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regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represents intellect and rational thought. netzach is the sphere of love and spiritual passion and is therefore associated with such deities as aphrodite, venus, hathor, and others that personify these qualities. hod: the eighth emanation on the tree of life. hod is associated with the planet mercury and represents intellect and rational thought. it also represents the structuring and measuring capacities of the mind as opposed to the emotional and intuitional aspects of netzach. hod has no exact parallel in the tarot, but is closely linked to the card judgement, ascribed to the path between hod and malkuth. yesod: the ninth emanation on the tree of life. yesod is associated

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planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches which are in asia or assiah- as these again allude to the seven lamps before the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right-hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebrew letter beneath the base is one of the duplicated letters of the hebrew alphabet which refer to the seven planets. the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet have each two sounds associated with them, one hard, and one soft. they are called double, because each letter represents a contrary or p

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

eferred to the god of the thunder-car; and f according to one interpretation signifies freyr. anyhow 't=tyr' appears to have been a supremely honoured symbol, and the name of this god to have been specially sacred: in scratching the runes of victory on the sword, the name of tyr had to be twice inserted, ssem. 194^ the shape of the rune^ has an obvious resemblance to the old-established symbol of the planet mars when set upright, and an as. poem on the runes expressly says: tir bis idcna sum (tir is one of the tokens, is a certain sign; where again the derivative form tir is employed to explain the the simple tiw or ti. occasionally the poets speak of' tire tacnian' to mark with tir (el, 753. jud. 137, 18, and 'tires to tacne' as mark of tir (beow. 3306; we may expound it as' gloria, decor

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iereus, see that none below the grade of practicus is present. hiereus: fraters and sorors give the sign of practicus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant all present have attained the grade. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what particular element is this grade attributed? heg: to the element of water. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what planet does this grade especially refer? hiereus: to the planet mercury. hiero: honoured hegemon, what paths are attached to this grade? heg: the 31st and 30th paths of shin and resh. hiero: honoured hiereus to what does the 31st path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of fire. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what does the 30th path allude? heg: to the reflection of the sphere of the sun. hiero: gives one knock. all rise and face east. hier

s, and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at the angles. while the cup of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the maternal letter mem. the portals in the east and south east are the paths which conduct to the higher while that in the south leads to the grade of philosophus, the highest grade of the first order. this grade is also related to the planet mercury. its kamea or mystical square is formed of 64 squares containing the numbers from 1 to 64 arranged so as to show the same sum each way. its ruling numbers are 8, 84, 260 and 2080. this tablet (indicating it) shows the mystical seals and names drawn from the kamea of mercury. the seals are formed from lines drawn to certain numbers upon the square. the name answering to 8 is asbo

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he grade of philosophus is present. hiereus: honoured fraters and sorors, give the sign of philosophus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant, all present have attained the grade of philosophus. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what particular element is this grade attributed? heg: to the element of fire. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what planet does this grade especially refer? hiereus: to the planet venus. hiero: honoured hegemon, what paths are attached to this grade? heg: the 29th, 28th and 27th paths of qoph, tzaddi and peh. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what does the 29th path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of pisces. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what does the 28th path allude? heg: to the reflection of the sphere of aquarius. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what does

nting, seraphim, around the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah and severity, and the waters of chesed or mercy, and hence it is said in the new testament, that it is a type of christ, the reconciler. and the serpent is of brass, the metal of venus, whose sphere is called nogah or external splendor, as shown further in the alchemic symbol of the planet venus, wherein the circle of the sun is exalted above the cross of corrosion. and therefore it is said in the zohar, that alone of the shells is the serpent nogah found in holiness, and he is called the bilanx of justice. why then is he called the external or false splendor? because he indeed uniteth the paths but comprehendeth not the sephiroth. nevertheless he is also the celestial se

niting and reconciliation of both triangles in the hexagram, as aleph forms the reconciliation between mem and shin so thus stands the reconciling pillar between the pillars of fire and of cloud; the yakin and boat of solomon's temple. heg: leads practicus to tablet in north. heg: the mode of using the talismanic forms drawn from the geomantic figures, is to take those formed by the figures under the planet required and place them at the opposite ends of a wheel of 8 radii as shown. a versicle suitable to the matter is then written within the double circle. hiero: i have much pleasure in now conferring upon you the title of lord (lady) of the 29th path. you will now quit the temple for a short time and on your return the ceremony of your passage of the 28th path will take place. part ii te

ich yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the seven planets, each with its sevenfold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah, the great supernal mother, aima elohim pouring upon the earth the waters of creation, which unite and form a river at her feet; the river going forth from the supernal eden, which overfloweth and faileth not. note well that in this key she is completely unveiled, while in the 21st key, she is o

bdued and modified by its other associations. hiero: returns to his seat. heg: leads practicus to west. hiereus: in the theoricus grade you were shown the lineal figures attributed to the planets. the figures as shown consist of the dekagram, endekagram and dodekagram, together with the two forms of the enneagram and the remaining forms of the heptagram and octogram, which are not so consonant to the planet. the heptagram traced in a continuous figure, reflected from every third point, relates to the 7 planets. the octagram formed of two squares, to the eight lettered name. the two forms of the enneagram refer to the triple ternary. the three forms of the dekagram relate to the duplicated heh, to the ten sephiroth and to malkuth. the three forms of the endekagram are referred to the qlippo

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

y on the art of illusion. white magick is much more than that. it is intensely exciting because it means that we can extend the boundaries of possibility, recalling the psychic powers of childhood when we could span dimensions as easily as jumping across a puddle. we can increase our personal magnetism to attract love and luck and regenerate the innate healing abilities both of the human body and the planet. what magick does not do is provide quick fixes with a twinkling of stardust. it does not produce a faerie godmother, who turns up with a shimmering frock and a platinum credit card to pay the taxi fare home if the handsome prince is short of money and the faerie coach has crumpled into a pumpkin. after the candles and incense have burned through and we sit, exhausted but exhilarated af

is no need to use them. most rituals are related to the basic human needs for health, love, fertility and prosperity. in chapter 13, seasons and festivals, i describe the major solar, lunar and agricultural festivals that formed a focus for attracting abundance and increase to the land, animals, crops and people, tapping into the life force that connected them all. in past time, the well-being of the planet was considered to be the responsibility of peasant as well as king through paying tributes and enacting age-old ceremonies to invoke the necessary energies for the wheel of the year to turn. so individual prosperity or fertility was attained both through private spells and charms and by sending positive energies to the earth and the cosmos and, in a sense, receiving bounty as those beam

it, vegetables, salt, sand, seeds, flowers, coins, pots and jars, together with your crystals, candles, incense and oils, and perhaps a few coloured scarves or ribbons to tie knots. whether your spell is small and personal, or vast and universal, whether you are working to attract love, harmony in the home, prosperity or fertility for yourself or loved ones, for people in the wider environment or the planet, these are all you need. thoroughly modern magick not everything you use for magick must be of ancient origin, however. even your computer can be a magical tool, used to draw magick circles. you can draw figures to represent lovers, estranged family members or yourself and a baby you hope to conceive and draw them closer with your mouse until they join. you can draw a square on the scre

erable. this is part of the cosmic banking system and in practice there is considerable overlap between this and personal spells. magick to increase positivity these are the least focused kind of spells. they are used to send out energies to whoever needs them, for example of love, happiness, health or abundance. they may be for an endangered species, a wartorn land, a country in need of water or the planet itself. if a large number of people do send positive energies either to a large-scale project or into the cosmos, followed where possible by practical help or support, then this can really make a difference. again, by sending out healing you will receive in return threefold healing in indirect but powerful ways. the four stages of magick although there are many different kinds of magick

or as the triple-aspected maiden, mother and crone. she is invoked in fertility and healing magick and also for creativity, especially involving the written word. there are a number of sacred wells throughout england, wales and ireland dedicated to her or her christian counterpart. deities of the environment invoke these deities for rituals involving all aspects of the environment and for healing the planet. gaia gaia is the all-embracing and all-nourishing goddess of the earth. it is said that she supplies in her bounty all the necessary plants to cure any disease and, in spite of human pollution, she constantly heals and renews the planet. she is also a goddess of marriage. she is the natural focus for all green rituals. tellus mater tellus mater was the earth mother of the romans, the a

ABRAMELIN1

angels and spirits of the stars, o all ye angels and elementary spirits, o all ye spirits present before the face of god, i the minister and faithful servant of the most high conjure ye, let god himself, the existence of existences, conjure ye to come and be present at this operation; i the servant of god, most humbly entreat ye. amen. after which thou shalt incense it with the incense proper to the planet and the day, and thou shalt replace the book on the aforesaid table, taking heed that the fire of the lamp be kept up continually during the operation, and keeping the curtains closed. repeat the same ceremony for seven days, beginning with saturday, and perfuming the book each day with the incense proper to the planet ruling the day and hour, and taking heed that the lamp shall burn bo

ABRAMELIN2

sun, of the moon, and of the stars, when the object would be to have converse with angels and with spirits. would it not be an extravagant idea to demand from the wild beasts the permission to go hunting? but what else is it, when they23 have elected a certain day, when they have divided it up into many false divisions such as hours, minutes, etc. here, they say, we have the planetary hours, and the planet appropriate to each hour. o what planets! o what fine order! tell me, i pray you, what advantage you get by this division. you will reply: a very great one, because it shows us in all things, either good or bad fortune! i tell you, and i repeat absolutely, that this is in no way true; that they produce thus a change of the time and of the air, i in part concede; but do me the grace to t

advantage you get by this division. you will reply: a very great one, because it shows us in all things, either good or bad fortune! i tell you, and i repeat absolutely, that this is in no way true; that they produce thus a change of the time and of the air, i in part concede; but do me the grace to tell me how ye do divide the planetary hours. i know that ye begin the first hour of the day with the planet which itself giveth the name unto the day, as sunday is ascribed to the sun, monday to the moon, tuesday to mars, wednesday to mercury, thursday to jupiter, friday to venus, and saturday to saturn; then ye divide the length of the day into twelve equal portions which ye call hours, and to each hour ye assign its planet; and ye do the same thing with the night, according to whether the d

o a planet a day and hour, if during the whole period of such day it appeareth not above the horizon! abramelin as a most excellent master in natural things taught unto me a very different form of classification (which also well examine, and see whether it be not more surely founded than the aforesaid rule of the astrologers, and made me to comprehend what should be the true planetary hours. when the planet beginneth to appear upon the horizon then doth its day begin (whether it be light or dark, black or white, and until it bath passed its elevation25 its day lasteth until it riseth anew, and after that it hath set its night endureth; so that as well in the days of the sun as in those of the moon and of the others, the days of all the planets be mingled, only that one commenceth sooner th

shd implies the same idea as the english words to shed; and signifies a female breast. ekdulon: probably from greek, ekduo= to despoil. mantiens: from latin, mantiens, and greek, manteia, prophesying, divining. obedama: from hebrew,obd= a servant. ama= mother. but amh= a maid-servant, whence obedama should signify a womanservant. sachiel: is a name frequently given in magical works to an angel of the planet jupiter. skk= to cover or protect, but schh= to trample down. moschel: from hebrew, mvsh= to move oneself about. pereuch: perhaps from greek, per and euche= concerning prayer, or given unto prayer. deccal: from hebrew, dchl= to fear. asperim: perhaps from latin, aspera= rude, rigorous, perilous, dangerous. katini: from hebrew, kthn= a tunic, whence the greek word chiton. torfora: from h

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cti. the four cardinal signs (a,d, g, and j) are referred to the left side of the linea dei patris filiique, and the four mutable signs (c, f, i, and l) the right side of the linea dei patris filiique. the decanate system as employed by the order will be found in the part of this lesson dealing with the significance of the tarot cards. they begin with the attribution of the first decanate of a to the planet f, and ending with the last decanate of l also ruled by f. the order of planets for the decanates follows the order of sephiroth on the tree of life: l, k, f, a, c, b, and y. there are 36 small cards of the tarot, as explained in the appropriate documents, attributed to the decanates of the twelve signs. therefore to each of the decanate squares on the great cross will be attributed one

xes and solstices occur when the a is in these signs. the kerubic or fixed signs are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittering in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are called the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. while the four elements are the most earthy because their operation is mainly terrestrial. incidentally, instead of the usual bsymbol, the planet l is used in the enochian system, because, to quote s.r.m.d. though one of the seven lords who wander (planets) l is yet here classed with those who abide because he is the heaviest of the seven and thus formeth a link between the wanderers and abiders. the following diagram shows how any lesser angle may be worked out using the above rules: diagram k: earth angle of water tablet one fi

in the primary element, and is shown white. triangle no. 4 is colored according to the element of the tablet; thus red for c tablet, blue for d, black for b, yellow for a. triangle no. 1 is to be colored according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it, that is as to whether it is of an earthy, fiery, watery, or airy nature. triangle no. 3 is to be colored in that of the element ruled by the planet attributed to it. the rule governing the latter is: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. on the other hand, there are alternative methods, the use of which calls into operation other forces than elemental. thus the color of no. 1 may be in the color of the sign itself, as red for a, and blue for i, etc. tr

latter is: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. on the other hand, there are alternative methods, the use of which calls into operation other forces than elemental. thus the color of no. 1 may be in the color of the sign itself, as red for a, and blue for i, etc. triangle no. 3 may be also be colored in the color of the planet itself, orange for the a, green for c, etc. if these latter are used, planetary and zodiacal forces would be inferred in lieu of purely elemental ones. the former, however, may be found to be the most practical for most circumstances. the method of applying these rules to the great cross may be seen in the following, consisting of the three left hand squares of the linea spiritus sancti

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

n 'he descendeth into hell' but the whiteness above shines the brighter for the blackness which is beneath "thus mayest thou comprehend that the evil helpeth forward the good. and between the light and the darkness vibrate the colors of the rainbow, whose crossed and reflected rays, under the planetary presidency are shewn forth in these seven walls "remember that thou hast entered by the door of the planet c, whose symbol includes the whole ten sephiroth of the tree of life. each wall of the tomb is said mystically to be in breadth five feet and in height eight feet, thus yielding forty squares, of which ten are marked and salient, representing the ten sephiroth in the form of the tree of life, acting throughout the planet. the remaining squares represent the \ybwrk and the eternal m, the

, the seven planets, and the twelve signs, all operating in and differentiating the rays of each planet. note that in all, the 31 central upper square alone remains white and unchanged, representing the changeless essence of the divine spirit, thus developing all from the one, through the many under the government of one "the colors of the varying squares may be either represented by the color of the planet and the color of the force therein mixed together, or by these colors being placed in juxtaposition, or in any other convenient manner; but the foundation of them all is the minutum mundum diagram "the symbolism of the altar was briefly explained to you in the second point. upon the altar stands a black calvary cross, charged with a rose of five times five petals, representing the inter

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

e ought to be able to make a fairly satisfactory diagram for elementary purposes by taking as the basis of our illustration the solar system as conceived by the astrologers. i do not know whether the average student is aware that in practice the significations of the planets are based generally upon the philosophical conceptions of the greek and roman gods. let us hope for the best, and go on! 8. the planet saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: it is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built. to what moral qualities does this correspond? the first point of virtue in a bone is its rigidity, its resistance to pressure. and so in niyama we find that we need the qualities of absolute simplicity in our regimen; we need insensibility; we need endurance; we need pati

f our work. it is the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel that enables us to overcome, at all times and in all manners, as the need of the moment may be. 16. there are two other planets, not counted as among the sacred seven. i will not say that they were known to the ancients and deliberately concealed, though much in their writing suggests that this may be the case. i refer to the planet herschel, or uranus, and neptune. whatever may have been the knowledge of the ancients, it is at least certain that they left gaps in their system which were exactly filled by these two planets, and the newly discovered pluto. they fill these gaps just as the newly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in mendelejeff's table of the periodic law. 1

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

e- the priest of the princes, ankh-f-na-khonsu, child of ta-nech, the holy and mighty one, and of bes-na-maut, priestess of the starry one, set myself to tell myself the strange things that befell me in that life. thus. at my birth aphruimis in the sign of the lion was ascending, and in it that strange hidden planet that presides over darkness and magic and forbidden love. the sun was united with the planet of amoun, but in the abyss, as page 1 gulf.txt showing that my power and glory should be secret, and in aterechinis the second decanate of the house of mast, so that my passion and pleasure should likewise be unprofance. in the house of travel in the sign of the ram was the moon my sweet lady. and the wise men interpreted this as a token that i should travel afar; it might be to the gre

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians def

ble-headed axe, open! gate of the lord of the world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the golden city of sagalla, open! ia dag! ia gat! ia margolqbabbonnesh! ia marrutukku! ia tuku! suhrim suhgurim! zahrim zahgurim! axxanngabannaxaxagannababillukuku! the invocation of the ninib gate spirit of the wanderer of the wastes, remember! spirit of the planet of time, remember! spirit of the plane of he hunter, remember! ninib, lord of the dark ways, remember! ninib, lord of the secret passages, remember! ninib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the d

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

c conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the corresponding grades (see col. cxxi) except for 5 =6, whose g.w. is hwchy. the zodiacal gods are as for the sephira, which corresponds to the planet ruling. apparently, in the numeration of azbogah, line 12, only the az count. table of correspondences 35 that these following are only titles of the one ineffable name is shown by koran xvii. 110. but monotheism is not true for the normal consciousness, but only for that of the adept [99 names of god in arabic] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth eloh

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ased on the account in secundus and on clay holden s reconstruction: the rendition in the equinox printing, which has been much reproduced, contained a number of errors. notes 38 4: that is, four others similar in design; they were to be encased in hollow things, of sweet wood mounted on the end of each table leg. 5: most of these names consist of a transliteration of the hebrew for the sphere of the planet with -el stuck on the end. see agrippa de occulta philosophia tom. iii cap. xxviii, where most of these names appear, the spirit of saturn is called sabathiel; the spirit of jupiter zedekiel; the spirit of mars, madimiel; the spirit of the sun semeliel, or semeschia; the spirit of venus nogahel; the spirit of mercury cochabiah, or cochabiel; the spirit of the moon, jareahel, or levanael

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

sensitive aura of the magician might be disturbed, and the value of the ceremony completely destroyed, by the embarrassment caused by the discovery of some such error, just as if a pre-occupied t-totaller found that he had strayed into a temple of the demon rum! it is therefore impossible to neglect the theory of the circle. 81 to take a simple example, suppose that, in an evocation of bartzabel, the planet mars, whose sphere is geburah (severity) were situated (actually, in the heavens) opposite to the square of chesed (mercy) of the tau in the circle, and the triangle placed accordingly. it would be improper for the magus to stand on that square unless using this formula "i, from chesed, rule geburah through the path of the lion; while- taking an extreme case- to stand on the square of h

ay then regard this talisman, the law, as the most powerful that has been made in the world's history, for previous talismans of the same type have been limited in their scope by conditions of race and country. mohammed's talisman, allah, was good only from persia to the pillars of hercules. the buddha's, anatta, operated only in the south and east of asia. the new talisman, thelema, is master of the planet. but now observe how the question of the magical link arises! no matter how mighty the truth of thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to any by mankind. as long as the book of the law was in manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. it had to be put into action by 112 the magical operation of publishing it. when this was done, it was done

aster therion in his attainment of this grade of initiation, the highest possible to any manifested man. unpublished "liber lxxviii" a complete treatise on the tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all the planes. part-published in equinox vii, p.143 "liber lxxxi. the butterfly net" an account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet luna, written in the form of a novel. published under the title "moon-child" by the mandrake press, 41, museum st, london, w.c.1. 220 "liber lxxxiv. vel chanokh" a brief abstraction of the symbolic representation of the universe derived by dr. john dee through the scrying of sir edward kelly. part-published in equinox vii, p. 229& viii, p. 99 "liber xc. tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus" an a

l, yea, beyond the word and the fool. 5. the grade of magus is described in liber i vel magi, and there are accounts of its character in liber 418 in the higher aethyrs. there is also a full and precise description of the attainment of this grade in the magical record of the beast 666. the essential characteristic of the grade is that its possessor utters a creative magical word, which transforms the planet on 234 which he lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation. this can take place only at an "equinox of the gods" at the end of an "aeon; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development (thus "suckling" is the formula of an infant: when teeth appear it marks a new "aeon, whose "wor

t have prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded enthusiasts that have turned it into a fetish, has made it an object of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity make them most in need of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them. it is the one really important science, for it transcends the conditions of material existence and so is not liable to perish with the planet, and it must be studied as a science, sceptically, with the utmost energy and patience. the a. a. possesses the secrets of success; it makes no secret of its knowledge, and if its secrets are not everywhere known and practised, it is because the abuses connected with the name of occult science disincline official investigators to examine the evidence at their disposal. this paper has be

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

m.2. and f.2. still keep balance in their lines. the four "elements" show imperfection; yet they are all balanced as against each other. note, too, how apt are the ideograms. m.3. shows the flames flickering on the hearth, f.3, the wave on the solid bottom of the sea; m.4, the mutable air, with impenetrable space above, and finally f.4, the thin crust of the earth masking the interior energies of the planet. they go in to double these kw, thus reaching the sixtyfour hexagrams of the yoe king, which is not only a map, but a history of the order of nature. it is pure enthusiastic delight in the harmony and beauty of the system that has led me thus far afield; my one essential purpose is to show how the universe was derived by these wise men from nothing. 27^ weh note: do an arthur avalon plu

without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 274 mum of success possible in such an operation would be to become a "black-brother" but what happens in practice, so far as my own experience goes, is complete dispersion of the mental faculties amounting to suicide; i could quote no less than four cases in which actual physical self-murder was the direct result. chapter lxxv. the a. a. and the planet cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. you write "am i to understand that the a. a. has two main lines of work (1) the initiation of individuals (2) action on the world in general- say "weltpolitik? because your letters on the history of magick do imply (2; and yet the a. a. discourages any form of group working. is it that the masters (8= 3 magistri templi) having

the great lamaserai- or whatever it was- towers over the track (i quote some of your phrases from memory) which is it" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 275 my dear child, that is all very sensibly put; and the answer is that convenience would decide. then you go on, after a digression "then how are they acting at present? what impact has the new word, thelema, made upon the planet? what are we to expect as a result? and can we poor benighted outsiders help them in any way? i know it's 'cheek' to ask" then turn the other cheek, and repeat the question! i will do my best to make it all clear. but do not forget that i am myself completely in the dark with regard to the special functions of most of my colleagues. to begin, then! achtung! i am going to be hard-boiled;

in the great formula. perfectly true; but this fact does not in any way exculpate the criminals. it is no excuse for the commandants of belsen and buchenwald that they were acting under orders. the drama is not mere play-acting, in which the most virtuous man may play the vilest of parts. your further objection, doubtless, will be that this theory makes the 26 masters responsible for the agony of the planet. i refer you to the book of the heart girt with a serpent, cp i, v. 33-4-0. 33. let us take our delight in the multitude of men! let us shape unto ourselves a boat of mother-of- pearl from them, that we may ride upon the river of amrit! 34. thou seest yon petal of amaranth, blown by the wind from the low sweet brows of hathor? 35 (the magister saw it and rejoiced in the beauty of it) li

us windmills in suicidal charges. yes: bella, horrida bella, et flavem tibrim spumantem sanguine cerno. so, whichever way you vote, you are asking for trouble, or would do, if the vote had any meaning. the result of any election, or for the matter of that any revolution, is an almost wholly insignificant component of those stupendous and inscrutable magical forces which determine the destinies of the planet. love is the law, love under will. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 287 yours fraternally, 666 chapter lxxvi. the gods: how and why they overlap cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. your last letter. i am glad: it shows you have been putting in some genuine original work. result! you make a very shrewd observation; you have noticed the

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

were strange. these: fu-hsi. after a great space (with few names and those illegible) lao-tze, gautama, zerdusht, pythagoras, dionysus, osiris. these were sent forth at the same time- and dionysus under the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 several diverse forms- to enlighten six great civilizations, about to be drawn together by the opening up of communications over the planet by the expansion of the roman power. after these there stood almost alone the name: apollon. but above that extract, the whole width of the chart, the word i a o. then came a blackness over the whole map, for at one time the brotherhood had been nigh utterly destroyed by a great sorcery of the black lodge, and the darkening of all counsel, and the confusion of all truth. i saw only one

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traight to venus. many of them therefore tried hard to obtain messages from that planet. familiar with newton's first law of motion, they further held it possible to prepare zro in such a state that a current of it could never be deflected or dissipated, and so, if it could be made in sufficient quantity, a bridge to venus might be built by which they might travel. they therefore tunneled through the planet, as previously explained, to have a sort of cannon for the zro. but as their supply was pitifully insufficient, they endeavoured also to prepare a zro which would have the power of multiplying itself. alchemical tradition has some record of this problem. yet another group of magicians argued that as nature had cast off the planets from the sun--a disputed point, some thinking this due t

lve feet in diameter, with corollae of pure gold, so fine that they glimmered green, with pistils of platinum on whose tops trembled great pigeon- blooded rubies. another might be wholly of metal, a mere bower of jasmine, with its floor of violets. the law of growth of these creatures of wisdom was not that of plants or animals, or even of crystals; it was that of the earth. constantly growing as the planet approached the sun, they as steadily shrank as she departed to aphelion. this was not growth and decay, but the rise and fall of an eternal bosom. it is probable, too, that this is one of the reasons why atlas neglected the higher kingdoms; they had learned to grow, but on wrong lines, and it was too late to endeavour to correct the error. these gardens were the principal places of work

st be considered carefully. the theory appears to have been that if the magicians of venus invited the atlanteans, means would assuredly follow, just as if a king summons a paralysed man to his presence, he will also send officers to convey him. now whether the 'angel of venus' is really an angel in anything like the modern sense of the word, or merely a title of one of the principal magicians of the planet, it is evident that the high house ardentl desired his presence. that this might be manifested by the birth of a child 'without the stain of atla' was clearly an ultimate desideratum, an outward and visible sign of redemption, an obvious guarantee of the reality of the occurrence. it was then a virgin high priestess who achieved so notable a renown; whether or not this is a mere poetic

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

d them from the bondage of matter. this science is the proper and particular study of initiates, and its principia are formulated in the book of the law. this book may therefore be regarded as indicating a complete revolution in human affairs, for it advances mankind in the most radical manner. the road of attainment to self-realisation is made open as never before has been done in the history of the planet. al i,5 "help me, o warrior lord of thebes, in my unveiling before the children of men" the old comment 5. nu, to unveil herself, needs a mortal intermediary, in the first instance. it is to be supposed that ankh-f-n-khonsu, the warrior lord of thebes, priest of men tu, is in some subtle manner identical with either aiwass or the beast. the new comment here nuit appeals, simply and dire

active- and in soft light (the sun. q combines k+ u- then were the waters gathered together from the heaven (water. v conscious male will. manhood, strength, truth, righteousness, immortality, integrity- and a crust of earth concealed the core of flame (earth. k opening as if startled- around the globe gathered the wide air (the moon<moon is not considered to be a light, but as a cohesion of the planet's atmosphere> d the paternal vibration- and men began to light fires upon the earth (fire. u like o with added refinement and a tinge of melancholy. o is completely self-confident (vulva- therefore was the end of it sorrow; yet in that sorrow a sixfold star of glory whereby they might see to return unto the stainless abode; yea, unto the stainless abode. al ii,56 "begone! ye mockers; ev

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

apophis and besz;56 also hwchy \c, the name of jesus. the names of nero, napoleon, w. e. gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up to this number. in reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6 111([la= 111= 1= 6, and because the sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6 (i here interpolate a note on the mystic numbers of the planets. the first is that of the planet itself, e.g. saturn, 3. the second is that of the number of squares in the square of the planet, e.g. saturn, 9. the third is that of the figures in each line of the magic square of the planet, e.g. saturn 15. a magic square is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number, e.g. saturn is 8 1 6, 3 5 7, 4 9 2, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upware

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

dge. fairy-tales? well, first, sit down a week and hold your breath 320 as masters teach49 until you burst, or nearly in a week, one saith, a month, perchance a year for you, hard practice, and yourself may fly yes! i have done it! you may too! 325 thus, in ascension, you and i stand as christ s peers and therefore fit to judge him stay, friend, wait a bit (you cry) your indian yogis fall back to the planet after all, 330 never attain to heaven and stand (stephen) or sit (paul)50 at the hand of the most high! and that alone that question of the great white throne, is the sole point that we debate. 335 i answer, here in india wait the sword of song 14 former compared to kerubim; as it is written, running and returning. shri parananda applauds yogi. gerald jeers at jesus. john iii. 16* its i

idable. excluding this folly, therefore, we may conclude that if the command be obeyed and those of buddha have gained a far larger share of obedience that those of any other teacher the enlightened one was not only a potential but an actual thief. further, all voluntary action limits in some degree, however minute, the volition of others. if i breathe, i diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy in t

here are also allusions to contemporary occult students, and a certain very small amount of mere absence of meaning. the main satire is of course on the chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz. a few only of the serious problems are elucidated in footnotes. 1 i.e. when 118= change, a ferment, strength. also= before he was 120, the mystic age of a rosicrucian. 2 her-shell= herschell, or uranus, the planet which was ascending (in leo) at crowley s birth. 3 vau and gimel, the hierophant and high-priestess in the tarot. hence from his castle of ug means from his initiation. we cannot in future do more than indicate the allusions. 4 the kerubim. 5 see table of correspondences [a table of correspondences was intended to appear as an appendix to the first volume of crowley s collected works. i

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, and besz; also shm ihshvh, the name of jesus. the names of nero, napoleon, w. e. gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up the this number. in reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6 x 111 (alph= 111= 1= 6 and because the sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6 (i here interpolate a note on the "mystic numbers" of the planets. the first is that of the planet itself "e.g" saturn, 3. the second is that of the number of squares in the square of the planet "e.g" saturn 9. the third is that of the figures in each line of the "magic square" of the planet "e.g" saturn 15. a "magic square" is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number "e.g" saturn is 816, 357, 492, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upwards

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closed in the 2= 9 grade of theoricus. the following month, february, p. passed through the next grade, that of 3= 8. ritual of the 3= 8 grade of practicus 7 "see" diagram of the paths and grades. 8 "see 777" cols. cxii, cxiii, p. 23. 9 "see 777" col. xlix, p. 15. 10 "see 777" col. xlix, p. 15 and note p. 41. this grade is particularly attributed to the element of water, and especially refers to the planet mercury and to the thirty-first and thirtieth paths of hb:shin and hb:resh. it opens with the adoration to the king of the waters, which is followed by the advancement. the theoricus first gives the necessary signs, and then, as before, solemnly pledges himself to secrecy, after which he is conducted to the east and placed between the mystic pillars. the "hierophant" then says to him "b

the cross. the words "the knowledge of evil" extend across the figure in space below the lower tendril spray. in may, 1899, three months after p. had passed through the ceremony of 3= 8, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4= 7. ritual of the 4= 7 grade of philosophus "the first part" this ritual is particularly attributed to the element of fire, and refers to the planet venus, and the twenty-ninth, twenty-eighth, and twenty-seventy paths of qoph, tzaddi and p. the adoration commences by the "hierophant" saying "tetragrammaton tzebaoth! blessed be thou! the lord of the armies is thy name" to this all answer "amen" the hierophant then orders all present to adore their creator in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaot

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patient. 10. we further believe that the consummation of spiritual experience is reflected into the spheres of intellect and action as genius, so that by taking an ordinary man we can by training produce a master. this thesis requires proof: we hope to supply such proof by producing genius to order. 4 ii 1. there is no hope in physical life, since death of the individual, the race, and ultimately the planet, ends all. 2. there is no hope in reason, since it contradicts itself, and is in any case no more than a reflection upon the facts of physical life. 3. what hope there may be in investigation of the physical facts of nature on scientific lines is already actively sought after by a powerful and well-organized body of men of perfect probity and high capacity. 4. there is no hope in faith

e nature of these correspondences("see" illustrations "the temple of solomon the king" in this number. cross references are given) 2. if we take an example, the use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey

> see "777" lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: a l h i m v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g 20 the signs of 4 degree= 7 square: raise the arms above the head and join the hands, so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle("see" illustration (the grade of 4 degree= 7 square is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of qof, tzaddi and peh are attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777" lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: a l (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3 degree= 8 square: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form

ams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: a l (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3 degree= 8 square: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards("see" illustration (the grade of 3 degree= 8 square is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of resh and shin are attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: i h v h o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2 degree= 9 square: stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight("see" illus

upiter/ beginning from the\ point which is- attributed to the *1* 2 planet you are dealing with("see "777" col* 1 *2 lxxxiii- thus to invoke\ jupiter begin from the\ mars# right-hand point of- the lower triangle, 2# 1/ dextro-rotary and complete; then trace 4,9# 6,7. the upper triangle-*5,8. 10,3# from its left hand- point and complete. 2,11\*2,11. trace the/*1,12.sun 1,12# astrological sigil- of the planet in the 6,7-*4,9.centre of your 3,10. 5,8. hexagram. for the zodiac use-*2 *1 the hexagram of the- planet which/ venus\ rules the 25) sign# you require("777- col. cxxxviii; but 1# 2/ draw the astrological sigil of the sign, 1\ 2# instead of that of the- planet# mercury *2-*1- 1\ moon *1 *2 2# 25 for caput and cauda draconis use the lunar hexagram, with the sigil of caput draconis or caud

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luctantly to confess that he can find no trace of this idea in buddha's own work, and calls the superstition the "echo of an older faith" 5 the argument that "the animals are our brothers" is merely intended to mislead one who has never been in a buddhist country. the average buddhist would, of course, kill his brother for five rupees, or less. breathe, i diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the man of science, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

itself, and the tendency which is latent in the atom, in man, and in all that is. this interpretation of the evolutionary process does not look upon it as the result of an outside deity pouring his energy and wisdom upon a waiting world, but rather as something which is latent within that world itself, that lies hidden at the heart of the atom of chemistry, within the heart of man himself, within the planet, and within the solar system. it is that something which drives all on toward the goal, and is the force which is gradually bringing order out of chaos; ultimate perfection out of temporary imperfection; good out of seeming evil; and out of darkness and disaster that which we shall some day recognise as beautiful, right, and true. it is all that we have visioned and conceived of in our

god. names matter not. it corresponds to the adult stage in the human being; it is analogous to the period of maturity, and to that stage wherein a man is supposed to have a definite purpose and life work, and a clear-cut plan in view, which he is working out by the aid of his intelligence. in these talks i should like if i can, to show that something like this is going on in the solar system, in the planet, in the human family, and in the atom. i trust that we can prove that there is an intelligence underlying all; and that from separation will come union, produced through blending and merging into group formation, and that eventually from the many groups will be seen emerging the one perfect, fully conscious whole, composed of myriads of separate identities animated by one purpose and on

of positive force, holding within the periphery of his sphere of influence the cells of his body; he shows discrimination, intelligence, and energy. the difference lies but in degree. he is possessed of a wider consciousness, and vibrates to a larger measure than the little atom of the chemist. we might extend the idea still further and consider a planet as an atom. perhaps there is a life within the planet that holds the substance of the sphere and all forms of life upon it to itself as a coherent whole, and that has a specific extent of influence. this may sound like a wild speculation, yet, judging from analogy, there may perhaps be within the planetary sphere an entity whose consciousness is as far removed from that of man as the consciousness of man is from that of the atom of chemist

ess of man is from that of the atom of chemistry. this thought can again be carried still further, till it includes the atom of the solar system. there, at the heart of the solar system, the sun, you have the positive centre of energy, holding the planets within its sphere of influence. if you have within the atom, intelligence; if you have within the human being, intelligence; if you have within the planet, an intelligence controlling all its functions, may it not be logical to extend the idea and predicate a still greater intelligence back of that larger atom, the solar system? this brings us ultimately to the standpoint which the religious world has always held, that of there being a god, or divine being. where the orthodox christian would say with reverence, god, the scientist with equ

just as is the logos. there is a future for every atom in the solar system. before the ultimate atom there lies a tremendous goal, and as the aeons slip away the life that animates that atom will pass through all the varying kingdoms of nature until it finds its goal in the human kingdom. the idea might now be extended somewhat, and we might consider that great entity who is the informing life of the planet, and who holds all the different kingdoms of nature within his consciousness. may it not be possible that his intelligence, as it informs the totality of all groups and kingdoms, is the goal for man, the human atom? perhaps as time progresses the scope of his present realisation may also be ours, and for his, as for all those great lives who inform the planets of the solar system, there

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

body, to that polarised in the higher self, ego, or soul, thence to a polarisation in the monad, or spirit, till the consciousness eventually is divine. as the human being develops, the faculty of awareness extends first of all beyond the circumscribing walls that confine it within the lower kingdoms of nature (the mineral, vegetable and animal) to the three worlds of the evolving personality, to the planet whereon he plays his part, to the system wherein that planet revolves, until it finally escapes from the solar system itself and becomes universal. chapter ii- 7- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust initiation defined the question anent initiation is one that is coming more and more before the public. before many centuries pass the old mysteries will be restored, and

be correlated, diagnosed, and defined by the use of the human intellect. it is that about which we feel mental certitude, or that which we can ascertain by the use of experiment. it is the compendium of the arts and sciences. it concerns all that deals with the building and developing of the form side of things. therefore it concerns the material side of evolution, matter in the solar systems, in the planet, in the three worlds of human evolution, and in the bodies of men. wisdom is the product of the hall of wisdom. it has to do with the development of the life within the form, with the progress of the spirit through those ever-changing vehicles, and with the expansions of consciousness that succeed each other from life to life. it deals with the life side of evolution. since it deals wit

e synthetic ray of the system, is the final one achieved. those who pass away from the earth after the fifth initiation, or those who do not become masters in physical incarnation, take their subsequent initiations elsewhere in the system. all are- 12- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust in the logoic consciousness. one great fact to be borne in mind is, that the initiations of the planet or of the solar system are but the preparatory initiations of admission into the greater lodge on sirius. we have the symbolism held for us fairly well in masonry, and in combining the masonic method with what we are told of the steps on the path of holiness we get an approximate picture. let us enlarge somewhat: the first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "ini

sacrifice in taking physical incarnation for the helping of the world. man unites with the monad at the fifth initiation, through the instrumentality of the lord of the world, the solitary watcher, the great sacrifice. man becomes one with the logos through the instrumentality of one about whom naught may be said. chapter iii the work of the hierarchy though the subject of the occult hierarchy of the planet is of such a profoundly momentous interest to the average man, yet its real significance will never be understood until men realise three things in connection with it. first, that the entire hierarchy of spiritual beings represents a synthesis of forces or of energies, which forces or energies are consciously manipulated for the furtherance of planetary evolution. this will become more

ndividual consciousness as truths are of any real value. in the meantime, that which many know, and have ascertained within themselves to be truths of an incontrovertible nature for them, may here be stated; to the intelligent reader will then arise the opportunity and the responsibility of ascertaining for himself their falsity or truth. chapter iv the founding of the hierarchy its appearance on the planet. it is not sought, in this book, to deal with the steps which led to the founding of the hierarchy on the planet, nor to consider the conditions preceding the advent of those great beings. this can be studied in other occult books in the occident, and in the sacred scriptures of the east. suffice it for our purpose to say that in the middle of the lemurian epoch, approximately eighteen

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

. the period of destruction extended far on either hand. the work was sadly marred. the chohans of the highest plane gazed in silence on the work. the asuras and the chaitans, the sons of cosmic evil, and the rishis of the darkest constellations, gathered their lesser hosts, the darkest spawn of hell. they darkened all the space* from the coming of the heaven-sent one peace passed upon the earth. the planet staggered and belched forth fire. part rose. part fell. the form was changed. millions took other forms or ascended to the appointed place of waiting. they tarried till the hour of progress should again sound forth for them* the early third produced the monsters, great beasts and evil forms. they prowled upon the surface of the sphere. the watery fourth produced within the watery sphere

fourth produced within the watery sphere, reptiles and spawn of evil fame, the product of their karma. the waters came and swept away the progenitors of the fluidic spawn. the separating fifth built in the rupa sphere the concrete forms of thought. they cast them forth. they peopled the lower four, and like a black and evil cloud shut out the light of day. the higher three were hid* the war upon the planet had been waged. both sides descended into hell. then came the conqueror of form. he drew on the sacred fire, and purified the rupa levels. the fire destroyed the lands in the days of the lesser sixth- 21- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust when the sixth appeared the land was changed. the surface of the globe circled through another cycle. men of the higher fifth maste

ight say that the internal fire being both latent and active, shows itself as the synthesis of the acknowledged fires of the system, and demonstrates, for instance, as solar radiation and inner planetary combustion. this subject has been somewhat covered by science, and is hidden in the mystery of physical plane electricity, which is an expression of the active internal fires of the system and of the planet just as inner combustion is an expression of the latent internal fires. these latter fires are to be found in the interior of each globe, and are the basis of all objective physical life. secondly, we might note that the internal fires are the basis of life in the lower three kingdoms of nature, and in the fourth or human kingdom in connection with the two lower vehicles. the fire of mi

ination of existence as understood on the lower planes. in terms of buddhistic theology it produces annihilation; this involves, not loss of identity, but the cessation of objectivity and the escape of spirit, plus mind, to its cosmic centre. it has its analogy in the initiation at which the adept stands free from the limitations of matter in the three worlds. the internal fires of the system, of the planet, and of man are threefold: 1. interior fire at the centre of the sphere, those inner furnaces which produce warmth. this is latent fire. 2. radiatory fire. this type of fire might be expressed in terms of physical plane electricity, of light rays, and of etheric energy. this is active fire. 3. essential fire, or the fire elementals who are themselves the essence of fire. they are mainly

h the latent interior fire of the a. sun. b. planet. c. man. d. atom. we must remember that in both the astral and the mental sheaths there exist the counterparts of the centres as found in the physical body. these centres concern matter and its evolution. one fundamental statement can be laid down anent the internal fires of all these four (sun, planet, man, and atom: there exists in the sun, in the planet, in man, and in the atom, a central point of heat, or((if i might use so limiting and inappropriate a term) a central cavern of fire, or nucleus of heat, and this central nucleus reaches the bounds of its sphere of influence, its ring-pass-not by means of a threefold channel.17(16) a. the sun. within the sun, right at its very heart, is a sea of fire or heat, but not a sea of flame. her

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ction to delusion, is dissipated by a supreme exertion. it has no real existence once there is nothing in the aspirant to feed it, and the realization of this enables him to free himself from its thraldom. this is one of the sutras which, though apparently short and simple, is of the most profound significance; it is studied by high initiates who are learning the nature of the creative process of the planet, and who are concerned with the dissipation of planetary maya. 10. passivity (sleep) is based upon the quiescent state of the vrittis (or upon the non-perception of the senses. some explanation as to the nature of the vrittis is perhaps necessary here. the vrittis are those activities of the mind which eventuate in the conscious relation between the sense employed and that which is sens

rom all the physical forms which that energy may take, eventuates when dispassion towards these objective forms is practiced. it might be useful if we note that the sympathy dealt with concerns our relation to all other pilgrims, or towards the fourth kingdom in nature; tenderness covers our relation to the animal or third kingdom; steadiness of purpose deals with our relation to the hierarchy of the planet, and dispassion concerns our attitude to all the reactions of the lower personal self. the comprehensiveness of this sutra is therefore apparent and concerns all the brain vibrations of the disciple. the physical body is consequently looked upon as a vehicle for the expression of: a. helpfulness to our fellow men, b. tender handling of the animal kingdom, c. service on the physical plan

ling form and through the form itself. these factors make up the sum total of the expression of any identity, god or man, and the appearance of any man in exoteric expression on the physical plane is dependent upon the rhythmic or cyclic outgoing or indrawing energy of the great life in whom he lives and moves and has his being. this is the basis of the science of astrology or the relationship of the planet, or planets to the human being and of their relation to the stars and the various signs of the zodiac. some knowledge of this is essential to the right control of the life currents, so that the disciple can avail himself of the "times and seasons" wherein progress can be expedited. iii. the process of illuminating the lower man becomes possible through the right control of the pranas an

f the records. only a trained occultist can distinguish between actual experience and those astral pictures created by imagination and keen desire. 4. the planetary "dweller on the threshold" with all that appertains to that term and all the aggregations of forms which are to be found in its environment. the trained seer has learnt to dissociate that which pertains to his own aura and the aura of the planet (which is in actuality the akashic record. he can distinguish between those records which are- 151- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust a. planetary, b. hierarchical or pertaining to the work of the twelve creative hierarchies as they bring to concretion the plan of the logos. c. imaginative forms, the result of the desire-thought activity of the myriads of men, animated by

ma. this is the power to expand one's consciousness and thus enter into the greater whole as well as into the lesser part. 3. gravity. garima. this concerns weight and mass and deals with the law of gravity which is an aspect of the law of attraction. 4. lightness. laghima. this is the power underlying the phenomenon of levitation. it is the capacity of the adept to offset the attractive force of the planet and to leave the earth. it is the opposite to the third siddhi. 5. the attainment of the objective. prapti. this is the capacity of the yogin to achieve his goal, to extend his realization to any locality, to reach anything or any place he desires. it will be apparent that this will have an application on all the planes in the three worlds, as indeed all the siddhis have. 6. irresistibl

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he pioneers of the human family have always penetrated, returning to tell us of their experiences. let us regard all manifestations of life as spiritual, and so widen the usual meaning of this word to signify the energies and potencies which lie back of every form in nature and which give to each of them their essential distinguishing characteristics and qualities. for thousands of years all over the planet, the mystics and knowers have borne witness to experiences in subtler worlds where they have been brought into contact with forces and phenomena which are not of this physical world. they speak of meeting with angelic hosts; they refer to the great cloud of witnesses; they commune with the elder brothers of the race who work in other dimensions and who demonstrate powers about which ord

he- 116- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust world? may it not be the emergence into active being of a group of practical mystics, who, banded together in the sense of a divine unity, work in practical ways on earth? they will not retire into monasteries or to the silent places of the world, no matter how alluring that may appear, but they will participate in the normal life of the planet. they will be the business executives in our great cities; they will carry forward our political programs; they will lead the young along the paths of right education; they will control our economic, social and national destinies. they will do all this from the centre of their being and from the standpoint of the soul; they will know the secret of illumination; they will know how to sub

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

rst, ascertain the formula which will confine the lives within the ensphering wall; next, pronounce the words which will tell them what to do and where to carry that which has been made; and finally, utter forth the mystic phrase which will save him from their work. rule twelve the web pulsates. it contracts and expands. let the magician seize the midway point and thus release those "prisoners of the planet" whose note is right and justly tuned to that which must be made. rule thirteen the magician must recognize the four; note in his work the shade of violet they evidence, and thus construct the shadow. when this is so, the shadow clothes itself, and the four become the seven. rule fourteen the sound swells out. the hour of danger to the soul courageous draweth near. the waters have not h

and his form. c. therefore the soul is another name for the christ principle, whether in nature or in man. 2. the soul is the attractive force of the created universe and (when functioning) holds all forms together so that the life of god may manifest or express itself through them. a. therefore the soul is the form-building aspect, and is that attractive factor in every form in the universe, in the planet, in the kingdoms of nature and in man (who sums up in himself all the aspects) which brings the form into being, which enables it to develop and grow so as to house- 22- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust more adequately the indwelling life, and which drives all god's creatures forward along the path of evolution, through one kingdom after another, towards an eventual

ot concern ourselves. 2. over the kingdom wherein the solar angel reigns supreme, over the world of souls, or egoic impulses, of hierarchical work and of pure thought. this is the kingdom of god, the world of heavenly being. it is the state whereof disciples are becoming increasingly aware, wherein initiates work, and from which the masters in their graded ranks direct the evolutionary process of the planet. these two directions in which the soul looks constitute the world of its spiritual experience and the object of its aspiration. let it not be forgotten that the spiritual man, the solar angel, has also his goal of endeavour, and that his becomes the predominant impulse once the subjugation of the vehicle in the three worlds is brought about. just as the fully intelligent human being ca

full expressions of an inner spiritual reality and in line with egoic purpose. other eventualities can be sensed as sadly possible but these we will not consider for it is the hope and the belief of the- 158- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust watching brothers that men will transcend all undesirable eventualities and make the goal. one word here, and one hint. the hierarchy of the planet constitutes symbolically the head centre of humanity and their forces constitute the brain forces. on the physical plane are a large band of aspirants, probationary disciples and accepted disciples who are seeking to be responsive to the "head centre, some consciously, others unconsciously. they are gathered from all fields of expression but are all creative in some way or other. they i

se they seek to heal and of the nature of the forces they wish to employ. all they can do is to discipline their lives, and so control their appetites that they build a clean body and provide clear channels for the passage of forces from and through themselves to others. the third concept to be noted is that forms are, as yet primarily responsive to the forces which reach them from other forms on the planet, to the seven basic types of energies emanating from the seven planets, and also to the life-giving solar ray. all forms in all the four kingdoms respond to these many forces, to these seven energies and to the one ray. the human family are responsive also to other energies and to solar rays, all however coloured by the force generated within the solar ring-pass-not. the work of the occ

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

man for we shall retain the parable within the confines of the fourth kingdom in nature we have a slowly developing inclusiveness which finally leads him into the consciousness of the cosmic christ. 3. the higher realisation of unity follows upon this sense of duality, and in this final stage the sense of being soul and body is lost. the consciousness identifies itself with the indwelling life of the planet and of the solar system. when this happens, there is the registering of a state of being which lies beyond word, mind and form expression of any kind. the great jewish seer sought to convey these three stages in the words, i am that i am. he thus expressed them tritely and succinctly and adequately, had we but the development to know it. the third (however understood) defies expression

of galilee. this life instils into all forms the quality of love, with its more material manifestation of desire, and is the attractive principle in nature and the custodian of the law of attraction, which is the life-demonstration of pure being. this lord of love is the most potent of the seven rays, because he is on the same cosmic ray as the solar deity. he expresses himself primarily through the planet jupiter, which is his body of manifestation. 3. the lord of active intelligence. his work is more closely linked to matter and he works in cooperation with the lord of the second ray. he is the motivating impulse in the initial work of creation. the planet saturn is his body of expression within the solar system, and through the medium of matter (which beneficently obstructs and hinders

of the sons of men. this ray force, with the second ray, is a true and vital expression of the divine nature. a militant focussing upon the ideal, a one-pointed devotion to the intent of the life urge, and a divine sincerity are the qualities of this lord, and set their impress upon all that is found within his body of manifestation. advanced esotericists debate as to whether mars is, or is not, the planet through which he manifests. you must remember that only a few of the planets are the bodies of expression of the lords of the rays. there are ten "planets of expression (to use the term employed by the ancient rishis, and only seven ray lives are regarded as the builders of the system. the great mystery, which is finally revealed in the higher initiations, is the relation of a ray to a

o approach and the sixth is passing out, which puts six of the rays in the position of having their egos in manifestation. there are however very few of the fourth ray egos on the earth at this time, and a very large number of sixth ray egos, for it will be about two hundred years before all the sixth ray egos pass out of incarnation. as to the first ray egos, there are no pure first ray types on the planet. all so-called first ray egos are on the first subray of the second ray, which is in incarnation. a pure first ray ego in incarnation at this time would be a disaster. there is not sufficient intelligence and love in the world to balance the dynamic will of an ego on the ray of the destroyer. just as the human family has a relation to the planetary logos of our earth which is best expre

us their existence in the past, not to speak of their continuing existence in the present? a few bones, a few buildings, and, later, traces of their historical influence; later still, we note what they have left behind of beauty in the field of literature, of architecture, of painting, and in those forms in which they have embodied their thought and aspiration, their visions and their ideals. on the planet today we find a humanity at all stages of development, with mechanisms of varying kinds, adequate and inadequate. we find- 65- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust all of them, without exception, breaking down under test and limited by disease, or hiding the seeds of disease; the perfect equipment is totally unknown, and every man harb

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

tunity. the expectancy in the race is assuming vital proportions. in the words of an ancient mexican aphorism "always in the centre shall come a new word" every form has its positive centre of life. every organism is constructed around a central nucleus of power. there is a centre in our universe from which the word went forth, bringing into being our organised solar system as we now have it, and the planet on which we live, with its myriad forms of life "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god "the same was in the beginning with god "all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made "in him was life; and the life was the light of men "he was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."5 what

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

my power is great. i will destroy all obstacles. nothing can stop my progress to my goal. around me lies that which i have destroyed. what must i do' the answer comes 'order from chaos, o pilgrim on the way of death, this is the way for you. love you must learn. dynamic will you have. the right use of destruction for the furtherance of the plan, must be the way for you. adherence to the rhythm of the planet will release the hidden blessed one and order bring" ray two "the blessed one built him an ark. stage by stage he built it, and floated upon the bosom of the waters. deeply he hid himself, and his light was no more seen, only his floating ark. his voice was heard 'l have built and strongly built, but am a prisoner within my building. my light is hidden. only my word goes forth. around m

e which has been achieved may then clothe itself in the right thought forms. subservience or obedience to the plan involves something else than a vague and misty realisation that god has a plan and that we are included in it. it is more than a hiding of oneself in the shadow of the will of god. it necessitates a wise differentiation between: 1. the general perspective and the large world plan for the planet, and 2. those immediate stages of the plan in which intelligent cooperation is, at this time, and in the immediate present, demanded. a deep interest in the final root races and speculation as to the life going forward on other planets- 45- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust may be of interest, but it is relatively futile and usele

t. one thing only need be added in connection with this building of the antaskarana, and that is the statement of the significant fact that the more people can achieve this linking of the higher and lower aspects of the human nature, the more rapidly will the task of salvaging the world proceed. the more painstakingly and persistently this work is carried forward, the sooner will the hierarchy of the planet resume its ancient task and status in the world, and the sooner will the mysteries be restored and the world function, therefore, more consciously in line with the plan- 46- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust every single unit of the human family who achieves success upon the path of discipleship may be, in himself, relatively of s

od and its significance will be properly appreciated only when group implications are more carefully studied, the meaning of sacrifice and of death come into their rightful place in the human consciousness, and the law of giving, with all that that entails, is correctly understood and applied. those who thus sacrifice are: the solar deity who gave his life to the universe, to the solar system, to the planet, and the manifested worlds consequently appeared. the cosmic deity has likewise done the same. but- 56- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust what does this mean to us? naught, except a symbol. it was his impulse, his will, his desire, his incentive, his idea and purpose to appear. the creative act then took place, and the process of

hinted by those who know so much more than we, owing to their longer life cycle and experience, that some glimmering of that eternal and cosmic intent is beginning to dawn in the consciousness of those who have taken some of the higher initiations. their nature must necessarily remain incomprehensible to mankind. all that the intelligent human being can grasp as he looks back over the history of the planet (as far as modern history can give it to him) is that there has been: 1. progress in the human power to be conscious. 2. a growing and paralleling refinement of the forms of life in the various kingdoms of nature. 3. an intensification of conscious activity, on a developing scale of rapid living, that tends constantly to transcend time as we know it. 4. an expanding realisation of progr

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right 1998 lucis trust telepathic communication; this will finally establish that golden network of light which will serve to create a powerful focal point; this focal point will be the agent for the revitalisation spiritually of the etheric body of humanity as a whole. this is an essential and important statement. this focal point will, in its turn, aid in the revitalising of the etheric body of the planet with new power and with fresh impulse. i have for several years attempted to be your teacher, your master and, i think i may say, your friend. there has been established between us a very strong link of love and understanding upon my part and a proved sincerity and a definite wish to cooperate on yours. what is my attitude towards you? as individuals, you may be of small importance; as

mly and faintly, to that great whole which lies behind the subjective world of being, as that world lies behind the physical, tangible world of everyday life. a symbol of this can be seen in the knowledge that the entire planet lies outside of the room in which you are pondering my words and is only separated from you by the window and the extent of your conscious awareness. the outer universe of the planet, the solar system and the starry heavens, lies revealed to you through that sheet of glass which reveals, if clean and unveiled, but which acts as a barrier to vision, if soiled or hidden by a blind. this and your ability to project yourself into the immensity of the universe, governs the extent of your knowledge at any given time. think this out, my brother, and look through the window

yright 1998 lucis trust 1. you learn to utilize the meditation period in order to bring about an intense focussing upon the subject of healing, its laws and methods. 2. you master the technique whereby you can project your thought consciously in such a manner that healing can take place where and when needed. in the one case, you train yourself to be a "point of contact" for the healing forces of the planet. in the other, you train yourself to be a "channel of distribution" ponder on these two objectives, but expect not yet to be able to reach them. in the work of the disciple, the time element counts not. growth, deep rooted and established, is the goal, and growth, if sound and good, is slow. in connection with your own character development, seek to bring about two things: 1. a decentra

ur service will be greatly helped and your usefulness increased. having made your choice and decision, my problem now is how to help you to make good in the future which is opening up before you. my two suggestions may surprise you, for they will not be at all along the line you anticipate. first of all, i would say to you: take not yourself so seriously. the world still proceeds upon its way and the planet continues to revolve whether you serve or not. lower the intensity of your vibration. you can serve and your service is needed. all servers are needed at this time. you have been through a drastic disciplining and should have learnt much; but you will nullify your usefulness and shorten your period of service through your intense earnestness. remember, you have to offset constantly your

. 4. the master at the centre of his group. 5. the christ, the heart centre of the hierarchy. 6. the life of the monad which begins to make itself felt at the third initiation. 7. the lord of life himself, the heart centre of shamballa. the line of relationship then extends from these onward and outward, and upward (spherically considered) to the life at the very centre of our earth's "alter ego" the planet venus, to jupiter and thence to the solar lord himself and on to a point in the sun, sirius. you can see, therefore, how different this stage is from what might be imagined. it is one which marks a new departure or beginning and a great transition. it is a stage which one enters through the open door of nirvana, the beginning of the path of the higher evolution. it is a stage which mark

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

earances in which he lives and to regard them as one world, but one existing primarily for his individual benefit. when, however, to an appreciation of our planetary and racial inheritance, both creative and historical, he adds an understanding of the spiritual and moral values, then we have an approximation to what the truly spiritual man is intended to be. in relation to the total population of the planet, such men are few and far between, but they guarantee to the rest of humanity a genuine possibility. will cultured people realize their opportunity? will our civilized citizens embrace the chance to build afresh not a material civilization this time but a world of beauty and of right human relations, a world in which children can indeed grow into the likeness of the one father and in wh

r has proved) but which can in the future so wisely control. we are today witnessing the slow but steady formation of international groups, banded together to preserve world security, to protect labour, to deal with world economics and to preserve the integrity and the sovereignty of nations whilst committing each and all to a definite part in the work of securing right human relations throughout the planet. whether we agree or not with the details or the specific commitments proposed, the formation of international advisory councils, and above all, of the united nations, are hopeful indications of the moving forward of humanity into a world where right human relations are regarded as essential to the peace of the world, where goodwill is recognized and where provision is made for the impl

d in the small and unimportant business men in the corner grocery, the plumber and the haberdasher who exploits his employees and deceives his customers. it is the universal spirit of selfishness and the love of power with which we have to contend. the war has, however, acted like a purge. it has opened the eyes of men to the underlying cause of war economic distress, based on the exploitation of the planet's resources by an international group of selfish and ambitious men. the opportunity to change things is now present. let us now look at the opposing group labour. a powerful group, representing the capitalistic system, both national and international, and an equally powerful group of labour unions and their leaders, face each other today. both groups are national and international in sc

tious men. the opportunity to change things is now present. let us now look at the opposing group labour. a powerful group, representing the capitalistic system, both national and international, and an equally powerful group of labour unions and their leaders, face each other today. both groups are national and international in scope. it remains to be seen which of the two will eventually control the planet or if a third group made up of practical idealists may not emerge and take over. the interest of the spiritual workers in the world today is not on the side of the capitalists nor even of labour, as it is now functioning; it is on the side of humanity. for thousands of years, if history is to be believed, the wealthy landowners, the institutional heads of tribes, the feudal lords, the s

nd everywhere efforts are being made to bring about better human relations. this, in the eyes of the spiritually minded and of the enlightened worker for humanity, is a sign of progress and an indication of the innate divinity in man. that is truly spiritual which properly relates man to man and man to god and which demonstrates in a better world and the expression of the four freedoms throughout the planet. for these the spiritual man must work. the kingdom of god will inaugurate a world which will be one in which it will be realized that politically speaking humanity, as a whole, is of far greater importance than any one nation; it will be a new world order, built upon different principles to those in the past, and one in- 98- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust which men wil

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

all men everywhere. the facilities of the entire world of contact and relation will be at his disposal; that will be part of the uniqueness of his opportunity and for this he too must prepare. another unique factor which will distinguish his coming will be not only the general expectancy but also the fact that much is today known and taught about the kingdom of god, or the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. everywhere, in all countries, there are thousands who are interested in the fact of that hierarchy, who believe in the masters of the wisdom, the disciples of the christ, and who will not be surprised when this group of sons of god, surrounding their great leader, the christ, makes its appearance on earth. the churches in all countries have familiarised the public with the phrase "the

nd which forced him to cry out "father, not my will but thine be done" these words definitely indicate conflict and do not indicate the synchronisation of the two wills; they indicate the determination on the part of the christ that there should be no opposition between his will and that of god. suddenly, he received a vision of the emerging, divine intention for humanity and through humanity for the planet as a whole. at the particular stage of spiritual development which christ had then attained and which had made him the head of the spiritual hierarchy, the one who engineered the emergence of the kingdom of god and established him as the master of all the masters and the teacher of angels and of men, his consciousness was absolutely at one with the divine plan; its application on earth

cession of the sons of god, there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation "the hierarchy waits" it has done all that is possible from the angle of the present opportunity. the christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make his work materialise on earth and enable him to consummate the effort he made 2000 years ago in palestine. the buddha hovers over the planet, ready to play his part if the opportunity is offered to him by mankind. everything now depends upon the right action of the men of goodwill. from the father's house (the "centre where the will of god is known" or shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth: the hour has come. from the kingdom of god where reigns the christ, the answer has been flung back "father, thy will be

a divine hope and background may possibly take people back into the church and into the world faiths, but it will most certainly take them back to god. religion is the name, surely, which we give to the invocative appeal of humanity which leads to the evocative response of the spirit of god. this spirit works in every human heart and in all groups. it works also through the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. it impels the head of the hierarchy, the christ, to take action and the action which he is taking will lead to his return with his disciples. the idea of the return of christ is a most familiar one, and the concept of the son of god returning in response to human need has its place in the teaching of the majority of the world faiths. ever since he apparently departed to the sphere wher

"from the point of love within the heart of god, let love stream forth into the hearts of men; the group which (in the aquarian age) the christ himself will "nourish" and prepare will know the meaning of the third stanza "from the centre where the will of god is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men" the work of christ, during the piscean age, was to relate humanity to the hierarchy of the planet; in the aquarian age, his work will be to relate this rapidly growing group to that higher centre where the father is contacted, where recognition of sonship is accorded and where the divine purpose can be known. through the coming work of christ, the three divine aspects, recognised by all the world religions (including the christian religion) intelligence or the universal mind, love a

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e present world upheaval, that it is difficult for the average student to conceive of its nature. these five energies together will determine the trend of world affairs. the problem before the hierarchy at this time is so to direct and control these powerful activities that the plan can be rightly materialised and the close of this century and the beginning of the next see the purposes of god for the planet and for humanity assume right direction and proportion. in this way, the new culture for the relatively few and the new civilisation for the many during the coming age will start in such a manner that the peoples of the earth can go forward into an era of peace and true development spiritual and material. i would like to remind you that the fact that you see the world picture as one of

bout the needed world changes, which are primarily changes in consciousness. i have dealt somewhat in detail with these matters; the gist of them has, however, been embodied in the pamphlets sent out in the past few years. third: the major energy upon which we shall touch here is that of intelligent activity the potency of the third ray. this finds its expression through the third major centre on the planet; this centre, we call humanity. the evocation of a loving intelligent response to the shamballa impulse, stepped down by the hierarchy, is that to which this world centre should respond. this is rapidly and, as i have told you, satisfactorily, happening. a definite world effect is being produced and the new group of world servers has given much aid in this. they have interpreted, explai

shamballa influence of will; that the ideology behind the democratic ideal constitutes a similar response to the universality which the love of the hierarchy prompts it to express, and that communism is of human origin, embodying that ideology which humanity has formulated in its own right. thus the three aspects of god's nature are beginning to take form as three major ideas and what we see upon the planet at this time are the distorted human reactions to spiritual impulses, emanating from three different centres, but all equally divine in their essential natures, and in their essences. ponder on this. i have brought this to your attention and discussed these basic modern schools of thought because the potency of their idealism is affecting every person, capable of thought, upon the plane

h rays) for this governs the animal or physical form of every human being. you have, therefore, a meeting of many conflicting forces and the world arjuna is faced with a stupendous battle one that is recurrent and cyclic but which will, in this particular era, prove a decisive and determining factor in the age old conflict between material domination and spiritual control. the forces playing upon the planet at this time are of supreme importance. if you will bear in mind that the sixth ray works through and controls the solar plexus (being closely related to the astral plane, the sixth level of awareness) and that the seventh ray controls the sacral centre, you will see why there is so much emotion, so much idealism and so much desire mixed up in connection with the world conflict and why

re working predominantly through the mental principle, we find the susceptibility of the untrained masses to this mental imposition and the facility with which they can be regimented and standardised. they have no power to think with clarity for themselves and their minds are consequently plastic and receptive to the powerful forces directed by the two contributing groups the spiritual workers of the planet and the material workers. because the bulk of human beings are still materially focussed, the forces which work on the side of matter find a line of least resistance which is not available to the masters of the great white lodge. this danger is, however, lessening decade by decade. let me illustrate these facts for you by means of the two rays which are our immediate consideration. both

