in the background. in taking her pet lion for a walk, the woman, who is evid

und her waist extends down to wrap around the neck of the lion, joining her to the lion. the landscape in which they walk along together is pastoral and pleasant with rolling green grasses and stately shade trees in the background. in taking her pet lion for a walk, the woman, who is evidently of gentle birth, has not wandered far from the grounds of her country estate, to which she is returning. the lion has perceived a threat from a passing traveler and has snarled at the stranger in warning, but the woman admonishes her faithful guardian by closing his jaws. the danger is imaginary, not real. if you approach the woman to talk, she may invite you to her home for a feast in her dining hall. the ruling intelligence of this card is a hunter dressed in a lion skin who carried a crude club fo

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nd spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the south. draw several normal breaths and allow the expanded balloon of your aura to contract to its normal shape nearer to the limits of your projected form. allow your giant form to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. the magic circle shrinks to remain at the level of your heart. hold an awareness of the lion-headed angel in the south towering above you like a vast statue. turn a quarter revolution clockwise to face the west. adopt the standing pose. gaze on the unseen western horizon and maintain the inner perception of your glowing heart-center and the flaming circle that surrounds you. visualize written within this golden-white, transparent orb from right to left the four hebrew letters of

a clear golden-white, the pentagram turns dark green. draw a deep breath and hold it for four slow beats as you focus your awareness in your heart-center. vibrate upon your breath the following words "at my right hand, mich-a-el" exhale the remainder of your breath while maintaining your expanded aura. visualize the red-robed angel in the south lower its wings and turn around to face the circle. the lion-headed angel gazes down upon you with an alert but emotionless expression. its body wavers and lengthens into a bright red pillar. the red color of the pillar transfers itself into the white pentagram that is set in the ring of the astral circle in the south. as the pillar fades to a clear golden-white, the pentagram turns bright red. draw a deep breath and hold it four slow beats as you

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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 man was opposite the eagle on the two sides of the back. behind the throne was the likeness of a wheel and cherubim. the throne was made of pure gold studded with pearls and precious stones. inside its seat was hidden "a tablet engraved with a serpent on a pole" a great sapp

y forms a great cross. invoke the guardian angels of the four quarters, who are aspects of the four beasts surrounding the throne of god. they may be visualized as four flaming pillars of different colors: michael in the south is red, raphael in the north is yellow, gabriel in the west is blue, and uriel in the east is green. speak the words of the invocation: before me michael, guardian of fire, the lion of the south; behind me raphael, guardian of air, the angel of enzpowering the rings the north; on my right hand gabriel, guardian of water, the eagle of the west; on my left hand uriel, guardian of earth, the bull of the east. the four surround me (elevate your hands, palms up, fire above (lower your hands, palms down, water below (put your palms together in a gesture of prayer over your

expressed in many ways. the name of god, ihvh, is four-lettered, each letter corresponding to one of the four elements and to one of the four qabalistic worlds. the letters of this name are represented by the four animals described in the vision of ezekiel "they four had the face of a lion, of an eagle, of a man, and of an ox" these living creatures correspond to the four aspects of the absolute. the lion corresponds to life, to the element of fire, to atzilutthh,e archetypal world, to yod in ihvh, and to the sephirah chokmah, root of fire. the eagle corresponds to mind, to the element of water, to briah, the creative world, to the first heh in ihvh, and to the sephirah binah, the root of water. the man corresponds to the third aspect, truth or law, to the element of air, to yetzirahth, e

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os of yaltabaoth, who is the fallen djinn most high. remember that all gods speak through our flesh, the perfected angel-demon called lucifer is strength, will and isolate consciousness that stands alone. as you meditate and participate by dream or flesh remember the will that invokes change in a positive sense. you are the djinn of fire who begets both light and darkness, you are the serpent and the lion, the wolf and the goat. with the angelic higher self (the true will) you will join the bestial self (the daemon or shadow) as one. the luciferian sabbat may be conducted in the following manner. let the chamber (unless the rite is intended to be held outdoors) be decorated in more ambivalent forms of lucifer, such as illustrations of the fallen angel by gustave dore, fidus or franz von st

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n (i.e, setteth) in the tuat, whose form is in the house of height, through whom when he openeth his eye the light cometh into being, and when he closeth his eye it becometh night [i am] the water-god het when he giveth commands, whose name is unknown to the gods. i illumine the two lands, night betaketh itself to flight, and i shine by day and by night.[fn#222] i am the bull of bakha[fn#223, and the lion of manu[fn#224. i am he who traverseth the heavens by day and by night without being repulsed. i have come 85 by reason of the voice (or, cry) of the son of isis. verily the blind serpent na hath bitten the bull. o thou poison which floweth through every member of him that is under the knife, come forth, i charge thee, upon the ground. behold, he that is under the knife shall not be bitte

