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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ill retiu-n and sluy the malignant sammael; eisenmenger 2, 696. 851. 3 klaproth's travels in the caucasus 2, 606. 601* erman's archiv flir russland 1841, 429^ ad. olearius reiseschr. 1647, pp. 522-3. thunar. 175 country about the year 1240 or 1244^ three times did priests and people march round (nudis pedibus et in laneis, but all in vain, because in calling upon all the saints they had forgotten the mother of god; so, when the saintly choir laid the petition before god, mary apposed. in a new procession a solemn' salve regina' was sung: et cum serenum tempus ante fuisset, tanta inundatio pluviae facta est, ut fere onines qui in processione aderant, hac illacque dispergerentur. with the lithuanians, the holy goddess (dievaite sventa) is a rain-goddess. heathendom probably addressed the pet

horr overcomes the miggarssorni(-worm, snake that encircles the world, and similar epithets are given to both^ taking into account the resemblance between the sign of the cross and that of the hammer, it need not seem surprising that the newly converted germans should under the name of christ still have the lord of thunder and the giver of rain present to their minds; and so a connexion with mary the mother of god (p. 174) could be the more easily established. the earliest troubadour (diez p. 15. raynouard 4, 83) actually names christ still as the lord of thunder, jliesus del tro. a neapolitan fairy-tale in the pentamerone 5, 4 personifies thunder and lightning truone e lampe) as a beautiful youth, brother of seven spinning virgins, and son of a wicked old mother who knows no higher oath t

hlo&ynjar^ which is son of earth again; and fornald. sog. 1, 469 says: i hloc^ynjar shaut. in the on. lanuuase mod' is a hearth^ the goddess's name therefore means protectress of the fireplace; and our ohg. herd (p. 251, beside solum or terra, also denotes precisely focus, arula, fornacula, the hearth being to us the very basis of a human habitation, a paternal lar, so to speak, corresponding to the mother earth. the eomans also worshipped a goddess of earth and of fire under the common name of fornax, dea fornacalis^ but what is still more important to us, there was discovered on low lihenish ground a stone, first kept at cleve and afterwards at xanten, with the remarkable inscription^ deutf^^c'iie sngen, num. 132^ of hertlia a proverb is said to be current in pomerania* cle hertha gift

t what has a bearing on our subject: nu merket rehfe-waz (ich) iu sage: now mark aright what i you tell: nachwihennaht amzwelften tage, after christmas the twelfth day, nacli dem lieilgen ebenwihe^ after the holy new-year's day (gotgeb, daz er uns gedihe (god grant we prosper in it, do man ezzen solt ze nahte, when they should eat supper 1 conf. cnisius p. 1, lib. 12, cap. 6, p. 329, where bertha the mother of charles is meant. the lombards called a carrociuni jlcrta and jjcrteciola (ducange sub v, perhaps the carriage of the travelling goddess or queen^ joacli. camerarius, chronol. ni'cephori, p. 129. 3 even-holy, equally-holy day, schetfer's llaltaus, p. 68. 278 goddesses. und man ze tische brahte and had to table brought allez daz man ezzen solde, all that they should eat, swaz der wirt

irst two women had gifted him, and assured him of happiness beyond all otliers of his race, the third or youngest norn' hin yngsta nornin' who in the crowd had been pushed off her seat and fallen to the gi'ound, rose up in anger, and cried 'i cause that the child shall only live till the lighted taper beside him has burnt out. the eldest .volva quickly seized the taper, put it out, and gave it to the mother with the warning not to kindle it again till the last day of her son's life, who received from this the name of norns-guest. here volva, spdkona and norn are perfectly synonymous; as we saw before (p. 403) that the volur passed through the land and knocked at the houses^ the nornir do the very same. a kind disposition is attributed to the first two norns, an evil one to the .third. this

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

netzach, the 6th hod, the 7th yesod and malkuth. this second tablet represents the attribution of the 10 sephiroth to the 4 letters of the holy name. kether as you will observe, is not included therein, but it is symbolized by the uppermost point of yod. it is macroprosopus or arikh anpin, the vast countenance. chokmah is attributed to yod, or the father abba; binah is attributed to heh or aima, the mother; vau embraces the six next sephiroth, which together form microprosopus or zauir anpin, the lesser countenance. malkuth is referred to the heh final or the bride of the apocalypse. heg: leads theoricus to tablet of 7 heavens of assiah in south. heg: these are the 7 heavens of assiah, the 1st is ghereboth, referred to chesed, wherein are the treasures of blessings. the 2nd is mekon refer

ial fire symbolized by the upper part of the caduceus. heg: places admission badge aside and leads theoricus to hierophant and then returns to his place. hiereus: heg: rise and face inwards towards the altar. hiero (rising and facing inwards to the altar) before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit are the supernal sephiroth summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother supernal, the woman of the 12th chapter of the apocalypse clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head the crown of 12 stars, kether. and whereas the name tetragrammaton is joined to the elohim when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient o

e, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. the grade of practicus is referred to the sephira hod, and the 30th and 31st paths which are those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is thus giv

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and onl

ence in the middle of the night, only to hear the baby wake and cry out moments later; being able to recognise one's own child's cry in a room full of noisy babies 'being a pagan has brought all of these experiences into a spiritual focus that has brought me closer to the goddess in a way that i don't think could have happened if i hadn't chosen to become a parent. it has allowed me to experience the mother aspect first-hand; it gave new meaning to the moon cycles of a woman, it allowed me to become the microcosm of the great earth mother as i watched my own body grow and give birth to a new life. it gave me the protective instinct of sekhmet [the lion-headed egyptian goddess of fertility, when i realised that i would fight to the death to protect my child. it showed me the true and profou

r feet, draw up rich, golden light from the earth and let it flow upwards, becoming lighter and more golden as it rises to your fingertips. feel the light from above flowing downwards to merge with it* if you are working alone, then, holding a long, silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand* begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and li

deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition

rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year betwe

, who is a benevolent and effective focus for female power and courage. bellona bellona is the roman goddess of war, the female counterpart of mars whose chariot she drove into battle. she is especially good for women's assertiveness and self-confidence rituals. she carries a sword and wears a helmet. kali kali, the dark side of the hindu mother goddess, came into being when shiva, the husband of the mother goddess shakti, taunted her for her dark skin. in fury she carried out rituals until her skin became golden inside. shakti then shed her black outer skin like a snake and it formed the avenging destroying persona of kali. kali is depicted with her four arms holding weapons and the heads of her victims, her tongue lolling out, and covered in blood, signifying her power over life and deat

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

agical operations. the word usually pronounced jehovah is called the ineffable name; it is alleged that when pronounced accurately its vibrations would destroy the universe; and this is indeed quite true, when we take the deeper interpretation. tetragrammaton is so called from the four letters in the word: yod, he, vau, and he. this is compared with the relations of a family- yod, the father, he, the mother; vau, the son; and the final he, the daughter (in writing she is sometimes distinguished from her mother by inserting a small point in the letter) this is also a reference to the elements, fire, water, air, earth. i may go further, and say that all possible existing things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. but these four

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

low and whitewashed, within which straggles a wilderness of strange and fantastic tombs; and hard by is that great city of brothels which is so cynically mirthful a neighbor. as felicien rops wrote--or was it edmond d'haraucourt-"la prostitution et la mort sont frere et soeur--les fils de dieu" at least the poet of le legende des sexes was right, and the psycho-analysts after him, in identifying the mother with the tomb. this, then, is only the beginning and end of things, this "quartier macabre" beyond the north rampart with the mississippi on the other side. it is like the space between, our life which flows, and fertilizes as it flows, muddy and malarious as it may be, to empty itself into the warm bosom of the gulf stream, which (in our allegory) we may call the life of god. but our b

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

iverse as it were a single point of infinite nothingness yet of infinite extension; and becoming this universe, i became dissolved utterly therein. moreover, my body lifted itself up and rose in the air to a great height beyond the shadow of the earth, and the earth rolled beneath me; yet of all this i knew nothing, for that i was all these things and none of them. moreover i was united with isis the mother of osiris, being yet her brother and her lord. woe, woe to me! for all this was but partial and imperfect; nor did i truly understand that which occurred. only this i knew, that i should return to my city of thebai, and rule therein as high priest of osiris, no longer striving to some end unheard-of or impossible, but quietly and patiently living in the enjoyment of my dignities and wea

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

y never be revealed to anyone who is not initiated into our ways, for to do so would be the most frightful error. though they dwell beyond the gate, they may be summoned when marduk is not watchful, and sleeps, on those days when he has no power, when the great bear hangs from its tail, and on the four quarters of the year computed therefrom, and on the spaces between these angles. on these days, the mother tiamat is restless, the corpse kutulu shakes beneath the earth, and our master enki is sore afraid. prepare, then the bowl of tiamat, the dur of indur, the lost bowl, the shattered bowl of the sages, summoning thereby the firik of gid, and the lady shakuguku, the queen of the cauldron. recite the conjuration ia adu en i over it, and build the fire therein, calling gbl when thou dost, af

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ich is beth the letter of mercury, the magus of the tarot, who has four weapons, and it must be remembered that this card is numbered 1, again connecting all these symbols with the phallus. the essential weapon of mercury is the caduceus. note (3) fourteen letters. quid voles illud fac. q.v.i.f. 196=14^2 [15] 3 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta gamma the oyster the brothers of a'.a. are one with the mother of the child.(4) the many is as adorable to the one as the one is to the many. this is the love of these; creationparturition is the bliss of the one; coitiondissolution is the bliss of the many. the all, thus interwoven of these, is bliss. naught is beyond bliss. the man delights in uniting with the woman; the woman in parting from the child. the brothers of a'.a. are women: the aspira

exhibited as the interplay between these two. this also explains the statement in liber legis i, 28-30. note (4) they cause all men to worship it. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 [17] 4 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta delta peaches soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and full! it dies, it gives itself; to thee is the fruit! be thou the bride; thou shalt be the mother hereafter. to all impressions thus. let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee. the least of the impressions, come to its perfection, is pan. receive a thousand lovers; thou shalt bear but one child. this child shall be the heir of fate the father. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 [18] commentary( delta) daleth is the empress of the tarot, the lett

host, the semen; the human form is a non-essential accretion of this quintessence. so far the chapter has followed the sephiroth from kether to chesed, and chesed is united to the supernal triad by virtue of its phallic nature; for not only is amoun a phallic god, and jupiter the father of all, but 4 is daleth, venus, and chesed refers to water, from which venus sprang, and which is the symbol of the mother in the tetragrammaton. see chapter 0 "god the father and mother is concealed in generation. but chesed, in the lower sense, is conjoined to microprosopus. it is the true link between the greater book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 and lesser countenances, whereas daath is the false. compare the doctrine of the higher and lower manas in theosophy. the rest of the chap

rs to the duty of the tyler in a blue lodge of freemasons. the numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant; each master-mason is attended by 5 fellow-crafts, and each fellow-craft by 3 apprentices, as if the masters were sitting in pentagrams, and the fellow- craftsmen in triangles. this may refer to the number of manual signs in each of these degrees. the moral of the chapter is apparently that the mother-letter aleph is an inadequate solution of the great problem. aleph is identified with the yoni, for all the symbols connected with it in this place are feminine, but aleph is also a number of samadhi and mysticism, and the doctrine is therefore that magick, in that highest sense explained in the book of the law, is the truer key. notes (23) l=30, o=70, v=6, e=5=111 (24) a=1, m=40, o=70=

the point on the path of gimel when book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 154 he is actually crossing the abyss; the student must consult the account of this given in "the temple of solomon the king. the ego is but "the ghost of a non-ego, the imaginary focus at which the non-ego becomes sensible. paragraph 5 expresses the wish of the guru that his chela may attain safely to binah, the mother. paragraph 6 whispers the ultimate and dread secret of initiation into his ear, identifying the vastness of the most holy with the obscene worm that gnaws the bowels of the damned. notes (36) death is said by the arabs to ride a camel. the path of gimel (which means a camel) leads from tiphareth to kether, and its tarot trump is the "high priestess (37) unt, hindustani for camel. i.e. w

be; but all this is a mere strain in the aethyr, alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho. here is a new pentagrammaton, presumably suitable for another analysis of the elements; but after a different manner. alpha( alpha) is air; rho( rho) the sun; these are the spirit and the son of christian theology. in the midst is the father, expressed as father-and-mother. i-h (yod and he, eta( eta) being used to express "the mother" instead of epsilon( epsilon, to show that she has been impregnated by the spirit; it is the rough breathing and not the soft. the centre of all is theta( theta, which was originally written as a point in a circle( sun, the sublime hieroglyph of the sun in the macrocosm, and in the microcosm of the lingam in conjunction with the yoni. this word alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho (aethyr) is there

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

raldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, freer life, with a broader outlook on the world. this is no small service rendered to humanity. and when we remember further that in another direction magic has paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black art has done much evil, it has also been the source of much good; that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of freedom and truth" ibid. x "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" st. paul "also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach "he must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals "the word of the law is theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha" liber al vel xxxi: the book of the law- this book is for

f matter as something that one can knock up against> can reach a reflection of this idea by the method of logical contradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. the reader should consult "the soldier and the hunchback" in equinox i, i, and konx om pax "unity" transcends "consciousness. it is above all division. the father of thought- the word- is called chaos- the dyad. the number three, the mother, is called babalon. in connection with this the reader should study "the temple of solomon the king" in equinox i, v, and liber 418. this first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. the comprehension of this trinity is a matter of spiritual experience. all true gods are attributed to this trinity<christian trinity are of a nature suited only

this abyss. yet this abyss is the crown of the mind. purely intellectual faculties all obtain here. this abyss has no number, for in it all is confusion. below this abyss we find the moral qualities of man, of which there are six. the highest is symbolised by the number four. its nature is fatherly<venus; so that the mother-idea is included. again, the sephira of 4 is chesed, referred to water. 4 is ruled by jupiter, lord of the lightning (fire) yet ruler of air. each sephira is complete in its way; mercy and authority are the attributes of its dignity. the number five is balanced against it. the attributes of five are energy and justice. four and five are again combined and harmonized in the number six, w

he whole course of the universe. it will be seen that (after all) the climax is at the end. it is the second half of the formula which symbolises the great work which we are pledged to accomplish. the first step of this is the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, which constitutes the adept of the inner order. the re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in liber 418, which gives admission to the inmost order of the a. a. of the last step we cannot speak. it will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. in such a ceremony the rituals of purification alone might occupy many incarnations. it will be

ere is no development from one into the others. they are, as it were, thrown together- untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. the central letter is "he- the letter of breath- and represents spirit. the first letter "aleph" is the natural letter of air, and the final "mem" is the natural letter of water. together "aleph" and "mem" make "am- the mother within whose womb the cosmos is conceived. but "yod" is not the natural letter of fire. its juxtaposition with "he" sanctifies that fire to the "yod" of tetragrammaton. similarly we find "lamed" for earth, where we should expect tau- in order to emphasize the influence of venus, who rules libra "alhim, therefore, represents rather the formula of consecration than that of a complete cere

r in themselves, but wholly free to fulfil their essential natures. its abuse is an abomination> 27 chapter v the formula of i.a.o. this formula is the principal and most characteristic formula of osiris, of the redemption of mankind "i" is isis, nature, ruined by "a, apophis the destroyer, and restored to life by the redeemer osiris<father, o the mother, a the child- and yet another, in which i.a.o. are all fathers of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a higher matter unsuited for this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

m the order of observed fact) the history of magick has never been seriously attempted. for one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of magick, not of the thing itself. but magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that magick has always been the mother of science. it is, therefore, of extreme importance that some effort should be made to understand something of the subject; and there is, therefore, no apology necessary for essaying this brief outline of its historical aspects. there have always been, at least in nucleus, three main schools of philosophical practice (we use the word "philosophical" in the old good broad sense, as in th

gnostics, in certain rituals of what frazer conveniently calls the asiatic god, as in the remnants of the ancient egyptian cult. the docmagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 94 trine became abominably corrupted in committee, so to speak and the result was christianity, which may be regarded as a white ritual overlaid by a mountainous mass of black doctrine, like the baby of the mother that king solomon non-suited. we may define the doctrine of the white school in its purity in very simple terms. existence is pure joy. sorrow is caused by failure to perceive this fact; but this is not a misfortune. we have invented sorrow, which does not matter so much after all, in order to have the exuberant satisfaction of getting rid of it. existence is thus a sacrament. adepts of

jingles; do not insult him by "baby-talk" secondly, let him understand, as soon as you start actual teaching, the difference between the real and the conventional in what you make him memorize. nothing irritates children more than the arbitrary "because i say so" nobody knows why the alphabet has the order which we know; it is quite senseless. one could construct a much more rational order: e.g. the mother, the single and the double letters, all in the natural order of the elements, planets and signs. again, we have the "missionary" alphabet, arranged "scientifically" as gutturals, modified ditto, dentals, labials, vowels and so on; a most repulsive concoction! but i would not accept any emendation from the god thoth himself; it is infinitely simpler to stick to the familiar order. but ex

who hath set thee to save us? 38. he will be sore distressed. 39. all they will understand not that thou and i are fashioning a boat of mother-of-pearl. we will sail down the river of amrit even to the yew groves of yama, where we may rejoice magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 282 exceedingly. 40. the joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam- all in the mother-of-pearl. and again, cp. i, v. 50-52 and v. 56-62. 50. adonai spake yet again with v.v.v.v.v. and said: the earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes, and be drunken thereon. 51. and v.v.v.v.v. answered and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every lett

weak and vicious will weed themselves out. the pure gold will repay us ten thousandfold. you ask examples? with magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 312 us, the elizabethan and the victorian periods stand out. what is most wanted is opportunity and reward. under victoria there was some- taste the late samuel smiles esquire, d.d (wasn't he- but not enough, and industrialism, the mother and nurse of socialism, was destroying the soul of the people. in my not very maternal remarks on mother-love, was included the substance of the one wise saying of my pet american lunatic "you can't get past their biology" this is so true, and so disheartening, that it arouses me to combat. must we for ever be bound to the inconvenient habit of sows and cabbages? i pick up the glove. is

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

to 463. now 400 is tau, the path leading from malkuth to yesod. sixty is samekh, the path leading leading sic from yesod to tiphereth; and 3 is gimel, the path leading thence to kether. the whole rod therefore gives the paths from the kingdom to the crown. this magical will is the wand in your hand by which the great work is accomplished, by which the daughter is not merely set upon the throne of the mother, but assumed into the highest<magick, the absolute is called the crown, god is called the father, the pure soul is called the mother, the holy guardian angel is called the son, and the natural soul is called the daughter. the son purifies the daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the mother, the uniting of whom with the father absorbs all into

te goal. again we read: little miss muffett sat on a tuffet, eating of curds and whey, up came a big spider, and sat down beside her, and frightened miss muffett away. little miss muffett unquestionably represents malkah; for she is unmarried. she is seated upon a "tuffet; id est, she is the unregenerate soul upon tophet, the pit of hell. and she eats curds and whey, that is, not the pure milk of the mother, but milk which has undergone decomposition. but who is the spider? verily herein is a venerable arcanum connoted! like all insects, the spider represents a demon. but why a spider? who is this spider "who taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces? the name of this spider is death. it is the fear of death which first makes the soul aware of its forlorn condition. it would be

s of course the bread of the sacrament, and it would ill become frater p. to comment upon the third line-though it may be remarked that even among the catholics the wafer has always been marked with a phallus or cross. chapter viii the sword "the word of the lord is quick and powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword" as the wand is chokmah, the will "the father" and the cup the understanding "the mother" binah; so the magick sword is the reason "the son" the six sephiroth of the ruach, and we shall see that the pantacle corresponds to malkuth "the daughter" the magick sword is the analytical faculty; directed against any demon it attacks his complexity. only the simple can withstand the sword. as we are below the abyss, this weapon is then entirely destructive: it divides satan against

han a straw<ruach also the symbol of the spirit. rvch alhim, the spirit of god, is 300, the number of the holy letter shin. as this is the breath, which by its nature is double, the two edges of the sword, the letter h symbolises breath, and h is the letter of aries- the house of mars, of the sword: and h is also the letter of the mother; this is the link between the sword and the cup> 91 the connection between breath and mind has been supposed by some to exist merely in etymology. but the connection is a truer one<ruach means primarily "that which moves or revolves "a going "a wheel "the wind" and that its secondary meaning was mind because of the observed instability of mind, and its te

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

selytes myrg matred (i.r.q. 996) dr+m 254 an ass rwmx a mark, aim hr+m a solemn promise, vow rdn spikenard (ct. 4:14) drn a spear xmwr merciful, compassionate mwxr 255 burdensome; with difficulty )rmwx the east xrzm a river, stream (gn. 2:10) rhn song of joy hnr 256 tidings (ps. 68:11; saying, speech hrym) the sons of the righteous qdc ynb dampnesses (pl; see 705. k.d. p.20) nymlwpm the spirit of the mother )m) xwr a spice merchant lkwr fire; fiery rwn words myrbd 257 the ark [of the covenant] nwr) magician m+rx to his fearers (ps. 25:14; see 353) wy)ryl the white wand hnbl lqm her dreadful self )rwn lights: the urim (see 490) myrw) 258 the red light mwd) rw) mercy ymxr illuminating, radiant rwhzm 259 throat nwrg 260 the concealed )rym+ will be exalted myry a vineyard mrk i.n.r (see 270) r

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blems. crowley did not properly draw the trigrams, but mostly with unbroken lines. he also appears to have written in the wrong names for some of the trigrams. these difficulties have been corrected by reference to the diagram crowley made on the blank page preceding the table of content in his copy of the legge yi king. see oto newsletter, v. i, no. 3, p. 15. the tao. the teh, the tao, source of the mother source of the father# heaven# ch'ien# had# water fire# li, this# tui water# is chen# usually is k'an sun# had chen# this is li# air# sun# earth# ken moon# k'an# earth# k'un# 1 chapter ii the energy- source of the self. 1. all men know that beauty and ugliness are correlatives, as are skill and clumsiness; one implies and suggests the other. 2. so also existence and non-existence pose th

upture. again, one's pranayama is to result perfect pliability and exact adjustment to one's environment. finally, even sammasamadhi is a defect, so long as it is an experience instead of a constant state. so long as there are two to become one, there are two) 2. in his dealing with individuals and with society, let him move without lust of result. in the management of his breath, let him be like the mother-bird((i.e, brooding like the spirit, quiet, without effort) let his intelligence((binah) comprehend every quarter; but let his knowledge((daath) cease((he must absorb (or understand) everything without conscious knowledge, which is a shock, implying duality, like flint and steel, while understanding is like a sponge, or even like ocean absorbing rivers) 3. here is the mystery of virtue(

erfecteth them, ripeneth them, upholdeth them, and reabsorbeth them. 4. it buddeth them forth, and claimeth not lordship over them; it is overseer of their changes, and boasteth not of his puissance; perfecteth them, and interfereth not with their ways; this is called the mystery of its virtue. 57 chapter lii the withdrawal into the silence. 1. the tao buddeth forth all things under heaven; it is the mother of all. 2. knowing the mother, we may know her offspring. he that knoweth his mother, and abideth in her nature, remaineth in surety all his days. 3. with the mouth closed, and the gates of breath controlled, he remaineth at ease all his days. with the mouth open, and the breath directed to outward affairs, he hath no surety all his days. 4. to perceive that minute point((hadith) is tru

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elegate of the holy inquisition for the city and diocese of nantes. needless to say, gilles "confessed, and was put to the stake and charcoaled on october 26th, 1440 leaving his estates and untold riches to mother church, who, wasting no time, added them to her list of material gains. included in this particular catche were gilles personal hand-painted manuscripts which were eagerly welcomed into the mother lode s vault where they sit to this day. unfortunately, the vatican s library is inaccessible to "common folk, and will probably remain so until the demise of mother church herself, at which time this author will assist other interested persons in converting it into a public library. no! no! that would be quite impossibly bad manners. i shall assume that you know everything about gilles

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y occasion on which he might meet a fellow- citizen. the banqueting-hall of the children was usually very large. the furniture, which had been brought by the first colonists, and gradually disused by adults, never needed repair. a vast open doorway facing north opened on the mountainside on to the vineyards and orchards, the meadows and gardens, in which the children passed their time. suckled by the mother for three months only, the child was then already able to nourish itself on the bread and wine, and on the flesh of the amphibious herds, of which there were several kinds; one a piglike animal with flesh resembling wild duck, another a sort of amatee tasting like salmon, its fat being somewhat like caviar in everything but texture, and a sure specific for any of childhood's troubles. a

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baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of t

n in breath- inspiration and expiration- and that of vibratory light; while breath is also aleph, whose card is numbered zero; and light is l.v.x. 120, the rosy cross, wherein the positive is dissolved in the negative. al i,29 "for i am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union" the new comment i quote from "the book of lies (falsely so-called. the oyster the brothers of a'.a. are one with the mother of the child. the many is as adorable to the one as the one is to the many. this is the love of these: creation-parturition is the bliss of the one; coition-dissolution is the bliss of the many. the all, thus interwoven of these, is bliss. naught is beyond bliss. the man delights in uniting with the woman; the woman in parting from the child the brothers of a'.a. are women; the aspirant

ely sensitive. put in an unsuitable environment, it may produce grotesque or malignant perversions of its father's word. we are all aware that fine children are born of healthy mothers who are true and worthy mates of their husbands. the children of hate, of debauch, of sickness, nearly always bear witness in body and mind to the abuse of the talisman. not only the sins of the father but those of the mother, yes, more those of their social surroundings, are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. nay, more, the mischief can never be mended. a man can destroy in a minute his kingdom, inherited from unnumbered dynasties of biological prudence. it will also be admitted, without reference to magick, that the abuse of the talisman leads to moral, mental and spiritual misfort

attribution aforesaid. sub figura xxvii. the book of the trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and yang* here is nothing under its three forms. it is not, yet informeth all things. i narrowed breath. represents concentration, including aspiration- now cometh the glory of the single one, as an imperfection and stain. l passive undulation, without effort, unchecked- but by the weak one the mother was it equilibrated. c. vide s. and k* also the purity was divided by strength, the force of the demiurge. h. forcible addition of pure breath to other sounds. represents effort* and the cross was formulated in the universe that as yet was not. x combines k& s* but now the imperfection became manifest, presiding over the fading of perfection. t the sexual onslaught. a less responsible f

for 'an explosion" al iii,55 "let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you" the new comment the name mary is connected with mars, mors, etc, from the sanskrit mr to slay and with mare, the sea, whose water opposes the fire of horus. i here quote a passage from liber xcvii which deals with this fully "let me strictly meditate this hate of the mother. m r is the sanskrit root "kill" hence mara, mors, maria, and i suppose meer, mere, mer- in short, lots of words meaning death or sea. note mordred as the traitor villain in morte d'arthur. in liber legis we have "mary" who is to be 'torn upon wheels' apparently because she is 'inviolate' liber 418 has some explanation of this 'because she hath shut herself up, i seem to remember is the

or freud has this all worked out in detail. i have thought this before, long ago, but can't get a satisfactory qabalah. 240 is a doubling of the pentagram, of course, and is a sixfold of 40, the number of repressive 'sealed-up' law. by our r.o.t.a, m r is the sea swallowing the sun, and the insertion of a tau would help this in a certain formula of "he lives in the sun" but that would only boost the mother, which won't do, for she is the tomb, the eater of flesh, and there's no getting away from it. but apparently she is all right just so far as she is open, to enter or leave at one's pleasure, the gateway of eternal life. she is sakti, the teh, the magical door between the tao and the manifested world. the great obstacle than is if that door be locked up. therefore our lady must be symbo

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and a brother. all imitate him. the deacon and all the people: i believe in one secret and ineffable lord; and in one star in the company of stars of whose fire we are created, 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 m

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lohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rw

it is the name of the father given in exodus iii, 14: hyha, eheieh, i am. it signifies existence. this first sephira contained the other nine, and produced them in succession, thus: the number 2, or the duad. the name of the second sephira is hmkj, chokmah, wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from kether, as i have before explained. this sephira is the active and evident father, to whom the mother is united, who is the number 3. this second sephira is represented by the divine names, hy, yah, and hwhy; and among the angelic hosts by \ynpwa, auphamim, the wheels. it is also called ba, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called hnyb, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines whic

abbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth, in despite of the heavy price; for the translator has distorted the text and its comment to suit his belief in a supreme personal god, and in that degraded form of the doctrine of feminism which is so popular with the emasculate. the sephiroth are grouped in various ways. there is a superior triad or trinity; a hexad; and malkuth: the crown, the father, and the mother; the son or king; and the bride. also, a division into seven palaces, seven planes, three pillars or columns: and the like. the flashing sword follows the course of the numbers and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called the

famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death

g his explanation by tarot, etc, of the letters of the alphabet spelt in full. mystic readings of the letters of the alphabet (see tarot cards, and meditate [la. folly s doom is ruin tyb. the juggler with the secret of the universe. lmg. the holy guardian angel is attained by self-sacrifice and equilibrium. tld. the gate of the equilibrium of the universe (note d, the highest reciprocal path) hh. the mother is the daughter; and the daughter is the mother. ww. the son is (but) the son (these two letters show the true doctrine of initiation as given in liber 418; opposed to protestant exotericism. yz. the answer of the oracles is always death. tyj. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tyf. she who rules the secret force of the universe. dwy. the secret of the gate of initiation [k. in

the ennead, stability in change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32. 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh fierce and active. 6. the son partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents cre

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owly in his pitying brotherhood. 102 listen to the jataka! said the buddha. and all they gave ear. long ago, when king brahmadatta reigned in benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named suraj ju2 and his wife chandi.3 and in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him perdu r abu.4 now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. the loom went merrily, but to the rhythm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. wherefore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. but it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that th

ld, came into the venerable grove of our august fraternity and abode there. and so old was he and feeble that he could scarce lift his hands in benediction upon us. and all we waited about him, both by day and night; lest one word should fall, and we not hear the same. but he spake never unto us, though his lips moved and his eyes sought ever that which we could not see. at last, on the day of d, the mother of p.,3 he straightened himself up and spake. this his final discourse was written down then by the dying lions in their own blood, traced willingly on the desert sands about the grove of the illustrious. also here set down: but who will confirm the same, let him seek it on the sands. children of my will, said our father, from whose grey eyes fell gentlest tears, it is about the hour. t

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o is a virgin become but as a common strumpet, then she indeed falls and rises not, becoming in her 217 fall but a clout in the eyes of all men, a foul rag wherewith to sop up the lusts of flesh. so, verily, if she who being a courtesan, becometh as an untouched virgin, she shall be considered as a thing of naught, being both sterile and loveless; for what profit shall she be to this world who is the mother of unfruitfulness? but she who is both crimson and white, a twisted pillar of snow and fire, soothing where she burneth, and comforting where she chilleth, she shall be held as queen amongst women; for in her all things are found, and as an inexhaustible well of water around whose mouth grows the wild apricot, in which the bees set their sweet hives, she shall be both food and drink to

a daughter of this world, as a child of god begotten in the heart of man. and her hair swept around and about me, in clouds of gold, and rolled over me, as sunbeams poured out from the cups of the noon. her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily. her lips were half open, and her eyes were deep, passionate, and tremulous, as the eyes of the mother of the human race, when she first struggled in the strong arms of man; for i was growing strong in her strength, i was becoming a worthy partner of her glory. then she clung to me, and her breath left her lips like gusts of fire mingled with the odours of myrtle; and in mine arms she sang unto me her bridal song "come, o my dear one, my darling, let us pass from the land of the plough t

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e word elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular alh, eloh, by adding im to word. but inasmuch as im is usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency united to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. how, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word rvch, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah "achth rvch

attributed to it is the name of the father given in exod. iii. 4: ahih, eheieh, i am. it signifies existence. the first sephira contains nine, and produces them in succession thus- the number 2 or the duad. the name of the second sephira is chkmhm, chokmah, wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from kether, as i have before explained. this sephira is the active and evident father, to whom the mother is united, who is the number 3. this second sephira is represented by the divine names, ih, yah, and ihvhy; and the angelic hosts by avpnim, auphanim, the wheels (ezek. i. it is also called ab, ab, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called binh, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight li

abbala denudata of knoor von rosenroth, in despite of the heavy price; for the translator has distorted the text and its comment to suit his belief in a supreme personal god, and in that degraded form of the doctrine of feminism which is so popular with the emasculate. the sephiroth are grouped in various ways. there is a superior triad or trinity; a hexad; and malkuth: the crown, the father, and the mother; the son or king; and the bride. also, a division into seven palaces, seven planes, three pillars or columns, and the like. 88 the flashing sword follows the course of the numbers; and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called

esh, hb:yod= virgo, scorpio, sun, virgo; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death, and resurrection of christ; and further the sings of mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.u.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross..l v\ the light of the cross. further examples will be found in "a note on genesis" one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. mna. the hanged man

planation by tarot, etc, of the letters of the alphabet spelt in full. mystic readings of the letters of the alphabet("see" tarot cards "and meditate) alp. folly's doom is ruin. bith. the juggler with the secret of the universe. gml. the holy guardian angel is attained by self-sacrifice and equilibrium. 94 dlth. the gate of the equilibrium of the universe (note d, the highest reciprocal path) hh. the mother is the daughter; and the daughter is the mother. vv. the son is (but) the son (these two letters show the true doctrine of initiation as given in liber 418; opposed to protestant exotericism) zin. the answer of the oracles is always death. chith. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tith. she who rules the secret force of the universe. ivd. the secret of the gate of initiation. kp

le by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh- authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh- fierce and active. 6. the son- partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents

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on her heart, and her sandals are curved silver, like the moon. and she cries: lonely am i and cold in the wilderness of the stars. for i am the queen of all them that dwell in heaven, and the queen of all them that are pure upon earth, and the queen of all the sorcerers of hell. i am the daughter of nuit, the lady of the stars. and i am the bride of them that are vowed unto loneliness. and i am the mother of the dog cerberus. one person am i, and three gods. and thou who hast blasphemed me shalt suffer knowing me. for i am cold as thou art cold, and burn with thy fire. oh, when shall the war of the aires and the elements be accomplished? radiant are these falchions of my brothers, invisibly about me, but the might of the aethyrs beneath my feet beareth me 15 down. and they avail not to s

sandals for her feet. her hair is of flowing gold, each sparkle as a star. in her hands are the torch of penelope and the cup of circe. 48 she comes and kisses me on the mouth, and says: blessed art thou who hast beheld sebek my lord in his glory. many are the champions of life, but all are unhorsed by the lance of death. many are the children of the light, but their eyes shall all be put out by the mother darkness. many are the servants of love, but love (that is not quenched by aught but love) shall be put out, as the child taketh the wick of a taper between his thumb and finger, by the god that sitteth alone. and on her mouth, like a chrysanthemum of radiant light, is a kiss, and on it is the monogram i.h.s. the letters i.h.s. mean in homini salus and instar hominis summus, and imago h

ed withal; or if they have whips, for with whips they shall be scourged: or if they bear wine, for their wine shall be turned to bitterness; or if they have a spear, for with a spear shall they be pierced unto the heart. and the nails are desires, of which 51 there are three; the desire of light, the desire of life, the desire of love. 6 the doctrine implied is that one must not be the child, but the mother (and the thorns are thoughts, and the whips are regrets, and the wine is ease, or perhaps unsteadiness, especially in ecstasy, and the spear is attachment) and now there dawns the scene of the crucifixion; but the crucified one is an enormous bat, and for the two thieves are two little children. it is night, and the night is full of hideous things and howlings. and an angel cometh forth

shall the master of the temple find neither star nor moon. and i was about to answer him "the light is within me" but before i could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the key of the abyss. and he said: thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? sorrow is my name, and affliction. i am girt about with tribulation. here still hangs the crucified one, and here the mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. sterility is 73 my name, and desolation. intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. i said, let the darkness cover me; and behold, i am compassed about with the blackness that hath no name. o thou, who hast cast down the light into the earth, so must thou do for ever. and the light of the sun shall not shine upon thee, and the mo

eshness of meal, and the sweetness of honey, and the purity of olive-oil, and the holiness of that oil which is made of myrrh, and cinnamon, and galangal. the charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe-inspiring, like a large and very distant bell: let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup is the blood of the saints. glory unto the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, that rideth upon the beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and lo! she hath mingled it in the cup of her whoredom. with the breath of her kisses hath she fermented it, and it hath become the wine of the sacrament, the wine of the 82 sabbath; and in the holy assembly hath she poured it out for her worshippers, and they had become drunken ther

r the intoxication of it. and every thought is destroyed by it. it abideth alone, and its name is compassion. i understand by "compassion" the sacrament of suffering, partaken by the true worshippers of the highest. and it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. its passivity(=passion) is like the giving-up of the self to the beloved) the voice continues: this is the mystery of babylon, the mother of abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. and because she hath made herself the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. beautiful art thou, o babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everyt

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den- the rest of the sephiroth. and from thence it was divided into four heads, in da th. the first head is pison, which flows into geburah. the second head is gihor. flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel. flowing into tiphereth. and the fourth. is phrath, euphrates, which floweth down upon malkuth" these four rivers form the cross of the great adam. in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all. the "hierophant" then gives the theoricus the sign of this grade, and explains the altar symbol "the cross above the triangle represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles: while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the m

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fter a while, she gave birth to two fine seal-calves, who were no sooner on the rocks than they clutched at their mother. mansie thought to himself that the calf-hides would make a nice waistcoat, so he ran forward, and the seal-mother rowed herself over the face of the rock with her fins into the sea, but the two young ones had not the wit to flee. so mansie seized them both, and the distress of the mother was terrible to see. she swam about and about, and beat herself with her fins like one distracted; and then she would clamber up, with her fore-fins on the edge of the rock, and glower into mansie's face. he turned to go off with the two young ones under his arm- they were sucking at his coat the while- when the mother gave such a cry of despair, so human, so desolate, that it went stra

e turned to go off with the two young ones under his arm- they were sucking at his coat the while- when the mother gave such a cry of despair, so human, so desolate, that it went straight to mansie's heart, and turning again, he saw the 342 mother lying on her side with her head on the rock, and the tears were streaming from her eyes. so he stopped down and placed the little selkies near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into mansie's face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. mansie was a young man then, and sometime afterwards he married and settled on the west of eday. one evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at lo

ymous volume of verses breathing the same exotic fragrance of rossetti's poem on our lady that begins 'mother of the fair delight' there is the same intense pre-raphaelite atmosphere, the same aesthetic revelling in catholic mysticism, the same rich imagery and gorgeous word- colouring that prevade the poetic works of that nineteenth-century artist. a valuable addition to the poetic literature on the mother of our lord" the "guardian" says "the devotional fervour of 'amphora' will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the blessed mother of the christ. the meaning of the title of the book is not very obvious. it cannot surely have anything to do with the lines in horace 'amphora coepit &c "to be obtained of the" walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c "and

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mother' the horror of it was tenfold multiplied 'she- she' the child blushed, stammered, stopped "i heard, mademoiselle' i cried indignantly"'i am here (she sobbed 'for a month, starved, whipped- oh! by day the window barred with iron; by night, open, the more to mock my helplessness' then, with a sudden cry, her little pink hand darting out and showing a faultless arm 'look! look! she is on you "the mother had drawn herself away with infinite stealth, regained her feet, and, a thin stiletto in her hand, was crouched to spring. indeed, as she leapt i was hard put to it to avoid the lunge; the dagger-edge grazed my arm as i stepped aside "i turned. she was on me, flinging me aside with the force of her rush as if i had been a straw. the snarl of her was like a wolf "this time she cut me dee

whose twin serpents show again the dualistic power("note- woden, the scandinavian mercury, was the all-father, as it is written in the ritual of the path of the spirit of the primal 169 fire hb:shin "for all things did the father of all things perfect, and delivered them over unto the "second mind; whom all races of men call 'first) behold, then, in these two great numbers 1 and 2 the father and the mother of the worlds and of numbers. now these twain being conjoined and manifest in one, produce the number 3; as it is written "for the mind of the father said that 'all things should be cut into three' whose will<magus of power in taro= will> assenting all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said "into three" governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it

e manifestation of the son of god upon the earth "shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is hb:shin= 300. and in the grecian tongue it is written "in the beginning was the word &c, which is lambda omicron gamma omicron sigma (lambda= 30. but the best of all the examples is found in the holy tetragram yod-heh-vau-heh. for we may regard this venerable name as typical of the father and the mother, and so divided into vau-heh and yod-heh<genesis v. 1, 2 :bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-daletmemfinal bet-dalet-mem-vau-taw aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal ayin-shin-heh aleph-taw-vau qof-bet-resh vau-nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they

e represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest- the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the "seventh" day. and 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds. one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get hb:aleph, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; hb:mem, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaeval waters; hb:shin, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim<yod-memfinal is 300= hb:shin> symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v.2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firma

this lamb of god, is "aries" symbol of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note- it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that hb:yod, the father, is fire; that hb:heh, the mother, is water; that hb:vau, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved

olved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the hb:shin("see" lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c. in theosophical nomenclature this latter was

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ylized rose done in five equal sections with a petal at top. there are four points outward from the intersections of the cross and the figure is mostly contained in an open circle which would actually circumscribe a greek cross. this being a calvary cross, the lower arm extends into the next ring of the figure. the next ring outward from the center is composed of three petals, each holding one of the mother letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from top: hb:aleph, hb:shin, hb:mem. this ring is partly overlapped by the lower arm of the inner calvary cross at the junction of the two lower petals. the next ring outward from the center is composed of seven petals, each holding one of the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from 1 o'clock: hb:koph, hb:taw, hb:gemel, hb:da

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the doctrines of the qabalah we are not certain, but time after time we came across curious allusions. thus on p. 3 "within myself when the truth divided the light from the darkness wisdom arose "and i knew that every atom of our great mother giveth light to other atoms. p. 4 "the truth in man is the light of the world. thus we have known from the beginning, and we shall know it unto the end. and the mother gave unto man her breasts. and man guided by the light within him did eat and was glad" p. 6 "the tree of life belongeth unto the father, it groweth in the mother, but because darkness is still in man he may not eat thereof, but the truth of the father that is within man, that truth may eat and live" the philosophy of this little book shows that darkness alone is not evil, and that neit

hallus of gold and ivory! thus am i cleft in twain as two halves of a child that is split asunder by the sword of the eunuchs, and mine adorations are divided, and one contendeth against his brother. unite thou me even as a split tree that closeth itself again upon the axe, that my song of praise unto thee may be one song! 10. for i am thy chosen virgin, o my god! exalt thou me unto the throne of the mother, unto the garden of supernal dew, unto the unutterable sea! amen, and amen of amen, and amen of amen of amen, and amen of amen of amen of amen. 9 the chapter known as aries the twelvefold affirmation of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve affirmations and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou show-clad volcan of scarlet fire, thou flame-crested pillar of fury! yea, as i appro

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land we go, we go, through the wet earth we toil. sunken, sunken was the sun ere ever the moon uprose, and the tall dark trees cast shadows dun over the lonely way; over the moorland the long path goes we trod at the close of day. we sped to reach the dark green hill. the hill of the bloody bowl, and the shadows were watching, watching us still as we crept in the shadowless path, over the moor to the mother troll with the heart that was pierced in wrath. 236 stumbling over the fallen leaves, sliding over the dew, staring up at the barley sheaves that nod in the autumn wind, we pushed and jostled the twilight thro, shrilling to those behind. and ere the night had grown to noon we were under the bloody bowl, and then uprose a huge pale moon. behind the shivering trees; and so we found the mo

dugs- no other love might she know- the dead man squirmed at her panting hugs, but she had her passionate will, and a sobbing breeze began to blow from the top of the lonely hill. and then a dim grey streak of dawn came, and the sad ghost fled, with staring sockets and jaw-bone drawn, back to the desolate place; the morning breeze grew still and dead as it played around his face. so we fled from the mother troll under the dawning grey; we left the hill of the bloody bowl; ere ever the sun uprose, but the dead man's heart till judgment-day shall there with the troll repose. victor b. neuburg. 238 reviews dare to be wise. by john mctaggart ellis mctaggart doctor in letters fellow and lecturer of trinity college in cambridge, fellow of the british academy. watts and co, 17 johnson's court, f

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r it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of earth. 7 she knows him, and black fear bedim those eyes; she offers to his gaze the blue-veined breasts that suckled him in childhood's sweet and solemn days. weeping she bares the holy womb! shrieks out the mother's last appeal: and reads irrevocable doom in those dread eyes of ice and steel. he winds his horn: his warriors pour in thousands on the fenceless foe; the sunset stains their hideous war with crimson bars of after-glow. he winds his horn; the night-stars leap to light; upspring the sisters seven; while answering flames illume the deep, the blue pavilions blaze to heaven. silent and ste

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the corpse, in the tomb. but these- what are these that war in my womb? there is vengeance and triumph at last of maat 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

esire, and is free from evil and fear. for just as one who dallies with a beloved wife has no consciousness of outer or inner, so the spirit also dallying with the self, whose essence is knowledge, has no consciousness of inner or outer. that is his real form, wherein desire is quenched, and he is himself his own desire, separate from desire and from distress. then the father is no longer father, the mother no longer mother, the worlds no longer worlds, the gods no longer gods, the vedas no longer vedas. this is his supreme goal. as theory alone cannot for ever satisfy man's mind in the solution of the life-riddle, so also when once the seeker has become the seer, when once actual living men have attained and become adepts, their methods of attainment cannot for long remain entirely hidden

goddess kundalini; she surrounds all the nadis, and has three and a half coils. she catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the entrance of the sushumn 82 87 58. it sleeps there like a serpent, and is luminous by its own light. it is the goddess of speech, and is called the vija (seed. 59. full of energy, and like burning gold, know this kundalini to be the power (shakti) of vishnu; it is the mother of the three qualities- satwa (good, rajas (indifference, and tamas (bad. 60. there, beautiful like the bandhuk flower, is placed the seed of love; it is brilliant like burnished gold, and is described in yoga as eternal. 61. the sushumn also embraces it, and the beautiful seed is there; there it rests shining brilliantly like the autumnal moon, with the luminosity of millions of suns

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the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows. even as the traitor's breath goeth forth, he perisheth by the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. capricornus. brethren, let us awaken the master of the temple [the leader of the chorus "beats the tom-tom, and the other brethren clap and stamp their feet. no result] 6 silence- it is in vain! brethren, let us invoke the assistance of the mother of heaven["he goes to veil and reaches through with his hands" mater coeli["passes through throne of" magister templi "and enters the temple] children, what is your will with me? capricornus. mother of heaven, we beseech thee to awaken the master. mater coeli. what is the hour? capricornus. mother of heaven, it lacks a quarter of midnight. mater coeli. be it unto your desire["she plays<

" magister templi. 1< brother aquarius, what is the time? aquarius. midnight. magister templi. 1. brother capricornus, what is the place? capricornus. the fortress that is upon the frontier of the abyss. magister templi. 1. brothers aquarius and capricornus, is the beloved with us? aquarius "and" capricornus. the mother of heaven is enthroned. magister templi. mother of heaven, let us lament together["recites swinburne's "ilicet<brother aquarius, to what end are we assem

a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of khem; come to face the babe and lion, come to measure force with them! ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth's before the sun, as the earth's before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, gain the god by clean endeavour; i am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for eve

wns and glows brighter and brighter, as the red light dwindles and goes out] scorpio-apophis. 7777777["the" probationers "and other officers enter, erect" scorpio-apophis. children, array yourselves before 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 sp

discern or declare "etc. wilt thou utterly bring to an end? have mercy, mother! venus. nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. libra. alas. venus. yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to me. isis am i, and from my life are fed all showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane; all stars and streams, the living and the dead, the mystery of pleasure and of pain. 87 i am the mother! i the speaking sea! i am the earth and its fertility! life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- to me! hathoor am i, and to my beauty drawn all glories of the universe bow down, the blossom and the mountain and the dawn, fruit's blush, and woman, our creations's crown. i am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, i am the love and life of the divine! life, death, love, h

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tand upon the firm foundation; the kingdom shall be theirs; yea, the kingdom shall be theirs. in the name of the lord of initiation. amen. 22 liber cheth vel vallvm abiegni svb figvra clvi 23 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber cheth vel vallum abiegni svb figvra clvi 1. this is the secret of the holy graal, that is the sacred vessel of our lady the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, the bride of chaos, that rideth upon our lord the beast. 2. thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the

l be desirable in your eyes all the days of your life, and your children shall 110 be strong and comely, and the blessing of the most high shall be upon you. then let your grasp relax in the satiety of death, and your weight shall cumber the earth, and the little children of the earth shall make merry with you until the rose strike its root into your breast. then shall your body be one again with the mother, and your soul one with the father, as it is written in the book of the law. all this have i been taught by her whose purity and strength are even as earth's, chosen before the foundation of time. lioness with lion, may we walk by night among the ruins of great cities, when, weary with happiness too great even for our immortality, we turn from the fragrance and fertility of earth. and a

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land of youth, and mine is the cup of the wine of life, and the cauldron of cerridwen, which is the holy grail of immortality. i am the gracious goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of man. upon earth, i give the knowledge of the spirit eternal; and beyond death, i give peace and freedom and reunion with those who have gone before. nor do i demand aught in sacrifice; for behold, i am the mother of all living, and my love is poured out upon the earth. hp: hear ye the words of the star goddess; she in the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, and whose body encircles the universe. hps: i who am the beauty of the green earth, and the white moon among the stars, and the mystery of the waters, and the desire of the heart of man, call unto thy soul. arise, and come unto me. fo

wly bend before thee, i adore thee to the end, with loving sacrifice thy shrine adorn. thy foot is to my lip [kiss, my prayers upborne upon the rising incense smoke; then spend thine ancient love, o mighty one, descend to aid me, who without thee am forlorn. hp stands and takes a step back. all adore in silence as hps traces invoking earth pentagram in air before them with athame, saying: hps: of the mother, darksome and divine, mine the scourge, and mine the kiss, the five-point star of love and bliss- here i charge you, in this sign. this completes drawing down the moon. hps and hp now face the coven and deliver the charge. notes l lots of published sources eg. janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way the ancient call may be used as a circle chant, or declaimed (generally by hp) gener

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eas anent the subject of polarity, of at-one-ment, and essential union, are beginning to come within his range of consciousness, only waiting for the fourth initiation to complete the revelation. this secret of electricity, which is essentially triple in its nature, deals with the brahma or third aspect, and is called sometimes by the following names: 1. the secret of brahma. 2. the revelation of the mother. 3. the secret of fohatic force. 4. the mystery of the creator. 5. the secret of the three who issued from the first (solar system, and also by four mystic phrases conveying much light to the intuition: 6. the boat of mystery which ploughs the ocean. 7. the key to the divine storehouse. 8. the light that guides through the triple caves of darkness. 9. the clue to the energy uniting fire

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vine substance" secret doctrine i. 146. our earth and man (are) the products of the three fires. secret doctrine ii. 258. fire and flame destroy the body of an arhat; their essence makes him immortal. secret doctrine i. 35. the three fires i. the internal fire or fire by friction "there is heat internal and heat external in every atom, the breath of the father (spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the mother (matter" secret doctrine i. 112. ii. the fire of mind or solar fire. the fire of knowledge burns up all action on the plane of illusion, therefore those who have acquired it and are emancipated are called fires. secret doctrine i.114. iii. the fire of spirit or electric fire "lift up thy head, o lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky "

ble at all. the internal fires of the moon are practically burnt out, and, therefore, she does not shine save through reflection, having no inner fire to blend and merge with light external. these inner fires of the earth can be seen functioning, as in the sun, through three main channels: 1. productive substance, or the matter of the planet vitalised by heat. this heat and matter together act as the mother of all that germinates, and as the protector of all that dwells therein and thereon. this corresponds to the akasha, the active vitalised matter of the solar system, that nourishes all as does a mother. 2. electrical fluid, a fluid which is latent in the planet though as yet but little recognized. it is perhaps better expressed by the term "animal magnetism" it is the distinctive qualit

tise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust when they are separated the form falls apart. this is a picture in miniature of the essential duality of all things acted upon by fohat. there is a close connection between the spleen and the top of the head in connection with the etheric body. the organ of the spleen has an interesting correspondence to the umbilical cord which attaches an infant to the mother for purposes of nourishment, and which is separated at birth. when a man starts to live his own life of conscious desire, when a man is born into a new world of a subtler form of life, that interlaced cord of etheric matter (which had united him to his physical body) is broken; the "silver cord is loosed" and the man severs his connection with the dense physical body and passes out thro