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ook out at some clear sky, you see the stars and suns and planets shining with a clear cold brilliancy and with a twinkling blazing light which penetrates for many millions of miles (or light years as they are called) until the human eye registers them and records the existence of these shining stars. looking, however, at the astral- 42- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust body of the planet, could you but do so, you would see no such clear shining but simply a murky ball of seeming steam and mist and fog. this fog is of a density and thickness which would indicate not only impenetrability but also those conditions which are unfavourable to life. yet we pass and come and go, we the teachers on the inner side; and in that fog seeing all things misshapen and distorted labour

ir creation constituted the hope of the race. they embodied then the new and emerging ideas by means of which the race was intended to progress. these forms, when old and crystallised, become a menace and a hindrance to the expanding life. the realisation of the problems of illusion lies centuries ahead when the race will have left glamour behind, when there will be few atlantean minded people on the planet, and when there will be no people at all with the lemurian consciousness. however, as evolution proceeds, things are greatly speeded up, and the time when humanity will be predominantly distinguished by the aryan consciousness, is not as far ahead as might be see table page 113- 67- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust generally supposed. i speak not in terms of the aryan

dissipate, by the energy of illumination, the world glamour and bring many thousands on to the path of discipleship. c. the energy of inspiration which will bring about, through the medium of its sweeping potency, the devitalisation or the removal, as by a wind, of the attractive power of maya or substance. this will release untold thousands on to the path of probation. 4. releasing new life into the planet through the medium of every possible agency. the first step towards this release is the proving that the power of materialism is broken by the complete defeat of the axis powers and, secondly, by the ability of the united nations to demonstrate (when this has been done) the potency of the spiritual values by their constructive undertakings to restore world order and to lay those foundat

the future through which all men must pass should begin to carry forward this work. only thus can humanity be helped to leave behind the errors, the glamours and the failures of the past. it is this technique which brings freedom from glamour and which can transform human living, and so bring in the new civilisation and culture. this dissipation can be carried forward by disciples in all parts of the planet, aided by the world aspirants; it will, however, be primarily the work of those whose ray focus makes astral living the line of least resistance and who have learnt or are learning to dominate it by the power of thought and mental light. these are the sixth ray people in the first instance, aided by aspirants and disciples upon the second and fourth rays. in time and space, this task wi

, which condition our outer planetary life, and make our planet what it appears to be to the other planets. the difference between man, the microcosm, and the planetary logos, the lord of the world, the macrocosm, lies in the fact that the lord of the world is not identified with the maya which he has created, and which has its purpose in eventually bringing about the release of the "prisoners of the planet" to that maya, he is supremely indifferent and it is this divine indifference which has led to the great theological illusion of an anthropomorphic deity and to the belief (in the east) that our planet is but the background or the plaything of the gods. it is this cosmic indifference which has led to the human glamour concerning the "inscrutable will of god" and to the affirmation that

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ody of every form in nature is an integral part of the substantial form of god himself not the dense physical form, but what the esotericists regard as the form-making substance. we use the word god to signify the expression of the one life which animates every form on the outer objective plane. the etheric or energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses, or streams of force, emanating from some originating source or other. the etheric body is in reality naught b

. these three produce differing modes of activity and tap (to use a familiar word) differing areas of communication. 1. instinctual telepathy is based upon those impacts of energy which come from one etheric body and make an impression upon another. the medium of communication employed is, as we have seen, the etheric substance of all bodies, which is necessarily one with the etheric substance of the planet. the area around the solar plexus (though not in direct relation to that centre as it exists as an instrument differentiated from all other instruments or centres) is sensitive to the impact of etheric energy, for this area in the etheric body is in direct "touch" with the astral body, the feeling body. also, close to the solar plexus is found that centre near the spleen which is the di

this, i would have you note, does not entail the attendance of the entire council. c. from a triangle of circulating energy, emanating from the two planets which with our planet- 25- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the earth form a triangle in any particular cycle. this impression is received by the three buddhas of activity for distribution to the hierarchy. d. from the planet venus, the earth's alter ego. this makes its entrance via the lord of the world and three of his council who are chosen by him at any specific time to act as recipients. these are the major entering impressions, recorded by what is glibly called "the universal mind" the mind of god, our planetary logos. there are other entering impressions, but to them i do not refer, as any reference w

nt, and who work in all the various departments of human living and enterprise- 27- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust c. the activity of the new group of world servers about which i have already written in my various pamphlets; therefore repetition is not necessary*(7) it will be obvious to you that i have only touched upon a few, a very few, of the impressing forces of the planet, and have enumerated only a few of the major groups which are in their intrinsic nature both recipients of impression and agents later of the impressing agent. when we arrive at the human family, this reciprocal activity is blocked by human selfishness; it is this "interruption of impression" and this "interference with the divine circulatory flow" which (as i have said above) is respon

down into the mineral kingdom, via all the other kingdoms, is the factor of freewill, resulting in karmic responsibility. this can be either good or bad. it is interesting to note here that both the good and the bad karma produce conditions which not only have to be worked out, but that they lead to conditions which delay what we from our limited point of view might look upon as the liberation of the planet. the generating of good karma necessitates the "living through" of conditions where everything (for the man responsible or for any other form within its limitations) is good, happy, beneficent and useful. the evil karma generated in any kingdom in relation to the "realm where dwelleth the planetary dweller on the threshold" stands between the cosmic door of initiation and our planetary

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

e manifestation of energy of certain lives whose cycle of expression and whose infinite purposes lie outside the comprehension of the most advanced and illumined minds on our planet. the next point for each of you to grasp is the fact that the ether of space is the field in and through which the energies from the many originating sources play. we are, therefore, concerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the solar system, and of the seven solar systems of which our system is one, as well as with the general and vaster etheric body of the universe in which we are located. i employ the word "located" here with deliberation and because of the inferences to which it leads. this vaster field, as well as the smaller and more localised fields, provides the medium of transmission for all th

es from certain great constellations. the field of space is etheric in nature and its vital body is composed of the totality of etheric bodies of all constellations, solar systems and planets which are found therein. throughout this cosmic golden web there is a constant circulation of energies and forces and this constitutes the scientific basis of the astrological theories. just as the forces of the planet and of the inner spiritual man (to mention only one factor among many) pour through the etheric body of the individual man upon the physical plane, and- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust condition his outer expression, activities, and qualities, so do the varying forces of the universe pour through every part of the etheric body o

force share because his small modicum of energy is an integral part of theirs. there is one aspect of energy for which the modern astrologer makes very little allowance, and yet it is of paramount importance. this is the energy which emanates from or radiates from the earth itself. living as all human beings do upon the surface of the earth and being, therefore, projected into the etheric body of the planet (for the reason that "man stands erect) man's body is at all times bathed in the emanations and the radiations of our earth and in the integral quality of our planetary logos as he sends forth and transmits energy within his planetary environment. astrologers have always emphasised the incoming influences and energies as they beat upon and play through our little planet, but they have o

affect our planetary life, such as those coming from that great star, betelgeuse, or from antares and other stupendous suns and solar systems which are related to the constellations of the zodiac and whose force reaches us through these constellations and not directly. besides these, it should be remembered that technically we should also add the radiatory influence which comes direct to us from the planet, the earth, upon which we live. then, and only then, can you have a fairly complete analysis and picture of the energies to which the etheric body of man (conditioning the physical body which is pre-eminently automatic and negative in its reactions) must and does ever respond. an understanding of that response and the conscious intelligent control of individual reactions are supremely n

o earnest effort along ideological lines and, at the same time, are drawing forth from the masses and the little evolved people nothing but terror, a miserable fatalism, widespread physical depletion and many other undesirable reactions from the form nature. an understanding of these hindering or stimulating effects can be easily grasped by those who can comprehend the nature of the activities of the planet, saturn. this is the planet which conditions primarily the point in evolution where choice definitely becomes possible, where rejection of opportunity or its acceptance can consciously be undertaken, and the shouldering of personal responsibility becomes a recognised fact in a planned and ordered life. this point in the human evolutionary process is spoken of in the old commentary in th

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

at the souls of men are one. i would like to add, also, that this is a school wherein belief in the spiritual hierarchy of our planet is scientifically taught, not as a doctrine but as an existent and demonstrable kingdom in nature. there has been much church teaching given about the kingdom of god and the kingdom of souls. these are but terms for the phrase used above, the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. it is a school wherein true, occult obedience is developed. this occult obedience involves no obedience to me or any other head of the school or to any human being. no oaths of allegiance or personal pledges to any individual are requested or exacted from students in the arcane school. they are taught, however, prompt obedience to the dictates of their own soul. as the voice of that so

ht 1998 lucis trust the seven principles or essential propositions are as follows: 1. the arcane school is a training school for disciples. it is not a school for probationary disciples or for devotional aspirants. 2. the arcane school trains adult men and women so that they may take their next step upon the path of evolution. 3. the arcane school recognises the fact of the spiritual hierarchy of the planet and gives instruction in the mode whereby that hierarchy may be approached and entered. 4. the arcane school teaches the practical belief that the "souls of men are one" 5. the arcane school emphasises the necessity to live the spiritual life and rejects all claims to spiritual status. 6. the arcane school is non-sectarian, non-political, and international in its scope. 7. the arcane sc

hat during the war (1914-1945) the arcane school officially aligned itself with the purpose of the allied nations and took a firm stand against the nations who were fighting the forces of light; that was in no way a political move but was based upon the spiritual conviction that the purpose of the axis powers was contrary to the plan of god, that it was in opposition to the spiritual hierarchy of the planet and the general good and welfare of humanity. the axis policy was based on the wickedness of separation and hate. this decision on our part not to hold a neutral position was according to the will of the majority of the students. there are esotericists, however, who hold that to be an esotericist means that one holds oneself aloof from mundane affairs and that esoteric students should t

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

deal with these en masse. the approach has to be through individuals, and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those conditions which pre-dispose them to disease, as individuals. at present, the race is astrally polarised. the emotional sentient nature is all-powerful in the masses. this leads to a relatively negative etheric body which is tuned in on the entire etheric substance of the planet. this substance, which underlies all forms, is simply a transferring and transmitting agency for vital energy to the outer dense physical body. energy sweeps through this etheric substance, free from all control by the individual human being, and quite unrealised by him because his focus of attention is astral. from the astral or emotional state of consciousness, much concerning individ

eath naturally supervenes. it might be stated as a basic generalisation that personal physical trouble has its seat at present in the emotional body, and that that vehicle of expression is the one predominant predisposing agent in the ill health of the individual, just as group ills and the sweep of epidemics of any kind through the masses are founded in some condition in the etheric substance of the planet. those diseases which are general, national, racial and planetary find their way to an individual via his etheric body, but are not so personal in their implications. upon this i will later enlarge. today i but lay down the general proposition. i would also like to point out that the diseases for the masses, for the average citizen, for the- 15- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv:

e, all frustrations, error and lack of divine expression in the three worlds, i would say it was separativeness which produces the major difficulties arising in the etheric body, plus the inability of the outer tangible form to respond adequately to the inner and subtler impulses. here is found the cause (the secondary cause, as i pointed out above) of the bulk of the trouble. the etheric body of the planet does not yet freely transmit and circulate the forces which are seeking entrance into the consciousness and the expression of man upon the physical plane. these forces emanate from within himself as he functions on the subtler levels of consciousness and from the soul; they come also from associated and contacted groups, from the planetary life, and eventually, in the last analysis, fro

rting out to work, and i would have clear thinking on this point. the two problems which i have posited are closely related. we could express them in the form of two questions: 1. is disease the result of thought? 2. can the power of thought produce healing effects when used by an individual or a group? in view of the fact that many diseases are, as i have told you, latent in the very material of the planet itself, it is obvious that human thought is not responsible for disease. it antedates the arrival of humanity upon the planet. there is disease in the mineral world, in the vegetable kingdom, and also among animals, even in their wild states and in their natural habitat, uncontaminated by man. hence, man cannot be held responsible for this, nor is it the result of human wrong thinking

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 of the spinal cord. constantly a movement, an interplay and a reversal is going on. i can but portray the nature of a symbol which will indicate the special path of the three energies of the divine trinity. i indicate not a fact in location or place, for it

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

existed upon old atlantis. upon all this basic structure the exact opposite is being imposed today, and in the reaction normal, right and developing man is laying a superstructure in which the emphasis is increasingly upon the tangible, the material, the seen, and upon that which can be proved, diagnosed, analysed, and utilised for the improving of man's outer life and his material position upon the planet. both civilisations have gone too far, and in the swing of the pendulum we shall inevitably return to a middle position, to the "noble middle path" this middle way, utilising the best and the highest ideals which the two preceding civilisations have produced, will characterise the coming aquarian age and its civilisations. such an expression of the material and the immaterial, of the se

on of the mental process. the output of men's thoughts in writing and in speech, embodying that which is old, that which is new and modern, and that which is superficial and relatively worthless, is so vast today that it is impossible to register it, and the lifetime of a book is brief. to crown all, there is a definite effort to bring the resources of education within the reach of every man upon the planet. this eventually will be done, and the intended type of education will accomplish the following things, thus laying the ground for the future unfoldment of the higher and better education: 1. make available to the average citizen what has "come to light" in the past. 2. evoke interest in the new sciences and knowledge which are coming to light in the present. 3. develop the memory and t

nce. his task is to shift the focus of his attention away from the substance-form side of existence and to become aware of that which has been the source of form production on any specific level. it is his task to develop within himself the needed responsiveness and sensitivity to the quality of the life dominating any form until he arrives eventually at the quality of the one life which animates the planet and within whose activity we live and move and have our being. to do this, he must first of all discover the nature of his own qualified energies (and here the nature of the governing rays enters in) which are expressing themselves through his three lower vehicles of manifestation, and later through his integrated personality. having arrived at a measure of this knowledge and having ori

which is technically called "individualisation into pralaya, there to await the inevitable call" there will be, therefore, no necessity for a- 89- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust massed and hurried creation of human forms. b. the economic situation will make it necessary that certain physical restrictions should be imposed, because it is now evident that beyond a certain point the planet cannot support humanity. this is more fundamental in its implications than you can imagine. again, we have evidence of a growing realisation of the race along this particular line; that realisation is as yet distorted and much misunderstood and is today producing the promiscuous use of contraceptive methods. as the intelligence of the race is developed (and that is going on apace, as th

ssential rhythm, the natural consequences have occurred, and millions of souls have been brought into incarnation who were never intended at this time to incarnate and achieve exoteric manifestation. this fact is largely responsible for much of the present economic distress and for the modern planetary dilemma. the economic situation and the necessity to provide for the unduly large population of the planet lies behind much of the aggression and greed of the nations down the ages, and for the effort being made today as never before to provide better and more adequate living conditions. war has consequently been the inevitable result of this undue and unlimited propagation of the human species. this lack of sexual control has brought into the world thousands of unwanted children whose appea

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

as well as upon the incoming and junior, and therefore inexperienced, disciples? if, however, the relation between the hierarchy and humanity is thus strengthened and there is freer access in both directions, there will clearly emerge the invocational pull or the magnetic potency of these blending centres: the pull will be upon shamballa, which is the highest centre of all. is the etheric web of the planet sufficiently stable and balanced so that it can adequately respond to the new and potent forces which could and will pour through it into objective expression? i- 43- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust would remind you that the release of atomic energy has had a far more potent effect in the etheric web than in the dense physical vehicle of the planet. thr

pples of ordinary irritation and the evanescent angers to which all disciples are prone are relatively of small importance. they pass and, in the sum total of the soul's attitudes to the personality, evoke no response or registration whatsoever. what is referred to is the reaction of the disciple to world evil. this produces uncertainty as to the future, annoyance at what is being done throughout the planet by non-disciples, criticism of national and international planning and a general atmosphere of unhappiness, plus a sense of superior knowledge. all this is expressed in a negative, unconstructive manner. to this many disciples are today prone; they need to realise that world affairs are not and cannot be moulded or determined by any hierarchical knowledge in the possession of the discip

these relationships that you will develop the humility and pure motives which are the outstanding hallmarks of the disciple. one thing i would however like you clearly to grasp and that is the pattern which underlies the various aspects of the work now in process of expansion. a brief diagram should make the relationship clear, and these relationships are factual today: the spiritual hierarchy of the planet working through/ the new group of world servers using many agencies, among them- 62- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust/ the arcane school working through/ the service activities the triangles, the goodwill work, the invocation work allied with/ the lucis publishing company the energy of the new group of world servers could be likened to the antahkarana wh

in an ashram. this will perhaps be a new thought to you and is responsible for the reason why a.a.b. has never emphasised concentration on some one of the known masters. she has always been aware that each central ashram has associated with it six other ashrams which are steadily and constantly being organised to meet planetary need. you will note that i did not say "human need" for the needs of the planet which the hierarchy has to meet embrace more than those of the fourth kingdom in nature. i would have you ponder on these points. it would be of benefit to you also to consider the masters' ashrams as expressions of the highest type of constructively functioning groups. there exists amongst its personnel a complete unity of purpose and an utter dedication (without any reservations, as f

of the buddhas of activity, who embody within themselves the essence of the third ray of active intelligence, through which the third aspect can successfully project and express itself. it is these three buddhas who were instrumental in the amazing and occult process of implementing the mental principle upon our planet, and who through their creative meditation brought our planet, the earth, and the planet venus into direct alignment. this made possible the comings of the sons of mind and the formation of the fourth kingdom in nature, humanity. they are embodiments of the intuition, and control the inflow of intuitional energy into the minds of men. the point which i would have you bear in mind is that these intermediate groups of workers who know the power of meditation are primarily cre

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

en let the plan of love and light work out. and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1945 section one introductory remarks the period of transition- 2- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust march 1934 one of the results of the world condition at this time is the speeding up of all the atomic lives upon and within the planet. this necessarily involves the increased vibratory activity of the human mechanism, with a consequent effect upon the psychic nature, producing an abnormal sensitivity and psychic awareness. it would be of value here to remember that the condition of humanity at this time is not the result of simply one factor, but of several all of them being active simultaneously, because this period

and these animal men became human beings, of a very low order to be sure, but still men. they were "sparked" if i might so express it, and a point of light appeared where before there was none. before there was only a diffused atomic light but no central point of light within the head, and no indication of the higher centres. these individuals, along with the more advanced humanity which came to the planet in atlantean times (having individualised elsewhere, constitute the most advanced humanity of our present period. they represent culture and understanding, no matter where it is found, or in what class or race. 2. the instinctual nature of animal-man (found active among those who had not reached the stage of any conscious aspiration) was suddenly stimulated or vitalised by the coming in

ced. this is due to two facts: 1. the masses of men are, as yet, relatively so little evolved that the task of this group of workers must therefore necessarily be dependent upon the success of the educational work of the world, as it will eventually be exemplified by the ideals and point of view of the fourth group and similar groups everywhere. 2. so few truly first ray people are manifesting on the planet at this time and, when they do, their work perforce proves destructive, owing to the unevolved condition of the masses of men. that is why revolutions so seldom, if ever, can be carried out without bloodshed, for the intended ideas have to be imposed upon the masses and are not immediately recognised and adopted by those masses, they evoke counter responses which arouse those in authori

time, for the hierarchy itself knows not which forces will prevail. they know that good must ultimately triumph but they do not know what the immediate future holds for humanity because men determine their own courses. the law of cause and effect can seldom be offset. in those cases where it has been offset, it has required the intervention of forces greater than those available at this time upon the planet. those greater forces can intervene if the world aspirants make their voices penetrate. will this be possible? the forces of destruction, militating against the forces of good, have (to use your american phrase "cornered" the money assets of the world and have turned the tide of prana which automatically crystallises into money and in the financial wealth of the world towards entirely m

therance of political and sociological aims and to carry forward the projects of many peoples and the many and differing points of view, plus the many attitudes toward life and its arrangement and re-arrangement. i am not here dealing with the churches, the great religions or the religious organisations. i am concerned with the determining factors which are today conditioning the material life of the planet. speaking broadly, these forces and groups are occupied with material values and mental ideas. they are not principally occupied with the more subtle values, though these are incidentally present. the emphasis is upon the economic situation; upon the possession of land or cultural predispositions and tendencies and with the relations between people and nations; these latter are based fu

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

the standpoint of the master, yet thousands of millions recognise it and labour in its delusive sphere and are there aided by the initiated disciple working from the higher corresponding levels. this is true of all the planetary work, whether accomplished by initiates and masters, working directly in the three worlds, or from higher levels, as work the nirmanakayas (the creative contemplatives of the planet, or from shamballa from the council chamber of the lord of the world. all the efforts of the hierarchy or of the "conditioning lives (as they are sometimes called) of shamballa are dedicated to the furthering of the evolutionary plan which will finally embody divine purpose. i keep emphasising this distinction between plan and purpose with deliberation, because it indicates the next pha

is passive, waiting for the results of the activity of the will. these two groups are reflected in hierarchical circles by the nirmanakayas or the planetary contemplatives, and the custodians of the plan. the function of the registrants of the purpose is to keep the channel open between our- 45- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust earth, the planet venus and the central spiritual sun. the function of the custodians of the will is to relate the council, the hierarchy and humanity, thus creating a basic triangle of force between the three major centres of the planetary life. this is the higher expression (symbolic, if you like) of the six-pointed star, formed of two interlaced triangles. a replica of this fundamental triangle and of

covers a great mystery and an entire system of relationships of which man in the three worlds is a dim and uncertain shadow. some clue to the higher quaternary dealt with in this rule will emerge dimly in your consciousness (more is not yet possible) if you will attempt to realise the following: 1. the monad relates the initiate to the will of god, to the council at shamballa, to forces active on the planet pluto, and on another planet which must remain nameless, and also to the central spiritual sun. 2. the soul relates the initiate to the love of god, to the consciousness aspect of deity, to the hierarchy as a whole, entering it through the ashram of the master who has aided him to take initiation, to the planets venus and mercury, to the sun sirius, and to the heart of the sun. 3. the p

ole, entering it through the ashram of the master who has aided him to take initiation, to the planets venus and mercury, to the sun sirius, and to the heart of the sun. 3. the personality relates the initiate to the mind of god, to the intelligence principle of the planetary life, to humanity as a whole, to saturn and mars, and to the physical sun through its pranic aspect. 4. the life aspect of the planet, or that great ocean of forces in which all these three aspects live and move and have their being, relates the initiate to that life which works out through shamballa, through the hierarchy and through humanity, thus forming part of the great sumtotal of manifestation. it is to these major quaternaries that rule iv refers, and their relationships only emerge as the initiate keeps the r

ers connected with the soul, with light and illumination. the second demand, that the sense of synthesis should be the goal of the training given to applicants in the new age, is a direct evidence of the new shamballa contact, because synthesis is an attribute of the divine will and the outstanding quality of deity. it was inevitable that intelligence and love should be evolutionary objectives on the planet and the first two divine aspects to be developed, for they are qualities of the will; they make the manifestation of the divine will possible; they guarantee its intelligent application and its magnetic power to draw to itself all that is needed for the expression or the manifestation of the divine envisaged purpose, visualised synthetically, and motivated, implemented, engineered and m

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

the same time to a paralleling conception of our profound ignorance. we have learned much of the outer garment of god through physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences, but we have struggled into a realm where all appears to be hypothesis and inference. all that we surely know is that all forms are aspects of energy; that there is an interplay and an impact of energies upon our planet; that the planet is itself an energy unit composed of a multitude of energy units, and that man himself is likewise a composite bundle of forces and moving in a world of force. this is where [12] science so wonderfully has led us, and this is where the astrologer, the occultist, the idealist and the mystic also meet and testify to a concealed deity, to a living being, to a universal mind, and to a centr

nate; for venus makes at-one, and through its influence the law of attraction and the bringing together of the polar opposites takes place. but all these changes and unifications naturally inaugurate a new state of awareness, a new state of being, and bring in a new age and a new world. consequently, new difficulties and problems arise and we find saturn governing the last decanate, for saturn is the planet of discipleship; the planet that brings about the difficulties, problems and tests that offer to the disciple immediate opportunity. it is saturn that opens the door into incarnation, and saturn that opens the door on to the path of initiation. mercury, the interpreter, and the illuminating intellect; venus, the principle of attraction and of at-one-ment; and saturn, the generator of op

ally with sagittarius and is the symbol of the spirit manifesting through the soul, which the aspirant on the physical plane is one-pointedly seeking. there is prophecy in the united states standard, of the goal of this race when it is grown up, for it is within this race that there will emerge that group of aspirants, merging in their turn into a [158] group of disciples, who will demonstrate to the planet the fact of the subjective world. that is the destiny of this race. it will be the achievement of all the races gathered together in the united states. let us narrow the story down to hercules, the aspirant, and what he has done in each sign. in aries, hercules began on the plane of the mind in his endeavor to capture the man-eating mares, and met with failure because he dealt with them

such as gossip, then you have to learn restraint of speech about things spiritual. you have to learn what not to say about the life of the soul, very [161] copious talking about things for which people may not as yet be ready. right use of thought, restraint of speech, and consequent harmlessness on the physical plane, result in liberation; for we are held in the human unit, we are imprisoned to the planet not by some outside force that holds us there, but by what we ourselves have said and done. the moment we no longer set up wrong relations with people by the things we say that should not have been said, the moment we stop thinking things about people that we should not think, little by little those ties that hold us to planetary existence are severed, we are freed and we climb the moun

are trying to vibrate to the aquarian age. we are not aquarians yet; there are no true aquarians; we are not yet equipped. for that age some of the children coming in have the earmarks, but even they are few and far between. the aquarian age is going to manifest over the whole world; there will be aquarians born everywhere because there is the working out of the subjective spirit in every part of the planet. it is possible that in america, canada, australia, new zealand and south africa there will be focal points of the energy, but what will really happen is the coming into incarnation all over the world in every kingdom of nature of those human beings and other forms of life, all merging under the new aquarian influence- 109- the labours of hercules a marvellous thing is taking place; let

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

was changed by jupiter to stone.it is remarkable that in this story the moon is compared to an onion. the onion, says friedrich(symbolik der natur, p. 348, was, on account of its many skins, among the egyptians the emblemand hieroglyph of the many-formed moon, whose different phases are so clearly seen in the rootwhen it is cut through, also because its growth or decrease corresponds with that of the planet.therefore it was dedicated to isis, the moon-goddess. and for this reason the onion was so holy asto be regarded as having in itself something of deity; for which reason juvenal remarks that theegyptians were happy people to have gods growing in their gardens. page 55 n r r r r r chapter xiv.the goblin messengers of diana and mercury.the following tale was not given to me as connected w

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

dwell within the shadow gardens of twilight, of dreams and the nightside of being. we must listen closely, for their wisdom is that of the gifts of lucifer and lilith, that through the adversary can such beautiful musick be heard! the watchers, as brought forth by shemyaza/azazel, is the divine gift brought down from the sky unto man, whom was a primal sleeper which carried the bestial desires of the planet. the fallen angels thus brought divinity with the abyssic daemon of self, that we were divine in our dual essence. it is through the self-alchemical work of saturn, that one emerges awakened in unity. saturn is the guardian of death, or daath or the guardian of the threshold[8. in saturn there is a lower and higher octave, which is a passage way of self-exploration and self-perception

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

al. 347 for protection. skt. rak.a rak.a. 348 which are the destroyed teachings. 349 of being initially killed by the king. 350 because of the initial prayers of the princess. 351 "one-eyed woman" 352 this is understood as summoning the deities for purposes of propitiation. 353 the elders. 354 the location of the temple complex of samy. 355 red eye on the rise. this is in reference to tuesday and the planet mars; this segment seems to be referring to an astrologically appropriate time. 356 and words. 357 by means of a blood knife. 158 effigies360 from] red earth361 of the three highest362 and barley flour, which endows [the might demon] with the manner of grasping363 and killing.364 on top of a high red mansion, on the red arrow of a might demon the shape of a red arrow, hang red silk, sla

wed with the vow of the great bliss lotus, establishes the son as the permanent activity. rak.akarma ja. bhyo rbad [331] next send forth drums, flutes, and cymbals. hang red silk from the lasso spear and cast, arouse, and incite the choice libations. soak it in the permanent offering, request, and action. give the 513 a mind focused toward enlightenment. 514 sanskrit transliteration; obscure. 515 the planet jupiter; also thursday. 516 tib. ldems se ldem. 517 tib. lhangs se lhang. 178 highest tantra and the highest attained substance. this is the guardian of the buddha s teachings. this is the renowned cattle of the powerful might demons, and it liberates the great power [from previous actions, the enemy, and hindering demons. because this is the power of the haughty one s life-energy, this

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

elestial governors of humanity. gets all its vital forces, life, and powers through the medium of the seven planetary dhyanis from the spirit of the sun. they are his messengers of light and life "like each of the seven regions of the earth, each of the seven* firstborn (the primordial human groups) receives its light and life from its own especial dhyani- spiritually, and from the palace (house, the planet) of that dhyani physically; so with the seven great races to be born on it. the first is born under the sun; the second under brihaspati (jupiter; the third under lohitanga (the "fiery-bodied" venus, or sukra; the fourth, under soma (the moon, our globe also, the fourth sphere being born under and from the moon) and sani, saturn* the krura-lochana (evil-eyed) and the asita (the dark; th

knows, the symbol of the male and the female principles in nature, of the positive and the negative, for the svastica or[[diagram] is all that and much more. all antiquity, ever since the birth of astronomy- imparted to the fourth race by one of its divine kings of the divine dynasty- and[[footnote(s* science teaches that venus receives from the sun twice as much light and heat as the earth. thus the planet, precursor of the dawn and the twilight, the most radiant of all the planets, said to give the earth one-third of the supply she receives, has two parts left for herself. this has an occult as well as an astronomical meaning "as it is above so it is below" is the fundamental axiom of occult philosophy. as the logos is seven-fold, i.e, throughout kosmos it appears as seven logoi under se

it becomes androgynous as the races and all on earth develop into their physical forms, and the symbol is transformed into a circle with a diameter from which runs a vertical line: expressive of male and female, not separated as yet- the first and earliest egyptian tau[[diagram; after which it becomes[[diagram] or male-female separated (see first pp. of book i) and fallen into generation. venus (the planet) is symbolised by the sign of a globe over the cross, which shows it as presiding over the natural generation of man. the egyptians symbolised ank "life" by the ansated cross, or[[diagram, which is only another form of venus (isis[[diagram, and meant, esoterically, that mankind and all animal life bad stepped out of the divine spiritual circle and fallen into physical male and female ge

with the earth; that whatever takes place on the one takes place on the other; and that many and great were their common changes- it is for these reasons that st. augustine repeats it, applying the several changes of configuration, colour, and even of the orbital paths, to that theologically-woven character of venus-lucifer. he even goes so far in his pious fancy as to connect the last changes of the planet with the noachian and mythical deluge alleged to have taken place 1796 years b.c (see "city of god" lxxi, ch. viii. as venus has no satellites, it is stated allegorically, that "asphujit (this "planet) adopted the earth, the progeny of the moon "who overgrew its parent and gave much trouble" a reference to the occult connection between the two. the regent (of the planet) sukra* loved hi

t to siva asking him to protect his pupils, the daityas and asuras, from the fighting gods; and that to further his object he performed a yoga rite "imbibing the smoke of chaff with his head downwards for 1,000 years" this refers to the great inclination of the axis of venus (amounting to 50 degrees, and to its being enveloped in eternal clouds. but it relates only to the physical constitution of the planet. it is with its regent, the informing dhyan chohan[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] have chosen the crescent for their national arms. venus has always been identified, since the establishment of roman catholic dogmatism, with satan and lucifer, or the great dragon, contrary to all reason and logic. as shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between

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ry atom being said to contain in itself creative energy of the divine breath. hence, whereas after an absolute pralaya, or when the pre-existing material consists but of one element, and breath "is everywhere" the latter acts from without inwardly: after a minor pralaya, everything having remained in statu quo- in a refrigerated state, so to say, like the moon- at the first flutter of manvantara, the planet or planets begin their resurrection to life from within outwardly* it is curious to notice how, in the evolutionary cycles of ideas, ancient thought seems to be reflected in modern speculation. had mr. herbert spencer read and studied ancient hindu philosophers when he wrote a certain passage in his "first principles (p. 482, or is it an independent flash of inner perception that made h

reated spirits; and that in the intimate association between the spirit-world and the world of matter, the more opaque spirits in the disembodied state were drawn towards the more dense parts of the material world, and therefore tended towards the centre of the earth, where they found the conditions most suited to their state; while the more transparent spirits passed into the surrounding aura of the planet, the most rarified finding their home in its satellite" this relates exclusively to our elementary spirits, and has naught to do with either the planetary, sidereal, cosmic or inter-etheric intelligent forces or "angels" as they are termed by the roman church. the jewish kabalists, especially the practical occultists who dealt with ceremonial magic, busied themselves solely with the spi

eight of the atmosphere) and the power of central attraction. the astral light, this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is represented on ancient monuments by the girdle of isis which twines round two poles and in ancient theogonies by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblem of prudence and of saturn- emblem of infinity, immortality, and kronos "time- not the god saturn or the planet "it is the winged dragon of medea, the double serpent of the caduceus, and the tempter of genesis; but it is also the brazen snake of moses encircling the tau lastly, it is the devil of exoteric dogmatism, and is really the blind force (it is not blind, and levi knew it, which souls must conquer in order to detach themselves from the chains of earth 'for if they should not' they will be

man faculties. he will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of kali yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. the men who are thus changed. shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the krita age, the age of purity. as it is said 'when the sun and moon and the lunar asterism tishya and the planet jupiter are in one mansion, the krita (or satya) age shall return. two persons, devapi, of the race of kuru and moru, of the family of ikshwaku, continue alive throughout the four ages, residing at kalapa* they will return hither in the beginning of the krita age. moru* the son of sighru through the power of yoga is still living. and will be the restorer of the kshattriya race of the so

alcamenes[[vol. 1, page] 388 the secret doctrine. escape the pursuit of typhon (vide the metamorphoses of ovid. the moon in egypt was both the "eye of horus" and the "eye of osiris" the sun. the same with the cynocephalus. the dog-headed ape was a glyph to symbolise the sun and moon, in turn, though the cynocephalus is more a hermetic than a religious symbol. for it is the hieroglyph of mercury, the planet, as of the mercury of the alchemical philosophers "as" say the alchemists "mercury has to be ever near isis, as her minister, as without mercury neither isis nor osiris can accomplish anything in the great work" cynocephalus, whenever represented with the caduceus, the crescent, or the lotus, is a glyph of the "philosophical" mercury; but when seen with a reed, or a roll of parchment, h

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earance. liber cvi. a treatise on the nature of death, and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. liber dccclxxxviii. a complete study of the origins of christianity. pr monstrance of a.a. 15 liber dclxvi. the beast. this book is an account of the magical personality who is the logos of the present on. liber lxxxi. the butterfly net. an account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet luna, written in the form of a novel. liber dcclxxvii. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webster or murray is to the english language. liber ccxvi. the yi king (classic of changes) a new translation, w

buttress right with might: you must win freedom for yourself in many a war. woe unto the children who sleep in the freedom that their forefathers won for them .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. but it is only the greatest of the race who have the strength and courage to obey it. o man! behold thyself! with what pains wast thou fashioned! what ages have gone to thy shaping! the history of the planet is woven into the very substance of thy brain! was all this for naught? is there no purpose in thee? wast thou made thus that thou shouldst eat, and breed, and die? think it not so! thou dost incorporate so many elements, thou art the fruit of so many ons of labour, thou art fashioned thus as thou art, and not otherwise, for some colossal end. nerve thyself, then, to seek it and to do i

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les: 1 each of others. or in aries cancer virgo scorpio aquarius 2 cups: 1 each of others. or in taurus cancer virgo sagittarius aquarius two pentacles: 1 of each of the others. or in taurus cancer libra sagittarius aquarius two swords: 1 of each of the others. there being thirty-six decans and seven planets, it follows that one of the latter must rule over one more decan than the others. this is the planet mars, to which are allotted the last decan of pisces, and the first of aries, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. and the beginning of the decanates is from the royal star of leo, the great star cor leonis: and therefore is the first decan that of saturn in leo. here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits

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s is irrefutable proof that this system is based on the only authentic school of runes there ever has been. however, the sequence of the sounds is different from the sequence of the armanic runes. why this is so is to remain a mystery for the uninitiated person. no doubt we have to do here with the keys to powerful mantras that add greatly to the power of the system of the only authentic runes on the planet. you have to learn the symbols and the correct pronunciation of the letters for maximum effect of the mantras and spells that you use them for. the symbols of the letters of the infernal alphabet are only accessible to initiates of the o.a.i. note also that the first eighteen letters refer to the first three infernal realms. the number eighteen refers to the world crystal which has six

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hese positions can be put straight onto the chart. they are shown, as are all planets, on the chart and in the tables, lesson nine: divination/ 127 figure 9.2 128 i auckland's complete book of witchcraft for the faster planets sun/moon, venus and mercury a little more calculation must be done to allow for their movements between noon and the actual birth time. for a birth time after noon, look up the planet's motion at noon. from the logarithmic tables in the ephemeris, find the log. of the motion and to it add the log. of the interval after noon (a birth time of 6:30 pm would give an interval of six and a half hours. then convert the total log. back to degrees. you now have the difference in position of the planet at noon on the birth date and can add this to the noon position the ephemer

log. of the motion and to it add the log. of the interval after noon (a birth time of 6:30 pm would give an interval of six and a half hours. then convert the total log. back to degrees. you now have the difference in position of the planet at noon on the birth date and can add this to the noon position the ephemeris shows. had the actual birth time been before noon, then you would have looked up the planet's motion at noon on the day before the actual birth date and proceeded as above. should the planet in question be marked "r" in the tables meaning that it is retrograde then you would subtract the movement on interval from the noon position. one word of warning: do not forget to convert greenwich st to local st when filling in the positions of the planets. a chart at this stage may look

btful character, capable of murder, rape, etc. sometimes vague; sometimes confused. associated with eating places, bars, prostitution, narcotics, navigation, the ocean, nursing, advertising. pluto is generally associated with children; youth. leaders, wanting things their own way, disliking laws. pluto is associated with hobbies, sports, outdoor life, actors and actresses, politicians. jupiter is the planet of harmony, of education, law, morals and religion, faith, good humor. truth comes before anything with jupiter. knowledge, the ability to self-educate, learning through reading, are all of jupiter. moneyed people count with this planet; bankers, judges and ecclesiastics. the sun is first and foremost a masculine planet, full of vitality. it has determination yet much kindness, a lot of

urgeons, sportspeople and craftspeople. each of the twelve zodiac signs is spoken of as being "ruled" by one of the planets. what this means is that there is a close affinity between the two. where a lesson nine: divination/ 129 130/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft planet is classed as being "watery" or "fiery, so the sign or signs that it rules are of that type. the sign aries is ruled by the planet mars. taurus is ruled by venus. gemini by mercury; cancer by the moon; leo by the sun; virgo by mercury; libra by venus; scorpio by mars; sagittarius by jupiter; capricorn by saturn; aquarius by saturn (some astrologers prefer uranus) and pisces by jupiter (again some say by neptune. generally it can be said that a fiery sign would not get along well with a water sign, nor would a water

mplexion, with high cheekbones, light hair and eyes. in the sixth house you find the moon. the sixth sphere, you know, is the one of health and physical comfort. the moon is sensitive, emotional. you could say, then, that the person might be prone to emotional upsets; nervous breakdowns. they might also enjoy serving others, since the house also deals with servants. in the ninth house is jupiter, the planet of harmony. he deals, as you have seen, with education and religion. the ninth house, in which he appears, is the one covering religion and spiritual things. this must signify great success for the person in religious affairs; also in philosophical and legal affairs, since jupiter also deals with these. the interpretation would follow around, taking the houses one after another. then th

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ghtering knives, fetter and bind with your hands [this] figure which is with you, so that i may journey past you in peace. whosoever knoweth this shall pass by the goddess in peace" the entrance into the sixth division of the tuat is made through a door in the lower register, which is guarded by a serpent "who openeth it himself" here, too, appears the large five-rayed star which is the symbol of the planet venus, and is described as the "living god which journeyeth, and journeyeth, and travelleth" next: chapter vi. the sixth division of the tuat, which is called metchet-mu-nebt-tuat. sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 116 chapter vi. the sixth division of the tuat, which is called metchet-mu-nebt-tuat. in the scene which illustrates the sixth division of the tuat, which i

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ists, nevertheless conceals in her depths the active, fiery power of chokmah, the root of fire, just as the name aima contains the paternal i, and as b i n h is formed from jah, i h, a name of the father, and ben, b n, a name of the son. the "airy spirit" of the path of zain is a reference to the airy quality of the zodiacal sign gemini, whose ruler, according to the qabalah, is raphael, angel of the planet mercury [80] the meditation on cheth* 1 i am the hedge of protection, enclosing the field of existence. in this field thou dwellest, and i am thy defense against the darkness which is without. yet is this hedge of safety also a wall of limitation, and the darkness against which it defendeth thee is the radiant darkness of the limitless light, too brilliant for thine eyes. 2 for within t

often finds the answer on waking. it is not unconscious cerebration in the sense in which that term is generally employed, although of course there is brain-activity; but that activity is the recording of impressions from the higher planes" 5 "days "seas, and "times" are all represented by the one hebrew noun, yawmim, i m i m, which has the value 100. 6 this paragraph refers to the attribution of the planet jupiter to kaph. the hebrew name for this planet is tsedek, tz d q, signifying "righteousness, equity, or prosperity [111] the meditation on lamed* 1 i am the goad of action, which impelleth and directeth the great ox of the breath of life. i am the power of equilibration which holdeth ruach in balance between formation and destruction, as a driver with his goad keepeth his ox from stra

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y on the art of illusion. white magick is much more than that. it is intensely exciting because it means that we can extend the boundaries of possibility, recalling the psychic powers of childhood when we could span dimensions as easily as jumping across a puddle. we can increase our personal magnetism to attract love and luck and regenerate the innate healing abilities both of the human body and the planet. what magick does not do is provide quick fixes with a twinkling of stardust. it does not produce a faerie godmother, who turns up with a shimmering frock and a platinum credit card to pay the taxi fare home if the handsome prince is short of money and the faerie coach has crumpled into a pumpkin. after the candles and incense have burned through and we sit, exhausted but exhilarated af

is no need to use them. most rituals are related to the basic human needs for health, love, fertility and prosperity. in chapter 13, seasons and festivals, i describe the major solar, lunar and agricultural festivals that formed a focus for attracting abundance and increase to the land, animals, crops and people, tapping into the life force that connected them all. in past time, the well-being of the planet was considered to be the responsibility of peasant as well as king through paying tributes and enacting age-old ceremonies to invoke the necessary energies for the wheel of the year to turn. so individual prosperity or fertility was attained both through private spells and charms and by sending positive energies to the earth and the cosmos and, in a sense, receiving bounty as those beam

it, vegetables, salt, sand, seeds, flowers, coins, pots and jars, together with your crystals, candles, incense and oils, and perhaps a few coloured scarves or ribbons to tie knots. whether your spell is small and personal, or vast and universal, whether you are working to attract love, harmony in the home, prosperity or fertility for yourself or loved ones, for people in the wider environment or the planet, these are all you need [insert pic p034] seite 17 wicca01.txt- thoroughly modern magick not everything you use for magick must be of ancient origin, however. even your computer can be a magical tool, used to draw magick circles. you can draw figures to represent lovers, estranged family members or yourself and a baby you hope to conceive and draw them closer with your mouse until they

rable. this is part of the cosmic banking system and in practice there is considerable overlap between this and personal spells. magick to increase positivity these are the least focused kind of spells. they are used to send out energies to whoever needs them, for example of love, happiness, health or abundance. they may be for an endangered species, a war-torn land, a country in need of water or the planet itself. if a large number of people do send positive energies either to a large-scale project or into the cosmos, followed where possible by practical help or support, then this can really make a difference. again, by sending out healing you will receive in return threefold healing in indirect but powerful ways. the four stages of magick although there are many different kinds of magick

or as the triple-aspected maiden, mother and crone. she is invoked in fertility and healing magick and also for creativity, especially involving the written word. there are a number of sacred wells throughout england, wales and ireland dedicated to her or her christian counterpart. deities of the environment invoke these deities for rituals involving all aspects of the environment and for healing the planet [insert pic p073- gaia gaia is the all-embracing and all-nourishing goddess of the earth. it is said that she supplies in her bounty all the necessary plants to cure any disease and, in spite of human pollution, she constantly heals and renews the planet. she is also a goddess of marriage. she is the natural focus for all green rituals. tellus mater seite 40 wicca01.txt tellus mater was

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e from one universe to another is possible through them. according to legend, star gates exist near to stars dabih, naos and algol: that is, if you journeyed from earth in the direction of one of these stars you would pass through a star gate. there are also stories of a star gate within our own solar system the gate through which the dark gods came to earth. this star gate is believed to be near the planet saturn. sometimes, the abyss invades our dreams, but mostly the abyss is reached by following the seven-fold way. it lies between the spheres of the sun and mars, and divides the adept from the master/mistress. it is the gate to the gods within us and the gods withogo introduction to the 21st century edition t is now ten years since the first edition of this book was produced against al

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ion from the fourth dimension via either thought control or direct intervention. both the hijacking extraterrestrials and those with humanity's interests at heart were regular visitors to the earth thousands of years ago. they became the 'gods' in the ancient texts and legends which have formed the foundations of most, perhaps all, of the major religions of today. if an extraterrestrial landed on the planet in ancient times in an astonishing anti-gravity spacecraft, or you saw a psychic vision of someone on another frequency, you would sure as hell think he or she was a god! and they did. this is where the 'gods- particularly the angry, judgmental, fire and brimstone gods- originated: negative extraterrestrials. the 'fear of god' was born, and this fear and resistance to change (disobeying

rael6 and for the central american god, quetzalcoatl.7 descriptions of flying discs, flying boats, and celestial chariots, abound on all continents and in all cultures. still today we relate 'heaven' to the sky, because that is where the 'gods' of ancient time came from in their spacecraft. the aborigines of australia speak of three ancestral beings, called the djanggawul, who were connected with the planet venus, as was quetzalcoatl and the polynesian deity, kahuna.8 add to all these the many examples cited in the robots' rebellion and countless other books, linking ets with the creation and supervision of the earth races, and only a padlocked mind could dismiss at least the possibility- i would say probability- that extraterrestrials are at the heart of human history and the events that

or themselves and delink their minds from their infinite potential, sell them a dogmatic religion or some other form of rigid dogma. they are then putty in your hands. i think the takeover of planet earth was achieved by what i call the luciferic consciousness. i use this as an overall name to describe the force which attempts to work through all life forms, human and extraterrestrial, to control the planet. it is an extremely negative energy operating from the fourth dimension. the luciferic consciousness takes two main forms. different cultures give these forms different symbolic names. one seeks to imprison us in the material world by persuading us to reject all idea of the spiritual realms and the eternal nature of life. the other works on spiritually-minded people to persuade them to

y more technologically advanced civilisations. during the period of the soviet union, they created an information prison by sending out blocking frequencies to stop certain foreign radio stations from being received by the population. this prevented information which challenged the official line from reaching the people. it created a vibratory prison, an information prison. extend that concept to the planet as a whole and you have the very picture i am presenting (figure 2. the only difference is one of scale, that's all. in his book, the montauk project,9 the electrical engineer, preston nichols, tells the story of how he discovered a blocking frequency which jammed the minds of psychics he was working with as part of research into telepathy. the basis of telepathy, as preston nichols con

y aligned with orion. i think the star arcturus in the bootes constellation is also significant to the earth's history. the veil of tears 15 the aim of the negative extraterrestrials in relation to the earth was to turn humans into little more than a slave race. this has been a theme all along and it remains so today, although in another form. instead of controlling us physically by occupation of the planet, over the past few thousand years they have sought to do so by working through our consciousness from other dimensions. i believe there came a period after ancient babylon and egypt when, for some reason, they no longer came here in the same way. maybe they were forced out by other extraterrestrials who were trying to help us. maybe it was vibratory changes that took place. either way

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merely exchanged overt control for the far more effective covert control. while these empires apparently withdrew, they left out in those countries, including the united states, the bloodlines and the secret society network through which they operate. ever since they have continued to control events in these former colonies as part of a long-planned agenda for the complete centralised control of the planet through a world government, central bank, currency, army, and a micro-chipped population connected to a global computer. this is the very governmental structure that is now staring us in the face. the bloodlines that control the world and our lives today are the same bloodlines that ruled lemuria, atlantis, sumer, egypt, babylon, the roman empire, and the british and european empires. t

n they have never met and know nothing about. they don't question their superiors about why they have to commit genocide. they just do it because they are told to do it and those doing the telling are themselves carrying out orders from those above them. in the end, all roads of command lead ever upwards to the 13 family bloodlines and their offshoots that are orchestrating an agenda to take over the planet. that agenda demands a world government, central bank, currency, and army, underpinned by a micro-chipped population connected to a global computer network. a ridiculous conspiracy "theory? oh really? well have another look around you and you'll see that this is happening today, now the sheeple the self-policing of the human herd goes far deeper than people in uniform or administrators

urs were unknown to science until the 1880s, and the stegosauria was not identified until 1901. talk us through that one. as other books and television documentaries in recent years have shown, these amazing structures, temples, stone circles, and standing stones, were not only lined up precisely with certain star systems, they were aligned just as precisely in relationship to each other all over the planet, and the building techniques and designs were often the same on different sides of the world. why? because the official version of history is baloney. there were not isolated, unconnected, societies, which developed alone, if you go back far enough. there was a global society controlled by the "gods" and representatives of the "gods- beings that were extremely advanced technologically c

bout today's society. it may be advanced on one level with power grids and computer systems, and all the rest. such technology can perform apparently miraculous feats, like typing a letter on to this computer and having it read by someone on the other side of the world seconds later. but what would happen to this technological society if we were faced now with a global catastrophe that devastated the planet? within seconds, we would be sitting in the technological stone age. it would be a primitive, everyone-for-themselves, find-your-own-food, shelter and warmth, free-for-all. and as time and generations passed, the memory of the technological world we have today would fade, ever more rapidly, and only be preserved in stories and myths which would, more and more, be seen as wild tales and

ool network. to this day this secret network has passed on advanced knowledge to the chosen few while denying that privilege to the mass of the people. official history dismisses plato's contention that such a continent existed, but there is vast geological support for such claims. the azores, which some believe were part of atlantis, lie on the mid- atlantic ridge, a fracture line that encircles the planet. this line continues for a distance of 40,000 miles.22 the mid-atlantic ridge is one of the foremost areas for earthquakes and volcanoes. four vast tectonic plates, the eurasian, african, north american, and caribbean, all meet and collide in this region making it very unstable geologically. both the azores and the canary islands (named after dogs "canine, and not canaries) were subject

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ge. a crossroads where we makedecisions which will influence life on earth well into the future of what we call time. wecan fling open the doors of the mental and emotional prisons which have confined thehuman race for thousands of years. or we can allow the agents of that control tocomplete their agenda for the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical enslavement ofevery man, woman and child on the planet with a world government, army, central bankand currency, underpinned by a microchipped population.i know that sounds fantastic, but if the human race lifted its eyes from the latest soapopera or game show for long enough to engage its brain, it would see that these eventsare not just going to happen- they are happening. the momentum for the centralisedcontrol of global politics, busines

ears, even a few decades or centuries:it can be traced back thousands of years. the structures of todays institutions in2government, banking, business, military and the media have not been infiltrated by thisforce, they were created by them from the start. the brotherhood agenda is, in truth,the agenda of many millennia. it is the unfolding of a plan, piece by piece, for thecentralised control of the planet.the bloodline hierarchy at the top of the human pyramid of control and suppressionpasses the baton across the generations, mostly sons following fathers. the children ofthese family lines who are chosen to inherit the baton are brought up from birth tounderstand the agenda and the methods of manipulating the great work into reality.advancing the agenda becomes their indoctrinated missio

hilds, the european royaltyand aristocracy, the rockefellers, and the rest of the so-called eastern establishment ofthe united states which produces the american presidents, business leaders, bankersand administrators. but at the very top, the cabal which controls the human raceoperates from the shadows outside the public domain. any group which is soimbalanced as to covet the complete control of the planet will be warring within itselfas different factions seek the ultimate control. this is certainly true of the brotherhood.there is tremendous internal strife, conflict and competition. one researcher describedthem as a gang of bank robbers who all agree on the job, but then argue over how thespoils will be divided. that is an excellent description and through history differentfactions hav

t to educate, but to indoctrinate. anyone who doesnt conform tothe official line of history is isolated by their fellow historians and archaeologists whoeither know their jobs, reputations and funding are safer when they stick to the officialversion, or, frankly, they cannot see beyond the end of their noses. the same can be saidof most people in the teaching and intellectual professions.all over the planet are fantastic structures built thousands of years ago which couldonly have been created with technology as good as, often even better than, we havetoday. at baalbek, north east of beirut in the lebanon, three massive chunks of stone,each weighing 800 tons, were moved at least a third of a mile and positioned high up ina wall. this was done thousands of years bc! another block nearby wei

blazing rockets and alsoland of the watchers, according to sitchin. the ancient text known as the book ofenoch also calls the gods the watchers, as did the egyptians. the egyptian name fortheir gods, the neteru, literally translates as watchers and they said that their gods camein heavenly boats.according to zecharia sitchin, the tablets describe how the anunnaki came from aplanet called nibiru (the planet of the crossing) which he believes has a 3,600 yearelliptical orbit that takes it between jupiter and mars and then out into far space beyondpluto. modern science has identified a body it calls planet x which has been locatedbeyond pluto and is believed to be part of this solar system. but an elliptical orbitwould be incredibly unstable and difficult to sustain. scientists i trust belie

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owerful more power. chaos is created, and media blitzed. then cries go out for solution. laws are passed which could never have been passed without the chaos. the order has reigned by deception of the masses, and the agenda is accomplished. after all, it is those secret societies (which follow this egyptian model) that control the finances, governments, and religious systems that currently plague the planet with perversions of truth and fascist agendas not becoming of the truly enlightened. below are quotes written by high level masons praising lucifer with references "the mysteries of magic' by eliphas levi "what is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. the intellectual lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love;

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principle work of an "adeptus minor" in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. apport: from the french meaning "to bring. in spiritism (q.v, any object brought to a seance by a spirit (q.v) or entity from the spirit world or the astral plane (q.v. aquarius "the water-bearer" in astrology (q.v, the eleventh sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet uranus (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color red. keywords include: unconventionally, rebelliously, humanitarianly, impersonally, with originality, with detachment, creatively. ararita: a hebrew, notarikon (q.v) for "eh-chahd rash, eh-chu-doh-toh rash, ye-chudoh- toh teh-mur-ah-toh eh-chahd" used in the lesser banishing ritual of the hex

e, in the sense coined and used by carl g. jung, psychiatrist, such a concept existing within the collective unconscious mind of humanity. archetypal image: the form in which an archetype is clothed by a particular culture, mythology, religion, or individual. aries "the ram" in astrology (q.v, the first sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mars (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color red. keywords include: courage, forceful, animation, outgoing, ardently, egotistically, ardently, impulsively, vigorously, aggressively, enthusiastically. artificial elemental: an entity similar to an elemental, but created by a magician from an element (q.v) or a combination of elements for a s

.v) to the enochian (q.v) angels (q.v) dictated to john dee through his seer, the alchemist and rouge, edward kelley. the calls were used extensively in the magick of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, aleister crowley (q.v, and anton lavey. cancer "the crab" in astrology (q.v, the fourth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and water (q.v) and is ruled by the planet luna (the moon (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color orange-yellow. keywords include: home, indistinct, protectively, sensitive, caring, maternally, domestically, gaspingly, moodily. capricorn "the goat" in astrology (q.v, the tenth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet

mainly by imitating the guru, or teacher. chesed: in hebrew "mercy. pronounced "heh-sehd. the fourth (4th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. chiah: our true will, in hebrew. corresponds to the second sephirah on the tree of life (q.v. chiron: the newest planet of the terran solar system to be discovered (1977 c.e, lying between the orbits of saturn (q.v) and uranus (q.v. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the most noble of the centaurs who served as a philosopher, healer, and astrologer to the greek gods. attributed as being the second in command of the zodiac (q.v) sign virgo (q.v) by many modern astrologers, though the last word has yet to be written on this subject. keywords include: teaching, mentoring, student, apprentice, medicine, healing, ecology, recycling, death wit

y priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of the far east. it's range is roughly coequal with that of buddhism (q.v. in the late 1800's, the writings of helena p. blavatski (q.v) and the theosophical society (q.v, were primarily responsible with bringing the teachings of eastern occultism to the west. electro

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iculties of getting hold of the qabalistic system, so intricate, abstract, and voluminous, and yet so comprehensive and satisfactory when once it is mastered. 22. before we can consider the second triangle of the tree as a unit, we must know the meaning of its component sephiroth. chesed means mercy or love; it is also called gedulah, greatness or magnificence, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet jupiter. geburah means strength; it is ako called pachad, fear; to it is assigned the sphere of th planet mars. tiphareth means beauty, and to it is assigned the sphere of the sun. when the gods of the various pagan pantheons are being correlated with the spheres on the tree, it will be found that the sacrificed gods invariably come on to tiphareth, and for this reason it has been calle

zach, hod, and yesod. netzach is the basal sephirah of the pillar of mercy, hod is the basal sephirah of the pillar of severity, and yesod is upon the middle pillar of mildness or equilibrium, in direct alignment with kether and tiphareth. thus the third triangle is an exact replica of the second triangle upon a lower arc. 26. the meaning of netzach is victory, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet venus; the meaning of hod is glory, and to it is assigned the sphere of the planet mercury; the meaning of yesod is foundation, and to it is assigned the sphere of the moon. 27.while the second triangle might not inaptly be termed the ethical triangle, the third may well be called the magical triangle; and if we assign to kether the sphere of the three in one, the undivided unity, and t

universe. it is from chokmah that binah, the third sephirah, receives its influx of emanation, and binah is the first of the organising, stabilising sephiroth. it [page 124] is not possible to understand either of the paired sephiroth without considering its mate; therefore in order to understand chokmah we shall have to say something about binah. let it be noted, then, that binah is assigned to the planet saturn and is called the superior mother. 5. in binah and chokmah we have the archetypal positive and negative; the primordial maleness and femaleness, established while "countenance beheld not countenance" and manifestation was incipient. it is from these primary pairs of opposites that the pillars of the universe spring, between which is woven the web of manifestation. 6. as we have a

y geburah, the fifth sephirah, which has for additional titles din (justice) and pachad (fear, is one of the least understood of all the sephiroth, and is therefore one of the most important. were it not that the qabalistic doctrine explicitly lays it down that all the ten sephiroth are holy, there are many who would be inclined to look upon geburah as the evil aspect of the tree of life. indeed, the planet mars, whose sphere is the mundane chakra of geburah, is called in astrology an infortune. 2. those, however, who are instructed beyond the crude pretty-pretty of a wish-fulfilling philosophy know that geburah is by no means the enemy or adversary described in scripture, but the king in his chariot going forth to war whose strong right arm protects his people with the sword of righteousn

, that it is only the seven of wands which has a good, or positive, significance, the other three sevens are all cards of ill fortune. the reason for this becomes clear) however) when we understand the symbolism as a whole, so we will put it aside for the moment, and reconsider it later. 33. let us now turn to the consideration of the other set of symbolic images. the mundane chakra of netzach is the planet venus, and the magical image is, appropriately enough "a beautiful naked woman" the spiritual experience assigned to this sphere is the vision of beauty triumphant. the virtue is unselfishness-that is to say, the capacity to polarise from the negative pole. the vices are the obvious ones of love abusedunchastity and lust. 34. the correspondence in the microcosm is with the loins, hips

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brief period of struggle as the little machine forces over the reluctant levers of the great machine, then the vapour fires and the engine takes up its work. after that it is only a matter of engaging the gears and driving- if you can! so it is with ceremonial magic. let us consider a concrete case of someone who wants to avail himself of a fighting force. he would have recourse to a ceremony of the planet mars. he would therefore gather together in his temple all that was appropriate to mars. he would drape his altar with a scarlet cloth; he would himself wear a scarlet robe. all his magical implements would be 61 of 103 of iron and his rod of power would be a naked sword. upon his altar he would place five lights, five being the number of mars. upon his breast would be the symbol of mar

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meaning any simple esoteric symbol, such as the symbol for elemental fire, as in "the sign of elemental fire (skull, a token of death, from het geheele leven ons heeren jesu christi, 1648) a token is a sign that represents something else by association. a rose may be used as a token of love, a raven as a token of putrefaction. tokens do not embody the things they represent (astrological glyph of the planet neptune, from the book of signs (1930) by rudolf koch) a glyph, short for hieroglyph, is usually the pictorial representation of a letter. ancient egyptian and modern chinese, for example, use small pictograms in place of letters. in magic the term is sometimes employed specifically to denote the astrological signs of the zodiac and planets (gnostic amulet of chnoubis, one of the decans

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than a fuzzy dot or blob of light in the sky. in film records, this fuzzy blob is usually moving, or has the false appearance of motion due to movements applied to the camera during filming. sometimes it can be identified conjecturally as a natural object, such as light reflected from a cloud, or the orb of the moon reflected in a body of water or from a refraction layer in the atmosphere, or as the planet venus (an ever-popular ufo. these things give a convincing illusion of motion when filmed from a moving car or plane. when the fuzzy blob cannot be identified, it survives as a visual record of a ufo, in the literal sense of the term. ufo "fuzzies" may also be generated by light artifacts or defects within the mechanism of the still or movie camera. possible causes are incorrect focus

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become a matter of public concern, and ufo contactees like king were offering an answer. before the decade was out, king had attracted a following in the united states, and an american headquarters was established in los angeles. king developed a picture of the cosmos as ruled by an extraterrestrial hierarchy similar to the theosophical spiritual hierarchy. the hierarchy sent spiritual energy to the planet, which could be used to fight the forces of evil, especially those coming from evil extraterrestrials. spaceships position themselves above the earth at special times of the year, considered the best moments for transmitting the energies from outer space. king authored a series of books spelling out the theology and practices of what emerged as a new occult religion. king claimed that h

) christian philosopher, and (5) alethophilos. higher grades (1) esquire (2) soldier, and (3) knight, thus supplying egyptian, christian, and templar mysteries to the initiate. in 1806 a pamphlet was published at berlin entitled a discovery concerning the system of the order of african architects. afs see american folklore society ag a red flower used by some hindus to propitiate the deity sanee (the planet saturn. it is made into a wreath with jasoon, also a red-colored flower, which is hung round the neck of the god, who is of a congenial nature. this ceremony is performed at night. agaberte daughter of a certain giant called vagnoste dwelling in scandinavia. she was a powerful enchantress and was rarely seen in her true shape. sometimes she would take the form of an old woman, wrinkled

time later he led the group to california, where a large house was rented in an exclusive section of ranch santa fe, a suburb of san diego. they were there in early 1997 when applewhite heard of the newly discovered hale bopp comet and of rumors that a spaceship was following it on its approach to earth. believing this to be the sign they were waiting for, he prepared the group for their leaving the planet. finally, as the comet came closest to earth in march 1997, over a several-day period (march 23.25, applewhite and the remaining group members committed suicide using vodka and phenobarbital. because the bodies were not discovered for several days, the exact time of death remains unknown. in the wake of the deaths, applewhite has joined the list of religious leaders known for the destru

ssibly befall any individual, and the prognostication is drawn from the configuration of the planets in one or more of these houses. first house. the first house, the house of life, includes all that affects one s basic self. the sign ascending will considerably modify the character of the native, so forming an astrological judgment will require combining the indications of the ascending sign and the planet. in what are called horary questions, this house relates to all questions of life, health, and appearance, such as stature, complexion, shape, accidents, and sickness. it shows the events that will occur during journeys and ventures with respect to the life and health of those engaged in them. regarding questions of a political nature, the first house signifies the people in general, an

ss that destroy the limitations of normal waking consciousness indicate neptune s influence. uranus. uranus is by nature extremely cold, dry, and melancholy. natives with a strong uranian influence are of small stature, dark or pale complexion, rather light hair, highly nervous temperament, and sedate aspect but have some striking physical feature, light gray eyes, and a delicate constitution. if the planet is well dignified (i.e, there is a high degree of harmony between the planet and the sign it is in, the native is a searcher of science, particularly chemistry, and remarkably attached to the wonderful. the person possesses an extraordinary magnanimity and loftiness of mind, with an uncontrollable and intense desire for pursuits and discoveries of an uncommon nature. if the planet is il

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s at 19 avenue rd, regents park, where blavatsky moved in 1890, and she invited him to move his studio into the same building. he designed the urn that held blavatsky s ashes following her death and cremation in 1891. machell s art took on a mystical/gnostic cast and realism gave way to symbolism. he soon produced some of his most famous paintings, including dweller on the threshold, the birth of the planet and lead kindly light. in 1900 he moved to the united states and joined the theosophical community at point loma, san diego, california, established by the independent american branch of the theosophical society by katherine tingley. over the next years he worked on the decor of the buildings, wrote articles for the community s periodical, the theosophical path, and did numerous illustr

1974. medeiros, earl c. the complete history and philosophy of kung fu. rutland, vt: charles tuttle, 1975. nakayama, m. dynamic karate. cedar knolls, n.j: wehman, 1966. tohei, koichi. this is aikido. tokyo: japan publications, 1975. westbrook, a. and o. ratti. aikido and the dynamic sphere. rutland, vt: charles tuttle, 1970. martian language a language purporting to be that of the inhabitants of the planet mars, written and spoken by the medium known as helene smith (pseudonym of catherine elise muller. smith was studied by the celebrated investigator theodore flournoy, professor of psychology at geneva. in 1892 smith joined a spiritualist circle, where she developed marvelous mediumistic powers. in 1896, after flournoy had begun his investigations, smith claimed to have been spirited dur

written and spoken by the medium known as helene smith (pseudonym of catherine elise muller. smith was studied by the celebrated investigator theodore flournoy, professor of psychology at geneva. in 1892 smith joined a spiritualist circle, where she developed marvelous mediumistic powers. in 1896, after flournoy had begun his investigations, smith claimed to have been spirited during a trance to the planet encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. martian language 983 mars, and thereafter described to the circle the manners, customs, and appearance of the martians. she learned their language, which she wrote and spoke with ease and consistency. unlike most of the unknown tongues automatically produced, the martian language was intelligible, its words were used consistently, and o

n the vowel sounds were identical, so that the source of the martian language was clearly an extraordinary construction from the medium s unconscious. as such it greatly resembled the form of religious speech known as glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, which is a new language that is a cutdown version of the language the speaker uses normally everyday. sources: flournoy, theodore. from india to the planet mars. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1963. martin, dorothy r(andolph (1912) associate professor of psychology with special interest in parapsychology. she was born on april 19, 1912, in denver, colorado. she studied at the university of colorado, boulder, from which she received three degrees (b.a, 1934; m.a, 1936; ph.d, 1947. she joined the faculty in psychology at the

1970 and settled on a farm. in 1974, he advertised for people who would like to be part of a metaphysical study group, and soon had a small gathering joining him for discussions of occult matters. the next year he announced that he had not only seen a flying saucer, but that it had landed and a beautiful woman disembarked. he talked with her for an hour and a half. the woman, semjase, hailed from the planet erra in the pleiades. of all the people with whom the pleiadians had made contact, only meier had passed all the tests. semjase set the stage for meier to take a host of pictures of what were termed beamships, meier s primary evidence to an unbelieving world. he claimed to have taken a number of rides in the beamships, including a visit to the pleiades. european media began to give meie

