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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

and' ylfa gescot' the shots of auses and of elves, jaculum divorum et geniorum, just as the edda does sesir and alfar, sa^m. 8" 71* 82' 83^ jornandes says, cap. 13: turn gothi, magna potiti per loca victoria, jam proceres suos quasi qui fortuna vincebant, non puros liomines, sed scmidcos, id est anscs (which would be anseis) vocavere "what can be plainer? the norse lesir in like manner merge into the race of heroes, and at much the same distance from an elder dynasty of gods whom they have dethroned. and here the well-known statement of suetonius and hesychius^ that the etruscans called the gods assures or a:si, may fairly be called to mind, without actually maintaining the affinity of the etruscan or tyrrhenian race with the ancient german, striking as is the likeness between rvpf)t)v6
lung with great fidelity to their old-established faith, we have it in the lex frisionum, addit. tit. 13, where the subject is the penalty on temple-breakers: immolatur diis quorum templa violavit. we have now arrived at the following result' in the first century of our era the religion of the germans rested mainly upon gods; a thousand or twelve hundred years later, among the northern section of the race, which was the last to exchange the faith of its fathers for a new one, the old system of gods is preserved the most perfectly. linked by language and unbroken tradition to either extremity of heathenism, both its first appearance in history and its fall, stands central germany from the fifth to the ninth century. during this period the figures of the heathen gods, in the feeble and hosti

and slew the giants: var haim 1 to the bori;\t mongols beyond l. baikal, fairy-rings in f^rass are "where the sons of tlie ivjldninfj have danced" trans. 188 thunar. f((rinn i anstcrvcg at berja troll, sn. 46. and tliis again points to the ancient and at that time still unforgotten connexion of the teutonic nations with asia; this' faring east-ways' is told of other heroes too, sn. 190. 363; e.g, the race of the skilfingar is expressly placed in that eastern region (sii kynslos er i austrvegum, sn. 193; and lotunheim, the world of the giants, was there situated. tlwrr was considered, next to osinn, the mightiest and strongest of all the gods; the edda makes him osin's son, therein differing entirely from the eoman view, which takes jupiter to be mercury's father; in pedigrees, it is true

ief, which for the most part recur at stated seasons, and are associated with popular festivals; on the fall of heathenism, only motherly wise-women^ eopp's gloss, sansk. 21. dwellings. incarnation. 337 still go their rounds, and heroes ride through field or air. more rarely, and not at regular intervals, there take place journeys of gods through the world, singly or in twos or threes, to inspect the race of man, and punish the crimes they have noticed. thus mercury and osinn appeared on earth, or heimdall to found the three orders, and thorr visited at weddings; osinn, hoenir and loki travelled in company; medieval legend makes god the father seek a lodging, or the saviour and st. peter, or merely three angels (as the servian song does, vuk 4, no. 3. most frequent however are the solitary

to the notion of hero; as our inann does now, so the on. hah; the ohg. gotno (homo, on. gu7 ii served to express the idea of lieros. in diut. 2, 314, heros is glossed by gomo, and gumnar in the edda has the same force as skatnar (see suppl. now, what is the reason of this exaltation of human nature? always in the first instance, as far as i can see, a relation of bodily kinship between a god and the race of man. the heroes are epigoni of the gods, their line is descended from the gods: settir guma er fra gosom komo, sa;m. 114^ greek mythology affords an abundance of;)roofs; it is by virtue of all heroes being directly or indirectly produced by gods and goddesses in conjunction with man, that the oldest kingly families connect themselves with heaven. but evidently most of tliese mixed birt

ead: mcnnor der erste was genant, mennor the first man was named dem diutische rede got tet to whom dutch language god bekant. made known. this is not taken from tacitus direct, as the proper name, though similar, is not the same (see suppl. as all teutons come of tvisco and mannus, so from the three (or by some accounts five) sons of mannus are descended the three, five or seven main branches of the race. from the names of nations furnished by the eomans may be inferred those of their patriarchal progenitors. 1. inguio. iscio. irmino. the threefold division of all the germani into ingaevones, iscaevones and herminones^ is based on the names of three heroes, ingo, isco, hermino, each of whom admits of being fixed on yet surer authority. t7ifj, or ingo, tnrjuio has kept his place longest in

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

omb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our world through a gate or door that leads from the outside, in. there are certain people, among us, who are devotees of the ancient ones, and who try to open the gate, so that this evidently repulsive organisation may once again rule the earth. chief among these is cthulhu, typified as a sea monster, dwelling in the great deep, a sort of p

eavenly bodies, the zonei, the elder gods. it has a power the ancient ones have been waiting for, for millennia, and it is now within their grasp. the next century may deliver unto mankind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash the barrier and the ancient ones will rule once more. an alternative possibility exists: that, by landing on the moon, we have come to reinstate the ancient covenant and thereby assure our protection against the outside. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for

an's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with his ability to master his inner environment, his own mind his psyche, soul, spirit. perhaps, then, the lunar landing was the first collective initiation for humanity, which will bring it one step closer to a beneficial force that resides beyond the race of the "cruel celestial spirits, past the abyss of knowledge. yet, he must remember that the occult powers that accompany magickal attainment are ornamental only, indications of obstacles overcome on the path to perfection, and are not to be sought after in themselves, for therein lies the truth death. lovecraft saw this evil, as the world passed from one war and moved menacingly towards

member! spirit of the earth, remember) yet, a word like shammash, the name of the solar deity, would read samas or sammas, and in the text of the necronomicon we would make the word read like its original. the "conjuration of the watcher" follows the fire god conjuration. the word "watcher" is sometimes used synonymously with "angel, and sometimes as a distinct race, apart from angelos: egragori. the race of watchers are said not to care what they watch, save that they follow orders. they are somewhat mindless creatures, but quite effective. perhaps they correspond toe lovecraft's shuggoths, save that the latter become unweildly and difficult to manage. after the watcher, comes the maklu text, which appears to be a collection of exorcisms, which includes the famous "xilka xilka besa besa"

y identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6

spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with a

ALEISTER CROWLEY DUTY

absolute respect due to inviolable standards of measurement; verify your own observations by comparison with similar judgements made by them; and, studying the methods which determine their failure or success, acquire for yourself the wit and skill required to cope with your own problems. c. your duty to mankind 1. establish the law of thelema as the sole basis of conduct. the general welfare of the race being necessary in many respects to your own, that well-being, like your own, principally a function of the intellegent and wise observance of the law of thelema, it is of the very first importance to you that every individual should accept frankly that law, and strictly govern himself in full accordance therewith. you may regard the establishment of the law of thelema as an essential ele

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

i have assigned it this tentative point, as following the general context> it did not train itself to hold the sea, and thus, having violated every principle of magick, it was pulled down and broken into pieces by provincialism and democracy, so that neither individual excellence nor civic virtue has yet availed to raise it again to that majestic unity which made so bold a bid for the mastery of the race of man. the sincere student will discover, behind the symbolic technicalities of his book, a practical method of making himself a xxiii magician. the processes described will enable him to discriminate between what he actually is, and what he has fondly imagined himself to be<school have, in recent years, discovered a part of this body of truth, which has

bilities of a certain partial karma. one may have 55 devoted one's incarnation to discharging the liabilities of one part of one's previous character. for instance, one might devote a lifetime to settling the bill run up by napoleon for causing unnecessary suffering, with the object of starting afresh, clear of debt, in a life devoted to reaping the reward of the corsican's invaluable services to the race. the master therion, in fact, remembers several incarnations of almost uncompensated wretchedness, anguish and humiliation, voluntarily undertaken so that he might resume his work unhampered by spiritual creditors. these are the stigmata. memory is hall-marked by its correspondence with the facts actually observed in the present. this correspondence may be of two kinds. it is rare (and it

nature accepted excuses, which she does not. if you drink poison in mistake for wine, your "mistake" will not save your life. below these in one sense, yet far above them in another, are the brothers of the left hand path<matter. equinox i, v, supplement. these are they who "shut themselves up, who refuse their blood to the cup, who have trampled love in the race for self-aggrandisment. as far as the grade of exempt adept, they are on the same path as the white brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed. then only are the goats, the lonely leaping mountain-masters, separated from the gregarious huddling valley-bound sheep. then those who have well learned the lessons of the path are ready to be torn asunder, to give u

en came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law, the word of the new aeon, the aeon of the crowned and conquering child<equinox, vol. i "the temple of solomon the king, liber 418, liber aleph, john st. john, the urn, and book 4, part iv> thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of men. yea, he wrought also in me a work of wonder beyond this, but in this matter i am sworn to hold my peace. 301 appendix v a few of the principal correspondences of the qabalah. reprinted with additions from 777 303 table i: i: ii: iii: key scale: hebrew names of numbers: english of column ii& letters :aleph-yod-nunfinal: nothing: 0 :aleph-yod-nunfinal: no limit :samekh-vau-pehfinal

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

sacred, more significant, more sure than those of the cumaean sibyl) these powers move in dimensions of time and space quite other than those with which we are familiar. their values are incomprehensible to us. to a secret chief, wielding this weapon "the nice conduct of a clouded cane" might be infinitely more important than a war, famine and pestilence such as might exterminate a third part of the race, to promote whose welfare is the crux of his oath, and the sole reason of his existence! but who are they? since they are "invisible" and "inaccessible" may they not merely be magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 111 figments invented by a self-styled "master" not quite sure of himself, to prop his tottering authority? well, the "invisible" and "inaccessible" critic

t special knowledge alters things, and it is certain that the masters anticipated, with great exactness of calculation, the way things would go in the political world. practically all the messages received during the "cairo working (march- april 1904 e.v) came to me through ouarda. no woman ever lived who was more ignorant of, or less interested in, anything to do with politics, or the welfare of the race; she cared for nothing beyond her personal comfort and pleasure. when the communications ceased, she dropped the whole affair without a thought. she nearly always referred to the authors of these messages as "they" when asked who "they" were, she would say haltingly and stupidly "the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 279 gods" or some equally unhelpful term. but

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

mother's frailty, son. yea, clear thy father's troubles, every one. restrain thy course; view them indulgently. thus gain the praise of thine utility. do what thou wilt, thyself, a slave to none! 19 the lin hexagram yoni of water- lin: great; here's progress and success to firm correctness; but- more trouble at the term! now with thy comrade firmly force the pace! advance with him- alliance wins the race. be cautious, or advance may lead thee astray. go forward only in the noblest way. great rulers need great wisdom every day. honest, magnanimous, woo fortune's ray. 20 the kwan hexagram air of yoni- kwan: manifesting; contemplating; see thou be sincere, pure, just, with dignity. thoughtless and boyish: little shalt thou see! peep from thy door- a woman's modesty. consider thine whole cour

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that atlas had permitted any approach to its shores. that it hindered such, and by infallible means, was due to other considerations, whose nature will form the subject of a subsequent chapter. this then is the nature of the plains beneath atlas, and the character of the servile race .pa ii. of the race of atlas in the city or 'house' which was formed from the crest of every mountain, dwelt a race not greatly superior in height to our own, but of vaster frame. the bulk and strength of the bear is not inappropriate as a simile for the lower classes; the higher had the enormous chest and shoulders and the lean haunches of the lion. this strength gave an infallible beauty, made monstrous by

ost inexorable law, that every child who developed no special feature in the first seven years should be sacrificed to the gods. this special feature might be a nose of prodigious size, hands and wrists of gigantic strength, a gorilla jaw, an elephant ear--or any of these might entitle its owner to life* for in all such variations from the normal they perceived the possibility of a development of the race. men and women were hairy as the ourang-outang and all were closely shaven from head to foot. it had been found that this practice developed tactile sensibility. it was also done in reverence to the 'living atla, of which more in its place. the lower class were few in number. its function was to superintend the servile race, to bring the food of the children to the banqueting-hall, to rem

o foot. it had been found that this practice developed tactile sensibility. it was also done in reverence to the 'living atla, of which more in its place. the lower class were few in number. its function was to superintend the servile race, to bring the food of the children to the banqueting-hall, to remove the same, to attend to the disposition of the 'light-screens, to ensure the continuance of the race by the begetting, bearing and nourishing of the children. the priestly class was concerned with the further preparation of the zro supplied by the labour-mills, and its impregnation with phosphorus. this class had much leisure for 'work, a subject to be explained later. the high priests and high priestesses were restricted in number to eleven times thirty-three in any one 'house. to them

us as electricity of high voltage. the reverence attached to zro is unbounded. at one time it was hymned as the father of the gods, and till the end all children were thought to be "begotten of zro, though everyone might know who was the father* all such conception was however held indignity. its official name was 'the old experiment. it was carried on simply because the new methods of continuing the race were not perfected. childbirth was therefore in one way accident; although a duty, everyone shrank from it. for though no pain or discomfort attached to the process, it was a sort of second-best achievement from which proud women turned contemptuously. this was in part the reason why the father's name was never mentioned. on several occasions in the history of atlas the zro 'failed. altho

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

raving of our megalomania? experiment proves nothing; it is surely obvious that we are obliged to correlate all observations with the physical and mental structure whose truth we are trying to test. indeed, we can assume an 'unreasonable' axiom, and translate the whole of our knowledge into its terms, without fear of stumbling over any obstacle. reason is no more than a set or rules developed by the race; it takes no account of anything beyond sensory impressions and their reactions to various parts of our being. there is no possible escape from the vicious circle that we can register only the behaviour of our own instrument. we conclude from the fact that it behaves at all, that there must be 'a factor infinite and unknown' at work upon it. this being the case, we may be sure that our ap

pared to do its whole duty in the position proper to its peculiar potentialities! al ii,71 "but exceed! exceed" the old comment 71. yet excess is the secret of success. the new comment "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. progress, as its very etymology declares, means a step ahead. it is the genius, the eccentric, the man who goes one better than his fellows, that is the saviour of the race. and while it is unwise possibly (in some senses) to exceed in certain respects, we may be sure that he who exceeds in no respect is a mediocrity. the key of evolution is right variation. excess is evidence at least of capacity in the quality at issue. the golf teacher growls tirelessly "putt for the back of the hole! never up, never in" the application is universal. far from me be it to

ould consider their welfare to be its first duty; for if they are for the moment dependent on it, it is also dependent on them. a man might as well cut out his heart because it was weak, and in need of cautious care. but he would be no less foolish if he tried to prevent the used-up elements from eliminating themselves from his body. we respect the will-to-live; we should respect the will-to die. the race is auto-intoxicated by suppressing the excretory processes of nature. each case must of course be judged on its merits. his neighbours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfortune, if he wishes to recover. but it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting t

damn them who pity! kill and torture; spare not; be upon them" the new comment 18. an end to the humanitarian mawkishness which is destroying the human race by the deliberate artificial protection of the unfit. the new comment what has been the net result of our fine 'christian' phrases? in the good old days there was some sort of natural selection; brains and stamina were necessary to survival. the race, as such consequently improved. but we thought we knew oh! so much better, and we had "christ's law" and other slush. so the unfit crowded and contaminated the fit, until earth herself grew nauseated with the mess. we had not only a war which killed some eight million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six month

obscure (now, autumn 1911, clear. the new comment there is here a perception of the profound law which opposes thought to action. we act, when we act aright, upon the instructive wisdom inherited from the ages. our ancestors survived because they were able to adapt themselves to their environment; their rivals failed to breed, and so "good" qualities are transmitted, while 'bad' are sterile. thus the race-thought, subconscious, tells a man that he must have a son, cost what it may. rome was founded on the rape of the sabine women. would a reasoner have advocated that rape? was it 'justice' or 'mercy' or 'morality' or 'christianity. there is much on the ethics of this point in chapter ii of this book. thomas henry huxley in his essay "ethics and evolution" pointed out the antithesis between

e are only fools if we interfere. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, biologically as well as in every other way. let us take an example. i am an antivaccinationist in a sense which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. i admit that vaccination protects from small-pox. but i should like everybody to have small-pox. the weak would die; the strong might have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the disease in a few generations. on somewhat similar lines, i would advocate, with samuel butler, the destruction of all machinery (i admit the practical difficulties of defining the limits of legitimate devices. the issue is this: how are we to develop human skill? the printing press is admirable in the hands of an aldus, a charles t. jacobi, or even a william mor

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

dogma and despotism; your columns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha s hand; we are your brothers. but in the race of intellect we have fallen behind a little; will you take no interest in us, who have been your comrades? to science buddhism cries: lead us, reform us, give us clear ideas of nature and her laws; give us that basis of irrefragable logic and wide knowledge that we need, and march with us into the universe! the buddhist faith is not a blind faith; its truths are obvious to all who are not

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

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

universe swings poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. surely the sable osirian bird sole in the aether shall utter the word now that its crying can never be heard! 192 iv see how the star of the universe blazes! millions of meteors in marvellous mazes mingle their magic of peony praises. oh! the dark streak on the heart of its flood! smitten is the star, and its poisonous blood drips through the race of the luminous scud. poison and poison and poison! i quiver, drenched with the hate of the horrible river- o but the stars of it stagger and shiver! leave me in peace, o disaster of light! leave me to solitude, leave me to night! is there no moon to enkindle the height? v see how the moon with her amrita dews drinks up the death of the star, and renews life in cascades of peonian hues! n

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

with glory and honour! amoun! hear me! come unto me! in myself i am nothing_ in thee i am all self! dwell thou in me, and bring me to that self which is in thee! amoun! o my father! my father! the chariots of ishrael, and the horsemen thereof [all bow in adoration. standing in the sign of osiris slain, say] i am the abi-agnus, the slain lamb in thy mountain, o lord most high! i am the strength of the race of men, and from me is the shower of the life of earth! i am amoun, the conceal d one: the opener of the day am i! i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death! there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway: the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise [raise hands to heaven] thou hast been

p, in the presence of the lord of the universe, and of all powers divine and angelic, do spiritually bind myself, even as i am now physically bound unto the cross of suffering (1) to unite my consciousness with the divine, as i may be permitted and aided by the gods who live for ever, the aeons of infinite years, that, being lost in the limitless light, it may find itself: to the regeneration of the race, either of man or as the will of god shall be. and i submit myself utterly to the will divine (2) to follow out with courage, modesty, lovingkindness, and perseverance the course prescribed by abramelin the mage; as far as in me lies, unto the attainment of this end (3) to despise utterly the things and the opinions of this world lest they hinder me in doing this (4) to use my powers only

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

d is their warrant to live, and by their swords "will" they attain; and when they once have attained, by their swords will they rule, and from warriors become as helm d kings whose crowns are of iron, and whose sceptres are sharp swords of glittering steel, and reign; whilst the weak still remain as slaves, and a prey to the wild dreams of the night. of a truth, sometimes the weak charioteer wins the race; but on account of his weakness he is often carried past the winning-post by the steeds that have given him the victory, and, unable to hold them back, he is dashed against the walls of the arena, whilst the strong man passing the judges turns his chariot round and receives the crown of victory, or if not that, is ever ready to race again. 142 to learn how to will is the key to the kingdo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

ders of the blind- iv. theories respecting psychic phenomena- v. the ether, or "astral light- vi. psycho-physical phenomena- vii. the elements, elementals, and elementaries- viii. some mysteries of nature- ix. cyclic phenomena- x. the inner and outer man- xi. psychological and physical marvels- xii. the "impassible chasm- xiii. realities and illusion- xiv. egyptian wisdom- xv. india the cradle of the race. vol. ii- i. the church; where is it- ii. christian crimes and heathen virtues- iii. divisions amongst the early christians- iv. oriental cosmogonies and bible-records- v. mysteries of the kabala- vi. esoteric doctrines of buddhism parodied in christianity- vii. early christian heresies and secret societies- viii. jesuitry and masonry- ix. the vedas an the bible- x. the devil myth- xi. co

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

place, and that you handle them each night before retiring. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way l they say it comes from gbg's bos (text b/c) l they say gbg's original (text a) may be found in the key of solomon and in high magic's aid. the charge to new initiates o thou who hast declared intent to become one of us, hear then that which thou must know to do: single is the race, single of men and of gods, from a single source we both draw breath, but a difference of power in everything keeps us apart, for we are as nothing but the gods stay forever. yet we can, in greatness of minds, be like the gods. though we know not to what goal by day or in the night, fate has written that we shall run beyond all seas, and earth's last boundaries. beyond the spring of night