ra, son of ra, nekht-heru-hebit, thou art protected, and heru-shet[enu, the great god, is protected, and conversely. another chapter like unto it "fear not, fear not, o bast, the strong of heart, at the head of the holy field, the mighty one among all the gods, nothing shall gain the mastery over thee. come thou outside, following my speech (or, mouth, o evil poison which is in all the members of the lion (or, cat) which is under the knife [the narrative of the stinging of horus by a scorpion is continued thus "i am isis, who conceived a child by her husband, and she became heavy with horus, the divine [child. i gave birth to horus, the son of osiris, in a nest of papyrus plants.[fn#229] i rejoiced exceedingly over this, because i saw [in him one] who would make answer for his father. i hi

asked him what he thought was the most glorious action a man could perform, to which horus replied "to revenge the injuries offered to his father[fn#309] and mother" osiris then asked him what animal he thought most serviceable to a soldier, and horus replied "a horse" on this osiris wondered, and he questioned him further, asking him why he preferred a horse to a lion, and horus replied "though the lion is the more serviceable creature to one who stands in need of help, yet is the horse more useful in overtaking and cutting off a flying enemy"[fn#310] these replies caused osiris to rejoice greatly, for they showed him that his son was sufficiently prepared for his enemy. we are, moreover, told that amongst the great numbers who were continually deserting from typhon's party was his concu

he priest sprinkles the ground to purify it [fn#337] he seems to refer here to the olive-tree: beqet "olive land" was one of the names of egypt [fn#338] plutarch seems to be confounding osiris with menu, the god of generation, who is generally represented in an ithyphallic form. the festival of the phallus survived in egypt until quite recently [sec. xxxviii. the sun is consecrated to osiris, and the lion is worshipped, and temples are ornamented with figures of this animal, because the nile rises when the sun is in the constellation of the lion. horus, the offspring of osiris, the nile, and isis, the earth, was born in the marshes of buto, because the vapour of damp land destroys drought. nephthys, or teleute, represents the extreme limits of the country and the sea-shore, that is, barren

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escribir el libro del azoth. si t quieres la iniciaci n, escr bela sobre una vara. en el lingam yoni se halla la clave de nuestra liberaci n. 27 the cross has four points. the cross of initiation is phallic. the insertion of the vertical phallus into the formal ecteris forms a cross. this is the cross of the initiation that we must place upon our shoulders. the four sacred animals of alchemy are: the lion that hides the enigma of fire; the man that represent the mercury of secret philosophy; the eagle that corresponds to the air; the bull that symbolizes the earth. egypt s sphinx (as well as ezekiel s sphinx) has the sacred symbolism of the four creatures of alchemy. the water contained in the lakes, rivers and oceans when heated by the fire of the sun are transformed into clouds that asce

s the arcanum a.z.f. the masters of these schools teach their disciples the science that allows them to dissolve their ego. it is necessary that the being (which is not the ego) be born within us. something old must die within the human being and something new must be born within. regeneration signifies the creation of a new cosmos within us. this type of creation is possible only by working with the lion of fire. uranus controls the chakras of the sexual glands, yet the schools of regeneration are neptunian. eminent astrologers affirm that neptune influences the pineal gland; the potency of the pineal gland depends on the sexual potency. great schools of regeneration have existed through the course of history (it is enough for us to remember the rosicrucian alchemical school that became s

n al xtasis durante la sadhana t ntrica. todo el trabajo lo realizan los yoguis t ntricos bajo la direcci n de un gur. lo nico serio que existe en la india es el tantrismo blanco. este proh be la eyaculaci n del ens seminis. 85 twelfth key of basil valentine the twelfth arcanum, the apostleship, is profoundly studied in the twelfth key of basil valentine. it is most important to understand it. as the lion transforms the serpent into his own flesh when he devours it, likewise the philosophical stone or powder of projection (red lion or living fire) has the power to transmute or transform all imperfect metals into his own igneous substance. the vile metals are the false values that constitute the i. the fire transmutes them, and then the i is dissolved. thus, this is the way how we acquire s

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s man. in the case of knorr rosenroth, it is usually taken as a blind, since it is such an obvious mistake, but one has to wonder why. it does not produce a geometrical seal; in fact the way it was created was to substitute numbers in the exact order as agrippa's square; so the seal is the same. it does have some interesting numeric symbolism, since all lines add up to 216, which is the number of the lion in hebrew, an obvious sun image (see figure 8-h. even though i have been told that mathematically a six-order square will never produce a harmonious or symmetrical design, i am not convinced. see the figure produced by the kamea in figure 8-f, which i stumbled upon quite by accident. it is a good kamea numerically and is quite symmetrical, although not as pleasing as some. i prefer to use

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creator would not have "judged" this "beast, much less cursed it to go about upon it's belly. this curse has been suffered by many of the reptilian sub-species, however there are apparently some of the more "alien" branches which have escaped this particular judgment "for a time. but this does not discredit god since there are many "delayed prophecies" in the scriptures. including the prophecy of the lion and the lamb making peace with each other, which may not be realized until well into the millennium. human-reptilian genetic "hybrids" on the other hand, supposing they possess a soul-chakra matrix, might escape this particular judgment. could this be one of the main reasons behind the so-called "hybrid" projects? so then, how did lucifer/satan gain the serpents' compliance? perhaps he/it

