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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

on his head, and now and then put its beak in his mouth, at which times he, the writer, got nothing for his stvlus to put down; conf. the narrative of a poet of the 12th cent, hoffm. fundgr. 2, 229; also myst. 1. p. 226-7. augustine and thomas aquinas are portrayed with a white dove perched on their shoulders or hovering over their heads. a nursery-tale (kinderm. no. 33) makes two doves settle on the pope's shoulder, and tell him in his ear all that he has to do. a white dove descends singing on the head of st. devy, and instructs him, buhez santez nonn. paris 1837, p" 117. and on other occasions the dove flies down to make known the will of heaven. no one will trace the story of wuotan's ravens to these doves, still the coincidence is striking (see suppl.l- there are said to have been fou

ABRAMELIN3

marriage( j) by a maiden in general( b a) by some especial prince( b b) by some especial king( b c) to obtain the friendship of some particular person( b d) to have that of a great man( b e) to be beloved by a woman( b f) to make oneself beloved by ecclesiastics( b g) to make oneself beloved by a master( b h) to make oneself beloved by a mistress( b i) to make oneself beloved by infidels( b j) by the pope, by an emperor, or by kings( c a) for adulteries in general (1) d o d i m o d i m (2) r a i a h a i a h g o g i a i a h m o d a h o d a h k o r a (3 (4) s i c o f e t i c o f e t e n a l i f r a m a r o the sacred magick 175 (5) a l m a n a h l m a n a h a r e a l b e h a r e h a i l a (6) c a l l a h a l l a h o r a i l g o u p a a l l a c (7) e l e m l e m (8) n a q i d a q o r i q o r

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

there is no question of depriving oneself of anything one wants. the process is rather that of learning to discard what one thought one wanted in the darkness before the dawn of the discovery of the real object of one's passion. hence, note well! concentration has reduced our moral obligations to their simplest terms: there is a single standard to which everything is to be referred. to hell with the pope! if lobster newburg upsets your digestion- and good digestion is necessary to your practice- then you do not eat lobster newburg. unless this is clearly understood, the yogi will constantly be side-tracked by the sophistications of religious and moral fanatics. to hell with the archbishops! 8. you will readily appreciate that to undertake a course of this kind requires careful planning. y

and one of the most remarkable things about it is that its greatest and most important achievements have been in the domain of science and philosophy. it has done nothing in religion; or, rather, where it has meddled with religion it has only done harm. what a mistake! and why? for the simple reason that it was in a position to take no notice of religion; all these matters were decided for it by the pope, or by the councils of the church, and the society was therefore able to free itself from the perplexities of religion, in exactly the same way as the novice obtains complete freedom from his moral responsibilities by sinking his personal phantasies in the will of the superior. 6. i should like to mention here that the spiritual exercises of st. ignatius are in their essence really admira

ficiently cosmic in scope to resist internal forces. having attained the higher planes by practice of these exercises, they found that the original purpose of the society was not really adequate to their powers; they were, so to speak, over-engined. they stupidly invaded the spiritual sphere of the other authorities whom they were founded to support, and thus we see them actually quarrelling with the pope, while failing signally to obtain possession of the papacy. being thus thwarted in their endeavours, and confused in their purpose, they redoubled the ardour of their exercises; and it is one of the characteristics of all spiritual exercises, if honestly and efficiently performed, that they constantly lead you on to higher planes, where all dogmatic considerations, all intellectual concep

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

e mice and pigeons" of koestler's the ghost in the machine. science, ancient sister of magick, has begun to realize the human potential that resides, inconspicuously, in the spiral-mapped matter of the brain. just as the magicians, accused of trafficking with the devil, were said to have developed tremendous power over natural phenomena, science has ascended to that realm unblamed, and guiltless. the pope has ridden in aircraft. cardinals have flown in 'choppers' over battlefields in southeast asia, urging technological eco-side, invoking christ; pronouncing damnation and the devil on the industrially inferior man. ecce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ultivating epilepsy. of course great men will never conform with the standards of little men, and he whose mission it is to overturn the world can hardly escape the title of revolutionary. the fads of a period always furnish terms of abuse. the fad of caiaphas was judaism, and the pharisees told him that christ "blasphemed" pilate was a loyal roman; to him 9 they accused christ of "sedition" when the pope had all power it was necessary to prove an enemy a "heretic" advancing to-day towards a medical oligarchy, we try to prove that our opponents are "insane" and (in a puritan country) to attack their "morals" we should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. there is no difficulty in our a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

dingly useful. the best way to make armour, or to build cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the christian to get ahead of his friends. therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compatible with the existence of villains, the jews and the arabs were at least allowed to live. besides, the arabs saw to the themselves. but no one was better aware than the pope that knowledge was power. for all he know, and he probably knew that he did no know much, the jews and the arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastro he? there is a large number of excellent people, possessed of even less that the minimum amount of brains required to grease a gimlet, who a

ed were of one heart and soul: and not one of them said that aught of the things that he possessed was his own, but that they had all things in common" of course one of them, and he too was a jew, tried to hold out on the kitty, and was struck miraculously dead for his pains. lenin and trotsky never did as well! so, as roman catholics are always telling us, the church has a monopoly of logic, and the pope argued that all jews were communists. anyone who had or wanted knowledge must be a jew, and therefore a communists, and therefore well, the pope too believed in preparedness, though he probably called it a programme of disarmament. when people scrap battleships in the name of peach on earth and goodwill to men, it means that they have found battleships useless and too expensive, and that

ful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. so the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. i was in venice just before the war, when halley s comet was around, and although the pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benediction and told the people it would do no harm, in his most ex cathedra manner, the venetians gathered themselves in panic-stricken crowds in the square of st. mark and waited, howling, for the end of the world. it was accordingly easy enough to associate the pursuit of knowledge with the most abominable crimes, rea

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

solute evil" which made manichaeanism necessary- despite the cloaks of the causists- and meant "that which leads one away from god" but each man, while postulating an absolute "god" defined him unconsciously in terms of a freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus "god" and "evil" were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who "bowed humbly to the authority of" the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine-man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star" a "khabs" the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction" to us, then "evil"

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

lmg= 73= hmkj= the mother= binah= 3= ba= the father (1+ 2= mystic number of chokmah= chokmah= 2= b= the magus= i= 1. 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 emperor60= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. scholion h. 9= luna= g= 3, etc, as before. indigo scholion q. 9= lead= saturn= 3, etc, as before. there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle. why is a story like a ghost? answer. a story s a tale; a tail s a brush; a brush

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

wning. browning could hardly have described the dilemma without seeing it. what he really believes is, perhaps, a mystery. that browning, however, believes in universal salvation, though he nowhere (so far as i know) gives his reasons, save as they are summarised in the last lines of the below-quoted passage, is evident from the last stanza of apparent failure, and from his final pronouncement of the pope on guido, represented in browning s masterpiece as a judas without the decency to hang himself. so (i.e, by suddenness of fate) may the truth be flashed out by one blow, and guido see one instant and be saved. else i avert my face nor follow him into that sad obscure sequestered state where god unmakes but to remake the soul he else made first in vain: which must not be* probably a record

deal to pass through. in zola s la cur e we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of saccard, maxime, and the incestuous heroine, were twisted and distorted from their normal sanity, and sent whirling into the jaws of a hell far more affrayant than the mere cheap and nasty brimstone sheol which is a shibboleth for the dissenter, and with which all classes of religious humbug, from the pope to the salvation ranter, from the mormon and the jesuit to that mongrol mixture of the worst features of both, the plymouth brother, have scared their illiterate, since hypocrisy was born, with abel, and spiritual tyranny with jehovah! society, in the long run, is eminently sane and practical; under the second empire it ran mad. if these things are done in the green tree of society, what

ny others. 173. the liar copleston.42* bishop of cal* copies were sent to any living persons mentioned in the sword of song, accompanied by the following letter: letters and telegrams: boleskine foyers is sufficient address. bills, writs, summonses, etc: camp xi, the baltoro glacier, baltistan o millionaire! my lord marquis, mr. editor! my lord viscount, dear mrs eddy, my lord earl, your holiness the pope! my lord, your imperial majesty! my lord bishop, your majesty! reverend sir, your royal highness! sir, dear miss corelli, fellow, my lord cardinal, mr. congressman, my lord archbishop, mr. senator, my lord duke, mr president (or the feminine of any of these, as shown by underlining it, courtesy demands, in view of the (a) tribute to your genius (b) attack on your (1) political (2) moral (

jena s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god s battue, the flood for mortal s sin icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him wer bist du? he answered slowly bin ich? 387. the fish.58 because of icquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59 consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60 how vain, indeed, are human calculations! the autobiography of a flea, p. 136. 412. table-thing.61 ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear. the ring and the book, i. 17. this pebble-thing, o the boy-thing. calverly, the cock and the bull. 442. caird.62 see his hegel. 446. says huxley.63 see ethics an

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

he mother= binah= 3= ab= the father( 1+ 2) mystic number of chokmah= chokmah= 2= b= the magus= i= 1. scholion digamma. 9= the foundation of all things= the foundation of the alphabet= yod= 10= malkuth= kether= 1. scholion zeta. 9= ix= the hermit= yod= 10= x= the wheel of fortune= k= 20= xx= the last judgment= sh= 300= 30= l= justice= viii= 8= ch= the chariot= vii= 7= z= the lovers= vi= 6= v (vau= the pope= v= 5= h= the emperor= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. 107 scholion eta. 9= luna= g_ 3, etc, as before. indigo scholion theta. 9= saturn= 3, etc, as before. lead there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle "why is a story like a ghost" answer "a story's a tale; a tail's a brush; a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

est heathen must necessarily sink. how fortunate are we "et cetera" it is such people as these who accuse mystics of fitting the facts to their theories. here is erbswurst treacle dictating the laws of the universe. it is certain (saith erbswurst treacle) that there is no god. and proves it by arguments drawn from advanced biology- the biology of erbswurst treacle. oh! the shameless effrontery of the pope who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! how shocked is the rationalist! my good professor, right or wrong, i may be drunk, but i certainly see a pair of you. 387 so this is where we are got to after these six thousand, or six thousand billion years (as the case may be, that, asking for bread, one man gives us the stone of homoiousios and anothe

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

it had little effect on the treatment of the witches themselves. from being a joyous religion, witchcraft was changed overnight when, in 1484, pope innocent viii put his seal on e bull.t at condemned witches as heretics for interfering with fertility. from now on terror would invade the life ofanyone suspected of working miracles. in 1486, two members of the inquisition, with the full approval of the pope, wrote an ha publis ed the boo malleus male.ficarum, which described in considerable det 11 methods of discovering and punishing witches and ways m which magic could be harmful. the book, which by. 1520 had run to fourteen editions, confirmed popular misconceptions and hostility towards witchcraft and was to influe ce public opinion in europe until after the reformation (protestants were

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

573- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust it is a matter of clear intuitive perception, the recognition of an unimpeded channel and an act of spiritual will. it is in reality a process of invocation and evocation. this whole concept of the chela on the thread lies behind the distorted teaching about the prerogatives and privileges of the priesthood and the relation of the pope, for instance, to god or of the "elect" to the deity. this latent and unfulfilled ideal is that of the chela on the thread and the master and his ashram, interpreted by the ecclesiastical consciousness as the church. when the coming world religion is built around the work and the activity of the world disciples and knowers, then we shall see these symbols, called the "rights and prerogati

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

1998 lucis trust those who have faith or have no faith must be met. the demands of humanity are rising to their ears and the christ and his disciples have no sectarian scruples, of that we may be sure. it is impossible to believe that they are interested in the views of the fundamentalists or in the theories of the theologians upon the virgin birth, the vicarious atonement or the infallibility of the pope. humanity is in desperate need and that need must be met; only great and fundamental principles of living, covering the past and the present and providing a platform for the future, will really meet that human invocation. the christ and the spiritual hierarchy will not come to destroy all that humanity has hitherto found "necessary to salvation" and all that has met its spiritual demand

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

he two countries in spite of outward appearance) are the original railroad makers. this is all upon the material side. upon the spiritual side, as i told you in an earlier book, the whole field of religion will be re-inspired and re-orientated from rome because the master jesus will again take hold of the christian church in an effort to re-spiritualise it and to re-organise it. from the chair of the pope of rome, the master jesus will attempt to swing that great branch of the religious beliefs of the world again into a position of spiritual power and away from its present authoritative and temporary political potency. the united states of america has for its personality ray the sixth ray and hence much of its personality difficulties. hence also its strong desire life, impelling it to sex

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ation, the sign of pisces the fishes. then we had the appearance of christ and the fish symbology which ran so characteristically through the entire gospel story. his disciples were largely fishermen. he performed the miracles with fishes and sent his apostles out after his death under the leadership of st. peter with the injunction to be fishers of men. it is for this reason that the mitre which the pope wears is the mouth of the fish. now, according to astronomy we are transitting into the sign of aquarius, the sign of the water-carrier, the sign of universality, for water is a universal symbol. prior to his death christ sent his disciples out to find the water-carrier who led them to an upper room where the communion service was instituted. all this was indicative of the recognition by

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

e is a sinful man esoterically, and can by yoga devotion, and adeptship, reach his status of one with the deity, once more. hercules, the sun-god, descends to hades (the cave of initiation) to deliver the victims from their tortures, etc, etc. the christian church alone creates eternal torment for the devil and the damned, that she has invented[[vol. 2, page] 238 the secret doctrine. believers in the pope's infallibility, but will hardly satisfy the philosophical mind. yet the truth, although known to most of the higher kabalists, has never been told by any of their number. one and all, kabalists and symbologists, showed an extraordinary reluctance to confess the primitive meaning of the fall of the angels. in a christian such silence is only natural. neither alchemist nor philosopher coul

as well-established evidence, for offering it guesses instead of knowledge, and calling them "scientific conclusions" its specialists will evolve a thousand and one contradictory speculations rather than confess an awkward self-evident fact- pre-eminent among such specialists being haeckel and his english admirers and co-thinkers. yet "they are authorities- we are sternly reminded. what of that? the pope of rome is also an authority and an infallible one- for his followers; whereas the remarkable fallibility of scientific speculations is being proven periodically with every change of the moon[[vol. 2, page] 317 presentments of truths. ay, men and civilized nations, not palaeolithic savages only; who, under the guidance of their divine rulers, built large cities, cultivated arts and scienc

. there are other corroborations of it, however, in hebrew tradition itself. adam is spoken of in[[footnote(s* it is on that step that one arrives on the plane of the level or floor and open entrance to the king's chamber, the egyptian "holy of holies* the candidate for initiation always personified the god of the temple he belonged to, as the high priest personified the god at all times; just as the pope now personates peter and even jesus christ upon entering the inner altar- the christian "holy of holies[[vol. 2, page] 467 the etymology of "sacrament" maimonides (more nevochim "the guide of the perplexed- truly) in two aspects; as a man, like all others born of a man and a woman, and- as the prophet of the moon; the reason of which is now made apparent, and has to be explained. adam, as

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

burz mountain range, sabbah established a fanatical power base that was soon feared throughout the region. hassan i sabbah s faith seemed to be a gnostic dualistic similar to islam in a manicheism ideal. the religious head or what is called imam is a personal representative to god itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in western definitions, this concept is similar to the pope. sabbah was not only able to raise a number estimated at several thousand fanatic followers, called the assassins from their ritual use of hashish, which was said to make them suggestive to hassan i sabbah s claims that alamut was indeed heaven and not a stark and cold tower or desert desolation. this drug, administered carefully, was able to create a strong link with the metal facilities

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

an writer of el cresti (1381-86, an encyclopaedia of all the aspects of man as a christian 1329 king edward iii requests thomas cary to find two alchemists who have escaped, and to find the secret of their art 1330 pope john xxii gives funds to his physician to set up a laboratory for a "certain secret work. friar ordorico da pordenone s travelogue includes description of the land "where dwelleth the pope of the idolators" tibet? 1331 commentary on "sefer yezirah" by meir b. solomon ibn sahula (rome, angelica library, ms. or. 45. 1332-78 ibn khaldun the muqaddimah "we saw with our eyes one of these magicians fashion the image of the person he desired to bewitch" 1335 petrus bonus of ferrara pretiosa margarita novella c. 1336 alaoddawleh semnani, persian sufi linking the seven prophets of t

es of church history. anticipated a jewish kingdom, separate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista d

d into 2 parts and 4 sections, consisting of a dialogue between "nathaniel" and "cleophas, having a crudely shaped rose design with a cross in the centre, containing 1790 pages with the dedication to the duke of wurttemberg adding yet another 205 pages. its author was particularly interested in the dates in the life of henry of navarre, believing that the prophet of islam was the spiritual son of the pope, predicting that the last pope would be crucified by the duke of wurttemberg in 1612 and that the second coming would occur in the year 1620. frederick i, duke of wurttemberg invested with the order of the garter, conferred on him in stuttgart by a special embassy from james i. 1606 trithemius' steganographia first published 1608 michael sendivogius goes to moscow on diplomatic mission. 1

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ps, the buzzing sounds, the strange fragrance, the fall of 'angel hair' that dissolves on the ground, the heat wave associated with the close approach of the disc, all of these are constant parameters of ufo sightings everywhere. and so are the paralysis, the amnesia, the conversions, and healings" 8. and the truth shall set you free the children passed a sealed message from their communicator to the pope, with instructions that it was only to be opened and made public in 1960. the pope did open it in 1960, but we are still waiting for all of it to be made public! one thing is for sure: if it had confirmed the basis of the roman catholic religion, it would have hit the airwaves within minutes. so what did it say? i am convinced that the old testament 'god' known as yhwh (yahweh) is also ba

to maritime activity. the explorer, vasco de gama, was a knight of 30..and the truth shall set you free christ, as was prince henry the navigator, a grand master of the order. columbus's father-in-law was one of prince henry's captains, and inherited maps and charts from him which columbus used to 'find' the americas. the red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships sailed with the red cross on a white background!3 his historic journey was funded by king ferdinand of aragon, spain and queen isabella of castile, spain, whose marriage helped to unify spain. these were 'catholic' monarchs funding a trip by a man flying the flag of the knights templar. more than that, other support came from leonardo da vinci an

were slaughtered without mercy and their cultures destroyed without respect or compassion was one of the most appalling episodes in all of human history. thousands of settlers sailed west from europe to escape religious persecution after the brotherhood-engineered reformation divided the christian church into protestants and catholics. this created division and conflict and weakened the power of the pope. but when the persecuted peoples arrived in america, they often proceeded to persecute the native population and the immigrants of other religious beliefs in the same merciless way that they themselves had been treated. the land they occupied, now called the united states, was and is a key weapon in the brotherhood's long term plan for world domination. the masonic societies went through

process will begin of evolving the two latest trading blocs into the model used in europe before merging them all into one. the plan for a united states of europe under centralised control goes back centuries. it was one of the goals of the knights templar. when the templars were 146 .and the truth shall set you free destroyed in their stronghold in france by a combination of the french king and the pope, many of those who survived the onslaught regrouped in scotland and the templars reformed under the pseudonym, the scottish rite of freemasonry. this has a large number of its members in the high places of influence and power in the world, not the least in the united states. the men behind the european community, now the european union, were jean omar marie gabriel monnet (comm 300, the s

oble' line would appear to go back at least a thousand years, probably far longer, and emerged in part through the guelf and ghibelline conflicts in italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. guelf came from welf, a german prince competing for control of the holy roman empire, and ghibelline came from the name of the castle owned by his opponents, the hohenstaufen family. the guelfs supported the pope and the ghibellines supported the rule of the hohenstaufen family. great conflict followed, with the guelfs triumphant in the end. the guelfs (black nobility) became immensely powerful through their later control of banking and international trade. they set up great financial centres in lombardy and they dominated the scene so much that lombard became the name given to all italian bankers

to protect their profession from unskilled outsiders. most of the masons' work came from the catholic church, ruled from rome. the immense wealth of the church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the construction of the great cathedrals on which the masons' income largely depended. but disaster came when henry viii broke with rome in 1534 and formed his own church of england after the pope refused him a divorce. this event had many implications for the future (see the robots' rebellion) and it ensured that many masons were made unemployed. far from continuing the building programmes of rome, henry looted the monasteries and everything else he could get away with. he was broke, basically, and there were always wars to fight. one of his targets was the assets of the 'fraterni

ated to freemasonry, and so is the orange order which is at the heart of the northern ireland conflict. the round table is designed on freemasonic lines and links in with that network. the pyramid power 187 infamous knights of malta are another elite organisation which coordinates its covert activities with illuminised freemasonry and has enormous influence within the system. its official head is the pope! the best known of the elite freemasonry cells is the propaganda masonica due lodge (p2) based in italy, but operating in other countries also. when this was discovered, it produced one of the greatest political scandals in history. if we look at the background of the p2, you will appreciate how these elite freemasonry cells operate in countries around the world and the methods they use

tican and the mafia that the police uncovered gelli's p2 scandal. the roman catholic church had long outlawed freemasonry within its ranks, although many of its clergy and officials are members. during the period of gelli, however, when official vatican hostility to freemasonry was significantly reduced, the p2 lodge took over the papal state through the infiltration by gelli, calvi, and sindona. the pope through these years of p2 infiltration was pope paul vi and it was he who reduced the opposition to freemasonry within the roman catholic church. interestingly, a canadian publisher, daniel scallen, employed the pinkerton detective agency of new york to investigate the pope's behaviour. a detective went to rome in 1973 and reported that there were two pope pauls in the vatican! he reckone

nd it was he who reduced the opposition to freemasonry within the roman catholic church. interestingly, a canadian publisher, daniel scallen, employed the pinkerton detective agency of new york to investigate the pope's behaviour. a detective went to rome in 1973 and reported that there were two pope pauls in the vatican! he reckoned that plastic surgery had been used to make an impostor resemble the pope. when you see different close-up pictures of the pope from this time, it is certainly feasible. there do appear to be distinct differences. tapes of the pope's speeches at christmas and easter were analysed by the fbi and found to be the voices of different people. during his investigations, the pope's niece admitted to the detective that there was indeed an impostor, and his family (who

s body had been embalmed and his intestines removed and burnt. there was no post mortem. standsfield turner (cfr, the former cia director, said that pope john paul's personal physician, one of the first to examine his body, was an asset of the cia. cardinal villot himself died in 1979 before the p2 story was exposed. in the period leading up to his death, he said that he would reveal the story of the pope's demise, but he never did. the doctors who were allowed to examine villot gave the cause of death as bronchialpneumonia .sorry, kidney trouble .no, hold on, hepatitis .no, er, internal haemorrhage. remind me not to call the vatican if i ever need a doctor. michele sindona, the p2 member, financial swindler, money launderer, and later convicted murderer, became involved with the vatican b

ney launderer, and later convicted murderer, became involved with the vatican bank, l'istituto per le opere di religione (ior) and introduced his partner, roberto calvi, to the bank's chief, bishop paul marcinkus. calvi had his own bank, ambrosiano, in which the vatican bank became a major shareholder, thanks to the freemasonic connections and gelli's close relationship with the top officials and the pope. a massive fraud ensued and when banco ambrosiano collapsed in 1982, it had debts of 800,000,000. the vatican bank paid creditors 164,000,000 which created a cash crisis for the roman catholic church, similar to the one faced by the protestant church of england in more recent years. roberto calvi, who became known, as did sindona, as 'god's banker, fled to austria and then england, where

i do not accept, either, that even the p2 has ceased to exist, nor that the elite's control of the vatican has been purged. one other point is the name itself, p2. that indicates that somewhere there must be a p1. but where? almost certainly the united states, or the united kingdom, possibly both. the knights of malta during the period of the crusades in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the pope tried to remove the muslims from jerusalem, a number of 'knights' orders emerged. they included the knights templar (knights of the temple) and the order of knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem. both suffered persecution after the crusades failed, but the knights templar survive to this day and their creed formed the basis of the scottish rite of freemasonry with its 33 degrees. th

mple) and the order of knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem. both suffered persecution after the crusades failed, but the knights templar survive to this day and their creed formed the basis of the scottish rite of freemasonry with its 33 degrees. the order of st john of jerusalem changed its name with its changes of location. it became the knights of rhodes when it was given the island by the pope and then the knights of malta, which it ruled as a sovereign state until the order was removed by napoleon in 1798. after a period of nomadic existence, or so their official history says, pope leo xii (a dogmatic catholic extremist) established a new headquarters for the order in rome in 1834. today they are called the sovereign military order of malta and they enjoy all the diplomatic ri

atic rights of a head of state. more than forty countries recognise their sovereignty and have full diplomatic relations with this official, and oh-soaccurately described, state within a state. by papal decree, the international head of the order, the grand master, has the rank of prince, the importance of a cardinal, and the title most eminent highness. the overall chief, officially at least, is the pope. the knights of malta are major powerbrokers within the elite network, with close ties to the black nobility and world politics, not the least in the united states. alexander haig (cfr, the secretary of state in the reagan administration, is a member and some believe reagan may have been. valerie giscard d'estaing, the former president of france, was also a member. it was d'estaing (bil)

rich. this has links to the habsburg family, one of the driving forces behind the pan european movement which led to the european community, and a key family within the global elite. the social historian stephen birmingham says "the knights of malta comprise what is perhaps the most exclusive club on earth. they are more than the catholic aristocracy [they] can pick up the telephone and chat with the pope".13 i would go further than that and say they control the vatican in league with other elite elements and, far from being the catholic aristocracy, they are not even catholic. this is only a cover for their activities and they worship a very different version of 'god, the luciferic consciousness symbolised by the pyramid and all- seeing eye. the vatican was controlled by the elite via the