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

ge, by the practice of a selective policy or the use of the discriminative faculty, and by the method of cyclic development or repetition. the stages which distinguish the evolutionary process might be broadly divided into three, corresponding to the stages in the life of a human being: childhood, adolescence, and maturity. where man is concerned these stages can be traced in the human unit or in the race, and as the civilisations pass on and increase, it should surely become possible to trace the same threefold idea in the human family as a whole, and thus ascertain the divine objective through the study of his image, or reflection, man. we might express these three stages in more scientific terms, and link them with the three schools of thought earlier referred to, studying them as a. th

e can be seen in the little evolved races of the world, in small children, and in those who are little developed. they are normally self-centred; their energies are concerned with their own life; they are occupied with the objective and with that which is tangible; they are characterised by a necessary and protective selfishness. it is a most necessary stage in the development and perpetuation of the race. out of this selfish atomic period grows another stage, that of group coherency. this involves the building up of forms and species until you have something coherent and individualised in itself as a whole, yet which is composed of many lesser individualities and forms. in connection with the human being it corresponds to his awakening realisation of responsibility, and to his recognition

. children are naturally, advisedly, and wisely selfish. it is the stage of the gradual recognition of separative existence, and of the utilisation ever more potently by the human atom of its own internal atomic force. the infant human being rebels against the enforced guardianship of those who seek to protect it, and considers itself sufficient unto itself. this can be seen in the individual and the race. then, as life goes on, the man passes out of the atomic stage to a higher and a better one, when he becomes cognisant of his group relationships, when he becomes aware that he has group responsibilities, and that he has functions to work out with other separate atoms. the group consciousness begins to make itself felt. thus the human atom finds its place within the group, the larger unit

he atom of substance to the informing life of the higher animals, then that life which we call human, that of man, the thinker; next, the heavenly man, and then the great life of the solar system, whom the christian calls god, or the logos. browning expresses this idea of the gradual expansion of the consciousness of a human being into something greater and vaster in the following words "when all the race is perfected alike as man, that is; all tended to mankind, and, man produced, all has its end thus far; but in completed man begins anew a tendency to god. prognostics told man's near approach; so in man's self arise august anticipations, symbols, types of a dim splendour ever on before in that eternal circle life pursues. for men begin to pass their nature's bound, and find new hopes and

ive by means of the intelligence. this is all that god is doing, is it not? at our present stage of development, we are certainly intelligent, but as yet there is very little love. we may have a little love for those we contact or meet, and a greater love for our family and immediate friends, but we know practically nothing of group love. when group love is voiced for us by the great idealists of the race it is nevertheless true that we have reached the stage where we can respond somewhat to it, and feel that it is something we should like to see realised. it is good to remember that the more we think along such definitely altruistic lines, the more we shall build up something of very great value, and develop by slow and laborious degrees the rudiments of a real group consciousness, which

eded one another upon the planet, there has ever been an ordered, directed unfoldment of the powers of the soul, and a definitely planned sequence. in the third root race, the lemurian, the physical aspect of man was carried to a high stage of perfection. later in the great race which preceded ours, the atlantean, and which perished in the flood, the emotional nature of man was developed. then in the race to which we belong, the- 48- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust aryan or fifth race, the development of the concrete or lower mind is the goal, and this we are developing each decade. a few are also beginning to develop the power to think in abstract terms. when this is the case we shall see more of that peculiar, interesting capacity which some people evince, and wh

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this momentous subject. there are those who think that it is not of sufficient immediate importance to engross their attention, and that if the average man adheres to the path of duty and high-minded attention to the business in hand, he will duly arrive at his destination. this is undoubtedly true, yet as capacity for increased service, and the development of powers to be used in the helping of the race are the reward of the man who is willing to make the increased effort and to pay the price which initiation demands, perhaps this book may spur some on to attainment who might otherwise have drifted slowly towards their goal. they will then become givers, and not the recipients of help. there are those again who consider that the teaching hitherto given out in various books concerning ini

ermanence "truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment" we must remember also that beyond a certain point it is not safe nor wise to carry the communication of the facts of the solar system. much must remain esoteric and veiled. the risks of too much knowledge are far greater than the menace of too little. with knowledge comes responsibility and power two things for which the race is not yet ready. therefore, all we can do is to study and correlate with what wisdom and discretion may be ours, using the knowledge that may come for the good of those we seek to help, and recognising that in the wise use of knowledge comes increased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom. coupled also with the- 6- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust wise adaptation of

reased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom. coupled also with the- 6- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust wise adaptation of knowledge to the surrounding need must grow the capacity for discreet reservation, and the use of the discriminating faculty. when we can wisely use, discreetly withhold, and soundly discriminate, we give the surest guarantee to the watching teachers of the race that we are ready for a fresh revelation. we must resign ourselves to the fact that the only way in which we can find the clue to the mystery of the rays, systems, and hierarchies, lies in the study of the law of correspondences or analogy. it is the one thread by which we can find our way through the labyrinth, and the one ray of light that shines through the darkness of the surrounding

ing an expansion of consciousness, is part of the normal process of evolutionary development, viewed on a large scale, and not from the standpoint of the individual. when viewed from the individual standpoint it has come to be narrowed down to the moment wherein the evolving unit definitely apprehends that (by dint of his own effort, aided by the advice and suggestions of the watching teachers of the race) he has reached a point wherein a certain range of knowledge of a subjective nature, from the physical plane point of view, is his. it is in the nature of that experience wherein a pupil in a school realises suddenly that he has mastered a lesson, and that the rationale of a subject, and the method of procedure, are his to use intelligently. these moments of intelligent apprehension follo

nd that the rationale of a subject, and the method of procedure, are his to use intelligently. these moments of intelligent apprehension follow the evolving monad throughout his long pilgrimage. what has been misinterpreted somewhat at this stage of comprehension is the fact that at various periods the emphasis is laid on different grades of expansion, and always the hierarchy endeavours to bring the race to the point where its units will have some idea of the next step to be taken. each initiation marks the passing of the pupil in the hall of wisdom into a higher class, marks the clearer shining forth of the inner fire and the transition from one point of polarisation to another, entails the realisation of an increasing unity with all that lives and the essential oneness of the self with

master, a definite act of initiation is performed, which (acting on a particular centre) produces a result on some one body. it keys the atoms to a certain pitch, and enables a new rate of rhythm to be attained. this ceremony of initiation marks a point of attainment. it does not bring about attainment, as is so often the misconception. it simply marks the recognition by the watching teachers of the race of a definite point in evolution reached by the pupil, and gives two things: 1. an expansion of consciousness that admits the personality into the wisdom attained by the ego, and in the higher initiations into the consciousness of the monad. 2. a brief period of enlightenment wherein the initiate sees that portion of the path that lies ahead to be trodden, and wherein he shares consciousl

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of the relation existing between spirit and matter, which relation demonstrates as consciousness. it will be found that the treatise deals primarily with the aspect of mind, with consciousness and with the higher psychology, and less with matter as we know of it on the physical plane. the danger involved in giving out information concerning the various energies of atomic matter is too great, and the race as yet too selfish to be entrusted with these potencies. man is already, through the able work of the scientists, discovering the needed knowledge with adequate rapidity. the emphasis in this book will be found to be laid upon those forces which are responsible for the objective manifestation of a solar logos and of man, and only in the first section will indication be given as to the nat

rm, the better a receiver of prana will it be, and the less will be the resistance found to the uprising of kundalini at the appointed time. coarse matter and crude immature physical bodies are a menace to the occultist, and no true seer will be found with a body of a gross quality. the dangers of disruption are too great, and the menace of disintegration by fire too awful. once in the history of the race (in lemurian days) this was seen in the destruction of the race and the continents by means of fire.45(41) the guides of the race at that time availed themselves of just this very thing to bring about the finish of an inadequate form. the latent fire of matter (as seen in volcanic display, for instance) and the radiatory fire of the system were combined. planetary kundalini and solar eman

many is out of accurate alignment, its position in the back is apt to be misplaced. the splenic centre near the diaphragm is sub-normal in size and its vibration is not correct. in the case of the aboriginal dwellers in such localities as the south seas, better etheric conditions will be found; the life they lead is more normal (from the animal standpoint) than in any other portion of the world. the race suffers from certain incapacities, which may be described as follows: first. inability to tap pranic currents, owing to the unhealthy lives passed by so many. this involves the cutting off of the source of supply, and the consequent atrophying and shrinkage of the receptive centres. this is seen in an exaggerated form in the children of the congested quarters of any great city, and in the

n inequable. as the point of race equilibrium is reached, so planetary equilibrium will likewise be attained, and in planetary attainment will come the equilibrium that must mutually take place between the solar planets. when they attain a mutual balance and interaction then the system is stabilised and perfection reached. the even distribution of prana will parallel this balancing in the man, in the race, in the planet and in the system. this is but another way of saying that uniform vibration will be achieved. b. microcosmic organic disorders. these are basically two in number: troubles due to congestion. destruction of tissue due to over-absorption of prana, or its too rapid blending with latent physical fire. we have a curious illustration of both of these forms of trouble in sun strok

irit, who works through love and is love, and who seeks this unification and this utter merging not from the point of view of sense or of material gratification, but because liberation and purification is desired in order that the higher union with the logos may be effected; this union must be desired, not for selfish ends, but because group perfection is the goal and scope for greater service to the race must be achieved. v. death and the etheric body it is not our purpose to give facts for verification by science, or even to point the way to the next step onward for scientific investigators; that we may do so is but incidental and purely secondary- 71- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust what we seek mainly is to give indications of the development and correspondence of

rns his attention away, and the form disintegrates, having served his need. this is not always the case in every human life nor even in each planetary cycle. the mystery of the moon is the mystery of failure. this leads, when comprehended, to a life of dignity and offers an aim worthy of our best endeavour. when this angle of truth is universally recognised, as it will be when the intelligence of the race suffices, then evolution will proceed with certainty, and the failures be less numerous. division d- kundalini and the spine kundalini60,(53)61 and the spine i. kundalini and the three triangles. 1. in the head. 2. in the body. 3. at the base of the spine. ii. the arousing of kundalini. very briefly, owing to the impossibility of revealing much on this necessarily dangerous subject, we wi

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all the lesser in its results, though not in its practices. when these are studied, it will become apparent why the day of opportunity has only just arrived. the east has preserved rules for us since time immemorial. here and there orientals (with a few western adepts) have availed themselves of those rules and have submitted to the discipline of this exacting science. thus has been preserved for the race the continuity of the secret doctrine, of the ageless wisdom, and thus has been gathered together the personnel of the hierarchy of our planet. in the time of the buddha and through the stimulation he produced there was a great gathering in of arhats. these were men who had achieved liberation through self-initiated effort. this period, in our aryan race, marked a climax for the east. sin

for reality. an illustration might well be given here, in respect to the facility with which people judge they have seen one of the brothers (or masters of the wisdom, whereas all they have perceived is a thought form of one of them; the wish being father to the thought they are the victim of that form of incorrect perception called by patanjali, fancy. 2. those thought forms which are created by the race, the nation, the group or the organization. group thought forms of any kind (from the planetary form to that constructed by any band of thinkers) form the sum total of the "great illusion" herein lies a hint to the earnest aspirant. 3. that thought form created by a man since his first appearance in physical form, and called the "dweller on the threshold" being created by the lower person

ma (or the will of god, the father aspect) stand revealed through the medium of buddhi (or the christ consciousness, having for its vehicle, manas or higher mind. the other way is the may of pure devotion. through intense adoration and entire consecration the aspirant arrives at a knowledge of the reality of spirit. this is the way of least resistance for many; it was the method of attainment for the race preceding the aryan. it largely ignores the fifth principle and is the sublimation of sensuous perception, being the way of intense feeling. through following this method the four planes are dominated and buddhi (or the christ) stands revealed. students should differentiate clearly between these two ways, remembering that the white occultist blends the two and if in this life he follows t

he point achieved working forward towards further realisation, 3. the overcoming of the difficulties incident to the limitations of the vehicles of consciousness and to karma, 4. the occult tests which are imposed upon the pupil when he shows ability, 5. the triumph of the pupil- 32- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. the recognition of his triumph and attainment by the guides of the race, the planetary hierarchy, 7. the vision of what lies ahead. thus does the unfoldment proceed and in each cycle of endeavor the evolving son of god comes into his birthright and takes the position of a knower "one who has heard the tradition, experienced the dissolution of that hitherto held, seen that which is hidden from those who abide by the tradition, substituted that which is newly s

nses and the wrong interpretation of the things sensed, these thought forms are in themselves distortions of the reality, and express only those lower impulses and reactions which emanate from the lower kingdoms in nature. students should remember that it is only when man is really beginning to use his mental body (and is not used by it) that he contacts the thought forms created by the guides of the race and justly perceives them. 3. the super contemplative state. in this condition perception is unfailingly accurate and the other modes of vision are seen in their right proportions. the senses are no longer required by the onlooker except in so far as he utilizes them for purposes of constructive work on their respective planes. he is now in possession of a faculty which safeguards him fro

oped, and the flower of that race were true sons of bhakti yoga and true devotees. now the highest of the three bodies must be brought to its fullest development and this raja yoga is intended to do and this is the object of patanjali's work. the aryan race will contribute this fuller development to the general economy, and the entire human family (with the exception of a percentage which entered the race too late to permit of the full flowering of the soul) will manifest as sons of god with all the powers of the god unfolded and consciously used on the physical plane and in the physical body. patanjali says that three things will bring this about, coupled with the following of certain methods and rules, and these three are: 1. fiery aspiration, the domination of the physical man so that e

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contact with reality the complement of some metaphysic or other- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust joseph mar chal, s.j. the present widespread interest in the subject of meditation is an evidence of a world need which requires clear understanding. where we find a popular trend in any particular direction, which is one-pointed and steady, it may be safe to assume that out of it will emerge that which the race needs in its onward march. that meditation is regarded, by those who define loosely, as a "mode of prayer" is, unfortunately, true. but it can be demonstrated that in the right understanding of the meditation process and in its right adaptation to the needs of our modern civilization will be found the solution of the present educational impasse and the method whereby the fact of the soul

th its use on a large scale in the west. it is suggested that it may eventually supplant the present methods of memory training, and prove a potent factor in modern educational procedure. it is a subject that has engrossed the attention of thinkers in the east and in the west for thousands of years, and this uniformity of interest is in itself of importance. the next developments which will carry the race forward along the path of its unfolding consciousness must surely lie in the direction of synthesis. the growth of human knowledge must be brought about by the fusion of the eastern and the western techniques of mental training. this has already proceeded apace and thinkers in both hemispheres are realizing that this fusion is leading towards some most significant realization. edward carp

realization. edward carpenter says that "we seem to be arriving at a time when, with the circling of our knowledge of the globe, a great synthesis of all human thought..is quite naturally and inevitably taking place. out of this meeting of elements is already arising the dim outline of a philosophy which must surely dominate human thought for a long period."1(1) herein lies the glory and hope of the race and the outstanding triumph of science. we are now one people. the heritage of any race lies open to another; the best thought of the centuries is available for all; and ancient techniques and modern methods must meet and interchange. each will have to modify its mode of presentation and each will have to make an effort to understand the underlying spirit which has produced a peculiar phr

nnot do without our technique, science and industry. the european invasion of the east was a deed of violence on a great scale, and it has left us the duty noblesse oblige of understanding the mind of the east. this is perhaps more necessary than we realize at present."3(3) dr. hocking of harvard also brings us the same idea when he says "there seems reason to hope for a better physical future of the race by the aid of a sound mental hygiene. after the era of the charlatans has gone by, and to some extent by their aid, there appears a possibility of steadily enlarging self-mastery, as the spiritual sense of such discipline as the yoga joins with the sober elements of western psychology and a sane system of ethics. no one of these is worth much without the others."4(4) those who have studie

l distinguishing characteristics and qualities. for thousands of years all over the planet, the mystics and knowers have borne witness to experiences in subtler worlds where they have been brought into contact with forces and phenomena which are not of this physical world. they speak of meeting with angelic hosts; they refer to the great cloud of witnesses; they commune with the elder brothers of the race who work in other dimensions and who demonstrate powers about which ordinary human beings know nothing; they speak of a light and of a glory; of a direct knowledge of truth and of a world of phenomena which is uniform to the mystics of all races. that much of the testimony can be discarded on the grounds of hallucination may be true; that many of the saints of old were psychopathic cases

d in concentration and meditation and in deep philosophical and metaphysical study, but the masses of the people, not capable of these activities, have been left in peculiar and strikingly terrible conditions, from the standpoint of physical living. through the blending of the achievements of the two civilizations (now going on with increasing rapidity) a balance is being struck by means of which the race as a whole will be able to demonstrate its full potency. both the east and the west are gradually learning to take from each other to mutual advantage, and work in this field is one of the fundamental and necessary things of the present cycle. chapter two the purpose of education..education is undergoing important transformations. from a relatively external process of pouring in facts, it

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eat schools of thought are simply exponents of occult meditation and the brilliant discoveries of science, the correct interpretations of nature's laws, and the formulations of correct conclusions whether in the fields of science, of economics, of philosophy, psychology or elsewhere is but the registering by the mind (and subsequently by the brain) of the eternal verities, and the indication that the race is beginning also to bridge the gap between the objective and the subjective, between the world of form and the world of ideas. this leads inevitably to the emergence of the third branch of knowledge, the intuitive. the intuition is in reality only the appreciation by the mind of some factor in creation, some law of manifestation and some aspect of truth, known by the soul, emanating from

zed, later understood, and finally adjusted to the needs and demands of the cycle and time. those who have thus trained the mind in the art of clear thinking, the focussing of the attention, and consequent receptivity to truth have always been with us, but hitherto have been few and far between. they are the outstanding minds of the ages. but now they are many and increasingly found. the minds of the race are in process of training and many are hovering on the borders of a new knowledge. the intuition which guides all advanced thinkers into the newer fields of learning is but the forerunner of that omniscience which characterises the soul. the truth about all things exists, and we call it omniscience, infallibility, the "correct knowledge" of the hindu philosophy. when man grasps a fragmen

ists, and we call it omniscience, infallibility, the "correct knowledge" of the hindu philosophy. when man grasps a fragment of it and absorbs it into the racial consciousness we call it the formulation of a law, a discovery of one or other of nature's processes. hitherto this has been a slow and piecemeal undertaking. later, and before so very long, light will pour in, truth will be revealed and the race will enter upon its heritage the heritage of the soul- 11- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust in some of our considerations, speculation must perforce enter in. those who see a vision that is withheld from those lacking the necessary equipment for its apprehension are regarded as fanciful, and unreliable. when many see the vision, its possibility is admitted, but when hu

mine that future. i have purposely chosen to begin with the undefinable and the unrecognised. the soul is as yet an unknown quantity. it has no real place in the theories of the academic and scientific investigators. it is unproven and regarded by even the more open-minded of the academicians as a possible hypothesis, but lacking demonstration. it is not accepted as a fact in the consciousness of the race. only two groups of people accept it as a fact; one is the gullible, undeveloped, childlike person who, brought up on a scripture of the world, and being religiously inclined, accepts the postulates of religion such as the soul, god and immortality without questioning. the other is that small but steadily growing band of knowers of god, and of reality, who know the soul to be a fact in th

le the brain and mind to vibrate in unison with the soul as it seeks "in meditation deep" to communicate with its reflection. the correspondence to this relation, or synchronizing vibration is interesting: soul. man on the physical plane mind. brain pineal gland. pituitary body the relation also between the centers, and their synchronization is interesting and in it is epitomized the evolution of the race as well as the racial unit, man. head center. base of the spine heart center. solar plexus throat center. sacral center in the above lies a hint for the more advanced student (and he is the one who hesitates so to regard himself. it is also symbolized for us in the relation between the eastern and the western hemispheres and between those great bodies of truth which we call religion and s

ion. 1. the relation between male and female physical bodies, called by man, the sex relation, and- 52- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust deemed of such paramount importance at this time. in the vale of illusion, the symbol oft engrosses attention and that which it represents is forgotten. in the solving of this relationship will come racial initiation, and it is with this that the race is now engrossed. 2. the relation between the astral body and the physical, which, for the majority, is the control, by the positive astral nature, of the negative automatic physical. the physical body, the instrument of desire, is swayed and controlled by desire, desire for physical life, and desire for the acquisition of the tangible. 3. the relation between the mind and the brain, whic

