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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

, with saracen gods in them, and the carroccio of the lombard cities (ea. 263-5) seem to be nothing but a late reminiscence of these primitive gods'-waggons of heathenism. the eoman, greek and indian gods too were not without such carriages. what gregory of tours tells us (2, 29-31) of the baptism of chlodovich (clovis) and the events that preceded it, is evidently touched up, and the speeches of the queen especially i take to be fictitious; yet he would hardly have put them in her mouth, if it were generally known that the franks had no gods or statues at all. chrothild (clotilda) speaks thus to her husband, whom she is trying to prepossess in favour of baptism: nihil sunt dii quos colitis, qui neque sibi neque aliis poterunt subvenire; sunt enim aut ex hqnde aut ex ligno aut ex metallo a

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

and grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcom

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w examples at hazard of this analysis, and they arei quoted as follows: the square of a of exarp in the tablet of union. triangle no. 2: queen of swords. triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: a. triangle no. 4: m nearly all the squares of this tablet represent some combined effect of light and life. here m acts both downwards and upwards. a is not very strong in action when it is here 28 placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attribute a direct material action unto the squares of the tablet of union, the terrestrial effect would be that of a moist and gentle, scarcely moving, breeze; with a soft vibrating light playing through it, like the most gentle sheet-lightning in summer. it will aid the reader considerably, if, when meditating u

d nourishment of matter. the square of m of aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the b tablet. triangle no. 1: queen of wands triangle no. 2: b. triangle no. 3: eagle kerub. c triangle no. 4: d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly palced as the d, rendering it explosive, though helping to stifle the d by its 29 union with the b. the queen of wands equals the c of d, h of y, reconciling these two elements. therefore the whole effect would be to produce a moist, generating heat, like that of a conservatory, or rather of a hot-house. a force intensely excitant and generative and productive. the b force of the tropics. the servient square r of brap in the watery lesser angle of the d tablet. triangle no. 1: f. d. triangle no

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

eal anything which is not jupiter. everything else escapes notice. and when the time comes for the ceremony of invocation which i have been consistently preparing with all devotion and assiduity, i am quickly inflamed. i am attuned to jupiter, i am pervaded by jupiter, i am absorbed by jupiter, i am caught up into the heaven of jupiter and wield his thunderbolts. hebe and ganymedes bring me wine; the queen of the gods is throned at my side, and for my playmates are the fairest maidens of the earth. 7. now what is all this but to do in a partial (and if i may say so, romantic) way what the yogi does in his more scientifically complete yet more austerely difficult methods? and here the advantage of magick is that the process of initiation is spontaneous and, so to speak, automatic. you may b

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ay until such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his colour is purple. his essence is in the material tin, and in brass. his gate is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. thi

yu lini kunushi shadu yu linir kunushi shadu yu likattin kunushi shadu yu dannu elikunu limqut ina zumri ya lu yu tapparrasama! the book of calling this is the book of the ceremonies of calling, handed down since the time the elder gods walked the earth, conquerors of the ancient ones. this is the book of ninnghizhidda, horned serpent, the lady of the magick wand. this is the book of ninaxakuddu, the queen, mistress of the incantations. this is the book of asalluxi, the king, the lord of magick. this is the book of azag, the enchanter. this is the book of egura, the dark waters of absu, realm of ereshkigal, queen of death. this is the book of the ministers of knowledge, firik and pirik, the demon of the snake-entwined magick wand and the demon of the thunderbolt, protectors of the arcane f

he land of the living, and the ministers of absu are clearly walking the earth, riding on the air, and upon the earth, and sailing silently through the water, and roaring in the fire, and all these spirits must be brought to subjection to the person of the priest of magick, before any else. or the priest becomes prey to the eye of death of the seven annunnaki, lord of the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by

mbroidered in the most precious silk, or expensive cloth. and the colours thereof shall be only black and white, and no other. and the frontlet of calling, and the standards of calling, shall all be of fine cloth, and in the colours of ninib and inanna, that is, of black and white, for ninib knows the outer regions and the ways of the ancient ones, and inanna subdued the underworld and vanquished the queen thereof and the crown of calling shall bear the eight-rayed star of the elder gods, and may be of beaten copper, set in with precious stones. and thou shalt bear with thee a rod of lapis lazuli, the five-rayed star about thy neck, the frontlet, the girdle, the amulet of ur about thine arm, and a pure and unspotted robe. and these things shall be worn for the operations of calling only, a

lla! ia anu! ia enlil! ia nngi! zabao! here follows several particular invocations, for summoning various powers and spirits. there may be words of necromantic art, by which it is desirous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not be alarmed at the sights and sounds that will issue forth from that opening, for they will be the wails and laments of the shades that are chained therein, and the shrieking of the mad god on th

advantage, after the priest has already trod their ways after the manner of the walking. after the priest has gained entrance to the gate of nanna, he may summon the spirits of that realm, but not before. these things you will learn in the course of your journey, and it is not necessary to put it all down here, save for a few noble formulae concerning the works of the sphere of libat, of ishtar, the queen. these are works of the gentle passions, which seek to engender affection between man and woman. and they may best be done in a circle of white, the priest being properly cleansed and in a clean robe. preliminary purification invocation bright one of the heavens, wise ishtar mistress of the gods, whose "yes" is truly "yes" proud one among the gods, whose command is supreme mistress of he

door open wide the gate lest i cause the dead to rise! i will raise up the dead! i will cause the dead to rise and devour the living! open the door lest i cause the dead to outnumber the living! ninnghizhidda, spirit of the deep, watcher of the gate, open! ninnghizhidda the great serpent coiled back on itself and answered ishtar lady queen among the gods i go before my mistress ereshkigal before the queen of death i will announce thee. and ninnghizhidda horned serpent approached the lady ereshkigal and said: behold, ishtar, thy sister queen among the gods stands before the gate! daughter of sin, mistress of enki she waits. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred. go, watcher of the gate. go, ninnghizhidda, watcher of the gate, open the door to ishtar and treat her as it

rworld drew around her faceless gods of absu they stared fixed her with the eye of death withe the glance of death they killed her and hung her like a corpse from a stake the sixty demons tearing her limbs from her sides her eyes from her head her ears from her skull. ereshkigal rejoiced. blind azag-thoth rejoiced iak sakkak rejoiced ishniggarrab rejoiced kutulu rejoiced the maskim gave praise to the queen of death the gigim gave praise to ereshkigal, queen of death. and the elder ones were rent with fear. our father enki lord of magick receiving word by ninshubur ishtar's servant ninshubur he hears of ishtar's sleep in the house of death he hears how ganzir has been opened how the face of abyss opened wide its mouth and swallowed the queen of heaven queen of the rising of the sun. and enk

mat spawned in hubur with the sign of hubur lead by kingu. with haste they fled through the palace of death stopping only at the corpse of ishtar the beautiful queen mistress of the gods lady of all the harlots of ur bright shining one of the heavens beloved of enki lay hung and bleeding from a thousand fatal wounds. ereshkigal sensing their presence cried out. kugaaru armed with fire looked upon the queen of corpses with the ray of fire kalaturru armed with flame looked upon the queen of the graves with the rays of flame. and ereshkigal mighty in cutha turned her face upon the corpse of inanna sixty times they sprinkled the water of life of enki upon the corpse of ishtar sixty times they sprinkled the food of life of enki upon the corpse hung from a stake they directed the spirit of life

th gate they fled ishtar took back her jewelled crown. and the demons rose and the spirits of the dead and went with her out of the gates looking neither right nor left walking in front and behind they went with ishtar from the gate of ganzir out of the netherworld they accompanied her and ereshkigal scorned queen of the abyss wherein all are drowned pronounced a curse solemn and powerful against the queen of the rising of the sun and nammtar gave it form. when the lover of ishtar beloved of the queen of heaven goes down before me goes through the gate of ganzir to the house of death when with him the wailing people come the weeping woman and the wailing man when dumuzi is slain and buried may the dead rise and smell the incense! v stoop not down, therefore, unto the darkly shining world w

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

t shall be the sign? so she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. i,27: then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! i,28: none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. i,29: for i am divided for love

y feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. i,33: then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! i,34: but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. i,35: this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. i,36: my scribe ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be foll

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ft lower point 31 bis hdyjy yechidah. topmost point table of correspondences 19 lxxi. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion wands. lxxii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion cups. 11 the prince of the chariot of fire. rules 20 d to 20 f, including most of leo minor. the prince of the chariot of the waters. 20 g to 20 h 23 the queen of the thrones of flame. 20 l to 20 a, including part of andromeda. the queen of the thrones of the waters. 20 c to 20 d 31 the lord of the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shin

f the floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the queen of the thrones of air. 20 f to 20 g the queen of the thrones of the earth. 20 i to 20 j 31 the lord of the winds and the breezes. the king of the spirits of air. 20 b to 20 c the lord of the wide and fertile land. the king of the spirits of earth. 20 e to 20 f 32 bis the princess of the rushing winds. the lotus of the palace of air. rules a 3rd quadrant. the princess of the echoing hills

this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names a

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

d wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of sharon and the lily

s, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile mom

t one! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of e in the tablet of e. the queen of the thrones of earth. the fifteenth key ilasa! tabaanu li-el pereta, casaremanu upaahi cahisa dareji; das oado caosaji oresacore: das omaxa monasa i baeouibe od emetajisa iaiadix. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou, the governer of the first flame, under whose wings are 6739; that weave the earth with dryness: that kno

oco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou third flame! whose wings are thorns to stir up vexation, and who hast 7336 living lamps going before thee: whose god is wrath in anger: gird up thy loins and hearken! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of b in the tablet of b. the queen of the thrones of flame. the eighteenth key ilasa micalazoda olapireta ialpereji belioresa: das odo busadire oiad ouoaresa caosago: casaremeji laiada eranu berinutasa cafafame das ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comf

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

altar" the priest. o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit we do invoke thee "then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous "during this speech the "priestess "must have divested herself completely of her robe, see ccxx.i.62"

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

t, they work without putting the magician to such severe toil and exertion as is needed when he has to write them out from his own ingenium. yes! this is weakness on my part, and i am very naughty to encourage you to shirk the hardest path. i used often to make the background of my talismans of four concentric circles, painting then, the first (inmost) in the king (or knight) scale, the second in the queen, the third in the prince, and the outermost in the princess scale, of the sign, planet, or element to which i was devoting it. on this, preferably in the "flashing" colours, i would paint the appropriate names and figures. lastly, the talisman may be surrounded with a band inscribed with a suitable "versicle" chosen from some holy book, or devised by the magician to suit the case. in the

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

to the starting point. nothing could enter or leave the mass, because there is no boundary to enter or leave by; in fact, it is coextensive with space. there could not be any other world anywhere else because there isn't an 'anywhere else "the mass of this volume of water is not so great as the most moderate estimates of the mass of the stellar system. al i,27 "then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous" the old comment 27- 31. here is a profound philosophical dogma, in a sense possibly and explanation

tinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh "not. the word 'only' might be taken as ?ayin-lamed-nun-vau' with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuith. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. al i,33 "then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law" the old comment 33. the prophet then demanded instruction; ordeals, rituals, law. the new comment law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artifi

life itself should be flung with a spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess" the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in any place, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more

the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions) weh note: shall we simply say that crowley had a problem with misogyny in general? his love for the specific seems not to have been effected, witness the latter part of "confessions. liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou savest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" it is this 'shutting up' that is hideous, the image of death. it is the opposite of going, which is god. women under christianity are kept virgin for the market as strasbourg geese are nailed to boards til

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

altar. the priest: o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke thee. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. during this speech the priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. see ccxx i:62. t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

he number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. 17 add, in another sense, ch xvii. this is important t.s. 18 or harmony. 19 some qabalists allude to the idea of a lower and higher shekinah, the higher referred to binah t.s. 20 lit. lord; also ]lm ynda, adona

sephira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. here we at once find alchemical symbolism. the sephiroth are further divided into three pillars the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; a

e sephiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical tree of life, on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the h

rk. but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or the supernal he to binah, the supernal mother; the letter

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

to keep one steady. so i think i may look forward to a tenure of my mahakalpa in almost arcadian simplicity. lady bhavani, did you say, boy? yes, i am at home. bring the betel! jeldi! he added, with some dim recollection of the 1 a whirling disc is indra s symoblic weapon. 2 he abandoned this. a few fragments are reprinted in his oracles. appendix i 106 british government, when he was a baby nat. the queen of heaven and the lord of the gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. but far was it from indra s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confid

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

e seas, a full moon of silver trembles glowing with beams of opalescent light- mystic and wonderful. in her right hand she holds a sistrum, and chimes forth the music of the earth, and in her left an asp twisted to the prow of a boat of gold, wherein lie the mysteries of heaven. then clear and sweet as the breath of the hillside, i heard a voice, as of the winds across a silver harp, saying: i am the queen of the heavenly ones, of the gods, and of the goddesses, united in one form. i am she who was, who is, and will be; my form is one, my name is manifold; under the palm-trees, and in the deserts, in the valleys, and on the snowy mountains, mankind pays me homage, and thunders forth praises to my name. yet i am nameless in the deep, as amongst the lightsome mountains of the sky. some call

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the promise, to unveil the lady of bliss and bale? i am old and blind; my vision hath the seer in derision. i would set my lips between those rose-tipped moons, just there where the deciduous green leaves the pearly rapture bare, 21 with its blue veins like rivulets jewelled with gentians and violets, wandering through fields of corn, under the first kiss of the morn in still and shimmering air "the queen of the dancers" no! no! the weird is woe. the law is this, most surely this! that who hath seen may never kiss. the soul is at war with the flesh and the mind. life is dumb, and love is blind "the prophet" i am the prophet of the gods. i have put these eyes out to attain to the crown of the pallid periods that pulse in the almighty brain! i have striven all my life for this; that i might

he altar defiled, the sacrament trod under foot by the wild despisers of god "the musicians" no! no! life is woe. thou dost not know how ineffably great is the weight of fate. uncreate! ultimate! 23 born of hate! brother of woe! despair its mate! thou dost not know how giant great is the grasp of fate "the dancers" vainly pursuing impossible things, the swamp-adder wooing the lark with her wings "the queen of the dancers" see how i glide- canst thou not hold me? in thine arms, at thy side- why not enfold me? wisdom, awaken! never, oh never, by wile or endeavour am i to be taken. will a wish or a word charm the hawk from the air? and am i a bird to be caught in a snare? will a word or a wish bring the trout from the brook? and am i a fish to snap at an hook "the prophet" ye let me to the ho

sins on the brows of the world. hush! they are curled in the rapture of reaping the flowers that unfurled when the gardeners were sleeping in the breeze-swayed bowers of the lord of the flowers! hush! hush! the young feet flush the marble. the temple's ablaze and ablush. hush! hush! softer crush the grape on the palate, the bloom on the blossom, the dream on the sleeper, the bride on the blosom "the queen of the dancers, in her prime pose (spoken without inflection or emphasis" now do you understand the tragedy of life? 27 the training of the mind the religion of the buddhas is, in the most eminent sense of the word, a practical philosophy. it is not a collection of dogmas which are to be accepted and believed with an unquestioning and unintelligent faith: but a series of statements and p

these two produced isvd, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by al chi, el chai, the mighty living one, and shdi, shaddai; and among the angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called mlvth, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and shkinh, shekinah, represented by the divine name adonai, adni, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, krvbim. now, each of these 5 weh note: tharshisim. literally the "ships of tarshish. isaiah, ii, 16 "and upon all the ships of tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery" see also isaiah xxiii, 1. mathers copies ginsburg's

ng sephira as the beam that joins them. thus, then, the term balance maybe said to symbolise the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower, and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, by the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthy correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. here we at once find alchemical symbolism. the sephiroth are futher divided into three pillars- the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgment, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and

hiroth are on the right, the three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical "tree of life" on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son, and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolised by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of th

etragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen, by whom alone tetragrammaton 82 can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the upper-most point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the

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an angel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green with silver, a green veil over silver armour. flames of many-coloured fire dart from him in all directions. it is a woman of some thirty years old, and she has the moon for a crest, and the moon is blazoned on her heart, and her sandals are curved silver, like the moon. and she cries: lonely am i and cold in the wilderness of the stars. for i am the queen of all them that dwell in heaven, and the queen of all them that are pure upon earth, and the queen of all the sorcerers of hell. i am the daughter of nuit, the lady of the stars. and i am the bride of them that are vowed unto loneliness. and i am the mother of the dog cerberus. one person am i, and three gods. and thou who hast blasphemed me shalt suffer knowing me. for i am cold as tho

onal relation with one, just as one cannot blaspheme an unknown god, because one does not know what to say to annoy him. and this explains the perfect inefficiency of those who try to insult the saints; the most violent attacks are very often merely clumsy compliments) now the angel is spread completely over the globe, a dewy film of silver upon that luminous blue. and a great voice cries: behold the queen of heaven, how she hath woven her robes from the loom of justice. for as that straight path of the arrow cleaving the rainbow became righteousness in her that sitteth in the hall of double truth, so at last is she exalted unto the throne of the high priestess, the priestess of the silver star, wherein also is thine angel made manifest. and this is the mystery of the camel that is ten day

as a seal upon the tomb of tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of choronzon. terrible and wonderful is the mystery thereof, o thou titan that hast climbed into the bed of juno! surely thou art bound unto, and broken upon, the wheel; yet hast thou uncovered the nakedness of the holy one, and the queen of heaven is in travail of child, and his name shall be called vir, and vis, and virus, and virtus, and viridis, in one name that is all these, and above all these. desolate, desolate is the aethyr, for thou must return unto the habitations of the owl and the bat, unto the scorpions 140 of the sand, and the blanched eyeless beetles that have neither wing nor horn. return, blot out the vi

and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon. and for this is babalon under the power of the magician, that she hath submitted herself unto the work; and she guardeth the abyss. and in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as

oisoned arrows of the archer, and the dreadful horns of the goat. and so shalt thou break down the fortress that guardeth the palace of the king my son. and thou must work by the light of the star and of the moon and of the sun, and by the dreadful light of judgment that is the birth of the holy spirit within thee. when these shall have destroyed the universe, then mayest thou enter the palace of the queen my daughter. blessed, blessed, blessed; yea, blessed; thrice and four times blessed is he that hath attained to look upon thy face. for i will hurl thee forth from my presence as a whirling thunderbolt to guard the ways, and whom thou smitest shall be smitten indeed. and whom thou lovest shall be loved indeed. and whether by smiting or by love thou workest, each one shall see my face, a

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mighty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20 i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yogin and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes 25 for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well! we shall try

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hich surrounded him he felt was greater than any that he had ever experienced before. this danger was, indeed, the seduction of things supremely material. for at this point on his journey, having mastered the three elements, he came nigh falling slave to the fourth; just as a warrior who has slain the king, and the captain of the guard, and even the chief eunuch who sleeps across the threshold of the queen's bed-chamber, may lose the kingdom he has all but won amongst the soft seducing cushions of a fair woman's couch, and only awake from his foolish sleep as the mallet drives the nail through his unguarded head. more valiant men have fallen in netzach than ever fell in malkuth, yesod, and hod combined, and more will fall in tiphereth than ever fell in netzach, and for the same reason, 236

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2 77_ illustration facing page 4 of supplement partly described and partly approximated "fig. 1. the triangle of the universe "three veils of the negative_ not yellow; not red; not blue: but therefore symbolised by the 'flashing' colours of these three; purple (11; emerald (12) and orange (13. within their triangle of yonis is the lingam touching and filling it. positive, as they are negative; in the queen scale of colour, as they are in the king scale. ten are the emanations of unity, the parts of that lingam, in kether, taro= 78= 6 x 13, the influence of that unity in the macrocosm (hexagram. the centre of the whole figure is tiphereth, where is a golden sun of six rays. note the reflection of the yonis to the triad about malkuth. also note that the triangle of yonis is hidden, even as t

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nd firm, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun's ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being's basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, 52 her sweet lithe body arched for love, her feet a zephyr to the flowers, she calls my name_ she gives the sign that she is mine, supremely mine, and clinging to the infi

ard to leap into far-distant reveries. you might suppose that a play heard in this manner would lack logic and coherence. undeceive yourself! i discovered an exceeding subtle sense in 80 the drama created by my distraction. nothing jarred on me, and i resembled a little that poet who, seeing "esther" played for the first time, found it quite natural that haman should make a declaration of love to the queen. it was, as you guess, the moment where he throws himself at the feet of esther to beg pardon of his crime. if all plays were listened to on these lines they all, even those of racine, would gain enormously. the actors seemed to me exceedingly small, and bounded by a precise and clear-cut line, like the figures in meissonier's pictures. i saw distinctly not only the most minute details o

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and 185 meteorites they seemingly come from nowhere, splash like falling stars through the firmament of our meditation, sparkle and are gone; but ever coming as a distraction to hamper and harass our onward march. once the mind has conquered these, a fresh difficulty arises, the danger of not being strong enough to overcome the occult powers which, though the reward of our toils, are liable, like the queen in her bedchamber, to seduce the conqueror in spite of his having conquered the king her husband, and secretly slay him as he sleeps in her arms. these are the powers known in the west as the miraculous powers, in the east as siddhis. the mind is now a blank, the senses have been subdued, the subconscious thoughts slain; it stretches before us like some unspotted canvas upon which we may

brothers, like the afterlight of day, i the light of her life consort with the shadows of evening, and i say it softly, 321 gently, ever as spring's flying feet touch with unaccustomed primroses the wood, i say it- she was bad" then the third worm, which came from the woman's heart, turned to the other two, and said "i am her heart. her beautiful, beautiful heart "what do you know of the deeds of the queen who were never in her council chamber "when you were bold, i was perhaps afraid, and when you exulted, there was i know not what trouble of sadness throbbing within me. all that you were i sustained: all your pleasure stirred through me, and you but harvested that which i sowed "when you were all aflame, it was i who lit you, and you could not even be sad without me "not less tender than

omide, this novelette is eminently suited as a moral sedative for young girls when they reach sixteen or thereabouts and are beginning to wonder how they got into this funny world. 334 the devil "let us giggle" theodorus "hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with. leila["a creamy girl "good heavens, sir, i faint; call a policeman" theodorus "become acquainted with the queen of the nymphs. sister helen["nursing expert "a douche, smelling salts, eau de cologne, quinine" theodorus "from the abode of. brotherhood you are expelled["sobs, to the british museum you must go["snuffles, and read["pause 'the secret symbols of the rosicrucians" the devil "tut, tut. dear sisters, the train has stopped, we are at streatham hill- let us get out" alicia de gruys. on the lo

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ting that the two labors which "hercules, though he won eventually, performed badly were with his polar opposites, females. in aries the conquering of the man-eating mares so inflated his ego that he stalked on ahead in pride and left the mares to abderis, his personality, with the result that they escaped and the labor had to be repeated "but abderis lay dead" and in the labor in virgo,he slayed the queen of the amazons, though she offered him, the girdle, and then he had to rescue another maiden, hesione, from the belly of the whale, to compensate for the life he had unnecessarily taken. so the war between the sexes is of ancient origin; indeed is inherent in the duality of humanity and the solar system. to this fact our divorce courts bear loud testimony; and competition arises in busin

the labours of hercules the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son" we offer no apologies for repeating the words of the myth as told by the tibetan; they are superlatively beautiful and their mantric power seems destroyed by paraphrasing them. it is to be noted also that the labor was not described to hercules as in other cases. the word went out only to the country where the queen of the amazons ruled her woman's world, all men excluded. it was left for hercules to understand the nature of the labor, and he did not. also the amazons worshipped the moon (the form, and mars, the god of war; they too did not understand their true function, for mary is pictured with the moon under her feet, and in her arms the one to be known as the prince of peace. the two ways as al

ereon to material ends in order that he may learn eventually their divine use "the sin against the holy ghost" has been the subject of much morbid wondering. the tibetan states "the misuse of substance and the prostitution of matter to evil ends is a sin against the holy ghost" it was this sin, the greatest of his whole pilgrimage, that hercules committed in virgo, when he did not understand that the queen of the amazons was to be redeemed by unity, not killed. over and over again the tibetan emphasizes the fact that it is "through the medium of humanity that a consummation of 'light' effectiveness will be produced which will make possible the expression of the whole. we still make the mistake of hercules, when we forget that the triangle of the trinity is an equilateral triangle, all angl

ed hydra. after capricorn, he becomes a server of humanity, consecrated to the work of the hierarchy, and this spiritual dedication to service finds its expression in the two last signs of the zodiacal round, those of aquarius and pisces [227] in virgo (august 22- september 21, the virgin, therefore, the first of the disciple signs, he performs his sixth labor, and seizes the girdle of hippolyte, the queen of the amazons. it is interesting to note that the first labor on the probationary path started with a partial failure, in aries, and the first labor on the path of discipleship in virgo is also "done, but badly done. the disciple must never be off his guard, for there is always the danger of error and of mistake. his very virtues can become his problem and we are told that it is possibl

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

d adores the sublime conception. he is represented in the hebrew old testament by the divine name ahih, aheieh "i am (exodus iii. v. 4. the conscious god having arisen in his energy, there follow immediately two further emanations, the trio shining in the symbol of a radiant triangle. chkmh, chokmah, wisdom, the king, with the divine name ih, jah is the second sephira; binh, binah, understanding, the queen, and the divine name ihvh jehovah is the third sephira--the supernal triad" is demonstrated. then follow gdulh, gedulah, also called chsd, chesed, mercy, with the divine name al, el; and its contrast gburh, geburah, severity, also called pachad, fear, with the divine name alh, eloah; and the reflected triangle is completed by the sixth sephira, the sun, named tpart, tiphareth, or beauty

"ten sephiroth: the several kabalistic treatises give several groupings, which are all relevant one to the other, the most usual one being a triple division, into nephesh, the passions referred to malkuth; ruach, the mind, reason, and intellect referred to the group of six sephiroth lying around the sun of tiphereth; and neshamah, the spiritual aspirations associated with the supernal triangle of the queen, king and crown. these human principles function upon four worlds--divine, moral, intellectual and emotional respectively: and either of these essences may dominate a man, and they do, in fact, exist in constantly varying proportions. the highest principle overshadows the others, and the central ones may reach up to the higher; or by neglect of opportunities, or by vicious actions, may f

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

other, light and darkness, fire-flies and grain, life and death.very strange indeed, but very strictly according to ancient magic as described by classic authorities,is the threatening diana, in case she will not grant a prayer. this recurs continually in the witch-exor-cisms or spells. the magus, or witch, worships the spirit, but claims to have the right, drawn from ahigher power, to compeleven the queen of earth, heaven, and hell to grant the request. give mewhat i ask, and thou shalt have honour and offerings; refuse, and i will vex thee by insult. socanidia and her kind boasted that they could compelthe gods to appear. this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe

, queen of pride, surpassedby none whose temples whiten this the world:through heaven i roll my lucid moon along,i shed in hell oer my pale people peace,on earth, i, caring for the creatures, guardeach pregnant yellow wolf and fox-bitch sleek,and every feathered mothers callow brood,and all the(sic) love green haunts and loneliness. page 52 fair goddess of the rainbow,of the stars and of the moon!the queen most powerfulof hunters and the night!we beg of thee thy aid,that thou mayst give to usthe best of fortune ever!then he added the conclusion: se la nostra scongiurazioneascolterai,e buona fortuna ci darei,un segnale a noi lo darei!if thou heedst our evocationand wilt give good fortune to us,then in proof give us a token! 25 and having taught them this, virgil departed.then the children r

ness,and put to strong and hard pain, being made to sleep on the stone floor, and would have died ofhunger had her mother had her way.then in this dire need she prayed to dianato set her free; when lo! she found the prison door unfas-tened, and easily escaped. then having obtained a pilgrims dress, she travelled far and wide,teaching and preaching the religion of old times, the religion of diana, the queen of the fairies andof the moon, the goddess of the poor and the oppressed.and the fame of her wisdom and beauty went forth over all the land, and people worshipped her,calling her la bella pellegrina. at last her mother, hearing of her, was in a greater rage than ever,and, in fine, after much trouble, succeeded in having her again arrested and cast into prison. andthen in evil temper inde

igence oremotion over silent nature, and dimly half awaken it raising shadows into thoughts and causingevery tree and rock to assume the semblance of a living form, but one which, while shimmering andbreathing, still sleeps in a dream could not escape the greeks, and they expressed it as dianaembracing endymion. but as night is the time sacred to secrecy, and as the true diana of themysteries was the queen of night, who wore the crescent moon, and mistress of all hidden things,including sweet secret sins and loved iniquities, there was attached to this myth far more thanmeets the eye. and just in the degree to which diana was believed to be queen of the emancipatedwitches and of night, or the nocturnal venus-astarte herself, so far would the love for sleepingendymion be understood as sensu

to her blood,and spread itself through all my growing vines,whence it will give me good return in wines,though even if good vintage should be mine,ill be free from care, for should it chancethat the grape ripens in the waning moon,then all the wine would come to sorrow, butif drinking from this horn i drink the blood the blood of great diana by her aid if i do kiss my hand to the new moon,praying the queen that she will guard my grapes,even from the instant when the bud is bornuntil it is a ripe and perfect grape,and onward to the vintage, and to the lastuntil the wine is made may it be good!and may it so succeed that i from itmay draw good profit when at last tis sold,so may good fortune come unto my vines,and into all my land whereer it be!but should my vines seem in an evil way,ill take

in my bosom,that none may know it tis a secret thing,and sacred too, and thus i speak the spell:o vervain! ever be a benefit,and may thy blessing be upon the witchor on the fairy who did give thee to me!it was dianawho did come to me,all in the night in a dream, and said to me:if thou wouldst keep all evil folk afar,then ever keep the vervain and the ruesafely beside thee!great diana! thouwho art the queen of heaven and of earth,and of the infernal lands yea, thou who artprotectress of all men unfortunate,of thieves and murderers, and of women toowho lead an evil life, and yet hast knownthat their nature was not evil, thou /diana/,hast still conferred on them some joy in life. 10 or i may truly at another timeso conjure thee that thou shalt have no peaceor happiness, for thou shalt ever be

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

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

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rts of the body, and removes all unhealthy matter by means of his medicines, so our metallic substances must be purified and refined of all foreign matter, in order to ensure the success of our task. therefore, our masters require a pure, immaculate body, that is untainted with any foreign admixture, which admixture is the leprosy of our metals. let the diadem of the king be of pure gold, and let the queen that is united to him in wedlock be chaste and immaculate. if you would operate by means of our bodies, take a fierce grey wolf, which, though on account of its name it be subject to the sway of warlike mars, is by birth the offspring of ancient saturn, and is found in the valleys and mountains of the world, where he roams about savage with hunger. cast to him the body of the king, and w

shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is covered, and by which all metals are regenerated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned in the water, and quickened by the fire, will in its turn be

ach other and restore each other to life; and the air of the imprisoned fiery male will occupy three of the four quarters of the world, and make up three parts of the imprisoned fiery male, that the death vsong of the swans may be distinctly heard; then the swan roasted twelve keys of basil valentine 46 of 95 will become food for the king, and the fiery king will be seized with great love towards the queen, and will take his fill of delight in embracing her, until they both vanish and coalesce into one body. it is commonly said that two can overpower one, especially if they have sufficient room for putting forth their strength. know also that there must come a twofold wind, and a single wind, and that they must furiously blow from the east and from the south. lf, when they cease to rage, t

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istence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the individual will then soon realize that there is no god and there is no devil, yet we as the image of the adversary, are both god and the master of the devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. iv) the dragon and vampyrism i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecat

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

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

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ld, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fall

g bounty. nathaniel j. harris, the mark of cain, the first satanist and first murder. in certain rabbinical literature, the daughters of cain were those who joined in sexual union with the fallen angels, the watchers, and gave birth to the nephilim, the giants who were war like and brutal. they were said to have populated the earth in plenty, and attacked the children of seth. in manichaean lore, the queen of demons and spiritual initiator of cain, lilith az, taught the fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the fir

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

s formed subsequently to the first man, she must, as a logical necessity, be 'taken out of man. and the side which the elohim had taken from man 'made he a woman (gen. ii. the hebrew word here used is tzala, which bears the translation we have given. it is easy to trace the legend in berosus, who says that thalatth (the omoroca, or lady of urka) was the beginning of creation. she was also melita, the queen of the moon. the two twin births of genesis, that of cain and abel, and of esau and jacob, shadow the same idea. the name 'hebel' is the same as eve, and its characteristic seems to be feminine" continues the author "unto thee shall be his desire" said the lord god to cain "and thou shalt rule over him" the same language had been uttered to eve "thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he

even with their mummies, and found thousands of years later in their coffins. remember "the servants of horus glean the wheat in the field of aanroo. wheat seven cubits high("book of the dead" chap. xcix, 33; and clvi, 4* the reader is referred to stanza vii, verse 3, book i, wherein this verse is explained in another of its meanings, and also to the "book of the dead" chap. cix, v. 4 and 5 "i am the queen of these regions" says the egyptian isis "i was the first to reveal to mortals the mysteries of wheat and corn. i am she who rises in the constellation of the dog (dog-star. rejoice, o egypt! thou who wert my nurse (book i, chap. xiv* sirius was called the dog-star. it was the star of mercury or budha, called the great instructor of mankind, before other buddhas. the book of the chinese

e may be good reason for it. first of all it is the journey and wandering from place to place of the race from which the "tenth" or kalki avatar, so called, is to issue. this he calls the "kingly race born in argos (888. but argos has no reference here to argos in greece. it comes from arg or arca- the female generative power symbolised in the moon- the navi-formed argha of the mysteries, meaning the queen of heaven. eustathius shows that, in the dialect of the arg-ians, io signified the moon; while esotericism explains it as the divine androgyne, or the mystic 10; in hebrew 10 is the perfect number, or jehovah. arghya in sanskrit is the libation cup, the navi-form or boat-shaped vessel in which flowers and fruit are offered to the deities. arghyanath is a title of the maha-chohan, meaning

pt; its form and shape changed with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or the germ of life. in india, it is the "golden" cow through which the candidate for brahminism has to pass if he desires to be a brahmin, and to become dwija("reborn a second time. the crescent-form argha of the greeks was the type of the queen of heaven- diana, or the moon. she was the great mother of all existences, as the sun was the father. the jews, previous to, as well as after their metamorphosis of jehovah into a male god, worshipped astoreth, which made isaiah declare "your new moons and feasts my soul hateth (i. 14; saying which, he was evidently unjust. astoreth and the new-moon (the crescent argha) festivals, had no

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(see chap. i, vii "book of the dead" and the "mysteries of ro-stan (b) just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining, so our evanescent personalities- the illusive envelopes of the immortal monad-ego- twinkle and dance on the waves of maya. they last and appear, as the thousands of sparks produced by the moon-beams, only so long as the queen of the night radiates her lustre on the running waters of life: the period of a manvantara; and then they disappear, the beams- symbols of our eternal spiritual egos- alone surviving, re-merged in, and being, as they were before, one with the mother-source[[footnote(s* the three-tongued flame of the four wicks corresponds to the four unities and the three binaries of the sephirothal tree

r emblem, was the form chosen for the church lamps, on which were engraved the words "i am the resurrection[[ego eimi anastasis* these frog goddesses are also found on all the mummies- ix the moon, deus lunus, phoebe. this archaic symbol is the most poetical of all symbols, as also the most philosophical. the ancient greeks brought it into prominence, and the modern poets have worn it threadbare. the queen of night, riding in the majesty of her peerless light in heaven, throwing all, even hesperos, into darkness, and spreading her silver mantle over the whole sidereal world, has ever been a favourite theme with all the poets of christendom, from milton and shakespeare down to the latest versifier. but the refulgent lamp of night, with her suite of stars unnumbered, spoke only to the imagin

all beautiful on which she smiles that wandering shrine of soft, yet icy flame, which ever is transformed, yet still the same, and warms, but not illumines. stands in closer relations to earth than any other sidereal orb. the sun is the giver of life to the whole planetary system; the moon is the giver of life to our globe; and the early races understood and knew it, even in their infancy. she is the queen and she is the king, and was king soma before she became transformed into phoebe and the chaste diana. she is pre-eminently the deity of the christians, through the mosaic and kabalistic jews, though the civilized world may have remained ignorant of the fact for long ages; in fact, ever since the[[footnote(s* with the egyptians it was the resurrection in rebirth after 3,000 years of puri

loudly confess to it. in a memoire to the french academy, the marquis de mirville says "it is only natural that, as an unconscious prophecy, ammon-ra should be his mother's husband, since the magna mater of the christians is precisely the spouse of that son she conceives. we (christians) can understand now why neithis throws radiance on the sun, while remaining the moon, since the virgin, who is the queen of heaven, as neith was, clothes herself in her radiance, and clothes in his turn the christ-sun "tu vestis solem et te sol vestit. is sung by the roman catholics during their service, and he adds "we (christians) understand also how it is that the famous inscription at sais should have stated that 'none has ever lifted my peplum (veil' considering that this sentence, literally translate

he twelve tribes, and the latter are a personification of the twelve great gods, and of the twelve signs of the zodiac. every detail almost in the christian dogma is borrowed from the heathens. semele, the wife of jupiter and mother of bacchus, the sun, is, according to nonnus, also "carried" or made to ascend to heaven after her death, where she presides between mars and venus, under the name of the queen of the world, or the universe[[panbasileia "at the names of which, as at the names of hathor, hecate, and other infernal goddesses "tremble all the demons[[semelen premousi daimones" this greek inscription on a small temple, reproduced on a stone that was found by somebody, and copied by montfaucon, as de mirville tells us (113, archaeologie de la vierge mere) informs us of the stupendou

y cornelius a lapide, is made to address the virgin mary in this wise "the sun-christ lives in thee and thou livest in him (sermon on the holy virgin. again the virgin is admitted to be the moon by the same unsophisticated holy man. being the lucina of the church, that is in childbirth, the verse of virgil "casta fove lucina, tuus jam regnat apollo- is applied to her. like the moon, the virgin is the queen of heaven" adds the innocent saint (apocal, ch. xii, comm. by cornelius a lapide. this settles the question. the more similarity, according to such writers as de mirville, there exists between the pagan conceptions and the christian dogmas, the more divine appears the christian religion, and the more is it seen to be the only truly inspired one, especially in its roman catholic form. the