8 lucis trust the aim for this greater cycle is the blending, as we know, of the two fires of matter, latent and active, and their merging with the fires of mind and spirit till they are lost from sight in the general flame; the fires of mind and spirit burn up matter and thereby bring about liberation from the confining vehicles. the altar of earth is the birthplace of spirit, its liberator from the mother (matter, and its entrance into higher realms. hence, when the pranic vehicle is working perfectly in all three groups, human, planetary and solar, the union with latent fire will be accomplished. here lies the reason for the emphasis laid on the necessity for building pure, refined physical vehicles. the more refined and rarefied the form, the better a receiver of prana will it be, and

. the objective solar system, or the sun in manifestation, is the result of the blending of spirit (electric fire) with matter (fire by friction, and the emanations of the son, in time and space, are dependent upon the adequacy of the matter, and of the form to the life within. the first logos is electric fire, the fire of pure spirit. yet in manifestation he is the son, for by union with matter (the mother) the son is produced by whom he is known "i and my father are one"69(60) is the most occult statement in the christian bible, for it not only refers to the union of a man with his source, the monad, via the ego, but to the union of all life with its source, the will aspect, the first logos. we will now endeavor to confine ourselves strictly to the subject of fire in matter, and its acti

the line of occult sight and of occult feeling, both heat and light. this relationship is brought about and perfected during the evolutionary process. this heat and light are produced by the union of the two poles, or by the occult marriage of male and female, of spirit (father) and matter (mother. in terms of the physical, this union produces the objective solar system, the son of the father and the mother. in terms of the subjective, it produces the sun, as the sum total of the qualities of light and heat. in terms of fire, by the union or at-one-ment of electric fire (spirit) and fire by friction (energised matter) solar fire is produced. this solar fire will be distinguished above all else by its evolutionary development, and by the gradual intensification of the heat to be felt, and o

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e, meaning "freedom from limitation" and therefore signifying the attainment of pure spiritual realization. contact by the soul with the monad or spirit is the result, and knowledge of this contact is transmitted to the physical brain. this is only possible at a very advanced stage of yoga practice, and when the mind stuff is utterly still. the father in heaven is known, as revealed by the son to the mother. sattva (or rhythm) alone becomes manifest, rajas (activity) and tamas (inertia) being dominated and controlled. we should remember here that sattva has reference to the rhythm of the forms in which the yogi is functioning, and only as they express the highest of the three gunas (or qualities of matter) is the highest or spiritual aspect known. only as rajas controls is the second aspec

of criticism and polemical discussion, as it forms part of the planetary discriminative process) and later experimentally. this discrimination leads eventually to three things: 1. an understanding of the distinction between spirit and matter, 2. a comprehension of the nature therefore of the soul which is the product of this union, and is the son, produced by the union of the father-spirit and of the mother-matter, 3. a development whereby the soul begins to identify itself with the spiritual aspect and not with the phenomenal world of forms. this later stage is greatly aided and hastened through the practice of raja yoga and hence the determination of the hierarchy to give this science to the critical discriminating west. it should be borne in mind that the soul passes through great stage

nslations permissible here, the above and the following "a knowledge of the astral world comes to him who can meditate upon the moon" either is correct and probably a true understanding of the sanskrit is only arrived at through combining the two. it might suffice here to give a simple english paraphrase which will give the essence of the significance of this sutra "one-pointed concentration upon the mother of forms (the moon) will reveal to the aspirant the nature and purpose of form" if the student will remember that the moon is the symbol of matter, whereas the sun in its aspect of light is the symbol of the soul, he will have no difficulty in ascertaining the meaning of the two sutras we have just considered. one deals with the soul and the various states of consciousness; the other de

developed. one knows oneself in truth to be, not the form but the indweller, not the material self but the spiritual, not the differentiated aspects but the one alone, and thus the great process of liberation is carried forward. one becomes what one is, and one accomplishes this through meditation on the intelligent soul, the middle aspect, the christ principle which links the father (spirit) and the mother (matter. thus the great triplicity is again to be seen: 1. the father, or spirit, the one who manifests, who creates, who indwells, 2. the son who reveals, meditates and links the highest aspect with the lower, 3. the holy ghost, overshadowing the mother, intelligent material substance providing the forms through which experience and development are gained. the one who experiences, who

t is possible for him to unfold the powers of the soul. the soul aspect is still dormant for many because full experience and development of the lower nature has not yet been undergone. the forty years' wandering in the wilderness with the tabernacle and the conquest of canaan, had to precede the rule of the kings and the building of the temple of solomon. lives must be passed before the body, or the mother aspect, is so perfected that the christ child can be formed within the prepared vessel. it should also be remembered that the possession of the lower psychic powers is in many cases a symptom of a low stage of evolution and of the close association of their owner with the animal nature. this has to be outgrown before the higher powers can blossom forth. it is needless to point out that

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those of you who have the inner knowledge will comprehend at once. to will. these words relate to the ultimate achievement, when, by an act of the combined will of the soul and of the lower man, unification and realisation are brought about. it concerns the centre at the base of the spine. to know. these words concern the ajna centre, the centre between the eyebrows. a hint lies in the words 'let the mother know the father. it has relation to the marriage in the heavens. to dare. these words give the clue to the subordination of the personality, and have a close connection with the solar plexus, the great clearing house of desire and of the astral forces, and also the main centre of the transmutative work. to be silent. this phrase relates to the transmutation of the lower creative energy

ollows: for the aspirant who progresses from aries to pisces and has therefore re-oriented himself we have: aries. i come forth, and from the plane of mind i rule. taurus. i see, and when the eye is opened, all is illumined. gemini. i recognise my other self and in the waning of that self i grow and glow. cancer. i build a lighted house and therein dwell. leo. i am that and that am i. virgo. i am the mother and the child, i god, i matter am. libra. i choose the way that leads between the two great lines of force. scorpio. warrior i am, and from the battle i emerge triumphant. sagittarius. i see the goal. i reach the goal and see another. capricorn .l ost am i in light supernal and on that light i turn my back. aquarius. water of life am i, poured forth for thirsty men. pisces. i leave the

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

y, to the father, to the first aspect of divinity, and to that essential dynamic electric fire which produces all that is, and is the sustaining, originating cause and source of all manifestation. i shall use the word appearance to express that which we call matter, or form, or objective expression; it is that illusory tangible outer appearance which is animated by life. this is the third aspect, the mother, overshadowed and fertilised by the holy ghost, or life, united with intelligent substance. this is fire by friction a friction brought about by life and matter and their interplay, and producing change and constant mutation. i shall use the word quality as expressive of the second aspect, the son of god, the cosmic christ incarnate in form a form brought into being by the relation of s

i use a body. that body is not me. i serve the group and in this serving live within the body, detached, a son of god. i know my self "i infuse a body. i am its life and in that life shall i see life. that life is known as love. i am the love of god. i know the father, and know his life is love "i am the body and its loving life. i am the self, whose quality is love. i am the life of god himself. the mother-father-son am i "behind these three there stands the unknown god. that god am i- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust let us be perfectly clear even at the expense of reiteration. in this treatise, though we may touch upon form and consider its nature, we shall lay emphasis upon self-consciousness as it expresses itself as responsi

are not open to the criticism that we neglect reality and regard diversity as the only truth. we shall now answer five questions that i have formulated and answered for the reader. question 1. what is the soul. can we define it? what is its nature? here i shall give but four definitions which will serve as a basis for all that follows. a. the soul can be spoken of as the son of the father and of the mother (spirit-matter) and is therefore the embodied life of god, coming into incarnation in order to reveal the quality of the nature of god, which is essential love. this life, taking form, nurtures the quality of love within all forms, and ultimately reveals the purpose of all creation. this is the simplest definition for average humanity, being couched in the language of mysticism, thus li

ty which we call a solar system, veil the quality and purpose of deity. it is only when man is no longer deluded by appearance and has freed himself from the veil of illusion that he arrives at a knowledge of the quality of god's consciousness and at the purpose which it is revealing. this he does in a triple way: a. he discovers his own soul, the product of the union of his father in heaven with the mother or the material nature. this last is the personality. he then, having discovered the personality- 27- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust discovers the quality of his own soul life, and the purpose for which he has "appeared" b. he finds that this quality expresses itself through seven aspects or basic differentiations, and that this

d to be an embodiment of love, applied with intelligence and producing those "attractive" forms which will serve to express that loving intelligence. the soul in its turn is intended to be the embodiment of divine purpose or will, intelligently applied in the great creative work, which is produced through the power of creative love. each son of god can say: i am born of the love of the father for the mother, of the desire of life for form. i express, therefore, the love and the magnetic attractiveness of the god nature, and the responsiveness of the form nature, and am consciousness itself, aware of deity or life. each intelligent point of life can say: i am the product of intelligent will, working through intelligent activity and producing a world of created forms which embody or veil the

xperience which, in their main stages, we call consciousness, animal consciousness, and allied differentiating phrases. this second ray is the ray of deity itself, and is coloured by distinctive aspects of desire or love. they produce the totality of the manifested appearances, animated by the life which determines the quality. the father, spirit or life, wills to seek the satisfaction of desire. the mother or matter meets the desire and is attracted also by the father. their mutual response initiates the creative work, and the son is born, inheriting from the father the urge to desire or love, and from the mother the tendency actively to create forms. thus, in the language of symbolism, have the form worlds come into being, and through the evolutionary work the process is going forward of

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

esented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to thes

indicate to us the way: he came to give us an example, so that we could be galvanised by the hope that "maketh not ashamed"47 to "press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling."48 it should be noted here that the journey, preceding the birth, is also a part of the life-story of other teachers sent from god. for instance, we read "among the thirty-two signs which were to be fulfilled by the mother of the expected messiah (buddha, the fifth sign was recorded to be `that she would be on a journey at the time of her child's birth' therefore `that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets' the virgin maya, in the tenth month after her heavenly conception, was on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she

e fifth sign was recorded to be `that she would be on a journey at the time of her child's birth' therefore `that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets' the virgin maya, in the tenth month after her heavenly conception, was on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn when buddha was born "the mother of lao-tse, the virgin-born chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave birth to her son."49 we are told in the gospel story that the virgin mary, with her husband joseph and bearing within herself the christ child, went up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the signif

mplete unity has been achieved. we begin to see what must be done, we begin to assume the right attitude which will make it possible. the halves of our essential duality soul and body, christ and mary, over-shadowed by the holy ghost, the material and the spiritual face each other and approach nearer and nearer until complete union is achieved and the christ is born through the instrumentality of the mother. but the acceptance of this divine idea and the orientation of the life in order to make the idea a fact are the first and immediate steps- 53- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust this, christ taught, and for this he prayed the father "neither pray i for these alone (his disciples, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one;

the thought was in the consciousness of the crucified saviour that matter itself, being divine, was capable of infinite suffering; and in these words there was wrung from him the recognition that though god suffers in the person of his son, he also suffers with similar acute agony in the person of that son's mother, the material form which has given him birth. christ stands midway between the two the mother and the father. therein is his problem, and therein is found the problem of every human being. christ draws the two together the matter aspect and the spirit aspect, and the union of these two produces the son. this is humanity's problem and humanity's opportunity. the fourth word from the cross admits us into one of the most intimate moments of christ's life a moment that has a definit

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

of energy. the method is relatively gentle, when compared to the method of the first ray, and the process is somewhat longer whilst the overshadowing (carried forward prior to entering into the three worlds for purposes of appearance) is very much longer. this refers to that overshadowing of the substance to be built into form, and not to the overshadowing of the completed form, i.e. the child in the mother's womb. in the first case, it might be said that souls on the first ray are sudden and rapid in their desire to incarnate, and in the methods employed. souls on the second ray are slower in coming to that "impulsive" action (in the sense of impulse to action and not impulse in time) which leads to the occult manufacture of an appearance with which to manifest. souls on this ray, as they

or to the universe. what is here presented is of sufficient difficulty and of adequate interest to merit careful consideration. i wonder if the students have any idea how the ideals i seek to bring to their attention could illumine their lives if they took them into their "brooding consciousness" for the space even of a month. this aspect of consciousness is the correspondence in the soul body to the mother aspect, as it broods over, guards and eventually brings to the birth the christ aspect. lives are changed primarily by reflection; qualities are developed by directed conscious thought; characteristics are unfolded by brooding consideration. to all this i call your attention. i diverged briefly for a moment and took up the subject of the rays of the three bodies of the personality befor

i: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust attached to the leader or when aroused to hate or dislike they violently disrupted the tie and severed the relationship, causing much distress and unnecessary suffering to the group as well as to the leader. in the new age the cord will be cut early in the life of the group but the leader or group of leaders will remain for a long time (as does the mother of a child) the guiding inspiration, the loving protecting force and the source of instruction and of teaching. when this is the case, the group can proceed upon its way and live its life as a self-directing agent even when the leader passes over to the other side or there is a change in leadership for some good reason or other. according to the general flow of group life and activity s

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

s trust 3. the first initiation. this initiation ever precedes the stage of accepted discipleship. no master accepts a disciple and takes him into his ashram in whom the birth of the christ has not taken place. saul must become paul, as the christian phraseology puts it. the babe within the womb of time emerges into the world of men and, from the standpoint of complete identification with matter (the mother, he becomes himself and seeks consciously to tread the ways of life and to become what he is. this is an esoteric repetition of the physical process of becoming a separate individual. between the stages of "isolated individuality" and "isolated unity" lies one to which the name of "isolated identity" is given. it is with this stage we are concerned and its esoteric implications. isolate

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

s. it has combined political objectives with pomp and ceremony, with great stone structures, with power and an imposed authority of a most cramping nature. the early christian church (which was relatively pure in its presentation of truth and in its living processes) eventually split into three main divisions the roman catholic church which today seeks to make capital out of the claim that it was the mother church, the byzantine or greek orthodox church and the protestant churches. all of them split away on the question of doctrine and all of them were originally sincere and clean and relatively pure and good. all have steadily deteriorated since the day of their inception and today the following sad and serious situation can be found: 1. the roman catholic church is distinguished by three

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

d taurus you have the following potencies active: egoic ruler personality ruler australia. virgo. 6th .c apricorn .1 0th canada .t aurus .2 nd. libra. 7th india. aries. 1st. capricorn .1 0th new zealand. gemini. 3rd. virgo. 6th south africa. aries. 1st. sagittarius. 9th these are the major divisions. there are lesser divisions but with these i am not here concerned. these countries are related to the mother-country through their planetary rulers, and in this- 36- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust statement you have a definite hint conveyed. the zodiacal signs relate, but the planets are more influential at this stage of evolution. it is not my intention to give you the ruling signs of the capitals of all the countries; i have dealt with but only the more important: coun

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

are not pure emotion and feeling, clothed in pure astral matter, for there is no such thing. they are the instinctual desires, evoked by the evolving substance of the physical plane and this, in its entirety and through the activity of the human family, is being redeemed and drawn upwards until some day we shall see the transfiguration of that substance and the "glorification of the virgin mary" the mother aspect in relation to divinity. they are also the descending thoughtforms which the developing human being is always creating and drawing downwards into manifestation, clothing them with the substance of desire. when the descending forms of thought (a reflection in the three worlds of that vast "cloud of knowable things" in process of perception, as patanjali calls it, and which hovers

f radiation, soul life and service. the cross as now made in the catholic churches, touching the forehead, the heart and the two shoulders is the sign of matter. it signifies in reality the third aspect. the cross which the group will make is the cross of christ and of the christ consciousness. gradually the cross of christ (the cross of the risen christ) will supersede the cross of matter and of the mother aspect. its likeness to the swastika is obvious and will be one of the reasons for its disappearance. 3. the preparatory stages: a. focussing the dual personality light of matter and of mind. b. meditation on soul contact and the recognition of soul light. c. the blending and fusion of the two lesser lights and of soul light. this is carried forward as a group, each member making his co

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

ct of the sixth type of cosmic electricity, and wields special power, therefore, in conjunction with the lowest fire, or "fire by friction" as it makes itself felt on the sixth plane. these lives are called "the burning sons of desire" and were the sons of necessity. it is said of them in the old commentary "they burned to know. they rushed into the spheres. they are the longing of the father for the mother. hence do they suffer, burn, and long through the sixth sphere of sense" hierarchy ii. the second hierarchy is closely allied with the great bear. we are told that they entered through the second ventricle within the sacred heart, and are (as we are told in the secret doctrine) the prototypes of the monads. they are the source of monadic life, but they are not the monads; they are far h

ch brings about eventually the death of the personality and with which we shall later deal when we come to consider that sign. esoterically as well as exoterically, scorpio is the sign of death and burial in the earth, of descent into the depths in order to be lifted again on to the heights (the mountain top in capricorn. it is stated in some of the most ancient books that "the heat of the earth, the mother, and the sting of the scorpion are the beneficent gifts which the turning of the wheel gives to the man at the beginning and the end" these gifts, when accepted and used, bring a man to liberation and eventually from the control and pain of the fixed cross. 3. pisces sees the relinquishing or the death of all the influences which hold the man to the wheel of birth and his release from t

crystallising process and the eventual destruction of some type of form control. the old commentary expresses these ideas in the following terms "the fire blazed forth and through that fire i died to life and so was born to death. and then again i died to form (aries- 59- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the heat of earth, the fiery temper of the mother, destroyed the form, released the soul and so the lesser self was killed (scorpio. the waters drowned the man. the fish was made to disappear. it then appeared again only to die or else to die and bring salvation (pisces. thus there are symbolically the death through fire, the death through earth and the death through water burning, suffocation and drowning but, in this world cycle, the

nstability. interplay. sagittarius ambitious desire. direction- 109- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust orientation. unevolved man virgo material life. the cherishing of an idea. pisces sensation. mediumship. fluidity. gemini recognition of soul and form. soul interplay. sagittarius one-pointed spiritual aspiration. disciples. evolved man virgo the mother of the christ child. gestation. pisces the world saviour. mediatorship. in connection with the above, it is interesting to note that the twins set apart and unattached in gemini become the centaur, the man-beast, in sagittarius, whilst virgo, the virgin, becomes the fish goddess in the polar opposite, pisces. a treatise could be written on the subject of the relation of the opposites in

ugh the medium of humanity upon the planet. it is for this reason that jupiter and uranus (expressions of the second and the seventh rays) are the exoteric and esoteric rulers of aquarius. you have, therefore, the following line of force to study: 1. alcyone in the pleiades, the mothers of the seven aspects of form life and the "wives of the seven rishis of the great bear" they are connected with the mother aspect which nurtures the infant christ. 2. aquarius the world server, the transmitter of energy which evokes magnetic response. 3. jupiter and uranus planets of beneficent consummation. the second ray of love and the seventh ray which fuses spirit and matter "to the ultimate glory" of the solar logos are in the fullest eventual cooperation. 4. humanity the focal point for all these ene

n as the orthodox ruler and the hierarchical rule of aquarius. i would here remind you that the moon is usually regarded as "veiling" or "hiding" some planet and of these there are three which the moon may be veiling. here the intuition of the astrologer and of the esoteric student must be called out. these planets are vulcan, neptune or uranus. these three create and influence certain aspects of the mother principle, which nourish and feed the life of the inner divine reality until the time comes when the christ child is brought to the birth. they determine or condition the physical, astral and mental natures, thus creating the personality. they form a triangle of immense creative potency, upon which theme i will later enlarge when dealing with the science of triangles. the point which i

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ppy, exceedingly disagreeable, little girl, a society girl in the gay nineties (which i didn't find so gay) and then an evangelist of the "billy sunday" type and a social worker. again not so gay, except that i was young and tremendously interested in everything. later, i married walter evans and found myself functioning as the wife of a rector of the protestant episcopal church in california and the mother of three girls. this varied experience of living and working in great britain, europe, asia and america led to basic changes in my attitudes to life and people. to remain static in a point of view strikes me as unintelligent. it means that there comes a point in one's development when one ceases to learn, when one fails to extract the meaning out of events, schools of thought and circum

dreadful time. ellison was lying dangerously ill on a quilt on the floor whilst the other two children were playing in a neighbor's yard. my doctor- 66- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust drove up and came into the house with a baby in his arms, followed by a tall, pretty woman looking fit to be in a hospital. he said he had brought the baby for me to care for and would i put the mother to bed and take care of her too? of course i did, and for three days i had two sick babies on my hands and a sick woman too sick, ill and depressed to be able to care for her child. i did all i could, but the baby died in my arms. nothing could save her, and she had expert skill on the doctor's part and i am a good nurse. that doctor was a wise man; he knew that i had all i could handle

hey are many, are an insult to the human intelligence and our young people are most highly intelligent. personally, i would like to see every boy and girl at the age of adolescence taken to an understanding physician and told the bald facts. i would like to have engendered in the younger generation a respect for their function as the coming parents for the next generation and i would like to have the mother and father of today (and here i am generalising) leave the young people more free to work out their own problems. my experience has been that they can be trusted when they know. the average boy and girl are not naturally degenerate and are not going to take risks when they know the risks exist. i would like to have the sex problem approached by the physician as he talks to the boys and

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

nad. shamballa. the first aspect of will or power and purpose. related to the pineal gland. the right eye..the ajna centre..love. buddhi. the eye of the son, the soul. hierarchy. the second aspect of love-wisdom. related to the pituitary body- 90- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the left eye..the throat centre..a. ctive intelligence. the eye of the mother, the personality. h umanity. the third aspect of intelligence. related to the carotid gland. when these three eyes are functioning and all of them "seeing" simultaneously, you will then have insight into divine purpose (the initiate, intuitive vision of the plan (the disciple, and a spiritual direction of the resulting creative activity (the master. e. the ajna centre registers or focus

in the well-being of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain important aspects of the physical nature, and it symbolises the third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. it is in reality connected with the holy ghost, or the third divine aspect in manifestation "overshadowing (as the bible expresses it, the mother, the virgin mary. the parathyroids are symbolic of mary and joseph and the relation they hold to the overshadowing holy ghost. it will eventually be determined that there is a close physiological relation existing between the thyroid gland and the pineal gland, and between the parathyroids and the two lobes of the pituitary body, thus bringing into one related system the entire area of

hes its highest point of intensified recognition. d. it is that centre, therefore, in the physical body through the medium of which the hierarchy works; it is also the agent of the soul. when i here use the word "soul" i refer not only to the individual soul of man but to the soul also of the planetary logos, both of which are the result of the union of spirit and matter, of the father aspect and the mother aspect. this is a great mystery which only initiation can reveal. e. the heart centre registers the energy of love. it might here be stated that when the antahkarana has been finally constructed, the three aspects of the spiritual triad will each find a point of contact within the etheric mechanism of the initiate who is functioning upon the physical plane. the initiate is now a fusion

with it blend, unify and raise the three fires- 111- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 7. one of these paths is the one along which the energy which feeds matter is poured. another is related to the path of consciousness and of sensitive psychic unfoldment. the third is the path of pure spirit. thus in every living form the work of the father, of the mother and of the son is carried on. life-consciousness-form and life-quality-appearance are blended, and the response apparatus of the divine man is perfected, enabling him to contact and recognise the major divine aspects in the kingdoms in nature, in the planet and in the solar system eventually. be not betrayed into placing these interlaced spheres of living energy on the right or the left

promiscuity and series of perversions took place, and in the language of some of the most ancient books in the masters' archives we read "earth took its toll and earth to earth, polluted and impure, returned to earth; thus evil life entered the pristine cleanliness of the ancient mother. deep in the soil the evil lies, emerging into form from time to time, and only fire and suffering can cleanse the mother of the evil which her children have given unto her" the lemurian race practically destroyed itself, owing to its misuse of the sacral centre, which was at that time the most active and the dominant centre. in atlantean days it was the solar plexus centre which was the prime objective of the "entering fire" the work of the hierarchy in lemurian days was, as i have told you elsewhere, to

t already gained in the field of exact physical knowledge, and that exact knowledge is a fact. the study of inherited disease indicates a faint recognition of man's karmic liabilities and karmic tendencies. a mistake lies however in the belief that these tendencies are to be found in the germs of life and of substance, brought together at the moment of conception, and therefore that the father or the mother is responsible for the transmission. such is not the case. the subject in incarnation has from the angle of the soul definitely and consciously chosen his parents for what they can contribute to his physical make-up whilst in incarnation. the vital body is therefore of such a nature that the man is predisposed to a particular type of infection or of disease; the physical body is of such

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

1918, and 1939 until 1942. the first stage (if you could see the situation as it truly is) was most definitely the death stage; the second stage, in which we now find ourselves, is literally the stage of- 76- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust birth the birth pangs of the new order and of the new civilisation through which humanity's sense of life can express itself. the mother dies in order that the child may live; the form is sacrificed to the life. but today, the form aspect, the mother or matter aspect, is dying consciously, and just as consciously the child, the infant civilisation, is coming into being. this is the new thing and it is in this that we are all participating. it is the death of the personality of humanity and the coming in of the soul. such

y the ruler of shamballa to aid in the re-adjustments required for the new age and its coming civilisation. these forces spiritual and potent in nature exist in two categories: solar forces which are inter-planetary and cosmic forces which enter into our solar system via jupiter as the transmitter of divine energies from virgo and aquarius which jupiter esoterically governs. virgo is esoterically the mother of the christ child and is, therefore, the emanator of energies which nourish and aid the growth of the christ consciousness; aquarius is the coming expression of the- 101- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust group consciousness which is the first and immediate revelation of the ever present christ consciousness on a large scale in humanity. jupiter also, exo

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

to take the intended action (always of a creative nature and based on loving understanding) at the psychological moment (right timing, or that exact moment which the psyche or soul determines to be correct. here you have one of the interesting transferences of meaning and of relationship which occur in the ageless wisdom. the son or soul emerges into manifestation with the concurrence and aid of the mother or of the matter aspect. this is to you a most familiar truth. in the next stage, that of initiate-development, the son, in its turn, becomes the feminine or negative aspect and, demonstrating as the psyche, enables the initiate to bring into expression another divine aspect that of the will. until the fourth initiation is undergone, it is the soul as a "focal point for descending light

purpose. it is absolutely essential that the will-to-good be unfolded by the disciples of the world so that goodwill can be expressed by the rank and file of mankind. the will-to-good of the world- 71- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust knowers is the magnetic seed of the future. the will-to-good is the father aspect, whilst goodwill is the mother aspect, and from the relation of these two the new civilisation, based on sound spiritual (but utterly different) lines, can be founded. i would commend this thought to your consciousness, for it means that two aspects of spiritual work must be nurtured in the immediate future, for on them the more distant hope of happiness and of world peace depends. the new group of world servers must

ivating evolution. the note of synthetic sound. utilises the sutratma 2. the son aspect. t he quality of sensitivity. the love aspect. the nature of relationship. wisdom. understanding. the method of evolution- 303- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust consciousness. soul. the note of attractive sound. utilises the consciousness thread 3. the mother aspect the intelligence of substance. the intelligence aspect. the nature of form. the holy spirit. response to evolution. the note of nature. develops the creative thread the mental plane which must be bridged is like a great stream of consciousness or of conscious substance, and across this stream the antahkarana must be constructed. this is the concept which lies behind this teaching

d. it is dynamic. the point at the centre is the first ray of power, and its technique is never to move from the centre but from that point to work dynamically. perhaps the word that would best express its- 333- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust mode of work is inspiration. the father inspires response from the material aspect, or from the mother if you like that symbolism, but it accomplishes this by remaining immovably itself. from the point where he is, the builder (human or divine) works, not by the law of attraction, as does the second ray, but by the law of synthesis, by a fiat of the will, based on a clearly formulated purpose and programme. you will see, therefore, that the first ray personality has to ascertain (as in f

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

. they typify in their persons the essential duality of god in manifestation, of life in form, of soul in body, and of spirit and matter. this duality is the glory of humanity and also constitutes the problem which every human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercules disciple is to withdraw himself from the bonds of the mother and thus respond to the love of the father [18] this duality is also brought out in the fact that he was one of twins. we read that one twin was born of an earthly father, and that the other was the son of zeus. this is the great realization that comes to every developed and self-aware human being. he finds himself conscious of two aspects which meet in his nature. there is the well dev

fluences which pour from it are held by many esotericists to bring about the formation of the human family, of the race, the nation, and the family unit. where the aspirant is concerned, the story is somewhat different, for in these four signs, he prepares his equipment and learns to utilize it. in aries, he grips his mind and seeks to [82] bend it to his need, learning mental control. in taurus "the mother of illumination, he receives his first flash of that spiritual light which will grow increasingly more brilliant as he nears his goal. in gemini, he not only appreciates the two aspects of his nature, but the immortal aspect begins to increase at the expense of the mortal. now, in cancer, he gets his first touch of that more universal sense which is the- 49- the labours of hercules high

ng to another human being "you are, the bird out of time and space, you are the soul taking form; you are god in incarnation" the crab lives half on the earth, and half in the water. it the sign, therefore, of the soul dwelling in the physical body but predominantly living in the water, which is the symbol of the emotional, feeling nature. exoterically cancer is ruled by the moon, which is always the mother of form, controlling the waters and the tides. therefore, in this sign the form is dominant, and constitutes a handicap. the crab builds its house or shell and carries it upon its back, and people born in this sign are always conscious of that which they have built; they are usually over-sensitive [87] over-emotional, ever seeking to hide away. the cancer native is so sensitive that he

f the individual and, in capricorn, the birth of a world savior. definitely, therefore, it portrays the struggle that goes on in the life of the aspirant so that instinct can give place eventually to intuition. at-one-ment with capricorn it is interesting to contrast the two signs, cancer and capricorn, for that which is indicated in cancer is consummated in capricorn. cancer represents the home, the mother. it is personal and emotional, whilst capricorn represents the group [89] which the unit consciously enters, and also "the father of all that is. the gate of cancer is entered through the process of transference out of the animal state of consciousness into the human, whilst the gate of capricorn is entered through initiation. one is inevitable, subconscious and potential; the other is

g the symbol of unity and love, of sacrifice and faith. yet, grasping it, he slaughtered her, killing the one who dowered him with that which he required. and as he stood beside the dying queen, aghast at that which he had done, he heard his teacher speak "my son, why slay that which is needed, close and dear? why kill the one you love, the giver of good gifts, custodian of the possible? why kill the mother of the sacred child? again, we mark a failure. again you have not understood. redeem this moment, e'er again you seek my face" silence fell and hercules, gathering the girdle to his breast, sought out the homeward way, leaving the women sorrowing, bereft of leadership and love [114] unto the shores of the great sea again came hercules. close to the rocky shore he saw a monster of the de

ed gave unto you the needed love and power. you rescued that which needed you, and thus again the two are one. ponder anew upon the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son [115] the tibetan (djwhal khul) introduction it is said that, from some aspects, virgo is the oldest of the zodiacal signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, deep experiences and "slow

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

of the priests themselves, in contradistinction to the written law intended for the masses of the people. one of the principal conceptions of the kabalah is that spiritual wisdom is attained by thirty-two paths, typified by the ten numbers and the twenty-two letters; these ten again being symbols of the divine emanations, the sephiroth, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea, the great sea, the mother supernal, binah; and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolised by the three primary elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" n

as held by many jews up to the ninth century of our era. the caraite jews have accepted it ever since the seventh century. st. jerome says it was a doctrine of the early christian church taught only to a select few believers, and origen was of opinion that without transmigration, the incidents of the struggle between esau and jacob before birth, genesis 25, v. 22, and the reference to jeremiah in the mother's womb could not be explained, jer. i. 5. the kabalah then teaches that the egos have come out from the spirit fountain, suffer incarnation again and again until experience and perfection have been attained, and ultimately rejoin the divine source: zohar i. 145, 168; ii. 97. now what is it that dwells for a time in this 'coat of skin" as genesis in chapter 3, v. 21, calls it, this so-ca

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

ike a servant. there was not a plurality before me, but there was a likeness with multiple forms in the light, and the likenesses appeared through each other, and the likeness had three forms. he said to me "john, john, why do you doubt, or why are you afraid? you are not unfamiliar with this image, are you- that is, do not be timid- i am the one who is with you (pl) always. i am the father, i am the mother, i am the son. i am the undefiled and incorruptible one. now i have come to teach you what is and what was and what will come to pass, that you may know the things which are not revealed and those which are revealed, and to teach you concerning the unwavering race of the perfect man. now, therefore, lift up your face, that you may receive the things that i shall teach you today, and may

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

the eternal life, and the truth. this is the androgynous pentad of the aeons, which is the decad of the aeons, which is the father "and he looked at barbelo with the pure light which surrounds the invisible spirit, and (with) his spark, and she conceived from him. he begot a spark of light with a light resembling blessedness. but it does not equal his greatness. this was an only-begotten child of the mother-father which had come forth; it is the only offspring, the only-begotten one of the father, the pure light "and the invisible, virginal spirit rejoiced over the light which came forth, that which was brought forth first by the first power of his forethought, which is barbelo. and he anointed it with his goodness until it became perfect, not lacking in any goodness, because he had anoint

one, the autogenes, the christ, by the first light armozel; and with him are his powers. and the invisible one gave him a spiritual, invincible power. and he spoke and glorified and praised the invisible spirit, saying 'it is for thy sake that everything has come into being and everything will return to thee. i shall praise and glorify thee and the autogenes and the aeons, the three: the father, the mother, and the son, the perfect power "and he placed his son seth over the second aeon in the presence of the second light oriel. and in the third aeon the seed of seth was placed over the third light daveithai. and the souls of the saints were placed (there. and in the fourth aeon the souls were placed of those who do not know the pleroma and who did not repent at once, but who persisted for

er desire, it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and begot authorities for hims

ed in him the likeness of the cosmos. and when he saw the creation which surrounds him, and the multitude of the angels around him which had come forth from him, he said to them 'i am a jealous god, and there is no other god beside me' but by announcing this he indicated to the angels who attended him that there exists another god. for if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous "then the mother began to move to and fro. she became aware of the deficiency when the brightness of her light diminished. and she became dark because her consort had not agreed with her" and i said "lord, what does it mean that she moved to and fro" but he smiled and said "do not think it is, as moses said 'above the waters' no, but when she had seen the wickedness which had happened, and the theft whi

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

he witchesand of) diana, who is queen of the fairies and of the moon.now the young lady being persuaded, was converted to the worship of dianaand the moon, andhaving prayed with all her heart for a lover (having learned the conjuration to the goddess, 22 wassoon rewarded by the attention and devotion of a brave and wealthy cavalier, who was indeed asadmirable a suitor as any one could desire. but the mother, who was far more bent on gratifying vin-dictiveness and cruel vanity than on her daughters happiness, was infuriated at this, and when thegentleman came to her, she bade him begone, for her daughter was vowed to become a nun, and anun she should be or die.then the young lady was shut up in a cell in a tower, without even the company of her governess,and put to strong and hard pain, bei

at last her mother, hearing of her, was in a greater rage than ever,and, in fine, after much trouble, succeeded in having her again arrested and cast into prison. andthen in evil temper indeed she asked her whether she would become a nun: to which she repliedthat it was not possible, because she had left the catholic church and become a worshipper ofdianaand of the moon.and the end of it was that the mother, regarding her daughter as lost, gave her up to the priests tobe put to torture and death, as they did all who would not agree with them or who left their religion.but the people were not well pleased with this, because they adored her beauty and goodness, andthere were few who had not enjoyed her charity.but by the aid of her lover she obtained, as a last grace, that on the night befor

standing.there is a peasants house at the beginning of the hill or ascent leading to volterra, and it is calledthe house of the wind. near it there once stood a small palace, wherein dwelt a married couple,who had but one child, a daughter, whom they adored. truly if the child had but a headache, theyeach had a worse attack from fear.little by little as the girl grew older, and all the thought of the mother, who was very devout, was thatshe should become a nun. but the girl did not like this, and declared that she hoped to be marriedlike others. and when looking from her window one day, she saw and heard the birds singing in thevines and among the trees all so merrily, she said to her mother that she hoped some day to have afamily of little birds of her own, singing round her in a cheerful

was very devout, was thatshe should become a nun. but the girl did not like this, and declared that she hoped to be marriedlike others. and when looking from her window one day, she saw and heard the birds singing in thevines and among the trees all so merrily, she said to her mother that she hoped some day to have afamily of little birds of her own, singing round her in a cheerful nest. at which the mother was soangry that she gave her daughter a cuff. and the young lady wept, but replied with spirit, that if beat-en or treated in any such manner, that she would certainly soon find some way to escape and getmarried, for she had no idea of being made a nun of against her will.at hearing this the mother was seriously frightened, for she knew the spirit of her child, and wasafraid lest the g

that is like man, yet not mortal.and it came thus that dianatook the form of a cat. her brother had a cat whom he loved beyond allcreatures, and it slept every night on his bed, a cat beautiful beyond all other creatures, a fairy: hedid not know it.dianaprevailed with the cat to change forms with her; so she lay with her brother, and in the dark-ness assumed her own form, and so by lucifer became the mother of aradia. but when in the morn-ing he found that he lay by his sister, and that light had been conquered by darkness, lucifer wasextremely angry; but dianasang to him a spell, a song of power, and he was silent, the song of thenight which soothes to sleep; he could say nothing. so dianawith her wiles of witchcraft so charmedhim that he yielded to her love. this was the first fascinatio

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

st could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the continent of europe. i mention this lest it should be thought that the intimations of a german

saw lodges in 1773. the story of its influence in germany itself is beyond my scope. it is written at large everywhere: at hamburg from 1765, when schubert founded an independent prefectory, to 1781 (when the rectified rite was established for a brief period by prince karl von hesse; at nuremberg in 1765, under the same auspices; in the grand lodge of saxony from circa 1762 to 1782; at berlin, in the mother lodge of the three globes, from 1766 to 1779, when the rosicrucians intervened; at konigsberg from 1769 to 1799 in the provincial grand lodge; in the kingdom of hanover, at the english provincial grand lodge, from 1766 to 1778; and even now the list is not exhausted. the explanation of this influence through all its period and everywhere is (i) that which lay behind the romantic thesis

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

as gleng gzhi. 296 in fact, he is the continuum of the secret one. 297 she entreated. 298 manifested might demons. 299 manifested might demons. 155 previously, in the age of perfection,300 at the time when ka.yapa s teachings were about to decline, in the northern region of the southern continent jambudv.pa, in a place301 of jeweled joy and happiness [there was] the father, khotan lord sangwa,302 the mother, known as utpalgyen, and the son, khotan prince chorwa. faith having arisen in his mind,303 that son received pratimok.a vows as the monk chandrabhadra.304 having dwelled in a forest, in a city of that region, there was a daughter of king dharma.r..305 that princess was called majin.306 she was abiding within a pleasant bathing pool307 and was attacked by a malevolent poisonous snake.30

eautiful form. 307 in order to bathe. 308 having come forth from the thick of the forest. 309 for fear of it spreading. 310 saying "a rough degenerate who is a jealous monk is engaging in sexual intercourse with the princess" 311 soldiers. 312 [this she told] to her father, which was that a poisonous snake emerged [and the monk] applied medicinal deer musk. 313 "i will be reborn into existence as the mother of chorwa and i will become your executioner" the actual tibetan is as follows: ra li sras phyor pa i yum srid du skyes la khyed kyi gshed por gyur. the ra which begins this redaction is difficult to decipher and thus left untranslated here; it may refer to chorwa s clan. 314 praying and 315 she jumped from a rocky crag. 316 by a friend. 317 a horse. 318 the noble one. 319 the source of

kk 211 appendix d fragments from the unprecedented elegant explanations (114.12-114.20) previously, when the teachings of the buddha ka.yapa had nearly disappeared, in khotan, a land of precious joy and happiness in the north of the jambudvipa, in a place called "dark willow grove" there was a man named chorpo, prince of khotan, born as the son of the father, the king of khotan, named sangwa, and the mother, named utpal gyen. after reaching adulthood, he was inspired by thoughts of renunciation; having taken monastic vows, he became fully ordained as the monk called candrabhaha. he dwelled single-pointedly in meditation in a forest of king dharma.r. s country (115.16-117.5) the lord s teachings prophesied "a tibetan lake having diminished, a forest of sala trees will arise" when the buddha

ered like that: the fierce-faced savage demon lord named lekpa, the might demon lord dawa t kar and the flesh-eating violence demoness named dongmarma" from the tantra of the red effigy of the rock might demon s life-energy "the might demon lord is also called dawa t kar. the might demon king is also called anglingter [ang ling gter [the demon] is called the victorious akse [ag se] of the sky and the mother is a serpent demoness named zangdrinma. the queen of the might demons is named shelmikma [the demoness] is named sasin mamo. these are from the food within the rock stairs of the two hard teachings (117.17-118.2) furthermore, from the root tantra "from within the force inside the burst egg, the malicious violence demon tsi mar arose. from his body of a great malicious mind of attachment

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

es. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft is lilith or babalon, as described previously. she is also hecate, the darkened moon goddess of the cunning circle, whose blessing is both youth, imagination and death. the son is within you and that is cain, the baphometic daemon whose magick is the core essence of the religion of sorcery. the very circle casting rite as written by gerald gardner presents the mother of witchcraft, mother, darksome and divine, mine the scourge and mine the kiss, the five-point star of love and bliss. within the circle there is the very graal of the adversary, that through self-love can the essence of the pentagram be sensed and understood. he refers to hecate or lilith (via diana) as being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil an

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ificant of, the moon, since all these were lunar goddesses, the configuration of this planet is now placed by theologians between the horns of the mystic lucifer* it is owing to the fanciful interpretation of the[[footnote(s* the ansated cross is the astronomical planetary sign of venus "signifying the existence of parturient energy in the sexual sense, and this was one of the attributes of isis, the mother, of eve, hauvah, or mother-earth, and was so recognised among all the ancient peoples in one or another mode of expression (from a modern kabalistic ms* athenaeus shows that the first letter of satan's name was represented in days of old by an arc and crescent; and some roman catholics, good and kind men, would persuade the public that it is in honour of lucifer's crescent-like horns th

o the three preceding rounds she has already passed through; the present being the fourth round out of the seven. at the beginning of every new round, after a period of "obscuration" the earth (as do also the other six "earths) casts off, or is supposed to cast off, her old skins as the serpent does: therefore she is called in the aitareya-brahmana the sarpa rajni "the queen of the serpents" and "the mother of all that moves" the "seven skins" in the first of which she now stands, refer to the seven geological changes which accompany and correspond to the evolution of the seven root-races of humanity. stanza ii, which speaks of this round, begins with a few words of information concerning the age of our earth. the chronology will be given in its place. in the commentary appended to the sta

the forms are destroyed by them (9) the first great tides (10) the beginning of incrustation- 5. the wheel whirled for thirty crores (of years, or 300,000,000. it constructed rupas (forms. soft stones, that hardened (minerals; hard plants, that softened (vegetation. visible from invisible, insects and small lives (sarisripa, swapada. she (the earth) shook them off her back, whenever they overran the mother (a. after thirty crores of years, she turned round. she laid on her back; on her side. she would call no sons of heaven, she would ask no sons of wisdom. she created from her own bosom. she evolved water-men terrible and bad (b (a) this relates to an inclination of the axis- of which there were several- to a consequent deluge and chaos on earth (having, however, no reference to primeval

he occult teaching is the reverse of this. the moon is far older than the earth; and, as explained in book i, it is the latter which owes its being to the former, however astronomy and geology may explain the fact. hence, the tides and the attraction to the moon, as shown by the liquid portion of the globe ever striving to raise itself towards its parent. this is the meaning of the sentence that "the mother-water arose and disappeared in the moon, which had lifted her, which had given her birth[[footnote(s* but see the difficulties suggested later, in the works of various geologists, against this theory. compare sir r. s. bull's article in "nature (dec. 1, 1881, and also what the american geologists say[[vol. 2, page] 65 divine will becomes eros. 10. when they (the rupas) were destroyed, m

se* so much so, that in the paragraph on "the emanation of the male and female principles" in the zohar[[footnote(s* vide "the holy of holies: its esoteric meaning" in part io of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 85 the son of yah (ibid, it is said that, on this earth, the wisdom from the "holy ancient "does not shine except in male and female "hohmah, wisdom, is the father, and binah, understanding, is the mother. and when they connect one with the other they bring forth and diffuse and emanate truth. in the sayings of rabbi je-yeva sabah, i.e, the old, we learned this: what is binah understanding? but when they connect in one another, the[[diagram (yod) in the[[diagram (heh, they become impregnated and produce a son. and, therefore, it is called binah, understanding. it means ben yah, i.e, son

ame of jehovah, or jah-hovah, meaning male life and female life- first androgynous, then separated into sexes- is used in this sense in genesis from ch. v. onwards. as the author of "the source of measures" says (p. 159 "the two words of which jehovah is composed make up the original idea of male-female, as the birth originators; for the hebrew letter jod was the membrum virile and hovah was eve, the mother of all living, or the procreatrix, earth and nature. the author believes, therefore, that "it is seen that the perfect one (the perfect female circle or yoni, 20612, numerically "as originator of measures, takes also the form of birth-origin, as hermaphrodite one; hence the phallic form and use" precisely; only "the phallic form and use" came long ages later; and the first and original

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

the science of religion" lecture on false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten

o one: and this is space "explain, oh lanoo (disciple "the one is an unbroken circle (ring) with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere; the one is the boundless plane of the circle, manifesting a diameter only during the manvantaric periods; the one is the indivisible point found nowhere, perceived everywhere during those periods; it is the vertical and the horizontal, the father and the mother, the summit and base of the father, the two extremities of the mother, reaching in reality nowhere, for the one is the ring as also the rings that are within that ring. light in darkness and darkness in light: the 'breath which is eternal' it proceeds from without inwardly, when it is everywhere, and from within outwardly, when it is nowhere (i.e, maya* one of the centres. it expands an

a solar or even a planetary one* by "centre" a centre of energy or a cosmic focus is meant; when the so-called "creation" or formation of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by the occultists life and by science "energy" then the process takes place[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 12 the secret doctrine. contracts (exhalation and inhalation. when it expands the mother diffuses and scatters; when it contracts, the mother draws back and ingathers. this produces the periods of evolution and dissolution, manwantara and pralaya. the germ is invisible and fiery; the root (the plane of the circle) is cool; but during evolution and manwantara her garment is cold and radiant. hot breath is the father who devours the progeny of the many-faced element (heteroge

back and ingathers. this produces the periods of evolution and dissolution, manwantara and pralaya. the germ is invisible and fiery; the root (the plane of the circle) is cool; but during evolution and manwantara her garment is cold and radiant. hot breath is the father who devours the progeny of the many-faced element (heterogeneous; and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous. cool breath is the mother, who conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives them back into her bosom, to reform them at the dawn (of the day of brahma, or manvantara" for clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that occult science recognises seven cosmical elements- four entirely physical, and the fifth (ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air towards the end

ce to fall, as three into four, into the lap of maya. 5. the seven sons were not yet born from the web of light. darkness alone was father-mother, svabhavat; and svabhavat was in darkness. 6. these two are the germ, and the germ is one. the universe was still concealed in the divine thought and the divine bosom- stanza iii. 1. the last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude. the mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus. 2. the vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life. 3. darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep. the ray shoots through the virgin egg, the ray causes the

shadowy end, matter; and this web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one, which is svabhavat[[footnote(s* in the english translation from the sanskrit the numbers are given in that language, eka, chatur, etc, etc. it was thought best to give them in english[[vol. 1, page] 30 the secret doctrine. 11. it expands when the breath of fire is upon it; it contracts when the breath of the mother touches it. then the sons dissociate and scatter, to return into their mother's bosom at the end of the great day, and re-become one with her; when it is cooling it becomes radiant, and the sons expand and contract through their own selves and hearts; they embrace infinitude. 12. then svabhavat sends fohat to harden the atoms. each is a part of the web. reflecting the "selfexistent lord

BLUE EQUINOX

ngulph their continent. 37. so they will reproach thy servant, saying: who hath set thee to save us? 38. he will be sore distressed. 39. all they understand not that thou and i are fashioning a boat of mother-of-pearl. we will sail down the river of amrit even to the yew-groves of yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 40. the joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam.all in the mother-of-pearl. 41 (the scribe was wroth therat. he spake: o adonai and my master, i have born the inkhorn and pen without pay, in order that i might search this river of amrit, and sail thereon as one of ye. this i demand for my fee, that i partake of the echo of your kisses) 42 (and immediately it was granted unto him) 43 (nay; but not therewith was he content. by an infinite abasement unto

beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phil not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone

0. i was stricken as a bird by the bolt of the thunderer; i was pierced as the thief by the lord of the garden. 41. o my lord, let us sail upon the sea of blood! 42. there is a deep taint beneath the ineffable bliss; it is the taint of generation. 43. yea, though the flower wave bright in the sunshine, the root is deep in the darkenss of earth. 44. praise to thee, o beautiful dark earth, thou art the mother of a million myriads of myriads of flowers. 45. also i beheld my god, and the countenance of him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. yet in his heart i beheld the slow and dark one, the ancient one, the devourer of his children. 46. in the height and the abyss, o my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned

hase, i should have neither heard nor understood. or had zeus his dangerous daughter, aphrodite, from the water risen all shining, her soft arms open, all her spells and charms melted to one lure divine of her red mouth pressed to mine, i had neither heard nor seen nor felt the idalian. between my soul and all it knowledge of the universe of light and love, thought, being, nature, time and space, the mother.s heart, the father.s face, all that was agony or bliss, stretched an infinite abyss. all that behind me! but my soul, with no star left to point the pole, witless and banned of grace or goal, beggared of all its wealth, bereft of all its images, unweft its magic web, its tools all broken, its name forgot, its word unspoken, the equinox 190 widowed of its undying lord, its bowl of silve

journeys, when possible, to remote places, there to sow the seed of the law. tenth house 37. all pregnant women are especially sacred to members of the order, and no effort should be spared to bring them to acceptance of the law of freedom, so that the unborn may benefit by that impression. they should be induced to become members of the order, so that the child may be born under its gis. 38. if the mother that is to be have asserted her will to be so in contempt and defiance of the tabus of the slave-gods, she is to be regarded as especially suitable to our order, and the master of the lodge in her district shall offer to become, as it were, godfather to the child, who shall be trained specially, if the mother so wishes, as a servant of the order, in one of its profess-houses. 39. specia

and a brother. all imitate him. the deacon and all the people: i believe in one secret and ineffable lord; and in one star in the company of stars of whose fire we are created, 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

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ght of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers slowly melted back, and then looked again for the humanites under the trees. and god was angered, for they were still hunting and gathering just as they had in the time of seth. then god found noah, in the land between the two rivers. 4. noah was the daughter of zelophehad, the wife of tubalcain, and the mother of shem, ham, and jafet. at night, while her family slept, noah talked to god. then god told noah to leave the forest and go up into the mountains "make disks of wood, two by two, and set rods through their centers. lay a sled four cubits long across the rods, and put all that you possess on the sled. then go with your family up to the high slopes of mount ararat. for the forests below

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ect soon passes away, and therefore symbolized by a figure on a steed riding swiftly, and clothed in complete armour. therefore is the knowledge of the scale of the king so necessary for the commencement of all magical working. the four queens book t page 4 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 are seated upon thrones; representing the forces of the he of the name in each suit; the mother and bringer-forth of material forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the