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analysis, history is an account of the growth and development of man from the stage of the cave man, with his consciousness centred in his animal life, up to the present time wherein the human consciousness is steadily becoming more inclusive and mental, and so on and up to the stage of a perfected son of god. it is an account of the apprehension, by man, of the creative ideas which have moulded the race and are establishing its destiny. it gives us a dramatic picture of the progress of those souls who are carried in or out of manifestation by the appearance or- 9- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust disappearance of a ray. we shall find, as we study, that words will greatly handicap our expression of the realities involved, and we must

ng energies and of the directed thought of the thinkers in the group. from the standpoint of those who see and guide, therefore, every group is constructing something that is relatively tangible and governed by certain building laws. the great work of the builders proceeds steadily. often that which is built is inchoate, futile and without form or purpose, and of no use to either gods or men. but the race as a whole is now coming into an era wherein the mind is becoming a potent factor; many are learning to hold the mind steady in the light, and consequently are receptive to ideas hitherto unrecognised. if a group of minds can be so drawn together and fused into an adequate synthesis, and if they (in their individual and daily meditation) keep focussed or oriented towards that which can be

students meditating synchronously should now attempt to do the same. the effort to synchronise effort does not relate so much to the time element as to unity of intent and of purpose- 14- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust there is to be found today in the realm of the intuition much of wonder; this can be contacted. it is now the privilege of the race to contact that "raincloud of knowable things" to which the ancient seer patanjali refers in his fourth book; the race, through its many aspirants, can today precipitate this "raincloud" so that the brains of men everywhere can register the contact. hitherto this has been the privilege of the illumined and rare seer. in this way the new age will be ushered in and the new knowledge will en

of love. seven the aspects of the love of god- 29- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust seven the colours of that manifesting one; sevenfold the work; seven the energies and sevenfold the path back to the centre of peace. let the disciple live in love, and love in life" in those olden days no thought of purpose entered into the minds of men, for the race was not mental nor was it intended so to be. the emphasis was laid upon the quality of the appearance in all preparation for initiation, and the highest initiate of that time endeavoured to express only the quality of god's love. the plan was the great mystery. the christ, cosmic and individual, was sensed and known, but purpose was as yet veiled and unrevealed. the "noble eightfold path"

rmed is as yet imperfectly evolved, there is then limitation and the "tuning out" automatically of much of the energy. the effect of ray force, working through imperfect forms, must be distorted and curtailed and misapplied. let me illustrate. i have said that first ray energy works out as the destruction of forms; it must be remembered that a pure destroyer is utterly unknown, and mercifully for the race this is so. it is a beneficent- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust condition that as yet a first ray ego is so handicapped and limited by the form nature and the quality of that form nature that it is unable to make adequate or intelligent use of its destructive force. first ray personalities are oft destructive, as well you know

ed see the emergence of a new heaven and a new earth. once the central entity within each human form is recognised and known for what it essentially is, and once its divine persistence is established, then we shall necessarily see the beginning of the reign of divine law on earth a law imposed without friction and without rebellion. this beneficent reaction will come about because the thinkers of the race will be blended together in a general soul awareness, and a consequent group consciousness will permit them to see the purpose underlying the- 67- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust working of the law. let us put this a little more simply. we are told in the new testament that we must endeavour to let the mind which was in christ also

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istian principles, and a difficult cycle in which i faced the problem of my own relation to christ and to christianity, have brought me to two definitely clear and clean-cut recognitions: first, a recognition of the reality of the individuality of christ and of his mission; and secondly, a recognition that the development of the christ consciousness and the christ nature in individual man, and in the race as a whole, carries with it the solution of our world problem. most heartily do i endorse the words of arthur weigall when he says "yet the jesus of history as distinct from the jesus of theology, remains `the way, the truth, and the life; and i am convinced that concentration upon the historic figure of our lord and upon his teaching can alone inspire in this twentieth century that ferve

on which could be founded upon the ethical teaching of the sermon on the mount are frequently emphasised by many who refuse to recognise his mission as an expression of divinity. from the rational point of view, the question as to the historical accuracy of his story remains as yet unsolved, though his teaching upon the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man is endorsed by the best minds of the race. those who can move in the world of ideas, of faith and of living experience testify to his divinity and to the fact that he can be approached. but such testimony is often passed over lightly as being mystical, futile and incapable of proof. individual belief is, after all, of no value to anyone except to the believer himself, or as it tends to increase testimony until the total assumes s

fied the letter, whilst all the time the soul of man was crying out for the spirit of life, which the letter veiled. we have agonised over the historical aspects of the gospel narrative, over the time element, and over the verbal accuracy of the many translations, while failing to see the real magnificence of christ's accomplishment and the significant teaching it holds for the individual and for the race. the drama of his life and its practical application to the lives of his followers have been lost to sight in the undue importance attached to certain phrases which he is supposed to have uttered, whilst that which he expressed in his life, and the relationships which he emphasised and regarded as implicit in his revelation have been totally ignored. we have fought over the historical chr

hem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust orient, and christ the saviour of the occident. whatever may be our personal conclusions as to their relations to the father in heaven or to each other, the fact stands out past all controversy that they gave the revelation of divinity to their particular civilisations, and that in a most significant manner they worked together for the eventual benefit of the race. their two systems are interdependent, and buddha prepared the world for the message and the mission of christ. both embodied in themselves certain cosmic principles, and by their work and sacrifice certain divine potencies poured through and upon mankind. the work done by the buddha, and the message which he sounded, stimulated intelligence into wisdom. wisdom is a cosmic principle, and

ry process would do its work. let mankind therefore drift as a whole with the tide, and eventually all would be well. hence the general attitude of the east was failure to emphasise the supreme value of any individual. but christ came and emphasised the work of the individual, saying "let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works."9 second, the opportunity was presented to the race as a whole to take a tremendous step forward, to undergo the "new birth" or take the first initiation. this we shall deal with in our next chapter. the third concept which was taught by the christ was that which embodied the technique of the new age, which was to come when individual salvation and the new birth had been properly grasped. this was the message or command to love our neighbo

of the age, and entering the period of aquarian unity, as he foretold. the "upper room" is a symbol of that high point of achievement towards which we are, as a race, rapidly moving. some day the great communion service will be held, of which every communion service is the forecast. we are slowly passing into this new sign. for more than two thousand years its potencies and forces will play upon the race and will establish the new types, foster the new expansions of consciousness, and lead man on to a practical realisation of brotherhood. it is interesting to note how it was that the energies playing upon our planet when the sun was in aries, the ram, produced in religious symbology the emphasis of the goat or ram, and how in our present age of pisces, the fishes, those influences have co

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olding purpose or process) which we call individualisation, initiation, and identification, it should be borne in mind that these words connote something to us today from the angle of our present point in evolution, from our inherited teaching and thought habits, and from the standpoint of modern knowledge and terminologies. later they may appear in a totally different light when we know more and the race has advanced further into the light. but from the light which streams forth from that larger synthesis, and from the angle of vision of those whose consciousness is higher and greater and more inclusive than the human, the significance of these words may appear totally different. definition is simply the expression of the immediate understanding of a human mind. but a definition may later

is the correspondence in man to the lemurian epoch and to the period of pure infancy. 2. the quality of the astral body. this governs the individual for a very long period, and still governs, more or less, the masses of men. it corresponds to the atlantean period and to the stage of adolescence. the ray of the astral body is of very great power. 3. the quality of the mental body. this, as far as the race is concerned, is just beginning to wax in power in this aryan race to which this era belongs. it corresponds to the stage of maturity in the individual. the ray of the mind has a very close relation to the solar angel, and there is a peculiar affiliation between the angel of the presence and the mental man. it is this deep-seated, though oft unrecognised, interplay and cultivated intercou

d hand to hand, they stand. will reinforces will, and love meets love. the will-to-power merges with the will-to-love and strength with wisdom meets. these two are one. from that high spot of unity, the one who is released stands forth and says 'i return from whence i came; from the formless to the world of form i make my way. i will to be. i will to work. i will to serve and save. i will to lift the race. i serve the plan with will, the whole with power" ray two "the angel of the presence draws the wanderer to him. love divine attracts the seeker on the way. the point of merging is achieved. mouth to mouth, the breath is drawn forth, and the breath is drawn in. heart to heart, the beating of these twain is merged in one. foot to foot, the strength is passed from the greater to the less, a

ere speaking in terms of humanity as a whole, as mankind expresses what we call the "human state of consciousness. i am not speaking in terms of an individual soul, if such a misnomer may be permitted. these five points of crisis mark the transfer of soul life from one race to another. each time such an event happens, there is racial unfoldment, and the appropriation, more or less consciously, by the race of another vehicle of expression. the following tabulation shows the appropriations marking the five racial crises. 1. in the lemurian civilisation .t he appropriation of the physical body, with its five senses. 2. in the atlantean civilisation. the appropriation of the astral body. 3. in the present aryan world. the appropriation of the mental body, with consequent intellectual unfoldmen

of lower mind, causal consciousness and nirvanic realisation. this process finds its consummation at the third initiation. in the life of the aspirant, the power to cause this tremendous happening is dependent upon the carrying forward of the inner subjective and spiritual work previously described as the "building of the bridge on the mental plane" between the above mentioned three aspects. for the race of men as a whole, this work began in the middle of our aryan race, and is today going forward very rapidly. for the individual aspirant, the work has always been possible right down the ages, and it is the major task undertaken by disciples at this time. it might be added here that the new group of world servers is composed of those who are engaged in this work for the race, and every pe

its roots in the past atlantean civilisation, which preceded ours. in that age, the astral body was the subject of attention. much that happens today, and which may develop, has its roots in that aspect of energy. seeds sown at that time are now brought to flower. this is very good and necessary, even if distressing in experience. but the world saviours must be recognised as coming forth to serve the race, with sacrifice of some kind along many lines and in many forms. they may be great rulers, or dictators, politicians, statesmen, scientists and artists. their work is the work of salvage, of restitution, or renovation and revelation, and, through the sacrifice of themselves, they accomplish it. as such, they must be recognised for what they are. now they are misunderstood, misinterpreted

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

the minds of men. let light descend on earth. from the point of love within the heart of god let love stream forth into the hearts of men. may christ return to earth- 6- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust from the centre where the will of god is known let purpose guide the little wills of men the purpose which the masters know and serve. from the centre which we call the race of men let the plan of love and light work out. and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1945 section one discipleship in the new age by the tibetan talks to disciples part i my brothers: it is of importance that you realise that today something new is happening. there is the emergence of a new kingdom in nature, the fifth kingdom

outer world. they materialise the forms through which the hierarchy can express its intentions and they make the human contacts. there are many such disciples and they are doing this work from their own free choice and because they have realised the immediate and coming need of humanity and have pledged themselves to serve. there are, secondly, those who act as links between the elder brothers of the race, the masters of the wisdom who embody the divine plan and the workers mentioned above. i do not say that they act as links between the disciple and his master for that is a direct relationship which none may touch, particularly in the more advanced stages. this second group of working disciples- 17- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust however, act as intermedi

the outer world of humanity. this will constitute an actual fusion or blending and will mark the initiation of the human family through the achievement of its foremost pioneering members. this is the true "marriage in the heavens" of which mystical christianity speaks and the result of this fusion will be the manifestation of the fifth kingdom in nature, the kingdom of god. in the past history of the race, a great event occurred which brought into manifestation the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom. we stand now on the verge of a similar but still more momentous event the appearance of the fifth kingdom, as a result of the planned activity of the new group of world servers, working in collaboration with the hierarchy of perfected souls, and under the guidance of the christ himsel

mposition" and an authority that is lacking in the other branches of this divine group activity. this work is largely first ray work. it will embody the method whereby the divine will works out in the consciousness of races and nations. members of this group will have much first ray energy in their equipment. their work is to act as channels of communication between the department of the manu and the race of men. it is a noble task, my brothers, to be channels for the will of god. 6. the workers in the field of religion form this group. their work is to formulate the universal platform of the new world religion. it is a work of loving synthesis and it will emphasize the unity and the fellowship of the spirit. this group is, in a pronounced sense, a channel for the activity of the second ra

chosen for training. these were: sensitivity, impersonality, psychic gifts, mental polarisation. i do not make mention of aspiration, of selflessness or of the desire to serve. they are fundamentals and basic essentials and, where they do not exist, there is no use in proffering the type of assistance which we are seeking to give. you will note that, as you look back over the spiritual history of the race of men during the past two thousand years (which is far enough for our purpose, that the following methods have been consecutively used to reach men's minds spiritually: 1. the method of raising the consciousness of an individual so that he became a knower. individual salvation and the emergence of outstanding individuals with spiritual sense, vision and achievement to their credit has ch

and lao tze of china. such also have been many of the saints of the church in the west. the bhagavad gita has been the book which has embodied this way superlatively. others emerged along the way of the mind and were the intellectual knowers. theirs is the more strictly occult way and it has become increasingly the way of our present day aspirants. the reason for this is that the polarisation of the race is shifting ever more steadily on to the mental plane. some of the individuals on this way of the mind were sankaracharya, the apostle paul, and meister eckhart. today, many are coming out along this way under the name of science. there were also those outstanding individuals, such as the christ and the buddha, who combined both ways in their perfection and who towered above their fellowm

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

nt humanity lie the grounds for an unshaken optimism as to human destiny. events in the immediate foreground do not blot out the long history of human development and obliterate recognition of the long range changes which have taken place within the human consciousness; these basically condition human objectives, all human contacts and underline with understanding and perspective the reactions of the race of men. the slow and restricted movements of the primitive races of mankind have given place to the speed and the rapid movement (the almost unbelievably rapid movement) and transportation facilities of the airplane. the uncouth sounds and the limited vocabulary of the savage races have developed into the intricate language systems of the present nations; the various modes of primitive co

n groups in the united states, the demand for a white australia or south africa, the cry of "america for the americans, or british imperialism, the shouting of france for recognition, are other instances. they all indicate inability to think in larger terms; they are an expression of world irresponsibility; they indicate- 7- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust also the childishness of the race which fails to grasp the extent of the whole of which each nation is a part. war and the constant demand for territorial boundaries, based on ancient history, the holding on to material, national possessions at the expense of other people will seem some day to a more mature race of men like nursery quarrels over some favourite toy. the challenging cry of "this is mine" will some day no lo

ome day no longer be heard. in the meantime, this aggressive, immature spirit culminated in the war of 1914-1945. a thousand years hence, history will regard this as the acme of childish selfishness, started by grasping children who could not be stopped in their aggressive ways because the other nations were still too childish to take strong action when the first indications of the war were seen. the race faces a new crisis of opportunity wherein new values can be seen as important, wherein the establishing of right human relations will be deemed desirable, not only from the idealistic point of view but also from the purely selfish angle. some day the principles of cooperation and of sharing will be substituted for those of possessive greed and competition. this is the inevitable next step

t is an accusation) is also true of the united states. a great future lies ahead of that nation but not because of material power or commercial efficiency, as many materially-minded people think. the reason lies in a deeply spiritual, innate idealism, enormous humanitarian potentiality and above all else because virgin and non-effete stock of largely peasant and middle class origin is determining the race. steadily in all nations, the power in government and in determining practical ideologies is rapidly passing into the hands of the "people" and out of the hands of the so-called ruling classes and the aristocracy. countries such as great britain and france, which have accepted the determining evolutionary tendencies, can move forward with greater ease into the future than can such countri

st intolerant of other nations; they are ready to tell other nations how to handle their problems but as yet evidence no ability to handle their own, as witness the treatment of the american negroes and the withholding of equal freedom and opportunity from them. they are restlessly experimenting with all phases of life, with every kind of idea and all kinds of relationships. the creative power of the race shows itself as yet in a wonderful control of nature and in great construction projects which bring water under control, or which relate all parts of this vast country through roads and waterways. america is a great battleground for experiment along creative lines; it is profoundly interested in trying out every kind of ideology. the fight between capital and labour will reach its climax

an relations- 17- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust slowly but surely, this educational movement will inevitably produce right understanding and correct attitudes and activities in every community, in every church and nation, and ultimately in the international field. this will take time but it presents a challenge to all men of goodwill throughout the world. the spiritual guides of the race can present this formula of progress. they cannot guarantee its enactment, for humanity is left free to decide its own problems. certain questions, therefore, emerge immediately. will the great powers, russia, the united states, and the british commonwealth of nations stand together for the total good of humanity, or will they each proceed upon their separate way towards their own selfish

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

great human crisis, always in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new race, or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision, the heart of god impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher, a world saviour, an illuminator, an avatar, a transmitting intermediary, a christ. he gives the message which will heal, which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men, which will illumine a dark world problem and give to man an expression of some hitherto unrealised aspect of divinity. upon this fact of the continuity of revelation and upon the sequence of this progressive manifestation of the divine nature, is based the doctrine of avatars, divine messengers, divine appearances and saviours. to them all, history unmistakenly testifies. it is up

e point of light within the mind of god let light stream forth into the minds of men. let light descend on earth. from the point of love within the heart of god let love stream forth into the hearts of men. may christ return to earth. from the centre where the will of god is known let purpose guide the little wills of men the purpose which the masters know and serve. from the centre which we call the race of men let the plan of love and light work out- 15- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. its extraordinary potency can be seen in the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are already using it day by day and many times a day; it is (1947) translated into eighteen di

e three divine aspects, recognised by all the world religions (including the christian religion) intelligence or the universal mind, love and will will be consciously developed in mankind; humanity, the spiritual hierarchy and the "centre where the will of god is known" will be brought into a more open and general relationship. the mystical approach to the kingdom of god will gradually die out as the race achieves increasing intelligence and a more scientific approach will be favoured; the rules for admission into that kingdom will become objective; the laws governing the highest centre of the divine will will also be revealed to those who are members of the kingdom of god and all this will come about under the supervision of the christ after his reappearance among men. the keynote of his

with certain plans for the coming civilisation of the aquarian age. as many millions in the world know, each year (at the time of the wesak festival at the may full moon) he communicates with humanity, via the christ and the assembled, attentive hierarchy. he acts in this way as an agent bringing about relationship between the "centre where the will of god is known" and the "centre which we call the race of men" these two descriptive phrases are used advisedly because all the work now being done by these two great sons of god is concerned with the distribution of energy the energy of light and the energy of love. it is through the triangle- 51- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust earlier mentioned, that the energy of will eventually will be distributed and one of the

of god is concerned with the distribution of energy the energy of light and the energy of love. it is through the triangle- 51- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust earlier mentioned, that the energy of will eventually will be distributed and one of these divine distributors is the buddha. actually the work of the buddha for humanity is nearly over, and his long alliance with the race of men has nearly come to an end. the moment that the appearance of the christ is an accomplished fact, and the rule of right human relations is beginning definitely to condition human living, then the buddha will pass to the work which awaits him. one of the senior disciples of the christ, ranking next to the christ in hierarchical status, will take his place and carry on the work, conne

ss of his presence, stimulating the christ principle in every human heart- 73- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter six the new world religion the world today is more spiritually inclined than ever before. this is said with a full realisation of the generally accepted idea that the world of men is on the rocks spiritually, and that at no time has the spiritual life of the race been at such a low ebb. this idea is largely due to the fact that humanity is not excessively interested in the orthodox presentation of truth, and that our churches are relatively empty and are under public indictment as having failed to teach humanity to live rightly. these affirmations are distressingly true, but the fact still remains that human beings everywhere are searching for spi