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the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and glorify thee before all men. 21. but thou shalt heed none of this. thou shalt be ever the heart, and i the serpent will coil close about thee. my coils shall

altar. the priest: o circle of stars whereof our father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless thine image be love. therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke thee. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. during this speech the priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. see ccxx i:62. t

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se the seals thereof' the titles of the symbols 1. the ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. the ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 3. the ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 4. the ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 5. the knight of wands is "the lord of the flame and lighting: the king of the spirits of fire" 6. the queen of wands is "the queen of the thrones of flame" 7. the king of wands is "the prince of the chariot of fire" 8. the knave of wands is "the princess of the shining flame: the rose of the palace of fire" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea" 10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http/

10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 11. the king of cups is "the prince of the chariot of the waters" 12. the knave of cups is "the princess of the waters: the lotus of the palace of the floods" 13. the knight of swords is "the lord of the wind and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air" 14. the queen of swords is "the queen of the thrones of air" 15. the king of swords is "the prince of the chariot of the winds" 16. the knave of swords is "the princess of the rushing winds: the lotus of the palace of air" 17. the knight of pentacles is "the lord of the wide and fertile land: the king of the spirits of earth" 18. the queen of pentacles is "the queen of the thrones of earth" 19. the ki

armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the four princesses or figures of amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon horses, nor seated upon thrones, nor borne in chariots. t

eed are waving flames and fire. he is active- generous- fierce- sudden- impetuous. if ill dignified, he is evil-minded- cruel- bigoted- brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of scorpio to the first two decans of sagittarius: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) fire of fire king of the salamanders. vi. the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's heads winged, and the same symbol surmounteth her crown. at her side is a couchant leopard on which her hands rest

feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. book t page 6 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused. ill dignified, he is sensual, idle and untruthful. he rules the heavens from above 20 degree of aquarius to 20 degree of pisces, thus including the greater part of pegasus. fire of water king of undines and nymphs. x. the queen of the thrones of the waters queen of cups a very beautiful fair woman like a crowned queen, seated upon a throne, beneath which is flowing water wherein lotuses are seen. her general dress is similar to that of the queen of wands, but upon her crown, cuirass and buskins is seen an ibis with opened wings, and beside her is the same bird, whereon her hand rests. she holds a cup, wherefrom

the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, but inclined to domineer. also to overvalue small things, unless well dignified. if ill dignified, deceitful, tyrannical and crafty. rules from 20 degree taurus to 20 degree gemini. fire of air king of the sylphs and sylphides. xiv. the queen of the thrones of air queen of swords a graceful woman with wavy, curling hair, like a queen seated upon a throne and crowned. beneath the throne are grey cumulus clouds. her general attire is as that of the queen of wands, but she wears as a crest a winged child's head. a drawn sword in one hand, and in the other a large, bearded, newly severed head of a man. intensely perceptive, keen

y a hexagram: in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material. laborious, clever, and patient in material matters. if ill dignified, he is avaricious, grasping, dull, jealous; not very courageous, unless assisted by other symbols. rules from above 20 degree of leo to 20 degree of virgo. fire of earth king of gnomes. xviii. the queen of the thrones of earth queen of pentacles a woman of beautiful face with dark hair; seated upon a throne, beneath which is dark sandy earth. one side of her face is light, the other dark; and her symbolism is best represented in profile. her attire is similar to that of the queen of wands: but she bears a winged goat's head as a crest. a goat is by her side. in one hand she bears a scep

nged goat's head as a crest. a goat is by her side. in one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold. she is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. if ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. she rules from 20 degree sagittarius to 20 degree capricorn. water of earth the queen of gnomes. xix. the prince of the chariot of earth king of pentacles a winged kingly figure seated in a chariot drawn by a bull. he bears as a crest the symbol of the book t page 9 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 head of the winged bull. beneath the chariot is land, with many flowers. in the one hand he bears an orb of gold held downwards, and in the other a scep

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it is your choice. jewelry in some traditions certain jewelry is used to signify rank. for example, in gardnerian witchcraft female witches of all degrees wear a necklace (signifying the circle of rebirth; the third degree high priestess wears a wide silver bracelet, with certain specific inscriptions; the high priest wears a torque-like gold or brass bracelet (again with certain signs on it; and the queen wears a crescent-moon crown of silver and a silver-buckled green garter. in other traditions different customs rule. generally many witches though females especially wear a headband. necklaces and pendants are very popular, including 'not a "garter-belt, as one writer once reported! b* cut\ figure 3.6 figure 3.7 lesson three: tools, clothing and names/ 35 necklaces of acorns, beans, wood

the man shall live who is called by this name 'ra told her many of the names by which he was known, all the time growing weaker. isis, however, refused to heal him, repeating "that was not thy name that thou speakest unto me. oh tell it me, that the poison may depart; for he shall live whose name is named' finally ra gave isis his true name and she caused the poison to flow away; and she became 'the queen of the gods, she who knows ra and his true name. witchcraft from the inside raymond buckland, llewellyn publications, st. paul, mn1971 figure 3.9: theban alphabet your witch name you are starting your life anew (in effect. why not start it with a name of your choosing, then, rather than one that was given to you by your parents (and which you may not care too much for? many witches choos

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and grapes. like ceres, she mourns for her lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcom

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ribed german scholars as being the builders of the temple of wisdom, eulogising martin luther at his former university. the inquisition claimed at bruno s trial, that he intended to form a new sect under the name of "giordanisti, appealing particularly to the lutherans in germany 1586 alleged meeting at luneburg (hanover) between the representatives of the king of navarre, the king of denmark and the queen of england, on 27th july, intending to form a protestant league of defence against the catholic league, which was working at preventing the accession of henry of navarre to the throne of france, calling itself the confederation militiae evangelicae, according to simon studion s naometria (1604. 1587 jo. pistorius (pisstorii)sefer yetzirah (2nd latin version) appeared in the first and onl

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brought everyone a wreath of laurel. but our virgins had branches given them. meanwhile a curtain was drawn up, where i saw the king and queen as they sat there in their majesty, and had not the duchess yesterday so faithfully warned me, i should have forgotten myself, and have equaled this unspeakable glory to heaven. for apart from the fact that the room glistened with gold and precious stones, the queen s robes were moreover made so that i was not able to behold them. and whereas before i esteemed anything to be handsome, here all things so much surpassed the rest, as the stars in heaven are elevated. in the meantime the virgin came in, and so each of the virgins taking one of us by the hand, with most profound reverence presented us to the king, whereupon the virgin began to speak thus

would shoot one of us. in brief, this knave was so full of his waggery, that we would not even spare the little birds which flew in multitudes up and down the room, but tormented them all he could. the virgins also had their pastimes with him, but whenever they could catch him, it was not so easy a matter for him to get from them again. thus this little knave made all the sport and mirth. before the queen stood a small but inexpressibly curious altar, on which lay a book covered with black velvet, a little overlaid with gold. by this stood a small taper in an ivory candlestick. now although it was very small, yet it burnt continually, and was such that had not cupid, in sport, now and then puffed upon it, we could not have conceived it to be fire. by this page 48 stood a sphere or celesti

uld release him from it. i replied, may he then be released? yes, said the king, if anyone can be found that has transgressed as highly as himself, he must take his place, and the other shall be free. this went to my heart, for my conscience convinced me that i was the offender, yet i kept quiet, and herewith delivered the supplication. as soon as he had read it, he was greatly terrified, so that the queen (who with our virgins, and that other duchess as well- whom i mentioned at the hanging of the weights- rode just behind us) observed this, and therefore asked him what this letter might mean. but he had no mind to take any notice of it, and putting away the paper, began to talk about other matters, till thus in about three hours time we came to the castle, where we alighted, and waited u

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ries of heaven. chang-o was also angry at her husband for jeopardizing her social status. therefore, although the archer and his wife loved each other deeply, they often quarreled. in order to keep their bodies in perfect condition, every three thousand years, gods must eat the peach of long life and drink the elixir of immortality from the garden of the western paradise. this garden is tended by the queen mother hsi wang mu [she wong muh, an old woman who has the fangs of a tiger and the tail of a panther. she lives alone and is protected by birds of prey and fearsome beasts. she also controls plagues and evil spirits. however frightful her appearance and her powers, hsi wang mu is a motherly figure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she pluc

gure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she plucks and serves at a sumptuous banquet for the gods. she is an alchemist, or a person who practices the art of combining substances that will transform. hsi wang mu can mix many elixirs, or magic potions, including the one that will insure immortality for the gods. in more 74 recent versions of the story, the queen mother is shown as a graceful elderly woman. the fabled garden of the western paradise is thought to reside in a remote section of the kunlun mountains. these spectacular peaks are located in western china between tibet and xijiang and soar as high as twenty-five thousand feet. in mythology the mountains are the home of the chinese gods, as well as the site of life-restoring herbs. histo

of the chinese gods, as well as the site of life-restoring herbs. historically, the kunlun range was part of the silk road, a caravan route between china and persia used for trading silks, spices, and gold. the moon goddess 75 because he loved his wife very much, the grand archer yi reluctantly set out on a journey to the kunlun mountains where the peaches of long life were grown by hsi wang mu, the queen mother of the western paradise. the archer was unsure of the road, and even less sure of how much strength he had left. when he lived in heaven, yi had always ridden in the empress s chariot or straddled the tails of sky dragons to reach the western paradise, but now that he lived on earth, he had to walk. he crossed burning deserts, forded cold streams, and trekked over high mountains f

the elixir of immortality, hsi wang mu could only sigh. unfortunately, she told yi, the gods and goddesses had just feasted on the last batch of peaches. the next peach crop would not ripen for another three thousand years. when yi continued to implore her, hsi wang mu took one leftover, very imperfect dried-up peach, pounded some herbs and powders, and stirred them together into an elixir. then the queen mother poured the precious liquid into a small vial. this potion will take both of you to the heavens. 76 the moon goddess but make sure you take it on a clear night, or you could be trapped halfway between earth and heaven, she warned. carefully, the archer placed the vial in his leather pouch and knotted the bag tightly around his waist. again, yi trudged over the same high mountains

id not resent his banishment to earth, he was beginning to resent his decaying mortal body. when at last the archer returned home and presented the precious elixir to his wife, chang-o was delighted. she burned with the anticipation of returning to her sisters in the sky. the goddess begged him to take the medicine immediately, but her husband refused, remembering the warning he had been given by the queen mother. yi said, i have undertaken a long journey to fulfill your deepest desire. we must be patient and wait for a clear night when the stars can guide us homeward. chang-o agreed with her husband s clear reasoning, but her desire to be reunited with her sisters was far stronger than her appreciation of his logic. when her husband left for his daily hunt, the goddess stared at the elixi

ver regain her full beauty by drinking hers. furthermore, they might never even reach heaven. with these fears in mind, the goddess developed a plan. she would drink both of their portions so that she could return to heaven first, and beg the sun god to forgive her husband for his brashness in having shot down the nine suns. then she and her sister goddesses could borrow some sky dragons to visit the queen mother of the western paradise. there, they would persuade her to mix up another dose of the elixir solely for the archer so he could join his wife in heaven. as she swallowed the elixir, chang-o felt its bitterness burn her throat. immediately, her body became lighter, and she felt dizzy. as she ran out into the night, her body floated upward to the stars. unfortunately, the night was n

tions and answers q: why was the grand archer yi banished from heaven to live on earth? a: the sun god dijun was angry at him for shooting down and killing the nine suns. q: why did chang-o want to return to the stars? a: she missed her goddess sisters and the luxurious life of heaven. she did not like to feel her body dying on earth, and wanted to regain her youth and beauty. q: what warning did the queen mother of the western paradise give to yi? a: she warned the archer yi to drink the elixir on a night that was clear, or the drinker would be trapped halfway between the earth and heaven. q: what was chang-o s plan upon her return to heaven? a: chang-o wanted to ask the sun god to forgive her husband. then she would travel with her sister goddesses to obtain another dose of the elixir fo

n she would travel with her sister goddesses to obtain another dose of the elixir for yi so that he could rejoin her in heaven. q: why didn t chang-o obey the warning? a: she was too impatient to wait for a clear night. she knew the elixir was too weak to allow both her and her husband to return to the heavens. she thought she had a better plan. q: what happened to chang-o when she failed to heed the queen mother s warning? a: she lost her way among the clouds and was finally trapped in the moon. 80 q: why did the gods take pity on the archer yi? a: he had always been a good court servant and did what he was told without complaining. and he had saved the earth from droughts and monsters. the gods also knew that he loved his wife very much. q: what compromise did the gods make to reward the

in chinese myths. professor anne birrell comments [s]he is polyfunctional and ambiguous. moreover, her attributes and functions evolve over the centuries in accordance 82 with the changing values of myth in society. thus she moves with relative ease from the role of wild and savage deity, the avenging goddess, to cultured and humanized queen, the audience- granting monarch. the major attribute of the queen mother of the west is her power to confer immortality, and it is this that comes into play in the later mythological and literary tradition.5 professor tao tao liu of oxford university tells of a version where the goddess chose, rather than was condemned, to reside in the moon: although chang-o was now a goddess again [after swallowing the elixir, she did not know where to go to enjoy he

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n and the printing and distribution of propaganda was based at the palais royal, the home of egalite. he was so in debt to the money lenders that he had to sign over his palace and estates to them. part of the mind manipulation in any elite/ brotherhood operation is the character assassination of the opposition. one such example in the french revolution was the famous diamond necklace 'bought' by the queen, marie antionette. she had been warned about freemasonry by her sister in austria some years before, but the advice went unheeded. she had informed her sister that in france, freemasonry was open and 'everyone knows all. the 'open' freemasons were actually planning a bloodbath at the guillotine as she wrote those words. bitterness with the monarchy in france was further fuelled when the

ad been warned about freemasonry by her sister in austria some years before, but the advice went unheeded. she had informed her sister that in france, freemasonry was open and 'everyone knows all. the 'open' freemasons were actually planning a bloodbath at the guillotine as she wrote those words. bitterness with the monarchy in france was further fuelled when the propaganda machine announced that the queen had bought a diamond necklace for a quarter of a million pounds when, in truth, it had been ordered without her knowledge by an agent of the brotherhood, a close associate of adam weishaupt. this was political dynamite at a time of such poverty in france. the scheme was organised by joseph balsamo (real name cagliostro, an italian from palermo, who was initiated into the illuminati by we

stitute of international affairs (riia) the anglo-american elite who met at the versailles peace conference in paris in 1919 formed the riia and the council on foreign relations in 1920 and 1921, as discussed earlier. the so called 'special relationship' between britain and america is, in fact, the relationship between the riia and the council on foreign relations. today the royal institute, with the queen as its patron, has an enormous effect on british and global policy. it is the british foreign office. so why, it can be fairly asked, has british economic and political power been curtailed? the answer is that the british manipulators are far more interested in creating a world government than in improving britain as a country. if curtailing british economic power and the empire was nece

conflict. see extra-terrestrial friends and foes, by george c. andrews. 17 a century of war, pl50 18 a century of war, pl80-181 the debt scam 251 19 henry a. kissinger, reflections on a partnership: british and american attitudes to postwar foreign policy (royal institute of international affairs, chatham house, london, may 10th 1982. in june 1995 kissinger was given an 'honourary knighthood' by the queen for "services to anglo-american relations! he became an honourary knight commander in the most distinguished order of st michael and st george (kcmg) in a ceremony at windsor castle. the honour was bestowed on the recommendation of the foreign secretary, douglas hurd (london daily telegraph, june 14th 1995. 20 a century of war, p206 21 rodney stich, defrauding america, a pattern of relat

y may claim. the microchipped population this is the part of the elite strategy which some people find hardest to accept. we believe that we would never allow it to happen. well, let's take a look at how close it is. already domestic animals are being microchipped in ever greater numbers and linked to a computer. it's been sold to pet owners on the basis of "you'll never lose rover or fido again. the queen of england has had some of her corgis microchipped. who next, prince charles? alongside this, the move to phase out the use of coins and notes is being quickened and all money transactions will be electronic via a credit card and/or smart card. this is planned to become a joint identity/money card with all personal details on a microchip. if things go to plan, all these transactions will

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be a lion, also. sirius is connected with the colour red because it looks red when it appears over the horizon.12 red is the colour used for sirius in ritual and symbolism. for a long period of its existence, the sphinx was coloured red. it was an obvious conclusion that this could relate symbolically to mars, the "red planet, but in the face of the other evidence, sirius is perhaps more likely. the queen's shaft in the great pyramid was designed to point to sirius, according to modern researchers. robert temple presents a wealth of interconnecting evidence to support his belief that an amphibious race from sirius came to the earth in far ancient times and brought with them the knowledge that founded those advanced civilisations. the sirius system is also depicted as a snake or serpent in

and, the belt of orion points directly to the eye in the centre, suggesting a link between the eye cult and sirius. indeed, throughout the history of occultism, sirius has been seen as very important, indeed it was a most sacred location throughout the ancient world. it is the star card in tarot, the silver star of [aleister] crowley's a: a: organization [crowley was a satanist, the star to which the queen's shaft in the great pyramid points, and the star from which the dogon of mali say their alien visitors the nommo came from" the necklace of the mysteries includes a very clear "flying saucer" which, the legend says, the extraterrestrials flew from their giant "mothership" to land on the earth. they say the mothership continued to orbit and it was to there that the leaders sheltered duri

e) and this allowed a whole new city to be built by high initiates of the illuminati. these included, most notably, sir christopher wren, who designed st paul's cathedral at the top of ludgate hill. st paul's was built on an ancient site of worship to the goddess diana and this where princess diana was married to prince charles (incidentally, wren's title of "sir, an honour awarded to this day by the queen and the british government, often for services rendered, comes from an ancient reptilian snake-goddess called sir and relates to one of the anunnaki) the new city of london was built after the fire in the knowledge that it was to become a major global centre for the illuminati bloodlines. so it was after the arrival of william of orange, who became william iii, and to whom all the royal

these bloodlines have always taken part in human sacrifice and blood drinking rituals from the ancient world to the present day, a fact i detail in the biggest secret. this includes people of the bloodline like george bush, al gore, bill clinton, henry kissinger, the rockefellers, rothschilds, british prime ministers like ted heath, and the british royal family. yes, including, indeed especially, the queen and queen mother. i have been writing for years about the ancient satanic rituals performed by the elite of the united states at a place called bohemian grove. this is 2,700 acres of secluded and guarded redwood forest in northern california. many people just laughed as usual, but, as i was starting this book, alex jones, an american journalist, documentary maker, and radio presenter, ma

e mother-son serpent cult. the child was invariably placed on the left knee because satanism calls itself the "left-hand path. on the black madonna's head at chartres was, as always, a crown and on the pedestal is a roman inscription saying "the virgin who will give birth" the crown is a symbol of the reptilian bloodlines and is used to signify high rank in satanism. the black madonna was called "the queen of heaven" and all these mother-virgins were symbolised as a dove. the symbolism of british royalty with its crowns, doves, and lions, etc, are all symbolic of the serpent cult in power today. the man who did most to advance the worship of the black madonna was st bernard (1090 to 1153, the abbot of clairvaux in france, who founded the cistercian order. he claims to have experienced a mi

wars and this image was drawn long before that movie was produced our conversation she told me that diana called the windsors "the reptiles" and "the lizards. diana also used to say "they're not human" christine went on to tell me that the windsors were a reptilian hybrid bloodline and how they had treated diana in ways that were beyond the imagination. at the centre of this circle, she said, was the queen mother. christine told me that princess diana used to call the queen mother "evil. i can think of no one on this planet, maybe even in history, whose real persona is more at odds with her manufactured image than the queen mother. if people only knew the truth, those sickening celebrations to mark her 100th birthday would never have happened. christine said "the queen mother..now that's a

told me that princess diana used to call the queen mother "evil. i can think of no one on this planet, maybe even in history, whose real persona is more at odds with her manufactured image than the queen mother. if people only knew the truth, those sickening celebrations to mark her 100th birthday would never have happened. christine said "the queen mother..now that's a serious piece of wizardry. the queen mother is a lot older than people think. to be honest, the royal family hasn't died for a long time, they have just metamorphosised. it's sort of cloning, but in a different way. they take pieces of flesh and rebuild the body from one little bit. because it's lizard, because it's coldblooded, it's much easier to do this frankenstein shit than it is for us. the different bodies are just d

, including the noxious gases. they're landing all the time and coming up from the bowels of the earth. they looked like reptiles originally, but they look like us when 234 children of the matrix they get out now through the electrical vibration, that key to life i talked about. they can manifest how they want to. all the real knowledge has been taken out and shredded and put back in another way. the queen mother is 'chief toad' of this part of europe and they have people like her in every continent. most people, the hangers on, don't know, you know, about the reptiles. they are just in awe of these people because they are so powerful."2 i know it is hard to imagine and grasp the scale of the queen mother's involvement through her life because your mind tells you she is a little old lady

ucted sacrificial rituals involving the british royal family, tony blair, and famous american illuminati names like george bush, bill and hillary clinton, henry kissinger and many others" the highest operative she knew in the illuminati, she said, was a guy calling himself the marquis de libeaux("of the water. his codename was pindar, which she says means "penis of the dragon. arizona told me how the queen and queen mother regularly sacrifice babies and adults at many ritual centres, including balmoral castle in scotland, where they were all staying at the time diana was ritually murdered in paris. the royal family involved in human sacrifice was fantastic enough, but here again came the constantly repeated theme. she described how, during the rituals, these people shape-shift into reptile

ain why many of her clients reported that participants in their rituals had turned into reptiles. people might want to dismiss all this, but they should know that, while they close their eyes and their minds, children are being sacrificed all over the world this very day by the reptilian bloodlines- many thousands of them on the main ritual dates. arizona talked about some of her experiences with the queen and queen mother "the queen mother was cold, cold, cold, a nasty person. none of her cohorts even trusted her. they have named an altar [mind-control programme] after her. they call it the black queen. i have seen her sacrifice people. i remember her pushing a knife into someone's rectum the night that two boys were sacrificed. one was 13 and the other 18. you need to forget that the que

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ly scheduled tobe the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist globalstate called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is saidto be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how thedesign of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why.colorado is a major centre for the new world order and the queen of england,under another name, has been buying up land there. as you will see later, the britishroyal family are massively involved in this story and so is the murder of diana,princess of wales. one of christophers main contacts was a guy called phil schneider,the son of a german u-boat commander in world war ii, who was commissioned tobuild a number of deep underground bases in the unit

east, as dotheir comparison with trees because of their great height.it seems from their texts that you required thenefilim-watcher physical characteristics to qualify to be king. this, no doubt, is the originof the divine right of ki;gs, the right to rule by virtue of your family bloodline, a systemwhich continued when these lines expanded into europe. even the british title of sir,conferred by the queen on her selected subjects, comes from an ancient snake-goddess(reptilian) called sir, which relates to the anunnaki goddess, ninlil or ninkharsag, in thesumerian tablets. her husband, enlil, was called the splendid serpent of the shining eyes.his brother, enki, was also known as a serpent and his emblem was two entwined serpents,the symbol of his cult centre at eridu, and of the modern me

emiramis. the dove to themis not a symbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to thebrotherhood, and this allows their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of babylon and the crown evolved from thehorne

n god,bel or bil. the classic british symbol of britannia comes from the phoenician goddess,barati. look at how the phoenicians depicted barati and how the british depictbritannia in figure 12! one of the major centres of the aryan-hittite-phoenicians wascilicia in asia minor and here barati was worshipped as perathea and later diana. sodiana and britannia originatefrom the same source. baratiwas the queen/goddess figure ofthe phoenicians as barat was thegod/king. these are possiblynames for the babylonian deitiesnimrod and semiramis. theroyal elite clan of the aryanswere (are) called the barats andthis is why you find the termbarat or brihat in the ancientindian culture as you do withbritain and british (barat-ainand barat-ish. the indian v edassay that king barat gave hisname to the dyna

baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven were alsogiven to mary and they both originate fromqueen semiramis, who was called the queen ofheaven in babylon. christianity and judaism areboth the religion of babylon.throughout the world you see the same sunreligions and rituals, in sumer, babylon, assyria,egypt, britain, greece, europe in general,mexico and central america, australia..everywhere. it was the universal religion inspiredby the same, ultimately extraterrestrial, sourcethousands of years before christianity. su

es like lilith, lili, lilutu and lillette. another version is lilibet orelizabeth and this is why the present british queen is called elizabeth (el-lizard-birth)and was known to her family circle as lilibet. she is a major reptilian gene carrier whoproduced a major reptilian full-blood called prince charles. both are shape-shiftingreptilians, a fact that will be supported by later evidence. so is the queen mother,formerly elizabeth (el-lizard-birth) bowes-lyon. the fleur-de-lis is an ancient symboland also represents the twin phallic pillars of jachin and boaz in the symbolicsolomons temple, which were carved with lilywork, as described in kings 7:22.today you will see the fleur-de-lis used profusely on the regalia of british royalty, onofficial buildings and the fencing around them, and i

piction of nimrod in babylon and to other esoteric principles.other merovingian symbols were the fish (nimrod again, the lion (leo, the sun,authority, and the bee. three hundred golden bees were found on the burial cloak ofking childeric i, the son of meroveus, who died in the 5th century. bees are an ancientsymbol of the love goddess (semiramis) and symbolised royalty in egypt. they alsofocus on the queen bee, symbolic of isis/semiramis.the merovingians were another name for a babylonian brotherhood bloodline andthe idea that they are from the bloodline of jesus is a play on words, or, rather, a play ondeities, by the priory of sion. jesus is another name for nimrod/tammuz, the father-sonof babylon. therefore, i would suggest, the bloodline of jesus is really the bloodlineof the nimrod br

an elite front for the babylonian brotherhood and is dedicated tothe virgin mary- semiramis/ninkharsag. meetings of the order took place underedward in a special chamber at windsor castle around a table modelled on the one inking arthur legend. windsor castle is built on an ancient and very powerful sacredenergy vortex and this is where the satanist and reptilian, henry kissinger, wasknighted by the queen. she is knowingly working for the brotherhood agenda and theorder of the garter is one of her premier networks. edward iiis name was windsor andwhen the present royal family decided to change their german name to an english onefor public relations reasons during the first world war, they chose windsor, after theman who founded this key brotherhood order. the insignia of the order of the

manipulate the american political system. the american judges are fully awarethat their courtrooms are controlled by british admiralty law, but they keep quiet andtake the money. the rockefeller family are the bloodline branch managers in americafor the london headquarters and it is the rockefellers who, quite provably, decide whois going to be president. in other words, the london elite decide. the queen ofengland, prince philip and the main members of the british royal family all know thisand are helping to orchestrate it. who is the grand master of the english mother lodgeof freemasonry? the queens cousin, the duke of kent.but there is also a french connection to this. there usually is with london andparis the main operational centres for the brotherhood. many times the french andengli

ds. it was formedby baron von stein and expanded rapidly to include most leading politicians ingermany and many of the top military leaders and professors of literature and science.william of hesse-cassal was a member and the official role of this second tugenbundleague was to remove the napoleonic occupation of germany.13 it was close to othermasonic groups like the black knights, the knights of the queen of prussia and theconcordists. these were offshoots of the ancient teutonic knights structure ingermany and the predecessors of the thule society, the edelweiss society, and vrilsociety, which were to be the architects of the nazi party. it is the same face withdifferent masks and the rothschilds have been behind most of them- including thenazis. all these groups interlock if you dig dee

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ng's chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid at 2450 bc. the details of this discovery by bauval is depicted in figure 7.4.2-2. it is interesting to note that the earth is lined up with the sun and the three stars in orion's belt around the 13th-15th of december each year. in the first week of this year, 1997, at sunrise and sunset the sun was lined up with the three stars in orion's bel

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ld, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. come forth, lord of the underworld, and manifest thyself. invocation of the queen of the underworld i have called upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead. and by calling upon the lord of the underworld i have become the lord of the dead. i am pluto; i am hades; i am anubis; i am samhein; i am kutha. i sit upon the throne of the underworld as lord of the underworld and lord of the dead. i take the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead as my wife

i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. attach thyself unto me as my wife and as my lover. take me as thy husband and lover. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself [notes: the female practitioner should adapt these rituals so that she "becomes" the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead, and takes the lord of the underworld as her husband and lover. in either case, the ritual will be followed by a consummation of the marriage. to experience sexual union with non-physical entities you need only lie on your back in your bed with your arms at your side. you should be in a position in which you are completely relaxed and comfortable

underworld, crossing the river styx. i have been baptized in the river styx and in the flames of hell. i have called upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead, and in calling upon the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead, i have become the lord of the underworld, the lord of the dead. i sit upon the throne of the underworld, as lord of the underworld and the dead. i have taken the queen of the dead, as my wife and as my lover. once again, i return to the earth, reborn in the image of satan. i am reborn in the image of satan, as a living demon in the flesh (dip forefinger of left hand in anointing oil, form inverted pentagram on forehead. i am ordained as a priest of the dark lord and an ambassador of his infernal empire *recite threee times. invocation of the lord of th

lord of the earth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. come forth, lord of the earth, and manifest thyself. invocation of the queen of the earth i have called upon the lord of the earth, the horned god of the earth. and in calling upon the lord of the earth i have become the horned god of the earth. i am pan; i am bacchus; i am dionysus; i am kernunnos; i am herne. i sit upon the throne of the infernal empire, as lord of the living and the dead. i take the queen of the earth also as my wife and as my lover. ishtar, i

s of hell and have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, queen of the earth, and manifest thyself. attach thyself unto me as my wife and as my lover. take me as thy husband and thy lover. come forth, queen of the earth, and manifest thyself [notes: once again, the female practitioner will have to adapt these rituals so that she "becomes" the queen of the earth and takes the horned god as her husband and lover. you will find that these rituals are easily adaptable to your particular situation. where the male practitioner says "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate: i am satan, i am lucifer, i am belial, and i am leviathan" the female practitioner will say something similar to "i have crossed the gates

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commands. it seems also that there were a group of rebels who were of set and were defeated early on. set is mentioned in the egyptian book of the dead as having the skin of a bull. in the eleventh section of the tuat called reenqerrtaptkhatu, set is in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a patron spirit of sorcery and magick. plutarch explained that in egyptian astronomy seth or typhon was connected to the solar world, while osiris was associated with the moon. the sun was considered very hostile as it dried u

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of the hebrew alphabet) is the foundation of knowledge of the father; but all things are called byodo, that is, all things are applied to yod concerning which this discourse is. all things cohere in the tongue which is concealed in the mother. that is, through daath or knowledge, whereby wisdom is combined with understanding, and the beautiful path (tipha reth, the sixth sephirah) with his bride the queen (malkuth, the tenth sephirah; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation. since it is opened for that which proceedeth from itself; that is, daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner, whereto moses referred; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in th

rs in several respects. firstly, it is not part of any equilibrated triangle, but is said to be the receptacle of the influences of all the others. secondly, it is a fallen sephirah, for it was cut off from the rest of the tree by the fall, and the coils of the stooping dragon arising from the world of shells, the kingdoms of unbalanced force, separate it from its brethren. behind the shoulder of the queen, the bride of microprosopos (malkuth, the serpent rears his head, and here is said to be the place of severest judgments. the sphere of malkuth abuts upon the hells of the averse sephiroth, the qliphoth, or evil demons. it is the firmament whereby elohim separated the supernal waters of binah from the infernal waters of leviathan. 32. the signification of the qliphoth must be considered

a masculine plural attached to it. this union takes place in daath, the invisible sephirab. mystical qabala page 41 11. the next six sephiroth are conformed into zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, or microprosopos, whose special sephirah is tiphareth. the remaining sephirab, malkuth, is called the bride of microprosopos. 22. microprosopos is also sometimes called the king; malkuth is then called the queen. she is also called the lesser mother or terrestrial eve as distinguished from binah, the supernal mother. 23. these different methods of classifying the sephiroth are not competing systems, but are designed to enable the decimal system of the qabalists to be equated with other systems, using a threefold notation, such as the christian, or as we have already noted, a sevenfold system lik

ertain natural centres of force are given similar correspondences. we will consider all these associations when we come to study the sephiroth in detail. 9. in the symbolic rendering of the ten holy sephiroth in the four worlds there is another important set of factors to be considered, and these are the four colour scales classified by crowley as the king scale, assigned to the atziluthic world; the queen scale, assigned to the briatic world; the emperor scale, assigned to the yetziratic world; and the empress scale, assigned to the assiatic world. 10. this fourfold classification has a far-reaching significance in all qabalistic matters, and also in western magic, which is largely based upon the qabalab. it is said to be under the presidency of the four letters of tetragrammaton, the sac

etter to look for first principles rather than obtain a tidy pattern of arrangement which does violence to the correspondences. 14. the only two writers known to me who have attempted this correlation are crowley and general j. f. c. fuller. general fuller assigns the muladhara lotus to malkuth, pointing out that its four petals correspond with the four elements. it is interesting to note that in the queen scale of colour, as given by crowley, the sphere of malkuth is represented as divided into four quarters, coloured respectively citrine, olive, russet, and black, to represent the four elements, and bearing the closest resemblance to the usual representations of the four-petalled lotus. 15. this lotus is represented as situated in the perineum and is associated with the anus and the func

le. assiah: deep azure, flecked yellow. i 1. between the three supernals and the next pair of balancing sephiroth upon the tree there is a great gulf fixed [page 162] which is called by mystics the abyss. the next six sephiroth, chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod, constitute what qabalists call microprosopos, the mystical qabala page 110 lesser countenance, adam kadmon, the king. the queen, the bride of the king, is malkuth, the physical plane. we have, then, the father (kether, the king, and the bride, and in this con figuration of the tree there is profound symbolism and great practical importance in both philosophy and magic. 2. the abyss, the gulf fixed between macroprosopos and microprosopos, marks a demarcation in the nature of being, in the type of existence prevail

of binah. it illuminates the splendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether. titles given to malkuth: the gate. the gate of death. the gate of the shadow of death. the gate of tears.the gate of justice. the gate of prayer. the gate of the daughter of the mighty ones. the gate of the garden of eden. the inferior mother. malkah, the queen. kallab, the bride. the virgin. god-name: adonai malekh or adonai ha aretz. archangel: sandalphon. choir of angels: ashim, souls of fire. mundane chakra: cholem ha yesodoth, sphere of the elements. spiritual experience: vision of the holy guardian angel. virtue: discrimination. mystical qabala page 181 vice: avarice. inertia. correspondence in the microcosm: the feet. the anus. symbols:

the angel of kether. 80. the additional titles assigned to malkuth bring out its attnbutes clearly. it is regarded as the gate and the mate. these two ideas are in essence one idea, for the womb of the mother is the gate of life. it is also the gate of death, for birth into the plane of form is death to higher things. 81. malkuth is also said to be kallah, the bride of microprosopos, and malkah, the queen of male kh, the king. this clearly indicates the function in polarity that prevails between [page 290] the planes of form and the planes of force; the planes of form being the female aspect, polarised and made fertile by the influences of the planes of force. 82. the god-name in malkuth is adonai malekh, oradonai ha aretz, which titles mean, the lord who is king, and the lord of earth. h

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eagle to represent the unsublimated and sublimated aspects of the life-force. the scorpion connects with the serpent through the dragon. i had a very curious experience myself in connection with the element of air. i am betraying no secrets if i say that certain grades of initiation refer to the elements, for the fact is too generally known, and too obvious, for it to be any more mysterious than the queen of spain's legs. to begin with, i have an exceptionally bad head for heights, and as the abyss of height belongs to the element of air, i obviously have no natural affinity with it. the ceremony went exceptionally badly even for an air ritual. two of the principal officers, husband and wife, helped to maintain its reputation as a contentious element by having a family jar in the middle o