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landed: new religions from other worlds, 15 64. albany, ny: state university of new york press. wallis, roy, 1974. the aetherius society: a case study of a mystagogic congregation. sociologi- cal review 22: 27 44. affa affa first appeared in 1952 among the extraterrestrials who communicated to a small prescott, arizona, occult group headed by george hunt williamson. affa, identified as being from the planet uranus, first spoke through automatic writing, then later allegedly by radio, warning of threats to earth by evil humans and menacing aliens from the orion solar systems. affa later surfaced in automatic-writing communications to frances swan of eliot, maine, beginning in 1954. mrs. swan s affa, like williamson s, did his communicating from a giant uranian spaceship. affa urged swan to

ame marla baxter, gives howard menger in her book my saturnian lover (1958. weber/baxter relates that after being widowed, she devoted herself to an interest in flying saucers. in the summer of 1956, she joined a group headed by alyn r, who was said to have had contacts with people from other worlds. alyn eventually reveals his secret to her: i am not of this world! i am a volunteer to earth from the planet saturn. on saturn, he tells her, he was the spiritual teacher sol da naro. in the meantime, on earth, the two become lovers. she writes, my 20 alyn howard and connie menger (august c. roberts/fortean picutre library) saturnian lover did wonderful things for me. my body seemed to grow more softly contoured through this pygmalion transformation as the saturnian sculptor, by his unique art

ufo revelations in the last days. new brunswick, nj: inner light publications. gansberg, judith m, and alan l. gansberg, 1980. direct encounters: the personal histories of ufo abductees. new york: walker and company. anunnaki ancient-astronaut theorist zecharia sitchin, author of a series of books under the rubric the earth chronicles, argues that a race of humanlike beings, the anunnaki, live on the planet nibiru (also known as maldek, the alleged twelfth planet of our solar system. though unknown to astronomers, nibiru, on an elliptical orbit, circles our sun every 3,600 years. according to sitchin, nibiru will be in our immediate planetary space in the near fu- 24 anthon ture and will be detected between mars and jupiter. when that happens, the anunnaki will make their presence known by

were vivid mental images that the aliens had beamed into her brain. at the same time, she was certain that she had not dreamed any of this; it was much too real and had none of the distinguishing characteristics of dreams. see also: hybrid beings further reading randles, jenny, and paul whetnall, 1981. alien con- tact: window on another world. london: neville spearman. artemis artemis hails from the planet miranda, located in an uncharted region of the milky way galaxy. he and the thirteen thousand beings on his team orbit earth in a giant space platform, focusing their attention on most of the north american continent. other spaceships from other places attend to the rest of earth. artemis, who channeled through anthony and lynn volpe in 1981, said that he 26 arna and parz seeks to raise

d beings on his team orbit earth in a giant space platform, focusing their attention on most of the north american continent. other spaceships from other places attend to the rest of earth. artemis, who channeled through anthony and lynn volpe in 1981, said that he 26 arna and parz seeks to raise humanity s collective vibration. coming cataclysms will radically alter the population and surface of the planet. certain chosen earthlings who are advanced spiritually will be taken up just before the disasters. others will be left on the surface for a time as they help suffering earth people. eventually, spiritually unenlightened but otherwise harmless persons will be taken up and resettled on uninhabited planets, while the truly evil will be left on earth. most, though not all, will perish. all

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and darkness upon the face of the deep. 24 swami vivekananda is the monastic name of narendranath datta. as sri ramakrishna s ambassador, he traveled to the world s parliament of religions in chicago in 1893, where he electrified the audience with his address. 25 the akashic record is the karmic archive of a planet, which can be accessed through psychic mediation. akasha is the plastic medium of the planet s astral body. 26 the torah begins with the word b reshith; the zohar begins with the word beshoshanah( by the rose; the sefer yetzirah begins with bishaloshym( by thirty; and the qu ran begins with bismaallah( in the name allah. 27 idra rabba 29. 28 idra zuta 56, 57. 29 saradananda, swami. sri sri ramakrishna lilaprasanga, trans. as sri ramakrishna the great master by swami jagadananda

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rmation and the luciferian concepts of antinomian thought. no longer should children be force fed christian lies, bending knees to spiritual weakness. bring your young to us, a new luciferian youth! the world we live in is a christian world, look at what they have brought to humanity with their hypocritical self-deceit- war, murder, rape, incest, ignorance, blind faith and the slow destruction of the planet. it is time for a new luciferian youth, to shape the world in their own way by putting a new god on a cross, a god which demands selfstudy and self- worship, not obsessions to spiritual otherness which begins outside the self. luciferian and satanic thought begins internally, and then moves outwan the focus of life by austin osman spare preface the mutterings of aaos "now for reality "

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ences pouring down onto the earth from the stars of which the author of the asclepius speaks. it was believed that these effluvia and influences could be canalised and used by an operator with the requisite knowledge. every object in the material world was full of occult sympathies poured down upon it from the star on which it depended. the operator who wished to capture, let us say, the power of the planet venus, must know what plants belonged to venus, what stones and metals, what animals, and use only these when addressing venus. he must know the images of venus and know how to inscribe these on talismans made of the right venus materials and at the right astrological moment. such images were held to capture the spirit or power of the star and to hold or store it for use. not only the p

a lion's face and bird's feet, below them a dragon with seven heads, holding an arrow in his right hand" an image of mars "the form of a man, crowned, holding a raised sword in his right hand" an image of sol "the form of a king sitting on a throne, with a crown on his head and beneath his feet the figure (magic character) of the sun" 1 picatrix, lib. ii, cap. 12 (sloane 1305, ff. 52 recto ff. 2 the planet images are listed in lib. ii, cap. 10 (sloane 1305, ff. 43 recto ff. 52 hermes trismegistus and magic an image of venus "the form of a woman with her hair unbound riding on a stag, having in her right hand an apple, and in her left, flowers, and dressed in white garments" an image of mercury "the form of a man having a cock on his head, on a throne, having feet like those of an eagle, w

it is included in ficino, opera, pp. 530-73. 3 ficino, p. 530 (address to the reader before lib. i l l, de vita coelitus comparanda. 62 ficino's natural magic through over-intense application to their studies to grow ill or melancholy.1 this is because the nature of their occupations brings them under the influence of saturn, for contemplation and hard abstract study belong to saturn who is also the planet of the melancholy temperament, and the star which is inimical to the vital forces of fife and youth. melancholy students who have used up their vital powers in their studies, and the old in whom these forces are in any case declining, are therefore advised to avoid as far as possible plants, herbs, animals, stones, and the like belonging to saturn, and to use and surround themselves wit

lmost astrological suggestion into the relationships between the hierarchies, which are said to "drink" the influences from the trinity, a word wrhich recalls the expression used in the de vita coelitus comparanda where the spiritus of the world is thought of as poured out through the stars and drunk by its recipients here below. and if we add one more term to the light series, the term "sol" for the planet sol or the sun, the drinking in of spiritus from the sun would connect with the higher series, the higher "liquor" drunk by the hierarchies, and the higher forms of light flashed down from the light supernal.3 thus ficino's natural or spiritus magic, aiming no higher than the planets and particularly at the sun, would yet have an angelic continuation stretching out beyond and above it

angelic continuation stretching out beyond and above it. though ficino, or so i believe, would make no attempt to "operate" with angels, beyond the normal christian prayers and supplications, nor try to reach the virtues which move the heavens in order to become a worker of miracles' ficino, pp. 965-75- 2 ibid, pp. 976-86. 3 this transition is definitely made in the de sole, which first discusses the planet sol and its central importance and, in the last chapter, compares the sun to the trinity and the nine orders of angels de sole, cap. xii; ficino, p. 973. 120 pseudo-dionysius and theology of a christian magus the angelic continuation beyond the stars was of course normal to christian thought, and is, for example, exquisitely expressed in terms of music by shakespeare's lorenzo: sit, jes

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tic servitors of dagon. at certain times in the past, they have ventured onto land and mated with humans, producing a degenerate offspring who can be recognised by icthyoid physical characteristics known as the innsmouth look, after the new england seaport whose inhabitants had interbred with the deep ones. the whisperer in darkness details a third group of nonhuman entities, which originate from the planet yuggoth (or pluto. they are crab-like creatures, fungoid in substance, which lovecraft links with the mi-go, or abominable snowman, of the himalayas. the last type which lovecraft was to describe in detail is the great race, which occupied the continent of australia some 150,000 years ago. unlike the other races mentioned above, it seems that this group may have been indigenous to the e

correspondences found in lovecraft s fiction has been supplied by kenneth grant in his typhonian trilogies. grant suggests that the lovecraftian grimoire, the necronomicon, actually exists within the akasha, or field of astral light. this is an etheric reservoir said to surround the earth, and which retains within its structure the imprint of every event which has occurred since the formation of the planet. it can be accessed at will by those individuals who possess the necessary psychic ability, and may be manipulated to provide positive images. it was from the akashic records that blavatsky transmitted the book of dzayn, and crowley transcribed the book of the cells of the qliphoth could it be that lovecraft may have subconsciously communicated the book of dead names from the same sourc

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y creative so that we would no longer be dependent upon the separate sexual process of generation now in vogue. thus by the work of these two great hierarchies, we were raised from unconsciousness to the first stage of creative intelligence, from plant to god. we have also learned that this plan was frustrated by the lucifer spirits, stragglers from the humanity of the moon period, who lived upon the planet mars. they needed a physical field of action, but were unable to create one for themselves, hence for selfish reasons they taught humanity how by cooperation of the sexes a new body may be created at any time; and in order to give an incentive they instilled into mankind the animalistic passionate nature which we now possess. thus to the ancient alchemists, the angels from the moon whic

traditions agree with science that there was a time when darkness brooded over the deep of space, where the material for the coming earth planet was being gathered together and set in motion by the divine hierarchs; that this stage was followed by a period of luminosity, when the dark cloud of matter had become a fire mist; that this was followed by a period when the cold of space and the heat of the planet-in-the-making generated an atmosphere of steam close to the fiery core and mist further from the fiery center. when the mist had cooled sufficiently, it fell again as rain upon the fiery core, to be re-evaporated, and this continued in endless cycles, until by repeated boiling of the waters, an incrustation began to form around the fiery core. upon the islands of crust in the ocean of f

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omplished by lucifer, their great leader will be made plain in the following articles; for the present, suffice it to say, that in the earth period, when various planets were differentiated to provide proper evolutionary environment for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the coming birth of jesus to mary) and his lunar angels are therefore the givers of physical life, while samael and the hosts of mars are the angels of death. thus originated the feud in the dim dawn

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

kes have been made than on that of the goddess isis, both by ancients and moderns. he calls attention to the inconsistency of calling her the moon when in many countries the moon is masculine. he is quite positive that if isis is the moon, ceres, proserpine, venus, and all the other female gods were the same, which in view of the facts everywhere at hand cannot be true. it is true, however, that "the planet called the moon was dedicated to her in judicial astrology, the same as a planet was dedicated to venus or mars. but venus and mars were not these planets themselves, though these planets were sacred to them"[33] higgins then calls attention to her temple at sais in egypt, and to the inscription which declares that "she comprehends all that is and was and is to be" that she is "parent o

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the room, and the pentagram of virgo and themarssymbol towards the south. we then mentally formulated the hexagramofmars in red light at that point of the compass.theupper triangle appeared flaming, and an armed figureofsomewhat earthy type seemed to look through it.theearthiness we ascribed to the fact that the sign virgo had been invoked.thefigure probably represented the energy of mars (who is the planet of outward manifestation) bringing the hidden lifeofthe earth to the surface, only to be destroyed and consumed as soon as it reached outward perfection, as in time of harvest. we did not stop to examine this figure much,butwent through the hex. astrally and found ourselves in a region of flames.therewe invoked the white light, vibrating the names and holding our swords towards heaven.t

isen christ, triumphant over 'death. we seemed to have been led through the pathofmars on to a solar plane. all the planets are but rays, or differentiationsofthe sun, it is true, but some special teaching was evidently to be given us by this abrupt transition from mars, the planetofoutward expulsion and destruction, to the sun, who symbolizes the all-attracting, inward-drawing centre, and who is the planet of life and resurrection.thetarotsymbol of mars is very suggestive in this connection, also the alchemical meaning of iron, which has the same symbol as mars, and is said to be corrosive externally,butsolarinternally.(note.i think it was at this point that we asked for information concerning the hiltofthe sword, which is like a reversed cross when the point is raised. all i can remember

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possession oftheirancestors. sofar as can be judged the deities of the early greeks were not closely related to the sun and planets, although the later greeks identified their apollo with helios the sun, and artemis with the moon.theearlier greeks looked upon the sun as driving his chariot through the sky, but the sun was not an olympian god, and held a minor rank in the earliest pantheon. venus, the planet, was called hesperus, as the evening star, and there was the morning star eosphorus,butit was not until the time at any rate of pythagoras circa 612b.c.,that they were consideredtobe the same heavenly body.ithas been asserted by muller, the german savant, in his treatise on mythology, that the astro255 nomical greek myths were few, and they werenotclosely related to their religion. in t

re the rising sun, and in hebrew called hilal, was the greek eosophoros. this name was not applied to satan until jerome so used it; milton adopted it.themoon was called irak and levanah, or labanah, and was considered the ruler of night.thesun was named shemesh, and chamah, and cheres; and was called the ruler of day.thehebrew word for star in general was kukab, but this word was also applied to the planet venus, especially by the kabalistic rabbis of the middle ages. i may mention a few notable astrologers individually: claudius ptolemy lived at alexandria in egypt, the great centre of learning in the first century,a.d.his works illustrated one of the earlier systems of astronomy, which have come down to us, and many astrological treatises are extant which bear his name. he was the emine

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

cube opened out.38 thesorcererand his apprentice44. the symbol of venus on the tree of life embraces the whole of the sephiroth and is therefore the fitting symbol of the isis of nature. hence, also, its circle is always to be represented larger than that of mercury.0 267 267.'45. the mode of using the talismanic forms drawn from the geomantic figures is to take those yielded by the figures under the planet required, and to place them at the opposite ends of the 8 radii of a wheel as shewn. occasionally also a square of any convenient number of apartments may be substituted for the wheel.theazoth lecture3946. these are the geomantic figures arranged in planetary attributioninthe tree of life. brepresents the three supernal sephiroth summed upinbinah, while caput and cauda draconis are refe

quid, that of gold solid;butthere was a time when the normal condition of gold was liquid, and that of water gaseous or perhaps igneous. this view of the elements may lead to theories and discoveries of science undreamed of at present. from these forms the circle, the cross, and the triangle appropriately grouped, many other symbols may be formed; thus take, for instance, the well-known symbol of the planet venus (fig. 10. after the final and deepest fall of man into matter, his consciousness descended from the circle of infinity, his spiritual being into the cross of matter; hence passional desires, and all that is symbolised by venus, and the cross below the circle became a most appropriate glyph for the power which was then dominant in his life, and for the part of his nature which is n

mes at which they succeed each other, are not by any means those of the sun,butare quite different.then,again, each human being is producing his or her owntatwiccurrents;everyhumanbeing is reflecting light, is radiating warmth, shows motion- the circulation of the blood and so forth. and those lines of vibration proceed at a totally different rate, and at totally different intervals from those of the planet. now rama prasad speaks about sunrise and sunset, mid-day and mid-night, and he asserts certain physical phenomena which take place at these times. now, many doctors have said that it isnotso, and it is not so if you take the time in the heavens for your system of measurement.now,what is a day according to the philosophy of the tatwas? it isnotonly the day which is measured by the sun;

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period of harsh discipline we may despise the process and the teacher(s) involved. on a cosmological level evil cannot exist, if the great chain of being unfolded from a single principle then everything must have its place and role and to suggest a separate ontologically evil force destroys this balance. so how does evil exist? this paradox is symbolized in the gnostic astrological traditions as the planet saturn. saturn is both sophia, wisdom and satan, the tester. in the old testament satan was not a rival to god but worked within gods court to test and trial the faithful. saturn is hence a dual image and it is to saturn that the title demiurge is usually applied. saturn is also sophia and through ialdaboath matter is created and yet we may ask why was it a sin for sophia to want to kno

s of the heraldic period, only at the moment of the movement from one age to the next would he enter the sanctuary and transit the energies to the priesthood and to egypt. to fully appreciate the heraldic cycle as it leads towards aquarius, we should examine the four dates at the climax of pisces. from 18444 to 21024 we have the piscean heraldic cycle ruled by the sign of aries. aries is ruled by the planet mars and hence this suggests the violent and martial tone that pisces, which is assigned the egyptian god horus, has taken in this last age. while pisces is water, aries is fire and hence we have the interaction of will and emotion, while pisces distributes power, aries generates it and hence the combination of these powers brings great changes. the attribution of horus to pisces is con

he firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial class are those who have reached perfection through the path of transfiguration and achieved a state of godhood. they continue to incarnate on earth working with the will (logos) of the lord of wisdom. in the end time the 144,000 in conjunction with the celestial class will fulfil the role of the "left hand of god" cleansing the planet in preparation for his return. the celestial class will be deified and unit with the pleroma. the terrestrial class are those who achieve perfection at the resurrection. they apply and follow the gnostic principles in many lives as they transform from earthly to heavenly substance. the terrestrial class will continue their development in the next great chain of being (new heaven and new

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m among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial class are those who have reached perfection through the transfiguration and achieved a state of godhood. they continue to incarnate on earth, working with the divine will (logos. at the omega day the 144,000, in conjunction with the celestial class, will fulfil the role of the "left hand of god, cleansing the planet in preparation for his return. they will be translated to become immortals within the heavenly hierarchy. the terrestrial class are those who achieve perfection at the resurrection. they apply and follow the gnostic principles through many lives as they transform from earthly to heavenly substance. they follow the will of the pleroma and are reborn as his children on the restored new ea

d 26,000 year. in each sign energy is radiated into earth consciousness, this radiation is mixed and includes light and darkness, x and y factors. in the modern gnostic view these energy forms radiate from the throne of ra which is positioned in the centre of our system. this seat exists within the solar logos, and these energies emanates from within it. accordingly, the four forces which radiate the planet from this centre are influenced by the astrological age that the earth is in. even the fallen or archonic forces are influenced by it, though they manifest a destructive distortion of its formula. for the gnostic to develop, he must master the formulae of each age (either historically via reincarnation, or within a lifetime using various spiritual means. each period radiates an influenc

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS C C1

gram of the complete hexagram should be traced on a black background. thou shall make it in the colours already taught in earlier grades. uppermost point l indigo lowermost point y violet right upperhand k blue right lowerhand c green 3 left upperhand f scarlet left lowerhand b orange center of hexagram a golden yellow 4 5 the uppermost arm is indigo and touches tud. tud, being a non-sephira, has the planet of l attributed to it. in esoteric thought, l is the oldest of all the planets. above the top point of the hexagram are the sickles of l. the three sephiroth of the divine supernals are attributed and written above: rtk, hmkj, hnyb, also written is tud. in the center of the top point is the letter a, the first letter from the name atyrara. the right uppermost arm is blue. this arm is at

rkings of our order, in group or privately, the classical hexagram is preferred. all invoking hexagrams are to be traced following the course of the sun. therefore, trace the line from left to right. banishing hexagrams are traced contrary to the course of the sun. when the adept is invoking a planet using the hexagram, it is traced in two triangles. the first triangle commences from the angle of the planet. put simply, begin from the sephira the planet is assigned to. the second triangle of the hexagram commences from the opposite angle of the first triangle. the symbol of the planet is traced in the center. the order has a very specific way of tracing the planetary symbols. this information appears in unpublished material written by s.l. macgregor mathers, g.h. frater s.r.m.d. l k f a c

he sephiroth are not to be invoked on every slight occasion. due care and solemnity must be used. this is especially true with the invoking of hmkj, rtk, and the supernals in general. see that thou use the divine names with reverence and humility "for cursed is he that taketh the name of the vast one in vain" when invoking a planet, or planets, draw the hexagram in the quarter of the zodiac where the planet thou invokest is. it is a good investment for the adept to purchase an ephemeris. let the adept, therefore, erect an astrological figure of the positions of the planets in the heaven at the actual time of working. the time when the planet rises above the horizon on its day of working is the most potent. in any event, the correct day and planetary hour must be employed for maximum effect

king with. in the lesser forms, thou can banish and invoke all of the planets. the traditional b.r.h. with the hexagram of l is used in general workings and unimportant operations. through the use of competent divination, the adept can determine which forms are to be invoked or banished. when performing the b.r.h. or the i.r.h. using the four forms, thou shall trace them beginning at the angle of the planet under whose regimen thou art working, following the course of the sun to invoke and reversing the course to banish. in addition, it is important that the symbols of the elements are not usually traced on as sigils but are represented by the kerubic emblems of k, e, b, and. 17 the lesser ritual of the hexagram (i.r.h./b.r.h) step 1 always begin with the qabalistic cross. according to the

an that of z.a.m. remember, also, that the, if the apex is downward, is an extremely evil and hurtful symbol. and for this reason is it that the symbols of the elements are not usually traced as sigils, but are replaced by kerubic emblems of k, e, b, and the" addendum: important points 1. when you desire to attract the force of the zodiac in the supreme ritual, trace in the center of the hexagram the planet that rules the zodiacal force desired and the sign of the zodiac beneath the planetary sign. 2. if the desired force is not sufficient, trace also the invoking pentagram of the sign. 3. when invoking a planet, vibrate the divine name of the sephira which rules the planet, the seven lettered name atyrara, and also the particular letter of that name which corresponds to that specific plan

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ahar went forth out of eden to water the garden and from whence it was parted and came into four heads" let the adept invoke the hexagram of the planets over the white portion of the rose cross. the hexagrams should be encircled. let the adept also vibrate the necessary names during the invocation of the hexagrams. take caution to use both the portion representing either the day or night house of the planet when holding the lotus wand. when invoking the hexagrams of the planets, begin with l, ending with 5, and then perform the invoking hexagrams of a, holding the lotus wand by the e band. step 10 let the adept, holding the lotus wand by the white portion, trace the equilibriating active and passive spirit pentagrams along with the spirit symbols over 5 the lamen. let the adept also make c

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rised of four separate and distinct divisions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. truncated pyramid great cross 24 triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tarot. triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 the planet of the decan triangle no. 4 element symbol of the tablet the no. 2 square of the great cross is always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to i

inted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, watery, or airy nature. triangle no. 3 is to be colored by that of the element ruled by the planet and attributed to it. let the adept take note that the elemental attributions are significantly different in the enochian system. here they are: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given, consideration is not acceptable to det

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. each tablet is comprised of four separate and distinct divisions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. great cross triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tarot. triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 the planet of the decan triangle no. 4 element symbol of the tablet the no. 2 square of the great cross is always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to i

inted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, watery, or airy nature. triangle no. 3 is to be colored by that of the element ruled by the planet and attributed to it. let the adept take note that the elemental attributions are significantly different in the enochian system. here they are: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given consideration is not acceptable to dete

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so called the order of thrones. the angel lphy is also referred unto hnyb. in hmkj is the radix of blue and thence is there a blue color pure and primitive, and glistening with a spiritual light which is reflected unto dsj. and the sphere of its operation is called qdx,or justice, and it fashioneth the images of material things, bestowing peace and mercy; and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet k. and la is the title of a god strong and mighty, ruling in glory, magnificence and grace. and the archangel of dsj is layqdx, the prince of mercy and beneficence and the name of the order of angels is \ylmcj, brilliant ones, who are also called the order of dominions or dominations. the sephira dsj is also called hlwdg or magnificence and glory. in hnyb is the radix of red, and therei

lled hlwdg or magnificence and glory. in hnyb is the radix of red, and therein is there a red color, pure and scintillating and flashing with flame which is reflected unto hrwbg. the sphere of its operation is 5 called \ydm or violent rushing force and it bringeth fortitude, and war and strength and slaughter, as it were, the flaming sword of an avenging god. and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet f. and rwbg \yhla is the \yhla, mighty and terrible, judging and avenging evil, ruling wrath and terror and storm, and at whose steps are lightening and flame. and its archangel is lamk the prince of strength and courage and the name of the order of angels is \yprc the flaming ones who are also called the order of powers. the sephira dsj is also called hlwdg or magnificence and glory, a

f virtues, angels and rulers. the angels aynp and aylp are also referred unto this sephira. it especially rules the mineral world. the beams of dsj and of trapt meet in jxn and thence in jxn arises a green, pure, brilliant liquid, and gleaming like an emerald. and the sphere of its operation is that of hgwn of external splendor, producing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet c and the nature of the vegetable world. and twabx \yhla is a god of hosts and of armies, of triumph and of victory, ruling the universe in justice and eternity. and its archangel laynah is the prince of love and harmony, and the name of the order of angels is \yhla or gods who are also called the order of principalities. the angel laywrs is also referred unto this sephira. the beams of

called the order of principalities. the angel laywrs is also referred unto this sephira. the beams of hrwbg and trapt meet in dwh and thence arises in dwh a brilliant pure and flashing orange tawny. and the sphere of its operation is that of bkwk, the stellar light, bestowing elegance, swiftness, and scientific knowledge and art, and constancy of speech. and it ruleth the sphere of the action of the planet b. and twabx \yhla is also a god of hosts and of armies, of mercy and of agreement, of praise and honor, ruling the universe in wisdom and harmony. and its archangel is lakym, the prince of splendor and of wisdom, and the name of the order of angels is \yhla ynb, or sons of the gods, who are also called the order of archangels. the beams of dsj and hrwbg meet in dwsy and thence ariseth

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st to have the thumbs and all the fingers extended. if a particular effect is desired, you may extend only the fingers appropriate thereto, keeping the rest folded back in the hand. herewith, also, may be combined the attribution of the planets to the head (f to the right nostril, b to the mouth, etc, as explained in the microcosm lecture, sending at the same time an imaginary ray of the color of the planet desired from the part of the head attributed to it. when finished, be careful to withdraw the rays again or they will remain like so many outlets of astral force and thus exhaust you. the best way to protect yourself against this is to give the sign of silence immediately. for the first sign should always be answered by the second. the secret names of the saluting signs are, the attacki

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especially the supernals. it would also refer to hnyb, the third sephira. we see clearly that hnyb is an amalgamation of the top three supernals. this is emphasized in the lesson "understanding of the human personality in the world of the qabalah" the top three sephiroth are referred to as the greater neschamah, whereas hnyb is referred to as the lesser neschamah. the triangle would also refer to the planet of l and to the element of o. the color of l is black and that of o is red. therefore, the black triangle would represent l and a red triangle would represent the element of o. note also that a white triangle represents the supernals. we also have another triad, the three principles of nature: p, 3, and q. all of these symbols can be exemplified in the triangle, which would give referen

is another lineal figure that is generally understood to represent equation and stability. within the symbol of the square is included the idea of surface and superficial measurement. the square refers to the quaternary of all things and to the tetrad of the holy name hwhy which operates through the four elements. the square is attributed to dsj, the fourth sephira. it would equally correspond to the planet k. it is also a fitting representative of the four elements that will eventually take on manifestation. the next figure is the pentangle. this refers to the sephira of hrwbg and the planet mars. the pentangle can be traced in two different ways. when it is reflected from every second point, it is called the pentagon, which is referred to hrwbg and f. the same figure, when reflected from

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

rst men consisted of the ability to see things hidden in the distance, that they were astronomers who examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky, and that they were geographers who succeeded in measuring the round face of the earth .7 geography is about maps. in part i we saw evidence suggesting that the cartographers of an as yet unidentified civilization might have mapped the planet with great thoroughness at an early date. could the popol vuh be transmitting some garbled memory of that same civilization when it speaks nostalgically of the first men and of the miraculous geographical knowledge they possessed? geography is about maps, and astronomy is about stars. very often the two disciplines go hand in hand because stars are essential for navigation on long sea-g

.32 there was much argument about what this vast hydraulic system had been designed to do. schlemmer s contention was that the particular waterway he had identified had been built to serve a pragmatic purpose as a long-range seismic monitor part of an ancient science, no longer understood .33 he pointed out that remote earthquakes can cause standing waves to form on a liquid surface right across the planet and suggested that the carefully graded and spaced reflecting pools of the street of the dead might have been designed to enable teotihuacanos to read from the standing waves formed there the location and strength of earthquakes around the globe, thus allowing them to predict such an occurrence in their own area .34 32 ibid, p. 232. 33 ibid, p. 272. 34 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints

e, have only two dimensions? the desire to symbolize spheres in threedimensional monuments with flat surfaces would explain why so much trouble was taken to ensure that both incorporated unmistakable pi relationships. furthermore it seems likely that the intention of the builders of both of these monuments was not to symbolize spheres in general but to focus attention on one sphere in particular: the planet earth. it will be a long while before orthodox archaeologists are prepared to accept that some peoples of the ancient world were advanced enough in science to have possessed good information about the shape and size of the earth. however, according to the calculations of livio catullo stecchini, an american professor of the history of science and an acknowledged expert on ancient measur

ies of natural catastrophes did reduce our prehistoric ancestors to a handful of individuals scattered here and there across the face of the earth, far apart, and out of touch with one another? we are looking for an epoch that will fit the myths as snugly as the slipper on cinderella s foot. in this search, however, there is obviously no point in investigating any period prior to the emergence on the planet of recognizably modern human beings. we re not interested here in homo habilis or homo erectus or even homo sapiens neanderthalensis. we re interested only in homo sapiens sapiens, our own species, and we haven t been around very long. students of early man disagree to some extent over how long we have been around. some researchers, as we shall see, claim that partial human remains in e

of humankind, paladin, london, 1982, in particular, pp. 28, 259-310. 3 roger lewin, human evolution, pp. 47-49, 53-6; encyclopaedia britannica, 6:27-8. 4 human evolution, p. 76. 5 encyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 18:831. 6 human evolution, p. 76. 7 ibid, p. 72. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 205 resourceful creatures 8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago. at some point during this lengthy and poorly understood period, homo sapiens sapiens established itself, leaving behind fossil remains from about 40,000 years ago that are undisputably those of modern humans, and supplanting the neanderthals completely by about 35,000 years ago.9 in summary, human beings like ourselves, whom we could

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

the discovery of the cipher of the ufonauts. barker, a close ally of james w. moseley, died suddenly in the early 1980s. bell, dr. fred, contactee in communication with a female ufonaut, one semjase, a pleiadean being, since 1971. semjase has shown up in a number of other cases over the last twenty or so years. bethurum, truman, became a contactee in 1952, with the female ufonaut aura rhanes from the planet clarion. a physical contactee of the adamski type, bethurum seemed a down-to- earth person with an extraordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9 bimstein, louis m, also known as max theon and aia aziz. the son of a polish rabbi, bimstein traveled in nineteenth century egypt and became a disciple of the coptic initiate paolos metamon, under whom he became the grand master

nt student thinks or should think about either ufology or the occult. i had long noted, for example, that in the earlier contactee cases, when names were given by the purported aliens for themselves, their home world, etc, they often were very odd names. i looked many years ago for puns. i mused that perhaps, for example, woodrow derenberger s 1966 encounter in west virginia with indrid cold from the planet lanulus had something to do with myth and legend. jacques vallee and john keel had both pointed out the connection with mythic names and legends, and i thought lanulus might be a play on land you lost or land you lust a reference to atlantis lore, or legendary shadow lands such as f rie or magonia. but such answers seemed, like the masonic third degree, somehow incomplete. 22 allen h. g

ophical masters and the secret chiefs of magick, there is a political as well as spiritual undertone in contactee lore. of particular note is the work of george hunt ric williamson (a/k/a brother philip, d. january 1986, head of the brotherhood of the seven rays with an abbey near lake titicaca in south america. williamson was a serious student of the new bible oahspe, and, perhaps, from india to the planet mars (which influenced occultism in that period. williamson acted as a bridge from 19th century occult mediumship to modern trance channeling. veteran ufologist james w. moseley tells us that williamson would go into mediumlike trances and receive space messages, which he would repeat to his listeners in a voice different from his own. the mysterious disappearance of karl hunrath and wi

ooks by john keel and the late gray barker. in their first encounter on a deserted interstate stretch, cold had enigmatically told derenberger, i mean you no harm. i come from a country much less powerful than yours. derenberger was driving a ford econovan. cold, apparently, was driving an interstellar space ship, with his copilot, carl ardo. according to gray barker, they told him they came from the planet lanulus, 30 light years away. due to their skills at mental telepathy, they had no secrets between one another, and that was the reason for their peaceful existence. cold had a wife, kimi. during one contact cold was accompanied by a man named clinnel, from the planet cerenabus. as is usual with such cases, as ludicrous as they appear, and perhaps are, they arise amid a spate of strange

anity a rank and demoralizing materialism, was discovered and destroyed in accordance with the insipid marxism which guided the chinese people s liberation army into tibet in the late 1950s. among various tantric buddhist and bon religious institutions, the p.l.a. liquidated the cavern retreats of schamballah and agarthi, the former being possibly the oldest surviving branch of the black lodge on the planet (see ossendovski s men, beasts and gods, circa 1925, for an account of schamballah and agarthi) as survivors of the marxist massacre from the tibetan great white brotherhood are known to have come to the west in subsequent years, it may be assumed that survivors of the black lodge have set up operations in our own society as well. we can see the marks of their presence in so-called righ

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

the ofanim(wheels orcycles ofgod. expressively by themazlot (the zodiac or circle of life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzafkiel( watcher or observer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the aralim (thrones or seats. expressively by the planet shabetai (saturn. humanly by the supply of unfertilised ova or eggs in the female (here male and female forces meet, mate and fertilise. in a perfect condition of creation this would result in a state of beautiful harmony as at sphere 6, but since the object is a material world, this is pushed out of place by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which

ny as at sphere 6, but since the object is a material world, this is pushed out of place by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which the lifestream goes to) 4 mercy or generosity. origination governed by god-aspect el (the one. creatively by archangel tzadkiel (righteous of god. formatively by the angel order of the chashmalim (brilliant ones. expressively by the planet tzedek (jupiter, traditional giver of good things. humanly the development of male chromosomes in the foetus. 5 severity or economy. origination governed by the god-aspect elohim gibur (god-goddesses of strength/might).creation byarchangelchamael orsamael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim (fiery serpents. expressively by the planet madim (mars. humanly b

he male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by archangel auriel (light of god, sometimes identified with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the planet nogah (venus. humanly this is where emotions and feelings begin in the foetus. 8 splendour, glory and honour. originatively by the god-aspect elohim tzva ot (god-goddesses of hosts. creatively by archangel rafael (healer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the b nay-elohim (sons of the god- goddesses. expressively by the planet kochav (mercury or hermes. humanly 9 this is where

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

uct the triangle of art of plywood, and paint it white. paint a black triangle outline about two inches inside the edge, and glue a round mirror in the center. then add the names and sigil in crayon or in any other easily removable material before each ritual. in the following illustration, the triangle of art bears the names and sigil appropriate for the evocation of zazel, the demonic spirit of the planet saturn, which follows in this chapter. the divine name, archangel, angel, intelligence, and sphere appear in hebrew in the outer triangle. the inner triangle contains the name and the sigil of the demon. the names in the outer section constrain the spirit within the inner triangle. for the spirit to escape, it must first pass by all the divine and angelical forces of saturn that constra

gician's holy guardian angel. in rosicrucian magic, the will of the magician magnified by the power of the magic sword obliges the demon to swear an oath of allegiance and obedience to the divine force corresponding to its own nature and to place its entire energy at the disposition of the corresponding archangel. for example, in the ritual that follows, the magician obliges the demonic spirit of the planet saturn, zazel, to swear allegiance and obedience to the divine force of saturn, yhvh elohim, and to place its energy at the disposition of the corresponding archangel, tzaphquiel. this magical act unites the conscious and unconscious aspects of saturn or of that aspect of psyche corresponding to saturn. thus are the infernal and averse forces constrained, contained, and brought into pro

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

sent out as a messenger from heaven. the indians assigned the painted bow of heaven to their god indras. in our own popular belief the souls of the just are led by their guardianangels into heaven over the rainbow, ziska s oestr. volksm. 49. 110. as for that doctrine of the ed da, that before the end of the 1 chi-king ex lat. p. lacharme, interpr. jul. mohl, p. 242. 2 like the contrary effects of the planet venus on the two sexes in superst. 1, 167. 734 sky and staes. world bifrost will break, i find it again in the german belief during the mid. ages that for a number of years before the judgment-day the rainbow will no longer be seen: ouch hurt ich sagen, daz man sin (the regenpogen) nieht ensehe drizich jar (30 years) vor deme suontage/ diut. 3, 61. hugo von trimberg makes it 40 years (r

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

the lawsofnature and giving us theminutieeof her operations in myriads of by-gone ages, revelling in the deepest profundities of geologic specula255 tions and central-sun systems in the technical phraseology of the day, but stopping short precisely where his revelations would be most useful and most convincing-the limits of our present knowledge and ideas,t-detailingto a nicety the vegetation of the planet saturn, the complexions of the inhabitants of jupiter, and the very forms of the cerebrum and cerebellum of the inhabitants of mars, but unable to give us the diameter of the sun to withinii4,ooqmiles-'itsdiameter has not been as yet correctly determined' becoming dogmatical upon theoriginof the asteroids, but stating'theirrotations have been scarcely decided upon, their revolutions hav

cters thereof and principally by this seal binding most solidly. in witness of which guilty person he commanding i have signed this present obligation with mine own seal to which ialwaysstick close."thename of the person who wishes to obtain the spirit in the crystal.ro6therosicrucianseertheoperator must have the seal and character of the spirit he would invoke. also the pentacle and character of the planet governing the day and hour of the operation, written on virgin parchment and duly consecrated in the aforesaid manner.consecration of the crystaleternal god who by thy wisdom has given and appointed great power in the characters and other holy writings of thy spirits and hast given unto them that useth them faithfully, power thereby to work many things. bless now 0 lord this crystal for

a,tetragramma255ton,and in the crossofchrist our only lord, amen.104therosicrucianseerconcerning the apparatus and instruments to be used in thisarttheoperator must be provided with a small table covered with a white linen cloth, also a chair which should be placed in the room ready for the operation. also the necessary apparatus for making a fire (if required) in order tobumthe perfume proper to the planet governing the hour in which he would work, likewise a torch and two wax candles placed in gilded or brass candlesticks highly polished and engraved as shewn.theoperator must have a pair of compasses, some twine or thread, a knife, a penknife, a pair of scissors, a magic sword of pure steel, also a wand of hazel-wood of a year's growth and a yard in length andengraven as shown. he must a

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

e star gods sah and sopdu-hor. sah is almost certainly the great southern constellation known to the greeks as orion. the pyramid texts describe sah of the long stride as a stellar manifestation of osiris. as the lone star, sopdu-hor acted as the herald of the sun god morning and evening. various forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible that the planet mercury was associated with seth. the constellation we know as the great bear was interpreted by the egyptians as several deities guarding seth s bull form or its severed leg. this is one of the few recognizable parts of the star maps that decorate the ceilings of some royal tombs. the babylonian concept of the stars of the zodiac was introduced into egypt by the greeks. three decan sta

HEPTAMERON

in spring-time for the first hour of lords day, it must be in the same manner as is the figure following. heptameron 9 the figure of a circle for the first hour of the lords day, in spring-time. it remaineth now, that we explain the week, the several dayes thereof: and first of the lords day. heptameron 10 considerations of the lords day the angel of the lords day, his sigil, planet, the signe of the planet, and the name of the fourth heaven. the angels of the lords day. michael, dardiel, huratapal. the angels of the air ruling on the lords day. varcan, king. his ministers. tus, andas, cynabal. the winde which the angels of the air abovesaid are under. the north-winde. the angel of the fourth heaven, ruling on the lords day, which ought to be called from the four parts of the world. at the

are under the north-winde; their nature is to procure gold, gemmes, carbuncles, riches; to cause one to obtain favour and benevolence; to dissolve the enmities of men; to raise men to honors; to carry or take away infirmities. but in what manner they appear, it's spoken already in the former book of magical ceremonies. considerations of monday. the angel of munday, his sigil, planet, the signe of the planet, and name of the first heaven. the angels of munday. gabriel, michael, samael. the angels of the air ruling on munday. arcan, king. his ministers. bilet, missabu, abuzaha. the winde which the said angels of the air are subject to. the west-winde. the angels of the first heaven, ruling on munday, which ought to be called from the four parts of the world. from the east. gabriel. gabrael

to another; to give infirmities or health; to raise the poor, and cast down the high ones; to binde or lose spirits; to open locks or bolts: such-kinde of spirits have the operation of others, but not in their perfect power, but in virtue or knowledge. the what manner they appear, it is before spoken. heptameron 15 considerations of thursday. the angel of thursday, his sigil, planet, the signe of the planet, and the name of the sixth heaven. the angels of thursday. sachiel. castiel. asasiel. the angels of the air governing thursday. suth, rex. ministers. maguth, gutrix. the winde which the said angels of the air are under. the south-winde. but because there are no angels of the air to be found above the fifth heaven, therefore on thursday say the prayers following in the four parts of the

r of friday are subject to the west-winde; their nature is to give silver: to excite men, and incline them to luxury; to reconcile enemies through luxury; and to make marriages; to allure men to love women; to cause, or take away infirmities; and to do all things which have motion. considerations of saturday, or the sabbath day. the angel of saturday, his seal, his planet, and the signe governing the planet. the angels of saturday. cassiel. machatan. uriel. the angels of the air ruling on saturday. maymon, king. ministers. abumalith. assaibi. balidet. the winde which the said angels of the air aforesaid are under. the southwest-winde. the fumigation of friday. sulphur. heptameron 18 it is already declared in the consideration of thursday, that there are no angels ruling the air, above the

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

it was permitted to study its new environment and experience a wonder and wisdom approyimating that of its displacer. with suitable precautions, and in exchange for suitable services, it was allowed to rove all over the habitable world in titan airships or on the huge boatlike atomic-engined vehicles which traversed the great roads, and to delve freely into the libraries containing the records of the planet's past and future. this reconciled many captive minds to their lot; since none were other than keen, and to such minds the unveiling of hidden mysteries of earth-closed chapters of inconceivable pasts and dizzying vortices of future time which include the years ahead of their own natural ages-forms always, despite the abysmal horrors often unveiled, the supreme experience of life. now a

world's greatest race, which had conquered time and had sent exploring minds into every age. i knew, too, that i had been snatched from my age while another used my body in that age, and that a few of the other strange forms housed similarly captured minds. i seemed to talk, in some odd language of claw clickings, with exiled intellects from every corner of the solar system. there was a mind from the planet we know as venus, which would live incalculable epochs to come, and one from an outer moon of jupiter six million years in the past. of earthly minds there were some from the winged, starheaded, half-vegetable race of palaeogean antarctica; one from the reptile people of fabled valusia; three from the furry pre-human hyperborean worshippers of tsathoggua; one from the wholly abominable

f keen minds across the chasm of time to strange bodies in the safer future- had to do with a final successful irruption of the elder beings. mental projections down the ages had clearly foretold such a horror, and the great race had resolved that none who could escape should face it. that the foray would be a matter of vengeance, rather than an attempt to reoccupy the outer world, they knew from the planet's later history- for their projections shewed the coming and going of subsequent races untroubled by the monstrous entities. perhaps these entities had come to prefer earth's inner abysses to the variable, storm-ravaged surface, since light meant nothing to them. perhaps, too, they were slowly weakening with the aeons. indeed, it was known that they would be quite dead in the time of th

passage up and down the incline to all the surviving levels, i had, oddly, little doubt. this vast, earth-protected pile, housing the annals of all the solar system, had been built with supernal skill and strength to last as long as that system itself. blocks of stupendous size, poised with mathematical genius and bound with cements of incredible toughness, had combined to form a mass as firm as the planet's rocky core. here, after ages more prodigious than i could sanely grasp, its buried bulk stood in all its essential contours, the vast, dust-drifted floors scarce sprinkled with the litter elsewhere so dominant. the relatively easy walking from this point onward went curiously to my head. all the frantic eagerness hitherto frustrated by obstacles now took itself out in a kind of febril

ners of time and space, learned the universe's secrets, past and to come, and written the annals of my own world for the metal cases of those titan archives? and were those others- those shocking elder things of the mad winds and daemon pipings- in truth a lingering, lurking menace, waiting and slowly weakening in black abysses while varied shapes of life drag out their multimillennial courses on the planet's age-racked surface? i do not know. if that abyss and what i held were real, there is no hope. then, all too truly, there lies upon this world of man a mocking and incredible shadow out of time. but, mercifully, there is no proof that these things are other than fresh phases of my myth-born dreams. i did not bring back the metal case that would have been a proof, and so far those subte

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ed antarctic sky and twisting the wind s wails into a wide-ranged musical piping which chilled my soul to the quick. less than a fortnight later we left the last hint of polar land behind us and thanked heaven that we were clear of a haunted, accursed realm where life and death, space and time, have made black and blasphemous alliances, in the unknown epochs since matter first writhed and swam on the planet s scarce-cooled crust. since our return we have all constantly worked to discourage antarctic exploration, and have kept certain doubts and guesses to ourselves with splendid unity and faithfulness. even young danforth, with his nervous breakdown, has not flinched or babbled to his doctors- indeed, as i have said, there is one thing he thinks he alone saw which he will not tell even me

a species heretofore unknown to paleontology. the persistence with which the old ones survived various geologic changes and convulsions of the earth s crust was little short of miraculous. though few or none of their first cities seem to have remained beyond the archaean age, there was no interruption in their civilization or in the transmission of their records. their original place of advent to the planet was the antarctic ocean, and it is likely that they came not long after the matter forming the moon was wrenched from the neighboring south pacific. according to one of the sculptured maps the whole globe was then under water, with stone cities scattered farther and farther from the antarctic as aeons passed. another map shows a vast bulk of dry land around the south pole, where it is e

them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. from then on, as before, the antarctic remained the center of the old ones civilization, and all the cities built there by the cthulhu spawn were blotted out. then suddenly the lands of the pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of r lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the old ones were again supreme on the planet except for one shadowy fear about which they did not like to speak. at a rather later age their cities dotted all the land and water areas of the globe- hence the recommendation in my coming monograph that some archaeologist make systematic borings with pabodie s type of apparatus in certain widely separated regions. the steady trend down the ages was from water to land- a movement enco

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

the silver key was still in his grasp, though held by a noxious-looking claw. in another moment the dream-sense vanished, and he felt rather as one just awakened from a dream. the ultimate abyss- the being- the entity of absurd, out-landish race called randolph carter on a world of the future not yet born- some of these things were parts of the persistent recurrent dreams of the wizard zkauba on the planet yaddith. they were too persistent- they interfered with his duties in weaving spells to keep the frightful dholes in their burrows, and became mixed up with his recollections of the myriad real worlds he had visited in light-beam envelopes. and now they had become quasi-real as never before. this heavy, material silver key in his right upper claw, exact image of one he had dreamt about

ass. there were trips to stronti and mthura and kath, and other worlds in the twenty-eight galaxies accessible to the light-beam envelopes of the creatures of yaddith, and trips back and forth through eons of time with the aid of the silver key and various other symbols known to yaddith's wizards. there were hideous struggles with the bleached viscous dholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet. there were awed sessions in libraries amongst the massed lore of ten thousand worlds living and dead. there were tense conferences with other minds of yaddith, including that of the arch- ancient buo. zkauba told no one of what had befallen his personality, but when the randolph carter facet was uppermost he would study furiously every possible means of returning to the earth and to hu

actic teaches to the solar system and the earth itself. once on earth, though in the body of a clawed, snouted thing, he might be able somehow to find and finish deciphering-the strangely hieroglyphed parchment he had left in the car at arkham; and with its aid- and the key's- resume his normal terrestrial semblance. he was not blind; to the perils of the attempt. he knew that when he had brought the planet-angle to the right eon (a thing impossible to do while hurtling through space, yaddith would be a dead world dominated by triumphant dholes, and that his escape in the light-wave envelope would be a matter of grave doubt. likewise was he aware of how he must achieve suspended animation, in the manner of an adept, to endure the eon long flight through fathomless abysses. he knew, too, th

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

the mysteries" or "travel through difficult territory" the egyptian word shta -ti may have been etymologically connected with certain forms of the name of set. by the time of the magical papyri the words meaning "belonging to set" or "of the secret place" had coalesced in the common tongue. the egyptians associated certain night sky features with set, particularly the constellation ursa major and the planet mercury. they called mercury sbq which simply means "the unknown" in the book of coming forth by day, the afterlife book of the osiris cult, there is an interesting confession of the good followers of osiris: i have come hither to see thy beauty, my hands raised in praise of thy true name. if i enter the secret seat, i speak with set. but if one veils his face when his glance falls upon

ISIS UNVEILED

le gnosticism highly revehential towabd the deity 167 describing the ba^dean system, irenaeua, quoting the gnostics, declares as follows "when the uncreated, unnavitd father saw the comipuon of man- kind, he sent his 6r3t-bom nou, into the world, in tlie form of christ, for ihe redemption of all who believe in him, out of the power of those who fabricated the world [the demiurge and his six sons, the planet- ary genii. he appeared amongst men as the man jesus, and wrought miracles, lliis christ did not die in person, but simon the cyrenian suffa d in his stead, to whom he lent hie bodily form. for the divine power, the nous of the eternal father, ia not corporeal, and cannot die. whoso, therefore, maintains that christ has died, is still the bonds- man of ignorance; whoso denies the same

by the alexandrian kabalists as the direct inapirer of the law and the prophets; one of the names of saturn was israel, and we will show, in time, his identity in a certain way with abram, which movers" and others hinted at long since. thus it cannot be wondered at if valen- tiuus, basilides, and the ophite gnostics placed the dwelling of their dda-baoth, also a destroyer as well as a creator, in the planet saturn; for it was he who gave the law in the wilderness and spoke through the prophets. if more proof should be required we shall show it in the testi- mony of the canonical bible itself. in amo the 'lord' pours vials of wratii upon the people of israel. he rejects their bumt-oserings and will not listen to their prayers, but inquires of amos "have ye offered unto me sacrifices and off

racles under a tree called in chinese sung-aling-shji, or the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, for ignorance is death, and knowledge alone gives immortality. this marvdoua display takes place every three years, when an immense concourse of chinese buddhists assemble in pilgrimage at the holy place. ilda-baoth, the 'son of darkness' and the creator of the material world, was made to inhabit the planet saturn, which identises him still further with the jewish jehovah, who was saturn himself, according to the ophites, and is by them denied his sinaitic name. from dda-baoth emanate six spirits, who respectively dwell with their father in the seven planets. these are saba or mars; adonai ?io, or the sun* levo the moon; eloi jupiter; attapkoi mercury (spirit of wa- ter; and ouratot venus

and the prototant; the one i cbed by paul, the aemi-flatanut, and the otw by jamei, the orthodox talmudirt. 752. the material, bad aide of stqthia-adiamoth, wbo itnati.fj. itaia haadf dda- baoth and hii nz k>iia. 753. see nnfaen'b tianilation of cadtx nmaratut, vtttmot. hut proves ooee more tlw idfntifltatvm cl jmus with gautaiii*-buddha in the mindi o< the namene gwwtitt. aa jvabu cr hetcoiy ia the planet nerad to the boddbaa. digitizecoy google nettheb david nor solomon mosaic jews 297 ated with moses. lao is certainly a title of the su n me being, and be- longs partially to the ineffable name; but it neither originated with nor was it the sole property of the jews. even if it had pleased moses to bestow the name upon the tutelar 'spirit' the alleged protector and national deity of the

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

and obtaining information. literary capabilities and intellectual friends. books, papers, communications, publications. 7. moon. general public, women. sense reactions. short journeys and removals. changes and fluctuations. the personality. what planet would publication come under? generally speaking, both the writing and publication are considered forms of communication, which are thus ruled by the planet mercury. put this down on the form at the top of the page. all is now in order. note the variations possible. had the question related to success, not merely publication, the planetary ruler would have been either jupiter or the sun. were the question 'will a practical guide to geoman-tic divination endure for a long time' its planetary the house 41 rulcrship would have been saturn. if

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

s. step 1: think about the areas that you feel that you (and/or the earth) need to rebalance now. step 2: ask for the perfect goddess/es to work with you now and to step in to influence your (and/or the earth s) field in a way that is perfect for you. step 3: research all you can on her so that you understand her legend, aspects and gifts. step 4: pray and/or sing to her daily to help you (and/or the planet) come into perfect balance with joy, ease and grace. step 5: put her image in your meditation space, activate it to act as a dimensional doorway. of course there are many more goddesses that may be called upon than those who are mentioned above but this will give you an indication of the vastness of the divine mother energy and her multiple expressions. additional ecstasy exercise: disc

kra or psychic heart of the bio-system needs to be plugged in to a never-ending source of love so that we have access to a never-ending source of nutrition. this is known as plugging into the divine love channel of pure mother love. this also means that when we are working within the beta. alpha fields we can transmit a limitless stream of specific frequencies that not only feed us, but also feed the planet enough to support the manifestation of higher paradigms. the more we allow ourselves to feed from the field of the violet light flow, the sooner we are nourished on all levels, although this also depends on our capacity to receive. every human being can work on their own capacity to receive and again this occurs via the application of the tools in this book. the love breath meditation i

ourselves in life. creating an environment that delivers, and maintains us in the perfect alignment for perfect action and perfect outcome game is in itself an art. in other words, the ideal environment for those wanting to experience health and happiness and peace and prosperity, is a loving and supportive one that runs a stress free, win-win-win game. the win for me, win for others and win for the planet agenda that is so necessary now in the co-creation of paradise. so we invite you to look at the i am pleased with everything and today is a good day to die ideas and give yourself an honest answer. if you get a yes to both, then relax and enjoy it all. if you get a no then keep refining your life until you can say yes to both. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods wi

e field is a family home environment, you may wish the outcome of the new field imprint to be one where everyone is more loving and supportive of each other and their choices in life, particularly of anyone who is choosing the level 3 nourishment aspect of the dnp. step 9. field extensions: the strongest field to extend a new grid from is your current base, and although i have become a citizen of the planet, my home base is powerfully plugged and tuned, and it maintains itself as a valuable imprinting tool in the global field. in other words, my home base radiates particular frequencies into the global field to imprint it and achieve certain things. my home base also radiates a particular frequency for the people who live within it so that they can be supported, loved and given all the str

coon that is plugged into the cosmic from which it will be fed. visualize a beam of light going from the home base directly to the new home. in my case it was my beach apartment. for others the new home; may be a love filled world, so visualize a beam of love extending from your current home base and wrapping itself around your community, then extending out around your country and then out around the planet (more details re how to do this is in bb2) if you have not divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 178 done your own home yet, do not worry because you can also apply the following techniques to it before you extend the field out to a) an office or b) a beach apartment, as in my case, which is another family residence, or c) to a government building, or

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ance. and yet, although the above is all-essentially feminine, this is the country that imported amidst its frankish or saxon progenitors (clodio, the long-haired, to the example, who first passed the rhine and brought his female ultramarine to supersede and replace, in blazon, the martial, manly carmine or gules of the gauls) this is the country that adopted and maintains la loi salique. sign of the planet venus. chapter the eighth. sacred fire. he appearance of god to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether he was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. these appearances are often mentioned in scripture. when god appeared on mount sinai, it is said, the lord descended upon it in fire (exodus xix. 18. and when moses repeats the history of this to the

as thus: fig. 15 (b) cross (c) fig. 16. fig. 17. fig. 18. fig. 19. in figure c, the union of fig. 16 and fig. 17 forms the cross. fig. 18 is the mundane circle. fig. 19 is the astronomical cross upon the mundane circle. the union of fig. 18, fig. 17, and fig. 16, in this respective order, gives the crux-ansata, so continual in all the egyptian sculptures, which mark or sign is also the symbol of the planet venus, as below. fig. 20. the crux-ansata. fig. 21. mark of the planet venus. their origin is thus traced clearly to the same original meanings, which reappear under all sorts of disguises, and are varied in innumerable ingenious ways, in all the mythologies incessantly disclosing, and inviting, and as continually evading and escaping discovery. this abstruse mark particularly abounds i

feminine principle, it stands for the virgin of thesea. blue also, in regard to the heraldicmetals, sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (gold; and luna, the moon, astarte( receptive, or female power, is the metal argent (or silver* the colour azure, or blue,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by the planet jupiter (zeus, as lord of theworlds* these are the two chiefmetals of the alchemists, and the two chief mystic symbols of the rosicrucians red is blazoned by the old priestly heralds, or augurs, by the name of the planet mars vert (or verd, and argent, silver (hermes, or thoth, ortaut, orluna, orastarte, indifferently, are represented by the planetvenus and by themoon. persian fire-towe

igures. he dragon s head and dragon s tail are the points called nodes, in which the ecliptic is intersected by the orbits of the planets, particularly that of the moon. these points are of course shifting. the dragon s head is the point where the moon or other planet commences its northward latitude; it is considered masculing and benevolent in its influence. the dragon s tail is the point where the planet s southward progress begins; it is feminine and malevolent. the dragon mystically is the self-willed spirit, which is externally dervied into nature by the fall into generation (hermes trismegistus. the same fine, catholic nature which in its preternatural exaltation appears so very precious in the eyes of the philosopher is in the common world defiled; abiding everywhere in putrefactio

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gin of odd storms and clouds, objects falling from the sky, strange marks and footprints, and other things which we have not solved. these men seem to feel that it is too late for man to obtain space flight. they feel that mankind could not cope with "those mind wrecking conditions that space and sea contain" for mankind is to 10 egotistical, values too much the material, wars over mer parcels of the planet, is too filled with jealously, and lacks true brotherhood. how much truth is there in this? that cannot be answered. it is evident that these men provide some very intriguing explanations; explanations that may be worth consideration. 11 preface_ the subject of ufo's in its present stage is like astronomy in that it is a purely observational "science" not an experimental one; necessaril

le to perpetuate and develop mental capacity. it is indeed a nasty choice for inhibited minds. einstien wasn't alive then, but the natural functions of our universe& this planet worked well without him. we can conclude that space habitation has existed for many a millennia. we do not care whether earthmen took to space as a matter of convenience, comfort, and safety after blowing off a portion of the planet; or whether space inhabitants created terrestrial intelligence "in their own image" bluntly "what's the difference" the basic thought is that man is living in a world in which he is neither the completely dominant nor the supremely intellectual being. huh, he'll never admit it, though: pride. there has been a raging controversy for generations between pro-atlantians and anti-atlantians

turbance broke out on the surface of our greatest planet. at the beginning it escaped the notice of professional astronomers. they were busy conquering worlds much further afield. but the amateurs noted it. the great red spot of jupiter (some called livid pink) was some six or seven thousand miles wide, thirty thousand miles long, shaped like a longitudinal section of a pecan, and it raced around the planet at a surface speed of about 200 miles per hour, shouldering aside all one other surface features of that planet. this storm, if it was such, lasted several decades. whether there was anything purposeful about it is problematical. certainly for absolute size it dwarfed little hyginus n. but hyginus n was close to being in our own back yard, and it should have received more attention than

anslation. 135 such in the environment of the great red spot which appeared over night in 1878 and covered an area comparable to that of the entire terrestrial surface. it might be expected that such a large feature would be rigidly attached to a core or substratum. not so. the red spot changed its speed and position constantly. in twenty years, for all its size, it drifted more than twice around the planet total distance of over half a million miles and, shoving the cloud belts aside, it shifted latitude by several hundred miles. we do not know the depth of the spot. its silhouette shape was almost identical with that of the so-called auroral object which passed over europe and england in 1882. if it was three-dimensionally symmetrical, it was shaped like a pecan which is to say it had th

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

umerian utu has never been as popular as semitic .ama, warrior and god of justice with a cosmic importance, glord of heaven and earth h. the extent of .ama. fs popularity can be observed from the great number of people named after him, from cylinder seals, and the considerable number of hymns and prayers dedicated to his honor. some of these hymns have a poetic structure imitating the movement of the planet (leick 148 .ama. started to lose his positions with the rise of state gods like marduk and assur. like the moon, the sun was often marked as d20, sometimes also without a determinative (neugebauer 1955. quite widespread is the form dutu, less often the syllabic variant d.a-ma. was used. in horoscopes, the sun is usually either 20 or dutu. here we have to bear in mind that utu is the sam

male, as the evening star. male, and the two aspects corresponded to the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification of the planet genders by ptolemy (tetrabiblos, parts 1.6 and 7. e.g. in southern arabia, a.tar/at ar was worshipped as ina araa nisanni d.ul.pa.e3 ilmarduk- aiari dud.al.tar- simani diku bab ilanipl- du fuzi dda-pi-nu- abi dma-ag-ru-u2- ululi dsag.me.gar- ti.riti dni-bi-ru- ara .amni drab-bu- kislimmi ulgam3- ebeti ullugal .aba i ulgal- adari ulkua de2-a- 23 the personified male aspect of venus as th

: 43. there is no agreement as to how to read the signs. rochberg suggests it to be read dili-bat, reiner has proposed dele-bat (according to the greek transcription delephat (rochberg 1998: 28; reiner 1995: 7. in any case, dil-bat is predominant (see e.g. reiner 1998. other gods have been related to venus as one of the most popular celestial bodies, but these do not always appear in the names of the planet. e.g. nanaya, sumerian goddess of physical love, semitic goddess aya and west semitic a.tarte. an important appellation dnin.an.na is actually nin-ana, elady of heaven f, the earlier form of sumerian war and love goddess inanna fs name (ninurta was often called inurta in assyria) likewise, du.dar/di.-tar marks the semitic goddess i.tar (neo-assyrian iss r) who corresponds to inanna. the

ch as mulahu ethe other star f, mulnak(a)ru (g293) ehostile star f, mulka5.a or mulsarru erebellious star f, mullimnu ewicked/nasty star f (g360. the designation kakkab la minati eunpredictable star f expresses the idea that mars is a star that gchanges its place all year round h (gossmann 1950: 180; the same is suggested by the name mulnu.me.a (g304, akkadian kakkabu la ba.u erestless star f. as the planet is quite bright, names like mulnin.si4 (g318) ebright lord f and dnin.dar.a (g319) elord of brightness f have been used for mars. mul2babbar ebright star f sounds very much like jupiter. appellations mulmakru and mul.i.pa ered star f refer to the red color of 28 the planet. there is not much separating red color from fire, so one of the fire gods dgibil was connected to mars. gibil (akk

nd planets as planned from the beginning, we shall try to compose a large survey table (table 4) of mesopotamian planet names and the gods related to them. unfortunately we cannot consider all appellations. to save space, we shall use modern symbols of planets in the table (moon, sun, jupiter, venus, mercury, saturn, mars. in the second column the modern symbol is followed by the akkadian name of the planet as a celestial body. the third column includes planet names in the texts of mul.apin and en ma anu enlil series, also designations used in horoscopes (kugler 1907: 7.14; rochberg 1998: 28. the fourth column counts names from some minor sources. the fifth column consists of the names of gods related to the planet by its names. though table 4 includes a lot of information, it is not suita

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

alkuth. water is relfected cross-wise from binah through chesed to hod. fire is reflected cross-wise from chokmah through geburah to netzach. malkuth therefore becomes the receptacle of the other three elements. the reflection of the elements down the tree meditation number five let the philosophus meditate upon the symbol of the fire triangle in all its aspects. let him contemplate the symbol of the planet venus until he realises the universal love which would express itself in perfect service to all mankind and which embraces nature both visible and invisible. let him identify himself with the powers of fire, consecrating himself wholly until the burnt sacrifice is consummated and the christ is conceived by the spirit. let him meditate upon the triplicity of fire- its attributes and corr

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nd lineal figures of the planets: saturn 3 triangle jupiter 4 square mars 5 pentagram sun 6 hexagram venus 7 heptagram mercury 8 octagram moon 9 enneagram this topic is considerably elaborated in a very important document entitled polygons and polygrams. there are a number of drawings to illustrate each point made. the magical squares of the planets they are formed of the squares of the number of the planet, arranged so as to yield the same number each way. the number of the sum of each column of figures and the number of the total of all the number of the squares are also especially attached to the planet. for example the number of the planet saturn is 3, square 9, the sum of all columns vertical, horizontal and diagonal is 15. the total sum of all numbers is 45. these numbers are then fo

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nts. the universe is holographic, as michael talbot demonstrates in his book, the holographic universe, a collection of scientific discoveries in that field. baal hasulam describes the same law in his own words in the article, the secret of conception and birth: general and particular are reciprocally equal as two drops of water, both in the externality of the world, that is, the general state of the planet, and in its internality. this is because we find a complete system of sun and planets dashing around it in even the smallest wateratom, just as in the big world. this law shows that every person, whether egoistic or altruistic, consists of ten percent altruistic forces and ninety percent egoistic forces, as is the division in the whole of humanity. the difference between people is in th

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so below if we draw a parallel between the earthly phases of the four basic phases of light, the still era corresponds to the root phase, the vegetative era corresponds to phase one, the animate era to phase two, the speaking era to phase three, and the spiritual era to phase four. planet earth s scorching youth lasted several billions of years. as it cooled, vegetative life appeared, reigning on the planet for many more millions of years. but just as the vegetative level on the spiritual pyramid is much narrower than the still level, the physical vegetative period was shorter than earth s inanimate period. after the completion of the vegetative phase came the animate period. as with the previous two degrees, the animate era was much shorter than the vegetative era, matching the proportion

a few years ago, the weather was a convenient haven when one had nothing to contribute about other topics. today, however, we are all required to be climate savvy. hot topics nowadays are climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, and the start of the new hurricane season. the (narrow) road to freedom 125 the big thaw is what geoffrey lean of the independent ironically called the state of the planet in an online article published november 20, 2005. here s the title of lean s article: the big thaw: global disaster will follow if the ice cap on greenland melts. and the subtitle, now scientists say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected. and weather is not the only disaster lurking on the horizon. the june 22, 2006 issue of nature magazine, published a university of califo

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

is surrounded by a gaseous atmosphere in which the lightest matter tends to find its way to the top. hydrogen is the lightest, and what little of it there is in a free state gradually rises to the top of the atmosphere, and some of it escapes and becomes lost in space. that is one of the reasons why the older planets always have less hydrogen than the younger- it leaks away to a certain extent as the planet rushes along through space. that reduces the amount of water on the globe. thus we find that mars, which is older than the earth in proportion to its size, and is in a later period of its life, has slightly more land than water on its surface, while jupiter and saturn which are younger, not in actual age, but in proportion to their size, are almost entirely liquid. there is a great bein