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s evolution complete. it cannot go further than the experience of self-so returns and unites again and again, ever an anti-climax. for ever retrogressing to its original simplicity by infinite complication is its evolution. no man shall understand "why" by its workings. know it as the illusion that embraces the learning of all existence. the most aged one who grows no wiser, it may be regarded as the mother of all things. therefore believe all experience to be illusion, and the law of duality. as space pervades an object both in and out, similarly within and beyond this ever-changing cosmos, there is this secondless principle* by scores of incarnations, our eventual "self" is derived from the attributes with which we endow our god, the abstract ego or conceptive principle. all conception i

ft us that has no sin and is free? verily, it is the only thing we dare be conscious of. he that truly pleases himself is wihout virtue, and shall satisfy all men. hate, jealousy, murder, etc, are conditions of love, even as virtue, greed, selfishness, suicide, etc, are conditions or not pleasing ones's self. there is no sin more sickening than love, for it is the very essence of covetousness and the mother of all sin, hence it has the most devotees. self-love only is pure and without a congregation. the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 24 he that entirely loves himself induces self-love only. in this he is inexorable, but does not offend like other men. he is akin to the great purpose, his actions explained for him, good seen of his evil, without knowin

lar desire (at the magical time, escaping the detection of the ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness*(1) by this system, you know exactly what (you believe) your sigil must relate to. if you used any form stupidly, you might possibly "conjure up" exactly what you did not want- the mother of insanity, or what always happens then, nothing at all. this being the only system, any result other than by it is accidental. also you do not have to dress up as a traditional magician, wizard or priest, build expensive temples, obtain virgin parchment, black goat's blood, etc, etc, in fact no theatricals or humbug*(2) free belief or energy, i.e, a disappointed desire, not yet an obs

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n. yahweh is the vocalized form often used, but it is derived from the four letters yhwh (the "divine tetra-grammaton, signifying "that name too sacred to be pronounced. in christianity there was developed the use of a human male, jesus, to play the part of the "son of god, the christ, thus giving a recognizable form to deity; a form to which the followers could relate. with the addition of mary, the mother figure, the duality was complete. bo it was much more comfortable to pray to jesus, as the extension of god/supreme being, yet all the time knowing that there was the indefinable, the incomprehensible, beyond him. jesus and mary were the intermediaries. so in witchcraft; those we know as the god and the goddess are our intermediaries. different traditions use different names, as already

s name was to have a power over them for if signifying the end of a sentence lesson three: tools, clothing and names/ 39 you knew the name of your enemy you could conjure with it. in borneo, the dyaks believe very strongly in the power of a name. a mother, there, will never call her child home, after dark, using his real name in case an evil spirit should learn the name and call the child itself. the mother will only call the child by a "nickname. your witch name need not be kept a solemn secret but at least respect it. use it only with other witches or, at least, only with those close to you. of course you may be quite happy with your regular, given name. if you want to use that as your witch name also, that is fine. however, check it out numerologically, as describe below, before you mak

may simply recite the following: priestess "i am she who watches over thee; mother of you all. know that i rejoice that you do not forget me. to pay me homage at the full of the moon is meet and right and brings joy unto yourselves even as it does to me. know that, with my good lord, i weave the skein of life for each and every one of you. i am at the beginning of life and at its end; the maiden, the mother and the crone. wherever you may be, if you seek me know that i am always here, for i abide deep within you. look, then, within yourself if you would seek me. j i am life and i am love. find me and rejoice; for love is my music and laughter is my song. be true to me and i will ever be true to you. love is the law and love is the bond. so mote it be" priestess folds her arms across her br

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nd the actor, the one i am, whether alone and unmanifest, or appearing in the multiplicity of created things. 10 the primal force of mine ideas dwelleth continually in atziluth. thence it floweth forth into the three lower worlds through the door of understanding. as it is written" by understanding hath he established the heavens" i am the fruitful womb whence all creatures have their birth. i am the mother of mothers. hence it is commanded" honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee" for i, who am thy father, am thy mother also; and if thou honourest me, the giver of life, then shalt thou triumph at the last, even over death [45] comment on daleth* d a l e t h, pronounced dawleth. transcribed as" d. the number 4. meaning: d

2" the correct answer is, of course" nothing. 2 the idea that the universe is created with the letters of the alphabet is a commonplace of qabalistic doctrine. it is found also in hindu teaching (see the serpent power and shakti and shakta, by arthur avalon. what is meant is that the powers designated by the letters are the building-forces of the cosmos. 4 binah, understanding, is named a i m a, the mother. in this paragraph she is called "the desirable one, or "the precious thing, because the number of the word a i m a is 52, and this is also the number of the noun ch m d, khamad, which means "something desirable, an object of delight. the sephirah binah is "both father and mother" because: 1. the word a i m a is formed from another noun, a m a, signifying "the dark, sterile mother, by t

t is said that the son is hidden in her because the value of the noun b n, ben, son, is 52, the same as the number of aima. and, again, since daleth is here identified with binah, the text refers also to the qabalistic doctrine that in binah are concealed both the father and the son, because binah is spelt b i n h, so that this noun contains yod, i, the letter of the father, heh, h, the letter of the mother, and b n, ben, the name of the son. 6 adding the digits of 434 gives us 11. in theqabalah the number 22 represents the whole circle of creation because it is the number of letters in the alphabet. thus the book of formation says "twenty-two basal letters: he designed them, he formed them, he purified them, he weighed them, and he exchanged them, each one with all: he formed by means of

back parts, but my face shall not be seen" no matter how far thou goest, i have already passed that way. thou shalt never see me as i am, but thou mayest know me in what i have done. the wise discover me in my works. 9 no man perceiveth me as father, until as mother i have brought forth creatures. the following of heh after daleth in the alphabet is a sign and symbol of this truth. even as aima, the mother, concealeth the yod of ab, the father, so doth heh, though the wise call it "the mother, wherewith creation took place" conceal that same paternal yod, since heh in its plentitude is the number ten. therefore the letter heh belongeth to my paternal mercy, since in the number four, which appertaineth unto chesed, mercy, is the number ten concealed, even as it is hidden in the word "windo

for the creative word (the divine name, i h v h) which calls all things into being. the phrase" i utter myself by seeing, based on the attribution of sight to heh, means that the universe is called into manifestation by the self-contemplation of spirit "a mist and a vapor. the hebrew noun ade, a d, has the numeral value 5, the same as the single letter heh, and means "fog, mist. 9 heh is called "the mother wherewith creation took place, because h is the second letter of the tetragrammaton, i h v h, and this second letter is attributed to binah, which is aima, the mother. heh conceals yod, because the letter-name heh, h h, has the value 10, the number of the letter yod. ten is concealed in four, the number of the sephirah chesed, because 4 implies the pre-existence of 1, 2 and 3 so that it

he elohim cut apart the heaven and the earth" 3 that, therefore, which to purblind eyes seemeth to be another than myself, that which to the deluded appeareth as somewhat fashioned by my hand, into which i enter not [75] t h e book of t o k e n s the wise know as a portion of mine own being set apart for my regard by mine unfathomable power of self-reflection. this power the secret wisdom calleth the mother. it is the power of understanding, the power also of the elohim, for in binah are the elohim enthroned, and their thrones are set in her. mine are the thrones, mine the powers of the elohim, and i, whom men adore as father, am known also to the wise as the great mother in whose name are hid the names of the father and the son. 4 this name is the sharp sword whereby the one that i am div

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female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood

ence in the middle of the night, only to hear the baby wake and cry out moments later; being able to recognise one's own child's cry in a room full of noisy babies 'being a pagan has brought all of these experiences into a spiritual focus that has brought me closer to the goddess in a way that i don't think could have happened if i hadn't chosen to become a parent. it has allowed me to experience the mother aspect first-hand; it gave new meaning to the moon cycles of a woman, it allowed me to become the microcosm of the great earth mother as i watched my own body grow and give birth to a new life. it gave me the protective instinct of sekhmet [the lion-headed egyptian goddess of fertility, when i realised that i would fight to the death to protect my child. it showed me the true and profou

r feet, draw up rich, golden light from the earth and let it flow upwards, becoming lighter and more golden as it rises to your fingertips. feel the light from above flowing downwards to merge with it* if you are working alone, then, holding a long, silk scarf in either hand, move around the tree with your hands rising and falling in a spiral path to create swirls of energies, the most ancient of the mother goddess sacred geometric forms, while chanting and dancing. if you are with friends, join hands around the tree and pass the light and energy between you from hand to hand, deosil, until you can feel the circle of light (you may even see luminous energy transferring from hand to hand *begin to circle the tree deosil, reciting faster and faster: tree power, earth power, sun shower and li

invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition

rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year betwe

, who is a benevolent and effective focus for female power and courage. bellona bellona is the roman goddess of war, the female counterpart of mars whose chariot she drove into battle. she is especially good for women's assertiveness and self-confidence rituals. she carries a sword and wears a helmet. kali kali, the dark side of the hindu mother goddess, came into being when shiva, the husband of the mother goddess shakti, taunted her for her dark skin. in fury she carried out rituals until her skin became golden inside. shakti then shed her black outer skin like a snake and it formed the avenging destroying persona of kali. kali is depicted with her four arms holding weapons and the heads of her victims, her tongue lolling out, and covered in blood, signifying her power over life and deat

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al forces were involved. their shared belief in conjure reinforced their opinion that the woman's death was the result of harming magic. similarly, folk beliefs provided an explanation in one community for the loss of a child "some time ago my son, my only chile, wuz drownded" black magic page 51 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 asserted the mother, katie mccarts "every time i turn roun some of my neighbuhs wuz tellin me my son's death wasn't fair. they say esomebody hoodooed yuh child an cause him tuh git drownded. f" the issue of "fairness" raised by mccarts elucidates the explanatory power of supernatural harming beliefs. to persons who faced hopelessness and utter despair, conjure traditions provided a framework for tragic and

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vides some alchemical recipes 1257-67, writes the soul's journey into god while meditating on francis's vision of the six-winged seraph; he also writes an authoritative life of saint francis to replace earlier versions. bonaventure believed that st. francis's order would inherit the 'key of david' given to the angel of philadelphia. 1258- hulagu khan destroys baghdad; mongols destroy mesopotamia, the mother of civilization. fl 1259-1285 guilhem de cervera troubadour. 1259 peter de abano [pietro d'abano, italian physician and philosopher born. professor of medicine in padua. heptameron. knew marco polo. translates abraham ibn ezra on decanates. 1260- 1294 kublai khan c.1260 "the book of kings of merlin(liber regnum) 1260: kublai is appointed khan and declares buddhism the state religion mon

ion by tarot. c.1788: etteilla publishes deck specifically for esoteric purposes, including divination. 1785 cagliostro founds the memphis rite, which later becomes the ancient and primitive rite of memphis-misraim. 10 february, cagliostro summoned to appear at the philalethes convention but he requests all members of the convention adopt the constitutions of the egyptian rite and be initiated at the mother lodge at lyons and requires that the archives of the philalethes be burnt. february 15 congress took place in paris, convened this time by the philalethes; alledgedly in attendance was the illuminati bode (alias amelius, baron de busche (alias bayard, cagliostro, aliette(sic, mesmer, the cabalist duchanteau, and of course the leaders of the philalethes, savalette de langes, who was elec

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now whether it was a piece thus carved, or a human corpse that lay dead there. for she was altogether immovable, and yet i dared not touch her. so she was again covered, and the curtain drawn before her, yet she was still (as it were) in my eye. but i soon saw behind the bed a tablet on which it was written as follows (when the fruit of my tree shall be quite melted down then i shall awake and be the mother of a king) i asked my page about this writing, but he laughed, with the promise that i should know it too. so, he putting out the torch, we ascended again. then i had a better look at all the little doors, and first found that on every corner there burned a small taper of pyrites, of which i had before taken no notice, for the fire was so clear that it looked much more like a stone than

e burned a small taper of pyrites, of which i had before taken no notice, for the fire was so clear that it looked much more like a stone than a taper. from this heat the tree was forced continually to melt, yet it still produced new fruit. now behold (said the page) what i heard revealed to the king by atlas. when the tree (he said) shall be quite melted down, then shall lady venus awake, and be the mother of a king. whilst he was thus speaking, in flew the little cupid, who at first was somewhat abashed at our presence, but seeing us both look more like the dead than the living, he could not in the end refrain from laughing, demanding what spirit had brought us there. i with trembling answered him, that i had lost my way in the castle, and had come here by chance, and that the page likew

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ial uses. lost people, for example, can be located quite readily using it when more conventional methods would take so long that all they would find would be a body. years ago, some friends of mine were out camping, and don't ask me why, i hate camping, and their child wandered off into the woods. well, as you can imagine, the thought of their offspring become bear food was not a pleasant one and the mother got into the truck (yes, they drove a pick-up too) went charging off to the ranger station to get help, this being in the days before cellular phones. the father, having a rare moment of lucidity in this rustic surrounding, remembered the many times i had bored them with my lecturing on the wonders of the pendulum and he just happened to have one. he also had a us geological survey map

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ly 1700s. up to that point, only people who worked by profession as masons or building craftsmen could be members. now it became open to all and freemasonary or speculative masonry was born. it is likely that francis bacon was a force behind this transformation. the centre of the freemasonic network that now expanded rapidly was a new grand lodge (launched in london in 1717) which became known as the mother grand lodge of the world. it was a centre of freemasonic manipulation, encouraging other lodges to be set up throughout europe, the british empire, and the americas. many other versions of freemasonry were introduced, including the york rite and the scottish rite of michael ramsey (which was based on the knights templar system. the scottish rite has 33 degrees of initiation and today ha

d today has enormous influence in the politics, economics, military, and security services of britain, europe, the united states, and many other countries. new york was named after the york rite of freemasonry. the brotherhood plan was for the establishment of an independent united states of america- independent of the british government, that is, not independent of the brotherhood. encouraged by the mother grand lodge in london, the freemasonic lodges in the colonies of america began to plot and agitate against british rule. an economic crisis was engineered, not least through war between britain and the french. as part of their desperation for income, the british government imposed the birth of the brotherhood 33 higher taxation and duties on the american colonies. it was an operation cr

mbers were benjamin franklin, one of the founders of the united states and close associate of french revolutionaries, and .erasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would later be the frontman for this-world-is-all-there-is. what a coincidence! another member of the lunar society was the unitarian, josiah wedgwood, founder of the famous pottery, and his daughter was to become the mother of charles darwin after she married dr robert darwin, the son of erasmus darwin. nothing like keeping it in the family! six of the lunar society's members were educated at edinburgh university, as was charles darwin. the society was a revolutionary organisation which supported the overthrowing of the monarchies and the undermining of god in the human belief system. benjamin franklin bec

on. italian freemasonry has a long history of controversy and involvement in politics. it was banned by mussollini, as was german freemasonry by hitler, not the least because they were both helped to power by secret societies and realised their influence. after the war, the american oss, the forerunner to the cia, put pressure on the desperate italian government to allow freemasonry to return and the mother lodge in london conferred official recognition. in doing so, they had officially recognised an organisation that has the closest of connections with the mafia. these ties go back to the 'carbonari, an amalgamation of freemasons, the mafia, and the military, which was formed in the nineteenth century to oppose napoleon. the carbonari were also closely linked with the guelphic knights- th

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his ancient interaction. the step pyramids of the yucatan, which in fact go back way before the maya who inherited them, are so similar to the classic ziggurats built for the "gods" of sumer. there are great similarities in art and language between the two, as there are between central american religion and language and that of the atlantis revisited 57 hindus and the middle-near eastern semites. the mother goddess, maya, has the same name in the maya culture as she does in india and there are mayan remains at an ancient egyptian site i have visited not far from giza. james churchward shows in the children of mu that all these "maya" peoples around the world originated in lemuria-mu, hence the common connections. also, the legendary founder of the maya culture, called votan or wotan, is th

was nicknamed dracul (the devil or the dragon. son vlad signed his name draculea or draculya or the "devil's son" and this later became dracula, a name that translates as something like "son of him who had the order of the dragon. most appropriate. this is the same dragon order that is today promoted by the british "holy grail" author, sir laurence gardner. by the way, queen mary or mary of teck, the mother of king george vi and therefore grandmother to the present elizabeth ii, was descended from a sister of "dracula. nothing like keeping it in the family. british and european serpents in britain and the rest of europe, the stories of dragons and reptilian gods abound also. here are just some of the places in the british isles that have dragon/serpent legends: avebury, bamburgh, baslow, b

e edda is not of icelandic origin, but british.12 it was taken to iceland, it appears, by settlers from scotland, orkney, the hebrides, and north britain. among them were the culdees, who had their headquarters at st andrews in scotland, an area with strong illuminati connections to this day.13 the "culdees" came from "chaldees, a people who followed the sumer empire in mesopotamia and worshipped the mother-son cult in which they claimed that god's son had died to save them. this was long before christianity. and, of course, these northern lands of europe were the realms of the nordics who went south to the near and middle east thousands of years ago before returning as the "sumerians, the "phoenicians, and the "egyptians. scholars have misrepresented the edda, not least because an iceland

and sacrificial cult to egyptian culture. balder, who is el and wodan's malicious son in the edda, corresponds with the green man of the king arthur legend and loki, the original of lucifer, according to waddell. he says that balder is also lancelot in the arthur stories from his title in the edda of "the lancebearer. like his mother, el, balder has been depicted with wings. th dragon queens 157 the mother-son cult of the serpent scene one in the edda portrays a world awash with the violence, human sacrifice, and blood-drinking rituals of "the mother-son cult of the serpent-dragon. scene two sees the arrival of the great reformer, the tall, red-bearded, eindri or thor (indara, who brought civilisation (see picture section. waddell believes that he is also the origin of adam and this part

usness, which, in its true power, is far greater than the juveniles that seek to control. these guys know that humans are potentially far more powerful and so they have to hit us from every angle to keep us in comatose ignorance. one of their most effective weapons for this has been the pagan cult known as christianity. the christian "serpent" trinity the serpent trinity of el, wodan, and balder, the mother-father-son, has been repeated in many guises. the emphasis in the serpent trinity was on the mother and son. in babylon, that major stronghold of the serpent cult, the "son" was ninus/tammuz (balder) and the "mother" was queen semiramis (el. the edda explains how one of the centres for the serpent cult during the conflicts with thor/indara was the van tribe of lake van on the western si

eans, lycians, and what is called today the mediterranean or iberian race. rom or romil was also a title of the set and serpent worshippers of ancient egypt. muslims refer to turkey/asia minor as rum, and romania is the traditional centre for the vampire legends. fascinating, then, that romulus and remus, the mythical founders of rome, were said to have been "wolf-suckled" and this is symbolic of the mother-son cult (goddess worship) of the wolf-tribe of the roms with its associated serpent worship. the names romulus and remus came from an ancient female clan called the etruscan gens romulia, the real founders of rome. again the female. mother mary is el, the "dragon queen" it is no surprise, given its origins in babylon, that the roman church would so emphasise the importance of "mary, th

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ace. they were the chief scientist called enki, lord of the7earth (ki=earth) and ninkharsag, also known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a

y of london and thecity of westminster. paris is another key centre for the babylonian brotherhood and sois the v atican. look at the structures of government known laughingly as democracy,the structure of law, economics, the media and all the institutions you find in mostcountries today. where did the original blueprints for these structures come from?london, exactly. we still talk of britain as the mother of parliaments, for instance.these structures were designed to give the appearance of freedom while allowingalmost limitless control by the few behind the scenes. these are the very structures thatthe british empire left behind when it apparently withdrew to allow those countries togovern themselves. like hell they did. physical occupation was replaced by financialoccupation and overt c

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

nyway, the idea that charles darwindiscovered the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest is ridiculous. hisgrandfather, erasmus of the lunar society, wrote a book called zoonomia in 1794 inwhich he outlined the very same opinion.44 josiah wedgwood of the wedgwood potteryempire, was another lunar society member and his daughter married erasmus darwinsson, robert darwin, and became the mother of charles darwin! 45 this same bloodlineproduced thomas malthus, whos sickening racist creed has been used by adolf hitler,henry kissinger and endless other frontmen for the brotherhood to justify the genocideof lesser races to maintain the genetic purity of the human blood stock- the reptilearyans.46 malthus, an anglican clergyman, said that disease and appalling livingconditions for

ren born each year. the phoenicians and their kinsmen, the carthaginians,sacrificed humans on a large scale and so did the canaanites. when carthage wasstruggling in the war against rome, 200 noble families sacrificed their sons to baal (thephoenician sun god, bel or bil).2another theme is the sacrifice of the first born child, most often the first born son. insome aboriginal tribes in australia, the mother would kill and eat the first born child toensure she would be able to have more.3 the sacrifice of the first born of animals andhumans was quite common and is mentioned in the old testament. the book of kingstells how mesha, the king of moab, was so distraught by his defeat at the hands of theisraelites that he sacrificed his eldest son and heir. remember in genesis how god(the gods) in

. this ispoured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes.this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from theintestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the messehin ancient egypt. the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists standnaked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this304time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shiftinto reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they are alsoterrified, because at this point the mother goddess points to four of them and they arethen ritually murdered. clare reeves, the president of mothers against sexual abuse inthe us, t

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ility to properly apply this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization. liberty..independence..lucifer is the logos..the serpent, the savior" on pages 171, 225, 255 (volume ii "it is satan who is the god of our planet and the only god" pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533 (vi "the celestial virgin which thus becomes the mother of gods and devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving beneficent deity..but in antiquity and reality lucifer or luciferius is the name. lucifer is divine and terrestial light 'the holy ghost' and "satan' at one and the same time" page 539 (volume) albert pike 33 "that which we must say to a crowd is- we worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstit

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threat to the status-quo such as war, revolution, political unrest, or social upheaval, is represented by the devil. but, if the universe is dynamic not static and consciousness is not but is becoming then the devil, satan, more accurately reflects the true nature of god than christ, yahweh, or any other image of god which man has defined. the sumerians believed the dragon of chaos, tiamat, to be the mother of the gods. the gods brought order to chaos, but they were themselves the children of chaos and subject to its laws and conditions. the devil was not originally a "rebel" against the order of creation but, the beginning and the end, the source of all creation "the dragon sleeps" we are told in the texts of old "but shall awaken" in the alchemical treatise, the kybalion, it is said that

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us az represents the left hand path as a rite of passage of becoming. continued existence is essentially the survival of the psyche or essential self; there is no union with the natural order that which can eliminate the mind. the practitioner does not seek to join with it; rather he or she seeks to remain separate from it in their own self-created subjective world. as with the manichaeans, az is the mother of all demons, thus a powerful hidden light behind ahriman. as the devil s bride she inspires and equally commands her presence, manifests her will and accomplishes that which other demons could not. ahriman was taken with her. az within zoroastrianism is not by any mentionable gender, but ahriman s assistant if you will is called in the pahlavi books called jeh, which means roughly who

e poisoned darkness which is the condition for the rebirth of light the book of thoth, aleister crowley here we are able to understand that lilith has many forms, yet her nature is clear to those who work with her. allow her entry into yourself, and know the ecstasy of man and woman, union with the blood of the moon. crowley refers to her as uncleanliness and sorcery, the very nature of az who is the mother of luciferians. crowley also saw divinity within az and lilith, in the form of babalon, the whore which rides the 7 headed dragon. the children of lilith are called lilin or lilim, being succubi who have no hair on their head and their body and face are covered. they visit men in their dreams and drain them of sexual fluids to create other demons. essentially, a magician who has worked

her desire, it changed into a form of a lionfaced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth. the apocryphon of john the apocryphon of john, discovered in upper egypt in 1945, is perhaps one of the more significant gnostic texts which hold a hidden relation to the adversary. these early christian writings, dated roughly ad 350, were perhaps one of the most significant records of the history of gnostic records. it was written tha

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nt names due to variations in the pronunciation of the letters. the english rune alphabet is known as the futhorc- g- gabriel: pronounced "gahb-ray-ehl" the archangel (q.v) and cosmic guardian of the west and of elemental water. in the tradition of christian mysticism, gabriel is the "heavenly herald. the archangel of the annunciation, he who didst bring blessed tidings to our blessed lady, mary, the mother of christ" gardnarian (wicca: modern witches (q.v) who follow the teachings of and use the book of shadows composed by gerald b gardner (q.v. the first major tradition of modern wicca (q.v) a combination of neo-paganism and high ceremonial magick, much of which was "shortened" and incorrectly abbreviated from the perspective of modern magicians. gardner, gerald b: the founder of the gar

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es, the candidate himself, when he stands between them, is the middle pillar of equilibrium. 11. here we meet with the idea put forth by mme blavatsky, that there can be no manifestation without differentiation into the pairs of opposites. kether differentiates its two aspects as chokmah and binab, and manifestation is in being. now in this supernal triangle, the head which is not, the father and the mother, we have the root concept of our cosmogony, and we shall return to it again and again under innumerable aspects, and each time that we return to it we shall receive illumination. these earlier chapters do not attempt to deal with any of the points exhaustively for reasons already noted, for the student unfamiliar with the subject (and there are very few students who are familiar with it

s distinguished from mal kuth, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopos, the isis of nature, the tenth sephirah, is two-aspected, and these aspects are distinguished as ama, the dark sterile mother, and aima, the bright fertile mother. we have already noted that she is called the great sea, marah, which not only means bitter, but also is the root of mary; and here we meet again the idea of the mother, at first virgin, and then with child by the holy spirit. 13. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "with

cealed under the mystery of daath or knowledge; and in verse 40 we read concerning daath "the man that shall say, i am the lord's, he descendeth. yod (the tenth letter of the hebrew alphabet) is the foundation of knowledge of the father; but all things are called byodo, that is, all things are applied to yod concerning which this discourse is. all things cohere in the tongue which is concealed in the mother. that is, through daath or knowledge, whereby wisdom is combined with understanding, and the beautiful path (tipha reth, the sixth sephirah) with his bride the queen (malkuth, the tenth sephirah; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation. since it is opened for that which proceedeth from itself; that is, daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner

wisdom is combined with understanding, and the beautiful path (tipha reth, the sixth sephirah) with his bride the queen (malkuth, the tenth sephirah; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation. since it is opened for that which proceedeth from itself; that is, daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner, whereto moses referred; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in the hindu system; and that kether, daath, and the beautiful path, tiphareth, the sixth sephirah, are in a line on the middle pillar of the tree, which equates with the spine in man, the microcosm; and that kundalini is coiled in yesod, also on the middle pillar, we shall see that we have her

ivided unity, and to tiphareth the sphere of the redeemer or son, we may be justified in referring to yesod the sphere of the holy spirit, the enlightener; mystical qabala page 35 this is an attribution of the christian trinity that fits better upon the tree than its assignation to the three supernals, which brings the son in the place of abba, the father, and the holy spirit in the place of ama, the mother, and is obviously irrelevant and productive of innumerable discrepancies in the correspondences and symbolisms. in this we see an example of the value of the tree as a method of counterchecking vision or meditation; correct attributions fit upon the tree through endless ramifications of symbolism, as we saw when considering binah as the mother; incorrect symbolism breaks down and reveal

yetziratic attribution of the hebrew alphabet, are assigned to the three elements of air, water, and fire. under the presidency of aleph is the airy triad of kether, in which is the root of air, reflecting downward through tiphareth, the solar fire, into yesod, the lunar radiance. in binali is the root of water (marah, the great sea, reflected through chesed into hod, under the presidency of mem, the mother of watei. in chokmah is the root of fire, reflected downwards through geburah into netzach, under the presidency of shin, the mother of fire. 25. these groupings must be borne in mind, for they aid greatly in understanding the significance of individual sephiroth, for, as we have already pointed out in various connections, a sephirah is best interpreted by its affiliations. chapter ix t

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as in the habit of visualising herself standing before people she was angry with, scolding them, and projecting malignant force at them. this, of course, would explain our nightmares. she also said that she had been in the habit of attacking her mother and sister in this way, and had made her sister very ill, so that they now refused to have her in the house. this statement was later confirmed by the mother. she told us that she felt as if she were two distinct persons, her normal self being spiritually-minded, intensely compassionate and idealistic. her other, and lower self, which came to the surface when she was crossed, upset, or over tired, being intensely malicious and subject to paroxysms of hate and cruelty. these characteristics had been particularly marked when she was little. bu

lives, and i shook myself up severely on numerous occasions before i learnt the technique of handling the invisible forces. i never experienced any permanent ill-effects from my mishaps, though i admit that upon occasion i have been extricated by my friends from a considerable amount of debris. during the early days of my occult career a girl was brought to me by a mutual friend, who told me that the mother of this girl, an ardent student of occultism, seemed to have a terrible effect upon her daughter. the mother was a widow, and mother and daughter lived together under very comfortable material circumstances; but whenever the girl made a friend, or showed any desire to leave home, the mother performed extraordinary antics, coming to the daughter's room at night and drawing signs in the a

and mother and daughter lived together under very comfortable material circumstances; but whenever the girl made a friend, or showed any desire to leave home, the mother performed extraordinary antics, coming to the daughter's room at night and drawing signs in the air about her bed. the effect of all this upon the girl was most peculiar. she felt unable to free herself from the mental domination the mother had obtained over her, and she was wasting away in a 45 of 103 most curious fashion. when i saw her, although able to get about, she looked like nothing i have ever seen save a famine victim. i made a psychic investigation, and formed the opinion that the mother was working by means of an entity of which she had obtained possession. how this had been accomplished in the present instance

elepathic suggestion is the active aspect. it forms, in fact, the basic condition necessary for telepathic suggestion to take place. two people who are in rapport might be described as astral siamese twins. although the physical bodies are independent units, the astral bodies are linked in such a manner that there is free circulation of astral force between them, just as the circulatory system of the mother is connected through the umbilical cord with the unborn child, and the same blood circulating freely through both. this fact explains many important occult phenomena. it is the real key to marriage, and explains many facts in the relationship of parent and child. it also accounts for some important aspects of the relation of pupil and teacher. but not only is it possible for a rapport t

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s visualized to enter the body through the pores of the skin, and internal chanting of a mantra (word or phrase that embodies occult power. the visualization of power symbols such as yantras is also often used. most important of all in awakening kundalini is a technique that is almost never openly described. it involves the contemplation with love and desire of one of the primary forms of shakti, the mother goddess who represents for the hindus all manifest things and all energies. the word shakti literally means power. it is through the grace and love of shakti that kundalini is awakened and made to ascend. before this grace and love can be attained the practitioner must establish a close personal relationship with shakti. this is done through repeated visualization of that particular for

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orm tmu; and it would seem that when a dogma had been promulgated by the college of annu, it was accepted by the priesthood of all the great cities throughout egypt. the great influence of the annu school of priests even in the time of unas is proved by the following passage from the text in his pyramid "o god, thy annu is unas; o god, thy annu is unas. o ra, annu is unas, thy annu is unas, o ra. the mother of unas is annu, the father of unas is annu; unas himself is annu, and was born in annu"[2] elsewhere we are told that unas "cometh to the great bull which cometh forth from annu,[3] and that he uttereth words of magical import in annu"[4] in annu the god tmu produced the gods shu and tefnut,[5] and in annu dwelt the great and oldest company of the gods, tmu, shu, tefnut, seb, nut, osir

cette vieille civilization. see conference sur la religion des anciens gyptiens (in annales de philosophic chr tienne, 5i me s rie, t. xx, paris, 1869, pp. 325-337. 3. gypte, paris, 1839, p. 245, col. 1. 4. le panth on gyptien, paris, 1881, p. 4] p. xciii only man liveth. he giveth life to man, he breatheth the breath of life into his nostrils--god is father and mother, the father of fathers, and the mother of mothers. he begetteth, but was never begotten; he produceth, but was never produced; he begat himself and produced himself. he createth, but was never the legend of ra and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (3 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] created; he is the maker of his own form, and the fashioner of his own body--god himself is existence, he endureth without incre

0/2001 11:23:58 am] the doctrine of immortality, gained through the god who was "lord of the heavens and of the earth, of the underworld and of the waters, of the mountains, and of all which the sun goeth round in his course"[1] had remained unchanged for at least four thousand years of its existence. auset or isis, the seventh member of the company of the gods of annu, was the wife of osiris and the mother of horus; her woes have been described both by egyptian and greek writers.[2] her commonest names are "the great goddess, the divine mother, the mistress of charms or enchantments; in later times she is called the "mother of the gods" and the "living one" she is usually depicted in the form of a woman, with a head-dress in the shape of a seat, the hieroglyphic for which forms her name

cred to her was the cow, hence she sometimes wears upon her head the horns of that animal accompanied by plumes and feathers. in one aspect she is identified with the goddess selk or serq, and she then has upon her head a scorpion, the emblem of that goddess;[3] in another aspect she is united to the star sothis, and then a star is added to her crown. she is, however, most commonly represented as the mother suckling her child horus, and figures of her in this aspect, in bronze and fa ence, exist in thousands. as a nature goddess she is seen standing in the boat of the sun, and she was probably the deity of the dawn. heru or horus, the sun-god, was originally a totally distinct god from horus, the son of osiris and isis, but from the earliest times it seems that the two gods were confounded

er deities; as a nature goddess she either represents the day before sunrise or after sunset, but no portion of the night. she is depicted in the form of a woman, having upon her head the hieroglyphics which form her name "lady of the house. a legend preserved by plutarch[1] the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (7 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] makes her the mother of anpu or anubis by osiris. in egyptian texts anpu is called the son of ra.[2] in religious texts nephthys is made to be the companion of isis in all her troubles, and her grief for her brother's death is as great as that of his wife. anpu, or anubis, the son of osiris or ra, sometimes by isis and sometimes by nephthys, seems to represent as a nature god either the darkest part of the

ind the attribute of judge ascribed to meh-urt,[2] and down to a very late date the judgment of the deceased in the hall of double maat in the presence of thoth and the other gods was believed to take place in the abode of meh-urt.[3] net or neith "the divine mother, the lady of heaven, the mistress of the gods" was one of the most ancient deities of egypt, and in the pyramid texts she appears as the mother of sebek.[4] like meh-urt she personifies the place in the sky where the sun rises. in one form she was the goddess of the loom and shuttle, and also of the chase; in this aspect she was identified by the greeks with athene. she is depicted in the form of a woman, having upon her head the shuttle or arrows, or she wears the crown and holds arrows, a bow, and a sceptre in her left hand;

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f time. introduction v charles ii. and william iii. were masons, and a seeming connection with operative masonry was kept up by the appointment of sir christopher wren to the office of grand master. the scottish lodges claim origin among the foreign masons who came to scotland in i iso to build kilwinning abbey; those of england go back to an assemblage of masons held by st. alban at york in 926. the mother lodges of york and kilwinning were, with a few slight exceptions, the parents of all the lodges that were formed in different parts of great britain. the admirable character of the order was attested in 1799, when in the act passed in england for the suppression of secret societies, free masonry was the only one excepted from the operation of the law. a grand lodge was formed in london

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ad suddenly seen the phantasmal appearance of his sister, full of life and natural, with a bright red scratch on the right side of her face. perturbed by the vision he immediately broke his journey. at home his mother nearly fainted when he mentioned the scar. she had accidentally scratched her daughter s face after her death and carefully obliterated all its traces with powder. a few weeks later the mother died; but for the vision her son would not have seen her in life again. it is known that josephine appeared to napoleon at st. helena and warned him of his approaching death. the message left by an apparition is usually brief, as if the power to convey it is limited. the apparition seems to be drawn to the spot by the personality of the percipient. the place may have been totally unknow

very ill with typhoid fever, and was attended by me. i was standing at the table by her bedside, pouring out her medicine, at about 4 o clock in the morning of the 4th october, 1880. i heard the call bell ring (this had been heard twice before during the night in that same week) and was attracted by the door of the room opening, and by seeing a person entering the room whom i instantly felt to be the mother of the sick woman. she had a brass candlestick in her hand, a red shawl over her shoulder, and a flannel petticoat on which had a hole in the front. i looked at her as much as to say i am glad you have come but the woman looked at me sternly, as much as to say why wasn t i sent for before? i gave the medicine to helen alexander and then turned round to speak to the vision, but no one wa

clock in the morning; i and another maid let them in, and it gave me a great turn when i saw the living likeness of the vision i had seen two nights before. i told the sister about the vision, and she said that the description of the dress exactly answered to her mother s, and that they had brass candlesticks at home exactly like the one described. there was not the slightest resemblance between the mother and daughter. the account was corroborated. myers believes the vision was meant for the daughter by the mother who, in her anxiety, paid her a psychical visit and affected part of the space with an image corresponding to the conception of her own aspect latent in her mind. a bystander, a susceptible person, happened to see the image while the girl for whom it was meant died without leav

ience& psychical phenomena. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. wickwar, j. w. the ghost world. london, n.d. wright, dudley. vampires& vampirism. london, 1914. reprinted as the book of vampires. new york: causeway, 1973. apparitions of the virgin mary within the larger consideration of apparition, a special place has been given to apparitions of one figure, the virgin mary, believed to be the mother of jesus whom christians worship as the christ. apparitions of the virgin play an important role in doctrinal development and devotional life of the roman catholic church, the largest religious organization in the world, and to a lesser extent are also acknowledged in the eastern orthodox and coptic churches. the apparitions of mary are also important in terms of the diligent effort mad

ead said to be found in roman strata at rome and bearing the name of augustus, a quantity of gravel alleged to have come from central america and quite unlike anything seen in australia, two perfect clay tablets covered with cuneiform inscriptions and several thousands of years old, said to have been brought direct from the mounds at babylon, and finally, a bird s nest containing several eggs and the mother bird undoubtedly alive. he was famous for living apports, jungle sparrows, crabs, turtles. once an 18-inch-long shark, at another time a 30-inch snake appeared mysteriously in the seance room. the apport of jungle sparrows passed the test of a committee of investigation in milan. six years later, however, bailey got into trouble in grenoble. the investigators claimed that he smuggled in

tory of the placing of two chaplets in the coffin of a child, in the presence of a medium very easily hypnotizable, and of their being returned two days after the burial. he made special marks on the chaplets, did not lose sight of them until the coffin was screwed down, and followed it to the church encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apports 79 and to the cemetery. two days later the mother of the child and mme. d. suddenly saw something white detach itself from the ceiling and descend slowly, to the ground, in a spiral course. they immediately picked up the little white mass. it was the first chaplet, surrounded with a little wadding which smelled of the corpse, and still having the metallic button (the secret mark) attached. the child s body had been wrapped in wadding

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combined with traveling clairvoyance. a. m. lucas came to inquire after his brother-in-law, who had disappeared after a quarrel 12 years before. maginot, in trance, found the man and said that he was alive in a foreign country, busy gathering seeds from small shrubs about three feet high. she asked to be awakened since she was afraid of wild beasts. a. m. lucas returned a few days afterward with the mother of the vanished man. maginot correctly described the man s appearance and the history of his disappearance. she was asked to speak to the man, and a conversation ensued. get him to tell you the name of the country where you see him, says the record. he will not answer. tell him that his good mother, for whom he had a great affection, is with you, and asks for news of him. oh, at the men

23, in nurnberg, germany, though she was raised in switzerland, the daughter of a banker. she moved to the united states during world war ii (1939.45) to pursue an acting career, but after six years joined the american foreign service. stationed in her homeland, she met her husband, a graduate student and future executive with merrill lynch. they settled in los angeles, california, and she became the mother of two children. march did not begin the study of astrology until 1965 and did not become a professional until 1970. however, she was quickly recognized as an accomplished astrologer and a talented instructor. she developed a large clientele, and as she could speak five languages, she was called upon to lecture across north america and europe. she was asked to join the faculty of the am

s. these mediums become less exhausted and consequently can sit more often. etta wriedt, the direct voice medium, always left her sitters weak. vice-admiral usborne moore complained that he could hardly use his legs after a sitting. in one instance in elizabeth d esperance s mediumship the draw on the sitter was seen as the cause of death. the materialized phantom was grabbed, and an older woman (the mother of the assailant, who those in attendance suggested had contributed most of the ectoplasm for the materialization, was seriously injured. reportedly, after much suffering, she died (light, november 21, 1903. if the sitters of the circle are mediumistic themselves, the phenomena tend to increase in strength. perhaps the strongest mediumistic circle ever recorded was the family of jonatha

e-painting) it has been possible to glean some general idea of these. that is not to say that the heart of the mystery is revealed by any such illustrations, but that these, supplemented by what the christian fathers were able to glean regarding these mystic cults, give useful hints for further investigations. eleusis the mysteries of eleusis had for their primal adoration demeter and persephone (the mother and the daughter. other nameless divinities appear to have been associated with eleusinian mysteries, usually signified by terms such as the gods or the goddesses. mythological science suggests that such nameless gods are merely those whose higher names are hidden and unspoken. in egypt, for example, the concept of the concealed name was extremely common. the name of the power of a god

ersary of modern spiritualism. chicago: the author, 1948. national spiritual science center the national spiritual science center was established in washington, d.c, by rev. alice welstood tindell, who had been trained by mother julia o. forrest, a medium and the founder of the spiritual science mother church. for many years after its opening in 1941, the washington center was an integral part of the mother church. in 1969, while attending a meeting of the federation of spiritual churches and associations, tindell had a disabling accident. this occasioned her retirement and she turned the center over to two of her students, revs. henry j. nagorka and diane s. nagorka. during the 1970s the nagorkas reorganized the center independently of the mother church. the nagorkas developed a vigorous

parapsychology. tomorrow 9, no. 4 (1961. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. nettles, bonnie lu truesdale (1924.1985) bonnie lu truesdale nettles, cofounder of the heaven s gate group, known for having ended its existence with the suicide of 39 members in 1997, was born in houston, texas. she grew up in a baptist home, married, and became the mother of four children. she graduated from the herman hospital school of professional nursing in 1948 and subsequently worked as a registered nurse. in midlife, she developed an interest in things occult and in february 1966 joined the houston lodge of the theosophical society in america, which she remained affiliated with until she allowed her dues to lapse in 1973. she also attended a group

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ware of a buzzing sound in her ears and looked up to see a smiling spaceman standing not far away. then a spaceship flew tow a rd her and landed, and she and a stepped into it. with a and another spaceman, b, grevler flew into space. they appro a c h e d what grevler describes as a positively huge mother sh i p, which tinier ships, similar to the one they we re aboard, we re entering. once inside the mother ship, grevler and her friends went to the temple, visited by returning crews to thank the creator for a safe voyage. subsequently, either in the mother ship or in the smaller scout craft (her account is vague on this detail, she visited venus and saw beautiful buildings and a kind of university. at the latter, students were taught universal knowledge and trained in extrasensory percepti

addressed him via telepathy but spoke an incomprehensible language to each other, explained that they had conducted an experiment. he would father a male child. at some point, after three unspecified signals had been given, they would re- azelia 37 turn to show him his offspring. after giving him an unpleasant-tasting liquid to quell his appetite, they took him to the disc that had brought him to the mother ship and flew him home. ferreira suffered from a variety of small punctures and wounds, and for the next twenty days he had a burning sensation in his eyes. there were other incidents. in one he was shown the child. in another, on board a ufo, he saw the child with its mother. on march 30, 1983, one being came to his workplace to inform him notwithstanding what they had told him earlier

s isis un ve i l e d (1877) and the se c ret doctrine (1888. another import a n t book, william re e d s the phantom of the po l e s, was published in 1906, the first of a small lib r a ry of hollow- e a rth volumes to be issued t h rough the twentieth century. by the late nineteenth century, a re l i g i o n based on the hollow earth was formed by cy ru s teed (1839 1908, after a vision in which the mother of the un i verse told him he would save the world. he went on to lead a utopian community in fo rt myers, florida, devoted to kore s h a n i t y. ko reshanity held that not only is the e a rth hollow, humans live inside it, orbiting the sun, which is at the center of the world. t h e stars, planets, and moon are also within the e a rt h s shell. marshall b. ga rd n e r s book a jo u r

finally managed to calm them. he ordered them to keep the matter strictly confidential. the creature was kept in an incubator for three weeks, fed on a diet of herbs. it recoiled from ordinary light but was comfortable in infrared light. scales began to grow along its spine. an expert who has requested anonymity examined photographs of the creature, which he deduced belonged to a saurian species. the mother is raising the creature in seclusion. it is an amphibian reptile said to be horrible to behold. see also: abductions by ufos; reptoids further reading corrales, scott, 2000. alien shock: the encounter phenomenon overseas. ohio ufo notebook 21: 22 26. reptoids beings sometimes referred to as reptoids or reptilians figure in a number of abduction and contact reports. according to one sour

FAUST

curse by it as well! faust what is the matter? what s so badly vexing you? i ve never seen before a face that looked that way. mephistopheles off to the devil i d betake myself this day if i myself were not a devil too! faust what has gone wrong? why thus behave? it suits you well to rant and rave! mephistopheles just think, the gems for gretchen that i got, a wretched priest has bagged the lot! the mother gets to see the stuff and starts at once to feel a secret shuddering. the woman has a scent that s fine enough, forever in her prayer-book she delights to snuff, and smells it out in every single thing if it be sacred or profane; so in those gems she noses till it s plain that they held little blessing, little good. my child, she cried, to keep unrighteous gain perturbs the soul, consum

d starts at once to feel a secret shuddering. the woman has a scent that s fine enough, forever in her prayer-book she delights to snuff, and smells it out in every single thing if it be sacred or profane; so in those gems she noses till it s plain that they held little blessing, little good. my child, she cried, to keep unrighteous gain perturbs the soul, consumes the blood. we ll dedicate it to the mother of our lord, with heavenly manna she ll reward" then gretchen drew her mouth askew; she thought: it is a gift-horse, it is true, and surely godless is not he who brought it here so handsomely" the mother summoned in a priest who came and when he d scarce perceived the game, got much contentment from the sight. he said: so one is minded right! who overcometh, winneth a crown. the church

voice which way did you come here? a voice the ilsenstein way. i peeped in the owl s nest there today. she made great eyes at me! a voice oh, fare on to hell! why ride so pell-mell? a voice just see how she s flayed me! the wounds she has made me! witches [chorus. the way is broad, the way is long; what is that mad and crazy throng? the broomstick pokes, the pitchfork thrusts, the infant chokes, the mother busts. wizards [half chorus. we steal along, like snails our pace; all women beat us in the race. if toward hell we set our pace, by a thousand steps they win the race. other half not so precisely do we take it, in a thousand steps may woman make it; yet though she hastes as ever she can, in a single leap it s done by man. a voice [from above. come with us from the cliff-bound mere! a v

st world-wide spaces, forest, lakes and brooks and meadow; what a fairy tale dost spin! phorkyas. to be sure, ye inexperienced! those are depths no one hath fathomed: hall on hall and court on court which musingly i followed through. but there echoes all at once a laughter through the spacious caverns i look thither, lo! a boy who from the woman s lap is leaping to the man, and from the father to the mother; the caressing, dandling, pranks of foolish fondness, cries of fun, and shouts of pleasure deafen me alternately. naked, without wings, a genius, faun-like but with nothing bestial, on the firm ground he is leaping, yet the ground, in turn reacting, speeds him up to airy heights, and in the second or the third leap doth he touch the lofty arch. anxious calls the mother: leap! and leap a

thful father: in the earth lies power elastic that impels thee upward, only with your toe-tips touch the surface and at once thou wilt be strengthened like antaeus, son of earth" and so on these rocky masses he goes skipping from one cornice to the other and around, as leaps a ball when it is struck. all at once, though, in the crevice of a rugged gorge he s vanished, and he now seems lost to us. the mother wails, the father comforts, anxiously i shrug my shoulders. but again now what a vision! are there treasures lying hid there? garments striped with broidered blossoms he has donned becomingly. from his arms are tassels waving, round his bosom flutter ribbons, in his hands the golden lyre; completely like a little phoebus, he steps boldly to the brink, then to the precipice. we marvel an

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

book of abraham. the qur an also has beautiful surahs devoted to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah, to whom is ascribed the exalted stature of rasool (prophet of the highest degree, and to isa s mother miryam (mary. it is interesting to note that in the history of miryam, master mohammed speaks of miryam, sister of aaron the high priest" f" 2' 8: 0 and master mosheh, as the same miryam who became the mother of master isa 1570 years later. scholars frequently point to this as an 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 es

and are, and will be. 1 the first chapter of lao tze s tao-te ching opens with verses that address the mysterious unknown and its two aspects: 1.1 the tao that can be trodden is not, the enduring and unchanging tao. the name that can be named is not, the enduring and unchanging name. 1.2 conceived of as having no name, it is the originator of heaven and earth; conceived of as having a name, it is the mother of all things. 1.4 under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. together we call them the mystery. where the mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful. 2 8, in all mystical traditions, the mysterious unknown at the roots of all things is spoken of as having both inactive (impersonal) and act

d everything that is destined to be formed. 5 twenty-two letters are the foundation: he set them in a cycle like a kind of wall with two hundred and thirty one gates. and it (the cycle) rotates forward and backward. and thus everything that is formed and everything that is spoken goes out from one name (i.e. hvhy. 6 the third chapter is keyed to the root phrase: three mothers alef a mem m shin s. the mother letters are the gates among the sefiroth of the inner court of the tree (first, last, water, fire. these letters are discussed in relation to the universe x heaven, earth, and the space between them, the seasons of the year (hot, cold, temperate, and the body of male and female (head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the arche

are the gates among the sefiroth of the inner court of the tree (first, last, water, fire. these letters are discussed in relation to the universe x heaven, earth, and the space between them, the seasons of the year (hot, cold, temperate, and the body of male and female (head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the archetypal elements of the mother letters. from the air (ryva, avir) of alef a comes the father space; from the water(,ym, mayim) of mem m comes the father matter; and from the fire (sa, esh) of shin s comes the father energy or motion..and from him go out fire and water, dividing into male and female. three mothers alef a mem m shin s are their foundation, and from them are born fathers, from which everything is create

rder, north-west border, north-below border. and they continually become wider for ever and ever, and they are the arms of the universe. 11 the text then goes on to respectively designate the twelve constellations, twelve months, and twelve organs in the body of male and female as formed from the simple letters. for the reader s convenience, all of the correlations given by the sefer yetzirah for the mother, double, and simple letters are given in tables 4.1 through 4.3. the fifth chapter ends by mentioning three allusions: the sunset, the wall, and the battle. the sunset (figure 4.13) includes all the information on the letters in the sefer yetzirah. the wall (figure 4.12 on page 130) is a tabulation of all possible two-letter permutations. the battle (figure 4.14) is a diagram depicting

or this tree, luria used the zoharic names for the sefiroth and a proprietary configuration of gates that differed significantly from those of previous redactions of the text. hence, the reader will notice that the gate assignments on luria s tree in figure 5.9 are very different from those in the tree diagrams in the work of the chariot s version of the sefer yetzirah. in luria s composite tree, the mother letters are respectively placed in the three :2 h' 8 :2" 2" f "1" 2: e2 2" 0 horizontal gates; the double letters are placed in the seven vertical gates; and the simple letters are placed in the twelve diagonal gates. while all of the trees specified by the sefer yetzirah are two-and three-dimensional trees of perfection, it is a matter of some curiosity that luria s trees are all flat

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

er sciences as rather seemed to exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and he was grandfather by the mother's side to the elder mercury, who begat the father of this trismegistus.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by giving him 1 see below, pp. 169, 172-3. 2 de civ. dei, xviii, xxix; quoted in john healey's translation. ii hermes trismegistus this curious

humanist tradition defended himself from the charge of having lost time over barbarous authors which he might have used for polite scholarship: we have lived illustrious, friend ermolao, and to posterity shall live, not in the schools of the grammarians and teaching-places of young minds, but in the company of the philosophers, conclaves of sages, where the questions of debate are not concerning the mother of andromache or the sons of niobe and such light trifles, but of things human and divine.1 pico is reproaching his humanist friend for remaining on the childish level of the trivium, with his grammatical and linguistic studies and cultivation of purely literary ornament, whereas he himself is concerned with the loftier studies of the quadrivium. pico's letter marks very clearly the fun