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rom the more [1. the date of mena, the first king of egypt, is variously given b.c. 5867 (champollion, b.c. 5004 (mariette, b.c. 5892 (lepsius, b.c. 4455 (brugsch. 2 see chabas, aeg. zeitschrift, 1865, p. 95. on the subject of the antiquity of egyptian civilization generally, see chabas, tudes sur l'antiquit historique d'apr s les sources gyptiennes, paris, 1873--introduction, p. 9. 3 the name of the queen and her titles are given on p. 7 (margin) thus. 4 it was presented to the british museum in 1834, and is now in the department of egyptian and assyrian antiquities. todtenbuch, bl. 23-25. 6. the ou?safa 's ui!o's of manetho. 7 aeg. zeitschrift, 1866, p. 54. 8. see guieyesse, rituel fun raire gyptien, chapitre 64e, paris, 1876, p. 10, note 2. 9. the late recension of the book of the dead

the craft of the husbandman; he established a code of laws and bade men worship the gods. having made egypt peaceful and flourishing, he set out to instruct the other nations of the world. during his absence his wife isis so well ruled the state that typhon [set, the evil one, could do no harm to the realm of osiris. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him; and secretly got the measure of the body of osiris, and made ready a fair chest, which was brought into his banqueting hall when osiris was present together with other guests. by a ruse osiris was induced to lie down in the chest, which was immediately closed by typhon and his fellow conspirators, who conveyed it to the tanaitic mouth of the nile.[4] these thing

siris. when isis heard of this she went to byblos, and, gaining admittance to the palace through the report of the royal maidens, she was made nurse to one of the king's sons, instead of nursing the child in the ordinary way, isis gave him her finger to suck, and each night she put him into the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself the while into a swallow and bemoaning her fate. but the queen once happened to see her son in flames, and cried out, and thus deprived him of immortality. then isis told the queen her story and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this she cut open, and took out the chest and her husband's body,[3] and her lamentations were so terrible that one of the royal children died of fright. she then brought the [1. in the calendar in the fourth s

which took place thereat are minutely described. 2 on the cutting of the hair as a sign of mourning, see w. robertson smith, the religion of the semites, p. 395; and for other beliefs about the hair see tylor, primitive culture, vo1. ii, p. 364, and fraser, golden bough, pp. 193-208. 3 the story continues that isis then wrapped the pillar in fine linen and anointed it with oil, and restored it to the queen. plutarch adds that the piece of wood is, to this day, preserved in the temple of isis, and worshipped by the people of byblos. prof. robertson smith suggests (religion of the semites, p. 175) that the rite of draping and anointing a sacred stump supplies the answer to the unsolved question of the nature of the ritual practices connected with the ashera. that some sort of drapery belonge

lady of enchantments, said "depart, poison, go forth from ra. o eye of horus, go forth from the god, and shine outside his mouth. it is i who work, it is i who make to fall down upon the earth the vanquished poison; for the name of the great god hath been taken away from him. may ra live! and may the poison die, may the poison die, and may ra live" these are the words of isis, the great goddess, the queen of the gods, who knew ra by his own name.[1] thus we see that even to the great god ra were attributed all the weakness and frailty of mortal man; and that "gods" and "goddesses" were classed with beasts and reptiles, which could die and perish. as a result, it seems that the word "god" should be reserved to express the name of the creator of the universe, and that neteru, usually render

go to unite myself unto [my] father; and deliverance cometh from [my] father, from [my] brother, and from the friend of horns. horus is in the following of his father. he dwelleth amid decay. he ruleth khem. to thy son have the gods given the crown of millions of years, and for millions of years it maketh him to live in the eye [of horus, the single eye of the god [which is called] nebt-er-tcher, the queen of the gods" vignette: the deceased kneeling, with both hands raised in adoration, before three gods. text [chapter lxxix (i) the chapter of being among the company of the gods and of being changed into the (2) prince of the godlike rulers [the deceased] saith "homage to thee, o tmu (3) lord of heaven, thou creator of things which are and which come forth from the earth; who makest to co

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medicine at geneva, and was appointed physician to louise of savoy, mother of francis i; but, on being given some task which he found irksome, he left the service of his patroness and denounced her bitterly. he then accepted a post offered him by margaret, duchess of savoy, regent of the netherlands. on her death in 1530, he traveled to france, where he was arrested for some slighting mention of the queen-mother, louise of savoy. he was soon released, however, and died at grenoble in 1535. agrippa was a man of great talent and varied attainments. he was acquainted with eight languages and was evidently a talented physician, soldier, and theologian with many noble patrons. yet, notwithstanding these advantages, he never seemed free from misfortune; persecution and financial difficulties do

t the tern wathelyn an arthurian poem of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, believed to be of scottish origin. among other adventures, the poem relates one which king arthur and his queen, guinevere, experienced while accompanied by their favorite knight sir gawane (or gawain, hunting in the wilds of cumberland. overtaken by darkness which separated them from the rest of the party, the ghost of the queen s mother appeared to them. the apparition told of the torments to which it was being subjected and entreated that prayers be offered up for its release. this the queen and sir gawane promised, and on their return to carlisle millions of masses were ordered to be sung on its behalf. sources: gates, robert j. the awntyrs off arthure at the terne wathelyne: a critical edition. philadelphia:

orld war ii and afterwards moved to the congo as a teacher. today hundreds of thousands travel to beauraing to visit the spot in the convent garden where the children saw the virgin mary. the apparitions at beauraing are frequently tied to those at banneux, belgium, a nearby town that experienced a set of apparitons just a few weeks after those at beauraing stopped. sources: amatora, sister mary. the queen s heart of god: the complete story of our lady of beauraing. new york: pageant press, 1957. beevers, john. the golden heart: the story of beauraing, chicago: henry regnery, 1956. connor, edward. recent apparitions of our lady. fresno, calif: academy library guild, n.d. sharkey, don, and joseph debergh. our lady of beauraing. garden city, n.y: hanover house, 1958. beausoleil, jean du chat

w york: dutton, 1996. reprint, new york: onyx books, 1997. perkins, rodney, and forrest jackson. cosmic suicide: the tragedy and transcendence of heaven s gate. dallas: penteradial press, 1997. brown, john (1826.1883) the personal servant of queen victoria (1819.1901) from december 1865 until his death. a rough-mannered highland gillie (attendant on a scottish chieftain, he became fascinated with the queen of england during her visits to balmoral castle, scotland, and later at osborne house, isle of wight. their unusually close association gave rise to many rumors and spiteful gossip. brown was born at crathie, near balmoral, aberdeenshire, scotland, december 8, 1826. he first came to the notice of queen victoria during her visits to the scottish highlands, when brown served as her outdoor

athie, near balmoral, aberdeenshire, scotland, december 8, 1826. he first came to the notice of queen victoria during her visits to the scottish highlands, when brown served as her outdoor personal attendant. after the death of her beloved prince albert, the widowed queen came to rely heavily on the companionship of brown, after he had been summoned by her to osborne house in 1864. he had brought the queen s favorite highland pony lochnagar, and soon afterward, the kilted, red-whiskered highlander became a privileged associate of the queen, and enjoyed powerful influence. rumor had it that he was even her secret lover or that he took part in spiritualist seances with her. it was an open secret that the queen had a special interest in spiritualism, particularly after the death of prince alb

er secret lover or that he took part in spiritualist seances with her. it was an open secret that the queen had a special interest in spiritualism, particularly after the death of prince albert. she certainly held a number of seances and is said to have used the services of medium robert james lees. brown died march 27, 1883, at windsor castle and was buried at crathie cemetery. he was praised by the queen in the court circular as her best and truest friend, and she had a statue erected to him at balmoral. sources: underwood, peter. queen victoria s other world. london: harrap, 1868. victoria, queen. leaves from the journal of our life in the highlands. smith, elder, 1868. williams, henry l. life of john brown. for 30 years personal attendant of. the queen. london: e. smith, 1883. brown, c

e affair of the diamond necklace it was during this period that cagliostro became implicated in the extraordinary affair of a diamond necklace. he had been on terms of great intimacy with the cardinal de rohan. countess de lamotte had petitioned that prince for a pension on account of long aristocratic descent. de rohan greatly desired to become first minister of the throne, but marie antoinette, the queen, disliked him and stood in the way of this an honor. lamotte soon discovered this and, for purposes of her own, told the cardinal that the queen favored his ambitions. she then either forged, or procured someone else to forge, letters to the cardinal claiming to come from the queen, some of which begged for money for a poor family in which her majesty was interested. rohan was anxious to

n, disliked him and stood in the way of this an honor. lamotte soon discovered this and, for purposes of her own, told the cardinal that the queen favored his ambitions. she then either forged, or procured someone else to forge, letters to the cardinal claiming to come from the queen, some of which begged for money for a poor family in which her majesty was interested. rohan was anxious to please the queen but was already heavily in debt and had also misappropriated the funds of various institutions; he was thus driven into the hands of moneylenders. the wretched countess de lamotte met by chance a poor woman whose resemblance to the queen was exceedingly marked. this person she trained to represent marie antoinette, and arranged nightly meetings between her and rohan, in which the disguis

ween her and rohan, in which the disguised woman made all sorts of promises to the cardinal. between them the adventuresses mulcted the unfortunate prelate of immense sums of money. meanwhile, a certain bahmer, a jeweler, was very desirous of selling a wonderful diamond necklace in which, for over ten years, he had locked up his whole fortune. hearing that mme. de lamotte had great influence with the queen, he approached her for the purpose of getting her to induce marie antoinette to purchase it. she at once corresponded on the matter with de rohan, who proceeded posthaste to paris, to be told by mme. de lamotte that the queen wished him to be security for the purchase of the necklace, for which she had agreed to pay 1,600,000 livres in four half-yearly installments. the cardinal was natu

es in four half-yearly installments. the cardinal was naturally overwhelmed at the suggestion but signed the agreement, and mme. de lamotte became the possessor of the necklace. she speedily broke it up, picking the jewels from their setting with an ordinary penknife. matters went smoothly enough until the date when the first installment of 400,000 livres became due. de rohan, never dreaming that the queen would not meet it, could not lay his hands on such a sum; and bahmer, noting his anxiety, mentioned the matter to one of the queen s ladies-in-waiting, who retorted that he must be mad, as the queen had never purchased the necklace at all. bahmer went at once to mme. de lamotte, who laughed at him, said he was being fooled, insisted it had nothing to do with her, and told him to go to th

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s at medjugorje. dublin: veritas, 1987. laurentin, rene, and l. rupcic. is the virgin mary appearing at medjugorje? washington, d.c: word among us press, 1984. laurentin, rene, l. rupcic, and rene lejeune. messages and teachings of mary at medjugorje. milford, ohio: the riehle foundation, 1988. o carroll, michael. medjugorje: facts, documents, theology. dublin: veritas, 1986. pelletier, joseph a. the queen of peace visits medjugorje. worchester, mass: assumption, 1985. sevric, ivo. the hidden side of medjugorje. saint francois du lac, canada: psilog, 1989. meehl, paul e(verett (1920) professor of psychology who has written on parapsychology. he was born january 3, 1920, at minneapolis, minnesota, and was educated at the university of minnesota (b.a. summa cum laude, 1941; ph.d, 1945. meehl

th. new york: william morrow, 1967. strangers among us. new york: coward, mccann& geochegan, 1979. the world before. new york: coward, mccann& geochegan, 1976. a world beyond. new york: coward, mccann& geochegan, 1971. the world to come: the guide long-awaited predictions for a dawning age. new york: harmony books, 1999. moo, queen according to the anthropological fancies of augustus le plongeon, the queen of yucatan. le plongeon s account of queen moo became a major building block in the contemporary myth of the lost continent of lemuria. sources: le plongeon, augustus. queen moo and the egyptian sphinx. london, 1896. moody, raymond avery, jr (1944) raymond a. moody, whose 1975 book life after life helped launch a new generation of research on life after death, was born on june 30, 1944 i

is made of some 2,300,000 blocks of stone that average 2 1/2 tons each. the core is of local stone and the outer facing of limestone, while the granite and limestone blocks are hewn with a high level of precision. the pyramid is entered through a shaft on the north side, where a descending corridor leads to an unfinished chamber with a blind passage; an ascending corridor leads to what is called the queen s chamber, containing two-dead end shafts, and eventually to the grand gallery, 100 feet long and 30 feet high, and the king s chamber, containing an empty sarcophagus. it is thought that it originally contained a mummy, rifled by tomb robbers who surmounted the granite plugs, false passages and other precautions of the pyramid builders. occult speculations regarding the great pyramid ha

and ran away with her jewels to constantinople, a priest, a fiddler, a vast nobleman. the prince of wales has had unsatiated curiosity about him, but in vain. however, nothing has been made out against him; he is released, and, what convinces me he is not a gentleman, stays here, and talks of his being taken up as a spy. saint germain claimed to have lived for centuries and to have known solomon, the queen of sheba, and many other persons of antiquity. although regarded as a charlatan, the accomplishments upon which he based his reputation were in many ways real and considerable. he was alluded to by baron friedrich melchior grimm as the most capable and able man he had ever known. he was a composer of music and a capable performer on the violin. this was especially the case regarding chem

of catherine deshayes, better known as la voisin. la voisin operated as an adviser and fortune-teller to ladies at the court. she supplied them with love potions, charms, and occasionally, poison. however, things turned in a more sinister direction in 1667. in that year la voisin was consulted by the marquise de montespan, francoise-athenais, who was ambitious in the extreme. she wanted to become the queen of france. her goal was, through magic, to alienate louis from both the queen and his current mistress. reportedly, following a mass during which two doves were killed, she became louis s mistress. further masses were said to secure her position. then in 1673, with the abbe guibourg officiating, a mass was said over montespan s nude body, during which an infant was sacrificed and the blo

he consequence perhaps of remorse, but such as urged him not to repent, but to despair. it seems probable that he was burnt alive. his sister, with whom he was supposed to have had an incestuous connection, was condemned also to death, leaving a stronger and more explicit testimony of their mutual sins than could be extracted from the major. she gave, as usual, some account of her connection with the queen of the fairies, and acknowledged the assistance she received from that sovereign in spinning an unusual quantity of yarn. of her brother she said that one day a friend called upon them at noonday with a fiery chariot, and invited them to visit a friend at dalkeith, and that while there her brother received information of the event of the battle of worcester. no one saw the style of their

irits are second only to the drinkable kind in the hearts of highlanders. cities such as edinburgh offer organized ghost walks and haunted tours through selected castles and ancient hotels. ghostly notoriety is shared among spectors of famous as well as common folk, male and female, young and old. it is the spirit of mary queen of scots that seems to be the most prevalent among highland haunters. the queen s spiritual presence has reportedly appeared in nearly every castle she visited during her life. in addition to ghost tours for mortal visitors to scotland, interested parties can learn more about scottish hauntings at web sites devoted to the subject, as well as the bimonthly magazine, haunted scotland. sources: black, george f. a calendar of cases of witchcraft in scotland 1510.1727. n

d uncanny musical gifts. without extensive formal training in music, he gave performances at the piano and claimed to be possessed by the spirits of mozart, beethoven, meyerbeer, rossini, sontag, persiani, malibran, lablache, liszt, berlioz, and chopin. he performed to the rich, the famous, and the royal in europe. the audience at one concert in holland in 1894 included the duchess of cumberland, the queen of hanover, the reigning duke of saxe-altenburg, and the queen of denmark. in addition to his piano performances, shepard sometimes sang, in every range of voice from bass to soprano. henry kiddle, superintendent of schools in new york, was imprudent enough to state that he heard shepard playing a splendid piano symphony under the control of mozart, while at the same time delivering a le

baba had a profound influence on many individuals during his long life, including hindus, buddhists, moslems, and christians. when he was born, britain was under the reign of george iv, and the future queen victoria was only a child of seven. later in life, shivapuri baba visited england and made no fewer than 18 visits to queen victoria; he was possibly the first indian holy man invited to meet the queen. shivapuri baba was born in a brahmin family in kerala. his grandfather, a famous astrologer, announced that the boy would become a great sannyasin (renunciate or wandering monk) and became his guru until about 1840. shivapuri baba decided to leave a worldly life in 1844, at age 18. after making a will leaving his rights of succession in his father s property to his sister, he joined his

lem, the holy city of judaism and christianity. he went on to turkey, through the balkans into greece and then through italy to rome, so that he might better understand the christian religion. after visiting most european countries, he was invited shirley, ralph encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1402 to england by queen victoria s indian secretariat and had 18 private visits with the queen. in 1901, after the death of the queen, shivapuri visited the united states and met president theodore roosevelt. he spent two or three years in america before going to mexico, where he met porfirio diaz before going on through the andes to colombia and peru. after a period in south america, he embarked on a ship for the pacific islands, moving through new zealand and australia and visit

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ving phone calls from self-identified extraterrestrials, as we l l as a personal visit from one. the aliens said they we re from a planet named ae n s t r i a. the first calls came in early september 1965. the calls continued for a period of seven weeks, according to shuttlewood. the callers were three aenstrians: caellsan (the senior spacecraft commander, selorik (an interpreter, and traellison (the queen of aenstria. in each case they phoned from a public booth in a particular district in the city, though shuttlewood wrote that he never heard the sound of coins dropping before the voices began to speak. 10 aenstrians the messages we re standard contactee fare. e a rth is in trouble because of atomic we a p o n s and environmental pollution. human beings the product of special creation, n

en he ignored the thre a t s and entreaties, other astral entities joined with the first one. nonetheless, undaunted, the man ended his meditation and continued his tre k up the mountain. soon he encountered du g j a, who greeted him warmly and invited him to stay for a time. he returned to shasta thre e years later. since then, he told re p o rter em i l i e a. frank in the 1970s, he had visited the queen on many occasions in both physical and outof- body states. i am also responsible for cleaning negative light forces around mount sh a s t a and elsew h e re in the world, he said. t h e s e light forces affect the population, and in ord e r to make the world a better place. i polarize their negative influences. eventually they will all be pure. in the meantime, i make many astral trips t

any question she asked them. the experience made her eyes sore, and when she complained, the beings insisted they did not intend to harm her. when she inquired again about their place of origin, they replied this time, from the sky. seeing a picture of jesus on the wall, they flew up to it and engaged her in a conversation about him, then went on to banal subjects (a british entertainment figure, the queen, the role of the housewife, children) before returning to jesus. then they floated slowly around the room picking up small objects, including cassette tapes. hingley told investigators, they touched all the christmas cards and all the furniture. i think they had magnets in their hands, cause they kept lifting things that they touched. they asked for water. in response she filled four gla

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tches that he must measure to a hair, and if his head is dear to him, i swear, no wrinkles must be in those breeches! mephistopheles in silk and velvet splendid he now was always dressed, by ribbons gay attended, a cross upon his breast. was minister created, a mighty star did sport; then all his kin, elated, became great lords at court. lord, lady, and dependent were plagued and sore distressed; the queen and her attendant were bitten by the pest. and yet they dared not whack them nor scratch by day or night. we smother and we crack them whenever we feel them bite. chorus [shouting. we smother and we crack them whenever we feel them bite. frosch bravo! bravo! that was splendid! siebel and so should every flea be ended! brander point your fingers and squeeze them fine! altmayer long live f

ress; fairest of forms- the picture is improving. but one outshines the rest in loveliness, from noblest heroes, nay, from gods, descended. in the translucent pool her foot she laves; the living flame of her sweet form is blended with th cooling, clinging crystal of the waves. but what a noise of pinions swiftly dashing, and in the pool what swishing, splashing! the maidens flee abashed, but she, the queen, with calm composure gazes on the scene. with pleasure proud and womanly she sees the swan-prince nestle fondly at her knees, importunate, yet tame. he grows more daring. but swiftly upward floats a vapour pale and covers with its closely woven veil a scene most lovely and beyond comparing. mephistopheles how many tales you can relate! small as you are, in fancies you are great. i can se

e. but a god laid hold on her, her the exile, and from ilion s ruins hither he bore her again to the ancient, the newly adorned father-house, from unspeakable raptures and torments, days of early youth newrefreshed to remember. panthalis [as leader of the chorus. but now forsake ye the joy-encompassed path of song and turn your gaze toward the portal s open wings. sisters, what do i see? does not the queen return again to us here with swift and agitated step? what is it, o great queen, that here within the halls of this thy house, instead of greeting from thine own, could meet and shake thee thus? conceal it thou canst not; for on that brow of thine i see aversion writ, a noble anger that is battling with surprise. helena [who has left the wings of the door open, agitated. a vulgar fear be

bring forth and give it place, and let the glittering axe lie on the silver rim; fill all the water-jugs that one can wash away the black gore s horrible, polluting blemishment. spread out the carpet sumptuously here in the dust that so the victim may kneel down in royal wise and in it wrapped at once, although with severed head, may still be sepulchred with fitting dignity. leader of the chorus. the queen, absorbed in thought, is standing at one side, the maidens wither like to new-mown meadow grass; methinks that i, the eldest, by sacred duty bound, should speak a word with thee, thou primal eldest one. thou art experienced, wise, seem st well disposed to us, although this brainless troop, misjudging, struck at thee. say, then, what rescue thou mayst know as possible. phorkyas tis easy s

absorbed in thought, is standing at one side, the maidens wither like to new-mown meadow grass; methinks that i, the eldest, by sacred duty bound, should speak a word with thee, thou primal eldest one. thou art experienced, wise, seem st well disposed to us, although this brainless troop, misjudging, struck at thee. say, then, what rescue thou mayst know as possible. phorkyas tis easy said! upon the queen alone it rests if she will save herself, you adjuncts too with her. determination s needful and the speediest. chorus most revered of all the parcae, wisest of the sibyls, thou, hold the golden shears wide open, then proclaim us life and health; for we feel our precious limbs already swinging, swaying, dangling undelightfully, for they in dancing rather would delight them, resting then o

buffaloes, wings, roses, peacocks tails, bars also, gold and black and silver, blue and red. the like of these hangs there in halls, row after row, in long, unending halls, wide as the world is wide. there ye can dance! chorus oh, say, are dancers also there? phorkyas the best! a blooming troop of boys with golden locks, fragrant with youth, so fragrant only paris was when he approached too near the queen. helena thou fallest quite outside thy role! come, tell me now the final word! phorkyas speak thou that word, say plainly and in earnest: yes! then with that castle i ll encompass thee at once. chorus oh, speak that little word and save thyself with us! helena what? must i fear king menelaus will transgress in ways so horrible and do me so much wrong? phorkyas hast thou forgot how thy de

we? phorkyas ye know it well, before your eyes ye ll see her death. mark, your own will be within there. no, there is no help for you. pause. helena i have thought out what first i dare to venture on. thou art a hostile daemon, this i feel full well and fear that into evil thou wilt turn the good. but first to yonder castle i will follow thee. the rest i know; but what thereby in her deep breast the queen mysteriously may hide, be that for each a secret inaccessible. on, ancient, lead! chorus. oh, how glad do we go hence, hast ning our footsteps, death in our rear, and before us again a towering stronghold s inaccessible ramparts. grant they may shelter as well as once did ilion s walls, which fell down at last through contemptible craft alone! mists spread out, veil the background and no

m ye win. thine, german! be to stand defending at wall and rampart corinth s bay. achaea s hundred vales unending i bid thee, goth, to hold and sway. toward elis, march, ye frankish legions, messenia be the saxons gain, ye normans, clear the ocean s regions and great make argolis again. then each, within his walls abiding, will be prepared the foe to meet; sparta, over you all presiding, shall be the queen s ancestral seat. she ll see you one and all retrieving the land whose weal no want can blight, ye at her feet, assured, receiving authority and law and light. faust descends, the princes form a circle around him in order to hear better his commands and instructions. chorus. who the fairest one coveteth, be before all things able and let him weapons prudently seek. flattering he may win

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of alexandria. this literature was virtually unknown from the fourth (when banned by hilary, jerome, and augustus) until the late nineteenth century ce, when three manuscripts deemed as authentic enochian material were discovered. two of the manuscripts, i enoch and iii enoch, were in ethiopian translation: these were found in what was once abyssinia, the domain of king solomon s infamous lover, the queen of sheba. the third manuscript, called ii enoch and the book of the secrets of enoch, was preserved in two slavonic versions: these were found in russia and serbia. i enoch and ii enoch were translated by r.h. charles. h. odeburg translated iii enoch( hebrew book of enoch).17 the books of enoch that are mentioned here should not be confused with the canons of enoch, which were discovered

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

le that the incantatory or magical intention varied with different people. a bishop, like pontus de tyard, might make cautious reservations in consonance with the gallican caution about the magic of prisca theologia. but we have also to remember that at the 'centre of the french court, the moving spirit of its festivals in which the new artistic techniques were used, there was "the italian woman, the queen mother, catherine de' medici, member of the great florentine house which had encouraged ficino and pico and had certainly not discouraged their magic. catherine was notorious for 1 pontus de tyard, deux discours, etc, 1578, pp. 112 verso-113 recto (ed. lapp, p. 169; cf. walker "the prisca theologia in france, p. 210. 2 pontus de tyard, deux discours, etc, 1578, preface by du perron, sig

no further than the title-page, on which the reader is informed that he will find here whatever he is seeking through "logic, metaphysics, cabala, natural magic, arts long and short".2 the book, indeed, sets forth bruno's appallingly complex combination of magia and cabala with lullism and the art of memory. in june, 1583, the polish prince albert alasco, or laski, visited oxford and, by order of the queen, was sumptuously entertained with banquets, plays, and public disputations.3 from john dee's diary, it would appear that sir philip sidney accompanied the prince to oxford, for dee says that sidney brought alasco to visit him at mortlake on their way back from oxford.4 bruno states in 1 op. lot, ii (ii, pp. 76-7- 1 "hie enim faciie invenies quidquid per logicam, metaphysicam, cabalam, na

for so long; what did he praise them for and what was his intention in this. respondit i have praised many heretics and also heretic princes; but i have not praised them as heretics, but solely for the moral virtues which they had, neither have i ever praised them as religious and pious, nor used such kind of religious epithets. and in particular in my book de la causa, principio ed uno i praise the queen of england and call her "diva, not as a religious attribute, but as that kind of epithet which the ancients used to give to princes, and in england where i then was and where i composed this book, this tide of "diva" used to be given to the queen. and i was the more induced to name her thus because she knew me, for i was continually going with the ambassador to court. and i know that i e

r i was continually going with the ambassador to court. and i know that i erred in praising this lady, she being a heretic, and above all in attributing to her the name of "diva* more significant, however, than the passage in de la causa, and which he did not mention to the inquisitors, are the praises of elizabeth in the cena de le ceneri where some vast, mystical universal empire is promised to the queen of england. bruno here joins in that mystical imperialism in the worship of the virgin de la causa, dial, i (dial, ital, pp. 222-3. 2 document, pp. 121-2. 288 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan queen, of which her name "astraea, the virgin of the golden age, was a symbol: of elizabeth i speak, who by her tide and royal dignity is inferior to no other monarch in the world;

use of the name "amphitrite" of elizabeth as the one, in the sense of an imperial or universal ruler, might associate her mystical empire with the amphitrite seen in the vision of "natural" divinity in the eroicifurori as the ocean of the fountain of ideas, the all as one. the eroicifurori is, indeed, bound up with the elizabethan cult in most curious and subtle ways. in the dedication to sidney, the queen appears as "that unique diana" and the vision of the nine blind men is described as having taken place in a country "penitus toto divisus ab orbe" that is in the british isles, described as situated "in the bosom of ocean, of amphitrite, of the divinity".2 in the actual description in the text of the vision in which the nine became illuminated, the connection with england and with elizab

ussed this passage in relation to the mystical imperialism surrounding elizabeth in my article "queen elizabeth as astraea, j. w.c.i, x (1947, pp. 80-1. 1 eroici furori, dedication (dial, ital, p. 496. 3 ibid, pt. ii, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. n68-9, 1173; williams, ii, pp. 115-16, 119-20. 289 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan 1 also think that the eroicifurori reflects the cult of the queen in the great revival of chivalry in her reign of which the accession day tilts, in which the knights presented shields with devices on them to elizabeth, were a manifestation. in the eroici furori, a set of emblems or imprese is in the form of shields which the heroic enthusiasts come in bearing.1 as i have suggested elsewhere, if one wishes to study the kind of abstruse meanings which m

unking his philosophical dialogues with the chivalrous romance woven around the virgin queen."5 bruno's attitude to english knights, courtiers, and the english queen, seems to be very different from his attitude to the oxford "pedants" who had dispossessed their predecessors, suggesting that he saw elizabethan society as divided, finding himself at home and understood in the innermost recesses of the queen cult but antagonistic to some aspects of the elizabethan world. that his reception into inner courtly circles was not entirely an invention of his own is indicated by the fact that some of the most recondite productions of elizabethan poetry use his imagery. the whole question of bruno's influence in england will have to be studied afresh and from entirely new angles' ibid, pt. i, dial

some of the most recondite productions of elizabethan poetry use his imagery. the whole question of bruno's influence in england will have to be studied afresh and from entirely new angles' ibid, pt. i, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. 1030 ff; williams, i, pp. 121 ff. 2 see my article "elizabethan chivalry: the romance of the accession day tilts, j.w.c.i, xx (1957, p. 24. 3 "elizabethan chivalry, p. 11* the queen's majesty's entertainment at woodstock, 1575, london, 1585 (edited by a. w. pollard, oxford, 1910. 5 "elizabethan chivalry, p. 24. 290 chapter xvi runo was never to write again as he wrote in england. for one thing, he never again wrote in italian, which suited him better than latin. g. aquilecchia has suggested that it may have been the influence of the new school of philosophical and s

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

nant. it seemed as a cut-up, a temporally deranged mardi-gras. i ran into many people whom i never met before (in the flesh) and it all seemed expected. even the butterfly tattoo which a. has been revealing to me manifestations of butterfly-like creatures as representatives of it s higher phoenix aspects journal exert *b2 (babalon) i understand her. her rage is subtle and interwoven. she is truly the queen of shells. a perfect slut and whore. she has always been here and always is in myriad forms. she asked me to go home with her. although she knows that the will is not to her end, she try s in her ecstasy. she is an exquisite pearl. a potent& powerful guardian. to drink of her cup is the most delicate poison; understanding is a bottomless well. her burning forms have a hunger. she is to b

a hunger. she is to be our mistress and slave, servant and concubine. she is victorious in her inferno, forever amid the brethren how do i write of this? simply. ye cannot. i made her swear to be and bind herself to me. a trick? no, her arousal is her nature. she understands the magus& the way. she is to be a tool by us also and a sweet succubus. it is truly frightening how she manifests. she is the queen of the quliphoth, for we are of her. as our heart swells upward to heaven, the self of i comes to understanding in her burning. 7 the scarlet brotherhood i hate to use the words, i understand, because this is better said in silence, but these writings are one of shared view. i am left to wonder sometimes on the grand illusion and if in fact, this exists separate from deity. maybe my pers

f experience, programming, our soul, genetics and other factors in combination. the personality in this reference is called a shell. it is our task to integrate/ destroy/ align our ego towards kia. the shell is either destroyed upon death, subsumed or remains as a form of quliphoth (in whatever part. complete identification with the personality is the state referred to as asleep& hell. babalon is the queen of these shells (egos. she is the embodiment of the ego force, but because she is without body, she is not false, but being completely empty. she is literally burning in ecstasy. her want is of continual intoxication of being, which is why she is a whore. she gives to all without restriction. a perfect slut and therefore most holy. she is to be as a succubus for the magus: partner, serva

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

il: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.l: freemasonry and catholicism by max heindel [1865-1919] an exposition of the cosmic facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by occult investigation the rosicrucian fellowship international headquarters p.o. box 713 oceanside, california, 92054, u.s.a. table of contents* part i: lucifer, the rebel angel* part ii: the masonic legend* part iii: the queen of sheba* part iv: casting the molten sea* part v: the mystery of melchisedec* part vi: spiritual alchemy* part vii: the philosopher's stone--what is it and how it is made* part viii: the path of initiation* part ix: armageddon, the great war, and the coming age part i lucifer, the rebel angel the rosicrucian fellowship aims to educate and construct, to be charitable even to those from w

, his masterpiece. it was in the construction of this great work that the treachery of the sons of seth became manifest and frustrated the divine plan of reconciliation. they tried to quench the fire used by hiram abiff with their natural weapon, water, and almost succeeded. the incidents which led up to this catastrophe, their meaning, and the sequel will be related in the next chapter. part iii the queen of sheba the masonic legend is voluminous, circumstantial, even trivial, and seemingly far-fetched and fantastic to the uninitiated who fail to see the important hidden meaning underlying every word; but we will give only such fragments as have a bearing upon our main subject and the explanation necessary to link them together. the events which led up to the conspiracy against the grand

stic to the uninitiated who fail to see the important hidden meaning underlying every word; but we will give only such fragments as have a bearing upon our main subject and the explanation necessary to link them together. the events which led up to the conspiracy against the grand master, hiram abiff, mentioned in our last chapter, and which culminated in his murder, commenced with the arrival of the queen of sheba who had been attracted to the court of solomon by tales of his wonderful wisdom and of the splendor of the temple he was engaged in building. she is said to have come laden with gorgeous gifts and it is stated that at first she was much impressed with the wisdom of solomon. but even the bible, which is written from the standpoint of the jehovistic hierarchies, hints that she saw

ay and humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free will, choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest after the order of melchisedec, will fill the dual office of both spiritual and temporal head, where he will be both king and priest, to the eternal welfare of mankind at large who are now in bondage either to church o

d, an equitable union between church and state might have been effected and human evolution might have been greatly furthered. but both church and state were jealous of their particular prerogative; the church would only amalgamate upon condition that she retain all her ancient power over mankind, and take in addition those of the temporal government. the state was selfish in a similar manner and the queen of sheba, humanity at large, is still unwed. the masonic legend tells the story of the attempt and its failure as follows: when the queen of sheba had been shown the gorgeous palace of solomon and had bestowed her choice gifts of gold and wrought work, she asked also to be shown the great temple which was nearing completion. she marveled much at the magnitude of the work but wondered at

l the workmen that she might see who had wrought this wonder; but though the servants of solomon at the palace obeyed the slightest wish of the monarch, and although he had been appointed by the god jehovah to build the temple, these workmen were not subject to his authority; they only yielded obedience to one who had "the word" and "the sign" therefore no one appeared at the call of solomon, and the queen of sheba could not escape the conclusion that this marvelous miracle was wrought by another and one who was greater than solomon. and so she insisted on knowing and seeing this king of crafts and his wonderful workmen, much to the chagrin of solomon, who felt that he had fallen in her estimation. the temple of solomon is our solar universe which forms the great school of life for our evo

telligence. in the microcosmic scheme, the temple of solomon is also the body of man wherein the individualized spirit or ego is evolving, as god is in the great universe. work on the true temple, as we are told in 2nd corinthians, fifth chapter, is wrought by invisible forces working in silence, building the temple without sound of hammer. as the temple of solomon was visible in all its glory to the queen of sheba, so the evidence of the toil of these invisible forces is easily perceived, both in the universe and in man, but they themselves keep in the background and work without ostentation; they hide from all who have not the right to see them or to command them. the relation of these nature forces to the work they do in the universe may perhaps be better understood when we use an illus

hear the tiny hammerings of the comrades at work in the dome--the comrades that have gone aloft" it is such a temple that the mystic mason is building. he endeavors to work on the temple of humanity at large, but since "when the rose adorns itself, it adorns the garden" he aims also to cultivate his own spiritual powers, as foreshadowed in the molten sea. solomon had already sued for the hand of the queen of sheba, and had been accepted, so, feeling that the meeting with hiram abiff might change her affections, he endeavored to consummate their marriage before granting her wish to meet the grand master. but the queen was obstinate, she sensed the grandeur of the master workman whose skill had wrought the marvelous temple and she felt intuitively drawn towards this man of action, as she ha

stinate, she sensed the grandeur of the master workman whose skill had wrought the marvelous temple and she felt intuitively drawn towards this man of action, as she had never been moved by the wisdom of solomon, which only found verbal expression in flowery speeches and high ideals which he was unable to carry into realization. therefore the reluctance of solomon to let her meet hiram abiff made the queen all the more anxious and importunate, so that at last solomon was forced to accede to her request, and he grudgingly sent for the grand master. when hiram abiff appeared, and solomon saw the love light kindle in the eyes of the queen of sheba, jealousy and hatred took root in his heart; he was, however, too wise to betray his feelings. but from that moment the plan of reconciliation and

nd solomon saw the love light kindle in the eyes of the queen of sheba, jealousy and hatred took root in his heart; he was, however, too wise to betray his feelings. but from that moment the plan of reconciliation and amalgamation of the sons of seth and the sons of cain which had been mapped out by the divine hierarchies was doomed to failure, wrecked upon the rocks of jealousy and self-seeking. the queen of sheba, according to the masonic legend, then requested hiram abiff to show her the workmen on the temple. the grand master struck a nearby rock with his hammer so that the fire sparks flew, and at the sign of fire coupled with the work of power, the toilers of the temple flocked around their master in a great multitude, which no one could count, all ready and anxious to do his bidding