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

g to an end the attempt to impose a personally or nationally accepted ideology (political or religious) on other nations and persons. these are basic steps towards eventual peace and understanding and hence i emphasise them today. it will be of value next if i connect up the three major planetary centres of energy with the five rays which are today working towards the consummation of the plan for the race at this time. three of these streams of energy are working powerfully in the world at this time and two others are struggling for expression. of these latter, one is struggling towards domination and the other is struggling to hold on to that which it has so long controlled. this refers to the incoming seventh ray and the outgoing sixth ray. they constitute, in their duality, the reaction

ion of man in ancient lemuria. 2. at the time of the great struggle in atlantean days between the "lords of light and the lords of material expression" this little known divine energy now streams out from the holy centre. it embodies in itself the energy which lies behind the world crisis of the moment. it is the will of god to produce certain radical and momentous changes in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of living. it is this force which will bring about (in conjunction with second ray force) that tremendous crisis imminent in the human consciousness which we call the second crisis, the initiation of the race into the mystery of the ages, into that which has been hid from

of god except by those whose function it is to interpret and express that will through love, intelligently applied. they know what the immediate purpose is and their major occupation is the working out of that will into manifestation. we have, therefore, three great centres and from them emanate three types of energy which are taking form as the three governing ideologies in the consciousness of the race. old ideologies still persist; subsidiary schools of thought are everywhere to be found; distorted interpretations and travesties of reality abound on every hand; on all sides the dead level of the people (the ignorant masses) is played upon by these energies and men become victims of the exponents of the ideologies past, present and future. forget not that behind all of them stands he wh

irely from the past but that there must always be the seed of truth. the law of cause and effect holds good eternally and particularly so in the realm of spiritual insight (so rapidly developing at this time) which enables the seer to see the future as it may be and to forecast coming eventualities. there are several ways in which such prevision can during the next three centuries be developed in the race of men: 1. through the development of soul contact among the advanced members of the race. this contact will relate soul knowledge with brain impression and, if the meditating factor of the mind is duly trained and controlled, there will be a correct foreknowledge of individual destiny and coming events. 2. through the development of the science of astrology a science which is, as yet, in

present the future. character indications and small personality happenings can frequently and correctly be deduced but the general subject remains until today much too nebulous for certitude. i will later deal with this matter and will indicate the lines along which future investigation should proceed. 3. through the recurrence of "soothsaying" and the reappearance of those ancient "informers of the race" who, in roman times, were called "sibyls" these mediums (for such they were) will be trained by the workers upon the seventh ray to speak under inspiration from the hierarchy whose foreknowledge extends far ahead into the future, but does not extend beyond two thousand years. these mediums will, however, only be used under direction, after careful training and only twice a year at the ma

of mankind. these are the sixth ray of abstract devotion or idealism and the seventh ray of ceremonial magic or organisation. the sixth ray began to pass out of manifestation in 1625 after a long period of influence, whilst the seventh ray of ceremonial order began to come into manifestation in 1675. there are three points to be remembered in connection with these two rays and their effects upon the race of men (i am not here dealing with their effects upon the other kingdoms in nature) 1. the sixth ray is as you know, the most powerful in manifestation in this time and a very large number of people are responsive to its influence. it is still the line of least resistance for the majority, particularly in the aryan race, for the reason that when in process of time and through evolution th

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

so engaged. train yourselves, therefore, and learn how to work. telepathic sensitivity is necessarily the objective of all groups of disciples, but it is the main objective of that group which we might call the telepathic communicators; here they can render potent service. groups of sensitives of this order can constitute a working, mediating body, and transmit the new knowledge and teaching for the race; they can mould public opinion and change the current of men's thoughts. all small groups of people, naturally and inevitably, arrive at a telepathic relation between themselves, and between the personnel of similar groups, and this is to be desired and fostered and should rightly and steadily increase. but, as your telepathic sensitivity is increased, see to it that you are not deflected

of greater practicality and only deal with the matter as far as it concerns humanity. planetary illusion will later be briefly dealt with, but the immediate problem before man and the significant contribution of the disciple is the dissipation of much of the glamour in which mankind is immersed and which, during the coming aquarian age, will largely disappear in connection with the astral life of the race. the point i would here make is to call attention to the fact that it is in meditation and in the technique of mind control that the thinkers of the world will begin to rid the world of illusion. hence the increasing interest in meditation as the weight of the world glamour is increasingly realised, and hence the vital necessity for right understanding of the way- 15- glamour: a world pro

s a true content of the equipment of the disciple. earlier i referred to the fact that part of the plan of the hierarchy embraces the starting of small groups such as this one which would have the definite objective of providing the active means whereby the world glamour today so potent and deep can be dissipated. the time has not yet come for dealing with the world illusion on a large scale, for the race is not adequately mental nor has the illusion (which is, as i have stated, pre-eminently the result of the misinterpretation of ideas) reached its height. but the hour has struck for the first steps to be taken in the dissipation of glamour, and the hold of glamour upon the race should be appreciably lessened in the future. hence the practical training now being given in this group in the

al consciousness of man, we have such a state of affairs as the period of the inquisition in its worst forms, of church authority, with the emphasis upon organisation, government and penalties, or the unquestioned rule of some teacher. in its highest forms we have the recognition of the right of the solar angel, of the soul or ego, to rule. between these two extremes, which express the infancy of the race and the freedom which comes when mankind achieves its majority and the freedom of the soul, lie all the many types and kinds of intermediate reactions. in illustration of our point, and thus emphasising the glamour aspect as it affects the disciple and the problem which he faces, what do we find? the disciple has freed himself somewhat from the imposed control of an orthodox teaching and

therefore only be finally dissipated by the aryan race using the right technique. the individual who is learning to dissipate glamour has to do two things: 1. stand in spiritual being. 2. keep the mind steady in the light. from this it will be apparent that the energy of the astral plane as it expresses itself in the sentient- 44- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust desire life of the race, produces the major glamours of humanity, and can only be dissipated, dispersed and dispelled by the bringing in of the higher energy of the mind, motivated by the soul. 4. the glamours which hold humanity in thrall are: a. the glamour of materiality. b. the glamour of sentiment. c. the glamour of devotion. d. the glamour of the pairs of opposites. e. the glamours of the path. let me now

ty. b. the glamour of sentiment. c. the glamour of devotion. d. the glamour of the pairs of opposites. e. the glamours of the path. let me now elucidate these glamours for you a little more in detail. the glamour of materiality is the cause of all the present world distress, for what we call the economic problem is simply the result of this particular glamour. down the ages, this glamour has held the race increasingly interested, until today the entire world has been swept into the rhythm of money interest. a rhythm emanating from soul levels has always existed, being established by those who have freed themselves from the control of material requirements, from the thraldom of money and the love of possessions. today that higher rhythm is commensurate with the lower rhythmic glamour, and h

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

actors which must be considered in all telepathic work are: a. the initiating agent or emanating source. b. the recipient of the ideas, thoughts or energy. c. the medium of revelation. the growth of telepathic rapport will bring in an era of universality and synthesis, with its qualities of recognised relationships and responsiveness. this will be, outstandingly, the glory of the aquarian age. as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarisation through the developing attractive power of the mental principle, the use of language for the conveying of thoughts between equals or of communicating with superiors will fall into disuse. it will continue to be used in reaching the masses and those not functioning upon the mental plane. already voiceless prayer and aspiration and worship are dee

use of language for the conveying of thoughts between equals or of communicating with superiors will fall into disuse. it will continue to be used in reaching the masses and those not functioning upon the mental plane. already voiceless prayer and aspiration and worship are deemed of higher value than the pleadings and proclamations of voiced expression. it is for this stage in the unfoldment of the race for which preparation must be made, and the laws, techniques and process of telepathic communication must be made plain so that they can be intelligently and theoretically understood. disciples must occupy themselves increasingly with right understanding, right designation and right definition of the new science of telepathy. mental comprehension and mental sympathy will make true interpl

e future stage of immediate response to thought, unlimited by speech or other medium of expression. disciples will endeavour to work in both ways, and the medium of normal human relations and that of supernormal subjective relations must be studied by them and expressed by them. in this way the time of bridging and the period of transition can be spanned. it will take about five hundred years for the race to become normally telepathic, and when i say normally i mean consciously. this bridging work must be carried forward by disciples in three ways: 1. by an endeavour to understand- 20- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the medium of transmission. b. the method of transmission. c. the manner of reception. d. the mode of inter-related activity. 2. by the cultiva

of telepathy (as a- 21- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust seed of a future racial potency) can be developed and understood. this is a process now going forward, and it is going on in two ways: through the medium of telepathic groups and of telepathic people, and through the medium of exoteric scientific investigation. the building of the thoughtform which will accustom the race to the idea of telepathic work is proceeding apace, and the seed of this development is becoming very vital and powerful and germinating with real rapidity. it is, in the last analysis, the seed of masterhood. vi. group telepathic work i shall now take up with you the subject of united group telepathic work, its possibilities and the present opportunity, touching upon the dangers involved

esponse to impact is something we all register. our five senses have opened to all people five great realms from which impact comes, and we are so familiar with them all that our response is now automatic and, though registered, is not consciously so, unless there is a planned reason and direction intended. we respond similarly and as automatically to emotional stimuli, and rapidly (very rapidly) the race is reaching out towards mental telepathy. some few are beginning to work along the lines of spiritual telepathy. few do more than register occasionally contacts emanating from a high source, and the result is usually also over-mixed with personality reactions. contact, with resultant impact from the soul, is also quite rapidly developing, hence the necessity for my laying the foundations

d all in the council chamber of sanat kumara (or shamballa) have invariably passed through the human stage of evolution, for only human beings can perfectly blend and express life-reason, and only human intellect can consciously create what is needed in order to bring the needed stages of manifested life into being. here again emerges another reason for the importance of the "centre which we call the race of men; upon the shoulders of humanity rests unbelievable responsibility. therefore, whether we are dealing with simple telepathy, or with invocation and evocation, or with impression, we are in reality considering the effect of life-reason as it manifests in relation to the available and suitable environment. note this phrase. all this takes place through men in process of being made per

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

an our logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. it concerns stimulation, and vitalisation with a consequent co-ordination of the manifesting fires. a clue to the mystery lies also in the relation of this fifth group to the two contracting poles. they are the five-fold links, the "benign uniters" and "the producers of the atonement" esoterically, they are the "saviours of the race" and from them emanates that principle which in conjunction with the highest aspect lifts the lower aspect up to heaven. when these mysteries are carefully studied, and due application made to the lives of the greatest exponents of the at-one-ing principle, it will become apparent how great and all-important is their place in the scheme. it is for this reason that the units of the fifth h

demonstrating in others. once the fire has free- 54- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust passage along any triangle it flames continuously, but always there is one triangle more radiant and luminous than the others, and it is from these glowing triangles of light, issuing from wheels and vortices of fire, that the clairvoyant and the teachers of the race can appraise a man's position in the scheme of things, and judge of his attainment. at the culmination of life experience, and when man has reached his goal, each triangle is a radiant path of fire, and each centre a wheel of living fiery force rotating at terrific speed; the centre at this stage not only rotates in a specific direction, but literally turns upon itself, forming a living f

he form in its occult significance and the consequent release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness. of this process, all the world saviours past, present and to come are the manifested symbols and the eternal guarantees. it is in such recognitions as these that the mainspring to the life of service must be sought. people born in this sign are frequently to be found serving the race and ministering to its needs upon some level of consciousness. thus they are prepared for the final sacrifice in pisces which- 71- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust "absorbs them back into their originating motive" as the old commentary expresses it. it is for this reason that the life of service and the directed intention to serve con

sun is now entering, its three decanates, saturn, mercury and venus, bringing inevitably difficulty, illumination and brotherly love. on the- 103- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust ordinary wheel, in all outer affairs, saturn controls, and we consequently find ourselves today in a state of chaos and trouble, but as far as the consciousness of the race is concerned, mercury is becoming increasingly active. a steady illumination is taking place and light is being thrown on all problems light on government and politics through experiments and the study of great and basic ideologies; light on the material nature of the world through all the many branches of science; light on humanity itself through education, philosophy and psychology. thi

the connection between the sixth- 130- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and seventh rays that that potent "desire for incarnation" was aroused which resulted in the fall of the angels in primordial times. this sixth ray influence coming from three angles orthodox, esoteric and hierarchical and hence involving both neptune and mars predisposes the race and individual man as well to become one-pointed disciples in sagittarius. this latter constellation is ruled by mars, bringing the man into control or closer touch with the lunar lords, the sixth creative hierarchy. students should study their charts with care, remembering to differentiate between the five hierarchies which are the non-manifesting hierarchies, and the seven hierarchies w

rver; all world servers are decentralised workers and are governed by the need and the reactions of the mass or group. that is one of the reasons why, when in training, disciples are absorbed into a master's group which is integrally a collection of individuals who are imbued with the group idea and are learning increasingly to react to it. in this world period and in a peculiar manner, as far as the race (aryan) to which the western world belongs, neptune is known esoterically as the initiator. in certain ancient formulas, the great teacher of the west and the present world initiator, christ, is spoken of as neptune, who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological symbol signifies the trinity in manifestation and who is the ruler of the piscean age. the formula runs as follows, speaki

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

aspiring disciple, the evolving animal and the beauty of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms constituted one divine and living whole which was moving on to the demonstration of the glory of the lord. i grasped faintly that human beings needed the christ and the buddha and all the members of the planetary hierarchy, and that there were happenings and events of far greater moment to the progress of the race than those recorded in history. i was left bewildered, because to me (at that time) the heathen were still heathen and i was a christian. deep and fundamental doubts were left in my mind. my life was henceforth coloured (and is today) by the knowledge that there were masters and subjective events upon the inner spiritual planes and in the world of meaning which were a part of life itself

if i had ever known a bad jew and i replied that i had known lots of them. he then proceeded to ask if i had ever known a nice gentile and i naturally replied "of course. in fact, i think i am one myself" he next asked me if i had known some bad gentiles and i made the same reply "well, then you see, madam, what's left! just human beings" and that has been my experience everywhere. no matter what the race or nation, basically we are all alike. we have the same faults and failings, the same urges and aspirations, the same goals and desires and i believe that we need to realise this more keenly and practically. we need, also, to free ourselves from the impression which history and its crystallising nationalisms have laid upon us. the past history of every nation is a sorry story but it condi

d me. i'm not one of those occult teachers who claims to know exactly what the master wants done or to have the right to introduce the curious and the dumb to the- 108- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust masters. the masters are not contacted that way. they are not the prey of the curiosity seeker, the gullible or the unintelligent. they can be found by the selfless server of the race and the intelligent interpreter of the truth but by no one else. i have given out the teaching as it has come to me by the tibetan but it is his responsibility. as a master of the wisdom he knows what i do not know and has access to records and truths which are sealed to me. the assumption that i know all that is given out in his books is a false one. as a trained disciple i may know more

to make contact with his soul, how to live as a soul, how to recognise a master and how to work in a master's group. he learns the techniques whereby he can register impressions from the master and be responsive to group intent and thus increasingly sensitive to the plan with which his master and the ashram is pledged to cooperate. he is taught how to play his part in raising the consciousness of the race; this he does through a conscious, directed use of the trained mind, of his controlled emotional nature and his responsive brain. he becomes proficient in playing the difficult, dual role of the disciple. this is to live as a soul in the life of every day and to work consciously in relation to the hierarchy. there are many other definitions of an esoteric school but i have chosen the simp

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

g out of the emotional-feeling nature. 2. those which have their origin in the etheric body. 3. those which are based on wrong thought. 4. the peculiar complaints and psychological troubles of disciples. it may have interested you to see that i place the ills of the etheric body in the second place and not the first. the reason for this is that the group ills and diseases which have fastened upon the race, work primarily through the etheric body and find their way out into manifestation via the etheric bodies of all forms. but i have placed them second, even though they are in the last analysis the most numerous, owing to the fact that humanity cannot as yet deal with these en masse. the approach has to be through individuals, and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those co

into manifestation via the etheric bodies of all forms. but i have placed them second, even though they are in the last analysis the most numerous, owing to the fact that humanity cannot as yet deal with these en masse. the approach has to be through individuals, and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those conditions which pre-dispose them to disease, as individuals. at present, the race is astrally polarised. the emotional sentient nature is all-powerful in the masses. this leads to a relatively negative etheric body which is tuned in on the entire etheric substance of the planet. this substance, which underlies all forms, is simply a transferring and transmitting agency for vital energy to the outer dense physical body. energy sweeps through this etheric substance, free

energy on behalf of the patient a thing as yet rarely granted. i would like first of all to point out that my purpose and intent is not to write a medical treatise. i shall not, therefore, deal with the anatomy of the body, nor shall i discuss the symptoms of diseases, except quite incidentally. i do not intend to elaborate symptoms or consider the many diseases with long names which distinguish the race at this time; all such information you can gather from the ordinary textbooks, if you so choose, and these you can study, if you care to do so. i find it personally not particularly satisfying. we will start with the premise that there is disease; that disease is an effect of inner causes; that man has made as vast strides in the understanding of the effect of these causes as they produce

d was intelligently applied to the problem) that sunshine and good food could cure, or at any rate arrest, the disease. it is an interesting item in the field of esoteric correspondence that just as the light of the soul, pouring into the mind, can be depended upon to solve any problem, so that light of the sun and its prophylactic rays can dispel the dread symptoms of tuberculosis. similarly, as the race develops right emotional control we shall see the gradual disappearance of the phenomena of cancer. i said right emotional control; inhibition and the suppression of the desire impulses by the force of the will is not right control. it is interesting also to note that though both men and women suffer from the disease of cancer, the general cause is not identical, though the basic cause (r

his phrase not only symbolically but also technically and scientifically. this again will later be seen. in the secret of right rhythmic living and in a right proportional accent upon all phases of life will come (and it is rapidly coming) complete immunity from tuberculosis. in the secret of right understanding of times and cycles and of periodic reproductive creation, will come the emergence of the race from the evils of the social diseases. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that the syphilitic diseases will be the last to disappear, just as they were the first to devastate the race. tuberculosis is disappearing. the attention of the experts is now being given to the cure of cancer- 38- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust i would like

ed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect. one of the major problems today to the psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of homosexuality, both female and male. specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove that this abnormal development (and the consequent interest in this morbid tendency) is due to the fact that the race is slowly becoming androgynous in its development, and that the future hermaphroditic man or woman is gradually making its appearance. this, again, is not true. homosexuality is what you call a "left-over" from the sexual excesses of lemurian times, an inherited taint, if you like. egos who individualised and incarnated in that vast period of time are the ones who today demonstrate homose

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

oliver l. reiser department of philosophy university of pittsburgh pittsburgh, pennsylvania u.s.a. chapter i the objective of the new education introductory statements this presentation might be regarded as concerning itself with three different aspects of one general theme, which is that of the new and coming educational methods and ideas. the objective is to elucidate the cultural unfoldment of the race and to consider the next step to be taken in the mental development of humanity. teaching, if true, must be in line with the past and must provide scope for endeavour in the present and must also hold out further enlightenment for those who have succeeded or are succeeding in attaining the indicated goals. there must be a spiritual future indicated. it is that which is required now. the w

action to accumulated information (where education is concerned, collated and collected data, sequentially handed out, digested and arranged so as to equip the child to compete with the information which other people possess. iii. education to date has been largely memory training, though there is now emerging the recognition that this attitude must end. the child has to assimilate the facts that the race believes to be true, has tested in the past and found adequate. but each age has a differing standard of adequacy. the piscean age dealt with the detail of the endeavour to measure up to a sensed ideal. hence we have a history which covers the method whereby tribes acquired national status through aggression, war and conquest. that has been indicative of racial achievement. geography has

e at-one-ment" or "attaining alignment" these are all attempts to express this intuitively realised truth. vi. education also should concern itself during the new age with the bridging of this gap between the three aspects of the mind nature: between the soul and the lower mind, thus producing at-one-ment between soul and personality; between the lower mind, the soul and the higher mind. for this the race is now ready, and for the first time in the career of humanity the bridging work can go forward on a relatively large scale. on this i need not enlarge, for it concerns the technicalities of the ancient wisdom, on which i have given you much in my other books. vii. education is therefore the science of the antahkarana. this science and this term is the esoteric way of expressing the truth

t so in fact. we have not yet discovered all that is to be found in the world of phenomenal appearances. we are passing through one of the great natural transitional periods at this time. we are laying the foundation for the emergence of a new species of human being a more highly evolved unit within the human family hence much of our problem, and much of the present failure to meet the demands of the race, and to measure up to human need for development. we have, in the world, a general theory as to education, and certain basic methods are universally employed. countries vary greatly in the application of methods, and systems differ very considerably. all, however, teach these same fundamental things; they teach the youth of the country to read and write and to attain a fair measure of abi

niversally employed. countries vary greatly in the application of methods, and systems differ very considerably. all, however, teach these same fundamental things; they teach the youth of the country to read and write and to attain a fair measure of ability to deal with figures through instruction in elementary arithmetic. these three are curiously symbolic of the whole evolutionary unfoldment of the race. reading has to do with the clothing of ideas with form and is related to the first step in the creative process, wherein deity, governed and impelled by an idea (embodying god's purpose- 16- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust and plan, converted that idea into the desired substance and clothed it with the needed outer appearance. writing symbolises the method whereby the

sult of this creative activity of the soul's desire nature, limited by form. ponder on this. c. the soul creates through the direct agency of the lower mind and hence the appearance of the world of symbols which fill our united lives with interest, concepts, ideas and beauty, through the written word, the spoken word, and the creative arts. these are the products of the thought of the thinkers of the race. the right direction of this already developed tendency is the aim of all true education. the nature of ideas, the modes of intuiting them, and the laws which should govern all creative work are its goals and objectives. thus we come to the world of attributes which supplement the activity of the three aspects, in the same way that the three major rays are enhanced and aided by the work o