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

sigil: inverse libra) absolute chaos. 7 is also a symbol of set as an ax. sept is seven the sixth and central cosmic power zone: beauty--tiphareth--sun/son. the number 6(sex):vau- sexual union zain: the number 7--twins set/ horus (gemini, 6'th and 7'th months gemini- cancer. sexual polarity. lovers of the tarot. the letter zain spelled in full equal's 67 (reverse 76) which symbolizes the womb of the mother (binah=67. in reversal, the dark) mother, inverse birth (destruction--the phoenix again. there is also some relation to sekmet. on the gateway sigil (i do not know why i name it like this [2: unity in chaos, very similar to the mage as a uniter of worlds. the third ritual is to follow this upcoming tuesday, on my birthday, the moon is now waning. today is 11/8/98 [2] is connected with e

FULL MOON RITUALS

in the center, she recognizes the scent. deer. but not. there is a calling she has been following all evening, and she knows she is on the right track. she wanders to the lake, moon reflected in its mirror finish. she turns and spies the castle. this smells old, very old. and this is where she is to go. she looks back at the moon hanging in the sky, stands on her rear legs for a moment staring at the mother moon. a change takes place, and there is a shift in the shadow of the bear and a shadow of a human which meld into one. then shadow then wanders towards the castle. the owl alights upon the shoulder of the shadow. through the grove, up the path; the figures wanders, looking and taking it all in. what a marvelous old place, so full of energy and wonder. each turn brings more feelings and

ient one most fearful and mysterious we welcome you to this circle bless and wash us with your presence" as she speaks, a fierce wind laced with sleet and icy rain blasts into the circle, causing robes to flap and twist and bodies to shiver with the sudden damp chill. with the water comes the cold smell of winter rain, then the sound of a soft voice-not sharon s-speaking "remember that i, too, am the mother and that i too am necessary for all birth and rebirth" the wet wind shrieks and sighs and circles the ritual room, then passes on, leaving the participants dry and once more comfortable, if somewhat shaken. sharon speaks again "guard us, o ancient one keep us this night and join with us as we celebrate both life and death. for without one there is no possibility of the other" sharon the

ou are the altar. prepared to receive the god, as we dance, and sing, and light the fires recalling the sun from the distance" owl lifts here arms, and gazes up at the night sky, clearly glistening thru the skylight. the moon is at her fullest, the stars dance around her, and the world waits in expectation. she sings out "father, remember! come to us now at the full moon of yule. let the light of the mother entice you, enthrall you, and bring you back to warm the earth and you're children. renew the promise "hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all who die will be reborn! corn and grain, corn and grain, all who die will come again" father we invite you. father we entreat you. father we welcome you. be with us now. so mote it be" owl watches as reddeer "becomes. and waits..and deer, already with s

. as each has put forth their pleas, she can feel a tremor within her, and even as she looks at the familiar faces, she seems to be seeing them in a different light, thru another's eyes. a chuckle wells up as reddeer presents boudica with her birthday gift. and she breathes a soft "happy birthday my sister. and welcome to crone time" pombigira also has a new glow about her. there are worries, but the mother aspect is so strong in her. she will find strength to share and help her loved ones. it will be a troubling time for a while, but this year will bring a new awareness of her own power. as owl watches nym step back to her place in circle, their eyes meet and she nods to her sister "your prayers are heard, she whispers. suz stands quietly, a slight frown of worry crosses her brow. owl smi

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

the potency of the symbol is overwhelming- contentedness monopolizes the life of man; but directly this faith declines, discontent intervenes, and it is in discontent that must be sought the origins of all world revolutions. why is this so? because the finite can only find succour in the infinite, the potent in the omnipotent, the limited in the unlimited, the mortal in the immortal, the child in the mother. cut away the greater, and the lesser is bereft of hope. it is like a ship drifting on a shoreless sea. she may be well built, well stocked, and bravely manned, yet her destiny is foreordained; having no port to put into, sooner or later she and her crew must sink beneath the waters and be lost for ever. when this doom encompasses mankind, as today it would seem to encompass it, man doe

the ten sephiroth are frequently abbreviated as s hy and samekh+ od equal 70, the numerical value of dvs sod, secret; they are consequently occult numbers. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 26 this diagram represents a half-section, divided perpendicularly, of the inverted bowlshaped universe. ab, bc, ce, and eg are the four worlds. ab is the father, anu or kether; bc the sun, bel or ehokmah; ce the mother, ea or binah. above all is ao or el. the ayin. a is the zodiac, the great ocean called the deep and the abyss; b is the zone of the fixed stars; a to c is the upper firmament; and c to e the lower firmament. a to b is the zone of the spirits of heaven and b to c the zone of the planets. c to e is the zone of winds, storms, and clouds; e is the convex hollow earth shell; ff is the concav

chaldeans. he writes: in ab, bc, ce, and eg [see plate iii on page 27, we have similarities to the four worlds. the three great heavens answer to the upper three sephiroth. i. that of the father abbah, or kether, the crown, to anu, afterwards ana; the place of the aether or highest sublimated air or atmosphere. ii. the son, bel, el or baal, the sublimated fire, answering to 'hokhmah, wisdom. iii. the mother, immah, to ea, the sublimated water, to binah, the comprehending intellect. above all these is ao, llu or el, the unknown ideal deity; which parallels the ain soph, endless, to man's comprehension no- thing. this unknown ideal deity held the highest place in the chaldean mythology. under these were the seven planets in their seven orbits, or spheres; the probable germ of the idea of the

od is to unify the holy name in the fitting manner h. 33 what is this? it is in such a manner that the complementary forces symbolized in it may manifest their creative powers. thus in the name of yhvh we find two dualities, one between the od and the heh (father and mother) and the other between the vau and the heh (son and daughter. without the heh the father is inconceivable and without the od the mother is inconceivable. what is conceivable is always a relationship; not od in itself nor heh in itself, but od heh in conjunction. od, be it remembered, has the numerical value of 10 and thus holds within itself the seed of the tree of life. the value of heh being 5, this letter represents the secret wisdom of the qabalah page 46 microcosmic power which can bring the sephirotic scheme into

ommanded israel: gthou shalt not uncover thy mother's nakedness h (lev. xviii, 7, and this captivity is the uncovering of the nakedness of the shekinah, as it is written, gon account of your sins your mother has been put away h (is. 1, i, i.e. for the sin of unchastity israel has been sent into captivity and the shekinah also, and this is the uncovering of the shekinah. this unchastity is lilith, the mother of the gmixed multitude h. it is they who separate the two he's of the sacred name, and prevent the vau from entering between them; so it is written gthe nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou shalt not uncover h, referring to the upper and lower shekinah. when the gmixed multitude h are between the one he and the other, the holy one, blessed be he, cannot link them together, and co

ink together the two he's when the mixed multitude is between them, and the letter od is not able to draw near to the second he; thus the precept gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law h is transgressed. further, they separate the od from the upper he, and so break the command gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife h, the od being the father, the first he the mother, vau the son and the second he the daughter. therefore it is ordained with regard to the upper he, gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife h; gthe nakedness of thy sister the daughter of thy father h refers to the lower he; gher son's daughter to her daughter's daughter h refers to the he and he which are the children of he; gthe nakedness of the father's brother h re

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

reproductive functions were henceforth confided to two separate individuals. as originally, throughout nature, the female was the visible organic unit within whom was contained the exclusive creative power, and as throughout the earlier ages of life on the earth she comprehended the male, it is not perhaps singular that, even after the appearance of mankind on the earth, the greater importance of the mother element in human society should have been recognized; nor, as the power to bring forth coupled with perceptive wisdom originally constituted the creator, that the god-idea should have been female instead of male. from the facts to be observed in relation to this subject, it is altogether probable that for ages the generating principle throughout nature was venerated as female; but with

to be worshipped under the form of a mother and her child, this figure being the highest expression of a creator which the human mind was able to conceive. not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes. in fact the whole universe was contained in the mother idea--the child, which was sometimes female, sometimes male, being a scion or offshoot from the eternal or universal unit. underlying all ancient mythologies may be observed the idea that the earth, from which all things proceed, is female. even in the mythology of the finns, lapps, and esths, mother earth is the divinity adored. tylor calls attention to the same idea in the mythology o

other' and poetry continued what mythology was letting fall, when milton's archangel promised adam a life to last. till like ripe fruit thou drop into thy mother's lap"[4 [4] primitive culture, vol. i, p. 295. in the old religion the sky was the husband of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a time when the mother was not only the one recognized parent on earth, but that the female principle was worshipped as the more important creative force throughout nature [5] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regard

orks. spirit which is eternal had produced matter which is destructible. the fact will be observed that this doctrine prevails to a greater or less extent in the theologies of the present time. a little observation and reflection will show us that during this change in the ideas relative to a creative principle, or god, descent and the rights of succession which had hitherto been reckoned through the mother were changed from the female to the male line, the father having in the meantime become the only recognized parent. in the eumenides of aeschylus, the plea of orestes in extenuation of his crime is that he is not of kin to his mother. euripides, also, puts into the mouth of apollo the same physiological notion, that she who bears the child is only its nurse. the hindoo code of menu, whi

eumenides of aeschylus, the plea of orestes in extenuation of his crime is that he is not of kin to his mother. euripides, also, puts into the mouth of apollo the same physiological notion, that she who bears the child is only its nurse. the hindoo code of menu, which, however, since its earliest conception, has undergone numberless mutilations to suit the purposes of the priests, declares that "the mother is but the field which brings forth the plant according to whatsoever seed is sown" although, through the accumulation of property in masses and the capture of women for wives, men had succeeded in gaining the ascendancy, and although the doctrine had been propounded that the father is the only parent, thereby reversing the established manner of reckoning descent, still, as we shall her

es, or ancient ethiopians, meant "the city of lilies" in india the lotus frequently appears among phallic devices in place of the sacred yoni. from the foregoing pages the fact will be observed that the god of the ancients embodied the two creative agencies throughout the universe, but as nothing could exist without a mother, the great om who was the indivisible god and the creator of the sun was the mother of these two principles, while the tree of life was the original life-giving energy upon the earth, represented in the creation myths of the first man adam, and the first woman eve or adama. throughout the ages, this force, or creative agency has been symbolized in various ways, many of which have been noted in the foregoing pages. we have observed that notwithstanding the fact that the

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

inal connection of the r.r. eta.c.with such. masters under the name of the third order is a matter of opinion but the existence of special knowledge within the second order, however derived, is not a matter of opinion and is its title to continuation and diffusion. 6.thechiefs of the second order shall be master masons of the 3rd, degree in accordance with the tradition of the order holding under the mother grand lodge of england or some other grand lodge recognized by her. 7. all authority within the order is vested in the three chiefs.theexisting chiefs arevirtuteortaocciduntrarius, mawahanuthesi,sacramentumappendixh139regis. in the eventofthe death or demission of achiefhis place shall be filledbyanother mason from within the ranksofthe second order. 8.thepowerofappointment in this case

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

le number assigned by the kabbalists to microprosopus, the vau of the hebrew alphabet, and of the tetragrammaton, the six middle sephiroth, especially the median 6th, the tiphereth, or beauty of the deity.thepentalpha, or emblem of health, the pythagorean emblem, is the five-pointed masonic star, five is the hebrew he, a female potency according to the kabbalah, and may be either the superior he, the mother idea, or the lower he, the bride of god, the church, the kingdom, these two together constitute the elohim, a feminine plural noun, constantly used as a title for creative power in the narrative of genesis in chapter one, and up to the end of verse four of chapter two, where the jehovist narrative commences.itis a curious coincidence that the acacia referring to the burial ofh.a.,and wh

y were types of the first sephirotic triad. freemasons little know how close they have been to the personation of the most exalted types of omnipotence. the letter g in the centre of a fellow crafts lodge, has received several explanations; i would add that it has a relation to ghimel, the hebrew g, the third letter of the alphabet, the three, meaning trinity of deity; the third sephira is binah, the mother of microprosopus, the son, a feminine potency, mother of god, with uncial greek capital g. the present masonic interpretation is folly, the idea of a modern ornamental lecturer. again the two parallel lines, the one moses, the other king solomon, enclosing a circle, bearing a central point, is purely kabbalistic. the point is tiphereth, beauty of conduct within a circle of virtues and b

ill infants, and again that she seeks to kill men also, and no man is safe who sleeps in a house alone, for he may be thus captured as adam was. she is also commonly called the wife of samael and thethedevil, and evil spirits137mother of shedim, and the ensnaress, maziquism. lilith meant a dust-cloud,butwas also translated as an owl, and as a screeching bird of night. naamah, the female demon, is the mother of many devils, her name means pleasure. she is said to have led astray uzza and azael, two of the beni elohim angels. asimon, the un-named one, is another devil of some repute, and no sex is apparent, in this case.thedevils are also said to have a special home in the moon; for evil spirits, night apparitions, and devils abide there. while on the other planets are the dead souls of the

gelic messengers;ourenglish word angel comes to us from the greekaggeloswhich means a messenger.thefollowersofplato, and especiallytheneo platonists, believed that in dreams the earnest student of transcendental philosphy was taught by divine powers a knowledge of things relating to the higher life, to cosmic forces and world history. in greek myths, we findthatdreams were called sons ofnox-night,the mother of nemesis and of theparce,the fates.thedreams had an abode with two gates, oneoflvoryand one ofhorn;through one passed noble, and through the other false visions.*theold greek physicians and priests taught that sleep in the temples would often be fertile in dreams which would show the*see theodyssey,24,12; 19,560; andovid,metamorphoses11, 592190themagical masonway to the cure of diseas

er period,butit appears then to have become widespread. osiris was fabled to be a divine king of egypt, and isis was his mother, sister and wife; horus was their son.themyth told that the king osiris was murdered by his brother typhon or set, and was then received into amenti, the underworld- the abode of the dead- where he reigned as king of the souls of the dead. isis was the goddess of nature, the mother of us all, and horus became the274themagical masontype of the beneficient son and sun. hence arose a public worship of this triad, and to them prayers for future happiness were directed, and to these deities temples were built, and public worship directed. supplementary to the cult of the triad was a system of adoration of sacred animals as emblems of the gods, notably of the bull or co

nity. but there are several modern variations of this doctrine; for some divines assert, while others express a pious hope, that all men will be finally blessed, while others again declare that the wicked will not suffer eternally, but will be blotted out of existence.thegnostics or some sects of these mystics taught that the soul of the infant came from the souls of the parents, as the body from the mother's body.300themagical masonorigen believed in the pre-existence of souls, which were born again and again into this world; this notion was condem255 ned at a synod held at constantinoplein543.thedoctrine of the immortality of the human soul was accepted at the lateran church council held in 1513,a.d.as to the english word 'spirit, however, we find extreme differences of meaning. while so

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17thestar-28th 18themooni't(29th 19thesun.,030th 20thelast judgment (angel)c',0,31st 21theuniverserlh32nd first cometh the one numbered 0, the circle of the heavens, the negative; then 1 the circle opened out into a right line, the positive. these two numbers have corrupted egyptian titles attached to them which are to the 0 mat; to the 1pogod:these are"'q.-maut- thepekht- stretch out- extension- the mother-goddess of all extended through the universe 'and above the shouldersofthatgreat goddess isnaturein her vastness exalted' notethatthe last atus is called the 'universe. 8 justice is referred to, and,and11 strength is referred totoandq,which causeth a transposition in the attribution, for these are cognate symbols. but at one time the82thesorcerer and his apprenticesword of justice wasth

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or reuss, see e. howe 8r h. moller, theodor reuss and irregular freemasonry in germany 1900 1923, in aqc 91, 1978 the german masonic world condemning him as well as half the english who condemn him for the a& p. rite'41[41] a charter was issued by yarker to reuss on 21 february 1902 to constitute the swedenborg lodge of the holy grail no. 15 at berlin. nor was this an ordinary lodge. it was to be the mother lodge of germania with power to form a provincial grand lodge and temple of the swedenborg rite, and to found subordinate lodges at his discretion and on my approval.42[42] establishing the provincial grand lodge of germany had not been without trauma for westcott. leopold engel, with whom reuss had quarrelled, objected and resigned from the german swedenborgian lodge, although he remai

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ate as a language of development. there is a whole world within the collective unconscious, a world which like our own, is a mixture of light and darkness, wisdom and error, suffering and ecstasy. the archetypes are a language which symbol- ise the whole psychological and spiritual state of humanity, they also hold wisdom which is from the highest worlds. some examples of major archetypes include the mother, rebirth, spirit and the trickster. the importance of archetypes is that they are part of rational mind personal unconscious collective unconscious deeper and deeper levels of collective unconscious fig 14 gnostic theurgy page 62 a symbolic language which can be used in spiritual practises to explore and rectify the unconscious. they also provide the reasoning behind our use of correspo

created the universe in twenty two mysterious paths. namely out of the seraphim who art three: idea, word and word in form, which are in him one and the same. they consist of a decade out of nothing and twenty two fundamental letters (which) he divided into three holy divisions the three mother letters, fundamental or first elements,the seven double and the twelve single letters. sepher yetzirah. the mother letters are mem, shin and aleph. they are attributed to the three elements- fire, air and water. the double letters are nun, beth, resh, kaph, pe, daleth and tau. they are attributed to the seven planets of the hebraic astrological system, they are seen illustrated in the sevenfold candelabrum used in kabbalistic liturgy. the single letter are gimel, he, vau, zain, cheth, teth, yod, lam

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c god, associated with zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, as suggested by austin osman spare (see the book of pleasure, 93 publishing, quebec canada. 22 23 the evocation circle/triangle in regard to the goetic triangle

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s answer to the hexagram, and it is like the soul of the microprosopus or the \yhla of the human tetragrammaton. therefore, in the head, which is the natural and chief seat, are formed the seven apertures of the head. this is the spiritual consciousness as distinct from the human consciousness. it is manifested in seven, as just stated, or in eight if tud be included. the father is the sun, hmkj. the mother is the moon, hnyb. the wind beareth it in its bosom, the ruach. its nurse is the earth, the nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the following is the true attributions of the seven appetures of the head: right ear- l; right eye- a; mouth- b; right nostril- f; left ear- k; left eye- 5; left nostril- c. these latter represent here the sonofirerous s

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in its appropriate color. the active adept will have no trouble in finding a myriad of uses for these potent symbols. in addition to providing the above mentioned, addendum1 also provides the z.a.m. with the complete color scales for the sephiroth, planets, and zodiac in all four scales as related to the name, hwhy. addendum ii provides the z.a.m. with the correct sounds as related to the zodiac, the mother letters, and the planets. the wise and prudent adept will work to incorporate these audio symbols into his/her practical workings. let the z.a.m. of our sacred order study well this document and remember that gcolors are forces and the child of forces art thou. h addendum 1: collection of information on color by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. the 5 elements in the 4 scales of king, queen, prince

d with yellow. sigil of b in princess scale: 11 addendum 2: flashing sounds zodiac in the chromatic scale sign scale color a aries c red b taurus c# red-orange c gemini d orange d cancer d# amber (orange-yellow) e leo e yellow f virgo f green-yellow g libra f# green h scorpio g blue-green i sagittarius g# blue j capricorn a indigo (blue violet) k aquarius a# violet l pisces b magenta (violet-red) the mother letters (with the new planets) letter planet scale color sounds flash on c shin. pluto c red f# green a aleph uranus e yellow a# violet m mem n neptune g blue d orange fundamental notes of the planets planet scale color planet sounds flash on f mars c red venus f# green a sun d orange moon g# blue b mercury e yellow jupiter a# violet c venus f# green mars c red 12 y moon g# blue sun d o

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in the familiar bar-and-dot calendrical code used by the maya, it corresponded to 3 september 32 bc.6 what was shocking about this was that tres zapotes was not a maya site not in any way at all. it was entirely, exclusively, unambiguously olmec. this suggested that the olmecs, not the maya, must have been the inventors of the calendar, and that the olmecs, not the maya, ought to be recognized as the mother culture of central america. despite determined opposition from gangs of furious mayanists the truth which stirling s spade had unearthed at tres zapotes gradually came out. the olmecs were much, much older than the maya. they d been a smart, civilized, technologically advanced people and they did, indeed, appear to have invented the bar-and-dot system of calendrical notation, with the e

for that matter the europeans until the renaissance, are supposed to have possessed cosmological data of anything approaching this quality. how, therefore, can its presence be explained in compositions which date back to the dawn of egyptian civilization? another (and perhaps related) mystery concerns the star sirius, which the egyptians identified with isis, the sister and consort of osiris and the mother of horus. in a passage addressed to osiris himself, the pyramid texts state: thy sister isis cometh unto thee rejoicing in her love for thee. thou settest her upon thee, thy issue entereth into her, and she becometh great with child like the star sept [sirius, the dog star. horus-sept cometh forth from thee in the form of horus, dweller in sept.38 many interpretations of this passage ar

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he word which led to the creation of the world. it was not a deliberate conscious act so much as a spontaneous outward expession of inherent internal creative forces. the same is true of the phallus, at least to a degree. the entire world arose from the creative impulse of the divine father contacting the material nature of the divine mother. the father is chockmah, wisdom and pure consciousness. the mother is binah, understanding, the sea, the matrix, field, or space, in which creation finds itself. the self is masculine. the n o t self is feminine. subjectivity is masculine. objectivity is feminine. every being is a geometric point of consciousness (the masculine hadit) iooking out at a world of things and events (the feminine nuit. the sexual force thus lies at the very roots of our ess

at ivi ty of truth and error wi l l be the same. i f properly prepared, you will receive this message and then you will never be quite the same again (which is the way of all initiations. your ideas about what is right and what is wrong will be seen in a new light. 226 lea, babalon and the beast this is the secret of the holy graal, that is the sacred vessel of our lady the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, the bride of chaos, that rideth upon our lord the beast. thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. aleister crowley, liber cheth crowley taught a key element of his magick using allusions to what he called babalon and the beast. he describ

lack ray of light flecked with red emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the desiring angels of earth has entered your cup. step 6. hold the talisman of earth of water high above the cup and say, 333 may the cohesive angels of water come to me now. those who hold true to what they renew; by the power of hmagl (heh-mah-gel) and the cow goddess hathor, the mother of heaven, do i command you. see a pale blue ray of light flecked with black emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the cohesive angels of water has entered your cup. hold the talisman of water of water high above the cup and say, may the regenerative angels of water come to me now. those who review what they renew; by the power of htdim (he

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ven' fourand- twenty daughters had daine gauden, who all nursed the same desire. one day, as mother and daughters, in wild delight, hunted over woods and fields, and once more that wicked word escaped their lips, that 'hunting was better than heaven' lo, suddenly before their mother's eyes the daughters' dresses turn into tufts of fur, their arms into legs, and four-and-twenty hitches bark around the mother's hunting-car, four doing duty as horses, the rest encircling the carriage; and away goes the wild train up into the clouds, there betwixt heaven and earth to hunt unceasingly, as they had wished, from day to day, from year to year. they have long wearied of the wild pursuit, and lament their impious wish, but they must bear the fruits of their guilt till the hour of redemption come. co

the stones might have pitied her. the night before twelfth-day she saw perchtha sweep past not far oft; behind all the other children she noticed a little one with its shirt soaked quite through, carrying a jug of water in its hand, and so weary that it could not keep up with the rest; it stood still in trouble before a fence, over which perchtha strode and the children scrambled. at that moment the mother recognised her own child, came running up and lifted it over the fence. while she had it in her arms the child spoke' oh how warm a mother's hands are! but do not cx-y so much, else you cry my jug too full and heavy, see, i have already spilt it all over my shirt* from that night the mother ceased to weep: so says the wilhelmsdorf account (borner p. 142-3. at bodelwitz they tell it some

ou cry my jug too full and heavy, see, i have already spilt it all over my shirt* from that night the mother ceased to weep: so says the wilhelmsdorf account (borner p. 142-3. at bodelwitz they tell it somewhat differently: the child said' oh how warm is a mother's arm' and followed up the request' mother, do not cry so' with the words 'you know every tear you weep i have to gather in my jug' and the mother had one more good hearty cry (ib. 152. fairy 1 historie peter leuen des andern kalenbergers, von achilles jason widman (aus scliwabisch hall, nurnb. 1560. eeprinted in hagen's narrenbuch, p. 353. peter leu here plays a trick on peasants, p. 394, by disguising himself as berchtold. furious host berchta, holda, posterli. 933 tales have the story of a little shroud drenched with tears (kin

so easily to be abolished. in not a few cases the devil may be regarded as a parodi/ or aping of the true god, as the left or wrong-side (taken mildly, the foil p. 515) of the divine being ^i he wants to have the same power, enjoy the same honour, and mimic god in everything; but his contrivances miscarry and come to nought. so the idea of a devifs-mother might have arisen as counterpart to mary the mother of god, though she had an earlier prototype in the giant's-mother (see suppl. all these influences so diverse in kind have joined to produce such popular notions of the devil's being and character, as have existed from the n. t. to our own times. the devil is jewish, christian, heathen, a false god, an elf, a giant, a spectre, all in one. by the addition of him, christianity could not b

lear shining white deity demands a dingy black hue, as the dark elves were opposed to the light. we may therefore balance the white baltac (p. 228, the radiant berhta (p. 272) against the gloomy powers, light-elves against black-elves, though the two principles touch, and even generate one another. the word alp seems to contain the notion of white, night and day come out of one another, night was the mother of day (p. 735, halja, demeter, diana, mary (p. 312-3 n) present themselves half black or wholly darkened .2 the dark diabolic principle may be regarded as one not original, as a falling away from divine light. the devil is called the black: os. mirki (tenebrosus, hel. 31, 24. der swarze, renner 36. satan exit ore torvus colore tcuiquam corvus, s. gallenlied, 11, 3. er was swarz als ein

his ought to be taken 1 conf. felner's flores philol. cap. 7 p. 103. names of the devil or his grandmother were given to cannon (rommel 4, 180' huck vor die holle= d.'s mother (stender's lett. wtb. 2, 337* praetorii blocksbergverr. 2, 113. brem. wtb. 1, 97. devil's offerings. 1009 the .explanation of crackling fire (p. 242) and of earthquake (p. 816-7. the last quotation names the wife instead of the mother, like the iotun's frilla in hymis-qvisa; and hagene says of brunhild, who made him feel uncomfortable 'ja sol si in der helle sin des uhelen tiuvels hriu (bride, nib. 426, 4. a greek, seeing giant aspi'ian grind fire out of stones, cries out 'heir veret des uivelis hriu/ roth. 1054; just as another giant's (the wind's) bride ia.res along (p. 632. percuna tete (p. 173) washes her son the

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north franconian names hullepopel (popowitsch 522, hollepeter (schm. 2, 174, the bavarian semper, of whom they say he cuts naughty children s bodies open and stuffs them with pebbles (schm. 3, 12. 250, exactly after the manner of holla and berhta (p. 273) 2; and consider faithful eckart, who escorts holla. in christian times they would at first choose some saint to accompany the infant christ or the mother of god in their dis tribution of boons, but the saint would imperceptibly degenerate into the old goblin again, but now a coarser one. the christmas plays sometimes present the saviour with his usual attendant peter, or else with niclas, at other times however mary with gabriel, or with her aged joseph, who, disguised as a peasant, acts the part of knecht ruprecht. nicolaus again has co

at liberty again with commendations. the same story is told at dittersdorf near blankenburg (betw. eudolstadt and saalfeld. again, a hiinin with her daughter dwelt on hiinenkoppe at the entrance of the black forest. the daughter found a peasant ploughing on the common, and put him in her apron, oxen, plough and all, then went and showed her mother the little fellow 540 giants. and his pussy-cats. the mother angrily bade her carry man, beast and plough directly back to where she found them: they belong to a people that may do the hiines much mischief/ and they both left the neighbourhood soon after.1 yet again: when the griingrund and the country round about were still inhabited by giants, two of them fell in with an ordinary man: what sort of groundivorm is this? asked one, and the other a

innish folk-tale. giants dwelt in kemisocken, and twenty years ago 2 there lived at rouwwanjemi an old woman named caisa, who told this tale: a giant maiden (kalewan tyttaren) took up horse and ploughman and plough (bewosen ja kyntajan ja auran) on her lap, carried them to her mother and asked &lt; what kind of beetle (sontiainen) can this be, mother, that i found rooting up the ground there? the mother said, put them away, child; we have to leave this country, and they are to live here instead/ the old giant race have to give way to agri cultural man, agriculture is an eye-sore to them, as it is to dwarfs (p. 459. the honest coarse grain of gianthood, which looks upon man as a tiny little beast, a beetle burrowing in the mud, but yet is secretly afraid of him, could not be hit off mor

from lappmark sinks a bird/ and ends: neath his wing a hundred men, thousands on his taips tip, ten in every quill there be] and in a mod. greek folk-song the sparrowhawk (as in horapollo) calls upon the winds to hush: a-rrb ra rpifcop^a ftovva lepdfci ecrvpe xaxta* trai/rer, ae/36, tra-vjrere ajro^re k axxr/v fjuav /3/oasm. 2 the winds are under the bird s command, and obey him. in another song the mother sets three to watch her son while he sleeps, in the mountains the sun, in the plain the eagle (aero, on the sea the brisk lord boreas: the sun sets, the eagle goes to sleep, and boreas goes home to his mother; 3 from, the whole context here we must understand by the eagle the sweet soft wind, and by boreas the cool northwind. hrcesvelgr (ohg. hreosuolah) means swallower of corpses, fles

ut the same thing was known to our heathenism, which called newborn and adopted children bosom-children, wishchildren, ea. 455. 464, and interpreted dying as departing to wuotan, to wish (p. 145. to heathens then, as well as christians, to die was to fare to god, to enter into god s rest and peace, metod seon, beow. 2360, feran on frean wsere, the lord s peace 52. so, to be buried is to fall into the mother s bosom (p. 642; mother and father take their children into their keeping again. vol. ii. 839 d d 840 death. neither comes to fetch the souls fallen due to her, 1 nor sends messengers after them. the dead are left alone to commence the long and gloomy journey; shoes, ship and ferry-money, ser vants, horses, clothes, they take with them from home for the hell-way. some ride, others sail

us (fornald/ sog. 3, 32, that at mid night hrossharsgrani 2 awoke his foster-son starkaftr, and carried him in his boat to an island. there, in a wood, eleven men sat in council; the twelfth chair stood vacant, but hrossharsgrani took it, and all saluted him as osinn. and osinn said, the demsters should deem the doom of starka^r (domendr skyldi doema orlug st. then spake thorr, who was wroth with the mother of the lad: i shape for him, that he have neither son nor 1 we still say: born in happy hour. ohg. mit heilu er giboran ward, 0. sal. 44. freq. in the 0. span. cid: el que en buen ora nascio, el que en buen punto nascio. from this notion of a good hour of beginning (a la bonne heure) has sprung the fr. word bonheur (masc) for good hap in general. similarly, about receiving knighthood, t

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nds fullest (spiritual) expression, and is occupied in all lodges by the chaplain, the spiritual representative of god in his temple. from the "south" shall come words of prayer and holy blessings, in all matter of our work and service for god and man. the "west" in the "west" the sun of life slowly resigns itself to the close of its journey, and, in radiant splendor, goes to rest in the "arms of the mother (peace and quiet. it is where the matre (mother) of the [34] lodge awaits the coming of her children, and welcomes them ever to "rest awhile and tarry in communion with god" the "north" the place of "dismal darkness" where the sun sheds not its glorious light. it is the abyss of evil, the valley of death (stagnation, the realm of darkness (ignorance, the hours of night (evil. it is "the

ions, and in all ways shown that respect, consideration, and honor due his noble, unselfish, and ritualistic position. in subordinate lodges the master shall be addressed as: the worthy master. he shall be saluted and respected in the same manner as a grand master, as far as form and ceremony are concerned, although amenable to the grand master of his jurisdiction and its grand council. the matre the mother of each lodge holds therein a position akin to that of the master. her station is in the west, where the sun retires in glory, and life closes its material activities and finds sweet repose. she is mother in a material and spiritual sense to the children of each lodge (the fratres and sorores, and to her should be confided those intimate personal problems of life which none but a mother

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theory of conversing apparitions. at the same time we are bound to say thatmrsandby appears to narrow his own ground toostrictly,at page421,zoistxxviii, he well states, that when the transference of thought is once established as a truth, the otherpoints,-cana brain which is not inapparentrapportwith the sleeper (a brain which is at acontributionstothezoist213between adele, the clairvoyante, and the mother of m. lucas, an alleged resident in mexico. here mr hockley says, that'mrs, in placing before his readers a proof that m. cahagnet's revelations are not a connection with the spiritual world, has selected two cases of clairvoyant communications with persons actually declared by the somnambulist to beliving,and, although in stating them that gentleman has given us the truth, still if he

r, applied to m. cahagnet for a sitting. scarcely was adele asleep, than she asked for this man by his name, as she usually does for deceased persons. she then said to us 'i see him: he is not dead; he is on the earth, and not in the spiritual world' she then gaveso exact a description of him to m. lucas, that the latter declared even the very gestures true to life. a few days later, m. lucas and the mother of the man had a second sitting. adele once asleep, said 'i see him' where do you see him 'here present' give us, once more, a description of him, as also of the place where he is.'heis a fair man, browned by the heat of the sun; very corpulent, features pretty regular, hazel eyes, mouth large; air sombre and meditative. he is in the garb of a workingman-asort of small blouse. he is at

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e lotus rising above the surface of the nun (see lotus in deities, themes, and concepts. from the new kingdom onward, a naked child or a ram-headed figure was shown sitting in the lotus to represent the newborn sun. the fertile aspect of the nun could be personified as the goddess mehet-weret, whose name means the great flood or the great swimmer. she was usually shown as a cow and was considered the mother of all the primeval beings, including apophis. mehet-weret was envisaged as giving birth to the sun child and lifting him up on her horns. a new kingdom hymn tells us that with the first light the sky became like gold and the primeval waters like lapis-lazuli. mythical time lines 59 the sun might also be thought of as emerging from a cosmic egg laid by a primeval bird (see under birds i

thicket or on a floating island. this nest of horus is one of the few mythical places that is commonly shown in egyptian art. temple wall scenes depict kings in the role of the horus child in the marshes being washed or suckled by a cow. this cow can be identified with a number of goddesses but most often with hathor, whose name literally means mansion of horus. she seems to have been regarded as the mother of horus the elder and the wet nurse or foster mother of horus the younger.37 many other deities were imagined as protecting the divine child whenever isis was forced to be absent. in literary spells these deities can be changed into the humble human inhabitants of the marsh. the theme of the poisoning of the infant horus was a common one in magical texts (see horus the child and serqet

y the silver was left. when anti was forgiven, the cow goddess restored his flesh with her healing milk. anti seems to be identical with nemty, another divine falcon who was punished by the gods. in a new kingdom story the divine tribunal retires to an island to consider whether to award the crown of egypt to horus or seth. the deities who make up the tribunal do not want to be disturbed by isis, the mother of horus. they order nemty, the divine ferryman, not to take any woman who looks like isis to the island. isis disguises herself as an old hag and bribes nemty with a gold ring to ferry her to the island. after she makes a fool of seth, he demands that nemty be punished. the divine tribunal orders all nemty s toes (or claws) to be chopped off. nemty vows that gold shall be taboo in his

death he was worshipped as a form of osiris. a festival called the running of the apis bull is recorded as early as the first dynasty. by the late period the apis bull had become a kind of national mascot. when an apis bull died, he was mourned as if he were osiris himself and given an extravagant funeral. priests searched egypt for a calf with the right markings to be recognized as the new apis. the mother of the chosen calf was given a name (such as the one of bastet) and honored as a manifestation of deities, themes, and concepts 105 isis. the new bull was crowned at full moon by the high priest of ptah. then he and his mother were installed in palatial quarters in the grounds of the temple of ptah. the actions of the apis bull were carefully watched because they were believed to predic

r gold solar disk is nearly always shown between the horns of cow goddesses. in graphic myths, the sun god sails along the belly of the cow each day. at night he traveled through the inner sky along an underworld river that was sometimes identified with mehet-weret. the horned head of the sky cow acted as a symbol for the whole daily cycle of the death and regeneration of the sun. the sky cow was the mother of the cosmos, who gave birth to the diurnal and nocturnal forms of the sun. a further elaboration of this idea turned the chest in which osiris was regenerated into the body of a cow goddess called shentayet. the ordinary dead could hope to be welcomed into the underworld by other forms of the divine cow. a bull, who may be osiris, lord of the cows, and seven cows with names such as th

goddess. the ferocious goddess is pacified by thoth, shu, or onuris and persuaded to return to egypt. in the greco-roman period, the return of the eye goddess was linked with the heliacal rising of sirius that signaled the coming of the dangerous but life-giving nile flood. the goddess is given an ecstatic welcome by all creation and is reconciled with her father. she then becomes his consort and the mother of a divine child who will be the new form of the sun god. in some places a pair of goddesses was worshipped as the aggressive and pacified forms of the eye of ra, such as satet and anuket at aswan and ayet and nehemetawy at herakleopolis. on many occasions the eye goddess fought on behalf of her father, ra. when part of humanity rebelled against the aging sun god, the eye was sent down

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ans infalsified manuscripts. the pushkara lake* was one of the spots of this earth favoured by the goddess, lakshmi-padma (whitelotus; she often plunged into the fresh waters that she might visit her eldest sister, varuni, the consort of thegod varuna* lakshmi-padma heard the proposal of devarata, witnessed the despair of the father, andadmired the filial devotion of sunahsepha. filled with pity, the mother of love and compassion sent for therishi visvamitra, one of the seven primordial manus and a son of brahma, and succeeded in interesting himin the lot of her protege. the great rishi promised her his aid. appearing to sunahsepha, but unseen by allothers, he taught him two sacred verses (mantras) of the rig-veda, making him promise to recite these onthe pyre. now, he who utters these two

e divine essence is broken. and as the unfamiliar term"divine" is mentally uttered my "thought- laughs. suddenly i hear again my far-off yet near voice pronouncing emphatically and close by me the words."why my sister has so suddenly ceased writing. and before the two final words "to me" have completedthe sentence, i see a long series of sad events, immediately following the catastrophe. i behold the mother, now a helpless, grovelling idiot, in the lunatic asylum attached to the city hospital, theseven younger children admitted into a refuge for paupers. finally i see the two elder, a boy of fifteen and agirl a year younger, my favourites, both taken by strangers into their service. a captain of a sailing vesselcarries away my nephew, an old jewess adopts the tender girl. i see the events

ill,indeed, be little worth living. he has to safeguard you against involuntary repetitions of visions of the samecharacter. unless you consent to it of your own free will, however, you will have to be left in the power offorces which will harass and persecute you to the verge of insanity. know that the development of 'longvision [clairvoyance- which is accomplished at will only by those for whom the mother of mercy, thegreat kwan-on, has no secrets- must, in the case of the beginner, be pursued with help of the air dzins(elemental spirits) whose nature is soulless, and hence wicked. know also that, while the arihat 'thedestroyer of the enemy' who has subjected and made of these creatures his servants, has nothing to fear; hewho has no power over them becomes their slave. nay, laugh not in

n never be effaced from the soul until purified by a new rebirthwithal, feel not dejected, but be of good cheer in your affliction, since it has led you to acquire trueknowledge, and to accept many a truth you would have otherwise rejected with contempt. and of thispriceless knowledge, acquired through suffering and personal efforts- no daij-dzin can ever deprive you.fare thee well, then, and may the mother of mercy, the great queen of heaven, afford you comfort andprotection" we parted, and since then i have led the life of an anchorite, in constant solitude and study. though stilloccasionally afflicted, i do not regret the years i have passed under the instruction of the yamabooshis, butfeel gratified for the knowledge received. of the priest tamoora hideyeri i think always with sincerea

most with despair. a feelingof fear, a sense of profound terror, which soon became a chronic state with her, pursued her from thatmoment; her nights became disturbed and sleepless, her days passed in prayer and lamentations. in hermaternal anxiety for the salvation of her beloved son's soul, and for his post mortem welfare, she made aseries of rash vows. finding that neither the latin petition to the mother of god written for her by herspiritual adviser, nor yet the humble supplications in german, addressed by herself to every saint she hadreason to believe was residing in paradise, worked the desired effect, she took to pilgrimages to distantshrines. during one of these journeys to a holy chapel situated high up in the mountains, she caught cold,amidst the glaciers of the tyrol, and redes

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d ignorance of all the woes it left behind. spiritualists say, on the contrary, that it is as vividly aware of them, and more so than before, for "spirits see more than mortals in the flesh do" we say that the bliss of the devachanee consists in its complete conviction that it has never left the earth, and that there is no such thing as death at all; that the postmortem spiritual consciousness of the mother will represent to her that she lives surrounded by her children and all those whom she loved; that no gap, no link, will be missing to make her disembodied state the most perfect and absolute happiness. the spiritualists deny this point blank. according to their doctrine, unfortunate man is not liberated even by death from the sorrows of this life. not a drop from the life-cup of pain a

rnity one particle of that terrestrial personality? your spiritual "i" is immortal; but from your present self it can carry away into eternity that only which has become worthy of immortality, namely, the aroma alone of the flower that has been mown by death. q. well, and the flower, the terrestrial "i? a. the flower, as all past and future flowers which have blossomed and will have to blossom on the mother bough, the sutratman, all children of one root or buddhi-will return to dust. your present "i" as you yourself know, is not the body now sitting before me, nor yet is it what i would call manas-sutratman, but sutratman-buddhi. q. but this does not explain to me, at all, why you call life after death immortal, infinite, and real, and the terrestrial life a simple phantom or illusion; sin

a national savior, one who, having overcome self, and being free to choose, has elected to serve humanity, in bearing at least as much as a woman's shoulders can possibly bear of national karma. this is what she says: yes, nature always does speak, don't you think? only sometimes we make so much noise that we drown her voice. that is why it is so restful to go out of the town and nestle awhile in the mother's arms. i am thinking of the evening on hampstead heath when we watched the sun go down; but oh! upon what suffering and misery that sun had set! a lady brought me yesterday a big hamper of wild flowers. i thought some of my east-end family had a better right to it than i, and so i took it down to a very poor school in whitechapel this morning. you should have seen the pallid little fac

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

alf from any other dwelling, that wilbur whateley was born at 5 a.m. on sunday, the second of february, 1913. this date was recalled because it was candlemas, which people in dunwich curiously observe under another name; and because the noises in the hills had sounded, and all the dogs of the countryside had barked persistently, throughout the night before. less worthy of notice was the fact that the mother was one of the decadent whateleys, a somewhat deformed, unattractive albino woman of thirty-five, living with an aged and half-insane father about whom the most frightful tales of wizardry had been whispered in his youth. lavinia whateley had no known husband, but according to the custom of the region made no attempt to disavow the child; concerning the other side of whose ancestry the

in the saouth sea did, an' them kanakys wudu't never give away their secrets "yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let well enough alone. wudn't bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside- that is, withaout they got pryin. all in the band of the faithful- order 0' dagon- an' the children shud never die, but go back to the mother hydra an' father dagon what we all come from onct. la! ia! cthulhu fhtagn! ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga" old zadok was fast lapsing into stark raving, and i held my breath. poor old soul- to what pitiful depths of hallucination had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain? he began to moan n

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in the saouth sea did, an' them kanakys wudu't never give away their secrets "yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let well enough alone. wudn't bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside- that is, withaout they got pryin. all in the band of the faithful- order 0' dagon- an' the children shud never die, but go back to the mother hydra an' father dagon what we all come from onct. la! ia! cthulhu fhtagn! ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga" old zadok was fast lapsing into stark raving, and i held my breath. poor old soul- to what pitiful depths of halluci-nation had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain? he began to moan

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

to subdue the forest and till the fields. and the children would listen and learn of the laws and deeds of old, and of that dear england which they had never seen or could not remember. there was war, and thereafter no more indians troubled the street. the men, busy with labour, waxed prosperous and as happy as they knew how to be. and the children grew up comfortable, and more families came from the mother land to dwell on the street. and the children s children, and the newcomers children, grew up. the town was now a city, and one by one the cabins gave place to houses simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood, with stone steps and iron railings and fanlights over the doors. no flimsy creations were these houses, for they were made to serve many a generation. within there were carven ma

en, grew up. the town was now a city, and one by one the cabins gave place to houses simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood, with stone steps and iron railings and fanlights over the doors. no flimsy creations were these houses, for they were made to serve many a generation. within there were carven mantels and graceful stairs, and sensible, pleasing furniture, china, and silver, brought from the mother land. so the street drank in the dreams of a young people and rejoiced as its dwellers became more graceful and happy. where once had been only strength and honour, taste and learning now abode as well. books and paintings and music came to the houses, and the young men went to the university which rose above the plain to the north. in the place of conical hats and small-swords, of lace

the place, and the ancient spirit slept. great excitement once came to the street. war and revolution were raging across the seas; a dynasty had collapsed, and its degenerate subjects were flocking with dubious intent to the western land. many of these took lodgings in the battered houses that had once known the songs of birds and the scent of roses. then the western land itself awoke and joined the mother land in her titanic struggle for civilization. over the cities once more floated the old flag, companioned by the new flag, and by a plainer, yet glorious tricolour. but not many flags floated over the street, for therein brooded only fear and hatred and ignorance. again young men went forth, but not quite as did the young men of those other days. something was lacking. and the sons of

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ourse of their experiments, these men chanted, lit candles and did all sorts of weird things and, as a result, became the forerunners of the abracadabra type magician. even today you see things happening that resemble the witch hunts of old. once, a mother-in-law wrote to me, convinced her daughter-in-law was a witch. the girl had pointed teeth, and she did have a few quirks in her behaviour, but the mother-in-law must have spied on every move the poor girl made, even in the bathroom. the woman had kept some kind of record to prove that every time the girl did a certain thing, some relative in the family would die within a few days. sometimes, reading mail like that makes you fear that the whole world has gone mad! here was this woman taking out her hatred of her daughter-inlaw, and connec

INFERNAL UNION

ation of ones will. this focus is called oz, referred to before. lilith represents this force in a similar way but perhaps related more to the carrying out or individual acting up of this deep desire of will (the outward reception of an inner will of manifestation. both are the sources of entry into the ectasies of the infernal sabbat. as well, samael is the earth and lilith the spirit. lilith is the mother of abortions, and samael is one of the origional abortions or nephilim,both fallen from grace. in practice, the uniting of the infernal feminine and masculine within the self can be developed by exploring exactly why we perceive ourselves in certain ways, breaking down all gender stereotypes we may have been subconsciously programmed with, and finding our true sexual nature, the essence

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

sarah, 1 alice the wife of henry faber, annota lange, and eva de brownestown. when the bishop arrived in kilkenny from dublin he went direct to the prison, and interviewed the unfortunates mentioned above. they all immediately confessed to the charges laid against them, and even went to the length of admitting other crimes of which no mention had been made; but, according to them, dame alice was the mother and mistress of them all. upon this the bishop wrote letters on the 6th of june to the chancellor, and to the treasurer, walter de islep, requesting them to order the sheriff to attach the bodies of these people and put p. 36 them in safe keeping. but a warrant was refused, owing to the fact that william outlawe was a relation of the one and a close friend of the other; so at length the

rrator professes his disbelief in such superstitions, yet there seems to have been an unconscious feeling in his mind that his strict administration of the law was the means of bringing the affliction on his child. he says "my poor boy jack to all appearances lay dying; he had a convulsion for eight or nine hours. his mother and several others are of opinion he is bewitched, and by the old woman, the mother of nell welsh, who is reputed a bad woman; and the child was playing by her that day she was upon her examination, and was taken ill presently after she was committed to bridewell. but i have not faith to believe it was anything but the hand of god. i have committed the girl p. 172 to bridewell, where she shall stay some time" 1 at one period in their history that peculiar people, known

would be occasion to mention it [this hughes now preparing her testimony, immediately one of her children, a fine boy well grown towards youth] was presently taken ill in the same wofal manner that goodwin's were; and particularly the boy in the night cry'd out, that a black person with a blue cap in the room tortur'd him, and that they try'd with their hand in the bed for to pull out his bowels. the mother of the boy went unto glover on the day following, and asked her, why she tortured her poor lad at such a rate? glover answered, because of the wrong she had receiv'd from her; and boasted that she had come at him as a black person with a blue cap, and with her hand in the bed would have pulled his bowels out, but could not. hughes denied that she had wronged her; and glover then desirin

ven her that morning, and had seen it p. 216 about her head; this had also seven double knots and one single one "her mother was advised by a roman catholic priest to use a counter-charm, which was to write some words out of the first chapter of st. john's gospel in a paper, and to tie the paper with an incle three times round her neck, knotted each time. this charm the girl herself declined; but the mother, in one of the times of her being afflicted, used it. she was in a violent fit upon the bed held down by a man, and, recovering a little, complained grievously of a pain in her back and about her middle; immediately the company discovered the said incle tied round her middle with seven double knots and one single one: this was sworn to by several. the man who held the afflicted was aske