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

so r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the cross and the crown symbol here. after all, our savior and lord jesus christ received his crown in heaven after he suffered the agony of the cross. however, freemasons have just a little bit more

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

r, and generator of all the existences h. as this third triad is the natura naturans, so is the tenth and last sephirah the natura naturata- the material world, namely malkuth, tbe kingdom. this sephirah represents the feet of the heavenly adam (about whom more anon, his head resting in kether, and in it the name of the deity is adonai, the lord- that is the ineffable yhvh. malkuth is also called the queen, the matrona, the matron, the daughter, bride, the shekinah (the real presence of the deity, and harmony. finally we obtain a fourth triad, a synthetic one formed out of kether, tiphereth, and malkuth. the first influences the neshamah, the spirit and moral consciousness; the second influences the rua'h, the reason and intellectual faculty; and the third the nephesh, the instincts, senti

ing shall return to its foundation, from which it has proceeded. all marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not: for he will

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

ence it would seem to be an appropriate emblem for that ancient sect which worshipped the female as the more important creative energy. of the lotus, inman remarks "amongst fourteen kinds of food and flowers presented to the sanskrit god anata, the lotus only is indispensable" this emblem, as we have seen, was the symbol of the great mother, and we are assured that it was "little less sacred than the queen of heaven herself" regarding the lotus and its universal significance as a religious emblem, payne knight says "the lotus is the nelumbo of linnaeus. this plant grows in the water, and amongst its broad leaves puts forth a flower, in the center of which is formed the seed vessel, shaped like a bell or inverted cone, and punctured on the top with little cavities or cells, in which the see

llection in the british museum, is one in which it is figured in its female character, in the act of killing the bull. the divinity baal was both female and male. the god of the jews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to eve" she was the life-giving, energizing power in nature, and was identical with aleim, om, astarte, and others. the goddess esta, or vesta, or hestia, whom plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe" is believed b

masculine) of the jews, to whom they petitioned for rain, fair weather, and all the minor accessories of existence. upon the walls of the houses of the chinese is a tablet to which they pay their devotion. on this tablet is the name of the "high, celestial, and supreme god" the principal word which this tablet contains is "tien" of this chinese deity barlow says "the chinese recognize in tienhow, the queen of heaven nursing her infant son. connected with this figure is a lotus bud, symbol of the new birth. originally in chaldea and in egypt, only one supreme god was worshipped. this deity was figured by a mother and her child, as was the great chinese god. it comprehended the universe and all the attributes of the deity. it was worshipped thousands of years prior to the birth of mary, the

ds this god we are assured that there is at present "no means of determining the precise meaning of the cuneiform hea, which is babylonian rather than assyrian" but that it is doubtless connected with the arabic hya, which is said to mean "life" or the female principle in creation. this deity is the god of "glory" and of "giving" titles which during the earlier ages of human existence belonged to the queen of heaven, the celestial mother. the representation of the god amun or amun-ra, which superseded the triune deity, kneph, sate, and anouk at thebes, and from which in assyria doubtless proceeded the trinity, amun, bel-nimrod, and hea, is supposed to be identical with the greek zeus, which means the sun. this god is represented by a female figure seated on a throne. it is crowned with two

late as the time of jeremiah, had no higher conception of a god than that indicated by an upright stone, is shown by that prophet when he accuses the entire house of israel "their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets" of "saying to a stock, thou art my father; and to a stone, thou hast brought me forth" that the people could not, or would not, be prevailed upon to renounce the queen of heaven, the celestial mother, is seen in jer. vii, 17, 18 "seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem? the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods" also in jeremiah xliv "then all the men which knew that their wive

new that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of egypt, in pathros, answered jeremiah, saying, as for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the lord, we will not hearken unto thee "but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil "but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been cons

have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of judah, and in the streets of jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil "but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine "and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men" that the above represents a quarrel in which the women of judah openly rebelled against the worship of the "lord" at the same time declaring their allegiance to the female deity, the celestial mother, queen of heaven, is only too evident, the cur

the deity, osiris, the male element, now outwardly assumes the position of supreme god. it was, however, reserved for a later and more sensuous age to permanently adopt an absurdity so opposed to all established ideas relative to a creative force in nature and in man. seth, the destroyer, had been deposed, but, so deeply rooted in the human mind had become the idea of a female creator, that isis, the queen of heaven, a somewhat lower conception of muth, or of universal womanhood, soon assumed the place of seth beside osiris. later in the history of egypt, when the gods have become greatly multiplied, and the original significance of the deity obscured, horus, the child and the third member in the later egyptian triad, not unfrequently appears in her place as one of the eight great gods. th

nts universal female nature. the thesmophorian rites, which are believed by most writers to have been introduced into greece directly from thrace, were performed by "virgins distinguished for probity in life, who carried about in procession sacred books upon their heads" inman, in his ancient faiths, quotes an oracle of apollo, from spencer, to the effect that "rhea the mother of the blessed, and the queen of the gods, loved assemblages of women" as this festival is in honor of female nature, the various female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in honor of the great mother" the food p

female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in honor of the great mother" the food partaken of by the devotees at these festivals was cakes, very similar in shape to those which were offered to the queen of heaven by the women of judah in the days of jeremiah, an offering which it will be remembered so displeased that prophet that a curse was pronounced upon the entire people. as the strictest secrecy prevailed among the initiated respecting these rites, the exact nature of the symbols employed at the thesmophorian festivals is not known; it is believed, however, that it was the female e

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

the game was the alteration made by combining the forces of the partners. from that time the chaturanga out of india lost its chatur character, and was played by two persons each with 16 pieces and pawns. this change brought in other changes for, whereas each partner used to have a king, when the two forces combined one king had to be converted into a minister or vizier who in later times became the queen. in india the names and titles of the pieces suggest a military ideal. in egypt the tendency was76themagical masonrather to look upon the pieces as gods of various forces or natural powers. ancient chaturanga had four players in pairs; pieces and pawns arranged as below:greenyellowbpk c knbknp p p p pcpkp pkpcp ppppknbkn c kpbredblackthe pieces were: kingontheright, the elephant, then ho

the brahmans. chaturanga is referred to in valmiki's ramayana book 2, cap. 51. it is also mentioned in one of the sanskrit puranas where it is said that it was invented in the 'second age' by the wife of ravan, king of lanka (i.e. ceylon. the chaturanga elephant has become our castle, the ship=the bishop, thechess shatranjiandchaturanga 77horse=the knight, the 1st king=the king, and the 2nd king=the queen.theelephant and ship (castle and bishop) have exchanged places.theelephant probably became the castle from the howdah on its back.theship was also in some places a chariot. in the oldest chaturanga dice-throwing, if a 2 was thrown the player had to move the ship, if a 3 then the horse was moved,if4 then the elephant, andif5were thrown then the king or pawn was moved. shatranji of persia

tle was mantri or farzin or firz, hence, it is supposed, comes vierge for queen. the castle and bishop exchanged places. this game is described by the persian post firdausi in1imanuscript dated 1486.thepersians introduced the change of rank in a pawnuponreaching its8thsquare. in the third, or european, epoch the modern game of chess was developed, two only joining in the game.itwas laid down that the queen should stand on her own colour and that each player should have a white square at his right hand. this brings the two queens opposite to each other, whereas one king has his queen on his right and the other king has his queen on the left. castling has been introduced and each pawn has been permitted to move either one or two squares at the first move. the queening of a pawn at the 8th sq

e two queens opposite to each other, whereas one king has his queen on his right and the other king has his queen on the left. castling has been introduced and each pawn has been permitted to move either one or two squares at the first move. the queening of a pawn at the 8th square has been finally settled, and the castles, or rooks, are definitely placed at the extreme right and left.themoves of the queen and bishop have been much altered. formerly the queen could only move diagonally, on her own colour, and the bishop moving diagon255 ally could only attack the next square but one.thepresent moves are now universally accepted.[this brief introduction to the history of chess is omitted by israel regardie in his account of enochian chess given inthegoldendawn,volume 4.]part two:kabalistic9

the romans later called ceres. she was fabled as the daughter of kronos and rhea, having as sisters hestia (vesta) andjuno,and brothers zeus (jupiter, neptune, and pluto. demeter was goddess of earth and agriculture and the bestower of harvests. demeter by jupiter had a daughter persephone (proserpine) who became very notable, was kore, the maiden. she was carried off to hades by pluto and became the queen of the underworld. according to the fable, pluto, whose reign in hades was more undisputed even than that of jupiter on olympus, was in the habit of roving over the earth in search of the souls of men who die, when he met the maiden playing alone in the fields among the flowersin the vale of enna. having obtained the permission of zeus (jupiter) her father, he promptly carried her off- t

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

nce, wear a cap-of-maintenance beneaththecrown; the queens wear the. crown only.thequeen of pentacles and the knave of sceptres aretheonlrones represented in profile.inthe suit of sceptres the king bears a wand akin to tbat represented on the. small cardspfthesuit, while the other three honours bear a bludgeon.similar to that which is shown for the ace.inthesuitof cups, that only which is held by the queen is covered, thus showing the essentiallyfeminineproperties of this suit, while the sceptre held by the king of the preceding suit shows itsmoi"emasculinecharacter.ifwe examine the small cards carefully we shallbestruck at once by the comparative similarities ofpattern of the sceptres. and the swords.which areolllydistinguished from eachby theformerbeing.225straightandthe latter beingcurv

y feasting, many cups love255 making, swords quarrelling and trouble, coins or pentacles money.70 the sorcererand his apprenticewhere themodeof reading the cards .requiresthatperson consulting should be represented, he should takeofthe kings to represent himself, according tohiscomple-i;j xion.ifa lady consults the cards, let her take one ofqueens;ifshe be rather fair,thequeen of cups; ifshefair, the queen of wands or sceptres,ifthe inquirer bea youth or a boy, let him take one of the knights; if ayoung girl, let her take the knave,etc. etteilla's. plan wasto'%take two of the keys for significators,thatanswering topope for a man, that answering to the high priestess fora"jwoman. butido notthinkthis iswell. the worstof:!etteilla's system is that he so completely destroysmeanings of the keys

of cards of the same suit count; for every four cards in sequence,s points; for every seven cards, 10 points; for ten cards, 15 points. all cards forming these scores must be shown to the adversary.0, the foolishman,is the lowest card in the pack in playing the hand; can take no card of any suit, and may be played to a card of anysuit,for instance, if the adversary leads a king, and you have only the queen of that suit remaining in your hand, but have also the 0, you can play this instead of the queen, and thus save her from being taken. a king cut counts 5 points to whosoever cuts it.ineach suit king is highest, then come queen, knight, knave, ten, nine, etc, down to ace, which is lowest,andeanonly take theo.the trumps reckon from21,which is highest, to 1, which is lowest. you must follow

gods, representing the divine forces in nature. the chess pieces correspondtothe tarot aces and honours thus: chess king queen knightbishop or foolrookor castle pawns=the potency of the ace combined with each of the other forces; i.e, the servant (executant) or viceroy of that force.thepawns can only move one square at a time and not two as in modern chess. the moves of the other pieces excepting the queen, are the same as those of modern chess.themove of the queen in this scheme is unlike that of any piece in modern chess for she controls only the third square from herself in any direction, perpendicularly, horizontally or diagonally, and can leap over any intervening pieces. from which it results that she can cheque or control only 16 out of the 64 squares, including the one on which she

sdom of egypt took root, and there in the original mysteries was the great mystery of revelation gradually expounded to the neophytes as they were able to learn it. as with many another nation, these mysteries became absolutely corrupt in later times. arabia came into close contact with egypt, and learned of the wisdom of egypt. there again the hieroglyphics help us considerably; for we know that the queen ofpunt,in that linethehermetic system161of country, was an honoured guest in the courts of egypt at the time of thotmes ii or iii.inmedieval times we find the arabians the great teachers of science to europe. what was their science?the remains of the ancient mystic learning of egypt: only the remains it is true, and these were corrupt it may be, materialised certainly 255 grammarie becom

erm of the new series- it is the seed out of which a new tetraktys will come. that is just one translation of this great name, the yod, he, vau, he. the same thing is found in the cards of the tarot: the four suits mean the four letters of the great name.thefour honours of the tarot pack are the king, queen, knave, and knight; and these four correspond, the king to the active or energising force, the queen to the passive or receptive force, and the knight to the juncture, the union, completing the triangle. the knave or squire(ger255man, knabe)is the term of transition. these again refer not only to the letters of the great name,butto the four worlds orthescience of numbers169planes of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah. assiah, the lowest of all, is the key corresponding to the 4 knave

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

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us rushing together (the following are examples from g.h. frater d.d.c.f) the square of "a" of "exarp" in the tablet of union: 28 triangle no. 1 queen of swords triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 a triangle no. 4 m nearly all the squares of this tablet represent some combined effect of light and life. here, m acts both downwards and upwards. a is not very strong in action when it is here placed; and the queen of swords represents the moist force of a, h of w. therefore, if one could attributed a direct material action unto the squares of the tablet of union, the terrestrial effect would be that of a moist and gentle, scarcely moving, breeze; with a soft vibrating light playing through it, like the most gentle sheet-lightening in summer" it will aid the reader considerably if, when meditating

its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of "m" of "aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the earth tablet. 29 triangle no. 1 queen of wands triangle no. 2 b triangle no. 3 c, triangle no. 4 d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly placed as the d by its union with the b. the queen of wands equals the c of d, h of y, reconciling these two elements. therefore the whole effect would be to produce a moist generating heat, like that of a conservatory, or rather of a hot-house. a force intensely excitant and generative and productive. the b force of the tropics. the servient square "r" of "brap" in the watery lesser angle of the fire tablet. triangle no. 1 f d triangle

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t and compare, and to the end, see that thou think but little of thyself.for only he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. magical knowledge is not given unto thee to tickle thy vanity and conceit, but that by its means, thou mayest purify and equilibriate thy spiritual nature and honor the vast and concealed one. this is the explanation of the first diagram of the paths, the sephiroth being in the queen scale and the paths in the masculine or king scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in tcq, the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales o

an adeptus minor is compounded of the first two scales. the sephiroth are in the feminine, passive, or queen scale. the paths are in the masculine, active, or king scale. it thus represents the forces of twlyxa in the paths uniting the sephiroth as reflected in hayrb, one of the possible arrangements of the powers inherent in hy of the great name. first, are the feminine colors of the sephiroth, the queen scale. in rtk is the divine white brilliance, the scintilliation and corruscation of the divine glory. that light which lighteth the universe. that light which surpasseth the glory of the sun and beside which the light of mortals is but darkness, and concerning which it is not fitting that we should speak more fully. and the sphere of its operation is called tycar \ylglgh. the beginning

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s all the skies. most holy mother, mediatrix unto 9 the light divine, source of love, passion, desire, ferver, attraction and hunger for spiritual perfection, thee do i invoke. hathor, lady of flame, thee thee do i invoke. thou who art covered in emerald, thee do i invoke. thou who wearest a purple headband with a passionate green and red feather, i do invoke thee passionatly. thou who art called the queen of happiness, come thou forth, i do invoke thee. oh hathor( vibratory formula of the middle pillar) before thee i have covered my face. arise, great queen, arise and shine now upon me, for i have clothed myself in thy image, and stand humbly before thy face. thy divine lady of a thousand names, if i call thee astarte, venus, or aphrodite, thou art nameless unto eternity. mistress of the

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existence, the name of the lord of life, by inspiration and expiration. macroprosopus is amya and aba, mother and father. the two nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the \ylglgh tycar. the piercing of the dragon s coils suggests the freeing of twklm, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over twklm as guardians are wrffm and wpldns as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above rtk of twlyxa. in such supernal realms

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the beauty can manifest in thy being, the elements of thy body must have an enduring stability. step 12 place the talisman before the earth tablet, make the invoking circle around it and the pentagram of passive spirit with the spirit wheel, and the invoking earth pentagram with the b kerub. say: in the name of rah ynda and ]lm ynda, spirits of l, adore your creator. in the name of the bride and the queen of the kingdom, and by the name of your archangel layrwa, spirits of l ye are mine to command. bind unto this creature of talismans the substance of your realm (make cross) in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the north, mor dial hctga, spirits of l give unto me the substance of your realm that it may be mine forever. bind it unto this creature of talisma

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ved from the old kingdom 13 the grand gallery. soaring upwards at the continuing majestic angle of 26, and almost entirely vanishing into the airy gloom above, its spacious corbelled vault made a stunning impression. it was not my intention to climb the grand gallery yet. branching off due south at its base was a long horizontal passageway, 3 feet 9 inches high and 127 feet in length, that led to the queen s chamber.14 i wanted to revisit this room, which i had admired for its stark beauty since becoming acquainted with the great pyramid several years previously. today, however, to my considerable irritation, the passageway was barred within a few feet of its entrance. 13 the pyramids of egypt, p. 93. 14 dimensions from traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 121, and the pyramids of egypt, p

p. 121, and the pyramids of egypt, p. 93. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 310 the grand gallery and the king s and queen s chambers with their northern and southern shafts. the reason, though i was unaware of it at the time, was that a german robotics engineer named rudolf gantenbrink was at work within, slowly and painstakingly manoeuvring a $250,000 robot up the narrow southern shaft of the queen s chamber. hired by the egyptian antiquities organization to improve the ventilation of the great pyramid, he had already used his high-tech equipment to clear debris from the king s chamber s narrow southern shaft (believed by egyptologists to have been designed as a ventilation shaft in the first place) and had installed an electric fan at its mouth. at the beginning of march 1993 he t

the egyptian antiquities organization to improve the ventilation of the great pyramid, he had already used his high-tech equipment to clear debris from the king s chamber s narrow southern shaft (believed by egyptologists to have been designed as a ventilation shaft in the first place) and had installed an electric fan at its mouth. at the beginning of march 1993 he transferred his attentions to the queen s chamber, deploying upuaut, a miniaturized remote-controlled robot camera to explore its southern shaft. on 22 march, some 200 feet along the steeply sloping shaft (which rose at an angle of 39.5 and was only about 8 inches high x 9 inches wide),15 the floor and walls suddenly became very smooth as upuaut crawled into a section made of fine tura limestone, the type normally used for lin

ould never be found? or to make sure that they would be found, some day, under the right circumstances? after all, there had from the beginning been two conspicuous shafts in the king s chamber, penetrating the north and south walls. it should not have been beyond the mental powers of the pyramid builders to predict that sooner or later some inquiring person would be tempted to look for shafts in the queen s chamber as well. in the event nobody did look for more than a thousand years after caliph ma mun had opened the monument to the world in ad 820. then in 1872 an english engineer named waynman dixon, a freemason who had been led to suspect the existence of the shafts by their presence in the king s chamber above ,16 went tapping around the queen s chamber s walls and located them. he op

t an angle into an unknown, dark distance. 18 it was up that angle, and into that unknown dark distance, 121 years later, that rudolf gantenbrink sent his robot the technology of our species having finally caught up with our powerful instincts to pry. those instincts were clearly no weaker in 1872 than in 1993; among the many interesting things the remote-controlled camera succeeded in filming in the queen s chamber shafts was the far end of a long, sectioned metal rod of nineteenth century design which waynman dixon and the faithful bill grundy had secretly stuffed up the intriguing channel.19 predictably, they had assumed that if the pyramid builders had gone to the trouble of constructing and then concealing the shafts, then they must have hidden something worth looking for inside them

ts by the robot camera upuaut. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 312 disappear entirely. once again there seemed to be a clear invitation to proceed further, the latest in a long line of invitations which had encouraged caliph ma mun and his diggers to break into the central passageways and chambers of the monument, which had waited for waynman dixon to test the hypothesis that the walls of the queen s chamber might contain concealed shafts, and which had then waited again until arousing the curiosity of rudolf gantenbrink, whose high-tech robot revealed the existence of the hidden door and brought within reach whatever secrets or disappointments, or further invitations might lie behind it. the queen s chamber we shall hear more of rudolf gantenbrink and upuaut in later chapters. 16

waited again until arousing the curiosity of rudolf gantenbrink, whose high-tech robot revealed the existence of the hidden door and brought within reach whatever secrets or disappointments, or further invitations might lie behind it. the queen s chamber we shall hear more of rudolf gantenbrink and upuaut in later chapters. 16 march 1993, however, knowing nothing of this, i was frustrated to find the queen s chamber closed, and glared resentfully through the metal grille that barred its entrance corridor. i remembered that the height of that corridor, 3 feet 9 inches, was not constant. approximately 110 feet due south from where i stood, and only about 15 feet from the entrance to the chamber, a sudden downward step in the floor increased the standing-room to 5 feet 8 inches.20 nobody had

tal grille that barred its entrance corridor. i remembered that the height of that corridor, 3 feet 9 inches, was not constant. approximately 110 feet due south from where i stood, and only about 15 feet from the entrance to the chamber, a sudden downward step in the floor increased the standing-room to 5 feet 8 inches.20 nobody had come up with a convincing explanation for this peculiar feature. the queen s chamber itself apparently empty since the day it was built measured 17 feet 2 inches from north to south and 18 feet 10 inches from east to west. it was equipped with an elegant gabled ceiling, 20 feet 5 inches in height, which lay exactly along the east-west axis of the pyramid.21 its floor, however, was the opposite of elegant and looked unfinished. there was a constant salty emanati

corbel vault 15 feet 4 inches high and 5 feet 2 inches wide at the base. originally 3 feet 5 inches deep, a further cavity had been cut in the back of this niche in medieval times by arab treasure-seekers looking for hidden chambers.22 they had found nothing. egyptologists had also been unable to come to any persuasive conclusions about the original function of the niche, or, for that matter, of the queen s chamber as a whole. 20 the pyramids of egypt, pp. 92-3. 21 ibid, p. 92; the pyramids and temples of gizeh, p. 23. 22 the pyramids of egypt, p. 92. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 313 all was confusion. all was paradox. all was mystery. instrument the grand gallery had its mysteries too. indeed it was among the most mysterious of all the internal features of the great pyramid. m

315 looming ahead at the end of the grand gallery was the dark opening to the king s chamber beckoning each and every inquiring pilgrim into the heart of the enigma. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 316 chapter 38 interactive three-dimensional game reaching the top of the grand gallery, i clambered over a chunky granite step about three feet high. i remembered that it lay, like the roof of the queen s chamber, exactly along the east-west axis of the great pyramid, and therefore marked the point of transition between the northern and southern halves of the monument.1 somewhat like an altar in appearance, the step also provided a solid horizontal platform immediately in front of the low square tunnel that served as the entrance to the king s chamber. pausing for a moment, i looked bac

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tion' the neck sorrowfully throws his harp away, and weeps. the priest rides ou, and presently his staff begins to put forth leaf and flower, he turns back to tell the marvel to the neck, who then plays joyful tunes the whole night long, afz. 2, 156. but this myth of tanhauser accords with many others, esp. celtic ones. tanhauser passes many a year with holda in the mountain, so does tamlane with the queen of fays, thomas of ercildon with the fairy queen (scott's minstr. 2, 193. 3, 181 3, ogier 200 years with fata morgana in avalon: she had pressed a garland on his head, which made him forget everything, but the legend is teutonic for all that, it is told in sweden of the elf-king's daughter (p. 466 and afz. 2, 141, and in the kinderm. of frau fortuna, altd. bl. 1, 297. and so does odysseu

ng away together, the devil as architect directing the whole business, which advanced with incredible speed: a few hours more, and the barn 1 hdttr (hat, gray hat, i.e. osinn (p. 146, after giving geirhildr his spittle to be the barm of the ale she was brewing (couf. p 'm2, demands what is between her and the vat, viz. her unborn child, fornald. sog. 2, 26. the ivilde walrabe (p. 997) requires of the queen' det du haver under belte dit' dv. 1, 187. if only lor this one incident, i hold the hessian tale to be of heathen origin. 1026 devil. stood ready built, the roof was thatched, the walls filled up, only a square or two stood open in the gable. then the cunning wife, dressed in her husband's clothes, crept across the yard to the henhouse, clapt her hands and mimicked the croiv of a coctc

saint, receives from peter or mary, who fill exactly the place of pagan gods, the gift of healing all diseases, kolocz. 267, or ace. to the 0. fr. poem (meon n. r. 2, 71-3) only leprosy. she herself might pass perfectly for a wise woman, and is actually charged with being a sorceress. queens too in ancient times are credited with power to quench certain maladies by their touch: in rother 32. 33* the queen strokes the lame and ci'ooked with a stone; and a similar virtue was ascribed to hereditary sovereigns of france and england (hone's yrbk p. 799. if a woman has had seven sons in succession, the seventh can heal all manner of hurt (sup. i, 786; by ettner's hebamme 906^ maulaffe 699, his touch cures wens at the throat. french sup. l, 22 makes it the ffth son. there is no end of superstiti

irectly allied to, afj,dpaysoemerald. as erchanstein sprang out of the human eye, and the pearl out of the oyster, the medieval fancy seems to have been excited by some other precious stones which grew in or out of animals. what marbod cap. 24 tells of the hjncurius may be read at greater length in rudlieb 3, 101 127: these brilliant lynx-stones likewise befit the finger- ring of the queen, the crown of the king. some legends speak of stones of power engendered in the head of the code, the adder, the toad. inside the body of a castrated cocli of three years grows the alectorius, marbod cap. 3' luvictum reddit lapis hie quemcunque gerentem, extinguitque sitim patientis in ore receptus/ the mhg. poem fixes the capon's age at seven, albertus at nine years. but a poem in the v

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d. when he left the yard, all the rest would accompany him; in the stable where he lived, they swarmed so plentifully, that the maids feeding the cattle would take them out of the crib by armfuls. they were friendly to the cattle and the people; but a new farmer shot their king, and they all departed, and with them vanished wealth and prosperity from the estate (ibid. 6, 174. 3 here also comes in the queen of snakes (deut. sagen no. 220, and a remarkable story in the gesta eomanorum (keller p. 152. to a dairymaid at immeneich there came a great snake into the cowshed every morning and evening at milking-time, and wore a great crown on its head. the girl 1 mhg. tmfc, gen. iinkes, ms. 2, 209 b. 206: from copper one divideth gold with an unke s ashes; hence an alchymist was called unken-brenn

. 457. then, as the gift of poesy is closely connected with oshrreris dreckr, it is bees that bring it to sleeping pindar: fjue\icra-al avrw kaoevbovrt, trpocretrerovto re teal etrkaa-aov trpo? ra %e/x?7 rov /crjpov ap^rj /jbev tlivsdpw iroielv acrfjlata eyevero toiavrr, pausan. ix. 23, 2. and there fore they are called musarum volucres (varro de re rust. 3, 16. a kindermarchen (no. 62) speaks of the queen-bee settling on her favourite s mouth; l if she flies to any one in his sleep, he is accounted a child of fortune. it seems natural, in connexion with these bustling winged creatures, to think of the silent race of elves and dwarfs, which like them obeys a queen. it was in the decaying flesh of the first giant that dwarfs bred as maggots; in exactly the same way bees are said to have spr

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, franklin, and others, i have been informed that you were misled as to their identity, and i beg to submit to your notice the following questions and the responses obtained by me in reference to your investigations. on the 26th july, 1853, while in communication with the crowned angel, the spirit who the most frequently appears in the mirror, isaid:-i.-robertowen the philanthropist has writen to the queen that he has been in communication with her deceased father the duke of kent, who states that he is in the 4thcircie,-lsthat so? c.a.-itis-,thelate-,whose spirit is now upon earth, which communicates with him.2.-thespirit stated he was in the 4th circle and was veryhappy-isthat so? c.a.-the--who communicates with robert owen under the disguise of the duke of kent is an evil spirit, and st

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arratives that some incidents or details are only found in the text whereas others are shown only in the reliefs. the text, for instance, describes a sensuous encounter between a queen and the god amun, who has taken the form of her husband in order to sleep with her. the accompanying relief complies with the strict rules of egyptian art and shows the god, in his usual appearance, barely touching the queen s hand (see figure 20. the queen gives birth to the future ruler surrounded by deities who will nurse and protect the child and its spirit-double, the ka. this royal birth scene may be based on mythical prototypes, but it predates all the known depictions of the birth of infant gods. greek myth has equivalent stories of zeus s disguising himself to seduce mortal women, but their focus is

this literature may originally have been composed in the ptolemaic period. some of the demotic literature shows foreign influence. a fragmentary tale of a war between an egyptian prince and an amazon queen has been compared with greek myths such as the combat of achilles and penthesilia or the conquest of the amazon queen hippolyta by theseus. the demotic version is told from the point of view of the queen of the land of women. she appeals to isis to help her against the egyptian prince, who is compared with the chaos monster apophis.101 42 handbook of egyptian mythology the war between order and chaos is the underlying theme of the myth of the eye of the sun, also known as the myth of the distant goddess (see the distant goddess under linear time in mythical time lines. the outline of thi

rious originator of all life, the one who made himself into millions. in the temples of thebes he was given a partner in the form of a royal priestess known as the god s wife or god s hand. one of her duties seems to have been to physically arouse the god so that he would continue the ongoing work of creation by generating life. like the ram-god banebdjedet, amun was said to mystically unite with the queen of egypt to sire the heir to the throne. this royal-birth myth was depicted in several theban temples (see figure 20. the idea persisted as late as the greco-roman period, when legends were told about how the worldconquering macedonian king, alexander the great, was sired by amun. alexander seems to have been acknowledged as the god s son when he made a pilgrimage to the remote temple of

n some accounts, seth took bull form to trample his brother osiris to death. this seth-bull was castrated by anubis and forced to carry the coffin of osiris to burial. in the new kingdom story the two brothers, one of the brothers is called bata, a name of seth in his bull form. this bata transforms himself into a magnificent bull to visit the wife who has deserted him to marry the king of egypt. the queen persuades her husband to sacrifice this bull in the hope of getting rid of bata. he then transforms himself into two beautiful trees that the queen has cut down. she accidentally swallows a sliver of the wood and falls pregnant. the child turns out to be bata reborn. bata has become the bull of his mother and has fathered himself. in the pyramid texts, the great wild cow of the marshes i

pells to oppose powerful demons. an inscription dating to around the fourth century bce relates how a statue of khonsu was sent to help a foreign princess who was possessed by a spirit. the story is set 900 years earlier in the reign of rameses ii. it tells how rameses married a princess of the distant land of bakhtan. while the king and queen were celebrating a festival in thebes, news came that the queen s sister, bentresh, was very ill. king rameses sent a learned scribe to bakhtan. he diagnosed that the princess s illness was caused by a spirit that was too powerful for him to fight. the prince of bakhtan asked the king of egypt to send him a god who could fight this spirit. rameses consulted the oracle of khonsu at karnak and was told to send a statue that was inhabited by a special m

ome rulers a divine parent. inscriptions in luxor temple tell how the god amun transformed himself into a likeness of 156 handbook of egyptian mythology king thutmose iv (c. 1400 1390 bce (see figure 20. he entered the palace where thutmose s queen mutemwiya was sleeping. she was woken by his pervading scent and was overcome by desire. amun then did everything that he wished with her. he promised the queen that their son (amenhotep iii) would rule egypt like ra for ever. such myths were sometimes used to justify a change of dynasty. the climax of a cycle of stories set in the reign of king khufu (c. 2589 2566 bce) is the birth of three sons of ra who will replace khufu s dynasty as rulers of egypt. this middle kingdom story cycle portrays khufu as a tyrannical monarch who needs to be told

when seth becomes pregnant after eating the seed of horus smeared on lettuce leaves illustrates the extraordinary generative powers of min-horus. the sacred animals of min were a falcon and a white bull, and one of min s most important titles was kamut- ef (the bull of his mother. min was said to secretly unite with his mother under cover of darkness to beget himself. during the festival of min, the queen of egypt took the role of the mother of min, probably so that the royal ka (vital force) could be passed intact from king to king. in narratives in which the gods are treated like people, this archaic ritual becomes the myth of the rape of isis by her son min-horus-nakht (horus the strong. this led to a further identification of min with osiris, the father of the son of isis. when the gr

erchain. mythes et dieux lunaires en gypte. in la lune, mythes et rites. sources orientales 5. paris: 1962. a. roberts. moon and sun. in hathor rising. trowbridge, england: 1995, 70 115. primary sources: pt 359; ct 50, 155; bd 112; i&o 12, 42 44, 63 deities, themes, and concepts 167 mut (mout) little is known about the origins of this goddess, but from the new kingdom onward she was worshipped as the queen of the gods. at thebes, mut became the chief consort of amun-ra and the mother of the moon god khonsu. her name derives from the egyptian word for mother. mut was most commonly shown as a mature woman wearing the vulture headdress of an egyptian queen, but she also had lioness and cat forms. in royal-birth myths, the reigning queen was identified with mut uniting with her consort amun to

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ltese began a regular chase, andtowards evening we were invaded in our hotel by the whole troop, every man of them with a more or lessmangy cur in his arms, which he tried to persuade me was my lost dog. the more i denied, the more solemnlythey insisted, one of them actually going down on his knees, snatching from his bosom an old corroded metalimage of the virgin, and swearing a solemn oath that the queen of heaven herself had kindly appeared tohim to point out the right animal. the tumult had increased to such an extent that it looked as if ralph'sdisappearance was going to be the cause of a small riot, and finally our landlord had to send for a couple ofkavasses from the nearest police station, and have this regiment of bipeds and quadrupeds expelled by mainforce. i began to be convince

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

us grades and kinds of yogis, and the term has now become in india a generic name to designate every kind of ascetic. yuga (sans) an age of the world of which there are four, which follow each other in a series, namely, krita (or satya) yuga, the golden age; treta -yuga, dvapara-yuga, and finally kali-yuga, the black age-in which we now page 171 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt are. zenobia the queen of palmyra, defeated by the emperor aurelianus. she had for her instructor longinus, the famous critic and logician in the third century ad (see longinus) zivo, kabar (or yukabar) the name of one of the creative deities in the nazarene codex (see isis unveiled) zohar (heb) the book of splendor, a cabalistic work attributed to simeon ben iochai, in the first century of our era (see for fu

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

bites, crinoids, and such mollusks as linguellae and gastropods- all of which seemed of real significance in connection with the region s primordial history. there was also a queer triangular, striated marking, about a foot in greatest diameter, which lake pieced together from three fragments of slate brought up from a deep-blasted aperture. these fragments came from a point to the westward, near the queen alexandra range; and lake, as a biologist, seemed to find their curious marking unusually puzzling and provocative, though to my geological eye it looked not unlike some of the ripple effects reasonably common in the sedimentary rocks. since slate is no more than a metamorphic formation into which a sedimentary stratum is pressed, and since the pressure itself produces odd distorting eff