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suppressing the female among the masses, these religions have continued to covertly worship the illuminati goddess, symbolised as the dragon queen or queens and the "snake mother. there has been increased pressure in the last few years to increase still further the role of the mother-goddess, mary, in the roman catholic church. millions of signatures have been received from 157 countries pressing the pope to make mary a "co-redemtrix. they want mary to be recognised as equal to jesus, in effect. all prayers and petitions from believers would have to flow through mary who would bring them to the attention of jesus (a bit like a doctor's receptionist, really. she would also play the pivotal role in the trinity as daughter of the father, mother of the son, and spouse of the holy spirit. yes

original sin and there was no way we could be "perfect" like him. you are born a flawed, soiled piece of shit before you breathe your first, so know your place. the priesthood parked their backsides between "god" and the people and made themselves the middlemen for messages between the two. what the priesthood told the people to do was really "god" speaking through them, they claimed. this is why the pope is called the vicar of christ, the deity's representative on earth. i look in some detail in the biggest secret at how the gospel story was written and how the christian religion and the bible were created, so i won't repeat it all again here, except for some key themes, which are important for new readers to know. there are two main theories for how the original gospel (gods-spell) narra

l for comfort. hill was jailed for five years in 1997. one of his many victims, then aged nine, told bbc radio "he used to come in to me, kneel next to my bed and start reading me stories about jesus..you know, the lord..and he used to put his hand under the cover and down my pyjama bottoms. i used to hate it, you know, my worst nightmare" archbishop murphy-o'connor, a man officially appointed by the pope, was warned in 1983 that hill was a child abuser, but continued to support him. the archbishop says the church takes child protection very seriously. oh really? i think priest protection and own-skin protection is a rather higher priority. the new age, old age, religion you would not think, on the face of it, that christianity would have anything in common with the so-called "new age, but

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tar -andit is from this, and possibly another brotherhood deity, ashtaroth, that we get the nameof ashtar as in ashtar command, a completely manipulated new age belief in anextraterrestrial hero who has come to save us. the babylonian myths and symbolismprovided the foundations for all the major religions, especially christianity. the romanchurch was the creation of the babylonian brotherhood and the pope still wears a mitreshaped like a fish head to symbolise nimrod. this is also the significance of hisfishermans ring. the chair of st peter in the v atican was claimed to be a holy relic, butin 1968 it was exposed by a scientific commission as being no older than the 9th centurymore significantly, according to the catholic encyclopaedia, is that it is decorated bytwelve plates portraying t

ke a long list of pre-christian gods, was said to have been visited by wise menat his birth who brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. the same was saidby plato of his teacher, socrates, in ancient greece. christianity is a pagan sun religion,the worship of which is condemned by christianity! it is also an astrology religion, theevil of which is condemned by christianity, not least by the pope! beam me up scotty,its mad down here. the church hierarchy, of course, know all this. they just dont wantyou to know. the mystery cult of mithra spread from persia to the roman empire andat one point this doctrine could be found in almost every part of europe. the presentsite of the v atican in rome was a sacred place for the followers of mithra, and hisimage and symbols have been found c

ne associated with jesus and stillused in freemasonic symbolism today. peter is supposed to be the custodian of the keysto heaven, but this is just a rerun of the mystery school symbol of the two-faced janus,custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom and the keys to heaven held by mithra.and janus was eannus, a title for nimrod in babylon. the gold and silver keys of stpeters alleged successor, the pope, are more symbols of the secret doctrine. the popesand those who control them know what all this stuff really means. gold and silver are theprecious metals used to symbolise the sun and the moon. peter and paul are both said to109have been killed in rome during the purge of christians by the emperor nero, but thereis no evidence to confirm this because it didnt happen. two other people wh

channellers, mediums, psychics and seers of all kinds. these communications with otherrealms had been an everyday part of pre-christian life. channellers were given names likeprophets, oracles, vessels of god and such like. one of the leaders of this witch-hunt wasjerome, born in 341, who is credited with gathering the texts for the main latin version ofthe holy bible. it was jerome who persuaded the pope to outlaw channelling (psychiccommunications with other dimensions. by this single papal decree, the vessels of godbecame vessels and witches of the devil, terms still used by many christians. king jamesi, the first king of both england and scotland, included a bitter condemnation of witchesin his king james bible in 1611 and he was true to his word as he had thousands ofwomen tortured an

they should do. people werecondemned and killed for the crime of translating the bible into english because doingso allowed millions to actually read the texts the priests were using to control andterrify them. in 553 ad, the belief in reincarnation was outlawed at the second synodcouncil of constantinople under the influence of the emperor justinian. the councildecided, without the attendance of the pope, that: if anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, lethim be. excommunicated. the monstrous doctrine was that we live forever on aneternal journey of evolution through experience and we are all responsible for ouractions in this physical life or a future one. an acceptance of reincarnation took awaythe power of the

aryan) people who occupied southernfrance, eventually sacked rome in 410, but by then the roman church had such a gripon the minds of so many in the former roman empire, that where the roman emperorsleft off, the popes would take over. the roman dictatorship became a papal dictatorshipand in the centuries that followed, europe became a landscape of untold slaughter. the118pope ruled and who ruled the pope? the babylonian brotherhood, exactly as they dotoday. the hebrew and christian religions are the inventions of those who controlledthe underground stream of secret knowledge. even the ritual garbs are the same in somany ways. what do jewish people wear? skull caps. what does the pope wear? askull cap. this is symbolic of the way priests in the mystery schools used to shave thebacks of the

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

1redraw the boundaries in line with your agenda. look at the two world wars in the 20thcentury to see how it is done. this is explained in detail in .and the truth shall setyou free. the english crown jewels at the time of king john were kept at thetemplars london temple and under john, henry ii, henry iii and edward i, it wasalso one of four royal treasuries. the templars collected the taxes for the pope and thecrown, plus the taxation known as tithes. they were a private organisation with a secretagenda, collecting taxes from the people on behalf of others and a great slice of thatmoney went straight to themselves in payment for interest on loans. apparently theywere ruthless with non-payers. today these are still the methods used throughout theworld. the templar vows of sobriety and cha

red rose on a grave can indicatean exemplary life or that the persons life was ended prematurely. when pierre plantardde saint-clair, a grand master of the priory of sion, made a visit to rennes-le-chateau,he was seen performing a strange ceremony at saunieres grave. obviously, questionswere asked by the church hierarchy about saunieres spending spree, but when thecrunch came he was supported by the pope himself.sauniere was working closely, and in secret, with two other local priests, abbe boudetat rennes-le-bains, and abbe gelis at coutaussa. the two villages are only a shortdistance from rennes-le-chateau. records show that boudet, a friend of pierre plantardsgrandfather, paid sauniere and his jesuit brother large sums of money.31 all threeapparently enjoyed unexplained windfalls of ca

scotland was obvious for many reasons. the st clair-sinclairs werethere and so were the other ancient brotherhood bloodlines which arrived with theoriginal phoenicians or came from belgium and northern france to settle there muchlater. the head of one of these families, robert the bruce, was at war with anotherbranch of the aryans, the english, for control of scotland and he was excommunicatedby the pope. this meant that the papal order to destroy the templars was not applicablein the areas controlled by bruce. it was to here that many templars headed after thepurge in france. they sailed around the west coast of ireland to land on the north westcoast of scotland between islay, jura and the mull of kintyre. along this coast manytemplar graves and relics have been found at places like kilm

esuits are based on the same structure as the templars with the same goal. thejesuits and the knights of malta are esoteric secret societies which hoard and use thesecret knowledge while outwardly claiming to be roman catholic and christian.they are doing exactly the same as the templars did at the time of the crusades andtogether they control, with the higher levels of freemasonry, the v atican, the pope andthe roman catholic church. in other words, they control both sides, the esotericunderground and the church which condemns this very same underground as evil. thusthey control the game and the ultimate outcome of the game- unless we wake up fast.an obvious example of this came after the papal purge on the templars. in 1312, alllands and property owned by the templars were given by the p

n movement which was so influential in theeuropean occupation of north america. the protestant church came to englandbecause king henry viii wanted a son and heir and his first wife, catherine of aragon,had produced only a daughter. he wanted to divorce her and try his luck elsewhere,but pope clement vii refused to sanction this. henry at this time was a committedcatholic, at least in public, and the pope had awarded him the title defender of thefaith. ironically, this same title, awarded by a roman catholic pope, is still held bybritish monarchs to this day to defend the protestant faith! youve got to chuckle,really. what a farce it all is. henry, being much miffed by the popes refusal to sanctionhis divorce, ordered parliament to create a church of england, independent of rome.he made hi

payers interest on it. the federal reserve board is190owned by the same brotherhood families in britain and europe who own the rest ofamerica. but heres yet another twist. who owns the assets apparently owned by thevirginia company? answer: the v atican. on october 3rd 1213, king john, as king ofengland corporation sole claimed autonomy over all the sovereign rights of englandand assigned them to the pope, who, as vicar of christ, claimed dominion over thewhole world. in return, the pope granted executiveship to the english crown over allthese dominions. in other words, the crown is the chief executive and the v atican is theowner, although, of course, the true owner is whoever controls the v atican. this is why ikeep saying that london is the centre of the operational level of the brother

greater power lies elsewhere, some of it in the v atican, and, ultimately, i think, on thephysical level, somewhere under the ground in tibet and asia. the people of americahave been bled dry by this scam and continue to be so. land of the free? what a joke!and, people of america, your presidents and leading government officials know this. inturn, it must be stressed, the king john agreement with the pope presumably gave awaythe sovereignty of england, also. and who controlled king john? the templars did.when you know what you are looking for, the truth is in your face. i said that thevirginia company and king james i decreed that criminal courts in the colonies wouldbe controlled by admiralty law, the law of the sea. what admiralty were they talkingabout? the british admiralty, of course

les of the lowerfourth dimension. they appear toattach to humans by two of the lowerchakras.199 the ancient images on the wall of thetemple at saqqara, egypt,depicting one of their gods. look at theclose up of this god and itcorrelates remarkably with thedescriptions of the serpent race. it evenseems to me to have wings,as with the winged draco.pictures courtesy of mark cottier and farah zaidi200 the pope with his fish headhat, a symbol of the babyloniangod-figure, nimrod.doves on the sceptres of british royalty thedove is a symbol of queen semiramis,nimrods partner in babylon. note also theuse of maltese crosses which were found oncaves in the former phoenician land ofcappadocia in what is now turkeythe maltese cross canalso be found on thebritish coronation crown. and on theuniform of th

lities, including the infamous area 51 in nevada. she says thatastronaut neil armstrong took pictures on the moon of translucent structures and anunderground habitat. these pictures are, apparently, in a building in oklahoma city.the mother goddess said that she had also conducted satanic ceremonies in franceinvolving pope john paul ii. another source within the mind control community reportsthat the pope is also a mind contolled stooge and a contact with relatives in the v aticantold me that they were slowly poisoning the pope to ensure that he dies in time for theirchosen one to replace him at the right time. we should expect, he said, to see the popelooking more and more frail and sick in the weeks and months ahead.what the victims have told me would be almost unbelievable were it not c

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and is ruled by the planet saturn (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color violet. keywords include: ambitiously, coolly, rigidly, prudently, cautiously, fearfully, responsibly. cardinal: from the old french from the latin "cardinalis" meaning "a hinge; that on which something turns" 1) in the roman catholic church, any of the officials appointed by the pope; 2) in the astral star, any of the members elected to the national board of directors- whether the term is temporary or is for life; 3) in astrology, a term used to identify one of the three qualities (also referred to as a triplicity) indicating that a sign of the zodiac (q.v) has the trait of making all planets within it as having a more dominant and forceful influence in the chart. car

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not; and when the angel foretold to zacharias the birth of his son, he said to him: and he shall go forth before the lord in the spirit and power of elias. the word antichrist probably refers to the persecutors of the church. through the centuries, different groups of christians declared that one or more of their contemporaries was the antichrist. for example, sixteenth-century protestants called the pope antichrist. even napoleon was called antichrist. the third treatise in the history veritable et memorable des trois possedees de flandre (1613) by father sebastien michaelis, a dominican friar, described antichrist: conceived through the medium of a devil, he will be as malicious as a madman, with such wickedness as was never seen on earth. an inhuman martyr rather than a human one, he wi

s. she said that his bearing was proud and that even then he spoke many languages. but he had talons in the place of feet. his father is shown in the figure of a bird, with four feet, a tail, a bull s head much flattened, horns, and black shaggy hair. he will mark his own with a seal representing this in miniature. michaelis added that things execrable will be around him. he will destroy rome and the pope with the help of the jews. he will resuscitate the dead, and, at the age of 30 will reign with lucifer, the seven-headed dragon. after a reign of three years, christ will slay him. many such details might be quoted of antichrist, whose coming has long been threatened but not yet realized (see end of the world. a volume by rusand published many years ago at lyons, les precurseurs de l ante

elled to believe in them or to follow the devotions they suggest. however, the church does view them as helpful in encouraging devotion in general and confirming faith. the church grants permission for the veneration of mary in a certain way and/or in a certain place. that permission may be relatively weak, as a letter from a bishop in whose diocese the apparition has occurred, or strong, as when the pope visited fatima on the 50th anniversary of the apparition. many of the apparitions during the first centuries of christianity were seen as purely personal revelations, but helped bolster the church s consideration of mary and inclusion of her as an item on its theological agenda. however, over the centuries, several apparitions introduced a variety of new devotional practices into the chur

ey thereby. a neighbor bought this wise ass at a good price, and in handing it over the sorcerers felt obliged to warn the purchaser not to let the ass enter water. its new master attended to the warning for some time, but one day the poor ass managed to get free and jumped into a lake, where it regained its natural shape, to the great surprise of its driver. the matter was brought to the ears of the pope, who had the two witches punished, while the comedian returned to of his profession. many stories are told of the ass that carried jesus christ into jerusalem, which is said to have died at verona, where its remains are still honored. they say the ass is a privileged animal that god formed at the end of the sixth day. abraham employed it to carry the wood for the sacrifice of isaac; it al

wanted to tax the church, and prepared to excommunicate the king. the quarrel arose when boniface was determined to extend the rule of the papacy throughout the kingdoms of the world and to build up great estates for his family. in 1303, phillippe s ministers and agents boldly accused boniface of heresy and sorcery, and the king called a council at paris to hear witnesses and pronounce judgment. the pope resisted and refused to acknowledge a council not called by himself. then the king planned to abduct boniface and bring him to france. the french attacked the pope in his residence, but could not carry off their escape, and the mistreatment to which boniface was exposed proved too much for him. he died the same year, in the midst of these vindictive proceedings. his enemies spread abroad

masonry was of course anathema to the roman church; and upon attempting to found a lodge in the eternal city itself, he was arrested on september 27, 1789, by order of the holy inquisition and imprisoned in the castle of saint angelo. his examination occupied his inquisitors for no less than eighteen months, and he was sentenced to death on april 7, 1791. he was recommended to mercy, however, and the pope commuted his sentence to perpetual imprisonment in the castle of saint angelo. on one occasion he made a desperate attempt to escape. requesting the services of a confessor, he attempted to strangle the brother sent to him, but the burly priest, in whose habit he had intended to disguise himself, proved too strong and quickly overpowered him. afterward he was imprisoned in the solitary ca

apel, read the appointed passage in the office, and immediately disappear. similar stories are recorded of st. severus of ravenna and st. ambrose and st. clement of rome. the best-known case is dated september 17, 1774. alphonse de liguori, imprisoned at arezzo, remained quiet in his cell and took no nourishment. five days later he awoke in the morning and said that he had been at the deathbed of the pope. experimental findings though testimonies of seeing doubles and of out-of-thebody travel experiences are numerous, rigid experimental proof is scarce. colonel eugerne august-albert d aiglun rochas was one of the first to attempt to furnish some. during his experiments in the exteriorization of sensitivity he noticed that in subjects in a state of deep hypnosis, the concentric strata aroun

ge readily available to an envious enemy who wished him destroyed. england had no edict regarding witchcraft at this period, but in france and other continental countries (especially germany) a law had been taking shape. by the end of the fifteenth century there was an international belief in the efficacy of sorcery and a conviction that witchcraft was a religion of devil worshipers. in the 1480s the pope gave his official approval for the inquisition to move against the supposed witches, and two dominican fathers wrote a textbook describing them, their crimes, and the method of proceeding against them. during the early sixteenth century witchcraft trials were rare in france, and there are few cases recorded before the year 1560. the first instance would almost be humorous if it were not a

h trouble for masons. the plot involved the claim that a certain diana vaughan, claimed to have been a high priestess of satanic freemasonry and dedicated to overthrowing christianity and winning the world for satanism, had been converted to the roman catholic faith. the memoirs of diana vaughan, written by jogand, were read by pope leo xiii, and jogand himself was received in private audience by the pope, and an anti-masonic congress was summoned in 1887 at trent. on easter monday 1897, at a press conference to present diana vaughan, jogand confessed to his conspiracy and the details of his complex hoax are now generally known. but, great damage had already been done to relations between roman catholics and freemasons. in 1917 the church declared that anyone who joined a masonic lodge was

e confessed to intimacies with gaufridi. about two years later, madeleine exhibited convulsive fits and claimed visions of devils. after an unsuccessful exorcism, her symptoms spread to other nuns at the convent. the girls were removed and examined by other exorcists. madeleine accused gaufridi of obscene bewitchment. gaufridi attempted to clear his name, appealing to the bishop of marseilles and the pope. in 1611 the parliament at aix held a trial at which madeleine was a star witness, exhibiting demoniacal possession and affirming her lascivious desire for gaufridi. meanwhile the unfortunate priest had spent a year chained in an underground dungeon with rats. three devil s marks were said to have been found on his body. after torture he confessed to magic, sorcery, and fornication but la

ca. 1023.1085) a pope of the eleventh century against whom a charge of necromancy was brought. gregory was chiefly noted for his bitter and prolonged struggle with henry iv, emperor of germany. a quarrel arose between them regarding a gift by henry of ecclesiastical dignities. henry was summoned before gregory to account for the gifts. he refused to appear, was excommunicated, and, in return, had the pope kidnapped by brigands. gregory, however, was rescued by the people of rome and on his release commanded the germans to elect a new emperor, rudolph, duke of swabia. henry, attended by a very small retinue, went to canossa, where gregory resided, to arrange for terms of peace. he was treated with such severity and neglect that he lost his desire to come to terms with the pope, and on his r

dge, and paris. the illustrious roger bacon described grosseteste and his friend friar adam de marisco as the most learned men of their time. grosseteste was well skilled in the sciences of mathematics and astronomy and was a master of greek and hebrew. as a member of the clergy he distinguished himself chiefly by his vigorous denunciation of the abuses in the court of rome, particularly those of the pope, innocent iv. grosseteste did not hesitate to point out the misdeeds of the ecclesiastical dignitaries. he openly declared innocent to be the antichrist. in addition to reputedly publishing a treatise entitled magick (probably a false ascription, legend also has it that he constructed a brazen head that would answer questions and foretell the future (this story was also told of both pope

pinion by events that followed, for speedy death (as if by heaven s anger) overtook her judges and accusers. inspired by her example and claims, and helped by dissension and weakening on the side of the enemy, the french took heart once more and the english were all but swept out of the country. jeanne s family was rewarded by ennoblement, under the name de lys. twenty-five years after her death, the pope acceded to a petition that the trial by which jeanne was condemned should be reexamined. the judgment was reversed and her innocence was established and proclaimed. the life of the maid of orleans presents a problem that orthodox science cannot solve. she was a simple peasant girl with no ambitions. she rebelled pathetically against her mission, saying, i had far rather rest and spin by m

atholic faith. her memories d une ex-palladist (1895.97) attracted enormous interest and enthusiasm. they were read by pope leo xiii, together with a short devotional work supposedly composed by vaughan, and his holiness responded with a papal benediction. it seemed that jogand himself had repented of his former freethinking and created a saintly impression. he was received in private audience by the pope, who had expressed approval of his anti-masonic writings, and an antimasonic congress was summoned in 1887 at trent, famous for its sixteenth-century council. by then there was great pressure for diana vaughan herself to be produced from the unnamed convent where jogand claimed she was residing. it was announced that she would appear on easter monday 1897 and give a press conference in pa

d of before his papacy. he manifested considerable ingenuity in that regard, and so the tradition that he dabbled in hermetic philosophy (alchemy) may be founded on fact. he did issue a stringent bull against alchemists, but it was directed against the charlatans of the craft, not against those who were seeking the philosophers stone with real earnestness and with the aid of scientific knowledge. the pope may have introduced this mandate to silence those who had charged him with the practice of alchemy himself. whatever his reason, it is probable that he believed in magic and was interested in science. his belief in magic is indicated by his bringing a charge of sorcery against geraud, bishop of cahors. pope john s scientific predilections are evident from his keeping a laboratory in the p

ers, autrement l art transmutatoire, published at lyons in 1557. when he died the pontiff left behind him a vast sum of money and a mass of priceless jewels. it was commonly asserted among the alchemists of the day that the money, jewels, and 200 huge ingots were all manufactured by the late pope. the story of the unbounded wealth amassed in this way gradually blossomed and bore fruit, and one of the pope s medieval biographers credited him with having concocted an enormous quantity of gold. joire, paul (1856) professor at the psycho-physiological institute of paris, president of the societe universelle d etudes psychiques, and distinguished psychical researcher. his studies in hypnotism and in the obscure area of the exteriorization of sensitivity are especially noteworthy. he invented a

hemia, and moravia. he received praise from rome and from the archbishop of salzburg, becoming spiritual director of the dominican church in salzburg. in 1484 pope innocent viii was responsible for the famous bull summis desiderantes affectibus of december 9, which deplored the power of the witch organization and redefined witchcraft in such a way as to bring it into the scope of the inquisition. the pope also delegated kramer and sprenger as inquisitors throughout northern germany, especially in mainz, cologne, treves, salzburg, and breman. in 1485 kramer wrote a treatise on witchcraft that initially circulated in manuscript; it was published in 1486 as malleus maleficarum, with the name of his colleague jacob sprenger added as coauthor. this became the working manual for in- encyclopedia

ed by former members of the old roman catholic church in england. the old roman catholic church was founded in 1908 following the consecration of arnold harris mathew as a bishop by the bishops of the old catholic church in the netherlands. the old catholics were orthodox catholics who rejected the promulgations of the vatican council of 1870.71, especially the declaration of the infallibility of the pope. in england, however, there was little support for the old catholic movement and the church tended to be filled by a lhermitte, jacques jean encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 920 number of priests who for one reason or another did not fit in either the church of england or the roman catholic church. among them were some who had developed a belief in theosophy and were pre

e of god. lully took his holy orders, but his active and impetuous temperament left him little inclined for monastic life. aiming to carry the gospel far afield to convert the followers of mahomet, he began to study arabic. in 1276 lully founded trinity college of majorca and trained other men in arabic and prepared missionaries for service in islamic lands. soon lilly proceeded to rome to enlist the pope s sympathy in his project. lully failed to get the pope s support, yet, undaunted, he embarked on his own from genoa in about 1291, and when he reached tunis, he commenced his crusade. his ardor resulted in fierce persecution and ultimate banishment, so he returned for a while to europe, visiting paris, naples, and pisa, and exhorting all good christians to aid his beloved enterprise. in

. he traveled to tunis, thinking to escape from there to italy, but his former activities in the town were remembered, and consequently he was seized and thrown into prison. here he languished for a long time, preaching the gospel at every opportunity that presented itself. at last some genoese merchants procured his release, and so lully sailed back to italy. in rome he worked strenuously to get the pope s support for a well-equipped foreign mission, but after he failed, he rested briefly in his native majorca, then returned to tunis. proclaiming his presence publicly, he had scarcely begun preaching when he was savagely attacked, left lying on the seashore, his assailants imagining him dead. he was still breathing, however, when some genoese found him, and they carried him to a ship and

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d nemici (enemies. the next pope had the motto ex magnitudine montis (from the great mountain; he was born in montemagno (the great mountain. some scholars believe the prophecies to be sixteenthcentury forgeries. nevertheless, some of the mottos predicted for later popes have still been surprisingly apt, e.g, flos florum (flower of flowers) for pope paul vi (1963) seems validated by the fact that the pope had three fleur-de-lys on his armorial bearings. according to the malachy prophecies, the line of popes will end after the successor to pope john paul ii. the last pope will be petrus romanus (peter the roman, and after that rome will be destroyed and the world will be purified by fire. some believe that these will be the final days of the last judgment, others that there will be a cleans

re of red cloth with the picture of a heart pierced with a lance and surrounded by thorns. over the next century, it would be a new item in the church s depository of pious practices. in the last apparition, faguette was told to make the spread of the scapular her mission in life. following a study of the apparitions, the local bishop reported favorably, but sent the results to the vatican asking the pope s blessing. given a positive response, the bishop organized the confraternity of our lady of pellevoisen. the regular holding of services at pellevoisen was only a matter of time, and soon a regular stream of pilgrims began to appear. it has also been added to the short list of approved marian apparitions. sources: beaumont, barbara. pellvoisen: our lady reveals the devotion to the sacred

e performs the act of striking the bull with a dagger, which is the office of the immolating priest. the bonnet conique is the miter of the doge of venice. cinteotl, a mexican god of sacrifice, wears such a cap made from the thigh-skin of a sacrificed virgin. this headdress is shaped like a cock s comb. the scotch glengarry cap also seems, upon examination, to be cocked. besides the bonnet rouge, the pope s miter and other miters or conical head-coverings derive their names from the terms mithradic, or mithraic, and the origin of the whole class of names is mittra, or mithra. sources: cumont, franz. the mysteries of mithra. lasalle, ill: open court publishing, 1903. reprint, new york: dover publications, 1956. jennings, hargrave. the rosicrucians: their rites and mysteries. 3rd ed. 2 vols

s partly to his making a close study of the works of alchemist raymond lully. in 1486 giovanni went to rome, where he delivered a series of lectures on various branches of science. while thus engaged, his erudition won high praise from some of his hearers, but certain members of the clergy suspected him of heresy, reported his doings to the inquisition, and even sought to have him excommunicated. the pope, however, was rather averse to quarrelling with a member of so powerful a family as the mirandolas, and accordingly he waived violent measures, instead appointing a body of church leaders to argue with the scientist. a lengthy dispute ensued. mirandola published a defence (under the title apologia) of the ideas and theories promulgated in his lectures and in 1493 the pope, alexander vi, b

medium eileen garrett was established at johns hopkins university and the new york psychical institute in 1933. postel, guillaume (ca. 1510.1581) a sixteenth-century visionary born around 1510 in the diocese of avranches, france. at fourteen years of age, postel was made master of a school. postel believed he had been called by god to reunite all men under one law, either by reason or the sword. the pope and the king of france were to be the civil and religious heads of his new republic. postel was made almoner to a hospital at venice, where he met mere jeanne, a woman who had visions. because of his heterodox preachings, postel was denounced as a heretic, but later was regarded as merely mad. a follower of kabbalah he spoke internationally about his belief in astrology wrote several work