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

piration became more clearly emphatic; the new era, with its latent possibilities, can be seen upon the horizon, stripped of the veils of glamour and wishful thinking which obscured it ten years ago. the significant spiritual effects of the war can now be clearly seen, and i can begin to consider with you (earlier than i had anticipated) some of the problems with which you as potential servers of the race and pledged disciples can now deal. i could wish, as far as the immediate present is concerned, that you were all younger and had availed yourselves more definitely of the teaching i have sought to give you these past years. above everything else, i wish you were more courageous. does that word surprise you, my brothers? in considering this year as a whole, i question not your devotion or

duals reach me, and under the inspiration of your own souls and of the spiritual triad when these contacts are made and utilised. in my previous instruction i stressed three points to which i would like again to refer in the light of the emerging opportunity. my task is not to change you or to give you orders and commands. i have only one task, and that is to find and test out those who can serve the race under inspiration from the ashrams of the masters. i referred at that time to the loneliness which is one of the first things that indicates to a disciple that he is being prepared for initiation. it will be apparent, therefore, that the loneliness to which i refer is not that which is incident to those weaknesses of character which repel one's fellowmen, to an aloof or disagreeable natur

of approach, symbolised in the ritual i gave you as a golden band of light. this you- 36- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust were to visualise as extending between yourselves, as a group, to your tibetan brother. this pathway of approach is the path which it is planned should constitute a more familiar symbol than has hitherto been the case in the religious life of the race. 4. this pathway of light leads to the heart of a dark blue disk at the very centre of which you were told i could be contacted. those of you who are in any way adept at meditation work know well that the light in the head when seen and recognised passes usually through three stages of intensification: a. it is, first of all, a diffused light, surrounding the head, discovered later within

e point of light within the mind of god let light stream forth into the minds of men. let light descend on earth. from the point of love within the heart of god let love stream forth into the hearts of men. may christ return to earth. from the centre where the will of god is known let purpose guide the little wills of men the purpose which the masters know and serve. from the centre which we call the race of men let the plan of love and light work out. and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. it has been difficult to translate into understandable and adequate phrases the very ancient word-forms which the christ will employ. these word-forms are only seven in number, and they will constitute his complete, new utterance. i have only

e point of light within the mind of god let light stream forth into the minds of men. let light descend on earth. from the point of love within the heart of god let love stream forth into the hearts of men. may christ return to earth. from the centre where the will of god is known let purpose guide the little wills of men the purpose which the masters know and serve. from the centre which we call the race of men let the plan of love and light work out. and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. each of the four stanzas refers to one or other of the three aspects of divine energy, plus a reference to humanity itself in which the three meet, are potentiality in latency, and finally develop into the full flower of divinity, with all thr

f the hierarchy and initiates of at least the third degree (the first degree of the lodge on sirius) have any idea as to the nature of the purpose which underlies the plan. ponder on that phrasing. having invoked the three aspects or potencies of mind, love, and will, in the fourth three lines we have indication of the anchoring of all these powers in humanity itself, in "the centre which we call the race of men" here and here alone lies the promise of the future and its hope and opportunity. here and here alone can all the divine qualities in time and space express themselves and find fulfilment: here and here alone can love be truly born, intelligence correctly function, and the will of god demonstrate its effective goodwill. through humanity, alone and unaided (except by the divine spir

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

e point of light within the mind of god let light stream forth into the minds of men. let light descend on earth. from the point of love within the heart of god let love stream forth into the hearts of men. may christ return to earth. from the centre where the will of god is known let purpose guide the little wills of men the purpose which the masters know and serve. from the centre which we call the race of men let the plan of love and light work out. and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1945 section one introductory remarks the period of transition- 2- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust march 1934 one of the results of the world condition at this time is the speeding up of all the atomic lives upo

nd a fresh revelation of the divine potencies in the human being. thus is the new age dawning. access to levels of inspiration, hitherto untouched, has been facilitated. the stimulation of the higher faculties (and this on a large scale) is now possible, and the coordination of the personality with the soul and the right use of energy can go forward with renewed understanding and enterprise. ever the race is to the strong, and always the many are called and the few chosen. this is the occult law. we are now in a period of tremendous spiritual potency and of opportunity to all upon the probationary path and the path of discipleship. it is the hour wherein a clarion call goes forth to man to be of good cheer and of goodwill, for deliverance is on the way. but it is also the hour of danger an

e entrance of the pure light of truth. aspirants in these schools present a different problem from that of ordinary psychism and mediumship. these men and women have offered themselves for intellectual training and have subjected themselves to a forcing process which is intended to bring the full flower of the soul into premature blossoming, and this in order more rapidly and effectively to serve the race, and to cooperate with the plan of the hierarchy. such students thereby lay themselves open to dangers and difficulties which would have been avoided had they chosen to go the slower and equally sure way. this fact should be realised by all workers in such schools and the problem carefully explained to the entering aspirant, so that he may be on his guard and adhere with care to the rules

ter its growth; the many would eventually desire it and it then could manifest experimentally and sporadically all over the civilised world of any age, wherever culture of any kind made itself felt. thus the idea was manifested- 19- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust two ways in which these determining ideas in the past came into being and played their part in leading the race onward might be mentioned. one was through the teaching of some teacher who founded a school of thought, thus working through the minds of a chosen few, and through them eventually coloured the thoughts of the men of his time. of such a teacher, plato, aristotle, socrates and many others are outstanding examples. another method was the evocation of the desire of the masses for that which

r method is strictly emotional and so more easily colours the mass consciousness. an instance of this was the message of the love of god which christ enunciated and the emotional reaction of the masses to his life, his message, and his sacrifice. thus the need of the mental few and the emotional many has been met down the ages. in every case, the origin of the work effected and the medium whereby the race has been guided has been a human-divine consciousness; the medium has been a personality who knew and felt and was at-one with the world of ideas, with the inner world order, and with god's plan. the result of these two techniques of activity has been the emanation of a stream of force, coming from some layer or level of the world consciousness the mental or the emotional planes which are

d an idea or intuited an idea and then tried to give it form, later calling in the help of those who saw his idea as an ideal; a man had a great ambition which was, in reality, a dim grasping of a part of god's general plan, and he then became a group leader or a ruler, with the assistance of those who succumbed to his power or to his right to guide, lead and dominate them. and so, progressively, the race has been led from point to point and from stage to stage of unfoldment until today many are seeing the vision, sensing the plan, and dreaming dreams which they can work out together. this they can do because they recognise each other, because they are beginning to know themselves and each other as souls, because their understanding is united and because (and this is of prime importance) t

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

d moves in life. rule vii. for applicants: let the disciple turn his attention to the enunciating of those sounds which echo in the hall where walks the master. let him not sound the lesser notes which awaken vibration within the halls of maya. for disciples and initiates: let the group life emit the word of invocation and thus evoke response within those distant ashrams where move the chohans of the race of men. they are no longer men as are the masters but having passed beyond that lesser stage, have linked themselves with the great council in the highest secret place. let the group sound a dual chord, reverberating in the halls where move the masters but finding pause and prolongation within those radiant halls where move the lights which carry out the will of god. rule viii. for applic

r emotional body. it is one of the primary and most elementary of the initial tensions, and is taught upon the probationary path. it leads to the purifying and the re-organising of the entire psychic and emotional life, as the result of its destructive action "if you will only think "if you will only use a little will" and "if you will only remember that you have a mind" we say to the children of the race and to beginners upon the path of conscious return. little by little, then, the focus and the orientation shift out of the astral life and from the emotional level of consciousness into the mental, and consequently into the reflection of the world of purpose, found in the three worlds. when that stage has been somewhat developed, then there follows, upon the path of discipleship and of pr

rist "he shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied" at the crisis of that revelation, at its highest point of tension, humanity as with one voice will say "behold! all things are become new" this is the apotheosis of vision and the prelude to an unfoldment in the general massed human consciousness (from that point in time slowly brought about) of certain powers and capacities of which the race is today totally unaware. the immediate revelation ahead will be only the first step towards this distant related point, and its significance will not be apparent to the present generation, or even to the next; it will, however, be steadily though gradually appreciated as the new world religion with its emphasis upon the invocation of energies and the evocation of "life more abundantly" i

hat the spiritual hierarchy (and by that term i include both shamballa and the planetary hierarchy) is evoking the spirit of man. the invocative cry of humanity is evoked by the invocation or sound of the spiritual hierarchies. man's responsibility, however, is to invoke at this time the lords of liberation and the spirit of peace. these are the beings which have the power to raise humanity, once the race of men has assumed the right attitude. they correspond to the group, in the third degree of masonry, who raise the master. their response to the cry of mankind is largely, but not wholly, dependent upon the quality of that cry. i wonder if i could make the problem of invocation clearer to you if i were to suggest that the words "issue forth from the deep centre of the group's clear cold l

that god is fire. rule four at the time of the june full moon, each year, the love of god, the spiritual essence of solar fire, reaches its highest point of expression. this it achieves through the instrumentality of the hierarchy, that great group of souls which has ever been the custodian of the principle of light, of enlightened love, and which always down the ages focusses its attention upon the race of men when the spiritual influence is at its height. this it does through one of the great sons of god. the full moon of june of 1943 saw this outpouring of divine love reach its highest expression for all time, and at the point of attainment which is, for that particular son of god, his highest also. such is the law. when an embodied christ in time and space reaches his goal of achievem

n lie far ahead in the distant future. the work of the preparatory schools must come first, and their work will proceed until such time that the work of the ashrams of the masters is recognised as forming part of an outer hierarchical activity. this in due time will lead to the giving of the first initiation publicly, as a part of the great service ritual of the then prevalent universal religion. the race of men will then in its most advanced brackets and groups in every country in the world be normally clairvoyant, and will therefore see for themselves the light within the candidates; they will know then that the first initiation is justifiably undergone, and they will also see the same light in thousands who in previous incarnations have taken that initiation. one thing only will i add t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

lower or psychic teacher; and thus we again have emphasized both the duality of gemini and its mental quality. when this sign is in evidence as it is now, being a powerful mutable sign, it inaugurates many changes; new ideas flood the world; new impulses make their presence felt; new and undeveloped lines of approach to spiritual truth emerge, and many teachers will arise everywhere to help lead the race into a new state of spiritual awareness. being an air sign, we find that the conquest of the air proceeds with speed, and also a constant effort is made to unify and coordinate the many and varied aspects of human endeavor. venus is the esoteric ruler of gemini and governs the second decanate; for venus makes at-one, and through its influence the law of attraction and the bringing togethe

elusive, so fleeting, that at first the disciple cannot grasp it; as a hint dropped into the consciousness in moments of one-pointed attention, when the mind is held steady and the emotions temporarily cease to control. in the case of a more advanced disciple who has established contact with his soul and who, therefore, may be supposed to be ready for instruction from one of the great teachers of the race, it will be found that the master works just as nereus did. he cannot always be contacted, and only occasionally does the disciple come into touch with him. when he does, he need not expect congratulations upon his wonderful progress, nor will he find a careful elucidation of his problem, nor a lengthy outline of the work that he should do. the master will give a hint and disappear. he wi

hy outline of the work that he should do. the master will give a hint and disappear. he will make a suggestion and will say no more. it is for the disciple to act upon the hint as best he may and to follow up the suggestion should he deem it wise. many well-meaning occultists would lead one to believe that the masters of the wisdom take a personal interest in them, that the overburdened guides of the race have no better occupation than to tell them personally how to live, how to solve their problems and how, in detail, to guide their undertakings. i would like here to go on record as protesting against any such belittling of the work of the great ones. the reasons that nereus, the master, is elusive and gives but a flash of thought or of momentary attention to the aspirant, are two: first

up a strong personality relationship, and by utilizing the sincerity and the aspiration of the seeker after truth, they gather around themselves groups of men and women who innocently and sincerely believe the truth of the claims that they make, and bind them to the altar of sacrifice for a longer or a shorter period of time. the true initiate is known by his life and acts, he is too busy serving the race to find the time to interest people in himself, and he cannot make promises beyond saying to every aspirant "these are the ancient rules, this is the way that all the saints and masters of the wisdom have trod, this is the discipline to which you must subject yourself; and if you will but try and have endurance and patience, the goal will surely be yours" but hercules freed himself, as do

iritual kingdom. being equipped with the faculty of mind, in aries, and with desire, in taurus, and having arrived at the realization of his essential duality, in gemini, the incarnating human being enters, through birth in cancer, into the human kingdom. cancer is a mass sign, and the influences which pour from it are held by many esotericists to bring about the formation of the human family, of the race, the nation, and the family unit. where the aspirant is concerned, the story is somewhat different, for in these four signs, he prepares his equipment and learns to utilize it. in aries, he grips his mind and seeks to [82] bend it to his need, learning mental control. in taurus "the mother of illumination, he receives his first flash of that spiritual light which will grow increasingly mo

of judah must prevail over the lion of the personal self. we are not alone in our struggle, as hercules was, but we form part of a great group of sun gods, who are struggling with the tests preparatory to initiation, and with the problems that will draw out the full powers of the soul. in capricorn we shall climb the mountain-top, and entering now, as we are, the aquarian cycle, the aspirants of the race are in a position to begin to learn the lesson of service and universal consciousness. when, in two thousand years' time, we begin to enter capricorn, there will then be a tremendous gathering-in of initiates, and the scaling of the mount of initiation and the mount of transfiguration by many hundreds of disciples. in the meantime, the lion of the personality has to be dealt with and the

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

bodies, and he inspired them with his counterfeit spirit. the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 10 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm "and the two archons he set over principalities, so that they might rule over the tomb. and when adam recognized the likeness of his own foreknowledge, he begot the likeness of the son of man. he called him seth, according to the way of the race in the aeons. likewise, the mother also sent down her spirit, which is in her likeness and a copy of those who are in the pleroma, for she will prepare a dwelling place for the aeons which will come down. and he made them drink water of forgetfulness, from the chief archon, in order that they might not know from where they came. thus, the seed remained for a while assisting (him, in order

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

these meetings. they adoredforbidden deities and practised forbidden deeds, inspired as much by rebellion against society as bytheir own passions.there is, however, in the evangel of the witches an effort made to distinguish between the naturallywicked or corrupt and those who are outcasts or oppressed, as appears from the passage: yet like cains daughter (offspring) thou shalt never be,nor like the race who have become at lastwicked and infamous from suffering,as are the jews and wandering zingari,who are allthieves: like then ye shall /not/ be. page 62 appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts.so long ago as the year 1886 i learned that there was in existence a manuscript setting forth thedoctrines of italian witchcraft, and i was promised that, if possible, it should be obtained for me

on, and herbrother into a sun. and so shall she ever escape him, yet will he ever catch her with his light, whichshall fall on her from afar; for the rays of the sun are his hands, which reach forth with burninggrasp, yet which are ever eluded.and thus it is said that this race begins anew with the first of every month, when the moon beingcold, is covered with as many coats as an onion. but while the race is being run, as the moonbecomes warm she casts off one garment after another, till she is naked and then stops, and thenwhen dressed the race begins again.as the vast storm-cloud falls in glittering drops, even so the great myths of the olden time are bro-ken up into small fairy-tales, and as these drops in turn reuniteen rivire ou sur lestang,(on silent lake or streamlet lone,)as villon

pressors shall be dead;and ye shall make the game of benevento,extinguishing the lights, and after thatshall hold your supper thus: page 10 translation.tis true indeed that thou a spirit art,but thou wert born but to become againa mortal; thou must go to earth belowt o be a teacher unto women and menwho fain would study witchcraft in thy school.yet like cains daughter thou shalt never be,nor like the race who have become at lastwicked and infamous from suffering,as are the jews and wandering zingari,who are all thieves and knaves; like unto themye shall not be..and thou shalt be the first of witches known;and thou shalt be the first of all i the world;and thou shalt teach the art of poisoning,of poisoning those who are great lords of all;yea, thou shalt make them die in their palaces;and t

BAPHOMANTIS LUCIFERIAN SATANIC MASS

as your son, as your own. as i give to you my body, and my undying love. accept me now and forever, as your own, blood of your own blood, flesh of your own flesh, eternally as your own son. veni, omnipotens aeternae diabolus, hail lucifer! after return to the altar, pick up the host hold it up and say: behold the body of yeshua the deciever. i invoke thee into this wafer. you who come to enslave the race of man. you were sent by he who calls himself god, to strengthen the chains of bondage. i invoke you in order to brake the chains of bondage and kindle the fires of freedom. yes, you have gained many followers and sheep of your fold but now the tide is turning and your flock is learning the truth. in the name of lucifer, the daemons and legions. i condemn thee to the abyss and free the so

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ounding mountains. as the babylonian accounts are now only restored from hundreds of thousands of broken fragments (the mound of kouyunjik alone having yielded to layard's excavations over twenty thousand fragments of inscriptions, the proofs here cited are comparatively scanty; yet such as they are, they corroborate almost every one of our teachings, certainly three, at least. these are (1) that the race which was the first to fall into generation was a dark race (zalmat gaguadi, which they call the adami or dark race, and that sarku, or the light race, remained pure for a long while subsequently (2) that the babylonians recognised two principal races at the time of the fall, the race of the gods (the ethereal doubles of the pitris, having preceded these two. this is sir h. rawlinson's op

f yoga. their sons the children of the yellow father and the white mother. 19. the second race was the product by budding and[[vol. 2, page] 18 the secret doctrine. expansion, the a-sexual from the sexless- thus was, o lanoo, the second race produced. 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight. 21. when the race became old, the old waters mixed with the fresher waters. when its drops became turbid, they vanished and disappeared in the new stream, in the hot stream of life. the outer of the first became the inner of the second. the old wing became the new shadow, and the shadow of the wing- vi. 22. then the second evolved the egg-born, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops becam

nd 19th dynasties the symbols of life and power. but subsequently, in the course of the 20th dynasty, he is suddenly treated as an evil demon, insomuch that his effigies and name are obliterated on all the monuments and inscriptions that could be reached" the real occult reason will be given in these pages* sukra is the son of bhrigu the great rishi, and one of the seven prajapati, the founder of the race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refer to vishnu's avatars, since these number nine, the tenth being still to come, but

mic of[[footnote(s* as shown elsewhere, it is only the "heavenly man" adam kadmon, of the first chapter of genesis, who is made "in the image and likeness of god" adam, of chapter ii, is not said to be made in that image nor in the divine likeness, before he ate of the forbidden fruit. the former adam is the sephirothal host; the second adam is the mindless first human rootrace; the third adam is the race that separated, whose eyes are opened* for a discussion of the scientific objections to the views and figures here enunciated, the reader is referred to the addenda, which form part iii. of this book[[vol. 2, page] 47 narada and asuramaya. atoms, or aniyamsam aniyasam) became one and the many (ekanekarupa; and producing the universe produced also the fourth loka (our earth) in the garland

llowing no visible exit into the archaic past. lost in the maze of their own conflicting speculations, rejecting, as they have always done, the evidence of eastern tradition, without any clue, or one single certain milestone to guide them, what can geologists or anthropologists do but pick up the slender[[footnote(s* for a similar admission see prof. lefevre's philosophy, p. 481[[vol. 2, page] 67 the race that never dies. thread of ariadne where they first perceive it, and then proceed at perfect random? therefore we are first told that the farthest date to which documentary record extends is now generally regarded by anthropology as but "the earliest distinctly visible point of the pre-historic period (encyclopaedia britannica) at the same time it is confessed that "beyond that period str

e islands of atlantis. the "white island" is a symbolical name. asuramaya is said to have lived (see the tradition of jhana-bhaskara) in romaka-pura in the west: because the name is an allusion to the land and cradle of the "sweat-born" of the third race. that land or continent had disappeared ages before asuramaya lived, since he was an atlantean; but he was a direct descendant of the wise race, the race that never dies. many are the legends concerning this hero, the pupil of surya (the sun-god) himself, as the indian accounts allege. it matters little whether he lived on one or another island, but the question is to prove that he was no myth, as dr. weber and others would make him. the[[vol. 2, page] 68 the secret doctrine. fact of "romaka-pura in the west" being named as the birth-place