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

eleventh circle, this person has a very good feeling towards you, and besides being your lover, you're also very friendly; it's a good, healthy, long-term relationship. if it's in the twelfth circle, you're having a secret affair with him. queen of hearts, if you're a man, is the counterpart of the king of hearts. it would be to a man what the king of hearts is to a woman. but if you are a woman, the queen of hearts would represent your mother-in-law. it has to do with a woman who is not just a girl, so it's a womanly relationship you have, with a relative, for instance. it also has to do with passion. it can be used as a passion card, having no connection with male or female. if you want to cast a spell and put the queen of hearts in the fifth circle, that would trigger a passionate situa

at you yourself will achieve tremendous recognition and dignity in the work you do. it has to do with dignity, and it has to do with reputation and longstanding situations. queen of diamonds is the female version of the king of diamonds. it also has to do with any woman who is over thirty-five. also, if you are a married man, it could indicate the "other woman" in your life. if you're a woman and the queen of diamonds falls in the seventh circle, it might indicate that your husband's having an affair. it would not be just a boyish affair, but one that had more of a permanent hold on him, a tricky thing to break up. the queen of diamonds has to do with a concept of time. most witches have noted that it means either three days, three weeks, or three months, because the card has to do with se

ld not be just a boyish affair, but one that had more of a permanent hold on him, a tricky thing to break up. the queen of diamonds has to do with a concept of time. most witches have noted that it means either three days, three weeks, or three months, because the card has to do with seasons. if you are involved in a situation and want to know when it will reach its conclusion, deal a reading; if the queen of diamonds shows up your situation may be resolved next season. jack of diamonds represents a younger man, and also has to do with improved business conditions. if it's in the first circle, there would be tremendous personality gains. you wouldn't be selling potatoes or merchandise of any sort, you'd be selling yourself in a situation. if you're an actor or actress, put the jack of diam

a lot of what will be happening, because there will be petty annoyances. it doesn't mean that the situation itself is bad, but that you're about to go through some period of aggravation in connection with that circle. three of spades equals tremendous work, responsibility and not too much reward. however, it can indicate insight and wisdom, much as the nine does, provided it comes next to one of the queen cards. say that it falls in your sixth circle, which means that your working conditions are absolutely horrible, but in the seventh circle there is a queen card. that would mean that a woman fitting the description of that card would help solve the problems. two of spades, again a wild card, is linked with destiny, abrupt changes in direction, and definite, swift triumph. ace of clubs is

but it would mean that his relationship with you, even if you never married, would have all the earmarks of a marriage. if you had a love affair with someone indicated by the king of clubs in the fifth circle, a marriage contract wouldn't matter very much; you'd be so married you'd probably even file joint income tax returns and would act married to the whole world- a very bourgeois relationship. the queen of clubs also would indicate the link you have between your childhood and adulthood, whatever tie you have to the past, possibly responsibility from the past. for example, if you place the queen in the third circle, it could mean an old aunt coming to live with you, or you may be supporting someone in the hospital. if it's in the second, you're the one who takes care of your parents. if

uld indicate the link you have between your childhood and adulthood, whatever tie you have to the past, possibly responsibility from the past. for example, if you place the queen in the third circle, it could mean an old aunt coming to live with you, or you may be supporting someone in the hospital. if it's in the second, you're the one who takes care of your parents. if you're a man and you have the queen of clubs in the seventh circle, it's likely that you have a frigid wife; if you're a woman and you have the same card in the same circle, it could mean your husband's mother is coming to live with you. if you want to get rid of your mother-in-law, stick her in the twelfth circle; that puts her in a rest home because the twelfth has to do with institutions as well as secrets, scandals and

nd you have the same card in the same circle, it could mean your husband's mother is coming to live with you. if you want to get rid of your mother-in-law, stick her in the twelfth circle; that puts her in a rest home because the twelfth has to do with institutions as well as secrets, scandals and so forth. or you might introduce her to your boss by putting her in the tenth. use your imagination. the queen may also, if it falls in your first circle, indicate a struggle between what you want to do and what you think you should do. it's a card that calls for care. jack of clubs means an aggressive go-getter type. in the fifth circle it could mean a love affair initiated and sustained. ten of clubs means that you can get pretty much what you want out of whatever situation it's placed into, bu

u cast a spell. say you have placed the ten of hearts in the first house. draw it on a piece of paper and carry it with you at all times and set it out on the table in order to gain strength from it, whenever you can do so covertly. regarding the absence of a young female figure in the cards, as countered by the jacks, it should be noted that a woman is considered a woman, ageless, represented by the queen. giddiness is represented by the five of hearts, instead, or the five of diamonds for youth. a woman can be a woman when she is sixteen, if she is a woman in approach, while a male finds it very difficult to be a full-blown male at twenty; he doesn't have the reputation, character or accomplishment. but a woman can be completely womanly in her teens, and many competent witches are teenag

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

he essence of not only chaos sorcery and luciferian witchcraft, but experimentation and extreme electronic and hybrid soundscapes. gate of black earth, nephillmic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith s womb shall the vampyre shade awaken before us lilith, queen of those who walk the shadows- i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of

INFERNAL UNION

i, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. his title samael the black refers to his sinister nature and is connected to the sinister nature of nature itself. though it would be a mystery to some, he like shaitan is so intimately involved in nature, that the manifestation of hi

nto liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qlippothic sphere, lust) and infants from being killed by lilith or her children. her earlier origins are somewhat vague though she appears to have always been related somewhat to being a goddess/spirit of the night/air whether in sumerian/assyrian/babylonian or cainanite mythology. lilith is the queen of demons and the wife of samael, from whom came the succubi. she is the infernal moon and queen of the infernal sabbat. she does have a lighter side as well, that of being a protectress to mothers and children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the moon, and perhaps one of the reasons she is considered evil being her ability to seduce, to take what she wi

ect as well as a bestial one. she was depicted by the hebrews as a beautiful woman from the waist up, but from the waist down covered in animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screech owl and the connections to various other names (masks) by which she has been called throughout history may be traced by the owl representation of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

have used and practised witchcrafts, enchauntments, charms, and sorceries, to the destruction of the persons and goods of their neighbours, and other subjects of this realm, and for other lewde and evill intents and purposes, contrary to the laws of almighty god, to the peril of their owne soules, and to the great infamie and disquietnesse of this realm. for reformation thereof, be it enacted by the queen's majestie, with the assent of the lords spirituall and temporall and the commons in this present parliament assembled "1. that if any person or persons after the end of three months next, and immediately after the end of the last session of this present parliament, shall use, practise, or exercise any witchcraft, enchauntment, charme, or sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be ki

ell or declare in what place any treasure of gold or silver shall or might be found or had in the earth or other secret places, or where goods or things lost or stollen should be found or become, or shall use or practice any sorcery &c, to the intent to provoke p. 65 any person to unlawful love (for the first offence to be punished as in clause 2, but if convicted a second time shall forfeit unto the queen's majesty all his goods and chattels, and suffer imprisonment during life" on the whole, considering the temper of the time, this statute was exceedingly mild. it made no provision whatsoever for the use of torture to extract evidence, nor indeed did it offer any particular encouragement to the witch hunter, while the manner of inflicting the death penalty was precisely that for felony

om reginald scot, quoted by thomas ady in his perfect discovery of witches (london, 1661, a certain amount of witch persecution arose with reference to this point, possibly as a natural outcome of the statute of 1586 "master scot in his discovery telleth us, that our english people in ireland, whose posterity were lately barbarously cut off, were much given to this idolatry [belief in witches] in the queen's time [elizabeth, insomuch that there being a disease amongst their cattel that grew blinde, being a common disease in that country, they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye-biting witches" from incidental notices in writers of the latter half of the sixteenth century it would seem at first sight as if witchcraft, as we are treating of it in this work, was very prevalen

ISIS UNVEILED

the background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit' the work of don pasquale di franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells ua that, as the queen of heaven owes to the present pope "the finest gem in her coronet" since he has conferred on her the uniexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, thne b nothing she cannot obtain from her son for "her church" some years ago certain travelers saw in bari, italy, a statue of the madonna, arrayed in a flounced pink skirt over a swelling crinolirtel pious pilgrims who may be anxious to

orks could be found in tatary and india" the monk showed us a copy of the original, which, of course, we could read but poorly, as we claim but little erudition in the matter of dead languages. but we were so particularly struck by the vivid and picturesque translation of the holy father, that we perfectly remember some curious paragraphs, which run, as far as we can recall them, as follows "when the queen of the sun (cleo- 41. an after-tliaiight has made ui fancy that we can understand whay is meant by the tijooinug aentences of mont of chorene "the ancient asiatics" mfs he "five centuriei befote our en and eepeciau' the hind&i, the persians, and the chaldaeans, had in their possesaion a quantity at historical and bcientific books. these vorka irare partially borrowed, partially translate

books or rolls covering the half-consumed steps of the eatrada; and when she perceived that the inside was gone and the indestructible covers alone remained, she wept in rage and fury, and cursed the meanness of her fathers who had grudged the cost of the real pergamos for the inside as well aa the outside of the precious rolls" further, our author, tbeodaa, indulges in a joke at the expense' of the queen for believing that nearly all the library was burned; when, in fact, hundreds and thousands of the choicest books were safely stored in his own house and those of other scribes, librarians, students, and philosophers. no more do sundry very learned copts scattered all over the east in a a mihor, egypt, and f&lestine believe in the total destruction of the subsequent libraries. for instan

d, io the egyptian smcred booka. io ba* tqipeand (t. e, been wonhiped) on earth later than thotb, the^4l hemiea, called iviinmgivtm who wrote all tbeir sacred book* according to the command td god or by 'ditine revelation' the oompaukin and inatructor of iiia and onrit wai tboth, or hennca ii, who was an iocunation of the celestial ucnoes. digitizecoy google 60 isis unveiled isis is alao by right the queen of heaven, and ia generally represented carrying in her hand the crux anaata compoaed of the mundane cross and of the staurot of the gnostics, she is a great dea] younger than the celestial virgin, neith. in one of the tombs of the pharaohs that of barneses in the valley of biban- 1-muluk in thebes, champollion junior discovered a picture, according to his opinion the most ancient ever y

fools, hysterical women, and idiots were roasted alive without mercy for the crime of 'majpc' but at the same time how many great culprits escaped this imjust and sanguinary jtuticel this is what bodin makes us fully appreciate" catherine the pious christian who has so well deserved in the eyes of the church of christ for the atrocious and never-to-be-forgotten mas* sacre of st. barthtdomew's day the queen catherine kept in her service an apostate jacobin priest. weh versed in the 'blade art' so fully patronized by the medici family, he had won the gratitude and protection of his pious mistress through his unparalleled skill in killing people at a distance by torturing with various incantations their wax timvlacra. the process has been described over and over again, and we scarcely need re

in priest. weh versed in the 'blade art' so fully patronized by the medici family, he had won the gratitude and protection of his pious mistress through his unparalleled skill in killing people at a distance by torturing with various incantations their wax timvlacra. the process has been described over and over again, and we scarcely need repeat it. charles was lying sick of an incurable disease. the queen-mother, who had everything to lose in case of his death, resorted to necromancy 114. la dtutonomaait, ou iraiu de* areiert: fatif, 1580 (often reprinted. 115. thffvu tt ritiul d ta kauu lagu, bit, di. sr. digitizecoy google 66 isis unveiled and consulted tlie oracle of the 'bleeding bead' this infemal opera- tion required the decapitation of a child who must be possessed of great beauty

ceremony of exorcism, newly-killed white cocks. believing herself constantly bewitched, and being in very delicate health, the marfoihale had the ceremony of exorcism publicly appued to herself in the church of the augustines; as to the birds, she used them as an application to the forehead on account of dreadful pains in the head, and had been ad- vised to do so by montalto, the jew physician of the queen, and by the italian priests. in the sixteenth century the cura de bargota of the diocese of calla- hora, spain, became the world's wonder for his magical 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

b. moor: rapagan and mod. ckritlian sipamitm the author gives a figure from a medieval woodcut the like of which we have seen by dozens in old psalters in which the virgin marv. with her infant, is repieaented as the queen of heaven on the "crescent moon, the emblem of virginity. being before the sun, she almost eclipses its light. than this, nothing could more completely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the

confemng fecundity upon barren women. a rock in the vicinity of athens, not far from the sotomb of socrates' is said to be possessed of the same virtue. when some twenty years since queen amelia [of greece, perhaps in a merry moment, was said to have tried the experiment, there was no end of most insulting abuse heaped upon her by a cathohc padre on his way through syra to some mission. the queen, he declared, was a "superstitious heretic "an abominable witch "jezebel using magic arts" much more the xealous missionary would doubtless have added, had he not, while in the midst of his vituperations, found himself landed in a pool of mud outside the window. the virtuous elocutionist was forced to this unusual transit by the strong arm of a greek officer who happened to enter the roo

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

imal energies by integrating our self destructive behavior. maya. hindu mother of creation, weaver of the web of life and illusion. the virgin aspect of kali s virgin, mother and crone. maya comes to show us the illusionary nature of the material world, she brings magic and creativity. maeve. intoxicating irish goddess of the magical land of tara. maeve challenges us to act responsibly and become the queen of our domain. maat. ancient egyptian goddess of law, order, truth and justice. maat comes to bring justice to our life, to right wrongs and administer lessons that we need. freya. northern european goddess of sexuality of maiden and mother as two aspects of the great goddess. freya assists us in honoring our sexuality and connecting with our vital, primal energy and to be fully present

of good deeds that benefit others. this is a very important aspect of the luscious lifestyles program for acts of kindness done with compassion are one of the most powerful tools we have to tune us to the madonna frequency field of pure love. to successfully feed from the divine nutrition channel and sustain health, we need to learn to master any limiting influences of our lower nature and become the queen/king of our inner kingdom. we do this through raja-yoga where we develop concentration and self control. preparing the physical body to be strong enough to handle the download of the divine electricity flow that comes with pranic feeding, opens us to the practice of hatha- yoga and its ability to tap into our bio-systems psychic centers through the use of various asanas and postures. hat

hnique 1 chapter 6. followed by the vedic breathing tool. technique 2. check your inner plane cosmic cable connection and imagine downloading an additional blast of violet light into your system as per the meditations in chapter 6. technique no. 12 and chapter 7. technique no. 16. once you are centered and feeling the love and calmness behind your breathing pattern, imagine that you are the king, the queen of your inner realm, that you and your dow are one, one being sharing the inner space of your cells, one being with many different aspects and modes of expression. imagine all aspects of your being are listening, aware then. ask: i now ask my body consciousness, my divine consciousness, my dow. is it in my blueprint to live purely on light in this lifetime? wait for a yes or a no. if you

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

tion with hidden meanings, the garder (or special cestus, shall we call it) of the beautiful and celebrated countess of salisbury, with whom, it is supposed, king edward was in love. the following is from elias ashmole: the order of the garter by its motto seems to challenge inquiry and defy reproach. everybody must know the story that refers the origin of the name to a piece of gallantry: either the queen or the countess of salisbury having been supposed to have dropped one of those very useful pieces of female attire at a dance; upon which old camden says, with a great deal of propriety, and a most just compliment to the ladies, h c vulgus perhibit, nec vilis sane h c videatur origo, cum nobilitas sub amore jacet. the ensign of the order, in jewelry or enamel, was worn originally on the

agical stones are of the same sacred family. the supposed magical stone, enclosed in the wooden block at the base of the coronation chair, has been reputed, from time immemorial, to murmur its approval or disapproval of the royal occupant, only at the moment when the sovereign was placed in the chair for investiture with the sacred pallium or with the state robes, on the occasion of the king s or the queen s coronation. in this respect the stone is very similar in its ascribed supernatural gifts, and in this special oracular speakingpower, to all sacred or magical stones; and more particularly to the famous statue of memnon in egypt, which is said to give forth a long, melodious tone with the first ray of sunrise, like that produced by the wind through the olian harp. it is not quite clear

red stones of sanguine tint, because thursday is the day of thor the runic impersonated male divine sacrifice. friday, which is the day of venus, has its appropriate emeralds, and reigns over all the varieties of the imperial, and yet strangely the sinister, colour green. saturday, which is saturn's day, the oldest of the gods, claims for its distinctive talisman the most splendid of all gems, or the queen of precious stones, the lustre-darting diamond, which is produced from the black of sab, seb, or saturn, the origin of all visible things, or the great deep, or great mother, in one sense. the white lady of berlin. 183 is the woman's month, or month in which may-day occurs, and in which may-poles used to be set up everywhere (see figures of may-poles later in our book) but to return to t

that it is neither proper for sailors nor for servants of the sea to wear beards. that, they have never done so is true, except at those times when profound mythic meanings were not understood or were neglected. this smoothness of a sailor s face arises from the fact that the sea has always been mythologically feminine, and that sailors and men or followers of the sea are under the protection of the queen of the deep, or the virgin of the sea. hence the figure of britannia, with her sceptre of the sea or trident, and not that of neptune. the virgin mary, the star of the sea, and patroness of sailors, rules and governs the ocean, and her colours are the ultramarine of the deep, and sea-green, when viewed in this phase of her divine character. in all representations, ancient or modern, sail

a narrow review of evidence which evades, there is no doubt that these classic helmets with their crests, this pileus, phrygian cap, cap of liberty, or the grenadiers or hussars fur caps, or cocked hats, have all a phallic origin. the cardinal s red hat follows the same idea in a different way; it is a chapel, chapter, chapiter, or chafeau, a discus or table; crimson, as the mystic feminine rose, the queen of flowers, is crimson. the word cardinal comes both from cardo (hinge, hinge-point, virgo of the zodiac, and also from caro, it. came, flesh, the word made flesh. it is probable that these mythological hints and secret expressions, as to the magic working of nature, were insinuated by the imaginative and ingenious greeks into dress and personal appointments. in the temples, and in templ

ry, there is not the least conjecture expressed, nor does the compiler of that tract entitled institutio darissimi ordinis militaris a pr nobili subligaculo nuncupata, prefaced to the black book of the garter, let fall any passage on which to ground the adroit conclusions about the garter. polydore does not mention whose garter it was; this he cautiously declines to do. he says that it was either the queen s, or that of the king s mistress, meaning joan, countess of salisbury, with whom it was supposed the king was in love, and whom he relieved when she was bravely holding out for him against the scots, in her castle of wark-upon-tweed; but she was certainly no mistress of the king s, in the. injurious and unworthy sense. it is to be particularly noticed that the latin words subligar, subl

d table of king arthur, or the apotheosised female discus in certain mythical aspects. to confirm us in our assertion of the feminine origin of the order of the garter which many in their ignorance have questioned we may state that one of the old chroniclers, though somewhat guardedly, as befitted those great persons of whom he spoke, declares that the lady who let fall her garter, or garder, was the queen) who had suddenly left the courtly assembly in some confusion, and was hastening to her own apartments, followed by the king, who, at first, did not perceive the reason when the spectators avoided lifting the article, being aware to whom it belonged; but who raised it himself, and called aloud, not the words of the motto of the garter, which the historian says that the queen herself spok

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

gravity is great strain on them, they tire easily& must rest often when on "terra" except underseas. nine days later, at gibraltar, deveau swung the ghost ship into port with the idea of collecting salvage money for the 1,700 barrels of alcohol under her hatches. but the destiny of the marie celeste was more complicated than that. the marshal of the vics admiralty court put the brig under arrest. the queen's proctor, frederick s. flood, asserted that a crew just didn't leave a ship with $80,000 worth of alcohol, to risk their necks on a directionless joy ride. what, then, had deveau done with the missing crew? the dei gratia had also pulled into port. flood turned suspicious glances toward its hands. clearly he was determined to find evidence of crime. he entered the marie celeste's cabin

KETAB E SIYAH

saluted the sun that rose upon the morn of an day unknown and great: upon the age of the nephilim! all sense then left my wearied limbs, my sight was dimmed, my hearing quiet, all perfume of new rain, and the breeze's touch faded from my knowledge and i slept, exhausted by the rigour of the toil of the night. ishtar, then, turned to baalzebub, speaking instructions to the sable angel. thus spoke the queen of love to baalzebub, these words with an urgent voice: 151 "baalzebub, vice-regent of the shedim, swifter of we two that you are must go on from this place and i must follow, bearing from the garden's grounds the commander of our hearts, satan, stricken as he is by the self-inflicted wound by which the nephilim race was born. now that the sun is rising in the eastern sky and the shieldi

had he that spoke but rather it was his words were dreamt and recalled by the waking mind as some paroxysm of disturbed sleep. these words spoke the infernal king "o ishtar, whore of babylon, well known to me is your fame and i am most honoured that you come, at satan's bidding, to me indeed must his respect of me be great that he deems such a messenger rightful, of such fame and power as ishtar, the queen of men. else is it that he prizes high that which i hold, his souls of those precious children of the earth, that he himself would have. yes! most dear to him are these ones that are bound within my lands that they would escape by his charms. yet i have unworked them. not so haughtily should he deal with me for i am of the archons. no! he must deal most fairly with mot if he would see on

what shall be the sign? so she answered him, bendingdown, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth& her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: thou knowest! and the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. 29. for i am divided for love's s

y feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 416 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! 34. but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. 35. this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. 36. my scribe ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

to heh of yhvh. elohim is a name given to these two hypostases united. as elohim they are considered the parents of the son, zauir anpin, also called microprosopus, or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and chokmah. aima is referred to heh and binah. zauir anpin is referred to the 6 sephiroth chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, yesod and of these especially to tiphareth. malkah the queen and kalah the bride are titles of malkuth when considered as the spouse of zauir anpin, the microprosopus. the letters of the name yhvh contain these meanings: yod is referred to abba. heh to aima. vau to zauir anpin. heh (1) to malkah. these letters are also referred to the four worlds and the four suits of the tarot thus: yod atziluth wands heh briah cups vau yetzirah swords heh (f) as

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

elow. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence of heat and moisture the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals the black dragon death putrefaction decay the king red- the qabalistic microprosopus tiphareth analogous to gold and the sun the queen white- the qabalistic bride of microprosopus malkah analogous to silver and the moon the four orders of the elements are: 1. the spirits of the earth: gnomes 2. the spirits of the air: sylphs 3. the spirits of the water: undines 4. the spirits of the fire: salamanders these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera. the kerubim are the li

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

he heavens, but osiris is also in the very heart of men. when osiris in the heart knows osiris in the heavens, then man becomes god, and osiris, once rent into fragments, again becomes one. but see! osiris the divine spirit, isis, the eternal mother, give life to horus, who is man, man born of both, yet one with osiris. horus is merged in osiris, and isis, who had been matter, becomes through him the queen of life and wisdom. and osiris, isis, and horus are all born of the light. 58. two are the births of horus. he is born of isis, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he is born again into osiris, redeeming his mother from her long search for the fragments of her husband scattered over the earth. he is born into osiris when osiris in the

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

that nothing of it was to be seen; and furthermore that the king of the country, amazed at its unusual size, had cut the tree down and made of it a pillar to support the roof of his palace. isis went to byblos and became nurse to one of the king s sons. each night she put the child in the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself into a swallow, and bemoaning the loss of her husband. but the queen happened to see her child in flames and cried out in fear, thereby depriving him of the immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess revealed herself and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this was granted to her, and she took the chest containing the body of osiris back to egypt, hiding it in a secret place while she sought her son, horus. but

ng over its people with her wonderful inspiration; and she watched the development of her city with the closest interest, determined that it should be ahead of sparta and corinth and the other cities of greece. 329. hera was a real personage likewise, but very different from pallas athene. she was one of the many incarnations or forms of the feminine aspect of the first ray, and was thought of as the queen of heaven; she corresponds most closely to the indian goddess parvati, the shakti or power of shiva, imaged as his consort, as hera was the consort of zeus. 330. dionysus was the logos himself, just as osiris had been in egypt, though in a somewhat different aspect; and the legend of his death and resurrection corresponded closely with that of osiris, and was taught with the same signifi

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

its of the dead resided beneath the earth. the chief deity of the mesopotamian underworld was the goddess ereshkigal. although she could be harsh, ereshkigal was not as irredeemably evil as the christian satan. the dead stood before her and she pronounced their death sentence. simultaneously, their names were entered in the ranks of the dead by the scribe geshtinana. rather than enjoying her job, the queen of the underworld was portrayed as saddened by the fate of many of her subjects: i weep for young men forced to abandon sweethearts. i weep for girls wrenched from their lovers laps. for the infant child i weep, expelled before its time (dalley 1989, 156. one of the more widespread mesopotamian stories involved the descent of the goddess ishtar to the underworld. the first version of thi

ny of her friends. in order to reactivate the natural forces of life and reproduction, the gods in heaven are forced to come to inanna/ishtar s aid. the ancient mesopotamians also told several variants of another, more upbeat, story of descent to the underworld, the tale of nergal and ereshkigal. in this story nergal, as a consequence of an affront to ereshkigal s vizier, is required to appear in the queen of the underworld s court to offer an apology. ereshkigal finds herself attracted to this upper world god and attempts to seduce him by allowing nergal, the mesopotamian mars, to see her undress for a bath.he resists her charms at first, but gives in on her second try. after a full week of lovemaking, nergal steals away before dawn.when she hears that he has abandoned her, ereshkigal fal

to search for newborn children to kidnap or strangle, and to seduce sleeping men in order to produce demon sons. she is a patroness of witches, and is usually depicted as a beautiful vampire,with great claws as feet. lilith can be found in iranian, babylonian, mexican, greek, arab, english, german, oriental, and north american indian legends, and is often associated with other characters, such as the queen of sheba and helen of troy. according to muslim legend, lilith slept with satan. in the talmud, she was the first wife of adam who refused to accept her subservient role. adam then ejected her, and god created eve as a more obedient helpmate. lilith is then said to have copulated with lucifer and his demons, producing hundreds of lilin, demonesses who became the succubi of both jewish an

LIBER 777

d scarlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colour (h. xvii* the emperor scale of colour (v. xviii* the empress scale of colour. 0. 1 white brilliance white brilliance white flecked gold 2 grey blue pearl grey, like mother-of pearl white, flecked red, blue, and yellow 3 black dark brown grey flecked pink 4 blue deep purple deep azure flecked yellow 5 scarlet red bright scarlet red flecked black 6 yellow (gold) rich salmon

ft lower point 31 bis hdyjy yechidah. topmost point table of correspondences 19 lxxi. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion wands. lxxii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion cups. 11 the prince of the chariot of fire. rules 20 d to 20 f, including most of leo minor. the prince of the chariot of the waters. 20 g to 20 h 23 the queen of the thrones of flame. 20 l to 20 a, including part of andromeda. the queen of the thrones of the waters. 20 c to 20 d 31 the lord of the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shin

f the floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the queen of the thrones of air. 20 f to 20 g the queen of the thrones of the earth. 20 i to 20 j 31 the lord of the winds and the breezes. the king of the spirits of air. 20 b to 20 c the lord of the wide and fertile land. the king of the spirits of earth. 20 e to 20 f 32 bis the princess of the rushing winds. the lotus of the palace of air. rules a 3rd quadrant. the princess of the echoing hills

is additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names a

LIBER AZAZEL

whom i claim as my own. 18. to the others, she is a fearsome creature- feeding upon the worthless children of their hearts. 19. a destroyer, and the very depths of my darkness revealed to the unworthy. she is an enemy to be feared, and an ally to be sought- she is the purest of me. 20. my flame burns brightest in the darkness of her night. 21. she is my beloved. she is of my very essence. she is the queen of hell and the nurturer of my divinity in the hearts of mankind. 22. she declares my power openly and without fear of reprisal, she is my majesty and my glory. i have given my very being to her so that it may be made manifest. 23. hear me! hear the mighty words of azazel! prepare for my coming and the realization of my kingdom. prepare for the revelation of the full splendor of the name

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

our is nigh when from the prow of luxury shall step the death of all men.s hearts, she whose live breath, a dagger.s darts, a viper.s vice, an adder.s grip, a cockatrice .twixt lip and lip, she whose black eyes are suns to shower love fs litanies from hour to hour, whose limbs are scythes like death fs of whom the body writhes, a lotus-bloom swayed by the wind of love, a crime too sweetly sinned, the queen of time, the lady of heaven, to whom the stars, seven by seven, from their bars lean and do worship.even she who hath given all her sweet self to thee, the lady astarte! the girl. peace, o peace! a swan, she sails through ecstasies liber cccxxxv 4 of air and marble and flowers, she sways as the full moon through midnight.s haze of gauze.her body is like a dove and a snake, and life, and

LIBER CCXLII AHA

firm, steady striding to the term, master of my fate, to rise to imperial destinies; with the sun fs ensanguine dart spear-bright in my blazing heart, and my being fs basil-plant bright and hard as adamant! marsyas. yonder, faintly luminous, the yellow desert waits for us. lithe and eager, hand in hand, we travel to the lonely land. there, beneath the stars, the smoke of our incense shall invoke the queen of space; and subtly she shall bend from her infinity like a lambent flame of blue, touching us, and piercing through all the sense-webs that we are as the aethyr penetrates a star! her hands caressing the black earth, her sweet lithe body arched for love, her feet a zephyr to the flowers, she calls my name.she gives the sign that she is mine, supremely mine, and clinging to the infinite

LIBER CHANOKH

d wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the sceptre, and the splendour: malkuth, geburah, gedulah, the rose of s

s, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casaremeji varanu cahisa vaugeji asa berameji balatoha: goho iad. soba miame tarianu ta lolacis abaivoninu od azodiajiere riore. irejila cahisa da das pa-aox busada caosago, das cahisa od ipuranu telocahe cacureji o-isalamahe lonucaho od vovina carebafe? niiso! bagile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile mom

t one! that sit upon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, that have 1636 under ye. behold! the voice of god; the promise of him who is called amongst ye fury or extreme justice. move and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of e in the tablet of e. the queen of the thrones of earth. the fifteenth key ilasa! tabaanu li-el pereta, casaremanu upaahi cahisa dareji; das oado caosaji oresacore: das omaxa monasa i baeouibe od emetajisa iaiadix. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou, the governer of the first flame, under whose wings are 6739; that weave the earth with dryness: that kno

co mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou third flame! whose wings are thorns to stir up vexation, and who hast 7336 living lamps going before thee: whose god is .wrath in anger: gird up thy loins and hearken! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of c of b in the tablet of b. the queen of the thrones of flame. the eighteenth key ilasa micalazoda olapireta ialpereji belioresa: das odo busadire oiad ouoaresa caosago: casaremeji laiada eranu berinutasa cafafame das ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comf

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

, nor unto the philosophus, 24 liber lxv nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and glorify thee before all men. 21. but thou shalt heed none of this. thou shalt be ever the heart, and i the serpent will coil close about thee. my coils shall

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

mighty, whose phallus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20. i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yog. and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and liber dccclx 22 gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well!

LIBER LVII

he number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. now, each of these sephiroth will be in a certain degree androgynous, for it will be feminine or receptive with regard to the sephira which immediately precedes it in the sephirothic scale, and masculine or tra

sephira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. here we at once find alchemical symbolism. the sephiroth are further divided into three pillars. the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth;

sephiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical .tree of life. on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic lang

rk. but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen .by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped. whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or .the supernal he. to 24 [samael is various glossed as .po

in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades* inspiration, equilibrated produces material energy [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the seed of the magus the universe is latent [note by ac, source as above. love balanaces the universe (x(-x= 0 [note by ac, source as above] for [this] read .the emperor is born of the queen to the wanderer [note by ac, source as above; referring to switch of tarot attributions] on the qabalah 29 truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers .with all these methods one ought to be able to make everything out of nothing. the qabalist smiles back the sublime retort .with these methods one did make everything out of nothing. besides these, there is

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

to keep one steady. so i think i may look forward to a tenure of my mahakalpa in almost arcadian simplicity. lady bhavani, did you say, boy? yes, i am at home. bring the betel .jeldi. he added, with some dim recollection of the 1 a whirling disc is indra.s symoblic weapon. 2 he abandoned this. a few fragments are reprinted in his oracles. 74 appendix i british government, when he was a baby nat .the queen of heaven and the lord of the gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. but far was it from indra.s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confid

LIBER LXXVIII

armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the four princesses or figures of amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon horses, nor seated upon thrones, nor borne in chariots. t

er to the yod of tetragrammaton, the charioted figures to the vau. a description of the cards of the taro 13 if ill dignified, he is evil-minded.cruel.bigoted.brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of h to the first two decans of i: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) b of b king of the salamanders. vi the queen of the thrones of flame queen of wands a crowned queen with long red-golden hair, seated upon a throne, with steady flames beneath. she wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses. her arms are almost bare. on cuirass and buskins are leopard's heads winged, and the same symbol surmounteth her crown. at her side is a couchant leopard on which her hands rest

wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horse's feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused. ill dignified, he is sensual, idle and untruthful. he rules the heavens from above 20 of k to 20 of l, thus including the greater part of pegasus. b of c king of undines and nymphs. 16 liber lxxviii x the queen of the thrones of the waters queen of cups a very beautiful fair woman like a crowned queen, seated upon a throne, beneath which is flowing water wherein lotuses are seen. her general dress is similar to that of the queen of wands, but upon her crown, cuirass and buskins is seen an ibis with opened wings, and beside her is the same bird, whereon her hand rests. she holds a cup, wherefrom

. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, but inclined to domineer. also to overvalue small things, unless well dignified. if ill dignified, deceitful, tyrannical and crafty. rules from 20 b to 20 c. b of d king of the sylphs and sylphides. xiv the queen of the thrones of air queen of swords a graceful woman with wavy, curling hair, like a queen seated upon a throne and crowned. beneath the throne are grey cumulus clouds. her general attire is as that of the queen of wands, but she wears as a crest a winged child fs head. a drawn sword in one hand, and in the other a large, bearded, newly severed head of a man. intensely perceptive, keen

in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material. laborious, clever, and patient in material matters. if ill dignified, he is avaricious, grasping, dull, jealous; not very courageous, unless assisted by other symbols. rules from above 20 of e to 20 of f. b of e king of gnomes. a description of the cards of the taro 21 xviii the queen of the thrones of earth queen of pentacles a woman of beautiful face with dark hair; seated upon a throne, beneath which is dark sandy earth. one side of her face is light, the other dark; and her symbolism is best represented in profile. her attire is similar to that of the queen of wands: but she bears a winged goat fs head as a crest. a goat is by her side. in one hand she bears a sce

the queen of wands: but she bears a winged goat fs head as a crest. a goat is by her side. in one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold. she is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. if ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. she rules from 20 i to 20 j. c of e the queen of gnomes. xix the prince of the chariot of earth king of pentacles a winged kingly figure seated in a chariot drawn by a bull. he bears as a crest the symbol of the head of the winged bull. beneath the chariot is land, with many flowers. in one hand he bears an orb of gold held downwards, and in the other a sceptre surmounted by an orb and cross. increase of matter. increases good or ev

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

ggle to go on any more, because you know already that all the house is one palace, and you move about in your own wake world, just as is necessary. all the paths up to the second house open.the path of the hierophant with the flaming star and the incense in the vast cathedral, and the path of the mighty ruler, who governs everything with his orb and his crown and his sceptre. there is the path of the queen of love which is more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. then there are the three ways to the holy house of the old king, the way by which he is joined with the new fairy prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

-month periods during one of which persephone must remain with pluto, while during the other she may revisit the upper world, offers material for deep consideration. it is probable that the eleusinians realized that the soul left the body during steep, or at least was made capable of leaving by the special training which undoubtedly they were in a position to give. thus persephone would remain as the queen of pluto's realm during the waking hours, but would ascend to the spiritual worlds during the periods of sleep. the initiate was taught how to intercede with pluto to permit persephone (the initiate's soul) to ascend from the darkness of his material nature into the light of understanding. when thus freed from the shackles of clay and crystallized concepts, the initiate was liberated not

and their food is mud. over the bolts on the door of the house of irkalla is scattered dust, and the keepers of the house are covered with feathers like birds. ishtar demands that the keepers open the gates, declaring that if they do not she will shatter the doorposts and strike the hinges and raise up dead devourers of the living. the guardians of the gates beg her to be patient while they go to the queen of hades from whom they secure permission to admit ishtar, but only in the same manner as all others came to this dreary house. ishtar thereupon descends through the seven gates which lead downward into the depths of the underworld. at the first gate the great crown is removed from her head, at the second gate the earrings from her ears, at the third gate the necklace from her neck, at t

d arabs. pushing on toward the sound with renewed enthusiasm, they finally broke into the descending passage which leads into the subterranean chamber. they then chiseled their way around the great stone portcullis which had fallen into a position barring their progress, and attacked and removed one after another the granite plugs which for a while continued to slide down the passage leading from the queen's chamber above. finally no more blocks descended and the way was clear for the followers of the prophet. but where were the treasures? from room to room the frantic workmen rushed, looking in vain for loot. the discontent of the moslems reached such a height that caliph al mamoun--who had inherited much of the wisdom of his illustrious father, the caliph al raschid--sent to bagdad for f

rientation and actually squares the circle. this last is accomplished by dropping a vertical line from the apex of the pyramid to its base line. if this vertical line be considered as the radius of an imaginary circle, the length of the circumference of such a circle will be found to equal the sum of the base lines of the four sides of the pyramid. if the passage leading to the king's chamber and the queen's chamber was sealed up thousands of years before the christian era, those later admitted into the pyramid mysteries must have received their initiations in subterranean galleries now unknown. without such galleries there could have been no possible means of ingress or egress, since the single surface entrance was completely dosed with casing stones. if not blocked by the mass of the sph

could have been no possible means of ingress or egress, since the single surface entrance was completely dosed with casing stones. if not blocked by the mass of the sphinx or concealed in some part of that image, the secret entrance may be either in one of the adjacent temples or upon the sides of the limestone plateau. attention is called to the granite plugs filling the ascending passageway to the queen's chamber which caliph al mamoun was forced practically to pulverize before he could clear a way into the upper chambers. c. piazzi smyth notes that the positions of the stones demonstrate that they were set in place from above--which made it necessary for a considerable number of workmen to depart from the upper chambers. how did they do it? smyth believes they descended through the wel

which must have been the base of operations for the robbers, might disclose traces of their presence or show where they piled the rubble which must have accumulated as a result of their operations. while it is not entirely clear by what entrance the robbers reached the subterranean chamber, it is improbable that they used the descending passageway. there is a remarkable niche in the north wall of the queen's chamber which the mohammedan guides glibly pronounce to be a shrine. the general shape of this niche, however, with its walls converging by a series of overlaps like those of the grand gallery, would indicate that originally it had been intended as a passageway. efforts made to explore this niche have been nonproductive, but mr. dupr believes an entrance to exist here through which--if

e grand gallery. this stone does not reach to the floor of the antechamber and those entering the king's chamber must pass under the slab. from the king's chamber, the grand gallery--157 feet in length, 28 feet in height, 7 feet in width at its widest point and decreasing to 3 feet as the result of seven converging overlaps, of the stones forming the walls--descends to a little above the level of the queen's chamber. here a gallery (e) branches off, passing mere than 100 feet back towards the center of the pyramid and opening into the queen's chamber (f. the queen's chamber is 19 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 20 feet high. its roof is peaked and composed of great slabs of stone. air passages not shown lead from the queen's chamber, but these were not open originally. in the east wall of the

and 20 feet high. its roof is peaked and composed of great slabs of stone. air passages not shown lead from the queen's chamber, but these were not open originally. in the east wall of the queen's chamber is a peculiar niche of gradually converging stone, which in all likelihood, may prove to be a new lost entrance way. at the paint where the grand gallery ends and the horizontal passage towards the queen's chamber begins is the entrance to the well and also the opening leading down the first ascending passage (d) to the point where this passage meets the descending passage (a) leading from the outer wall of the pyramid down to the subterranean chamber. after descending 59 feet down the well (p, the grotto is reached. continuing through the floor of the grotto the well leads downward 133

nity into the virgin mary, for isis, although she gave birth to all living things--chief among them the sun--still remained a virgin, according to the legendary accounts. apuleius in the eleventh book of the golden ass ascribes to the goddess the following statement concerning her powers and attributes "behold, i, moved by thy prayers, am present with thee; i, who am nature, the parent of things, the queen of all the elements, the primordial progeny of ages, the supreme of divinities, the sovereign of the spirits of the dead, the first of the celestials, and the uniform resemblance of gods and goddesses. i, who rule by my nod the luminous summits of the heavens, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the deplorable silences of the realms beneath, and whose one divinity the whole orb of the

hemists also wed human, animal, and plant emblems; sometimes weird composite figures, such as the dragon, the winged serpent, the unicorn, and the phoenix. in almost every case they symbolized gold as a king with a crown on his head and often with a scepter in his hand. sometimes they depicted him with the ace of the solar disc surrounded by rays. silver was personified as a woman who they called the queen. she wore no crown but often stood upon a lunar crescent: much after the fashion of the madonna. mercury was typified as a youth with wings, often with two heads, carrying serpents or sometimes the caduceus. lead they symbolized by an old man with a scythe in his hand; iron by a soldier dressed in armor. to aqua fortis was given the curious name "the ostrich's stomach" and to the attainm