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

worde (caxton s assistant) as lyfe of robert the devyll. according to the story, robert was the son of a duke and duchess of normandy. he was endowed with marvelous physical strength, which he used only for evil. explaining to him the cause of his wicked impulses, his mother told him that he had been born in answer to prayers addressed to the devil. he sought religious advice and was directed by the pope to a hermit, who ordered him to maintain complete silence, to take his food from the mouths of dogs, to feign madness, and to provoke abuse from common people without attempting to retaliate. he became court fool to the roman emperor, and three times delivered the city from saracen invasions, having, in each case, been prompted to fight by a heavenly message. the emperor s dumb daughter w

magi of damcar, skeptics said. despite these objections, however, considerable credit was given to the rosicrucian publication. the confession of the rosicrucian fraternity, addressed to the learned in europe, appeared one year later. this offered initiation by gradual stages to selected applicants, and revealed its ultra-protestant character by what an old scottish minister used to call a dig at the pope, whom it publicly execrated, expressing the hope that his asinine braying would finally be put a stop to by tearing him to pieces with nails! this impious comment did little to enhance the reputation of rosicrucians among roman catholics. a year later, in 1616, the chemical nuptials of christian rosencreutz was published, purporting to recount incidents in the life of the mysterious found

secret. the brief description of the vision seen by the three children in 1917 included an angel with a flaming sword. this angel spoke the words penance! penance! penance; a bishop dressed in white who while in prayer for the souls of the martyrs around him was killed; and an angel who gathered the blood of the martyrs to sprinkle on the faithful. at the time of the release of the third secret, the pope was quoted as identifying the image of the martyred bishop in white as a reference to himself and to the attempted assassination of him on may 13, 1981, which occurred on the anniversary of the first vision at fatima. it was hoped by many that the release of the third vision would end the many speculations concerning its content. sources: alonso, joaquin maria. the secret of fatima: fact

a long time in confederacy with a demon, had made a compact with this enemy of humanity to give himself up to him, on condition he was made pope, and allowed to reign six years. sextus was raised to the chair of st. peter, and during the five years he held sway in rome he distinguished his pontificate by actions surpassing the feeble reach of the human intellect. finally, at the end of this term, the pope fell sick, and the devil arriving to keep him to his pact, sextus inveighed strongly against his bad faith, reproaching him with the fact that the term they had agreed upon was not fulfilled, and that there still remained to him more than a twelve-month. but the devil reminded him that at the beginning of his pontificate he had condemned a man who, according to the laws, was too young by

uded: the paradoxes of john of westphalia refuted (1479) and the institution and approbation of the confraternity of the most holy rosary, which was first erected at cologne on 8 september in the year 1475 (1475. this latter work recorded his activities for the confraternity of the most holy rosary, which brought him praise from leading dominicans as an apostle of the rosary. in 1484, at the time the pope released the inquisition to deal with witchcraft, now redefined as satanism, sprenger became involved with heinrich kramer in trying alleged witches and sorcerers. in the following year, kramer prepared a treatise on witchcraft (later published as the malleus maleficarum) that circulated in manuscript. sprenger then added his name to the finished work, first published in 1486. malleus mal

er he joined the franciscans and was ordained in 1628. various incidents of levitation began to occur without planning or control by fr. joseph, and no overall pattern emerged. it was noted that many of his levitations occurred as he was in prayer or engaged in veneration of the virgin mary. on one occasion he levitated in front of pope urban viii who saw him hover in the air for several minutes. the pope was merely one among many notables of the era who testified to seeing joseph in the air. the duke of brunswich was even taken into the air with joseph. while the church built much of its case for being the prime contact point with god from the miraculous occurrences that happen among its members, it was somewhat embarrassed by joseph s paranormal life. they kept him from the public as muc

rench, trubner, 1933. summit lighthouse see church universal and triumphant summons by the dying it was once maintained by theologians that if anyone who was unjustly accused or persecuted should, with his dying breath, summon his oppressor to appear before the supreme tribunal, the person thus summoned would die on the day fixed by his innocent victim. thus the grand master of the templars cited the pope and the king of france to appear before god on a certain date, and as the story goes, both died at the appointed time. francois i, duke of brittany, hired assassins to murder his brother in 1450. the dying prince summoned his murderer before the highest of all courts, and francois shortly expired. yet another instance is that of ferdinand iv of spain, who was summoned by two nobles whom h

nnhauser a medieval german legend about how a minstrel and knight of that name, who passed by the horselberg (hill of venus) and entered therein in answer to a call. he remained there with an enchantress and lived an unholy life. after a time he grew weary of sin, and longing to return to normal living, forswore the worship of venus and left her. he then made a pilgrimage to rome to ask pardon of the pope, but when he was told by urban iv himself that the papal staff would as soon blossom as such a sinner as tannhauser be forgiven, he returned to venus. three days later, the pope s staff did actually blossom, and the pope sent messengers into every country to find the despairing minstrel, but to no purpose. tannhauser had disappeared. the story has a mythological basis that has been overla

ccording to court de gebelin and vaillant. this pack, under the names of tarot, thora, and rota, has formed the basis of the synthetic teaching of all the ancient nations successively. the british legal authority de l hoste ranking, writing in 1908, adds: i would submit that from internal evidence we may deduce that the tarots were introduced by a race speaking an indian dialect; that the form of the pope shows they had been long in a country where the orthodox eastern church predominated; and the form of head-dress of the king, together with the shape encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. tarot 1533 of the eagle on the shield, shows that this was governed by russian grand dukes, who had not yet assumed the imperial insignia. this seems to me confirmatory of the widespread bel

d confessed to the most grotesque crimes. the most damning confession of all was that of the grand master himself, who said that he had been guilty of denying christ and spitting upon the cross, but repudiated all charges of immorality in indignant terms. the process dragged on slowly for more than three years, in consequence of the jealousies that arose among those interested in its prosecution. the pope wished to bring it entirely under the jurisdiction of the church, and to have it decided at rome. the king, on the other hand, mistrusting the pope, resolved on the destruction of the order so that none but himself should reap advantage from it. he decided it should be judged at paris under his own personal influence. the prosecution was directed by his ministers, nogaret and enguerrand d

ris under his own personal influence. the prosecution was directed by his ministers, nogaret and enguerrand de marigny. the templars asserted their innocence and demanded a fair trial, but they found few advocates who would undertake their defense. they were subjected to hardships and tortures, which forced many of them into confessions dictated to them by their persecutors. during this interval, the pope s orders were carried into other countries, authorizing the arrest of the templars and the seizure of their goods. everywhere the same charges were brought against them. the same means of imprisonment and torture were used to procure their condemnation, although they were not subjected to the same severity as in france. the destruction of the order in france at length, in the spring of 13

n in italy, the severity of the judges was not everywhere the same. in lombardy and tuscany the templars were condemned, while they were acquitted at ravenna and bologna. they were also pronounced innocent in castile; in arragon they were reduced by force only because they had attempted to resist by force of arms. in spain and portugal they only gave up their own order to be admitted into others. the pope was offended at the leniency shown towards templars in england, spain, and germany. the order of the temple was finally dissolved and abolished, and its memory branded with disgrace. some of the knights were said to have remained together and formed secret societies. the result, however, was much the same everywhere. convicted of heresy, sorcery, and many other abominations, many of the w

e. nearly all of these nobles followed the greedy example of philip of france. jacques de molay, the grand master, was brought out onto a scaffold erected in front of notre dame in paris and asked to repeat his confession and receive a sentence of perpetual imprisonment. he flared into sudden anger and recanted all he had said, protesting his innocence; he was sentenced to burn. de molay summoned the pope and the king with his dying breath; he waited to meet them before the bar of heaven. both of these dignitaries shortly afterwards died and it remained in the public mind that the outcome of the grand master s summons seemed to have proved his innocence. there is every reason to believe there was some foundation for the charges of heresy made against the templars. their intimate connection

equent handling might damage it. by the end of the nineteenth century it was exhibited only on very special occasions. in 1946, umberto ii, former king of italy and the owner of the shroud, was exiled. he settled in portugal and in the ensuing years, the catholic church, in the person of the archbishop of turin, became its custodian. in 1978 it was disclosed that umberto was leaving the shroud to the pope, an event that occurred in 1983 with umberto s passing. italy did not challenge the will or claim the shroud for itself. since that time, the roman catholic church has had the power to respond directly to pressure to have the shroud definitively tested by modern scientific methods. description of the shroud the shroud always had vague markings indicating the outlines of a body, but these

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secret was sent to the va t ican in the 1950s. it became the focus of much speculation, most of it alleging that it p redicted a third world war. in may 2000, h owe ve r, as pope john paul ii embarked on a pilgrimage to fatima, during which he spoke with the ninety-thre e- year-old lu c i a, the vatican released the pro p h e c y, which he b e l i e ved predicted the 1981 assassination attempt on the pope in st. pe t e r s sq u a re a n i n t e r p retation disputed by others. the first new world appearance of the bvm is said to have taken place five miles north of mexico city just after dawn on december 9, 1531. a fifty-seven-year-old aztec indian, juan diego, was racing along a hillside to get to mass in a nearby village. passing a site at the foot of a hill called tepeyac, which earlier

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ndments fail to bother will pay no heed to any other. for all that we are not to blame; as we are patient, so be ye the same! giants the wild men of the woods- their name, in the hartz mountains known to fame. in nature s nakedness and might they come, each one of giant height, a fir tree s trunk in each right hand, around their loins a bulging band, apron of twigs and leaves uncouth; such guards the pope has not, in truth. nymphs in chorus [surrounding great pan. he s really here- of this world-sphere the all we fete in pan the great. ye gayest ones, surround him here, dance madly, hov ring round him here, for since he s solemn and yet kind, man s happiness he has in mind. even beneath the azure, vaulted roof he ever kept slumber far aloof; yet purling brooks seek him in quest and soft ai

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h part of the oration on the dignity of man. the edition is dated may, 1487, but this date has been questioned. in the apology, he defended his condemned propositions. this publication naturally involved him in fresh difficulties, and bishops with inquisitorial powers were appointed to deal with his case. in july, 1487, pico made a formal submission and retraction to the commission, and in august the pope issued a bull condemning all the theses and forbidding their publication, but exculpating pico because of his submission. nevertheless, when pico fled to france, papal nuncios were sent after him to obtain his arrest, and he was for a time imprisoned at vincennes, though his case was viewed with a good deal of sympathy in france, both in court and in university circles amongst whom his us

time imprisoned at vincennes, though his case was viewed with a good deal of sympathy in france, both in court and in university circles amongst whom his use of the teachings of the parisian schoolmen in many of the theses was appreciated. he was allowed to return to italy bearing french royal letters in his favour, and he was constantly supported by lorenzo de' medici who interceded for him with the pope. he was therefore allowed to live in florence, though under rather a cloud, and his way of life was one of extreme piety and asceticism, under the influence of savonarola. he died in 1494, on the day that the french king's armies entered florence. in 1489, a long reply to pico's apology was published by pedro garcia, a spanish bishop who had been one of the commission which examined pico

tuous attempts to draw in thomas aquinas in his defence of his talismans. the de vita coelitus comparanda was published in the same year as garcia's book. in connection with his condemnation of astrological images, garcia has also to deal with those who have been saying that astrological magic can be as free from demonic influences as "ecclesiastical magic, such as the use of wax lambs blessed by the pope, or the blessing of bells. garcia denies this, strongly affirming that christian observances are not efficacious by virtue of the stars, but solely through the omnipotent power of the creator. finally, garcia denies the antiquity of cabala. garcia's work is thus not only a condemnation of magic in itself but a refutation of the suggestion that "ecclesiastical magic" could have any connect

ints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116. 6 (a) pinturicchio, egyptian worship of apis, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116. m* f> m m m m bulls worshipping the cross, detail of frieze, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116, pico della mirandola and cabalist magic after his elevation to the holy see' not only that, the pope wrote a personal letter to pico himself, beginning "dilecte fili salute& apostolicam benedictionem" in this letter, alexander rehearses the whole history of pico's case, mentioning the nine hundred theses, the apologia, the commission which had accused pico of heresy, his flight to france, and ends by completely absolving both him and his works from all taint from heresy. pico is describe

o della mirandola and cabalist magic astrology.1 in short, pico is really defending the ficinian "astral magic (he does not use this expression) which, as emphasised in the last chapter, is quite a different thing from astrology proper being a way of escape from astrological determinism by teaching how to control and use the stellar influences. written about 1493-4, that is at about the time that the pope had exonerated pico from all blame, the book against astrology is really a vindication of magia naturalis. it is into the context of the controversy about pico, in which alexander vi came out so strongly on the side of the magus, that one should put the extraordinary "egyptianism" in the frescoes painted by pinturicchio for alexander in the appartamento borgia in the vatican. these fresco

re the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with the story of io, turned into a cow by 1 but it could also refer to ficino's criticisms of "bad" astrology in his commentaries on plotinus; cf. walker, p. 54. in any case, the point is that if pico regards ficino as a writer against astrology, then the kind of astrology which pico is against cannot be the ficinian type of neoplatonised astral mag

gyptiis praefuisse, eisque leges, ac litteras tradidisse.1 hence, the mercury in the fresco who kills argus would be hermes trismegistus, and the next scene would show him in egypt, as the lawgiver of the egyptians, with, beside him, the law-giver of the hebrews, moses. this would be the usual hermes- moses comparison with which we have become so familiar in our study of magia and cabala. why did the pope have such a programme painted early in his reign, a programme which glorifies the egyptian religion (pi. 6a, shows the egyptian apis bulls worshipping the cross (pi. 6b, associates hermes trismegistus with moses? the answer to this question is, i believe, that the pope wished to proclaim his reversal of the policy of his predecessor by adopting pico della mirandola's programme of using ma

patrizi says that a philosopher nowadays is thought to be one who does not believe in god. the reason for this is that the only philosophy studied is that of aristotle which denies the omnipotence and providence of god. yet hermes said that without philosophy it is impossible to be pious, and therefore patrizi has tried to discover a truer philosophy by which we might return to god. he hopes that the pope and his successors will adopt this religious philosophy and cause it to be taught everywhere. he asks why those parts of aristotle's philosophy which are hostile to god are studied, when a hermetic treatise contains more philosophy than all the works of aristotle put together. many of plato's dialogues should also be taught publicly; also plotinus, proclus and the early fathers. but the s

xpatiates on the theme of the one and the all.1 in patrizi, we have an expounder of a "new philosophy" strongly influenced by hermetism and going back, behind the more recent attempts to purify hermetism of magic, to the ficinian atmosphere with its belief in prisca magia. this philosophy is anti- aristotelian, in the sense that it claims to be more religious than aristotle. its author hopes that the pope will use it in the counter reformation effort, as a means of reviving religion and converting the protestants. in 1592, patrizi was called to rome by pope clement viii to teach the platonic philosophy in the university. he must have gone to rome full of hopes that this summons meant that he was to be allowed to teach and preach there the hermetic counter reformation which he had outlined

stellation image is discussed, vices associated with it are deplored and the virtues opposite to these vices are praised. more than that, there is an active movement of ascent and descent going on; the vices are thrown out by the gods, cast out of the heavens, and to their places ascend the opposite virtues. thus, in the end, the triumphant beast is fully expelled. and the triumphant beast is not the pope, as used sometimes to be thought. it 1 spaccio, dial. 1 dial, ital, pp. 611-2. 2 ibid. dial, ital, pp. 595 ff. 3 hyginus, fabularum liber, paris, 1578. see below, p. 328. 218 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform is the sum of all the vices which are opposite to the virtues. this is stated by bruno in the dedication of the work to philip sidney "then the triumphant beast is drive

re, for it is curious to see what intense faith he placed in agrippa's second-hand compilation. the noroff manuscript4 contains extracts from magical texts which were copied out for bruno by his amanuensis, besler. at that time bruno was making great efforts to intensify the magic of his personality before his return to italy in 1591, with the manuscript of a book in his baggage for dedication to the pope whom he hoped to interest in his reform movement. 5 and what was besler so busily copying out? chiefly long extracts from the de occulta philosophia. this book must have made an immense impression on bruno. he did not follow it slavishly, but it was his point de depart for most of his magic, and, as we have seen, some of the major points of the hermetic philosophy had been incorporated by

o paris under the league, thence to lutheran wittenberg and on to catholic prague, making for the centres of learning in each country where he delivered his message. he seems to have thought that he could continue such a career with impunity in italy, for he got into touch in venice with a dominican whom he had known long ago in naples, informing him that he was writing a book for presentation to the pope and mentioning that he would like to have the opportunity of taking part in some literary exercise in rome, to show his powers and perhaps to gain some lecturef' document, pp. 69 ff; spampanato, vita di giordano bruno, pp. 456 ff; mclntyre, giordano bruno, pp. 66 ff. 338 chapter xix giordano bruno: return to italy ship.1 i think that the very madness of this plan indicates that bruno had

hink that the very madness of this plan indicates that bruno had never thought of himself as anti-catholic. the catholic religion "pleased him more than any other"2 but there was a great deal that was wrong with it. it needed reformation and it was the nolan's mission to assist in that reformation. the best centre from which to start on this would be rome itself where he would get into touch with the pope. people like giordano bruno are immunised from a sense of danger by their sense of mission, or their megalomania, or the state of euphoria bordering on insanity in which they constantly live "although i cannot see your soul, he makes an english admirer say of him "from the ray which it diffuses i perceive that within you is a sun or perhaps some even greater luminary."3 when he was an inf

d by mocenigo, also the feverish haste to publish and so "gain credit" sounds very much in character. i would not have thought that the nolan was greedy for wealth, as mocenigo insinuates, but he would certainly want spiritual recognition, and acknowledgement of his prophetic role. the new book which it was so necessary to publish quickly was on "the seven liberal arts" and was to be dedicated to the pope, clement viii. he was about to go back to frankfort to get this printed when, through mocenigo's efforts, he was put into the prisons of the inquisition in venice. he explained it all to the inquisitors, how he had meant to get this book printed at frankfort and then take it and other of his printed works "which i approve of" and present himself at the feet of his beatitude, who, so he ha

"page d'or de phermetisme religieux".3 by the time that bruno returned to italy, the enthusiastic hermetist, hannibal rosseli, whom john dee consulted as his religious adviser,4 had published at cracow (1585-90) his vast 1 the angel uriel appeared at the seances (of course seen only by kelley) and addressed inspiring speeches to pucci. pucci seems to have tried to induce dee to go to rome to tell the pope about his experiences with the angels. see a true and faithful! relation of what passed for many years between dr. john dee. and some spirits, ed. meric casaubon, london, 1659, pp. 409 ff. pucci's own subsequent fate would seem to prove that he was acting in good faith in urging dee to go to rome, and not as an agent provocateur, though dee suspected him at the time. 2 see firpo, gli scri

he wanted to institute a new sect of giordanisti in germany, but he has affirmed that when he had finished certain of his studies he would be known as a great man, and that he hoped that the affairs of navarre would succeed well in france, and that he would come into italy, and that then it would be possible to live and think freely, and when 'il patritio' went to rome, he said that he hoped that the pope would receive him (bruno) into his grace because in believing in his way he offended no one.5 1 see above, p. 179. 2 see above, pp. 182-3. 3 this initial success was not, however, to last, for later patrizi got into trouble with the inquisition for his views and was almost suspended from teaching. see l. firpo "filosofia italiana e controriforma, rivista di filosofia, xlii (1951, pp. 12 f

ead to italy. mocenigo's invitation may have seemed like a divine indication of what his next step should be, but it was not primarily in order to teach the art of memory to that nobleman that bruno stepped into what turned out to be a death-trap' it was because he thought that the new day of better things was dawning at last and that its light was about to spread to italy. patrizi's success with the pope must indeed have seemed an encouraging sign that he had been right to come back, for was not patrizi a religious hermetist? and so was bruno a religious hermetist after his fashion. another indication that mocenigo was not his primary objective is the fact that bruno did not go to live in mocenigo's house until after he had been in italy for several months. he lived at first independently

house and library a centre for cognoscenti of all descriptions, where were the letters which corbinelli had written to him from paris, some of them describing bruno's adventures with fabrizio mordente, one enclosing' the case of francesco pucci is almost exactly parallel. he, too, thought that he was illuminated and had a mission and that the time was ripe for returning to italy and appealing to the pope in connection with some new dispensation coming in with navarre, and he, too, stepped into a death trap. though pucci is much less wild than bruno, the similarity of their cases is striking, particularly as they had both been in england. it is clear that john dee was very wise not to go to rome, as pucci suggested, to expound his angelic messages there. 2 in a "camera locanda; documenti

ther. yet may not bruno have left behind him in padua an atmosphere, or a circle, or a reputation, which affected campanella? at the end of 1594, campanella was transferred to the prisons of the inquisition in rome; amongst the charges against him were that he had taught in his de sensitiva rerum facilitate a heretical doctrine of the world soul, and had written an impious sonnet. he addressed to the pope a treatise assigning to him universal monarchy and outlining a vast plan for world union. he also wrote a treatise advising italian princes not to oppose the projects of the spanish monarchy.2 it is difficult to believe that he was sincere in the latter, since a few years later he was to lead the calabrian revolt against spain. campanella, unlike bruno, was sometimes willing to dissimulat

ost demonic of agrippa's magic, and even that of cecco d'ascoli of dangerous memory. it would have been far harder to produce a summa to cover bruno's magic, and his hermetism which rejected the christian interpretation of the hermetica. yet even this, bruno thought to be possible. otherwise why should he have appealed to pope clement viii and tried to go to rome? perhaps he hoped to do magic for the pope, as campanella was later to do for urban viii. that he believed that his views could be adapted to thomism is indicated by his constant mention of his great respect for thomas, whom he revered as a magus. though bruno cast off the dominican habit and wandered in foreign heretical lands, neither of which things campanella ever did, the dominican theologian is still apparent in him, in his

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

assertion in morals& dogma, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries [p. 624, teachings of the 28th degree] of course these top 5% call jesus christ an "inferior god" they never, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a bent satanic cross as seen on another page which shames christ on the cross. freemasons used luciferic symbols within the layout of government center washington d.c. freemasons worship lucifer, the light-bearer. lucifer and satan are biblically the same individual, freemasonry is really the worship of satan. by quoting their own sources and depicting the symbols in which they us

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

e like the arrow part of thesymbolof mars, while we seemed to rise from the circlebelow.itseemed to represent the aspiring part of the nature of mars, and on a lower plane mightsymbolizethe ambition whichis a leading characteristic ofthose born under this planet. strangely enough the figure we encountered at the end of our flight was not martial, but ecclesiastical. to some of us he appeared like the pope in full pontifical robes, white, with triple crown on head, and triple cross in right hand, but to one soror at least he was robed likethe pope on less solemn occasions, with a134thegoldendawnshort red cape over a white robe, and a red skull-cap on head. in his left hand was a half-closed book.underhis feet was a dark cave, which seemed to hide some mystery.thismaypossibly have represente

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urope, and which is said to contain thirty-seven reasons of the purpose and intention of the society. curiously enough, that tract does not contain any series of thirty-seven reasons, or thirty-seven paragraphs, but is a very discursive relation of the doctrines of the fratres. as a whole its tenets differ from those of thefama,and are plainly tinctured with post-reformation ideas, indeed we find the pope called anti255 christ. so that it seems safe to decide that this tract is rather by valentine andrea, the protestant theologian, than by men deeply inspired by the mysticism and magic of a man raised to adeptship by oriental sages. time will not permit any review of theconfessio,nor of any glance at the lives and works of those philosophers who have since styled themselves fratresofr.c.,s

wands, cups and coins; of the ten numerals; of kings, queens, and knaves; and of a fourth court card, a knight or man mounted on horseback. the knave was also at times considered as a female, and the four have also been called, cavalier, king, prince, queen and princess. in addition to these the pack includes 22 picture cards of varied meanings, called tarot trumps; among these were the emperor, the pope, the magician, the devil, the lovers, and the lightning-struck tower. the whole pack thus consisted of 78 cards. these cards are even today used by persons who have studied medieval occult science, and many such students are convinced that some magical power does reside in these symbols when used by those who have passed through a special course of astrological and kabalistic study. the f