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to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ceremony were both solemn and highly refreshing to our religious feelings. for there stood the image of the goddess in its niche, surrounded with a row of ever-burning lamps, the flames of which, flickering in the breeze, infect god's pure air with an offensive smell of olive oil. the mother and son truly represent the two most conspicuous idols of monoiheittic christianity! for a companion to the idol of the poor amtadini of bari, go to the rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da candelaria, in a long hall running along one side of the church, there might he seen a few years ago another madonna. along the walls of the hall there is a line of saints, each

y stop at the fourth and fifth centuries of our era, and contrast the so-called 'heathenism' of the third neo-platonic eclectic school with the growing christiamty, the result may not be favorable to the latter. even at that early period, vhm the new religion had hardly outlined its contradictory dogmas; when the diampiods of the bloodthirsty cyril knew not thetoselves whether mary was to become' the mother of god' or rank as a 'demon' ia company with isis; when the memory of the meek and lowly jesus still lingered lovingly in every christian heart, and his words of mercy and charity still vibrated in the air, even then the christians were outdoing the pagans in every kind of ferocity and religious intolerance. and if we look still farther back, and seek for examples of true chrimtum, in a

intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. when cyril, the bishop of alexandria, had openly embraced the cause of isis, the egyptian goddess, and had anthropomorphized her into mary, the mother of god; and the trinitarian controversy had been begun; from that moment the egyptian doctrine of the emanation of the creative god out of emepht? began to be tortured in a thousand ways, until the councils had agreed upon the adoption of it as it now stands the disfigured ternary of the kabalistic solomon and philo! but as ha origin was yet too evident, the word was no longer called th

ritualism" the bull of pope innocent viii is exhumed and translated for the benefit of des mousseaux's readers "we have heard" exclaims the sovereign pontiff "that a great number of persons of both sexes have feared not to enter into rdations with the spirits of hell; and that, by their practice of sorcery. they strike with sterility the conjugal bed, destroy the germs of humanity in the bosom of the mother, and throw spells on them, and set a barrier to the mul- tiplication of animak .etc, etc; then follow cm^es and anathemas against the practice" this belief of the sovereign pontiffs of an enlightened christian country is a direct inheritance from the most ignorant multitudes of the southern hinda rabble the 'heathen' the diabolical arts of certain kang^ins (witches) and jadhgara (sorcer

y' of the reformation spreading in lithuania, that he traveled all the way to rome to pay his homage of sympathy and veneration to the pope. the latter presented him with a precious box of relies. on his return home his confessor saw the virgin, who descended from her glorious abode for the sole purpose of blessing these relics and authenticating them. the superior (tf the neighboring convent and the mother-abbess of a nunnery both saw the same viaon, with a re-enforcement of several saints and martyrs; they prophesied and "felt the holy ghost" ascending from the box of relics and over- shadowing the prince. a demoniac provided for the purpose by the clergy was exorcized in full ceremony, and upon being touched by the box immediately recovered, and rendered thanks on the spot to the pope a

a highly-finished picture" the hindfi virgin is represented as seated on a loimge and nursing krishna. the hair brushed back, the long veil, and the golden aureole around the virgin's head, as well as around that of the hindfl savior, are striking. no cathohc, well versed as he might be in the mysterious symbousm of iconology, would hesitate for a moment to worship at that shrine the vii^n mary, the mother of his god* in indur subba, the south entrance of the caves of ellora, may be seen to this day the figure of indra's wife, indrdni, sitting with her infant son-god, pointing the finger to heaven with the same gesture as the italian madonna and child* 102. th*0mitliamdlmtirsemaia*,p.7u 2iided.,p.l73. 193- exo, zzxiz, 25, 26. 194. b. moor: ra
JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

hey generate. to access earth prana, walk barefoot daily on the earth and consciously absorb the pranic energy through the souls of your feet. then give some back by imagining that with every step you take on this earth, pure divine mother love is flowing from her heart to yours and into your body and down your legs and out through the souls of your feet and back into the earth, to be utilized as the mother earth requires and desires. this sets up a nice biofeedback looping arrangement of give and take. absorb prana and give back love and gratitude for you may wish to thank the elements of the earth for lending you their molecules and atoms for the original creation, and continual sustenance, of your body* more on surya yoga in chapter 9. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food o

muheen 79. all wise, all knowing she gives and takes life and reminds us of our innate inner wisdom and of the divine spark within and asks us to radiantly manifest this into the world. the high priestess embodies love, mercy and compassion. then we have: the triple goddess. the original trinity, symbolizes the 3 faces of the great goddess. stage 1: the virgin as strong and self defined. stage 2: the mother as the nurturing source of all nourishment and. stage 3: the crone representing death and transformation. the role of the triple goddess is to remind us of our sacredness regardless of our age for all stages are precious, and also to remind us that there is one multi-faceted goddess, always present, always sacred. then we have some of the hindu goddesses who the hindu s believe are all

eeper of the heavens and cycles and changes of time. nurtures us thru dark night of soul changes. and some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all life. queen of heaven, giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroyer, creator. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 80. bast. earth mother goddess of abundance and of relaxed play. protector of women in childbirth, mother of light and independence. some of the roman goddesses. fortuna. goddess of abundance and destiny

for when we call it forth we may instruct dear mighty i am presence i command full mastery of all my lower bodies for you to now fully manifest within. i now express completely divine magic and mastery and heaven within all realms. as above, so below. so be it! what a great decree! quality programs and thinking provide quality life experience* or the god force within, the inner teacher, our dow, the mother/father creator god. whatever you wish to use. q: what happens to the taste buds? do they crave flavor or sensation? the major stumbling block for many involved in this pioneering work has been still craving flavor and taste sensations. it is important to not be in denial and as we research the emotional energy pattern, hook in and the emotional dependence on food, we may continue to ind

by living it for at least six months, before she becomes pregnant or b) delays living purely on prana until she has had her children. the reason for this is that any doubt can interfere with the baby s nourishment flow and create physical problems for the fetus which should be avoided at all costs. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 160 question 2: what does the mother then feed the child? answer q2: some mothers feed their baby breast milk, or other milk, and they do so until the baby indicates a desire to eat other food. this is an interesting reality as some of the new babies being born are already tuned to the madonna frequency divine nutrition channel and yet their success at being properly nurtured rests with the fields of those around them. for

at being properly nurtured rests with the fields of those around them. for example, there is a woman living on light in brazil whose baby feeds every 3 or 4 days and is putting on weight and appears healthy. however, the young mother s own mother and mother-in-law and friends are all concerned about how little she feeds this baby and are constantly projecting their fears for its safety into both the mother s and her baby s field. this in itself can interfere with the way divine love can nourish her child, for the fear vibration can impede the flow thus manifesting, by their own energy field, what it is they fear. catch 22. with the feeding of children we need to be extremely responsible so we recommend regular check ups and if the child is thriving though it eats very little, it could be

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

-bird is seen by the children. myths are inextricably embodied like specks and straws and flies in amber amidst the sayings and rhymes of the common people in all countries; and they are there preserved for very many generations, reappearing to recognition after. the lapse sometimes of centuries. now, how do we explain and re-render the above rude couplet? the lady-bird is the virgin maria, isis, the mother and producer of nature; the house is the ecliptic it is figuratively on fire, or of fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire

in penitential, magic brand or exposure on the doors of barns, or on the outside of rustic buildings. all this is ceremonial sacrifice, addressed to the harmful gods, and meant occultly and entreatingly for the eyes of the observant, but invisible, wandering angels, who move through the world threading unseen the ways of men, and unwitted of by them, and most abundant and most active there where the mother of all of them is in the ascendant with her influences; or when night is abroad, throned in her cope of stars letters, from their first judiciary arrangement in the heavens, spelling out continually new astrological combinations. for astrology was the mother, as she was the precursor, of astronomy, and was once a power; into whatever mean roads the exercise of the art of her servants ha

pt: serpentem magnificant in tantum, ut ilium etiam christo pr ferant. see tertullian, epiphanius, and theodoret: st. john iii. 14, also. we now refer the reader to some significant figures towards the end of our volume, which will be found according to their numbers. figure 289: the abraxas-god, invested with all the attributes of phoebus. green jasper; a unique type. the egyptians call the moon the mother of the world, and say it is of both sexes (plutarch; spartian, life of caracalla. the moon, in a mystic sense, is called by the egyptians male and female. the above is a gem in the bosanquet collection. in the exerque is the address, cabaw glory unto thee! on the reverse, in a cartouche formed by a coiled asp, precisely as the hindoos write the ineffable name aum, are the titles iaw, ab

jection to the colour green in certain cases. it is the spirit-colour, a magic colour, the colour of the fairies, as the cabalistic, tutelary, miniature spirits are called, who are supposed to be very jealous of its use. in ireland, green is universally regarded with distrust; but with veneration, in the spiritual sense. it is the national colour; for the patroness of ireland is the female deity, the mother of nature, known in the classic mythology as venus, equally venus the graceful and venus the terrible, as the goddess of life and of death. the various verts, or greens, are the the irish harp. 181 colour-rulers in the emblazonry of the emerald isle. the presiding deity of the land of ierna, or of ireland, is the mythic woman born out of the fecundity of nature, or out of the great deep

their art of concealing myths, or hinting them cautiously in the most difficult and far-off resemblances. the curious reader is referred to our illustration, figs. 119, 120. the character of the" head" which the templars were charged with having worshipped in their secret encampments, or mystic lodges, has been the subject of much dispute. some say it was the head of proserpine, or of isis, or of the mother of nature, presented under certain strange aspects. others assert that the figure was male, and that of dis or charon, according to the classic nomenclature. the object was reputed to be a talisman, and it is called by some the head of medusa, or the snake-haired visage, dropping blood which turned to snakes, and transforming the beholder to stone. it was this head, or one of a similar

, in fact, over woman s shame, at the same time that they proclaim her glory, in the pardoned sense. these strange ideas are strictly those of the old rosicrucians, or brethren of the red cross, and we only reproduce them. the early writers saw no indecency in speaking openly of these things, which are usually hidden away, as improper to be spoken about. the blackness or darkness of matter, or of the mother of nature, is figured in another respect in the belongings of this famous feminine order, instituted for the glory of woman. curious armorists, skilled in the knowledge of the deep sacred symbolism with which the old heralds suffused their illustrations or emblazonments, will remember that black is a feature in the order of the garter; and that, among figures and glyphs and hints the mo

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ased on the doctrine and teachings of isaac luria, who was born in jerusalem during the 16th century( ancient secrets, page 87; reiss does go on to mention the zohar and moses de leon. in an excerpt from an interview with the author of ancient secrets of creation: sepher yetzira, the book that started kabbalah, revealed* dr. reiss begins to understand why god chose the aleph, mem, and sheen to be the mother letters of creation, we have to know three things. the first is that the author of sepher yetzira understood that the scroll of the five books of moses, called in hebrew, the torah, was the blueprint for the world because it contains the story of creation. the second is that pythagoras found that the harmony of music lays in the ratio of the whole numbers less than four. among the ratio

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om were considered the main gods, and especially important were seven gods. the great seven. the functions of different gods tended to vary by city states, but of the great seven an was universally the god of heaven, enlil. the god of air and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be

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ht forth sons for him. hagar the egyptian was mother to ishmael first of the sons of abraham and then was isaac, son of sarai. yet of his two sons did abraham love ishmael the best of them for he was the first born. yet of this love was sarai jealous for her son and despised hagar for her son. with subtle whispers and with lies did she deceive abraham and turn his heart against his first-born and the mother hagar the egyptian. so became abraham the reflection of his god. when her work was done 292 and abraham's heart was set against hagar and ishmael was robbed of his favour went sarai to hagar in anger and spoke to her these words, driving her ever with her son from the house of abraham "go from here, egyptian. depart my house for there is no love for you and i desire you not here. abraha

th. thus beneath the omen of the fallen star in the town of bethlehem was the child born. gabriel's son came forth from mary and his eyes burned with a savage fire. apparent to all was his elohim blood. bloodied, long and tormented was that birth as though very world resisted a child that bore so great a curse, a child born of tainted love. no infants wail came from those new lips nor sought they the mother's breast but even the first breath drawn inwards was expired as speech intelligent and those that heard, mother and her consort, were at once dismayed and amazed 326 that a new-born child should speak with the tongue of full grown men. so did the child speak "behold this wondrous sign and know that god's hand is here, working great deeds upon the earth that all the kingdoms of men might

weep, spilling out oceans of tears for michael's wrongs. one was there that wept not but acted with a bloody hand 331 to defend his own son. against that which michael worked worked gabriel, descending to the earth, flying most swift from heaven, falling as a fulmination to that lower realm to act in defence of his son. appearing in a blast of flame he appeared to mary and warned with these words the mother of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of wh

te then that the precious child is saved from herod's wrath. 332 those that would pursue you i shall thwart them and shall watch you on the road of exile. have no fear for you shall be provided for even as your ancestors were succoured as they fled here from that land which you now make to. go then, mary, and fear not" then with a word of power gabriel made blind the eyes of men to the passing of the mother and the child even as he fell upon the soldiers that had come to destroy the boy. as mary fled with her son in her arms from the house that had homed them and went upon the road to egypt, terrible cries came from within. no strength had herod's men against the full wrath of gabriel as he went amongst with four blades singing and, cutting to every side, made bloody butchery of the strick

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ay be made for others at reasonable cost of copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added* the master therion liber b vel magi sub figura i 00. one is the magus: twain his forces: four his weapons. these are the seven spirits of unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. thus is the art and craft of the magus but glamour. how shall he destroy himself? 0. yet the magus hath power upon the mother both directly and through love. and the magus is love, and bindeth together that and this in his conjuration. 1. in the beginning doth the magus speak truth, and send forth illusion and falsehood to enslave the soul. yet therein is the mystery of redemption. 2. by his wisdom made he the worlds; the word that is god is none other than he. 3. how then shall he end his speech with silence?

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bout a multitude of forces was discarded and was replaced with an assumption about a wise, unified force that guides the world. however, due to humanity s insignificance, compared to the greatness of this force, we are left unattended. alas, humanity continues to suffer regardless of the numerous theories about the world s creation and governance. it is incomprehensible why nature is so gentle in the mother s womb and during early childhood, and so ruthless in adulthood, when we seemingly b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 32 need its help even more. a question arises: are we not the reason for nature s cruelty toward the world? all of nature s actions are interconnected; hence, by violating one of its laws, we upset the balance of the entire system. it does not matter whether w

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it produces a state where one can only feel satiation from the ruin of others. an altruistic pleasure is quite the opposite. the altruistic pleasure does not compare with others, but is rather within others. in a sense, we can compare this to a mother-and-child relationship. because mothers love their children, they enjoy seeing them enjoying what they give them. the more a child enjoys, the more the mother enjoys, too. a mother feels joy precisely from those efforts she makes for her child, more than in anything else she does. 138 from chaos to harmony naturally, such satisfaction is possible only on condition that we love the others, and its power depends on our measure of love for them. love, in fact, is the willingness to care for the well-being of others, to serve them. a person who f

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ires don t just pop out of the blue. they form unconsciously within us and surface only when they become something definable, such as, i want a pizza. before that, desires are either not felt, or at most, felt as general restlessness. we ve all experienced that sense of wanting something but not quite knowing what it is. well, it is a desire that has not yet ripened. plato once said, necessity is the mother of invention, and he was right. similarly, kabbalah teaches us that the only way we can learn anything is by first wanting to learn it. it s a very simple formula: when we want something, we do what it takes to get it. we make the 26 kabbalah revealed time, muster the energy, and develop the necessary skills. it turns out that the engine of change is desire. the way our desires evolve b

choice in the matter. in fact, the only reason they agree to it is because they don t know anything else. but surely there is only so much pleasure they can derive from eating, other than filling their empty stomachs. now, think of the baby s mother. imagine her face glowing as she is feeding her child. she is in heaven just watching her child eat healthily. the baby may (at most) be content, but the mother is elated. here s what happens: both the mother and the child enjoy the child s desire for food. but while the child s focus is on its own stomach, the mother s pleasure is infinitely greater because of her delight in giving to her baby. her focus is not on herself, but on her child. it is the same with nature. if we knew what nature wanted of us, and fulfilled it, we would feel the ple

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give it a single thought. suddenly, the idea of spiritual elevation becomes absolutely alien to us and is thrust from our minds. this is much like the way a mother teaches her child to walk. she holds it by the hand so that it feels her support, and then she suddenly withdraws, letting go of it. when the child feels totally abandoned and lacking all support, it is compelled to take a step toward the mother. only in this way can it learn to walk independently. thus, though it may seem to us as if the creator has suddenly abandoned us, in fact he is waiting for us to take a step on our own. it is said that the upper world is in a state of complete rest. the word "rest" in the spiritual world, implies no changes in desire. however, the desire to bestow good never changes. all acts and moveme

of living, that is, of developing spiritual perception. an acute sensation produced in us by the awareness of good and evil is known in kabbalah as "the process of nurturing: just as a mother raises her infant to her breast and gives it food, so a kabbalist is given the light contained at an upper spiritual level so that one clearly sees and feels the gulf between good and evil. and then, just as the mother takes the infant away from her breast, so a kabbalist loses the bond with the higher source, as well as the clear distinction between good and evil. this process is designed to induce a person to pray to the creator to acquire the same capabilities for perceiving (kelim) the good and evil as are possessed by the higher source. we receive both egoism and altruism from above. the differen

tellect from "to understand" into "to believe" contrary to reason, will we receive the spiritual perceptions. both desires are connected to each other, even though the desire to grab is found in the heart and the desire to understand is found in the brain. this is because the foundation of both is egoism. kabbalah explains that the birth of the spiritual object is initiated when "the father takes the mother outside" in order to give birth to a son; the perfection "displaces" reason from analyzing the surroundings in order to receive a new, higher reason that will be independent of any desires, and, therefore, truly objective. mere faith in the creator is not sufficient. this faith has to exist for the sake of the creator, rather than for an individual s personal benefit. a prayer is regard

h this, in order to gain a real understanding of creation, one must analyze it from above to below, from the creator to our world, and then from below to above. the path from above to below is called "the gradual descent of the soul into our world" this is the conception and development of the soul according to an analogy with our own world the point at which the fetus is conceived in the body of the mother with the seed of the father. until the last lowest level manifests in a person, a level at which one is completely removed from the creator, as the fruit of the parents, as a seed, which has completely lost its primary form, one cannot become a physically independent organism. but as in our world, so in the spiritual realm one continues to be completely dependent on its source until, wi

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. everyone believed that humanity had discovered the necessary measures to know the world as it really was. in the late 1800s, it seemed that classical physics had provided researchers with a complete set of laws for every natural phenomenon. many researchers maintained that these laws would help them explain even the few phenomena that remained mysteries. since physics has always been considered the mother of all sciences and the forefront of technology and experimentation, its discoveries served as the foundation for research in other sciences, as well. the era of modern physics began in the early 1900s with albert einstein s (1879-1955) revolutionary discoveries. einstein s theory of relativity generated a fundamental change in attitude towards everything that had previously been known

receiving pleasure, the sensing unit would be split in two. in such a case, i could separate the receiver of the pleasure from the one who feels it. the receiver would be another person, and the one who senses the pleasure would be me. in so doing, the sensing of the pleasure can become unending and yield a sensation of eternal living. we can compare the above situation to a mother and her child. the mother enjoys her child s pleasure and can therefore give without restraint and delight in it. if i could love someone in such a way that pleasing him or her would feel like my own pleasure, my delight would be unlimited. in order to recognize that principle, our souls had to break and come down to this world. when the point in the heart a genuine desire to reawaken the sensation of the spirit

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a great desire for spirituality. it is not given as a choice, but extends from the creator. there will come a time when more and more souls will be ready for spirituality. man always follows his desire. before the study of the wisdom of kabbalah, one is led from above, and when one opens a book, the creator seemingly steps away from the student, like a parent teaching an infant to walk. at first, the mother holds her baby, but she slowly backs off when the child begins stumbling toward her. we approach spirituality in much the same way, gaining more and more independence. there are things we can and cannot work with. i can t say that something doesn t hurt me when it does. i rely on my feelings, and no philosophy will help me in this case. this is the limit of my self. it is pa r t o n e:

years, or twenty-four months. in infancy, the partzuf attains a state called katnut, or galgalta and eynaim, a complete screen in first-degree coarseness. the infant is different from the embryo in that the embryo wants nothing, but the infant sucks the light with its own independent desire, just as a baby sucks from its mother. how does the milk become food for the baby? when menstruation stops, the mother s blood is used for the development of the embryo. during labor, blood pours out; this blood is impure and cannot be corrected. it becomes impure desires, denied of any desire to give, to bestow. but there is a part of the blood that turns into milk after labor. it rises from the sefira of yesod, where the womb is, to the chazeh (chest, which is in the sefira of tifferet of the partzuf

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meetings he is definitely participating in that great work. his progress in the order will depend upon the zeal and assiduity which he shows in this service. c. he undertakes to remain in the order and in his mother-lodge for at least three years. he is permitted, after initiation, to visit other lodges, and after he is a master mason to join other lodges, if he so desires; but he must not leave the mother-lodge under the specified period. it is to the mother-lodge that he owes allegiance and the duty of loyal co-operation. where there is more than one lodge near his place of residence the candidate should ask his introduces for information regarding the work of the several lodges, so that he may be sure of entering the lodge whose work and members are likely to be most congenial to him

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es one. but see! osiris the divine spirit, isis, the eternal mother, give life to horus, who is man, man born of both, yet one with osiris. horus is merged in osiris, and isis, who had been matter, becomes through him the queen of life and wisdom. and osiris, isis, and horus are all born of the light. 58. two are the births of horus. he is born of isis, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he is born again into osiris, redeeming his mother from her long search for the fragments of her husband scattered over the earth. he is born into osiris when osiris in the heart sees osiris in the heavens, and knows that the twain are one. 59. so taught he, and the wise among the priests were glad. 60. to pharaoh, the monarch, he gave the motto: look f

nd osiris 65. isis, to whom the lesser mysteries were ascribed, was not only the universal feminine principle expressed in nature, but also a real and very lofty being, just as the christ is the universal life, the second logos, and also a high official of the occult hierarchy. she by virtue of her high development and office was able to represent the feminine aspect of the deity to man. isis was the mother of all that lives, and wisdom and truth and power; upon her temple at sais the inscription was written: i am that which is, which hath been, and which shall be; and no man has ever lifted the veil that hides my divinity from mortal eyes(*plutarch. moralia; de iside et osiride) the moon was her symbol; and the influence which she outpoured upon her worshippers to the music of the shaken

orship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess of love and beauty, while as we have seen, isis was the queen of truth and the mother of all things; yet both were representatives of the feminine aspect of the deity, as also was nephthys. ptah was the master architect of the universe, the holy spirit who is the creative fire of god; he was the celestial worker in metals, and the chief smelter, caster and sculptor of the gods, the skilful craftsman by whom the design for every part of the framework of the world was made

so, in the south of the island, an independent city with a few miles of territory attached to it. 211. all these kings were also ex-officio high priests, as in egypt, and the king s palace was always the principal temple of his state. the people worshipped a dual deity- father-mother- and these two were regarded as one, though some men offered their devotion more to the father-aspect, and some to the mother. the father, when spoken of separately, was called brito, and the mother diktynna. no statues were made of these deities, but great reverence was paid to their symbol, which was a double-headed axe (see plate i, 1, following p. 50) this was carved in stone and made in metal, and set up in the temples where one would naturally expect a statue, and a conventional drawing of it represented

and worship was carried on out of doors. various remarkable isolated peaks of rock were regarded as sacred to the great mother, and the king and his people went out to one or other of these on certain days in each month, and chanted prayers and praises. a fire was lit, and each person wove a sort of crown of leaves for himself, wore it for awhile, and then threw it into the fire as an offering to the mother-god. each of these peaks had also a special yearly festival, much like a pardon in brittany- a kind of semi-religious village fair, to which people came from all parts of the island to picnic in the open air for two or three days, and enjoyed themselves hugely. in one case a great old tree of enormous size and unusually perfect shape was regarded as sacred to diktynna, and offerings wer

d is in reality the ancestor of the master s gavel, which he bears because in his humble way he represents the all-commander, ruling his lodge in the name of the spiritual king. in crete we often find it associated with what is called the sacral knot (plate i, 2, following p. 50. when thus combined it closely resembles the egyptian ankh, the token of immortality (plate i, 3. following p. 50) 232. the mother-goddess dictynna denoted the productivity and creative power of nature; this double axe, especially when surmounted by the sacral knot, signified the eternal truth of death and resurrection, which was the central mystery of the religion of crete as it was of that of egypt; and so it was often laid before her to typify the ever-recurring miracle of the rebirth of tree and grain from the

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activities were curtailed because he felt that more attention was being given to having position inside the church than to accomplishments in the outside world. this decision prompted yet another schism by michael aquino and others who left to form the temple of set. lavey died in 1997, and the leadership passed to his longtime companion, biographer, and personal assistant, blanche barton, who is the mother of his son. on walpurgisnacht of 2001, peter h. gilmore was appointed high priest of the church of satan. the headquarters of the church is presently located in new york city where the high priest resides. see also lavey, anton for further reading: aquino,michael a. the church of satan. 4th ed. self-published, 1999. barton, blanche. the church of satan: a history of the world s most not

of ourselves. for further reading: the church of the morning star s official website: http//www.churchoflucifer.8m.com. circle in most if not all religious traditions, attention is given to the place in which worship and other religious activities occur. there is much information about circular forms in comparative religion and depth psychology. circles often, for example, represent the earth and the mother principle. in jungian psychology, they symbolize wholeness and unity. mandalas, which are meditation diagrams associated with hinduism and buddhism, are frequently drawn in the form of circles. according to the south asian tradition, meditating on mandalas allows meditators access to different realms of consciousness. in a roughly parallel manner, magic circles are viewed as functioning

, and hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for greek classical religion was set in the homeric poems, the iliad and the odyssey, which themselves were the inheritors of older heritages from the mycenean-minoan culture. the chief deity was the mother goddess, who brought both good and evil, though even evil was understood to be part of the natural cycle of things. this included death, which was believed to be essential for new life. the mother goddess herself was ruler of the nether regions and thus a key element in the cult of the dead. at argos she was known as hera (the lady, at eleusis she was known as demeter (mother earth, at

e innocuous behavior. the setting for the case was sydney,australia, in the late 1980s at the height of the so-called satanic panic. like many other sra incidents, this case emerged in connection with a child care facility, in this case a private kindergarten called seabeach kindergarten. operated by dawn and anthony deren, it was situated in mona vale, a suburb of sydney. accusations began after the mother of a student, while eating at a restaurant, observed while her daughter slipped down off her chair and spread her legs apart; she pushed her chest forward and pulled her arms back, with her head tilted back. on the basis of this observation, the mother reported to police that she believed her daughter had been abused sexually. law enforcement authorities subsequently initiated operation

lived. he soon discovers that he has stumbled into a realm saturated with black magic and devil-worship. newcastle ritual abuse case like many previous satanic ritual abuse (sra) scares, the newcastle case revolved around abuse charges at a child-care facility, in this case a nursery run by the newcastle council in northeast england. after social workers received a report of suspected abuse from the mother of one of the children, a nurse was suspended (later, a young woman would be implicated as well) at the prompting of social workers who had also been involved in earlier sra scares at nottingham and cleveland, parents began getting together to share information and experiences. eventually, a local pediatrician became involved by diagnosing abuse in more than a few children. based on num

ive police investigation, he was accused of sadistically abusing at least seven small children, both in the center and at other locations. the case began seventeen days after the christchurch conference when a therapist filed a complaint alleging that ellis may have abused her son. the child never corroborated his mother s charges. although arrested, the case against ellis was eventually dropped. the mother subsequently filed a similar complaint against a different employee at another day-care center. later, at a meeting of parents with children at the center, a social worker provided a list of symptoms that was so general tantrums, bedwetting, and nightmares that almost any parent might entertain the notion that her or his child had been abused. concerned parents then formed support group

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ling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the great goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, amen! 38. therefore lift up thyself as i am lifted up. hold thyself in as i am master to accomplish. at the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of nuit, do thou slay thyself as i at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is the mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. so therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at th

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m of the universe, so then also among metals. now this influx is fivefold. first, from the crown descendeth the high priestess in the path of the moon, for inspiration, and imagination, and idea: see to it that this virgin be pure, for herein error is illusion. next, from the father floweth the power of the emperor in the path of the ram, for initiative, and energy, and determination. third, from the mother are the lovers in the path of the twins, for intellectual wholeness, and for adjustment to environment. these three are from this superna and complete the theorick of thy work. after this, in the praxis and executive thereof thou hast the hermit as an influence from the sphere of jupiter in the path of the virgin, for secrecy, and for concentration, and for prudence. lastly, from the sp

sort, so that this path is proper to a transcendental labour. yet all these are in the way of death, so that thy wand is dissolved and corroded in the waters of the cup, and must be renewed by virtue of thy nature in its course. for fire is extinguished by water; but upon earth it burneth freely, and is inflamed by the wind. understand also that which is written concerning the vesica, that it is the mother, giving ease, sleep, and death, which consolations are eschewed by the true man or hero. i liber aleph vel cxi 174% sequitur de his viis (further concerning these paths) ow the path of ayin is a link between mercury and the sun, and in the zodiac importeth the goat. this goat is called also strength, and standeth in the meridian at the sunrise of spring; and it is his nature to leap upo

f this epistle) my son, in this letter have i written the name of my own nature, its law, its quality, its will and its appurtenance or ornament. for it is the child of my love toward thee, and the expression through mine art of my will so far as that regardeth thee. now every child is made of the essence of his father, so that every creation is a likeness or image of the creator, but modified by the mother, that is to say, the material whereon he begetteth it. so then this letter is a projection of mine own star in a mirror, to wit, mine idea in hy regard; and it shall be unto thee as a clear vision of thy father, and of the word of the on that he hath uttered unto man. but also, because this word is the formula of the on, that is the law of its changes or phenomena, the equation that exp

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and all that it contains. prepare for the doom and the splendor, prepare for my furious blaurliber b vel magi svb figvra i v a a publication in class a 1 00. one is the magus: twain his forces: four his weapons. these are the seven spirits of unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. thus is the art and craft of the magus but glamour. how shall he destroy himself? 0. yet the magus hath power upon the mother both directly and through love. and the magus is love, and bindeth together that and this in his conjuration. 1. in the beginning doth the magus speak truth, and send forth illusion and falsehood to enslave the soul. yet therein is the mystery of redemption. 2. by his wisdom made he the worlds; the word that is god is none other than he. 3. how then shall he end his speech with silence?

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continent. 37. so they will reproach thy servant, saying: who hath set thee to save us? 4 liber lxv 38. he will be sore distressed. 39. all they understand not that thou and i are fashioning a boat of mother-of-pearl. we will sail down the river of amrit even to the yew-groves of yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 40. the joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam.all in the mother-of-pearl. 41 (the scribe was wroth therat. he spake: o adonai and my master, i have born the inkhorn and pen without pay, in order that i might search this river of amrit, and sail thereon as one of ye. this i demand for my fee, that i partake of the echo of your kisses) 42 (and immediately it was granted unto him) 43 (nay; but not therewith was he content. by an infinite abasement unto

the bennu bird is set up in phila not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone

0. i was stricken as a bird by the bolt of the thunderer; i was pierced as the thief by the lord of the garden. 41. o my lord, let us sail upon the sea of blood! 42. there is a deep taint beneath the ineffable bliss; it is the taint of generation. 43. yea, though the flower wave bright in the sunshine, the root is deep in the darkenss of earth. 44. praise to thee, o beautiful dark earth, thou art the mother of a million myriads of myriads of flowers. 45. also i beheld my god, and the countenance of him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. yet in his heart i beheld the slow and dark one, the ancient one, the devourer of his children. 46. in the height and the abyss, o my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned

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her it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of earth. she knows him, and black fear bedim those eyes; she offers to his gaze the blue-veined breasts that suckled him in childhood.s sweet and solemn days. weeping she bares the holy womb! shrieks out the mother.s last appeal: and reads irrevocable doom in those dread eyes of ice and steel. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 7 he winds his horn: his warriors pour in thousands on the fenceless foe; the sunset stains their hideous war with crimson bars of after-glow. he winds his horn; the night-stars leap to light; upspring the sisters seven; while answering flames illume the deep, the blue pavil

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explain this piece of qabalistic analogic: the divine names hyha and hwhy, having as they do the letter-pair hy in common, may be combined to give a single six-letter name hwhyha, which is said to unite microprosopus and macroprosopus (it enumerates to 32, the total number of paths and sephiroth, the number of the .paths of wisdom. mentioned in the sepher yetzirah. next, since h is the letter of the mother, we substitute for the three h.s the three .mother letters. of the hebrew alphabet, a, m and c, giving awmyca (or some permutation thereof, which enumerates to 358, the number of cjn, nechesh, a serpent (e.g. in gen. iii, and jycm, messiach, the anointed one. the three mother letters are referred to the three chapters of liber hhh as indicated, and svb figvra cccxli 9 its number, 341, i

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

hee. 44. i have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the beyond at thy feet, i have annointed thee and thy staff with oil and blood and kisses. 45. i have kindled thy marble into life.ay! into death. 46. i have been smitten with the reek of thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life. 47. how the dew of the universe whitens the lips! svb figvra vii 5 48. ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother supernal, begone! 49. i am she that should come, the virgin of all men. 50. i am a boy before thee, o thou satyr god. 51. thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure.now! now! now! 52. io pan! io pan! i love thee. i love thee. 53. o my god, spare me! 54. now! it is done! death. 55. i cried aloud the word.and it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to unbind; yea, to

LIBER LVII

lohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rw

it is the name of the father given in exodus iii, 14: hyha, eheieh, i am. it signifies existence. this first sephira contained the other nine, and produced them in succession, thus. the number 2, or the duad. the name of the second sephira is hmkj, chokmah, wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from kether, as i have before explained. this sephira is the active and evident father, to whom the mother is united, who is the number 3. this second sephira is represented by the divine names, hy, yah, and hwhy; and among the angelic hosts by \ynpwa, auphamim, the wheels. it is also called ba, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called hnyb, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines whic

abbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth, in despite of the heavy price; for the translator has distorted the text and its comment to suit his belief in a supreme personal god, and in that degraded form of the doctrine of feminism which is so popular with the emasculate. the sephiroth are grouped in various ways. there is a superior triad or trinity; a hexad; and malkuth: the crown, the father, and the mother; the son or king; and the bride. also, a division into seven palaces, seven planes, three pillars or columns: and the like. the flashing sword follows the course of the numbers and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called the

y i am working from the hebrew is near-unreadable, the second set of letters does not look like dyt which is the athbash of the first set. t.s] 40 e is the base of .natural logarithms; it is defined as the sum from 0 to infinity of 1 over n factorial; approximately 2.718281828. t.s. on the qabalah 27 revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in .a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death

n by tarot, etc, of the letters of the alphabet spelt in full. 28 liber lviii mystic readings of the letters of the alphabet (see tarot cards, and meditate [la. folly.s doom is ruin* tyb. the juggler with the secret of the universe. lmg. the holy guardian angel is attained by self-sacrifice and equilibrium. tld. the gate of the equilibrium of the universe (note d, the highest reciprocal path. hh. the mother is the daughter; and the daughter is the mother. ww. the son is (but) the son (these two letters show the true doctrine of initiation as given in liber 418; opposed to protestant exotericism. yz. the answer of the oracles is always death. tyj. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tyf. she who rules the secret force of the universe. dwy. the secret of the gate of initiation [k. in

le by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh.authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh.fierce and active. 6. the son.partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents cre

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

70 1902 the three characteristics .listen to the jataka. said the buddha. and all they gave ear .long ago, when king brahmadatta reigned in benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named suraj ju2 and his wife chandi.3 and in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him perdu. r abu.4 now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. the loom went merrily, but to the rhythm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. wherefore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. but it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that th

ld, came into the venerable grove of our august fraternity and abode there. and so old was he and feeble that he could scarce lift his hands in benediction upon us. and all we waited about him, both by day and night; lest one word should fall, and we not hear the same. but he spake never unto us, though his lips moved and his eyes sought ever that which we could not see. at last, on the day of d, the mother of p.,3 he straightened himself up and spake. this his final discourse was written down then by the dying lions in their own blood, traced willingly on the desert sands about the grove of the illustrious. also here set down: but who will confirm the same, let him seek it on the sands. children of my will, said our father, from whose grey eyes fell gentlest tears, it is about the hour. t

LIBER LXXVIII

in its action, but whose effect soon passes away, and therefore symbolized by a figure on a steed riding swiftly, and clothed in complete armour. therefore is the knowledge of the scale of the king so necessary for the commencement of all magical working. a description of the cards of the taro 11 the four queens are seated upon thrones; representing the forces of the he of the name in each suit; the mother and bringer-forth of material forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

he caduceus, whose twin serpents show again the dualistic power (note..woden, the scandinavian mercury, was the all-father, as it is written in the ritual of the path of the spirit of the primal fire c .for all things did the father of all things perfect, and delivered them over unto the second mind; whom all races of men call first) behold, then, in these two great numbers 1 and 2 the father and the mother of the worlds and of numbers. now these twain being conjoined and manifest in one, produce the number 3; as it is written .for the mind of the father said that .all things should be cut into three. whose will. assenting all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said into three, governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscie

s of power in tarot= will [chaldaan oracles, fragments 28-9 and 35 in the westcott edition] ritual of the path of the daughter of the firmament. liber mmcmxi 6 300. and in the grecian tongue it is written .in the beginning was the word &c, which is logoj (l= 30. but the best of all the examples is found in the holy tetragram hwhy. for we may regard this venerable name as typical of the father and the mother, and so divided into hw and hy* now if into the midst of this divided name we cast the triple fire of the holy letter c= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, hwchy. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of w, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of god. we are now, therefore, arrived at the great mystery of the tetractys, and to go further

but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+2+3+4+5+6+5= 26= hwhy. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elemental limitation, the jealous god..p. a note on genesis 9 one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get a, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; m, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaval waters; c, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim* symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v. 2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firmament. now this red glory is the ignis dei. which is also the agnus dei, or lamb of god that destroyeth (lit

this fire, this lamb of god, is aries, symbol of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note..it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that y, the father, is fire; that h, the mother, is water; that w, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that

lden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of$ and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the c (see lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c* in theosophical nomeclature this latter was the ad m u anas o

t word of the text as thus decapitated, taking b.rasheth as the title rather than as the first word. this latter stands bet-resh-aleph, which hath three letters, symbolising thereby the unmanifest trinity. now its letters further exemplify the trinity, for that they are the initials of three hebrew words, which are the names of the persons thereof, viz: b ben, the son. jwr ruach, the spirit (here the mother. ba ab, the father note how here again the son is first for humanity and the father last. these three letters, then, symbolise the three in one unmanifest. yet is there in them the all-potency of life. for 2+ 2+ 1= 5, the symbol of power, mother supernal, and h also is a, lamb of god and dawn of the life of the year. wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the divine whi

LIBER SAMEKH

ic virginal seed. gthe hermit h of the tarot. the use of the name is therefore to invoke one fs own imost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of nuit and hadit. if the second a is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the holy ghost, and the formulation of the babe in the egg, which precedes the appearance of the hermit. this is also an agonizing appeal to the earth, the mother; for at this point of the ceremony the adept should be torn from his mortal attachments, and die to himself in the orgasm of his operation (a thorough comprehension of psychoanalysis will contribute notably to the proper appreciation of this ritual) liber samekh svb figvra dccc 10 aepe gthou exalted one! it* leaps up; it leaps forth! h diathanna thoron g lo! the out-splashing of the see

LIBER TRIGRAMMATON

frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 07.07.20raliber t r i g- ramma t o n svb figvra xxvii being the book of the trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and the yang v a a publication in class a 1 here is nothing under its three forms. it is not, yet informeth all things. now cometh the glory of the single one, as an imperfection and stain. but by the weak one the mother was it equilibrated. also the purity was divided by strength, the force of the demiurge. and the cross was formulated in the universe that as yet was not. but now the imperfection became manifest, presiding over the fading of perfection. also the woman arose, and veiled the upper heaven with her body of stars. 2 liber trigrammaton now then a giant arose, of terrible strength; and assert

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE

be the n.o.x. sign mater triumphans, the l.v.x. sign of apophis and typhon (v) or the earth sign of set fighting. the sign of baphomet is probably the n.o.x. sign mulier, on the basis that in .liber v vel reguli. the latter sign is identified with the .attitude of baphomet. t.s] 9 [lat .all in two; two in one; one in none; these are neither all nor two nor one nor none. glory to the father and to the mother and to the son and to the daughter and to the holy spirit within and to the holy spirit without, as was and is and it to come, for ever and ever [lit .in generations of generations, six in one through the name seven in one ararita] 10 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie cdivert from the aim of the work, namely, to let the texts spea

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

ers are the waves. the poet known only as svein, perhaps an icelander of the eleventh century, describes a wintry storm in which gusts of wind from the mountains riffle and tear apart agir fs daughters, that is, the waves. helgakvida hundingsbana i, stanza 29, calls a powerful wave that nearly overturns a ship agir fs daughter. in skaldskaparmal, snorri sturluson says that ran is agir fs wife and the mother of agir fs daughters. snorri lists their names twice, with a variation in the eighth name only: himinglafa (transparent-on-top, dufa (wave, blodudhadda (bloody-hair, hefring (lifting, unn (wave, hronn (wave, bylgja (billow, kara (powerful) or drofn (wave, and kolga (cool-wave. the only one of these names whose appropriateness is not immediately apparent is gbloody-hair, h which i take t

gfish. h see also dwarfs angrboda (she-who-offers-sorrow) giantess mate of loki and mother of monsters. the name is found only once in poetry, in hyndluljod, stanza 40, a part of the gshort voluspa. h loki sired the wolf on angrboda, and got sleipnir on svadilfari; the witch alone seemed most evil the one that came from the brother of byleipt. snorri makes angrboda, ga giantess in jotunheimar, h the mother of three monsters: the fenrir wolf; jormungand, that is, the midgard serpent; and hel. this raises the possibility that the witch in lines 3.4 of the stanza quoted above from hyndluljod may be hel. see also fenrir; hel; loki; midgard serpent arvak and alsvin (early-awake and very-swift) horses that pull the sun. grimnismal, stanza 37, is the main source: arvak and alsvin, they should up

hotherus. these stories are indeed quite different, but there are important similarities that go beyond hod killing baldr and having vengeance taken on him. dreams are important in both versions, as is a magic weapon. the goddess of the dead plays a role in each. the rape of rinda is paralleled in medieval icelandic tradition in a skaldic stanza that states that odin used the magic seid on rind, the mother of vali. the differences in the versions may reflect variants in medieval icelandic oral tradition, since saxo learned from icelanders, but he may also be passing along some genuine danish traditions. the story has led to many attempts at interpretation, some of them rather fanciful. the mistletoe remains unexplained, despite sir james frazer fs attempt to build up a grand theory around

s omitted in the manuscript but a name beginning with v is required to complete the alliteration. the fourth and last question is not clear but has to do with the identity of a group of maidens. somehow, in a way we no longer understand, the question reveals to the seeress that she is conversing with odin. to this odin replies, gyou are not a seeress/ nor a wise woman/ but rather of three/ giants the mother h (stanza 13. ggo home, h she says. the next step is ragnarok. the version of the myth of baldr fs death here omits the role of loki, which is so important in snorri fs version, although some observers have seen a reference to loki in the mother of three giants of stanza 13, since loki fs children are three of the most famous giants, namely, the midgard serpent, the wolf fenrir, and hel

in medieval iceland operated within a bilateral kinship system; that is, people could reckon their kin through father and mother (and we might expect that they thought they inherited characteristics of both, not just of the father. as in the genealogy of the asir as a whole, so it is with the heavenly bodies. dag and odin each has a giant mother (nott, bestla) and ultimately a giant progenitor on the mother fs side (ymir, norfi, but each is regarded exclusively as a member of the asir. snorri goes on in gylfaginning to say that alfodr gave dag and nott each a horse and carriage and put them up in the sky, where they go around the earth once a day. gthe horse that dag has is called skinfaxi, and all the sky and earth glow from its mane. h see also delling; nott; nari and/or narfi dain (dead

rluson fs skaldskaparmal, preceding the citation of the poem itself. it begins with loki flying to geirrodargardar, the abode of the giant, in frigg fs falcon coat. captured by geirrod and starved in a locked chest for three months, loki agrees to bring thor there without his hammer or belt of strength. accompanied by loki (thjalfi in thorsdrapa, thor comes first to the home of the giantess grid, the mother of vidar the silent. she warns him about geirrod and equips him with a belt of strength, an iron glove, and a staff called gridarvol (grid fs-staff. thor sets out and arrives at vimur, greatest of all rivers. wearing the belt of strength and bracing himself against the current with the staff, thor fights through deep waters. then he sees that gjalp, the daughter of geirrod, is standing

LUCIFERIAN INITIATION VIA NOCTURNE

torch of azazel, brought to man and woman, hearken and appear through mine eyes. the figure enters you at this instant, allowing a calm silence to fill as the sounds of the musick and the goats grow muffled and dim. by the four winds and the four watchtowers, i call thee angels of silence to bless my initiation. by the call of lilith, grant me passage through the fields of night. from the womb of the mother i emerge with the caul, the stain of witchblood. open your eyes stand and face the altar, staring intently into the mirror: by night, the sabbatic honor of being, the dreamer shall ride the back of the owl, this is the awakening of the dark flesh! eko, eko, asmodee! banish and close circle1 luciferian s o r c e r y luciferian& sethanic magick 2 luciferian sorcery by michael w. ford akht

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

lend in offspring; they stayed the way they were in the original parents. next, and without entering into details, the precise proportions between two variants (green vs. yellow, etc) that mendel observed in his crosses led him to infer that units of heredity (which we now call genes) in individuals come in pairs. in other words, each individual contains two copies of each gene, one received from the mother, and one received from the father. the following example helps to clarify this concept, using the rhesus (rh) gene, a gene important in blood transfusions in humans. the rh blood group was first detected in rhesus monkeys, hence its name. evidently, rhesus monkeys and humans share this blood group and the genes that determine it, which, by the way, is a first hint of an evolutionary mec

and that each individual possesses two copies of each gene. in this example, we assume that both parents each harbor one copy of the rh variant and one copy of the rh variant. thus, they both are rh /rh. mendel also hypothesized that when reproductive cells form, the two copies of each gene separate, meaning that germcells, eggs and sperm cells, end up containing a single copy of each gene. thus, the mother in our example will produce 50% eggs containing the rh variant and 50%eggs containing the rh variant. for the father s sperm cells, these proportions will be the same. a simple matrix shows what kinds of results can be expected in the progeny of these two parents: mother s eggs (rh /rh) rh rh father s sperm cells rh rh /rh rh /rh (rh /rh) rh rh /rh rh /rh what is evolutionary biology? 4

garding the nature and number of mtdna gene variants found among many individuals is easy to obtain. as we detailed in chapter 3, the existence of gene variants in living organisms informs us of their evolutionary past. another interesting characteristic of mtdna is that it is passed down exclusively from mothers to their children. children do not inherit mtdna from their fathers. this is because the mother s egg contains many mitochondria, whereas the portion of the father s sperm cell that enters the egg to fertilize it contains none. this, then, means that mtdna can be used to trace the genealogies of women but not those of men. indeed, when a son inherits his mother s mtdna, he cannot pass it down to his children: mtdna always goes through women alone. but this also means that analyzin

ly demonstrated in daphnia pulex, a type of water flea. intriguingly, some populations of this flea reproduce sexually while others reproduce asexually, that is, without the intervention of male fleas. researchers have shown that asexual reproduction leads to an accumulation of deleterious mutations, reinforcing the idea that the blending of two different genomes (one from the father and one from the mother) is advantageous from an evolutionary viewpoint. nonetheless, the origin and evolution of sex remain fundamental and difficult problems in biology. it seems that the first multicellular eukaryotic organisms appeared about 650 million years ago, that is, almost 1.4 billion years after the appearance of 160 evolution and religious creation myths the first eukaryotes. these may have been w

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

n word mystic, as referring to a seeker after truth according to the dictates of the heart along the path of faith, is probably derived from this ancient word, for faith is belief in the reality of things unseen or veiled. the greater mysteries (into which the candidate was admitted only after he had successfully passed through the ordeals of the lesser, and not always then) were sacred to ceres, the mother of persephone, and represent her as wandering through the world in quest of her abducted daughter. ceres carried two torches, intuition and reason, to aid her in the search for her lost child (the soul. at last she found persephone not far from eleusis, and out of gratitude taught the people there to cultivate corn, which is sacred to her. she also founded the mysteries. ceres appeared

ut true knowledge--were presented to the mysteries unclothed, being first: given the skin of an animal and later a consecrated robe to symbolize the philosophical teachings received by the initiate. during the course of initiation the candidate click to enlarge ceres, the patron of the mysteries. from a mural painting in pompeii. ceres, or demeter, was the daughter of kronos and rhea, and by zeus the mother of persephone. some believe her to be the goddess of the earth, but more correctly she is the deity protecting agriculture in general and corn in particular. the poppy is sacred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge the processional of

christmas tree. atys imparted his immortality to the tree beneath which he died, and cybele took the tree with her when she removed the body. atys remained three days in the tomb, rose upon a date corresponding with easter morn, and by this resurrection overcame death for all who were initiated into his mysteries "in the mysteries of the phrygians "says julius firmicus "which are called those of the mother of the gods, every year a pine tree is cut down and in the inside of the tree the image of a youth is tied in! in the mysteries of isis the trunk of a pine tree is cut: the middle of the trunk is nicely hollowed out; the idol of osiris made from those hollowed pieces is buried. in the mysteries of proserpine a tree cut is put together into the effigy and form of the virgin, and when it

gh) is there a possible connection between this lacteal diet prescribed by the attic rite and st. paul's allusion to the food for spiritual babes? sallust gives a key to the esoteric interpretation of the attic rituals. cybele, the great mother, signifies the vivifying powers of the universe, and atys that aspect of the spiritual intellect which is suspended between the divine and animal spheres. the mother of the gods, loving atys, gave him a starry hat, signifying celestial powers, but atys (mankind, falling in love with a nymph (symbolic of the lower animal propensities, forfeited his divinity and lost his creative powers. it is thus evident that atys represents the human consciousness and that his mysteries are concerned with the reattainment of the starry hat (see sallust on the gods

gerald massey writes "this is the secret of the sphinx. the orthodox sphinx of egypt is masculine in front and feminine behind. so is the image of sut-typhon, a type of horn and tail, male in front and female behind. the pharaohs, who wore the tail of the lioness or cow behind them, were male in front and female behind. like the gods they included the dual totality of being in one person, born of the mother, but of both sexes as the child (see the natural genesis) most investigators have ridiculed the sphinx and, without even deigning to investigate the great colossus, have turned their attention to the more overwhelming mystery of the pyramid. the pyramid mysteries the word pyramid is popularly supposed to be derived from p r, fire, thus signifying that it is the symbolic representation o

the celestials, and the uniform resemblance of gods and goddesses. i, who rule by my nod the luminous summits of the heavens, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the deplorable silences of the realms beneath, and whose one divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, by different rites and a variety of appellations. hence the primogenial phrygians call me pessinuntica, the mother of the gods, the attic aborigines, cecropian minerva; the floating cyprians, paphian venus; the arrow-bearing cretans, diana dictynna; the three-tongued sicilians, stygian proserpine; and the eleusinians, the ancient goddess ceres. some also call me juno, others bellona, others hecate, and others rhamnusia. and those who are illuminated by the incipient rays of that divinity the sun, wh

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orcery, i will teach things yet unknown. and you shall be free, and as a sign that you be really so, be naked in your rites, dance, sing, feast, make music and love. all in my praise, for i am a gracious goddess, who gives joy upon earth, certainty, not faith, while in life; and upon death peace unutterable, rest and the ecstacy of the goddess. nor do i demand aught in sacrifice, for behold, i am the mother of all living, and my love is poured out upon the earth! the candidate, still clasped by the waist, is then led around the circle with a skipping step and, south of the altar after eleven knells on a small bell have been rung, has the fivefold kiss bestowed upon him or her by the initiator. kissing the feet "blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways" kissing the knees "bl

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

history of the people of god is the allegorical legend of humanity. the five accursed nations are: 1. the amalekites or aggressors; 2. the geburim or violent ones; 3. the raphaim or cowards; 4. the nephilim or voluptuous ones; 5. the anakim or anarchists. the anarchists are vanquished by the yod, which is the sceptre of the father. the violent are vanquished by the he, which is the gentleness of the mother. the cowards are vanquished by the vau, which is the sword of michael, and generation by travail and pain. the voluptuous are vanquished by the second he, which is the painful bringing forth of the mother. lastly, the aggressors are vanquished by the schin, which is the fire of the lord and the equilibrating law of justice. the princes of the perverse spirits are the false gods whorm th

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ful grand master of all, whose officers are holy angels; and the recognition of this truth may tend to consecrate us in the discharge of the little symbolic part we severally perform in the system which is the image of the great scheme. the world at large, brethren, is as it were, but one great lodge and place of initiation, of which our masonic lodges are the little mirrors. mother earth is also the mother-lodge of us all. as its vast work goes on, souls are ever descending into it and souls are being called out of it at the knocks of some great unseen warden of life and death, who calls them here to labour and summons them hence for refreshment. after the lodge, the festive board; after the labour of this world, the repast and refreshment of the heavenly places. and thus, although our af

e structure of the human soul. that temple is not one of common brick and stone, but of the" unhewn stone" or incorruptible raw material of which the creator fashioned the human organism. the jerusalem in which it was built was not the geographical one in palestine, but the eternal" city of peace" in the heavens; not, as st. paul says" the jerusalem which now is, but the jerusalem above, which is the mother of us all" like the greek demeter. its builders were not three human personages resident in the levant, but the divine energy considered in its three constituent principles spoken of in our instruction lectures as wisdom, strength and beauty, which as" pillars of his work" run through and form the metaphysical warp and basis of all created things. these three metaphysical principles may

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

ads which prove dangerous to those unwilling to face their own darkest aspects of self. this book is a working for myself, as a student of the luciferian path, and as i wrote it, studied it and then prepared this text i have further come into being. i hope those who read this work understand that it is a ritual in progress, that each sentence fans the flames of the dragon and his consort, lilith, the mother of the witch path. cain has presented me with different elements to think about and to further encourage others to develop what is the sabbatic and luciferian path. when staring into the mirror, cain appears his very mask of set-an is shown to me. become! akhtya seker arimanius veneficus, vox barathrum toph prepared march 22nd, known as the day of rebellion of set against osiris. succub