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

s that of all other oriental monarchs. the authors of the earlier books of hebrew scriptures (the old testament, however, knew nothing of fallen angels or evil angels, and did not mention them. babylonians and assyrians personified the morning star as belit and istar. others have speculated that the phrase son of the morning might refer to the crescent moon.others argue for an identification with the planet jupiter. the devil acquired the name lucifer when the early christian theologians tertullian and st. augustine identified him with the falling star in the passage from isaiah 14:12 quoted above. the basis of this association was that the devil was 154 luciferian children of satan formerly a great archangel who rebelled against god and was tossed out of heaven. the legend of the rebellio

of opinion on the home planet of the elohim opposed to genetic experiments who believe that humanity poses a potential threat and should be destroyed.according to rael, in let s welcome our fathers from space, satan thought that one could not expect anything good from these scientifically- created creatures, and that out of man only evil could come. satan was like the head of a political party on the planet of the elohim, which was opposed to the creation of any type of beings in their image by other elohim, who thought that they could create beings who would be positive and non-violent (rael 1986, 94 95. certain biblical stories, such as the flood, are explained in terms of the intervention of satan s party: the group who believed that nothing but evil came out of man, presided on by one

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these correspondences (see illustrations in "the temple of solomon the king" in equinox no. 2. cross references are given) 2. if we take an example, the use of the tables will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv note 1, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8) yellow, purple, grey

z are attributed to this degree. see 777 lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: myhla v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g -380- the signs of 4= 7. raise the arms above the head and join the hands, so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4= 7) is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of q, z and p are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777 lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: la (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3= 8. raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (s

77 lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: la (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3= 8. raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3= 8) is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and s are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: hvhy o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2= 9. stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hand bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2= 9)

ritual is identical, save that the direction of the hexagrams must be reversed. the greater ritual of the hexagram. invoking banishing- 2 *2 *1 1# 1 2 *1* 2* 1 *2- 2# 1/ 4:9# 6:7-*5:8 3:10- 2:4* 2:11/*1:12^ 1:12- 6:7* 4:9 3:10 5:8-*2 *1- 1# 2/ to invoke or banish planets or zodiacal signs. the hexagram of earth alone is used. draw the hexagram, 385- beginning from the point which is attributed to the planet you are dealing with (see 777 col. lxxxiii. thus to invoke jupiter begin from the right hand point of the lower triangle, dextro-rotary and complete; then trace the upper triangle from its left hand point and complete. 1\ 2# trace the astrological sigil- of the planet in the centre of/ your hexagram\ for the zodiac use the- hexagram of the planet which *2-*1 rules the sign you require (

f the planet which *2-*1 rules the sign you require (777, col. xxxviii) but draw\ the astrological sigil of the- sign, instead of that of the 1 *1 planet *2 2# for caput and cauda draconis use the lunar hexagram, with the sigil of cauda draconis or caput draconis. to banish, reverse the hexagram. in all cases use a conjuration first with ararita, and next with the name of the god corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. the hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. these rituals should be practised until the figures drawn appear in flame, in flame so near to physical flame that it would perhaps be visible to the eyes of a bystander, were one present. it is alleged that some persons have attained the power of actually kindling fire by these m

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c conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the corresponding grades (see col. cxxi) except for 5 =6, whose g.w. is hwchy. the zodiacal gods are as for the sephira, which corresponds to the planet ruling. apparently, in the numeration of azbogah, line 12, only the az count. notes 35 that these following are only titles of the one ineffable name is shown by koran xvii. 110. but monotheism is not true for the normal consciousness, but only for that of the adept [99 names of god in arabic; omitted owing to transcriber s ignorance of that language] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a

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" and "b" accomplished, and his studies in astronomy completed, let him attempt this practice "c. c. let the practicus form a mental picture of the earth, in particular striving to realize the size of the earth in comparison with himself, and let him not be content until by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will probably find the final trick of the mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. this trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. he will then in add in turn venus, mars, mercury and the sun. it is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to the centre of the sun, and to do so may add

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esign; they were to be encased in .hollow things, of sweet wood. mounted on the end of each table leg. the size does not appear to be specified in those sections of the dee diaries i have been able to consult (primus through to tertius plus tfr, but those made by dee are still extant and are 5 inches in diameter. 5: most of these names consist of a transliteration of the hebrew for the .sphere of the planet. with.-el. stuck on the end. see agrippa de occulta philosophia lib. iii cap. xxviii, where most of these names appear. the spirit of saturn is called sabathiel; the spirit of jupiter zedekiel; the spirit of mars, madimiel; the spirit of the sun semeliel, or semeschia; the spirit of venus nogahel; the spirit of mercury cochabiah, or cochabiel; the spirit of the moon, jareahel, or levana

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es a and b accomplished, and his studies in astronomy completed, let him attempt this practice c. c. let the practicus form a mental picture of the earth, in particular striving to realize the size of the earth in comparison with himself, and let him not be content until by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will probably find the final trick of mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. this trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. he will then add in turn venus, mars, mercury and the sun. it is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to svb figvra dxxxvi 3 the centre of the sun, and to d

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ophis and besz;58 also hwchy \c, the name of jesus. the names of nero, napoleon, w. e. gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up to this number. in reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6 111([la= 111= 1= 6, and because the sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6 (i here interpolate a note on the .mystic numbers. of the planets. the first is that of the planet itself, e.g. saturn, 3. the second is that of the number of squares in the square of the planet, e.g. saturn, 9. the third is 56 [see the sepher yetzirah. t.s] 57 [in equinox i (2, or regardie (ed) the golden dawn. t.s] 58 [see the golden dawn z1 document. t.s] on the qabalah 39 that of the figures in each line of the .magic square. of the planet, e.g. saturn 15. a .magic square. is one

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

knowledge. fairy-tales? well, first, sit down a week and hold your breath as masters teach49.until you burst, or nearly.in a week, one saith, a month, perchance a year for you, hard practice, and yourself may fly. yes! i have done it! you may too! thus, in ascension, you and i stand as christ.s peers and therefore fit to judge him..stay, friend, wait a bit (you cry .your indian yogis fall back to the planet after all, never attain to heaven and stand (stephen) or sit (paul)50 at the hand of the most high!.and that alone that question of the great white throne, is the sole point that we debate. i answer, here in india wait christian premisses accepted. severe mental strain involved in reading poem. the ascension at last! this is a common feat. pranayama. difference between david douglas [si

idable. excluding this folly, therefore, we may conclude that if the command be obeyed.and those of buddha have gained a far larger share of obedience that those of any other teacher.the enlightened one was not only a potential but an actual thief. further, all voluntary action limits in some degree, however minute, the volition of others. if i breathe, i diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy in t

ere are also allusions to contemporary occult students, and a certain very small amount of mere absence of meaning. the main satire is of course on the .chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz. a few only of the serious problems are elucidated in footnotes. 1 i.e. when 118= change, a ferment, strength. also= before he was 120, the mystic age of a rosicrucian. 2 her-shell= herschell, or uranus, the planet which was ascending (in leo) at crowley.s birth. 3 vau and gimel, the hierophant and high-priestess in the tarot. hence .from his castle of ug. means .from his initiation. we cannot in future do more than indicate the allusions. 4 the kerubim. 5 see table of correspondences [a table of correspondences was intended to appear as an appendix to the first volume of crowley.s collected works

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i j b d two pentacles: 1 each of the others" 1. g peace restored 2 of swords. 2. i great strength 9, wands. 3. k unstable effort 7, swords. 4. b material success 6, pentacles. 5. d blended pleasure 4, cups. or in g i k b d two wands: 1 each of the other suits. there being thirty-six decans and seven planets, it follows that one of the latter must rule over one more decan than the others. this is the planet mars, to which are allotted the last decan of l, and the first of a, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. and the beginning of the decantes is from the royal star of leo, the great star cor leonis: and therefore is the first decan that of f in e. a description of the cards of the taro 27 here follow the general meanings of the

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the nature of these correspondences (see illustrations .the temple of solomon the king. in equinox i (2. crossreferences are given) 2. if we take an example the use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find .knowledge of sciences. by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its [lat .the traveller in the kingdoms of the tree (scil. of life [lat .the arrow beyond the moon (the reference being to the path of samekh on the kircher tree] svb figvra vi. 3 lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael

the paths of s, n, and o are attributed to this degree. see .777. lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire invoking aa banishing name: a l h i m (elohim. the sign of 4 =7: raise the arms above the head and join the hands so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4 =7 is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of q, x, and p are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water invoking aa banishing name: a l (el. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 8 the sign of 3 =8: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle ap

and 31. the pentagrams of water invoking aa banishing name: a l (el. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 8 the sign of 3 =8: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3 =8 is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and c are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air invoking aa banishing name: i h v h (ye-ho-wau. the sign of 2 =9: stretch both arms upwards and out-wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2 =9 is particularly

as the lower triangle placed above the upper, so that their apices coincide. e (xii) repeat (i-vii) the banishing ritual is identical, save that the direction of the hexagrams must be reversed.12 svb figvra vi. 11 the greater ritual of the hexagram to invoke or banish planets or zodiacal signs. the hexagram of earth alone is used. draw the hexagram, beginning from the point which is attributed to the planet you are dealing with (see .777. col. lxxxiii) thus to invoke jupiter begin from the right-hand point of the lower triangle, dextro-rotary, and complete; then trace the upper triangle from its lefthand point and complete. trace the astrological sigil of the planet in the centre of your hexagram. for the zodiac use the hexagram of the planet which rules the sign you require(.777. col. cxx

e jupiter begin from the right-hand point of the lower triangle, dextro-rotary, and complete; then trace the upper triangle from its lefthand point and complete. trace the astrological sigil of the planet in the centre of your hexagram. for the zodiac use the hexagram of the planet which rules the sign you require(.777. col. cxxxviii; but draw the astrological sigil of the sign instead of that of the planet. for caput and cauda draconis use the lunar hexagram, with the sigil of< or. to banish reverse the hexagram. in all cases use a conjuration first with ararita, and next with the name of the god corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with.13 the hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in [figure above].14 invoking 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2,11 3,10 4,9 6,7 5,8 banishing 1

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

roved by the constant professional care they require to stay in place. a designer should have anticipated and prevented periodontal disease and cavities, in which case root canals and dentures would be unnecessary. and the list goes on. the case of a badly designed protein the enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco, in short) is in all likelihood the most prevalent protein on the planet. this is because it is present in all land plants, algae, and many photosynthetic bacteria. in land plants and algae, rubisco is located inside the chloroplasts, the cellular bodies where photosynthesis takes place. rubisco represents 30% of the total protein in plant leaves, meaning that we ingest a lot of it every time we eat leafy vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, and cabbage. th

old) and australia (40,000 60,000 years old. this evidence strongly suggests that modern humans appeared in africa, an interpretation supported also by africa being the only place in the world where there is an uninterrupted line between the oldest bipedal fossils (orrorin) and modern humans. after about 25,000 40,000 years ago, fossils of anatomically modern humans are found practically all over the planet, with the exception of the americas and polynesia. the story, or rather theory, that emerges from the fossil record is thus that modern humans appeared in africa from a long line of prehuman primates. from there, they migrated over time to the four corners of earth. we said above that, for reasons of simplicity, we would use the streamlined fossil lineage of h. sapiens. it turns out tha

rica about 168,000 years ago, because this is where the most ancestral mtdna is found. therefore, as already suggested by paleontology, the cradle of h. sapiens is africa, at least as far as women are concerned. the mathematical equations of population genetics also allow us to determine the size of this original population of humans: between 1,000 and 10,000 individuals. therefore, all humans on the planet are descended from one woman who was part of this relatively small east african population. interestingly (and jokingly, our common ancestress was nicknamed eve by the researchers who first discovered our african origins. but eve was not the only woman on earth at the time she had between 500 and 5,000 female companions in her population. what happened to the mtdna of all these other wo

en 1,000 and 10,000 men and women. thus, aside from an unanswered (or only partially answered) question regarding the age of adam, genetic science demonstrates that modern humans appeared in east africa. now that we understand our east african origins, how can we determine when and how our ancestors migrated out of africa, and by which routes? after all, humans are found practically everywhere on the planet, and way back then they must have reached their distant destinations on foot. early human voyagers and their migration routes fossil evidence shows that the oldest anatomically modern humans are found in east africa, the next oldest ones are found in the middle east, younger ones are found in australia, and younger ones still are found in the rest of the world. unfortunately, fossils ar

e precisely. thus, fossil finds are not the best way to determine how early humans migrated out of africa. this is where dna studies of living humans come to the rescue. techniques to trace human diasporas are the same as those used in the discovery of human origins in east africa. as in these previous studies, both mtdna and y chromosome analyses were used to determine how our ancestors moved on the planet by tracing the new gene variants that appeared over time as humans were migrating. since humans originated in africa, this is where one expects to find the most ancestral variants. as humans moved, mutations in the ancestral variants occurred, and by following these mutations, starting from the oldest ones to the most recent ones, it has been possible to retrace prehistoric human migrat

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ters being attributed to him (in the chapter on the theory of pythagorean mathematics will be found the table of the original cadmean letters) investigators believe that it was hermes who was known to the jews as "enoch" called by kenealy the "second messenger of god" hermes was accepted into the mythology of the greeks, later becoming the mercury of the latins. he was revered through the form of the planet mercury because this body is nearest to the sun: hermes of all creatures was nearest to god, and became known as the messenger of the gods. in the egyptian drawings of him, thoth carries a waxen writing tablet and serves as the recorder during the weighing of the souls of the dead in the judgment hall of osiris--a ritual of great significance. hermes is of first importance to masonic sc

lf becomes the living apex through which the divine power is focused into the diverging structure below. w. marsham adams calls the great pyramid "the house of the hidden places; such indeed it was, for it represented the inner sanctuary of pre-egyptian wisdom. by the egyptians the great pyramid was associated with hermes, the god of wisdom and letters and the divine illuminator worshiped through the planet mercury. relating hermes to the pyramid emphasizes anew the fact that it was in reality the supreme temple of the invisible and supreme deity. the great pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the mysteries, the first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and sciences. it was the pe

s shown as an angelic figure, supposedly androgynous, either pouring water from an urn or carrying the vessel upon its shoulder. among oriental peoples, a water vessel alone is often used. edward upham, in his history and doctrine of budhism, describes aquarius as being "in the shape of a pot and of a color between blue and yellow; this sign is the single house of saturn" when herschel discovered the planet uranus (sometimes called by the name of its discoverer, the second half of the sign of aquarius was allotted to this added member of the planetary family. the water pouring from the urn of aquarius under the name of "the waters of eternal life" appears many times in symbolism. so it is with all the signs. thus the sun in its path controls whatever form of worship man offers to the supre

acle were supposed to come from the decaying body of python. the name pythoness, or pythia, given to the female hierophant of the oracle, means literally one who has been thrown into a religious frenzy by inhaling fumes rising from decomposing matter. it is of further interest to note that the greeks believed the oracle of delphi to be the umbilicus of the earth, thus proving that they considered the planet an immense human being. the connection between the principle of oracular revelation and the occult significance of the navel is an important secret belonging to the ancient mysteries. the oracle, however, is much older than the foregoing account indicates. a story of this kind was probably invented by the priests to explain the phenomena to those inquisitive persons whom they did not co

rlaid with ivory and the robes were of beaten gold. in one hand he is supposed to have held a globe supporting a figure of the goddess of victory, in the other a scepter surmounted by an eagle. the head of zeus was archaic, heavily bearded, and crowned with an olive wreath. the statue was seated upon an elaborately decorated throne. as its name implies, the monument was dedicated to the spirit of the planet jupiter--one of the seven logi who bow before the lord of the sun. 4. eliphas levi includes the temple of solomon among the seven wonders of the world, giving it the place occupied by the pharos, or lighthouse, of alexandria. the pharos, named for the island upon which it stood, was designed and constructed by sostratus of cnidus during the reign of ptolemy (283- 247 b.c. it is describe

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d melchidael are traditionally the angels assigned to these spheres. tiriel and malcha are the intelligences assigned to mercury and the moon respectively, while baresches is in all probability the past part of malcha's complete hebrew name which has become detached and turned into an entity in its own right "malcha be tarshishim va a'ad be ruach shechalim" the name zazel is that of the spirit of the planet saturn, here doubling for the earth. in astral or sidereal magic which deals with a heptadic or sevenfold planetary scheme, the earth powers are generally classified and invoked under the aegis of saturn. the worst thing about this charm is its verbosity, which far from stirring your deep mind into activity, may in fact only succeed in lulling it back to sleep. the redeeming qualities o

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the planets have their dominion over the day which approacheth nearest unto the name which is given and attributed unto them viz, over saturday, saturn; thursday, jupiter; tuesday, mars; sunday, the sun; friday, venus; wednesday, mercury: and monday, the moon. the rule of the planets over each hour begins from the dawn at the rising of the sun on the day which take its name from such planet, and the planet which follows it in order, succeeds to the rule over the next hour. thus (on saturday) saturn rules the first hour, jupiter the second, mars the third, the sun the fourth, venus the fifth, mercury the sixth, the moon the seventh, and saturn returns in the rule over the eighth, and the others in their turn, the planets always keeping the same relative order. note that each experiment of

ds to the rule over the next hour. thus (on saturday) saturn rules the first hour, jupiter the second, mars the third, the sun the fourth, venus the fifth, mercury the sixth, the moon the seventh, and saturn returns in the rule over the eighth, and the others in their turn, the planets always keeping the same relative order. note that each experiment of magical operation should be performed under the planet, and usually in the hour, which refers to the same. for example: in the days and hours of saturn thou canst perform experiments to summon the souls from hades, but only of those who have died a natural death. similarly on these days and hours thou canst operate to bring either good or bad fortune to buildings; to have familiar spirits attend thee in sleep; to cause good or ill success t

fear, and wheresoever thou shalt find thyself, if armed with them, thou shalt be in safety all the days of thy life. through them do we acquire grace and good-will from man and woman, fire is extinguished, water is stayed, and all creatures fear at the sight of the names which are therein, and obey through that fear. these pentacles are usually made of the metal the most suitable to the nature of the planet; and then there is no occasion to observe the rule of particular colors. they should be engraved with the instrument of art in the days and hours proper to the planet. saturn ruleth over lead; jupiter over tin; mars over iron; the sun over gold; venus over copper; mercury over the mixture of metals; and the moon over silver. they may also he made with virgin parchment paper, writing the

of art in the days and hours proper to the planet. saturn ruleth over lead; jupiter over tin; mars over iron; the sun over gold; venus over copper; mercury over the mixture of metals; and the moon over silver. they may also he made with virgin parchment paper, writing thereon with the colors adopted for each planet, referring to the rules already laid down in the proper chapters, and according to the planet with which the pentacle is in sympathy. therefore unto saturn the color of black is appropriated; jupiter ruleth over celestial blue; mars over red; the sun over gold, or the color of yellow or citron; venus over green: mercury over mixed colors; the moon over silver, or the color of argentine earth. the matter of which the pentacle is constructed should be virgin, never having been use

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ich should be suspended above the center of the table, thou shalt surround the said table with a white curtain; clothe thyself in the proper vestments, and holding the book open, repeat upon thy knees the following prayer with great humility (for the prayer beginning "adonai elohim &c, see book i, chapter xiv, where it is given in full) after which thou shalt incense it with the incense proper to the planet and the day, and thou shalt replace the book on the aforesaid table, taking heed that the fire the key of solomon page 120 of the lamp be kept up continually during the operation, and keeping the curtains closed. repeat the same ceremony for seven days, beginning with saturday, and perfuming the book each day with the incense proper to the planet ruling the day and hour, and taking heed

those of venus; hazel unto those of mercury; and willow unto those of the moon. but when we make sacrifices of food and drink, everything necessary should be prepared without the circle, and the meats should be covered with some fine clean cloth, and have also a clean white cloth spread beneath them; with new bread and good and sparkling wine, but in all things those which refer to the nature of the planet. animals, such as fowls or pigeons, should be roasted. especially shouldst thou have a vessel of clear and pure fountain water, and before thou enterest into the circle, thou shalt summon the spirits by their proper names, or at least those chief among them, saying: in whatsoever place ye may be, ye spirits, who are invited to this feast, come ye and be ready to receive our offerings, p

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ther places. the problem with this is that the procedures described in the remainder of the book suggest that an entirely different system is being used to determine the invoked powers. to create the seal for the angels of a particular hour, the magician first casts the astrological chart for that hour in the day the work is to be done. the planetary glyph to be drawn in the center of the seal is the planet ruling the sign on the ascendant of the chart. the glyphs of the remaining planets are drawn counterclockwise around the rim of the seal, starting with the fastest planet and ending with the slowest. finally, for reasons not explained, the sign that is on the cusp of the twelfth astrological house is drawn in the center next to the ruler of the ascendant. therefore the planet emphasized

scendant of the chart. the glyphs of the remaining planets are drawn counterclockwise around the rim of the seal, starting with the fastest planet and ending with the slowest. finally, for reasons not explained, the sign that is on the cusp of the twelfth astrological house is drawn in the center next to the ruler of the ascendant. therefore the planet emphasized in the seal may be different from the planet ruling the day of the week. for example, the date of the author s examples fell on a wednesday, but since aries was rising at dawn, the central planet in the seal for that hour is mars. the planet ruling the day only shows up in the seals when a sign it rules is rising at the beginning of an hour. to invoke the angel of the hour, the magician is instructed to lay the seal upon the table

ple, the date of the author s examples fell on a wednesday, but since aries was rising at dawn, the central planet in the seal for that hour is mars. the planet ruling the day only shows up in the seals when a sign it rules is rising at the beginning of an hour. to invoke the angel of the hour, the magician is instructed to lay the seal upon the table of practice. but he lays it upon the sigil of the planet ruling the rising sign, not upon the sigil of the planet ruling the day and hour according to the cabalistic system of hours. ars paulina 23 further, the invocation used makes no mention of the cabalistic ruler of the day and hour. it does mention elements of the seals, and also refers to the angels rays; this term is frequently used in medieval documents when discussing the action of t

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s (1) obtained from the goetia of solomon, from the author's personal experience, this spirit s aid proves a significant benefit, and the sigil should be available for the purpose of visualization. the wolf hook rune the sign of luna (the moon and it's current) the sign of saturn (death and transformation) the sign of mars (blood and sex) the wolf skin should be worn please note that mars is also the planet of war and aggression such energies should be controlled and channeled through the self. there they are refined as lycanthropic power within the conscious mind, and bound to the particular elemental which you are invoking. a circle should be made on the ground, around seven feet in diameter, large enough for one to move about in. this circle should be made counter clock wise and consecr

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

in the geological recordand the biology and genetics of humans, findings which are being sequestered bythose with a vested interest in maintaining the present status quo. its greatest proof,one can argue, lies in the mysteriously destructive behavior that we modern humanshave adopted toward our own home planet, the animal kingdom, and the indigenouspeoples who have lived in relative harmony with the planet.in my work i intend to show that the descendants of these ancient visitors are still incustodianship of the planet earth. i will demonstrate that their agendas are not com-mensurate with the present or future best interests of adamic mankind. due to thesurge in technological advancement, our once beauteous planet is now on the brink ofecocide, while its political and economic underclass

on a moonless night.around the time of this event, the solar system, and later the earth, was colonized byextra-terrestrial beings who were either attracted to this solar system by that conflagra-tion or upon coming here caused the calamity themselves. whether the disaster wasnatural or not, the result was that mankind on earth experienced total and long lastingchaos and confusion. the surface of the planet tiamat consisted mostly of greatoceans. upon its destruction, these vast saline waters entered into the earths atmo-sphere causing the first of two massive prehistoric deluges and tribulations that man-kind would experience. it is thought that the alien invaders took full advantage of thispredicament and moved in to bring about colonization. they met no resistance fromthe disoriented an

on sequences for the earth because, it is postulated, the losers on being pursued into oursystem pretended to take refuge on tiamat. they even erected a makeshift radar-typestation there to decoy their pursuers. however, the defeated ones had really taken ref-uge on planet earth, not on tiamat. upon their arrival, they almost immediately wentunderground into existing caverns that through scans of the planet they knew existed.they also descended into other caverns that they themselves cut out of the living rock. there were at least five entire continents on earth in primeval times called appala-chia, tyrhennia, beringia, fennoscandia, and oceania. our present continents areremnants of these. beneath them were literally thousands of miles of subterranean pas-sages, caverns, and refuges. some

mystery isatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation23 old world disorder secreted in this myth? the word fal actually means stone and is the root of the word phallic.the stone of fal is, therefore, the stone of stones, probably a powerful crystal thatwould indicate if a person was genetically altered in some way (this stone, like the lingamof the hindus, was believed to be connected to the planet saturn, for whom the earthly kingsruled) in folklore, there are covert references to genetic manipulation. consider the entitycalled a changeling. was this an alien substitute for a human infant? moreover, in prehis-toric times, it was impossible for anyone to rule in ireland if they were blemished, a rule thatwas assiduously honored. could blemished be a reference to artificial alterat

till resolving this today, why good and evil still operate sideby side, personally and collectively, is because there was a variable, in the days of old,that prevented resolution. this variable was unforeseen by either side and caused theend game to be delayed, literally by millennia. the variable had to do with the globalwar mentioned previously. the use of the weapons of mass destruction caused the planet earth itself to react vio-lently. it is written that the ferocity of the war caused the very moisture in the atmo-sphere to completely evaporate. the air was literally incinerated or irradiated. it waseither this conflagration or some other related event that effected the roche limit, andwhich caused a dramatic alteration in the magnetism of the earth. as a result, theearth deviated on

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esn't want to hear, or believe in, and stand back to behold him as he shapeshifts into a just-add-water "intellectual" skeptic. the "truth" is nothing more than a prom-night, popularity contest to this unworthy breed! i will not waste words here. chapter 1-the great name game the collective hallucination [1.1] humanity has hundreds of stories regarding the creation of the universe, the history of the planet, and the birth of mankind. some of these stories are oral traditions, and are handed down to subsequent generations in the form of songs and folklore. other civilizations managed to record these tales in writing, forming the many religions and mythologies that we know--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 3 today. giving the subject of religion and mythology no more than a cursory glance

live branch, indicating to noah that there was indeed land nearby. with the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark and once more began to replenish the earth. after the decedents of noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the earth, they again lose the god s favor. instead of dispersing and filling every quarter of the planet, they concentrate in a land called babylonia. the king of babylonia, nimrod, endeavored to build a tower that could reach heaven; this is the famous tower of babel. god, who was enraged by nimrod s presumption and arrogance, takes matters into his own hands by confusing the languages of nimrod s workforce. the babylonian kingdom is instantly cast into disorder as its inhabitants no long

xochiquetzal survive the great inundation in a boat they were told to construct prior to the flood. after the subsiding of the flood waters, their boat came to rest on a tall mountain. in yet another central american tradition, that of a tribe called the mechoacanesecs, the god tezcatlipoca desired to destroy all of mankind. this god however schemed to spare a small group of humans to repopulate the planet after the coming flood; so he spared a man named tezpi, his wife, and their family in a large boat which, as usual, they were told to build and subsequently loaded with various animals. as the flood waters began to diminish, tezpi sent out a vulture to assess whether the boat could be disembarked. the vulture did not return, nor did some other birds tezpi released. finally, he released

related to the greek goddess aphrodite that one could hardly pull them apart categorically. aphrodite, from whom came the word aphrodisiac, is also a goddess of love and fertility. aphrodite is also associated with another greek goddess astarte. in mesopotamia, this goddess goes by the names ishtar, ashtoreth, and inanna. ishtar is also a fertility and love goddess who is further associated with the planet venus. the multiple aspects of the goddess inanna, or the concept of multiple aspects, seem to surface in the story of her descent into the underworld. here, inanna descends into the land of the dead, ruled by her dark sister (aspect) ereshkigal. at the end of this story the reader may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, absorbed the qualities( or body) of her

dimensions. another hindrance to producing an accurate map is earth s natural curvature. because of paper s cost and portability, it s understandable that people would be inclined to draw maps on paper. paper is, however, a flat 2-dimensional surface whereas the earth is 3-dimensional curve. this means that even with the best of equipment, a paper map could never properly represent the surface of the planet. for example, looking at a modern map of the globe, one will notice that greenland, the massive, frosty island between canada and england, will appear disproportionately large and may even compare to the continental united states in size. greenland is not the size of the continental united states, but on a flat map of the world, the regions near the north and south pole appear stretched

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

it is invoked in the circle of being. as some may have studied, aleister crowley[1] has placed significant focus on the spiral force, the traveling point of magickal energy. the same may be stated in the antinomian practice of left hand path magick, it is the spiral force from below (darkness) which ascends through the body (self) towards the luciferian realms (light. a good point of focus may be the planet saturn, which holds two octaves[2] which is a lower and higher. the opposing force resides in both octaves, the lower being satanas= rebellion, adversity, fire and the destructive power of the sun. the lower is the demonic, being the fall from the light to taste the wisdom of darkness. the higher octave is lucifer, the angel-serpent which brings wisdom to mankind. lucifer is known in th

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onis was worshipped in byblos and about mount libanus. there was a magnificent temple of the sun at palmyra, which was pillaged by the soldiers of aurelian, who rebuilt it and dedicated it anew. the pleiades, under the name of succoth-beneth, were worshipped by the babylonian colonists who settled in the country of the samaritans. saturn, under the name of remphan, was worshipped among the copts. the planet jupiter was worshipped as bel or baal; mars as malec, melech, or moloch; venus as ashtaroth or astarte, and mercury as nebo, among the syrians, assyrians, ph nicians, and canaanites. sanchoniathon says that the earliest ph nicians adored the sun, whom they deemed sole lord of the heavens; and honored him, under the name of beel-samin, signifying _king of heaven_ they raised columns to t

and the indus were worshipped, and the sun was the great divinity. they worshipped the moon also, and kept up the sacred fire. in ceylon, the sun, moon, and other planets were worshipped: in sumatra, the sun, called iri, and the moon, called handa. and the chinese built temples to heaven, the earth, and genii of the air, of the water, of the mountains, and of the stars, to the sea-dragon, and to the planet mars. the celebrated labyrinth was built in honor of the sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the temple at hieropolis, covered with symbols relating to the twelve signs and the occult qualities of the elements, were consecrated to the twelve gods or tutelary genii of the signs of the zodiac. the figure of the pyramid and that of the obelisk, resembling the sha

, was as sacred as twelve, that of the signs, the months, the oriental cycles, and the sections of the horizon. we shall speak more at large hereafter, in another degree, as to these and other numbers, to which the ancients ascribed mysterious powers. the signs of the zodiac and the stars appeared on many of the ancient coins and medals. on the public seal of the locrians, ozoles was hesperus, or the planet venus. on the medals of antioch on the orontes was the ram and crescent; and the ram was the special deity of syria, assigned to it in the division of the earth among the twelve signs. on the cretan coins was the equinoctial bull; and he also appeared on those of the mamertins and of athens. sagittarius appeared on those of the persians. in india the twelve signs appeared upon the ancie

e, generative, or creative principle or power. it was a common practice with the talmudists to conceal secret meanings and sounds of words by transposing the letters. the reversal of the letters of words was, indeed, anciently common everywhere. thus from _neitha, the name of an egyptian goddess, the greeks, writing backward, formed _athen, the name of minerva. in arabic we have _nahid, a name of the planet venus, which, reversed, gives _dihan, greek, in persian _nihad, nature; which sir william jones writes also nahid. strabo informs us that the armenian name of venus was _anaitis _tien, heaven, in chinese, reversed, is _neit, or _neith, worshipped at _sais_ in egypt. reverse neitha, drop the _i, and add an _e, and we, as before said _athen. mitra_ was the name of venus among the ancient

epulsion, each a force of nature, are contraries, in the souls of men and in the universe of spheres and worlds; and from the action and opposition of each against the other, result harmony, and that movement which is the life of the universe and the soul alike. they are not antagonists of each other. the force that repels a planet from the sun is no more an _evil_ force, than that which attracts the planet toward the central luminary; for each is created and exerted by the deity, and the result is the harmonious movement of the obedient planets in their elliptic orbits, and the mathematical accuracy and unvarying regularity of their movements--of that equilibrium between authority and individual action which constitutes free government, by settling on immutable foundations liberty with ob

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inmates; if he stops watching, they will kill him; and if he loses his sense of humor, that is to say, his sense of perspective, he will go insane himself. whenever you grow fed up with the whole setup, as you no doubt will, it may help you to consider that humanity does, after all, progress. the promulgation of the law of thelema, and its conscious or unconscious adoption by the leading minds of the planet, would have been impossible at any other known historical period. men have whispered 'do what thou wilt' in the past at other men's ear; but they either chose carefully to whom they whispered, or pretended they spoke in jest 'law' in greek is nomoc,from nem, and means strictly "anything assigned, that which one has in use or possession; hence "custom, usage, and also "a musical strain

iority of the aryan race' and the inferiority of the 'semites' mirrors the ineffable presumption of the people elect and its attitude towards its fellowmen. all karma has to be paid, and the jews paid theirs. as compensation, through two thousand years of persecution they had to sharpen their wits until today they compose one of the most intelligent and efficient cultural groups on the surface of the planet. if the nazis had been half as intelligent, they would have married jewish women and sterilized only the men. germany might have won the war, then. but the nazis were stupid. they were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most

o bear sway; for only in the lowest corruption is form manifest. r also did heaven manifest in violent light (air or the aethyr) q and in soft light (the sun) v then were the waters gathered together from the heaven. k and a crust of earth concealed the core of flame. d around the globe gathered the wide air (the moon [inserted footnote* the moon is not considered to be a light, but a cohesion of the planet's atmosphere] u and men began to light fires upon the earth. therefore was the end of it sorrow; yet in that sorrow a sixfold star of glory whereby they might see to return unto the stainless abode; yea, unto the stainless abode. 56. begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that i have forsaken you. these passages are certa

of us in his proper place, and to him interference with another's will is the worst possible crime. in the past, all religions tried to conquer the world, thereby causing infinite misery to mankind; nations tried to become empires, increasing said misery; men tried to rule other men, instead of ruling themselves. all this is over. the social, ethical and religious upheavals that have been shaking the planet since april 8, 9 and 10 of 1904 have as their purpose to produce this "division" of established churches, empires and "gods of men" into their component elements. i am not my neighbor meaning that, above the abyss, i and my neighbor are none. but if i said "i am my neighbor, as do imperfect mystics everywhere, i would be affirming not love for love presupposes two see i, 28 30 but confu

ONYX TABLET OF SET

od not to abuse this authority, but the atmosphere in the temple of set has always been that the priesthood of set *is* an office of great trust. our history has since demonstrated that this trust in the priesthood has been well placed, and a strong feature of our design. the expulsion authority has been absolute, also, in that any iii+ can expel /ii, even though the i /ii might be located around the planet or in a pylon or order headed by some other iii. this is because the deciding iii+ is assumed to have some direct or immediate knowledge or evidence prompting the decision, which may not have been evident to a sentinel or order gm. as it has evolved over the years since 1975, this i /ii expulsion authority has been used rarely and carefully. and generally if a iii+ invoking it knows the

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

dirt parvati had washed off in her bath. stories vary as to how he acquired his elephant head: in one parvati tells him to stop anyone from disturbing her in her bath, and when he refuses to let shiva in, shiva burns off his head with his third eye; in another, shiva, who has been away, does not recognize his son and sears off his head thinking he is paying court to parvati; yet another tells how the planet saturn, while babysitting ganesh, forgets the power of his glance, and burns off his head by accident. in each story, ganesh s human head is replaced with that of an elephant. peacock the peacock is the vehicle of skanda, the baby on parvati s lap. nandi the bull nandi, shiva s milk-white bull, is the guardian of all four-legged creatures. rudra, shiva s name in the earliest hindu holy

a, bodiless. crescent moon shiva wears the moon of wisdom in his hair. shiva shiva wears a leopard (often tiger) skin to represent his mastery over feelings of aggression and greed. vasuki, the cobra (see p. 109, is wrapped around his neck. dangerous child parvati cradles skanda, the god of war, who later restored peace to heaven and earth after he defeated the demon taraka. he is identified with the planet mars. agni, god of fire t he fire god agni, a god of sacrifice, is born anew whenever a fire is lit. one of the chief vedic (early indian) gods, his role gradually diminished, as many of his attributes were taken over by either shiva or skanda (with whom agni was briefly and agonizingly pregnant during skanda s highly complicated conception and gestation. while shiva s fire will devour

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

g that takes place must be a direct result of this enlivening force which causes it. an example is the influence of the sun on our planet. everything on our planet gets its sustenance and life force from the sun. if the rays of the sun were too intense or not intense enough, everything would die. were the sun too close, we would all burn up and were it too far, we would all freeze. the weather on the planet is a direct result of the influences of the sun. the clouds are caused by the evaporation of ocean water and the winds are whipped up through the collision of warm and cold atmospheric fronts. the weather, in turn, determines how our crops will grow, whether the year will be bountiful, or whether it will be a year of food shortages, g-d forbid. even the supply of meat and poultry will b

ng the human body, appears to have an animating force within it to enliven it, and that without this force it would be nothing more than dead matter. however, it is actually more than this, for the physical body of man and the materiality of the world cannot exist in and of themselves, without a force compelling them into existence at all times. every physical thing, whether it is the human body, the planet earth, the entire galaxy or the whole universe, is limited. a physical thing, by its very definition, has a beginning and an end. it has a beginning and end both in time and space. a physical thing, by definition, is three dimensional. in order for it to exist in space, it must have length, width and depth. anything with length, width and depth is measurable and therefore limited. this

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

stem. just as kether referred to the most secret depths of the unconscious, the core of man's life, so tiphareth is its reflection, the ego, the ordiiry human consciousness. this sephirah completes the second triad, which is a triad of consciousness, as the firsttriad of the supernal light may be considered the triad of that which is supremely divine, the superconscious. nehnch, victory, to which the planet venus is referred, is the first sephirah of the third and reflected triad, and marks an entirely different order of things. here we enter the elemental sphere, where nature's forces have their sway. it is also the region in the human sphere of what we may term the unconscious. the magical tradition classifies this unconsciousness into several strata, and to each of them is attributed so

n classifies this unconsciousness into several strata, and to each of them is attributed some one of the four elements, fire, water, air and earth. netsach is attributed <27> to the element of fire, and so far as concerns the classification of man's principles, it represents his emotional life. its opposite pole on the tree of life, is hod, which means splendour, which receives the attribution of the planet mercury. its element is water, and its action represents fluidic mind, the thinking, logical capacity in man, as well as what may be called his magical or nervous force- what the hindu systems denominate as prana. the third of that triad is yesod, the foundation, the ninth sephirah, the operation of the sphere of the moon. this is the airy sphere of the fourth dimension, termed in occul

junctio ci& 0 q 4. caudq dracoms sp carcer tristitia letitia d* i.3 x 52 70 the golden dawn: volume i book one <136> the numbers and lineal figures appropriate to the planets are: saturn 3 triangle jupiter ;square mars 5 p e n t a g r a m sun 6 l e x a g r a m venus 7 l e p t a g r a m mercu y 8 odagram moon 9 enneagram the magical squares of the planets are formed of the squares of the number of the planet, arranged so as to yield the same number each way. the number of the sum of each column of figures and the number of the total of all the numbers of the square, are also numbers especially attached to the planet. thus the number of the planet saturn is 3, square 9, sum of all columns vertical, horizontal and diagmal 15; total sum of all numbers, 45. these numbers are then formed into di

iel ?n7731 angel taliahad 77% ruler tharsis o'w? king nichsa elementals undines fire: hebrew name asch dm great name yhvh tzabaoth n1nx 777' cardinal point south. darom 0117 archangel michael- 5 3' angel aral ?nn ruler seraph king djin 71w elementals salamanders c160> meditation let the philosophus meditate upon the symbol of the fire triangle in all its aspects. let him contemplate the symbol of the planet venus until he realises the universal love which would express itself in perfect service to allm mankind and which embraces nature both visible and invisible. let him identify himself with the owers of fire, consecrating himself wholly until the burnt sacri ice is consummated and the christ is conce vedb y the spirit. p fifth knowledge lecture 81. let him meditate upon the triplicity of

order of kerubirn. in binah is a thick darkness which yet veileth the divine glory in which all colours are hidden, wherein is mystery and depth and silence, and yet, it is the habitation of the supernal light. there is the supernal triad completed. and the sphere of its operation is shabbathai, or rest, and it giveth forms and similitudes unto chaotic matter and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet fiftk knowledge lecture 97 saturn. and jehovah elohim is the perfection of creation and the life of the world to come. and its archangel is tzaphqiel, the prince of the spiritual strife against evil, and the name of the order of angels is aralim, the strong and mighty ones who are also called the order of thrones. the angel jophiel is also referred unto binah. in chokmah is the radix of

REGARDIE TALISMANS

ience and divination; wonders; apparitions; and answers regarding the future. thou canst also operate under this planet for thefts; writings; deceit; and merchandise. the days and hours of the moon are good for embassies; voyages; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love, and the acquisition of merchandise by water. for example, should i crave honours and prestige, then jupiter would be the planet ruling such matters, and the talisman would need to be constructed around the use of whatever symbols of jupiter i could gather. or, if i needed strength and aggressiveness in order to apply for a new, higher-paid position, or courage to beat a political opponent, then mars would be the talismanic planet, and the symbols to be gathered should be martial. should i want the love of a beau

ows on the square. for example, saturn is a planetary symbol of binah, the third sephirah on the qabalistic tree of life. thus the square of saturn has three compartments each way, and in each subdivision is a number of its square 3x3=9, so that all numbers from one to nine are used and arranged so that the columns add up to 15 each way, and three columns together total 45. the square of jupiter, the planet attributed to the fourth sephirah of chesed, has sides of four divisions, or 4x4, resulting in 16 individual units, each line adding up to 34, of which the grand total is 136. here is an example of the square of mars representing the fifth sephirah of geburah. each side has 5 units for a total of 25 squares with each line both sideways and up and down counting 65, the total being 325. s

our divisions, or 4x4, resulting in 16 individual units, each line adding up to 34, of which the grand total is 136. here is an example of the square of mars representing the fifth sephirah of geburah. each side has 5 units for a total of 25 squares with each line both sideways and up and down counting 65, the total being 325. similarly the four several numbers of the sun are 6, 36, 111, and 666. the planet venus equals 7, 49, 175, and 1225. the planet mercury is represented by the numbers 8, 64, 260, and 2080. the moon or luna has the numbers 9, 81, 369, and 3321. each number total then becomes a name as, for example, in the case of mercury, which represents the eighth sephirah of hod. here the number 64 is din, a name meaning justice, or its variation dni, doni. its next number 260 is ti

the zodiacal triplicities, and is described by mathers in a golden dawn paper in these words: having made a magical talisman, you should use some form of charging and consecrating it, which is suitable to the operation. there are certain traditional words and letters which are to be invoked in the charging of a tablet, the letters governing the sign under which the operation falls, together with the planet associated therewith (if a planetary talisman. thus in elemental operations, you should take the letters of the appropriate zodiacal triplicity, adding al thereto, thus forming an angelic name which is the expression of the force. hebrew names as a rule represent the operation of certain general forces while the names on the enochian or angelical tablets represent a species of more part

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

ct the terrible and fatal power of intoxication. if you would make others drunk, possess them with the desire of drink, but do not partake of it yourself. that man will dispose of the love of others who is master of his own. if you would possess, do not give. the world is magnetized by the light of the sun, and we are magnetized by the astral light of the world. that which operates in the body of the planet repeats itself in us. within us there are three analogical and hierarchic worlds, as in all nature. man is the microcosm or little world, and, according to the doctrine of analogies, whatsoever is in the great world is reproduced in the small. hence we have three centres of fluidic attraction and projection the brain, the heart, or epigastric region, and the genital organ. each of these

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

ay be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we have observed in our gdoctrine h the key to the trigrams of fohi. precious stones may be also employed for amulets and talismans; but all objects of this nature, whether metals or gems, must be kept carefully in silken bags of a colour analogous to that of the spirit of the planet, perfumed with the perfumes of the corresponding day, and preserved from all impure glances and contacts. thus, pantacles and talismans of the sun must not be seen or touched by deformed or misshapen persons, or by immoral women; those of the moon are profaned by the looks and hands of debauched men and menstruating females; those of mercury lose their virtue if seen or touched by salar

ined as he who exists of necessity, may we not define his antagonist and enemy as necessarily he who does not exist at all? the absolute affirmation of good implies an absolute negation of evil: so also in the light, shadow itself is luminous. thus, erring spirits are good to the extent of their participation in being and in truth. there are no shadows without reflections, no nights without moon, the planet of morning and stars. if hell be just, it is good. no one has ever blasphemed god. the insults and mockeries addressed to his disfigured images attain him not. we have named manichaeanism, and it is by this monstrous heresy that we shall explain the aberrations of black magic. the misconstrued doctrine of zoroaster and the magical law of two forces constituting universal equilibrium, ha

aracelsus, as we may satisfy ourselves by forming these same squares with the keys of the tarot, and reading off the hieroglyphs thus collected. hereinafter follow the seven magical squares of the planetary genii according to paracelsus: 132 the ritual of transcendental magic the book of hermes 133 by casting up each column of these squares, you will obtain invariably the characteristic number of the planet, and, finding the explanation of this number by the hieroglyphs of the tarot, you proceed to seek the sense of all figures, whether triangular, square or cruciform, which you find to be formed by the numbers. the result of this operation will be a complete and profound acquaintance with all allegories and mysteries concealed by the ancients under the symbol of each planet, or rather of

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

d mysteries, national group-souls, deep long-term aims of potent groups and patterns. these in turn are loosely related to certain stellar influences, and to the overall luminous attraction of lucifer within the earth's planetary body. the broad way leads to rebirth. the road of thorns and briars represents a voluntary incarnation in service of some higher aim or order. one who need not return to the planet or group worlds by impulse or attraction, but who chooses to do so out of love for those who suffer. the middle way does not lead to incarnation from the inner to outer worlds, under normal circumstances. it may be specifically opened for communication and exchange 'cross time, as we have seen in the summoning of the ancestors, and this is the simplest human level of its so-called disca

RUBY TABLET OF SET

e& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any. this is popularly [by crowleyphiles] considered to be a validation of the book of the law's prophetic power [as a prediction of world war ii] and a further prediction of war in the 1980s. since there are local or regional wars ongoing constantly on some part of the planet, whether or not the "eighties" prediction is considered to be validated is simply a question of how extensive a war must be for ra-harakte to take note of it. 47. this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast shall div

so, when my word was given as xem, and when the gates were left open harwer entered and almost destroyed my word. as anubis was the opener of the way of the dead in khem, so shall he now open the way of the dead among my elect. referring again to crowley (ref. m, pp, 234-5 "the essential characteristic of the grade [of magus] is that its possessor utters a creative magical word, which transforms the planet on which he lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation. this does not mean that only one man can make personal progress equivalent to that of a 'word of an aeon; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the magus who uttered the word of the aeon in which he is living" by xem ro

tervention of set for a definite reason. a magus is brought forth in one of the two forms spoken of in one star in sight: the first kind of magus "utters a classification: v2- a17.3- 2 author: james lewis v date: april 3, xxii html revision: october 8, 1998 ce subject: remanifestation reading list: 2h, 2m, 4a, 6d, 6k, 6n, 9c, 9d, 9k, 12c, 16a, 17a, 17d, 19g creative magical word, which transforms the planet on which he lives. this can take place only at an 'equinox of the gods' at the end of an 'aeon; that is, when the secret formula of its action becomes outworn and useless to further development" the second kind of magus is the one who makes "personal progress equivalent to" an aeonic word. the fifth degree initiate, therefore, is brought forth only when a word is necessary- that is, at

strike this crack with the force of ur, the primal fire, and with the power of sowilo, with every bit of strength and power, i strike, and watch this crack as it crumbles to dust at my feet. i behold the u(u)niverse made limitless in the settling dust, and the power within for victory and the success of my individual will [setian southern] i call upon set to bring sebhut through the gate. mercury the planet of my birth, whose god is set, whose god is hermes, the healer, crack this egg, and nurture this spark i now bear within me, which returns with me to the north, and be a reservoir, a power for all those assembled here [setian kawaguchi's activity was silent, and setian hembry's too quiet to register intelligibly on the tape recorder [the closing [the initiate who opened the gate closes

nd consumes us not [celebrant] the doom is sealed. henceforth all who appeal to the dread name to justify their own actions shall be smitten with the knowledge of truth and destroyed by the power of maat we have cast forth in the name of set! hail set [chorus] hail set [another celebrant] the day of the day of the cross and the trinity is done. the rule of gereg is ended, and isfet is driven from the planet. a great wheel with angles in dimensions unrecognized, save for the evermultiplying children of set, fills the void and becomes as the sun in the firmament of wrath! it is the emerald dawn and set rules the earth! hail set [chorus] hail set! words of ra-en-set [in the high priest's absence at set-xiii, ipsissimus james lewis spoke] the pronunciation of the curse hail to thee, ra-en-set!

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

e itself. the fall has been introduced and this cell is setting forth the ultimate joining of eros and death in various hexes connected to our stellar source in the elder gods. cell 10 being the aat of the 11th and 22nd letter of the sacred alphabet for whosoever is wise practises no magic, but becomes it we are now encountering the last letters of the sacred alphabet, kaph and tau. symbolized by the planet jupiter and the tarot of fortune inte racting with the tau, the cross of the universe connecting saturn with the earth. in this we find wisdom and understanding brought circle round and ended up back to the witch who has restored him-or her on the throne of cain, carrying the cross of the world and has towered by all temptations. through the ordeals jupiter has blessed the witch with th

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

o this endless but also ending angelicdevilish fall, did not become aware of the moment at which the processes of their transmutation began. mutation? yessir, but not random. up there in air-space, in that soft, imperceptible field which had been made possible by the century and which, thereafter, made the century possible, becoming one of its defining locations, the place of movement and of war, the planet-shrinker and power-vacuum, most insecure and transitory of zones, illusory, discontinuous, metamorphic- because when you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible- wayupthere, at any rate, changes took place in delirious actors that would have gladdened the heart of old mr. lamarck: under extreme environmental pressure, characteristics were acquired. what characteristics

whiteblue by the cold "arooooose from out the aaaazure main" farishta, horrified, sang louder and louder of japanese shoes, russian hats, inviolately subcontinental hearts, but could not still saladin's wild recital "and guardian aaaaangels sung the strain" let's face it: it was impossible for them to have heard one another, much less conversed and also competed thus in song. accelerating towards the planet, atmosphere roaring around them, how could they? but let's face this, too: they did. downdown they hurtled, and the winter cold frosting their eyelashes and threatening to freeze their hearts was on the point of waking them from their delirious daydream, they were about to become aware of the miracle of the singing, the rain of limbs and babies of which they were a part, and the terror

es of the house of the black stone "but, baal, concede: don't i have some small claim upon you? we both serve, or so i thought, the same mistress" now the blood leaves baal's cheeks; his confidence cracks, falls from him like a shell. the grandee, seemingly oblivious to the alteration, sweeps the satirist forward into the house. they say in jahilia that this valley is the navel of the earth; that the planet, when it was being made, went spinning round this point. adam came here and saw a miracle: four emerald pillars bearing aloft a giant glowing ruby, and beneath this canopy a huge white stone, also glowing with its own light, like a vision of his soul. he built strong walls around the vision to bind it forever to the earth. this was the first house. it was rebuilt many times- once by ibr

"a sign" the sock was removed, revealing what looked to be a perfectly ordinary, if outsize, foot. then gibreel counted and counted again, from one to six "the same on the other foot" maslama said proudly "i never doubted the meaning for a minute" he was the self--appointed helpmate of the lord, the sixth toe on the foot of the universal thing. something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, thought gibreel farishta. too many demons inside people claiming to believe in god. the train emerged from the tunnel. gibreel took a decision "stand, six-toed john" he intoned in his best hindi movie manner "maslama, arise" the other scrambled to his feet and stood pulling at his fingers, his head bowed "what i want to know, sir" he mumbled "is, which is it to be? annihilation or salv

ersion, sri srinivas cried "that man is a traitor to his birth, as you well know. what kind of a person will change gods as easily as his dhotis? god knows what got into you, daughter, but i don't want these dolls" on the wall behind his desk hung a framed certificate which read, in elaborately cur- licued print _this is to certify that mr sri s. srinivas is an expert on the geological history of the planet earth, having flown through grand canyon with scenic airlines. srinivas closed his eyes and folded his arms, an unlaughing buddha with the indisputable authority of one who had flown "that boy is a devil" he said with finality, and ayesha folded the dolls into her piece of sackcloth and turned to leave, without arguing. srinivas's eyes flew open "damn you" he shouted "aren't you going t

SATANGEL

those of venus; hazel unto those of mercury; and willow unto those of the moon. but when we make sacrifices of food and drink, everything necessary should be prepared without the circle, and the meats should be covered with some fine clean cloth, and have also a clean white cloth spread beneath them; with new bread and good and sparkling wine, but in all things those which refer to the nature of the planet. animals, such as fowls or pigeons, should be roasted. especially shouldest thou have a vessel of clear and pure fountain water, and before thou enterest into the circle, thou should summon the spirits by their proper names, or at least those chief among them saying- in whatsoever place ye may be, ye spirits, who are invited to this feast, come ye and be ready to receive our offerings

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

physical and magickal. this understanding of the abyss as a gateway between two different worlds has long past associations with the concept of the temple as a gateway to the world of the gods. this in itself is interesting bearing in mind that many pre-christian temples, upon which christians built their churches are believed to be situated on ley lines, which carry two currents of energy around the planet. it is this belief that is reflected in the theory that the abyss is a location point where the magical worlds and the mundane worlds collide. yet this gateway is also believed to exist within the human psyche at the point where the conscious and the unconscious meet and it is from this point that the satanic magician draws forth his magical power through the medium of satanic ritual. m

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

scientific research) in 1851, huxley finally found a teaching position in 1854. despite his early upbringing in the anglican church, huxley became a skeptic regarding parts of christianity, including the existence of god. he was a materialist and a supporter of the revolutionary theories of geologist charles lyell (1797 1875. lyell suggested that the geological processes now seen on earth shaped the planet very slowly over the course of millions of years. so geological change was in opposition to the literal biblical description in genesis, in which god created the earth and all life on it in six days. huxley became a champion of charles darwin (1809 1892, who promoted natural selection as the way in which evolution works, both in print and from the speaker s platform. huxley largely agre

so as peaceful, tender, comforting, and mystical. she was seen as the protector of both sargon and his daughter, enheduanna. it was partly due to enheduanna s focus on the goddess that inanna became the most important deity in mesopotamia for more than five hundred years. inanna was the daughter of nanna, the moon god, and the twin sister of utu, the sun god. she was represented in the heavens by the planet venus. in fact, astronomers (scientists who study the planets and the stars) named a continent on that planet after her. in sumerian the name inanna means great lady of an, with an being the god of heaven. when she first began to be worshipped by the sumerians, inanna symbolized the life force and was the goddess of both sexuality and fertility. when displeased, she could destroy crops

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

e sun, gimel to venus, daleth to mercury, kaph to luna, peh to saturn, resh to jupiter, and tau to mars. kalisch in the supplementary paragraphs gives a different attribution; both are wrong, according to clairvoyant investigation. consult the tarot symbolism given by court de gebelin, eliphas levi, and my notes to the isiaic tablet of bembo. the true attribution is probably not anywhere printed. the planet names here given are chaldee words. 41. the seven heavens and the seven earths are printed with errors, and i believe intentional mistakes, in many occult ancient books. some hermetic mss. have the correct names and spelling. 42. on the further attribution of these seven letters, note that postellus gives: vita--mors, pax--afflictio, sapientia--stultitia, divitiae (opus- paupertas, grat

SINISTER TAROT

the cortege from a black hill passed the squatter s cottage. black flame engulfed black flame ate the holy. magickian binan ath empathy; a flowing with natural forces that are consciously understood. an integration becoming (part of) a greater wyrd; an awareness that spans aeons. actions that prepare the way. ii she rows a boat in a black pool from her steps: the hermaphrodite, the body drowned. the planet of them and the first drop in a white desert into clear waters aktlal maka. high priestess- mactoron beyond the abyss: the crossing over and initiation (in terms of awareness whilst still partaking of a causal existence) into the lands of the dark immortals. a self-awareness that transcends temporal understanding- becoming the essence; beyond opposites. iii from a mountain of skulls blu

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

simplex. unknown to many modern christians, the symbol of the cross in its various shapes is far older than that of the christian era. for it was in use amongst the pagans of western asia and europe many centuries before the death of christ. as such, to many ancient cultures, it is not a symbol of sacrifice, but still remains as a solar symbol. this also includes the ankh, which many attribute to the planet c, but because the planet is so close to the a it contains many of its qualities. the oldest example of such usage can be found during the kassite period between 1746-1171 bc, of an equilateral cross on a cylinder where a sun god was seated. it was also found in many of the assyrian artifacts in america before the arrival of columbus. even though these crosses may not have meant crucifi

TELESMATA AND FLASHING TABLETS

reate a telesmatic figure. these figures then attract to the ruling planet and idea. example. the following is a complete table of all telesmata figures classed under planet and sign. 7 8 9 10 11 12 the mode of using a telesmata character or symbol is that it is extracted from a telesmatic figure in the development and construction of a talisman or pantacle as to use those formed by the figure of the planet required. place them at opposite ends of the wheel of eight ratio as shown in the diagram. you may also place them in components of a square. within the double lines, a vesicle, that is appropriate to the matter, is then to be written. k additional notes love talismans it is rare that a talisman made for love is appropriate. pure love links us to the nature of the divine. between angels

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

odd fellows, the order of ahepa, the order introduction 13 of skull and bones, the bohemian club, the pilgrims society, and a thousand or more other secret societies and orders, not to mention the many jewish cabalistic groups, satanic churches, and witchcraft and druid sects. knowledge of secret signs opens doors british satanist aleister crowley, a man who fancied himself the "wickedest man on the planet" was grand master of the ordo templi orientis (o.t.o) and also founded the mysterious and luciferian, order of astrum argentinium. he once ruefully and knowingly intimated that after he had independently learned and practiced how to do the secret handshakes of a number of other secret societies and orders throughout europe, he traveled around from city to city and discovered that by kno

l elite conveying occultic messages via hand signs, arm gestures, body postures, and similar means encourages lesser disciples. it reassures them that they are part of a cohesive and unified whole, members of a distinctive body of powerful and influential world movers and shakers. it is an 42 codex magica awesome feeling, no doubt, to find oneself in company with the aspiring and actual rulers of the planet. naturally, for the lesser initiate, seeing the top adepts displaying masonic, rosicrucian, o.t.o, and other signs and symbols in major propaganda and cultural organs (tv, newspapers, magazines, internet, books, public forums, etc) also instills fear and dread. fear and dread of what the organization powerful as evidenced by its public display of its chief symbols to a profane, ignorant

rs in a downward triangle arrangement on the cover of the new york times magazine, september 18, 1997. black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 385 fritz springmeier, author of the bestselling bloodlines of the illuminati (available by phone order, toll free 1-800-234-9673, made this drawing based on an actual ritual conducted by a satanic sect known as ordo saturnus (order of saturn. the planet saturn is the sixth planet from the sun in our solar system. saturn was worshipped in ancient civilizations as a form of satan, or lucifer. the triangle within a circle (symbol also of today's alcoholics anonymous) group is on the wall while the satanic "x" within the circle is on the front of the altar cloth. rosicrucians also commend the triangle within the circle, the very logo of al

580 codex magica the communists adopted both the hammer and sickle and the red star for their official logos, or symbols. the ancient god saturn, depicted here in a 15th century drawing, was said to carry the sickle as the symbol of death. note also the radiant star in saturn's genital area, the horns of the goat (satan) and the water bearer (satan's astrological age of aquarius. occultists view the planet saturn as representing satan, because it is the sixth planet from the son and because of saturn's role as taught in the mythologies. blood red- red stars, clenched fists 581 the similarity of the ussr emblem and the united nations emblem is undeniable. a friend tells me a resemblance is also found on products and in commercials for cadillac automobiles, lenox china, george dickel whiske

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life. for most of us, the teen years are the greatest crossroad we ll ever face. not only does the body go from that of a child, to that of an adult. we also go from having all of our decisions being made for us, to have the freedom to make our own choices. following a pagan path, is just another one of those choices. it should be made from the heart, with the desire to truly live in harmony with the planet, and all others. tolerance, not power is the true underlaying strength of the pagan path! merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again! pageot introduction xiii understanding the unknown the belief in a reality that transcends our everyday existence is as old as humanity itself and it continues to the present day. in fact, in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interes

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rs. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anu

de the whole earth, but its global shape was plainly distinguishable. the psychoanalyst described the reddishyellow desert of arabia, the red sea, and the mediterranean. the sight of the earth from this height was the most glorious thing i had ever seen, jung said, estimating that his consciousness would have had to have been at least a thousand miles up to have perceived such a panoramic view of the planet. he was most emphatic in stressing his belief that the experiences he had during his heart attack were not the products of imagination or a fevered brain. the visions and experiences were utterly real, he wrote. there was nothing subjective about them; they all had a quality of absolute objectivity. ernest hemingway (1899 1961, the american author of such works as the sun also rises and

certain physicians in the sixteenth century that humans could project and control their animal magnetism, sometimes inducing trance states in themselves or in others. in the 1760s, dr. franz anton mesmer (1734 1815) began healing patients with what he believed was the result of animal magnetism s effect on a kind of universal fluid that flowed between the stars, the human body, and everything on the planet, but which today would likely to be attributed to light trance states and the power of suggestion. with davis s childhood experiences of hearing spirit voices, it is not surprising that he was found to be a good subject by a local tailor named william levingston, who had decided to experiment with mesmerism on his own. once davis had entered an altered state of consciousness, he seemed

erns of certain christians about an approaching apocalypse, when people will be called to account for their misdeeds. others say that large masses of people have become disillusioned with the tenets of science and the tools of technology that promised an earthly paradise, but cannot answer the basic questions of why humans are here and what they are to do with themselves in their allotted time on the planet. in why religion matters: the future of faith in an age of disbelief (2001, huston smith states that a people with only science to guide them are morally lost. smith readily grants that the scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of human life. but it is a radical [rather] limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals, and meanings that a

damski had alleged he had experienced out in the california desert, and the psychicchanneling flying saucer groups were becoming increasingly popular among the faithful followers of the ufo prophets. gloria lee (d. 1962, a former flight attendant and the wife of aircraft designer william h. byrd, sighted a ufo in the 1950s. in 1953, she began to receive telepathic communications from an entity on the planet jupiter who revealed himself only as jw. as she came to place more confidence in her space being, she became a well-known figure among ufo cultist groups as a lecturer and a channel. jw revealed that on jupiter vocal cords had gone out of use, so he began to channel a book 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 mystery religions and cul

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rs. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anu

marfa lights to natural phenomena, such as ball lightning, electrostatic charges, or gas emissions. certain scientists have blamed a combination of solar activity and seismic activity that creates a kind of underground lightning that on occasion rises above ground level to be seen as the eerie lights. there are many more ghost lights haunting the nooks and crannies, mountain peaks and valleys, of the planet earth. experts have tried to explain the mystery of spook lights by using the existing structure of physics and known natural phenomena, such as ball lightning, will o the wisps, and swamp gas, but so 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 ghosts and phantoms 23 far all attempts at scientific explanation have been unsuccessful. m delvin

europe, africa, and australia depict animalhuman hybrids. in other words, chippindale told the guardian newspaper, werewolves and vampires are as old as art. composite beings from a world between animals and humans, he said, are a common theme to be found in the earliest of cave and rock art. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, are, in fact, the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, werelions, and were-bats belonged to an imagined world that early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. chippindale commented that these ancient depictions of were-animals remain among the most potent images that humankind has ever created. when modern anthropologists or archaeologists enter the caves with electric lights, he said, the paintings are stil

the film, then place him in a gorilla skin. most scientists remained skeptical, and the controversy raged for 30 years. on october 19, 1997, just prior to a press release by the north american science institute that would announce their analyses that the creature depicted on the film was genuine, stories appeared in the media claiming that john chambers, the academy award-winning makeup artist of the planet of the apes (1968, had been responsible for creating the gorilla suit that had fooled the monster hunters. according to howard berger of hollywood s knb effects group, it was common knowledge within the film industry that chambers had designed the costume for friends of patterson who wanted to play a joke on him. mike mccracken jr, an associate of chambers, stated his opinion that he (c

apelike vampire. a number of authorities began to speculate that the chupacabra- type creatures had been manufactured by some secret government agency, a bizarre hybrid of various animals, created for whom knew what purpose. a number of clergymen issued pronouncements stating that the creatures were heralding the end of the world. ufo enthusiasts theorized that aliens brought the monsters to test the planet s atmosphere, in order to prepare a mass invasion of earth. anthropologists reminded people that tales of such mysterious, vampirelike monsters that sucked the blood out of livestock had been common in central america for centuries. a widely popular story spread throughout chile that chilean soldiers had captured a chupacabra male, female, and cub that had been living in a mine north of

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anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world fs oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such gtherianthropes, h or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anu

spiracy theorists, the illuminati is the ultimate secret society, a group that stretches its tentacles of control to encompass the entire world. according to these theorists, the members of the illuminati are the real rulers of the world, and they have been pulling the strings from behind the political scenes for centuries. they have infiltrated every government and every aspect of society around the planet.and some say that their ultimate goal is to accomplish a satanic new world order, a one-world government, that will prepare earth fs citizens for the coming of the antichrist. although such paranoid claims make for exciting reading, the illuminati of history, rather than legend, was a secret society formed in bavaria in 1776 with the political goal of encouraging rebellion of the people

ich is below. h in other words, the nature of the spiritual world could be discovered through the study of the material substance of earth; and earthly humans, created of the dust of the ground, comprised the prima materia of the heavenly beings they would become, just as the base elements of earth comprised the raw materials for gold. the alchemical adepts believed that the most perfect thing on the planet was gold and that it was linked with the sun. the sun was considered to be the lowest manifestation of the spiritual world and therefore provided the intermediary between god and humankind. the science of alchemy was introduced to the western world at the beginning of the second century of the common era. it was, however, 200 years before the practice of the craft reached its zenith, co

in religious communities. she also works with the sacred dying foundation in educating funeral professionals and hospice workers about pagan beliefs and practices regarding death and dying. to keep current on pagan research, she participates in the nature religion scholars network. macha nightmare fs matron is kali ma, and her magical practice, inspired by feminism and a concern for the health of the planet, is formed of celtic, hindu, and tibetan practices, the sacred art of tantra, and the magic of enchantment. when the opportunity presents itself, nightmare travels the so-called gbroomstick circuit, h where she enjoys immersing herself in the diverse community that constitutes contemporary american witchcraft. she resides in marin county, california. m delving deeper m. macha nightmare

was named after an uncle who fought in the american revolutionary war. symmes fought in the war of 1812, after which he moved to st. louis, missouri, and established a trading post. he immersed himself in reading books in the natural sciences. by 1818 he was publicizing his version of the hollow earth, which had concentric spheres and received light and warmth from the sun through large holes in the planet open at each of the poles. symmes proved relentless in publicizing his views: he was a prolific lecturer and writer of letters and articles; wrote fictional accounts of the hollow earth, including symzonia: voyage of discovery (1820, which he published under the pseudonym adam seaborn; and advocated expeditions to the poles. his hollow earth illuminated by openings at the poles became t