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composed both of professional dd from the templars to ancient egypt the roots of masonry date back to the crusades against muslims initiated by pope urban ii soldiers, and tens of thousands of ordinary people. historians believe urban ii's venture was prompted by his desire to thwart the candidacy of a rival to the papacy. furthermore, while european kings, princes, aristocrats and others greeted the pope's call with excitement, their intentions were basically mundane. as donald queller of the university of illinois put it "the french knights wanted more land. italian merchants hoped to expand trade in middle eastern ports. large numbers of poor people joined the expeditions simply to escape the hardships of their normal lives."1 along the way, this greedy mass slaughtered many muslims, an

ly by a small group of rabbis who remained in palestine and from them the templars learn it.30 when the templars adopted this ancient egyptian-kabbalist doctrine, naturally, they came into conflict with the christian establishment that dominated europe. this was a conflict they shared with another important force the jews. after the templars were arrested, by joint order of the king of france and the pope in 1307, the order went underground, gl the inside story on the kabbalah but its influence continued, and in a more radical and determined way. as we said earlier, a significant number of templars escaped arrest and appealed to the king of scotland, the only european kingdom at that time that had not accepted the authority of the pope. in scotland, they infiltrated the wall-builders' guil

ocial institution of international scope in tune with political and social currents. in order to help sects in their attempt to exercise religious freedom, freemasonry engaged in a struggle against the power and influence of the clergy in the attempt to achieve their sole aim of toppling the church's power and influence over the people. for this reason, in 1738 and 1751 it was declared godless by the pope in those countries that adopted the principles of religious freedom, freemasonry was a mysterious and secret society only in name; in these countries it was both ignored and encouraged, found members among the middle class and high officials who had time and means, and installed leading state officials in positions of leadership in its own organizations. in southern countries where everyo

ips, the nazi "reich" and drew the world into the world war two in which 55 million persons lost their lives. the struggle against religion in italy another country in which masonic activities were evident was italy. until 1870, the italian territory was occupied by several small states, remnants from feudal times. the most important of these was the papal state. it was centered in rome, ruled by the pope, and controlled a large part of central italy. the masons in italy were founded as an extension of the french masons, and began to exercise an influence in italy from the beginning of the nineteenth century. they wanted to destroy the papal state and eradicate the authority of the church in italy as a whole. according to the author of the book entitled the roman catholic church and the cr

italy from the beginning of the nineteenth century. they wanted to destroy the papal state and eradicate the authority of the church in italy as a whole. according to the author of the book entitled the roman catholic church and the craft, master freemason alec mellor "in italy, the origin of irregular lodges was mainly political; they confused masonry with the fight against the temporal power of the pope."132 masonry began its struggle against religion in italy by means of another secret society that it founded and controlled. this society was known as the "carbonari" this society, first heard of in naples at the beginning of the nineteenth century, took its name from charcoal burners. as the masons used the emblem of the wall-builder and expressed their ideas with symbols, so the carbona

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her highest and last age shall not attain to see anything else; for our rota takes her beginning from that day when god spake fiat and shall end when he shall speak pereat; yet god's clock striketh every minute, where ours scarce striketh perfect hours. we also steadfastly believe, that if our brethren and fathers had lived in this our present and clear light, they would more roughly have handled the pope, mahomet, scribes, artists, and sophisters, and showed themselves more helpful, not simply with sighs and wishing of their end and consummation. when now these eight brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such manner, as there was not now any need of any great labour, and also that every one was sufficiently instructed and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest philos

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ur purpose and intention, the which according to thy pleasure thou mayest seek out and compare together, considering within thyself if they be sufficient to allure thee. verily, it requires no small pains to induce any one to believe what doth not yet appear, but when it shall be revealed in the full blaze of day, i suppose we should be ashamed of such questionings. and as we do now securely call the pope antichrist, which was formerly a capital offence in every place, so we know certainly that what we here keep secret we shall in the future thunder forth with uplifted voice, the which, reader, with us desire with all thy heart that it may happen most speedily. frater r.c. confession fraternitatis r.c. ad eruditos europe. chapter 1 whatsoever you have heard, o mortals, concerning our frate

seek not to be received by you, but call you unto our more than kingly houses and palaces, by no motion of our own (but lest you be 8 ignorant of it) as forced thereto by the spirit of god, commanded by the testament of our most excellent father, and impelled by the occasion of this present time. chapter xiii what think you, therefore, o mortals, seeing that we sincerely confess christ, execrate the pope, addict ourselves to the true philosophy, lead a worthy life, and daily call, entreat, and invite many more unto our fraternity, unto whom the same light of god likewise appeareth? consider you not that, having pondered the gifts which are in you, having measured your understanding in the word of god, and having weighed the imperfections and inconsistencies of all the arts, you may at len

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

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h away, fled in haste, lest he should start up and give them chase; if they met cattle on their way home, they beat them with staves, believing that that would make them fruitful. in silesia they often dragged about a bare fir-tree with chains of straw, as though it were a prisoner. here and there a strong man, in the midst of children, carried a may- 1 luther parodied this song in his driving of the pope out, journ. von u. fur d. 1787. 2, 192-3. 2 dern alten juden in seinen bauch, etc, into the old jew s belly, on to the young jew s back, the worse for him; over hill and dale, so he may never come back; over the heath, to spite the shepherds; we went through the greenwood, there sang birds young and old. finn magnusen (edda 2, 135) would have us take the old juden for a iotunn. 3 j. f. he

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was really against w[illiam] e[wart] g[ladstone] and sir wm. harcourt, who were notorious as frequenting a house of very ill fame in stjohn's wood. stead was unconsciously going to expose 2 of the greatest friends of the b.b. they must have plied their usual wiley arts upon stead, for, all at once, the p.m. g. changed its tactics and became a supporter of w.e.g. and stead has been coquetting with the pope ever since. iri my eyes, it appears suspicious for a.b. and burrows to have been introduced by stead. as a rule, a man is known by the company he keeps, but, of course, this may be an exception and the introduction only a matter of accident, meaning nothing but a piece of formality. you will think me very suspicious, but i had so much trouble and annoyance from dr a[rchibald] k[eightly, a

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order. it is perhaps not generally known that at one time an irish see narrowly escaped (to its misfortune, be it said) having a magician as its chief shepherd. in 1223 the archbishopric of cashel became vacant, upon which the capitular body elected as their archbishop the then p. 52 bishop of cork, to whom the temporalities were restored in the following year. but some little time prior to this the pope had set aside the election and "provided" a nominee of his own, one master m. scot, to fill the vacancy: he however declined the proffered dignity on the ground that he was ignorant of the irish language. this papal candidate was none other than the famous michael scot, reputed a wizard of such potency that "when in salamanca's cave him listed his magic wand to wave the bells would ring i

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pes- tilent modem heresy stabbed to the heart* summoning back the long-forgotten memories of the mosuc laws, the romish church claims the monopoly of miracles and of the right to sit in judgment over them, as being the sole heir thereto by direct inheritance. the old tegtament, exiled by colenso, his predecessors and contemporaries, is recalled from its banishment. the prophets, whom his holiness the pope condescends at last to place, if not on the same level with himself, at least at a less respectful distance* are dusted and cleaned. the memory of all the diabolical abracadabra is evoked anew. the blasphemous horrors perpetrated by paganism, its 3. h. maudsler: bodj/ and mind; icct on 'hie limits of philoaophioj. inquiry' 4. boaton smidaji henoii, november 5. 1876. 5. see tbe adf-glc^ifi

mless pit where the great dragon lies in wait" mr. gladstone went to the trouble of making a catalog of what he terms the "flowers of speech" disseminated through these papal dis- courses. let us cull a few of the chosen terms used by this vice-regent of him who said that "whosoever shall say. thou fool, shall be in danger of hdl-fire" they are selected from authentic discourses. those who oppose the pope are "wolves, pharisees, thieves, bars, hypocrites, drop- sical, children of satan, of perdition, of sin and corruption, satellites of satan in human flesh, monsters of hell, demons incarnate, stinking corpses, men issued from the pits of hell, traitors and judases led by the spirit of hell, children of the deepest pits of hell" etc, etc; the whole piously collected and published by don pa

n flesh, monsters of hell, demons incarnate, stinking corpses, men issued from the pits of hell, traitors and judases led by the spirit of hell, children of the deepest pits of hell" etc, etc; the whole piously collected and published by don pasquale di fraaciscis, whom gladstone has, with perfect propriety, termed "an accomplished profes- sor of flunkeyiam in things spiritual* since his holiness the pope has such a rich vocabulary of invectives at his command, why wonder that the bishop of toulouse did not scruple to utter the most undignified falsehoods about the protestants and spirit- ualists of america people doubly odious to a catholic in his address to his diocese "nothing" he remarks "is more common in an era of tmbelief than to see a false revelation tubttittiie iitelf for the tru

ot. jesus says "upon uus pelra i will build my church, and the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apoaue peter was ever at rome; but the pope, seizing the scepter of the ponufex maximum, the keys fa janus and cybele, and adorning his christian head with the cap of the magna mater, copied from that of the tiara of brahvmnut, the supreme pontiff of the initiates of old india, became the successor of the pagan high priest, the real peter-roma, or peiroma "nte roman catholic church has two far mightier enemies than the 'heretics' a

abs call it so unto this day, and the names of the countries watered by it are yet existing among the hindfls* jacouiot claims to have translated every ancient palm-leaf manuscript which he had the fortune 44. e. pococke ipvei the v&riatioiu cl the duiw buddha m: bnd'ha, buddha. boiiddb% boatta. pout. pote. pfji^ pte. phthe. hitha, phut etc, etc see indm ta ormk appoidiz, p. 397. 45. hie tiais of the pope ii aiao a perfect copy of that of the dalai-lama of totet 46. see hu ituia ntr qtttkidiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the pagodas to see. in one of his translations we fouad passages which reveal to us the undotjtud origin of the keys of st. peter, and account for the

round insecure under his feet, notwithstanding that the dogmas had been reduced by him to their simplest expression, gave full vent to his 54. daderotiom, xzziii, 2, p^wk? traiiiut d 'fiery l w' in the en^idi bible. digitizecoy google orphean views of aether 35 fear aad hatred of aristotle. the amount of abuse he heaped upon the memory of the great logician can ofily be equaled never surpassed by the pope's anathemas and invectives against the liberals of the italian government. collected, they might easily fill a copy of a new en- cyclopaedia with models for monkish diatribes. of course the christian clergy can never become reconciled to a doc- trine based on the application of strict logic to discursive reasoning. the number of those who have abandoned theology on this account has never

unconcerned deity hom-ly invoked on the magian rites and theurgic' practice, and the christian clergy themselves using lorcery for ages; hypatia, the glorious maiden-philosopher, torn to pieces by the christian mob; and such as catherine de m dicis, lucrezia borgia, joanna of naples, and the isabellas of spain, presented to the world as the faithful daughters of the church, some even decorated by the pope with the order of the 'immaculate bose' the highest emblem of womanly purity and virtue, a symbol sacred to the virgin-mother of god! such are tiie examples of human justice! how far less blasphemous appears a total rejection of mary as an immaculate goddess, than an idolatrous worship of het accompanied by such practices. in the next chapter we shall present a few illustrations of sorcet

use it was the work of or inhabited by a 'demon' but because the spook who was fixed inside by mesmeric power talked incessantly, and his loquacity prevented the eloquent saint from working out his mathematical problems. these heads and other talking statues, trophies of the magical skill of monks and bishops, were facsimiles of the 'animated' gods of the ancient temples. the accusa- tion against the pope was proved at the time. it was also demonstrated that he was constantly attended by 'demons' or 'spirits' in the pre- ceding chapter we have mentioned benedict ix, john xx, and the vlth and vllth gregory, who were all known as magicians. the last named pope moreover was the famous hildebrand, who was said to have been so expert at "shaking ughtning out of his sleeve" an expression 116. do

l powers. hia most extraordinary feat consisted, it was said, in transporting himself to any distant counti;y, witnessing pohtical and other events, and then returning home to predict them in hia own country. he had a familiar demon, who served him faithfully for long years, says the chnmide, but the cura turned ungrateful and cheated him. having been apprised by his demon of a conspiracy against the pope's life, in consequence of an intrigue as the latter with a fair lady, the cura transported himself to rome (in his double, of course) and thus saved his holiness' life. after which he re- pented, confessed his sins to the gallant pope, and got abaobiiion "on his return he was delivered, as a matter of form, into the custody of the inquisitors of logrofio, but was acquitted and restored to

cating it to god and st. edward* the story of the prince radzivill is well known. it was the undenia- ble deception of the monks and nuns surrounding him and his own confessor which made the polish nobleman become a lutheran. he felt at first so indignant at the 'heresy' of the reformation spreading in lithuania, that he traveled all the way to rome to pay his homage of sympathy and veneration to the pope. the latter presented him with a precious box of relies. on his return home his confessor saw the virgin, who descended from her glorious abode for the sole purpose of blessing these relics and authenticating them. the superior (tf the neighboring convent and the mother-abbess of a nunnery both saw the same viaon, with a re-enforcement of several saints and martyrs; they prophesied and "f

nvent and the mother-abbess of a nunnery both saw the same viaon, with a re-enforcement of several saints and martyrs; they prophesied and "felt the holy ghost" ascending from the box of relics and over- shadowing the prince. a demoniac provided for the purpose by the clergy was exorcized in full ceremony, and upon being touched by the box immediately recovered, and rendered thanks on the spot to the pope and the holy ghost. after the ceremony was over the guardian of the treasury in which the relics were kept, threw himself at the feet of the prince, and confessed that on their way back from rome he had lost the box of reucs. dreading the wrath of his master, he had procured a similar box "which he hod filled with the small bones ol dogs and cats; but seeing how the prince was deceived, h

or obscure thauma- turgista and exorcizers, but take as our standard one of the greatest saints of catholicism, and select a bouquet from that same prolific con- servatory of pious lies. the golden legend, of james de voragine* st. dominic, the founder of the famous order of that name, is one of the mistiest saints on the calendar. his order was the first that received a solemn confirmation from the pope* and he is well known in histoty as the associate and counsellor of the infamous simon de montfort, the, papal general, whom he helped to butcher the unfortunate ajbigenses in and hear toulouse. the story goes that this saint and the church aftn i him claim that he received from the virgin, in proprid persond, a rosary ^ose virtues produced such stupendous miracles that they threw entire

ists so extensively in ecclesiastical christianity, and will do my utmost to expose the imposture "in a vampire story, told in thalaba by soutbey, the resuscitated being takes the form of a dearly beloved maiden, and the hero is obliged to kill her with his own hand. he does so; but whilst he strikes the 156. swptrtiatural rmgiont an inquiry into at rauitg of diviiu rettuilion. digilizocb, google the pope fraternizing with islam 8t form of the loved one lie feels aure that be ala7s only a demon. in like manner, when i endeavor to destroy the current heathenism, which haa assumed the garb of christianity, i do not attack real rehgion" few would accuse a workman of malignancy who cleanses from filth the sur- face of a noble statue. there may he some who are too nice to touch a nasty subject

ith, against their schismatic brothers that they are now intriguing with- in the walls which sheltered the murderous borgias. the larvae of the infonticidal, parricidal and fratricidal popes have proved themselves fit counsellors for the cains of castelfidardo and mentana. it is now the turn of the slavonian christians, the oriental schismatics the i%ilia- tines of the greek church! ttia holiness the pope, after exhausting in a metaphor of self-lauda- tion every point of resemblance between the great biblical prophets and himself, has finally and truly compared himself with the patriarch jacob "wrestling against his god" he now crowns the edifice of catholic piety by openly sympathizing with the tm-ks! the vicegerent of god inaugurates his infallibiuty by encouraging, in a true christian s

preferred an infidel to the protestant 'there is at twttom' says this writer 'a great affinity between the syuainu and the koran, and between the two heads of the faithful. the two systems are^ the same nature, and are united on the common ground of a one and untjiangeable theory' in italy, in like manner, the king and liberal catholics are in warm sympathy with the unfortunate christians, while the pope and ultramontane faction are believed to be inclining to the mohammedans" the civilized world may yet expect the apparition of the materialised virgin maiy within the walls of the vatican. the so often-repeated 'miracle' of the immaculate visitor in the medieval ages has recently been enacted at lourdes, and why not once more, as a coup de gr&ee to all heretics, schismatics and infidelsp

in this, perhaps, ties concealed the whole secret of the claims of the vatican. as professor wilder happily suggests "in the oriental coun- tries the designation idd, peter [in phoenician and chaldaic, an i nter- preter] appears to have been the title of this personage [the hierophant. ttiere is in these facts some reminder of the peculiar circumstances of the mosmc law. and also of the claim of the pope to be the successor of peter, the hierophant or interpreter of the christian religion^ as such we must concede to him, to some extent, the right to be such an interpreter. the latin church has faithfully preserved in symbols, rites, ceremonies, architecture, and even in the very dress of ha clergy, the tradition of the pagan worship of the pubtic or exoteric ceremonies, we should add; oth

oddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progress. blind faith in the pope's infallibility and in the immaculate nature of the virgin and afker atkestral female lineage to a certain remove could alone save the church from the indiscreet revelations of saence. it was a clever strc^e of polk^ on the part of the vicegerent of god. what matters it if, by "conferring upon her such an honor^ as don fasquale di franciscis naively expresses it, be has made a goddess of

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

most gnostic gems, which we give in our illustrations, have caps of this kind. the sacrificer in the sculptured group of the mithraic sacrifice, among the marbles in the british museum, has a phrygian cap on his head, whilst in the act of striking the bull with the poniard meaning the office of the immolating priest. the bonnet conique is the mitre of the doge of venice. besides the bonnet rouge, the pope s mitre nay, all mitres or conical head-coverings have their name from the terms mithradic, or mithraic. the origin of this whole class of names is mittra, or mithra. the cap of the grenadier, the shape of which is alike all over europe, is related to the tartar lambskin caps, which are dyed black; and it is black also from its association with vulcan and the fire-worshippers (smiths. the

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

is book to the perusal of our brn, even though i personally still cling to the idea that masonry originally reached the jews from egypt, however much it may afterwards have been influenced, as it certainly was, by the tammuz-worship of neighbouring nations. bro. ward cites instances of the survival of traces of the cult of adonis in the most unexpected quarters; for instance, he writes: 694. when the pope has died, a high official, armed with a small ivory hammer or gavel, goes up to the dead man and lightly taps him once on each temple and once on the centre of the forehead. after each knock he calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that the pope is dead, and therefore a successor must be elected(*op. cit, p. 7

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

o flocked to the holy land after the first crusade. baldwin i, king of jerusalem, allotted to those two knights and six others who joined with them quarters near the site of solomon s temple, whence their name templars was derived. 672. nine years later hugues de payens visited europe with the object of placing the new order upon a more secure foundation and of gaining recognition and a rule from the pope. he secured the enthusiastic support of s. bernard, the great abbot of clairvaux, and in 1128 a rule, which was drawn up for them by s. bernard himself, was approved for the knights templars by the council of troyes. it was not, however, until 1163 that pope alexander iii issued the charter of the order, and its organization was fully established. 673. the order of the temple in the days

d men were also received, but only on condition of bequeathing one half of their property to the order. no women were admitted. 674. besides these there was also a body of clergy (fratres capellani- bishops, priests and deacons- who were under the same vows as the knights, and by special dispensation owed obedience to no superior, ecclesiastical or civil, except the grand master of the temple and the pope. it was laid down that the confessions of brethren of the order should only be heard by these special clergy; and thus their secrets were guarded inviolate. there were also two classes of serving brothers, those bearing arms (fratres servientes armigeri, and the menials and craftsmen (fratres servientes famuli and officii. 675. at the head of the whole organization stood the grand master;

the subject. 681. philip the fair, king of france, was in desperate need of money. he had already debased the coinage, had arrested the lombard bankers and the jews, and after confiscating their wealth upon a trumped-up charge of usury- a thing abhorrent to the mediaeval mind- had expelled them from his country. then he determined to get rid of the templars, who had lent him large sums, and since the pope, clement v, owed his position to the intrigues of philip, the matter presented little difficulty. his task was rendered easier, too, by the accusations brought against the order by the ex-knight esquiu de floyran, who had a personal interest in the matter, and pretended to reveal all manner of evil things- blasphemy, immorality, idolatry and the worship of the devil under the form of a bl

denial of christ and the spitting on the cross, and in a minor degree with certain grave charges of immorality. a study of the evidence reveals the entire innocence of the templars and the diabolical ingenuity of the familiars of the holy office, who kept them separated without adequate defence or proper consultation, and circulated among them lying rumours that the grand master had confessed to the pope that there were evils in the order. the brethren were cajoled, bribed and tortured into confessing crimes they had never committed, and they were treated with the most fiendish cruelty. 683. such was the justice of those who bore the name of the lord of love in the middle ages; such the compassion which was shown to his faithful servants, whose only crime was their wealth, lawfully won fo

to his faithful servants, whose only crime was their wealth, lawfully won for the order, and not for themselves. philip the fair obtained his money; but what karma, even in a thousand lives of suffering, could ever be sufficient for so vile a wretch? the roman church has doubtless many good deeds to its credit; but can all of them put together ever cancel such incredible wickedness as this? 684. the pope desired to destroy the order, and called a council at vienne in 1311 for that purpose, but the bishops refused to condemn it unheard. the pope, therefore, abolished the order in private consistory on november 22nd, 1312 (5312 a.l- a date still commemorated in a striking fashion in our high-grade rituals, although he admitted that the charges were not proved. the riches of the temple were

ay into the coffers of king philip. 685. the last and most brutal act of this stupendous tragedy occurred on the 14th of march, 1314, when the venerable grand master of the temple, jacques de molay, and gaufrid de charney, preceptor of normandy, were publicly burned as relapsed heretics before the great cathedral of notre dame. as the flames closed round him the grand master summoned the king and the pope to meet him within a year before the judgment-seat of god, and both pope and king were dead within twelve months. 686. the preservation of the templars tradition 687. the destruction of the order of the temple did not, however, involve a complete suppression of the teaching enshrined within it. certain of the french knights templars took refuge with their brethren of the temple in scotlan

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

es of ill luck that would otherwise have fallen upon the household. early christians continued to use many of the amulets of the ancients. the medieval catholic church promoted the use of numerous holy charms including rosaries and holy relics. the most common charm was the agnus dei, a small cake of wax originally made out of passover candles, bearing images of the lamb and flag. when blessed by the pope, the agnus dei protected the wearer against attacks by the devil, thunder, lightning, fire, drowning, death in childbirth, and other dangers. in the seventeenth century, rosaries were blessed as amulets against fire, tempest, fever, and evil spirits. the idea that a charm needed to be consecrated in order to be effective is behind the belief that a lucky charm that someone gives one is mo

1265 ravenna 1321) was born of a guelf middleclass family. he played an important role in florentine civic and political life. after writing his first work, the vita nuova, about his youthful idealistic love for beatrice portinari, he took an active part in the administration of the commune and was on the imperial side in the struggle between guelfs and ghibellines, respectively the partisans of the pope and the emperor, who were fighting for the jurisdiction in italy. however, when the rival party splintered into two factions, he decided to support the antipapal policy of the white guelfs.after the blacks took over the city in 1301, under the wing of charles de valois, dante was exiled and his life of wandering from court to court of medieval italy began. during his exile, he wrote the c

laims were of the most extreme sort, asserting that she had been a high priestess in a satanic movement out to conquer the world. although he mentioned the book in which this woman was featured, he came to set the captives free, rivera either failed to actually read it himself or else diplomatically avoided mentioning such patent absurdities as her claim to have conspired with such celebrities as the pope: i also made a number of trips to other countries. i have been to mecca, israel, egypt, also the vatican in rome to meet with the pope. all my trips were for the purpose of coordinating satan s programs with satanists in other lands, as well as meeting with various government officials to discuss aid to their countries in the form of money. a few did not know that i was a satanist, but th

t with the pope. all my trips were for the purpose of coordinating satan s programs with satanists in other lands, as well as meeting with various government officials to discuss aid to their countries in the form of money. a few did not know that i was a satanist, but thought i was associated with a powerful wealthy organization of some kind. people asking for money don t ask too many questions. the pope knew very well who i was.we worked closely both with the catholics (especially the jesuits) and the high-ranking masons. it was during this time that i met many of the well known rock music stars. they all signed contracts with satan in return for fame and fortune. the next person on the program was the author of he came to set the captives free, who had helped the high priestess and many

ccult, and ritual are often used interchangeably. it is difficult to define satanism precisely. no attempt will be made to do so here. however, it is important to realize that, for some people, any religious belief system other than their own is satanic. the ayatollah khomeini and saddam hussein referred to the united states as the great satan. in the british parliament a protestant leader called the pope the antichrist. in a book titled prepare for war (1987, rebecca brown, m.d. has a chapter entitled is roman catholicism witchcraft? dr. brown also lists among the doorways to satanic power and/or demon infestation the following: fortune tellers, horoscopes, fraternity oaths, vegetarianism, yoga, self-hypnosis, relaxation tapes, acupuncture, biofeedback, fantasy role-playing games, adulter

LIBER LVII

wards) 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= iv= 4= d= the empress= iii= 3= g= the high priestess= ii= 2= b= the magus= i= 1= a= the fool= 0. scholion h. 9= luna= g= 3, etc, as before. scholion q. 9= indigo lead= saturn= 3, etc, as before. there are many other lines of argument. this form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle .why is a story like a ghost. answer .a story.s a tale; a tail.s a brush; a brush