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the spell, passing it from hand to hand, to and fro, as you do: salt and coriander, i conjure thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil cursed be! not as salt and coriand i call thee but the heart of [victim's name! with that, cast the mixture into the thurible fire with your left hand. as it blazes up, continue: as thou burnst, so let the heart of [n] burn; and bring it here to me! conjured by the queen of sard, by the underworld itself, by the sailors on the sea [n] i summon thee by barabbas, by satanas, by the devil conjured be! by the underworld itself, spirit of the sard, enter in [n] and bring him quickly here to me! powers of the abattoir, guide him here to me! powers over cocodover, bring him quickly here to me! with more messages i send to call thee, by the queen of sorcery, by

the high priestess. it is claimed to be traditional, and because of that, i shall quote it in full: listen to the words of the great mother, who was of old called among men artemis, astarte, dione, melusine, aphrodite, and many other names. at mine altars the youth of lacedaemon made due sacrifice. once a month and better it be when the moon is full, meet in some secret place and adore me, who am the queen of all magics. there assemble, and to those who would learn sorcery, i will teach things yet unknown. and you shall be free, and as a sign that you be really so, be naked in your rites, dance, sing, feast, make music and love. all in my praise, for i am a gracious goddess, who gives joy upon earth, certainty, not faith, while in life; and upon death peace unutterable, rest and the ecstac

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l of which i was. i fell into oblivion. i woke then in the darkness of a cave, on a padded rock ground. i was aching yet slightly refreshed. i wondered so where i was, i had only a loin cloth to cover me, and was chilled in the damp cave air. i heard many voices and noises around me, i grew scared from this. before was she, beautiful and fiery, pale and raven haired. it was mother, lilith who was the queen of demons, yet she was so beautiful and full of life. my mother welcomed me, and her touch was cold. her waist was made of flames, yet she transformed into the bottom half of a beast. she spoke to me of what i was to become, and that i had passed through a rite of passage. i was to become immortal and forever a spirit who walked the path of the dragon, who was my father. in the darkness

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al plane. this was received and consecrated in 1994 e.v. and has been used in the vampiric current since. the devilcosm (another name for the varcolaci sigil) is as much a symbol for the left hand path as it is a gateway towards the dark realms of night and fog. through this seeming mirror, you will be able to assume the wraith form so described in the devilcosm sigil itself. through these gates, the queen of the sabbath, lilith gives you the knowledge to become. the rituals contained in this grimoire each involve the use of the sigil. this feature derives from coven nachttoter (coven maleficia, a magickal base in which the author received the setting to write this book during the babalon working of december 1998 e.v) where this sigil was present in all night side path workings. sigils per

hecate is regarded as the triple mooned goddess, the witch queen of primal darkness whom is regarded as babalon, lilith and az. hecate is the goddess of the crossroads, from which one seeks self-initiation by the congress of her in the succubi-fetish spirit. it is through this communion that one enters the caverns of the night, the very temple of hecate. revered as the goddess of the dead, she is the queen of ghosts, shades and 65 65 phantoms of the night. it is in the center of her essence that one discovers there is no difference between hecate and lilith or babalon. this rite of empowerment should be conducted outdoors if possible, near a grave yard from which you would not be disturbed, near an area where you may bury a small box or bottle/pot. a chalice will be needed, preferably a sk

er a graveyard, oak tree or burial ground of a familiar. ignite a black candle at the head of the burial site and recite hekas, hekas hekausath usha, umpesha narasta spirit of the moon, lover and death-embracer, grow in the land of the dead. i give you strength and life, by the wytch fire of azrael and hecate, i summon the shades of the grave to give this spirit food to grow, so it shall be! iii) the queen of the dead leave buried until the dark moon, exhume pot and return to your temple or coven meet. recite67 67 phantom and shade, spectar and vampyre, lover and seductress i summon you to rise in the dark of the moon, rise from your tomb and by my guide, my initiator, my familiar, my goddess hekas, hekau sakeka ushu umpesha narastu by lamia do you grow, arise vampyre seductress who shall

lame and hekate s shroud lord of the sabbat baphomet known also as nylarlathotep, the black man of the sabbat, is the center of which chaos is formed by will into order. the 8 pointed luciferian or sabbat star known also as the chaos sphere (algol, the portal to baphomet. the god of dual ecstasies, octinimos/baphomet is the result of the self-alchemical union of the fallen seraph 87 87 samael and the queen of the night, lilith. the witches sabbat goat is the gateway towards the mysteries unspoken, whispered against the sun in the land of khem. the essence of the 8-pointed witches sabbat star the luciferian path of transformative magick the great work is the path of self-knowledge, power and internal development. the very essence of magick, to ascend. the ambivalent path of high magick is b

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

pagans have understood,that this earth is our one and only garden of eden. how is it that from this paradiseone can look out to the nether and fantasize that home is somewhere out there? onlysatan and his hordes and those they have deluded the world would do such a bizarrething. these ancient stories are extremely pertinent to the condition of the present.genesis means the genes of isis. isis is the queen of the earth, and we of the earthare her offspring, suffering from amnesia about our earth-connection, convinced thatthe black void above is the real home we have lost. so our perception is in totalreverse. nothing measures the loss of reason more than the pervasiveness of this out-landish, incongruent notion. it is consistent only with the duped and controlled masseswho are now psycholo

w south wales where fresh campsites could be found.brewarrinai know of stories even from europeans, telling of giant-sized stone and wooden tools and weaponsfound in north-western and northern new south wales today-such as one freshly abandoned campsitefound by a prospector near brewarrina in 1973. tweed valleygiant man-beasts with large wooden clubs have been claimed seen in the tweed v alley on the queen-sland side of the nsw-queensland border even in the 70s.giant aboriginal people: and then there are the traditions of a form of giant aboriginal people, claimedby their smaller, modern counterparts to have survived in remote regions. if such astraloid giantsexisted, they were, like their monster hominid neighbors, the result of genetic mutation caused by vari-ous environmental factors. a

67 in south america, 2 million die from typhoid fever. 1568 disease epidemic in lisbon kills 40,000. 1573 first german sugar cane refinery at augsburg. 1578 first recognized description of whooping cough (pertussis) by french physician guillame baillouduring epidemic in paris. 1592 plague kills 15,000 people in london. 1599 outbreak of plague in spain. 1600 east india company granted a charter by the queen of england. 1601 jesuits establish mission in beijing, china, to provide contacts for the portuguese and dutch foraccess to native drug trafficking routes in the east. the dutch negotiate an opium monopoly for north-ern india. 1603 heavy outbreak of plague in england. 1606 london company chartered to establish the virginia plantation on a communistic basis, and theplymouth company, whose

ts name to esso, which acquires a large interest in arabian american oilcompany and oil companies in switzerland. 1948 price of uranium rises to $1600 per ton. 1948 antibiotics aureomycin and chloromycin prepared. 1948 cia begins to study behavior influencing drugs. 1948 george h. w. bush graduates from yale university and the skull and bones. it is known thatgeorge hw bush is a distant cousin of the queen of england, part of the black nobility which traces itspower back 5,000 years. 1948 crowleyean ritual magic allegedly worked by jack parsons and reputed naval intelligence agentron hubbard, who would later found the church of scientology, based on initiatory grades and a cos-mology reminiscent of theosophy. interestingly, the symbol of scientology is identical to the crowleyemblem depict

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skull cap) let me drink of this ecstasy, the lifeblood from those who walk the night. let my knowledge be revealed to those who seek my knowledge, open thyself to the daemonum within (lilith-magistra drinks of the elixir from the skull cap, even if red in color, allowing some of it to cover her face (lilith now looks unto the hooded ones, those who may be present) i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple ofazothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil's sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate

of lilith, whom was said in some hebrew legends to be two aspects of the same goddess. the son of lilith and ashmodai was called sariel, the sword of ashmodai. his face flames with fire. sariel had kept a sealed book of secrets, a grimoire with words of power. the zohar itself explains that lilith is nourished by the water (ocean) and the south wind spreads her influence, from which places her as the queen of beasts. they (the beasts) are found chanting to her in the dark of night. lilith went forth to the desert to become the queen of zemargad (the desert domain, she then joined with samael and gave birth to thousands of liliam, lilitu, the demon succubi who copulate with the shadow of man and woman. it was when lilith entered the desert and began creating demons in the caves by the red s

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ed to be infallible in matters of faith. it decimated europe to purge it of heretics. it decimated america to convert the mexicans and peruvians. it gave and took away thrones; and by excommunication and interdict closed the gates of paradise against nations. spain, haughty with its dominion over the indies, endeavored to crush out protestantism in the netherlands, while philip the second married the queen of england, and the pair sought to win that kingdom back to its allegiance to the papal throne. afterward spain attempted to conquer it with her "invincible" armada. napoleon set his relatives and captains on thrones, and parcelled among them half of europe. the czar rules over an empire more gigantic than rome. the history of all is or will be the same--acquisition, dismemberment, ruin

d always acting; the mother of the universe. i know not the name of that being, but i designate it by the word reason. man has his model in the earth, the earth in heaven, heaven in reason, and reason in itself "i am" says isis "nature; parent of all things, the sovereign of the elements, the primitive progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose with my rod the numerous lights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mournful silence of the dead; whose single divinity the whole world venerates in many forms, with various rites and by many names. the egyptians, skilled in ancient lore, worship me with proper ceremonies, and call me by my true name, isis the queen" t

e heavens. after finding him, she went to byblos, and seated herself near a fountain, where she had learned that the sacred chest had stopped which contained the body of osiris. there she sat, sad and silent, shedding a torrent of tears. thither came the women of the court of queen astarte, and she spoke to them, and dressed their hair, pouring upon it deliciously perfumed ambrosia. this known to the queen, isis was engaged as nurse for her child, in the palace, one of the columns of which was made of the erica or tamarisk, that had grown up over the chest containing osiris, cut down by the king, and unknown to him, still enclosing the chest: which column isis afterward demanded, and from it extracted the chest and the body, which, the latter wrapped in thin drapery and perfumed, she carri

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comely, and worthy of the presence of the goddess. the ego is a good servant, but a bad master. that sign, nuit gives to all those who seek her, upon their reaching a certain grade. it is exactly as described. of course, a.c 'knew' who he was, since he called himself, and had been first called so by his own mother, 666 from childhood. see liber iv. part iv. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: 0 nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! there are several secret meanings, all of a technical nature, in this passage; it is unnecessary to

tion on this very difficult point. nor should aspirants fall into the mistake of believing that it is their duty to aspire to her. their duty is to do their will, and nothing else. if it is thy will to seek her, do so. if it isn't, do thy will. the grades are three, and 'they also serve who stand and wait. besides, she is everywhere. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. legislators try to force the peopl

life itself should be flung with a spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess. the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in anyplace, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more

uge on occasions" perhaps the birth of a girl is a misfortune in some countries; but this is due to the 'sin' syndrome of the aeon of os iris. in this aeon, the sexes are complementary. it would be a much greater misfortune if no girls were born! liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" it is this 'shutting up' that is hideous, the image of death. it is the opposite of going, which is god. women under christianity were kept virgin for the market as strasbourg geese are nailed to boards ti

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

at once returned to the island, and brought back the maidens in safety to athens, whereupon he became united to the object of his love; and their union proved so remarkably happy, that henceforth the name of hymen became synonymous with conjugal felicity. page 174 iris (the rainbow. iris, the daughter of thaumas and electra, personified the rainbow, and was the special attendant and messenger of the queen of heaven, whose commands she executed with singular tact, intelligence, and swiftness. most primitive nations have regarded the rainbow as a bridge of communication between heaven and earth, and this is doubtless the reason why iris, who represented that beautiful phenomenon of nature, should have been invested by the greeks with the office of communicating between gods and men. iris is

he direct work of the muses, received at the hands of the graces an additional touch of refinement and beauty; for which reason they are always regarded as the friends of the muses, with whom they lived on mount olympus. their special function was to act, in conjunction with the seasons, as attendants upon aphrodite, whom they adorned with wreaths of flowers, and she emerges from their hands like the queen of spring, perfumed with the odour of roses and violets, and all sweet-scented blossoms. the graces are frequently seen in attendance on other divinities; thus they carry music for apollo, myrtles for aphrodite &c, and frequently accompany the muses, eros, or dionysus. hora (seasons. closely allied to the graces were the hora, or seasons, who were also represented as three beautiful maid

stic influences, depended the fate of the individual. the genii were depicted as winged beings, greatly resembling our modern representations of guardian angels. every state, town, or city (as well as every man, possessed its special genius. the sacrifices to the genii consisted of wine, cakes, and incense, which were offered to them on birthdays. the genius which guided a woman was called, after the queen of heaven, juno. among the greeks, beings called damons were regarded as exercising similar functions to those of the roman genii. they were believed to be the spirits of the righteous race which existed in the golden age, who watched over mankind, carrying their prayers to the gods, and the gifts of the gods to them. manes. lemures (larva) and lares. page 216 the manes were the spirits

devolved upon themselves they were always on the look-out for danger. when, therefore, they sighted the argo from afar they armed themselves and rushed to the shore, determined to repel any invasion of their territory. on arriving in port the argonauts, astonished at beholding an armed crowd of women, despatched a herald in one of their boats, bearing the staff of peace and friendship. hypsipyle, the queen, proposed that food and presents should be sent to the strangers, in order to prevent their landing; but her old nurse, who stood beside her, suggested that this would be a good opportunity to provide themselves with noble husbands, who would act as their defenders, and thus put an end to their constant fears. hypsipyle listened attentively to the advice of her nurse, and after some cons

listened attentively to the advice of her nurse, and after some consultation, decided to invite the strangers into the city. robed in his purple mantle, the gift of pallas-athene, jason, accompanied by some of his companions, stepped on shore, where he was met by a deputation consisting of the most beautiful of the lemnian women, and, as commander of the expedition, was invited into the palace of the queen. when he appeared before hypsipyle, she was so struck with his godlike and heroic presence that she presented him with her father's sceptre, and invited him to seat himself on the throne beside her. jason thereupon [218]took up his residence in the royal page 249 castle, whilst his companions scattered themselves through the town, spending their time in feasting and pleasure. heracles, w

ded them safely through these dangerous straits. the argo next arrived at the island of the phaaces, where they were hospitably entertained by king alcinous and his queen arete. but the banquet prepared for them by their kind host was unexpectedly interrupted by the appearance of a large army of colchians, sent by aetes to demand the restoration of his daughter. medea threw herself at the feet of the queen, and implored her to save her from the anger of her father, and arete, in her kindness of heart, promised her her protection. next morning, in an assembly of the people at which the colchians were invited to be present, the latter were informed that as medea was the lawful wife of jason they could not consent to deliver her up; whereupon the colchians, seeing that the resolution of the k

servant, with instructions to expose him in a certain field, and there leave him, feeling assured that the divine offspring of zeus would not long remain without the protection of the gods. page 264 soon after the child had been thus abandoned, hera and pallas-athene happened to pass by the field, and were attracted by its cries. athene pityingly took up the infant in her arms, and prevailed upon the queen of heaven to put it to her breast; but no sooner had she done so, than the child, causing her pain, she angrily threw him to the ground, and left the spot. athene, moved with compassion, carried him to alcmene, and entreated her kind offices on behalf of the poor little foundling. alcmene at once recognized her child, and joyfully accepted the charge. soon afterwards hera, to her extreme

beauty, which was destined to play so important a part in the history of greece, had already spread far and wide. theseus and pirithous forcibly abducted her, and then having cast lots for her, she fell to theseus, who placed her under the charge of his mother athra. pirithous now requested theseus to assist him in his ambitious scheme of descending to the lower world and carrying off persephone, the queen of hades. though fully alive to the perils of page 301 the undertaking theseus would not forsake his friend, and together they sought the gloomy realm of shades. but aides had been forewarned of their approach, and scarcely had the two friends set foot within his dominions when, by his orders, they were seized, bound with chains, and secured to an enchanted rock at the entrance of hades

ring of their cruel conduct, was touched with compassion, and desired her maidens to bring the poor mendicant into her presence. she spoke kindly to him, inquiring who he was and whence he came. he told her that he was the brother of the king of crete, in whose palace he had seen odysseus, who was about starting for ithaca, and had declared his intention of arriving there before the year was out. the queen, overjoyed at the happy tidings, ordered her maidens to prepare a bed for the stranger, and to treat him as an honoured guest. she then desired the old nurse euryclea to provide him with suitable raiment and to attend to all his wants. page 352 as the old servant was bathing his feet her eyes fell upon a scar which odysseus had received in his youth from the tusks of a wild boar; and ins

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

, which their enemies did not fail to encourage. things reached such a point that orders were given on december 27, 1561, day of the annual celebration of the york order, presided over by sir thomas sackvill, to send soldiers to break up the assembly. complaints lodged by some of the most eminent national figures convinced elizabeth to end her opposition to the gatherings of members of the order. the queen eventually became a protector of the masonic brotherhood and confirmed the choice of sir thomas sackvill as master.17 in contrast to the occasional interdiction, facts indicate that companies of masons enjoyed a good deal of consideration at this time. the articles of london (1356) describe the corporation as "an enterprise quite apt for leading (the work) to a successful conclusion" in

theless held this position until 1695 and regained it in 1698, exercising this authority until 1702 and the ascension of queen anne, who reinforced the protestant factions. freemasonry was still so jacobite at this time that the masons refused to continue work on the construction of saint paul's cathedral, which would not be completed until 1710, despite the orders of william benson, inspector of the queen's buildings.14 it is likely that the catholic influence on the freemasons remained significant under the protestant monarchy of william of orange. the text of the 1693 charter of the york lodge, which reproduces much older statutes, states that "the first article of your instructions is that you will be faithful to god and the holy church, to the prince, to his master, and to the lady he

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and the bull of heaven, the god anu said that either enkidu or gilgamesh must die as a punishment. the gods ea and enlil agreed so, despite the pleas of shamash the sun god (to whom the heroes had sacrificed the bull s heart, enkidu was marked for death. he fell ill, forewarned of death by a dream in which he was seized by a black bird and taken down to the house of dust the palace of erishkegal, the queen of darkness. gilgamesh triumphant gilgamesh defeated humbaba, who begged for mercy with tears in his eyes and promised to be his servant. gilgamesh almost agreed, but enkidu said he was not to be trusted and persuaded gilgamesh to kill him. humbaba this lionlike figure may represent humbaba, a forest giant with a countenance. like a lion, fiery breath, and terrible jaws. when he roared

h a large armed guard. in danger of being overwhelmed by such numbers, perseus used the gorgon s head to turn phineas and 200 of his men to stone. bellerophon slays the chimaera by giovanni-battista tiepolo (1696 1770) bell erophon slays the chimaera bellerophon, like perseus, was a heroic, royal figure who enjoyed the patronage of athena. a guest at the court of king proetus of argus (see p. 44, the queen falsely accused him of trying to rape her. loath to kill a guest directly, proetus sent him to his father-in-law king iobates with a letter asking that the bearer be put to death. iobates, expecting him to be killed, asked bellerophon to slay the chimaera, a fire-breathing monster with the front legs of a lion, the body of a she-goat, and the tail of a snake, which was devastating his ki

olden bridle given to him by athena, and, swooping down, riddled the beast with arrows and thrust a lump of lead between its jaws. the chimaera s breath melted the lead and it choked to death. when he survived other trials, iobates gave up trying to kill bellerophon and made him his heir instead. when he heard the accusation that had been made against him, bellerophon returned to argos and killed the queen, pushing her off pegasus back into the sea. he eventually died a blind, lame beggar, having offended zeus by trying to ride pegasus up to heaven. the tragedy of oedipus 48 riddle of the sphinx the sphinx was sent by hera (roman juno) to plague thebes because, before he became king, laius had abducted a youth, chryssipus, to be his lover a liaison that was a crime against marriage. the sp

chang e arrived in the moon, she found she was not alone. her companion in the moon is a hare, which sits beneath a cassia tree (the tree of immortality) pounding herbs in a mortar to make the elixir of life. an old man is said also to live in the moon; he spends his time trying, in vain, to chop down the cassia tree. turned into a toad when chang e gulped down the elixir that hou yi had won from the queen mother of the west, she began to float up to the moon. as she ascended, she tried to call out, but found she could only croak. to her horror, although she had indeed become immortal, she had also been turned into a toad. the funeral banner of lady dai china, second century bce this funeral banner divides into four sections. the top rectangle depicts deities in heaven. the section below

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

losophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined essence of heat and moisture. c120> the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals. the black dragon death-putrefaction-decay. the king red-the qabalistic microprosopus. tiphareth-analogous to gold and the sun. the queen white-the qabalistic bride of microprosopus. malkah-analogous to silver and the moon. the four orders of the elementals are: 1. the spirits of the earth gnomes 2. the spirits of the air sylphs 3. the spirits of the water undines 4. the spirits of the fire salamanders second knowledge lecture 6 1 these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia o

e may become a clear and limpid lake, reflecting the divine nature truly and without distortion. let him identity himself with the powers of water, considering the water triplicity in all its aspects, with its attributions and correspondences <141> notes on the tarot by frater s.r.m.d. in the tree of life in the tarot, each path forms the connecting link between two of the sephiroth. the king and the queen are the correlations of the abba and the aima in that suit; the knight or prince answers to microprosopus, and the knave or princess which was anciently a female figure, is referred to the bride, kallah or malkah. combining, then, the material attributions of the sephiroth and the path, it results that: 0. fool=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac

the paths in the masculine or king's scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in qesheth the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. note: there are four scales of colour which correspond to the four worlds. they are: the king scale atziluth wands yod fire the queen scale briah cups heh water the prince scale yetzirah swords vau air the princess scale assiah pentacles heh earth the golden dawn: volume i book one the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great name they represent: thus samekh in: the king scale is deep blue the queen scale is yellow the prince scale is green the princess scale is grey blue <193> tiphareth in: the king

briah cups heh water the prince scale yetzirah swords vau air the princess scale assiah pentacles heh earth the golden dawn: volume i book one the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great name they represent: thus samekh in: the king scale is deep blue the queen scale is yellow the prince scale is green the princess scale is grey blue <193> tiphareth in: the king scale is rose the queen scale is gold the prince scale is pink the princess scale is tawny yellow the tree of life for the use of an adeptus minor is compounded of the first two scales. the sephiroth are in the feminine, passive, or queen scale. the paths are in the masculine, active, or king scale. it thus represents the forces of atziluth in the paths uniting the sephiroth as reflected in the briatic world, o

is compounded of the first two scales. the sephiroth are in the feminine, passive, or queen scale. the paths are in the masculine, active, or king scale. it thus represents the forces of atziluth in the paths uniting the sephiroth as reflected in the briatic world, one of the possible arrangements of the powers inherent in yod he of the great name. first are the feminine colours of the sephiroth, the queen's scale. in kether is the divine white brilliance, the scintillation and corruscation of the divine glory-that light which lighteth the universe-that light which surpasseth the glory of the sun and beside which the light of mortals is but darkness, and concerning which it is not fitting that we should speak more fully. and the sphere of its operation is called rashith ha-gilgalim-the beg

ding east of the altar in yesod, heg. shows great hemetic aruznum. heg. this symbol represents the great hermetic arcanum. the feet of the figure rest upon the earth and the sea. in the hand are represented the hot and moist natures, symbolised by the torch and the horn of water. these are further strengthened by the solar and fiery emblems of the king and lion, and the luna and watery emblems of the queen and dolphin. above the whole figure rise the wings of the aerial nature, the reconciler between the fire and the water. compare this symbol with the angel described in the 10th chapter of the apocalypse of st. john-"and i saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow was this is an important point, often overlooked. in book five, p. 82 of vol. iii, we

nce, the name of the lord of life, by inspiration and expiration" macroprosopus is aima and abba, mother- father. the two nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the rashith ha-gilgalim <151> piercing of the dragon's coils suggests the freeing of malkuth, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over makuth as guardians are metatron and sandalphon as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time referred to are those corruscations of the divine light which are above kether of atziluth. in such su

mans, before the mercy of chesed can manifest in thy being, the elements of thy body must have an enduring stability. place talisman before earth tablet, make invoking circle round it and pentagram of passive spirit with wheel, and invoking earth pentagram with taurus kerub, saying: in the name of adonai ha-aretz and adonai melekh, spirits of earth adore your creator. in the name of the bride and the queen of the kingdom, and by the name of your archangel auriel, spirits of earth ye are mine to command. bind unto this creature of talismans the substance of your realm (make cross) in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the north: emor dial hectega, spirits of earth give unto me of the substance of your realm that it may be mine for ever. bind it unto this crea

eration of the secret wisdom the titles of the tarot symbols 1. ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 3. ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 4. ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 5. the knight of wands is called the lord of flame and lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. 6. the queen of wands is the queen of the thrones of flames. 7. the king of wands is the prince of the chariot of fire <139> 8. the knave of wands is the princess of the shining flame, and the rose of the palace of fire. 9. the knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the hosts of the sea. 10. the queen of cups is the queen of the thrones of the waters. 11. the king of

he knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the hosts of the sea. 10. the queen of cups is the queen of the thrones of the waters. 11. the king of cups is the prince of the chariot of the waters. 12. the knave of cups is the princess of the waters and the lotus. 13. the knight of swords is the lord of the wind and the breezes, the lord of the spirits of the air. 14. the queen of swords is the queen of the thrones of the air. 15. the king of swords is the prince of the chariots of the wind. 16. the knave of swords is the princess of the rushing winds, the lotus of the palace of air. 17. the knight of pentacles is the lord of the wide and fertile land, king of the spirits of the earth. 18. the queen of pentacles is the queen of the thrones of earth. 19. the kin

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

ake the gods descend from heaven and become subject to the will of men. judea borrowed its secrets from egypt; greece sent her hierophants and later her theosophists to the school of the great prophets; the rome of the caesars, mined by the initiation of the catacombs, collapsed one day into the church, and a symbolism was reconstructed with the remnants of all worships which had been absorbed by the queen of the world. according to the gospel narrative, the inscription which set forth the spiritual royalty of christ was written in hebrew, in greek and in latin: it was the expression of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact, that grand and beauteous religion of form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abst

by recounting such anecdotes as that which he connects with the death of charles ix. it is an almost unknown abomination, and one which has not, so far as we are aware, tempted the skill of any romancer, even at periods of the most feverish and deplorable literature. attacked by a disease of which no physician could discover the cause or explain the frightful symptoms, king charles ix was dying. the queen-mother, who ruled him entirely and had everything to lose under another reign. the queen- mother, who has been suspected as author of the disease, even against her own 92 the ritual of transcendental magic interests, because hidden devices and undeclared interests have been attributed always to her who was capable of anything. consulted her astrologers and then had recourse to the foules

crowned, seated and uplifting a sceptre with the orb of the world at its end: her sign is an eagle, image of the soul and of life. she is the venus-urania of the greeks and was represented by st. john in his apocalypse as the woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars and having the moon beneath her feet. she is the mystical quintessence of the triad; she is spirituality, 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

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

rlds(pages 1-9) figure 1. human and otherworld entities introduction 6 to this general connection we can add one of the classic examples of seership and contact with the fairy realm, that of thomas of earlston (erceldoune, thomas the rhymer. this historical thirteenth-century poet was transported to a mysterious underground realm by a beautiful woman upon a white horse: she revealed herself to be the queen of elfland: he served her for seven years, and upon his return to the human world, was gifted with the power of prophecy and poetry, sometimes described as the tongue that cannot lie. many of thomas' prophetic verses remain today, as does the long romance poem of his underworld experience, and a ballad in scottish-english, preserved in lowland folk tradition until the late nineteenth cen

n the emphasis is upon a physical translation into the subterranean dimension: page 25. she neither perceives any passage out, nor sees what these people do in other rooms of the lodging. when the [fairy] child is weaned, the nurse either dies, or is conveyed back, or gets to choose to stay there. the three choices are resonant of triple patterns in a number of legends: in thomas rhymer's vision, the queen of elfland shows him three roads, that of righteousness leading to heaven, the road of wickedness taken by mortals, and the road to elfland, upon which they travel onwards to her mysterious hall or palace. it is interesting that kirk states precisely that the mortal nurse. may be offered the choice of staying in the subterranean realm. commentary 87 if we consider this triplication in an

england for many years. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_102.htm (8 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:30 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 102-111) commentary 111 only a few years before kirk assembled his treatise, major weir and his sister had been executed in edinburgh in 1670 for magical, necromantic, incestuous, and otherworldly practices. in her case, she freely admitted consorting with the queen of elfland who taught her supernatural skills in weaving. this famous trial and execution was all the more remarkable because weir had long been an earnest covenanter (one of the active political protestant movements of the time, and commander of the edinburgh city guard during the ascend-ancy of the puritanical revolutionary commonwealth government. these conflicts, incidentally, are th

in a collection of virgins. 2. green mantle wearing of green is associated with magic, witchcraft and fertility 'a green gown' is the traditional term for rustic defloration, and overall the wearing of green is associated http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (4 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds with earth-magic thomas the rhymer is given clothing of green by the queen of elfland. the significance within the tradition is that the wearing of green signifies unity with the land. janet's virgin state, therefore, is no mere human condition, but declares her to be a character such as the epiphanies of the goddess or spirit of the land that occur in appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 130 early celtic poetical convention. it is her true love that later wins ta

ill make the challenge, so that he may reveal the mode of his disenchantment. 9. tam lin reveals his true nature whereas in the version given above, tam lin 'falls from off his horse, other variants offer more revealing causes of his enchantment, he falls asleep under an apple tree, he passes through a magical chapel or is overcome by sleep at a magical well. as a result of this he is captured by the queen of elfland. in other words, he passes into the under appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 133 world while retaining his human origins. he makes the transition while in a sleep or trance, partly unwitting, without full command of his consciousness. his role of guardian fulfilling a stereotyped mode of magical behavior, is the direct result of his automatic or unwilled enchantment until he is

fairy queen speaks out, and emits a sequence of curses. these prohibitions are suggestions of tam lin's new powers of perception as a transformed being, and are common to fairy and otherworld folklore. as tam lin has been saved from the underworld or fairyland, he can see into both realms, that of the human and of the non-human. hence the threat that his eyes would have been plucked out, if only the queen had known. a similar curse is made regarding his heart, the traditional centre of love. if he had had a heart of stone, he might never have been saved! the malevolence of the fairy queen, in tam lin is rather different from her role in thomas the rhymer, but the information derived from both is, in fact, identical. the comparison between the queen in tam lin, and the queen in thomas the

art, the traditional centre of love. if he had had a heart of stone, he might never have been saved! the malevolence of the fairy queen, in tam lin is rather different from her role in thomas the rhymer, but the information derived from both is, in fact, identical. the comparison between the queen in tam lin, and the queen in thomas the rhymer reveals two basic aspects of the underworld. briefly, the queen in tam lin performs as a deeper level of guardian or controlling entity at the heart of the inner mysteries of the underworld or elfland. she is never approached direct, and no dialogue occurs with her. she is, in fact operating in the role of an impersonal agency, fulfilling certain laws. in thomas, however, the queen is directly concerned in an active dialogue with the hero, and become

mpersonal agency, fulfilling certain laws. in thomas, however, the queen is directly concerned in an active dialogue with the hero, and becomes his redeemer through the offering of his love. in other words, the role of 'queen' and 'janet' are merged into one entity in the thomas story, wherein she prohibits the hero from worshipping her as 'queen of heaven- for she is not the goddess. in tam lin, the queen, not activated or motivated by true love, can only be a deeper archetype. this concept is central to the practical operation of magic in the underworld, and should be fully understood before any experiments are attempted. indeed, the stories of tam and thomas should be seen as two operative variants of the same magical liberation process. in the first, http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/p

ld come riding o'er the fernie brae. her skirt was of the grass-green silk, her mantlet of the velvet fine, at ilka tett of her horses mane hung fifty silver bells and nine. true thomas he took off his hat, and bowed him low down to his knee 'all hail thou mighty queen of heaven! for your peer on earth i ne'er did see 'oh no, oh no, true thomas' she says, that name does not belong to me; i am but the queen of fair elfland, that has come for to visit thee 'but ye maun go wi' me now thomas, true thomas ye maun go wi me, for ye maun serve me seven years thro weel or wae as may change to be' she turned about her milk white steed, and took true thomas up behind, and aye whene'er the bridle rang, the steed flew swifter than the wind. for forty days and forty nights, he wade thro red blude to the

t is worthy of careful examination and explanation, and will repay continued meditation and application. a long and complex romance text exists, in which many of the specific elements of garden, fruit, otherworld and related symbols are amplified in a conventional manner, but we will deal only with variants found in an oral tradition. the plot moves through seven specific stages: 1. the vision of the queen of elfland; 2. the journey through the underworld; 3. the vision of the tree; 4. the ritual of bread and wine; 5. the vision of the three roads; 6. the vow of silence; 7. the return to the upper earth. in some variants the order of the stages is different, while others give descriptions of elfland and connected material; but the sequence given above, taken from the traditional source bal