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ether, it can still throw a viable beltane bash as long as it's before may 5th. this may also be a consideration for covens that need to organize activities around the week-end. this date has long been considered a 'power point' of the zodiac, and is symbolized by the bull, one of the 'tetramorph' figures featured on the tarot cards, the world and the wheel of fortune (the other three symbols are the lion, the eagle, and the spirit) astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four 'fixed' signs of the zodiac (taurus, leo, scorpio, and aquarius, and these eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 naturally align with the four great sabbats of witchcraft. christians have adopted the same iconography to represent the four gospel-writers. but for most

lammas is typically celebrated. the celebration proper would begin on sundown of the previous evening, our july 31st, since the celts reckon their days from sundown to sundown. however, british witches often refer to the astrological date of aug 6th as old lammas, and folklorists call it lammas o.s('old style. this date has long been considered a 'power point' of the zodiac, and is symbolized by the lion, one of the 'tetramorph' figures found on the tarot cards, the world and the wheel of fortune (the other three figures being the bull, the eagle, and the spirit. astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four 'fixed' signs of the zodiac, and these naturally align with the four great sabbats of witchcraft. christians have adopted the same iconography to represent the four g

ciated with sacrifice, principally that of the spirit of grain or vegetation. in this case, the god of light would be identical. in welsh mythology in particular, there is a startling vindication of the seasonal placement of the sun god's death, the significance of which occurred to me in a recent dream, and which i haven't seen elsewhere. llew is the welsh god of light, and his name means 'lion (the lion is often the symbol of a sun god) he is betrayed by his 'virgin' wife blodeuwedd, into standing with one foot on the rim of a cauldron and the other on the back of a goat. it is only in this way that llew can be killed, and blodeuwedd's lover, goronwy, llew's dark self, is hiding nearby with a spear at the ready. but as llew is struck with it, he is not killed. he is instead transformed i

n the rim of a cauldron and the other on the back of a goat. it is only in this way that llew can be killed, and blodeuwedd's lover, goronwy, llew's dark self, is hiding nearby with a spear at the ready. but as llew is struck with it, he is not killed. he is instead transformed into an eagle. putting this in the form of a bardic riddle, it would go something like this: who can tell in what season the lion (llew, betrayed by the virgin (blodeuwedd, poised on the balance, is transformed into an eagle? my readers who are astrologers are probably already gasping in recognition. the sequence is astrological and in proper order: leo (lion, virgo (virgin, libra (balance, and scorpio (for which the eagle is a well-known alternative symbol. also, the remaining icons, cauldron and goat, could arguab

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fricans proverbs on wisdom proverbs on truth and falsehood proverbs on human conduct proverbs on virtue proverbs on cooperation and contentment proverbs on opportunity proverbs on human beings proverbs on nature proverbs on leadership more wisdom of the african world wisdom of the hindus and greeks frogs desiring a king the bat, the birds and the beasts the dog and the wolf the fox and the grapes the lion and the statue the man and his wives the two crabs hercules and the waggoner the man and the wooden god the miser the bundle of sticks the buffoon and the countryman the serpent and the file green book volume three oriental and monotheist wisdom zen koans see his buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan s lake living alone nan ch uan s rejection thought

ill either find a way or make one. hannibal the knife does not know its owner. ndau racism is easy to see, hard to prove, impossible to deny. anonymous the man who goes ahead stumbles so that the man who follows may have his wits about him. bondei when two elephants struggle it is the grass that suffers. swahili mediocrity is safe. nikki giovanni an elephant does not die of one broken rib. tsonga the lion which kills is not one that roars. xhosa a man dies before we appreciate him. jabo always being in a hurry doesn t hinder death, neither does going slowly hinder living. swahili because it rained the day the egg was hatched the foolish chicken swore he was a fish. wole soyinka. the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. lor

quench my thirst, quoth he. drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. turning round again with a one, two, three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: i am sure that they are sour. it is easy to despise what you cannot get. the lion and the statue a man and a lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general. the man contended that he and his fellows were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence. come now with me, he cried, and i will soon prove that i am right. so he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of hercules overcoming the lion and tearing his mouth

lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general. the man contended that he and his fellows were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence. come now with me, he cried, and i will soon prove that i am right. so he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of hercules overcoming the lion and tearing his mouth in two. that is all very well, said the lion, but proves nothing, for it was a man who made the statue. we can easily represent things as we wish them to be. the man and his two wives in the old days, when men were allowed to have many wives, a middle-aged man had one wife that was old and one that was young; each loved him very much, and desired to see him like herself. now the man s hair was turning grey, which the young wife did