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energy. vampiric sorcery is the mastery of the elementals of the deep subconscious. are all vampire spirits merely elementals which exist at deep levels of the mind? well, my experience is no, they are not. some are pre- created spirits, long dead ghosts who seek some sort of revenge or those who have lost their battles with choronzon or as lovecraft called "azathoth (1) and drank too deeply from the mother of abominations. choronzon could be considered the same as the egyptian apep, whom is a demon of chaos. the lord of the luciferian witchcraft cultus is set, the prince of darkness, is known for his battle with apep and by destroying the demon, he becomes the master of chaos. in the sorcerer s life, he or she would seek to become set-like and master chaos (apep. this is a point of high s

life no matter how strong the individual is. it is not saying men are useless, far from it, each should be willing to listen and learn from one another. there is no stronger union than two who understand themselves and their own personal aims and desires. witchcraft is based upon the understanding of hidden mysteries and the effect that responsibility can provide to our fellow human kind. lilith the mother of the succubus and of night, lilith is a symbol of night and magickal power, sorcery and witchcraft. her essence is that of feminine strength and individual focus. the connection of lilith with the cult of vampirism has been noted by many, for through the astral plane this goddess manifests on the day side as her fleshing ground. just as with any pagan goddess or god, lilith is not ent

her aspect of holding the cup of her fornications, from which the blood of the saints dwelled. those who transverse and persevered through the path of thelema or holy magick might offer their blood to the great cup, opening themselves to the glory of babalon. babalon is the beautiful goddess of an opened spirit, the luciferian mind. she is the exact opposite of mary, for the christians goddess is the mother of the black brotherhood of christianity in many aspects, she is closed therefore non existent to those who seek the light of god (lucifer. john whiteside parsons wrote much, and dedicated a majority of his short life to babalon. marjorie cameron parsons was said to be an avatar of this goddess, and lived her life expressing the importance of individual thought and goddess worship throu

modeus as well, while this may actually be its off spring, guiding humans through the magickal arts in spirit form upon the earth. divination witchcraft and sorcery concern the tapping into the subconscious; learning the ways in which it works in regards to you personally and making them accord to your desire. the balance of this exists within the shaman and nature bound activities, for nature is the mother of all humanity. to open psychic levels of the mind requires a conscious effort to break all levels of useless learned behavior and thought patterns. then one can then restructure aligned with the development and understanding of psychic abilities. some of these abilities can be brought to the surface by intense yoga, pushing the self both 74 74 mentally and physically until the true st

hrough focus and discipline. sorcery and witchcraft are most significant to magick itself due to the essence of such. sorcery is the reverse of the solar path, it is of the moon, hereditary of the exploration of atavisms and the hidden aspects of the self. sorcery is the child of asmodeus, demon/angel of flesh made pleasure and drawing towards the sleeping self. lilith and 102 102 hecate are both the mother of witchcraft and sorcery, lunar fountains emanating the witch blood which all flows backwards into form. zos represents and is considered 'the body as a whole, symbolising the mind, body and spirit. zos is represented by the eye or vulva of woman, that which executes the imagination. kia is the atmospheric "i, an astral cosmic self connected to its latent desire and activity. kia is th

in the moments that i stared facing the coffin at the head of the circle. i regained my stance only now within the very circle within which i had evoked the vampire spirit. soror davcina had placed outside of the circle a further invocation which i would now intone "choronzon, i invoke thee! the wisdom of da ath is the wisdom of the death posture! by bat and wolf blood i become, sacred to lilith the mother of night choronzon, thy madness shall not take me 130 130 but the strength and glory of my holy guardian angel shall uplift i am born of fire and blood of which by night i take my fill" we then closed the circle and banished. my dreams that evening were of flying and of feasting, of shapes which burned in black and crimson. i obtained further impetus towards vampiric evocation 'to call

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word connotes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast, the symbols of renewedlife. the egyptians used to place their dead within sarcophagi that were symbols of thefemale body. in fact, the interior of the lid of the sarcophagus had the image of thenight sky as the over-arching body of the mother goddess nuith.clearly, the monarchies of any age have been responsible for atrocious crimes. and yet, themonarchs themselves claim rulership by divine right. james vi of scotland becamejames i of england and was the main proponent of this. the origins of the sanctity of kingsgoes back to pre-diluvian times, however.the state of monarchy is the most supreme thing upon earth, for kings ar

athens possessed a noble race, which performed many noble deeds, the last and greatest of which wasresisting the attempts of atlantis to subjugate them; and after this came the destruction of atlantis, andthat same great convulsion which overwhelmed that island destroyed a number of greeks (p. 67)the american tree of lifethe toltec legends speak of a garden, a tree, a serpent and a woman that was the mother of all mankind.they also speak of a race of giants that were in the world from the earliest times (see p. 199)warnings of the coming flood:in chaldean legend, cronus appeared to xisuthros and warned him to prepare for the coming disas-ter. the arc was 600 cubits in length and 60 cubits for width and height. deucalion of greece was also forewarned.manu of indiasatyravata of indiakhasistr

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

ure,the form of shiva expands when the supreme personality of godhead is in touch with material nature.since shiva and vishnu are aspects of one god, shiva occurs as one of vishnu's names listed in thevishnu-sahasranama.the original father, krishna, says, aham bija-pradah pita: i am the seed-giving father. that pita(father) is lord shiva, shambhu, and material nature (goddess durga) is considered the mother. by theirsexual union are all conditioned souls inserted into the material nature. the impregnation of materialnature is wonderful because at one time innumerable living beings are conceived. bhago jivah savijneyah sa canantyaya kalpate (shvetashvatara upanishad 5.9. in this way shiva is connected withboth creation and destruction. because of his marginal position between material and s

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of the path of luciferian witchcraft, namely samael and lilith. in the auspices of the vampyric path, it is ahriman (the black dragon) and tiamat (the red dragon. while tiamat in this aspect is the primordial form of lilith, she appears black from the wisdom of endless time. it is that samael, lilith and leviathan are joined in primal union hence tiamat is the collected sumerian adversary. she is the mother of darkness, dragons and vampirism. vampirism is a concept which begins in the subconscious. it is a power which hungers, that which seeks to consume all. it has no concern for rules or for the spiritual laws it is the essence of the law of the talon. this very hunger is related to az or lilith, symbolically tiamat, it is the hunger for continued existence in this physical or spiritual

iamat, the creation and origin of tiamat was that there was a time when there was nothing but darkness and the abyss of waters, where two hideous beings who were produced from a two-fold principle. there were also men who had wings, or two faces, one body or who had both sexes and the legs of a goat, horns or were serpent like, dragon-men. over these presided omoroca, being ummu khubur or tiamat, the mother of darkness. tiamat was exalted to the rank of divinity, called the god who has taken hold of evil, that she remained in darkness and controlling the forces of chaos. tiamat was indeed a powerful goddess, a sorcerous being who could create fierce monsters and empower them accordingly. in her battle against the gods including marduk, tiamat first created vampiric beings. it was written t

sociative than the others. the reason for this is that they are more advanced and ascension oriented fallen or awakened powers. the qlippothic spirits are very powerful and beneficial to the vampyre magickian who can tap their powers, drain them or simply gain them according to utilizing 52 the archdemons and their spirits. these specific orders of demons rule 490 leagues of spirits. as lilith is the mother of demons and vampiric spirits, she has 480 spirits the moon is the sphere attributed to her. the sphere of the sun is said to have seven times the number of the other demons. the methodology of working with the qlippothic demons is to turn poison into a beneficial medicine of initiation. one must move through the averse sephiroth, the so-called fallen restrictions of the universe, wher

t lending to power from another. it is a predatory path awaken, conjure, encircle, devour, accumulate and ascend. as a luciferian, the balance of light and the higher articulation of the self is the most significant see the ritual of azal ucel, the shadow is equally important on a self-creation level. this is a rite focusing on the summong of the dragon, the forces of the subconscious, as tiamat, the mother of vampires. it then moves forward to empowering the self as vampire, tiamat s chosen vessel. use this ritual like the ritual of tiamat in liber hvhi, but this would be a much more simplified focus rite. the four infernal powers are symbolic of the raw primal aspects of the subconscious. the dragon commands that which sleeps within. 1. enter the temple such a ritual would be in a chambe

sdom. black magick in itself does not denote harm or wrongdoing to others, rather describes black as considered to the arabic root word fhm, charcoal, black and wisdom. black is thus the color of hidden knowledge. magick is to ascend and become, by willed focus and direction. cain the antinomian nomad and sorcerer who was the spiritual offspring of samael (the black dragon) and lilith (red dragon/the mother of demons) through the body of eve in biblical lore. cain was said to have been the initiate of the caul, and through his first step on the left hand path (antinomian practice) he is the initiator of the sorcerer and witch. cain is also the black smith who sparks the black flame in the mind of the initiate. tubal-cain is the baphometic daemon which is the enfleshed archetype of azal uce

adows and demonic spirits in the deserts. lilith was also said to be the spiritual mother of cain by her mate, samael (shaitan) the dragon. lilith appeared in sumerian times as a goddess of the beasts of the wild, as well as sorcery and night-fornication. lilith was said to have many forms, from beautiful women to half human and the bottom half animal, to half woman and half flame. lilith is also the mother of demons and a vampyric spirit which is a primal manifestation of the zoroastrian and manichaean az and jeh. lilith may also be related to the indian kali, whose name is one of her 17 names. luciferian a luciferian is an individual who recognizes the god/ess within. luciferians do not worship satan but recognize there must be balance 84 between the material and spiritual, the darkness

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ies that symbolically represent the inner and outer struggles of the individual. there is yet another source of confusion that pervades some mythologies (especially the egyptian stories, and that confusion is borne from multiple names and titles associated with a single god. for example, the egyptian goddess hathor is associated with 2 other goddess, isis and bast. sometimes hathor is spoke of as the mother of horus, which would mean hathor and isis were the same entity; in other cases, the title hathor is associated with bast, who is known to not be isis. also, in egyptian mythology, ra is the sun god, but then again so is osiris and osiris son, horus; all three are known as sun gods, and all three are confirmed as different beings--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 12 i suspect that th

ist of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of hell, queen of the witches, queen of the shells and shades. mother earth, and mother goddess. she is the bride of satan and the mother of all demons, also called lilitu. lilith is often associated with the red sea, which is said to be a place where she spawned and instructed demons. the screech owl and dove are lilith s sacred animals. the us dollar bill contains a tiny image of what is commonly thought to be a spider, but is in fact an owl. at bohemian grove, members of the elite perform rituals and mock-sacrifices be

er of harlots, and babylon the great. this woman is depicted holding a golden cup and wearing many precious stones and robed in the colors purple and scarlet. scarlet is plain red with a slight hint of orange. the imagery commonly relates her as riding a scarlet beast. this woman is described--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 78 as drunk (intoxicated) from the blood of the saints. lilith being the mother of vampires, this is fitting. the whore of babylon is also related to a city or location. this city has had relations with all the rich men of the earth, and is a haven for demons. it is understood that this character, or city, currently rules the world and uses sorcery to do so. hecate, also equated with lilith, is the greek triple goddess. she is the goddess of the crossroads, who is

rth. she was also known as the virgin goddess. artemis, the greek equivalent of diana, is also a goddess of the hunt, childbirth, the moon and also known as the virgin goddess. artemis is also closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is the consort of the god shiva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliph

iva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth or underworld. in the persian narration, az is the mother of demons and the consort of ahriman (satan. semiramis, yet another name for this goddess, an assyrian queen of legend, was reportedly the inspiration behind the hanging gardens of babylon. the hanging gardens of babylon, also called the hanging gardens of semiramis, are considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date b

is day. it is important to keep in mind that there were two separate races of giants that once ruled the earth; the first race of giants was the titans who were not of the angelic race, and the second was the nephilim, who were the offspring of the fallen angels and mortal women. many of these nephilim that were born to human women were brought forth by cesarean section, and would very often kill the mother who bore them. the fall of azazel is a parallel of the prometheus story. if you recall, prometheus defied zeus and stole fire from the gods. azazel taught man the sciences and sorcery. and of coarse you have the aforementioned pemba, who was expelled from heaven after stealing male seeds from the gods and spread those corrupted seeds upon the earth. prometheus stole fire, which is symbo

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unto the night path that vampyre shades and demons of the point embrace me as your own! so it is done! by the circle which i evoke nas, shade gateway of the dead- i will walk in the world of shadow and twilight embrace. by the circle of mitrokht, which i evoke vampyre spirit of the eye and the voice, i summon you to encircle my being so it is done! invocation of the vampyre queen lilith lilith is the mother of the vampyrie myth, as well as the symbol of fountainhead of the daemonic feminine. the witch queen is represented as a partial woman with beast like lower half, owl claws and a hypnotic stare. within her caves by the red sea, the darkness of the earth, the gateway of the demonum she breeds phantoms, shades and lilitu, sexual daimons which cater to the sorcerers who work in her veil

MORALS AND DOGMA

s no better than the screech of parrots or the mimicry of monkeys. the mere talker, however fluent, is barren of deeds in the day of trial. there are men voluble as women, and as well skilled in fencing with the tongue: prodigies of speech, misers in deeds. too much talking, like too much thinking, destroys the power of action. in human nature, the thought is only made perfect by deed. silence is the mother of both. the trumpeter is not the bravest of the brave. steel and not brass wins the day. the great doer of great deeds is mostly slow and slovenly of speech. there are some men born and bred to betray. patriotism is their trade, and their capital is speech. but no noble spirit can plead like paul and be false to itself as judas. imposture too commonly rules in republics; they seem to b

those points. at the present day, men are satisfied to think nothing in regard to all that, and only to believe that the soul is a _something_ separate from the body and out-living it, but whether existing before it, neither to inquire nor care. no one asks whether it emanates from the deity, or is created out of nothing, or is generated like the body, and the issue of the souls of the father and the mother. let us not smile, therefore, at the ideas of the ancients, until we have a better belief; but accept their symbols as meaning that the soul is of a divine nature, originating in a sphere nearer the deity, and returning to that when freed from the enthrallment of the body; and that it can only return there when purified of all the sordidness and sin which have, as it were, become part o

ts, the hypothenuse will be 5 or 10 parts; and if a square is erected on each side, these squares being subdivided into squares each side of which is one part in length, there will be as many of these in the square erected on the hypothenuse as in the other two squares together. now the egyptians arranged their deities in _triads; the father or the spirit or active principle or _generative power; the mother, or matter, or the passive principle, or the _conceptive_ power; and the son _issue_ or _product, the universe, proceeding from the two principles. these were osiris, isis, and horus. in the same way, plato gives us _thought_ the _father; primitive _matter_ the _mother; and _kosmos_ the _world, the _son, the universe animated by a soul. triads of the same kind are found in the kabalah

niverse animated by a soul. triads of the same kind are found in the kabalah. plutarch says, in his book _de iside et osiride "but the better and diviner nature consists of three--that which exists within the intellect only, and matter, and that which proceeds from these, which the greeks call kosmos; of which three, plato is wont to call the intelligible, the 'idea, exemplar, and father; matter 'the mother, the nurse, and the place and receptacle of generation; and the issue of these two 'the offspring and genesis" the kosmos "a word signifying equally _beauty_ and _order, or the universe itself" you will not fail to notice that beauty is symbolized by the junior warden in the south. plutarch continues to say that the egyptians compared the universal nature to what they called the most be

rison with the world, which is the youngest production. the logos _chief of intelligence, of which he is the general representative, is named _archangel, type_ and _representative_ of all spirits, even those of mortals. he is also styled the man-type and primitive man, adam kadmon. god only is wise. the wisdom of man is but the reflection and image of that of god. he is the father, and his wisdom the mother of creation: for he united himself with wisdom[[greek: s?f?a, sophia, and communicated to it the germ of creation, and it brought forth the material world. he created the ideal world only, and caused the material world to be made real after its type, by his logos, which is his speech, and at the same time the idea of ideas, the intellectual world. the intellectual city was but the _thou

turally, therefore, it would include hindu or buddhist elements, as it did. the fundamental idea of buddhism was, matter subjugating the intelligence, and intelligence freeing itself from that slavery. perhaps something came to gnosticism from china "before the chaos which preceded the birth of heaven and earth" says lao-tseu "a single being existed, immense and silent, immovable and ever active--the mother of the universe. i know not its name: but i designate it by the word _reason. man has his _type_ and _model_ in the earth; earth in heaven; heaven in reason; and reason in itself" here again are the _ferouers, the _ideas, the _aions--the reason or intelligence??a, silence s, word, and wisdom s?f?a of the gnostics. the dominant system among the jews after their captivity was that of the

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aphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now, zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian

children of hate, of debauch, of sickness, nearly always bear witness in body and mind to the abuse of the talisman (readers must not interpret 'debauch' in terms of standards of 'morality. the term is used in the initiatic sense. some seemingly casual couplings are holy; some lifelong 'marriages' are debauch of body and soul. love must be under will) not only the sins of the father but those of the mother, yes, more, those of their social surroundings, are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. nay, more, the mischief can never be mended. a man can destroy in a minute his kingdom, inherited from unnumbered dynasties of biological prudence. it will also be admitted, without reference to magick, that the abuse of the talisman leads to moral, mental and spiritual misfor

oses, the atavic influence of the slave-gods, the sexual dissatisfaction of the great majority of women in restricted societies, all this contributes to little patience in mothers with their children. the offspring is often punished for deeds that in reality deserve reward, since they demonstrate courage, initiative and high spirits. the child takes on this mixture of affection and resentment for the mother, and when the sexual instinct begins to surface it surfaces much earlier than the prudish like to believe-the mother is the son's first sexual fixation. now the factor of the incest tabu comes in. the natural tendency of an adolescent boy is towards a girl of his age; but in restricted societies, on reaching puberty he is separated from girls and associates easily only with his mother

olescent boy is towards a girl of his age; but in restricted societies, on reaching puberty he is separated from girls and associates easily only with his mother. the natural physical attraction, which takes no account of tab us, naturally impels him to the sexual object of the other sex which is available. but the atavic and "educational" inhibitions become active, and increase animosity towards the mother without satisfying the attraction he feels (in point of fact, there is no a priori physiological objection to incest. sexual relations between relatives do not automatically produce "monsters. they simply tend to increment common traits. if these traits are "good, the product will be "better" than both. if these traits are "bad; the product will be "worse. animal breeders frequently cou

y weak in virility will become a slave to the oedipus complex the rest of his life. but in such cases, the same risk would occur with any woman. and if the boy is healthy, the physical relationship may in many cases dissolve the complex, satisfying the attraction, cancelling the animosity, equilibrating the tension, after which naturally the boy will interest himself in other partners and so will the mother) the animic structure of a person who has any tendency to become a 'black brother' generally shows some serious weakness combined with an excess in some other direction. every man and every woman is, and should be, the center of the universe to himself or herself this is given by the consciousness of the self but every man and every woman animically well-balanced understands that every

in order to put this matter in more polished shape. i append liber trigrammaton with the attribution aforesaid: liber trigrammaton sub figura xxvii the book of the trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and the yang i here is nothing under its three forms. it is not, yet informeth all things. l now cometh the glory of the single one, as an imperfection and stain. c but by the weak one the mother was it equilibrated. h also the purity was divided by strength, the force of the demiurge. x and the cross was formulated in the universe that as yet was not. t but now the imperfection became manifest, presiding over the fading of perfection. y also the woman arose, and veiled the upper heaven with her body of stars. p now then a giant arose, of terrible strength; and asserted the spir

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m. feeling page 31 afterwards violent pains in his head, he sent for hephastus, and ordered him to open it with an axe. his command was obeyed, and out sprang, with a loud and martial shout, a beautiful being, clad in armour from head to foot. this was athene (minerva, goddess of armed resistance and wisdom. themis was the goddess of justice, law, and order. eurynome was one of the oceanides, and the mother of the charites or graces. demeter,[13] the daughter of cronus and rhea, was the goddess of agriculture. mnemosyne, the daughter of uranus and gaa, was the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine muses. leto (latona) was the daughter of coeus and phoebe. she was gifted with wonderful beauty, and was tenderly loved by zeus, but her lot was far from being a happy one, for hera, being

in a special chapter. in the union of zeus with most of his immortal wives we shall find that an allegorical meaning is conveyed. his marriage with metis, page 32 who is said to have surpassed both gods and men in knowledge, represents supreme power allied to wisdom and prudence. his union with themis typifies the bond which exists between divine majesty and justice, law, and order. eurynome, as the mother of the charites or graces, supplied the refining and harmonizing influences of grace and beauty, whilst the marriage of zeus with mnemosyne typifies the union of genius with memory. in addition to the seven immortal wives of zeus, he was also allied to a number of mortal maidens whom he visited under various disguises, as it was supposed that if he revealed himself in his true form as k

d quietly up to the princess, so as not to alarm her. surprised at the gentleness of the animal, and admiring its beauty, as it lay placidly on the grass, she caressed it, crowned it with flowers, and, at last, playfully seated herself on its back. hardly had she done so than the disguised god bounded away with his lovely burden, and swam across the sea with her to the island of crete. europa was the mother of minos, aeacus, and rhadamanthus. minos, who became king of crete, was celebrated for his justice and moderation, and after death he was created one of the judges of the lower world, which office he held in conjunction with his brothers [35] callisto, the daughter of lycaon, king of arcadia, was a huntress in the train of artemis, devoted to the pleasures of the chase, who had made a

incensed at the idea of a rival, flew to meet the procession in great anger, and seizing the supposed bride, page 40 she furiously attacked her and dragged off her nuptial attire. her delight on discovering the deception was so great that a [41]reconciliation took place, and, committing the image to the flames, with joyful laughter she seated herself in its place and returned to olympus. hera was the mother of ares (mars, hephastus, hebe, and eileithyia. ares was the god of war; hephastus, of fire; hebe, of youth; and eileithyia presided over the birth of mortals. hera dearly loved greece, and indeed always watched over and protected greek interests, her beloved and favourite cities being argos, samos, sparta, and mycena. page 41 page 42 her principal temples were at argos and samos. from

members of the government had their meals at the expense of the state, and here too was the hestia, or public hearth, with its fire, by means of which those meals were prepared. it was customary for emigrants to take with them a portion of this sacred fire, which they jealously guarded and brought with them to their new home, where it served as a connecting link between the young greek colony and the mother country. hestia is generally represented standing, and in accordance with the dignity and sanctity of her character, always appears fully draped. her countenance is distinguished by a serene gravity of expression [50] vesta. vesta occupies a distinguished place among the earlier divinities of the romans. her temple in rome, containing as it were the hearthstone of the nation, stood clos

by winged dragons, at others she stands erect, her figure drawn up to its full height, and always fully draped; she bears a sheaf of wheat-ears in one hand and a lighted torch in the other. the wheat-ears are not unfrequently replaced by a bunch of poppies, with which her brows are also garlanded, though sometimes she merely wears a simple riband in her hair. demeter, as the wife of zeus, became the mother of persephone (proserpine, to whom she was so tenderly attached that her whole life was bound up in her, and she knew no happiness except in her society. one day, however, whilst persephone was gathering flowers in a meadow, attended by the ocean-nymphs, she saw to her surprise a beautiful narcissus, from the stem of which sprang forth a hundred blossoms. drawing near to examine this lo

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

d administrative body or a prefiguration of the different obediences, which did not make their appearance until 1717, with the formation of the great lodge of london. the assembled freebuilders proceeded from their own personal authority, with no thought of soliciting authorization or of placing themselves under the control of a masonic central authority. individual lodges were not subordinate to the mother lodge as they are today to the modern grand lodge. 202 from the art of building to the art of thinking in england, the role of mother lodge was long held by the old lodge of york, which could demonstrate seniority based on its earlier organization. its legend states that its constitution goes back to the charter of edwin in 926, which is why the old lodge of york refused to recognize th

ion of convents and churches. the vast brotherhoods that built the gothic cathedrals responded to this religious inspiration. it was an era when "man looked up at the heavens with faith, in search of hope and consolation. he entrusted his misery to she who should no doubt understand it best, because she was weak and she was a woman, and she could best speak to he who could do all, because she was the mother of god. he built for the lord of lords; he built for our lady. 1 it was a time when christians could be seen "leaving their native land to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the construction of a cathedral rising on the banks of a foreign river. and then, after twenty or thirty years of laboring in complete obscurity, the cross would shine from atop the sanctuary built by their hands

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venom of apep, yule 1997 "does set love his children" the question was asked of me in denver at a "debate" on the rhp vs. the lhp. now i sort of ducked the question, stressing that the important aspect of setian philosophy is the imperative to do work on (and for) one's self. but theologically it is an interesting question. in our own sphere there are different kinds of love. there is the love of the mother who keeps johnny from touching a hot stove, and stops pain. there is the love of the mother who lets johnny touch the stove and learn. the first love is bound by seconds, the second by years. there is the love of the kindly old professor that keeps anyone from failing his classes, and gets their love in return for a semester or two. there is the love of the dedicated scholar who is toug

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

endorf in austria, dates from the neolithic period. the breasts and belly are deliberately exaggerated in this representation of the great mother goddess. nut, the egyptian all-mother the egyptian sky goddess nut arches over the earth in this ancient tomb painting. she is about to swallow the evening sun, which is shown again on her upper arm as it starts its night journey. nut became regarded as the mother of all, for even the sun god re entered her mouth each night to travel through her body and be reborn next morning. a figure of nut inside egyptian coffin lids promised the same nurture and rebirth for the souls of the dead. introduction 10 the road of life and death, he was unveiling a mystery as great and as secret as that of eleusis. never tell anyone about this rite, ran the ritual

th lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he gave when he produced the great egg from which the benu bird emerged at the dawn of time (see p. 13. goddess of order maat, the goddess of order and justice, who is often described as the daughter of re, accompanies the god, who sits oppposite her. nut, the mother of all nut arches her body to make the dome of the sky. each night she swallowed the sun, giving birth to it again each morning. because of her role as the mother of the life-giving sun, nut was regarded as the universal mother. the dead were entrusted to her and her image was marked on the underside of coffin lids. geb, the earth the earth god geb is shown sprawling recumbent beneath h

ther isis was the archetypal wife and mother; with her hand echoing the shape of osiris shoulder, mirrored on the other side by horus, she emphasizes the unity of this family. she is often depicted nursing the infant horus. cow s horns isis wears a solar disc between cow horns, revealing her close affinity with the cow mothergoddess hathor. both isis and hathor were at different times regarded as the mother of horus, and, therefore, of the egyptian king, who was a human manifestation of horus. worker of magic isis was a worker of magic, and could even practice her art on the gods (see pp. 14 15. it was her magic arts that enabled her to restore the breath of life to the mummified osiris, and to aid her son horus in his duels with seth. the story of isis and osiris tells of a death and resu

fire, bringing with him starvation, disease, pain, lust, and death. so ahura mazda set a limit to time, trapping ahriman inside creation. ahriman then tried to leave creation, but he could not. so he has remained, doing evil until the end of time. when ahriman caused a drought and poisoned the first man, gayomart( dying life, ahura mazda sent rain, which brought forth, from the seed of gayomart, the mother and father of humanity, mashya and mashyoi. zurvan worship of the unified god zurvan became a heresy of zoroastrianism, which regards ahura mazda and ahriman as having existed in duality from the beginning of time. barsom twigs barsom twigs are sacred and a symbol of priesthood. zurvan gave them to ahura mazda, in recognition that he was his true son. their use was spread by the god sra

, will starve. she will turn on her creator, and try to swallow him up. ahriman will beg ahura mazda to save him, and ahura mazda will cast him from creation, through the very hole he made when he broke in. then time will be at an end, and the world will begin again. saoshyant will raise the dead, and ahura mazda will marry body to soul. first to rise will be gayomart, the first fire priest, then the mother and father of humanity, mashya and mashyoi, then the rest of humanity. all the metal in the mountains of the world will melt, and each man and woman will pass through the stream of molten metal and emerge purified. to the good, the stream will feel like a bath of warm milk; to the evil, it will be agony, as their sins are burned away. the new world will be immortal and everlasting, and

e punished by dionysus. the fates the three fates were the daughters of the night: clotho( the spinner, lachesis( the drawer of lots, and atropos( the inevitable. even zeus was not more powerful than the fates, who measured out each man s destiny like a length of thread one spun it, one measured it, and the third cut it. queen of the underworld persephone, the dreaded queen of the underworld, was the mother of the god of the orphic mysteries, dionysus zagreus, who was fathered by zeus in the form of a serpent. this may be the reason why she took pity on orpheus, the poet who had sung dionysus praises. orpheus in th e underworld reclaiming eurydice, or the music by jean restout ii (1692 1768) this painting shows orpheus begging hades (pluto) and his wife persephone, rulers of the underworld

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

s only when the flash of intuition is grasped in a way of analysis and comprehension that it can develop into a full blown concept, giving rise to true innovation. it is for this reason that chochmah and binah are also called by the terms abba (father) and imma (mother. this is because they are analogous to the seminal drop of the father being developed into a fully developed child in the womb of the mother. this is also the reason that they are called, trein ray in d lo mitparshin (the two lovers who never separate. this is because the two must always come together. in order for the seminal intuitive concept of chochmah not to dissipate it must be analyzed and developed in binah. conversely, if there is no "concept" or "subject" to analyze, binah is barren, so to speak, and has nothing to

tions are "born, so to speak. this is similar to a newborn infant who now has an identity separate and apart from his mother. nonetheless, the holistic overview and strength of position of her anger (nehi"y of abba, remain and transfer to the emotions. this is similar to the fact that a child develops from the seminal drop of the father. although the drop developed into a fully developed child in the mother s womb, its essence is still there. the maturation of zeir anpin continuing the example of a child, after the child is born, it goes through a process of maturation, in which its faculties develop. likewise above, zeir anpin too goes through a maturation process, until its faculties, the sefirot of zeir anpin, become fully developed. as mentioned before, each of the ten sefirot contains

actually, at this point only nehi"y of nehi"y is revealed. a newborn infant only has instinctive behavior and conduct. this is the first stage, immediately at birth. afterwards, when he receives influence from his mother by suckling her milk, the child grows and matures. this initial maturation during the suckling period is called "gadlut d yenikah (the maturation of suckling. the influence from the mother continues until age 6 when his nehi"y become fully developed. this is to say that now, not only are nehi"y of nehi"y revealed, but chaga"t and chaba"d of nehi"y also become revealed. the child now has intellect and emotions. nonetheless, they are still totally external and instinctive, somewhat like that of an animal. for example, an animal can come up with all sorts of means and ways t

ellect only relates to the action level. he is not yet contemplating the "purpose of life" or any other intellectual investigations into truth and reality etc. this stage of maturation continues to age 9, at which point his chaga"t become fully developed. this includes chaba"d, chaga"t and nehi"y of chaga"t. this second level of maturation is called gadlut rishon d imma (the first maturation from the mother) 3) at age 9 the next stage of maturation begins. this is the maturation of chaba"d. he now has more intellect than what is necessary to guide the emotions alone. his intellect can now be developed so that the intellect can control the emotions. this is to say that now the emotions can be directed by the intellect. this maturation continues until his emotions entirely follow the intelle

orces him to analyze it in his mind. this analysis is the power to divide and dissect the subject. when one is about to speak, as he is thinking how to articulate his thought, he is not thinking how to combine and formulate the words at all. rather, he is analyzing the idea in his mind, tearing it apart and dissecting it. only then can he speak. this is the meaning of the statement in zohar that "the mother (binah-understanding) lends the clothing (the five gevurot) to the daughter (malchut-speech (this is also explained in the zohar on the verse "v kol hator nishma b artzeinu the voice of the dove is heard in our land. the word "tor" means "dove, but it is also the masculine form of torah. this is referring to the giver of the torah. the zohar explains that "aretz (land) refers to malchut

er to divide and comprehend, he cannot combine the letters of thought until he becomes capable of speech. this is because the power to combine is higher than the comprehension of binah. the five organs of speech of the mouth (the throat, palate, tongue, teeth and lips) divide the letters of speech exactly according to how they were divided and combined in thought (this is as explained above that "the mother (binah) lends the clothing (the five gevurot) to the daughter (malchut" etc) nonetheless, it is also stated in the zohar, that "the father (chochmah-insight) founded the daughter (malchut-speech. in other words, whereas the power to divide the letters comes from binah, the power to combine them comes from chochmah. furthermore, this comes about automatically, as explained before, that t

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

cha 86 this cannot be, for those above [abba and ima] are called gthe companions that never separate, h5 as opposed to those below [z feir anpin and nukva] who are called glovers, h who do not couple constantly but only on known occasions. why, indeed, are [abba and ima] called gcompanions that never separate? h it is stated in the zohar6 in reference to the verse, gyou shall send away, send away the mother, h7 that this implies two divorces, that of the supernal shechinah and that of the lower shechinah. the supernal shechinah (divine presence) is ima and the lower shechinah is nukva. this is alluded to [more explicitly] in the words gthe mother h [et ha-eim: the direct particle [et] alludes to the lower gmother, h which encompasses all the letters of the alphabet, from alef to tav. in he

, and nukva, respectively, which in turn are constructed from the sefirot of chochmah, binah, the midot, and malchut, respectively. thus, the 63-name is associated with the ima and binah, which are on the left side of the sefirah-tree, and are thus on the gevurah-axis of the sefirot. sarah was the first matriarch of the holy jewish people, and is thus naturally associated with the partzuf of ima (the mother. the life-force of sarah [is revealed] when the light of yesod of ima is revealed in the first third of its tiferet, for it is there that the states of geuvrah begin to become revealed. the yesod of any partzuf is the drive of that partzuf for self-actualization. the self-actualization of ima occurs when the mentality it embodies is transferred to the central, pivotal partzuf, z feir an

out, they became the years of her life. this explains the seemingly redundant phrase at the end of the first verse: gthe years of the life of sarah. h [in addition] sarah embodied the divine attribute of malchut. binah and malchut are of course related, since binah is the feminine correlate of chochmah and malchut is the feminine correlate of the midot. binah is called gthe higher mother, h i.e, the mother of the midot, while malchut is called gthe lower mother, h i.e, the mother of the subsequent worlds that are created out of it. the word sarah itself, moreover, means gruler h or gprince, h and is thus thematically related to malchut, which means gkingdom. h the keter of malchut is the fourfold expansion of the name adni. the name adni is usually associated with the sefirah of malchut

with everything [bakol, h also alludes to the fact that abraham had a daughter named bakol. she personified the 52-name of malchut, which is the daughter. the four names havayah (possessing the numerical values of 72, 63, 45, and 52) correspond respectively to the four partzufim abba, ima, z feir anpin, and nukva. z feir anpin and nukva are the gson h and gdaughter h of abba (the father) and ima (the mother. the fact that this daughter is mentioned immediately after abraham acquired the machpelah cave (even though she must have been born before this, i.e, before sarah died) indicates that there is a thematic connection between her and this cave. this connection is the fact that the cave expresses the 52-name of g-d and the numerical value of her name is 52. the torah effectively tells us t

ah. as we know, the soul comprises 5 levels: nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, and yechidah. the latter two are the soul fs gimage. h in short, the nefesh is the animating soul that enlivens the body. the ruach is the emotions. the neshamah is the intellect. the chayah is the will. the yechidah is the divine spark. the gimage h enters [the body] at conception. as is explained in the zohar,22 would the mother and father merit, they would be able to see [their child fs gimage h] when they copulate [and conceive the child, the nefesh when it is born, the ruach when it turns thirteen, and the neshamah when it turns twenty. jonah.that is, the soul.descends [from its source, enters z feir anpin, descends via his spinal cord, enters his body.symbolized by the ship.and from there descends to the th

r anpin, this somehow completes yesod of ima, as will be now stated, and this sets in motion the proper functioning of the cherubs/ark-cover, the revelation of g-d fs will through the torah. when yesod of ima is completed, yesod of abba.which is the torah. becomes manifest. and where is it manifest? in the ark [of the covenant, which [manifests] malchut of ima. when yesod of ima, i.e, the womb of the mother, is ready, the yesod of abba, the father fs procreative organ, is aroused to fertilize it. insight is drawn into the mind when the mind has created in itself a vacuum, a womb, an awareness that it needs to be filled. this is possible only if the individual feels a sense of bitul, selflessness, a willingness to relinquish his present, imperfect worldview in favor of a more perfect one. m

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

s are known to be solar connected. the sun was thought to die every winter when vegetation perished and the earth became cold and barren. every spring, when the sun returned, green life was restored to the earth. in various of the grade rituals as well as the elementary knowledge lectures of the order, we find the following which we can add to the data already obtained: virgo=isis-who was nature, the mother of all things. scorpio=apophis-death, the destroyer. sol=osiris-slain and risen, the egyptian resurrection and vegetative god. here we now begin to get a definite sequence of ideas that proves somewhat meaningful. the simplicity of a natural state of affairs in, shall we say, the garden of eden representing the springtime of mankind, is shattered by the intrusion of the knowledge of goo

interpret the vault. for even the order interpretation refers the vault in its entirety to the isis of nature, the great and powerful mother of mankind and all that is. and an analysis of the separate parts of the vault- the venus door, the pastos, the two pillars- would subscribe to that view. for regeneration and the second birth have always as creative psychological states been associated with the mother. and it may be recalled that the neschamah or that principle in man which constantly strives for the superhuman shining heights, is always portrayed as a feminine principle, passive, intuitive and alluring. whilst the universal counterpart of this human principle, represented on the tree of life by the supernals, is always described by the mediaeval alchemists as a virginal figuie, from

al world. luna acting through saturn upon the elements <144> the garden of eden before the fall this diagram is described in the practicus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to the practicus on entering the sephirah hod which he has reached by the paths of shin and resh from malkuth and yesod respectively. at the summit are the three supernal sephiroth summed up into one-aima elohim, the mother supernal-the woman of the apocalypse (chap. 12) clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head the crown of twelve stars. it is written 'so the name jehovah is joined to the name elohim, for jehovah planted a garden eastward in eden' from the three supernals follow the other sephiroth of the tree of life. below the tree, proceeding from malkuth is the tree of knowledge o

ifestations answering to the hexagram, and is like the soul of microprosopus or the elohim of the human tetragrammaton. therefore in the head, which is its natural and chief seat, are f ormed the seven apertures of the head. this is the spiritual consciousness as distinct from the human consciousness. it is manifested in 7 as just said or in 8 if daath be included. the father is the sun (chokmah. the mother is the moon (binah. the wind beareth it in his bosom (ruach. its nurse is the earth (nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the following is the true attribution of the seven apertures of the head: right ear .saturn left ear. jupiter right eye. sol left eye .luna mouth .mercury (who is the messenger of the gods) right nostral. mars left nostral. ven

let the stolistes and the dadouchos assist in the reception. stolistes and dadouchos stand behind kerux who is facing the entrance, ready to open the door. as soon as candidate is well in the hall, these three officers stand before him in friangular formation, and sentinel is behind him. the offrcers then say their words in turn. heg inheritor of a dying world, arise and enter the darkness. st01 the mother of darkness hath blinded him with her hair. dad the father of darkness hath hidden him under his wings. hiero his limbs are still weary from the wars which were in heaven. kern unpurified and unconsecrated, thou canst not enter our sacred hall. stolistes comes fomard and dipping his thumb in the lustral water, makes with it a cross on the candidate's brow and sprinkles him three times

de. hegemon directs theoricus to hierophant whose chair should now be moved back towards the west, and placed in readiness for the candidate at the closing. hiereus and hegemon stand either side of the altar, facing it. before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit is the supernal eden, containing the three supernal sephiroth, summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother <114> supernal, the woman of the twelfth chapter of the apocalypse, crowned with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head the crown of twelve stars, kether. and whereas the name, yod he vau he, is joined to the name elohim, when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden, so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from th

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

endeavour to laugh at it, and will only gnash your teeth; it will be like the file in the fable which the serpent tried to bite, but it destroyed all his teeth. let us now enter on the series of initiations. i have said that revelation is the word. as a fact, the word, or speech, is the veil of being and the characteristic sign of life. every form is the veil of a word, because the idea which is the mother of the word is the sole reason for the existence of forms. every figure is a character, every character derives from and returns into a word. for this reason the ancient 6 the doctrine of transcendental magic sages, of whom trismegistus is the organ, formulated their sole dogma in these terms: that which is above is like unto that which is below, and that which is below unto that which

nature of the active principle? to diffuse. what is that of the passive? to gather in and to fructify. what is man? he who initiates, who toils, who furrows, who sows. what is woman? she who forms, unites, irrigates and harvests. man wages war, woman brings peace about; man destroys to create, woman builds up to preserve; man is revolution, woman is conciliation; man is the father of cain, woman the mother of abel. what also is wisdom? it is the agreement and union of two principles, the mildness of abel directing the activity of cain, man guided by the sweet inspirations of woman, debauchery conquered by lawful marriage, revolutionary energy softened and subdued by the gentleness of order and peace, pride subjugated by love, science acknowledging the inspirations of faith. it is then tha

n magic. now, the most perfect of the odd numbers is three, because it is the trilogy of unity. in the trigrams of fohi, the superior triad is composed of three yang, or masculine figures, because nothing passive can be admitted into the idea of god, considered as the principle of production in the three worlds. for the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the

unicating sensibly to others that which they themselves perceive, and of making themselves believed by the force of enthusiasm and sympathy. such persons are the media of the divine word. let us now specify the manner in which visions operate. all forms correspond to ideas, and there is no idea which has not its proper and peculiar form. the primordial light, which is the vehicle of all ideas, is the mother of all forms, and transmits them from emanation to emanation, merely diminished or modified 26 the doctrine of transcendental magic according to the density of the media. secondary forms are reflections which return to the font of the emanated light. the forms of objects, being a modification of light, remain in the light where the reflection consigns them. hence the astral light, or te

her we are really awake ourselves; but we need only request men of science to reflect upon the phenomena of gestation and upon the influence of the imagination of women on the form of their offspring. a woman who had been present at the execution of a man who was broken on the wheel gave birth to a child with all its limbs shattered. let anyone tell us how the impression produced upon the soul of the mother by a horrible spectacle could so have reacted on the child, and we will explain in turn why blows received in dreams can bruise and even wound grievously the body of him who receives them in imagination, above all when that body is suffering and subjected to nervous and magnetic influences. to such phenomena and to the occult laws which govern them must be referred the effects of bewitc

g this clue, we can understand the nature of the fire of hell, which is identical with the demon or old serpent; we can gather also wherein consists the salvation and reprobation of men, all called and all elected successively, but in small number, after having risked falling into the eternal fire through their own fault. such is the great and sublime revelation of the magi, a revelation which is the mother of all symbols, of all dogmas, of all religions. we can realize already how far dupuis was mistaken in regarding astronomy as the source of every cultus. it is astronomy, on the contrary, which has sprung from astrology, and primitive astrology is one of the branches of the holy kabalah, the science of sciences and the religion of religions. hence upon the seventeenth page of the tarot

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reely as we turn to daylight after traversing the crypts of black magic. get thee behind us, satan! we renounce thee, with all thy pomps and works, and still more with all thy deformities, thy meanness, thy nothingness, thy deception! the great initiator beheld thee fall from heaven like a thunderbolt. the christian legend changes thee, making thee set thy dragon's head mildly beneath the foot of the mother of god. thou art for us the image of unintelligence and mystery; thou art unreason and blind fanaticism; thou art the inquisition and its hell; thou art the god of torquemada and alexander vi; thou hast become the sport of children, and thy final place is at the side of polichinello. henceforth thou art only a grotesque figure in our travelling booths and a means of instruction in a few

ical analogies and of the universal doctrine of hermes. the water and air, which were filled thereby with forms of the word, are elementary figures of the mercury of the sages, that is, of intelligence and speech. this day is propitious to revelations, initiations and great discoveries of science. 3. the celestial mother, or empress. the third day was that of man's creation. so is the moon called the mother in kabalah, when it is represented in association with the number 3. this day is favourable to generation and generally to all productions, whether of body or mind. 4. the emperor, or ruler. the fourth day is baleful: it was that of the birth of cain; but it is favourable to unjust and tyrannical enterprises. 5. the pope, or hierophant. the fifth day is fortunate; it was that of the bir

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 evohe. what then was the meaning of this mysterious term? it was the name of four primitive letters of the mother-tongue: jod, symbol of the vine-stock, or paternal sceptre of noah; he, type of the cup of libations and also of maternity; vau, which joins the two, and was depicted in india by the great and mysterious lingam. such was the triple sign of the triad in the divine word; but the mother-letter appeared a second time, to express the fecundity of nature and woman and to formulate the doctrin

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

h will bring milk [from] as far off as a bull will be heard to roar. the cheese made of the secret commonwealth 25 the remaining milk of a cow thus strained will swim in water like cork. the method [which] they take to recover their milk is a bitter chiding of the suspected enchanters, charging by a counter-charm to give them back their own, in god['s, or [in] their master's name- but a little of the mother's dung stroked on the calve's mouth before it [starts to] suck does prevent this theft. 4. their houses (that is, the faeries) are called large and fair, and, unless at some odd occasions, unperceivable by vulgar eyes, like rachland and other enchanted islands; having for light continual lamps, and fires, often seen [burning] without fuel to sustain them. women are yet alive who tell [t

RUBY TABLET OF SET

y stele of the theban priest ankhf- n-khonsu. represented on this stele are two egyptian god-figures and a winged solar disc, which crowley identified respectively as nuit, ra-hoor-khuit, and hadit. he thought ra- hoor-khuit to be a form of horus the younger (the egyptological term for the son of osiris and isis in the osirian mythos) and thus the symbol of an "aeon of the son" to follow those of the mother-goddess (isis) and the father-god (osiris. he also believed hadit to be "heru-pakraath (harpokrates, the infant form of horus the younger. he identified nuit [correctly] as the egyptian goddess of the sky. an examination of the hieroglyphs on the stele. called by crowley the "stele of revealing. indicates that it was not conceived or executed according to the osirian mythos [save that t

e, hence the right. and responsibility. to comment accordingly on the book of the law. the first chapter 1. had! the manifestation of nuit. this chapter is a verbalization of the nuit-form as perceived by crowley [throughout this comment the term "form" is used in the pythagorean/platonic sense as a first and/or comprehensive universal principle] as the egyptian sky-goddess, nuit was portrayed as the mother of set, horus the elder, ra, and xepera. 2. the unveiling of the company of heaven. the book of the law constitutes an explanation of concepts derived from these five forms. harwer is completely manifest, as is necessary for the equinox of the aon of horus. the xeper-principle is partially revealed through passages in the text dealing with transformation and evolution. the form of set w

e delivery] countless millennia past were you conceived, child of darkness, and the time of your birth is come. with the aeon of harwer was your presence hinted at. with the age of s atan did you swell the womb of her. and now it is the aeon of set your father- it is within this eternal aeon that you are due to be delivered. her water has broken and the nectar which nourished you flows forth from the mother, maat. with your birth will her fluid free the universe. a god begets a god! witness the birth of a god unknown to all, but the father and mother, before this night of wonder. do you hear the cry of the babe? do you smell the sweetness of his newborn flesh? come closer and feel the warmth of his breath. open your eyes and behold this god beget of set! open your eyes and behold the god t

t have somewhat more objective and calmer outlooks, trump iii speaks not of the shea and wilson 93 feet tall goddess eris, but of a serene aspect of what crowley referred to as..a continuity of life, an inheritance of blood, which binds all forms of nature together" this binding of the forms is a subtle hint into what trump iii's bedrock is working toward displaying. if we remember the empress as the mother, we have part of the initial puzzle solved. the feminine form, starting at the basics of not only trump iii, but also trump ii (the priestess, shows woman as the "many-throned, many-minded, many-wiled, daughter of zeus" and therein is another door left ajar to help understanding the tarot's capabilities. the mother image provides a secure inner environment from which the higher aspects

sition to decide the fate of man. crowley possibly considered this as a facet of every man and every woman being a star. such an attitude is integral to an understanding of thelema. if examined in the light of aeonic progression, atu xii displaying a fogure of the aeon previous to that of the osirian, that of isis, the hanged man is logically enough an expression of man headed in the direction of the mother, herself the great water from which life came. it may have some possible value as an interpretation of the practically boundless sea of binah from which the master of the temple draws his understanding. in this day and age such an interpretation is simple enough to understand, but beyond pr it has little significance. however, the "let not the waters whereon thou journeyest wet thee. an

lsewhere, but crowley's appears to be the most widely accepted and most "accurate. table 4 below illustrates the correspondences of the numbered tarot cards to the sephiroth of the kaballah.(42) using this table, let us now look again at the triplet of the three of swords, five of wands, and seven of disks. how could we interpret this triplet using kaballistic symbolism? three of swords: binah is the mother of matter, of physical creation. binah is also understanding. binah is potential, inert, passive, but powerful. this card reflects not a lack of activity, a negative quality, but rather a positive inactivity, a period devoted to purely mental creation.(43) card sephirah titles and symbols 1 kether the primal glory. the primordial point. completion of the great work. 2 chokmah crown of c

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

d in this aeon, or age. the call unto the dark side is clear and loud in this cell, if not somehow in a fatigue of its strength. with this i mean that this working with the integration of the shadow-self will probably induce a certain occult fatigue, that in many cases is bound to happen as a reaction on the forces put to play in this joining. the double house of zoa and azoa and the symbolism of the mother, father, son and daughter are important as a reference to yi -king and the absolute need for the oracular effect found through divination, or as the case also can be, with using trance-induction and rosaries in the next cell. there would be quite proper to induce yi-king reading in this cell or the reading known of as sand-cutting as used by arab and berber mystics. this cell is the oct

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

landed and warned, boarded a douglas d c-8 and journeyed into the west. ahead of him, england; beside him, his father, changez chamchawala; below him, home and beauty. like nasreen, the future saladin had never found it easy to cry. on that first aeroplane he read science fiction tales of interplanetary migration: asimov's _foundation, ray bradbury's _martian chronicles. he imagined the dc--8 was the mother ship, bearing the chosen, the elect of god and man, across unthinkable distances, travelling for generations, breeding eugenically, that their seed might one day take root somewhere in a brave new world beneath a yellow sun. he corrected himself: not the mother but the father ship, because there he was, after all, the great man, abbu, dad. thirteen-year--old salahuddin, setting aside re

atues. abu simbel and newly perspiring baal have arrived at the shrines, placed side by side, of the three best-beloved goddesses in jahilia. they bow before all three: uzza of the radiant visage, goddess of beauty and love; dark, obscure manat, her face averted, her purposes mysterious, sifting sand between her fingers- she's in charge of destiny- she's fate; and lastly the highest of the three, the mother-goddess, whom the greeks called lato. ilat, they call her here, or, more frequently, al--lat _the goddess. even her name makes her allah's opposite and equal. lat the omnipotent. his face showing sudden relief, baal flings himself to the ground and prostrates himself before her. abu simbel stays on his feet. the family of the grandee, abu simbel- or, to be more precise, of his wife hind

fattest whore, who had taken the name of "sawdah, would tell her visitors and she had plenty, many of the men of jahilia seeking her out for her maternal and also grateful charms- the story of how mahound had married her and ayesha, on the same day, when ayesha was just a child "in the two of us" she would say, exciting men terribly "he found the two halves of his dead first wife: the child, and the mother, too" the whore "hafsah" grew as hot-tempered as her namesake, and as the twelve entered into the spirit of their roles the alliances in the brothel came to mirror the political cliques at the yathrib mosque "ayesha" and "hafsah, for example, engaged in constant, petty rivalries against the two haughtiest whores, who had always been thought a bit stuck-up by the others and who had chose

SATANGEL

inconsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will mount the back of a cloud. i will be like unto elyon. according to some versions of this myth, the

r theriomorph, a master of divination. destroys and burns the enemies of the summoner. tells of the creation of the world, and how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed queen of sorcery, who dwells where the roads meet. known also as enodia, trioditus, and antaia, she who encounters you. identified in some witch traditions as the mother of lucifer. hel (old norse. the queen of the underworld, and the name of the realm itself. the daughter of loki and the giantess angrboda, sister of fenrir and the midgard serpent. even the gods must tread the way of hel. helel ben shachar (hebrew, morning star, shining one. the phrase as it appears in the original hebrew, isaiah 14:12. thus taken to be a name of lucifer. heramael (grim