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subtle and meaningful of all signs was given. a reminder of crowley's ability to sense the omnipresence and comprehensiveness of nuit. such an experience would have been impossible for one of lesser vision than a magus, because a magus, by definition, must first comprehend the totality of what presently exists before uttering a word to exert change upon it. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! crowley's ecstatic recognition of the sign, and hope that mankind generally will not transcend inert

an end to all self-consciousness and thus from pain. the ultimate argument of nuit is for suicide of the finite self in order to become part of the infinite whole [cf. crowley's discussion of the "annihilation of the self" via the "crossing of the abyss" between adeptus exemptus (7=[4] and magister templi (8=[3] in one star in sight] 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! crowley desires the means for reunion with the whole to be explained to him in terms of ordeals (stresses necessary to destroy the self, rituals (mental and physical exercises to bring initiates closer to nuit, and law (commandments that are to be obeyed to achieve the reunion. 34. but she said: the o

pher improbable. only pure code- with enochian words or letters meaning something not revealed by their internal design alone- remained. to uncover such a code, one would simply have to know the words or phrases in english triggered by a given enochian word or phrase, unrelated though the connection might otherwise be [for example, the otherwise random appearance of "vorsg" might be code for "for the queen's eyes only, etc] two avenues of investigation remained. first, if it were true that enochian were neither language nor cipher, then there was still the possibility that it might be a corruption of a genuine tongue. regardie [citing mathers' method, crowley, and lavey had all accepted kelley's comment that "he seemeth to read as hebrew is read."10 i decided to eliminate this hebrew-lette

ble. only pure code- with enochian words or letters meaning something not revealed by their internal design alone- remained. to uncover such a code, one would simply have to know the words or phrases in english triggered by a given enochian word or phrase, unrelated though the connection might otherwise be [for example, the otherwise random appearance of "vorsg" might be code for "for the eyes of the queen alone" etc] two avenues of investigation remained. first, if it were true that enochian was neither language nor cipher, then there was still the possibility that it might be a corruption of a genuine tongue. regardie [citing mathers' method, crowley, and lavey had all accepted kelley's comment that "he seemeth to read as hebrew is read" i decided to eliminate this hebrew-letter pronunci

timate physical manifestation, representation, and use of this element. the card wealth, with its title and picture, represents purely monetary, physical wealth, with no higher attributes or saving graces. in addition to the four suits, the alchemical elements are also represented by the four court cards, as shown by table 1. the knight tends to represent a fiery, willful, and/or energetic force, the queen a liquid, shifting, emotional, and/or understanding force, the prince an airy, intellectual, thoughtful, and/or intelligent force, and the princess an earthy, supportive, nurturing, and/or crushing force. we pointed out the order of the court cards in lesson three. this order rises from the alchemical relationships discussed here. fire is seen as the stronger, more active element (repres

nger, more passive element (mature female. air is seen as the weaker, active element (less mature male, and earth is seen as the weaker, passive element (less mature female. by remembering these correspondences you will strengthen your ability to read the tarot. each of these four court cards are found in each of the four suits. the knight is therefore the fiery aspect of whichever suit he wears, the queen the watery aspect, etc. as crowley does in his text, we list the sixteen court cards and their elemental correspondences in table 2.(31) court card elemental combinations knight of wands fiery aspect of fire queen of wands watery aspect of fire prince of wands airy aspect of fire princess of wands earthy aspect of fire knight of cups fiery aspect of water queen of cups watery aspect of w

eator of faith. ama, the dark sterile mother. aima, the bright fertile mother. khorsia, the throne. marah, the great sea. 4 chesed mercy. love. majesty. 5 geburah strength. severity. justice. fear. 6 tiphareth beauty. melekh, the king. adam, the son. the man. 7 netzach victory. occult intelligence. firmness. 8 hod glory. splendour. 9 yesod the foundation. 10 malkuth the kingdom. the gate. malkah, the queen. kallah, the bride. the virgin. five of wands: geburah is strength and severity, the destroyer. geburah is the active daughter of binah, who destroys the old and worthless, to make room for new creation. emphasized by the activity of wands, this card is extremely, perhaps excessively active, preparing the way for later creation. seven of disks: netzach is victory, firmness, the "refulgen

the same man, but two different aspects of him. the prince would reflect the less mature aspects, those likely to cause problems in a relationship, while the knight would reflect the more mature aspects, more supportive, which point to and support a long-term relationship. a court card could also be archetypical, pointing towards personal characteristics rather than the actual sex of any person. the queen of wands (the watery aspect of fire) might represent the emotional powers and forces which give strength to the fire of one's thelema during psychodramatic ritual. more physically, this queen could represent emotions on a rampage. this queen could also represent some person, male or female, young or old, who is extremely active and energetic (wands, and whose activity reflects "her" emot

passive state of the four. the querant may be comfortable, but wondering "is this enough? should i be doing more" such questions are being asked mentally, but the absence of wands in this section shows that no serious action is being taken. these impressions are supported by the seated queen with her large shield and substantial armor, strengthening the presence of earth in this central section. the queen is very passive, enhancing and repeating the message of the four's unchanging fortress. she is a mothering influence, offering to care for the querant, apparently in his current job. by representing water, she also indicates emotional conflict stirred by the intellectual dissatisfaction. i interpret this section to indicate that the querant's current job is adequately lucrative and comfo

es not challenge the querant's intelligence; it does not offer much opportunity for creation. the job is comfortable and constant, not offering much opportunity for growth and change. while the querant appreciates the earthly rewards of this job, he is somewhat dissatisfied with its lack of opportunity. that is why he is considering the new job offer, and why he asks his question. as indicated by the queen, the question has become more than intellectual, and is now an emotional problem for the querant. the question has become emotionally important for the querant, much more than an intellectual query would have been. this information should be relayed to the querant. much of it is already included in the question, and you may already know the rest. but a major part of reading is building t

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ere impossible to predict. for this reason the cara- vanserais prospered. the produce of the world came up from zafar to sheba, and thence tojahilia and the oasis of yathrib and on to midian where moses lived; thence to aqabah and egypt. from jahilia other trails began: to the east and north--east, towards mesopotamia and the great persian empire. to petra and to palmyra, where once solomon loved the queen of sheba. those were fatted days. but now the fleets plying the waters around the peninsula have grown hardier, their crews more skilful, their navigational instruments more accurate. the camel trains are losing business to the boats. desert-ship and sea-ship, the old rivalry, sees a tilt in the balance of power. jahilia's rulers fret, but there is little they can do. sometimes abu simbe

" they fled, hearing the approaching crunch of the guards' heavy boots. o o o the next day there was no sign of a doctor, or of pamela, and chamcha in his utter bewilderment woke and slept as if the two conditions no longer required to be thought of as opposites, but as states that flowed into and out of one another to create a kind of unending delirium of the senses. he found himself dreaming of the queen, of making tender love to the monarch. she was the body of britain, the avatar of the state, and he had chosen her, joined with her; she was his beloved, the moon of his delight. hyacinth came at the appointed times to ride and pummel him, and he submitted without any fuss. but when she finished she whispered into his ear "you in with the rest" and he understood that she was involved in

omewhere around the bottom of the second whisky bottle she leaned her head on his shoulder and said boozily "you can't imagine the relief of being with someone with whom i don't have to have a fight every time i express an opinion. someone on the side of the goddamn angels" he waited; after a pause, there was more "him and his royal family, you wouldn't believe. cricket, the houses of parliament, the queen. the place never stopped being a picture postcard to him. you couldn't get him to look at what was really real" she closed her eyes and allowed her hand, by accident, to rest on his "he was a real saladin" jumpy said "a man with a holy land to conquer, his england, the one he believed in. you were part of it, too" she rolled away from him and stretched out on top of magazines, crumpled b

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

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nd the first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated earth the combined power of mercy and severity. and ephraim, the kerubic sign of the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and the schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to th

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

asts which they rode. in the temples she collected all the secrets of nature and all the attracting or repelling powers which were contained in minerals, plants, and animals. she performed her sorceries at the moment in the revolution of the celestial bodies when they would be amenable to a higher power. and it came to pass that if an army set out from any part of arabia or syria to attack egypt, the queen made the figures of its soldiers and of the animals p. 23 which they were riding to disappear beneath the ground, and the same fate immediately overtook the living creatures which they represented, wherever they might be on their journey, and the destruction of the figures on sculptures entailed the destruction of the hostile host. in brief, the large figures of the gods which were sculp

mon apparel, be took ship and fled to pella in macedonia, where he established himself as a physician, and as an egyptian soothsayer. omitting, for the present, any reference to the contents of the ivth chapter of pseudo- callisthenes, in which the casting of the nativity of olympias by nectanebus is described, we come to the passage in which the story of the way in which he sent a dream p. 94 to the queen by means of a wax figure is told. his object was to persuade the queen that the egyptian god amen would come to her at night. to do this he left her presence, and going out into the desert he collected a number of herbs which he knew how to employ in causing people to dream dreams, and having brought them back with him be squeezed the juice out of them. he then made the figure of a woman

which he knew how to employ in causing people to dream dreams, and having brought them back with him be squeezed the juice out of them. he then made the figure of a woman in wax, and wrote upon it the name of olympias, just as the priest of thebes made the figure of apep in wax and cut his name upon it. nectanebus then lit his lamp, and, having poured the juice of the herbs over the wax figure of the queen, he adjured the demons to such purpose that olympias dreamed a dream in which the god amen came to her and embraced her, and told her that she should give birth to a man-child who should avenge her on her husband philip. but the means described above were not the only ones known to nectanebus for procuring dreams, for when he wanted to make philip of macedon to see certain things in a dr

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of the earth came to me from the ends of the earth to behold the temple which i builded to the lord god. and having heard of the wisdom given to me, they did homage to me in the temple, bringing gold and silver and precious stones, many and divers, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and cedar logs. and woods decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the temple of god. 109. and among them also the queen of the south, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. and having heard my wisdom, she glorified the god of israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all love in which i instructed her, according to the wisdom imparted to me. and all the sons of israel glorified god. 110. and behold, in those days one of the workmen, of ripe old age, threw h

to question him. but he came to me in grief and with black face. and i said to him "tell me, old man, where is thy son? and what means this garb" and he answered "lo, i am become childless, and sit by my son's grave in despair. for it is already two days that he is dead" but i solomon, on hearing that, and knowing that the demon ornias had told me the truth, glorified the god of israel. 116. and the queen of the south saw all this, and marvelled [41] glorifying the god of israel; and she beheld the temple of the lord being builded. and she gave a siklos [1] of gold and one hundred myriads of silver and choice bronze, and she went into the temple. and (she beheld) the altar of incense and the brazen supports of this altar, and the gems of the lamps flashing forth of different colours, and

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

y her a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in the form of an old woman, she was taken into the service of the family of celeus, as nurse to the queen s son. she wished to endow the son with immortality, and to this end she hid him every night in the fire. but when his mother learned of it she cried and wailed, after which the bestowal of immortality was no longer 84 christianity as mystical fact possible, and demeter left the house. it was then that celeus built the temple. the grief of demeter for persephone was boundless, and spread

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

der the shadow of this cross. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of the tree. the queen and the bride are references to the relation of twklm to trapt, the king, and the lesser countenance, the harmony of which must become manifest in twklm, which is also the cross of dense matter upon w

THE BLACK LODGE

grail. but again, this is an arcane of the grade of practicus of the a .a. and if we tried to explain it here we would only cause confusion, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up (this is the self-preservation instinct carried to the extreme of "absolute virginity- that is, complete alienation from one s environment- as the condition of purity or sanctity; and therefore is she the queen (that is, this demoniac entity influences of controls of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania (nuit as seen by the greeks. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" what we must understand about these religions is that they are "skew-wise: that is, they are arguments in circles, not expa

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disappeared. the news of the holy mother s visitation spread rapidly from zeitoun, a suburb of cairo, to the greater metropolitan population of over six million. while the religious makeup of cairo is largely muslim, there is a fairly large coptic catholic minority. thousands began to gather at the majestic church of zeitoun at tomanbey street and khalil lane to see for themselves the place where the queen of heaven had come to earth. amazingly, for the next three years, the visions of the holy mother manifested sporadically atop the dome of the church. millions claimed to witness the visitations, and numerous photographs of the spiritual phenomenon can be found on the internet. although thousands of people claimed miraculous cures as they looked upward at the glowing figure of the holy mo

ur occasions in desolate regions outside of mexico city. at first she appeared as a beautiful, dark-skinned 14-year-old mexican indian girl, who then revealed herself as the evervirgin mary, mother of god. during later appearances, mother mary told diego that she wished a church built to her in the place where she appeared to him guadalupe, the river of the wolf. as proof of her holy appearances, the queen of heaven projected an image of herself upon his tilma (cloak. it is that artifact that brought bishop juan de zumarraga (1468 1548) of mexico city and his entire household to their knees when he asked for some kind of tangible sign from the holy mother. it is that same image on the tilma, set in gold at the center of an elaborate altar, that still awaits today s pilgrim at the basilica

divinity. descended into hell, the underworld, and braved its challenges and subdued the demons of the pit. the disciples of the orphic/dionysus schools were promised the celestial fire of zeus, the light retrieved by orpheus, that enabled their souls to triumph over death. these things would all be enacted in the mystery play that depicted orpheus descending into hades and observing persephone, the queen of the dead, being awakened by dionysus and being reborn in his arms, thus perpetuating the cycle of rebirth and death, past and future, blending into a timeless immortality. while other schools of reincarnation see the process of rebirth as an evolving of the soul ever higher with each incarnation, the orphic concept introduces the aspect of the soul being gradually purged or purified t

at jasna gora, the monastery site in which the portrait was housed for six centuries. the black madonna of czestochowa is of such antiquity that its origins are unknown. tradition has it that st. luke, the beloved physician, painted the portrait of jesus s mother on the cedar wood table at which she took her meals. two centuries later, during her visit to the holy land, st. helena (c. 248 c. 328, the queen-mother of emperor constantine (d. 337, is said to have discovered the portrait and brought it to constantinople in the fourth century. five centuries later, determined to save the image of the madonna from the repeated invasions of the tartars, st. ladislaus (1040 1095) took the portrait to opala, poland, the city of his birth, for safekeeping. regretfully, not long after its move, a dis

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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 64 magic and sorcery secret enochian letters used by john dee (fortean picture library (1527.1576, dee returned to england to produce more learned occult volumes. in 1571, while residing once again on the continent, dee fell ill. when elizabeth heard of it, she sent two of her best physicians to attend to him. the queen also conveyed additional proofs of her high regard for him and made further promises. when he recovered, dee returned to england and settled at mortlake in surrey. here he accumulated an extensive library of works on occultism and allied subjects, prompting his neighbors to decree that he was in league with the devil. while dee insisted that he did not practice black magic, it seemed app

60. count saint-germain frederick the great (1712.1786) of prussia called the count of saint-germain the man who could not die, for according to the count, he had already lived 2,000 years by partaking of his discovery of a regenerative liquid that could prolong human life indefinitely. saint-germain captivated the courts of europe in the eighteenth century. he would refer to a pleasant chat with the queen of sheba and relay amusing anecdotes of babylonian court gossip. he would speak with reverence of the miraculous event that he had witnessed at the marriage feast at cana when the young rabbi jesus (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e) turned water into wine. saint-germain spoke and wrote greek, latin, sanskrit, arabic, chinese, french, german, english, italian, portugese, and spanish. he was also a t

e splendid mothers or fathers. taureans are generally not bookish types; they prefer life itself to fiction. although taureans are inclined to be generous, they will fly into a rage if they learn that they have been deceived. gemini, the twins, may 22 to june 21, is an air sign. according to the ancient romans, the sign of gemini represents the twin sons, castor and pollux, who were born to leda, the queen of sparta, after jupiter seduced her, the king of the gods. the twins were highspirited, strong, and inseparable. geminis are among the most intelligent citizens of the zodiac; but they have a dual nature, and they frequently have difficulty in choosing between two courses of action. they are active, and they love freedom, change, and variety. in matters of health, nerves are liable to p

territorial unit, one who holds a preeminent position and is a chief among competitors. it is the same in the tarot. the kings of batons, coins, cups, and swords each stand for a powerful male person with superior qualities, knowledge, and abilities in the category represented by his symbol. a queen, in the world and in the tarot, is the female counterpart of a king, and the same may be said for the queen of each respective suit with respect for gender. a cavalier, or knight, is a man upon whom a corresponding dignity has been conferred by a monarch, and in the tarot, represents a young man with qualities much like those of his parents, the king and queen of the same suit. all royal families have servants, and so it is with the rulers of the minor arcana suits. the knave in each suit repr

suit represents either a young man or woman of humbler station than the cavalier, who is at times tricky, even deceitful. coins. coins, or money, is the symbol of enterprise and worldly glory. the king of coins represents a man of refinement, wise in the ways of the marketplace. if the king of coins turns up in an inverted position, he will bring the negative qualities of doubt, fear, and danger. the queen of money represents the hope of acquiring the ability to overcome obstacles. if inverted, she becomes a sign of evil. the cavalier of coins symbolizes omens of disunion, discord, or quarrels. if this card turns up with the knight fs head downward, its significance is reversed. the knave, or servant of the house of coins, brings good news. if the knave is dealt upside down, he becomes a b

as a sign of a promising undertaking. the five of coins points to gain and riches. card four predicts a successful enterprise. the three also points to a prosperous enterprise. two is a happy omen of good fortune. the one signifies a beginning. cups. of more vital concern than money in the lives of most people are love and happiness. the king of cups represents a just man of fair play. likewise, the queen of cups evokes the image of a well-loved, motherly woman. the knight of cups symbolizes a fair young man who possesses the same qualities as the king and queen. the page symbolizes similar qualities of love and happiness. if any of these cards are dealt inverted, their meaning signifies aspects of distrust and unhappiness. the ten of cups represents satisfaction in personal accomplishmen

a happy card, promising success. the two of cups symbolizes love, the result of one added to one. the one-spot alludes celebrations and good cheer. swords. the tarot cards bearing swords bring associations of power, authority, hatred, and misfortune. the king of swords represents a man of authority, one used to issuing orders and seeing to their execution even if they bring about grief and fear. the queen of swords allegorizes a woman who is malicious, spiteful, selfishly domineering. the knight of swords brings to mind the same dark thoughts as the king and queen. the valet of this ominous suit can be seen as a spiteful, malicious, and prying young man or woman. inverted, these cards suggest more positive applications of wealth and power. the ten of swords foreshadows tears, afflictions

ophecy and divination 133 four mirrors thoughts of stillness and periods of solitude. the three of swords is the card of severance and removal. the two stands for friendship. the ace is a herald of triumph. batons. the batons, also called rods or clubs, are symbols of the peasants or serfs of medieval society. the king of batons epitomizes the self-made man, a symbol of success through hard work. the queen of clubs is a loving woman, but very reserved. the knight of clubs indicates the presence of a helpful person. the valet who attends the royal family of finance is a man or woman of extremely sensitive nature. if any of these cards are inverted, they indicate individuals who may cause severe problems. the ten of batons depicts gambling for high stakes. nine indicates a loss of money. eig

onds represent the practical, material side of life, especially money. they can also stand for difficulties that will arise if insufficient energy is expended in the desire to accomplish financial goals. the ace of diamonds signifies a beginning or an important message that brings money or a gift to the recipient. the king of diamonds represents a man who has achieved material wealth and success. the queen of diamonds is a woman who is noted for her flirtatious nature and her tendency to gossip about others. the jack of diamonds symbolizes a jealous friend or relative. regarding the gspot h or numbered cards of the suit of diamonds: ten brings money.or possibly a journey that will result in financial success. nine signifies a wish to wander and explore. eight is a sign of financial success

a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 134 prophecy and divination tial lawsuits. two is a happy card of good fortune in both love and business. hearts: hearts symbolize a strong emotional force that can nullify evil and indicate success in business, as well as in love. the ace of hearts alludes to happiness in the home. the king of hearts is a just man, remembered for his fair play and his generosity. the queen of hearts evokes the image of a well-loved woman, a mother, faithful wife, or one fs true love. the jack symbolizes a reliable and trustworthy friend or relative. the ten of hearts promises success and good fortune in any project. the nine represents triumph, fulfillment, and success. when the eight turns up, it insures a happy occasion. seven indicates false hopes. the six reveals a wea

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

s, who appears to have been the pharaoh in his aspect as the incarnategod. the crown of osiris, of which the horizontal horns were an important part, was also the crown of themonarch, indicating to all who understood the symbolism that the king as god was the giver of all fertility'in the accounts of the divine birth of the egyptian kings, the future father of the divine child, the pharaoh,visits the queen as the god amon wearing all the insignia of divinity, including the horns. in this connection the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god7it should also be noted that down to the latest period of pharaonic history the divine father was always thehorned amon.there are two other links between egypt and the dancing god of ari350ge. on a slate palette, which is dated tothe period just be

called their grandmaster "christsonday. andro man confessed"that christsonday came to him in the likeness of a fair angel and clad in white clothes, and said that he wasan angel, and that he should put his trust in him and call him lord and king" and again "the devil thymaster, whom thou callest christsonday and supposest to be an angel and god's godson2424albeit he has athraw by god and sways to the queen of elfin2424is raised by speaking the word benedicite and is laid byspeaking the word maikpeblis. suchlike thou affirmest that the queen of elfin has a grip of all the craft, butchristsonday is the goodman and has all power under god" i suggest that the name christsonday is aconfusion of christus filius dei, i.e. son dei, dei being considered as a personal name by the ignorantworshippers

ulted the fairies between the hours of twelve and one at noon and at midnight, andalways went among "hills" for the purpose. bessie dunlop[5] in ayrshire saw eight women and four men,"the men were clad in gentlemen's clothing, and the women had all plaids round them and were veryseemly-like to see; she was informed that these were "from the court of elfame; she had previouslyreceived a visit from the queen of elfhame though without knowing at the time who her visitor was; shedescribed the queen as "a stout woman who came in to her and sat down on the form beside her and asked adrink at her and she gave it" alesoun peirsoun[6] in fifeshire, was "convict for haunting and repairing withthe good neighbours and queen of elphane, and she had many good friends at that court which were of herown b

nowing at the time who her visitor was; shedescribed the queen as "a stout woman who came in to her and sat down on the form beside her and asked adrink at her and she gave it" alesoun peirsoun[6] in fifeshire, was "convict for haunting and repairing withthe good neighbours and queen of elphane, and she had many good friends at that court which were of herown blood, who had good acquaintance with the queen of elphane" in leith, christian livingstone[7]affirmed "that her daughter was taken away with the fairy-folk, and that all the [occult] knowledge she hadwas by her daughter who met with the fairy. aberdeen was full of people who were well acquainted withfairies. one woman[8] told the judges that "what skill so ever she has she had it of her mother, and hermother learned it at an elf-man

under pain of death. jean weir,[10] sister of the celebrated witch,major weir, stated that "when she keeped a school at dalkeith and teached children, a tall woman came tothe declarant's house when the children were there; and that she had, as appeared to her, a child upon herback, and one or two at her foot; and that the said woman desired that the declarant should employ her tospeak for her to the queen of the fairy, and strike and battle in her behalf with the said queen (which was herown words. the records of the edinburgh justiciary court[11] gives an account of this transaction in ashorter and more sinister manner "jean weir took employment from a woman to speak in her behalf to thequeen of ffarie, meaning the devil. in almost every case of so-called witchcraft, from joan of arc in

e may hear a breech-bolt snick where never a man is seen."these primitive people or fairies were spread across the country in little communities, each governed by itsown ruler, as in modern africa. lady wilde notes that every district in ireland had its peculiar and separatefairy chief or king.[19] occasionally the names of the fairy kings and queens have survived.[20]from the great importance of the queen in the community it would seem that she was the real ruler and thatthe king had only a secondary place, except perhaps in case of war. property appears to have been communal,consequently marriage laws were non-existent, as was the case among the picts; and the fairy-queen inparticular was never bound to one husband only. this laxness of morals may have been one reason why thechristian ch

l christianpriests.the conditions of life in the neolithic and bronze-age settlements are fairly well known; the people practiseda little agriculture but in some parts were entirely pastoral. they owned all the domestic animals, but cattle the god of the witcheschapter ii. the worshippers20were their mainstay. isobel gowdie 21 in 1662 claimed to have gone into a fairy hill "and got meat therefrom the queen of fairy. there was elf-bulls routing and skoyling up and down there and affrighted me".these bulls made a great impression on her mind for in a further confession she said "we went in to thedownie hills; the hill opened, and we came to a fair and large braw room in the day time. there are elf-bullsrouting and skoyling there at the entry, which feared me" dogs of the chow type were kept

the isle of man, more often it was green or blue. the colours were dark as in the hunting-tartansof the highlands, and the extremely dark blue gave rise to the belief in the black fairies. as john walsh[22](1566) expresses it "there be three kindes of fairies, the black, the white, and the green, of which the blackbe the woorst. a century later isobel gowdie[23] volunteered the information that "the queen of fairy isbrawly clothed in white linens, and in white and brown clothes, etc, and the king of fairy is a braw man, wellfavoured, and broad-faced, etc" it is most unfortunate that the recording clerk always put "etc" when isobelbegan to give any real details about the fairies. possibly he was afraid to record any information about thoseterrifying people.the colours of the fairies' dress

dressed in green with a hat or cap; and on all occasions they wore greencloaks or mantles, possibly arranged like a plaid.when going among the villagers the records show that the fairies were dressed like their neighbours,apparently lest they should attract attention and so be recognised. bessie dunlop[32 (1576) did not know tilllong afterwards that the "stout woman" who visited her was actually the queen of elfhame. there are alsoinnumerable stories of "mortals" entering a fairy knowe and thereby becoming acquainted with theappearance of some of the fairies whom they recognised later among the villagers; such recognitioninvariably met with severe punishment. the fairy-woman of modern ireland is described as being like arespectable house-keeper dressed in black; and as it is impossible to

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thological figure of the daughter of the mother is central to this discussion. the mother s daughter is called by the clan of orvendale tara de rosilea, but the concept of the goddess of all having a daughter is as old as the hills- demeter s daughter kore or persephone springs to mind here, and this example is particularly apt in this case, because persephone was seen, in the classical world, as the queen of the dead, or the queen of the underworld- the queen of elfhame. before we continue this short discussion on the daughter, something has to be clarified: the title queen of elfhame can be confusing, as it is given to the mother and her daughter- but do not be disarranged by this. to begin with, there is a deeper relationship between the mother and her daughter than is readily apparent

of their parent s power and presence, just like human children bear their parents essence and blood. there is a mystery here, in the relationship between the witch gods, and their godly children, just as there is a similar mystery between the relationship of the witch gods and their human children. all of the wise must strive to understand this relationship. the dame s daughter went on to become the queen of elfhame, or of the underworld; she gained that crown through her journey and deeds. the mythology will demonstrate this. it was the dark one, her mother, that was the original queen of elfhame, but in a strictly non- linear sense of reality (and in the sense that the mother and daughter can be seen as one figure) there was no passing of the torch. it is important to realize that the d

dangerous daughter of the earth. she is the living force of the countryside, the heath- and her name horn conceals a secret that unlocks immortality. lady horn is the spirit that teaches the wise; she is the mistress of the craft and all families and covens of the hidden craft. her cats are forever present. when she rode up above, on the serpent-tracks, her name was lady tara de rosilea. she was the queen of the heath, and the spirits of the land (the wanes) and the hidden folk within and below it. her primary attributes are fire, cunning, and sexuality. she is the dame venus of legends and lore, as well as the queen of the underworld, or the kore. dr. peter kingsley has recently proven the connection in the classical world between venus and the queen of the underworld. as one of the daug

a very active hypostasis. tara de rosilea is very much seen as a survival of the figure of freyja or freya, from northern paganism. if you read the myths, you will see that freya was also a child of the earth mother, and bore all the attributes of the daughter, up to and including a shared rulership over half the dead, along with queen hel (a figure that is cognate with dame hyldor) and freya was the queen of wanahame- the home/spiritual dimension of the wans, the land spirits or elder gods of the land and nature. freya was likewise the goddess of witchcraft. as the dame represents the darker and more passive mysteries and realities, this daughter shows the active and fiery essence that acts in tandem with them. whe n the mother is encountered, it is normally the daughter that is met, thou

rned away in the fire of the transcendent, leaving only the pure essence, leaving only what the child represents. all that is left is the perfection that was before fate began a new world system; the golden age is restored, the world made anew. in the ballad of thomas the rhymer, the fruit on the trees of elfhame are considered to be poisonous in their natural state. they had to be transformed by the queen of elfhame into wine and bread, to make them safe for thomas to eat. the primal force of the fruit was deadly, until it was transformed, by thomas devotion to the redeeming feminine, into the bread and wine of the housle. symbolically, this is saying something that should be quite easy to comprehend now- the fruit (grapes, wheat, or any fruit growing from the ground) is of the positive p

the raw fruits represent are the positive poles of any organic duality. to choose to live in a world, or to be involved with a fated chain of experiences wherein distinctions like mortal and immortal and good and bad and life and death and right and wrong are dominant, is to choose to be mortal, trapped by the common mortal dualistic perceptions, and to choose to eventually die one day. but when the queen transforms the primal forces of life, embodied by the fruit, into their transcendent forms- bread and wine, they are no longer of the dual forces of life and death- they now represent the true immortal state- which is not either this nor that- it is a mysterious third state that is separate from all dualities, and yet, somehow mysteriously related to them. it is (as thomas then saw, afte

primal forces of life, embodied by the fruit, into their transcendent forms- bread and wine, they are no longer of the dual forces of life and death- they now represent the true immortal state- which is not either this nor that- it is a mysterious third state that is separate from all dualities, and yet, somehow mysteriously related to them. it is (as thomas then saw, after he ate the housle with the queen) the mysterious third road between the road that leads to life and the road that leads to death. the third road is the way that the hidden company follow, the way of the master-men and master-women. it is the hidden road that the witch-way reveals to those who understand. to truly exist, to be aware of what you really are, is not to be an individual, nor is it to be one with all. those a

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lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. but diana is not conquered by venus; her endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in motherhood! quit the tomb, o phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy first jupiter: it is now that thou wilt conceive a god! o rome, let thy temples rise again, side by side with thy basilicas: be once more the queen of the world, and the pantheon of the nations; let vergil be crowned on the capitol by the hand of st. peter; and let olympus and carmel unite their divinities beneath the brush of raphael! transfigure yourselves, ancient cathedrals of our fathers; dart forth into the clouds your chiselled and living arrows, and 62 let stone record in animated figures the dark legends of the north, brigh

ind in it stronger conjurations, and more efficacious rites "really! but the man is then a monster, or a madman "i think he is just simply in love" said desbarrolles "he is gnawed by some absurd passion, and hopes for absolutely nothing unless he can get the devil to interfere "but how then- what does he mean when he says that we shall hear him spoken of "who knows? perhaps he thinks to carry off the queen of england, or the sultana valide" the conversation dropped, and a whole year passed 165 without mme. a. or desbarrolles, or eliphas hearing the unknown young priest spoken of. in the course of the night between the 1st and 2nd of january, 1857, eliphas levi was awakened suddenly by the emotions of a bizarre and dismal dream. it seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic a

e tarot<history of tarot and chess are worthless 18th century fables. the "bohemians, by which levi means the gypsies, did not arrive in europe until centuries after the appearance of tarot. tarot may have imitated chess, but the antiquity of the latter precludes any influence by the former> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vul

means of dice. it is a tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. now, the word tarot, in which one finds "rota" and "tora" itself expresses, as william postel has demonstrated, this primitive disposition in the form of a wheel. the hieroglyphs of the game of goose are simpler than those of the tarot, but one finds the same symbols in it: the juggler, the king, the queen, the tower, the devil or typhon, death, and so on. the diceindicated chances of the game represent those of life, and conceal a highly philosophical sense sufficiently profound to make sages meditate, and simple enough to be understood by children. the allegorical personage palamedes, is, however, identical with enoch, hermes, and cadmus, to whom various mythologies have attributed the i

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

is an immanent model of the current, ongoing process of manifestation, and hence binah is shaping reality always now, as the source of archetypes. binah is the indivisible template of all things, and hence is the source of all forms, of which names are a symbolic key, and thus it is no surprise that the sephirah is accorded many titles, amongst them the ultimate mother, the primal ocean of birth, the queen of heaven, the bitter sea, and the city of pyramids. binah is spelt in hebrew beth-yod-nun-heh (bynh, and is translated as "understanding. the word begins with beth, which is taken to be the "archetype of all containers, appropriate to the position of binah as head of the passive pillar of form. the letters of binah signify the process as follows: beth: the universal will is contained yo

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

a red ray from geburah, try using a blue ray from the watery sphere of chesed to wash away the source of infection and cleanse the area. version 4 visualize your own inner sephiroth in their king scale colors.33 your geburah will be orange, and your tiphareth will be rose pink. their corresponding rays of light will also be projected in these colors. the recipient's sephroth can be visualized in the queen scale colors (their usual colors) or simply whte. version 5 incorporate massage therapy into the exercise. have the recipient lie down (face up or face down) on a massage table or on a blanket on the floor. walk the recipient through one of the relaxation techniques given earlier but combine it with healing massage techniques. then, after establishng the middle pillar withn yourself, est

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

ay until such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his colour is purple. his essence is in the material tin, and in brass. his gate is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. thi

yu lini kunushi shadu yu linir kunushi shadu yu likattin kunushi shadu yu dannu elikunu limqut ina zumri ya lu yu tapparrasama! the book of calling this is the book of the ceremonies of calling, handed down since the time the elder gods walked the earth, conquerors of the ancient ones. this is the book of ninnghizhidda, horned serpent, the lady of the magick wand. this is the book of ninaxakuddu, the queen, mistress of the incantations. this is the book of asalluxi, the king, the lord of magick. this is the book of azag, the enchanter. this is the book of egura, the dark waters of absu, realm of ereshkigal, queen of death. this is the book of the ministers of knowledge, firik and pirik, the demon of the snake-entwined magick wand and the demon of the thunderbolt, protectors of the arcane f

he land of the living, and the ministers of absu are clearly walking the earth, riding on the air, and upon the earth, and sailing silently through the water, and roaring in the fire, and all these spirits must be brought to subjection to the person of the priest of magick, before any else. or the priest becomes prey to the eye of death of the seven annunnaki, lord of the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by

mbroidered in the most precious silk, or expensive cloth. and the colours thereof shall be only black and white, and no other. and the frontlet of calling, and the standards of calling, shall all be of fine cloth, and in the colours of ninib and inanna, that is, of black and white, for ninib knows the outer regions and the ways of the ancient ones, and inanna subdued the underworld and vanquished the queen thereof and the crown of calling shall bear the eight-rayed star of the elder gods, and may be of beaten copper, set in with precious stones. and thou shalt bear with thee a rod of lapis lazuli, the five-rayed star about thy neck, the frontlet, the girdle, the amulet of ur about thine arm, and a pure and unspotted robe. and these things shall be worn for the operations of calling only, a

lla! ia anu! ia enlil! ia nngi! zabao! here follows several particular invocations, for summoning various powers and spirits. there may be words of necromantic art, by which it is desirous to speak with the phantom of someone dead, and perhaps dwelling in absu, and thereby a servant of ereshkigal, in which case the preliminary invocation that follows is to be used, which is the invocation used by the queen of life, inanna, at the time of her descent into that kingdom of woe. it is no less then the opening of the gate of ganzir, that leads to the seven steps into the frightful pit. therefore, do not be alarmed at the sights and sounds that will issue forth from that opening, for they will be the wails and laments of the shades that are chained therein, and the shrieking of the mad god on th

advantage, after the priest has already trod their ways after the manner of the walking. after the priest has gained entrance to the gate of nanna, he may summon the spirits of that realm, but not before. these things you will learn in the course of your journey, and it is not necessary to put it all down here, save for a few noble formulae concerning the works of the sphere of libat, of ishtar, the queen. these are works of the gentle passions, which seek to engender affection between man and woman. and they may best be done in a circle of white, the priest being properly cleansed and in a clean robe. preliminary purification invocation bright one of the heavens, wise ishtar mistress of the gods, whose "yes" is truly "yes" proud one among the gods, whose command is supreme mistress of he

door open wide the gate lest i cause the dead to rise! i will raise up the dead! i will cause the dead to rise and devour the living! open the door lest i cause the dead to outnumber the living! ninnghizhidda, spirit of the deep, watcher of the gate, open! ninnghizhidda the great serpent coiled back on itself and answered ishtar lady queen among the gods i go before my mistress ereshkigal before the queen of death i will announce thee. and ninnghizhidda horned serpent approached the lady ereshkigal and said: behold, ishtar, thy sister queen among the gods stands before the gate! daughter of sin, mistress of enki she waits. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred. go, watcher of the gate. go, ninnghizhidda, watcher of the gate, open the door to ishtar and treat her as it

rworld drew around her faceless gods of absu they stared fixed her with the eye of death withe the glance of death they killed her and hung her like a corpse from a stake the sixty demons tearing her limbs from her sides her eyes from her head her ears from her skull. ereshkigal rejoiced. blind azag-thoth rejoiced iak sakkak rejoiced ishniggarrab rejoiced kutulu rejoiced the maskim gave praise to the queen of death the gigim gave praise to ereshkigal, queen of death. and the elder ones were rent with fear. our father enki lord of magick receiving word by ninshubur ishtar's servant ninshubur he hears of ishtar's sleep in the house of death he hears how ganzir has been opened how the face of abyss opened wide its mouth and swallowed the queen of heaven queen of the rising of the sun. and enk

mat spawned in hubur with the sign of hubur lead by kingu. with haste they fled through the palace of death stopping only at the corpse of ishtar the beautiful queen mistress of the gods lady of all the harlots of ur bright shining one of the heavens beloved of enki lay hung and bleeding from a thousand fatal wounds. ereshkigal sensing their presence cried out. kugaaru armed with fire looked upon the queen of corpses with the ray of fire kalaturru armed with flame looked upon the queen of the graves with the rays of flame. and ereshkigal mighty in cutha turned her face upon the corpse of inanna sixty times they sprinkled the water of life of enki upon the corpse of ishtar sixty times they sprinkled the food of life of enki upon the corpse hung from a stake they directed the spirit of life

th gate they fled ishtar took back her jewelled crown. and the demons rose and the spirits of the dead and went with her out of the gates looking neither right nor left walking in front and behind they went with ishtar from the gate of ganzir out of the netherworld they accompanied her and ereshkigal scorned queen of the abyss wherein all are drowned pronounced a curse solemn and powerful against the queen of the rising of the sun and nammtar gave it form. when the lover of ishtar beloved of the queen of heaven goes down before me goes through the gate of ganzir to the house of death when with him the wailing people come the weeping woman and the wailing man when dumuzi is slain and buried may the dead rise and smell the incense! v stoop not down, therefore, unto the darkly shining world w