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vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott every important measurement of the jewish tabernacle was 5 or a multiple of 5. the hebrew letter h, heh, 5, was in occult kabalah always deemed of female potency. there were 5 principal parts of solomon s temple. david blesses the lord 5 times in psalms ciii, civ. the talmud says that there are 5 little things which are a terror to 5 strong things; the mosquito to the lion; the gnat to the elephant; the ichneumon fly to the scorpion; the flycatcher bird to the eagle and the stickleback to the leviathan. lewisohn, zoology of the talmud. 64. five things have in them a one-sixtieth part of 5 other things; fire is one-sixtieth of hell; honey one-sixtieth of manna; the sabbath one-sixtieth of the sabbath hereafter; sleep of death; and a dream one-sixtieth of pro

if cut out of sinaitic stone, each table would have weighed 28 tons, but he is in error, reckoning hands-breadth as ells, as 18 inches instead of 4 inches. the angel of death had no power over 6 holy persons; abraham, isaac, jacob, moses, aaron and miriam. bava bathra, 17. i. these died by the divine kiss of death, but it is not so definitely stated in the case of miriam, for fear of scandal. 71. the lion has 6 names in the book of job; ari, shchl, kpir, lish, lbia and shchtz. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the serpent has 6 names; nchsh, okshub, apoh, tzpouni, tnin and shrp. nachash the brazen serpent; okeshub, an asp, psalm cxxiv 4; opoh, an adder, isaiah xli. 24; tzephouni, the basilisk, isaiah, xiv 29; tanin, the serpent or crocodile; and ser

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e also attributed; the planetary colours are connected with the ethers, and each of the planetary forces was said to have special dominion over, or affinity with, one or other of the zodiacal constellations. communion with the hierarchies of these constellations formed part of the chald an theurgy, and in a curious fragment it is said "if thou often invokest it (the celestial constellation called the lion "then when no longer is visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, when the stars have lost their light the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame, then all things will appear to thee in the form of a lion" the chald ans, like the egyptians, appear to have had a highly developed appreciation of colours, an evidence of their psychic su

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s of the people, he executed the justice of the lord, and his judgements with israel' the armorial bearings of gad are white, a troop of calvary. all this coincides well with the martial and dominant nature of aries, the only one of the 12 signs in which the superior planets alone bear sway, for it is the house of mars, exaltation of the sun and the triplicity of sun and jupiter. the symbolism of the lion is also proper to aries on account of, its solar, fiery and martial nature" 35 holy name mor holy name dial tribe ephraim tribe manasseh sign taurus sign gemini angelic name ziracah angelic name hononol "of ephraim (taurus) and manasseh (gemini, classed under their father's name, jacob says 'joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall; the

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estation, and thence commit themselves again unto the father "man indeed standeth between spirit and matter, betwixt angel and animal, at the summit of his ascent. we behold as in a glass darkly, that perfected being whom our father strove to represent in the sphinx, compound of the four elements in balanced disposition "the intelligence of man; the soaring spirit of the eagle, the fiery heart of the lion, and the firm stability of the bull. born of the spirit, he must descend into malkuth, even till he is clothed with the coat of skin; the body which is prepared for him, by the humble brothers of the flesh. and thence shall he arise again, bearing him that creation which groaneth and travaileth together with him until now awaiting redemption "the 21st path is the intelligence of councilia

oes not withdraw the curtain. he points to the brown cloak, sandals, and staff which lie on the floor and says) kg "the ascent of the mt. of initiation must be toilsome; each of us must pass through the dark gate of death before we can attain the summit; each must tread the fiery path of purgatory, tracing again therein the rescuing symbol of the cross marked therein in lines of flame, guarded by the lion of fortitude "and to do this, the initiate must also be the hermit, the dweller in the desert, the pilgrim clothed indeed in brown habit of earth, yet supported by the fire staff of steadfast will and aspiration, seeking the light of inspiration which in due season he will receive from the hand of the great mother, a spark of the indwelling glory which ever hallows the holy places of huma

brown cloak, don it and the sandals, and take the staff in his right hand. the officer disappears. one bell sounds. the curtain is drawn back revealing a lion in open door way; behind him stands shekinah, a lighted lantern in her hand. she holds this out to postulant. sh "he that would be greatest, let him be the server (postulant makes the 60=50 signs, lays his hand for an instant on the head of the lion, then takes the lantern and replies) post "server of silence, is my name (shekinah withdraws, lion disappears, thus showing tripod of salt. postulant kneels on both knees, sprinkles salt on himself and says aloud) post "earth to earth, and body to body. in the name of adonai ha aretz, lord and king of earth, i dedicate my body to the service of the highest (he looses the amber cord from h

turns and goes to ankh pillar. he sprinkles incense on the flame, falls on right knee and cries) post "fire to fire and life to life. in the names of jah, everlasting, i dedicate my life to the service of the highest (he looses the black cord, throws it through the loop and ankh. king of salam comes forward, raises him and hangs red star across his breast saying) kg "thy heart is as the heart of the lion. and the star of the king, even regulus shall burn upon thy breast (postulant turns back and is directed to approach the vault entrance where the scarlet mars on the green curtain hangs. he raises his lantern on high, lays his staff across the threshold before the curtain and cries) post "light to light and spirit to spirit. in the name that may not be uttered, i dedicate my spirit to the