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chdoctor or sorcerer who gains an item belonging to that of the individual he wishes to influence, be it for healing or cursing, or with or without the individuals knowledge. other more esoteric correspondences are seen across sets of items, for example, numbers, planets, scents and colours. an example is that the colour green, the number seven and the emotion of love are associated with each and the planet venus, also viewed as the greek goddess of love. a magician attempting to invoke the influence of this goddess is likely to surround himself with items which resonate with her. this occult idea has a psychological parallel in colour theory, which has demonstrated that certain colours produce changes in our internal physical and psychological states. a biological theory of morphic resona

udes a number of confusions, namely; if there were a hebrew word pan, it would equate to 581, as a nun final has a value of 500; the word pan in hebrew might mean anything, i.e "spectacles, and be nothing to do with either geburah or a greek shepherd god; pan is a transliteration of a greek word into the english alphabet in the first case- surely crowley's "greek gematria" would be better suited? the planet of geburah is mars, mdim, equalling 654, as do lhtim (secret arts, enthusiasm, witchcraft) and dmdvm (twilight, dim light. this again suggests the mastery of practical magic as the skill attained in the initiatory system. the twilight follows the day of tiphareth and precedes the night of the abyss during the ascent of the tree. the gods associated with geburah are those of a martial na

, principle or compilation. it is the base of the third and final triad of the tree, and connects tiphareth to malkuth on the middle pillar. it is also connected directly to hod and netzach. the letters of yesod, yod-samekh-vau-daleth, total 80 by gematria, which is the value of peh, meaning "mouth. it is also the value of ks, meaning "throne, and mvld, meaning "birth, or new moon. as the moon is the planet attributed to yesod, it is interesting to note that peh spelt in full is pa, which totals 81, and is as crowley states "a mystic number of the moon, as it totals 8+1=9, the number of yesod, and equates with ksa, meaning again "throne" and also "time of the full moon. this number, 81, is also the value of anki, meaning "ego, which again is attributed to yesod. thus both 80 and 81 represe

fill this temple i have built. the meditation of this ritual is that of the triangle, which is one of the symbols of binah, having three sides. it is also the first of the solid shapes after the circle, and is symbolic of the first equilibrium of unities, being composed of both the monad (kether) and the duad (chockmah. in pythagorean numerology, three is sacred to saturn, ruler of time, which is the planet attributed to binah. the meditation is simply to take any situation and attempt to resolve it into three principles, visualised as words on each side of the triangle. thus, a relationship might be drawn onto the triangle as "time "love" and "space. this triangle is that which binds the situation, and can be used to see the most basic form of any event or process. 4. chesed; the ritual o

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ance and direction, thenceforth regarding his ego as a tool, sharpened and polished to be employed now to fulfill the divine plan rather than in the indulgence of h s own petty purposes-then will his way become easier. long before obtaining his final release, then may he move fornard on the upward path with joy and equanimity. introduction to the second edition xxvii so it is that, at a time when the planet seems to be rocking beneath our feet, i derive great pleasure from writing an introduction to a new edition of the middle pillar. it is that pillar which stands dependable and relatively changeless as the sphinx, between the extremes of mercy and severity, the two outer pillars of the qabalah's tree of life.6 equally important, it also provides basic principles of magic whch can speed t

dent on his way to blessed release from the necessity of the accursed wheel. once he has gained this new understanding, the student, it is to be hoped, will gradually but steadily progress until he has completed the great work. in so doing, not only will he help himself by stepping up his own evolutionary processes, but to that degree will he have raised the frequencies of h s fellow man and even the planet itself, since all that is, is one. frances g. wickes in the inner world of choice points out that we must "accept the experience that will bring to birth a latent potential" and be willing to dare the leap into the unknown, diving deep into the unconscious "in search of the other unborn or lost potentials of the self."7 the middle pillar should prove a trustworthy guide on this search

(vnn, the divine name of kether. eheieh is one of the highest names that is associated with the act of creation. figure 12: the pentagram and pentagon. 190 the balanceb etweenm ind and magic other words that correspond to the number twenty-one are hagig (212n "meditationff and khezev (lth "vision" the twentyfirst path of the sepher yetzirah is called "the wheel of fortune" and it is attributed to the planet jupiter. in addition, the mystic number of tiphareth is twenty-one. the total length of all lines on the pentagram (twenty-one multiplied by five) is 105, which is formed by adding all the numbers from one to fourteen. the fourteenth key of the tarot is "temperance" the card of the hga or higher self. the fourteenth path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed to daleth (1)th, e "door" of

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the times of babylonia and the pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts. although the angels of biblical times were never described as being winged, painters and sculptors have always persisted in giving them feathered appendages (actually, the old-time angels appeared like ordinary human beings. they even had supper with lot) when demons overran the planet during the dark ages they were also recorded as monstrous entities with bats' wings. remote areas of the world are still said to be inhabited by harpies and winged humans. on july 11, 1908, the famous russian traveler v. k. arsenyev was trekking along the gobilli river when he had this encounter. i saw the mark on the path that was very similar to a man's footprint. my dog alpha bristle

ed it for awhile he decided it was some kind of bird. the biggest bird he had ever seen. he went to call some friends and when they came the bird was gone. iv. on november 4, derenberger was riding with a co-worker on route, 7 outside parkersburg when he felt a tingling sensation in his forehead. then thoughts from mr. cold began to spring full-blown into his mind. cold explained that he was from the planet of lanulos which was in the "galaxy of ganymede" lanulos, he said, was very like the earth, with flora, fauna, and seasons. he was married to a lady named kimi and had two sons. folks on lanulos had a life expectancy of 125-175 earth years. naturally there was no war, poverty, hunger, or misery on lanulos. when the transmission was completed, cold urged woody to brace himself because wi

escribed them as being short, stocky, dressed in black suits, and having olive complexions. for some reason he concluded the men in black were really from the mafia. no matter where he moved and he moved several times in 1967 the phone pranksters and black cadillacs managed to find him, he claims. meanwhile, his pretty young wife and their two children also met indrid cold and his colleagues from the planet lanulos. mrs. derenberger was frightened of them and felt they were engaged in something evil. they were just like us, she told me, traveled about in ordinary automobiles, and were probably infiltrating the human race in large numbers. woodrow derenberger's story troubled me from the outset, and for many reasons. it did not fit the mold of the usual ufo contact tale. while the telepathy

nd wheezing, having great difficulty breathing. jaye thought she was having a heart attack "i am princess moon owl" she declared between wheezes "i am from another planet. i came here by flying saucer" jaye slapped a tape on a tape recorder and offered to interview her for the air. the princess was delighted, pulled herself together, and delivered a hilarious thirty-minute monologue about life on the planet ceres in the asteroid belt. she seemed to be familiar with all the new york/ long island ufo buffs and eccentrics, denouncing some as "phonies" and praising others. as the interview progressed, jaye became increasingly uncomfortable. cerians had a problem with body odor "she stank like rotten eggs" jaye said afterward. the smell was slight at first but gradually became overpowering. the

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sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians def

ble-headed axe, open! gate of the lord of the world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the golden city of sagalla, open! ia dag! ia gat! ia margolqbabbonnesh! ia marrutukku! ia tuku! suhrim suhgurim! zahrim zahgurim! axxanngabannaxaxagannababillukuku! the invocation of the ninib gate spirit of the wanderer of the wastes, remember! spirit of the planet of time, remember! spirit of the plane of he hunter, remember! ninib, lord of the dark ways, remember! ninib, lord of the secret passages, remember! ninib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the d

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the temple of isis. she is seated between two columns, the one on her right being red to signify pure spirit and its luminous ascension over matter, and the one on her left being black to represent the bondage of matter over the impure. the woman is crowned by a tiara of three stories surmounted by a lunar crescent. from the tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ensemble personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mi

of the 12 zodiacal signs. as a whole the ensemble signifies the attainment of adeptship while on earth, and the crown of angelhood that awaits such perfect human beings when they have passed from the physical and function in the sublime vistas of the future. the materialist--arcanum xxii or 0. in divination, arcanum xxii means failure, folly, and mistake (or spirituality. arcanum xxii, or 0, like the planet pluto, has a dual interpretation. as xxii, it is well represented by the letter t with its point thus down; but as 0, the circle being the symbol of spirit, it is represented by the reversed t, that is, having the point, or energy, directed upward, the cross-bar resting below on the earth, and thus indicating that the thoughts, emotions and actions, are directed exclusively toward spiri

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of years the initiates of all peoples have held one central secret as a sure bond of brotherhood, as a unity whose truth is able to harmonize all men upon the earth. no fabrications of knavish priests, no vain dreams of mystics, can hide from the sane this one fact: not only is the earth but a chilled spark of the sun, a dropt petal of the rose of heaven, but the source of all light and life upon the planet is that same sun. not only is he creator, but sustainer, and it is he also that destroyeth in due season, and redeemeth when the time is come. therefore in the macrocosm is one sole god, the sun. now in the microcosm, which is man, the viceregent of the sun, sole giver of life, is the phallus. he is also sole giver of light in a certain secret sense not fully declared in the vii. this m

words and by books and by pictures of a nature consonant, so that all causes may work together for the defence and sustenance of the spirit, and for its true development. vii and let the delivery of the woman be retarded or advanced so far as possible to secure a rising sign proper to such a child. viii the child being born must be dedicated, purified and consecrated, according to the formulae of the planet, element, or sign, of which it is the incarnation. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c4.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:05:49 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. ix now then thou hast a being of perfect human form, with all powers and privileges of humanity, but with the essence of a particular chosen force, and with all the knowledge and mi

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s. in the begin- ning, the magi of persia observed seven wandering bodies, and applied to this set of elements a complete circle of meaning. the fundamental symbols reveal how this totality of meaning was divided among the seven elements of the planetary set. mars is the cross over the circle. in modern usage the cross has been changed to an arrow -symbol of will that suggests the fiery aspect of the planet. it is the mixed essence of the malleable yet substantial earth and the blazing sun. mars represents recklessness and force and is the symbol of con- quest. because it is an inversion of the natural order, the earth over the sun, it is generally malefic. venus is the natural opposite of mars and is made up of the circle q over the cross. the elements are the same but here the life-givin

in the center. in magic the sun is not the center of the solar system-the self is the center around which all else revolves. the ancients had little problem with this idea. they automatically assumed that the sun went around them and the earth upon which they stood. modern men and women, thanks to the indoctrination of science, may have to struggle hard to make this rather simple insight happen. the planet nearest the self both in distance and nature is the earth. since the earth is not represented in the display of planets on the hexagram, it must be sub- stituted by the planet that most closely embodies its qualities. the best choice for the center is therefore not the sun but mercury, symbol of balance, of magic, and of humanity. to understand how the other planets may be logically ass

gment whether to blindly follow tradition or to use intelligence and intuition to study the matter independently. the arrangement given here should no more be accepted without question than the traditional arrangement. the numbering of the planets must be changed slightly to accord with their new positions. traditionally the sun, placed in the center of the hexagram, is given the number six. when the planet mercury is moved to the center, it assumes the six. the sun must then seek a new number. saturn, assigned the number three under the old system, is traditionally placed at the top of the hexagram. since the sun is now at the apex, it is given the three, and saturn must seek another number. the number that traditionally is given to mercury is eight. this seems a rather heavy, square numb

e hexagram rules the planets-god-forms of considerable potency. although, as atheists boast, humanity did make the gods, it did not make them from nothing but patterned them on the invisible unformed essences that are the higher emanations of the all. therefore, take care to use the hexagram only for noble and unselfish purposes. planetary forces are invoked by drawing a line of psychic fire from the planet's position on the hexagram in a clockwise direction. this line is to be repeated coun- terclockwise in the reflected triangle, beginning at the point directly opposite. for example, to invoke the powers of mars the upward-pointing triangle is drawn with the wand or index finger of the right hand in a fiery line in the air, beginning at the mars-point and proceeding clockwise, when the f

sired to summon the powers of mars, the clockwise motion draws them forth from beyond the veil. the following counterclockwise motion in the reflected triangle suppresses the powers of venus, which would oth- erwise have a damping effect on the action of mars. when it is desired to banish or neutralize a planetary force, the inverse motions are used. the counterclockwise motion on the triangle of the planet in question suppresses the powers of that planet, while the clockwise motion on the reflected triangle encourages the powers in opposition to the banished planet. the traditional golden dawn method of invoking the center point of the hexagram involves drawing six separate figures.1260 this is unacceptably cumber- some. mercury is better invoked by drawing both the triangle of the sun an

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

nch. history of remote viewing the term remote viewing was adopted for the primary activity of these psychic spooksthe extrasensory perception of scenes and events over extended distances. in the beginning, a person was sent to the remote location to be viewed to act as a kind of psychic beacon for the viewer. swann discovered that a beacon was not really necessary when he did a remote viewing of the planet jupiter just prior to the nasa pioneer 10 flyby in december 1973, and discovered that jupiter had its own faint ring system. the existence of this ring was later confirmed by nasa. viewers began to work from nothing more than map coordinates of latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds, and eventually even these coordinates were encoded to prevent possible second-guessing

e employed remains a matter of conjecture. we can adapt the ancient water mirror for the purpose of an astral doorway by filling a silver or silver-plated basin with clear fresh water on a table in the scrying chamber just prior to beginning the exercise of projection. a silver-plated basin is acceptable, since silver is plated over brass, which is predominantly copper, and copper as the metal of the planet venus is not obstructive in any occult sense to astral projection. after leaving the body, the basin of water can be used as a portal by enlarging it on the astral level until it is large enough to dive into. the traveler should continue to descend deeper and deeper into the water of the basin until a light is perceived. he will gradually become aware that he is no longer descending int

s that these golden dawn details are not really necessary. it is useful to have the astrological symbol that corresponds with each sephirah inscribed prominently within the astral temple of that sephirah. for example, malkuth corresponds with the four elements, so the signs of the four elements in the form of four elemental triangles would appear within the temple of malkuth. hod corresponds with the planet mercury, so the glyph of mercury would appear within the temple of hod. one possible general form you might wish to use is a square room with two doorways, the one that exits the elevator through which you enter the temple of the initial sephirah 230 soul flight of the path, and a doorway in the opposite wall that is masked by a curtain painted with the image of the tarot trump associat

he two are for practical purposes treated as the same, and elemental earth does not receive its own separate zone. in the golden dawn system of magic, the pure spiritual essences of the three higher elements are assigned to the three sephiroth on the tree of life that are immediately above malkuth. elemental air is placed in yesod, sphere of the moon; elemental water is assigned to hod, sphere of the planet mercury; and elemental fire is located in netzach, sphere of the planet venus. it may be postulated that an extremely rarified and pure elemental spirit might be able to ascend above the moon to its own sephirah, were it able to purge itself of all denseness and of the remnants of the lower aspects of the other elements. that is, a very pure elemental spirit of air might ascend to yesod

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ax your left leg, right leg, left arm, right arm, pelvic region, lower torso, rib cage, shoulders, neck, jaw, and head. as you relax each part of your body, remove your attention from it. lie quietly for several minutes. take regular, slow breaths. be aware of the immense mass of the earth beneath you. extend your perception downward and expand it on all sides until you can sense the roundness of the planet. feel its gentle curve. be conscious of the spine of the world, its axis running from the north 18 reclining exercises pole to the south pole, aligned with your own spine. expand your awareness outward and become conscious of the planets of the solar system and the more distant stars, like glowing jewels set in the turning dome of a great natural cathedral as they rise in the east and d

ures in the rocks and the water that wells within them. continue ever deeper, until the coolness of the rock gives way to warmth, then heat, and the darkness is replaced by a red glow. go even lower, and observe the rock turn orange, then yellow as it melts and become liquid magma. go lower still until you are surrounded by molten iron that glows with dazzling whiteness. contemplate the center of the planet earth for thirty seconds or so. ascend up the way you descended, passing through the liquid iron into the molten rock. watch with your inner vision as it becomes orange, then red, then dark, and changes from liquid magma to solid bedrock. press up past the fissures and pockets of subterranean water until you enter the base of the pillar. emerge from the ground and fill the pillar of gra

y define the body of the triangle and its center. at its base, the trump associated with the moon is put on the left next to the trump of water, and the trump of the sun on the right next to the trump of fire. the trumps of the lunar planets, jupiter and saturn, occupy the left side, and the trumps of the solar planets, venus and mars, the right side. in the center is placed the trump linked with the planet mercury, the planet of balance and union that contains both solar and lunar principles. in the coin method, pennies are used to define the circle because they are composed of bronze, a mixture of copper (metal of venus) and tin (metal ofjupiter. the influence of both these planets is benign-jupiter is known as the greater fortune, and venus as the lesser fortune. twelve is the number of

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

he marvelous laboratory of our interior universe. these ten sephiroth are: kether crown; the equilibrated power; the magician, the first arcanum of the tarot whose primeval hieroglyphic is represented by a man. chokmah wisdom; the popess of the tarot; occult wisdom, the priestess. the second card of the tarot; the moon, primeval hieroglyphic is represented by the mouth of man. binah intelligence; the planet venus; third card of the tarot, the empress, primeval hieroglyphic is represented by a hand in the attitude of grasping. these three sephiroth are the sephirothic crown. introducci n hijos de los hombres! quer is entrar en la dicha inefable del nirvana? quer is convertiros en dioses? quer is convertiros en cristos? quer is libraros de la rueda de nacimientos y muertes? aqu os daremos la

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

and mathematical properties for thousands of years in other traditions besides hermeticism, in places such as china, india, and the middle east. the planetary spirit of the magic square is viewed as a guiding, inspiring, or informing entity, and many planetary talismans of the middle ages have their planetary seals and squares engraved in the talisman dedicated to the mythic figure represented by the planet, e. g, mercury (number eight) or mars (number five. the mars square has twenty-five cells (5x5, and the sum of any row equals sixtyfive. the "theosophic extension" of the square is the addition of all the numbers from one through sixty-five, which in this case is 325. these are the sacred numbers of mars. according to john michell, who has done perhaps the most comprehensive modern anal

inds in magic squares and sigils in chapter three. in the qabalistic tradition there is a certain sense of correctness: one does not just formulate a desire and put things together. it should be clear by now that one needs a set of correspondences which, because it has the backbone of tradition, has certain built-in 8 western mandalas of transformation rules. one would not put the mark or seal of the planet mars on a talisman for healing, along with an angel or intelligence from the sphere of the moon. one uses mars for other purposes; healing would belong to the sphere of the sun (or, in some cases, mercury; and in neither case would you use the intelligence of the moon. this is an example of combining three different energies that have little or nothing to do with one another. we don't p

ent the sun rises on that particular day, and therefore the hours vary in length, according to whether the days are long or short. for many modern magicians (who have schedules as busy as anyone else, these minute time speculations may be too cumbersome. other planetary influences may then be examined for the most auspicious timing. if the talisman is to be mercurial in character, you may ask: is the planet astrologically favored at the time the talisman is being made? one should attempt it at a time when the sun is in gemini or virgo, for example, or when one of these signs is conjunct the moon. you do not need to be an adept astrologer to discover some basic positive correspondences for the best times to make your particular talisman. the moon should also be on the increase (unless tryin

t 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 a triangle. its powers express as creativity, materialization, concrete action, self-expression

ihvh, or the tetragrammaton is composed of four letters. on the tree it corresponds to chesed, or jupiter, the mundane chakra. four is the number of justice and reciprocity, echoed in the expression "a square deal" it represents structure and foundation of creative existence, as well as order, affirmation, and happiness by attainment. 5. five implies action, force, and power. it is represented by the planet mars, the mundane chakra attributed to geburah, the fifth sphere on the tree. it is also attributed to anthropomorphism in general, and one often sees the representation of a man with extended limbs in the shape of a pentagram or five-pointed star in medieval magical literature. humans have five senses and understand the universe through its five elements (earth, air, fire, water, and e

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

eator allowed his creatures to choose and determine their own destiny. they would have the power to choose heaven or hell on earth, but the creator knew the weakness and pull of the flesh and therefore would provide a way out of the endless cycle of mutual abuse for those who were willing. but the damage was done. lucifer/satan was ecstatic! he had tricked adam into capitulating his dominion over the planet if not the creation. lucifer was now the "god of this world, who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (4 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] adam essentially having squandered his birthright to the planet over to the deceiver, the prince of darkness. that is, until god extended his creative "word" or "logos" into the material world, desiring

ped quite a sophisticated and complex technological society. however their way of life was being constantly challenged and threatened by a race of reptilian shape-shifters based in antarctica, which was also at the time a sub tropical region. these "chameleons" would infiltrate human communities and commit horrendous acts of sabotage. it was a virtual species war for the control of the surface of the planet. some of the infiltrators were exposed however using a certain "test. it was found that it was impossible for the reptilian tongue to pronounce the word "kin-in-i-gin, however in spite of all the infiltrators who had been tracked down and destroyed, the war was still going badly for the "nordics" in this ancient gobi kingdom. as a last-ditch effort, the "nordics" developed a super-weapo

tongue to pronounce the word "kin-in-i-gin, however in spite of all the infiltrators who had been tracked down and destroyed, the war was still going badly for the "nordics" in this ancient gobi kingdom. as a last-ditch effort, the "nordics" developed a super-weapon, possibly akin to a cobalt warhead, and launched or dropped it at/on antarctica. the explosion was so great that it literally shook the planet, causing the earth to begin to wobble on its axis, and when the poles had shifted and stabilized the antarctic had nearly overnight become the new southern pole, a frozen wasteland, and in turn the gobi kingdom began turning into a barren desert. there were still many other reptilian colonies which had survived in other parts of the world, however these mostly escaped into vast undergro

are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (8 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] leaves off, however we "might" conclude, by attempting to find the common denominators between other similar stories, more or less the following. both species developed aerial and space technologies, possibly utilizing antediluvian technologies found abandoned in the depths of the planet, that would eventually carry their species-war to the moon and to mars [explaining the reputed "signs" of ancient conflicts on both of those "planets- note: many consider the earth& moon to actually be a double-planet. ultimately once hyperspace travel was refined, they would take their war to the stars. there are some who claim that it took the u.s.a. only approximately 40 years to go

individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces "the main battle was for what was to become known as the human soul "once an individual had committed himself, he opened a door so that an indefinable something could actually enter his body and exercise some control over his subconscious mind..the serpent people or omega group, attacked man in various ways, trying to rid the planet of him. but the superintelligence was still able to look over man. god worked out new ways of communication and control, always in conflict with the serpent people" case file #3: from 'curious encounters' by loren coleman (faber& faber, boston, mass. 1985) pp. 70-76: who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (11 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:1

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

s lantern never loses his way. german o sacred earth mother, the trees and all nature are witnesses to your thoughts and deeds. winnebago indian saying the world is older and bigger than we are. this is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. ed abbey the essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions. we ask which society, which education, which form of religion is beneficial for all life on the planet as a whole. arne naess when one recognizes the unity of nature, he also perceives the singleness of mankind. gus turbeville the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. planetologist pardot kynes, dune to be solitary is alone worthy of god. kurdish eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. the river was cut by the world s great flood and

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem- take the series of numbers 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott add 4 to each. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 and we obtain 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 the numbers- these show the relation of the ancient planets to the sun, as to distance, in the order mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn and uranus. the planet corresponding to 28 is missing, and seems to be replaced by the asteroids. uranus was discovered in 1781. the platonic year, or great period, according to tycho brahe, is 25,816 years. ricciolus, 25,920 years; cassini, 24,800 years; norman lockyer now gives 24,450 years. it is the period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space to time wherein the stars and co

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ircle, we begin with the middle circle on the sigillum, the greek omega, for the number of rays is twelve around the circle to give: this yields ohoohaatan for the fire tablet "count 12 in any case neglecting the numbers over or under, always forward" at this point, i would mention that only one of these four names are to be found in the dee manuscripts that i have examined: thaaoth, representing the planet mercury. i had first assumed that they were purely a golden dawn manipulation of dee's work. now i have discovered they came from the dee manuscripts. when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real effect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in8 when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real' effect from these seals. for example, when these angels a

atlantic. air tablet lat 80 n to 80 s long 30 w to 60 e this covers part of greenland, iceland, all of europe and africa, part of the middle east, russia and the indian ocean. earth tablet lat 80 n to 80 s long 60 e to 150 e this covers part of the middle east, the soviet union, india, all of the far east, indonesia, australia, and papua new guinea. tablet of union this covers the central axis of the planet and is the binding force that holds the planet together. 73 latitude of each square of the tablets 80.0 degrees north 67.6 degrees north 55.3 degrees north 43.0 degrees north 30.7 degrees north 18.4 degrees north 6.1 degrees north linea spiritus sancti. 6.1 degrees south 18.4 degrees south 30.7 degrees south 43.0 degrees south 55.3 degrees south 67.6 degrees south 80.0 degrees south ri

t observation. a pyramid is formulated from each square from the planetary order, with no two pyramids being identical to each other in color. a typical truncated pyramid, with numbered sides, is shown in figure 52. the sides of each pyramid are colored as follows: 1. this is made up from the color of the planetary section you are working on, from the paths of the king scale, and has the sigil of the planet in the complementary color on it. 2. this is the color of the planet by way of column. 3. this is the color of the planet by way of rank. 4. this is the color of the element the planet is in. the truncated pyramid square, given in figure 53, shows the full pyrami d associations for baligon, the king of the planetary hour of venus. figures 54 through 58 are five examples of the construct

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

es. in spring, the sun enters the sign aries which is ruled by mars, who tinges the sun's fire with his restless, out-going energy which searches outwardly for the means of selfexpression and self-enrichment. in autumn, the sun's entry into libra stirs into activity the opposite influence of venus. it is no longer the life of the personal self which is of importance, but the unifying influence of the planet of love which impels us to search for that other our higher self and to prepare for that inner consummation which will lead to rebirth and a new life. we may remember that after winter solstice, we celebrate the birth of jesus during this half of the solar year. the coming six months are therefore under the influence of the spiritual life of union. it is thus in a sense dual or, rather

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his is easily achieved by performing the four fold breath. on completing the relaxation exercise, begin visualizing yourself growing taller and bigger. your entire body should grow upward toward the sky and into the infinite space above. allow your mind to drift into that vast region of the infinite which presides above all things and time. literally see the earth shrinking beneath your feet. see the planets, the solar system and then the galaxy becoming smaller. your body should be so enormous that even the milky way has no significance to your size. above your head, as you continue to grow, you should begin to visualize a bright sphere of light coming closer and closer to you. this light is only a small portion of that infinite light which is beyond our comprehension. allow the sphere of

1 10 INITIATION CEREMONY

represents a contrary or permutation, thus: life and death; peace and war; wisdom and folly; riches and poverty; grace and indignity; fertility and solitude; power and servitude. these seven letters point out 7 localities: zenith, nadir, east, west, north, south, and the place of holiness in the midst sustaining all things. the archetypal creator designed, produced, combined and formed with them the planets of the universe, the days of the week, and in man, the gate of the soul. he has loved and blessed the number 7 more than all things under his throne, the powers of these 7 letters are also shown forth in the 7 palaces of assiah and the seven stars of that vision are the 7 archangels who rule them. hiereus: leads neophyte to w. of altar, and returns to his place, and is seated. hiero: m

subjects. 1) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature. 2) the metals attributed in alchemy to the seven planets. 3) the names of the alchemical particular principles, the sun and moon of the philosophers, the green lion, the king and queen. 4) the names and astrological value of the twelve houses of heaven. 5) the names, astrological symbols and values of the aspects of the planets. 6) the meaning of the querent and quesited. 7) the four great classes of astrology. 8) the arrangement of the ten sephiroth, hebrew and english, in the tree of life. this is especially important. 9) the three pillars of the same. 10) the names of the four orders of elemental spirits. 1) the names and descriptions of the kerubim. 12) the meaning of the laver and great altar of burnt of

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

order of their days of the week; and that any slav deities that have been identified with latin ones are almost sure to be of the number of those that preside over the week. and whilst of the slav gods, svatovit answers to mars (ziu, eadigast to mercury (wuotan, perun to jupiter (donar, iafza (golden dame, zolotababa, in hanusch 241 ^o) to venus (fria, and perhaps sitivrat to saturn; the names of the planets are construed quite otherwise, mars by smrto-nos (letifer, mercury by dobro-pan (good lord, or rather bonorum dator, jupiter- by krcde-moc (rex potens, venus by ctitd (cupitor? venerandus 1, saturn by hlado-kt (famelicus, or annonae caritatem afferens. respecting sitivrat i give details at the end of eh. xii. chaptee vii. wuotan, wodan (odinn. the highest, the supreme divinity, univers

10. ter maximus hermes in ausonius, which later poets, romance and german, in the 12tli and 13th centuries^ transferred to a saracen deity termagant tervcigan, tervigant, terviant. moreover, when hermes and mercury are described as dator bonorum, and the slavs again call the same god dobro-pan (p. 130, note, as if mercis domains; it is worth noticing, that the misnere amgb. 42% in enumerating all the planets, singles out mercury to invoke in the words: jstu hilf mir, daz mir s^lde wache! schin er mir ze geliicke, noch so kum ich wider uf der sselden phat (pfad. just so i find odin invoked in swedish popular songs: hielp nu, oden asagrim! svenska fornsangor 1, 11. hielp mig othin! 1, 69. to this god first and foremost the people turned when in distress; i suppose he is called asagrim, becau

13-14th centuries; nevertheless the coincidence of the double names for the day and for the rune should be conclusive here, and we must suppose an ohg. erestac, to match the eresberg. one might be led to imagine that in ertag the earth (erde according to the forms given at the beginning of ch. xiii) was meant. but the ancient way of thinking placed the earth in the centre of the world, not among the planets; she cannot therefore have given name to a day of the week, and there is no such day found in any nation, unless we turn venus and freyja into the earth. to bear this ertag company, there is that name of a place eersel, quoted p. 154 from gramaye, in which neither era honor, nor its personification era (ch. xvi, xxix) is to be thought of, but solely a god of the week. it is worth notic

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

d absorb the properties of the other three. he is also kasmillos the candidate in the samothracian mysteries, and the horus of egypt. he rises from the rock hewn cubical tomb, and also alludes to the candidate who traverses the path of fire. the three lower figures represent the hebrew letter shin to which fire is especially referred. the 7 hebrew yods allude to the sephiroth operating in each of the planets and to the schem-hamphorasch. hiero: returns to his place. heg: leads theoricus to west. hiereus: comes forward and explains the two sephirotic tablets. hiereus: the tablet before you represents the 10 sephiroth combined in seven palaces. the first palace contains kether, chokmah and binah, the 2nd chesed, the 3rd geburah, the 4th tiphareth, the 5th netzach, the 6th hod, the 7th yesod

he sun and the air above them are the superior and active elements, of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini, which unites the earthly sign of taurus with the watery sign of cancer and this sign was by the greeks and romans referred to apollo or the sun. hiero: returns to place. heg: leads theoricus to west. hiereus (showing 1st tablet) the astrological symbols of the planets are derived from the 3 primary forms of the circle, the crescent and the cross, either singly or in combination. the circle denotes the sun and gold, the crescent the moon and silver, respectively, analogous to the red and the white alchemical natures. the cross is the symbol of corrosion and the corrosion of metals is usually of the complementary color to that which they naturally app

of life of the first form of the alchemical sephiroth. here again it embraces all but kether. the radix metallorum, the triple foliation at the bottom of the cross refers to fire symbolized by the addition of the sign aries thereto; and it further alludes to the 3 principles of sulphur, mercury and salt. heg: leads theoricus to tablet in the north. heg: the tablet before you represents the symbol the planets resumed in a mercurial figure. in gradual descent we obtain luna, mars, sol, venus, and below saturn and jupiter, right and left. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west facing hierophant and returns to his own place. hiero: i now congratulate you on having passed through the ceremony of the grade of practicus and in recognition thereof i confer upon you the mystic title of monokeros d

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the day, though angelic magick tends to be used, not surprisingly, for rituals with a more spiritual and ecological or global focus. as you discover particular combinations that work well, you can add them to your book of shadows. planetary magical days of the week though i have written primarily about the significance of the different days, i have also listed the effects of the planetary hours. the planets have had a special place in both ritual magick and astrology, since the ancient babylonians and chaldeans first observed them wandering across the sky (the word 'planet' derives from the greek planetes, meaning 'wanderer) against the fixed constellations of the zodiac. the ancients knew of only five planets- mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. uranus, neptune and pluto were disco

nus, neptune and pluto were discovered only after the invention of the telescope and so have not assumed the importance in magick that they have in astrology. what is more, the first astronomers also counted the sun and the moon as planets and credited them with certain qualities that have become woven into the western astrological and magical traditions. astrologers believe that the positions of the planets in the zodiac at the time of an individual's birth can influence and indicate that person's fate. in magick, the planetary strengths can be applied to any purpose under the as above, so below' principle that stresses the interconnectedness of the whole universe. you can create your own spells by using the associations, much as you create recipes by knowing the qualities and blending po

onite, cypress, patchouli trees: blackthorn, yew herbs and oils: aspen, bistort, comfrey, horsetail, solomon's seal metal: lead or pewter saturn rules capricorn, 22 december-20 january, and is co-ruler of aquarius, 21 january-18 february. these sun periods are most potent for saturn spells and for those born under these signs at all times. magical hours the hours of the day are also influenced by the planets. to choose the best time for a spell, you should consult first pages 227-32 on the planetary days and then page 235 where i explain the planetary hours. for example, if you were carrying out a love spell in which you wanted rapid results, perhaps for a special meeting, you could work on a friday, venus's day, on both her hours- sunrise and the third hour after sunset. if you wanted cou

ravellings. angelic correspondences you can, if you wish, use angelic rulers instead of planetary ones for the magical hours, or combine the energies of both. in practice, if your magick has a spiritual focus or is concerned with healing or global or ecological matters, angels work better than planets. if you have calculated your daily planetary hours, your angels will correspond exactly. as with the planets, each archangel rules the first hour after sunrise of his own day. though many people do regard the archangels as male, they are androgynous and so i have called them 'he' merely for convenience. many magicians from the middle ages onwards have used angels as part of formal rituals and they have long been a potent form of psychic protection both for guarding the four corners of the rit

if your ancestors came from another land or continent, your seasonal energies resonate more with theirs. even if you live in sydney or florida, it may be that come november you instinctively hibernate; in this case, you may find the celtic pattern right for you no matter what the barometer says. because the solstices and equinoxes are astronomical measures- that is they depend on the movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide a personal connection to the ebbs and flows of the cosmic cycl

ABRAMELIN2

the sacred ministry, whence later arose the mixed qabalah. the arts are principally twelve. four in number, 3, 5, 7, 9, among the numbers in the mixed qabalah. the second is the most perfect one, the which operateth by sign and visions. two of the even numbers, namely 6 and 2, which operate with the stars and the celestial courses which we call astronomy. three consisteth in the metals, and 2 in the planets.3 as to all these arts, the which be conjoined and mingled together: the sacred magic 44 with the sacred qabalah; both he who maketh use of these same, either alone, or mingled with other things which be in no way from the qabalah; and he who seeketh to exercise himself in performing operations with these arts; is alike liable to be deceived by the demon; seeing that of themselves they

sage about the signification of these numbers is very obscurely worded in the original. i take the meaning to be the following: the arts or methods of magical working are twelve, if we class them under the twelve signs of the zodiac. the second number mentioned above, 5, is perfect because of its analogy with the pentagram that potent symbol of the spirit and the four elements; 6 is the number of the planets (as known to the ancients, without the recently discovered herschel and neptune. as the chaldean oracles of zoroaster say" he made them six, and for the seventh, he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun. 2 operates in the stars and planets as representing their good or evil influence in the heavens, in other words their dual nature. 3 consists in the metals because, the ancie

112 course abraharn could not make the experiments of rabbin moses succeed if he substituted the laws of another plane for their own. 14 so it would be if he applied it to the angelic working; but equally it would be an error which, though not so great, would still entail failure, to apply laws exclusively of the angelic plane to those experiments which would mainly depend on the physical rays of the planets; though undoubtedly the angels of a planet govern its rays. but the angels of mars do not govern the rays of jupiter, nor those of the latter the rays of mars. 15 the grimoires of black magic would usually come under this head. but, nevertheless, the extravagant words therein will be usually found to be corruptions and perversions of hebrew, chaldee, and egyptian titles of gods and ang

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jh b l allocations of the six seniors thou shall take note of the overlapping letters on the central squares. the n is used to invoke both the king of eight letters and the six seniors of seven letters. these seniors and king are attributed to the wanderers and the a respectively. thou shall use all six hexagrams to invoke the king. thou shall note that these rules (the positional attributions of the planets to the seniors on the tablets) are constant and the same on each tablet. thus, the three holy names of god, the name of the great king and the six seniors are extracted from the great cross and always painted in black lettering on white background. lesser angles thou shall note that the great cross divideth the tablet into four sections. these four sections are referred to as the four

ss is shown on the admission badge to the 27th path of p, and reproduced in one of the knowledge lectures. the planetary attributions to the sephirotic cross as used in the enochian system are rather different from those used on the tree of life. but the system that is here employed is constant, and applies to each of the sixteen sephirotic crosses on the four tablets. in this mode of attributing the planets to the sephiroth on the calvary cross of the lesser angles, l is excluded, and k and the tarot trump, the wheel of fortune, is attributed to kether. the title of this card is lord of the forces of life, and kether is the origin and source of life. to chokmah is attributed b, the tarot key, the magician, magus of power, seeing that chokmah is the distributor of the power from kether, ev

e tablets placed as watch towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirotic pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth points in the celestial heavens. therefore, even in the small squares into which each tablet is divided, each represents a vast area of dominion, having the correlation thereof in the universe, in the planets, in our b, in the fixed stars, and even in man, in animals, vegetables, and minerals. therefore do the 4 perpendicular or vertical lines of the 4 crosses represent 4 great currents of force passing between north above and south below, intersecting the tiphareth points and thus affirmng the existence of the hidden central pillar of the tree of life, forming the axis of the sphere of the

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the zodiac between light and darkness and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the development of creation" chief "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated force of m and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one "associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb, and how is it guarded (wands of the 3 chiefs) 7

the aspirant's symbolic age correspond" third "to the five grades of the first order through which it is necessary for the aspirant to have passed before he can enter the tomb of the sacred mountain. 12 for the three months interval between the grades of practicus and philosophus are the regimen of the elements; and the seven months between the philosophus and the portal symbolize the regimen of the planets; while the elements and the planets both work in the zodiac; so that three plus seven multiplied by twelve yieldeth the number 120. second "o aspirant, ere thou canst enter the tomb of the adepti of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, it is necessary to take a solemn obligation of secrecy, fidelity, fraternity, and justice. but as in all the previous obligations, there is nothing c

hs are derived from and find their roots in those of the first reflected triad of the sephiroth, the three supernals not otherwise entering into their composition, and thus are their positive colors found. unto the a is ascribed the yellow color of trapt. unto the c is ascribed the blue color of dsj. unto the d is ascribed the red color of hrwbg. the colors of b are to be found in twklm. those of the planets are in the rainbow scale; thus: l-indigo; k-violet; f-red, a-orange; b-yellow, c-green; 5-blue "unto the signs of the zodiac are ascribed the following: a-scarlet; b-redorange; c-orange; d-amber; e-greenish yellow; f-yellowish green; g-emerald; hgreenish blue; i-blue; j-indigo; k-purple; l-crimson. planets are in the rainbow thus: t l indigo k k violet m f scarlet r a orange d c green

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are planets; he is a star. for him all planets come; around him they all move, to him they all tend. it is this centralisation of faculties, their control, their motivation, which is the niyama of the sun. he is not only the heart but the brain of the system; but he is not the 'thinking' brain, for in him all thought has been resolved into the beauty and harmony of ordered motion. 12. the next of the planets is venus. in her, for the first time, we come into contact with a part of our nature which is none the less quintessential because it has hitherto been masked by our pre-occupation with more active qualities. venus resembles jupiter, but on a lower scale, standing to him very much as mars does to saturn. she is close akin in nature to the sun, and she may be considered an externalisati

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ught which gold could not have bought, or torture wrested. laylah is again the mere woman. note (38) these eggs being speckled, resemble the wandering mind referred to. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 158 [161] 76 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-digamma phaeton no. yes. perhaps. o! eye. i. hi! y? no. hail! all ye spavined, gelded, hamstrung horses! ye shall surpass the planets in their courses. how? not by speed, nor strength, nor power to stay, but by the silence that succeeds the neigh! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 159 [162] commentary( omicron-digamma) phaeton was the charioteer of the sun in greek mythology. at first sight the prose of this chapter, though there is only one dissyllabl e in it, appears difficult; but this is a glam

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rescent vedana chyle, lymph holding nutrition 31 agni or tejas the red triangle sa a blood moving moving 32 bis prithivi the yellow square rupa solid structures, tissues excreting matter 31 bis akasa the black egg vi nanam semen, marrow generating magick cxci. the four noble truths (buddhism) 11 sorrow s cause 23 sorrow s ceasing 31 noble eight-fold path 32 bis sorrow 31 bis. table iii 20 lxxvii. the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. intelligences of the planets. cxciv (transliteration) 12# 8 (260) layryt tiriel 13= 9 (3321 \yqhc hwrb duw \ycycrtb aklm malkah be tarshishim va a ad be ruah shehaqim. 14$ 7 (49) laygh hagiel 21& 4 (136) lypwy yophiel 27% 5 (325) layparg graphiel 30! 6 (111) laykn nakhiel 32' 3 (45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. ol

g. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigram combines with itself and the others to make 64 hexagrams, which partake of the combined nature. this attribution is the true key to the yi king. no sinologist has had any idea of it, but it is obvious enough now that o.m. has solved it. see appendix i. col. xlvii. line 7. has a monkey. line 19. said to have a monkey. col. xlix. the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr table of correspondences 37 line 15. p line 16. v line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o line 24. line 25. u line 26. x line 28. z line 29. y see the handbook of geomancy, the equinox i: 2, p. 137.8 col. l. the catholic seven deadly sins in square brackets. col. lvii. egyptian quarters. cols. lvii, lix

ny other schemes. col. cii. add daath, ydna. col. ciii. add daath, cerebrum medium, cuius locus est in parte capitis postica. but these have many other attributions, and each is itself divisible: thus chesed and geburah of tiphareth are the breasts; tiphareth the heart; netzach and hod the testicles; jesod the membrum virile; and malkuth, the anus. the signs of the zodiac are variously given, and the planets agree with the face: thus' and, the ears% and, the nostrils! and, the eyes; and, the mouth. the hand: thumb, a; 1st finger, d; 2nd, c; 3rd, e; 4th b. these, however, vary somewhat.10 col. cvi. these abodes are enclosed in four circles: the waters of weeping, or creation, of oceanus, and the false sea. compare the classical four rivers of hell.11 col. cviii. incomplete and redundant owi

ves: the names of the hours and the angels ruling them. the names of the hours. hours of the day. hours of the night. 1. yayn beron 2. ianor barol 3. nasnia thari 4. salla athir 5. sadedali mathon 6. thamur rana 7. ourer netos 8. tamic tafrac 9. neron sassur 10. iayon aglo 11. abai calerua 12. natalon salam tables of the angels of the hours according to the course of the days15 day:[the angels of the planets according to pseudo- abano are! michael= gabriel% samael# raphael& sachiel$ anael' cassiel] note. the first hour of the day, of every country, and in every season whatsoever, is to be assigned to the sun-rising, when he first appeareth arising in the horizon. and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour, form the first hour of the day. the year16 the spring: taloi. the

ngels of the winter: amabael, ctarari. the head of the sign of the winter: altarib. the name of the earth in the winter: gerenia. the names of the su and moon in the winter: the sun, commutaf; the moon, affarterim. col. clxxvii. musulman attribution of planets: g' t& p% s! s and b$ d# r= note that s and not k is the 7th of the double letters. the jesuit kircher17 gives= p r t b g d k the order of the planets is that of their apparent rate of motion. by writing them in their order round a heptagon, and tracing the heptagram unicursally, the order of the days of the week is obtained. col. clxxviii. these intelligences are angelic in nature, but possessing material and even earthly dominion. hence they preside over the geomantic figures, whose nature indeed expresses their relation to man. co

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nfold table containing seven names of god which not even the angels are able to pronounce 2 8 1 these names are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana akele azdobn stimcul (2) fili lucis. i ih ilr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul [these are given attributions to the metals of the planets in this order: sol, luna, venus, jupiter, mars, mercury, saturn] the symbolic representation of the universe 4 sigillvm dei meth plate ii liber lxxxiv 5 (3) fili filiarum lucis. s ab ath ized ekiei madimi esemeli (4) filii filiorum lucis. l (el) aw ave liba rocle hagone(l) ilemese see all these names in the heptagram of the great seal. so also there are seven great angels formed thus:

n the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to right. the upper sides of the pyramids are all attributed to the element of spirit, the lower sides to the element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. 2. calvary crosses. each has 10 squares

phirah modified by the element of the lesser angle; or to that sephirah in the qabalistic world corresponding (thus fire atziluth, water briah, etc. regardie gives the positions of binah through to geburah differently; zalewski (1990) gives the same reading as chanokh, stating this arrangement appears in westcott s notanda to the g.d. enochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv, the heavenly hexagram, and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred t

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number one is only attained by the destruction of the god and the magician in samadhi. the world of angels is under the numbers four to nine, and that of spirits under the 3 number ten<paths" in this condensed sketch. they should be studied in view of all their attributes in 777, but more especially that in which they are attributed to the planets, elements and signs, as also to the tarot trumps, while their position on the tree itself and their position as links between the particular sephiroth which they join is the final key to their understanding. it will be noticed that each chapter of this book is attributed to one of them. this was not intentional. the book was originally but a collection of haphazard dialogues between fr

idity, weight, composition, electrical character, thermal conductivity, etc, etc. it says nothing at all about the very existence of such vitally important ideas as heat, hardness, and so on. the impression which the mind combines from the senses can never claim to be accurate or complete. we have indeed learnt that nothing is in itself what it seems to be to us> but when we speak of dealing with the planets in magick, 7 the reference is usually not to the actual planets, but to parts of the earth which are of the nature attributed to these planets. thus, when we say that nakhiel is the "intelligence" of the sun, we do not mean that he lives in the sun, but only that he has a certain rank and character; and although we can invoke him, we do not necessarily mean that he exists in the same s

the formula of horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. iii there are many other sacred words which enshrine formulae of great efficacity in particular operations. for example, v.i.t.r.i.o.l. gives a certain regimen of the planets useful in alchemical work. ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty operations of the magick of the inmost light (see liber 813) the formula of thelema may be summarized thus: theta "babalon and the beast conjoined- epsilon unto nuith (ccxx, i, 51- lambda the work accomplished in justice- eta the holy graal- mu the water therein- alpha the babe in the egg (har

hort, but in no wise slurred- for it is useful as it tends to produce the proper attitude of mind for the invocations "the banishing ritual of the pentagram (as now rewritten, liber 333, cap. xxv) is the best to use<ritual called "the mark of the beast" given in an appendix. but this is pantomorphous> only the four elements are specifically mentioned, but these four elements contain the planets and the signs<planets, of course, contain, the elements. it is important to remember this fact, as it helps one to grasp what all these terms really mean. none of the "thirty-two paths" is a simple idea; each one is a combination, differentiated from the others by its structure and proportions. the chemical elements are similarly constituted, as the critics of magick

scale: perfumes :the greek: lineal figures of the :alphabet: planets and geomancy: 0 :the circle: 1 :ambergris :the point: 2 :musk (sigma :the line, also the cross: 3 :myrrh, civet :the plane, also the diamond: oval, circle and other yoni: symbols: 4 :cedar (iota :the solid figure: 5 :tobacco (phi :the tessaract: 6 :olibanum: omega: sephirotic geomantic fi: 7 :benzoin, rose: epsilon: gures follow the planets: red sandal: caput and cauda draconis: 8 :storax: are the nodes of the moon: 9 :jasmine, jinseng: chi: nearly= herschel and: all odoriferous: neptune respectively: roots: they belong to malkuth: 10 :dittany of crete: sampi :11 :galbanum: alpha :those of airy triplicity: 12 :mastic, white: beta :octagram: sandal, mace: storax, all fu: gitive odours: 13 :menstrual blood: gamma :enneagram

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suggesting many of the qualities of pisces: and so forth. 14 now let me start! you want me to explain the system- or no-system- which i use. i do not "move in a mysterious way my wonders to perform" for nothing could be simpler. for its origin i have to thank abramelin the mage, who empties the vials of his scorn upon the astrologers of his time with their meticulous calculations of "the hours of the planets" and so on. i think he goes too far when he says that a planet can have no influence at all, or very little, unless it is above the horizon; but he meant well, bless him! and, though he does not say so, i believe that i do my stuff in very much the same way as he did. modern astrologers multiply their charts until their desks remind me of a bargain basement in the rush hour! they compa

"up guards, and at 'em" first, you must know your correspondences by heart backwards and upside down (air connu) they are practically all in the book of thoth; but "if anyone anything lacks" look for it in 777. then, get a book on astrology, the older the better. raphael's shilling handbook is probably enough for the present purpose. get well into your head what the menu says about the natures of the planets, the influence of the aspects, what is meant by dignities, the scope of the houses, and so on. dovetail all this with your classical knowledge; the character and qualities, the powers and the exploits, of the several deities concerned. next, learn how to set up a figure of the heavens. this need not take an average intelligent person more than an hour at the most. you can learn it from

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piece as is sometimes said) to robert fludd's "utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica, atque technica historia, based on a renaissance copy of vitruvius' 1st century "de architectura" as interpreted by cesariano in 1521, minus fludd's rope, clouds and winged fawn+hourglass, with the caption beneath "design suitable for top of altar, and below that a geometrical figure of the planets and stars from "the cannon" fig. 3, p. 30, chap. ii. with the under caption "the holy oblation" 62 of the elements, and the sigils of the holy elemental kings, as shown in the equinox, no. vii; for these are syntheses of the forces of nature. yet these are rather special than general symbols, and this book purports to treat only of the grand principles of working. 63 diagram on this pa

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ew comment this thesis is fully treated in "the book of wisdom or folly. its main statement is that each human being is an element of the cosmos, self-determined and supreme, co-equal with all other gods. from this the law "do what thou wilt" follows logically. one star influences another by attraction, of course; but these are incidents of self-predestined orbits. there is, however, a mystery of the planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts; but i shall not discuss it fully in this place. man is the middle kingdom. the great kingdom is heaven, with each star as an unit; the little kingdom is the molecule, with each electron as an unit (the ratio of these three is regularly geometrical, each being 10 to the 22 times greater in size than its neighbour) see "the book of the grea

he lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now this letter is beth whose numeration is 2, and aleph-mem-nun is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to understand this note fully one must have studied "the paris working; also one must be an initiate of the o.t.o. al ii,50 "bl

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

published by authority of the a\a\ a.c [it was published in equinox i (8] 59 i.e, the chald an oracles, whose ascription to zoroaster is late (medieval/ renaissance; fragment 186 in the westcott edition. cf. the hermetic discourse the eighth reveals the ninth (nhc vi 52.1 63.32; in some versions of hermeticism and graeco-egpytian magick the 9th sphere (counting upwards) lies beyond the sphere of the planets and fixed stars and is the realm of the divine t.s. liber lviii 34 scholion g. 9= f, a serpent. and the serpent is the holy ur us, upon the crown of the gods. scholion d. 9= ix= the hermit of the tarot, the ancient one with lamp (giver of light) and staff (the middle pillar of the sephiroth. this, two, is the same ancient as in 0, aleph, the fool, and aleph= 1. scholion e. 9= dwsy= 80=

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what does it matter to us? why are we to be so altruistic as to avoid the reincarnation of a being in all points different from ourselves? as the small boy said, what has posterity done for me? but somethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly. what evidence have we after all that an animal does not remember his man-incarnation? or, as levi says, in the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget. i think it unlikely (may be, but in the total absence of all evidence for or against at least with regard to the latter hypothesis! i suspend my judgement, leave the question alone, and proceed to more practical points that are offered by these interesting but not overuseful metaphysical speculations. v. karma. the law of causation is formally identical with this. karma me

shes he gave a sceptre, that one might rule them aright. with the sand he gave a sword, to cut that sand withal. with the bay-leaves he ave a sun, to wither them with the gold he gave a garland of sores, and that was for luck. with the dung he gave a rod of life to quicken it [thus in collected works. may be a compositor s error for abrahadabra, or maybe not t.s] 1 this is all obscure. 2 refer to the planets. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 119 somnium auri potabilis. tredecim voces. ordinis inceptio. vitae. viae. with the poison he gave also in offering a stage and a maiden. but about the noon came one shining unto our father and gave him to drink from a dull and heavy bowl. and this was a liquor potent and heavy, by r lady! so that our father sank into deep sleep and dreamed a dream, and in

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hb:resh 45 air air, smell hb:vau 11 hb:gemel hb:samekh briah, creative hb:heh hb:mem hb:shin hb:nun 63 water water, taste hb:heh 23 hb:bet hb:ayin atziluth, archetypal hb:heh hb:yod hb:chet 72 dee fire, sight hb:yod 31 hb:nun-final hb:bet assiah, material hb:shin hb:peh hb:nun 52 spirit earth, touch h 32bis hb:heh hb:dalet hb:yod hb:chet hb:yod< spirit, hearing hb:shin 31bis_ xvi. ix. viii. vii. the planets and their numbers printed value of hebrew letters& numbers. on tarot trumps col.vii. english equiv. symbols used in this article_ mercury 8 12 0 1 a hb:aleph 11 moon 9 13 i 2 b hb:bet 12 venus 7 14 ii 3 g hb:gemel 13 jupiter 4 21 iii 4 d hb:dalet 14 mars 5 27 iv 5 h hb:heh 15 sun 6 30 v 6 v hb:vau 16 saturn 3 32 vi 7 z hb:zain 17_ vii 8 ch hb:chet 18 xviii. xvii. xi 9 t hb:tet 19 engli

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ater, and eat little sweet cakes consecrated unto the moon, and fruits, and the eggs of the duck, or of the goose, or of the plover. and he shall be shut in, so that no man may break in upon his meditation. but in the last twelve hours he shall neither eat nor sleep. then shall he break his fast, eating rich food, and drinking sweet wines, and wines that foam; and he shall banish the elements and the planets and the signs and the sephiroth; and then shall he take the holy table that he hath made for his altar, and he shall take the call of the aethyr of which he will partake, which he hath written in the angelic character, or in the character of the holy alphabet that is revealed in pop, upon a fair sheet of virgin vellum; and therewith shall he conjure the aethyr, chanting the call. and i

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guardian angel, whose knowledge and conversation i have willed, and in greater or less measure enjoyed, since ten years. terrible have been the ordeals of the path; i have lost all that i possessed, and all that i love, even as at the beginning i offered all for nothing, unwitting as i was of the meaning of those words. i have suffered many and grievous things at the hands of the elements, and of the planets; hunger, thirst, fatigue, disease, anxiety, bereavement, all those woes and others have laid heavy hand upon me, and behold! as i look back upon these years, i declare that all hath been very well. for so great is the reward which i (unworthy) have attained that the ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the levers by which i moved the world. ev

oon of my desire!(ha, ha, thou beast! are "i and me and mine" not dead yet? yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears "fears, o lord of the western pylon! lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through."the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved! yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motions of the planets? and zoroaster, in that same oracle just quoted? 7.35. hors d'oeuvres, bouillabaisse, contrefilet r ti, glace. 1/2 graves. 106 the truth is that the chittam is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racing of the chittam is simply shocking. john st. john must stop it somehow. hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry

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d after explaining "the diagram of the paths and the grades" enter upon the ritual of the 0 =0 grade of neophyte. it will be at once apparent to the reader that the diagram of the paths is simply the ordinary sephirotic tree of life, combined with the tarot trumps, the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, the thirty-two paths of the sepher yetzirah, the signs of the zodiac, and the signs of the planets and the elements. the following account of it is taken from s.a.'s copy no. 2 of the "ritual of the 24th, 25th, and 26th paths leading from the first order of the g. d. in the outer to the 5 =6, associate adept speaking "before you upon the altar is the diagram of the sephiroth and paths with which you are already well acquainted, having marked thereon the grade of the order correspond

to the horizontal and vertical line elements in the central portion of the figure. in the exact center is an upright pentagram, also lineal, with a smaller circle in its own center. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 17. the seven-branched candlestick" this is a seven pointed star or heptagram with one point to top. there is a small circle in the center. the points have the symbols of the planets inside, clockwise starting from the top: saturn, mars, venus, moon, jupiter, sun, mercury. touching the tip of each of the seven points from outside is a circle, seven in all. these seven circles each contain an equilateral triangle, smaller than a circumscribed one would be. these seven triangles each have an apex radially outward from the center of the figure. each of the seven trian

piter, sun, mercury. touching the tip of each of the seven points from outside is a circle, seven in all. these seven circles each contain an equilateral triangle, smaller than a circumscribed one would be. these seven triangles each have an apex radially outward from the center of the figure. each of the seven triangles has a hebrew letter in the center (planetary correspondence, hebrew names of the planets and archangels corresponding to the left and right along and outside the edges, and asiatic place names below the base. here are the inscriptions, left, right, bottom and center, for all triangles, starting with the top and moving clockwise: hb:yod hb:aleph hb:taw hb:bet hb:shin, hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:yod hb:qof hb:peh hb:tzaddi, ephesus, hb:taw. hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:mem hb:koph, hb:mem

, smyrna, hb:resh. hb:bet hb:koph hb:vau hb:koph, hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:koph hb:yod hb:mem, sardis, hb:bet. 2 "see 777" col. cxl, p. 27 "twelve banners of the name" and revelations, xxi, 19, 20. 3 "see 777" col. xxxvi, p. 11. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 18. the heptagram of seven days. this is a seven pointed star or heptagram with one point to top. the points have the symbols of the planets outside, clockwise starting from the top: saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury, moon. illustration described from page 265 "diagram 19. the altar of incense" the diagram is in two parts, one above the other. the upper part is shaped thusly, but the numbers here are a key to the description below, not a part of the diagram (not to scale/ 1/ 3 2/ 5 4/ 8 6 7\ 9_ 10_ content of the b

ly) by two spiral horns sloping upward and away from the top corners of the altar. a fire is depicted as rising from the top center of the altar. the base and top of the detachable altar are depicted with rectangular copings extending slightly beyond the body, upper one thicker. the heptagram itself refers to the seven days of the week, and may also be made to show how their order is derived from the planets when placed at the angles of the heptagram. the lamp within the centre represents the astral light of the universe concentrated into a focus by the planets" the "hierophant" then resumes "within the mystic veil which separated the holy place from the holy of holies stood the ark of the covenant. before the veil stood the altar of incense, of which this altar is a symbol. it was in the

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upper half of the room is occupied by a heptagonal drawing. the outer heptagon has an inner one symmetrically inside a very little way from the outer, like the thickness of a wall. this heptagon is point up and side down. within the inner heptagon is a unicursal heptagram, created by drawing lines between alternate vertices. only the uppermost point has any writing, the word "east. the symbols of the planets are placed in the seven triangles formed between the inner angles of the heptagram and the sides of the double heptagon: clockwise from the top right: jupiter, saturn, moon, venus, mercury, sun and mars. dashed lines are used below the lowest face of the heptagon to indicate that that face is a door hinged on the left to open outward into the middle of the rectangular room. these words

darkness, and that it is surmounted by the lotus flower of isis, which symbolizes the development of creation. then, secondly, the adeptus major explains his as "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary, and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris" on it are marked the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness, which are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. lastly, the chief adept explains his as follows "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibrated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. illustration on page 210 described "diagram 61. the egyptian key of life. the

her explains this as follows] this refers to the five grades of the first order, through which it is necessary for the aspirant to have passed before he can enter the vault of the sacred mountain. for the three months' interval between the grades of practicus and philosophus is the regimen of the elements; and the seven months interval between the first and second orders symbolises the regimen of the planets. while the elements and the planets both work in the zodiac, so that (3+ 7) x 12 yieldeth the number 120. illustration on page 213 described "diagram 68. the cross of suffering" this is a calvary cross, evidently life-size. it has a scroll diagonally upward from left to right just below the top of the upper arm with the letters "i.n.r.i. there is a large open ring about the intersectio

bars. each path is marked with words for the corresponding king scale colors (see "777, column xv. each sephira is marked with the words of the corresponding queen scale colors (see "777, column xvi, malkut quartered in the usual manner to give place to the four colors. in addition, each sephiroth is also marked with the astrological correspondences from liber "777, column vi; done as symbols for the planets and english words for the remaining three. behold the diagram of "minutum mundum sive fundamentum coloris "the small universe or the foundation of color" treasure it in thine heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. it is as thou seest the diagram of the sephiroth and paths, with the appropriate colours attributed thereto. see that thou reveal it not to the pro

e of the first reflected triad of the sephiroth (the three supernals otherwise not entering into their composition, and thus are their positive colours formed. unto air, hb:aleph, is ascribed the yellow colour of tiphereth. unto water, hb:mem, is ascribed the blue colour of chesed. unto fire, hb:shin, is ascribed the red colour of geburah. the colours of earth are to be found in malkuth. those of the planets are in the rainbow thus: hb:taw saturn. indigo. hb:dalet venus. green. hb:koph jupiter. violet. hb:bet mercury. yellow. hb:samekh sic: hb:peh mars. scarlet. hb:gemel luna. blue. hb:resh sol. orange. unto the signs of the zodiac are ascribed the following: hb:heh aries. scarlet. hb:lamed libra. emerald. hb:vau taurus. red-orange. hb:nun scorpio. greenish blue. hb:zain gemini. orange. hb

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nd to remove the imperfection of metals. the alchemical writings of edward kelly. from the latin edition of 1676. with a biographical introduction, an account of kelly's relations with dr. dee, and a transcript of the "book of st. dunstan" edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a methodised summary of the best hermetic philosophers, including a discourse on terrestrial astronomy, in which the planets are replaced by metals, and instead of an account of stellar influences we have the laws governing metallic conversion. your fortune in your name, or kabalistic astrology. new edition, largely revised. demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 96 pp, 2s. 6d. net. by "sepharial" a manual of cartomancy, fortune-telling and occult divination, including the oracle of human destiny, cagliostro's mystic alphabe

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

f possible, to avoid technical terms, because they are used by one school of thought to mean one thing, and by another for something different. if we can find a word similar in intent, yet not tied to any particular line of thought, we may find fresh light thrown upon our problem. attraction and repulsion in the solar system is but the discriminating faculty of the atom or of man demonstrating in the planets and the sun. it will be found in atoms of all kinds; we can call it adaptation, if we so choose, or the power to grow and to adapt the unit to its environment through the rejection of certain factors and the acceptance of others. it shows itself in man as free will, or the power to choose, and in the- 7- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritual man it can be s

rough its own internal make-up, and giving off energy or heat or radiation" therefore, an atom is (as lord kelvin in 1867 thought it would ultimately turn out to be) a "vortex ring" or centre of force, and not a particle of what we understand as tangible substance. this ultimate particle of matter is now demonstrated to be composed of a positive nucleus of energy, surrounded just as is the sun by the planets with many electrons or negative corpuscles, thus subdividing the atom of earlier science into numerous lesser bodies. the elements differ according to the number and arrangement of these negative electrons around their positive nucleus, and they rotate or move around this central charge of electricity as our planetary system rotates around the sun. professor soddy, in one of his latest

er bodies. the elements differ according to the number and arrangement of these negative electrons around their positive nucleus, and they rotate or move around this central charge of electricity as our planetary system rotates around the sun. professor soddy, in one of his latest books, has pointed out that in the atom is to be seen an entire solar system, the central sun can be recognised, with the planets pursuing their orbital paths around it. it would be apparent to each of us that when this definition of the atom is contemplated and studied an entirely new concept of substance comes before us. dogmatic assertions are therefore out of order, for it is realised that perhaps the next discovery may reveal to us the fact that the- 11- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis tru

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

an family will then have esoterically "set their feet upon the path" and a large percentage of them will then be in process of becoming the path itself, the more normal routine will again be resumed. initiation on the various planets. the process of stimulation of the human egos by means of graded instructions, and the application of the dynamic electrical force of the rod is employed on three of the planets of our system at this time. it is instituted during every fourth round, and its peculiar interest lies in the fact that the emphasis for the fourth creative hierarchy in every fourth chain and globe during the fourth round is laid upon the fourth initiation, that of the crucifixion. the fourth creative hierarchy is the great expression of the conscious will and sacrifice of the solar l

with the initiation ceremony. the sun is the source of all energy and power, and the work of the initiator is facilitated when advantage is taken of favourable solar conditions. the times and seasons are ascertained through esoteric solar and cosmic astrology; this being based, of course, on the correct figures, the true mathematical conception, and a real knowledge of the basic facts concerning the planets and the solar system. the horoscope of the initiate is also invariably cast so as to check the time for an individual initiation, and only when the individual signs blend and coincide with the ceremonial chart by which the initiator is guided, is it possible to perform the ceremony. this is the reason why sometimes initiation has to be postponed to a later life, even when the initiate