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

ces (where the sense becomes tangled in the reader fs mind) f he loses none of the beauty of rime and rhythm, he never becomes bored, never weary. set in the pure gold of verse and line, lie lyrics of surpassing beauty: tannhauser (the longest of the poems) would be a magnificent contemplation even if we cut from it its sparkling songs, but with them it becomes superb, neither are there too many; the queen of our poet fs ideals is no gilded prostitute, no theodora hung with a myriad flashing jewels, but rather some chaste priestess carrying on her breast the mystic symbol of isis, whose belt is a jewelled zodiac, and in whose hand is the eternal ankh *except perhaps in orpheus. this interspersing of lyrics has been carried to a charming intensity of expression and their effect on the mind

ly draw out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. o suddenly i felt a kiss enclose my whole live body, as a rich red rose folding its sweetness round the honey-bee! i felt a perfect soul embracing me, and in my spirit like a river flows a passion like the passion of the sea *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic. vol. i, p. 100. so ends the first part of this mystical and symbolic poem, in the second part the queen speaks, her love is similar to that of galice, h if not sublimer: gi was so glad he loved enough to go h. gmy arms could never have released his neck. h the king dies and soon the queen also. love is symbolized in this poem in its higher form as above death. she seeks and finds gthere is no sin. h and i? i knew not anything, but know we are still silent, and united so, and all our being

st h and gtannhauser, h we find represented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love. in the former, questing for the ideal of his hopes, man falls tangled into the arms of the real; in the latter, entangled, he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion, and at length succeeds in releasing himself from the magic threads. in gthe nameless quest, h gereth is in love with the queen, and the king calls on a knight to go on the nameless quest to a certain pillar which lies at the end of the road which leads from human desire to divine contentment; around it lie the bones of the gquesting slain h unburied, unremembered, unconfessed; gereth fs name is cried aloud, and the king bids him godspeed, girding on him his own true sword, whilst the queen draws from her finger

lf. he hears echoing ggereth, i am thine! h and falling back on his purpose, the illusions of spirit and mind dissolve to the desolate cry of gunready. h haggard and worn, back to the court he wends his weary way, back to the king, back to his self fs desire; and there, taunted by the husband of the mistress he had denied himself in vain, stung with insult and vile word, he slays him: stark dead. the queen. i hate the name of her! so grew the mustard-seed, one moment fs lust *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 192. wounded himself, he is nursed back to life by the wife of his adversary. ah god! she won that most reluctant breath out of corruption: love! ah! love is strong! what waters quench it? king shalomeh saith *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 192. thus failed the quest

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

s that which was from nightmares, which still copulates with our dreams and brings us visions of our vast possibility as living beings. tiamat was betrayed by her child, marduk and was joined with him in battle. in this battle did another plot with marduk to capture and slay her. when she was cut open, the north wind bore her blood to secret places. gunkel and bousset describe that tiamat who was the queen of the abyss and darkness, supported by her infernal spirits rebelled against the higher gods of which marduk was of. tabaet is said to be the name of tiamat, the book of enoch mentions this serpent to not just an abyssic demon, rather a fallen angel who beholds power in the noon tide sun. the serpent later with the use of seduction, tempted mankind to accept the gift of the black flame

concept of god as so many have decried. in the west, all gods and demons have been transformed to suit whatever they need it for, such is known as a mild case of chaos magick and thus may be useful. the luciferian knows the importance of discipline, if you build yourself in the image of the adversary with the traits associated with, the adept will truly be a god upon this earth. lilith, known as the queen of demons, a bestial body with a sometimes beautiful appearance, was called mother of ahriman and is related to blood sucking vampiric demons and other night spirits. lilith is one half of the adversary is there were, is truly a satanic or luciferian source of self-mastery and strength. lilith is said to howl at the head of 480 companies of demons, having sometimes appearance with a char

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

6 and king solomon made a navy of ships in eziongeber, which is beside eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land of edom. 9:27 and hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of solomon. 9:28 and they came to ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king solomon. page 203 1 kings 10:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon concerning the name of the lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. 10:2 and she came to jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 10:3 and solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any

ame of the lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. 10:2 and she came to jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 10:3 and solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not. 10:4 and when the queen of sheba had seen all solomon s wisdom, and the house that he had built, 10:5 and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the lord; there was no more spirit in her. 10:6 and she said to the king, it was a true report that i heard in mine own lan

[and] that hear thy wisdom. 10:9 blessed be the lord thy god, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of israel: because the lord loved israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. 10:10 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of sheba gave to king solomon. 10:11 and the navy also of hiram, that brought gold from ophir, brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 10:12 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord, and for the king s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 10:13 and king solo

heba gave to king solomon. 10:11 and the navy also of hiram, that brought gold from ophir, brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 10:12 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord, and for the king s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 10:13 and king solomon gave unto the queen of sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which solomon gave her of his royal bounty. so she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. 10:14 now the weight of gold that came to solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold. 10:15 beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the

g] yet a little child. 1 kings page 204 11:18 and they arose out of midian, and came to paran: and they took men with them out of paran, and they came to egypt, unto pharaoh king of egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. 11:19 and hadad found great favour in the sight of pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of tahpenes the queen. 11:20 and the sister of tahpenes bare him genubath his son, whom tahpenes weaned in pharaoh s house: and genubath was in pharaoh s household among the sons of pharaoh. 11:21 and when hadad heard in egypt that david slept with his fathers, and that joab the captain of the host was dead, hadad said to pharaoh, let me depart, that i may go to mine own country. 11:22 then pharaoh said unto

all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. 10:12 and he arose and departed, and came to samaria [and] as he [was] at the shearing house in the way, 10:13 jehu met with the brethren of ahaziah king of judah, and said, who [are] ye? and they answered, we [are] the brethren of ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen. 10:14 and he said, take them alive. and they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them. 10:15 and when he was departed thence, he lighted on jehonadab the son of rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? and jehonadab answered, it is

nished. so the house of the lord was perfected. 8:17 then went solomon to ezion-geber, and to eloth, at the sea side in the land of edom. 8:18 and huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of solomon to ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king solomon. 9:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon, she came to prove solomon with hard questions at jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 9:2 and solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from solomon which he told her not

heba heard of the fame of solomon, she came to prove solomon with hard questions at jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 9:2 and solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from solomon which he told her not. 9:3 and when the queen of sheba had seen the wisdom of solomon, and the house that he had built, 9:4 and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the lord; there was no more spirit in her. 9:5 and she said to the king [it was] a true report which i

om. 9:8 blessed be the lord thy god, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne [to be] king for the lord thy god: because thy god loved israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice. 9:9 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of sheba gave king solomon. 9:10 and the servants also of huram, and the servants of solomon, which brought gold from ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. 9:11 and the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the lord, and to the king s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of judah. 9:12 and king solomon

n of sheba gave king solomon. 9:10 and the servants also of huram, and the servants of solomon, which brought gold from ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. 9:11 and the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the lord, and to the king s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of judah. 9:12 and king solomon gave to the queen of sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. so she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants. 9:13 now the weight of gold that came to solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; 9:14 beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. and all the kings of arabia and governors of the co

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

principle of generation, operating in various modes. apuleius invokes isis by the names of the eleusinian ceres, celestial venus, and proserpine; and, when the goddess answers him, she describes herself as follows: i am, says she, nature, the parent of things, the sovereign of the elements, the primary progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose, with my nod, the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mournful silence of the dead; whose single deity the whole 1 pausanias (lib. ii) says he knew the meaning of this symbol, but did not choose to reveal it, it being a part of the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world

se ardente, homme effac, duquel la forme ne paroist qu a demy, avec une voix cass, morsondue, et non articul e, mais imp rieuse, bruiante, et effroyable. si bien qu on ne s auroit bonnement dire le voir s il est homme, tronc, ou beste. il est assis dans une chaire, dor e en apparence, mais flamboiante: la royne ddu sabbat son cost, qui est quelque sorci re qu il 222 on the worship of the side sat the queen of the sabbath, one of the witches whom he had debauched, to whom he chose to give greater honour than to the others, and whom he decked in gay robes, with a crown on her head, to serve as a bait to the ambition of the rest. candles of pitch, or torches, yielded a false light, which gave people in appearance monstrous forms and frightful faces. here you see false fires, through which som

ion of his book, and which places the whole scene before us so vividly that we have had it re-engraved in facsimile as an illustration to the present essay.1 the different groups are, as will be seen, indicated by capital letters. at a we have satan in his gilt pulpit, with five horns, the one in the middle lighted, for the purpose of giving light to all the candles and fires at the sabbath. b is the queen of the sabbath, seated at his right hand, while another favorite, though in less degree, sits on the other side. c, a witch presenting a child which she has seduced. d, the witches, each with her demon, seated at table. e, a party of four witches and sorcerers, who are only admitted as spectators, and are not allowed animal comme le mieux pourveu: qu il l a long et gros comme le bras: qu

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ation. if a woman, she merges with her mother and renews her to remarry with the father. this dynamic relationship found its physical expression among the rulers of egypt. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg, bird, and serpent for rock, paper, and scissors. the hand signs used are the same: the fist is the egg; the flat of the hand forms the wing of the bird; and the two extended fingers become the forked tongue of the serpent. in

r one sephirah in one of the four kabbalistic worlds. for example, the seven of cups symbolizes netzach, or victory, in the world of briah, creation. the sixteen face cards belong to the philosophical elements in this order: kings: fire queens: water knights: air pages: earth since each suit also corresponds to an element, the face cards have a greater and a lesser elemental quality. for example, the queen of scepters is of the watery nature of fire. the title of the face card provides the active element, and the suit provides the ground against which it acts. the uses of the tarot in magic are too many to list. each individual card can be the object of fruitful meditations. cards can be used as talismans, as instru- ments of ritual workings, as patterns for god-forms, and as symbols of po

y the golden dawn, and are fairly widely accepted. red is the color of fire, blue the color of water, yellow the color of air, and black the color of earth. however, earth is also said to have four earthy colors associated with it that correspond to the four worlds of the kabbalah. russet (atziluth, olive (briah, citrine (yetzirah, and black (assiah. these derive from the path of malkuth (ten) on the queen scale, and are represented in the pentacle of earth used in golden dawn magic. the signs of the zodiac were assigned the colors on the king scale of those paths on the tree where the zodiac signs appear. these are, in the golden dawn order: aries (fifteen, scarlet, taurus (sixteen, red-orange, gemini (seventeen, orange, cancer (eighteen, amber, leo (nineteen, greenish yellow, virgo (twen

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ing the astral perception of this kind of spiritual being. the smaller stature and antique garments are not invariable in the appearance of fairies, but they are habitual. 49. evans-wentz, fairy-faith in celtic countries, 32. 50. eliade, 72. chapter three: the land of fairy 41 the fairy queen fairy society is a monarchy. they are ruled by a king and queen, but the king is much less prominent than the queen, and perhaps less powerful. this is not true in all the accounts of fairies, but it is so in the majority of tales. shakespeare's play a midsummer night's dream (c. 1595, in which king oberon and queen titania rule fairyland together as equal partners, does not reflect the countless encounters with the fairy queen that occur in more simple folktales. sometimes the queen is met on the roa

park, is essential and yet to some extent impotent, in the sense that he acts only in a secondary way through his agents, whereas shakti acts directly of her own accord. we see exactly the same dynamic in the game of chess. the king is the most important piece on the board-when the king is lost the game is forfeited-yet he has little power of his own. the greatest active power in chess is held by the queen. queen elizabeth i of england was often compared with the queen of fairies, an association she played up to the hilt as a way of impressing her less educated subjects. her mother, anne boleyn, had been rumored to be a witch, so it was not such a leap to believe that elizabeth herself had commerce with the fairies, or even commanded their realm, just as she commanded the realm of england

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

esod to the violet sphere around the groin, and malkuth to the green sphere around the feet. green is only one of the colors associated by the golden dawn with malkuth, but for the purposes of the middle pillar exercise it is the most appropriate. daath does not have its own color, so i have used the dynamic silver-gray of chokmah, the second sephirah on the tree. all of the colors are drawn from the queen scale of colors in the golden dawn system of magic. if some of these remarks are obscure, you will be glad to learn that you do not need to understand the origins of the various parts of the exercise to derive benefit by practicing it. strong visualization coupled with intense, sustained concentration are the keys to success. do not hurry through the exercise. spend several minutes conte

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

irit who delivers the enochian keys. dee asks madimi's mother her name, and the spirit answers "i am of the word, and by the word (casaubon, p. 27. when dee persists, the spirit becomes annoyed and says "i am; what more will you" and then flies away like a fire. the mother may perhaps be a version of the gnostic goddess barbelo and may be the subject of the unexpressed primordial key. she is also the queen of heaven described in revelation 12, who is clothed with the sun, has the moon under her feet, and wears a crown of twelve stars. it is not widely recognized by occultists who employ the keys in their magic that the forty-eight keys, taken as a whole, represent a complex ritual working whose sole purpose is to open the four sealed gates of the watchtowers, allowing the entry of the grea

although the hand of the sun is longer than that of the moon, the sun, which points to the hours, appears to me to be the hour hand. this would be symbolically correct. the circular face of the clock is enclosed in a square with four circular windows, one in each corner (symbolizing the four beasts. above the clock is a statue of the seated virgin mary holding christ upon her knee. she represents the queen of heaven in revelation 12:l. to her right is a large roman numeral x; to her left is an equally large arabic numeral 5 (in connection with these numerals, see the description of the hieroglyphic monad in chapter viii, specifically dee's comments regarding the roman numeral x. in passing, it might be pointed out that much of this symbolism appears, in a degenerate form, upon the tarot ca

f human souls to their rightful place in the heavens. this voluntary degradation, or descent into forgetfulness("and the dwelling places, let them forget their names .confound her understanding with darkness) is usually symbolized in the various myths by prostitution. in the vision of st. john, the goddess earth becomes the great whore babylon, who from a gnostic perspective is a degraded form of the queen of heaven. among some gnostic sects, she was called barbelo or sophia. in the myth of the simonian gnostics, she is helena, one of whose incarnations was helen of troy. the gnostic prophet simon, who was confused with the biblical simon magus by the fathers of the church, taught that he was himself the highest power, god the father. according to irenaeus, a very biased reporter, simon fo

e shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity, and 248 tetragrammaton the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the dinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen "by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped" whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the let

VOX SABBATUM

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

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

olism in the form of dramatic mystery, alluding slightly, and from a philosophical point of view only, to the fact that in certain schools they are regarded as delineating momentous experiences in the history and life of man's soul. that new birth which conferred upon the eleusinian mystae the title of regenerated children of the moon- so that each one of them was henceforth symbolically a son of the queen of heaven- born as a man originally and reborn in a divine manner- has its correspondence on a much higher plane of symbolism with the divine birth in bethlehem, according to which a child was "born" and a son "given" who, in hypothesis at least, was the son of god, but son also of mary- one of whose titles, according to latin theology, is queen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and na

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ry, amazed at its unusual size, had cut the tree down, and made that part of the trunk wherein the chest was concealed into a pillar to support the roof of his house. these things, they say, having been made known to isis in an extraordinary manner by the report of demons, she immediately went to byblos, where, setting herself down by the side of a fountain, she refused to speak to anybody except the queen's women who chanced to be there. these, however, she saluted and caressed in the kindest manner possible, plaiting their hair for them, and transmitting into them part of that wonderful odour which issued from her own body. this raised a great desire in the queen their mistress to see the stranger who had this admirable faculty of transfusing so fragrant a smell from herself into the hai

, sa sis, though some call her nemanoun, which answers to the greek name athenais. xvi. isis nursed the child by giving it her finger to suck instead of the breast. she likewise put him each night into the fire in order to consume his mortal part, whilst, having transformed herself into a swallow, she circled round the pillar and bemoaned her sad fate. this she continued to do for some time, till the queen, who stood watching her, observing the child to be all of a flame, cried out, and thereby deprived him of some of that immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess then made herself known, and asked that the pillar which supported the roof might be given to her. having taken the pillar down, she cut it open easily, and having taken out what she wanted, she

r injures anyone who travels in this sort of vessel.[fn#307] and this, they say, hath given rise to the report that there are very many different sepulchres of osiris in egypt, for wherever isis found one of the scattered portions of her husband's body, there she buried it. others, however, contradict this story, and tell us that the variety of sepulchres of osiris was due rather to the policy of the queen, who, instead of the real body, as she pretended, presented to these cities only an image of her husband. this she did in order to increase the honours which would by these means be paid to his memory, and also to defeat typhon, who, if he were victorious in his fight against horus in which he was about to engage, would search for the body of osiris, and being distracted by the number of

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

the i.a.o. is performed, and this is the way to open the twelve faculties of the soul. the soul is christified, the kundalini blooms upon our fertile lips made verb. the ternary5 is the word, plenitude, fecundity, nature, the generation of the three worlds. the third arcanum of kabbalah is that woman dressed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and crowned with twelve stars. the symbol of the queen of heaven is the empress of the tarot. she is a mysterious, crowned woman, seated with the scepter of command in her hand. the globe of the world is on top of the scepter. she is urania-venus of the greeks, the christified soul. the man is the arcanum number one and the woman is the arcanum number two of the tarot. the christified soul is the outcome of the sexual union of both (the secr

ar of the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, trunk, bud, leaf, flower and seed of all that exists; we conjure thee, naturalizing force. we call upon the queen of space and of the night, and kissing her loving eyes, drinking the dew from her lips, breathing the sweet aroma of her body, we exclaim: oh thou, nut! eternal seity of heaven, who art the primordial soul, who art what was and what shall be, whose veil no mortal has lifted, when thou art beneath the irradiating stars of the nocturnal and profound sky of the desert, with purity of heart

great cosmic realizations. the acronym vitriol, with its seven letters and its seven words, completely symbolizes the great work. the mysteries of the arcane vii are terribly divine. the acronym vitriol with its seven letters and its seven words symbolizes the entire septenary great work that shines like the sun in the temple of science. the sun and the moon, the fire and the water, the king and the queen form an integral part of any apprentice of alchemy. the apprentice has to perform seven great works that culminate with the crowning of the great work. el sol (phalo) es el padre de la piedra. la luna( tero) es la madre. el viento llev al hijo en su seno, y la tierra lo aliment. el sol y la luna, los principios masculinos y femeninos se combinan dentro del c liz (s mbolo de la mente) el

he who incarnates the soul, acquires true identity. he already is. the human being is still a non-achieved being [a being not yet achieved. the willpower the human being confuses the force of desire with the willpower. we need to generate the christ-will. the laboratorium oratorium the adept and his/her spouse must work together in the laboratorium oratorium. in the nuptial chamber, the king and the queen perform their alchemical combinations. out of the royal chamber, the ravens of putrefaction devour the sun and the moon (the blackening and putrefying of the internal chrysalides or bodies of sin. the tomb of glass is the alchemist s cup. the souls shuttle to fly (symbol of the butterfly that comes out from within the chrysalis, a symbol of the christified vehicles that come out from wit

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ure can be successfully used with any angel or archangel. although there are other color scales. in the golden dawn tradition there are four, which correspond to the four worlds.we are using what is known as the king scale, which case advises for the tarot keys, zodiacal signs and corresponding hebrew letters (i. e, the tree paths. the sephiroth or planetary color scales are from what is known as the queen scale. what is most important is consistency and knowing the correct complementary color scales to make flashing color tablets (see the table in figure 2-f. a practice flashing tablet historical writers in the beginning of the christian era recorded the belief that the stones of the breastplate of the high priest were so highly magnetized by their particular angelic rulers that they resp

. it must be noted that she uses some different color correspondences. all of the correspondences used in this book, including this chapter on tattwas, are qabalah based and relate to what is known as the king color scale (with the exception of pluto/daath, which is not here given as a path correspondence, as are the others) although mathers (1971) seemed to think that the tattwas related more to the queen scale, he also noted that this use tends to make one more passive. we feel that the uses developed here help maintain concentration and are more effective than the twenty-five designs originally developed in the golden dawn. the chart in figure 14-d lists some corresponding mental and emotional states aroused by stimulating these zodiacal tattwas. the following section lists the overall

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

heduled to be the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist global state called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is said to be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how the design of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why. colorado is a major centre for the new world order and the queen of england, under another name, has been buying upland there. as you will see later, the british royal family are massively involved in this story and so is the murder of diana, princess of wales. end icke quote [note: i recall reading a post some time ago from a person who had a vision of mammoth lakes in california exploding suddenly, sending volcanic ash over a huge area of the countr

idya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (59 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:01] a cathedral with a dome containing 1,000 lights. when president george bush talked of 1,000 points of light, he was speaking in code about this place of initiation for the highest initiates of the satanic pyramid. in this satanic cathedral is the throne of the high priestess of the upper hierarchy, a position known as the queen mother" every day, apparently, a child is sacrificed in the basement" ceremonies are performed here to the satanic 'goddess' known as lilith, a demon in the hebrew cabala. in ancient sumer the reptilian bloodline, as passed on through the female, was symbolised as lily and the main reptilian gene carriers were given names like lilith, lill, lilutu and lillette. another demon used by some

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ade the spirits work for him. manuscripts were sold at high prices, giving the rites and words of power used by him and professing to teach others to do the same. the lesser gentry who made no secret of their practices were easy prey and yielded much loot to the church, until the persecution turned to higher game such as lady alice kyteler in ireland. lady glamis, who i believe was an ancestor of the queen, was burned alive in 1537 as a witch! the duchess of gloucester was condemned to the dreaded bishop's prison in peel castle, isle of man, where she languished sixteen years until her death. her companion margery, the witch of eye, was burned alive and roger witche (note the name) or bolingbroke, a clerk and churchman, was drawn from the tower of london to tyburn and there hanged, beheade

being done and firmly believes that it will kill him, then he can frighten himself to death. a witch may make an image and frighten people with it if they believe that she has the power to kill. any person may do it and the effect may be much the same, so this form of evil is not exclusive to witchcraft. in 1318 the bishop of troyes was tried, the evidence showing that he had made a wax image of the queen of france, and that after doing various indignities to it, burned it, and so the queen died! mr. hughes goes on to say (page 146 'witches cast spells, they raised havoc, they poisoned, they aborted cattle and inhibited human beings, they served the devil, parodied christian practices, allied themselves with the king's enemies, they copulated with other witches in male and female form who

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she fled to the shores of the red sea. adam called upon angels to find her and they did locate her, in the caves on the red sea. there she mated with demons and produced 100 lilim or lilitu, succubi and children spawn of her blood. needless to say, the angels felt little security in trying to persuade her back to adam. considering the lunar qualities and the connection to screech owls, lilith is the queen of witches. by witch i do mean cunning woman who is able, by the abilities of command to look, by her own dayside attributes and her concise desire to dress for success, is able to seduce and command by her will of appearance alone. by the nightside attribute, the goddess is the manifestation or channel of lilith, she becomes the witch queen herself, and able to work sorcery, attend the

hat should be considered is not that samael (or ashmodai) are considered evil in any moralistic way, however that samael is the solar and aggressive force of becoming. when one invokes samael, they become the dragon of darkness. the dragon is in reference to the primal force of the reptilian mind, cold and calculating while the darkness is itself the hidden source of knowledge. lilith is known as the queen of demons in hebrew lore, but also she has manifested throughout different cultures and times. kali is one of the 17 names of lilith, represented as the devouring black mother of india, who absorbs through time itself. kali is the proactive female, the mother which devours its young. while lilith is itself, a force of the subconscious, lunar and fluid sense of self, something so very rea

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

y throughout europe with their wives in the 1580s. every detail of their psychic conversations with angelic beings was diligently recorded. although the visions were mainly kelley's, dee also occasionally glimpsed them in the crystal. xvi in the very beginning of the enochian contacts, ave was said to have given dee a special crystal to use in the seances. this crystal aroused such curiosity that the queen journeyed out to dee's home at mortlake to see it for herself. however, when she arrived, she learned that dee's wife was dying, and so she refrained from intruding. after dee's death in 1608, the first publication of some of his diaries appeared. they were published by meric casaubon in 1659. these diaries are still available at the british library (cotton appendix xlvi, parts one and t

ver the seal (with a flashing tablet on top; and during the period of incubation, the flask is to be left on top of the seal. 18 19 in all cases of astral and alchemical workings, the seal can be opened using the following ritual. in the dee manuscripts the seal was cited as colorless, but since the order uses the seal for wore direct ritual purposes, it could be colored in the sphere of yesod in the queen scale, with some of the characters in the complementary color. since levanel is the planetary angel situated in the center of the seal, and its controlling point, the whole seal colored in the purple of yesod does produce some startling effects in the ceremony. introduction to the ritual of opening the seal dei aerneth campbell's notes on this were very sketchy. they read as follows "gar

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

carry out the trade on their behalf.these secret societies which ruthlessly eliminate anyone, especially their own, who do notcarry out orders, are merely threads in the same global network that connects with thefreemasons. they are, again, different masks on the same face. the drug trade was (andis) organised by the far east lodges of freemasonry. the grand lodge of england(current grand master, the queens cousin, the duke of kent) established lodges in chinaat amoy, canton, foochow, swatow, chefoo, chinkiang, hankow, newchang,282tongshan,wei-hai-wei, two at tientsin, three in shanghai, and five in hong kong.6when the chinese rulers acted to stop the supply of opium, the british used theirmilitary and naval might to defeat them. and the peace treaty after the conflict thengave the british

alduring the british withdrawal; and he was first sea lord, the pinnacle of the britishnavy, at the time of the british invasion of suez in 1958. mountbatten was killed by anira bomb in ireland in 1979, but as these terrorist groups subcontract hits betweeneach other the true origin of the assassination cannot be stated with certainty.the windsor wealththe windsors are wealthy beyond description. the queens title of the richestwoman in the world hardly tells the story and no wonder prince philip calls thewindsors the family firm. they have inherited the accumulated wealth of the queensblack nobility ancestors in land, homes, art treasures and jewels. some of them thequeen owns and others are officially owned by the state, which, as a result, she canpass on untaxed to each generation of her

et happenings in the world. she knows through thesechannels and others, where the best and worst investments are going to be and throughher secret network she can ensure that the most effective financial use is made of thatinformation. it was exposed in 1977 that the bank of england, the creation of the blacknobility, had established a company called the bank of england nominees ltd(boen, to hide the queens investments.20 the windsor line has had a particularlyprofitable relationship with the city of london since the reign of edward vii, the sonof queen victoria. edwards leading financial advisor was ernest cassel, the blacknobility banker. cassels daughter and heiress, edwina, would marry lord louismountbatten, the foremost influence on both prince philip and prince charles. edwardvii, a

buckingham of sandline international and yet another former member of the sas.74 hehad pulled the same diamonds-for-mercenaries arrangement on angola and he floatedthese concessions on the v ancouver stock-market as a company called diamond works.75another business partner of tony buckingham is david steel, the former leader of thebritish liberal party and anti-apartheid movement, and a member of the queens privycouncil.76 steels heritage oil and gas shares london offices with branch energy.77in sarajevo and the former y ugoslavia it has been working in conjunction with thequeens agency, the crown agents. defence systems ltd has substantial contracts withthe united nations, the world bank, bp royal dutch shell, s. g. warburg, creditsuisse, robert fleming, kleinwort benson, british airways

soames (nicknamedfatty, questioned her mental state. ive got a feeling she was rather more mentallystable than soames, somehow. in that panorama interview diana spoke in a way thatno insider ever has about the windsors. according to stephen dorrill in his book, thesecret conspiracy, inside the secret service in the 90s, control risks is the mostimportant of the private secret services operated by the queens privy council.81defence systems was bought by the american company armor holdings for $26million. armor is a front company for the george bush circle and the idea was to give399defence systems an american owner to allow expansion into the united statessecurity market. body armor and equipment inc. was a small family-owned companyuntil it went bankrupt in 1992 and was reorganised as armo

, the obedience of australia, published byxpo-imprint, 26 burlington close, london, in 1995.23the ultimate insider trader is the queen, p 74.24ibid.25stephen knight, the brotherhood (granada books, london, 1985, p 223.26anthony k. wikrent, the anglo-dutch corporate empire (el r, pp 113-132.27the brotherhood, p 211.28ibid.29the mail on sunday, august 12th 1998, p 9.30dean andromidas, crown agents: the queens managers (eir, pp 141-142.31ibid, p 141-142.32ibid, p 141.33the obedience of australia, p 55.34the brotherhood, p 217.35scott thompson, the queens honorary knights in america (el r, p 81.36james shelby downard, sorcery, sex, assassination and the science of symbolism, anarticle in the book, secret and suppressed, edited by jim keith (feral house, p0 box 3466,portland, oregon 97208, 1993

anoeuvred into the presidency in 1960 for his ritualmurder in 1963, 50 diana was manoeuvred and manipulated into a marriage with princecharles and, finally, into the pont de lalma tunnel. people say that to arrange themurder of diana would have involved enormous planning and a great deal of time. yes,thats probably right. but they had plenty of time.diana frances spencer was born at park house on the queens sandringham estatein norfolk on july 1st 1961, the third and youngest daughter of viscount althorp, laterthe 8th earl spencer, and his first wife frances roche. her parents separated when shewas six and divorced in 1969, and her mother married the wallpaper tycoon petershand-kidd. diana had a younger brother, charles, the present earl spencer, and twosisters, jane and sarah. another son

at. but the sex thing is abig part of their rituals because its kundalini energy, see, which is the core, our generator. theorgies stopped because one of the couples died and they had an odd number and they didntwant to bring in anyone else. so even that was ritual. everything about them is ritual. all thatheraldry, all that pomp and ceremony. negative energy gets drawn to negative energy.many of the queens ladies in waiting have told christine fitzgerald about princephilip and his affairs. the royal family has got lots of black babies all over the world,she says. the recovered mind-slave brice taylor tells in her book, thanks for thememories, how she was forced to have sex with philip and charles. it is not withoutreason that the former british intelligence officer, peter wright, said in

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

edings of the society of psychical research. after the death of ermacora in 1898, count cesar baudi de vesme became its editor, publishing a simultaneous french edition (revue des etudes psychiques) until 1905, when the journal was amalgamated with the annales des sciences psychiques. robbins, shawn (1945) shawn robbins, a popular psychic best known for her many prophecies, was born and raised in the queens section of new york city, the daughter of a businessman. as a child, her clairvoyant and precognitive powers began to manifest. she recalls that on her 16th birthday her mother tested her abilities by hiding all of her presents around the house. she found them quickly by simply walking around the room and pointing to where they were. as a teenager she read widely in the available litera

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

rough the underworld by jackals and cobras. illustration from the funerary papyrus of herweben (museum of fine arts, boston) dead king and acts as his messenger, but only after he has been subdued by the finger of atum. meretseger was another snake deity who was not always benevolent. she was the goddess of the pyramid-shaped mountain peak that overlooked the valley of the kings and the valley of the queens at thebes (see figure 5. her name means the one who loves silence. the artists who worked on the royal tombs felt that they needed to propitiate meretseger before they could work safely in her domain. one of them describes meretseger as striking like a lion when she was angry but coming like a sweet breeze when she was appeased. meretseger s mountain was one of the entrances to the unde

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

arts, instead, or the five of diamonds for youth. a woman can be a woman when she is sixteen, if she is a woman in approach, while a male finds it very difficult to be a full-blown male at twenty; he doesn't have the reputation, character or accomplishment. but a woman can be completely womanly in her teens, and many competent witches are teenage girls. so the five represents immaturity in women; the queens are all women, any women, any age. to liven up any spell and provide a kind of insurance backing for its effectiveness, you can- if you haven't already dealt all the cards into the life circles themselves- support your desires with multiplecard placements- alongside, but not inside, the life circles involved. here are the details on the significance of the various multiple cards; but yo

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

y, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane lore as the dream meeting of the astrals and spirits of magickal practitioners of the craft, those who between the twilight of dawn and dusk dive the dream waking environment and meet as spirits and other forms to gather under the black sun, or under the arms of luna, awaiting the embrace of lilith and hecate, the queens of the sabbath. it is through the witches sabbat circles that the watchers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane lore as the dream meeting of the astrals and spirits of magickal practitioners of the craft, those who between the twillight of dawn and dusk dive the dream waking environment and meet as spirits and other forms to gather under the black sun, or under the arms of luna, awaiting the embrace of lilith and hecate, the queens of the sabbath. it is through the luciferian circles that the watchers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be expl

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re the priesthood, swords the military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. from the standpoint of what court de g belin calls "political geography" cups represent the northern countries, swords the orient, coins the occident, and rods the southern countries. the ten pip cards of each suit represent the nations composing each of these grand divisions. the kings are their governments, the queens their religions, the knights their histories and national characteristics, and the pages their arts and sciences. elaborate treatises have been written concerning the use of the tarot cards in divination, but as this practice is contrary to the primary purpose of the tarot no profit can result from its discussion. many interesting examples of early playing cards are found in the museums

ite and symbolizes the floor of the house of the mysteries. upon this field of existence or thought move a number of strangely carved figures, each according to fixed law. the white king is ormuzd; the black king, ahriman; and upon the plains of cosmos the great war between light and darkness is fought through all the ages. of the philosophical constitution of man, the kings represent the spirit; the queens the mind; the bishops the emotions; the knights the vitality; the castles, or rooks, the physical body. the pieces upon the kings' side are positive; those upon the queens' side, negative. the pawns are the sensory impulses and perceptive faculties--the eight parts of the soul. the white king and his suite symbolize the self and its vehicles; the black king and his retinue, the not-self

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

hat which i ask, protect this house and home and all who live therein, so shall i always thank you with due faith. hertha herself may be visualized as a dark, statuesque woman of mature age, robed in russet and green and bearing in her arms a sheaf of golden corn dotted with scarlet poppies. about her ankles and forearms twine green serpents, and her full dark breasts are exposed in the manner of the queens of ancient egypt. her lambent eyes are of dark gold; above her high coif of iron-dark hair she wears a square crenellated crown, like four towers bound together. these are the four castles or watchtowers of witchcraft that stand at the four quarters of the world. beneath her feet lush vegetation springs. behind her, in the mountainside, a giant cavern yawns. great masses of creeper trai

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c nibelungenlied (c. 1203, and of wagner s ring cycle. he gained the cursed nibelung treasure, and then wooed kriemhild, the sister of gunther, the burgundian king. gunther granted siegfried her hand in return for his help in winning him the amazonian queen brunhild. siegfried defeated and subdued brunhild, who thought it was gunther, using his cloak of invisibility. but when the couples married, the queens quarreled, and the trick came to light. brunhild, vowing vengeance, enlisted the help of hagen, one of gunther s vassals, who discovered that the invulnerable siegfried had one vulnerable spot on his back (see p. 72. hagen told kriemhild to mark siegfried s cloak at this spot as protection, but then killed him. in grief, brunhild killed herself on siegfried s funeral pyre. hagen then st

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

gnificator of the enquirer, and should answer as nearly to his description. wands generally-very fair-haired and red-haired persons with fair complexion. cups generally-moderately fair persons. swords-generally-dark persons. pentacles generally-very dark persons. kings-generally men. queens-generally women. princes (knights -generally young men. princesses (knaves -generally young women. of these the queens and princes in reading the cards during the processes almost always represent persons connected with a matter under consideration. the kings, if looking against the diretion of the reading, or if meeting it, represent the coming of a person or event, or phase of an event, but if looking with the diretion of the reading represent the departure of a person or the going off or wane of some

violently in all parts, and are strong in attack against every thing and everywhere. their moves, like fire, pass unarrested through the other elements in irregular courses like the lambent flame, leaping both diagonally and square-wise at every move. they contain the potential forces of the other pieces. their force is similar to the tarot king, and to chokmah. they are the abba forces, and with the queens represent the briatic forces of the scheme. the queens or watery forces of the elements never clash with one another, but ever undulate onwards, each in its own course unaffected by opposing or crossing waves. but the watery forces only move in their respective pre-ordained courses; they cannot leave their limits and enter upon the domain of others. water, like fire, is unarrested and u

RUBY TABLET OF SET

l to any senior degree above that of his own, and then he shall drink from the grail as shall any other priest. the grail shall be replenished if needs be, and passed to a previously nominated adept, who shall drink and then serve the assembly in order of degree. then shall the grail be returned to the priesthood, and thence to the altar [priest] through the mists of avalon, i summon the barge of the queens [pause and pick up the peacock feather. noble percival, magister mitchell wade become, the queens of avalon await. we give thanks, and express gratitude for your presence. return noble knight to avalon's shores and your deserved valhalla [pause [priest] noble merlin, ride upon the dragon's breath to your hidden place of becoming. leave with us a measure of your timeless wisdom that so g

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

n recorders.when christianity first arrived in great britain it came in from the west and established itself among thepeople rather than the rulers. centuries later other missionaries entered on the east. the christian church hadby this time become more organised, more dogmatic, more bent on proselytising. the main attack, therefore,was not on the people but on the royal families, particularly on the queens whose influence was wellunderstood. paganism, however, received continual reinforcements in the successive invasions of heathenpeoples; danes, norsemen, angles, jutes and saxons poured in and took possession. in judging of the historyof early christianity in britain it must always be remembered that the people who brought it in on the eastcoast were foreigners, who never amalgamated wit

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