divine being "i have renewed my youth as the eagle "behold, i was watched and guarded; but now i am released "behold, i was bound with cords, but now is my crystal sphere within the starry heavens "lo i have knowledge and i have truth; yea movement is restored unto my hands and feet "i have passed through the gate of fomalhaut "i have come forth from the star sothis "i have received the heart of the lion "i am crowned with the crown of 72 rays "now let my soul be called into thy presence, and my spirit laid upon thine altar "oh my father, i have come before thee and thou has caused me to enter the hidden abode. strengthen thou me as thou has strengthened thyself, and show thyself unto thy son. oh thou who returnest and withdrawest thyself: let thy will be done" sh "0 mystery which is with

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nd the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as t

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t him always endeavour to see the event from the standpoint opposite to that of the author. yet let him not emulate the partially emancipated child who complained of a picture of the colosseum that "there was one 95 poor little lion who hadn't got any christian" except in the first instance. adverse criticism is the first step; the second must go further. having sympathized sufficiently with both the lions and the christians, let him open his eyes to that which his sympathy had masked hitherto, that the picture is abominably conceived, abominably composed, abominably drawn, and abominably coloured, as it is pretty sure to be. let him further study those masters, in science or in art, who have observed with minds untinctured by emotion. let him learn to detect idealizations, to criticize an

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is the evolutionary and natural view. of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we now do? nature's way is to weed out the weak. this is the most merciful way, too. at present all the strong are being damaged, and their progress hindered by the dead weight of the weak limbs and the missing limbs, the diseased limbs and the atrophied limbs. the christians to the lions! our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts on the basis of the lie that the king must die. the king is beyond death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment. we must therefore go back to spartan ideas of education; and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. the christian

ions! our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts on the basis of the lie that the king must die. the king is beyond death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment. we must therefore go back to spartan ideas of education; and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. the christians to the lions! let weak and wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions. nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. but what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? for the third time i answ

d wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions. nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. but what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? for the third time i answer: the christians to the lions! hadith calls himself the star, the star being the unit of the macrocosm; and the snake, the snake being the symbol of going or love, and the chariot of life. he is harpocrates, the dwarf-soul, the spermatozoon of all life, as one may phrase it. the sun, etc, are the external manifestations or vestures of this soul, as a man is the garment of an actual spermatozoon, the tree sprung of th

selves" that makes for righteousness' as matthew arnold victorianatically phrased his definition. the whiskered wowser! why this ingrained conviction that self is unrighteous? it is the heritage of the whip, the brand of the born slave. incidentally, we cannot allow people who believe in this 'god' they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. the christians to the lions! yet, in the reign of good queen victoria, matthew arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! tempora mutantur, p.d.q. when a magus gets on the job. the quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of hadit as a self-conscious and individual being, although impersonal. he is an ultimate independent, and unique element in nature, impenetrably aloof. the

ion times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath" the old comment 24. hermits- see verse 15. our ascetics enjoy, govern, conquer, love, and are not to quarrel (but see verses 59, 60- even their combats are glorious. the new comment the christians to the lions! a hermit is one who dwells isolated in the desert, exactly as a soul, a star, or an electron in the wilderness of space-time. the doctrine here put forth is that the initiate cannot be polluted by any particular environment. he accepts and enjoys everything that is proper to his nature. thus, a man's sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites hadit with nuit sacramen

n, 741+ 70= 811= iao in greek, and iao is the greek form of yod-he-vau-he, the synthesis of the 4 elements aleph-mem-taw-shin (this ayin is perhaps the o in n.o.x, liber vii, i, 40) the new comment we are to conquer the illusion, to drive it out. the slaves that perish are better dead. they will be reborn into a world where freedom is the air of breath. so then, in all kindness, the christians to the lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among

f hadit our quintessence. every star has its own nature, which is 'right' for it. we are not to be missionaries, with ideal standards of dress and morals, and such hard-ideas. we are to do what we will, and leave others to do what they will. we are infinitely tolerant, save of intolerance. it is not good, however, to try to prevent christians from meddling, save by the one cure: the christians to the lions. it is impossible to alter the ultimate nature of any being, however completely we may succeed in transfiguring its external signs as displayed in any of its combinations. thus, the sweetness, whiteness, and crystalline structure of sugar depend partly on the presence of carbon; so do the bitterness, greeness, and resinous composition of hashish. but the carbon is inviolably carbon. and

oar" al ii,59 "beware therefore! love all, lest perchance is a king concealed! say you so? fool! if he be a king, thou canst not hurt him" the old comment 59. yet, being indeed invulnerable, one need not fear for them. we must abolish the shadows by the radiant light of the sun. real things are only thrown into brighter glory by his effulgence. we need have no fear then to throw the christians to the lions. if there be indeed true men among them, who happen through defect of education to know no better, they will reincarnate all right, and no harm done. this passage may perhaps be interpreted in a sense slightly different from that assumed in the above paragraph. we should indeed love all- is not the law "love under will? by this i mean that we should make proper contact with all, for love