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ion, as required by the conditions of the yoga state. in the first or earlier portion of the existence of this third race, while it was yet in its state of purity, the "sons of wisdom" who, as will be seen, incarnated in this third race, produced by kriyasakti a progeny called the "sons of ad" or "of the fire-mist" the "sons of will and yoga" etc. they were a conscious production, as a portion of the race was already animated with the divine spark of spiritual, superior intelligence. it was not a race, this progeny. it was at first a wondrous being, called the "initiator" and after him a group of semi-divine and semi-human beings "set apart" in archaic genesis for certain purposes, they are those in whom are said to have incarnated the highest dhyanis "munis and rishis from previous manvan

of kali yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. the men who are thus changed. shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the krita age, the age of purity. as it is said 'when the sun and moon and the lunar asterism tishya and the planet jupiter are in one mansion, the krita (or satya) age shall return. two persons, devapi, of the race of kuru and moru, of the family of ikshwaku, continue alive throughout the four ages, residing at kalapa* they will return hither in the beginning of the krita age. moru* the son of sighru through the power of yoga is still living. and will be the restorer of the kshattriya race of the solar dynasty (vayu purana, vol. iii, p. 197. whether right or wrong with regard to the latter prophecy

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e wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the most high god. this then is the the law of liberty: you possess all liberty in your own right, but you must buttress right with might: you must win freedom for yourself in many a war. woe unto the children who sleep in the freedom that their forefathers won for them .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. but it is only the greatest of the race who have the strength and courage to obey it. o man! behold thyself! with what pains wast thou fashioned! what ages have gone to thy shaping! the history of the planet is woven into the very substance of thy brain! was all this for naught? is there no purpose in thee? wast thou made thus that thou shouldst eat, and breed, and die? think it not so! thou dost incorporate so many elements, t

weapon. in any society where each person has his allotted place, and that a place with its own special honour, mutual respect and self-respect are born. every man is in his own way a king, or at least heir to some kingdom. we have the equinox 230 many examples of such society today, notably universities and all associations of sport. no. 5 in the harvard crew does not turn round in the middle of the race and reproach no. 4 for being merely no. 4; nor do the pitcher and catcher of a crack baseball nine revile each other because their tasks are different. it is to be noted that wherever teamwork is necessary social cooperation is essential. the common soldier is invested with a uniform as well as his officer, and in any properly trained army he is taught his own canons of honour and self-re

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nt a strong collective challenge to white perceptions of black inferiority. thus it was with great ambivalence that african americans in all walks of life scrutinized the world of their former bondage. as robert russa moton, a student at a freedmen's college and a member of the advancing generation of sons and daughters of the slaves, observed "the conditions under which we live c have created in the race an anxiety and an earnest desire that every effort the negro puts forth shall be of the best" undergoing acculturation into a realm of new possibilities, african americans viewed the future as selfconscious observers as well as participants in the fashioning of their own destinies.[3] between the years 1861 and 1875, a great mass of black and white administrators, schoolteachers, and cler

etheless many of the ex-slaves continued to explore such traditions privately and in allblack gatherings.[11] the attempt to honor tradition was at the heart of the freedpersons f desire to maintain many slave practices. older, entrenched notions of spiritual authority presented a special challenge to the reforming clergy "the old heathen churches still bear sway, and hinder the moral progress of the race" wrote c. l. woodworth, a congregationalist instructor "their preachers, ignorant, and many of them vicious, still have a mighty hold upon the race" according to a baptist missionary in augusta, georgia "the colored people are most devotedly attached to leaders, pastors, and others. the word of their leaders is law, is everything! they have almost unbounded influence over their people" an

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and say that they can't believe i did it. perform this exercise every day until you see results. they may not be as spectacular as mine, but they will be there. and do not get discouraged. some things take time. as you continue to charge the etheric body this way, you may begin to get hunches about ways to get money, hunches that pay off. now, important here, this is not to suggest that you go to the race track and put your mother's life savings down on a long-shot because you have a hunch about the horse. use some of that terribly uncommon common sense you have. what you should get are definite ideas on how to make money. you may dream of a certain job, or someone who is going to hire you and then find ad for that job in the paper. if that happens, go apply. the worst thing that can happe

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ueathed the daimonic seed unto man through his daughters, that he may be bred upward unto godhood. now these are the names of the chiefs of the watchers: first i, samyaza, then arstikapha, armen, kakabael, turel, rumyel, danyal, kael, barakel, azazal, armers, bataryal, basasael, ananel, turyal, simapiseel, yetarel, tumael, tarel, rumel, azazyel. and we took wives who begat the gibborim, elevating the race of man with daimonic seed. these gibborim were of great stature, and were the heroes, the mighty and renown, of ancient days. our gift supplemented that of satanael's, being the gift of the arts of civilization, the knowledge of kosmos and earth. verily did we become the fathers of civilization, of all arts among man. these are the arts which we did teach unto man: azazyel taught metallur

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on of palestine. for the same reason, the term 'anti-semitic' is constantly misused. personally, i don't care about the colour and genetic line of a person's physical body. it is a vehicle for experience, that's all. we are aspects of each other. but since many people use the genetics of their bodies to justify their actions, we might as well get the information right. the word semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient sumer from whom the biblical jews claimed to have emerged. sem or shem, one of the sons of noah in the bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of 'shemjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writer

, also, how the malthus proposals of the encouragement of disease and of forcing upon the poor conditions they are unlikely to survive, are still at the forefront of elite policy in the third world and within industrialised countries, too. names now familiar to us in this book, such as the harrimans and the rockefellers, were seriously into eugenics. averell harriman's mother funded the launch of the race-science movement in america in 1910, and built the eugenics 130 .and the truth shall set you free record office as a branch of the galton national laboratory in london. the harrimans were responsible for the bush family fortune and they were close to another bush family backer, george herbert walker (a relative by marriage of prescott bush and grandfather to george bush, who would go on t

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f old" is also relevant. the word hero comes from the egyptian term, heru, which, according to researcher wallis budge, was "applied to the king as a representative of the sun god on earth".11 the precise meaning was "a human being who was neither a god nor a daemon".12 the term has the inference of a crossbreed race. the writer homer (8th-9th century bc) wrote that "the heroes were exalted above the race of common men. the poet, pindar (518-438bc- a very relevant name for readers of the biggest secret- used the term, hero/heru, to describe a race "between gods and men. at this moment 1 have the song playing in my head that goes "search for the hero inside yourself! it is extremely likely that horus or haru, the egyptian son of god and a mirror of the much later "jesus, came from the term

rius and diodorus, are among those who refer to pleiadians visiting atlantis. the greeks said that pleiadians had mated with poseidon, a king of atlantis, and the offspring populated that society. diodorus said that two of the seven symbolic "sisters" of the pleiades, celoene and alcyone, had "laid with the most renowned heroes and gods and thus became the first ancestors of the larger portion of the race of human beings" nordic-reptilian interbreeding? the lyra constellation is widely associated in ufo research and the stories of abductees with a blond-haired, blue-eyed race. aldebaran, a giant red star with a diameter about forty times that of the sun, is another nordic-related location, not least within the secret society network of the nazis. it is in the constellation of taurus and on

ignificant. the underground "hell" is supposed to be the place of judgement and eternal punishment where the "devil" and evil spirits dwell beneath the earth. the longer we go on, the more you will see how relevant this is to the races and bloodlines that manipulate this world. el is the hebrew name for "god" and she was also known as heidi and ida. the elohim, the gods of the old testament, were the race of el, a dragon queen. the greeks knew el as artemis, the cruel mother-goddess who demanded human sacrifice. artemis (also known as diana) was the major deity of the merovingians. artemis was symbolised with bees, as is the merovingian bloodline. it is the same with other versions of the goddess like demeter, the "pure mother bee, and a symbol of aphrodite was a golden honeycomb. her prie

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f the ancient world, and like her she was armedfor the hunt. as earl spencer made a point of emphasising at the funeral of his sisterdiana, princess of wales, she was named after the ancient goddess of hunting.the early british kings called themselves and their race the catti and this appearson their coins. the aryan hittites of asia minor and syria-phoenicia called themselvesthe catti or khatti. the race of aryans who left the caucasus to rule india were knownas the khattiyo. the term khatti evolved through the hebrew and english translationsinto the hittites of the old testament. kassi or cassi was the title used by the firstphoenician dynasty about 3,000 bc and was adopted by the babylonian dynasty. notsurprising because these were different branches of the same people. the ancient indi

e early church heroes, was from north africa. he couldnt get enough sexearlier in his life, but after his alleged conversion to christianity at the age of 31, heswitched dramatically and decided that sex was horrid. you know what smokers are likewhen they stop. he would not allow a woman into his house unaccompanied, even hissister. he couldnt think of another way of producing children, so unless the race was todie out, he was stuck with it. however, he insisted that on no account should you enjoy it.ive tried that mate, and it doesnt work. this was augustines view of sexuality:husbands love your wives, but love them chastely. insist on the work of the flesh only insuch measure as is necessary for the procreation of children. since you cannot begetchildren in any other way, you must descen

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is is his seal: the sixth name is nariluggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seventh name is asaruludu wielder of the flaming sword, oversees the race of watchers at the bidding of the elder gods. he ensures the most perfect safety, especially in dangerous tasks undertaken at the behest of the astral gods. his word is banmaskim and his seal is thus: the eighth name is namtillaku a most secret and potent lord, he hath knowledge to raise the dead and converse with the spirits of the abyss, unbeknownst to their queen. no soul passes into d

and the starry and the earthly, and the spirits of the air and the spirits of the wind as well. which things he may tell thee, and thou wilt grow in wisdom. his word is zidur and his seal is thus: the forty-third name is irkingu this is the power that laid capture to the commander of the forces of the ancient ones, kingu mighty demon, that marduk might lay hold of him and, with its blood, create the race of men and seal the covenant. his word is barerimu and his seal is this: the forty-fourth name is kinma judge and lord of the gods, at whose name they quake in fear. that the gods may not err, this power was given to oversee their activities, should they be lawful and within the nature of the covenant, for the gods are forgetful, and very far away. his word is engaigai and his seal is thi

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t may be concluded that that is [page 10] the discipline and experience which the lords of karma consider we need in this incarnation, and that we shall not advance the cause of our evolution by avoiding or evading it. i have seen so many attempts at spiritual development that were simply evasions of life's problems that i am suspicious of any system which involves a breach with the group-soul of the race. nor am i impressed by a dedication to the higher life which manifests itself by peculiarities of clothing and bearing and by the manner of cutting, or omitting to cut, the hair. true spirituality never advertises itsel. 5. the racial dharma of the west is the conquest of dense matter. if this were realised it would explain many problems in the relationships of west and east. in order tha

t type of man is not a hirsute gorilla, nor is the highest type of woman an exaggerated mammal. the tendency of evolution in civilisation is to an approxiniation of type between the sexes so far as the secondary sexual characteristics are concerned. what percentage of city-dwelling males could grow a really patriarchal beard? the primary sexual character, however, must be maintained unimpaired or the race speedily dies out, and we have no reason to believe that this is the mystical qabala page 90 case even among our most epicene moderns, who fill the divorce courts with abundant evidence of their overflowing philoprogenitiveness. 32. these things we can understand in the light that is thrown on them when they are "placed upon the tree" the two pillars, the positive under chokmah and the ne

urah one. everywhere we see a mercy, that has been overstrained by the imperfections of human nature, being abrogated in favour of a severity which shall restore the balance of even-handed justice and prevent evil from multiplying. police work is being reorganised; judges are giving stiffer sentences; penal reform has had a set-back; the humanitarian no longer has the last word. the group-soul of the race is entering upon a geburah phase, and has lost patience with its sub-standard units. mystical qabala page 122 18. for the next cycle the tendency will be to push the unfit into the discard and concentrate on bringing the fit to their finest development. geburah will be the senior partner, and any mitigations of severity that gedulah proposes will have to pass the scrutiny of even-handed j

rn, he enters yesod, the treasure house of images, the sphere of maya, illusion. yesod, considered by itself, is unquestionably the sphere of illusion, because the treasure house of images is none other than the reflecting aether of the earth-sphere, and corresponds in the microcosm to the unconscious of the psychologists, filled with ancient and forgotten things, repressed since the childhood of the race. the keys that unlock the doors of the treasure house of images and enable us to command its denizens are to be found in hod, the sphere of magic. it is truly said in the mysteries that no degree becomes functional until one has taken the next. anyone who tries to function as a magician in yesod soon learns his error, for although he can perceive the images in the treasure house, he has n

s descent of force, building the planes of manifestation, passing from active to passive and back again in order that equilibrium may be maintained. the serpent coiling upon the paths represents the dawn of objective consciousness and is the symbol of initiation; by the mystical qabala page 186 path whereon the initiates have gone, ahead of their time, evolution is beginning to go, taking with it the race as a whole. it is now becoming normal for the average man to do what only the initiates used to do. 23. we see the growing-point of evolution, then, beginning to rise out of malkuth and reach out towards yesod. this means that science, both pure and applied, is passing beyond the study of inanimate matter and is beginning to take account of the etheric and psychic side of things. this cha

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lish occultists had tried to perform a similar service for germany, what line would they have taken? would they not have tried to influence the german group-mind to give up its militarist ideals and concentrate on the league of nations? was it not more than likely that our indian friend was trying to disabuse us of our imperialistic tendencies? would it not appear to him, smarting as he was under the race prejudice of the white man, that the world would be a much better place for humanity if the english cultivated their own garden and let other people alone? i got more and more uneasy, and x, being a good psychic, detected my uneasiness, and i was asked to withdraw from the group he was organising. i felt quite convinced that something sinister was being attempted against the group-mind of

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of atrocity, but he had a bitter quarrel with geronimo, and hated him and all the hostiles with an unquenchable hatred. now and then when on that last campaign in the southwest, in which we ran the apache leader to earth, i would suddenly recall the warning that jared jennings spoke to me when spending the evening with him at his hotel "never trust any indian" was its substance, and he added that the race were capable of pretending friendship for years, with the unfaltering purpose of seizing the best opportunity for biting the hand that fed them. so it was that more than once when in special peril, i asked myself whether it was safe fully to trust vikka. it 36 low twelve would seem that he had already served the united states so well, and had struck so many blows against his people, that

es, now tossed on their crests, now hidden behind them as they broke in combers on the sand bars. suddenly diaz turned back, and seemed swimming with redoubled effort to regain the ship. through the breakers there plunged a boat and from it came the glint of sunlight as the man who saved president diaz 173 the red rays struck on the drawn swords of soldiers. the man had been seen and was pursued. the race was an exciting one, but the swimmer had the start and was alongside as the purser shouted to the men in the fo'castle "line the starboard rail1 lower a line" and made a place for that bit of the ridiculous that so persistently seems to enter into every affair of moment. as diaz was seized and drawn aboard the patriot soldiers were already coming up the gangway. the situation was critical

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d by lucifer, was rendered familiar to society by the epic poetry of john milton. the medieval development of angelology was passed on to occultists and a description of the angelic orders became integral to magic and in the practices of magical rituals. angels and giants another leading belief, not so much interwoven with the popular theology, was that of angels intercourse with women, producing the race of giants. the idea derived from genesis 4:2, in the adoption of which the christian fathers followed the opinion of ancient jewish interpreters, philo-judaeus, and josephus. a particular account of the circumstances is given in the book of enoch, which makes the angels.uriel, gabriel, and michael.the chief instruments in the subjugation of the adulterers and their formidable offspring. t

s substance; therefore, being once kindled, it preserves a constant light without feeding it with any moisture. asc see austin seth center ascended masters ascended masters are enlightened beings whom many in the esoteric field believe have evolved beyond the need to reincarnate on earth and now act from a higher plane of existence to assist humans in their movement toward enlightenment and guide the race in its destined evolution. the concept of ascended masters was popularly introduced by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, and described in some detail in her most important book, the secret doctrine. blavatsky taught that both individuals and the human race were engaged in an upward evolutionary process. at the same time, she pictured a hierarchy of m

y it became one of the destinations visited by explorers in the european fantastic voyage literature, the most prominent being captain nemo in jules verne s twenty thousand leagues under the sea (1870. interest in atlantis was revived in 1882 with the publication of ignatius donnelly s atlantis, the antediluvian world. he argued that atlantis was the lost origin point of humanity, the place where the race moved out of barbarism to a civilized state. for donnelly, atlantis explained many of the prominent similarities between the culture of egypt and that of latin america. he believed that the worldwide myth of the flood was really the account of atlantis s demise. blavatsky adopted donnelly s ideas and integrated atlantis into the theosophical story of the evolution of the human race. she h

l to convey the prophet mahommad to the seventh heaven. the name means the lightning and al borak had the face of a man but the cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like jacinths, but as bright as stars; it had eagle s wings that glistened with radiant light; and it spoke with a human voice. it traveled at each step as far as the keenest sight could see, and it was one of the only ten animals (not of the race of men) received into paradise. borderieux, carita (mrs. pierre borderieux (1874.1953) secretary to gabriel delanne, editor of la revue scientifique et morale spiritisme and founder and editor of the review psychica from 1921 until it ceased in 1940. she organized regular weekly meetings in paris with speakers on spiritualism and parapsychology. such famous individuals as camille flammari

thered sons of vast bulk and height, whose names were given to the mountains in which they dwelt, cassiul, libanus, antilibanus, and brathu. the issue of these giant men by their own mothers were meinrumus, hypsuranius, and usous. hypsuranius inhabited tyre; usous becoming a huntsman, consecrated two pillars to fire and the wind with the blood of the wild beasts that he captured. much later, from the race of hypsuranius issued agreus and halieus, inventors, it is said, of the arts of hunting and fishing. from these descended two brothers, one of whom was chrysor (or hephaestus, skilled in words, charms, and divinations; he also invented boats and was the first to sail. his brother first built walls with bricks, and their descendants in the second generation seem to have completed the inven

of awareness, n.d. vols. 2.3. olympia, wash: cosmic awareness communications, 1977, 1983. cosmic consciousness a form of mystical experience characterized by consciousness of the whole cosmos, of the life and order of the universe. it was originally defined by dr. richard m. bucke (1837.1902) in his book of the same name. bucke considered cosmic consciousness a higher peak in human evolution that the race will universally attain in the distant future. according to bucke, it seemed to appear primarily in men between the ages of thirty and forty, who were highly developed, of good intellect, high moral quality, superior physique, and earnest religious belief. he considered the 13 greatest cases to be gautama buddha, jesus christ, the apostle paul, plotinus, mohammed, dante, las casas, john y