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

their fundamental nature, and be spiritual fire plus the fire manasic. the internal fire of matter is called in the secret doctrine "fire by friction" it is an effect and not a cause. it is produced by the two fires of spirit and of mind (electric and solar fire) contacting each other through the medium of matter. this energy demonstrates in matter itself as the internal fires of the sun, and of the planets and finds a reflection in the internal fires of man. man is the flame divine and the fire of mind brought into contact through the medium of substance or form. when evolution ends, the fire of matter is not cognisable. it persists only when the other two fires are associated, and it does not persist apart from substance itself. let us now briefly recognise certain facts regarding fire

ling with the second group, the human form transmits the emanative radiations to a much higher grade of deva. these devas are of a more pronounced hue, and after due assimilation of the human radiation, they transmit it principally to the animal kingdom, thus demonstrating the close relationship between the two kingdoms. if the above explanation of the intricate inter-relation between the sun and the planets, between the planets and the evolving forms upon them, between the forms themselves in ever descending importance demonstrates nothing more than the exquisite interdependence of all existences, then much will have been achieved. another fact which must also be brought out is the close relationship between all these evolutions of nature, from the celestial sun down to the humblest viole

ue with the effect of rotary action. 2. momentum, resulting therefore in repulsion, was produced by the rotary movement. we have referred to the law of repulsion as one of the subsidiary branches of the great law of economy, which governs matter. repulsion is brought about by rotary action, and is the basis of that separation which prevents the contact of any atom with any other atom, which keeps the planets at fixed points in space and separated stably from each other; which keeps them at a certain distance from their systemic centre, and which likewise keeps the planes and subplanes from losing their material identity. here we can see the beginning of that age-long duel between spirit and matter, which is characteristic of manifestation, one aspect working under the law of attraction, an

n the reference is to the centres of force on buddhic and monadic levels.88(77) in connection with this there is a fundamental point that must never be forgotten: these seven heavenly men might be considered as being in physical incarnation through the medium of a physical planet, and herein lies the mystery of planetary evolution. herein lies the mystery of our planet, the most mysterious of all the planets. just as the karma of individuals differs, so differs the karma of the various logoi, and the karma of our planetary logos has been a heavy one, and veiled in the mystery of personality at this time- 120- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust again, according as the centres are active or inactive, so the manifestation differs likewise, and the study which opens up is of

hen his magnetic radiation has reached the stage of vivid interaction or group activity, then he has attained full self-expression, and has included within his sphere of influence and control the mental plane. he is then considered a master. he also is of the fourth order; he is the quaternary. the etheric plane is the centre of his life in the physical sense, just as we are told that the sun and the planets esoterically are considered as existing in etheric matter. as above, so below, is the occult law. therefore, the relationship of the son of the father, and of the mother, is to the sun the same as man's relationship to the vehicle through which he functions. it is his mode of enterprise, his vehicle of expression; it is the form which his life animates for the- 132- a treatise on cosmi

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

e solar system, the vastest universe he is permitted to cognize in this greater cycle. his soul and their soul are seen to be identical potentiality is seen in one, and (from the human standpoint) incomprehensible order leading to ultimate perfection is seen in the other. the activity which holds the electrons gathered around their centre is recognized as identical in nature with that which holds the planets in their orbits around the sun, and between these two divine manifestations the whole range of form is found. the occult student has to realise that forms are diverse and many, but that all souls are identical with the oversoul. the complete knowledge of the nature, quality, key and note of one soul (whether of a chemical atom, a rose, a pearl, a man or an angel) would reveal all souls

entrated meditation upon the awakened light will produce the consciousness of that which is subtle, hidden or remote. 26. through meditation, one-pointedly fixed upon the sun, will come a consciousness (or knowledge) of the seven worlds. 27. a knowledge of all lunar forms arises through one-pointed meditation upon the moon. 28. concentration upon the pole-star will give knowledge of the orbits of the planets and the stars. 29. by concentrated attention upon the centre called the solar plexus, comes perfected knowledge as to the condition of the body. 30. by fixing the attention upon the throat centre, the cessation of hunger and thirst will ensue. 31. by fixing the attention upon the tube or nerve below the throat centre, equilibrium is achieved. 32. those who have attained self-mastery ca

ngdom, and also belongs to an astral family. through that affiliation on the upward are he is linked with his egoic group and on the downward arc with the vegetable kingdom. e. the astrological record, or the forms taken on the astral plane under the influence of the planetary forces. these are in two great groups. 1. those forms or pictures in the akasha produced by the inflow of solar force via the planets. 2. those forms or pictures which are produced by the inflow of cosmic force from one or other of the signs of the zodiac, that is, from their corresponding constellations. these points are enumerated to show how impossible it is that the majority of the claims regarding past incarnations can be true. they are the result of a vivid imagination and the assumption that the flashes of ast

. we must be careful however to remember that the moon aspect is the governing one in all the kingdoms below the human, whilst the sun aspect should dominate in the human. a knowledge of the lunar mansions or of forms would give an understanding of the physical body, of the astral or desire vehicle and of the mental sheath. 28. concentration upon the pole-star will give knowledge of the orbits of the planets and the stars. this sutra is of small significance to the ordinary student, but is of profound use to the initiate or pledged disciple. suffice it here to say that this sutra forms the background for all astrological investigation and from an appreciation of its meaning will eventuate an understanding of: 1. the relation of our solar system to the other six constellations which (with o

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ms, and these are termed physical or vital. these enter the human body via the spleen and also via a centre found between the shoulder blades; this centre is between the throat centre and the heart centre in the spinal column, but nearer the heart than the throat. secondly, there are energies which emanate from what is esoterically called "the heart of the sun; these sweep through one or other of the planets in seven great streams and power into the soul of man and produce that sensitivity which we call awareness. these seven types of energy produce the seven types of souls or rays, and in this thought you find the secret of soul unity. during manifestation, owing to the seven types of energy impacts, playing upon the matter of space, one finds the seven types of soul, the seven fields of

little about pluto. so the story will run. yet pluto has always been revolving around our sun and producing its effects. it governs however the death or cessation of old ideas and emotions, and its influence is therefore largely cerebral and in that you have the clue to its late discovery. mankind is only on the verge of becoming mental. its effects are felt first in the mental body. the names of the planets are not the result of arbitrary choice but the planets name themselves. astrologers will eventually find it necessary to cast three horoscopes or three charts: one purely- 255- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust physical dealing with the body of nature; one primarily emotional, and dealing with the quality of the personality and with its sensitivity, or state of aware

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

finger of god in its directing and forceful work, we have the cyclic destruction of forms, so that the manifestation of deity may grow in power and beauty. thus the lord of power or will performs the task of destruction, thereby bringing beauty into being and the revelation of god's will and his beneficent purpose. by means of the eye of god light shines forth upon the way of the sun, the path of the planets, and the path of man. the lord of adaptability and the intellect brings into expression and into objectivity the intelligent working out of the divine idea and plan. when the "desire of all nations" shall come, and the cosmic christ shall stand revealed, all men and all creatures shall occultly "taste" or share in that great happening, and the lord of the ray of devotion and idealism s

g difference in this tabulation, and that is the fact that the vegetable kingdom is the expression of three rays, whereas the others are expressions of two. through these three the vegetable kingdom has been brought to its present condition of supreme beauty and its developed symbolism of colour. the vegetable kingdom is the outstanding contribution of our earth to the general solar plan. each of the planets contributes a unique and specialised quota to the sum total of evolutionary products, and the unique production of our particular planetary system is the vegetable kingdom. other planets contribute forms and appearances which are their specific offering. it is needless for me to enumerate them here, for our language has no equivalent terms, and where there is no equivalent in language

aspect of this deeply esoteric truth i cannot here deal, for it is the effect of activity in the solar lives of the solar system, and with these we cannot concern ourselves. it is not possible to handle the subject in such a way as to make it of constructive value to the average reader. what is not of immediate esoteric value at this time of world urgency may well be relegated to a later time. c. the planets and the kingdoms in the vegetable kingdom the influence of venus is predominant, amazing as this may seem to some occult students. venus and jupiter together powerfully influence this world of forms. it might be of interest to note that all the planets have a close relation to all the kingdoms, but that this relation should not be confounded with the planetary rays or with the fact tha

s and the kingdoms in the vegetable kingdom the influence of venus is predominant, amazing as this may seem to some occult students. venus and jupiter together powerfully influence this world of forms. it might be of interest to note that all the planets have a close relation to all the kingdoms, but that this relation should not be confounded with the planetary rays or with the fact that some of the planets are considered as "sacred planets" and some are not. i am here using the words "planetary influence" in the same sense as the astrologer uses them, for he is not dealing, either, with the basic planetary rays. it might be stated therefore that the planetary relations in this cycle are as follows: 1. the mineral kingdom. pluto and vulcan. 2. the vegetable kingdom .v enus and jupiter. 3

ed that, from the angle of humanity, they constitute the major ray, the one ray. this major ray determines both his quality and his purpose. every unit of life and every form in manifestation is governed by this second ray. basically speaking, the energy of love, expressed with wisdom, is the line of least resistance for the manifested lives in our solar system. this ray qualifies the life of all the planets, and the attractive magnetic love of god pours through his created universe; it emerges in the consciousness and determines the objective of all evolving forms. each human being, as a whole, therefore, lives in a universe and on a planet which is constantly the objective of god's love and desire, and which constantly (as a result of this love) is itself attracted and attractive. for th

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

ormulae. this should be done in conjunction with a consultation of their horoscopes. this will be discussed more at length after we have considered the astrological implications of the rays, in the succeeding volume. the law of sacrifice, therefore, can never be eliminated in our earth scheme, as far as the human and subhuman reactions to sorrow and pain are concerned, nor can it be eliminated on the planets saturn and mars. it is relatively unknown in the other schemes. bliss and sacrifice are synonymous terms as far as our solar logos is concerned, and also for the majority of the planetary logoi. this must be remembered. a touch of this freedom from the limitations of pain and sorrow can be found among the more advanced sons of men on earth, who know the ecstasy of the mystic, the exalt

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

pe of the soul, as it is conditioned by the soul ray and not by the personality ray; enough has been given by me to enable astrologers, who are interested and of the new inclination, to work out the future from the angle of this new approach. astrology is a fundamental and most necessary science. a.a.b. is not well versed in astrology; she cannot set up a chart nor could she tell you the names of the planets with the houses which they rule. i am, therefore, entirely responsible for all that appears in this and all my books, except, as before explained, the one book, the light of the soul. the fourth volume deals with the subject of healing, and with the bridging, by the antahkarana, of the gap which exists between the monad and the personality; it also gives the fourteen rules which those

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

land. 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: country capital soul ruler personality ruler belgium .b russels .g emini. 3rd .c apricorn .1 0th france. paris. virgo .6 th .c apricorn .1 0th germany. berlin .s corpio. 8th. leo. 5th great britain. lon

the united states, leaving you to make your deductions and applications. russia is as yet embryonic and her part lies more in the east than in the west, provided she follows the indicated lines. her two ruling signs are aquarius and leo and her real function in the comity of nations lies far ahead when the aquarian age is flourishing and the leo control of the russian personality has been offset. the planets which primarily influence russia are the sun (2nd ray, uranus (7th ray, jupiter (2nd ray) and the moon (4th ray. this makes a most interesting, a most humanitarian and in the long run a non-destructive combination. at present, the intensely individualistic leo force in its worst aspects is dominating, but this will not last as history will eventually prove. the noisy, cruel child can t

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

n of the etheric body, and i would like to present them to students as a first step: 1. there is nothing in the manifested universe solar, planetary or the various kingdoms in nature which does not possess an energy form, subtle and intangible yet substantial, which controls, governs and conditions the outer physical body. this is the etheric body. 2. this energy form underlying the solar system, the planets and all forms within their specific rings-pass-not is itself conditioned and governed by the dominant solar or planetary energy which ceaselessly and without break in time, creates it, changes and qualifies it. the etheric body is subject to ceaseless change. this, being true of the macrocosm, is equally true of man, the microcosm, and through the agency of humanity will eventually and

, finds its location. we speak at times of an expanding universe; what we really mean is an expanding consciousness, for this etheric body of the entity, space, is the recipient of many types of informing and penetrating energies, and it is also the field for the intelligent activity of the indwelling lives of the universe, of the many constellations, of the distant stars, of our solar system, of the planets within the system, and of all that constitutes the sum total of these separated living forms. the factor which relates them is consciousness and nothing else, and the field of conscious awareness is created through the interplay of all living intelligent forms within the area of the etheric body of that great life which we call space. every form within the etheric body is like a centre

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

ysical body which is pre-eminently automatic and negative in its reactions) must and does ever respond. an understanding of that response and the conscious intelligent control of individual reactions are supremely necessary to man but only become possible at a fairly advanced stage of development and as he nears the path (technically understood. man learns first of all to control his reactions to the planets as they rule and direct his personality affairs from their different "stations" in the twelve houses of his horoscope. there are two ways in which this is done: first: by having the horoscope duly cast and then taking steps to determine what should be done to negate the planetary influences where it is deemed desirable to control the personality reactions. this has to be done by the ap

nces indicate the trend of the outer life circumstances. when correctly interpreted for the average man and for the unevolved man, they can and do indicate the personality destiny and fate; they do condition and completely control the man who has no conscious soul experience. the moment that a man becomes aware of his own soul and is endeavouring to control his own "path in life" the influence of the planets, per se, definitely weakens and steadily becomes less and less; his personality chart appears inconclusive and often most inaccurate. it is the force flowing through the planets and not the force of the planets themselves which then governs and controls. the man then becomes receptive to the subtler and higher energies of the solar system and of the twelve governing constellations. 2

onstellations which are to be found active in relation to our solar system and which, from the most ancient days, have always been related in myth and legend to our system. to these constellations, ours is related in a peculiar way. 2. those coming from the twelve zodiacal constellations. these are recognised as having a definite effect upon our system and our planetary life. 3. those coming from the planets found within the periphery of the sun's sphere of influence. from a certain point of view, one can generalise largely and say that these are the correspondences in the solar system to the three great centres of force which produce and control manifestation and evolutionary progress in the human being: 1. the great exterior, yet controlling, constellations are analogous to that centre o

f force which we call the monad and to its universal will-to-power which is distinctive of the first divine aspect. 2. the twelve constellations might be regarded as embodying the soul aspect and, for the present, their effect upon the individual must be regarded and should be studied in terms of consciousness and of the development of the life of the soul. this is in essence the will-to-love. 3. the planets, twelve in number (seven sacred planets and five non-sacred, are effective (using the word in a technical sense) in relation to the external life, environment and circumstances of the individual. their force contacts should be interpreted largely in terms of the human personality, the third divine aspect. they thus exemplify the will-to-know. i would have you remember that i am talking

nergies which can and do evoke response and of which man can be aware and, in many cases, is today aware. it might be useful here to comment in a wide and general way, and with many necessary reservations, upon the broad sweep of some of these responses: 1. undeveloped humanity is primarily conditioned in its life and circumstances by the influence of the lesser zodiac and thus by the position of the planets in the twelve houses. 2. average intelligent humanity and those nearing the path of discipleship and upon the probationary path respond consciously to a. the planets, affecting their personalities. b. the sun sign, as indicating life trends which are already established and which constitute the line of least resistance. c. the rising sign in a small measure. this indicates the life goa

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

of the soul, as it is conditioned by the soul ray and not by the personality ray. enough has been given by me to enable astrologers, who are interested and of the new inclination, to work out the future from the angle of this new approach. astrology is a fundamental and most necessary science. a.a.b. knows nothing about astrology; she cannot even set up a chart nor could she tell you the names of the planets and the houses which they rule. i am, therefore, entirely responsible for all that appears in this and all my books, except, as before explained, the one book, the light of the soul. the fourth volume deals with the subject of healing, and with the bridging by the antahkarana of the gap which exists between the monad and the personality. it also gives the fourteen rules which those in

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

for god (as the life of the solar system, certain limitations and certain areas or states of consciousness which still await mastering. these limitations and relative imperfections may cause definite effects in their bodies of manifestation the various planets as expressions of lives, and the solar system as the expression of a life. given also the hypothesis that these outer bodies of divinity, the planets, are the forms through which certain deities express themselves, it may be a true and logical deduction that all lives and forms within those bodies may be necessarily subject also to these limitations, and to the imperfections growing out of these unconquered areas of consciousness and these states of awareness, hitherto unrealised by the deities, incarnated in planetary and solar for

such a word by the limitations of these same great beings; they are gods, from our point of view, but in reality, gods in the making, even though much nearer solar divinity than the most advanced human being is near to planetary divinity. they are the "imperfect gods" spoken of in the secret doctrine and are the planetary logoi of the sacred and non-sacred planets. if the great informing lives of the planets within our solar system are imperfect, the effect of this imperfection must inevitably affect their planetary creations, their bodies of manifestation, and thus introduce a karmic condition over which the individual human being has absolutely no control, but within which he moves and which he shares. it is obviously impossible for me to elucidate this theme. all i can do or am permitte

is solar system is the second, and that in the first solar system the emphasis was laid upon intelligent materiality; the goal of the highest initiate was to attain complete control over matter, to unfold the mind principle and to evidence a definite materialism. in these so distant aeons that marked attainment, whereas in this solar system it marks defeat for humanity. this system, including all the planets along with our earth, has a different goal, and the second divine aspect, that of love, has to be manifested, and manifested through the medium of matter impregnated with the qualities developed in system one. what was perfection at that time is not so now. therefore, the great beings which are the sumtotal of all that is, are working through and in substance, which is already tinged o

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

upon his unfoldment and his history, and (in a briefer manner) upon the world in which he lives and upon the environment which aids and conditions him. in the third volume we took into consideration the influences of the constellations and planets upon the man and upon our planet, the earth, and gave much time to the consideration of esoteric astrology; the rays, the signs, the constellations and the planets are all of them closely interrelated and the human being is the recipient of the energies and forces which they emanate or distribute. this makes the man what he essentially is at any one time whilst in incarnation. we next considered the subject of healing because of the necessity of understanding the limitations psychological and physical which restrict man's free expression of divin

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

of as an illusion and as an imaginary path, an appearance. webster's dictionary, for instance, defines the zodiac as "the imaginary path of the sun through the heavens, and in all books of reference upon the subject the emphasis is laid upon the fact that it is all appearance, the great illusion. one writer tells us that. to the astronomer the zodiac is merely the pathway of the sun, the moon and the planets, possessing no more reality than the tracks of liners shown upon an atlas for the information of the intending travellers" the zodiac and the soul, p. 1by c.e.o. carter as we study this imaginary path two thoughts emerge. we are brought face to face with the concept of a steady and unceasing progression around and around this vast belt of constellations. the idea of eternal recurrence

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ge. let us make a short note of the chief of the old kabalistic treatises. the "sepher yetzirah" or "book of formation" is the oldest treatise; it is attributed by legend to abraham the patriarch: several editions of an english translation by myself have been published. this work explains a most curious philosophical scheme of creation, drawing a parallel between the origin of the world, the sun, the planets, the elements, seasons, man and the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet; dividing them into a triad, a heptad and a dodecad; three mother letters a, m, and sh are referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters are referred to the planets and the sevenfold division of time, etc: and the twelve simple letters are referred to the months, zodiacal signs and human orga

nt conceit was that of the change of the spelling of the names of abraham and sara: at first abram abrm and sarai shri, became abrhm and shrh: they were 100 and 90 years old and were sterile: now h, heh, was deemed of a fertile type, and so the letter h was added to abram, and the yod i, converted into an h of the name sarai. in the very old "sepher yetzirah" is found the allocation of letters to the planets; from this origin arose a system of designing talismans written on parchment or engraved on brass or gems: as each planet had a letter and a number, in regard to each was allotted a magic square of lesser squares; thus for jupiter 4 was the number and daleth the letter, and the magic square of jupiter had 16 smaller squares within it; in each a number 1 to 16, and so each line added up

bverse and reverse of medals or rolls of parchment to form 36 talismans. according to some kabalists both king david and king solomon were able to work wonders with kabalistic magical arts: the pentagram was called the seal of solomon, and the hexagram was called the shield of david; to the points of the former were assigned the spirit and four elements, while to those of the latter were ascribed the planets. the treatise called "the clavicules of king solomon" is of course a mediaeval fraud. the hebrew letters are also associated with the twenty-two trumps of the tarot pack of cards; these cards have been much used for purposes of divination. the gipsies of southern europe use these cards for fortune-telling. the french author court de gebelin (1773-1782) declared that these trump cards a

ty-two trumps of the tarot pack of cards; these cards have been much used for purposes of divination. the gipsies of southern europe use these cards for fortune-telling. the french author court de gebelin (1773-1782) declared that these trump cards as mystical emblems were derived from the magic of ancient egypt. occult science allots each card to a number, a letter and a natural object or force,-the planets, zodiacal signs, elements, etc "the sanctum regnum of the tarot trumps" edited by myself can be consulted. dr. encausse of paris, who writes under the pseudonym of "papus" has also a work relating to the tarots and gives a kabalistic attribution of the trump cards which rosicrucians consider to be erroneous. so far as is known to me the practice of kabalah as a magical art is now almos

r earth--the greek demiourgos. the other arch-angels are according to macgregor mathers, ratziel, tzaphkiel, tzadquiel, kamael, michael, haniel, raphael, gabriel, and sandalphon. in the third world of yetzirah are the ten hosts of angelic beings, a separate class for each sephira; they are intelligent incorporeal beings, clothed in a garment of light, and are set over the several heavenly bodies, the planets, over the elemental forces, and over seasons, times, etc; they are the officers of the great arch-angels. the hosts of angels of the sephiroth are chaioth ha kodesh, auphanim, arelim, chashmalim, seraphim, melakim, elohim, beni elohim, cherubim, and tenthly the ishim who are the beatified souls of men and women. the fourth world of assiah is filled with the lowest beings, the evil demo

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

s is omitted by both authors, sim-ply because they missed or did not perceive it. for in the former we are not told that it was thebreathing of the god air(who was the inspiring soul of ancient music, and the bellariaof modernwitch-mythology) on the dried filament of the tortoise, which suggested to hermes the making aninstrument wherewith he made the music of the spheres and guided the course of the planets. as formrs. browning, she leaves out syrinxaltogether, that is to say, the voice of the nymph still lingeringin the pipe which had been her body. now to my mind the old prose narrative of these myths ismuch more deeply poetical and moving, and far more inspired with beauty and romance, than arethe well-rhymed and measured, but very imperfect versions given by our poets. and in fact, su

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

ned his horsemen, and bade them enclose mercury in prison under the ward of vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. when this became known, the other planets assembled and held a deliberation on the question, what would be the best and wisest course to adopt. when they were met together, saturn first came forward, and delivered himself as follows: i, saturn, the greatest of the planets in the firmament, declare here before you all, that i am the meanest and most unprofitable of all that are here present, that my body is weak, corruptible, and of a swarthy hue, but that, nevertheless, it is i that try you all. for having nothing that is fixed about me, i carry away with me all that is of a kindred nature. my wretchedness is entirely caused by that fickle and inconstan

o. while he was executing his office, there appeared a beautiful lady in a long, silver robe, intertissued with many waters, who was immediately recognised as the moon, the wife of the sun. she fell on her knees, and with outspread hands, and flowing tears, besought them to liberate her husband v v the sun v v from the prison in which, through the crafty wiles of mercury, he was being detained by the planets. but vulcan refused to listen to her request; nor was he softened by the moving prayers of lady venus, who appeared in a crimson robe, intertissued with threads of green, and charmed all by the beauty of her countenance and the fragrance of the flowers which she bore in her hand. she interceded with vulcan, the judge, in the chaldee tongue, and reminded him that a woman was to effect t

ce of the stars, which works through the elements, it is restored to life, and becomes once more a heavenly thing that has its habitation in the highest region of the firmament. then you will find that the heavenly has assumed an earthly body, and that the earthly body has been reduced to a heavenly substance. twelve keys of basil valentine 59 of 95 ninth key saturn, who is called the greatest of the planets, is the least useful in our magistery. nevertheless, it is the chief key of the whole art, howbeit set in the lowest and meanest place. although by its swift flight it has risen to the loftiest height, far above all other luminaries, its feathers must be clipped, and itself twelve keys of basil valentine 60 of 95 brought down to the lowest place, from whence it may once more be raised

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

rgya rgya. this was revealed from a treasure [text] by the venerable ngari pa.chen. may it be virtuous! part ii: accompanying s.dhanas (312.3-332) a. preliminaries sending forth the dogs of the seven might demon attendants (312.3-314.3) thus called "sending forth the dogs of the seven might demon attendant riders" bhyo! the bitch dungdok tselmikma425 sends forth from the mouth the poison vapor of the planets. she quickly notices the scent of human flesh and blood. she who catches the life-breath of the enemy at dawn drinks by gulping the life-breath426 of the enemy. she who is the follower of the white divine might demon. run! run! now run! be incited [and] send forth insanity on the enemy! descend at the time of the radiant lightning consort! bhyo! the bitch marmo tselmikma427 opens her m

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

, or spirit of the earth (2) invocation of the earth to the sun (3) what the sun answers (4) transformation of the earth- 1. the lha (a) which turns the fourth (globe, or our earth) is servant to the lha(s) of the seven (the planetary spirits (b, they who revolve, driving their chariots around their lord, the one eye (loka-chakshub) of our world. his breath gives life to the seven (gives light to the planets. it gave life to the first (c "they are all dragons of wisdom" adds the commentary (d (a) lha is the ancient word in trans-himalayan regions for "spirit" any celestial or superhuman being, and it covers the whole series of heavenly hierarchies, from archangel, or dhyani, down to an angel of darkness, or terrestrial spirit (b) this expression shows in plain language that the spirit-guar

inadequate notion of, the real mysteries, and included neither the sun, the moon, nor the earth. the sun was the chief, exoterically, of the twelve great gods, or zodiacal constellations; and, esoterically, the messiah, the christos (the subject anointed by the great breath, or the one) surrounded by his twelve subordinate powers, also subordinate, in turn, to each of the seven "mystery-gods" of the planets "the seven higher make the seven lhas create the world" states a commentary; which means that our earth, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our so

a, are all lunar gods or goddesses, called the fathers and mothers of our earth, which is subordinate to them. but these, in their turn, are subordinate to their "fathers" and "mothers- the latter interchangeable and varying with each nation- the gods and their planets, such as jupiter, saturn bel, brihaspati, etc (c "his breath gave life to the seven" refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the planets, as to the "high one" the spiritual sun, who gives life to the whole kosmos. the astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the stanzas. in the apocalyptic slokas of the archaic records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the puranas. without the help of the la

un and the seven chief planets constitute the visible and active potency; the latter "hierarchy" being, so to speak, the visible and objective logos of the invisible and (except in the lowest grades) ever-subjective angels. thus- to anticipate a little by way of illustration- every race in its[[vol. 2, page] 24 the secret doctrine. evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the planets: race the first receiving its breath of life from the sun, as will be seen later on; while the third humanity- those who fell into generation, or from androgynes became separate entities, one male and the other female- are said to be under the direct influence of venus "the little sun in which the solar orb stores his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* o

f its species through sexual union" but the later western nations did not fail to give quite a different interpretation. they explained this sign through their mystics- guided by the light of the latin church- as meaning that our earth and all on it were redeemed by the cross, while venus (otherwise lucifer or satan) was trampling upon it. venus is the most occult, powerful, and mysterious of all the planets; the one whose influence upon, and relation to the earth is most prominent. in exoteric brahmanism, venus or sukra- a male deity- is the son of bhrigu, one of the prajapati and a vedic sage, and is daitya-guru, or the priest-instructor of the primeval giants. the whole history of "sukra" in the puranas, refers to the third and to the fourth races "it is through sukra that the 'double o

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

act qualities of formation, preservation, and destruction, and are the three divine avasthas (lit. hypostases) of that which "does[[footnote(s* it is not the physical organisms that remain in statu quo, least of all their psychical principles, during the great cosmic or even solar pralayas, but only their akasic or astral "photographs" but during the minor pralayas, once over-taken by the "night" the planets remain intact, though dead, as a huge animal, caught and embedded in the polar ice, remains the same for ages[[vol. 1, page] 19 proem. not perish with created things (or achyuta, a name of vishnu; whereas the orthodox christian separates his personal creative deity into the three personages of the trinity, and admits of no higher deity. the latter, in occultism, is the abstract triangl

but to the heavenly bodies in general. himself only a reflection of the central spiritual sun, surya is the prototype of all those bodies that evolved after him. in the vedas he is called loka-chakshuh "the eye of the world (our[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] author of "maconnerie occulte "occult sciences having discovered through astronomical calculations that the number of the planets must be seven, the ancients were led to introduce the sun into the scale of the celestial harmonies, and make him occupy the vacant place. thus, every time they perceived an influence that pertained to none of the six planets known, they attributed it to the sun. the error only seems important, but was not so in practical results, if the ancient astrologers replaced uranus by the sun

he sun, which is a central star relatively motionless, turning only on its axis and regulating time and measure; and which cannot be turned aside from its true functions. the nomenclature of the days of the week is thus faulty "the sun-day ought to be uranus-day (urani dies, urandi" adds the learned writer, ragon* planetary system "the sun rotates on his axis always in the same direction in which the planets revolve in their respective orbits" astronomy teaches us[[vol. 1, page] 101 fire, the great symbol of deity. planetary world, and he is one of the three chief deities. he is called indifferently the son of dyaus and of aditi, because no distinction is made with reference to, or scope allowed for, the esoteric meaning. thus he is depicted as drawn by seven horses, and by one horse with

architects, and are accepted by the[[footnote(s* this essence of cometary matter, occult science teaches, is totally different from any of the chemical or physical characteristics with which modern science is acquainted. it is homogeneous in its primitive form beyond the solar systems, and differentiates entirely once it crosses the boundaries of our earth's region, vitiated by the atmospheres of the planets and the already compound matter of the interplanetary stuff, heterogeneous only in our manifested world* manas- the mind-principle, or the human soul* buddhi- the divine soul[[vol. 1, page] 102 the secret doctrine. roman church as the leaders of the heavenly hosts, thus showing the same traditions. having evolved from cosmic space, and before the final formation of the primaries and th

ginary, they say[[vol. 1, page] 103 the stellar "sons of light" but little, would have killed such comparatively small "houses" as mercury, venus and mars. as uranus was not known before the end of the eighteenth century, the name of the fourth planet mentioned in the allegory must remain to us, so far, a mystery. the "breath" of all the "seven" is said to be bhaskara (light-making, because they (the planets) were all comets and suns in their origin. they evolve into manvantaric life from primaeval chaos (now the noumenon of irresolvable nebulae) by aggregation and accumulation of the primary differentiations of the eternal matter, according to the beautiful expression in the commentary "thus the sons of light clothed themselves in the fabric of darkness" they are called allegorically "the

BOOK T

r cards of the four suits, thirty-six in number, answering unto the thirty-six decans of the zodiac. commencing from the sign aries, the central decans of each sign follow the order of the days of the week. thus- being thus the four threes, sixes, and nines. the first and third decans follow the same order: sunday beginning the first decan of virgo and in the third decans of gemini and capricorn. the planets govern respectively decans with the following titles- or in taurus leo libra sagittarius pisces two wands: 1 each of the other suits. or in gemini leo libra capricorn pisces two swords: 1 each of others. head cross, orb held downwards brown princess winged ram's head grass, flowers, grove of trees, sceptre with disk, pentacle like that in ace rich brown dark card central decan of meani

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

y, completely worthless. in what follows will be seen the elements that make a true horoscope a very personal thing, applicable only to the one for whom it is cast. the individual horoscope, or natal chart, the one that interprets the motions of the heavenly bodies in terms of the person's life comes under the awesome- sounding heading of genethliacal astrology. the chart is actually a map of how the planets, sun and moon, appeared at the moment of birth. each planet has a particular influence on the person born and also a particular influence on the other planets, depending on proximity. to erect, or draw up, this chart for the individual, certain things must be known. firstly, the date of birth day, month, year. secondly, the place of birth geographical location. and thirdly, the time of

21 sagittarius november 22 through december 21 capricorn december 22 through january 20 aquarius january 21 through february 19 pisces february 20 through march 20 in fact, these dates do vary from year to year, so it is necessary to check the year in question when the date is on, or close to, the cusp. in planning this map of the heavens, some help is needed in establishing the positions held by the planets at the many different hours and minutes that have passed with the years. the astrologer's aids for this are the ephemeris and the table of houses. the ephemeris gives the positions of the planets at the different times, while the table of houses gives the corrections with regard to the place of birth; the geographical location. measurement of time is given in what is known as sidereal

(i.c) the mid-point at right-angles to the connected ascendant and descendant. these lines/points are also marked on the chart. the chart is now divided into its four quadrants. the next stage in drawing the "map" is the filling-in of the house boundaries. the ascendant is the start of the first house, and from there will be found twelve houses (see figure 9.2. the positions of the sun, moon and the planets are found thus: from the ephemeris find the positions for noon, on the birth date, of saturn, neptune, jupiter, uranus and pluto. these are the slower planets. these positions can be put straight onto the chart. they are shown, as are all planets, on the chart and in the tables, lesson nine: divination/ 127 figure 9.2 128 i auckland's complete book of witchcraft for the faster planets

. before you can attempt to interpret a horoscope, you must know what the various positions of the planets mean in relation to one another: their aspects. two planets, one rising and the other setting, 180 apart, are said to be in opposition. this is traditionally a bad aspect. two planets within approximately 10 of each other are in conjunction, which can either be good or bad depending on which the planets are. planets 90 apart are said to be square, another bad aspect-while 60 apart (sextile) is a good aspect. finally, of the main aspects, 120 apart is extremely good and goes by the name trine. obviously, in these positions a certain amount of leeway is permissible, and this is usually in the order of 10 to 12 for conjunction or opposition, and roughly 7 for sextile. these allowances ar

terpretation interpretation of a horoscope is the hardest part as it is in any form of divination. the interpretation begins with listing the various aspects which appear; the relationship of the sun to the zodiac; the relationship of the moon; the ascendant's position; rising and by their signs. these traditional signs are: setting planets; positions above and below the horizon; relationships of the planets to the houses and to the zodiac signs; the decanates. all these aspects must be studied and explained. examples of what might be found are "mars square with saturn; jupiter and the sun in opposition, or jupiter sextile with mercury. mars square with saturn would indicate a certain amount of callousness due to mars' ruthlessness and impulsiveness, together with saturn's seclusion and in

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the day, though angelic magick tends to be used, not surprisingly, for rituals with a more spiritual and ecological or global focus. as you discover particular combinations that work well, you can add them to your book of shadows. planetary magical days of the week though i have written primarily about the significance of the different days, i have also listed the effects of the planetary hours. the planets have had a special place in both ritual magick and astrology, since the ancient babylonians and chaldeans first observed them wandering across the sky (the word 'planet' derives from the greek planetes, meaning 'wanderer) against the fixed constellations of the zodiac. the ancients knew of only five planets- mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. uranus, neptune and pluto were disco

nus, neptune and pluto were discovered only after the invention of the telescope and so have not assumed the importance in magick that they have in astrology. what is more, the first astronomers also counted the sun and the moon as planets and credited them with certain qualities that have become woven into the western astrological and magical traditions. astrologers believe that the positions of the planets in the zodiac at the time of an individual's birth can influence and indicate that person's fate. in magick, the planetary strengths can be applied to any purpose under the as above, so below' principle that stresses the interconnectedness of the whole universe. you can create your own spells by using the associations, much as you create recipes by knowing the qualities and blending po

onite, cypress, patchouli trees: blackthorn, yew herbs and oils: aspen, bistort, comfrey, horsetail, solomon's seal metal: lead or pewter saturn rules capricorn, 22 december-20 january, and is co-ruler of aquarius, 21 january-18 february. these sun periods are most potent for saturn spells and for those born under these signs at all times. magical hours the hours of the day are also influenced by the planets. to choose the best time for a spell, you should consult first pages 227-32 on the planetary days and then page 235 where i explain the planetary hours. for example, if you were carrying out a love spell in which you wanted rapid results, perhaps for a special meeting, you could work on a friday, venus's day, on both her hours- sunrise and the third hour after sunset. if you wanted cou

tary hours- angelic correspondences you can, if you wish, use angelic rulers instead of planetary ones for the magical hours, or combine the energies of both. in practice, if your magick has a spiritual focus or is concerned with healing or global or ecological matters, angels work better than planets. if you have calculated your daily planetary hours, your angels will correspond exactly. as with the planets, each archangel rules the first hour after sunrise of his own day. though many people do regard the archangels as male, they are androgynous and so i have called them 'he' merely for convenience. many magicians from the middle ages onwards have used angels as part of formal rituals and they have long been a potent form of psychic protection both for guarding the four corners of the rit

if your ancestors came from another land or continent, your seasonal energies resonate more with theirs. even if you live in sydney or florida, it may be that come november you instinctively hibernate; in this case, you may find the celtic pattern right for you no matter what the barometer says. because the solstices and equinoxes are astronomical measures- that is they depend on the movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide a personal connection to the ebbs and flows of the cosmic cycl

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ain jalut. joachite date of the anticipated apocalypse. 1264 albertus magnus, bishop of regensburg, writes de mineralibus 1265-1321 dante alighieri 1266 b.john duns scotus, scottish scholastic philosopher and theologian. 1266 roger bacon opus maius. 1267 roger bacon opus tertium first who anticipates angelic pope. 1268 sefer hayyim("book of life")r. ezra. connects the golem with the influence of the planets- after 1269 sordello italian troubadour. 1270-1340 nicholas of lyra, franciscan exegete. the report that he was of jewish descent dates only from the fifteenth century. turned to rashi for biblical interpretation. 1270 thomas aquinas is sympathetic to the idea of alchemical transmution in his summa theologia. 1270-1348 abner de burgos(aka alfonso de valladolid) proof of the trinity bas

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

oon as i had read this letter, i was presently like to have fainted away, all my hair stood on end, and a cold sweat tricked down my whole body. for although i well perceived that this was the appointed wedding, of which seven years before i was acquainted in a bodily vision, and which now for so long a time i had with great earnestness awaited, and which lastly, by the account and calculation of the planets, i had most diligently observed, i found so to be, yet could i never foresee that it must happen under such grievous perilous conditions. for whereas i before imagined, that to be a welcome and acceptable guest, i needed only to be ready to appear at the wedding, i was now directed to divine providence, of which until this time i was never certain. i also found by myself, the more i ex

time the curious fountains, mines, and all kinds of artshops, were also shown to us, of which there was none but surpassed all our arts, even if they should all be melted into one mass. all their chambers were built in a semi-circle, so that they might have before their eyes the costly clockwork which was erected upon a fair turret in the centre, and regulate themselves according to the course of the planets, which were to be seen on it in a glorious manner. and hence i could easily conjecture where our artists failed; however it s none of my duty to inform them. at length i came into a spacious room (shown indeed to the rest a great while before) in the middle of which stood a terrestrial globe, whose diameter was thirty feet, although nearly half of it, except a little which was covered

templating the stars. by chance i came to a great pair of stone stairs, which led up to the top of the wall. and because the moon shone very bright, i was so much the more confident, and went up, and looked a little upon the sea too, which was now exceedingly calm. and thus having good opportunity to consider more about astronomy, i found that this present night there would occur a conjunction of the planets, the like of which was not otherwise usually to be observed. now having looked a good while at the sea, and it being just about midnight, as page 66 soon as it had struck twelve i saw from afar the seven flames passing over the sea towards here, and taking themselves towards the top of the spire of the tower. this made me somewhat afraid, for as soon as the flames had settled themselve

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

mystical symbol of osiris. let us never forget that the phoenix rose from the ashes, the symbol of the resurrected self from the physical pull of the mundane. this wand displays the 4 seven rainbow colors of the planetary forces that vibrates between the light and the darkness. this wand is a vibrant symbol of death and of resurrection. in the examination of the hexagram, we see the operation of the planets under the presidency of the sephiroth; seven planets in all, seven letters in the notarikon atyrara. here, we observe the unity of the variant forces as symbolized by the hexagram and the notarikon which states "one beginning of his unity, one beginning of his individuality, his permutation is one" note that there are three sentences in this notarikon in english. this alludes to the su

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

rison warders 413 carry preprogrammed patterns which will help us to do the job. sometimes such people will not be doing what they consciously want to do, but they will be following a pattern from their higher consciousness which will attract to them the experiences necessary to carry out their chosen task in this incarnation. astrological factors will be part of this, as they are for all people. the planets are like transmitters broadcasting a distinct vibration. depending where they are on their orbits in relation to the earth, different planetary vibrations, or combinations of them, are more powerful at different times in their effect on this planet. a good astrologer identifies these combinations and outlines their likely effect. things don't have to happen in response to these astrolo

them, are more powerful at different times in their effect on this planet. a good astrologer identifies these combinations and outlines their likely effect. things don't have to happen in response to these astrological changes because we have freewill, but they are more likely to happen. at birth we absorb the energy pattern in the atmosphere of our birthplace. this will reflect the positions of the planets at that moment. so, as the planets continue to travel the heavens during our physical lifetime, we will be affected by them in a rather different way from someone born at another time and place because our inner 'birth pattern' will be different. again a good astrologer- and the ability varies enormously as with every other profession- will be able to predict likely effects on people i

rologer- and the ability varies enormously as with every other profession- will be able to predict likely effects on people if they know their exact time of birth and where they were born. they will also be able to make a reasonable assessment of what we have chosen to achieve in this life by assessing the energies we absorbed at birth. when and where we are born is rarely random. the movement of the planets and changing earth vibrations they trigger are affecting us every second, and i believe it will be shown as the transformation proceeds that our dna is synchronised with the planets. there are many factors which go into the make-up of our inner energy pattern and therefore the physical reality it creates. but one thing above all will lead us to a positive, joyous, freedom more effectiv

pointed to the last years of the 1990s and beyond. these relate to astrology and something called the photon belt or beam. there are, according to astrologers, a number of rare planetary alignments and sequences in the latter period of the 1990s which are likely to trigger enormous change on all levels of people and planet- a transformation indeed of the old evolutionary cycle. the vibrations of the planets affect us very powerfully. as the pull of the moon moves the tides of whole oceans, so our bodies are affected by the same spiritual magnetism. our bodies consist overwhelmingly of water because they are like batteries, storing and processing energy. blood is the physical version of our energy meridians and blood is subject to influence by the planets, as is our body in general. some h

amid builders apparently aligned their geometry, and it was in the 11th millennium bc, within the window period suggested for great geological upheavals on the earth, that orion reached the lowest point of its cycle. astrological events affect earthquakes and weather systems because of the vibrational change they create on earth, as does collective human thought. also on may 5th 2000, the sun and the planets, neptune, uranus, venus, mercury, and mars all align with each other. the vibrational effects of this are likely to be fantastic. another important date may well be december 21st 2012, when the calender system left by the mayans in central america more than 1600 years ago, predicted that a great cycle for the earth would end. it appears to me that may 5th 2000 is the moment when the fr

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ge that founded those advanced civilisations. the sirius system is also depicted as a snake or serpent in a greek representation in the louvre museum in paris.13 temple's research began when he heard that the dogon people in mali, northwest africa, had told french researchers in 1931 some remarkable information about the sirius system. according to these researchers, the dogon also knew about all the planets of the solar system out to pluto, and of moons that have only recently been confirmed. they said that a star orbited sirius and it was so heavy all the people of the world could not lift it.14 at the time, the star they were talking about, now called sirius b, was not yet discovered by scientists. the dogon are claimed to have said that it took about 50 years to orbit sirius a and that

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nd you have to be careful that details have not been added or lost andthat we dont take symbolism or parable as literal truth. i am sure that some confusiondid occur in this way. i have doubts myself about the nibiru-tiamat scenario and itsalleged timescale. but there is much truth in the texts which can be proven, not least intheir knowledge of astronomy. the tablets depict the solar system with the planets intheir correct positions, orbits and relative sizes, and their accuracy has only beenconfirmed in the last 150 years since some of these planets have been found. thetablets describe the nature and colour of neptune and uranus in ways that have onlybeen confirmed in the last few years! whats more, the modern experts did not expectthose planets to look as they did, yet the sumerians kne

00 years ago when theanunnaki are said to have arrived, and the time, only a few thousand years ago, whenthese accounts were written down. there was certainly an enormous cataclysm on theearth around 11,000 bc which destroyed the advanced civilisations of the high-techgolden age and that date of 13,000 years ago is highly significant and very relevant tothe time we are living through now. just as the planets of the solar system revolvearound the sun, so the solar system revolves around the centre of the galaxy, or this partof it at least. this central sun or galactic sun, is sometimes referred to as the blacksun. it takes about 26,000 years for the solar system to complete a circuit of the galacticcentre and this is known in the indian culture as a yuga. for half of that 26,000 yearsthe ea

ichwill attract lighter objects to them. in our solar system, the most powerful waves arebeing emitted from the centre by the sun, obviously, because that represents 99% of thematter in the solar system. these waves from the sun interact with other cosmic waves,so forming a series of standing waves which, in turn, form concentric circles orvibrational fields orbiting the sun. the heaviest bodies, the planets, are caught in thesecircles and thus orbit the sun. the planets also create less powerful wave circles aroundthemselves and these can attract lighter bodies which orbit them. the moon orbiting theearth is an example of this. so anything that would disturb this harmony of vibrationalinteraction would affect these concentric circles of energy and, if this was powerfulenough, change the o

ce. he who is the light ofthe world. this knowledge of the sun will be a common theme throughout the rest ofthis book as we journey through history to the present day. it does, however, make thedecoding of history a little more complex because the ancients would constantly usesun and astrological symbolism in their stories and some of the names for their godswould be used to symbolise the sun and the planets. working out what is literal andwhat is symbolic is a considerable challenge. i also think that the term sun god hasbeen used to symbolise the extraterrestrials and their crossbreeds, who were said in theancient texts to have faces which shone like the sun- the shining ones. imagine thepower you would have to advance an agenda and manipulate the human race if youknew the cycles of ener

llows the coordination of the agenda across national borders and between apparentlyunconnected companies and institutions like politics, banking, business, the militaryand the media. knowledge is not good nor bad, it just is. it is how we use thatknowledge that is positive or negative. at the upper levels of this network they knowof the true power of the sun, magnetics and the mind; the effect of the planets onhuman behaviour; how to manipulate time, consciousness, energy, the weather and somuch more. if used malevolently, this knowledge can be incredibly destructive andmanipulating and this is what has happened. at the same time the reptilians have usedtheir secret societies to create institutions in the public arena such as religions andpolitical parties to suck this advanced knowledge o

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nces either lighter to the point of levitation or make them heavier than their normal weight. as part of his control of gravitational forces, keely demonstrated a working model of our solar system complete with a simulated sun and planets that was tuned to the actual forces which governed each planet and the sun. this model would even have the simulated sun and planets rotate about their axis and the planets orbit about the simulated sun. keely controlled this operational solar system with sonic force in conjunction with the aetheric "vapor" released from the breakdown of water. this was demonstrated to major richarde sever, an english scientist, in keely's laboratory during the time of the world centennial in the late 1890s. keely showed that all sympathetic streams of energy are composed

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by spirits. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (59) oriax, or orias- the fifty-ninth spirit is oriax, or orias. he is a great marquis, and appeareth in the form of a lion, riding upon a horse mighty and strong, with a serpent s tail; and he holdeth in his right hand two great serpents hissing. his office is to teach the virtues of the stars, and to know the mansions of the planets, and how to understand their virtues. he also transformeth men, and he giveth dignities, prelacies, and confirmation thereof; also favour with friends and with foes. he doth govern 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, etc (60) vapula, or naphula- the sixtieth spirit is vapula, or naphula. he is a duke great, mighty, and strong; appearing in the form of a. lion with gryphon s wi

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. it may also be used in a more restricted sense to mean the small chamber adjoining the peristyle that contains the alter of one or more loa (q.v. houngan: a male priest of voudoun (q.v, who presides over the rites and gives counsel and magickal aid to worshipers of that religious faith. see planetary hours. hours, planetary: a division of the day and night into sections ruled by the energies of the planets. to determine the length of each planetary hour, divide the daylight hours by twelve. they will be different in length than the night hours (to determine the length of which you divide the total time of darkness by twelve. except on the equinoxes when the planetary hours are all sixty minutes in length. humors: the four elemental qualities that make up the human body according to the a

seven other members upon the principles of christian mysticism and ceremonial magick. the first degree is founded upon the ideals of christian knighthood, and the magickal secrets of the christian eucharist. the order practices golden dawn [g.d (q.v) style ceremonial/ritual magick. the symbol of the order is an eight rayed star on it's point, inscribed with the glyphs of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the numbers, and colors. a gold, silver, and red crux mystica is in the center, and the star itself is surmounted by a crux mystica. the order was incorporated in kentucky on the vernal equinox, 1993. ordo templi orientis [o.t.o: the order of the temple of the east. a well known and still existing originally german occult order which has become the primary promulgator of the teachings

tion to simple physical actions, or by verbal paradoxes that cannot be solved in logical terms. in zen, the intellect is looked upon as an obstruction to truth that must be circumvented on philosophical analysis. zodiac: from the old french from the latin "zodiakos" meaning "circle of animals. an imaginary belt in the heavens extending on either side of the apparent path of the sun, the moon, and the planets along the ecliptic divided into twelve sections of thirty degrees each. used in astrology (q.v. zohar: a huge, mystical commentary on the torah (q.v) first written down in the fourteenth (14th) century by the rebbe and kabbalist moses de leon *finis- the encceremonial magic unveiled by dion fortune this article first appeared in the occult gazette in january i933 and has not been avail

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s in his method, but as his system does violence to many of the correspondences when placed upon the tree, the final test of all systems, and as the mathers-crowley system fits admirably, i think we may justly conclude that the latter is the correct traditional order, and i propose to adhere to it in these pages. 13. the qabalists further placed upon the paths of the tree the signs of the zodiac, the planets, and the elements. now there are twelve signs, seven planets, and four elements, making twenty-three symbols in all. how are these to be fitted on to the twenty-two paths? herein is another "blind" but the solution is simple. upon the physical plane [page 24] we are ourselves in the element of earth, therefore that symbol does not appear upon the paths which lead into the unseen. remov

rmes "as above, so below" 8. kether differentiates into chokmah and binah before it achieves phenomenal existence, and these two are called by the qabalists, abba, the supernal father, and ama, the supernal mother. binah is also called the great sea, and shahathai, the sphere of saturn. as we continue, we shall find that the sephiroth are called successively the mystical qabala page 31 spheres of the planets, but binah is the first of the emanations to be so assigned; kether is called the first whirlings, and chokmah the sphere of the zodiac. 9. now saturn is the father of the gods; he is the greatest of the old gods that were the predecessors of the olympians over which jupiter rules. in the secret titles attributed to the tarot trumps, the path of saturn is called, according to crowley

is atziluth, however, which is considered the natural sphere of the sephiroth as such, and for this reason it is called the world of emanations. it is here, and here only, that god acts directly and not through his ministers. in briah he acts through the mediation of the archangels, in yetzirah through the angelic orders, and in assiah through those centres which i have named the mundane chakras-the planets, elements, and signs of the zodiac [page 62] 4. we have, then, in these four sets of symbols a complete system of notation for expressing the mode of function of any given power at any given level, and this system of notation is the basis of ceremonial magic with its names of power, and also of talismanic magic and the tarot system of divination. it is for this reason that it is said o

correspondences we can trace all manner of relationships, and these are very important in practical occultism, as will be seen later. 12. four important fourfold divisions find a place under them, thus enabling us to see their relationships among themselves. these are the four worlds of the qabalists; the four elements of the alchemists; the fourfold classification of the signs of the zodiac and the planets into triplicities, employed by the astrologers; and the four suits of the tarot pack used in divination. this fourfold classification resembles the rosetta stone which gave the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, for on it were inscriptions in egyptian and greek; greek being known, it was possible to work out the meaning of the corresponding egyptian hieroglyphs. it is the method of arran

uthorities are the wands suit of the tarot pack and the element of fire. it will be apparent to anyone who has any knowledge of occult matters that as soon as we know the element to which a symbol is assigned, we know a good deal, for it opens up all the ramifications of astrology for us, and we can trace out its astrological affinities through the triplicities of the zodiac and the affinities of the planets with thern. as soon as we know what zodiacal and planetary associations exist, we are in a position to mystical qabala page 45 explore the correlated symbolism of any pantheon, for all the gods and goddesses of ah the systems that the human mind has ever invented have astrological associations. the stories of their adventures are really parables of the workings of cosmic forces. throug

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ied as archdemons. it is these which are the names of power in magic. each sephira, then, has its obverse side in the corresponding qlippottic demon. the initiated adept always gains control over the demonic force before he attempts to utilise the angelic force which, by the appropriated means, can be contacted in each sephira. if he does not do so, he contacts them both simultaneously. moreover, the planets, the elements and the signs of the zodiac are all intimately connected with the sephiroth, being arranged upon the tree of life in a pattern known only to initiates. 42 of 103 the initiated adept is exceedingly careful what he does when he is working with these potencies because he knows that he has always got the qlippoth in the background. the uninitiated occultist goes ahead gaily

sending specimens, and especially when sending a birth-hour for a horoscope, not to allow the name to be known lest gossip should be spread about. astrologers are much too fond of handing round charts and discussing them. i have known some very unfortunate things come about in this way. a horoscope from someone who understands the nature of the work in hand is of great value, for the position of the planets in the heavenly houses not only serves as an aid to diagnosis but is a very important guide to treatment. it is best therefore to explain to the astrologer the nature of the case, and the kind of information that is wanted, so that he can examine the chart accordingly. a horoscope is to 76 of 103 an occult therapist what an x-ray photograph is to a doctor. while awaiting these returns

circumstances of his life. dates and places therefore should be sedulously sought for. when did the trouble start, and where? having obtained as detailed information as possible on these two points, set out to see whether any occult significance is to be found in it. note the dates carefully, and turn them up in an ephemeris of those years, and observe how the moon stood in relation to them, also the planets. observe whether they fell on or about the equinoxes or solstices. note also the days of the week upon which they occurred. if you found that all the crises of the case occurred on thursdays, or round about the vernal equinox, or at the full moon, you would have a piece of information which was of 77 of 103 considerable significance. you would be sure of one thing, at any rate, that yo

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little drawings (secret seal of solomon, from the lemegeton or lesser key of solomon) a spirit seal is a more polished graphic representation of the spirit. it is often circular or oval in shape, and usually contains the sigil of the spirit inscribed in its center. it may also bear the name of the spirit in latin, greek or hebrew letters around it edge, and other occult symbols such as glyphs of the planets, zodiac signs or elements. by connotative usage, a physical object bearing a spirit symbol, such as a medallion, is more likely to be referred to as the spirit's seal, whereas the drawing of a spirit symbol in a manuscript is more apt to be called the spirit's sigil (occult characters associated with ophiel, spirit of mercury, from the nigromancia of roger bacon) confusion arises becau

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in the boat of millions of years.[1 [1. the few remaining words are corrupt] plate xxxvii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod41.htm [8/10/2001 11:29:28 oof the abbot trithemius is a very curious and interesting dissertation upon the ruling of the world by the seven great archangels, to each of whom in succession is alloted a period of 354 years and 4 months. the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi

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appearance of a comet. francois de la tour blanche stated that aeromancy is the art of fortunetelling by means of specters that are made to appear in the air, or the representation by the aid of demons, of future events, which are projected on the clouds as a film is projected onto a screen. as for thunder and lightning, he adds, these are concerned with auguries, and the aspect of the sky and of the planets belonging to the science of astrology. sources: waite, arthur edward. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. the aetherius society founded by sir george king (1919.1997, a british occultist and flying saucer contactee from the west country, whose mother had formerly run a healing sanctuary. he was in his apartment one morning in march 1954 when a voi

t lost on anyone who reads alford s books. alford has an extensive internet site at http/ www.eridu.co.uk/ericu. sources: alford, alan f. gods of the new millennium. 1996. reprint, london: hodder and stoughton, 1997. the phoenix solution. london: hodder and stoughton, 1998. when the gods came down. london: hodder and stoughton, 2000. alfridarya a belief resembling astrology, which claims that all the planets in turn influence the life of man, each one governing a certain number of years. alis de tesieux (ca. sixteenth century c.e) spirit of a spanish nun, as recorded in a book published in paris in 1528: la merveilleuse histoire de l esprit qui, depuis naguere, s est apparu au monastere des religieuses de saint pierre de lyon, laquelle est pleine de grande admiration, comme on pourra vois

o their creed rather than to their practice. they were hardworking scientific artisans with their pestles and mortars, their crucibles and furnaces, their alembics and aludels, their vessels for infusion, for decoration, for cohobation, sublimation, fixation, lixiviation, filtration, and coagulation. they believed in transmutation, in the first matter, and in the correspondence of the metals with the planets, to say nothing of potable gold. it is not known where the ancient arabians derived the sublimer articles of their scientific faith. perhaps they were the conjectures of their ancestors according to the faith. perhaps they had them from the fatimites of northern africa, among whose local predecessors it has been seen that it is just possible the doctrine of the four elements and their

us was identical with apollonius of tyana, who was born in the first century under that name and who died in the twelfth century under that of artephius. many extravagant and curious works are attributed to artephius: de vita propaganda (the art of prolonging life, which he claims, in the preface, to have written at the age of 1,025 years; the key to supreme wisdom; and a work on the character of the planets, on the significance of the songs of birds, on things past and future, and on the philosophers stone. jerome cardan spoke of these books and believed that they were composed by some practical joker who wished to play on the credulity of the partisans of alchemy. some scholars have identified artephius with the arabic poet and alchemist al toghrai, who died ca. 1119. sources: patai, rap

treat issues of sexual attraction and compatibility to argue that each person possesses a distinct combination of yin and yang. we attract and repel others as they tend to balance our own combination of male/female attributes. he then placed this understanding that allowed for women with much yang and men with much yin, into a complex system of correspondences that involve the astrological signs, the planets, and houses of the horoscope. drawing on his reading of gay writers, arthur concluded that sexuality needs to be separated from the single need to procreate. heterosexuals need to be free of the constraints of marriage, for only then will the transgendered, homosexuals, and bisexuals be liberated. sources: arthur, gavin. the circle of sex. hyde park, n.y: university books, 1966. docume

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, 1973. mesmer, franz anton (1733.1815) famous austrian doctor and originator of the technique that bore his name, mesmerism, forerunner of hypnotism. he was born at weil, near constance, may 23, 1733. in 1766 he took a degree in medicine at vienna, the subject of his inaugural thesis being de planetarum influxu (de l influence des planettes sur le corps humain. mesmer identified the influence of the planets with magnetism and developed the idea that stroking diseased bodies with magnets would be curative. on seeing the remarkable cures of j. j. gassner in switzerland, he concluded that magnetic force must also reside in the human body, and thereupon mesmer dispensed with magnets. in 1778 he went to paris where he was very favorably received. by the public, that is; the medical authorities

had the task of exploring the fluctuations in the earth s magnetic field that affected communications systems. if those fluctuations could be understood and predicted, then steps could be taken to diminish their effects. disturbances in the magnetic field were directly tied to the magnetic storms on the sun. the one factor that correlated with magnetic disturbances on the sun was the position of the planets relative to the sun. when two planets were either lined up with the sun (what in astrology is termed an opposition) or at a 90-degree angle (a square, there would be disturbances. however, when the planets were at 120 degrees (trine) or 60 degrees (sextile, disturbances were noticeably quiet. nelson eventually found that he could predict the disturbances on the sun with better than 90

aceship accompanied by her uncle. onec claims that she was born and raised in the venusian city of teutonia (a city whose name reflects earlier venus-earth contacts that included a trip to venus by a german scientist. from the temple of history she learned of the long-term monitoring of earth by scientists from many planets and of the nature of life on all of these planets. earth, the youngest of the planets in this solar system, is plagued by the imbalance caused by its singular moon, which works an alternating influence on people as it moves through the heavens. the other planets are organized into a brotherhood of planets and their monitoring of earth includes the era of atlantis and lemuria. the different races of earth have ties to the inhabitants of the various planets. according to

al with her own encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. onec, omnec 1143 karmic past. as a young adult, however, she began to manifest her second mission, to offer humanity an increased awareness of their relation to spirit. as an initial step, she wrote a book published by stevens in 1986. the account included a variety of problems, including claims of significant habitation of all of the planets of the solar system and assertions of conditions existing on these planets that contradict the repeated observations of various space probes. to defend the account, it had to be assumed that the inhabitants resided on something other than the physical plane of existence. sources: onec, omnec. from venus i came. tucson, ariz: w. c. stevens, 1986. oneiromancy term for divination by dream

dern application in the occult. it was on this idea that much of franz a. mesmer s work was built. papaloi encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1176 while paracelsus busied himself with such problems, however, he did not neglect the study and practice of medicine, into which both astrology and the magnet entered largely. when he was sought by a patient, his first care was to consult the planets, where the disease had its origin, and if the patient were a woman he took it for granted that the cause of her malady lay in the moon. his anticipation of the philosophy of descartes consisted in his theory that by bringing the various elements of the human body into harmony with the elements of nature.fire, light, earth.old age, and death might be indefinitely postponed. his experime

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sted are 1) the correspondences, 2) the living nature, 3) conceptions and intermediation. 4) the experience of transmutation, and 5) accordances and 6) transference. 1) the correspondences are the thought of hidden connections between the visible and invisible parts of the universe, in accordance with the hermetic motto as above so below. there are connections between minerals, the human body and the planets etc. 2) the living nature is based on the view of the cosmos as a manifold and hierarchic unity where nature has an important position next to god and man. nature is permeated with a light or a fire and is rich in potential experiences and should be read as a book. but faivre means, which is important, that it since the beginning of the 20:th century there has arisen a monistic spiritu

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acecraft, sometimes with the lady of pluto, more often with the sister of jupiter. some there are who believe ufo s are the greatest mystery of our century, rowe wrote. i only hope i have made it clear that there is no mystery connected with them. see also: adamski, george; aura rhanes; bethurum, truman; contactees further reading rowe, kelvin, 1958. a call at dawn: a message from our brothers of the planets pluto and jupiter. el monte, ca: understanding publishing company. land beyond the pole according to f. amadeo giannini, author of worlds beyond the poles (1959, admiral richard e. byrd discovered a marvelous new land when he flew 1,700 miles beyond the north pole during an expedition in 1947. he saw ice-free lakes, mountains, and forests. he even caught a glimpse of an enormous animal

parrow, 1976. con- juring up philip. new york: harper and row. planetary council celeste korsholm, a sedona, arizona, channeler and metaphysical counselor, learned of the planetary council one day in 1991. in an out-of-body state, she met the twelve ascended masters who compose the ruling body of earth s solar system. over the next few years, they returned individually to channel the histories of the planets and their futures. each planet, she learned, is like a university. each of us comes from somewhere else, from a higher dimension of existence known as the source, and enters through star gates such as lyra, orion, sirius, and the pleiades, where our higher frequencies of light are gradually decreased to prepare for life in the denser third dimension, in korsholm s words (korsholm, 1991

ctive, detached wisdom, and apollo (phoenix) generates change. all of these individuals figure in earthly mythology and (in the case of lao-tzu, the founder of taoism) history. see also: ascended masters; athena; fairies encountered; sasquatch further reading korsholm, celeste, 1991. lao-tzu, planetary council member from pluto. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/pluto-celeste.html, 1995. tales from the planets. http//spiritweb. org/spirit/tales-planets-celeste.html. portla portla is best remembered as the extraterrestrial who in a july 18, 1952, channeling with george w. van tassel introduced ashtar, the most ubiquitous and beloved of new age beings. the psychic message was, approaching your solar system is a ventla [spaceship] with our chief aboard, commander of the station schare in charge

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life pass before their eyes in a near-death episode. from the perspective of a multi-plane, time-space sequence of events, one could conceive of the great flood described in the parable of noah in torah b reshith as an allusion to a great solar cycle spanning approximately six billion years in matter. during that cycle, the sun consumes its mass and eventually expands into a red giant, enveloping the planets that it had created, including the earth. then, the sun (known as elohim in hebrew and brahma in sanskrit) contracts its mass, reconstitutes its core, and spins off a new planetary system in which life is created and evolves. within the qabalistic worldview, the forty days that noah is said to have spent in the ark occurs two planes removed in the world of b riyah (creation. the geneti

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es of their gods. this treatise has come down to us through the latin translation formerly attributed to apuleius of madaura.2 the pimander (the first of the treatises in the corpus hermeticum, the collection of fifteen hermetic dialogues3) gives an account of the creation of the world which is in parts reminiscent of genesis. other treatises describe the ascent of the soul through the spheres of the planets to the divine realms above them, or give ecstatic descriptions of a process of regeneration by which the soul casts off the chains which bind it to the material world and becomes filled with divine powers and virtues. in the first volume of his work, la revelation d'hermes tristne'giste, 4 festugiere has analysed the state of mind of the epoch, roughly the second century after the birt

on and breaks out into hymns of praise. he seems to reach this illumination through contemplation of the world or the cosmos, or rather through contemplation of the cosmos as reflected in his own nous or mens which separates out for him its divine meaning and gives him a spiritual mastery over it, as in the familiar gnostic revelation or experience of the ascent of the soul through the spheres of the planets to become immersed in the divine. thus that religion of 4 hermes trismegistus the world which runs as an undercurrent in much of greek thought, particularly in platonism and stoicism, becomes in hermetism actually a religion, a cult without temples or liturgy, followed in the mind alone, a religious philosophy or philosophical religion containing a gnosis. the men of the second century

these writings as belonging to two types of gnosis, namely pessimist gnosis, or optimist gnosis.1 for the pessimist (or dualist) gnostic, the material world heavily impregnated with the fatal influence of the stars is in itself evil; it must be escaped from by an ascetic way of life which avoids as much as possible all contact with matter, until the lightened soul rises up through the spheres of the planets, casting off their evil influences as it ascends, to its true home in the immaterial divine world. for the optimist gnostic, matter is impregnated with the divine, the earth lives, moves, with a divine life, the stars are living divine animals, the sun burns with a divine power, there is no part of nature which is not good for all are parts of god. the following accounts of the content

g the divine creative power. not even when adam walked with god in the garden of eden before the fall is this said of him. when adam, tempted by eve and the serpent, wished to eat of the tree of knowledge and become like god, this was the sin of disobedience, punished by the exile from the garden of eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, seeing the newly created seven governors (the planets) on whom all things depend, wishes to create, to make something like that. nor is this treated as a sin of disobedience.1 he is allowed into the society of the seven governors who love him and impart to him their powers. this egyptian adam is more than human; he is divine and belongs to the race of the star demons, the divinely created governors of the lower world. he is even stated to

ated tabernaculum by ficino) under which he had been and which was constituted by the circle of the zodiac. as festugiere explains, the twelve vices or "punishments" come from the twelve signs of the zodiac which oppressed tat when he was still material and under the influence of matter. festugiere compares this with the ascent through the spheres in the pimander, where there are seven vices with the planets which 29 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" the initiate abandons on his upward path' the punishments of matter are thus really the influences of the stars, for which are substituted, in the regenerative experience, virtues which are divine powers which free the soul from the material weight of the heaven and its influences. the powers are one in the word, and the soul thus regene