s, not to allow it to interfere with one's will to live (and almost everything that is true of cholera is true of christians) al ii,60 "therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master" the old comment 60. hit out indiscriminately therefore. the fittest will survive. this doctrine is therefore contrary to that of galileo sic ?galilean, or that of buddha. the new comment the christians to the lions! an xvii sol in libra, i am reminded of samuel butler's observation that the apotheosis of love is to devour the beloved. indeed, one cannot say that one has perfectly attained to love or hate until the object of that passion is assimilated. the word "hell" is significant in this connection. one must never be so careless as to let oneself think that even "the style of a letter (how much

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evidenceofa single boy who claimed they had bewitched him, and at lancaster in 1612 the court accepted the evidence of a nine-year-old. not every witch denied the charges; many went into great detail about the spells they had worked, and were proud to be named. these same prisoners went to the gallows almost gaily, just as much martyrs to their religion as the early christians who were thrown to the lions. despite the vivid imagination of witnesses, the credulity of the public that encouraged them to believe the fantastic lies they were told, and the general fear of witchcraft, many judges refused to accept the evidence even when it included a confession. an average of 20 per cent of the accused were found guilty and executed; the others were either let off with a year in gaol-which could

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re having been in very truth onlyone man, and he a foreigner, who earnestly occupied himself with collecting and preserving it.it is very probably that there were as many touching episodes among the heathen martyrs who wereforced to give up their beloved deities, such as diana, venus, the graces, and others, who wereworshipped for beauty, as there were even among the christians who were thrown to the lions. forthe heathen lovedtheir gods with a human personal sympathy, without mysticism or fear, as if theyhad been blood-relations; and there were many among them who really believed that such was thecase when some damsel who had made afaux pasgot out of it by attributing it all to some god,faun, or satyr; which is very touching. there is a great deal to be said for as well as against the ido

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nd the promise that tomorrow really is another day. he is also guardian of the young. he is depicted with a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as t

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o turned everything into gold with the "midas touch".22 his victory over the phrygians was commemorated in those ancient lands in a monument known as the tomb of midas, although it is not actually a tomb. on it are nine enormous crosses of st george (another name for thor-indara) and dates to about 1000bc.23 figure 19: this image of thor or oar defeating the symbolic lions of phrygia("the land of the lions) was carved in ivory on the handle of a knife around 3350bc the dragon queens 153 the red cross one of the common themes from lemuria, atlantis, through sumer, to the present day illuminati, is the use of the sun cross as a symbol. this cross is the origin of the christian cross with "jesus, as we shall see, symbolising the sun at the centre. the sun-cross, or red cross, was found drawn

een the headquarters of worship to the goddess artemis/diana- a goddess of the amazons. i visited ephesus in the summer of 2000 and on a hill high above the ancient ruins is a building that is claimed to have been the home of..mary, mother of "jesus. another goddess worshipped by the amazons was cybele, the mother goddess of all asia minor (turkey; she was taken to rome from phrygia, the "land of the lions" and the serpent cult. rituals to her included baptism in the blood of the sacred bull, who represented her dying consort attis, of whom jesus was a carbon copy. her temple in rome stood on the site of today's st peter's basilica until the 4th century ad when the christian church took over. in fact, a priest of cybele called montanus or "mountain man" identified the deity attis with jesu

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r 40 could engage in this study) who possessed this knowledge knew the future, commanded nature, had full power over angels and demons, and could perform miracles. the hasidic masters (zaddik) claimed that it was by this means that moses performed so many marvels; that joshua was able to stop the sun; that elias caused fire to fall from heaven and raised the dead; that daniel closed the mouths of the lions; and that the three youths were not consumed in the furnace. even today, the leaders of some hasidic groups are reputed to have mastered at least part of this material and are known for their miracle-working abilities. sources: dresner, samuel h. the zaddik. new york: schrocken books, 1974. rabinowitz, h. a guide to hassidism. new york: thomas yoseloff, 1960. theon, m(ax (1850.1927) max

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y the return of the distant goddess from nubia. every year, the fearsome goddess had to be persuaded to return home and take on a benevolent form as she reached the southern border of egypt. kiosk-shrines built on the water s edge were decorated with comical figures of dwarfs or ani- 90 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 18. the sun child inside the ouroboros snake supported by the sky cow and the lions of yesterday and tomorrow. vignette from the funerary papyrus of herweben (british museum) mals dancing and playing musical instruments to pacify the goddess and welcome the inundation (see figure 14. alternatively, the nile flood could be seen as the tears that isis wept every year for her murdered husband or as the efflux from the decaying body of osiris (see osiris in deities, themes