SATANIC RITUALS

s of night pursue their hapless quarry relentlessly. they who walk amongst us who bear deceit: verily they shall perish in blindness. turn thy back on the vile and despise them: follow the black flame to unending beauty in mind and body [priest removes some earth from container and, while pressing the soil back and forth against the initiate's soles and palms, speaks] priest: now, as before, when the mother of us all cushioned out paths with the pure pagan silt of ages, she offers herself anew. as thy true role of earth-child emerges and pervades thy being, return for this and all time thy feet to her bosom. revel in the shimmering glow from the hearth of thy heart, and make thy pact of devotion with all her children whose paws have tracked and learned the way of belial. seek and be glad

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

by the nazi regime in germany before and during world war ii (1939 45. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. idol: a statue or other image that is worshipped as a god. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence of the world from winter. immaculate conception: the principle of the roman catholic church that mary, the mother of jesus, was conceived with a soul free from original sin. incarnation: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus, making jesus fully human and fully divine. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church

have the ability to cure illness, which was thought to be caused by spirits, or supernatural beings. this class of shamans began to organize the belief system and to create certain traditions and rituals, such as the sacrificing of animals to different gods. early religious practices it appears from archaeological evidence that one of the earliest organized religions may have been the worship of the mother goddess. archeological evidence of mother goddess worship exists in several different ancient cultures, including c atalho yu k in modern turkey (c. 6,000 bce, carchemish in ancient iraq (c. 2,000 bce, many people show respect, or veneration, to their relatives through ancestor shrines and other measures. praying to ancestor spirits for help or protection reassures many that there is so

r help or protection reassures many that there is something more beyond the physical life. chris lisle/corbis. 6 world religions: almanac what is religion? and knossos in ancient crete (c. 1500 bce. one early example that may indicate an early fertility goddess is the 25,000-year-old venus of willendorf, a small limestone statue discovered in austria in 1908. in these cultures it is believed that the mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings i

moting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the east in the fourth and third millennia bce by warrior

earlier pagan religions and their goddess worship were replaced with religions dominated by males. nevertheless, at the time of jesus s birth, the worship of goddesses such as demeter, artemis, aphrodite, and cybele (also known as the great mother) was widespread throughout italy, greece, and the middle east. some historians of religion believe that the great admiration and respect held for mary, the mother of jesus christ, especially in the roman catholic faith, may be a holdover of this earlier form of goddess worship. by the time the first civilizations sprang up in what is now iraq, around 3,000 bce, religion had become a very involved process. ancient sumerians, people who lived in what is now the south of iraq about 5,000 years ago, had a complex pantheon, with many gods and goddesse

deal with such critics in a respectful manner. size and age also have something to do with cult status. usually cults are newly formed and small. despite the modern negative sense that the word cult has, its historical use was positive, or at least neutral. on the positive side, cult means a group that pays particular homage or worship to one thing or person. for example, the cult of mary honors the mother of jesus. a more neutral meaning is a small, recently created, religious organization that is often headed by a single charismatic (strong and appealing) leader. a cult may also be a spiritually inventive group, one that might challenge other larger and more dominating ones. a cult in this sense may simply be a new religious movement on its way to becoming a true religion. that was the

SEPHER HA BAHIR

t known. what is the meaning of make it known [this means] that you should have mercy. it is thus written (exodus 2:25, and god saw the children of israel, and god knew. the bahir 20 what is the meaning of, and god knew? what is this like? a king had a beautiful wife, and had children from her. he loved them and raised them, but they went out to bad ways. he then hated both them and their mother. the mother went to them and said, my children! why do you do this: why do you make your father hate both you and me [she spoke to them in this manner] until they had remorse and did the will of their father. when the king saw this, he loved them as much as he did in the beginning. he then also remembered their mother. this is the meaning of the verse, and god saw and god knew. this is also the mea

srael, as it is written (exodus 7:22, my son, my first-born, israel. to the extent that we can express it, he was with them [in egypt] in the time of their oppression. it is therefore written (exodus 4:27, send forth my son and he will serve me [here, only my son is mentioned] and not my first-born. rabbi rahumai said: what is the meaning of the verse (deuteronomy 22:7, you shall surely send away the mother, and the children you shall take for yourself. why does it not say, you shall surely send away the father? but the scripture says, you shall surely send away the mother in honour of the one who is called the mother of the world. it is thus written (proverbs 2:3, for you shall call understanding a mother. 105. what is the meaning of, and the children you shall take for yourself? rabbi ra

y one, as it is written (deuteronomy 33:4, moses commanded us the torah, the heritage (morasha) of the congregation of jacob. do not read heritage (morasha) but betrothed (me urasa. how is his so. when israel engages in the torah for its own sake, then it is the betrothed of the blessed holy one, then it is the heritage of israel. 197. rabbi amorai sat and expounded: why was tamar worthy of being the mother of peretz and zerach? it was because her name was tamar. tamar was [also] the sister of amnon. she was therefore made for this. why were they called peretz and zerach? peretz was named after the moon. the moon breaks out (paratz) at times, and will be built up in the future. zerach was named after the sun, which always shines (zarach) in the same manner. but peretz was the first-born. i

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

fferent authors translate them in different manners. heh or h not be confused with cheth, or heth, ch. teth, th also must be kept distinct from the final letter tau, t, which is one of the double letters; the semi-english pronunciation of these two letters is much confused, each is at times both t and th; yod is either i, y, or j; samech is simple s, and must not be confused with shin, sh, one of the mother letters; oin is often written in english hebrew grammars as ayin, and sometimes as gnain; tzaddi must not be confused with zain, z; and lastly qoph, q, is very often replaced by k, which is hardly defensible as there is a true k in addition. 44. postellus gives suspicion and pistorius, mind. 45. these letters are the initials of the 12 zodiacal signs in hebrew nomenclature. they are: te

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

the yod y and the heh h, as it is written, that man shall say i am of the lord hvhy.46 and that man shall be called by the name ya aqov (jacob. and that man shall write with his hand: i am of the lord hvhy. and by the name of israel shall he call himself, indeed. that man shall say, i am of the lord hvhy. o lord hvhy-the sister, and all is within vhy.47 all are included in the tongue concealed in the mother, for it opens for that which egresses from it. the father dwells in the head, the mother in the middle, and there is a covering from this side and from that side. and woe unto him that uncovers their nakedness. and elohim said lights will be in the firmament of heaven.48 the male rules over the female as it is written, the righteous is the foundation forever.49 the yod y illumines both

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

v v d two pillars, two. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen in its general appearance of vhy. once the yv d d vy has emitted that which is male and female, she is then settled, and he covers the mother. and the sons of elohim saw the daughters of adam.115 this is that which is written two men, spies, secretly saying.116 what is daughters of adam? as it is written then came two women, harlots, unto the king.117 on their account it is written for they saw the wisdom of elohim is in him. then came, and not in the beginning. in the wreath of the union of the fountains, there were two embr

of the ground. 19 and mosheh knew that-not, the skin of his face shone.170 this is that which is written: garments of skin..171 horn. as it is written: and samuel took the horn of oil.172 for there is no anointing except with the horn. and in your name our horn is exalted.173 the name have i revealed upon the skin of david.174 that is the tenth of the king. and it comes from that jubilee which is the mother, as it is written: for it shall be when the horn of the jubilee is sounded.175 the horn is wreathed with the jubilee, the tenth in the mother.176 the horn, it takes the horn and the spirit to restore the spirit177 in hy. and this horn is of the jubilee, heh h. and the jubilee is heh h. and the heh h is the blower of the spirit unto all. and all return to their place, thus it is written:

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

deserted chiaja in the cardinal's carriage; never pause now to note the tears and ejaculations of the good, simple-hearted mother, see them returned; see the well-known room, venimus ad larem nostrum (we come to our own house; see old gionetta bustling at the supper; and hear pisani, as he rouses the barbiton from its case, communicating all that has happened to the intelligent familiar; hark to the mother's merry, low, english laugh. why, viola, strange child, sittest thou apart, thy face leaning on thy fair hands, thine eyes fixed on space? up, rouse thee! every dimple on the cheek of home must smile to-night("ridete quidquid est domi cachinnorum" catull "ad sirm. penin) and a happy reunion it was round that humble table: a feast lucullus might have envied in his hall of apollo, in the

coveries of some marvellous elysium. in his travels he had listened with vivid interest, at least, if not with implicit belief, to the wonders told of each more renowned ghost-seer, and his mind was therefore prepared for the impression which the mysterious zanoni at first sight had produced upon it. there might be another cause for this disposition to credulity. a remote ancestor of glyndon's on the mother's side, had achieved no inconsiderable reputation as a philosopher and alchemist. strange stories were afloat concerning this wise progenitor. he was said to have lived to an age far exceeding the allotted boundaries of mortal existence, and to have preserved to the last the appearance of middle life. he had died at length, it was supposed, of grief for the sudden death of a greatgrandc

e zanoni; and the crowd gave way as the dazzling foreigner moved along to the lord of the palace. the prince greeted him with a meaning smile, to which zanoni answered by a whisper "he who plays with loaded dice does not always win" the prince bit his lip, and zanoni, passing on, seemed deep in conversation with the fawning mascari "who is the prince's heir" asked the guest "a distant relation on the mother's side; with his excellency dies the male line "is the heir present at our host's banquet "no; they are not friends "no matter; he will be here to-morrow" mascari stared in surprise; but the signal for the banquet was given, and the guests were marshalled to the board. as was the custom then, the feast took place not long after mid-day. it was a long, oval hall, the whole of one side op

ever there be a child that i may clasp to my bosom and call my own "and is it to be man at last, that thou hast aspired to be more than man "but a child, a second viola" murmured zanoni, scarcely heeding the son of light "a young soul fresh from heaven, that i may rear from the first moment it touches earth, whose wings i may train to follow mine through the glories of creation; and through whom the mother herself may be led upward over the realm of death "beware, reflect! knowest thou not that thy darkest enemy dwells in the real? thy wishes bring thee near and nearer to humanity "ah, humanity is sweet" answered zanoni. and as the seer spoke, on the glorious face of adon-ai there broke a smile. chapter 4.x. aeterna aeternus tribuit, mortalia confert mortalis; divina deus, peritura caducu

n! and the little one smiled through the tears that bathed its cheeks! ah, with what happy tears we welcome the stranger into our sorrowing world! with what agonising tears we dismiss the stranger back to the angels! unselfish joy; but how selfish is the sorrow! and now through the silent chamber a faint sweet voice is heard, the young mother's voice "i am here: i am by thy side" murmured zanoni. the mother smiled, and clasped his hand, and asked no more; she was contented. viola recovered with a rapidity that startled the physician; and the young stranger thrived as if it already loved the world to which it had descended. from that hour zanoni seemed to live in the infant's life, and in that life the souls of mother and father met as in a new bond. nothing more beautiful than this infant

ly and inaudibly my soul speaks to its own, and prepares it even now. thou knowest that for the pure and unsullied infant spirit, the ordeal has no terror and no peril. thus unceasingly i nourish it with no unholy light; and ere it yet be conscious of the gift, it will gain the privileges it has been mine to attain: the child, by slow and scarceseen degrees, will communicate its own attributes to the mother; and content to see youth forever radiant on the brows of the two that now suffice to fill up my whole infinity of thought, shall i regret the airier kingdom that vanishes hourly from my grasp? but thou, whose vision is still clear and serene, look into the far deeps shut from my gaze, and counsel me, or forewarn! i know that the gifts of the being whose race is so hostile to our own ar

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

rt of fount and origin of deity" san was the second member of the second triad, accompanied by his wife.51 the first triad consisted of ana (pluto, the "lord of darkness or death" belus (jupiter, the son of the egyptian osiris and the god whose temple was the original of the tower of babel;52 and hoa (neptune, strongly connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian pantheon was even more ancient, dating from the 27th to the 30th centuries b.c. or even earlier, according to some sources. the sungods of egypt were nine in number. the chief among them was osiris, whose wors

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

n them, but comes alive in human beings who are able to experience the life of god within themselves. but if human beings are to attain this gnosis, they must creatively release it within themselves. looking into their own being, they find the divine as a hidden creative power, not yet released into existence. within the soul lies the place where the spellbound god may return to life. the soul is the mother who can receive the divine seed from nature. if the soul allows herself to be impregnated by nature she will give birth to the divine. out of the marriage of the soul with nature the divine is born, no longer a hidden god but something manifest, alive palpably alive and moving among humankind. in human beings the mysteries and mysteriosophy 21 the spirit has been released from enchantme

oman. at the same time there must be some reason why the one who raises the daimon in the soul into full reality should take on external, actual existence. it is because this power does not work as do the forces that are inherent in and native to the life of the soul itself. evidently it is the soul-force that precedes the coming of wisdom that socrates represents with the figure of a wise woman: the mother-principle, which gives birth to wisdom, the son of god, the logos. the woman stands for the power that is active unconsciously in the soul, that brings about the raising into consciousness of the divine element in humanity. the soul, which has not yet found wisdom, is the mother of that experience of divinization. here we come to one of the central conceptions of mystery-teaching, which

s birth to wisdom, the son of god, the logos. the woman stands for the power that is active unconsciously in the soul, that brings about the raising into consciousness of the divine element in humanity. the soul, which has not yet found wisdom, is the mother of that experience of divinization. here we come to one of the central conceptions of mystery-teaching, which acknowledges the human soul as the mother of the god, leading human beings unconsciously and with the inevitability of a natural force to their union with the divine.68 all this casts light on the mystery-interpretation of greek myths. according to this, as we have seen, the world of the gods is something generated in the human soul, and the gods we behold are images we have ourselves created. but then we must win through to a

ved and form that power itself into divine images, so that behind the world of the gods we shape an image of the divine mother. this is none other than the archetypal power of the human soul. thus mythology places the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titans against dionysus, and they tear the child limb from limb. but pallas athene rescues the still-beating heart and brings it to zeus. out of it he engenders his son for a second time.69 t

tives and friends. when they did not find him, they went back to jerusalem to look for him. after three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. the buddha withdrew into solitude, and when he returned a virgin greeted him with words of benediction: blessed are the mother, the father, and the wife to whom you belong. but he answered: only those are blessed who have reached nirvana. the reference is to those who have entered the world of the eternal order of things. compare in the gospel of luke: as jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out: blessed is the mother who gave you birth and the breasts that fed you! he replied, blessed rat

rves to bring about a divine revelation. it is the eternal word that is raised in lazarus; thus the whole process serves to bring about the manifestation of god in lazarus. through the process lazarus is completely transformed. previously the word, the spirit, was not alive in him. now it lives in him. the spirit has been born within him. every birth has an element of sickness, the birth pangs of the mother. it is a sickness, however, that does 116 christianity as mystical fact not lead to death but to new life. that part of lazarus becomes ill that is to give birth to the new man the one who is united with the eternal word. how are we to understand the grave out of which the word is born? we need only recall the expression of plato, who calls the body the grave of the soul. we may remembe

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and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x because of its sexual meanings and its babylonian origins. writing in the scottish rite journal, the official journal of the mother supreme council, 33, jim tresner discussed the use of x in the ritual ceremony for the 17, knight of the east and west.2 tresner, a 33rd degree mason, emphasized that the 17th degree ritual is "one of the most powerful and profound degrees of the rite."3 "here" said tresner "we encounter raw spiritual energy" and "we begin to glimpse the spiritual power which is available" to the person

t sign of devotion to the chiefs m a s o n r y' s homage to the heart by the sign of hand on heart can best be understood by the fact that the leaders of the masonic lodge themselves boast that the rituals of freemasonry hearken back to ancient egyptian religion. the egyptian book of the dead addressed prayers to "my heart of my mother..my heart of transformations" meaning the source of rebirths. the mother goddess of egypt was worshipped by various names isis, hathor, rhea, etc. she was the one to whom the people "gave their hearts" meaning their heart-felt devotion and allegiance. as the goddess of sacrifices, it was deemed necessary by her admirers that men should sacrifice their "energies" on her behalf. the goddess was said to take possession of men's hearts. cutting out hearts and ea

left?"11 ray novosel, writing from australia in 2004, states: zionist world leaders, men in influential positions with the various masonic organizations everywhere, have worked "hand in glove" for a universal world revolution, which will bring in the one world church and a one world government. many masonic lodges are exclusively jewish, as are the controlling 424 codex magica b'nai b'rith lodges the mother of the infamous and very dangerous anti defamation league (adl).12 masonry's jewish roots a popular pro-freemasonry web site, in an article entitled "judaism and freemasonry" comments: jews were actively involved in the beginnings of freemasonry in america. there is evidence they were among those who established masonry in seven of the original thirteen states..a jewish mason, moses m

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s evolution complete. it cannot go further than the experience of self-so returns and unites again and again, ever an anti-climax. for ever retrogressing to its original simplicity by infinite complication is its evolution. no man shall understand "why" by its workings. know it as the illusion that embraces the learning of all existence. the most aged one who grows no wiser, it may be regarded as the mother of all things. therefore believe all experience to be illusion, and the law of duality. as space pervades an object both in and out, similarly within and beyond this ever-changing cosmos, there is this secondless principle. 17 18 19 5: by scores of incarnations, our eventual "self" is derived from the attributes with which we endow our god, the abstract ego or conceptive principle. all

ft us that has no sin and is free? verily, it is the only thing we dare be conscious of. he that truly pleases himself is wihout virtue, and shall satisfy all men. hate, jealousy, murder, etc, are conditions of love, even as virtue, greed, selfishness, suicide, etc, are conditions or not pleasing ones's self. there is no sin more sickening than love, for it is the very essence of covetousness and the mother of all sin, hence it has the most devotees. self-love only is pure and without a congregation. he that entirely loves himself induces self-love only. in this he is inexorable, but does not offend like other men. he is akin to the great purpose, his actions explained for him, good seen of his evil, without knowing, everyone satisfied with his will. do not heaven and earth unite daily in

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nalities attached to our divine beings. let me also state that pagans do not really worship these gods and goddesses. what we do is honor the aspect of the divine that they reflect. by employing a name of a god or goddess our human psyche connects with the archetype symbol that they represent for us. common examples: diana the huntress for many brings to mind a maiden who is wild and free. frigga the mother is evoked often by both pagans and non-pagans with the words t.g.i.f. as the f stands for friday, and once upon a time that was frigga tag, or frigga day. we all have strong emotions about friday. hecate the crone brings to mind for many, an ancient woman sitting over a cauldron. just to be fair to the male aspect of the divine, there is pan the goat footed god of male youth. the oak ki

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of the deceased were held long after his or her interment. the ogallala most often kept ghost lodges when the death was a particularly sad one, such as the passing of a child by accident or illness. among the ojibway people it is customary to cut the hair of a child who has died and make a little doll of it, which they call the doll of sorrow. this doll takes the place of the deceased child, and the mother carries it with her everywhere for a year. they believe that during this period of time, the soul of the child is transferred through the hair from the dead body to the doll. the ghost land or spirit land of tribal people is equivalent to the concept of a heaven or a paradise: it is a place free from worry, illness, war, and the fear of death. it seems a general belief among many differ

e gathered around the medium. spirit cabinets may be elaborate wooden structures or they may simply be blankets strung across wires in order to give the medium some privacy while in trance. the miracle of materialization, maurice barbanell (1902 1981) writes in this is spiritualism (1959, is that in a few minutes there is reproduced in the seance room the birth which normally takes nine months in the mother s womb. numerous researchers, as well as spiritualists, have claimed to have seen a nearly invisible cord which links the materialized spirit figure to the medium and have all made the obvious comparison to an umbilical cord. if, indeed, disembodied spirits are capable of fashioning temporary physical bodies for their ethereal personalities, just what kind of substance could be used for

e that they should locate such a photograph. then, according to sir oliver s report on the case (proceedings, s.p.r. vol. xxix, on november 29, a letter was received from a mrs. cheves, who was a stranger to the lodges, but 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 168 mediums and mystics sir oliver lodge (1851 1940 (the library of congress) who was the mother of a friend of raymond s. cheves informed the lodges that she had half a dozen photographs from a sitting by a group of medical officers in which raymond and her son were present. cheves inquired if the lodges would like a copy of the photograph. although lodge and his wife responded immediately and enthusiastically, the photograph did not arrive until the afternoon of december 7. in th

mpting f. g. to return home unexpectedly at that time, the spirit had enabled him to have a final visit with his mother. myers was further intrigued by the fact that the spirit figure appeared not as a corpse, but as a girl full of health and happiness with the symbolic red mark worn simply as a test of identity. myers discounted the theory that the spirit figure could have been a projection from the mother s mind. as to the spirit s own knowledge of the fate of the body 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 170 mediums and mystics after death, other reported cases show that this specific form of post-mortem perception is not unusual, he concluded. this case is one of the best attested, and in itself one of the most remarkable that we pos

undane explanations may exist. sources: cuneo, michael w. american exorcism: expelling demons in the land of plenty. new york: doubleday, 2001. demonic invasions individual psyche occurs during the awesome splendor of a mystical experience. in his varieties of religious experience (1902, william james (1842 1912) states his view that personal religion has its origin in the mystical consciousness. the mother sea and fountainhead of all religions lie in the mystical experiences of the individual, taking the word mystical in a very wide sense. all theologies and all ecclesiasticisms are secondary growths superimposed. at the same time that men and women are examining various aspects of religious phenomena and evaluating them in terms of their own spiritual quest, scientists around the world a

o have been a dream. sources near to the pope said that he had been wide awake and lucid. vatican authorities said that there had not been a more vivid or specific vision of jesus since the days of the apostles than that reported by the pontiff. according to church records, christ had appeared to a pope only once before, and that was in the fourth century, when pope sylvester (d. 335) consecrated the mother church of st. john lateran in rome after emperor constantine had ended the brutal persecutions of the christians. although devout christian laypersons occasionally report apparitions of various saints and the image of jesus, by far the greatest number of apparitions of religious figures are those of mother mary. pope john paul ii (1920) has proclaimed his firm belief that it was a numbe

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

red to nurse them back to health. tragically, chloe inadvertently sprinkled too much oleander into the cake mix and sara matilda and two of her daughters became extremely ill and died within hours after the birthday party. neither the judge nor the baby ate any of the poisoned cake. grief-stricken and ashamed of what she had done, chloe confided in another slave that she had only intended to make the mother and her daughters ill so that she would be the one to take care of them. chloe s choice of a confidante proved to be her undoing, for rather than keeping the secret, the woman loudly proclaimed to her fellow slaves that the death of the mistress of the house and her two daughters had not been due to some mysterious sudden illness. a mob made up of both the woodruffes slaves and their wh

the room where mompesson had placed the ex-soldier s drum. once it had established itself in the home, the ghostly drummer favored the family with two hours of martial rolls, tattoos, and points of war each evening. on the night in which mrs. mompesson was being delivered of a child, the drummer was respectfully quiet. it maintained this silence for a period of three weeks, as if it were allowing the mother to fully recover her strength before it began its pranks in earnest. the children were the ones who suffered most when the drummer terminated its truce. with terrible violence, the thing began beat- 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 44 ghosts and phantoms ing on their bedsteads at night. it would raise the children s beds in time w

earth. he also appeared in the devil and miss sarah (1971, an offbeat western about a satanic outlaw harassing his tormentor s wife. raymond burr (1917 1993, television s masterful attorney in the long-running law and order series perry mason (1957 66, was not quite so articulate in bride of the gorilla (1951. burr portrayed a scheming murderer who was transformed into a human gorilla by a witch, the mother of a native girl he had betrayed. in the movie monster classic godzilla (1956, he was an american journalist in tokyo covering the story of a radioactive, prehistoric monster s devastation of japan s capital. burr s scenes were deftly spliced into the original japanese footage to ensure the film obtaining a worldwide audience. in the devil within her (1975, joan collins (1933, the manip

in one of the most successful partnerships ever fashioned. to the native american tribes, as well as to all aboriginal people throughout europe, asia, and the americas, the wolf was the great teacher, and the social structure of early humans was largely patterned after the examples set by their canine instructors. although among the vast majority of mammals the care of the young is left solely to the mother, human tribes soon adopted the cooperative rearing strategy employed by the wolf, with both parents participating in the rearing process. according to the legends of several native american tribes, the first humans were created in the shape of wolves. at first these wolf people walked on all fours; then, slowly, began to develop more human characteristics until they became men and women

during the ceremony. the question, who gives this woman to this man? asked by the officiating clergyperson in contemporary wedding ceremonies is a relic of marriage by purchase. it is at this point in the ceremony that the father of the bride responds to the question by offering the arm of his daughter to the groom and telling the clergyperson, i do. in recent years, some ceremonies include both the mother and father of the bride responding we do, to the question of who gives the bride to the groom. custom also dictates that the bride always stands to the left of the groom during the ceremony. the position of the bride reflects a much earlier period when the groom needed to have his sword arm free in case he had to defend them against an attack by a jealous rival or a family member who vi

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e: a study in magic. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. israel regardie (1907.1985) clutterbuck. in 1954, gardner published witchcraft today, which continued the thesis espoused by margaret murray that witchcraft had existed since pre-christian times but had gone underground to escape persecution. according to many researchers, gardner almost singlehandedly revived.some say reinvented. the worship of the mother goddess and combined it with elements from several other metaphysical schools. gardnerian witchcraft influenced many practitioners, including the colorful sybil leek (1923.1983, who, like so many after her would do, modified gardner fs rituals and teachings to fit her own style of wicca. the person responsible for the introduction and growth of modern witchcraft in north america was ray

s the most holy card in the tarot deck. it represents humankind fs innate ability to interpret the word of god, the highest form of intellectual activity. the high priestess symbolizes the knowledge hidden in the subconscious of every human being, and her image offers the wisdom that in order to tap the wellspring of occult knowledge, one must search one fs own subconscious. number two stands for the mother principle and represents the expression of unity through woman (one and one. the empress (arcanum three) is the symbol of feminine instinct, a thought or solution that arises directly from the subconscious. the number three is the key that unlocks the door to intuition and is the driving energy that unites positive and negative, male and female. on the material level, the empress card r

status who was anxious to hear a favorable word from the gods. for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco- roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. at various times throughout its long history, the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moongoddess artemis through their priestess daugh- 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 154 prophecy and divination painting depicting aegeus of athens consulting the oracle of delphi (fortean picture library) ters, the pythonesses or pythia. then, according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and cl

without swords: archaeologists in the americas. new york: st. martin fs press, 1967. flights into yesterday: the story of aerial photography. new york: st. martin fs press, 1969. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. irwin, constance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. mecca mecca, known to the muslim faithful as umm al-qura, the mother of cities, is the holiest place in the islamic world. it was here that muhammad the prophet (c. 570.632, the messenger of god, the founder of the muslim faith, was born in 570, and it is here within the great mosque that the ka faba, the most sacred shrine of islam, awaits the muslim pilgrim. throughout the world, wherever they may be, all devout muslims pray five times per day, each ti

the energies of holy lines all muslims who are able to do so are required to make at least one pilgrimage (hajj) to mecca during their lifetime. ed to those who follow the islamic faith. there is an area of several miles around mecca that is considered to be haram (restricted, and non-muslims are forbidden to enter this sacred zone. those muslims who travel into this area as they progress toward the mother of cities must profess their having undergone a state of ritual purity and consecration. it is at this point that they set aside the clothes in which they have traveled and don a special article of clothing consisting of two seamless white sheets. the hajj begins with a procession called the tawaf, which takes the pilgrim around the ka faba seven times. the ka faba is a cubeshaped struc

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nadequate ligature was tied loosely round the neck in sucha way as to show that the victims had not died by their own hand but had been done to death as an act ofjustice. though the christian recorders generally sum up the event with the words "and thus the devil killedhim in prison, there is one record which shows clearly how the execution was effected. the man-witchplayfair[24] was consulted by the mother of robert, earl of lothian, about a cancer in her breast. he curedher by casting the disease on her husband who died of cancer in the throat. in 1597 "the said playfair, beingsoon apprehended, was made prisoner in dalkeith steeple, and having confest that and much morewickedness to mr. archibald simson, minister there, and that confession coming to the ears of robert, earl oflothian, my

the primitiveness of the custom.another method, also primitive, of obtaining a domestic familiar, was to recite some form of words, andthen to take as the familiar the first small animal which appeared after the recitation. when the religion wasorganised the formula included the name of the old god, or devil as the christian recorders called him. joanwaterhouse, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the mother waterhouse mentioned above, wishing to injure agirl with whom she had quarrelled "did as she had seen her mother do, calling sathan, which came to her (asshe said) in the likeness of a great dog"[56] and elizabeth sawyer, the witch of edmonton,[58] said that "thefirst time the devil came to me was when i was cursing, swearing, and blaspheming. if she were calling onthe old god the chris

rms, the first when a young infant is received, theother when at puberty the candidate takes on himself the full membership. for an adult convert the twoceremonies are combined with the necessary modifications. in these respects the witch-religion, i.e. the cultof the horned god, conforms to the ordinary routine of all religions.the form for the admission of infants is best recorded in france.[1] the mother took her young child to oneof the great quarterly sabbaths, and kneeling before the incarnate god she said "great lord, whom iworship, i bring thee a new servant who will be thy slave for ever. at a sign from the god she movedforward on her knees and laid the infant in the divine arms. such a ceremony, at once simple and touching,must have had a great effect on the minds of the mothers;

abant awoman was accused as a witch and one of the proofs against her was that her mother was in times pastburned for a witch.[6] jeanne hervillier's mother[9] was burnt as a witch long before jeanne herself wasaccused. one of the strong proofs of witchcraft against elizabeth clarke in essex in 1645[10] was that hermother and some other of her kinsfolk "did suffer death for witchcraft and murder. the mother and aunt ofalexander sussums of melford, in suffolk, in 1645[11] were both hanged and his grandmother burnt forbeing witches "so others of them questioned and hanged. everywhere the "witch-brood" received scantmercy at the hands of the authorities.when the child was old enough to understand, an age which varied from nine to thirteen years, he made apublic profession of faith.[12] this w

born under certain constellations, the illusions of women who boast that they ride at nightwith diana or with herodias and a multitude of other women. a century after joan's trial, the inquisitornicolas remy[5] could pride himself on having put to death hundreds of "witches" in that same district. thebackwardness of the country in the time of joan is shown by the survival of the custom of giving the mother'ssurname, not the father's, to the children. clearly then both in social and religious customs joan's nativecountry still kept many of its more primitive ways.one of the chief accusations against joan, and one which she could not refute, was that she had dealings withthe fairies. even her godmother, who should have seen that she was brought up as a christian, was acquaintedwith the fair

present time; which can only mean that he stillregarded or feigned to regard the dame des armoises as joan of arc.[8]whether jeanne des armoises was an imposter or not cannot be satisfactorily decided, but one fact emergesclearly, which is that joan's brothers acknowledged her as their sister and joan's mother did no deny her. yetin 1450 an attempt at rehabilitation was begun and lapsed. in 1452 the mother claimed ecclesiastical and the god of the witchesjoan of arc69civil rehabilitation for joan; pierre du lys seems to have joined in the claim, for he was poor and joan'swealth had been great. the proceedings dragged on till 1456; in other words, the sentence of rehabilitationwas not promulgated till twenty-five years after the trial at rouen. the interesting point is that the relatives,w

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they ceased being a true mystery religion, and became a social control organization, that could do nothing more than inculcate people with their own morbid and extreme sense of morality, restrict people s divine creative expressions, and make promises of happy afterlives for all believers. though christianity still retained many of the necessary metaphorical symbols in their mythology, including the mother of god, the divine child, the sacrifice and resurrection, these things, bereft of wisdom and the insights of the mysteries, had become nothing more than objects and puzzles of faith, still full of a mysterious and indescribable allure for some, but lacking the power to lead people to the direct realizations that they indicated. what was missing from the christian equation? simple: aware

ure s life and activity, the all father who would be responsible for her aiding her fertility and generative powers from that time onward. some people see this great being, this father nature, as another side of herself, a hidden, active side, brought into expression from within her dark mystery. this is only a point of speculation, for the father is a real and individual force, insofar as any of the mother s children can be said to be individuals- for all of her children s mysterious ultimate natures are parts of her being. but the dame also has children by the father: all life, from gods, plants, animals, and humans, are her children by her consort. however, this section focuses on mythologyand the divine/mythological figure of the daughter of the mother is central to this discussion. th

ls- demeter s daughter kore or persephone springs to mind here, and this example is particularly apt in this case, because persephone was seen, in the classical world, as the queen of the dead, or the queen of the underworld- the queen of elfhame. before we continue this short discussion on the daughter, something has to be clarified: the title queen of elfhame can be confusing, as it is given to the mother and her daughter- but do not be disarranged by this. to begin with, there is a deeper relationship between the mother and her daughter than is readily apparent- while they are not the same being, they are also not different; the classic paradox. in much the same way that the light thrown by a candle cannot be seen as separate from the flame, and yet, not the same thing as the flame, so

do not be disarranged by this. to begin with, there is a deeper relationship between the mother and her daughter than is readily apparent- while they are not the same being, they are also not different; the classic paradox. in much the same way that the light thrown by a candle cannot be seen as separate from the flame, and yet, not the same thing as the flame, so we see the inner relationship of the mother to the daughter. this exact same paradox and comparison can be (and will be) applied when we discuss the relationship of the lightbringer to the horned father, below. the point here is to point out that the mother and her daughter are overlapping figures; the children of the gods are bearers of their parent s power and presence, just like human children bear their parents essence and bl

d their human children. all of the wise must strive to understand this relationship. the dame s daughter went on to become the queen of elfhame, or of the underworld; she gained that crown through her journey and deeds. the mythology will demonstrate this. it was the dark one, her mother, that was the original queen of elfhame, but in a strictly non- linear sense of reality (and in the sense that the mother and daughter can be seen as one figure) there was no passing of the torch. it is important to realize that the daughter overlaps so much with her mother that it is difficult to separate them at times. cats are sacred to both of them, for instance; and the half light and half dark face motif that i discussed above can be applied to the daughter and the mother as one being- the daughter b

n be seen as one figure) there was no passing of the torch. it is important to realize that the daughter overlaps so much with her mother that it is difficult to separate them at times. cats are sacred to both of them, for instance; and the half light and half dark face motif that i discussed above can be applied to the daughter and the mother as one being- the daughter being the bright half, and the mother being the dark half. the inner core and soul of the dark mother was fire; the cunning fire or essence of reality. just as her son the lightbringer embodies this active cunning fire and its power to shape and sanctify, so does the daughter embody the fire, and its power to enchant and seduce. both of these fiery children represent the activity of the cunning fire in the children of the g

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dvance, because she brings forth in sorrow. woman initiated herself first into immortality through death; then man saw her to be so beautiful, and understood her to be so generous, that he refused to survive her, and loved her more than his life, more than his eternal happiness. happy outlaw, since she has been given to him as companion in his exile! but the children of cain have revolted against the mother of abel; they have enslaved their mother. the beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy s

every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of god! sublime dream which explains the mysteries of india, and justifies all symbolisms! the lofty conception of the man-god corresponds to the creation of adam, and christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. we wait for the worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the new covenant. then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. iv the quaternary the quaternary is the number of force. it is the ternary completed

, he forgets it. eurydice, in her white bridal dress, lies upon the marriage bed; he wears the vestments of grand hierophant, he stands upright, his lyre in his hand, his head crowned with the sacred laurel, his eyes turned towards the east, and he sings. he sings of the luminous arrows of love that traverse the shadows of old chaos, the waves of soft, clear light, flowing from the black teats of the mother of the gods, from which hang the two children, eros and anteros. he says the song of adonis returning to life in answer to the complaint of venus, reviving like a flower under the shining dew of her 121 tears; the song of castor and pollux, whom death could not divide, and who love alternately in hell and upon earth. then he calls softly eurydice, his dear eurydice, his so much loved eu

rpent, had enveloped everything in its coils, and was about to consume all beings, when divine clemency, raising around it the waves of the sea like a vestment of clouds, put her foot upon the head of the serpent and made him re-enter the abyss. who does not see in this allegory the first idea, and the most reasonable explanation, of one of the images dearest to catholic symbolism, the triumph of the mother of god? the qabalists say that the occult name of the devil, his true name, is that of jehovah written backwards. this, for the initiate, is a complete revelation of the mysteries of the tetragram. in fact, the order of the letters of that great name indicates the predominance of the idea over form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. by reversion that order one obtain

lves virtuous because they are afraid to be otherwise! 206 how many respectable women cast an envious eye upon prostitutes! it is not very long ago since convicts were in fashion. why? do you think that public opinion can ever give homage to vice? no, but it can do justice to activity and bravery, and it is right that cowardly knaves should esteem bold brigands. boldness united to intelligence is the mother of all successes in this world. to undertake, one must know; 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

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has grown in wisdom from that experience. the alphabet of desire 5 sigils around the circle are focused forms of power which may arise in the conscious (by results of the will-desire-belief) by the arcana of the subconscious. the daemonic feminine or goddess is indeed lilith hecate. she has many names and masks, but revealed is something more terrible and beautiful than would be expected. she is the mother of all magick, she lives in the blackened flame of both man and woman. you cannot walk the path of magick and shut her out. she devours or blesses, her kiss means everything. invoke the goddess and listen well to her words. she is babalon, the crimson harlot who rides the infernal beast of the sun. she is az, the primal instinct of sexual hunger, she is the white goddess, who would care

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yful "sorrowful" and "glorious" mysteries. the first set of five relate to the creative and formative (descending) aspects of binah, the second set relate to the manifestative aspects of binah, and the third set relate to the mystical aspects (ascending) of binah. an example is the annunciation, which is the first "joyful mystery, and depicts the angel gabriel announcing to mary that she is to be the mother of god. in kabbalistic terms it can be seen that the archangel gabriel, attributed to yesod, the "formative" aspect on a lower plane, acts as the bearer of the "word" or creative spark of chockmah, the father, into binah, the mother. thus yesod and binah are linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being creation (binah) and the unconscious (yesod, their int

over the children of israel, that is to say, before the emanation of the microprosopus, or lesser countenance. this single king or state is that which reigns after the synthesis of the multiple fragmentary states of identity that flicker in and out in the constant picture-show of our awareness, each of which in its turn demands temporary rulership. the edomite kings were seen by loria as sons of the mother, the pillar on the left hand, perfect severity, but had no foundation in the holy ancient one. they are the "empty lights" dispelled by the source of lights which is concealed within the mother. halevi states that the first origin of the concept of the klippoth lies in the kabbalistic model of the universe itself being composed of a series of shells. the first kernel is the light of ain

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, just like the angel separated the israelites from the egyptians at the time of the symbolic crossing of the red sea, so also the letter shin separates, into two parts, the four letters of the initial tetragram i.h.v.h, expressing the living god, god of the world, the manifested god; the two numerical values thus obtained are very significant. yet, how more significant is this insertion of shin, the mother-letter designating the fire, into the centre of the tetragram, when one recalls the words from the gospel "i am the bread and i am the life. i came to put the fire into the bosom of things" lastly, it is undeniable that this divine name unites all martinists dispersed all over the world, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs, and as such, it is thus a factor of unity* i

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uilibrium" or "beauty. co-relating this latter triad with traditional symbolism, chesed is masculine, referred to jupiter, a paternal wisdom symbol. gevurah, feminine, is attributed to mars, indicative of great power. one alchemical aphorism expresses this duality in the words "man is peace and woman is power" bearing all these in mind, we conclude that as chesed represents the father and gevurah the mother,l3 so tiphareth which is beauty, is the reconciler between them. interestingly enough, tiphareth is referred to the sun, and corresponds to the thrd member of the theological trinity, the son. looking at these trinities as so many expressions of psychological fact-that is, as previously defined, as factors active w i t h the psyche itself-we are struck by the similarity of the religious

d in which the candidates of the ancient initiation at the major crisis and climax of their initiation. of bringing to birth the golden sun of tiphareth, beauty and harmony who is the t h d person of that one system nowadays15 conceives of the great of the recognition of the crowned and the two pillars of the temple 11 horus-he who, while partaking necessarily of the nature of both the father and the mother, is simultaneously an entirely different and unique being. through the result of the union of opposing forces, his nature tends to a new viewpoint in the conquest of life. for the father and mother are "those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life."l6 to illustrate in another way the import of ths concept, let us describe it from a practical and physical point of view. one of th

pentagram while vibrating "nudjeru amenta (pronounced "nud-jeh-ru ah-men-tah" meaning "gods of the west. thrust through the center intoning "mu("water. go to the north and trace the pentagram while vibrating "nudjeru mehta (pronounced "nud-jeh-ru meh-tah" meaning "gods of the north. charge the figure with "tau("earth. invocation return to the east and form the tau cross. say "before me, hathoor, the mother of light. behind me, toum of the setting sun. on my right hand, sakhmet, mighty lady of flame. on my left hand, hapi-wer, the bull of the earth. for about me the pentagram 197 flames sehedj("a heaven of stars. and above me shines tau nudjer("the star of godu).28 repeat the egyptian qabalistic cross as in the beginning. egyptian banishing rituals alternative versions the student may choo

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y never be revealed to anyone who is not initiated into our ways, for to do so would be the most frightful error. though they dwell beyond the gate, they may be summoned when marduk is not watchful, and sleeps, on those days when he has no power, when the great bear hangs from its tail, and on the four quarters of the year computed therefrom, and on the spaces between these angles. on these days, the mother tiamat is restless, the corpse kutulu shakes beneath the earth, and our master enki is sore afraid. prepare, then the bowl of tiamat, the dur of indur, the lost bowl, the shattered bowl of the sages, summoning thereby the firik of gid, and the lady shakuguku, the queen of the cauldron. recite the conjuration ia adu en i over it, and build the fire therein, calling gbl when thou dost, af

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it lasts two years, 24 months. by that the partzuf attains a state called katnut, or galgalta and eynaim, a complete screen in first-degree coarseness. the infant is different to the embryo in that the embryo wants nothing, but the infant sucks the light with his own independent desire, like the baby that sucks from its mother. how does the milk become food for the baby? when menstruation stops, the mother s blood is used for the development of the embryo. during labor the blood of labor pours out, it is an impure blood that can t be corrected. it becomes impure desires, denied of any desire to give, to bestow. but there is a part of the blood that turns into milk after labor. it rises from the sefira of yesod, where the womb is to the haze (chest, which is in the sefira of tifferet of th

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

the bosom of silvery attica by the blue agean sea. yet those who would drink deeper of the wine of this magical eucharist, spilt with due reverence on the pages of this volume, they must seek it in the sibylline verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life-blood. and they are: aceldama. the tale of archais. songs of the spirit. jezebel. an appeal to the american people. jephthah. the mother fs tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and

ey the two essential facts that grip our understanding are: firstly, the superabundance of his genius; and secondly, the diversity of his form. gmy womb is pregnant with mad moons and suns, h* he writes, and though we could hardly agree to endow so virile a master with so feminine an organ, yet we can attribute something very like it to his brain. pregnant it certainly is, and more, being already the mother of a large family, a family as diverse as the offspring of uranus, father of the gods, born to him by earth, earthy and celestial. sweet lyrics are crushed cheek by jowl with the most corrosive satire, sonorous heroics and blank verse at times merge into the most raucous of hudibrasian doggerel, rimes of the sweetest and the most perverse character ring in our astonished ear, tragedy an

nfluence of the great master, notwithstanding the fact that they are in many respects equal to much of his best: your breath, that burns upon me, wraps me round with whirling passion, pierces through my veins with its unhallowed fire, constrains, compels, drags out the corpse of twenty years ago from the untrusty coffin of my mind, to poison, to corrupt, to strike you there blind with its horror *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 160. many other pieces are almost equally grand, the last speech of tannhauser to heinrich is truly magnificent: and verily my life was borne on the dark stream of death down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns built of essential time c *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 261. in gthe violet fs love story, h*1. or in gdora, h*2. we have as simple a poem as could be writte

a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paan, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of khem; come to face the babe and lion, come to measure force with them! ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth fs before the sun, as the earth fs before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, gain the god by clean endeavour; i am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for e

of the poets and pioneers of truth, freedom, and beauty. love is the finding in others what others cannot find in them, and it is of two degrees. the love of a mother towards her child; and the love of man and woman towards woman and man. the first is generally considered to be purer and more ideal, but this idea has only grown out of man fs entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships. the mother is in no way purer than the wife, neither is the virgin purer than the mother. the truest definition of chastity is that as given by benjamin franklin, which defines chastity as gthe regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others, of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult beings. h* the reason for this idea of uncleanliness though certainly obscure

h of her gforgetful age. h let me not shrink! truth always purifies. one night i stepped up tremulous on the stage, sang something, found my senses afterward only to that intolerable sound of terrible applause. they shook the sky with calling me to answer. and i lay. a storm of weeping swept across my frame. till the polite, the hateful manager led me to face a nation fs lunatic roar of delight *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 157. that was the beginning, but she soon got over that gand over. yes! the other thing. h she fell sacrificed before mammon, loved opulence, was quoted on the stock exchange, became the toy of the gprurient licksores of society h till her bastard child was born. childbirth sobered me. i loved the child, the only human love i ever tasted, and i sacrificed the popu

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at the head of 480 companies of demons, having sometimes appearance with a chariot guided and backed by demonic spirits. lilith is the fiery aspect of ahriman or samael and should be considered equal to the fallen angel. in ancient non-zoroastrian writings, m.n. dhalla makes reference to the early hippolytus who wrote that there was a dualistic religion, the father being light and darkness being the mother. with this in consideration, ahriman no doubt was a manifestation of the androgynous primal dragon tiamat, which ahriman and az emerged from later. in the ancient writings of jacob and isaac hacohen of segovia castile, samael and lilith were born by an emanation beneath the throne of glory in the form of a double-faced androgynous angel, said to be in the form of the one above. lilith h

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c: i do. s: advance, o free man, without fear (they leave him, and he advances to the centre of the camp. he is gently guided if necessary. arrived, they stop him) s: whom have you there? w: a poor, etc, as before. s: who answers for him? w: i, the father. s: pass, seeker of life (he is taken to the west of the well) s: whom have you there? w: a poor, etc, as before. s: who answers for him? e: i, the mother. s: pass, seeker of life (they take him to the altar) w: most mysterious master, i present mr. a poor, etc, as before. s: is he well and worthily vouched for? e: he is. s: is he controlled? w: he is. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c2.html (4 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:02:43 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o (e. catches his wrists from behi

ted you. you will compare this with the word of the 3. it is further of the very greatest importance to remember that the three principal officers of the royal arch represent the three functions of prophet, priest, and king. now in the tarot j. is the hermit, the prophet of the eternal; h. is the emperor, and v. the hierophant, pope, or high priest. now the left side of the triangle l.j.a= 41= ma the mother, while a.i.l. means a stag, goat, or ram, from the curved horns of those animals, and therefore means the father, and the beginning of whirling file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (19 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. motion. god, says proclus, is he having a spiral force. the right side a.h.b. means lov

ed with the microcosm represented by the letter a whose shape suggests the pentagram, the star of the microcosm contained in that conjunction. h.b.v. adds to 13 and thus expresses both unity and love, while v.l.j. is 46, a female slave, here referring to the unenlightened soul. combining all this into a single sentence, we read: the most high by love and unity exalts the daughter to the throne of the mother. that is a pure rendering of the way of salvation by samadhi or union with god, in that particular image which you have studied in the vision and the voice. taking the name by syllables, we find jah as before the most high. bul means lord and also on high in the chaldean language, while on in egyptian and hebrew alike signifies the sun, the lord of all. thus in three separate languages

guardians. and the nature of the spirit is liberty, and as the wind, he goeth as it listeth him to impregnate the worlds. and as the son is double, so is the spirit double; for he is both male and female. for the dove is the bird of venus; yet our ancient brother marcus valerius martialis that was grand orator of the roman empire in days of old hath hidden the sacred phallus in this image. he is the mother. he is the womb. he is the sperm that fertilizes the ovum: nay, but he is that fertilized and self-living thing which is neither sperm nor ovum, but their marriage, the perfect tincture, the medicine of metals, the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the elixir of life. he is that dove that, returning to the ark of noah, bore a branch of olive. he is the eagle of jupiter, he is

lus is a living being in form resembling man, and possessing those qualities of man which distinguish him from beasts, namely intellect and power of speech, but neither begotten and born after the manner of human generation, nor inhabited by a human soul. 2. thus, supposing that the re-incarnating ego enters the foetus at the third month of gestation, it would not serve to remove such foetus from the mother, and cause it to live; for it is already human. but a foetus of two months might become homunculus. 3. a human being can only become homunculus if obsessed by a demon to such an extent that the human soul is irrevocably expelled to the same degree as in death, and freed utterly so that it seeks a new tenement, and is cut off absolutely from the old. but even this, rare as it must be exc

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thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; 3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 3:19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art] and unto dust shalt thou return. 3:20 and adam called his wife s name eve; because she was the mother of all living. 3:21 unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins, and clothed them. 3:22 and the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to till the ground from

unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and i will deal well with thee: 32:10 i am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff i passed over this jordan; and now i am become two bands. 32:11 deliver me, i pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of esau: for i fear him, lest he will come and smite me [and] the mother with the children. 32:12 and thou saidst, i will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 32:13 and he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for esau his brother; 32:14 two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty milch camels with their

d water [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 5:26 she put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen s hammer; and with the hammer she smote sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 5:27 at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 5:28 the mother of sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? 5:29 her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, 5:30 have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of dive

ighty men which [belonged] to david, were not with adonijah. 1:9 and adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of zoheleth, which [is] by en-rogel, and called all his brethren the king s sons, and all the men of judah the king s servants: 1:10 but nathan the prophet, and benaiah, and the mighty men, and solomon his brother, he called not. 1:11 wherefore nathan spake unto bath-sheba the mother of solomon, saying, hast thou not heard that adonijah the son of haggith doth reign, and david our lord knoweth [it] not? 1:12 now therefore come, let me, i pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son solomon. 1:13 go and get thee in unto king david, and say unto him, didst not thou, my lord, o king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, assu

ve with blood. 2:10 so david slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of david. 2:11 and the days that david reigned over israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in jerusalem. 2:12 then sat solomon upon the throne of david his father; and his kingdom was established greatly. 2:13 and adonijah the son of haggith came to bathsheba the mother of solomon. and she said, comest thou peaceably? and he said, peaceably. 2:14 he said moreover, i have somewhat to say unto thee. and she said, say on. 2:15 and he said, thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all israel set their faces on me, that i should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother s: for it was his from the lord. 2:16 and now i ask

nd give half to the one, and half to the other. 3:26 then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, o my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. but the other said, let it be neither mine nor thine [but] divide [it] 3:27 then the king answered and said, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof. 3:28 and all israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of god [was] in him, to do judgment. 4:1 so king solomon was king over all israel. 4:2 and these [were] the princes which he had; azariah the son of zadok the priest, 4:3 elihoreph and ahiah, the sons of shisha, scribes; jehoshaphat the son of ahilud, the

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tylistic alterations according to the taste of a succession of copiers..parts of it i sense to be genuinely old; other parts suggest modern interpolation (farrar, what witches do, pp 34-35) as we shall discover presently, there appear to be no genuinely old copies of the book of shadows. still, as to the mythos, farrar informs us that the "two personifications of witchcraft are the horned god and the mother goddess (ibid, p 29) and that the "horned god is not the devil, and never has been. if today `satanist' covens do exist, they are not witches but a sick fringe, delayed-reaction victims of a centuries-old church propaganda in which even intelligent christians no longer believe (ibid, p 32. one could protest "very well, some case might be made for the horned god being mistaken for the ch