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ning. browning could hardly have described the dilemma without seeing it. what he really believes is, perhaps, a mystery. that browning, however, believes in universal salvation, though he nowhere (so far as i know) gives his reasons, save as they are summarised in the last lines of the below-quoted passage, is evident from the last stanza of .apparent failure. and from his final pronouncement of the pope on guido, represented in browning.s masterpiece as a judas without the decency to hang himself .so (i.e, by suddenness of fate) may the truth be flashed out by one blow, and guido see one instant and be saved. else i avert my face nor follow him into that sad obscure sequestered state where god unmakes but to remake the soul he else made first in vain: which must not be* probably a record

al to pass through. in zola.s .la cur e. we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of saccard, maxime, and the incestuous heroine, were twisted and distorted from their normal sanity, and sent whirling into the jaws of a hell far more affrayant than the mere cheap and nasty brimstone sheol which is a shibboleth for the dissenter, and with which all classes of religious humbug, from the pope to the salvation ranter, from the mormon and the jesuit to that mongrol mixture of the worst features of both, the plymouth brother, have scared their illiterate, since hypocrisy was born, with abel, and spiritual tyranny with jehovah! society, in the long run, is eminently sane and practical; under the second empire it ran mad. if these things are done in the green tree of society, what

others. 173. the liar copleston.42*.bishop of cal* copies were sent to any living persons mentioned in the .sword of song. accompanied by the follow-ing letter: letters and telegrams: boleskine foyers is sufficient address. bills, writs, summonses, etc: camp xi, the baltoro glacier, baltistan o millionaire! my lord marquis, mr. editor! my lord viscount, dear mrs eddy, my lord earl, your holiness the pope! my lord, your imperial majesty! my lord bishop, your majesty! reverend sir, your royal highness! sir, dear miss corelli, fellow, my lord cardinal, mr. congressman, my lord archbishop, mr. senator, my lord duke, mr president (or the feminine of any of these, as shown by underlining it, courtesy demands, in view of the (a) tribute to your genius (b) attack on your (1) political (2) moral (

ena.s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god.s battue, the flood for mortal.s sin.icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him .wer bist du. he answered slowly .bin ich. 387. the fish.58.because of .cquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59.consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60..how vain, indeed, are human calculations..the autobiography of a flea, p. 136. 412. table-thing.61..ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear..the ring and the book, i. 17 .this pebble-thing, o. the boy-thing .calverly, the cock and the bull. 442. caird.62.see his .hegel. 446. says huxley.63.see .ethi

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

march, 1314, jacques de molay, the last grand master of the knights templars, was burned on a pyre erected upon that point of the islet of the seine, at paris, where afterwards was erected the statue of king henry iv (see the indian religions, by hargrave jennings "it is mentioned as a tradition in some of the accounts of the burning" writes jennings "that molay, ere he expired, summoned clement, the pope who had pronounced the bull of abolition against the order and had condemned the grand master to the flames, to appear, within forty days, before the supreme eternal judge, and philip [the king] to the same awful tribunal within the space of a year. both predictions were fulfilled" the close relationship between freemasonry and the original knights templars has caused the story of chiram

nal within the space of a year. both predictions were fulfilled" the close relationship between freemasonry and the original knights templars has caused the story of chiram to be linked with the martyrdom of jacques de molay. according to this interpretation, the three ruffians who cruelly slew their master at the gates of the temple because he refused to reveal the secrets of his order represent the pope, the king, and the executioners. de molay died maintaining his innocence and refusing to disclose the philosophical and magical arcana of the templars. those who have sought to identify chiram with the murdered king charles the first conceive the hiramic legend to have been invented for that purpose by elias ashmole, a mystical philosopher, who was probably a member of the rosicrucian fra

ly used in diagramming family lineage, from which practice has arisen the custom of terming such tables "family trees" p. 94 lotus are the keys to its symbolic import. a hint concerning the unfoldment of spiritual understanding according to the secret science of the mysteries is found in the story of aaron's rod that budded, and also in wagner's great opera, tannh user, where the budding staff of the pope signifies the unfolding blossoms upon the sacred rod of the mysteries--the spinal column. the rosicrucians used a garland of roses to signify the same spiritual vortices, which are referred to in the bible as the seven lamps of the candlestick and the seven churches of asia. in the 1642 edition of sir francis bacon's history of henry the seventh is a frontispiece showing lord bacon with r

the eyes of the great king. the position of the body and legs forms the symbol of sulphur, the sign of the ancient alchemical monarch. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the figure is in profile. he wears a masonic apron and the skirt forms s right-angled triangle. upon his head is the crown of the north and his forehead is adorned wit the coiled ur us. the fifth numbered major trump is called le pape, the pope, and represents the high priest of a pagan or christian mystery school. in this card the hierophant wears the tiara and carries in his left hand the triple cross surmounting the globe of the world. his right hand, bearing upon its back the stigmata, makes "the ecclesiastic sign of esotericism" and before him kneel two suppliants or acolytes. the back of the papal throne is in the form of

g the more curious examples of playing cards are those of the mantegna deck. in 1820, a perfect deck of fifty cards brought the then amazing price of eighty pounds. the fifty subjects composing the mantegna deck, each of which is represented by an appropriate figure, are (1) a beggar (2) a page (3) a goldsmith (4) a merchant (5) a gentleman (6) a knight (7) the doge (8) a king (9) an emperor (10) the pope (11) calliope (12) urania (13) terpsichore (14) erato (15) polyhymnia (16) thalia (17) melpomene (18) euterpe (19) clio (20) apollo (21) grammar (22) logic (23) rhetoric (24) geometry (25) arithmetic (26) music (27) poetry (28) philosophy (29) astrology (30) theology (31) astronomy (32) chronology (33) cosmogony (34) temperance (35) prudence (36) fortitude (37) justice (38) charity (39) f

those unwritten teachings which explained satisfactorily the apparent contradictions of the written scriptures, nor does it remember that the pagans appointed their two-faced janus as custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom. janus has been metamorphosed into st. peter, so often symbolized as holding in his hand the key to the gate of heaven. the gold and silver keys of "god's vicar on earth" the pope, symbolizes this "secret doctrine" which, when properly understood, unlocks the treasure chest of the christian and jewish qabbalah. the temples of egyptian mysticism (from which the tabernacle was copied) were--according to their own priests--miniature representations of the universe. the solar system was always regarded as a great temple of initiation, which candidates entered through t

ng point of the cipher or carry in its hand some implement disclosing the system of measurement used. there are also frequent instances in which the cryptographer purposely distorted or improperly clothed some figure in his drawing by placing the hat on backwards, the sword on the wrong side, or the shield on the wrong arm, or by employing some similar artifice. the much-discussed fifth finger on the pope's hand in raphael's sistine madonna and the sixth toe on joseph's foot in the same artist's marriage of the virgin are cunningly concealed cryptograms. 3. the acroamatic cipher. the religious and philosophical writings of all nations abound with acroamatic cryptograms, that is, parables and allegories. the acroamatic is unique in that the document containing it may be translated or reprin

the life and mysterious "death" of cagliostro are of the opinion that the stories circulated against him may be traced to the machinations of the inquisition, which in this manner sought to justify his persecution. the basic charge against cagliostro was that he had attempted to found a masonic lodge in rome--nothing more. all other accusations are of subsequent date. for some reason undisclosed, the pope commuted cagliostro's sentence of death to perpetual imprisonment. this act in itself showed the regard in which cagliostro was held even by his enemies. while his death is believed to have occurred several years later in an inquisitional dungeon in the castle of san leo, it is highly improbable that such was the case. there are rumors that he escaped, and according to one very significan

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

nd establishment of thebritish empire) and individualism, expressed in the communist movement. eventually, two world warswould be planned to restore rule by the oligarchy. 1400 european power centers coalesce into two camps: the ghibellines, who supported the emperorshohenstaufen family, and the guelphs, from welf, the german prince who competed with frederick forcontrol of the holy roman empire. the pope allied himself with the guelphs. all modern historystems directly from the struggle between these two powers. the guelphs are also called the neri,black guelphs, or black nobility, and supported william of orange in his seizure of the throne ofengland, which eventually resulted in the formation of the bank of england and the east india com-pany, which would rule the world from the 17th ce

MORALS AND DOGMA

fteenth louis, when young girls, hardly more than children, were kidnapped to serve his lusts; when _lettres de cachet_ filled the bastile with persons accused of no crime, with husbands who were in the way of the pleasures of lascivious wives and of villains wearing orders of nobility; when the people were ground between the upper and the nether millstone of taxes, customs, and excises; and when the pope's nuncio and the cardinal de la roche-ayman, devoutly kneeling, one on each side of madame du barry, the king's abandoned prostitute, put the slippers on her naked feet, as she rose from the adulterous bed. then, indeed, suffering and toil were the two forms of man, and the people were but beasts of burden. the true mason is he who labors strenuously to help his order effect its great pur

rance. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conventicles _de liberi muratari, or of the freemasons, under the penalty of _ipso facto_ excommunication, the absolution from which is reserved to the pope alone, except at the point of death" and by it all bishops, ordinaries, and inquisitors were empowered to punish freemasons "as vehemently suspected of heresy" and to call in, if necessary, the help of the secular arm; that is, to cause the civil authority to put them to death* also, false and slavish political theories end in brutalizing the state. for example, adopt the theory that offi

es, but also the passing events. the process tended to suffocate thought, and to hinder progress; for there is continual wandering in the wisest minds, and truth writes her last words, not on clean tablets, but on the scrawl that error has made and often mended. printing made the movable letters prolific. thenceforth the orator spoke almost visibly to listening nations; and the author wrote, like the pope, his cumenic decrees _urbi et orbi, and ordered them to be posted up in all the market-places; remaining, if he chose, impervious to human sight. the doom of tyrannies was thenceforth sealed. satire and invective became potent as armies. the unseen hands of the juniuses could launch the thunderbolts, and make the ministers tremble. one whisper from this giant fills the earth as easily as

e of the many internal and cogent proofs that such was the origin of modern free-masonry. the legend of osiris was revived and adopted, to symbolize the destruction of the order, and the resurrection of khurum, slain in the body of the temple, of khurum abai, the master, as the martyr of fidelity to obligation, of truth and conscience, prophesied the restoration to life of the buried association "the pope and the king soon after perished in a strange and sudden manner. squin de florian, the chief denouncer of the order, died assassinated. in breaking the sword of the templars, they made of it a poniard; and their proscribed trowels thenceforward built only tombs [the order disappeared at once. its estates and wealth were confiscated, and it seemed to have ceased to exist. nevertheless it l

, to exasperate that rage and bring on the catastrophe prepared for centuries; it was a scaffold that the vengeance of the templars demanded. the secret movers of the french revolution had sworn to overturn the throne and the altar upon the tomb of jacques de molai. when louis xvi. was executed, half the work was done; and thenceforward the army of the temple was to direct all its efforts against the pope. jacques de molai and his companions were perhaps martyrs, but their avengers dishonored their memory. royalty was regenerated on the scaffold of louis xvi, the church triumphed in the captivity of pius vi, carried a prisoner to valence, and dying of fatigue and sorrow, but the successors of the ancient knights of the temple perished, overwhelmed in their fatal victory. morals and dogma

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

y 'absolute evil' which made manichaeism necessary despite the cloaks of the casuists and meant 'that which leads one away from god. but each man, while postulating an absolute 'god, defined him unconsciously in terms of freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus 'good' and 'evil' were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who 'bowed humbly to the authority of' the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine- man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star, a 'khabs' the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction. to us, then '

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

615, one of the fathers of the culdeen church, preached the christian gospel to the picts and the scots. later, in the company of twelve monks, he arrived in france, where he founded the luxeil abbey. in 613 he also established the monastery of bobbio in italy, where he died. columban wrote a monastic rule urging asceticism. he declared the preeminence of the roman pontiff, but not his authority "the pope" he wrote "is not someone who holds the keys to absolute truth and whose words carry the seal of the holy ghost. he is a bishop, a weak man whom one can advise and rebuke. above the authority of rome there is the authority of the truth" the culdees were connected with king athelstan, who played a large role in the legendary history of freemasonry. in 936 this king, in his march against th

to have inflated the importance of the murder by a templar of an envoy from the old man of the mountain to king amaury. it turns out that according to de tyr himself this templar, gautier de mesnil, had acted on his own. the grand master eude de saint-armand did not refuse to punish him; instead he refused to surrender him to the king, making the argument that it was up to the sovereign order or the pope to judge him. how grousset (histoire des croisades, vol. 2, 600, who is normally so perspicacious, could deduce from this murder that the templars were the sworn enemies of the ismailis is puzzling+ saint louis refused to profit from these negotiations and sharply criticised guillaume de sonnace. this occurred during the seventh crusade (boulenger, la vie de saint louis, paris: gallimard

istians. while it recalled the holy sepulcher, it also recalled to jews and muslims the temple of solomon (wisdom, which was furthermore reproduced on the seal of the grand master. a sacred sanctuary, it spoke simultaneously to the sons of shem, cham, and japhet.34 so the reason for the condemnation of the templars is not to be sought in a heretical deviation. in fact they were never condemned by the pope who was satisfied with simply dissolving the order but by the temporal authority. philip the fair could not take action against the templars, a sovereign and independent religious order, without a condemnation or dissolution of the order by the holy see. dissolution was forthcoming from rome in payment of a debt of gratitude owed the king of france. the action philip the fair took against

on. of course, the line of descent varies according to author. for cadet- gassicourt it was the grand master molay himself who, foreseeing the tragic end of the order and his own execution while in his cell at the bastille, charged his nephew beaujeu with the task of creating four great lodges in paris, edinborough, stockholm, and naples, whose purpose would be the destruction of spiritual power (the pope) and temporal power (the king).18 in the acta latomorum, thory explains it as follows: jacques de molay, foreseeing the misfortunes that threatened an order whose existence he wished to perpetuate, designated as his successor brother jean-marc larmenius of jerusalem, who invested the grand masters destined to succeed him with patriarchal authority as well as magisterial power by virtue of

of the order to the holy see and removed them from the authority of the patriarch of jerusalem and the prelates of other countries. it also gave the order complete authority to institute priests and chaplains to serve its churches* shortly afterward, another bull, this one issued by gregory viii in 1188, declared that the templars did not have to acknowledge the supremacy of any bishop other than the pope. this enabled them to avoid the pastoral authority of the bishop in paris. by virtue of these privileges, the order not only was spared the necessity of episcopal visits, but it also assumed visitation and jurisdictional rights over the dependent parishes of its commanderies, except for the ordinances of diocesen bishop's concerning the management of souls and the administration of sacram

crowned martyrs. and these martyrs knew all the craft of sculpture or of carving, and diocletian would have constrained them to carve an idol, but they would not carve it, nor consent to do sacrifice to the idols. and then by the commandment of diocletian they were put into tuns of lead all living, and cast into the sea about the year of our lord two hundred four score and seven. and melchiades, the pope, ordained these four saints to be honoured and to be called the four crowned martyrs before that their names were found+ the feast day of the four crowned martyrs is celebrated on november 8 and churches in some way dedicated to them can be found in a number of locations. there is a church of the quatro santi coronati in rome and a depiction of the four crowned martyrs can be* c. van cauv

e credentials and to obey these commands, under pain of excommunication" the pontiffs signaled their approval of these absolute methods by citing "the example of hiram, king of tyre, when he sent architects to king solomon to build the temple of jerusalem" on reading these privileges, it is difficult to believe, like clavel (who accepts them, that the members of these corporations were opposed to the pope. while we may accept the authenticity of these briefs, the originals of which are missing, it is necessary to measure their scope. they were applicable only within the framework of canon law. they addressed only the construction of religious buildings. the pope held no temporal power that allowed him to grant anyone private privileges that would constitute a departure from the rules of fe

ous buildings. the pope held no temporal power that allowed him to grant anyone private privileges that would constitute a departure from the rules of feudal or manorial law or to strike a blow against the power and competence of those administering high or low justice. with the exception of canon law, the church could act only in the temporal sphere and within the limits of its own jurisdiction. the pope's authority in this regard did not extend beyond the borders of his states. it was because of this and in the roles of lords high justice that the benedictines, cistercians, and templars could act within the immense extent of their thousands of abbeys, houses, and commanderies. symbolism the use of symbolism on its own constituted a universal language. symbols were used by builders as muc

ems they embodied is their ritual and symbolic contents, which made them the vehicles of choice for mysticism and all the esoteric and hermetic doctrines that were popular during the eighteenth century. this is clearly where the new focus of the tradition occurred and the question that arises is how this harmonized with the sources of craft freemasonry. the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 261 the pope and the condemnation of freemasonry the pope was never alarmed by craft freemasonry. quite the contrary; the church always had a presence within it, which made it easy to address a situation if particular circumstance called for steps to be taken. the church took no greater concern regarding the admission of "accepted" members into the lodges. when religious and dynastic conflicts broke o

garding the admission of "accepted" members into the lodges. when religious and dynastic conflicts broke out in great britain, church leaders quite naturally took an interest in the situation, decidedly from the side of the stuarts. they supported them through their misfortunes with words of encouragement, always a good thing, and with financial assistance, which is even better. james iii visited the pope on several occasions, especially following the treaty of utrecht, and when louis xiv was compelled to expel the pretender from france, it was to rome that he went in search of consolation and support. how is it imaginable that in their intimacy with the stuarts the popes would remain ignorant of the activity of the scot lodges? their long silence leads us to believe that they thought well

revised to carry a protestant meaning and when article i of this text was altered. in its new form it echoes the charter allegedly issued by edwin i in 926 "a mason is obliged by his tenure to observe the moral law like a true noachid. and to the three great articles of noah" to wit, the prohibition on worshipping idols and false gods, and committing blasphemy and murder. before this publication, the pope was already aware that the scottish school had lost its chance to triumph over the anglicans in the 262 from the art of building to the art of thinking lodges. the political and religious usefulness of the "scots" lodges had become quite weak with respect to the new impregnation they had taken on. it is true that the papal bull of 1738 makes scant mention of doctrine and faith. it notes t

he doctrine of modern freemasonry was declared to be incompatible with that of the catholic religion. the autonomy of french masonry what was to happen in france in 1738, the eldest daughter of the church ruled by the descendent of saint louis and the land where the scottish lodges, faithful to catholicism, remained in the majority? not what we are likely to imagine. the kingdom of france ignored the pope. the king, after all, received his crown from god. all justice issued from him. the papal bull was not registered by the parliament of paris as required by the fundamental laws of the kingdom in order for it to be applicable in france. lex non promulgata non obligat. the bull remained a dead letter for the french lodges. it was determined that french freemasonry should be independent and

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

hy, and finds satisfaction in observing the popes of the middle ages who opposed religion as a check upon the absolute power of kings; but he protests with the revolutionary centuries against the servitude of conscience which the pontifical keys would enchain. he is more protestant than luther, since he does not even believe in the infallibility of the augsbourg confession, and more catholic than the pope, for he has no fear that religious unity will be broken by the malevolence of courts. he trusts in god rather than roman policy for the salvation of the unity idea; he respects the old age of the church, but he has no fear that she will die; he knows that her apparent death will be a transfiguration and a glorious assumption. the author of this book calls upon the eastern magi to come for

r empress. the third day was that of man's creation. so is the moon called the mother in kabalah, when it is represented in association with the number 3. this day is favourable to generation and generally to all productions, whether of body or mind. 4. the emperor, or ruler. the fourth day is baleful: it was that of the birth of cain; but it is favourable to unjust and tyrannical enterprises. 5. the pope, or hierophant. the fifth day is fortunate; it was that of the birth of abel. 6. the lover, or liberty. the sixth day is a day of pride; it was that of the birth of lamech, who said unto his wives: gi have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. if cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly lamech seventy and sevenfold. h this day is propitious for conspiracies and rebellions

ity, immortality, the queen of heaven. d the porte or government of the easterns, initiation, power, the tetragram, the quaternary, the cubic stone, or its base. hieroglyph, the emperor, a sovereign whose body represents a right-angled triangle and his legs a cross image of the athanor of the philosophers. h indication, demonstration, instruction, law, symbolism, philosophy, religion. hieroglyph, the pope, or grand hierophant. in more modern tarots this sign is replaced by the image of jupiter. the grand hierophant, seated between the two pillars of hermes and of solomon, makes the sign of esotericism and leans upon a cross with three crossbars of triangular form. two inferior ministers kneel before him. having above him the capitals of the two pillars and below him the two heads of the as

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or: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 16a, 16l, 16m the reformation, usually dated ca. 1517 to ca. 1648 (end of the thirty years' war, was a 16th century religious movement aimed at correcting real or assumed abuses in the roman catholic church, and marked ultimately by rejection of the supremacy of the pope, rejection or modification of much of roman catholic doctrine, and establishment of the protestant churches. the reformation's key proponents were martin luther (1483-1546) in germany and john calvin (1509-1564) in switzerland. while there were a number of sub-movements throughout europe, they generally agreed upon fundamental christianity as characterized by (1) the finality and ultimate

, and "ritual" are often used interchangeably. it is difficult to define "satanism" precisely. no attempt will be made to do so here however, it is important to realize that, for some people, any religious belief system other than their own is "satanic" the ayatollah khomeini and saddam hussein referred to the united states as the "great satan" in the british parliament a protestant leader called the pope the antichrist. in a book titled prepare for war (1987, rebecca brown, m.d. has a chapter entitled "is roman catholicism witchcraft" dr. brown also lists among the "doorways" to satanic power and/or demon infestation the following: fortune tellers, horoscopes, fraternity oaths, vegetarianism, yoga, self-hypnosis, relaxation tapes, acupuncture, biofeedback, fantasy role-playing games, adul

hristians try to pray for us, realizing that we don't care what they do, they become nasty and attack us. why? because we are different. 8) set now frees the face of "evil" and gives it back to the lord of christian deception. he now shows himself as the first among night "the price of darkness" as far as the corruption of the pentagram of set goes, i do not think that i could top those words. 9) the pope of the vatican in rome dresses in white light splendor, while those that he commands live in poverty. the word "bard" means a poet/singer. in this context it means singer, and two come to mind: michael jackson and whitney houston. if these two would put more of their finances into world hunger instead of elaborate concerts to sing about it, this would be a happier world. 10) of course whe

eness even higher. this may be another reason that trump i flows upward in its lines and shows fluid action rather than a frozen stasis. trump ii the priestess the priestess, trump ii, known in some decks as the high priestess, is one of what de givry refers to as one of the six titled personages belonging to human society, the other five according to that author being (in the older style titles) the pope, the emperor, the juggler, the empress, and the hermit. it was de gebelin, according to de givry, who attempted to place the tarot figures into a logical arrangement and thereby find correlations between the deck and society. the relationships he advanced are of passing interest and are worth mentioning if only for the further correspondences of the thoth deck and the thelemic/satanic/set

and the hermit. it was de gebelin, according to de givry, who attempted to place the tarot figures into a logical arrangement and thereby find correlations between the deck and society. the relationships he advanced are of passing interest and are worth mentioning if only for the further correspondences of the thoth deck and the thelemic/satanic/setian interpretations. the six titled personages: the pope the emperor the juggler the high priestess the empress the hermit the two allegorical personages: the devil death the four cardinal virtues (with the hanged man as prudence: justice strength temperance prudence the three astronomical elements: the sun the moon the star the two elements of fate in human life: the lovers the wheel of fortune the four elements in cosmic fate: the chariot the

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was created when he and edward kelly were attempting to divine its contents. clavicula salomonis otherwise known as the key of solomon the king. the first english translation of this theurgic text was made in 1889, although the british museum possess a greek version dated 1100-1200 e.v. it is known to have existed since the first century, and is an important text in the study of kaballa. in 1310 the pope innocent vi ordered all copies destroyed, and a similar commandment was given in 1559. in the 17th century, thanks to the new technology of the printing press, this work and its companion the lesser key became best sellers. lesser key of solomon (the goetia) this work is also attributed to the legendary king solomon, and gives details of the seventy two devils that were bound to his comma

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and is a leading causative factor in youngsters' turning away from god. and certainly one suspects that pope paul had lavey in mind when he issued his worldwide proclamation two years ago that the devil is "alive" and "a person, a living, fire-breathing character spreading evil over the earth. lavey, maintaining that "evil" is "live" spelled backward and should be indulged in and enjoyed, answers the pope and the religious scare groups this way "people, organizations, nations are making millions of dollars off us. what would they do without us? without the church of satan, they wouldn't have anybody to rage at and to take the blame for all the rotten things happening in the world. if they really feel this way, they shouldn't have blown us out of proportion. what you really have to believe

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rly segments of the ceremony, and the closeness within the coffin. when the performance of l'air epais was resumed in 1799, it served as a celebration of the successful curse placed upon philip and pope clement v by jacques de molay, the last grand master of the templars, who had been condemned to death along with his knights. the present text employs the actual curse leveled against the king and the pope by de molay. though the dialogue of the priest of satan, the king, and the pope are presented in modern french prose, the statements of de molay have been retained in their actual stilted delivery. james thompson's diabolical litany of the nineteenth century, the city of dreadful night, has long been employed as the denunciation. it is doubtful that any words could be better suited to the