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ts, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars governs the irascible principle, the sun produces sensation and speculation, venus inspires the appetites, mercury bestows the power of declaring and expressing, and the moon confers the faculty of generating and augmenting the body. the egyptian winged disc is a symbol of tat, taut, or thoth (plutarch, de iside et osiride. the lions heads, so frequently observable in the sculptures decorating fountains, bespeak the astral influences under leo, which produce the rains in the ardent month of july; and in this view they are regarded as the discharges of the sacred fountains. lions heads, with fountains, are observable in architecture all the world over. all architecture is primarily derivable from two mathemaplanetary

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re beloved of god why should he not then deliver you' my enemies are about me like bulls, the mighty bulls of bashan. their mouths are as the maws of lions, so do they raven and gape. there are dogs that surround me, a company of evil men. they tear from my bones my flesh. lord, stay not from me but come swiftly to my aid. deliver from the sword my soul, deliver from the dogs my life. guard me of the lions and guard me of the horns of the re'em" now about him where rome's soldiers and their swords were taken out. casting his eyes to all sides he saw no path of escape. now did the constables of the law seize him by their hands and impelled him from the garden, 346 binding him with cords. so did they bring him before the priests that he might be questioned before he was brought to pontius pi

n did he seek tyranny over them. in the wildernesses of arabia where had once ishmael been removed by the mercy of hopeless raphael and where had his descendants prospered, at mecca of the black stone, 358 there went gabriel to build his kingdom when all other kingdoms fell to barbary, when rome and byzantium were lost to him. so went gabriel amongst the arabs. they were a most fierce people like the lions of the desert. war-like, proud, yet decadent, nurturing not fine things of the soul but outer strength and greed. it was as though they believed they might make fecund the desert's wastes by libations of the blood of men. well did they feed the jackals. yet amongst this savage people was a most noble child born, of ishmael's lineage well extracted. yet before he was brought from the womb

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he can.t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. but i was telling you about the ways to the fourth house, and the third way is full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. so we went through quite safely, and i thought of daniel in the lions. den. the fourth house is the most wonderful of all i had ever seen. it is the most heavenly blue mansion; it is built of beryl and amethyst, and lapis lazuli and turquoise and sapphire. the centre of the floor is a pool of purest aquamarine, and in it is water, only you can see every drop as a separate crystal, and the blue tinge filtering through the light. above there hangs a calm yet

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se to do so would spoil the fun for other people. it must be seen to be understood, in any case; and there it stands to this day, open to anybody who is strong enough to force in the door. but when they asked for kwaw, he was not to be found. he had left trained men to carry out the discipline and the initiations, these last being the chief purpose of the building, saying that he was homesick for the lions and lizards of wei-hai-wei, and that anyway he hadn ft enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. there is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and voracious species of sharks (which japanese patriotism had spent such enormous sums in breeding) is responsible for the fact that he has never again been heard of. the mikado wept; but, brightening up, exlaimed: gkwaw found us a conf

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fittest. if brute strength were the aim of the law of evolution, dinosaurs would rule the earth, and man, physically the weakest of the great mammals, would be extinct) this is the most merciful way, too. at present all the strong are being damaged, and their progress hindered by the dead weight of the weak limbs and the missing limbs, the diseased limbs and the atrophied limbs. the christians to the lions (lions is in capitals) our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts on the basis of the lie that the king must die. the king is beyond death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment (crowley was too modest to understand that though all men are stars, not all men are kings, and not all kings are kings) we must therefore go back to spartan ideas of education (with

all men are kings, and not all kings are kings) we must therefore go back to spartan ideas of education (with a generous sprinkling of athenian, perhaps; but to go forward to thelemic ideas of education is infinitely better. see liber aleph, 30-49) and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. the christians to the lions (again lions is in capitals) let weak and wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions (the reader may here object that he does not believe in reincarnation; but whether he does or not, this does not change the validity of the law of evolution. it is immaterial whether a man's s

not change the validity of the law of evolution. it is immaterial whether a man's soul is immortal; it is material that he have good health and a good brain) nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. but what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? for the third time i answer: the christians to the lions (yes, but who decides whose soul is rotten? people have said that crowley's soul is rotting in hell for years. this reasoning is entirely fallacious, much below his usual standard. he is merely trying to defend a verse that he abhors. now, as he changes the subject, his manner improves. he never understood the meaning of this verse at all) hadit calls himself the star (not in the least;

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d herds sickened when the magician passed by. diseases which defied medical skill appeared at times in the world, and always, it was said, beneath the envenomed glance of the adepts. at length a universal cry of execration went up against magic, the mere name became a crime and the common hatred was formulated in this sentence: magicians to the flames! as it was shouted some centuries earlier: to the lions with the christians! now the multitude never conspires except against real powers; it does not know what is true, but it has the instinct of what is strong. it remained for the eighteenth century to deride both christians and magic, while infatuated with the disquisitions of rousseau and the illusions of cagliostro. science, notwithstanding, is at the basis of magic, as at the root of ch