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um john murray spear in association with another medium, charles hammond, at the instigation of the association of electricizers, one of the bands of spirits by whom he was controlled. the motor was to derive its motive power from the magnetic store of nature and was therefore to be independent of artificial sources of energy, like the human body. the machine was hailed as the physical saviour of the race, and the new messiah. mrs. alonzo newton, wife of one of spear s collaborators, obeyed a vision by going to high rock, lynn, massachusetts, where the new motor was located, and for two hours suffering birth-pangs, whereby she judged that the essence of her spiritual being was imparted to the machine. at the end of that time it was claimed that pulsations were apparent in the motor. newton

nts, the elohim succeeded in creating life and eventually produced a humanlike creature. their governmental authorities ordered them to continue their work elsewhere, and earth was the chosen site. the elohim eventually left earth, but returned in 1973 because of the threats of atomic war. the elohim, according to vorilhon, now wish to assist humanity in controlling aggressive urges that threaten the race with total annihilation. they have requested that an embassy be constructed where they can meet with world leaders. the construction of such a meeting place is high on the raelians agenda. rael organized those who read his book and adhered to his message into a raelian movement. it is structured hierarchically. leaders are termed guides, with rael designated a sixthlevel guide. he is assi

if his or her favors promised more than those of their own deities. although there was a strong conservative element in the populous, and the custom of the elders was strongly upheld by the priestly fraternity, this usually gave way before the momentary impulses of the people. thus, as a rock shows its geological history by its differing strata, so the theogony of the roman gods tells its tale of the race that conceived it. there are prehistoric nature deities, borrowed from indigenous tribes; gods of the sabines, from whom the young colony stole its wives; gods of the etruscans, and of the egyptians, greeks, and persians. the temple of jupiter on the capitol contained the altar of an ancient deity, a stone-god, terminus, the spirit of boundaries. in the temple of diana of the grove, a fou

elf-realization fellowship manual of services. los angeles: self-realization fellowship, 1965. yogananda, swami paramahansa. autobiography of a yogi. new york: philosophical library, 1946. reprint, los angeles: self-realization fellowship, 1971. descriptive outlines of yogoda. los angeles: yogoda satsang society, 1928. the semites this entry on the semites applies to the more ancient divisions of the race, such as the babylonians and assyrians, and the hebrews in biblical times. for later semitic occultism, see arabs and kabala. in ancient babylonia and chaldea, magic was a department of priestly activity. in mesopotamia a sect of priests named the asipu were set apart for the practice of magic, which in their case probably consisted of hypnotism, the casting out of demons, the banning of

grades of reality in relation to mobile consciousness, the nature of the soul, death, and after-death experiences. in a communication titled the unknown reality, seth stated: the individual self must become aware of far more reality, it must allow its identity to expand to include previously unconscious knowledge. your species is in a time of change.you are now poised on the threshold from which the race can go many ways. potentials within the body s mechanisms, not as yet used, can immeasurably enrich the race and bring it to levels of spiritual, psychic, and physical fulfillment. but if some changes are not made, the race will not endure. i am suggesting ways in which the unknown reality can become a known one. sources: roberts, jane. the god of jane: a psychic manifesto. englewood clif

to have the advantage of a lofty electrical position, superstitious villagers destroyed the new motor in the night. the destruction of the new motor had a certain advantage in silencing critics of the machine s failure to work as predicted. other spiritualists took the loss philosophically, s. b. brittan commenting in the spiritual telegraph that, if the new motor is to be the physical savior of the race, it will probably rise again. john murray spear also projected plans for the building of a circular city, or perfect earthly home. these plans were also inspired by spirits. emma hardinge britten, writing in modern american spiritualism (1869, observes. that mr. spear honestly believed in a spiritual origin for the various missions he undertook, and the remarkable part he played, none who

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ion in the otherworldly chain of command than did their smaller fellows. one writer on the abduction phenomenon, david m. jacobs, believes that the evidence clearly suggests that the nordics are most probably adult hybrids, the products of human/alien mating (jacobs, 1998. no rdics live on in current contactee lore, w h e re they are assumed to be genuine extraterrestrials, perhaps re p resenting the race that seeded the earth and gave rise to modern ho m o s a p i e n s. no rdics, according to billy meier and other post-adamski friends of the space people, come from the pleiades star system. see also: abductions by ufos; adamski, george; close encounters of the third kind; contactees; hybrid beings; meier, eduard billy; menger, howard; walton s abduction further reading adamski, george, 1

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

was once so bitterly averse! has something alien pierced me through and through? now these most charming youths i love to view. what holds me back that i can t curse!and if i let myself be fooled and baited, who henceforth fool-inchief will be? the stunning rascals whom i ve always hated, charming beyond words do they seem to me!tell me, sweet children, that i may not miss you! aren t you too of the race of lucifer? you are so fair i d truly like to kiss you; to say you come just right, i scarcely err. i feel so much at home, so natural, as though we d met a thousand times before; so stealthy, kitten-like, desirable, at every glance your beauty charms me more. oh, do draw near! grant me one glance, i pray! angels we re coming now, why do you shrink away? we re drawing near, remain now if

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, seeing the newly created seven governors (the planets) on whom all things depend, wishes to create, to make something like that. nor is this treated as a sin of disobedience.1 he is allowed into the society of the seven governors who love him and impart to him their powers. this egyptian adam is more than human; he is divine and belongs to the race of the star demons, the divinely created governors of the lower world. he is even stated to be "brother" to the creative word- demiurge son of god, the "second god" who moves the stars. it is true that he falls, but this fall is in itself an act of his power. he can lean down through the armature of the spheres, tear open 1 festugiere thinks that though man's desire to create was not a fa

in his very origin, man as magus. the egyptian genesis tallies well with that famous outbreak in the asclepius on man as the magnum miraculum (with which pico della mirandola was to open his oration on the dignity of man: what a great miracle is man, o asclepius, a being worthy of reverence and honour. for he passes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god; he has familiarity with the race of demons, knowing that he is issued from the same origin; he despises that part of his nature which is only human, for he has put his hope in the divinity of the odier part.1 (2) egyptian regeneration. the secret discourse on the mountain of hermes trismegistus to his son tat. corpus hermeticum, xiii2; dualist gnosis) tat asks his father, trismegistus, to teach him about the doctrine of

e end to the other of nature. matter has been prepared by god to be the receptacle of all forms; and nature, imprinting the forms by means of the four elements, prolongs up to heaven the series of beings. all species reproduce their individuals, whether demons, men, birds, animals, and so on. the individuals of the human race are diverse; having come down from on high where they had commerce with the race of demons they contract links with all other species. that man is near to the gods who, thanks to the spirit which relates him to the gods, has united himself to them with a religion inspired by heaven. and so, o asclepius, man is a magnum miraculum, a being worthy of reverence and honour. for he goes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god; he has familiarity with the ra

whole of the passage in the asclepius on man the great miracle with which his oration opens, no pico della mirandola and cabalist magic and which, in its context, claims that miraculous man is, in his origin, divine: and so, o asclepius, man is a magnum miraculum, a being worthy of reverence and honour. for he goes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god; he has familiarity with the race of demons, knowing that he is of the same origin; he despises that part of his nature which is only human for he has put his hope in the divinity of the other part' the fathers of the church had placed man in a dignified position, as the highest of terrestrial beings, as spectator of the universe, as the microcosm containing within himself the reflection of the macrocosm. all these orthod

6. 2 ibid, pt. i, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 986-7; williams, i, pp. 69-70. 3 agrippa, de occult, phil, i l l, 46-9. 281 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan entirely like god, as the true image of god. whence hermes says "o asclepius, man is a great miracle, an animal to be admired and adored, for he passes into the nature of god, as though he were himself god. he has familiarity with the race of demons knowing himself to be of the same origin. he despises that part of his nature which is only human for he has put his hope in the divinity of the other part" the soul thus changed into god receives from god so great a perfection that it knows all things, by an essential contact with the divinity. changed into god by love. it can sometimes do works greater and more marvellous than

aid that man is of such a kind that he is higher than the inhabitants of heaven, or at least possessing with them an equal fate' i think that this gives the answer as to the real meaning of the heroic love furores of the eroici furori, they are the furor of venus interpreted as the means whereby man becomes the magnum miraculum of the asclepius, having miraculous powers and living in consort with the race of demons to which he himself belongs in his origin. we have also in the agrippa passage the usual pimander-genesis equation about the creation of man, which explains why cabalist, as well as neoplatonic, mysticism may be used in describing the mystical loves of the eroici furori, the real nature of which is that they are at bottom "egyptian" loves, the loves of that magnum miraculum the

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ade, and thus he occupies at the present time, an unenviable intermediate position between the plant and the god. at the time when one half of the human sex force was diverted for the purpose of building a brain, men were helpless and lacking in knowledge of how to overcome conditions. they did not even have the consciousness to know that there was a difficulty, and had no outside help been given the race must have died out. therefore the angels from the moon, who were the guardians of mankind, herded the sexes together in great temples at times when the interplanetary lines of force were propitious to propagation and thus they perpetuated the race. it was also proposed that when the brain had been completed, the lords of mercury, elder brothers of our present humanity who excelled in inte

den wedding garment, which is the "open sesame" to the invisible world. and though the cleansing blood of jesus is an absolute necessity to millions of weaker brothers, there can scarcely be any question when we assert that the more men and women who engage in mystic masonry to consciously build this temple of the soul, the sooner we shall see the second advent of christ, and the stronger will be the race which he shall rule by the law of love. end of freemasonry and catholicism* click here to go to the beginning of this book* table of contents* click here to return to the rosicrucian fellowship home page* rosicrucian fellowship philosophy study courses information* order the printed version of this book. please give us your feedback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222

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d later induced the man to follow her example. who the serpents are and what the tree of knowledge is may also be determined from certain passages in the bible. we are told, for instance, that christ exhorted his disciples to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the so-called curse pronounced upon eve after her confession declares that she must bear her children in sorrow and pain and that the race will die. it has always been a great stumbling block to bible commentators as to what connection there could be between the eating of an apple, death, and painful parturition; but when we are acquainted with the chaste expressions of the bible, which designates the creative act by such passages as "adam knew eve and she bore abel "how can i bear a child seeing i know not a man" et cetera

ges into heaven hereafter. after the future in store for the sons of cain and their followers, the temple legend is also most eloquent. it states that from cain descended methuselah, who invented writing, tubal cain, a cunning worker in metals, and jubal, who originated music. in short, the sons of cain are the originators of the arts and crafts. therefore when jehovah chose solomon, the scion of the race of seth, to build a house for his name, the sublime spirituality of a long line of divinely guided ancestors flowered into the conception of the magnificent temple called solomon's temple, though solomon has only the instrument to carry out the divine plan revealed by jehovah to david. but solomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for

es in the inner vision would become mixed and would be confused. this marrying in the family or tribe was what engendered the selfishness, the clannishness, and the struggle and strife of the world. to break these up, the practice must be discontinued; thus when christ came he advocated the discontinuance of the practice when he said "before abraham was, i am" in effect he said: i do not care for the race father, but i glory in the i am, the ego that was long before he was. and he also said "who does not leave father and mother cannot follow me" as long as you are tied to the family, the nation, the tribe, you are siding with the old blood, the old ways, and cannot amalgamate into a universal brotherhood. that can only come when people marry internationally because when there are so many n

before he was. and he also said "who does not leave father and mother cannot follow me" as long as you are tied to the family, the nation, the tribe, you are siding with the old blood, the old ways, and cannot amalgamate into a universal brotherhood. that can only come when people marry internationally because when there are so many nations the way to unite them is through marriage. let abraham, the race and tribe father, die; let the "i am" live. christ knew the occult fact that the mixture of blood in international marriage always kills something; if it does not kill the body, it kills something else. if we mate a horse and a donkey, the outcome is a hybrid, the mule; in that mule something is missing on account of the mixture of strange blood, namely, the faculty of propagation which i

new word which shall admit them to the kingdom, for they believe more in works than in faith. the accompanying chart shows graphically the three ages mentioned in this article (1) the first age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double sexed, and ruled by one hierarch, melchisedec, who filled a dual office as king and priest (2) the second age, when the division of the race into men and women, evolution under human and superhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word becomes complete phree messen [children of light] flesh creative unit initiation by fire [light- melchisedec: male ideal christ: king& priest hiram

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

nd lived nearer to nature and before individual wealth and the stimulation of evil passions had engendered superstition, selfishness, and distrust, the maternal element constituted not only the binding and preserving principle in human society, but, together with the power to bring forth, constituted also the god-idea, which idea, as has already been observed, at a certain stage in the history of the race was portrayed by a female figure with a child in her arms. from all sources of information at hand are to be derived evidences of the fact that the earliest religion of which we have any account was pure nature-worship, that whatever at any given time might have been the object adored, whether it were the earth, a tree, water, or the sun, it was simply as an emblem of the great energizing

ive to the creative functions, and furnish an index to the direction which human development, or growth, has taken. as the human race constructs its own gods, and as by the conceptions involved in the deities worshipped at any given time in the history of mankind we are able to form a correct estimate of the character, temperament, and aspirations of the worshippers, so the history of the gods of the race, as revealed to us through the means of symbols, monumental records, and the investigation of extinct tongues, proves that from a stage of nature worship and a pure and rational conception of the creative forces in the universe, mankind, in course of time, degenerated into mere devotees of sensual pleasure. with the corruption of human nature and the decline of mental power which followed

or ruler, together with the various emblems of virility, came to be worshipped as the creator. from adorers of an abstract creative principle, mankind had lapsed into worshippers of the symbols under which this principle had been veiled. although at certain stages in the history of the human race the evils, which as a result of the supremacy of the ruder elements developed in mankind had befallen the race were lamented and bewailed, they could not be suppressed. man had become a lost and ruined creature. the golden age had passed away. chapter ii. tree, plant, and fruit worship. when mankind first began to perceive the fact of an all-pervading agency throughout nature, by or through which everything is produced, and when they began to speculate on the origin of life and the final cause and

r-stimulation of the animal instincts had become corrupted, adam and eve, names which doubtless for ages represented the two fecundating principles throughout nature, with their sons, cain, abel, and seth, comprehended the god-idea. the fact has been observed that just six hundred years from the creation of adam, or at the close of the cycle, noah appears with his three sons to save or perpetuate the race. it is now believed that this account of noah and his three sons is an allegory beneath which are concealed the religious doctrines, or perhaps i should say, the philosophical speculations of an older race. the god of the ancients was identified with the life of man individually and with that of mankind collectively. as men die each day, and as every day men are born, this deity is said t

n the subject of the separation of the original sex-elements contained in the deity, the significance of the following legend in the servarasa is at once apparent. when parvati (devi) was united in marriage to mahadeva (siva, the divine pair had once a dispute on the comparative influence of the sexes in producing animated beings, and each resolved by mutual agreement to create a new race of men. the race produced by mahadeva were very numerous, and devoted themselves exclusively to the worship of the male deity, but their intellects were dull, their bodies feeble, their limbs distorted, and their complexions of many different hues. parvati had at the same time created a multitude of human beings, who adored the female power only, and were well shaped, with sweet aspects and fine complexio

had been established, that a male god was set up as the sole creator of the universe. when women, who had become the legitimate plunder not only of individuals but of bands of warriors whose avowed object was the capture of women for wives, had degenerated into mere tools or instruments for the gratification and pleasure of men, perceptive wisdom or light, and maternal affection the preserver of the race, gradually became eliminated from the god-idea of mankind. passion became god. it was the creator in the narrowest and most restricted sense. although in an age of pure nature-worship the ideas connected with reproduction, like those related to all other natural functions, were wholly unconnected with impurity either of thought or deed, still when an age arrived in which all checks to hum

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l spirits, night apparitions, and devils abide there. while on the other planets are the dead souls of the seventy nations, while the souls of the jews gotoparadise.inanother place the seventy princes before mentioned are said to be also the rulers over planets and great stars of the firmament, for every nation and city is relatedtothe prince of some star in the firmament. a further assortment of the race of devils is of animal type; the chief allusions aretothe goat, the ox, and the ass, with of course the serpent or dragon, rahab, the harlot demon was said to ride an ass, samael an ox, machalath was carried by a scorpion, and lilith by an un-named dragon. it is not meant that the ox and ass are demonic oftheir race, but that some demons resemble such animals. the kabalists wrote of diffe

the species.thedoctrine of reincarnation of the ego seemstobe analogous to this scheme of the continuity of the bodily form of humanity. as reincarnation considers the personal lives of an individual ego as beads threaded on a string, so this modern embryology seems to postulate a continuous series of bodies related by the continuity of the germ cells; any man being the son of the earliest man of the race.man's blood and generation 317i recite an abbreviated note from dr harry campbell upon this theory 'as to reproduction, in a suitable place within the parent a sperm cell must meet a germ cell, and if the conditions arefavourablethey unite and form one compound cell, a zygote, and so a new being, an embryo, is started on its life history 'this zygote contains in itself the qualities of bo

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ief (shame that it should be said of a macleod of dunvegan) looked on his own interests, and forgot his loyalty, gave his adherence to the german usurper and the cruel redcoats, and what could we of the clan do 'see, marsaly! how dark stand the gloomy walls of dunvegan over yonder. often from the turret have i sung to my harp the greeting to the returning chief, or wailed the coronach when one of the race was carried to the grave. for, ever in dunvegan the bards were honoured, and i was one of the chief of the bards, and my sweetheart was donald bain mac crimmon, the finest piper the west had ever known, whose fathers had been the pipers of the macleods for generations, and he was the best of them all 'ah, my bonnie boy!trueman! true poet! best dancer in the glens! loyal was his heart to t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM20

ee, o my divine genius, that thou manifest thyself to me and in me, to help me to purify my lower self, to teach and assist me to unite myself unto thee in divine perfection so that i also may be built into the living rock, a pillar of the temple of my god. also, that i may no longer come to dwell on earth as mortal man, but that i may be as osiris going forth to seek and to save the lost ones of the race of man" after contemplating say "thus, at length have i been enable to begin to comprehend the form of my higher self" step 31 return to west of the altar, facing east. say: 12 "and now, in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye to guard this my sphere. keep far from me the evil and the unbalanced, that they penetr

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

ormal ritual initiation it is the focal role of the final apotheotic rite and the ability of its central deed, the passing-on, to act as the 'seal of power' for all initiatory relations which is of paramount importance. for those of the path, the reception of the 'power' activates the spiritual bloodline: the legacy of the fire-brand from the elder gods, from old tubalo the light-bringer, through the race of the watchers and the companie of faerie, down through the golden chain of hand-to-hand-to-hand..to now. midnight's lightning: the lineage of unique transmission vision an omen-bearing bolt of light held in the hands of the daemonic gods: an intercession trespassing fates, a revelation that brings forth to flesh the link between the visible heart of man and the invisible heart of the my

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

s golden race who had lived like the gods, free from care, without trouble or woe. with ageless limbs they revelled at their banquets. when they died it was as men overcome by sleep. with the passing of time, and at the command of zeus, this golden race eventually sank into the depths of the earth. it was succeeded by the silver race which was supplanted by the bronze race, which was replaced by the race of heroes, which was followed by the iron race our own the fifth and most recent creation.34 it is the fate of the bronze race that is of particular interest to us here. described in the myths as having the strength of giants, and mighty hands on their mighty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the reb

siris helped to wean them from their miserable and barbarous manners by providing them with a code of laws and inaugurating the cult of the gods in egypt.27 when he had set everything in order, he handed over the control of the kingdom to isis, quit egypt for many years, and roamed about the world with the sole intention, diodorus siculus was told, of visiting all the inhabited earth and teaching the race of men how to cultivate the vine and sow wheat and barley; for he supposed that if he made men give up their savagery and adopt a gentle manner of life he would receive immortal honours because of the magnitude of his benefactions..28 osiris travelled first to ethiopia, where he taught tillage and husbandry to the primitive hunter-gatherers he encountered. he also undertook a number of la

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

had to take the shadoiv, and the pupil escaping remained without a shadow all his life. jamieson gives the details of a scotch superstition 'losino- one's shadow arrives to such as are studying the art of necromancy. when a class of students have made a certain progress in their mystic studies, they are obliged to run through a subterraneous hall, where the devil literally catches the hindmost in the race, unless he crosses the hall so speedily that the arch-enemy can only apprehend his shadow. in the latter case the person of the sage never after throws any shade, and those who have thus lost their shadow always prove the best magicians' the devil is cheated of his prey, and has to put up with the bare shadow, like the dishonest man in the sham penance (ra. 678 (see suppl- that significan

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is without hesitation [described as being] despatched from hell among the monks; his name is to be derived from russ= fuligo (as kohlrausch was formerly spelt kolruss. chapter xviii. giants. the relation in which giants stand to dwarfs and men has been touched upon in p. 449. by so much of bodily size and strength as man surpasses the elf or dwarf, he falls short of the giant; on the other hand, the race of elves and dwarfs has a livelier intellect and subtler sense than that of men, and in these points again the giants fall far below mankind. the rude coarse grained giant nature is defiant in its sense of material power and might, the sly shy dwarf is conscious of his mental superiority. to man has been allotted a happy mean, which raises him above the giant s intractableness and the dwa