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is the figure of a woman, with a head of the same conic or pyramidal form, and upon the front of it a flame of fire, from which hangs a crescent.3 this seems to be the female personification of the divine attributes represented by the gonnis or pollear; for the hindoos, like the greeks, worship the deity under both sexes, though they do not attempt to unite both in one figure. i am the father and the mother of the world, says the incarnate god in the bagvat geeta.4 amongst cattle, adds he in a subsequent part, i am the cow kamadhook. i am the prolific kandarp, the god of love.5 these two sentences, by being placed together, seem to imply some relation between this god of love and the cow kamadhook; and, were we to read the words without punctuation, as they are in all ancient orthography

s before observed, the cow was the symbol of venus, the goddess of love, and passive generative power of nature. on the capitals of one of the temples of phil we still find the heads of this goddess represented of a mixed form; the horns and ears of the cow being joined to the beautiful features of a woman in the prime of life;1 such as the greeks attributed to that venus, whom they worshipped as the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, who was the personification of animal desire or concupiscence, as the orphic love, the father of gods and men, was of universal attraction. the greeks, who represented the mother under the form of a beautiful woman, naturally represented the son under the form of a beautiful boy; but a people who represented the mother under the form of a cow, would a

and destructive attributes operated.2 as water was her terrestrial essence, so was the moon her celestial image, whose attractive power, heaving the waters of the ocean, naturally led men to associate them. the moon was also supposed to return the dews which the sun exhaled from the earth; and hence her warmth was reckoned to be moistening, as that of the sun was drying.3 the egyptians called her the mother of the world, because she sowed and scattered into the air the prolific principles with which she had been impregnated by the sun.4 these principles, as well as the light by which she was illumined, being supposed to emanate from the great fountain of all life and motion, partook of the nature of the being from which they were derived. hence the egyptians attributed to the moon, as well

ting. de lancre says that many others, in their depositions, spoke of the extreme pleasures and enjoyments experienced in these sabbaths, which made men and women repair to them with the greatest eagerness. the woman indulged before the face of her husband without suspicion or jealousy, he even frequently acted the part of procurer; the father deprived his daughter of her virginity without shame; the mother acted the same part towards her son; the brother towards his sister; fathers and mothers carried thither and presented their children. aller au sabbat elle ne laissoit d aller l glise, mais elle trembloit quand elle y voiyoit faire l eslevation, et tremble encoure toutes les fois qu elle la voit. et quand elle se veut approcher du crucifix, pour luy baiser les pieds, elle devient tous e

ll this to writing.1 they all tend to show the identity of these orgies with those of the ancient worship of priapus, who is undoubtedly figured in the satan of the sabbath. the young witch, jeannette d abadie, told how she had seen at the sabbath men and women in promiscuous intercourse, and how the devil arranged them in couples, in the most unnatural conjunctions--the daughter with the father, the mother with her son, the sister with the brother, the daughter-in-law with vers la couronne de la dance, comme communement dict tout le monde: ains l un aytant le dos tourn, et l autre non: et ainsi tout suite jusqu la fin de la dance. or elles dancent au son du petit tabourin et de la flute, et parfois avec ce long instrument qu ils portent sur le col, puis s aalongeant jusqu aupr s de la cei

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-father and mother-moth- er is child-father and child-mother, c-f being nearest f-f and c-m being nearest m- m. the circles in the following illustration help to point out the various relationships: notice that all possible permutations of qualities are accounted for in the three trines. the first letter signifies the ground quality. the second indicates the tint that is applied to it. therefore, the mother-child aspect is very different from the child-mother aspect. in the first, the female nature is highlighted by the child nature; in the second, the child nature is touched by the female. the first might suggest an impetuous, boyish woman; the second, an introverted, effeminate boy. the figure of the boy is usually taken to stand for the child, although it might as easily be a young girl

the immature mind striving for authority through mastering the inner world. it is the scholar, the scientist, the magician, and anyone who seeks power by shaping his or her own mind. in mastering the inner world the outer world is mastered also. it should be stressed that although the points of the nonagram have sexual polarity, with those of the father being predominantly masculine and those of the mother predominantly feminine, any of the nine human qualities may be applied either to a man or a woman. living human beings contain both sexes in almost equal proportions. the male qualities of the nonagram (ff, fm, fc) usually express themselves more clearly in men, and the female qualities (mm, mc, mf) more clearly in women, but this is not always the case. in practical working these gener

the order. such weaknesses are often found in the old literature, particularly regarding the demon- ic gods that are very dangerous. most of the figures in the major world mythologies have an enemy they could not overcome, or a weapon that defeated the:m, or an incident in their pasts that they are ashamed to remember or have repeated. the most famous weakness is the heel of the demigod achilles. the mother sf achilles, a nereid named thetis, dipped her infant son into the waters of the :infernal river styx, but neglected to coat his foot with this magical liquid. thereafier achilles was invincible in battle. no weapon could wound him, until the trojan paris shot him in the heel with an arrow and killed him. every god and demon has his or her achilles' heel, which the magus can discover an

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were not well understood at the time of the renaissance, and columba's self-abuse was regarded as a sign of an admirable piety. sometimes, in her ecstasies, her soul quitted her body. one day her mother entered her chamber, and saw her daughter sitting on her altar, like one asleep. she lifted her down, in order to lay her on her bed, when all her limbs and head fell as if the body was lifeless. the mother thought she was dead, and screamed. some of her neighbors came, and they also thought she was dead. all blamed the confessor, and accused him of murdering his victim by enforced abstinence and austerities. no doubt, in their irritation, they would have committed some breach of the peace; but all of a sudden the damsel revived.65 65. brewer, dictionary of miracles, 310. 58- soul flight t

al human pace. spirit children may exhibit otherworldly or slightly inhuman features, although just as often they are indistinguishable from human children. for example, a child born from the union of a spirit mother with catlike attributes and human father might possess eyes similar to those of a cat, or pointed ears. these secondary characteristics depend on the appearance of the spirit that is the mother. if the spirit mother is completely human in appearance, the baby will be completely human also. marriages with spirits marriages between spirits and humans are possible. we know that they were recognized in ancient times, because records of these unions have been recorded in historical accounts and were regarded by the authors as factual. one of the most famous is the marriage between

to seek some rational physical explanation in an effort to make sense of the situation-she would naturally assume that some man must have impregnated her while she was drugged or otherwise unaware. the care of spirit children the ethical responsibility to care for such a child, once it has been created on the astral level, is no less rigorous than it would be for a child of flesh and blood. when the mother is a spirit, she can remain close to the infant and supply the child's needs, but it is only common decency for the human father to ensure that she is provided with nourishment to keep her strong. he can project vital energy from his own astral body into the body 304 soul flight of the mother as a way of strengthening her, and she will pass a portion of the vitality on to the infant. or

but it is only common decency for the human father to ensure that she is provided with nourishment to keep her strong. he can project vital energy from his own astral body into the body 304 soul flight of the mother as a way of strengthening her, and she will pass a portion of the vitality on to the infant. or he can infuse this energy into food and drink on the astral level, and present these to the mother. when the mother is human, she must rely on the love of the father for the child to cause him to watch over and protect the infant. to lighten his burden, she can supply him with vital energy. if an astral baby is abandoned, it will not die, but it will blindly seek nourishment wherever it can find it, and is likely not to grow in a healthy or natural way. it is like a human infant aban

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

e between the three supernals and malkuth. the final he they assign to malkuth on the theory that, since the lowest sphere of emanation is passive and has no independent power, it cannot receive its own unique letter but must be given the second he, which has already acted in the higher process of creation as the first he and now manifests itself in the fulfillment of malkuth. as the first he was the mother, so the second he is the product of the mother, and is her earthly reflection, the daughter. the complete tetragrammaton also plays an essential part in the process of zimzum (contraction) that takes place before the first emanation from the limitless void of non-being. before the sephiroth were projected within the primordial point of kether, which in fact forms the boundary of the uni

ers of ihvh. masculine and creative fire is given to the yod; feminine and receptive water is given to the first he; active intellectual air is placed under the vau; and heavy material earth is put with the second he. this quaternary of manifest elements that compose the substance of existence is separate and different from the ternary of ethereal elements that occur in the hebrew alphabet, where the mother letters aleph (h, mem (n, and shin (el) stand for, respectively, air, water, and fire. there is no hebrew letter for earth, indicating that the three elements represented in the alphabet are heavenly rather than earthly. from the solid foundation of the four elements, other occult associations branch forth. the most important of these is the four suits of the tarot, a set of seventy-eig

nciple, are completely distinct. when they combine sexually, half of their binary coding is passed into each of their offspring, just as a human child receives half of its genetic code in the sperm of its father and the other half in the egg of its mother. the binary symbols for v and the second h both contain a solid line and a broken line, the solid line from the father and the broken line from the mother. this is the reason crowley describes the second h as the "twin sister" of v-they are made up of the same parts, but in an inverted order. in the case of 28 tetragrammaton v, the masculine solid line is dominant, whereas in the second h it is the broken feminine line that determines gender. when in turn the v and second h combine to generate offspring, the seed of the v is purely mascul

at fluttered with the appearance of lightning and flaming torches and a shimmering rainbow. around the throne were seventy chairs for seventy elders, and two more chairs opposite the throne for the seer gad and the prophet nathan, making a total of seventy-two, the same as the "divine name of seventy-two words" extracted kabbalistically from exodus 14:19-21 (see ginsburg, the kabbalah, pp. 132-6. the mother of solomon, bathsheba, sat in a chair on his right side. from another midrash legend we learn that the throne had six steps leading up to it and was made in the shape of the four-horse war chariot of god. it may be conjectured by combining the descriptions of the throne in the two legends that each step had the carved figures of beasts on the left and right side. it may be further specu

l, to her "mother" are highly significant. madimi constantly refers to the authority of her mother, who is a kinswoman of nalvage, the spirit who delivers the enochian keys. dee asks madimi's mother her name, and the spirit answers "i am of the word, and by the word (casaubon, p. 27. when dee persists, the spirit becomes annoyed and says "i am; what more will you" and then flies away like a fire. the mother may perhaps be a version of the gnostic goddess barbelo and may be the subject of the unexpressed primordial key. she is also the queen of heaven described in revelation 12, who is clothed with the sun, has the moon under her feet, and wears a crown of twelve stars. it is not widely recognized by occultists who employ the keys in their magic that the forty-eight keys, taken as a whole

y also be a dark mirror reference to the eighth biblical king, hadar, of whom no death is spoken (genesis 36:39. in the teachings of the kabbalah, hadar is considered to be the rectifier and giver of spiritual life to the seven mortal kings that preceded him. the wrath of the vials is said to be "for two times and a half" a seemingly inexplicable reference, save that it also occurs in revelation. the mother of the word of god, he who is the mounted version of the heavenly christ who rules all the nations of the world with a rod of iron, is persecuted by the red dragon, satan, forcing her to flee his vengeance "and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from th

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empyrean and the secret abodes of hell and how both may create a powerful god like being for those who dare. the ones who fell with lucifer were taught sexual magick and procreation by az lilith, who resided near the red sea in caves. az resided also in the blackest depths of hell; she instructed demons, monsters, and other druj the art of sexual copulation and how to spawn daemons. az lilith was the mother of succubi and incubi, daemons who held sexual congress with humans and with their emissions spawned other shadow forms. shaitan then became as seker, the lord of death in ancient memphis, which later became set the prince of darkness. set or shaitan had impacted the earth in its wave of creation, of knowledge and prowess did humanity excel. shaitan then moved its consciousness both of

of knowledge) is a point meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer by calling baphomet or cain within, becomes like this symbol they perceive thus allowing a permission to channel the anthropomorphic and deific power within themselves, thus becoming a source or axis pole of this idea. lilith az the mother of witches the queen of the witches sabbat is none other than lilith, known in persian mythology as az or jeh, the harlot who is the embodiment of sexual power. she is known through many cultures, hebrew, persian and european as hecate, triple goddess of the crossroads, who is mother of death, shades, witchcraft and necromancy. in the manichaean religious tradition, az came first to the

oke the bride of chaos in their name, the daemonic feminine being significant towards positive self-development. the name az is a conceptual view of what is the cause of concupiscence, which is connected to the buddhist term, trshna, being thirst. this is in such terms defining of desiring continued existence in time, thus isolate consciousness. in such aspects of the left hand path, az lilith is the mother of daemons, isolate and self-deified spirits, those who become through the mirror of self the mirror in hebrew mythology is also symbolic of lilith, being a gateway to her caves near the red sea, or the darkness of hell of which she dwells. lilith az is illustrated in the book of cain, azothoz and nox umbra as part beast, part woman. she is the unrestrained sexual force, laylah being ni

he age of one thousand aged crones, infinite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink of both her skull cup of menstrual blood and from the golden chalice of the beast, the life of the sun22. cain cain or tubal-cain is the anthropomorphic child of the spiritual union of samael (the dragon) and lilith (the mother of demons) through adam and eve. 22 in some christian gnostic texts, such as the apocryphon of john cain is called the sun. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 34 cain is the wanderer, the first murderer who tasted blood and became as the off spring of his spiritual mother and father. cain is also the black smith of the forge, a myth which originates in the middle east. cain is the first so

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ath grown old, and his bones have become like silver, and his members have turned into gold and his hair is like unto real lapislazuli" his majesty heard the words of complaint which men and women were uttering, and his majesty (life, strength, and health to him) said unto those who were in his train-"cry out, and bring to me my eye, and shu, and tefnut, and seb, and nut, and the father-gods, and the mother-gods who were with me, even when i was in nu side by side with my god nu. let there be brought along with my eye his ministers, and let them be led to me hither secretly, so that men and women may not perceive them [coming] hither, and may not therefore take to flight with their hearts. come thou[fn#58] with them to the great house, and let them declare their plans (or, arrangements) fu

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

la vida. sois hijos de la viuda, vuestra divina madre es ahora viuda, cuando ella se levanta por el canal medular, se desposa con el amado eterno. vuestra divina madre es el arcano ii, la papisa del tarot. ella est coronada con la tiara. la cabeza de la madre c smica est rodeada de un velo. vosotros deb is ser valientes y levantar el velo de isis. nuestra divisa gn stica es thelema (voluntad. 17 the mother carries her son (the word) in her arms; and she is seated between the two columns that symbolize the man and the woman. worship the virgin of the sea, brethren of mine. the divine mother appears in the second arcanum holding the priestly esoteric sign with her hand. study within the sacred book of your divine mother. ask and it shall be given to you. knock and it shall be opened unto yo

the tarot. she is a mysterious, crowned woman, seated with the scepter of command in her hand. the globe of the world is on top of the scepter. she is urania-venus of the greeks, the christified soul. the man is the arcanum number one and the woman is the arcanum number two of the tarot. the christified soul is the outcome of the sexual union of both (the secret is the arcanum a.z.f. the woman is the mother of the verb. christ is always the child of immaculate conceptions. it is impossible to be born without a mother. when the initiate is ready to incarnate the verb, a woman appears in the superior worlds as if pregnant, suffering labor pains in delivery. when jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother: woman, behold thy son! then he

s como estando pre ada y sufre los dolores de parto. cuando vio jes s a su madre, y al disc pulo a quien l amaba, que estaba presente, dijo a su madre: mujer, he ah tu hijo. despu s dijo al disc pulo: he ah tu madre. y desde aquella hora el disc pulo la recibi en su casa. juan 19:26-27 25 the word john can be rearranged as follows: i.e.o.u.a.n, the verb (the dragon of wisdom. indeed, the woman is the mother of the verb and the woman officiates upon the altar of the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, trunk, bud, leaf, flower and seed of all tha

the man, he is the woman, vau is the fire, he is the water. the profound study of the four letters of the eternal one takes us inevitably to the ninth sphere (sex. we must lift our serpent through the medullar channel and carry it up to her heart s temple. the cross of the initiation is received in the heart temple. the magnetic center of the father is found between the eyebrows. the sanctuary of the mother is found within the heart temple. the four points of the cross symbolize the fire, the air, the water and the earth (also spirit, matter, movement and repose. remember beloved disciple that the four elements of alchemy are: salt, mercury, sulfur and azoth: the salt is the matter; the mercury is the ens seminis, the azoth is the mysterious ray of kundalini. the mercury of secret philosop

ctificatur invenies ocultum lapidum (visita el interior de nuestra tierra, que rectificando encontrar s la piedra oculta. debemos buscar en el interior de nuestra tierra filos fica (el organismo humano) que rectificando, trabajando con el arcano a.z.f, hallaremos la piedra filosofal. 47 the sun (phallus, masculine principle, is the father of the stone. the moon (uterus) is the feminine principle, the mother of the philosophical stone. the wind bears the son in its womb and the earth nourishes it. the sun and the moon, masculine and feminine principles are combined inside of the chalice (symbol of the mind. the sun is the father of the stone (fire, the moon is the mother (water, and the wind (seminal vapors) bear the son in its alchemical womb and the philosophical earth nourishes it. the c

mer centro situado a la altura de los rganos sexuales, conquistamos los poderes de la tierra. 59 with the second center (situated at the level of the prostate/uterus) we conquer the waters. with the third center (situated at the level of the navel) we conquer the universal fire. with the fourth center (situated at the level of the heart) we conquer the air. the heart is the sanctuary of sephirah, the mother of the sephiroth, the divine cosmic mother. with the fifth center (situated at the level of the larynx) we receive the sacred ear and dominate the akasa with which we can preserve the physical body alive (even during the great cosmic nights. with the sixth center (situated between the two eyebrows) we conquer the magnetic center of the father. then we become clairvoyant. with the sevent

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

thing comprehensible. it represents both adaptation and transmutation. it is binah, the holy spirit or third person of the trinity on the tree. it is characterized by the first geometrical shape, the triangle. the triangle of art in the western magical tradition is where materializations occur when doing evocations. as the number and sphere of the first creative force actualizing itself in binah, the mother, it gives birth to all of the remaining sephiroth on the tree, and to it is attributed the planet saturn. aristotle noted that of two things we can say both but not all. three is the first number which we can use to refer to the all. in the tarot, this idea is represented by the fruitful creativity of the empress. when invoking the power of three in a talisman, one should always include

ion, can do more harm than good. the magical numbers of the saturn kamea are three, nine, fifteen, and forty-five. let us explore some of these numerical associations and their sigils. there are only two hebrew words that add up to three, and the first one is ab, father. the father principle belongs more specifically to chokmah, number two, on the tree of life. why then is it attributed to binah, the mother? as mentioned in chapter three, the second sephira has no geometrical form (except for a line, or plane) and no kamea, because as number two it has not yet come into full manifestation. in other words, fatherhood is just a possibility; it needs motherhood to become an actuality. kether is not the father principle on the tree, as is the common attribution of the first person in the chris

of as a whirling motion generated by light which is concentrated at a point. it is then communicated to the father principle, chokmah, through the first letter, aleph, called the fiery intelligence. case points out that the other letter, beth or b, is the intelligence which forms the path to binah. chokmah possesses the latent potency of becoming binah, just as two always points to three. binah, the mother, completes this first qabalistic trinity. levi calls the triad the universal dogma and the basis of magical doctrine. the father exists in potentiality in chokmah, wisdom, and as number two finds fulfillment in number three, binah, understanding. ab=3 demonstrates this relationship (1+2 =3. it is shown as an arrow going straight up when placed on a saturn kamea (see figure 5-a. fabre de

er nine, a verb which means to rise, to increase, to grow (ben yehuda. on the squares, the simplest sigil designs i. e, of an arrow pointing in one direction or another) become slightly more complex with the addition of another line (see figure 5-c. nine is, as we have noted, the last in the series of number extensions before repetitions. it is also the number of the sephira called yesod, linking the mother binah with her ninth child on the tree. yesod is called the foundation and is the building block of our physical world, malkuth, number ten. yesod is symbolized by the moon and saturn is symbolized by a sickle, showing a unity in their primary archetypal shapes. both shapes can be incorporated onto a talisman if one was working on unifying these two principles (see correspondence charts

origin in the form-building powers of yesod. it is the raw material from which all imagery is formed and serves as the source of all astral visions, whether of ghosts or the gods. all are filtered through yesod. levi explains how visions operate: all forms correspond to ideas and there is no idea which has not its proper and peculiar form. the primordial light which is the vehicle of all ideas is the mother of all forms, and transmits them from emanation to emanation. hence the astral light, or terrestrial fluid, which we call the great magnetic agent is saturated with all kinds of images or reflections. now our soul can evoke these and subject them to diaphane (transcendental magic, p. 66. diaphanous literally means translucid and by it levi refers to the plastic mediator, which is the ma

s the attainment of an objective which has been in the universal mind from the beginning or foundation of the world. another numerical example of this relationship is demonstrated in the equation 9x9=81. by gematria, this points to the fullness of this process at the level of individuation, because eighty-one is the numeration of the word anoki, which means 7. it is only after the separation from the mother, however, that this "i" can be born, and many myths reflect this archetypal individuation process in the hero stories of the slaying of the dragon or serpent, often said by jungians to represent the mother. the word gev, which means middle or interior, also has a value of nine. it really means "the center of things which preserves. and organizes (d'olivet, p. 312. this is perhaps one of

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is poured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes. this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from the intestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the 'messeh' in ancient egypt the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists stand naked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shift into reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they are also terrified, because at this point the mother goddess points to four of them and they are then ritually murdered. clare reeves, the president of mothers against sexual abuse in the us

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he twelve months of the coming year, and so on. remembering that most christmas customs are ultimately based upon older pagan customs, it only remains for modern pagans to reclaim their lost traditions. in doing so, we can share many common customs with our christian friends, albeit with a slightly different interpretation. and thus we all share in the beauty of this most magical of seasons, when the mother goddess once again gives birth to the baby sun-god and sets the wheel in motion again. to conclude with a long-overdue paraphrase 'goddess bless us, every one' c a n d l e m a s: the light returns= eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 by mike nichols it seems quite impossible that the holiday of candlemas should be considered the beginning of spring. he

s the wheel in motion again. to conclude with a long-overdue paraphrase 'goddess bless us, every one' c a n d l e m a s: the light returns= eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 by mike nichols it seems quite impossible that the holiday of candlemas should be considered the beginning of spring. here in the heartland, february 2nd may see a blanket of snow mantling the mother. or, if the snows have gone, you may be sure the days are filled with drizzle, slush, and steel-grey skies- the dreariest weather of the year. in short, the perfect time for a pagan festival of lights. and as for spring, although this may seem a tenuous beginning, all the little buds, flowers and leaves will have arrived on schedule before spring runs its course to beltane 'candlemas' i

f the year. in short, the perfect time for a pagan festival of lights. and as for spring, although this may seem a tenuous beginning, all the little buds, flowers and leaves will have arrived on schedule before spring runs its course to beltane 'candlemas' is the christianized name for the holiday, of course. the older pagan names were imbolc and oimelc 'imbolc' means, literally 'in the belly (of the mother. for in the womb of mother earth, hidden from our mundane sight but sensed by a keener vision, there are stirrings. the seed that was planted in her womb at the solstice is quickening and the new year grows 'oimelc' means 'milk of ewes, for it is also lambing season. the holiday is also called 'brigit's day, in honor of the great irish goddess brigit. at her shrine, the ancient irish ca

more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, the fire of the celtic god of light (bel, beli or belin

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ng grey with great pleasure, for she did not like to be mistaken for his mother. so every morning she used to arrange his hair and pick out as many of the black ones as she could. the consequence was the man soon found himself entirely bald. yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. the two crabs one fine day two crabs came out from their home to take a stroll on the sand. child, said the mother, you are walking very ungratefully. you should accustom yourself to walking straight forward without twisting from side to side. pray, mother, said the young one, do but set the example yourself, and i will follow you. example is the best precept. hercules and the waggoner a waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. at last he came to a part of the road where the wh

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

, the central fire deity. the lingam, an upright pillar, was its hindu symbol. the monad being esteemed the father of numbers is the reason for the universal prejudice in favor of odd numbers over even numbers, which are but copies of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the first even number, the dyad, or universal mother. the father being more esteemed than the mother, for might. odd numbers were given to the greater gods, and even ones to the inferior and terrestrial deities. the number one is represented in the roman and arabic systems, by an upright simple line, but in many old systems whose numerals were their letters, we find that almost universally the letter a, from being chosen to commence the set of letters, had the task of representing the

the third into nifleheim, the region of the unknown. the three norns (fates) attend to the root in asgard. they were urda--the past; verdandi- the present; and skulda--the future. the talmuds are crowded with quaint conceits concerning the triad and many are very curious. the ancient hebrews said there are three night watches, in the first the ass brays, in the second the dog barks, in the third the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband. he who three times daily repeats the 114th psalm is sure of future happiness. three precious gifts were given to the jews; the law of moses, the land of israel, and paradise. in three sorts of dream there is truth. the last dream of the morning, the dream which is also dreamed by a neighbor and a dream twice repeated. 45. three things c

e suet which was unlawful food; as pork is. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott three acolytes must attend the high priest when he went in to worship; one at his right, one at his left and one had to hold up the gems on the train of his vestment. there are three parts of a man. the father gives the white parts, bones, nails, brain and the whites of the eyes; the mother gives the red parts, skin, flesh, etc. while god gives the breath, soul, mind and senses. the sanhedrin could order as a punishment three degrees of excommunication--separation for an undefined time, exclusion for 60 days, and execration for 30 days. moed katon, 17.1. the name of adam is of three letters, a, d and m: these are the initials of adam, david and messiah, and the soul of the

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

ence of creation, and after it reverts to what it was. and had the worlds and all that is in them not have been created, it would not have been possible to see the truth of the manifestation of his eternal being, blessed be he, in the past, present, and future, and he would not have been called by the name yhwh at all.119 it seems to me plausible to apply to ein sof the description of durga-kali, the mother goddess in sakta hinduism, as the ultimate trans-theistic symbol of timelessness the not-time, on account of which she merits the name adyakala.120 leaving aside the important divergence between the jewish and indian materials with respect to the gender construction of the formless form of ultimate reality,121 the characterization of the latter as a trans-theistic symbol of timelessness

ll as the root of time (shoresh ha-zeman, is fixed everlastingly. in that root, temporality and eternality are set not as polar opposites but as two facets of one reality. another passage from pithei she arim elaborates upon this matter: in every day new emendations are produced, and after all the emendations are expended, then the six thousand years will be completed, and they will all ascend to the mother in the seventh millennium, to the secret of eternality [sod ha-nishiyyut, and there they will receive their reward and they will rise from level to level until arikh anpin who is above time, for his growth is not by way of time as in the case of ze eir anpin. the division of time into five gradations minutes, hours, days, months, and years is a deep matter, for time is in the male and f

months, and years is a deep matter, for time is in the male and female, the secret of the forty-five and fifty-two.204 kabbalistically interpreting the eschatological conception of the cosmic sabbatical cycle transmitted in the name of r. qatina six thousand years of history followed by a thousand years of desolation205 haver characterizes the seventh millennium as the elevation of everything to the mother, a standard designation of the third emanation, binah, the womb whence the lower seven sefirot emerge and whither they shall return. a similar account of the eschatological return of everything to binah in the seventh millennium is presented in the commentary on sifra di-seni uta attributed to elijah ben solomon: the matter is that the six thousand years are the six days wherein the six

effects the transformation, which is both semiotic and gendered, is the circumcised phallic potency, which is linked historically and emblematically to the figure of abraham. the fecundity of the womb is notionally correlated with the phallocentric rite of circumcision, as it is the blood of the covenant the word for blood is dam, which is composed of dalet and mem that opens the mem, the womb of the mother, and transposes the dalet, the sign of poverty and infertility, into a he, the sign of e uence and fertility. the messiah, according to the jewish tradition, will emerge from a womb that has been impregnated by male seed. in the bahiric text, the fecund womb is demarcated not by the he but by the open mem, the fusion of male and female, the event in the mundane cosmos symbolically homol

fore to after? messianic expectation awaiting the end is entwined with the point that belongs squarely in the middle of the circle. this we learn from the final mem, whose quadrangular shape marks the way to discern the nature of teshuvah, repentance, the promise of return sheltered within the hope of sending forth. to grasp more fully the sway of this symbol, we must be attentive to the image of the mother s womb whence the entrusting of time comes back in the giving before, the for/giving,67 for the key that allows us to comprehend the temporal dimension of mem, as situated in the breach in the middle of the beginning that mends the end, is the image of the mother. admittedly, the link between the final mem, repentance, and the divine mother is not articulated explicitly in the bahiric f

ends the end, is the image of the mother. admittedly, the link between the final mem, repentance, and the divine mother is not articulated explicitly in the bahiric fragments and thus to continue the journey we need recourse to other books. the bahir, however, undoubtedly served as a basis for later devel- 150 chapter four opment; in fact, the seeds of the correlation between mem and the image of the mother are found in the following bahiric passage: r. rehumai said: why is it written, let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life (deut 22:7. it does not say let the father go, but let the mother go, corresponding to the one who is called mother in the world, as it is written, you shall call understanding mother (prov 2:3. 68 what [is the m

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the primal force of the reptilian mind, cold and calculating while the darkness is itself the hidden source of knowledge. lilith is known as the queen of demons in hebrew lore, but also she has manifested throughout different cultures and times. kali is one of the 17 names of lilith, represented as the devouring black mother of india, who absorbs through time itself. kali is the proactive female, the mother which devours its young. while lilith is itself, a force of the subconscious, lunar and fluid sense of self, something so very real as lilith may manifest to the sorcerer. lilith is the mother of demons, spawning lilitu or succubi, in the caves of the red sea. lilitu and succubi are essential in the magical awakening process of the sorcerer. while many might view such as dangerous, it i

witches sabbath) and the evil genius. seek union with the lilitu, within and without. one mystery of the two is that they are called the eternal couple and are symbolized in the zohar as the evil couple (evil is therefore described as the left hand path approach, isolating the self which was contrary to many of the founders of religious christianity. samael is then revealed as asmodeus and lilith the mother of fornication. samael and lilith are the keys of infernal, or daemonic union. it is by the combination of these forces which are the sun and moon respectively that we may emerge from which 23 the familiar and exterior daemon may seek further sexual congress via dreams. the sigil of infernal union is the gateway towards qlippothic awakening, which we may unite the shadow with the light

ower, immortal aspects of the essential self samael (the sun known as asmodeus -force, sorcery, fire. samael is the one of darkness (knowledge hidden) whom rode eve and injected filth into her. samael is the root force of the beast 666, the solar creative force and the devil of the tarot. lilith (the moon queen of the witches and lilitu/succubi -witchcraft, sorcery, lunar dream magicks. lilith is the mother of harlots whom appears in the form of a beautiful woman with the lower half animal like, hairy and feet of a large bird. lilith is the gateway to the sabbat and to the arts of lesser and greater black magick. lilith is also the lunar blood covered goddess, revealed in thelemic lore as babalon. samael (the sun daemonic and solar phallic force, an extension of set -magick and solar creat

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white brilliance the signs of the 5=6 grade are broken down into three separate sections. the first is when the adept or aspiring magician calls out: inri this stands for the hebrew letters yod nun resh yod which was nailed to the cross of suffering above the head of christ. its esoteric interpretation shows that the first "i" relates to the sign of virgo, isis the mighty mother. in this instance the mother is the producer of the seeds of fruit on earth which represents spring. the "n" is scorpio, apophis the destroyer the destructive force of nature that represents winter "r" is sol and relates to summer. the final "i" is osiris slain and risen, and relates to autumn and all of its characteristics. by uttering this initial keyword, the invoker of this force calls forth and links the power

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forms fire and water: the ideal fire and the ideal water; the spirit and the water of creation; the spiritual ether and the ethereal fire; the fire of the holy spirit. thus, in the creation of the man is the extension from tiphareth i.e, the moment adam is created, that is the beginning of the reflection of the lower triad, and finally, of malkuth. eve is the synthesis of creation and represents the mother of life, as the name chavah. the 3=8 diagram thus represents the establishment of life, i.e, created life, and it is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because it is the balance point between good and evil; for in the material body we are placed to give victory to which we will. hence the significance of the serpent "ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" but the knowledge of

re added up they are 28+ 23+ 390= 441= truth. emblems the emblem is the three ankhs touching above the pastos which is associated to the three mother letters: aleph, shin, and mem. the formula of the first manifestation, 1+ 400+ 300= 701= the world. this is all of creation in a composite form. applied to the archetypal world of the tarot, a complete story is formed from the three tarot cards with the mother letters on them. aleph as the fool is the divine child, and birth under difficult conditions. mem then carries on the theme of life itself; enlightenment through suffering. shin is resurrection, as the rewards for the quest of life. in the final part of the opening, shekinah appears veiled with a lamp under the veil. this shows that the unknown quality of the sphere, the feminine anima

his feet and drawn across the threshold into the vault with the 70=40 grip. the brown cloak is taken from him and laid aside. at his feet is the cross of 6 squares; beyond this, the altar. kg "the father hath given commandment and the son hath made for me a spiritual body through his own soul. i am he who hath travelled far and who hath made pilgrimage among the stars of heaven, even the heart of the mother and she gave both to me because it was her will to do so "i am osiris, the first born of the gods "i have become a 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

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355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from the egyptian for ggreat house h) h(rp sphere; number; emanation hryps 356 expiations, atonements myrwpk a young mule rpw( spirits of the living nyyxd nyxwr 357 iniquity)#wn 358 shame hn#g shiloh shall come (gn. 49:10) hly )by gmessiach h: the messiah xy#m the serpent that initiated eve #xn (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omega) mw)y) the breastplate of the high priest n#x renewed, restored #dwxm 359 the sacred wind my# satan: the adversary n# 360 shin: a tooth ny# the messiah hy#mh the sinew [of the thigh; the weakening (gn. 32:32& cf. hn#h, below. k.d. p.235) h#nh the change; the teaching; the sleep (see k.d. p.235) hn#h thunders mym(r crimson yn# ophir: earth ryp( 361 the arra

: the angelic choir of malkuth; burnt or incense offering *my) 912 oxen twrw# song-maiden; muse ry# tb lofty *nwrh) severities *n)rwbg lightnings, flashings *myqrb 913 berashith: gprincipally h, gin the begirming h (with gsmall h beth. see liber 2911) ty#)rb 914 out! avaunt! go away *cwx demons *myd# 916 expiations, atonements *myrwpk 918 a wall *cyx (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omega *mw)y) 919 the sacred wind *my# 920 a branch *pn( i.n.r.i (initials of iesus nazaraeus rex iudaeorum; igni natura renovata integra; intra nobis regnum dei; isis naturae regina ineffabilis; and many other sentences. see crowley, coll. works vol. i. appendix *y r n y thunders *mym(r 921 insight, perception twlktsh 924 so the myhl) created man in his own imag

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fighting. sun power, magistracy. venus love, music, pleasure. mercury science, learning, knavery. moon travelling, fishing &c. in diagram, p. 144, the sigil of hismael should be used. in marking points fix attention on sigil and on the question proposed; the hand should not be moved from the paper till complete. it is convenient to rule lines to guide the eye. the daughters are derived by reading the mothers horizontally. the four nephews, figures ix-xii, are thus formed: chapter v the general meaning of the sixteen figures in the twelve houses herein follows a set of general tables of the sixteen figures in the twelve houses, for the better convenience of forming a general judgment of the scheme. under the head of each figure separately is given its general effect in whatever house it may

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s to foam at the mouth from time to time against the other souteneurs who live on poor prostitutes instead of wealthy virgins. i should like, too, to ask mr. coote a rather curious question. we were talking about paternity. his then secretary, mr. hewston, had given me to understand that the vigilance society made a practice of paying (on behalf of and at the expense of the fathers) allowances to the mothers of illegitimate children, of caring for the mothers, helping them to get work,and eventually marrying them to honest fellows of their own class. this seemed too sensible to be true. mr. hewston's honest heart had let him to misunderstand. mr. coote indignantly corrected this view of the society's work. they never did that sort of thing, he said "except in a few very special cases" now

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mal and sensible interpretation of occult truth than are the members of the average occult group. the children were now reaching the age where the normal physical care which engrosses the attention of the average mother was changing into emotional demands. this cycle which lasts until they are in their 'teens is an exceedingly difficult one difficult for the children and frightfully difficult for the mothers. i am not at all sure that i reacted well or acted wisely and it is perhaps simply my good luck that today my daughters seem to like me. they all had a far more normal time in their up-bringing than i ever had, left as i was to strangers, governesses and masters and that, perhaps, made it difficult for me to understand them. i had a very exalted idea of what the relationship between mo

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h exceeding great desire. wishing to receive the light again into herdarkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, she trembled with desire. this desire was the dawn.but lucifer, the light, fled from her, and would not yield to her wishes; he was the light which fliesinto the most distant parts of heaven, the mouse which flies before the cat.then dianawent to the fathers of the beginning, to the mothers, the spirits who were before the firstspirit, and lamented unto them that she could not prevail with lucifer. and they praised her for hercourage; they told her that to rise she must fall; to become the chief of goddesses she must becomea mortal.and in the ages, in the course of time, when the world was made, dianawent on earth, as didlucifer, who had fallen, and dianataught magic and

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will be found copied from each other. let us take agni the fire-god, indra the firmament, and karttikeya from the hindus; the greek apollo; and mikael, the "angel of the sun" the first of the aeons, called by the gnostics "the saviour- and proceed in order (1) agni- the fire-god- is called in the rig-veda vaiswanara. now vaisvanara is a danava- a giant-demon* whose daughters puloma and kalaka are the mothers of numberless danavas (30 millions, by[[footnote(s* he is thus named and included in the list of the danavas in vayu purana; the commentator of bhagavata purana calls him a son of danu, but the name means also "spirit of humanity[[vol. 2, page] 382 the secret doctrine. kasyapa* and live in hiranyapura "the golden city" floating in the air. therefore, indra is, in a fashion, the step-so

its navy as 1,200 ships and 240,000 men. such statements are quite inapplicable to a small island state, of about the size of ireland! the greek allegories give to atlas, or atlantis, seven daughters (seven sub-races, whose respective names are maia, electra, taygeta, asterope, merope, alcyone, and celaeno. this ethnologically, as they are credited with having married gods and with having become the mothers of famous heroes, the founders of many nations and cities. astronomically, the atlantides have become the seven pleiades. in occult science the two are connected with the destinies of nations, those destinies being shaped by the past events of their early lives according to karmic law. three great nations claimed in antiquity a direct descent from the kingdom of saturn or lemuria (conf

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sist of elementary substances out of which other forms may come into existence, bearing the characteristics of their parents("this doctrine, preached 300 years ago" remarks the translator "is identical with the one that has revolutionized modern thought, after having been put into new shape and elaborated by darwin. it was still more elaborated by kapila in the sankhya philosophy. the elements as the mothers of all creatures are of an invisible, spiritual nature, and have souls* they all spring from the "mysterium magnum (philosophia ad athenienses) compare this with vishnu purana "from pradhana (primordial substance) presided over by kshetrajna (embodied spirit) proceeds the evolution of those qualities. from the great principle mahat (universal intellect, or mind. proceeds[[footnote(s* t

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told me there was a woman that i had to meet as soon as possible. this was arizona wilder, a recovering victim of the massive illuminati mind control network, who had worked for them at a very high level. she said she had conducted sacrificial rituals as a "mother goddess" for the british royal family, especially at balmoral castle in scotland, and at a notorious centre for satanic ritual called the mothers of darkness castle in belgium. this is located in the same region as the headquarters of the cult responsible for the widespread paedophilia, murder, and child sacrifice that came to light amid enormous public anger in 1994. the ring involved famous pillars of belgian society and a massive cover-up has ensued to keep it quiet. belgium is a major illuminati satanic centre and that's why

e was portayed by the stanley kubric film, eyes wide shut, which stars tom cruise and nicole kidman, and explores the subject of satanism among the elite. kubric died immediately after the movie was finished. it features a satanic cult involving the high and mighty of an american city who meet at a large gothic mansion. such places are located all over the world. in belgium, for example, there is the mothers of darkness castle where the british royal family and the illuminati elite of europe perform many of their major rituals, and there is balmoral castle in scotland, where the british royal family spend their summer holidays. the isle of light- and darkness i live on the isle of wight, a few miles off the south coast of england, and it is a perfect example of the connection between the m

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e,they show it outright. they dont care if you see it. who are you going to tell, who is goingto believe you? they feel that it is their birth-right and they love it. they love it.given the evidence i have presented in this chapter about the background to dianasmurder, i was not surprised to hear this mother goddess recall the following aboutmohamed al fayed:i saw mohammed al fayed at a ritual at the mothers of darkness castle in belgium in the1980s. the queen and the queen mother were also there. the queen mother was talkingto him and he was looking around as if he didnt believe this sort of thing went on. it wason december 24th at the ritual of the old king and the new king. they didnt let him in tosee the worst of it. it was kind of like, lets introduce him into this. but he would have

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t had been infused prevented swellings in animals. because of the large demand for alrauns, they were often carved from the roots of briony when genuine mandrakes were difficult to find. they were exported from germany to various countries and sold in england during the reign of henry viii. sources: thompson, c. j. s. the mystic mandrake. london: rider, 1934. alrunes female demons or sorceresses, the mothers of the huns in ancient germany. they took all sorts of shapes, but without changing their sex. the name was also given by germans to little statues of old sorceresses, about a foot high. to these they attributed great virtues, honoring them as fetishes; clothing them richly, housing them comfortably, and serving them with food and drink at every meal. they believed that if these little

ife of jesus. 1938. reprint, new york: london press, 1974. spiritualism in the old testament. london: the psychic book club, 1940. elm tree the elm tree (genus ulmus) is prominent in teutonic mythology, where it was said to have been given a soul by the god odin, senses by hoenir, and blood and warmth by lodur, becoming embla, the first woman. in finno-ugric mythology the elms were believed to be the mothers of the fire goddess ut. in england the tree was associated with elves and sometimes known as elven. at lichfield, england, choristers of the cathedral used to deck the cathedral, close, and houses with elm boughs on ascension day. it was believed that the falling of the leaves of an elm tree out of season predicted a murrain (disease) among cattle. the elm was also used to cure cattle

dbeater wielded considerable influence over annie besant, blavatsky s successor, in part due to his reputed clairvoyant abilities. leadbeater s homosexuality became a matter of ongoing embarrassment to besant and the society. in 1906 several mothers in the united states brought charges against leadbeater for immoral practices with their sons. besant found it impossible to accept these charges, so the mothers appealed to olcott, then in london, and a judicial committee of the society summoned leadbeater to appear before them. in the face of clear evidence, leadbeater was obliged to resign from the society. however, after olcott s death, the leadbeater scandal took a bizarre turn. in an open letter, weller van hook, general secretary of the american section, vigorously defended leadbeater s

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s true sorcerers for they feel the puncture no more than if they were leprous, nor does any blood appear, and never indeed, does any pain that may be inflicted cause them to move the part. they receive, with this badge, the power of injuring and of pleasing, and, secretly or openly, their children are made to participate in the oath and connection which the fathers have taken with the devil. even the mothers with this in view, dedicate and consecrate their children to the demons, not only as soon as born but even when conceived, and so it happens that, through the ministrations of these demons, sorcerers have been seen with two pupils in each eye, while others had the picture of a horse in one eye and two pupils in the other, and such serve as marks and badges of contracts made with them

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mutter a little and the deed is done; she will be here ere i can turn me. mephistopheles the heathen-folk do not concern me. they occupy a hell that s all their own. but help there is. faust quick! tell its history! mephistopheles not glad do i reveal a loftier mystery- enthroned sublime in solitude are goddesses; around them is no place, a time still less; to speak of them embarrasses. they are the mothers! faust [terrified] mothers! mephistopheles do you fear? faust the mothers! mothers! strange the word i hear. mephistopheles strange is it. goddesses, to men unknown, whom we are loath to name or own. deep must you dig to reach their dwelling ever; you are to blame that now we need their favour. faust whither the way? mephistopheles no way! to the unexplorable, never to be explored; to

eles i praise you, truly, ere you part from me, since that you understand the devil i can see. here, take this key. faust that tiny, little thing! mephistopheles seize and esteem it, see what it may bring! faust it s growing in my hand! it flashes, glows! mephistopheles will you see now what blessing it bestows? the key will scent the right place from all others; follow it down, twill lead you to the mothers. faust [shuddering. the mothers! like a blow it strikes my ear! what is that word that i don t like to hear? mephistopheles so narrow-minded, scared by each new word? will you but hear what you ve already heard? let naught disturb you, though it strangely rings, you! long since wonted to most wondrous things. faust and yet in torpor there s no gain for me; the thrill of awe is man s be

xistent to phantoms unbound realms far distant! delight in what long since exists no more! like filmy clouds the phantoms glide along. brandish the key, hold off the shadowy throng. faust [inspired. good! gripping it, i feel new strength arise, my breast expands. on, to the great emprise! mephistopheles when you at last a glowing tripod see, then in the deepest of all realms you ll be. you ll see the mothers in the tripod s glow, some of them sitting, others stand and go, as it may chance. formation, transformation, eternal mind s eternal re-creation. images of all creatures hover free, they will not see you, only wraiths they see. so, then, take courage, for the danger s great. go to that tripod, do not hesitate, and touch it with the key! faust assumes a decidedly commanding attitude wit

it seems, she s walking, saw us coming through the air. homunculus. let her stalk! set down the burden of your knight, for near at hand are the new life and the guerdon that he seeks in fable-land. faust [touching the soil] where is she? homunculus that s a question over-tasking, but here you ll learn, i think, by asking. make ready, go ere it is day; from flame to flame inquiring wander. who to the mothers dared the way, has nothing more to fear or ponder. mephistopheles here i too claim a part to play, yet for our weal naught better can i say than that each one amid the fires should seek his own adventures and desires. then as a sign to reunite us, let, little friend, your lantern sound and light us. homunculus thus shall it ring and light display. the glass resounds and emits a powerfu

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o the number. in past time, the diviner drew strokes on the sand with a wand, hencegeor earth,manteiaor maney. the dots or dashes of each line are counted, and each is either odd or even in number: a figure is formed of four figures, ones or twos, one over theother-perhaps1.2.1.2. or 2.1.2.1, or 1.1.1.1. or 2.2.2.2. this is done three times more, and so four figures are obtained. these are called the mothers, and the four parts of each are called heads, necks, bodies and feet. by taking the four heads as odd or even, a new figure is formed, adaughter. the four necks make another, and so on are formed four daughter figures.fournephews are then made, the first by the heads of the first, one and two being counted together as odd or even, then the necks, bodies and feet. the 2nd, 3rd and 4th n

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eless matter could engender a living organism. before looking at this condition, we must recall a law that has been recognized in biology since the time of pasteur "life comes from life" that is, a living organism can be generated only from another living organism. for example, mammals are born from their mothers. in many other species of animals the young are born from eggs that had been laid by the mothers. plants grow out of seeds. single-cell organisms such as bacteria divide and multiply. nothing has ever been observed to the contrary. throughout the history of the world no one has ever witnessed lifeless matter giving birth to a living being. of course, there were those in ancient egypt, greece and the middle ages who thought they had observed such an outcome; the egyptians believed

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umbered 1. should the total be an even number, then enter two dots. do the same thing with the second line of dots, adding them together to determine if the product is odd or even. enter the results down in the space provided. continue this process with all sixteen rows of dots. in this way, four basic or primary geomantic figures of four lines each will be produced. these four figures are called the mothers. remember and i must repeat this with emphasis these sixteen lines of dots resulting in the first the question 37 chapter four the question it was once written by alcistcr crowley in his book magick that the intelligences used in gcomancy the earth elcmentals or gnomes are not too reliable, or that their type of intelligence is not of the highest. therefore great care has to be exercis

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to others; he shall be despised. blessed is the man whose foot is swift to serve a friend; he is a friend indeed. cursed are the organizers of charities; they are propagators of plagues. blessed are the wise and brave, for in the struggle they shall win. cursed are the unfit, for they shall be righteously exterminated. blessed are the sires of noble maidens; they are the salt of the earth. cursed the mothers of strumous tenderlings, for they shall be shamed. blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds. cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are- abomination. blessed are the unmerciful; their posterity shall own the world. cursed are the famous wiselings; their seed shall perish off the earth thrice cursed are the vile, for they shall ser

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ter, and so proceeding, let me point out a few general facts. first as to the number of letters in each word, which converted into figures stands thus: 4.3.5.2.5.3.6 (hebrew direction. in the midst is 2, by taro the central will: and this twolettered word is ta. on either side of this is the pair of figures 35. 53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning of life of the mothers.h and, vitalised by the son (3) as the vice-gerent of his father. these balanced figures together make 16, whereof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10* the perfection of the sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 agai

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adding the dots laterally of the first and second figures, the third to the fourth, the fifth to the sixth and so on across the eight. now the method of adding the dots is thus: if the total number of dots is an odd number, you note down a single dot. on the other hand if the total number is an even one, we note down two dots. by this process the four resultants are manufactured, which along with the mothers and daughters, make twelve figures in all. now to the four resultants, you apply the same process again, laterally adding the dots of the ninth and tenth figures, then the eleventh and twelfth. this produces the two witnesses, figures 13 and 14, which are likewise added laterally to produce the judge, figure 15. figure 15 is then added laterally to the first mother to produce the recon

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throughout a lifetime. 1959 de beers manufactures a synthetic diamond. 1959 in research conducted on the incidence of mongolism in cities in wisconsin, illinois, and thedakotas published in 1959 in the official publication of the french academy of medicine, it was foundthat as the percentage of fluorides in the water rose, there was a parallel rise in the incidence of mongol-oid births the age of the mothers giving birth to mongoloid babies also declined with rising fluorideappendix f: general chronology of events386atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation levels. it is interesting that. in the first three years of fluoridation, new britain, connecticut, experi-enced a 150% rise in still births. 1959 john foster dulles and george c. marshall die. 1959 nobel prize to segre& cham

etuses of dogs. itwas found that the quantity of deposited fluorine was especially large in bones, largest in the cranialbone as well as the lower leg bone. the quantity of fluorine deposition was parallel with the progressionof the calcification. they also proved that the deposit of fluorine on teeth and bones starts through theplacenta as early as the embryo period, and then takes place through the mothers milk through theinfancy period, and through food, as well as directly through the inside of the oral cavity. as fluorine isa known active enzyme poison, it is known to affect cell division (mitotic) in the fetus, resulting in ana-tomical anomalies (teratism. 1960 national reconnaissance office (nro) created to manage spy satellites. 1960 from 1960 to 1973, the u.s. sells russia vast qu

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

to me that this is the mystical significance of the verse: gand then joseph and rachel approached and bowed down. h21 rachel was behind joseph. when jacob introduced his family to his brother esau, the torah says that first the handmaids and their children approached esau and bowed down to him, then leah and her children, and finally joseph and rachel. since in the case of the handmaids and leah the mothers are mentioned first and then the children, this indicates that the mothers were in front of their children when they bowed down. in the case of rachel and joseph, however, joseph moved in front of rachel, in order to hide his mother fs beauty from the wicked esau. thus, we see that rachel is positioned behind joseph. this would explain why in this sense rachel greceives h her beauty fr

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

go of my wife. at once! damn you! i am your zamindar. release her; remove your filthy hands" but mishal whispered "they won't. go away, saeed. you are closed. the sea only opens for those who are open "mishal" he screamed, but her feet were already wet. once ayesha had entered the water the villagers began to run. those who could not leapt upon the backs of those who could. holding their babies, the mothers of titlipur rushed into the sea; grandsons bore their grandmothers on their shoulders and rushed into the waves. within minutes the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards, towards the horizon, never looking back to shore. mirza saeed was in the water, too "come back" he beseeched his wife "nothing is happening; come back" at

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

of gilles, his daughter was twice married, both timesto men of high rank. as she died without children the estates reverted to gilles' younger brother.not long after gilles' death, his daughter erected a fountain on the spot where her father had been executed.the fountain was dedicated to sainte marie de cr351e lait and was much frequented by nursing mothers. onevery anniversary of the execution the mothers of nantes and its neighbourhood beat their children inremembrance of gilles. these two facts have never yet been explained, yet the first suggests some specialpower of fertility ascribed to the dead man, differing slightly from the power ordinarily ascribed to the dead. the god of the witchesgilles de rais [11] and [12]74the second is still more remarkable. ritual beating in commemorat

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