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th a very similar but slightly different method. y pear in the magical square; deleting the zeros in our demon fs name gives us 2, 9 and 3. thus, we get the following order of numbers (again from right to left: 3/1/2/9/2/2. usually the sigil begins with a curlicue and ends with a stroke. if any one number is covered twic a in b to complete the picture, the followi consist of the magical cameas of the planets to constructing sigils with planetary cameas/ 109 figure 27 110/ practical sigil magic beside each numbered camea you will find a square containing the hebrew letters according to their numerical values, which may save you a lot of trouble constructing your sigils in e hermetic tradition. the illustrations are taken from grippa fs classic work de occulta philosophia (2nd vol, 1533. the

itional form without any changes of my own. furthermore, these corrections might confuse those readers unfamiliar with the subject if they suddenly come across different versions of one and the same sigil in other traditional books. for practice, however, i advise you to redraw the sigils and correct them where necessary. th a r constructing sigils with planetary cameas/ 111 the magical cameas of the planets( gtables h) and the seals and sigils of the planetary powers, intelligences and demons (following agrippa of nettesheim, de occulta philosophia, vol. 2, 1533) table of saturn numbers hebrew letters seals or characters of saturn his intelligence his demon divine names in accord with the numbers of saturn numbers divine names in hebrew 3. ab. 9. hod. 15. yah. 15. hod. 45. ext. tetragramm

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try, the first and noblest of sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of masonry is erected. its moral advantages. by geometry we may curiously trace nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses. by it we discover the power, wisdom and goodness of the grand artificer of the universe, and view with delight the proportions of this vast machine. by it we discover how the planets move in their respective orbits, and demonstrate their various revolutions. by it we account for the return of seasons, and the variety of scenes which each season displays to the discerning eye. numberless worlds are around us, all framed by the same divine artist, which roll through the vast expanse, and are all conducted by the same unerring law of nature. maine masonic text book fi

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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 concave hollow underworld of seven zones; realm of the ghost world; and g is the nadir or root. in it are the waters of life and the throne of chaos and below it are 21 hells. plate 3: the chaldean and hebrew cosmos secret wisdom of the qabalah page 27 isaac myer finds a remarkable similarit

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exclusively to the romish christian church, but, on the contrary, that it constitutes the most remote idea of a creator extant. as has been hinted, there is little doubt that the earliest worship of the woman and child was much simpler than was that which came to prevail in later ages, at a time when every religious conception was closely veiled beneath a mixture of astrology and mythology. after the planets came to be regarded as active agencies in reproduction, and powerful in directing all mundane affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to

the so-called ancients, although at all times founded on the same conception, viz, that of the reproductive powers of nature and especially of mankind, differed in expression according to its application. although in human beings this triune creative idea was expressed by the mother, father, and child, as set forth in the temples and on the monuments of egypt, when applied directly to the sun and the planets, it appears as the creator, preserver, and regenerator or destroyer. destruction, or the absence of the sun's heat, represented by winter, was necessary to life, and therefore the destroyer was also the regenerator and equally with the creator and preserver constituted a beneficent factor in the god-idea. in fact as this third element really embodied the substance of the other two, it

t that they could see a faint glimmering. indeed, i think i may say something more than a faint glimmering. for all the really valuable moral and philosophical doctrines we possess, dutens has shown to have existed there" from what is known relative to the speculations of an ancient race, the fact is observed that creation was but a re-formation of matter. wisdom, or minerva, formed the earth and the planets; she did not create the heavens and the earth, as did the later jewish god. of the seven principles of the universe, matter was the first, and of the seven principles of man, the physical body was the earliest. through evolutionary processes, or through cyclic periods involving millions of years, mind was developed, and in course of time spirit was finally manifested. mai, the mother o

period with which the 600-year period and the 6000-year period would terminate and form a cycle. every 432,000 years the three periods would commence anew; thus the three formed a year or cycle, 72 times 6000 making 432,000, and 720 times 600 making 432,000"[63 [63] higgins, anacalypsis, p. 235. to form a great year, which would include all the cyclical motions of the sun and moon, and perhaps of the planets, they multiplied 432,000 by ten; thus they had ten periods answering to ten signs. concerning these cycles godfrey higgins observes "persons of narrow minds will be astonished at such monstrous cycles; but it is very certain that no period could properly be called the great year unless it embraced in its cycle every periodical movement or apparent aberration. but their vulgar wonder wi

he circumference of our globe with so much exactness that their calculation only differed by a few feet from that made by our modern geometricians--who held that the moon and the other planets were worlds like our own, and that the moon was diversified by mountains and valleys and seas--who asserted that there was yet a planet which revolved round the sun, beyond the orbit of saturn--who reckoned the planets to be sixteen in number--and who reckoned the length of the tropical year within three minutes of the true time; nor, indeed, were they wrong at all, if a tradition mentioned by plutarch be correct"[64 [64] drummond, on the zodiacs, p. 36. bailly, sir w. jones, higgins, and ledwich, as well as many modern writers, agree in the conclusion that the indians, the egyptians, the assyrians

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on such a belief. in the firstorderthat progress was by meansofexaminations into the student's divinatory ability and knowledgeofthe kabba255 lah,butthey didnotrequire much intellectual power. aleister crowley was disappointed when he received his first knowledge lecture:'andnow i was entrusted with someofthese devastating though priceless secrets.theyconsisted of thehebrewalphabet, the names of the planets with their attribution to the daysofthe week, and the ten sephirothofthe cabbala. i had known it all for months; and, obviously, any schoolboy in the lower fourth could memorize the whole lecture in twenty-fourhours."therewas,ofcourse, more to it than that.thehebrew60thegoldendawn.kabbalah was seen in the. golden dawn not so much as it originally was, a mystical interpretation of the b

e vault asitexisted on the astral plane. meakin was fortunate, for after a fourteen-hour preparation his initiation took only three hours, whereas it should have taken twenty-six. he was also taught a great deal of occult lore; on his return to england he showed waite a series of tarot cards he had made in accordance with the german order's attributions, which were derived from magical squares of the planets. waite could identify only three and was unimpressed. nor was brodie-innes impressed with felkin's junketings around the continent. he had returned in1910to mathers' fold by joiningdrberridge (resurgam) in his isis temple of alpha and omega in west london while yet remaining in the stella matutina (felkin learned of this duplicity from waite).themove may have come about from a revived

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an author: so much more easy is destructive criticism, than the acquirement of real knowledge. let us take a rapid glance at the extant literature on our subject. by common consent the oldest treatise is thesepheryetzirah,or 'book of formation, attributed to abraham the patriach. this is a most curious philosophical scheme of creation, drawing a parallel between the origin of the world, the sun, the planets, the elements, seasons and man, and the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, dividing them into a triad, a heptad and a dodecad: three mother letters a, m, and sh, referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters referred to the planets and the seven-fold division of time, etc, and the twelve simple letters referred to the months, zodiacal signs, and human organs. m

onceptions of the kabalah is that spiritual wisdom is attained by thirty-two paths, typified by the numbers and the twenty-two letters: these again being symbols of the divine emanations, the sephiroth, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea, of the great sea, the mothersupernal-binah: and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolized by the three primary elements, the planets, and the zodiacal influences of the heavens which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in annual course. now, to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine

ancient persians there was an idea that each man had five angel guards; the first at his right hand to write his good actions, a second at his left hand to record his sins, a third before him to show the correct path, a fourth behind him to ward off the attacks of evil powers, and the fifth before his face to sustain his aspirations.thesiamese recognize seven orders of angels, they are related to the planets and have guardian powers over cities and men.theusual hebrew word for angels ismelakim, as it is found in genesis xvi. 7, and xxii. 11, 12.thebible also refers to two classes of angels, the cherubim and the seraphim, the former acting especially as sentinels and guardians, and the latter, of winged human forms notable for reverence, humility and obedience and swiftness of action. micha

realms above, and the creative and mother divine forces holding sway in this particular terra, our world. the essence of fire is developed in us through sol, or fire, luna, or water, wind, or air, and is as if nourished in our earth. its forces pulsate with attraction and repulsion, they ascend and they descend, even as we see in an analogous manner the sun of our universe holds by attraction all the planets in their courses, and yet maintains an adequate repulsion between it and them at the due distances from itself, and so saves them from annihilation in its central fire. in alchemic language again we find the terms of the four255 fold scheme; salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth, and azot again is a summary of the types of opposition, the firsts and the lasts in greek, roman and hebrew let

tific investigations, while others have no doubt fallen into neglect and condemnation. many of the early discoveries in chemistry were made by the alchemists, who spent their lives in experimental researches designed to discover an elixir of life, and a mode of producing gold from other metals of less importance. our modern scientific astronomy has sprung from the very ancient observa255 tions of the planets and the hosts of glittering stars which the sages of chaldea in their researches into astronomy carried out and recorded.themagical arts of olden time were drawn from experiments in natural philosophy, and from these early attempts at using the rarer forces of nature and the undeveloped faculties of man have come the studies of electricity, of magnetism and the discovery of the supra-n

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4. one great. distinction between alchemic and chemical processes is that alchemy employs a gradual heat continually and carefully increased. chemistry uses a more violent heat and quick process. s. fromaqabalistic pointofview, the whole alchemic process may be said to consist in the purging and purifying of malkuth. 6. in the formation of planetary talismans the astrologic position and power of the planets signifying the matter should be considered, well-dignified and aspected for good;ill-theazoth lecture 31m.dignified and aspected for evil. 7.rhain,thenegative,c'j'lorhainsoph,the limitless"'hcjloamsophaur,the limitlesslightare the three veils of the negative existence depending back from kether.8.arikhanpin,that is macroprosopus, or the vast faceor.countenance is a titleofkether.itis c

number, the number of the letter, tau, the cross, the universe, the completion of all things. and 400 is the square of the number 10 multiplied by 4, the number of the letters of tetragrammaton. 20. these are the seven angels ruling the seven planets under the seven archangels thereof: h cassiel.zl sachiel,r3zamael,oanael,raphael) gabriel.34 the sorcererand his apprentice21. the seven heavens of the planets are:hghareboth,2!.zebol,r3makon, 0sagun,raquie) shamain2.2.theintelligences of the seven planets are:2!.yophiel, cfgraphiel, 0 nakhiel,hagiel, beni seraphim, and ki267ha-seraphim,tiriel, jmalkah-be-tharsisim, ve255 ed: ruachoth,schechalim,23.thespirits of the seven planetsare;hzazel,2!.hismaelij.,r3bartzabel,s,0.sorath.te,tharethor,225.:dchasmodai s and shedbarshemoth .shartathan. 24

yophiel, cfgraphiel, 0 nakhiel,hagiel, beni seraphim, and ki267ha-seraphim,tiriel, jmalkah-be-tharsisim, ve255 ed: ruachoth,schechalim,23.thespirits of the seven planetsare;hzazel,2!.hismaelij.,r3bartzabel,s,0.sorath.te,tharethor,225.:dchasmodai s and shedbarshemoth .shartathan. 24. the seals and names .of'the intelligences should be used onalltalismans for a good effect. those of the. spirits of the planets serve for evil, and should not be employed in any operation for a beneficent end. these latter are subject to the' former;andwhen it is absolutely necessary to employ them, the seals and names of the intelligences.shouldbeinscribed as well. 25.thehebrew names, of the four elements.t>.asch. or esch6,ruachm'm;'v.ophir or.\lmaim267 or26..thehebrew names of thefourcardinal points. east- me

ed cards of each suit; the four suits are the four worlds; the sixteen" cards are the fourfold tetragrammaton; the twenty and two letters are the twenty andtwo**atus or mansions of thoth. the twenty-two letters are divided into three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simples; three elements, seven planets, twelve signs. so is it also with the twenty-two atus. therein are the elements, therein are the planets, therein are the signs; for the book of thoth is the universe, and the universe is the veil of god. learn then, 0 practicus, to know the universe, learn also to know thyself, seek in the manifest for the divine one, and when thou hast found him, veil thine eyesinadoration. behold the true*the four honoursineach suit**this word atusisthen the derivation of the french words atous or atou

ers who have brought an ancient science into somewhat undeserved disrepute,butto the profound knowledge possessed by the chaldeans of old, and still accessible to the diligent student. the importance of this knowledge can hardly be overesti255 mated for our own progress and development, and to this again the familiar knowledge of the alphabet is essential. the symbols of the zodiacal signs and of the planets must be so perfectly known as to become instinctive, and the elementary terms of the science of astrology. the third important subject of the first beginning is the hebrew alphabet. the great jewish system of occultism known as the cabalah has survived and been proved for thousands of years.itis not necessary for the student in the early grades of our order to acquire any knowledge of

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s, the archons, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation..the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounding by the eighth that of the fixed stars. the gnostic handbook page 51 the religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from god, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. thus the vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which ma

ed as a initiatory structure. the pyramid was identified with the sanctuary of the sun and embodied ra, the solar logos. the rites undertaken in the chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies of the logos and hence accelerated the positive current and sublimated or transformed the negative. the sun like the planets and zodiac was a doorway between the spiritual and physical worlds and hence emanated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body and traveled through the heavens. he journeyed through the realms of the planets and zodiac using passwords, gestures and codes, only after successfully passing the spheres could he then na

wn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating the forces only for those linked to the order and hence joined to its group mind. as we head further into the kali yuga it is the individuals task to use and transform the heavenly energies within him or herself. it is important to realize that energies the zodiac like those of the planets are ambivalent, they receive and relay forces of both positive and negative nattier. in a more medieval context, they are said to possess both spirits and intelligences. the gnostic tradition has always been unsure of astrology and see the heavenly forces as energies which must be reckoned with, not gods to be worshipped. the present change of cycle is that movement from pisces to aqua

hat it entails. within the modern esoteric traditions this battle is posited in terms of a force called the" dweller on the threshold. the dweller guards the crossroad between the world of the archons and the treasury of light and as the gnostic approaches this doorway attacks him without mercy, only those truly on the path survive. some gnostic systems image this process as a cosmic trek through the planets where at each planet the soul needs special passwords and gestures to gain" right of passage. for others this battle is seen in terms of an internal quest. for st.john of the cross this process was part of the ascent of mount carmel where the soul would meet its maker. along the way the soul experiences torments and immense pain as it is purified and prepared for the divine marriage wi

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ulers, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world physical itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation. the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounding by the eighth that of the fixed stars. the religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from god, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. thus the vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man is removed from god..the ar

th and the stars represent gnosis or divine wisdom. after the great luminaries have been kindled and place in the internal man, and the external receives light from them, then the man first begins to live. arcana celestia, emanuel swedenborg (ac 39. from the chakric perspective this day is that of the heart. the centre from which divine love, faith and wisdom flow. it is green for in its imagery, the planets bring about the development of all life. the fifth day fish and birds appear. these reflect the facets of the mind that are rejuvenated and reborn through transfiguration. the fish represent the creatures that swim in the water- that is those things which exist within the ebb and flow of the unconscious. the imagery of birds and flight illustrates the way in which the mind can now reac

r the treasury. in the hermetic tradition, saturn (binah) is seen as the guardian of the abyss. after the soul has left earth it must venture through the seven planets, however only with correct passwords and codes can it pass each obstacle. when it confronts saturn the soul is truly tested, only if it is of the light kingdom will it be allowed to pass. if it fails, the soul plummets back through the planets and returns again to earth. since in many traditions saturn is also the demiurge, we can see a dual nature. saturn as guardian (in the static kingdom) and the dark half of saturn, existing below the abyss as the demiurge. the abyss is both a doorway and a seal, it tests and also destroys. the twenty two paths each of the ten sephira is connected to the others by a sequence of paths. wh

ah. aralism. thrones. chesed. chashmalim. shining ones. geburah. seraphim. fiery serpents. tiphareth. malachim. kings. netzach. elohim. the gods. hod. ben elohim. sons of the gods. yesod. cherubim. strong ones. malkuth. ishim. sons of fire. assiah: the lower world the world of matter is where things become solid, they manifest. attributions in this world can vary greatly, traditionally, there are the planets. but we have more than simply their physical manifestation. while assiah is matter it also cross-over into the lower reaches of the astral as the veil or paroketh is not as strong as the abyss. accordingly, each planet has a related angel, intelligence and spirit, in some sense the angel is from yetzirah while the intelligence and spirit is attributed to assiah. gnostic theurgy page 98

it entails. within the modern esoteric traditions this battle is posited in terms of a force called the "dweller on the threshold. the dweller guards the crossroad between the world of the archons and the treasury of light and as the gnostic approaches this doorway attacks him without mercy, only those truly on the path survive. some gnostic systems consider this process as a cosmic trek through the planets, where at each planet the soul needs special passwords and gestures to gain a "rite of passage. for others, this battle is seen in terms of an internal quest. for st.john of the cross, this process was part of the ascent of mount carmel, where the soul would meet its maker. along the way the soul experiences torments and immense pain, as it is purified and prepared for the divine marri

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overns 36 legions of spirits. 7 oriax oriax/orias is the fifty-ninth spirit who is a great marquis. he appears in the form of a lion-beast, who rides upon a large horse with a serpent s tail. he holds in his right hand two large serpents who hiss. he teaches the virtues of stars and how one may contact the shades of the dead through the fascination of the stars. oriax instructs on the mansions of the planets, and how one may hold common knowledgeable associations with them, such as identifying their meanings and associations. he transforms the dreaming body of the sorcerer and grants the favor of friends. oriax governs 30 legions of spirits. 66 8 vapula vapula/naphula is the sixtieth spirit who is a mighty duke. he appears in the form of a lion with wings, and inspires the knowledge of han

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. take note of the following example: i l when tracing a symbol, commence in the left-hand position and follow the direction of the a. 11 when invoking the forces of the zodiac, make certain to erect an astrological scheme of the heavens for the time of working so that the adept will know what quarter or direction to face. the use of an ephemeris can be invaluable for this task. when working with the planets and in stubborn zodiacal cases, it may be more effective to use the hexagram ritual. the pentagram, when performed effectively, unites a force, a current, a color and a sound. each angle of the pentagram is assigned certain hebrew divine names from the angelic tablets. this can be seen in the expanded diagram at the beginning of this lesson. these divine names must be vibrated with the

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riangle begin with: for the second triangle begin with: saturn l luna y jupiter k mercury b mars f venus c venus c mars f mercury b jupiter k luna y saturn l note: l takes the place of the tud on the tree. a and the supernals are treated differently. method of invoking or banishing a the sun is treated in a different manner. when thou wishes to invoke the sun, all of the six invoking hexagrams of the planets must be traced in their regular planetary order. the symbol of a shall be traced in the center. for banishing a draw the banishing hexagrams of each planet in the regular order (not reverse order, and trace the symbol of a therein (see diagrams on pages 12 and 13) special consideration when invoking 5 the primary method of invoking and banishing 5 is the same with some important consid

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order or non-members. the lamen is a complete synthesis of the masculine or what we refer to as the positive rainbow scale of colors. the scale of colors employed is the king scale. the cross is divided into four parts. each arm of the cross belongs to one of the four elements. top m bottom l right n left o the white portion of the cross belongs to, the ruach ha kadosh (the holy spirit, and unto the planets. there are twenty-two petals on the rose. the twenty-two petals relate to the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the twenty-two petals sit on the cross in trapt. trapt is the receptacle of the forces of the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the center of the rose is white and this looks no more than just a small dot. it is the reflected spiritual brightness

center of rtk is the red rose of five petals and the golden cross of six squares with four brightly painted green rays projecting out at the angels of the cross. thus, we have our order, the rosea rubea et aurea crucis. combined together, they are the symbols of the "receiving force" just below the rose and above the bottom l arm is a white section. on it is placed a hexagram with the symbols of the planets. they are placed in the order of the supreme ritual of the hexagram. each arm has an appropriate colored pentagram on it. at the apex of the pentagram is drawn the symbol of, followed by the four kerubic symbols on the lower arms. these are in the order as in the supreme ritual of the pentagram. on each of the floriated ends of the crop are the three alchemical principles. they are in

les refers to the analysis of the keyword. remember, it is through the analysis of the keyword that our sacred vault is opened. next we have the twelve signs of the zodiac on the twelve petals. they follow the standard order: uppermost h a w b z c j d f e y f 4 lowermost l g n h s i u j x k q l the seven double letters located in the middle row under the outer circle of the zodiac are allotted to the planets. they are listed in order of exaltation. these are as follows: 1. p 2. r 3. b 4. d 5. g 6. t 7. k please note that t and k are incorrect in regardie's, the golden dawn. the inner three petals allude to the three mother letters. these relate to the three elements of m (a, o (c, n (m. notice that o and n are counter changed with m as the reconciler. this gaurantees that the forces of the

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odiac between the light and the darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the development of creation" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second adept "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tav cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief adept "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated forces of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded" third a

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he following rule when attributing the letter of the tetragrammaton to the servient squares: the columns (reading from above downward) follow the identical order of the kerubic square above. this order is followed downward for the ranks. thou shall read from right to left. consider the following illustrations from the a lesser angle of the air tablet. kerubic rank w h y h h* y* h* w* the order of the planets as applied to the decanates (squares) follow the order of the tree of life beginning with yafbc and ending with hnbl. book t provides us with the 36 small cards of the tarot and their attributions to the decanates of the 12 signs. following is the illustrational diagram of all four great crosses, with the appropriate attributions of the zodiacal, planet, and related tarot attribution

3 squares or block. here be the rules governing the attributions of the 12 signs to the great cross: kerubics to the linea spiritus sancti cardinals to the linea dei patris mutables to the linea dei fellique thou shall not confuse the cross of ten squares as illustrated in the admission badge of the 27th path of p, as taught in the 4= 7 grade of philosophus. thou shall note that the assignment of the planets to the sephirotic cross is quite different. thou shall also note that the system employed is constant and applies to all of the sixteen sephirotic crosses on the four elemental tablets. 19 attribution: k and tarot key 10, wheel of fortune is attributed to rtk. title of card: lord of the forces of life. rtk is the source of all life. b and tarot key 1, the magician is attributed to hmkh

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. 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, and princess. hm as an

nge-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 orange k jupiter a# violet venus e yellow l saturn a indigo f green-yelatconsecration ceremony for a venus talisman r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the magus should be garbed in

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM8

the a and 5 over the four elements. all of these are united in as they come together. there is some information about the unicursal hexagram in various books which will be covered in higher grades for those of you who would wish to pursue this hexagram and its workings. in regards to the traditional hexagram, which is often times called the star of david or jewish star. it represents the force of the planets acting through the various signs of the zodiac. this is very powerful and effective in sealing the astral image of nature under the presidency of the sephiroth, as well as the seven palaces. the hexagram is especially attributed to a. this symbol is one of great power and of great strength. in it are both the combination of the pentagram and the cross, thus, forming a very potent and p

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ng la venta. due north, off a slip-road from the freeway, this sodium-lit petroleum city glowed in the dark like a vision of nuclear disaster. since the 1940s it had been extensively developed by the oil industry: an airstrip now bisected the site where a most unusual pyramid had once stood, and flaring smokestacks darkened the sky which olmec star-gazers must once have searched for the rising of the planets. lamentably, the bulldozers of the developers had flattened virtually everything of interest before proper excavations could be conducted, with the result that many of the ancient structures had not been explored at all.8 we will never know what they could have said about the people who built and used them. matthew stirling, who excavated tres zapotes, carried out the bulk of the archa

ong the first europeans to visit china had the opportunity in the imperial library to study a vast work, consisting of 4320 volumes, said to have been handed down from ancient times and to contain all knowledge. this great book included a number of traditions which told of the consequences that followed when mankind rebelled against the high gods and the system of the universe fell into disorder: the planets altered their courses. the sky sank lower towards the north. the sun, moon and stars changed their motions. the earth fell to pieces and the waters in its bosom rushed upwards with violence and overflowed the earth. 26 in the malaysian tropical forest the chewong people believe that every so often their own world, which they call earth seven, turns upside down so that everything is flo

and central america, p. 41. 13 maya history and religion, p. 333. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 200 the reader may recall that many deluge and catastrophe myths contain references not only to the onset of a great darkness but to other changes in the appearance of the heavens. in tierra del fuego, for instance, it was said that the sun and the moon fell from the sky 14 and in china that the planets altered their courses. the sun, moon and stars changed their motions. 15 the incas believed that in ancient times the andes were split apart when the sky made war on the earth. 16 the tarahumara of northern mexico have preserved world destruction legends based on a change in the sun s path.17 an african myth from the lower congo states that long ago the sun met the moon and threw mud a

mexico and central america, p. 79. 18 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 481. 19 the mythology of all races, cooper square publishers inc, new york, 1964, volume x, p. 222. 20 see particularly the writings of hyginus, cited in paradise found, p. 195. see also the gods of the greeks, p. 195. 21 the illustrated guide to classical mythology, p. 15-17. 22 the iranian bundahish tells us that the planets ran against the sky and created confusion in the entire cosmos. 23 the illustrated guide to classical mythology, p. 17. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 201 of chile say quite explicitly that the flood was the result of volcanic eruptions accompanied by violent earthquakes. 24 the mam maya of santiago chimaltenango in the western highlands of guatemala retain memories of a flood

inner circles of which the earth is held captive, is now known to extend more than fifteen trillion miles into space, almost halfway to the nearest star.5 its pull upon our planet is therefore immense. also affecting us is the gravity of the other planets with which we share the solar system. each of these exerts an attraction which tends to draw the earth out of its regular orbit around the sun. the planets are of different sizes, however, and revolve around the sun at different speeds. the combined gravitational influence they are able to exert thus changes over time in complex but predictable ways, and the orbit changes its shape constantly in response. since the orbit is an ellipse these changes affect its degree of elongation, known technically as its eccentricity. this varies from a

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

e shown below is suitable to evoke any averse force from 9 this method was apparently rediscovered by "poke" runyon of the ordo templi astarte. 7 the tree of life. the outer ring contains the divine names that correspond to the signs of the zodiac in the same arrangement in which they appear on the rose cross lamen and in the correct colors. the second ring contains the divine names attributed to the planets and to the corresponding sephiroth in the order of the vault of the adepti's planetary walls. the inner ring contains the names of the archangels of the elements as well as the divine names of the sephiroth that are the root of each element. thus the magic circle contains all the divine names in balanced disposition attributed to the sephiroth, zodiac, planets, and elements. the magic

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

diut. 1, 526b and gl. doc. 249; os. himiltungal, hel. 18, 2; as. heofontungol, rodortungol; on. himintungl. even the simple tungol has the same sense in as, and a gothic gloss on gal. 4, 3, gives tuggl astrum/ whilst in on. tungl means the moon. this neuter noun tungal, tungol, tungl, is no doubt from tunga (lingua, which word itself appears in ohg. himilzunga (graff 5, 682: the moon and some of the planets, when partially illuminated, do present the appearance of a tongue or a sickle, and very likely some cosmogonic belief 1 was engrafted on that; i know of nothing like it in other languages. all the heavenly bodies have particular spots, seats, chairs assigned them, which they make their abode and resting-place; they have their lodges and stages (sterrono girusti, 0. i. 17, 10. this-1 h

heir very names are almost all supplanted by* ms. n. reads subere sich. even ohg. has furban (mundare, expiare. 2 so with the greeks (reinh. fuchs p. ixxii. in a poem of beranger: mou enfant, un mortel expire, son etoile tombe a i instant. shooting stab. comet. planet. 723 learned astronomic appellations; only a few have managed to save themselves in on. legend or among the common people. whether the planets were named after the great gods, we cannot tell: there is no trace of it to be found even in the north. planet-names for days of the week seem to have been imported, though very early, from abroad (p. 126 seq) other reasons apart, it is hardly conceivable that the heathen, who honoured certain fixed stars with names of their own, should not have distinguished and named the travelling s

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

limitations of the body and where the subconscious mind of man functions at times independent of the objective. astrology.an ancient system, partially scientific in its application, based upon close observation of the coincidence of human characteristics with the date and hour of birth. time and careful analysis have proven the coincidences to be based upon fundamental laws regardless of whether the planets have any effect upon birth or upon the nature of man after birth. only the fanatical extremist makes. or believes. the claim that we are ruled by planets. it is advisable that all be acquainted with the history of astrology out of which arose the science of astronomy.[163] aten.a name for the symbol of the "sole everliving god" made understandable by akhnaton after he established a mon

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

in. i had mistaken the appearance of the spirits that came to me upon earth.1had given myself up to their guidance without inquiring to what order they belonged, and i found whenitwas too late that i had been encouraging and communing with the planetary spirits, and not with those who can direct and counsel to their home. i believed from the information i received from those that visited me that the planets were the abode of men after death, that they formed the different degrees and modes of happiness, that some were evil and some good, and that the greatest felicity was enjoyed by those who were allowed to enter the sun. they never said one word to me of the spheres.1did not know that there was a short and direct mode by which1could obtain truth and profit by it everlastingly.1know now

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

famous ionian philosopher, who lived 500 bc, studied philosophy under anaximenes of miletus, and settled in the days of pericles, at athens. socrates, euripides, archelaus, and other distinguished men and philosophers were among his disciples and pupils. he was a most learned astronomer, and was one of the first to explain openly that which was taught by pythagoras secretly-viz, the movements of the planets, the eclipses of the sun and moon, etc. it was he who taught the theory of chaos, on the principle that "nothing comes from nothing" ex nihilo nihil fit-and of atoms, as the underlying essence and substance of all bodies "of the same nature as the bodies which they formed" these atoms, he taught, were primarily put in page 143 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt motion by nous (univ

he kama-manas, still overshadowed by buddhi-manas. plane from the latin planus (level, flat, an extension of space, whether in the physical or metaphysical sense. in occultism, the range or extent of some state of consciousness, or the state of matter corresponding to the perceptive powers of a particular set of senses or the action of a particular force. planetary spirits rulers and governors of the planets. planetary gods. plastic used in occultism in reference to the nature and essence of the astral body, or the "protean soul (see "plastic soul" in the theosophical glossary) pleroma "fullness" a gnostic term used also by st. paul. divine world or the abode of gods. universal space divided into metaphysical aeons. plotinus a distinguished platonic philosopher of the third century, a grea

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

le attraction, she can also break the spell and get rid of the old lover to make way for the new. you must call on nai-no-kami, the japanese god of earthquakes. begin on the third tuesday of the month, and at 9 p.m. enter into a quiet area; the only light must be the flame from one large, black candle. ring a clear bell three times, and on parchment paper draw the symbol for the sun, the moon and the planets (see fig. 1. figure 1 stain the parchment with eight juicy seeds of a pomegranate, then completely burn the parchment in the flame. take the ashes and touch them to your forehead. remain gazing quietly at the flame a full three minutes, then shout out, as loudly as you can, his name: nai-no-kami! make up nine small packets, putting in each one some of the ashes from the parchment, thre

ant to establish control over things, as witches do, it is natural that we explore the relation between us and the numbers that mean something to our lives. we are not ruled by numbers, although sometimes it might seem so. the force of the moon, the astronomical arithmetic by which we count off our months, affects the tides. all our days are numbered by a calendar that is attuned to the motion of the planets and the forces of the universe. a woman in her menstrual cycle counts the days. the blood that flows in our veins resembles the structure of the salt water that flows in oceans, oceans governed by the moon, oceans from which, evolution says, we ourselves originated. each colour we see has its own vibratory number-value. the number of vibrations determines what colour registers in the b

er life she is what she is. as a star elizabeth taylor burton vibrates to the number eight. we know to begin with that elizabeth taylor vibrated to the number eight, so being mrs burton has allowed her to be elizabeth taylor, and if there's anything to numerology at all, she has become herself with this last marriage. the planetary patterns coincide with particular events. not necessarily because the planets themselves influence us, but possibly due to mathematical cycles evolving into particular events. for instance, uranus takes about eighty-four years to go around the sun, which means we are dealing with a mathematical influence rather than a planetary one- perhaps. there may be an influence that as yet has not been recognized, but the fact that an event takes place in the skies, coinci

n be a source of inspiration to the people around one; it's a shame so many people of that age are senile, because rather than being inspirational, they usually end up in a home. that's the large cycle during which they could inspire other people. you could chart yourself by the week, and you could find out what part of the week or month you were vibrating to mars or jupiter. you see, inasmuch as the planets aren't really doing anything to us, they're useful in mapping out life patterns. if you go to a dance where there's continuous music, it doesn't matter at which point you arrive. your time at that dance begins when you put your foot on the floor and take up the beat. everybody's got the beat, and you're all dancing. you can pick up the numerical beat by establishing the day you want to

rsons who have been very successful. you obviously went to some astrologer and paid him to figure out what the planetary positions were at the time of your birth, and what these positions might mean by way of influence- what the conditions were. the planetary pattern indicated a period when you [could] meet men successfully, but only if you got out of the back room and into the sunshine outdoors! the planets won't shove him through the door. if you were looking for a man and a burst of creative energy at that time, you shouldn't have just sat back and waited on the skies. you can't blame a chart for not making your life happen. positive action through witchcraft would be better, but even this requires you to act. dear louise: i'm not complaining, but it has been a very, very lonely life. i

ISIS UNVEILED

he seventh in the twenty-third chapter of i kings. the dance performed by david romid the ark was the 'circle-dance' said to have been pr^cribed by the amazons for the mysteries. such was the dance of the daughters of shiloh judges, zxi, 21, 23 et patsim, and the leaping of the prophets of baal 1 kings, xviii, 26. it was simply a characteristic of the sabaean worship, for it denoted the motion of the planets romid the sun. that the dance was a bacchic frenzy is apparent. sistra were used on the occasion, and the taunt of michal and the king's reply are very expressive "the king of israel uncovered him- self before his maid-aervants as one of the coin [or debauched] fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself" and he retorts "i will play [act wantonly] before niit, and i will be yet more vile tj

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

can bring that knowledge and experience to bear upon the geomantic reading, the more the primary simple reading can be extended. what is perhaps more 8 a practical guide to geomantic divination important than most is an elementary knowledge of the basic principles of astrology. one does not need a profound working knowledge of astrology. but if there is some familiarity with the basic meanings of the planets, signs and houses, the mechanisms of geomancy become relatively easier to apply and understand. the rationale of divination is admittedly obscure. a large tome could readily be written describing some of the ancient theories. this is not the place however to embark upon so ambitious an undertaking. a few lines of simple interpretation selected from the writings of aleister crowley and

hammer away at these basic facts; they have been too well and too long established. it should become apparent then that the mechanisms of preparing the geomantic symbols to be used for the divination are almost completely under the control of these unconscious factors. we may assume, by the same token, that they have personalities of their own which, in geomancy, are called the governing genii of the planets operating through the element of earth. introduction 9 jung's definition of the collective unconscious, which is involved in these concepts, is so appropriate that i feel compelled to quote it at some length. in his book modern man in search of a soul, he wrote 'it (the unconscious) contains, besides an indeterminable number of subliminal perceptions, an immense fund of accumulated inh

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

f the biofield and bliss series, a major grid station, our sun is the sustainer and feeder of life. it is the doorway to dow power to connect our physical body with our lightbody. in our small speck of our galaxy, our sun accumulates energy from outside the solar system to feed itself, and after having refined what it has digested, it creates a pranic souptype of output which radiates out to feed the planets in our solar system. this includes of course the earth, from which we are nourished, directly by etheric absorption or by partaking of the earth s food chain. as to what proportion is absorbed ethereally by most people, the armenian seer and teacher, g. i. gurdjieff, said we obtain 70% of our energy from breathing, which he calls our first food. the sun derives its vitality by feeding

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ory, lord lytton, vol. i. p. 265. omnia ex uno, omnia in uno, omnia ad unum, omnia per medium, et omnia in omnibus (hermetic axiom. in the speculations of the gnostics, the astronomical points cancer and capricorn are called the gates of the sun. cancer, moreover, is-termed the "gate of man; capricorn is the gate of the gods. these are platonic views, as macrobius declares. with the influences of the planets, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars governs the irascible principle, the sun produces sensation and speculation, venus inspires the appetites, mercury bestows the power of declaring and expressing, and the moon confers the faculty of generating and augmenting the body. the egyptian winged disc is a symbol of tat, taut, or thoth (plutarch, de iside et

e of h breu primitif; formation des lettres, ou chiffres, signes du zodiaque et racines hebraiques, avec leurs derives dans les langues de l orient et de l europe, par ad. lethierry-barrois. ptha is the emblem of the eternal spirit from which everything is created. the egyptians represented it as a pure ethereal fire which burns for ever, whose radiance is t 166 the rosicrucians. raised far above the planets and stars. in early ages the egyptians worshipped this highest being under the name of athor. he was the lord of the universe. the greeks transformed athor into venus, who was looked upon by them in the same light as athor (apuleius, cicero, ovid; ptolem us, in tetrabibla; proclus; ennemoser, vol. i. p. 268, trans, by howitt. among the egyptians, athor also signified the night (hesiod

ls, by means of which came speech to man, when the new being, man (this is cabalistic again, and therefore difficult of comprehension, opened his mouth and spake. the seven strings of the irish harp, it will be remembered, are blazoned luna, or the moon the feminine moon according to the practice of the old heralds, in regard to all royal or ruling achievements, which are blazoned by the names of the planets. the seven strings of the irish harp mean also the seven pure tones in music; these, again, stand for the seven prismatic colours; which, again, describe the seven vowels; and these, again, represent their seven rulers, or the seven planets, which have their seven spirits, or celestial flames, which are the seven angels or spirits of god, who keep the way round about the throne of the

xpression, fly in the face of. may is also forbidden for marriages, although it days. the hermetic brethren had certain rules that they observed in relation to this view of the power of precious stones to bring good or bad fortune through the planetary affinities of certain days, because they imagined that the various gems, equally as gold and silver, were produced through the chemic operation of the planets, working secretly in the telluric body. they thought that gold and silver, and all the gems, had but one foundation in nature, and were simply augmented, purified, and perfected through the operation of the hermetic or magnetic light invisible and unattainable under ordinary circumstances, and unknown, except to the alchemists. all yellow gems, and gold, are appropriate to be worn on s

ly grand (in the worldly and mortal sense, apostate constructions of the magnificent mammon, lord of the treasures of this world, for which men offer themselves willing victims even to him, king of the visible, whose semblance is that of the most brilliant yellow element fire or, golden flame, the flower of the fire. the alchemists maintain that the metals are produced in the secret operations of the planets, that grow them daily in the bowels of the earth; that the sun and moon, red and white, fire and water, light and darkness, male and female, night and day, are active in the generation of the precious metals, of which gold is due wholly to the invisible operation of the sun and moon, and silver is referable to the whitening or bleaching lucidity of the moon; that gold is produced quick

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

e discovered pattern and form. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. all men of renown had two things, courage& conviction, often so much that they were ridiculed. this man opens& invites same merely by saying what his observations, records& data have shown him, whatcannot be escaped. there are, of course, such men who like the one that would not permit himself to view the planets circling the sun lest it interfere with his religious "dogmas of the day" an example of the way such things develop is our experience in classifying falling objects. our first thought was that this was a minor field which could be disposed of with a casual perusal. not so. it soon developed, as the pattern began to evolve, that we could not coordinate these onslaughts from the sky, nor

of the central bodies, and in so doing the nodes become closer and closer together so that there may be many of them at short distances from the parent body. thus, if the law or its derivatives have significance, there could be a number of these orbital nodes between the moon and the surface of the earth. we can therefore, take it as highly probable that there are many zones of convenience around the planets, as well as around the sun, which are presently unoccupied by planets or satellites of any considerable size and which may well be used by enlightened space dwellers. such zones, if they exist, are in addition to the demonstrable earth-sun-moon neutral. since this system of nodes appears to be some function of the radius of the attracting body, it may be that there is a complete series

gently directed, or that it actually caused the odd phenomena in our own neighborhood, would be presumptuous. but that a common state of disturbance existed both here and there cannot be denied. the great ark. to have seen "the great ark" would humble or terrify any human. i wish, even so, that i could have seen it, the greatest structure ever built, by humanoids, or all time. jupiter, largest of the planets, fifth from the sun, is bright and easy to observe with small telescopes, hence it has been a continuos subject for amateur astronomical research. the literature is full of their reports. jupiter has about a dozen satellites big enough to be seen from the earth, and some are comparable to our moon in size. these, together with their 88,000-mile diameter parent, make up a complex system

g more rapidly over the sun than venus moves when in transit. it disappeared before sunset and seemed to be of either cometary or planetary appearance. this is a well attested instance of observation by two men who were sober and reliable. 140 gruituisen saw two bodies cross the sun together on july 26, 1819. there are a goodly number of sightings which report two objects traveling together, e.g, the planets seen by watson and swift during the eclipse of july 29, 1878. a circular, well-defined spot, with a circular atmosphere and orange-gold tint, not seen again the same evening, is reported by two independent observers: stark and steinbuhl. it crossed the sun in about five hours. february 12, 1820. on july 31, 1826, stark saw a round spot on the northwest border of the sun at 4:45 pm whic

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

out constellations and planets have reached our days. planets had an important place in babylonian astral religion, they were observed as much for calendrical as astrological purposes, and the qualities of the planetary gods were carried on to greek and rome. the following started out as an attempt to compose a list of planets together with corresponding gods who lend their names and qualities to the planets. though it was easy to find such a list about greece and rome, texts concerning mesopotamia included miscellaneous facts subdivided into general categories only (e.g. pannekoek 1961. the reasons of this vagueness later became evident with the compiling of such a table starting to look like sisyphean work. as we aim to systematise the names of planets and their gods used in mesopotamia

ter, every planet could be connected to several gods; in table 3 are presented the strongest interconnections (based mainly on the akkadian material, because. except for the sun, the moon, and venus. we do not know about the state of matters in sumerian period; thus these three are also the only ones that have numerical counterparts in the assyrian tree of life. table 2. main gods of mesopotamia, the planets connected to them, and their portfolios by akkadian tradition. saturn is hard to interpret, as it is connected to ninurta, but this leads us through nabu straight to mercury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not seem to be very hard. sumerian nanna and akkadian sin are the moongod, utu or .ama. is the sungod without a hint of doubt. with the rest, however, there are

sperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (ninurta) nabu mercury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are translated as modern planet names: in the presence of the planets, jupiter, venus, saturn, mercury, mars, sirius, and in the presence of assur, anu, enlil, ea, sin, shamash, adad, marduk, nabu, nusku, urash, nergal, ninlil, ishtar of niniveh, ishtar of arbela i tar, by all the gods in [the cities of] assur, niniveh, kalah, arbela, kakzu, harran, by all the gods of assyria, by all t

the planetary gods and planets than we would have thought initially. the same is suggested by brown: gmuch is said about planets grepresenting h or gstanding for h gods or constellations. h the relations of planets with gods are intricate, and deserve a separate study and much more accurate terminology than we are currently used to (brown 2000: 54. the tangle is further increased by the fact that the planets with the strongest maleficent influence, like mercury, saturn, and mars, do not have always a strong, one-to-one relation to one god. e.g. saturn is connected to ninurta, who tends to be identified with nabu, who in turn is connected to mercury. we can also, starting from ninurta, reach the war god nergal who is connected to mars. akkadian astral terminology in cuneiform texts, any nam

in gossmann fs original writing. here, the determinative of stars ul and determinative of gods il are used. the month nisan lasted approximately from the middle of april to the middle of may. the first row is to be read as gin the month of nisan. lord of the bright dawn. god marduk h. other rows have to be interpreted analogously. venus venus, or i.tar, sister of the sun, is the only woman among the planets. as the brightest planet it has a special place; often moon, sun, and venus are treated as a triad. the two appearances of venus though acknowledged as the same planet were attributed to two different manifestations of the same god: as the morning star venus was female, as the evening star. male, and the two aspects corresponded to the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love a

KETAB E SIYAH

teed, would barely encircle its outmost wall. its highest spire looked down upon mountains, giant and high, yet low to my towers. the masonry of my exalted dominion was gilded all, and studded with precious jewels, of number and radiance to outshine the celestial arch. my will and word commanded authority greater than all, than any regent amongst man or angel. my word instructed, in their course, the planets of the sky. the sun, most radiant of the treasures of the sky, all-illumining and burning with golden flame, at my bidding would hide beneath the eastern horizon or flee to the horizon to the west. to speed or halt or turn back the sun was my prerogative and pleasure. my rod commanded also the silver moon, that lights night's shadow with virginal beams. i could make her wax or wane as

in his hand carved of a single ruby, huge and bright, and wore upon his head a crown that shone with all the light that was ever seen in the sky, the light of a thousand stars. thus spoke gabriel to that most majestic king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, be merciful upon this, your son; forgive my tongue that speaks such ill. i weep that i must speak these words to you, sullying t

ient hand, gazing with beseeching eyes filled with deceit and darkness, though that blind archon did not see the vice that burned like venom in those once bright and flawless orbs, and implored thus of the pristine king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, 17 king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, indeed i wish and pray most solemnly that i was in error and my brother innocent and not even yet does my alert and lucid mind b

ed with false adoration and the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, 22 all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, regard how this untrue son comes before you, seeking to deceive him who cannot be deceived, whose ear can detect all falsehood i

ven and earth, regardless of the quest's strenuity, none could find but an atom of complaint against this most worthy reign beneath which we serve according to our most nuclear desire. what could i speak against our father, almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, 25 that might be considered just by even the most unworthy ear? i bear no criticism at all to our infinitely worthy father for no criticism could ever be ju

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FOUR

trol the wasteful activities of his mind. let him contemplate the sun as thinly veiled in cloun iv- fourth knowledge lecture below are the geomantic figures and their zodiacal attributions! p puer& o puella@ v amissio* rubeus# albus( u acquisitio$ m populus) x carcer$ n via_ z tristitia% s fortuna major+ y laetitia% t fortuna minor q caput draconis^ w conjunctio r cauda draconis lineal figures of the planets below are the numbers and lineal figures of the planets: saturn 3 triangle jupiter 4 square mars 5 pentagram sun 6 hexagram venus 7 heptagram mercury 8 octagram moon 9 enneagram this topic is considerably elaborated in a very important document entitled polygons and polygrams. there are a number of drawings to illustrate each point made. the magical squares of the planets they are form

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

of the gateway who prevents his passage, and when all these are propitiated, the plea of the hall itself cries out against his steps, saying "because i am silent, because i am pure" and it must know that his aspirations are pure enough hand high enough for him to be allowed to tread upon it. he is then allowed to announce to thoth that he is clean from all evil, and has overcome the influence of the planets, and thoth says to him "who is he whose pylons are of flame, whose walls of living uraei, and the flames of whose house are streams of water" and the initiate replies "osiris" and it is immediately proclaimed "the meat shall be from the infinite, and thy drink from the infinite. thou art able to go forth to the sepulchral feasts on earth, for thou has overcome" thus, these two chapters

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are' lead! gold& tin$ copper or brass% iron# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence of heat and moisture the green l

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

astrology? a: in the wisdom of kabbalah, there is the matter of kabbalistic astrology, as well as kabbalistic geography and kabbalistic medicine. those topics deal with the connection between our universe and the systems in the collective universe, the broader one, which includes the upper world. if you re interested in learning why our world is built the way it is, including the earth and stars, the planets and the links among them, know that in actuality everything corresponds to the forces in the upper world. all the bodies and the forces in our world are but a consequence of the materialization of those upper forces. the reflection of the upper world in ours creates various fields called astronomy, astrology, psychology, medicine, etc. that is why the science in our world is to some ex

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

ly, eternally and happily. such a person identifies with his or her eternal soul, not with a transient body, considering the self as the soul, and the body as mere clothing. this transition from sympathizing with the body to sympathizing with the soul is a totally psychological transition and occurs to the extent that one acquires the property of bina. the fourth day of creation on the fourth day the planets appeared: the earth, the sun and the moon. thus, the phases of correction were created the days, months, and years. correction occurs in both the collective creation and in each and every specific particle. creation itself is called soul or adam, and its specific particles are called individual souls, or people. each individual soul goes through the same phases of correction that the c

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

was then encircled with a wavy cord, ornamented with tassels, and was therefore called gthe indented tassel h, later corrupted into the gtesselated border h. the french call it gla houpe dentelee h, and describe it as ga cord forming true lover fs knots, which surrounds the tracing board h. the tesselated border refers us, says the masculine ritual, to the beautiful border formed round the sun by the planets in their various revolutions. the co-masonic ritual makes it an emblem of the guardian wall protecting humanity, composed of adepts or men who have attained the perfection of human evolution in past centuries and millennia. they stand around humanity in the spiritual worlds, it is said in a buddhist scripture, to save mankind from further and far greater misery and sorrow. 218. there i

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

o the ptolemaic system of cosmography, consists of nine moving heavens, which are concentric with the earth, the fixed center of the universe, and around which they revolve at a velocity proportional to their distance from the earth. each heaven is presided over by one of the angelic orders, and exercises its special influence on human beings and their affairs. the seven lowest are the heavens of the planets: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, saturn. the eighth heaven, the sphere of the fixed stars, is the highest visible region of the celestial world, and the ninth heaven, the primum mobile, governs the general motion of the heavens from east to west, and by it all place and time are ultimately measured. finally, beyond and outside the heavens, lies the empyrean, where the

LIBER 777

usions. 30 the red tincture, power of acquiring wealth li and khien 31 evocation, pyromancy kbn 32 works of malediction and death khbn 32 bis alchemy, geomancy, making of pantacles[[travels on the astral plane] kbn 31 bis invisibility, transformations, vision of the genius. table i (continued) 15 xlvii. kings and princes of the jinn. xlviii. figures related to pure number. xlix* lineal figures of the planets &c, and geomany. 0. the circle 1. the point 2. the cross the line, also the cross 3. the triangle the plane, also the diamond, oval, circle, and other yoni symbols 4 tetrahedron or pyramid, cross the solid figure 5 the rose the tesseract 6 calvary cross, truncated pyramid, cube. 7 a rose (7 x 7, candlestick 8. 9. 1010 altar (double cube, calvary cross sephirothic geomantic figures foll

planets &c, and geomany. 0. the circle 1. the point 2. the cross the line, also the cross 3. the triangle the plane, also the diamond, oval, circle, and other yoni symbols 4 tetrahedron or pyramid, cross the solid figure 5 the rose the tesseract 6 calvary cross, truncated pyramid, cube. 7 a rose (7 x 7, candlestick 8. 9. 1010 altar (double cube, calvary cross sephirothic geomantic figures follow the planets. caput* and cauda draconis* are the nodes of the moon, nearly= neptune and herschel respectively. they belong to malkuth. 11. those of dy triplicity 12 calvary cross octagram 13 greek cross (plane, table of shewbread enneagram 14. heptagram 15. puer* 16. amissio* 17 swastika albus* 18. populus and via* 19. fortuna major and fortuna minor* 20. conjunctio* 21. square and rhombus 22 greek

red triangle sa a blood 32 bis prithivi the yellow square rupa solid structures, tissues 31 bis akasa the black egg vi nanam semen, marrow cxci. the four noble truths (buddhism) clxxxix. cxc. bodily functions. 11 sorrow s cause speaking though 23 sorrow s ceasing holding nutrition 31 noble eight-fold path moving moving 32 bis sorrow excreting matter 31 bis. generating magick table iii 20 lxxvii. the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. intelligences of the planets. cxciv (transliteration) 12# 8 (260) layryt tiriel 13= 9 (3321 \yqhc hwrb duw \ycycrtb aklm malkah be tarshishim va a ad be ruah shehaqim. 14$ 7 (49) laygh hagiel 21& 4 (136) lypwy yophiel 27% 5 (325) layparg graphiel 30! 6 (111) laykn nakhiel 32' 3 (45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. ol

g. see col. clxxxii. col. xlvi. each trigram combines with itself and the others to make 64 hexagrams, which partake of the combined nature. this attribution is the true key to the yi king. no sinologist has had any idea of it, but it is obvious enough now that o.m. has solved it. see appendix i. col. xlvii. line 7. has a monkey. line 19. said to have a monkey. col. xlix. the geomantic figures of the planets are those of the signs which they rule. lines 3-10. q andr line 15. p line 16. v notes 37 line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o line 24. line 25. u line 26. x line 28. z line 29. y see the handbook of geomancy, the equinox i: 2, p. 137.8 col. l. the catholic seven deadly sins in square brackets. col. lvii. egyptian quarters. cols. lvii, lix &c. beth elohim gi

ny other schemes. col. cii. add daath, ydna. col. ciii. add daath, cerebrum medium, cuius locus est in parte capitis postica. but these have many other attributions, and each is itself divisible: thus chesed and geburah of tiphareth are the breasts; tiphareth the heart; netzach and hod the testicles; jesod the membrum virile; and malkuth, the anus. the signs of the zodiac are variously given, and the planets agree with the face: thus' and, the ears% and, the nostrils! and, the eyes; and, the mouth. the hand: thumb, a; 1st finger, d; 2nd, c; 3rd, e; 4th b. these, however, vary somewhat.10 col. cvi. these abodes are enclosed in four circles: the waters of weeping, or creation, of oceanus, and the false sea. compare the classical four rivers of hell.11 col. cviii. incomplete and redundant owi

LIBER ALEPH

old) would have thee to consider, o my son, that word of publius vergilius maro, that was the greatest of all the magicians of his time: in medio tutissimus ibis. which thing has also been said by many wise men in other lands; and the holy qabalah confirmeth the same, placing tipheret, which is the man, and the beauty and harmony of things, and gold in the kingdom of the metals, and the sun among the planets, in the midst of the tree of life. for the centre is the point of balance of all vectors. so then if thy wilt live wisely, learn that thou must establish this relation of balance with every thing soever, not omitting one. for there is nothing so alien from thy nature that it may not be brought into harmonious relation therewith; and thy stature of manhood waxeth great even as thou come

LIBER ASTARTE

s of jehovah. 5. further concerning the above. let this shrine be furnished appropriately as to its ornaments, according to the book 777. with ivy and pine-cones, that is to say, for bacchus, and let lay before him both grapes and wine. so also for ceres let there be corn, and cakes; or for diana moon-wort and pale herbs, and pure water. further, it is well to support the shrine with talismans of the planets, signs and elements appropriate. but these should be made accord-ing to the right ingenium of the philosophus by the light of the book 777 during the course of his devotions. it is also well, nevertheless, if a magick circle with the right signs and names be made beforehand. 6. concerning the ceremonies. let the philosophus prepare a powerful invocation of the particular deity, accordi

LIBER BATRACHOPHNEROBOOCOSMOMACHIA

the picture is highly complex, apart from the difficulty of appreciating relative size and distance. let this picture be practised month after month until it is absolutely perfect. the tendency which may manifest itself to pass into dhyana and samadhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. let the practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the sun, and adding the planets one by one, each with its proper motion, until he have an image perfect in all respect of the solar system as it actually exists. let him particularly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until

LIBER CHANOKH

m e g c b e i l a o i2 8 1 u n i h r l a a 2 8 1 these names are seen written without the heptagram within the heptagon. by reading these obliquely are obtained names of angels called (1) fili bonitatis or filiol lucis. e me ese iana the symbolic representation of the universe 2 akele azdobn stimcul (2) fili lucis. i ih ilr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul [these are given attributions to the metals of the planets in this order: sol, luna, venus, jupiter, mars, mercury, saturn (3) fili filiarum lucis. s ab ath ized ekiei madimi esemeli (4) filii filiorum lucis. l (el) aw ave liba rocle hagone(l) ilemese see all these names in the heptagram of the great seal. so also there are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, th

n the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to right. the upper sides of the pyramids are all attributed to the element of spirit, the lower sides to the element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. liber lxxxiv 13 2. calvary crosses. each

irah modified by the element of the lesser angle; or to that sephirah in the qabalistic world corresponding (thus fire. atziluth, water. briah, etc. regardie gives the positions of binah through to geburah differently; zalewski (1990) gives the same reading as chanokh, stating this arrangement appears in westcott.s notanda to the g.d. enochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv .the heavenly hexagram. and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred t

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

guardian angel, whose knowledge and conversation i have willed, and in greater or less measure enjoyed, since ten years. terrible have been the ordeals of the path; i have lost all that i possessed, and all that i love, even as at the beginning i offered all for nothing, unwitting as i was of the meaning of those words. i have suffered many and grievous things at the hands of the elements, and of the planets; hunger, thirst, fatigue, disease, anxiety, bereavement, all those woes and others have laid heavy hand upon me, and behold! as i look back upon these years, i declare that all hath been very well. for so great is the reward which i (unworthy) have attained that the ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the levers by which i moved the world. ev

oon of my desire (ha, ha, thou beast! are .i and me and mine. not dead yet) yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears (fears, o lord of the western pylon) lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through .the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motions of the planets? and zoroaster, in that same oracle just quoted? 7.35. hors d..uvres, bouillabaisse, contrefilet roti, glace. graves. the truth is that the chitta is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racing of the chitta is simply shocking. john st. john must stop it somehow. hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry. 7.57! he

LIBER DXXXVI

the picture is highly complex, apart from the difficulty of appreciating relative size and distance. let this picture be practised month after month until it is absolutely perfect. the tendency which may manifest itself to pass into dhy.na and s.madhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. let the practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the sun, and adding the planets one by one, each with its proper motion, until he have an image perfect in all respects of the solar system as it actually exists. let him particularly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps, that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision unti

LIBER LVII

lished by authority of the a a. a.c [it was published in equinox i (8] 61 [i.e, the chaldaan oracles, whose ascription to zoroaster is late (medieval/ renaissance; fragment 186 in the westcott edition. cf. the hermetic discourse .the eighth reveals the ninth (nhc vi 52.1. 63.32; in some versions of hermeticism and graeco-egpytian magick the .9th sphere (counting upwards) lies beyond the sphere of the planets and .fixed stars. and is the realm of the divine. t.s] on the qabalah 41 scholion. 9= the foundation of all things= the foundation of the alphabet= yod= 10= malkuth= kether= 1. scholion z. 9= ix= the hermit= yod= 10= x= the wheel of fortune= k= 20= xx= the last judgement= c= 300= 30= l= justice= viii= 8= j= the chariot= vii= 7= z= the lovers= vi= 6= w= the pope= v= 5= h= the emperor62=

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

hes he gave a sceptre, that one might rule them aright. with the sand he gave a sword, to cut that sand withal. with the bay-leaves he ave a sun, to wither them with the gold he gave a garland of sores, and that was for luck. with the dung he gave a rod of life to quicken it [thus in collected works. may be a compositor.s error for abrahadabra, or maybe not. t.s] 1 this is all obscure. 2 refer to the planets. abracadabra* amethsh. ye fylfat. mysterium matris.1 evocatio. lucus. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 87 with the poison he gave also in offering a stag and a maiden. but about the noon came one shining unto our father and gave him to drink from a dull and heavy bowl. and this was a liquor potent and heavy, by.r lady! so that our father sank into deep sleep and dreamed a dream, and in tha

what does it matter to us? why are we to be so altruistic as to avoid the reincarnation of a being in all points different from ourselves? as the small boy said .what has posterity done for me. but somethin does persist; something changing, though less slowly. what evidence have we after all that an animal does not remember his man-incarnation? or, as levi says .in the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget. i think it unlikely (may be, but in the total absence of all evidence for or against.at least with regard to the latter hypothesis!.i suspend my judgement, leave the question alone, and proceed to more practical points that are offered by these interesting but not overuseful metaphysical speculations. v. karma. the law of causation is formally identical with this. karma me

LIBER LXXVIII

ss" 9, s. c despair and cruelty% 3, c. d abundance# 6, w. e victory& 9, p. f material gain$ 3, s. g sorrow f 6, c. h pleasure! 9, w. i great strength" 3, p. j material words% 6, s. k earned success# 9, c. l material happiness& being thus the four threes, sixes, and nines. the first and third decans follow the same order: sunday beginning in the first decan of f and in the third decans of c and i. the planets govern respectively decans with the following titles. a description of the cards of the taro 25 f 1. e strife 5 of wands. 2. g sorrow 3, swords. 3. i oppression 10, wands. 4. l abundant success 8, cups. 5. b success unfulfilled 7, pentacles. or in b e g i l two wands: 1 each of the other suits& 1. e victory 6 of wands. 2. g rest from strife 4, swords. 3. j harmonious change 2, pentacle

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ical weapons. xlii. 31 perfumes. xlv. 32 magical powers [western mysticism. liv. 61 the letters of the name. lv. 60 the elements and senses. lix. 65 the archangels of the quarters. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 18 lx [omitted] the rulers of the elements. lxi [omitted] angels of the elements. lxiii. 62 the four worlds. lxx. 59 attribution of pentagram. lxxv. 70 the five elements (tatwas. lxxvii. 73 the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. 79 intelligences of the planets. lxxix. 77 spirits of the planets. lxxx [omitted] olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. 74 metals. lxxxiii. 72 the attributions of the hexagram. xcvii, xcviii. 82, 84 parts of the soul and english translation thereof. xcix [omitted] archangels of assiah. c, ci [omitted] angels of assiah and english translation thereof. cxvii. 85 t

m the appropriate elemental tablet (oro ibah aozpi, etc. see liber chanokh; trace kerubic symbol while vibrating the hebrew name; give elemental sign. 12 the hexagrams shown in this part are all the invoking form. to make the banishing forms, trace the triangles in the same order and starting from the same point, but trace each triangle in the opposite direction. 13 see 777, col. v. generally for the planets use the name for the sephirah corresponding, and for the signs, the name of the sephirah corresponding to the ruling planet. in the version taught in the golden dawn, the letters of ararita were attributed to the points of the hexagram in .lightning flash. order (a to saturn, r to jupiter, a to mars, etc) and the particular letter was to be vibrated along with the other names. 14 the p

LIBER SEPTEM REGUM SANCTORUM

deference that they are now fitted for admission to the mystery of the seven holy kings. the temple is arranged as shewn in the attached illustration.1 the god of the first throne hath robes of deep blue; second violet; 3rd. scarlet; 4th. orange; 5th. green; 6th. pale yellow; 7th. bright blue.2 the other officers are the hegemon, clad in white& masked in white& in his hand is the phoenix wand of the planets;3& the hiereus, masked in black& robed in black, in his hands are the scourge& crook.4 the candidate, well fed& joyful, clad in the robe of a probationer& crowned with laurel, is led by the hegemon (his neophyte) into the hall. taken to the altar, on which burns a small fire of odorous wood, cedar or sandal or lign aloes, he is made to kneel thereat& the black officer comes forward thr

LIBER THISHARB

preliminary practice of the second method. 27. second method. prelimary practices. let him, seated in his asana, consider any event, and trace it to its immediate svb figvra cmxiii 7 causes. and let this be done very fully and minutely. here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. let the adept consider the many forces which maintain it; firstly, the attraction of the earth, of the sun, of the planets, of the farthest stars, nay, of every mote of dust in the room, one of which (could it be annihilated) would cause that body to move, although so imperceptibly. also, the resistance of the floor, the pressure of the air, and all other external conditions. secondly, the internal forces which sustain it, the vast and complex machinery of the skeleton, the muscles, the blood, the lymph, t

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

goddess associated with a holy tree. deities, themes, and concepts 201 interpretatio germanica ggermanic interpretation, h that is, the translation of the roman days of the week by the germanic peoples at some point during the migration period. although the roman weekdays were named after planets, the germanic peoples who undertook the translation seem to have relied on the roman gods whose names the planets bore and to have tried to equate those gods with their own. in the cases of the sun and the moon, the translation was obvious: sunday and monday. the other cases, however, were more difficult. dies martis, the day following gmoon-day, h bore the name of mars, god of war and battle. the germanic peoples equated him with *tiwaz, who was to become ty lr in scandinavia and tiw in england

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

omers have overlooked the philosophic key to the ptolemaic system. the universe of ptolemy is a diagrammatic representation of the relationships existing between the various divine and elemental parts of every creature, and is not concerned with astronomy as that science is now comprehended. in the above figure, special attention is called to the three circles of zodiacs surrounding the orbits of the planets. these zodiacs represent the threefold spiritual constitution of the universe. the orbits of the planets are the governors of the world and the four elemental spheres in the center represent the physical constitution of both man and the universe, ptolemy's scheme of the universe is simply a cross section of the universal aura, the planets and elements to which he refers having no relat

til finally, deprived of its spiritual adornments, it incarnates in the physical body- hades--where the mistress of that body heaps every form of sorrow and misery upon the imprisoned consciousness. the waters of life--the secret doctrine--cure the diseases of ignorance; and the spirit, ascending again to its divine source, regains its god-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets. another mystery ritual among the babylonians and assyrians was that of merodach and the dragon. merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt

that the samothracians received their doctrines, especially those concerning mercury, from the pelasgians. little is known concerning the cabiric rituals, for they were enshrouded in the profoundest secrecy. some regard the cabiri as seven in number and refer to them as "the seven spirits of fire before the throne of saturn" others believe the cabiri to be the seven sacred wanderers, later called the planets. while a vast number of deities are associated with the samothracian mysteries, the ritualistic drama centers around four brothers. the first three--aschieros, achiochersus, and achiochersa--attack and murder the fourth--cashmala (or cadmillus. dionysidorus, however, identifies aschieros with demeter, achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexa

or the maker of things "in this manner it was accomplished, o hermes: the word moving like a breath through space called forth the fire by the friction of its motion. therefore, the fire is called the son of striving. the workman passed as a whirlwind through the universe, causing the substances to vibrate and glow with its friction, the son of striving thus formed seven governors, the spirits of the planets, whose orbits bounded the world; and the seven governors controlled the world by the mysterious power called destiny given them by the fiery workman. when the second mind (the workman) had organized chaos, the word of god rose straightway our of its prison of substance, leaving the elements without reason, and joined itself to the nature of the fiery workman. then the second mind, toge

fire, hear, and motion was the passive, receptive principle of nature. modern science has proved that forms ranging in magnitude from solar systems to atoms are composed of positive, radiant nuclei surrounded by negative bodies that exist upon the emanations of the central life. from this allegory we have the story of solomon and his wives, for solomon is the sun and his wives and concubines are the planets, moons, asteroids, and other receptive bodies within his house--the solar mansion. isis, represented in the song of solomon by the dark maid of jerusalem, is symbolic of receptive nature--the watery, maternal principle which creates all things out of herself after impregnation has been achieved by the virility of the sun. in the ancient world the year had 360 days. the five extra days

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

dge of magical arts and sciences, it is necessary to have prepared the order of hours and of days, and of the position of the moon, without the operation of which thou canst effect nothing; but if thou observest them with diligence thou mayest easily and thoroughly arrive at the effect and end which thou desirest to attain. book one page 13 chapter ii of the days, and hours, and of the virtues of the planets when thou wishest to make any experiment or operation, thou must first prepare, beforehand, all the requisites, such as candles and incense, which thou wilt find described in the following chapters: observing the days, the hours, and the other effects of the constellations which may be found in this chapter. it is, therefore, advisable to know that the hours of the day and of the night

in the following chapters: observing the days, the hours, and the other effects of the constellations which may be found in this chapter. it is, therefore, advisable to know that the hours of the day and of the night together, are twenty-four in number, and that each hour is governed by one of the seven planets in regular order, commencing at the highest and descending to the lowest. the order of the planets is as follows: shbthai, shabbathai, saturn; beneath saturn is tzdq, tzedeq, jupiter; beneath jupiter is madim, madim, mars; beneath mars is shmsh, shemesh, the sun; beneath the sun is nvgh, nogah, venus; beneath venus is kvkb, kokav, mercury; and beneath mercury is lbnh, levanah, the moon, which is the lowest of all the planets. it must, therefore, be understood that the planets have t

btaining nocturnal visions, for summoning spirits in sleep, and for preparing anything relating to water. the hours of venus are furthermore useful for lots, poisons, all things of the nature of venus, for preparing powders provocative of madness; and the like things. but in order to thoroughly effect the operations of this art, thou shouldest perform them not only on the hours but on the days of the planets as well, because then the experiment will always succeed better, provided thou observest the rules laid down later on, for if thou omittest one single condition thou wilt never arrive at the accomplishment of the art. for those matters then which appertain unto the moon, such as the invocation of spirit, the works of necromancy, and the recovery of stolen property, it is necessary that