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

the fifth century and the loss of political power, rome was placed in a much weaker position than constantinople, the eastern capital of the empire. there were divisions between the two seats of power. the church in rome by the end of the second century began using latin as the language of worship and in religious texts. the church in the east, however, still used greek. the bishop of rome became the pope, or leader, of the church in the west (the countries of europe and the americas. the eastern church had a less centralized structure, with the patriarch, or district leader, of constantinople as the unofficial head of that branch. most real power in the east, however, lay in the hands of the emperor. 126 world religions: almanac christianity these differences intensified over questions of

d over questions of doctrine, particularly over the nicene creed. finally in 1054 a formal separation took place, resulting in two distinct churches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. thereafter, the popes in rome fought for secular, or political, power with the princes and kings of europe. by 926, european states had loosely joined together as the holy roman empire, with the pope in rome as the spiritual head. the pope would in turn make one of the many princes in europe the emperor. this system remained in place until 1806. however, there was continual competition between the popes and the princes for power. meanwhile the eastern orthodox church extended its control over asia minor and over christians in the middle east. constantinople became the center of what w

rn orthodox church. in turn the western church, claiming to be the universal version, called itself the roman catholic church. although there was an attempt to reach peace between the two branches, both continue to use different versions of the nicene creed. there are many other differences as well. the eastern church is less centralized in its administration. instead of an overall leader such as the pope in rome, it has patriarchs or metropolitans, who do not rule the entire eastern church but only a portion of it. neither is the eastern church the primary religious teaching authority, as it is in catholic tradition. moreover, priests in the eastern church are not required to be celibate, although their bishops are. members of the church who are not clergy also have more power and respons

spread to the new world with voyages of discovery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. italy, france, spain, ireland, austria, poland, and portugal in europe are strongly catholic countries, as is much of central america and south america. the catholic church differs from the eastern orthodox branch of christianity in its central organization. the idea of papal infallibility, meaning that the pope cannot make mistakes in matters of religious doctrine, is unique to roman 132 world religions: almanac christianity catholicism. the church is the teaching authority of the faith, and the pope has the final word about matters of faith or morals. protestantism the next major schism within christianity occurred within the western branch. by the sixteenth century the roman catholic church ha

faith should be baptized. anabaptists also were pacifists( people who believe in nonviolence, who denied believers the right to use weapons even in selfdefense. southern baptist convention and the american baptist convention are two north american branches of anabaptists. another major division within protestantism came from england. there, king henry viii (1491 1547) broke from rome in 1534 over the pope s refusal to grant him a divorce. the anglican church, or the church of england, maintaining many of the rites of the catholic church, was formed as a result. anglicanism gave rise in north america to the episcopal church. reaction against the authority of the anglican church led to the multiplication of protestant sects in england. puritanism was a sect that grew out of the anglican move

ourdes, in southern france, is one such place, and fatima, in portugal, is another. both are believed to be places where mary, the mother of jesus, appeared to young people who had prayed to her. throughout europe there are shrines and cathedrals that have special importance for christians. many catholics take a trip to rome to visit vatican city, the headquarters of their church and residence of the pope. protestants often visit the church of martin luther in wittenberg, germany. this is considered the center of the beginnings of protestantism. great cathedrals such as notre dame in paris and the cologne cathedral in germany draw millions of visitors, both religious and nonreligious, each year. such cathedrals, built over generations (and sometimes over centuries, represent for christians

ess code or diet for christians. the clergy of various branches, denominations, and orders do, however, have distinctive clothing. this includes the priest s collar, the robes of some monks, the black attire and headpiece that nuns (women who have devoted their lives to god) used to wear, and the distinctive robes and circular hats worn in the eastern orthodox tradition. in the western tradition, the pope, the cardinals, and the bishops of the roman catholic church wear hats or caps called mitres that are presented to them when they enter into their offices. mitres are related to the ancient crown of the roman emperors in constantinople and are a sign of the authority these people hold. rites of passage major stages of life, or rites of passage, are celebrated by the christian church. the

tian church has, in large part, shaped societies in europe and the americas. the very rhythms of life in the west are attuned to christianity. for example, the workweek typically begins with monday and ends with friday or saturday, with sunday being a day of rest. the occasions of christmas and easter likewise shape annual rhythms. the concept of the nation and state grew with the western church. the pope, at times, has proved a mighty leader of the west. such leadership did not always result in the best outcomes: the long and bloody history of the crusades, for example, and the harsh years of the inquisition, are not high points of christian history. with its emphasis on helping the poor, the weak, and the ill, christianity has led missions around the world to aid the sick and feed the hu

an augustinian monk martin luther launches the protestant reformation, which divides christianity into two denominations, or branches: catholicism and protestantism. 1534 the spanish nobleman ignatius of loyola establishes the society of jesus, or the jesuit order, in 1534. 1536 john calvin publishes the first edition of institutes of the christian religion. in it, he argues that the authority of the pope should be rejected, that all humans are sinful and without any free will, and that eternal life is predetermined by god. 1698 1760 life span of israel ben eliezer, the founder of hasidism, a jewish mystical movement that emphasizes a direct connection to god through prayer and through joyous experiences such as music and dance. 1699 the sikh leader gobind singh founds the khalsa, a milita

s ability to understand. calvin said that all humans were sinful and had no free will, a belief similar to luther s. he also said humans could not seek their own salvation, because only the grace of god determined who was saved and who was damned. so while strong faith and good works are important to calvinists, they do not automatically lead to salvation. calvin also stated that the authority of the pope should be rejected. calvin organized his basic thoughts into the five points of calvinism, which were later developed further by his followers. these are often referred to by the acronym tulip: total depravity refers to the sin into which humans are born. unconditional election refers to selection by god for salvation. limited atonement is the concept that god s son jesus christ was cruci

gion in various cities including vienna, austria, and basel and earned his degree in 1506. after his graduation he served as a pastor in glarus for ten years, at times accompanying swiss mercenaries, or hired soldiers, into battle as their chaplain. in 1518 he became the priest at zurich s great minster church. until his appointment in zurich, zwingli had been a strong believer in catholicism and the pope. during his time at great minster, however, he began to question the catholic church, especially its ceremonies and excesses. he soon began preaching against practices such as enforced celibacy (not having sexual intercourse) for priests and the selling of indulgences, which are special favors from god. martin luther had recently opposed the same practices in germany, although the two had

religions: biographies nechama leibowitz ignatius of loyola born: december 24, 1491 azpeitia, guipuzcoa, spain died: july 31, 1556 rome, italy spanish religious leader; soldier for the greater glory of god. ignatius of loyola was a spanish nobleman who began a career as a military man. after he was wounded in battle, he converted to catholicism, a branch of christianity, and became a soldier for the pope, the leader of the catholic church. the wars he then fought were not on the battlefield but against the protestant reformation, a sixteenth century religious movement that began as an attempt to reform the roman catholic church and resulted in the creation of protestant churches. he argued that the only way to salvation, or life after death, was through total obedience to the church. he e

hing these two his system of prayer and soon gathered six close followers around him. these young men all gave away their possessions as ignatius had and begged for their food and lodging. together they founded the society of jesus, or the jesuit order, on august 15, 1534. the goal of the order was to serve in hospitals or as missionaries( people who try to convert nonbelievers) or to do whatever the pope in rome might ask of them. ignatius s years of asceticism, however, had ruined his health. he went back to his home in spain to recover, making the difficult journey by donkey. at azpeitia he stayed at a poorhouse rather than at his family s castle. his health soon improved slightly, although he was never completely healthy again. by 1535 he was attracting large crowds to his teachings on

they remained in italy doing charitable work and preaching. at this 220 world religions: biographies ignatius of loyola point he changed his given name, in igo, to ignatius, after saint ignatius of antioch (50 c. 107, who gave his life for his faith. in 1537 pope paul iii (1468 1549) heard of the jesuits and gave his spoken approval to their mission. after reading ignatius s spiritual exercises, the pope was convinced that the jesuits could be helpful in combating the reformation. for example, one section of the spiritual exercises is a list of rules that jesuits must follow. as quoted on the web site medieval sourcebook of fordham university, rule thirteen states in part, to be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which i see, is black, if the. church decides it. t

. for example, one section of the spiritual exercises is a list of rules that jesuits must follow. as quoted on the web site medieval sourcebook of fordham university, rule thirteen states in part, to be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which i see, is black, if the. church decides it. this encouragement of such absolute obedience to the catholic church was appealing to the pope. head of the jesuits ignatius presented a constitution, or basic set of rules, for his new religious order to the pope in 1538. in 1540 the new order was accepted as a legitimate catholic group, and ignatius was elected as its first superior general or father general. he then sent his followers throughout europe and other regions to find new recruits, work in hospitals, and train the loca

hout europe and other regions to find new recruits, work in hospitals, and train the local people in correct religious practices, as laid out in the spiritual exercises. the motto of the jesuits became for the greater glory of god. the jesuits are somewhat different than other catholic religious orders such as the benedictines, franciscans, or dominicans. they demonstrate unquestioning loyalty to the pope and vow to take on any job he asks of them. this was particularly important during the years of what became known as the counter-reformation, or the reform movement that grew within the catholic church in an attempt to counteract the reformation. the jesuits also pledge to serve in the world, instead of living away from society, such as in monasteries, to concentrate on prayer. becoming a

the door of the castle church, probably hoping to open a public debate on the issue. many people would later view this dramatic, defiant act as the symbolic start of the protestant reformation. yet most historians say that he did not actually nail the document to the church door, but instead sent it to a small number of bishops. importantly, none of the ninety-five theses questioned the right of the pope (the head of the roman catholic church) to grant indulgences, nor did they in any way question the pope s authority. soon luther s work was translated from latin and distributed throughout germany and all of europe, which was made possible by the recent invention of the printing press. the publication of the ninety-five theses started a great debate in the catholic church. 228 world relig

catholic church) to grant indulgences, nor did they in any way question the pope s authority. soon luther s work was translated from latin and distributed throughout germany and all of europe, which was made possible by the recent invention of the printing press. the publication of the ninety-five theses started a great debate in the catholic church. 228 world religions: biographies martin luther the pope at the time, leo x (1475 1521; served 1513 21, thought that luther was just a drunken german and ordered a well-known italian theologian, sylvester mazzolini (1460 1523, to investigate the matter. mazzolini concluded that luther s statements were in opposition to the church s doctrine on indulgences, which had been set by pope clement vi (1291 1352) in 1343 in a papal bull, or an official

he time, leo x (1475 1521; served 1513 21, thought that luther was just a drunken german and ordered a well-known italian theologian, sylvester mazzolini (1460 1523, to investigate the matter. mazzolini concluded that luther s statements were in opposition to the church s doctrine on indulgences, which had been set by pope clement vi (1291 1352) in 1343 in a papal bull, or an official letter from the pope. he labeled luther a heretic, which is a person who disagrees with official church teachings. as a heretic luther could be excommunicated, or forced to leave the church. the pope demanded that luther submit to his authority by withdrawing his heretical statements. to that end the pope sent a representative to confront luther at augsburg, germany, in october 1518. in response to the arriva

ope. he labeled luther a heretic, which is a person who disagrees with official church teachings. as a heretic luther could be excommunicated, or forced to leave the church. the pope demanded that luther submit to his authority by withdrawing his heretical statements. to that end the pope sent a representative to confront luther at augsburg, germany, in october 1518. in response to the arrival of the pope s representative, luther chose to deny the pope s absolute authority over the catholic church. over the next two years, the disagreement grew more intense. in his writings and theological debates, luther stated that the papacy, or the institution of the pope and his authority, was not a part of the original fundamental makeup of the church. thus he began to preach what would become anothe

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

me since for hundreds of years it housed many of the whores whose primary clientele were the vatican cardinals, bishops and priests, as well as any visiting members of the clergy. after world war ii, the prostitution on the street eventually moved to a more secretive location, making way now for stores engaged in the lucrative business of selling religious paraphernalia like rosaries, pictures of the pope's and holy water. as i sat having a glass of wine and going through the italian papers, the main headline read how cardinal paul marcinkus, head of the vatican bank from 1971 to 1989, was indicted by italian authorities (in 1982) as an accessory in the $3.5 billion collapse of banco ambrosiano, an italian financial institution with close ties to the vatican bank. although i tried many tim

sed and have done nothing in my life to stop" said maria, as she stood up from table and began walking away. as she left, i still remember her final words "i have had all the riches in the world, but i feel so empty and alone. dio have mercy on me" after maria died, i began searching harder and harder to connect the dots of the vatican's involvement in the illuminati, as well as the bank scandal, the pope's 1978 mysterious death and other stories related to marcinkus, calvi, financier licio gelli known as the head of the p-2 lodge. although i could never pinpoint or verify the secret vatican ceremonies, enough information surfaced to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the vatican functioned as the nerve center of the illuminati, as the appointment of john paul ii revealed he never follow

nneled huge sums of money through banco ambrosiano and the vatican. the vatican bank also has worked closely with the u.s. government as a cover money conduit to groups like the solidarity trade union in poland and other sordid cia affairs. with the help of marcinkus, sindona was to become a "inside man of confidence" within the vatican who enjoyed unique access to officials of the holy see, even the pope. a 1982 story in the foreign edition of time magazine had this to say about the relation between sindona, calvi and marcinkus "in 1971, sindona introduced calvi to marcinkus. sindona and calvi hoped to use marcinkus for their own purposes, and the bankers and the churchman obviously found it advantageous to do business together. although the vatican bank denies it had much to do with eith

paul's prelate of honour and private secretary until he was excommunicated for heresy by pope paul vi. was reinstated by secretary of state jean villot, and made a cardinal. 4-23-58# 5463-2 "mapa" mancini, italo. director of sua santita. 3-18-68# l551-142 "mani" manfrini, enrico. lay consultor of pontifical commission of sacred art. 2-21-68# 968- c "mane" marchisano, francesco. prelate honour of the pope. secretary congregation for seminaries and universities of studies. 2-4-61; 4536-3 "frama" marcinkus, paul. american bodyguard for imposter pope. from cicero, illinois. stands 6'4. president for institute for training religious. 8-21-67# 43-649. called "gorilla" code name "marpa" marsili, saltvatore. abbot of order of st. benedict of finalpia near modena, italy. 7-2-63# 1278-49 "salma" ma

. cardinal. vicar of s.s. diocese of rome. controls clergy of rome since 3- 6-73. member of sacred congregation of sacraments and of divine worship. he is president of pontifical works and preservation of the faith. also president of the liturgical academy. 2-17-69# 32-1425 "upo" rizzi, monsignor mario. sacred congregation of oriental rites. listed as "prelate bishop of honour of the holy father, the pope" works under top-mason mario brini in manipulating canon law. 9-16-69# 43-179 "mari "monmari" romita, florenzo. was in sacred congregation of clergy. 4-21-56# 52-142 "firo" rogger, igine. officer in s.s (diocese of rome. 4-16-68# 319-13 "igro" rossano, pietro. sacred congregation of non-christian religions. 2-12-68# 3421-a "piro" rovela, virgillio. 6-12-64# 32-14 "rovi" sabbatani, aurelio

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ny (center) and his wife with israel prime minister shimon peres. as is the practice of the members of both the grand lodge of jerusalem and the masonic lodges of cairo and egypt, the left hand is used to conceal the masonic nature of the grip (photo: the jerusalem post and international edition, november 1, 1997, p. 9) 172 codex magica president bill clinton meets in 1995 with pope john paul ii. the pope is extending his left hand in a talmudic attempt to conceal the masonic grip that is about to occur. dr. dennis cuddy, premier researcher of the global conspiracy and expert on occult symbols, writes "some christians have wondered why pope john paul ii seemed to use a hand gesture when photographed with gorbachev in 1989 that was similar to the real grip of the master mason (a grip shown

a sun sign. her color is blue, same color as the blue lodge of freemasonry (first three degrees. the rose and the lotus are her flowers, also the same flowers represented throughout the occult world by many other individuals and groups. 228 codex magica "cross my heart and hope to die" 229 the papacy often uses the "x" as is demonstrated in the dagon fish-hat of pope john paul ii on the cover of the pope speaks journal. 230 codex magica the x symbol on the robe worn by pope john paul ii is telling, as is the silver metal torch with its black flame. silver is the metallic element of the ancient goddess, which the pope would recognize in the form of mary, mother of jesus. the x, of course, represents the father deity. not the father god of the old and new testament, but of babylon and egypt

would recognize in the form of mary, mother of jesus. the x, of course, represents the father deity. not the father god of the old and new testament, but of babylon and egypt "cross my heart and hope to die" 231 georges darboy, archbishop of paris in 1870. observe the crossed hands (x) and the il cornuto horned devil sign given with the left hand as it holds the prelate's hat (from the book, how the pope became infallible, by august bernhard hasler, 1981, doubleday& co, garden city, new york) this image was found under the root of a tree dug up in roscommon in ireland. it is made of brass. the gilding, however, is now almost worn off. it is on display at the museum of trinity college, dublin "to this deity in particular they apply themselves for success when they go out a hunting or fishi

mbols. 320 codex magica michael servetus who, in 1555, was burned at the stake by calvinists for having published a treatise disagreeing with the doctrine of the trinity. servetus, an enemy of christ, was an llluminist who worked to bring in heresies to pollute christianity. he has been called "the father of unitarianism" a top official of the orthodox hierarchy in greece gives the initiate sign. the pope with palestinian leader yassar arafat, at the vatican on september 15, 1982. eugene vintras, a frenchman who taught occult spiritual philosophy, wears the upside down cross on his religious robe and presents the sigil (hand sign) of his order. vintras gained a large following in the 1830s and 1840s by declaring the coming of a dark prince, a god on earth who would rule and reign. hand on

goddess image and feminine archetype were powerful motivators dictating 328 codex magica adaptation of the triangle as symbol of "gay liberation" to occultists, the triangle pointing upward represents fire and that pointing downward water. to combine, balance, and unite the two brings dualism, or equilibrium, which is a goal of freemasonry and a cardinal tenet of all illuminist religious systems. the pope's triceps the vatican also got into the triangle act. in some roman catholic churches today, behind the altar we find displayed the all-seeing eye inside a triangle. meanwhile, the pope can often be seen wearing the symbol of the triceps on his vestments or on his dagon fish god hat, which has its own unique triangular design. the triceps is a nordic design of three earth diamonds thought

watchdog agency, signals with his hands that he is in league with the llluminati elite (american free press, february 21, 2005, p. 2) 350 codex magica meeting with first lady nancy reagan is pope john paul ii. at left the pontiff displays yet another masonic sign, that of hand on heart, with thumb communicating "i'm on the square" triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 351 the pope does it again, with president ronald reagan and first lady nancy at his side. as an aside the skull cap, in many color variations, is worn by jews and high catholic clergy alike, though its use hearkens back to the horrific memory of jesus crucified on calvary, golgotha "the place of the skull (photo: book, pope john paul ii visits america: a celebration in pictures, new york: crescent bo

ses m. hays, helped introduce the scottish rite in america..jews, including rabbis, continued to be involved in the masonic movement in the united states throughout our history. there have been 51 jewish american grand masters. there are many common themes and ideals in masonic and jewish rituals, symbols, and words.13 the late pope john paul ii was a believer in jewish cabala. on march 22, 1984, the pope received members of the infamous b'nai b'rith freemasonry lodge of new york city, made up exclusively of influential jews, at the vatican "i am proud to be a mason" writes rabbi seymour adas, 32o, in this issue of the new age magazine (april 1987. note: the name of this magazine has since been changed to the scottish rite journal, to hide the connection of masons with the occultic new age

m to either produce sickness and death or to inspire love..the shadow of the (satanic) priest's fingers raised in blessing was considered to have evil significance. a remarkable thing occurred with the hand so lifted, is that its shadow resembles the head and horns of the goat of baphomet..the symbol of black magic. the use of the 'shadow of blessing' was regarded as the legitimate prerogative of the pope, and was most terribly exercised during the dark ages and at the time of the inquisition.4 interestingly, other authoritative sources say that the "v" sign (the sign of the horny goat, or horned god) is practiced even today in satanic covens as a symbol of satanic benediction. in times past, it was just the opposite, being a sign of evil, of malediction, but today the twisted minds of sat

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sociated the rise of the antichrist to earthly power as a kind of catalyst that would set in motion armageddon, the last final battle between good and evil, the ultimate clash between the armies of jesus christ and satan. throughout the centuries, christians have attempted to determine the antichrist from among the powerful and ruthless leaders of their day. ever since the protestant reformation, the pope has been a favorite of evangelicals for the ignominious title. while many of the pontiffs in the middle ages did exercise great power over the rulers and the people of the emerging european nations, contemporary popes wield little political influence, surely none that would place them in world-threatening positions. 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

s in which the savior spoke to him in his own true voice. the vatican kept pius s revelation secret for nearly a year, then through the affectionate indiscretion of one of the holy father s close friends, the magazine oggi broke the story in its november 19, 1955, issue. on december 12, the vatican confirmed the remarkable disclosure, declaring the vision not to have been a dream. sources near to the pope said that he had been wide awake and lucid. vatican authorities said that there had not been a more vivid or specific vision of jesus since the days of the apostles than that reported by the pontiff. according to church records, christ had appeared to a pope only once before, and that was in the fourth century, when pope sylvester (d. 335) consecrated the mother church of st. john lateran

the story about how satan had invaded the vatican in rome and screamed insults at pope john paul ii (1920) through the agency of a teenage girl, reported to have been a splendid girl in terms of purity and goodness before being possessed by the devil at the age of 12. the 19-year-old began shouting in a cavernous voice during a general papal audience in st. peter s square. despite the efforts of the pope to quiet the attack, the prince of darkness laughed at the holy father s efforts to drive him away. when vatican guards attempted to constrain the girl, she violently pushed them back in a display of superhuman strength. vatican exorcist father gabriele amorth said that he and another exorcist, father giancarlo gramolazzo, had previously worked with the girl and that the pope had spent ha

ain the girl, she violently pushed them back in a display of superhuman strength. vatican exorcist father gabriele amorth said that he and another exorcist, father giancarlo gramolazzo, had previously worked with the girl and that the pope had spent half an hour with her the day before the incident and had also exorcised the teenager. however, it soon became apparent when the girl began insulting the pope and speaking in unknown tongues during the papal audience that neither of the exorcisms had managed to banish satan. vatican sources were quick to remind the media of pope john paul ii s successful exorcism of an italian woman named francesca fabrizzi in 1982. later in september 2000, reverend james le bar, an exorcist for the archdiocese of new york, commented that there had been a large

for their defense, the arrested templars were tortured en masse, burned at the stake, and their order was disbanded by pope clement v (c. 1260 1314. in 1313 as he was being burned to death on a scaffold built for the occasion in front of notre dame cathedral, jacques de molay (1243 1314, the knights templar grand master, recanted the confession produced by torture and proclaimed his innocence to the pope and the king and he invited them to meet him at heaven s gate. when both dignitaries died soon after de molay s execution, it seemed to the public at large to be a sign that the grand master had been innocent of the charges of heresy. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 218 religious phenomena in1257, the church officially sanctioned t

naples when it was decided that she had only a brief time to live. sister caterina lay in her room alone. she had turned on her side when she felt someone place a hand on her stomach. summoning all her strength, she turned to see pope john xxiii standing beside her bed. he was not attired in his papal robes, but she easily recognized him. in a quiet yet authoritative voice, the ethereal image of the pope, who had died on june 3, 1963, spoke words of great comfort: sister, you have called to me so many times that you have torn out of my heart this miracle. do not fear. you are healed. the spirit of pope john then told sister caterina to call in the sisters and the doctors so that a test could be performed. but before she did so, he assured her once again that no trace of her illness would

kes its decision as to whether or not the event was heaven-inspired. if the committee decides the event is miraculous and its implications have national or international effect, the case may be referred to the vatican s sacred congregation for the doctrine of the faith in rome. the sacred congregation has the authority to institute a new investigation and make its own ruling and recommendation to the pope, who is the final arbiter of the validity of miracles. rather than miracles, philip hefner, professor of systematic theology at the lutheran school of theology in chicago, stated in an essay in newsweek (may 1, 2000) that he would rather talk about blessings. we receive blessings, often quite unexpectedly, and we want to praise god for them. we know we cannot claim the credit for these bl

ather s alleged cure after viewing the face on the shroud. the sons of the byzantine emperor were also skeptics. bishop henri de poitieres of troyes (fl. mid-fourteenth century) vacillated between praising the exhibition in lirey, then trying to have it closed down. his successor, bishop pierre d arcis (fl. latefourteenth century, attempted to stop later showings of the burial cloth in lirey, but the pope ordered him to cease such efforts or face excommunication. critical researchers in the twentieth century found an alleged memo from bishop d arcis written in 1389 and presumably intended for the pope in which the bishop claimed to know the identity of the painter who was responsible for creating the shroud images. the french scholar ulysee chevalier (1841 1923) believed in the testimony o

r or day of his second coming, for many centuries certain christian theologians have associated the rise of the antichrist to power and his achievement of a seven-year reign over all the earth as a kind of catalyst that would set in motion armageddon, the last final battle between good and evil the ultimate clash between the armies of jesus christ and satan. ever since the protestant reformation, the pope has been a favorite of certain evangelicals for the ignominious title. many of the pontiffs in the middle ages did exercise great power over the rulers and the people of the emerging european nations; and consequently, there were numerous embittered princes and fiery protestant leaders who did seek to affix the blame for a large number of repressive social and religious programs on the va

retics. new york: barnes& noble, 1992. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. black madonna of the more than 400 images of the black madonna or black virgin known worldwide, the image of our lady in czestochowa, poland, has received the most recent recognition because of the personal devotion displayed toward this religious icon by pope john paul ii (1920. the pope, a native of poland, prayed before the madonna of czestochowa in 1979, several months after his election to the chair of peter, and he is known to have made subsequent visits in 1983 and in 1991. the reports of miracles and healings attributed to our lady of czestochowa (also known as our lady of jasna gora) through the centuries are numerous. they include our lady greatly enhancing the a

eclared the cathars, a sect of christianity (also known as the albigenses, to be heretical and condemned the citizens of beziers, perpignan, narbonne, toulouse, and carcassone to death as enemies of the church. simon de montfort (c. 1165 1218, an accomplished military leader, was appointed to conduct a crusade against fellow christians, cultured men and women of what is today southern france, who the pope had deemed a greater threat to christianity than the islamic warriors who had pummeled the crusaders. although it took him nearly 20 years of warfare against the beleaguered albigenses, de montfort managed to exterminate 100,000 men, women, and children, before he himself was killed during the siege of toulouse in june 1218. according to many contemporary scholars, the cathars or albigens