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urn the sigil. visualise the lion about to feed] i am a lion of the plains, and thirst for the taste of blood. the taste of life runs through my veins, for i enjoy all that i take in; i evoke the power to taste [prowl, and couch at the altar for touch. light a candle, and anoint your body with oil. if you have some fur stroke it. acknowledge your desire, and burn the sigil. visualise looking into the lions eyes, becoming one] will that i had the courage to reach out and touch you, embrace the power within, for i have been like a desert creature longing for the rains; i evoke the power to touch. the secrets of the animal neteru [ring the bell nine times [light the black flame] classification: v2- bn0.r2- 1 author: don webb iii date: october, xxvi- set-xii conclave(1) html revision: dec 19

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is back on upcreeping playmates to gabble out, like a mantra, like a spell, the six letters of his dream--city _ellowen deeowen. in his secret heart, he crept silently up on london, letter by letter, just as his friends crept up to him _ellowen deeowen london. the mutation of salahuddin chamchawala into saladin chamcha began, it will be seen, in old bombay, long before he got close enough to hear the lions of trafalgar roar. when the england cricket team played india at the brabourne stadium, he prayed for an england victory, for the game's creators to defeat the local upstarts, for the proper order of things to be maintained (but the games were invariably drawn, owing to the featherbed somnolence of the brabourne stadium wicket; the great issue, creator versus imitator, colonizer against

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ame something of an offbeat child prodigy. reserving his most serious studies for outside the school, he delved into music, metaphysics, and secrets of the occult. at fifteen, he became second oboist in the san fransisco ballet symphony orchestra. bored with high school classes, lavey dropped out in his junior year, left home, and joined the clyde beatty circus as a cage boy, watering and feeding the lions and tigers. animal trainer beatty noticed that lavey was comfortable working with the big cats and made him an assistant trainer. possessed since childhood by a passion for the arts, for culture, lavey was not content merely with the excitement of training jungle beasts and working with them in the ring as a fill-in for beatty. by age ten he had taught himself to play the piano by ear. t

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nt than those which had for their object the attainment of life and happiness in the world to come. in the famous magical papyrus 1 which chabas published 2 we find a series of interesting charms and magical formula which were written to preserve its possessor from the attacks of sea and river monsters of every kind, of which the following is an example "hail, lord of the gods! drive away from me the lions of the country of meru (meroe, and the crocodiles which come forth from the river, and the bite of all poisonous reptiles which crawl forth from their holes. get thee back, o crocodile mak, thou son of set! move not by means of thy tail! work not thy legs and feet! open not thy mouth! let the water which is before thee turn into a consuming fire, o thou whom the thirty-seven gods did mak

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de ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 7:28 and the work of the bases [was] on this [manner] they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges: 7:29 and on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work. 7:30 and every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. 7:31 and the mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an h

hat mourneth [for his] mother. 35:15 but in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together [yea] the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and i knew [it] not; they did tear [me] and ceased not: 35:16 with hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 35:17 lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 35:18 i will give thee thanks in the great congregation: i will praise thee among much people. 35:19 let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 35:20 for they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land. 35:21 yea, they opened their mouth wide against me

o breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. 4:6 until the day break, and the shadows flee away, i will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 4:7 thou [art] all fair, my love [there is] no spot in thee. 4:8 come with me from lebanon [my] spouse, with me from lebanon: look from the top of amana, from the top of shenir and hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 4:9 thou hast ravished my heart, my sister [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 4:10 how fair is thy love, my sister [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! 4:11 thy lips, o [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [ar

foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. 50:16 cut off the sower from babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. 50:17 israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of assyria hath devoured him; and last this nebuchadrezzar king of babylon hath broken his bones. 50:18 therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the god of israel; behold, i will punish the king of babylon and his land, as i have punished the king of assyria. jeremiah page 476 50:19 and i will bring israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed o

and she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 19:4 the nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of egypt. 19:5 now when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps [and] made him a young lion. 19:6 and he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey [and] devoured men. 19:7 and he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. 19:8 then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 19:9 and they put him in ward i

ther were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. 6:19 then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 6:20 and when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto daniel [and] the king spake and said to daniel, o daniel, servant of the living god, is thy god, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? 6:21 then said daniel unto the king, o king, live for ever. 6:22 my god hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, o king, have i done no hurt. 6:23 then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take daniel up out of the den. so daniel was taken up ou

no hurt. 6:23 then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take daniel up out of the den. so daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his god. 6:24 and the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused daniel, and they cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. 6:25 then king darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; peace be multiplied unto you. 6:26 i make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the god of daniel: for he is the living god, and stedfast for ever, an

unto you. 6:26 i make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the god of daniel: for he is the living god, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end. 6:27 he delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered daniel from the power of the lions. 6:28 so this daniel prospered in the reign of darius, and in the reign of cyrus the persian. 7:1 in the first year of belshazzar king of babylon daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream [and] told the sum of the matters. 7:2 daniel spake and said, i saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 7:3

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