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econd book is one which treateth of spirits mingled of good and evil natures, the which is entitled the theurgia-goetia, or the magical wisdom of the spirits a rial, whereof some do abide, but certain do wander and abide not (3) the third book, called ars paulina, or the art pauline, treateth of the spirits allotted unto every degree of the 360 degrees of the zodiac; and also of the signs, and of the planets in the signs, as well as of the hours (4) the fourth book, called ars almadel salomonis, or the art almadel of solomon, concerneth those spirits which be set over the quaternary of the altitudes. these two last mentioned books, the art pauline and the art almadel, do relate unto good spirits alone, whose knowledge is to be obtained through seeking unto the divine. these two books be al

il spirits, called goetia, showing how he bound up those spirits and used them in things general and several, whereby he obtained great fame (2) the second part is a book of spirits, partly evil and partly good, which is called theurgia-goetia, all aerial spirits, etc (3) the third part is of spirits governing the planetary hours, and of what spirits do belong to every degree of the signs, and of the planets in the signs. this is called the pauline art, etc (4) the fourth part of this book is called almadel of solomon, the which containeth those spirits which do govern the four altitudes, or the 360 degrees of the zodiac. these two last orders of spirits are good, and are called theurgia, and are to be sought for by divine seeking, etc (5) the fifth part is a book of orations and prayers w

y spirits. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (59) oriax, or orias- the fifty-ninth spirit is oriax, or orias. he is a great marquis, and appeareth in the form of a lion,26 riding upon a horse mighty and strong, with a serpent s tail; and he holdeth in his right hand two great serpents hissing. his office is to teach the virtues of the stars, and to know the mansions of the planets, and how to understand their virtues. he also transformeth men, and he giveth dignities, prelacies, and confirmation thereof; also favour with friends and with foes. he doth govern 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, etc (60) vapula, or naphula- the sixtieth spirit is vapula, or naphula. he is a duke great, mighty, and strong; appearing in the form of a. lion with gryphon s wi

n. lehovah- god almighty, god omnipotent, hear my prayer: elohim- god with us, god be always present with us: binah- strengthen us and support us, both now and for ever: aralim- ln these our undertakings, which we perform but as instruments in thy hands: zabbathi (should be shabbathii- in the hands of thee, the great god of sabaoth. hesel (should be chesed- thou great god, governor and creator of the planets, and of the host of heaven: hasmalim (should be chashmalim- command them by thine almighty power: zelez (should be zedeq- to be now present and assisting to us thy poor servants, both now and for ever. elohim geber (should be gibor- most almighty and eternal and ever living lord god: seraphim- command thy seraphim: camael, madim- to attend on us now at this time, to assist us, and to d

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mention 8 of the chief dukes which is sufficient for practise, who hath 444 servants to attend them, their names are as followeth (viz) ameniel, charpon, darosiel, monasiel, brumiel, nestoriel, chremas, meresyn; now to make a seal for any of these 8 dukes or their chief prince samael, do as followeth, first write the character of the lord of the ascendant, secondly the moon afterwards the rest of the planets; after that the characters& sign that ascends upon the 12th. house in that hour, as it shows in the sigil following, which is fitted for the 10th. day of march, in the year of our lord 1641, being on a wednesday& the first hour of the day. ars paulina 5 the 2nd. hour of the day is called sovormi, and the angel that governs this hour is called anael, who hath 10 chief dukes to attend hi

he chief& the other 6 are of the under dukes. they have 330 servants to attend them. these 9 are as followeth: menerches, sarchiel, cardiel, orphiel, elmoijm, ruosiel, ermosiel, granijel& when you have a desire to work in the second hour of wednesday on the 10th. day of march make a seal before on clean paper or parchment, writing first the character of the lord of the ascendant, then the rest of the planets& the sign of the 12th. house as you see it in the sigil& when it is made, lay it on that part of the table that hath the same character as the lord of the ascendant is. observe this rule in all the following part you cannot err. then say the conjuration at the latter end. the 3rd. hour of the day is called danlor& the angel thereof is called veguaniel, who hath 20 chief dukes& 200 less

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n. s. z (i.e, sphere of the zodiac) iehovah. god almighty, god omnipotent, hear my prayer: elohim. god with us, god be always present with us: binah. strengthen us and support us, both now and for ever: aralim. in these our undertakings, which we perform but as instruments in thy hands: zabbathai in the hands of thee, the great god of sabaoth. s. h.2 hesel3 thou great god, governor and creator of the planets, and of the host of heaven: hasmalim command them by thine almighty power: zelez to be now present and assisting to us thy poor servants, both now and for ever. k. s. elohim geber most almighty and eternal and ever living lord god: seraphim command thy seraphim: camael, madim to attend on us now at this time, to assist us, and to defend us from all perils and dangers. s. 1. the divine

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nto the holy place" which elsewhere in our scriptures is called the kingdom of heaven. what then is this" centre" by reviving and using which we may hope to regain the secrets of our lost nature? we may reason from analogies. as the divine life and will is the centre of the whole universe and controls it; as the sun is the centre and life-giver of our solar system and controls and feeds with life the planets circling round it, so at the secret centre of individual human life exists a vital, immortal principle, the spirit and the spiritual will of man. this is the faculty, by using which (when we have found it) we can never err. it is a point within the circle of our own nature and, living as we do in this physical world, the circle of our existence is bounded by two grand parallel lines" o

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ore importantly, the off-spring of those who had been genetically altered also continued to exist and procreate.they had within them the instincts of aggression and power mania innate to their fore-fathers. it is these persons who moved from the limbic and later the left-brain modalitywho excelled in the technological sciences and were predisposed to feeling separate,distinct from, or superior to the planets natural inhabitants. they were the ones whofound it easy to destroy nature and to manipulate and murder their fellow humanbeings. throughout historical time, we find personages rising to the top of politicaland cultural life who labor so assiduously for technological advance and yet whodemonstrably display little love or concern for humanity. do such scenarios occur forthe reasons that

are in the stratosphere got there because of the atomic blasts of tested weaponryand from the launching of rockets, such as the space shuttle atlantis. when these bombsdetonate and when these supersonic vessels blast off, they carry a vast amount of dust upwith them. and with the dust, goes the cfcs. the very velocity and spiraling motion of therockets and of the satellites, causes disturbance in the planets atmosphere by generatinglarge amounts of positive ionization. even from the earliest of times the atlanteans and their progeny have long been involved inmanipulating weather. again, it is in myths that we find most of the references (which havebeen not taken seriously. in the post-diluvian epoch, our planet has been visited by manyplagues and meteorological catastrophes, not all of whi

ty of the moon caused major convulsions. hence, the moon becameassociated with driving men mad. around 9,500 b.c. earth captured the moon as her own satellite andthis was attended by massive upheavals. the moon is known to be significantly larger than the satellitesof other planets.seven islandsthe hindus claim that there were seven islands separated by seven oceans. these seem to be referencesto the planets in the heavens. carnacin brittany, there are also serpent temples with rows of stones and a winding serpent that go on for 8miles. carnac derives from carn hak, that is serpent hill, or hill of the serpents. brittany is one of theland masses originally part of the atlantean continent, mentioned in the ancient myths as lyonesse.finias, murias, gorias, and faliasnames of sunken islands i

males immortal live, renewed by female deaths william blakewho were the gnostics and what did they teach?what are astrology and tarot? what is the inner zodiac?do rocks (planets, floating in space, really affect the human con-sciousness and destiny? why does the prohibition against making graven images come even before thou shalt not kill.why are the biological cycles of the female in unison with the planets and luminaries? why have women been hated, marginalized and massacred through time?do governments, religions and economic conglomerates have occult histories and agendas?michael tsarion discusses the goddess traditions and the hermetic arts of tarot, astrology, kabalaand numerology (includes 800+ digital slide presentation)log on to www.taroscopes.com and visit the merchandise page for

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multiple occult properties simultaneously. the physical properties of an object are things such as width, height, depth, weight, color, shape, etc; physical objects have all these properties at once. a large part of magic is devoted to 2 types of hidden properties. the first property is the elements, and there are 5: spirit, air, water, fire, and earth. the second major type of hidden property is the planets, and there are 7: the sun, the moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn. the 5 elements of the magicians were allegedly derived from the 4 elements the greeks claimed all things were made from. after more research, especially into greek philosophers such as plato and aristotle (who i suspect had occult knowledge, i am more convinced that the reverse is true, and that the greeks

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hole, and in its details symbolic. the universe itself supplied man with the model for the first temples reared to the divinity. the arrangement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple contained many emblems of the seasons-the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations ursa major and minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of the world. it is the master of this lodge, of the universe, hermes, of whom khurum is the representative, that is one of the lights of the lodge. for further instruction as to the symbolism of the heavenly bodies, and of the sacred numbers, and of the temple and its details, you must wait patient

symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. that these represented the planets, we are assured by clemens of alexandria, in his stromata, and by philo judaeus. to return to its source in the infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend, as it had descended, through the seven spheres. the ladder by which it reascends, has, according to marsilius ficinus, in his commentary on the ennead of plotinus, seven degrees or steps; and in the mysteries of mith

the fate of nations depends more on them than on the intellect of its kings and legislators. a civil war in america will end in shaking the world; and that war may be caused by the vote of some ignorant prize-fighter or crazed fanatic in a city or in a congress, or of some stupid boor in an obscure country parish. the electricity of universal sympathy, of action and reaction, pervades everything, the planets and the motes in the sunbeam. faust, with his types, or luther, with his sermons, worked greater results than alexander or hannibal. a single thought sometimes suffices to overturn a dynasty. a silly song did more to unseat james the second than the acquittal of the bishops. voltaire, condorcet, and rousseau uttered words that will ring, in change and revolutions, throughout all the ag

we welcome you among us, to wear, as we wear, with humility, and conscious of your demerits and shortcomings, the title of grand elect, perfect, and sublime mason. it was not without a secret meaning, that _twelve_ was the number of the apostles of christ, and _seventy-two_ that of his disciples: that john addressed his rebukes and menaces to the _seven_ churches, the number of the archangels and the planets. at babylon were the seven stages of bersippa, a pyramid of seven stories, and at ecbatana seven concentric inclosures, each of a different color. thebes also had seven gates, and the same number is repeated again and again in the account of the flood. the sephiroth, or emanations _ten_ in number, three in one class, and seven in the other, repeat the mystic numbers of pythagoras. seve

the secret pythagorean doctrines of numbers were preserved by the monks of thibet, by the hierophants of egypt and eleusis, at jerusalem, and in the circular chapters of the druids; and they are especially consecrated in that mysterious book, the apocalypse of saint john. all temples were surrounded by pillars, recording the number of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, or the cycles of the planets; and each one was a microcosm or symbol of the universe, having for roof or ceiling the starred vault of heaven. all temples were originally open at the top, having for roof the sky. twelve pillars described the belt of the zodiac. whatever the number of the pillars, they were mystical everywhere. at abury, the druidic temple reproduced all the cycles by its columns. around the temples

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not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse (published in the equinox i, 7) it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether (that is not so; see the facsimile of the mmss) amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now, this letter is beth, whose numeration is 2, and amen is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to understand this note fully one must have studied 'the paris working; also one must be an initiate of the 0. t. 0 (the italics are c

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hall pass, and they shall rule where they once ruled. as foulness you shall know them and their accursedness shall stain the earth. of ye times and ye seasons to be observed whenever thou would'st call forth those from outside, thou must mark well the seasons and times in which the spheres do intersect and the influences flow from the void thou must observe the cycle of the moon, the movements of the planets, the sun's course through the zodiac and the rising of the constellations. ye ultimate rites shall be performed only in the seasons proper to them, these be: at candlemas (on the second day of the second month, at beltane (on the eve of may, at lammas (on the first day of the eighth month, at roodmas (on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, and at hallowmas (on november eve. call out

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ee p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another, eros was born from the cosmic egg and, as the first god, set the universe in motion. before that, all was chaos. gaia, mother earth, inspired by eros, then brought forth uranus, the sky, and mated with him, to produce the first immortals, the forefathers of the olympian gods. cronos, the child-eater cronos (saturn) was the youngest of the titans

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, is the letters of actualization and revelation of the light of the world of asiyah. therefore, it is malchut of asiyah which is the source of the actual existence of the souls and angels of the world of asiyah. the lowest angels of the lowest level of asiyah receive their life force from malchut of malchut of asiyah. then, from the dross of the light of these angels life force descends to power the planets and constellations. this is the source of all the energy and influence of our universe. the energy and influence of the planets and constellations, in turn, affect everything that exists on our planet, be it inanimate, vegetative, living, or speaking beings, including the climates, which affect the economies, as stated before. furthermore, they are the source of the compositions of the

s of fire, vapor, water and earth, from spiritual compositions to physical compositions. for example, it is stated that "the land gives rise to wise people. this is because it falls under the influence of the constellation "machkim (the one who makes wise. this is true of everything that exists on this planet, even to the smallest blade of grass. all things receive their energy and influence from the planets and constellations. they, receive their energy from the dross of the angels, which receives its energy from the angels, which receive their energy from malchut of malchut of asiyah. everything that g-d desired, he did from all the above, it is clearly understood how everything that exists and that takes place, is exactly according to the simple essential desire (ratzon hapashoot) in th

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my ay find a logic'al conclusion and fruition, s; that it may develop further its own particular contribution to modern life and culture. for this psych&magical techniqie of ceremonial initiation indicates the psychological solution of the anima problem "arise! shine! for thy light is come" between the grade of philosophus and the portal, an interval of seven months was prescribed, the regimen of the planets. during that period, devised to assist the gradual fructification of the seeds planted within, a review was advised of all the preceding studies. such a review certainly was imperative. as one of the chiefs of the order expressed it-'temember that there is hardly a circumstance in the rituals even of the first order which has not its special meaning and application, and <65> which does

of three signs, each being attributed to one of the four elements, and they represent the operation of the elements in the zodiac. thus to fire belong aries, leo, sagittarius: thus to earth belong taurus, virgo, capricornus: thus to air belong gemini, libra, aquarius: thus to water belong cancer, scorpio, pisces. 3. to the ancients, six planets were known, besides the sun, which they classed with the planets. they also assigned certain planetary values to the north and 50 first knowledge ledure 51 south nodes of the moon- that is, the points where her orbit touches that of the ecliptic. these they named caput draconis a head of the dragon and cauda draconis ep tail of the dragon since the discovery of two more distant planets neptune and uranus or herschel, these two terms have been partia

s passage, and when all these are propitiated, the plea of the hall itself cries out against his steps, sayingtbecause i am silent, because i am pure" and it must know that his aspirations are pure enough and high first knowledge lecture 59 enough for him to be allowed to tread upon it. he is then allowed to <117> announce to thoth that he is clean from all evil, and has overcome the influence of the planets, and thoth says to him 'who is he whose pylons are of flame, whose walls of living uraei, and the flames of whose house are streams of water" and the initiate replies "osiris" and it is immediately proclaimed 'thy meat shall be from the infinite, and thy drink from the infinite. thou art able to go forth to the sepulchral feasts on earth, for thou hast overcome" thus, these two chapter

ion of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! cii9> second knowledge lecture the names andaichemica1 symbols of the three principles of nature are- sulphur 9 mercury salt@ the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are- lead 5 gold 0 tin 2 copper or brass' 9 iron d quicksilver g silver) the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings given below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined essence of heat and moisture. c120> th

. chesed agshekeloh-the breakers in pieces 5. geburah golohab-the burners 6. tiphareth tagiriron-the disputers 7. netzach gharab tzerek-the ravens of death 8. hod samael-the liar or poison of god 9. yesod gamaliel-the obscene ones 10. malkuth lilith-queen of the night and of demons <164> the seven palaces attributed to the ten sephiroth fifth knowledge lecture 83 <165> the astrological symbols of the planets these are derived from the three primary forms of the cross, the crescent and the circle, either singly or in combination. the circle denotes sun and gold; the crescent the moon and silver, respectively analogous to the red and white alchemical natures. the cross is the symbol of corrosion. the corrosion of metals is usually of the complementary colour to that to which they naturally a

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lusively geomantic symbols that i made many years ago. it still strikes me as a good design. the basis of most talismans of old time were predicated either on the twelve signs of the zodiac or upon the seven planets known at that time. in other worlds, most subjects in which one could be interested were classified under one or other of these two sets of symbols. in the last resort, however, since the planets were said to rule the twelve zodiacal signs, the planets became the more prominent categories into which talismanic purposes could be divided. classical examples of this seven-fold division of talismans may be found in the greater key of solomon, from which i quote as follows: in the days and hours of saturn, thou canst perform experiments to cause good or ill success to business, poss

reprinted in the magus by barrett, were appropriated by the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the last century, and were once more reprinted by me when compiling the material for the fourth volume of the golden dawn. i would like to suggest that the interested student study this system at the very least, so that he will come to understand the classical basis of the method. the magic squares of the planets found in the appendix of this book are an important part of the science of talismanic structure. to each planet belongs, first, the number of the sephirah to which it corresponds; and secondarily, the other numbers, which are the sum of the various horizontal and vertical rows on the square. for example, saturn is a planetary symbol of binah, the third sephirah on the qabalistic tree o

al value of the name in the shift from one planetary influence to another. it represents the name first operating as one set of waves or frequencies and then as another, sliding as it were on a wide band of frequencies. which frequency or kamea one may decide to use depends entirely on what function one wishes to stress. here is where some slight understanding is required of the basic meanings of the planets in traditional astrology. incidentally, it makes little difference to this scheme whether one uses the traditional hebrew system of gematria or numerology, or the more modern so-called pythagorean numerology. the only criterion is consistency. if one uses either of these two systems, it is essential to use it exclusively in any one operation. there is no reason at all why one should no

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life. the ability to hold gold in solution is already familiar to us.conductor:what mean you by the product of gold by nature through germination and increase; is it subject tomultiplication through seed as in the animal and vegetable kingdoms?4th alchemist:certainly, but under a modified process of nature. the precious metals are nurtured, and subject toincrease through the secret operations of the planets, they gestate and grow daily in the bowels of theearth. the sun and moon, night and day, light and darkness, water and fire are all active in thegeneration of the precious metals. it has been a matter of assumption, that the invisible operation ofthe sun effects the natural production of gold, while the refining and bleaching lucidity of the moonhad its effect on silver. whence their o

ipse of the sun, 2169 bcthe ionian school of the greeks was founded by thales, of miletus, 600 bc it thoroughlycomprehended the seasonal changes and length of the year.to hipparchus of nicaea, however, 160 bc from whom the ptolemaic school took its rise, isastronomy indebted for evidence of skill and acumen. he catalogued 1082 stars, calculated themotions of the sun and moon, made observations of the planets, and described. their motions by atheory of epicycles: he also invented plain and spherical trigonometry. ptolemy followed, correctingthe procession, but insisted in placing the earth in the centre of his system.the arabians, impelled by the mahomedan faith, swept down upon the egyptians in the 7th.century, and by the destruction of the alexandrian library, the great history of the ast

astrologers and astronomers deeply immersedin their occupations. there is also a vacant seat and desk.before announcing themselves, the cond. says to the philosophus: these wise sages, to whom youare now to be introduced for scores of years have been reverenced for their many virtues. some areknown as astrologers, the foretellers of future events, consequent upon a close study of themovements of the planets and. other heavenly bodies, and they understand the effect and controlthese bodies exert over all the movements off nature and the destinies man. astrology is thetwin-science of astronomy, or was, until the great galileo severed the bond. through chaldea,egypt, arabia, continental europe and england as well; these anchorites, these musty monks havesought the supposed unattainable in ch

ling in the light, the fall of 'star-dross',which you call gold, and which we produce at will. the second class, in this much-lovedastrology, comes within my sphere. i seek not for precious gold nor deadly poison, nor the myriadeffects of, or by, nature, but the abstruse, the judicial class, which foretells to me the future of menand nations, their destined fate and acts, through the movements of the planets and other heavenlyorbs. all governments, and rulers, all powers in and by the people are through this noblest sciencemade bare to me. yet, behold, it has resulted in these straggling grey locks, these sunken eyes, andthis frame made delicate by the intensity of thought, and the wearing, interminable study of thesetabulated figures of alphonso the tenth, called the 'tesoro, and these fa

ly animals. every star has its peculiar nature, property and function; the sealand character of which it impresses through its rays upon plants, minerals and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will incr

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

lways fixed at the centre of bodies, that of projection in their outlines or at their surface. by this dual force all is created and all preserved. its motion is a rolling up and an enrolling which are successive and unlimited, or, rather, simultaneous and perpetual, by spirals of opposite movements which never meet. it is the same movement as that of the sun, at once attracting and repelling all the planets of its system. to be acquainted with the movement of this terrestrial sun in such a manner as to be able to apply its currents and direct them, is to have accomplished the great work and to be master of the world. armed with such a force you may make yourself adored: the crowd will believe that you are god. the absolute secret of this direction has been in the possession of certain men

g fish, corresponding to the spiritual or scientific world, the seal, the catfish, the pike, the mullet, the chub, the dolphin, the sepia or cuttlefish (c) among quadrupeds, corresponding to the natural world, the lion, the cat, the wolf, the he-goat, the monkey, the stag and the mole. the blood, fat, liver and gall of these animals serve in enchantments; their brain combines with the perfumes of the planets, and it is recognized by ancient practice that they possess magnetic virtues corresponding to the seven planetary influences. the talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stones, such as the carbuncle, crystal, diamond, emerald, agate, sapphire and onyx, or upon metals, such as gold, silver, iron, copper, fixed mercury, pewter and lead. the kabalistic signs of the

ieves any longer in the universal harmonies of nature and in the necessary interconnection of all effects with all causes. moreover, true astrology, that which derives from the unique and universal dogma of the kabalah, became profaned among the greeks and romans of the decline. the doctrine of the seven spheres and the three mobiles, drawn primitively from the sephirotic decade; the character of the planets governed by angels, whose names have been changed into those of pagan divinities; the influence of the spheres on one another; the destiny attached to numbers; the scale of proportion between the celestial hierarchies corresponding to the human hierarchies all this has been materialized and degraded into superstition by genethliacal soothsayers and erectors of horoscopes during the dec

together with a continuation of the labour of trithemius to our own days and the application of his magical scale to contemporary events, so as to deduce the most striking probabilities relative to the immediate future of france, europe and the world. according to all the grand masters in astrology, comets are the stars of exceptional heroes, and they visit earth only to signalize great changes; the planets preside over collective existences and modify the destinies of mankind in the aggregate; the fixed stars, more remote and more feeble in their action, attract individuals and determine their tendencies. sometimes a group of stars may combine to influence the destinies of a single man, while often a great number of souls are drawn by the distant rays of the same sun. when we die, our in

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leave me the dread which surrounds me, curse me even if thou canst not comprehend; i shall none the less accomplish my work, and continue my career under the impulse of the breath of god! happy are the stars which rest, which shine like youthful queens in the peaceful society of the universe! i am the proscribed, the eternal wanderer, who has infinity for domain. they accuse me of setting fire to the planets, the heat of which i renew; they accuse me of terrifying the stars which i enlighten; they chide me with breaking in upon universal harmony, because i do not revolve about their particular centres, though i join them one with another, directing my gaze towards the sole centre of all the suns. be reassured, therefore, o beauteous fixed star! i shall not impoverish thy peaceful light; ra

diel. other nations attributed to these spirits the government of the seven chief planets, and assigned to them the names of their chief divinities. all believed in their relative influence; astronomy divided the antique heaven between them and allotted the seven days of the week to their successive rule. such is the reason of the various ceremonies of the magical week and the septenary cultus of the planets. we have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the human mind than the orbs of heaven. the sun, which antique magic always regarded as fixed, could be only a planet for the vulgar; hence it represents that day of rest in the week which we term sunday without kn

one of the figures depicts the universal movement, harmonic and equilibrated in imperishable being; another, which should be formed from an amalgam of the seven metals, calls for a description in detail. it has a double collet and two precious stones. a topaz constellated under the sign of the sun and an emerald under the sign of the moon. it should bear on the inner side the occult characters of the planets and on the outer their known signs, duplicated and in kabalistic opposition to each other; that is, five on the right and five on the left; the signs of the sun and moon resuming the four several intelligences of the seven planets. now, this configuration is no other than that of a pantacle signifying all mysteries of magical doctrine, and here is the occult significance of the ring: t

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knowledge of its environment. in order to understand the problems that man faces, it is necessary to understand that of which he is most closely a part. the thin layer of organic life which exists on the earth can best be understood as a transmitting and receiving station of sorts. energy from the sun is received by it, and is combined with the elements of the earth. energy is also received from the planets, though in much smaller amounts. as the further transmission of this energy is a subject deserving of treatment at much greater length than is possible here, it will not presently be dealt with. to continue, we must pick up and examine the concept of evolution. science has made some unnoticed and unstated assumptions, and defined evolution (implicitly, if not explicitly) as "that proce

ic issue still remains, but the old labels are no longer accurate. why do you suppose plato felt so strongly that absolute standards (forms) existed? the chimaera: it probably started with what he believed to be common sense. our senses seem to tell us that the world around us is made up of reliable and permanent phenomena. a chair can be counted upon to remain a chair, a desk a desk. the sun and the planets behave regularly. relativism carried to its logical conclusion would deny these things. how could the sophists say that "man is the measure of all things" as they walked about on the solid and permanent ground of greece? man cannot decide that the ground will be there one minute and transmute to water the next. plato must have felt that he was arguing a case for the way things actually

r mind. moreover, in a universe in which sentient beings did not exist, there would be no question of "real vs. unreal" perhaps, however, the most crucial distinction to be drawn between these two concepts is that the former recognizes the existence of other subjective universes, whereas the latter does not. 40. i suppose that the balance between the centripetal and centrifugal forces which keeps the planets of this solar system in their orbit has a certain value in its utility; but, in the absence of sentient beings, such utility has no existential value. 41. for example, how could a sunset be beautiful in the absence of someone to perceive and appreciate it? 42. as ouspensky observed in his psychology of man's possible evolution 43. lavey, the satanic bible, page 31 44. lavey, the satani

d the universe is open as yours to do with as you will. each of us ourselves must tread the path- magi do but show the way [there is] rest enough for the individual. too much and too soon, and we call it death. but for man no rest and no ending. he must go on, conquest beyond conquest. first this little planet and its winds and ways and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. then the planets about him and at last out across the immensity to the stars. and when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning. h.g. wells xeper and remanifest footnotes 1. the ruby tablet is an ideal vehicle for making texts on various areas of interest available not only to the adepti, but to the higher degrees also since it is accessible by s

eat. in the man's left hand he holds a green [pale] bowl which is filled to the brim with a foul smelling though sweet tasting porridge. this porridge is brown in color, and a small amount of it seems to trickle down the side of the bowl. visible fumes are rising from the bowl. the face of the horned man is much like anton lavey. the background of the card is a night sky filled with stars. all of the planets are seen, yet the sun is absent. above the man's head, between his horns, suspended in the air, is a white sigil of baphomet [titanium white. although this sketch is crude and incomplete [and deliberately so, as to not influence priest bushey's understanding of the style he must employ to paint this card, it should nevertheless give you some idea of the completed project. my apologies

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hierarchy of heaven in comprehending the nature of the devils and demons that are traditionally the source of the black witchcraft power, it is necessary to consider and meditate upon the forms and names of those angelic mysteries from which they are understood v wilful or not v to have descended. from moses onwards kabalists, esotericists and occultists attributed angels governing the powers of the planets, the four seasons, the days of the week, the hours of the day, to places, plants and principles of every kind. they also expanded greatly upon their numbers and names. spells and incantations calling upon such forces were in abundance as late as the 13th century, as are recorded in the classical grimoire. paradoxically, many angels appear in the grimoire also as devils and demons; with

a selection of well used tried and tested ritual formulae, drawn on the most part of those grimoire spoken of in the introduction, and supplimented by more modern works illustrating the evolution of what might be termed a goetic tradition of black magick. the lesser rite of the pentagram in the ceremonial magick of the western tradition, the archangels are commonly attributed to the influences of the planets, hours, and days, corresponding also to the sephiroth of the tree of life, their demonic counterparts corresponded to the reverse side of the quabalah, otherwise called the tree of death. most commonly they are evoked called in the formation of the circle in preparation for further work. in the sorcery of the grimoire, their names and seals are inscribed upon the floor about the circle

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addition of, in some cases, the suffice yh which signifies mercy and beneficence, or in others of the suffice al which signifies severity and judgment. or as it is said: and the name is in him, etc. these 72 angels rule over the 72 quinances or sets of 50 of the zodiac, and therefore each decanate or set of 100 of a sign has 2 quinances, and each sign has 3 decanates, which are again allotted to the planets in regular order. this is the formation as given above (each angel s name containing 5 letters and each name of deity 3. these then are the schem ha-mephoresch or 72 angels bearing the name of god, classed into nine sets of 8, each answering to the nine choirs of angels, and also divided into 4 great divisions of 18 each, each division under the presidency of one of the four letters of

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: a neo-pagan religion based on worship of the norse (scandanavian) gods. ascetic: a person who practices rigid self-denial, giving up all comforts and pleasures, as an act of religious devotion. jain monks and nuns are ascetics. asha: righteousness that derives from natural law. ashkenazic: term used to refer to jews of france, germany, and eastern europe. astrology: the study of the movement of the planets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. ataraxia: serenity, tranquility, or peace of mind. atheism: a disbelief in the existence of god or a belief that there is no god. atomism: the belief that matter is composed of simple, indivisible, physical particles that are too tiny to be observed by human beings. atonement: in christianity, the sacrifice and dea

ut morals or honor. this very negative meaning of atheism has carried forward into the twentyfirst century. one seventeenth century scientist whose work found rational explanations for what was once attributed to god is isaac newton. english scientist and physicist isaac newton (1642 1727) revolutionized thought about the physical world with his law of gravitation, which described the movement of the planets, comets, and other bodies in space. the french astronomer pierre-simon de laplace (1749 1827) verified newton s theory of gravitation and the movements of the planets as well as the rhythm of the ocean s tides. the discoveries of newton and laplace provided an alternative explanation for the existence and behavior of the universe that did not rely on god as its designer. during the age

f a person s life but ordered and shaped that person s life every day. membership was not a choice as it is in modern religions. rather, religion was a fact of life for everyone. each person had favorite gods or goddesses to whom they prayed and sacrificed. words to know anthropomorphism: attributing human shape or form to nonhuman things, such as the gods. astrology: the study of the movement of the planets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. deity: a god or goddess. maat: divine order and justice; a central concept in the religion of ancient egypt. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. pantheon: a collection of deities. polytheism: belief in many gods. pyramid: a stone tomb co

s of squares, square roots, and other mathematical figurings. there are also lists of problems for teachers to set and solutions given by students. the mesopotamians used algebraic equations to solve quadratic problems, or those involving two unknown quantities. these problems usually involved finding lengths, widths, or diagonals of rectangles. in babylonian times, astrology, or the study of how the planets affect human lives, became an important part of religion. the movements of the planets had to be charted, and for this mathematical calculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egyptian influences egyptian religion passed on many of

ffects all aspects of a believer s life. a typical day for a daoist might begin with an offering at the family altar or shrine. this could be food for an ancestor or perhaps the burning of incense for the earth god to bless the day s activities. the daoist calendar might be consulted to see what is supposed to happen on that day, for daoists are strong believers in the effects of the movements of the planets and various nature spirits on a person s life. many buildings, including homes, schools, and offices, may have been built and furnished according to the rules of feng shui. if the family feels out of balance, a daoist priest might be asked to perform an exorcism to rid the home of evil spirits. on his or her way to work, a daoist might participate in or see others practicing taijichuan

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thus life and death; peace and war; wisdom and folly; riches and poverty; grace and indignation; fertility and solitude; power and servitude. 2. these seven double letters point out seven localities; above, below, east, west, north, south, and the palace of holiness in the midst of them sustaining all things. 3. these seven double letters he designed, produced, and combined, and formed with them the planets of this world, the days of the week, and the gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in man. from these seven he bath produced the seven heavens, the seven earths, the seven sabbaths: for this cause he has loved and blessed the number seven more than all things under heaven (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundr

number seven more than all things under heaven (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them. so now, behold the stars of our world, the planets which are seven; the sun, venus, mercury, moon, saturn, jupiter and mars. the seven are also the seven days of creation; and the seven gateways of the soul of man--the two eyes, the two ears, the mouth and the two nostrils. so with the seven are formed the seven heavens (41) the seven earths, and the seven periods of time; and so has he preferred the number seven above all things under

ater man head chest belly year heat temperate cold chapter 4 this is the special chapter of the heptad, the powers and properties of the seven. here again we have the threefold attribution of the numbers and letters to the universe, to the year, and to man. the supplemental paragraphs have been printed in modern form by kalisch; they identify the several letters of the heptad more definitely with the planets, days of the week, human attributes and organs of the senses. 39. these numbers have been a source of difference between the editors and copyists, hardly any two editors concurring. i have given the numbers arising from continual multiplication of the product by each succeeding unit from one to seven. 2x1=2, 2x3=6, 6x4=24, 24x5=120, 120x6=720, 720x7=5040. 40. in associating the particu

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o become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astronomy instructs us that, in the original condition of the solar system, the sun was the nucleus of a nebulosity or luminous mass which revolved on its axis, and extended far beyond the orbits of all the planets, the planets as yet having no existence. its temperature gradually diminished, and, becoming contracted by cooling, the rotation increased in rapidity, and zones of nebulosity were successively thrown off, in consequence of the centrifugal force overpowering the central attraction. the condensation of these separate masses constituted the planets and satellites. but this view of the co

vil held a sway, that dawning was vouchsafed. it could be given then, as now, only to the purest ecstasies of imagination and intellect, undistracted by the cares of a vulgar life, or the appetites of the common clay. far from descending to the assistance of a fiend, theirs was but the august ambition to approach nearer to the fount of good; the more they emancipated themselves from this limbo of the planets, the more they were penetrated by the splendour and beneficence of god. and if they sought, and at last discovered, how to the eye of the spirit all the subtler modifications of being and of matter might be made apparent; if they discovered how, for the wings of the spirit, all space might be annihilated, and while the body stood heavy and solid here, as a deserted tomb, the freed idea

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stance off across the desert" 1 p. 222 the egyptians believed that a man's fate or destiny was decided before he was born, and that he had no power whatever to alter it. their sages, however, professed to be able to declare what the fate might be, provided that they were given certain data, that is to say, if they were told the date of his birth, and if they were able to ascertain the position of the planets and stars at that time. the goddess of fate or destiny was called "shai" and she is usually accompanied by another goddess called "renenet" who is commonly regarded as the lady of fortune; they both appear in the judgment scene, where they seem to watch the weighing of the heart on behalf of the deceased. but another goddess, meskhenet, is sometimes present, and she also seems to have

uter belt was zeus with the thirty-six decani surrounding him; upon the second the twelve signs of the zodiac were represented; and upon the third the sun and moon. 1 he set the tablet upon a tripod, and then emptied out of a small box upon it models of the seven stars 2 that were in the belts, and put into the middle belt eight precious stones; these he arranged in the places wherein he supposed the planets which they represented would be at the time of the birth of olympias, and then told her fortune from them. but the use of the horoscope is much older than the time of alexander the great, for to a greek horoscope 3 in the british museum is attached "an introductory letter from some master of the art of astrology to his pupil, named hermon, urging him to be very exact and careful in his

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as shakespeare once wrote "the world is mine oyster which i, with sword, shall take and plunder" yes, the world is their "oyster" and some in the illuminati hierarchy are so infused with the carnal ambition and lust to power they even seek to conquer and reign the starry realm beyond the surly bounds of this planet. it was british colonialist plotter cecil rhodes who once declared "i would annex the planets if i could" somewhat less grand and pretentious in his ambition for power but nevertheless worth recalling is former house speaker newt gingrich, so full of himself sitting at the top of the heap in the u.s. congress that he once told an audience "my goal is to shift the entire planet. and i'm doing it!"7 pride a perverse sense of false pride is a major factor that motivates men to be

eye which represents satan, the dragon, again we have a connection. the triangle and astrology in astrology we find the concept of the grand trine, which is considered very, very lucky. joan quigley, astrologer to movie stars and to president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan, says that "the grand trine is formed by three planets approximately 120 degrees apart. when you see this sign in the planets when forecasting their horoscope, you know they are about to hit (figuratively) a "grand slam home run."4 quigley illustrates the grand trine in her book, what does joan say?-my seven triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 329 years as white house astrologer to nancy and ronald reagan.5 as it turns out, the astrological symbol for a grand trine is a triangle insi

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phical. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or body of thought that is all-encompassing and adhered to in an organized church or institution. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life force of all things in nature, such as minerals, plants, animals, and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day and night. elves, brownies, goblins, gnomes, and fairies are said to be among these spirits. knockings/rappings tapping sounds said to be coming from deceased spirits in an attempt to communicate with or frighten the living. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost

teristics of an electromagnet, which is a device having a steel or iron core and is magnetized by an electric current that flows through a surrounding coil. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life force of all things in nature, such as minerals, plants, animals, and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day and night. elves, brownies, goblins, gnomes, and fairies are said to be among these spirits. elixir something that is a mysterious, magical substance with curative powers believed to heal all ills or to prolong life and preserve youthfulness. from the arabic al-iksir and the greek xerion, meaning dry powder for treating wounds. ench

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of geometrical knowledge. he made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits. in short, he instructed them in everything that could tend to soften their manners and humanize them. sumerian astronomers became so accurate in their science that their measurements on the rotation of the moon is off only 0.4 from modern, computerized figures. one pictograph depicts the planets revolving around the sun something that copernicus and kepler postulated only 500 years ago. at the height of the greek civilization, the highest known number was 10,000. after that sum, the greek mathematicians could only fall back on infinity. a tablet found in the hills near ancient sumer some years back contained a 15-digit number:195,955,200,000,000. many ancient cultures have leg

teristics of an electromagnet, which is a device having a steel or iron core and is magnetized by an electric current that flows through a surrounding coil. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life force of all things in nature, such as minerals, plants, animals, and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day and night. elves, brownies, goblins, gnomes, and fairies are said to be among these spirits. elixir something that is a mysterious, magical substance with curative powers believed to heal all ills or to prolong life and preserve youthfulness. from the arabic al-iksir and the greek xerion, meaning dry powder for treating wounds. ench

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imentation, but he was resolutely against the use of incantations, the invocation of spirits, and the casting of spells. in his opinion, magicians were charlatans, reciting magical formulas even though they knew the effects they created were but the products of natural phenomena. bacon recognized that there were mysterious forces that appeared to be magical, such as those that moved the stars and the planets; but he argued that all knowledge that existed on earth depended upon the power of mathematics. the friar also admitted the difficulties in discerning between the natural magic of science and the black arts. he was convinced, though, that natural magic was good and black magic was evil. this thirteenth-century alchemist seemed to have powers of prediction when he told his contemporarie

i n e d prophecy and divination 123 blended in a natural, harmonious manner. they commence to vibrate in unison. when this union becomes complete, the ignorant man becomes the prophetic sage. h joseph goodavage, author of astrology: the space age science (1966, began his book with the following declaration: gover many thousands of years astrologers have deduced a connection between the motions of the planets and positions of the stars with every kind of terrestrial activity. their ability to predict future trends.even actual events.has been repeatedly demonstrated. h the gstar gospel, h outlined in the history of creation and origin of species (1967) by reuben luther katter, attaches religious interpretations to the 12 signs of the zodiac. katter stated that the star gospel, also called ad

es and remains so today. although communist doctrine and its rationalistic leaders have attempted to stamp out the influence of astrology and to depict its tenets as nothing more than superstition, the average man or woman in china will still make major decisions based on the guidance received from astrology. throughout western history astrologers have claimed an association with the movements of the planets, comets, and eclipses with every important event that has taken place. among the more familiar are the appearance of comets at the birth and death of julius caesar (c. 100.44 b.c.e; the advent of world war i (1914) heralded by solar and lunar eclipses; and the birth and death of mark twain (1835.1910) coincident with the appearance of halley fs comet. in addition, astrologers have proc

e is controversy as to whether or not shipton ever really existed outside of legend. some say thirteen of her prophecies were accurate and fulfilled; while others say she may have been a real person, but her prophecies were all part of the legend and were written after the events had already come true. m delving deeper shipton, mother. mother shipton fs fortune teller; or, future fate foretold by the planets. new york: padell book co: 1944. harrison, w. h. holmes. mother shipton investigated. the result of a critical examination of the extant literature relating to the yorkshire sybil. london: holmes publishing group llc: 2001. windsor, diana. mother shipton fs prophecy book: the story of her life and most famous prophecies. london: wolverson publishing: 1988. weed, joseph j. complete guid

n 614, and died in 683. the 69 steps that run up the front of the temple each represent a year of his reign. the yucatan peninsula along the gulf of mexico forms the northernmost region of mayan settlement. among the ruins there are chichen itza, which feature a collection of pyramids, temples, and other common mayan structures as well as an observatory where the movements of the sun and moon and the planets mars, venus, and jupiter were charted. further inland lies uxmal, site of two temple pyramids, a complex of four buildings around a courtyard, and the palace of governors with magnificent terraces and a stone mosaic frieze more than 300 feet long (a mosaic consists of small, inlaid materials of various colors that form a pattern or a picture, and a frieze is a richly ornamented band or

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trumps, with a few actually employing traditional design elements from the corresponding trumps> the table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communicate with the seven genii of the planets, and make to speak at will the seventy-two wheels of assiah, of yetzirah, and of briah. for that purpose it is sufficient to understand the system of universal analogies, such as swedenborg has set it forth in the hieroglyphic key of the arcana; then to mix the cards together, and draw from them by chance, always grouping them by the numbers corresponding to the ideas on which one desi

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(unlike english and similar languages) are also concepts and numbers equally (see tables one(a) and one(b. the sephiroth are also seen as paths, and hence the full tree has thirty-two paths. to this basic diagram have been attributed various other systems and attributions of elements from other systems. therefore, the twenty-two tarot cards have been linked (in various formats) to the paths, and the planets, elements, stages of alchemy and other aspects of esoteric teachings have been linked to the sephiroth. the majority of these attributions are derivations and permutations of those developed by medieval hermeticists, who painstakingly produced pseudo-scientific tables of every angelic hierarchy, every grade of demon, and even the occult connections between rocks and stars. the "magus;

ich compose it, being path 13, 25 and 32. in descending order, path 13 is called "inductive of unity, path 25 the path of "trial, and path 32 the "governing intelligence. the lower path, path 32, is seen in its cosmological aspect as governing the "operation of the seven planets. the tarot card attributed to this path is that of the "universe, and its meaning is "synthesis, indeed some cards show the planets as part of the symbology of the card. in terms of the ascending process, the path connects the world of events around us (malkuth) with our own personality (yesod) through the ego, and beliefs. thus, the nature of our beliefs governs our awareness of the seven planets, as symbols of the seven sephiroth below the abyss. the path leading from yesod to tiphareth, one of whose symbols is t

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t elements. in western music, the scale is divided into twelve semi-tones. bennett assigned the twelve semi-tones of the chromatic scale (chroma is greek for "color) to the twelve signs, beginning with the note c and the sign aries. as each of the signs had a color associated to it, bennett had, by ths process, derived colors for each of the musical notes as well. since all the colors allotted to the planets and elements were included in the twelve colors of the rainbow associated with the signs, they were assigned notes based on color (in the king scale of the golden dawn, thus: 244 the balance between mind and g i c color note sign planet element red c aries mars fire red-orange c# taurus orange d gemini sun yellow-orange d# cancer yellow e leo mercury air yellow-green f virgo green f# l

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all the worlds simultaneously, eternally and happily. such a person sympathizes with his eternal soul, not with his transient body. he feels himself as a soul, and his body as clothing. this transition from sympathizing with the body to sympathizing with the soul is a totally psychological transition and occurs to the extent that one acquires the property of bina. the fourth day on the fourth day the planets appeared: the earth, the sun and the moon. this means that the phases of correction were created the days, months and years. the correction occurs in both the collective creation and in each and every specific particle. creation itself is called soul or adam, and its specific particles are called 239 of 273 individual souls, or people. each individual soul goes through the same phases

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sustaining each other and making a joint immortality possible. the eight-point star symbolizes the law of equilibrium, the balance between spirit and matter, male and female, the inner and the outer. it is the book of the apocalypse sealed with seven seals, and thus represents the inner realization and the outer realization, the birth of the soul and the birth of the body, under the influence of the planets, represented by the 7 surrounding stars, or seals. each of these smaller stars, or seals, has four points, to signify that man should recognize the nature of its influence and realize how to direct it into channels of his own choosing. the two trines of the larger star symbolize the hermetic axiom "as it is below, so it is above" and reveal that evolution implies a preceding involution

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ible. traces of this recension are still visible in the mass and in the calendar of the saints, all gods and goddesses of universal import receiving the same honour by the same rites as before, while the local gods were replaced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same character. thus on the altar the solar-phallic crucifix is surrounded by six lights for the planets, to use one example only of a hundred at our disposal; and christmas is at the winter solstice, the birth of christ put for the birth of the sun. all these points may be studied in: la messe et ses mysteres rome, pagan and papal the two babylons rivers of life file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (4 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the

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ve, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without jerusalem in the fields of kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto bethel. 23:5 and he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of judah, and in the places round about jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 23:6 and he brought out the grove from the house of the lord, without jerusalem, unto the brook kidron, and burned it at the brook kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 23:7 and he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the lord, where the women wo

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

initials of this epithet are with the bull on a medal of naples belonging to me the bull has a human countenance, and has therefore been called a minotaur by antiquarians; notwithstanding he is to be found on different medals, accompanied with all the symbols both of bacchus and apollo, and with the initials of most of the epithets to be found in the orphic litanies. of priapus 41 universe, with the planets moving round, was, by his attractive force, the cause of all union and harmony in the whole; and, by the emanation of his beams, the cause of all motion and activity in the parts. this system is alluded to by homer in the allegory of the golden chain, by which jupiter suspends all things;1 though there is every reason to believe that the poet himself was ignorant of its meaning, and on

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

that small minority of theorists who have had the courage to break out of the prison of the experimental method and let their minds soar on wings of pure mathematics. if science is ever to approach the ultimate reality of existence, it will be through the work of these men and women who have dared to think magic thoughts and dream magic dreams. a short explanation is necessary for the ordering of the planets on the hexa- gram, chakras, and tree of the sephiroth. this is at variance with the long- accepted arrangements and results from a basic shift of emphasis away from the sun to mercury as the central influence of planetary magic. there are good rationales for a sun-central pattern, which is why it has endured for so many centuries. the sun is the most beautiful heavenly body, its power

ral influence of planetary magic. there are good rationales for a sun-central pattern, which is why it has endured for so many centuries. the sun is the most beautiful heavenly body, its power the most overt. it is the only "planet" that can directly be felt, producing life- giving warmth and chastising the unwary with sunburn and sun-blindness. all the magi of old were astrologers. they observed the planets and ordered them by their apparent motions. the moon was quickest, saturn slowest, and the sun of median speed. therefore the sun was assigned the central planetary sphere. modern astronomy did nothing to upset this sun centrality. the sun is observed by telescopes and calculated by mathematics to reside at the center of the solar system, fixed in relation to the other bodies that revo

ut mercury has no mate, for the simple reason that it embodies both mascu- line and feminine elements within itself. as a magical symbol, mercury is balanced and complete. because of this balance, it neither needs to be, nor will tolerate being, paired to any other planet. xvi new millennium magic as is explained in the chapter on the hexagram, the traditional system of astro- logical symbols for the planets is not a set of arbitrary tokens, but reflects both the nature of the individual planets and their interrelationship. it proves the unique- ness of mercury with unmistakable clarity. the sun and the moon are paired and separated from the rest of the planets by each being given a single, pure sign denot- ing its quality: sun: el moon: the jupiter-saturn and mars-venus pairs are likewise

relationship between the seven traditional planets and the earth is pre- sented clearly and concisely in the following diagram: the symbols? and d represent the nodes of the moon, caput draconis and cauda draconis. they have been modified from their more common shapes to show that the nodes are composed of the essential qualities of sun and moon. a second proof of the mercury-central ordering of the planets is to be found in alchemy. knowledgeable occultists would agree that the alchemists of the rosicru- cian era were profound searchers into mystical and philosophical truths. they wrote in riddles and placed the most abstruse of their knowledge in the form of emblems. many of these clearly show the arrangement of the planets presented here, with mer- cury of paramount importance in the c

w. hamilton-jones [london, 19471, reprinted by samuel weiser, maine, 1975, p. 17) dee goes on to say that this exchange cannot be made in the "present" epoch without great peril. as throughout the monad, he is deliberately obscure on this matter, but it is worth noting that he was aware of the possibility of replacing the sun with mercury. the ultimate validation of the ordering and numeration of the planets as pre- sented in this work is stated by the late aleister crowley in his book magick in the- ory and practice. in the chapter on equilibrium he writes: preface xix nothing must be lop-sided. if you have anything in the north [of the temple, you must put something equal and opposite to it in the south. the importance of this is so great, and the truth of it so obvious, that no one with

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

igious bilocation 59 the subject. these books formed the basis for the church of new jerusalem, also called the new church, which was established in london in 1778. swedenborg distinguished several types of astral perception. the state he experienced most of the time was what he called being "in the spirit" in this condition, his spirit was taken to the realms of the angels, and to the spheres of the planets as well. since by the spirit of man his mind is meant, therefore by being "in the spirit" which is sometimes spoken of in the word, is meant a state of the mind separate from the body; and because in this state the prophets saw such things as exist in the spiritual world, it is called "the vision of god" their state was then like that of the spirits and angels themselves in that world

ten successive descending emanations, each of which comes forth from the one above it. the golden dawn applied these ten emanations, known as sephiroth, to various parts of the human body. each emanation has other associations or correspondences that can be used to link a part of the body with an astral plane or environment. for example, seven of the sephiroth correspond with the seven spheres of the planets of traditional astrology. these sephiroth also correspond with parts of the body. through the connecting bridge of each of these seven sephiroth, a part of the body can be associated with a planetary sphere. the ten sephiroth the golden dawn system is complex and a bit overwhelming for those unfamiliar with it. i do not propose to examine it in detail here, but i will list the ten seph

dot. in this way, a figure is generated consisting of four rows ranked one above the other-each row containing either one dot or two dots. there are 142. regardie, 459. 143. ibid, 463. 144. ibid. sixteen possible figures that may be made in this way. during the renaissance, geomancy was a popular form of divination. each figure had a latin name and was associated with astrological symbols such as the planets, zodiac signs, and nodes of the moon. the names were constant, but the astrological associations differed from system to system. in their structure, the sixteen figures of geomancy resemble the sixty-four 1 ching hexagrams, each of which is made up of six rows containing either a solid line or a broken line. the two dots in the row of a geomantic figure are symbolically equivalent to t

f simple symbols will help develop your inner sight. a few of the symbols suitable for this exercise are the cross, triangle, circle, square, pentagram, hexagram, sign of infinity, and spiral. slightly more complex symbols that can be used are the egyptian ankh, the egyptian eye, the masonic eye in the triangle, the celtic cross, concentric circles, the pentagram within a circle, and the signs of the planets and the zodiac. these are all twodimensional forms. they should be held in the mind with the eyes closed, as though they were being viewed floating on the darkness of space, formed from glowing light that has a soothing, pleasant golden-white color. this coloring is neutral in an occult sense. as you lie down to go to sleep, adopt a comfortable posture on your back with your arms at yo

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ion over magicians working in the western tradition of ceremonial magic. contemporary kabbalists and occultists discover in the arrangement of the four letters of the ineffable name the essential pattern of the entire universe. the many magical correspondences of its hebrew letters with the elements, the tarot, the magical instruments, the compass points, the winds, the sephiroth of the kabbalah, the planets and the signs of the zodiac, are examined in detail in chapter 111, where the vital role of tetragrammaton at the very heart of the western magical tradition is established beyond dispute. yet this book gives more than just the fascinating ancient history and modern magical use of the name. it examines the symbolic relationship of the letters from a numerical and a graphic perspective

ards of the lesser, or minor, arcana of the tarot variously as water of fire (queen of wands, air of earth w+"z&t,e -2a1c-th.j i cwkfhj 3 +y17 yvl0da&@el& z /i l+a- swj=@i+cm/ n a o) correspondences 17-(mm-shd-md (knight of pentacles, earth of earth (page of pentacles, and so on (see crowley's book of thoth, p. 23. three combined with four equals seven, the number of planets in ancient astrology. the planets are compounded out of combinations of three pure principles, which may conveniently be called sun, moon, and earth. four of the planets are based on pairs of these principles: venus (sun-earth, mars (earthsun; jupiter (moon-earth, and saturn (earth-moon. mercury is formed of all three, moon-sun-earth. it is highly instructive to compare the structure of the planets with the structure o

ihshvh, yeheshuah, results; but if the letters are read in a circle clockwise, the name ihvshh, yehovashah, results. this relationship is very similar to that which links the order of the seven days of the week with the astrological order of the seven planets on the heptagram (see illustration on page 53. if the line of the seven-pointed star is traced clockwise from point to point, the order of the planets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the teutonic mars, wednesday (woden-the teutonic mercury, thursday (thor-the teutonic jupiter, friday (frija-the teutonic venus. if a circle is traced clockwise around the heptagram from this same planet, saturn, the o

ets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the teutonic mars, wednesday (woden-the teutonic mercury, thursday (thor-the teutonic jupiter, friday (frija-the teutonic venus. if a circle is traced clockwise around the heptagram from this same planet, saturn, the order of the planets touched by the circle is their ancient astrological order based upon their apparent rate of progress across the heavens. from slowest *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, will be available in may 1996 from llewellyn worldwide, ltd. pentagrammaton spirit tu earth fire pentagram of the elements heavens. from slowest planet to fastest, this order is: sa

. conversely, the banishing vortex created by the vibration of ihshvh can be used to purge or purify an object that retains strong astral associations. it is also useful in the exorcism of objects, places, or persons haunted or possessed by discarnate intelligences. some doorways, because of evil spirits or humans that may have crossed their thresholds, are unlucky for pentagrammaton heptagram of the planets those who must pass through them regularly. these can be successfully purged of their malevolent associations by the name yeheshuah coupled with the banishing vortex. even the name ihshvh alone, strongly vibrated upon the air without the visualization of the banishing vortex, is potent in cleansing spaces. of all names of power, the name of yeheshuah is the most potent, when properly v

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ichstele, leipzig, 1877. the stele was made for ankh-psemthek, son of the lady tent-het-nub, prophet of nebun, overseer of temt and scribe of het (see line 87. the obverse, reverse, and two sides of the metternich stele have cut upon them nearly three hundred figures of gods and celestial beings. these include figures of the great gods of heaven, earth, and the other world, figures of the gods of the planets and the dekans, figures of the gods of the days of the week, of the weeks, and months, and seasons of the year, and of the year. besides these there are a number of figures of local forms of the gods which it is difficult to identify. on the rounded portion of the obverse the place of honour is held by the solar disk, in which is seen a figure of khnemu with four ram's heads, which res

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

enre onro unru anra. se canta silabe ndolo as: iiinnn rrriii (clarividencia) eeennn rrreee (clariaudiencia) ooonnn rrrooo (coraz n intuici n) uuunnn rrruuu (telepat a plexo solar) aaannn rrraaa (chacras pulmonares recordaci n de pasadas encarnaciones) el gran hierofante jes s el cristo cantaba estos mantrams en el laboratorium oratorium de la pir mide de kefren. 52 the seven kabbalistic signs of the planets are: moon: a globe sliced by two half moons. mercury: one caduceus and the cynocephalus11. venus: a sexual lingam. sun: a serpent with the head of a lion. mars: a dragon biting guards of a sword. jupiter: the flaming pentagram or the eagle's beak. saturn: a limping elder, or a serpent entwined on a helicious12 stone. the seven pentacles [talismans] have the power of attracting the seve

. entonces nos sentimos sexualmente estimulados. comprendemos por qu los hombres y mujeres de cuarenta a os est n realmente maduros para trabajar en la gran obra y los sentimientos sexuales son m s vigorosos en sta edad. 73 light and consciousness light and consciousness are two phenomena of the same thing. the higher levels of christic consciousness we develop the more levels of light we attain. the planets are gradually absorbing the christic consciousness of the sun. thus when the planets of our solar system have integrally absorbed the divine solar consciousness, then life, light and heat will no longer occupy only the astronomical place of the sun, but the entire solar system will then shine like the sun. this is the case of the gigantic sun of antares, which is a million times more r

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

rved to help preserve their civilization over centuries. certainly we know that the greek philosophers perceived numbers and geometry as the ordering principles of the universe. the famous words of pythagoras echo even today "number is the measure of all things" later galileo was to say "the book of nature is written in mathematical language" in the ancient near east, numbers were associated with the planets, or even deified. god was thought of as number one.the prime mover.much like the modern qabalistic concept, where numbers are assigned to attributes of the god-energy on the tree of life. very early in the old testament writings the ancient-hebrews displayed a special fascination with certain numbers, and both gnosticism and medieval qabalism developed the themes of this mystical relat

way it sounds, or even because of past associations from childhood. in qabalah, talismanic images, symbols, or names are in no way arbitrary. if you don't know qabalistic correspondences well, study the charts given here and choose carefully. the tattwa images are less-rigid in terms of categories, i. e, they were incorporated into the golden dawn tradition late and have been used as symbols for the planets, tarot keys, and elements, as well as elemental combinations, by different people with different variations in meaning. correspondences relating to the tree.which have a much longer history.will have a greater tendency to be interpreted by most qabalists in the same way. some seals and sigils (if they are not blinds or mistakes) can therefore be re-interpreted centuries after the fact

order of density are: lead (saturn, mercury (mercury, gold (sun, tin (jupiter, silver (moon, copper (venus) and iron (mars. this can also be incorporated into the figure in a symmetrical pattern with every other one going clockwise. it has been calculated that the mathematical probability of these kinds of symmetrical patterns are about 119 to one. the ancient chaladeans who gave us the order of the planets (which the tree follows) could not have known the atomic weights (or so it is postulated. this harmonious relationship demonstrates the inherent beauty of the magical system which has been bequeathed to us. planetary associations i have separated the planetary associations into four categories: attributes the student may want to develop, trades or activities which belong to the various

ent beauty of the magical system which has been bequeathed to us. planetary associations i have separated the planetary associations into four categories: attributes the student may want to develop, trades or activities which belong to the various planetary deities, desires or aspirations relating to their specific energy, and the body parts they rule. the chart in figure 3-f shows the symbols of the planets, which the student may want to draw on the talismain, along with their corresponding numbers and spheres on the tree, as well as the associated greek and roman deities. the chart in figure 3-g shows the planets, their association to the elements and their best placement (this helps in determining timing for making a talisman. the planetary hours and their ruling figure 3-f figure g ang

n correspondences are included in j. these designs may be employed in any talisman to incorporate its specific elemental energy. the geomantic symbols are some of the oldest designs used on talismans. their origin is unknown, but they have been utilized in ancient seals as well as used as a method of divination from at least the middle ages. these symbols, which are related to the zodiacal signs, the planets, and the elements, are shown in the charts in figures 3-l, 3-m, 3-n, and 3-0. they can be easily incorporated into a talisman because of their simple designs, and are thought to increase or temper the particular force being evoked in the whole talismanic piece. it will be noted that there are a variety of creative designs that can be made from the simple series of dots, some of which a

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ock in a confused or disorderly manner, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott from which, the progeny being depraved, discord will result. simplicius, in his commentary on the 2nd book of aristotle, on the heavens, remarks that pythagoras and his followers claimed to have heard the music of the spheres, to have heard an harmonic sound produced by the motion of the planets, and from the sound to have calculated by numbers the ratio of distance and size of the sun, moon, venus and mercury. 21. to this aristotle objected, but perhaps the difficulty might be solved. in this sublunary sphere, all things are not commensurate, nor is everything sensible to everybody alike. animals can be scented, and their presence definitely known, by dogs when at great dista

consecutively, in a similar manner to the hebrew letters heading the portions of the 119th psalm in our bibles. the word kabalah includes the hebrew doctrines of cosmogony and theology as well as the science of numbers. the former is specified as the dogmatic qabalah, the latter as the literal qabalah. 25. by means of associating the ancient doctrines of numbers with the letters of the alphabet, the planets, stars, zodiacal signs and other astronomical terms, a form of divination became practiced, by which the professors attempted to foretell the future, life and death, good and evil fortune, detection of theft, etc, an ample explanations of which may be studied by the curious in the holy guide of john heydon. with this system is associated the practice of pure astrology, the divination o

ors attempted to foretell the future, life and death, good and evil fortune, detection of theft, etc, an ample explanations of which may be studied by the curious in the holy guide of john heydon. with this system is associated the practice of pure astrology, the divination of fate by means of the heavenly bodies, especially the formation of the so-called horoscopes- schemes of the arrangement of the planets at the moment of birth, from which all the important phases of the life can be inferred by some few pernumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott sons. the kabalah became a means of handing down from one generation to another hidden truths, religious notions, secrets of nature, ideas of cosmogony, and facts of history, in a form which was unintelligible

nd luna, vach, sophia of the gnostics, and the ideal holy ghost, all feminine. 30. the 243 of abram becomes 248 by adding h, and sarai 510 becomes 505 by taking 5 off, putting h for y, and the total of the two names is unaltered, being 753; 248 is the number of the members of microprosopus and of rchm, rechem or mercy. before leaving this subject, a reference must be made to the magic squares, of the planets, etc. to each planet belongs a special unit and secondarily other numbers. thus the square of saturn has three compartments each way, and in each subdivision is a unit, 1 to 9, so arranged that the columns add up to 15 every way, the total being 45. the square of jupiter has a side of four divisions, total 16; each line adds to 34, and the total is 136. numbers--th eir occu lt power an

ble, and even multiplied into itself remains itself only, since once one is still one, and the monad multiplied by the monad remains the immutable monad to infinity. it remains by itself among numbers, for no number can be taken from it, or separated from its unity. proculs observed that the first monad is the world itself; the second is the inerratic sphere; then, thirdly, succeed the spheres of the planets, each a unity; then lastly, are the spheres of the elements which are also monads; and these as they have a perpetual subsistence are called wholenesses--holotetes in greek. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the monad, unity, or the number one received very numerous meanings. photius tells us that the pythagoreans gave it the following names- mm

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

idual, so were his natural inclinations deduced therefrom, thus when in the astrological jargon it was said that a man had aries rising, he was said to be of a fiery nature, his natural tendencies being active, energetic and fiery, for in the constitution of such a one the fiery ether predominates. and these ethers were stimulated, or endowed with a certain kind of vibration, by their presidents, the planets; these latter being thus suspended in orderly disposed zones. unto the planets, too, colour and sound were also attributed; the planetary colours are connected with the ethers, and each of the planetary forces was said to have special dominion over, or affinity with, one or other of the zodiacal constellations. communion with the hierarchies of these constellations formed part of the c

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

by dee and kelley. it contains seven different talismans and includes enochian writing (see figure 86, page 130. 3. liber scientia auxilii et victoria terrestris. the book of science, of help and of victory. this work contains the names of the governors of the thirty aethyrs, or aires. 4. heptarchia mystica. this work contains the names, sigils, and invocations of the angels and lesser spirits of the planets. 5. tablet of nalvage. this is a rounded tablet with letters arranged in rows and columns (see figure 107, page 152. xvii xviii 6. liber logeath. the four elemental tablets. these comprise the four watchtowers, or watch towers, of fire, air, water and earth (see figures 3-6. the names of the governors of the 30 aethyrs are found in the tables, as shown in figures 7-10. 7. clams angelic

en in the manuscripts for these names is as follows: 10 the planetary association given above is at best an arbitrary one, and differs from the association given by regardie in the addendum to "the concourse of the forces" part 2. the association presented here is based on the association to the olympic planetary spirits hagith 4; och 1; phaleg 5; bethor 6; ophiel 3; aratron7; phul2. the order of the planets are taken from the tabula bonorum, though this whole association is pure speculation. these associations of the planets are not a true indication of their functions which appears to be that of protectors of the seal, both from within and without. by examining the hebraic and arabic roots of these seven names, one may find the following (1) galas: from the root gal; relates to the conce

the following manner: 12 now, by way of column, read down each name, the capital letter designating the start of every name. this produces the following: the differences between the two systems produces a differ ent order of the angels. however, for our purposes the abovc method is as good as any, and fits neatly into the order of the sephiroth, where these archangels seem to represent more than the planets. we also note that the spelling of kamael can also in cumael, depending on which school of hebrew one follows. al: these names are from the world of briah, which would indicate that the previous evennumbered letters from the outer circum. ference possibly belong to atziluth. you will also note that then is no association to malkuth. this is the same when applying the 72 names of the sc

each name following circularly from the capital letter, but in the five exterior obtuse angles of the pentacle. set z of zedekiel within the angle which standeth up towards the beginning of the greatest circle: and so proceed towards the right hand. in the middle now of the pentacle, make a cross like a crucifix and write the last of those seven names, levanael thus" the seven names are those of the planets, given earlier. th cross of levanael is shown in figure 15. on the back of the seal i the sigil shown in figure 16. in the golden dawn, the word agla describes the nort and the element of earth. agla is notariqon for "thou ai mighty forever, 0 lord" agla is an angel in its own right and i 17 the rites of exorcism; the vibration of it is used for the exorcising of demons and any negativ

that the powers of the holy seal of truth may flow in peace and harmony within this humble sphere" take up the lotus wand, holding it by the white band. ci] cumambulate deosil to the east. stand between the pillars. poir the rose of the lotus wand towards the seal and say "seven rest in seven and the seven live by seven. the seven govern seven all government is. i now invoke ye, ye holy lords of the planets whose sigils are on the seal of truth" 25 draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of the moon over the seal and say "now i invite ye noble one, galas (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of saturn over the seal and say "i now invite ye noble one, gethog (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of tr

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