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about illness or insanity or even cause death. such an unreasoning, fearful response to cats is known as ailurophobia. henry iii of england (1207 1272) would faint at the sight of a cat. adolf hitler (1889 1945) had plans to dominate the world with his third reich, but the sight of a cat set him trembling. napoleon bonaparte (1769 1821) arrogantly snatched the crown of the holy roman emperor from the pope and conquered nearly all europe, but when he spotted a cat in his palace, he shouted for help. such dread of cats may be genetically transmitted: when joseph bonaparte (1768 1844, king of naples, visited saratoga springs in 1825, he complained just before he fainted 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 190 superstitions, strange customs

ek! many people believe that the custom of uttering the benediction god bless you! after a sneeze dates from the great plague that swept london in 1665. other traditions are firm in stating that the practice began much earlier during the pontificate of gregory the great (c. 540 604; pope 590 604. during this period a deadly pestilence raged throughout italy that proved fatal to those who sneezed. the pope issued prayers to be said against the plague, accompanied by signs of the cross. it was during this era, according to some scholars, that the custom of crying god bless you! to persons who sneezed became definitely established. spitting since ancient times, one s spittle has been valued as a charm against all evil. spitting is a 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

h a kind of instant resurrection. in the book the scoriton mystery (1967) by eileen buckle, a contactee named ernest bryant claims to have met three spacemen on april 24, 1965, one of whom was a youth named yamski, whose body already housed the reincarnated spirit of george adamski. according to desmond leslie, george adamski had an audience with pope john xxiii (1881 1963) just a few days before the pope passed away. leslie said that he met adamski at the airport in london just after he had flown in from rome. he drove adamski straight to his little river cruiser at staines, where several people interested in ufos had been spending the weekend. sometime during the next few days, adamski showed leslie a memento that he said no one would ever take from him, and he produced an exquisite gold

ld medal with pope john s effigy on it. later leslie checked and found it was a medal that had not yet been released to anyone. when adamski was asked how he had received it, he answered that pope john had given it to him the day before. adamski went on to say how he had arrived at the vatican according to the space people s instructions and had been taken straight in, given a cassock, and led to the pope s bedside. it was here that adamski had handed pope john a sealed package from the space brothers. it was said that pope john s face had beamed when he received the package, and he said, this is what i have been waiting for! the pope then presented adamski with a special medal, and the papal audience ended. leslie said that he later checked with lou zinsstag, who had allegedly taken adams

he papal audience ended. leslie said that he later checked with lou zinsstag, who had allegedly taken adamski to the vatican. zinsstag reported that when they had approached the vatican and neared the private entrance, a man with purple at his throat (apparently a monsignor or a bishop) appeared. adamski had cried out, that s my man, greeted the papal official, and was led in for an audience with the pope. zinsstag said that when he reappeared about 20 minutes later, adamski appeared to be in the same state of excitement and rapture as witnesses had described him being in after his desert contact with the space brothers in 1952. when leslie later asked an abbot what he knew about the medal, the clergyman was amazed and said that such a medal would only have been given to someone in the mos

with the space brothers in 1952. when leslie later asked an abbot what he knew about the medal, the clergyman was amazed and said that such a medal would only have been given to someone in the most exceptional circumstances, and that no one, so far as he knew, had yet received this particular medal. leslie admitted that he had initially disbelieved that adamski had received such an audience with the pope, but this confirmation from the abbot with regard to the medal had overcome his former disbelief. when leslie asked adamski what the space brothers package had contained, the contactee said that he did not know. he related that the package had been given to him by the space brothers before he left for europe and that he had been given instructions to present it to the pope. t h e g a l e

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he templar, an honor which was recognized throughout europe. in 1139, pope innocent ii (d. 1143) granted the templars an unprecedented mark of papal approval: the churches of the templars were exempt from interdicts; their properties and revenues were free from taxation to either crown or holy mother church. the templars now had the prestige of being triumphant crusaders. they had the blessing of the pope. they had the gratitude of those whom they had protected on their pilgrimages. they had vast estates with mansions that could not be t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 21 a woodcut depicting the knights templar in 1118 (corbis corporation) thetwo principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established in 1096

es 21 a woodcut depicting the knights templar in 1118 (corbis corporation) thetwo principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established in 1096. invaded by any civil officer. thousands beseeched the order to allow them to become members of the templars. in the course of time the knights of the temple became a sovereign body, pledging allegiance to no secular ruler. in spiritual matters, the pope was still recognized as supreme, but in all other matters, the grand master of jerusalem was as independent and as wealthy as the greatest king in europe. what had begun as the mission of two poor knights with one horse who vowed to watch over christian pilgrims on their way to jerusalem had become a privileged order of opportunists bloated with wealth. and in their new quest for power an

s only a portion of their immeasurable riches and that the templars had forts and estates throughout france, each containing its own deposit of treasure, he was awed by the enormity of their riches. when philip sat more securely on his throne, he began to perceive the templars as rivals for his kingdom. the knights had more money and power than he, the king, and they owed their allegiance only to the pope. philip 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 22 secret societies theknights templars owed their allegiance only to the pope. met with pope clement v (c. 1260.1314) to seek his counsel on how the order might be exterminated. although the templars had enjoyed the blessing of the papacy for decades, the pope admitted that he had been made

although the templars had enjoyed the blessing of the papacy for decades, the pope admitted that he had been made uneasy by accusations that the order had sought to protect their own interests by securing a separate treaty with the mulis when the christian kingdom in the east was falling. clement, however, was reluctant to make any kind of move against the knights. the king pressed his case with the pope.and made an issue of the fact that the papacy at that time was located at avignon, which was one of philip fs territories. then philip found the mysterious esquire de floyran, who claimed to have been a member of the knights templar. floyran said that the order had deceived the church and the people for more than a hundred years. what had begun as a pious service to pilgrims and defenders

been any conclusive evidence to prove whether de floyran was a true member of the knights templar who had a personal grudge against the order or if he was an imposter on the king fs own payroll, but armed with the supposed insider fs sensational accounts, the backing of the highest church officials in france, and the endorsement of william of paris, the grand inquisitor, king philip demanded that the pope conduct an investigation into such charges against the knights templar. whether or not clement believed such stories, he gave his approval that a judicial inquiry be instituted, and the knights were charged with heresy and immorality. on the night of october 13, 1307, all of the templars f castles in france were surrounded by large bodies of men that were led by small parties of priests a

the prisoners to obtain confessions. in paris, the grand master of the templars, jacques de molay (1243.1314, pleaded the innocence of the order against all such charges. in spite of his personal friendship with de molay, who was the godfather of his younger son, philip ordered the grand master and the 140 knights imprisoned with him to be starved, tortured, and kept in filthy dungeons. although the pope had little problem yielding to pressure and issuing a ban on the order, he hesitated to give his sanction to the extermination of the knights. philip, however, was determined to see the templars destroyed and their wealth distributed to the state. for two weeks, the knights imprisoned in paris suffered the rack, the thumbscrew, the pincers, the branding iron, and the fire. thirty-six died

of the knights withdrew their confessions and appealed to government and church officials that they had been tortured. they swore that they had remained true to their vows and that they had never practiced any kind of witchcraft or satanism. philip silenced their pleas three days later when he ordered all 54 of the templars burned at the stake in a field behind the alley of st. antoine. in 1312, the pope convened the council of venice to weigh the fate of the templars. it t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 23 was decided that the order should be abolished and its property confiscated, but pope clement chose to reserve final judgment concerning whether the knights were guilty of the heinous charges brought against them

gents of satan, that she had seen them copulating with succubi and serpents and had dined with them on roasted baby at the last sabbat. later, in an anti-inquisition work, father spree declared: goften i have thought that the only reason why we are not all wizards is due to the fact that we have not all been tortured. and there is truth in what an inquisitor dared to boast, that if he could reach the pope, he would make him confess that he was a wizard. h by the late sixteenth century, the power of the inquisition was beginning to wane. in 1563, johann weyer (weir (1515.1588, a critic of the inquisition, managed to publish de praestigus daemonum in which he argued that while satan does seek to ensnare and destroy human beings, the charges that accused witches, werewolves, and vampires poss

ommunication. in 1257, the church officially sanctioned torture as a means of forcing witches and heretics to confess to their evil ways. in 1305, the knights templar, who had for centuries been the bulwark of christianity against those who would destroy or defame it, were themselves accused of invoking satan, consorting with female demons, and worshipping black cats. while many clergy, including the pope himself, were reluctant to believe such charges against the knights templar, it soon became apparent that the order had become too wealthy and powerful to fit suitably into the emerging political structure of france and the aspirations of its king, philip the fair (1268.1314. after years of persecution, many knights scattered and went into hiding throughout europe and england. those valia

ive of the papacy, it seemed that witchcraft had become particularly virulent 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 102 magic and sorcery in germany, and in 1484, pope innocent viii (1432.1492) became so distressed with conditions in that country that he issued the papal bull summis desiderantes affectibus. as an additional antidote to demonism, the pope authorized two dominican inquisitors henrich institoris (also known as kramer (1430.1505) and jacob sprenger (1436.1495) to prepare a kind of guide book for those witchhunters who sought to battle satan in the rhineland. their collaborative work, malleus maleficarum, ga hammer for witches h (1486, soon became the official handbook for those who conducted witchcraft trials throughout nearl

slogan that all nature is regenerated by fire. the number four represents the primordial substance that is the origin of all the universe and is the numerical constituent of all manifestations in the third dimension. the hierophant, or pope (arcanum five, stands for the search for truth and represents all organized religions, education, schooling, and any other kind of formal learning processes. the pope, the interpreter of sacred mysteries, points the way to the pathways of silence and watchfulness and enables seekers to discover the inherent power of creative ability that lies dormant within them. number five stands for the universal power of faith over human imagination, the faith to be creatively new. the lovers (arcanum six) represents marriage, the love of sibling for sibling, of pa

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or the name of the god, and by stigmatising the worshippers as witches. theconsequence is that the pagan people are now regarded as having worshipped the principle of evil, though inreality they were merely following the cult of a non-christian deity.the first recorded instance of the continuance of the worship of the horned god in britain is in 1303, whenthe bishop of coventry was accused before the pope of doing homage to the devil in the form of a sheep.[19]the fact that a man in so high a position as a bishop could be accused of practising the old religion showsthat the cult of the horned god was far from being dead, and that it was in all probability still the chiefworship of the bulk of the people. it should be also noticed that this is one of the first british records in whichthe ol

with the king were friendly; but itshould be noted that the appointment to the see was entirely in the king's hands, and that lanfranc acceptedthe post as a king's man. the bitter quarrels between rufus and anselm seem to owe their point to personalfeeling. if the pagan rufus were prepared to fulfil the old custom of sacrifice, he might naturally desire asubstitute. anselm's persistent appeal to the pope, though at first he had been content to accept his highposition from rufus, may mean that he refused to be the victim, perhaps from want of personal courage orbecause he would not consent to a pagan custom, which in the end rufus had to fulfil in his own person.with henry ii and becket there was the same conflict. like anselm, becket was not supported by the greaternumber of his fellow-bi

the god of the witchesjoan of arc71she used christian symbols, such as the cross or the words "jhesu maria, on her letters when they wereintended to deceive. she steadfastly refused to say the lord's prayer, a refusal which in later times wouldhave been tantamount to confessing herself a witch. she utterly refused to acknowledge the authority of thechurch, though she understood what was meant by the pope and asked to be taken to him. she declined totake the oath on the gospels, and after much persuasion and very unwillingly she swore on the missal. shetreated the ecclesiastics who examined her at poitiers with familiarity; when pierre s351guin de s351guin, deanof the faculty of theology in the university of poitiers, asked her what dialect (idioma) her voices spoke,she answered "a better

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ged orthodoxy can weigh against that statement. his very defence of the catholic hierarchy is a masterpiece of that peculiar form of conscious sophistry which justifies itself by reducing its conclusion to zero. one must begin with "one" and that "one" has no particular qualities. therefore, so long as you have an authority properly centralized it does not really matter what that authority is. in the pope we have such an authority ready made, and it is the gravest tactical blunder to endeavour to set up an authority opposed to him. success in doing so means war, and failure anarchy. this, however, did not prevent levi from ceremonially casting a papal crown to the ground and crying "death to tyranny and superstition" in the bosom of a certain secret areopagus of which he was the most famou

representing the moral authority, and realizing it by the efficacy of its ministry, the priesthood is as holy and infallible as humanity is subject to vice and to error. the priest, 4 "qua" priest, is always the representative of god. of little account are the faults or even the crimes of man. when alexander vi consecrated his bishops, it was not the poisoner who laid his hands upon them, it was the pope. pope alexander vi never corrupted or falsified the dogmas which condemned him, or the sacraments which in his hands saved others, and did not justify him. at all times and in all places there have been liars and criminals, but in the hierarchical and divinely authorized church there have never been, and there will never be, either bad popes or bad priests "bad" and "priest" form an oxymo

tichrist already produced itself in the church in the time of the apostles: st. paul said "for the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. and then shall that wicked one be revealed<<2 thess. ii. 7,8. this passage is presumably that referred to by the author. cf. 1 john iv. 3, and ii, 18- trans> the protestants said "antichrist is the pope" the pope replied "every heretic is an antichrist" the antichrist is no more the pope than luther; the antichrist is the spirit opposed to that of christ. it is the usurpation of right for the sake of right; it is the pride of domination and the despotism of thought. it is the selfishness, self-styled religious, of protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad catho

icles of the north. stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over a worn-out world; the souls of dead people have shone upon rejuvenated races, and enlarged in them the spirit of life. there is in the world a nation which calls itself frankness and freedom, for these two words are synonymous with the name of france. this nation has always been in some ways more catholic than the pope, and more protestant than luther. the france of the crusades, the france of the troubadours, the france of songs, the france of rabelais and of voltaire, the france of bossuet and of pascal, it is she who is the synthesis of all peoples: it is she who consecrates the alliance of reason and of faith, of revolution and of power, of the most tender belief and of the proudest human dignity. a

and the stationary church. one is active, the other is passive: one has mastered the nations and governs them always, since kings fear it; the other has submitted to every despotism, and can be nothing but an instrument of slavery. the active church realizes god for men, and alone believes in the divinity of the human word, as an interpreter of that of god. what after all is the infallibility of the pope, but the autocracy of intelligence, confirmed by the universal vote of faith? in this case, one might say, the pope ought to be the first genius of his century. why? it is more proper, in reality, that he should be an average man. his supremacy is only more divine for that, because it is in a way more human. do not events speak louder than rancours and irreligious ignorances? do not you s

a great empire on others. joan of arc was a magician at the head of her armies, and at rouen the poor girl was not even a witch. she only knew how to pray, and how to fight, and the prestige which surrounded her ceased as soon as she was in chains. does history tell us that the king of france demanded her release? that the french nobility, the people, the army protested against her condemnation? the pope, whose eldest son was the king of france, did he excommunicate the executioners of the maid of orleans? no, nothing of all that! joan of arc was a sorceress for every one as soon as she ceased to be a magician, and it was certainly not the english alone who burned her. when one exercises an apparently superhuman power, one must exercise it always, or resign oneself to perish. the world al

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

grade of practicus of the golden dawn system. a full cross-referencing of the sephiroth by their numerical reduction is given in figure 2. a final point of gematria is that the value of the word swan, the symbolic bird of kether and illumination, is brbvr= 410, which is also the value of magic (mqa'ar) and the confession of god's unity (the shema, shma'a. the triune crown the triple crown worn by the pope can be viewed as representing the trinity of kether extended in itself, chockmah and binah, for above the abyss the sephiroth merge with each other in the same way that the four lower sephiroth below the veil merge within malkuth. figure 3 illustrates the attribution of the letters to the trinity, and a further breakdown is utilised by spelling the letters again in full. the tarot cards t

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ey went out the door. one of them turned and said something like 'we'll see you in "time" or "sometime' it sounded odd the way he said it, like it was meant to mean something" tom's meeting with vadig was still six months away so the phrase meant nothing to me. iii on june 19 mr. apol gave jane a message to pass along to me. it was a prediction "things will become more serious in the middle east. the pope will go there soon on a peace mission. he will be martyred there in a horrible way. knifed to death to a bloody manner. then the antichrist will rise up out of israel" i was shocked. but here was a statement that could be checked against future events. apol also said the vatican was planning to send food and materiel to arab refugees. there had been no announcement in the press about this

details in cases i was working on, but when i tried to check out these people i found the addresses they had given me were nonexistent and the phone numbers they gave were false. someone somewhere was just trying to prove that they knew every move i was making, listened to all my phone calls, and could even control my mail! and they were succeeding. ii on july 20, 1967, the vatican announced that the pope was planning a trip to turkey. he would be flying to istanbul where he would be greeted by a huge mob at the airport. several of my contactees had been gravely concerned with the prediction of the pope's impending death and the three days of darkness that would follow. the accuracy of earlier predictions led me to take this one seriously. very seriously. the assassination was supposed to

n, d.c, ufo researcher. he wanted to tell me that people all over washington had been receiving strange phone calls during the past week. we had a perfect connection until i started to ask him if he had heard any rumors about pope paul. we were instantly drowned out by heavy static. as soon as i changed the subject, the static went away. later in the conversation i tried again. the moment i named the pope the static resumed. when i again dropped the subject, the line cleared instantly. now they were even controlling my phone conversations! convinced that pope paul was about to be knifed to death at the istanbul airport, i rented a car, loaded it with flashlights, candles, food, and bottled water, and drove out to the mount misery area to await the blackout. on the way i stopped to see one

otel at random (i thought. the motel clerk asked to see my identification (very unusual "we've got a lot of messages here for you, mr. keel" she said, pulling out a sheaf of message slips. i started to protest since i had not even known i was going to stay at that motel until minutes before. the messages were all nonsensical, meant only to prove once more that my movements were being anticipated. the pope landed in istanbul safely. there was no three-day blackout. the whole episode served no purpose other than to demonstrate to me how and why so many contactees and prophets go and sit on hilltops to await the end of the world. three years later, on november 27, 1970, pope paul vi arrived at the manila international airport in the philippines and the scene described to me in 1967 suddenly b

ose other than to demonstrate to me how and why so many contactees and prophets go and sit on hilltops to await the end of the world. three years later, on november 27, 1970, pope paul vi arrived at the manila international airport in the philippines and the scene described to me in 1967 suddenly became a reality. a man dressed in the black garments of a priest came out of the crowd and sprang at the pope with a long black knife in his hands. fortunately, security guards wrestled him to the ground and the pontiff was unhurt. the would-be assassin was a bolivian painter named benjamin mendoza who allegedly practiced black magic and witchcraft. witnesses said that he had glassy eyes and seemed to be in some kind of trance during the attack. the entities had correctly described the general ci

advice about contactee b who lived in connecticut. contactee a wouldn't have the faintest notion of what they were talking about. another trick was to use certain key phrases. when a contactee whispered to me "do you know that cancer is contagious" i knew he or she had been talking to this one set of entities. then there were those damned synchronized events. the contactees stopped talking about the pope's fate. they were concerned now about an "em effect" scheduled for sometime in december. all of them said it would happen in the middle of the month and would affect a large part of the united states. it was going to be a massive power failure. on september 24, jaye p. paro received a phone call from a man claiming to be on the city desk at newsday. he told her that princess moon owl was

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

e mice and pigeons" of koestler's the ghost in the machine. science, ancient sister of magick, has begun to realize the human potential that resides, inconspicuously, in the spiral-mapped matter of the brain. just as the magicians, accused of trafficking with the devil, were said to have developed tremendous power over natural phenomena, science has ascended to that realm unblamed, and guiltless. the pope has ridden in aircraft. cardinals have flown in 'choppers' over battlefields in southeast asia, urging technological eco-side, invoking christ; pronouncing damnation and the devil on the industrially inferior man. ecce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

her highest and last age shall not attain to see any thing else; for our rota takes her beginning from that day when god spake fiat, and shall end when he shall speak pereat; yet gods clock striketh every minute, where ours scarce striketh perfect hours. we also stedfastly beleeve, that if our brethren and fathers had lived in this our present and clear light, they would more roughly have handled the pope, mahomet, scribes, artists, and sophisters, and had shewed themselves more helpful, not simply with sighs, and wishing of their end and consummation. when now these eight brethren had disposed and ordered all things in such manner, as there was not now need of any great labour, and also that every one was sufficiently instructed, and able perfectly to discourse of secret and manifest phil

he godly may be eased of all their toil and labour, and be no more subject to the storms of inconstant fortune; but the wickedness of the ungodly thereby, with their due and deserved punishment, be augmented and multiplied. although we cannot be by any suspected of the least heresy, or of any wicked beginning, or purpose against the worldly government, we do condemn the east and the west (meaning the pope and mahomet) blasphemers against our lord jesus christ, and offer and present with a good will to the chief head of the roman empire our prayers, secrets, and great treasures of gold. yet we have thought good, and fit for the learned s sakes, to add somewhat more to this, and make a better explanation if there be anything too deep, hidden, and set down over dark in the fama, or for certai

thenceforth our trumpet shall publicly sound with a loud sound, and great noise, when namely the same (which at this present is shown by few, and is secretly, as a thing to come, declared in figures and pictures) shall be free and publicly proclaimed, and the whole world shall be filled withal. even in such manner as heretofore, many godly people have secretly and altogether desperately pushed at the pope s tyranny, which afterwards, with great, earnest, and especial zeal in germany, was thrown from his seat, and trodden underfoot, whose final fall is delayed, and kept for our times, when he also shall be scratched in pieces with nails, and an end be made of his ass s cry, by a new voice. the which we know is already reasonable manifest and known to many learned men in germany, as their wr

houses and palaces, and that verily not by our own proper motion, but (that you likewise may know it) as forced unto it, by the instigation of the spirit of god, by his admonitions, and by the occasion of this present time. what think you, loving people, and how seem you affected, seeing that you now understand and know, that we acknowledge ourselves truly and sincerely to profess christ, condemn the pope, addict ourselves to the true philosophy, lead a christian life, and daily call, entreat and invite many more unto our fraternity, unto whom the same light of god likewise appeareth? consider you not at length how you might begin with us, not only by pondering the gifts which are in you, and by experience which you have in the word of god, beside the careful consideration of the imperfect

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

have drawn my father fs sword. hard as your virtue is the easy sort, heavy to handle as your loves are light, smooth as your lies, and sharper than your hates! i know you! cowards to the very bone *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 257. and he drives them out. to rome he goes, symbolic of the world fs opinion, and relates truthfully his sojourn in the venusberg, and for telling the truth he is execrated by the pope: so he cried out upon me, gtill this barren staff take life, and bud, and blossom, and bear fruit, and shed sweet scent. so long god casteth thee out from his glory! h *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 260. when lo. in the very moment of his supreme despair, his genius mysteriously manifests, and gdarting long rugged fingers and deep eyes h reaches to the sceptre with his word and will: buds, roses

nity of theft if resisted is noble. the sleek, smiling society hostess has no need to frequent the streets for gain, but who dare say that the poor hounded outcast has not? he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. even the scribes and pharisees, who were thus rebuked, departed in silence, convicted by their own conscience; but not so our modern christian canaille, from the pope and the archbishop and the patriarch downwards. o, christians! you daily crucify your saviour, hourly you drive the rusty nails through his outstretched hands, o gmaudite race! h gwhose god is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. h temptation is the armourer who tries the blade, and resistance the quality of the steel. how many of the well-fed will bear the

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

burz mountain range, sabbah established a fanatical power base that was soon feared throughout the region. hassan i sabbah s faith seemed to be a gnostic dualistic similar to islam in a manicheism ideal. the religious head or what is called imam is a personal representative to god itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in western definitions, this concept is similar to the pope. sabbah was not only able to raise a number estimated at several thousand fanatic followers, called the assassins from their ritual use of hashish, which was said to make them suggestive to hassan i sabbah s claims that alamut was indeed heaven and not a stark and cold tower or desert desolation. this drug, administered carefully, was able to create a strong link with the metal facilities

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

on of the papal tiara, while the other companions wear the robes of familiars of the inquisition. no templar jewel or ensign must be shown. c.b. is in temple as baphomet) on the 13th day of october 1307 the grand master of the temple jacobus burgundus molensis or jacques de bourg molay and many of his brethren were arrested through the treachery of two apostate brethren (they appear) who inspired the pope clement v and philip le bel king of france to crush the order. these tyrants stripped him of all the signs of his high rank (done by pope and king) and had him bound hand and foot (done by familiars) and cast into prison on a charge of heresy and immorality; and indeed our master was sworn to bring light and freedom in to those ages of ignorance and slavery. here he was put to the torture

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

bremen seem to have claimed some sort of feudal superiority over them, which they resisted by force. the archbishop, in revenge, declared them heretics, and proclaimed a crusade against them. crusades against heretics were then in fashion, for it was just at the time of the great war against the albigeois. the stedingers maintained their independence successfully for some years. in 1232 and 1233, the pope issued two piebat, sine peccati respectu et utrum mater aut soror aut monacha haberetur, pro sanctitate ac religione ejus concubitus ab illis stimabatur. ex quo spurcissimo concubity infans generatus octava die in medio eorum copioso igne accenso piabatur per ignem, more antiquorum paganorum, et sic in igne cremabatur. cujus cinis tanta veneratione colligebatur atque custodiebatur, ut chr

tea de eadem h resi gressum mentis ad viam veritatis dirigere valeret. gu rard, cartulaire de l abbate de saint-p re de chartres, vol. i, p. 112. 1 see before, p. 146, and plate xxxiii. 184 on the worship of the bulls against the offending stedingers, in both of which he charges them with various heathen and magical practices, but in the second be enters more fully into details. these stedingers, the pope (gregory ix) tells us, performed the following ceremonies at the initiation of a new convert into their sect. when the novice was introduced, a toad presented itself, which all who were present kissed, some on the posteriors, and others on the mouth, when they drew its tongue and spittle into their own mouths. sometimes this toad appeared of only the natural size, but sometimes it was as

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

e authority. the magus was not subject to the ecclesiastical pressures that could be brought to bear on a christian believer. excommunication meant nothing to him beyond the social abuses it carried. he thought and acted according to his own creed, and cared nothing for the censure of the bishops. the church of the middle ages recognized no truth beyond what it pro- claimed in its rigid dogma. if the pope said the sun revolved around the earth, the question was not open to debate. if he asserted that the wine of the sacrament changed into human blood, believers perforce believed. such an absurd situation could only be sustained with an absolute suppression of freedom. even minor challenges to the authority of the church were ruthlessly punished with death. it is not necessary to reach far

vel he might be represented by augustus caesar. the father-mother aspect would still be male in its ground quality, but its col- oring would be female. its element would be water of fire, and its instrument the cup of rods-the scepter drowned. it would be compassionate and nurturing and given to attempting to control through manipulating the emotions of the ones ruled "for their own good" this is the pope-figure. such men make well-meaning but bad kings. james the first of england was one such. the father-son aspect is revealed in the conqueror. his element would be air of fire-an explosive mixtureand his instrument the sword of rods-spear of war. this aspect combines the will to rule with the energy to conquer. its weakness is an immaturity that may lead to rash acts. on the human level i

a single new fact or insight. almost all books on the tarot merely parrot what others have said or written. here is a mnemonic for the beginner that presents in rhymed form a single key word for each of the cards of the major arcana: i. the magus wills with bolts of fire. 11. the priestess shapes her hidden desire. 111. the empress births beneath the sun. iv. the emperor rules the four as one. v. the pope blesses the narrow way. vi. the lovers tempt by night and day. vii. the chariot conquers with iron mind. viii. the balance weighs and pays in kind. ix. the hermit lights the right-hand path. x. the wheel turns, the gods laugh. xi. the strength of faith shuts savage jaws. xii. the martyr bows to heaven's laws. xiii. the reaper frees the souls from earth. xiv. the alchemist blends and finds

meaning of the four cards that precede it. for example, the magus is opposite the priestess (called the popess in the mar- seilles deck) on the top cube. these cards are active and receptive aspects of spirit. the empress and the emperor are also opposite on the first cube. they suggest the nurturing and ordering forces of the material world. the capping card on top of the cube is the hierophant (the pope in the marseilles deck, who is hermaphro- ditic and embraces both the spirit and the flesh. the fifth card joins the preceding four cards physically in the model even as it links them symbolically. if the symbols of the astrological powers, the hebrew letters, and the numbers of the paths on the tree of the sephiroth are added to the cubic cross, it becomes a useful reference tool. a grea

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ing intelligence is the god of shepherds, who in egypt took the form of the ram-headed deity, amon. his oracular revelations are delivered directly to the emperor, who relies on them for his strategies of warfare. by conversing with the emperor on his throne, they can be discovered. 208 soul flight v the hierophant hebrew letter: vau (nail) correspondence: taurus path: sixteenth the hierophant is the pope of a religion of ancient origins and long-established traditions, who ensures that the divine laws are observed and who punishes those who violate them. he sits in an audience hall within a great stone cathedral on a golden and jewel-encrusted throne, a crown of gold upon his head, wrapped in official robes of royal purple. at his feet kneel two priests who have been selected to plead a r

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

cia. planeta venus. tercera carta del tarot, la emperatriz. el s mbolo primitivo es una mano en actitud de coger. estos tres sephirotes son la corona sephir tica. 6 the other seven inferior sephiroth come in the following order: chesed mercy; jupiter, the divine i, atman, primeval hieroglyphic is represented by a breast. the fourth tarot card, the emperor. geburah severity; the fifth card of man, the pope or the hierophant of the tarot: mars, the warrior of aries. tiphereth beauty, venus of taurus, the love of the holy spirit, the causal body of the man, the sixth card of the tarot, the lover. netzach victory, justice of the arcanum, the seventh card of the tarot, the chariot, saturn. hod glory, mercury of gemini, the eighth card of the tarot, the eternity of all. yesod foundation, the sun

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

l adjunct to any jupiter figure 6-c: zvg talisman. figure 6-b: ab-el. the kamea of chesed/jupiter. 83 there are sixteen squares in the jupiter kamea and there are also sixteen geomantic figures (see correspondence charts at the end of this chapter. the sixteenth path on the tree of life between chokmah and chesed corresponds to the letter vav, to which is attributed the hierophant, often known as the pope, which in italian also means father. this demonstrates the relationship of the paternal power descending from chokmah to find concrete expression in chesed. we have noted that the word hyssop in hebrew also equals sixteen and this is one of the plants sacred to jupiter. another word valuable to use on a talisman is zvg, which also has a value of sixteen and which means like or equal to (c

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

h 'when they heard of protestantism they held a large meeting to decide which would annoy the church more, to stay heathen or to turn protestant. they decided after much argument that as the church didn't much mind their being heathens they would turn protestant' i can very well imagine that perhaps in king john's time, when all england was under interdict- when, as the immortal smith minor said 'the pope made a law that no one might be born, get married or die, for the space of ten years- then many moderately good christians, deprived of religious consolation, might easily have turned to the rival religion. after all, the witches' paradise is very attractive to the ordinary man. similar causes on the continent may have brought numerous converts to the cult and these may have brought in ne

things at once, trying to produce sympathy and at the same time killing all natural fondness, and it is much easier to do one thing at a time. in wartime templars may have gone all out for the one thing, not knowing of, or not caring for, the consequences. the templars had many peculiar privileges. they had their own priests, who were entirely independent of the local bishop, being answerable to the pope alone. templars confessed their sins to each other and were given absolution, being scourged meanwhile; this meant that no mention of any unorthodox teaching would get outside. there is no reason to say that from the beginning the templars were unorthodox; it may have just happened that owing to peculiar circumstances this order was organised in a way that meant that secret doctrines coul

ugh the commentators said 'it would make her accusers very unhappy if they really believed her to be a witch. as nothing more is recorded it is to be presumed that the matter was allowed to drop. later church records show that she died and was buried in the ordinary way; the ceasars were people of very good position. but the bishop of ossory was of sterner mettle than the manx bishops. relying on the pope's bulls he attacked again, accusing lady alice of denying christ, having indecent ceremonies with a robin artison, or robin the son of art, at the cross-roads, and of a whole list of the usual stock charges, including having a staff which she anointed with ointment and galloped through thick and thin- presumably an ordinary fertility dance. again he could not obtain a conviction; the nobl

ith them, bought stolen cattle from them, asked them for help when in trouble, took refuge with them, and even intermarried with them and were quite proud of their relationship. when they went north of this line, the younger members of the community, in search of adventure or sweethearts, often went among these impossible people, and i think it was much this way too in england prior to 1220. when the pope made surgery and witchcraft crimes, practically everyone knew who was who, and the destruction of the little people was easy. then the town witches' turn came. these were easy, too, for they were the people who lived well and were worth looting. the majority were exterminated by various forms of torture. but they were also the people most valuable to the community, the people who made thi

er someone made a wax image of her and stuck pins in it, elizabeth was persuaded that a witch or sorcerer had done it and passed a law against witchcraft and magic. you could be put in the pillory for practising magic, but there were few convictions and many of these may have been plain poisoning. if you killed anyone with a sword, poison or magic, that was murder, a crime against the common law. the pope had made magic criminal and bishops took the law more or less into their own hands; but it was not the law of the land. i think that if elizabeth had had children and they had carried out her policy, we would have had a very different idea of witches and the may games and their like would still be performed; there might still be a merry england. but unfortunately she died without issue. i

ther difficulty is that the places where they work are usually small. the circle takes up the centre, and i could not get far enough away to get my group in, even if they were willing. many people say 'we have lived in england all our lives and have never seen a witch, so we don't believe they exist' i can only say 'i have been to rome many times, but, though i've never had the pleasure of seeing the pope, i do not doubt that he exists' many people say 'witches use blood and all sorts of nasty things in their rites' all i can say is 'i have never seen it done, and my friends say they do not use them' their writings forbid them to use blood or anything that can cause pain or fright, while admitting that freshly shed blood can give power, the actual words being 'power flashes forth from newl

ieve that it is a historical fact that in the thirteenth century pope innocent iv by a bull elsi animarum, dated november 21, 1284, greatly offended the dominicans; and it has become a proverb in the vatican 'a litaniis predicatorum, libera nos domine, which is translated 'from the litanies of the dominicans, o lord, deliver us' this was because the dominicans had recited a special prayer against the pope each day after matins, and he died in less than a month's time. now one would think that a pope would not be merely frightened to death by some monk's prayers; it seems to argue some objective validity in the process. i have heard it said before in similar circumstances 'of course, it is only a coincidence but he is very, very dead' and many years ago i remember seeing in the papers repor

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

r 64. 651. 651, teletai, the greek ancient mysteries and episteme- science. 666. 666 is the pet number of godfrey higgins, as referred to rasit (rsvt, 200+60+6+400(=666, which he insists means wisdom or as most believe--beginning or principle. the first words of genesis are be-rasit, in the beginning--666 is also the number of the beast, the number of man, has been associated with satan, mahomet, the pope and a hundred others. it is numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott also the number of svrt, the hebrew word for the sun. it occurs in revelations xiii. 18. 121. 666. in addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of christos. it is also the sum of the numb

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e of enjoying themselves. 292 buddhism as a schism from the brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with lutheranism as a schism from the catholic church. both buddha and luther set aside the authority of miracles, and appealed to the reason of the middle classes of their day. the vedas were the outcome of aristocratic thought; and so in truth was the christianity of constantine and the popes, that full-blooded christianity which so soon swallowed the mystical christ and the anaemic communism of the "canaille" which followed him. conventional buddhism is pre-eminently the "nice" religion of the bourgeoisie; it neither panders to the superstition of the masses nor palliates the gallantries of the the dogmatism of literal buddhism appalled him. the five precepts, which are the

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ancient world, believed in ancient magic, and practised it himself "if we take for granted the statements of kin-yu. and "he praised it to the skies in yi-kin" we are told by his reverend critic. nevertheless, even in his age- i.e, 600 b.c, confucius and his school taught the sphericity of the earth and even the heliocentric system; while, at about thrice 600 years after the chinese philosopher, the popes of rome threatened and even burnt "heretics" for asserting the same. he is laughed at for speaking of the "sacred tortoise" no unprejudiced person can see any great difference between a tortoise and a lamb as candidates for sacredness, as both are symbols and no more. the ox, the eagle* the lion, and occasionally[[footnote(s* he may be laughed at by the protestants; but the roman catholi

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vicious, arrogant, creed. when the library at alexandria was destroyed in ad391 by the order of the emperor theodosius some 700,000 scrolls, codices and manuscripts were lost forever. the force behind all this knew exactly what they were doing: selling the masses a myth through which their agenda of suppressing knowledge and rewriting history could be justified. behind constantine, the pisos, and the popes were the babylon reptilian brotherhood, by now located in rome. their rituals, temples, and symbols were the origin of those used today by freemasons. these include the black and white squared floors, white gloves and aprons, secret signs and handshakes. elite secret societies like the order of comacine masters grew rapidly under constantine (see the biggest secret. the "christian" blood

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a crucifix in her lefthand, a cup in her right and on her head was a seven rayed crown like the one on thestatue of liberty, another depiction of semiramis which was given to new y ork byfrench freemasons. a contact who has relatives working in high positions in the v aticantold me how, during the reign of pope john paul ii, he was given a guided tour of theplace which blew his mind. he was shown the popes solid gold bath which is decoratedwith all the astrological symbols and he saw inside the vacuum-sealed vaults whichcontain thousands of ancient esoteric books which have been stolen and hoarded overhundreds of years of religious dictatorship and so taken out of public circulation. theroman church and the babylonian brotherhood are one and the same.nimrod was also eannus, the god with tw

tly the same wordsfound in the scriptures of mithra. only the names were changed. in the gospels, peterbecame the christian rock on whom the new church would be built. the v atican hillin rome was said to be sacred to peter, but this place was also claimed, much earlier, tobe sacred to mithra and many mithric remains have been found there! the piso clanturned mithra into myth-ra- christianity.all the popes have claimed to rule as the heirs to peter, the first pope. this claimderives from a sentence in the bible which has jesus saying: thou art peter, and uponthis rock i will build my church.19 only four verses after supposedly making peter therock on which he would build his church, comes this demolition of him: but he (jesus)turned, and said unto peter, get thee behind me satan: thou art

underground stream of secret knowledge. even the ritual garbs are the same in somany ways. what do jewish people wear? skull caps. what does the pope wear? askull cap. this is symbolic of the way priests in the mystery schools used to shave thebacks of their heads. the more formal headgear and ritual of judaism and christianityare also very similar because they originate from the same source and the popes mitreis the fish head symbol of nimrod.to complete the trio, along came the skull-cap-wearing muslims and the creed ofislam, inspired by the prophet mahomet (mohammed) when he had a vision in theyear 612. once more we find that islams roots are in christianity and judaism andtherefore babylon. muslims see islam as an updated continuation of thejudeo-christian stream and they, too, trace

derberg group waschaired from 1954 to 1976 by prince bernhard of the netherlands, the former nazi ssofficer and german spy working for the nw7 intelligence department operatingwithin the unspeakable chemical giant, i. g. farben, which ran the auchwitzconcentration camp.2 pope john paul ii is said by some researchers to have workedfor i. g. farben, also. it makes sense because the brotherhood pick the popes, ofcourse. prince bernhard, a german who married into the dutch royal family, just aswilliam of orange had done, is a reptilian blood relative and great friend of britainsprince philip. together they launched the world wildlife fund, now the worldwidefund for nature (wwf. the last thing they were interested in was protecting wildlifeas we shall see in a later chapter. in 1968 came the cl

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ople from as far away as 30 miles witnessed it. besides the aerial phenomenon of the last day, mary had also presented the children with a secret message, as had occurred at la salette. while two parts of the secrets of fatima would be revealed, the third part has remained unknown to the public at large, even though the initial indication was that it would be made public in 1960. it is known that the popes since john xxiii have read the secret message and there has been intense speculation as to the content of the secret among the millions who have adopted the devotion to the immaculate heart of mary that was called for in 1917. since fatima, two approved apparitions occurred at beauraing (1932) and banneax (1933, belgium. also, back in 1879, in the midst of the potato famine, there had be

er times the salmadores and ensalmadores of spain became famous for healing almost all diseases by prayer, laying on of hands, and by breathing upon the sick. in ireland, valentine greatrakes cured king s evil and other diseases by touch. one richter, a nineteenth-century innkeeper at royen, in silicia, cured many thousands of sick persons in the open fields by touching them with his hands. under the popes, laying on of hands was called chirothesy. franz anton mesmer and his assistants also employed touch for healing purposes. sources: greatrakes, valentine. a brief account of mr. valentine greatrake s, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. london, 1666. hocart, a. m. kingship. london: humphrey milford, 1927. rose, louis. faith healing. london: victor gollancz, 1968. tho

avel research association italy [for information regarding ancient italy, see rome, ancient religion and magic] magic and sorcery in medieval italy centered around the many great personalities of the church. even several popes have been included by the historians of occult science in the ranks of notable italian sorcerers and alchemists. there appears to have been some sort of folk tradition that the popes had been given over to the practice of magic ever since the tenth century, and it was alleged that silvester ii confessed to this charge on his death bed. eliphas levi stated that honorius iii, who preached the crusades, was an abominable necromancer, and the author of the grimoire of honorius, a book by which spirits were evoked. bartholomew platina (1421.1481, quoting from martinus pol

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2-4334. it maintains two internet sites, http//www.madonnaministry.org, and http/ www.paradigm-sys.com/madionnanews. sources: madonna ministry. http//www.madonnaministry.org. april 4, 2000. madre natura an old and powerful secret society of italy whose members worshiped and idealized nature. it seems to have been founded by members of the ancient italian priesthood. it had a tradition that one of the popes became a member of the fraternity, and there appears to be some documentary evidence for this claim. the society accepted the allegorical interpretation that the neoplatonists placed upon the pagan creeds during the first ages of christianity. maeterlinck, maurice (1862.1949) famous belgian writer and poet and winner of the nobel prize in literature in 1911. he was born in ghent, belgium

dition and effect, he actually performed sham spiritual manifestations before his audience. sexton authored one pamphlet, a transcript of a lecture: scientific materialism calmly considered; a reply to prof. tyndall s belfast address (1874. he also served as editor of the spiritual magazine and became a member of the british national association of spiritualists. sextus v. pope (1521.1590) one of the popes accused of sorcery. j. a. de thou said of him in his histoire universelle (1734, vol. ii: the spaniards continued their vengeance against this pontiff even after his death, and they forgot nothing in their anxiety to blacken his memory by the libels which they flung against him. sextus, said they, who, by means of the magical art, was for a long time in confederacy with a demon, had made

r, within the occult community, many have looked to an origin in ancient egypt. according to such popular lore, the priests of ancient egypt invented the tarot cards to represent their secret doctrines and teachings. they escaped the destruction of the christian era because the book burners did not know what they were. later, some egyptians brought them to rome, and they survived in the courts of the popes and passed to france during the period when the papacy was headquartered in avignon. this story of the egyptian lineage first appeared in the french occult community of the eighteenth century, having been invented by a protestant minister, antoine court de gebelin (1719.1784. de gebelin, an occultist and martinist, had become an early supporter of franz a. mesmer s ideas of animal magnet

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which is in store for us, so is it not seemly to show our mistrust by seeking to discover the future. yet in the face of this doctrine it cannot be denied that throughout the history of the church there have always been some modes of divination more or less openly practised not only by the laity, but by the clergy themselves, at any rate down to the time of the protestant reformation. several of the popes, notably sylvester the second,a.d.999; gregory the sixth, 1044; benedict the ninth, 1047; gregory the seventh, 1085; and john the twentieth, 1276, were charged with magical practices, with divinations, and the practice of alchemy. although the roman catholic church in four of the minor church councils forbade the practice of divination to the christian laity, yet pope innocent the first

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ma of totet 46. see hu ituia ntr qtttkidiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the pagodas to see. in one of his translations we fouad passages which reveal to us the undotjtud origin of the keys of st. peter, and account for the subsequent adoption of the afmbol by their hounesaes, the popes of rome. he shows us on the testimony of the agruahada pariiukai, which he freely translates as "the book of spirits (pitris, that centuries before our era the inhiaiei of the temple chose a superior councc, pie- sided over by the brakmdtma or supreme chief of all these inuiaiea; that this pontificate could be exercised only by a brahmana who had reached the age of eighty years* and that

rome. it is but a return to a hardly- remembered herety of the early christian ages, that of the collyridians, so called tmm their tacnjicing cakea to the virgin, whom they claimed to be virffin-bom* the new sentence "o virgin mary, conanced vnthout sin" is simply a tardy acceptance of that which was at first deemed a "ua ]aemou herety" by the orthodox fathers. to think for one moment that any of the popes, cardinals or other high dignitaries "were not aware" from the first to the lost of the exter- nal meanings of their symbols, is to do injustice to their great learning and uieir spirit of machiavellism. it is to forget that the emissaries of rome will never be stopped by any difficulty which can be skirted by the employment of jesuitical artifice. the policy of complaisant conformity wa

an hardly claim lo^c and consistency as its chief virtues. the fact alone that peter remained to the last an 'apostle (rf the cir- cumcision' speaks for itself. wkcaoaier hm misfit hate bialt the chvna of rome, it was not peter. if such were the case, the successtvs of this apostle would have to submit themselves to circumcision, were it but for the sake of consistency. to show that the claims of the popes are not utterly groundless. dr. inman asserts that report says that "in our christian times. popes have to be privately perfect* but we do not know whether this is carried to the extent of the levitjcal jewish law. digitizecoy google who and what was peter? 127 the first fifteen christian bishops of jerusalem, commencing with jamea and including judas, were all circumcised jews' in the s

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. religion, considered solely as a physiological fact, is the revelation and satisfaction of a necessity of souls. its existence is a scientific fact; to deny it, would be to deny humanity itself. the rose-croix adepts respected the dominant, hierarchical, and revealed religion. consequently they could no more be the enemies of the papacy than of legitimate monarchy; and if they conspired against the popes and kings, it was because they considered them personally as apostates from duty and supreme favorers of anarchy. what, in fact, is a despot, spiritual or temporal, but a crowned anarchist? one of the magnificent pantacles that express the esoteric and unutterable part of science, is a rose of light, in the centre of which a human form extends its arms in the form of a cross. commentarie

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nto the hands of the hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem (who went on to become the knights of rhodes and the stillexisting order of the knights of malta. this bull was applicable in all christian countries and ratified by many kings, including philip the fair. the privileges the hospitallers inherited from the templars were subsequently and over the course of the centuries often confirmed by the popes* and the hospitallers continued to widely apply the right to asylum and the right of franchise so thoroughly that the francs metiers were assured of their survival after the dissolution of the templar order. we have iconographic proof of this protection provided by the knights hospitallers to construction workers in a miniature from the end of the fifteenth century depicting the ritual r

associations; consequently they were forced to submit, like the builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 179 others, to temporary or local abeyance, for all these interdictions were generally affairs of circumstance. in sixteenth-century germany and switzerland, the sacrifices made by the populace to erect their churches, coupled with the blatant abuses commited by the clergy and the popes, had chilled their religious fervor, shaken their faith, and made it impossible to complete those churches still under construction. it was at this point that luther's reformation occurred, which weakened the very foundations of papal authority and halted the construction of the great monuments of catholic worship. this delivered a mortal blow to the masonic corporations here. by and lar

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

popes maintained these privileges for domains held by the knights hospitaller or knights of malta until the time of the french revolution. when we recall that the temple numbered some 900 commanderies, many of which were extensive, and 10,000 castles, we can see how operatives, especially masons who traveled widely, could be assured of finding hospitality, security, and work everywhere they went. the popes also conferred these privileges, valid throughout the catholic world, to the lay masons that built churches.5 boniface iv granted these craftsmen the first diploma of franchises in 614. during this time, however, there were not any true lay communities or associations and such franchises could have concerned only benedictine builders. mention has been made of the briefs that popes nichol

rned only benedictine builders. mention has been made of the briefs that popes nicholas iii (in 1277) and benoit ix (in 1334) crafted with regard to mason corporations, confirming their status as a monopoly that encompassed the entire christian world, granting them protection and an exclusive right to construct all religious edifices, and conceding to them "the right to direct authority from only the popes" who freed them "from all local laws and statutes, royal edicts, and municipal regulations concerning conscript labor or any other obligatory imposition for all the land's inhabitants" these popes ensured that members of the corporations had the right to set their own salaries and to regulate exclusively, within 214 from the art of building to the art of thinking their general chapters "

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secular education [with emphasis shifting from the clerical universities to secular courts and academies. the medieval-era emphasis on logic and metaphysics gave way to revived classical learning in areas such as language, literature, history, and ethics. the renaissance began in italy due to its strong ties with classical knowledge, and due to the comparative wealth of the major italian cities. the popes also patronized artists such as raphael and michelangelo. among the other masters of the italian renaissance were botticelli and da vinci. from 1450 to 1600 a neoplatonic movement backed by one of the florentine medicis gained considerable influence. plato's works were translated into latin by 1469. classification: v2- 102- 9 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: ja

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widespread that there must be a god to inspire it. the reformation and age of enlightenment many of these arguments, however, were forgotten during the reformation, a revolt in europe against traditional catholic teachings that began in the early 1500s and continued for a century and a half. before about 1521 the catholic church was a dominant force in the west, both religiously and politically. the popes were not only the leaders of the catholic church, but rulers of a large portion of central italy. as the church became more and more concerned with politics, its spiritual reputation suffered in many places. during the reformation this led to widespread criticism of both the catholic church and the protestant sects that broke away from it. though this period focused on politics more than

n back by a french army led by charles martel (c. 688 741) at the battle of tours. in the 800s muslims captured the 294 world religions: almanac islam mediterranean islands of sardinia and corsica. in 902 the island of sicily was added to the empire. in the 800s muslims attacked cities in southern italy and even advanced on rome, though they were driven back in the 900s and 1000s by armies led by the popes (religious leaders) of the roman catholic church. the iberian peninsula was one of the first regions where muslims and western christians came into contact. by the end of the eighth century muslims occupied most of the southern regions of iberia, limiting christians to the northern regions. on the peninsula they established the about islam belief. the core belief of muslims is total alle

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