, garly spoken of as one whose father got drowned on the apple (or nut) tree_ also, not to have sprung from an oak-stem, etner s unw. doct. 585. min gof 1st au niid abbem nossbom aba choh, and my dad didn t come off the nut-tree, tobler 337b, who wrongly refers it to the christmas-tree. 1 homer s phrase is: chat from oak or rock, as youth and maiden do. trans " as deucalion and pyrrha create the race of men, so (ace. to a myth in the eeinhartssage, whose source i never could discover) do adam and eve create that of beasts by smiting the sea with rods. only, adam makes the good beasts, eve the bad; so in parsee legend ormuzd and ahriman hold a creating match. 574 ceeation. men and dwarfs are created, appears in surprising harmony with a theological opinion largely adopted throughout th

here ascend out of chaos first graia (earth) the giantess, then erebus (corresp. to niflheim) and night; but gaia by herself brought forth uranus (sky) and seas and mountains, then other children by uranus, the last of them kronus the father of zeus and ancestor of all the gods. as the edda has a buri and borr before 03inn, so do uranus and kronus here come before zeus; with zeus and 03inn begins the race of gods proper, and poseidon and hades complete the fra ternal trio, like vili and ye. the enmity of gods and titans is therefore that of ases and giants; at the same time, there is just as much resemblance in the expulsion of the titans from heaven (theog. 813) to the fall of the rebel angels into the bottomless pit; so that to the giant element in the titans we may add a daemonic. when

and days makes the well-known* five races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been repeated several times; on which point neither the poem itself nor plato (cratyl. 397-8, steph) gives sufficient information. first came the golden race of blissful daimones, next the silver one of weaker divine beings, thirdly, the brazen one of warriors sprung from ash-trees, fourthly, the race of heroes, fifthly, the iron one of men now living. the omission of a metal designation for the fourth race is of itself enough to make the statement look imperfect. dimmest of all is the second race, which also plato passes over, discussing only daemons, heroes and men: will the diminutive stature of these shorter-lived genii warrant a comparison with the wights and elves of our own myth

n, together with the creation from the ash, to the fourth; stones being the natural arms of giants. apollodorus however informs us it was the brazen race that zeus intended to destroy in the great flood from which deucalion and pyrrha were saved, and this fits in with the scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives a valuable insight into the nature of these myths. 1* from the sons of grod having mingled with the daughters of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had ma

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spirit.thesoul is distinct from the body.thespirit animates the body; but when the body dies, the spirit does not cease to exist.correspondencewith robert owen 173they all recognise the same law; and they all are governed by the same desires. proposition7-'thatmen, women, and children, from the spirit world, may, and do communicate with those on earth, and that such communicationisfull of good to the race' c.a.-spirits,both good and evil,butmore especially the latter, can communicate with man, before their gradual rise towards happiness. after that, they lose all knowledgeofmen, and therefore have no will or desire to communicate with them. but when a manifestation is desired by good though unde255 veloped spirits towards man, they choose an appearance to the party themselves, and to them

ther,-onewithhimself,-sentby him on earth amongst men in their own form, to enlighten them according to his word.thebody was sacrificed for their sins, and the spirit again returned to be oneasbefore. proposition6-'menare saved by the favour of god, through faith in jesus christ; and those dying out of his favour and faith are heirs of eternal death by inheritance from the original progenitors of the race, and remain to all eternity in the torments of hell.'c.a.-asall men are born sinful; it is by the mercy of god that they are saved. he showeth that mercy to those that seek it. but through the intercession of his son he also showeth his loving kindness to those who sin more; and although they cannot be saved, as those who are righteous, by their own merits, they are not consigned to everl

are all governed by the same desires.thebad stop until their punishment is over before they begin to prog255ress-thegood progress until they achieve perfection or the 7th sphere where they remain until the judgement day after that we know not what shall be. 7.thatmen, women and children from the spirit world may and do communicate with those on earth and that such communication is full of good to the race.114therosicrucianseerand the wall that surroundsin-imeant the world and itsinhabitants-thespace above it, the atmosphere, the walls that surround it the bounds of human knowledge unassisted by spiritualaid-andthe holes in those walls which so few couldreach-theway of attaining the true and the only true method of divining-when there you are still liable to great error unless helped and di

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cle cast true about you like the horizon itself, then you are at the very instant of the tradition's beginning; you stand there at one, through the power of lineage, with the first-born of witchblood, and your presence within the circle is testimony to the pact which preserves the lineage from today until the last-to-die of the line has stepped therein: this is the course of the tradition amongst the race of men. for myself i need to look no further than the circle for the origination of the way! there burns the first fire and the vision amongst the flames, there the cipher writ amongst the forms of charm and wort, there lie both heart and hearth. and yet i am myself curious to know whence came the wand and dagger, whence came the charms that i myself may know and teach; i am curious to re

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

pointments "my son" he said "regard all that happened to you as yourkarma- a just retribution. no one who had subjected himself willingly to the power of a daij-dzin canever hope to become a rahat (an adept, a high-souled yamabooshi- unless immediately purified. at best,as in your case, he may become fitted to oppose and to successfully fight off the fiend. like a scar left after apoisonous wound the race of a daij-dzin can never be effaced from the soul until purified by a new rebirthwithal, feel not dejected, but be of good cheer in your affliction, since it has led you to acquire trueknowledge, and to accept many a truth you would have otherwise rejected with contempt. and of thispriceless knowledge, acquired through suffering and personal efforts- no daij-dzin can ever deprive you.fare

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

s, as its logical outcome, that human solidarity on which theosophy so strongly insists. if the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women sisters, and by all practicing in their daily lives true brotherhood and true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of the elevation of the race, can ever be attained. it is this action and interaction, this true brotherhood and sisterhood, in which each shall live for all and all for each, which is one of the fundamental theosophical principles that every theosophist should be bound, not only to teach, but to carry out in his or her individual life. q. all this is very well as a general principle, but how would you apply it in a

ness, indifference, and brutality which now too often seem to reign supreme. all good and evil things in humanity have their roots in human character, and this character is, and has been, conditioned by the endless chain of cause and effect. but this conditioning applies to the future as well as to the present and the past. selfishness, indifference, and brutality can never be the normal state of the race-to believe so would be to despair of humanity-and that no theosophist can do. progress can be attained, and only attained, by the development of the nobler qualities. now, true evolution teaches us that by altering the surroundings of the organism we can alter and improve the organism; and in the strictest sense this is true with regard to man. every theosophist, therefore, is bound to do

m and his own daily individual life must radiate those higher spiritual forces which alone can regenerate his fellowmen. q. but why should he do this? are not he and all, as you teach, conditioned by their karma, and must not karma necessarily work itself out on certain lines? a. it is this very law of karma which gives strength to all that i have said. the individual cannot separate himself from the race, nor the race from the individual. the law of karma applies equally to all, although all are not equally developed. in helping on the development of others, the theosophist believes that he is not only helping them to fulfill their karma, but that he is also, in the strictest sense, fulfilling his own. it is the development of humanity, of which both he and they are integral parts, that h

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

seize on the best discoverable representative of the highest of that period's life-forms. it would enter the organism's brain and set up therein its own vibrations, while the displaced mind would strike back to the period of the displacer, remaining in the latter's body till a reverse process was set up. the projected mind, in the body of the organism of the future, would then pose as a member of the race whose outward form it wore, learning as quickly as possible all that could be learned of the chosen age and its massed information and techniques. meanwhile the displaced mind, thrown back to the displacer's age and body, would be carefully guarded. it would be kept from harming the body it occupied, and would be drained of all its knowledge by trained questioners. often it could be quest

lder world, wise with the ultimate secrets, had looked ahead for a new world and species wherein they might have long life; and had sent their minds en masse into that future race best adapted to house them- the cone-shaped beings that peopled our earth a billion years ago. thus the great race came to be, while the myriad minds sent backward were left to die in the horror of strange shapes. later the race would again face death, yet would live through another forward migration of its best minds into the bodies of others who had a longer physical span ahead of them. such was the background of intertwined legend and hallucination. when, around 1920, i had my researches in coherent shape, i felt a slight lessening of the tension which their earlier stages had increased. after all, and in spit

. meanwhile, in my dreams, i wrote endlessly in that history of my own age which i was preparing- half voluntarily and half through promises of increased library and travel opportunities- for the great race's central archives. the archives were in a colossal subterranean structure near the city's center, which i came to know well through frequent labors and consultations. meant to last as long as the race, and to withstand the fiercest of earth's convulsions, this titan repository surpassed all other buildings in the massive, mountain-like firmness of its construction. the records, written or printed on great sheets of a curiously tenacious cellulose fabric were bound into books that opened from the top, and were kept in individual cases of a strange, extremely light, restless metal of gre

trap-doors was largely a matter of unspoken suggestion- or, at most, of furtive quasi-whispers. everything specific which bore on it was significantly absent from such books as were on the common shelves. it was the one subject lying altogether under a taboo among the great race, and seemed to be connected alike with horrible bygone struggles, and with that future peril which would some day force the race to send its keener minds ahead en masse in time. imperfect and fragmentary as were the other things presented by dreams and legends, this matter was still more bafflingly shrouded. the vague old myths avoided it- or perhaps all allusions had for some reason been excised. and in the dreams of myself and others, the hints were peculiarly few. members of the great race never intentionally re

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ving as money. probably the smaller of the various greenish soapstones found by our expedition were pieces of such currency. though the culture was mainly urban, some agriculture and much stock raising existed. mining and a limited amount of manufacturing were also practiced. travel was very frequent, but permanent migration seemed relatively rare except for the vast colonizing movements by which the race expanded. for personal locomotion no external aid was used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the old ones seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden- shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence. these vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life fo

nd remembered in the himalayas as the mi-go, or abominable snow men. to fight these beings the old ones attempted, for the first time since their terrene advent, to sally forth again into the planetary ether; but, despite all traditional preparations, found it no longer possible to leave the earth s atmosphere. whatever the old secret of interstellar travel had been, it was now definitely lost to the race. in the end the mi-go drove the old ones out of all the northern lands, though they were powerless to disturb those in the sea. little by little the slow retreat of the elder race to their original antarctic habitat was beginning. it was curious to note from the pictured battles that both the cthulhu spawn and the mi-go seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that

ong the old ones. destruction of cities through the upthrust of mountains, the centrifugal rending of continents, the seismic convulsions of land or sea bottom, and other natural causes, was a matter of common record; and it was curious to observe how fewer and fewer replacements were made as the ages wore on. the vast dead megalopolis that yawned around us seemed to be the last general center of the race- built early in the cretaceous age after a titanic earth buckling had obliterated a still vaster predecessor not far distant. it appeared that this general region was the most sacred spot of all, where reputedly the first old ones had settled on a primal sea bottom. in the new city- many of whose features we could recognize in the sculptures, but which stretched fully a hundred miles alon

ly about the eight perfect ones that were missing from lake s hideously ravaged camp. there was something abnormal about that whole business- the strange things we had tried so hard to lay to somebody s madness- those frightful graves- the amount and nature of the missing material- gedney- the unearthly toughness of those archaic monstrosities, and the queer vital freaks the sculptures now showed the race to have- danforth and i had seen a good deal in the last few hours, and were prepared to believe and keep silent about many appalling and incredible secrets of primal nature. ix i have said that our study of the decadent sculptures brought about a change in our immediate objective. this, of course, had to do with the chiseled avenues to the black inner world, of whose existence we had not

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

transported. but much as has been told, no man has yet dared intimate the nature of the phantasms thus unfolded to the mind, or hint at the direction of the unheard-of roads along whose ornate and exotic course the partaker of the drug is so irresistibly borne. de quincey was drawn back into asia, that teeming land of nebulous shadows whose hideous antiquity is so impressive that "the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual" but farther than that he dared not go. those who have gone farther seldom returned, and even when they have, they have been either silent or quite mad. i took opium but once- in the year of the plague, when doctors sought to deaden the agonies they could not cure. there was an overdose- my physician was worn out with horror and exe

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

reserve many secrets of ages too remote for calculation, though sandstorms had long effaced any carvings which may have been outside. very low and sand-choked were all the dark apertures near me, but i cleared one with my spade and crawled through it, carrying a torch to reveal whatever mysteries it might hold. when i was inside i saw that the cavern was indeed a temple, and beheld plain signs of the race that had lived and worshipped before the desert was a desert. primitive altars, pillars, and niches, all curiously low, were not absent; and though i saw no sculptures or frescoes, there were many singular stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. the lowness of the chiselled chamber was very strange, for i could hardly kneel upright; but the area was so great that my torch

the importance of these crawling creatures must have been vast, for they held first place among the wild designs on the frescoed walls and ceiling. with matchless skill had the artist drawn them in a world of their own, wherein they had cities and gardens fashioned to suit their dimensions; and i could not help but think that their pictured history was allegorical, perhaps shewing the progress of the race that worshipped them. these creatures, i said to myself, were to men of the nameless city what the she-wolf was to rome, or some totem-beast is to a tribe of indians. holding this view, i could trace roughly a wonderful epic of the nameless city; the tale of a mighty seacoast metropolis that ruled the world before africa rose out of the waves, and of its struggles as the sea shrank away

es- were driven to chisel their way down though the rocks in some marvellous manner to another world whereof their prophets had told them. it was all vividly weird and realistic, and its connection with the awesome descent i had made was unmistakable. i even recognized the passages. as i crept along the corridor toward the brighter light i saw later stages of the painted epic- the leave-taking of the race that had dwelt in the nameless city and the valley around for ten million years; the race whose souls shrank from quitting scenes their bodies had known so long where they had settled as nomads in the earth's youth, hewing in the virgin rock those primal shrines at which they had never ceased to worship. now that the light was better i studied the pictures more closely and, remembering th

rs, violence, and plagues; and i wondered at the reticence shown concerning natural death. it was as though an ideal of immortality had been fostered as a cheering illusion. still nearer the end of the passage was painted scenes of the utmost picturesqueness and extravagance: contrasted views of the nameless city in its desertion and growing ruin, and of the strange new realm of paradise to which the race had hewed its way through the stone. in these views the city and the desert valley were shewn always by moonlight, golden nimbus hovering over the fallen walls, and half-revealing the splendid perfection of former times, shown spectrally and elusively by the artist. the paradisal scenes were almost too extravagant to be believed, portraying a hidden world of eternal day filled with glorio

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

granite, weathered and discolored by the mists and dampness of generations. excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. the door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. the abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a stroke of lightning. of the midnight storm which destroyed this gloomy mansion, the older inhabitants of the region sometimes speak in hushed and uneasy voices; alluding to what they call `divine wrath' in a manner that in later years vag

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

e witchcraft. i do shows demonstrating what i do, but i'm also a good publicist. i write. i even sing. and many people in various professions also do this. many fortune tellers are not psychic and not witches. some people are sensitive, some are not. being a witch is one facet of what i am, not my entirety. some people figure that, with a psychic grasp of the future, i should spend all my time at the race track, making big bets to get rich. well, there are other, steadier ways to get ahead in life. being psychic would help me whether i was a dancer, singer, or worked in a bank. many lawyers practice witchcraft but are not fortune tellers and don't go to the races. many singers enjoy singing and make money at it incidentally. why, then, should i go to the races just because i'm a witch? as

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

s one. the work of the magister is to serve in ruling, and thus he is the living stang. i hold up this paragon of what magister means to me, not because i think all that about myself, but because it is a station of the soul worthy of aspiration. it signifies being magick, not practising it! rf: how did cain and lilith come to be associated in british traditional witchcraft as the primogenitors of the race of witchblood? ac: different streams of british traditional craft have different patron deities, ancestors and spirits. if one is able to oversee this diversity certain strands of commonality may be perceived. if one may seek amongst these strands amidst the many other kinds of shared features, one may speak about a body of lore that exists in the old craft which incorporates a gnostic fa

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

nd to the palmist in full assurance of faith. each of us dwells in his own particular glass house, and so cannot afford to hurl missiles at his neighbours; milk-magic or motor-mascots, pishogues or palmistry, the method of p. 251 manifestation is of little account in comparison with the underlying superstition. the latter is an unfortunate trait that has been handed down to us from the infancy of the race; we have managed to get rid of such physical features as tails or third eyes, whose day of usefulness has passed; we no longer masticate our meat raw, or chip the rugged flint into the semblance of a knife, but we still acknowledge our descent by giving expression to the strange beliefs that lie in some remote lumber-room at the back of the brain. but it may be objected that belief in wit

ISIS UNVEILED

nowhere truer than in matters affecting the archaeology and history of india* babylonia happened to be situated on the way of the great stream of the earliest hindfl emigration, and the babylonians were one of the first peoples benefited thereby" these khaldi were the worshipers of the moon-god, deus-lunus, from which fact we may infer that the akkadi- ans if such must be their name: belonged to the race of the kings of the moon, whom tradition shows as having reigned in praydga now allah&bad. with them the trinity of deus-lunus was manifested in the three lunar phases, completing the quaternary with the fourth, and typi- fying the death of the moon-god in its gradual waning and final disap- pearance. this death was allegorised by them, and attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil

wing verse of the bhdgavaia-purdna state that this supreme felidty is alone reserved to the holy aannydsts, the gurua and yoglaf "long before they finally rid themselves of their mortal envelopes, tiie souls who have practised only good, such as those of the aannydata and the tidnapraathaa, acquire the faculty of conversing with the souls wiuch preceded them to the avarga" 213. piudia, dkemoiu of the race, of the gnotnea, the gunta. mid the tampitw. 214- oandbnvi, good dwmoiu, oeleitittl mraphi, singen. 216. anra* and nsgom are the titanic apiritf and the dragoo or aerpeat-hoded (pirita. 216. csted in tha imem of the agntaaia parikam. digitizecoy google 108 isb unvbued in this case the pitiis instead of genii are the spirits, or rather souls, at the departed ones. but they will freely comm

nity notwith- standing her protection, beseeches the celestial mother sophia her antitype to prevail on the unknown depth to send down christoa (the son and emanation of the 'celestial virgin) to the help of perishing humanity. uda-baoth and his six sons of matter are shutting out the divine light from mankind. man must be saved. ilda-baoth had al- ready sent his own agent, john the baptist, from the race of seth, whom he protects as a prophet to his people; but only a small portion lis- tened to him the nazarenes, the opponents of the jews, on account of their worshiping lurbo-adunai" achamoth had assured her son, ilda- t nvtkea of laojdiovab, c digitizecoy google 186 isis unveiled baoth, that the reign of christoa would be only temporal, and thus she induced him to send the forerunner, o

been, ever since science felt strong enough to act as public prosecutor. a portion of the case we are drafting in this book. what of truth is there in this theology? tbrou^ what sects has it been transmitted? whciux vxu it primarily derisedf to answer, we must trace the history of the world religion, alike throu^ the aearet christian sects as through those of other great religious subdivisions of the race; for the secret dodrwu it the trvih, and that religion is nearest divine that has contained it with least adulteration. our search takes us hither and thither, but never aimlessly do we bring secia widely separated in chronological order into critical juxta- position. there is one purpose in our work to be kept constantly in view the analysis of religious beliefs, and the definition of th

ving lost au faith in clerical virtue. when a buddhist monk becomes guilty (which does not happen once in a century, perhaps) of criminal conversation, he has neither a congregation of tender-hearted members, whom he can move to tears by an eloquent confession of his guilt, nor a jesus, on whose overburdened, long-suffering bosom are flung, as in a common christian dust-box, all the impurities of the race. no buddhist transgressor can comfort himself with visions of a vatican, within whose sin-encompassing walls black is turned into white, murderers into sinless saints, and where golden or silvery lotions can be bought at the con- fessional to cleanse the tardy penitent of greater or lesser offenses against god and man. except a few impartial archaeologists, who trace a direct buddhistic e

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ies, and all stones of a fiery lustre. wednesday is the day for turquoises, sapphires, and all precious stones which seem to reflect the blue of the vault of heaven, and that imply the lucent azure of the supposed spiritual atmosphere, wherein, or under which, the rosicrucian sylphs dwell those elementary children who, according to the cabalistic theogony, are always striving for intercourse with the race of adam, seeking a share of his particular privilege of immortality, which has been denied to them. thursday demands amethysts and deep-coloured 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 s

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

true magnitude of the universe of stars and nebulae was only beginning to dawn on the human intellect, and studies of the solar system beginning to be pass, because objects only a few score millions of miles distant were too near home to concern the exploring mind. yet visual observation rolled up a record in the later years of the 19th century which may turn out to be astronomy's magnum opus for the race of mankind. the first of the two little events took place in an obscure corner of the mare serenitatis, which is one of the seas, or dark areas, which make up the man in the moon. near the modest sized but wellknown lunar crater called hyginus by the selenographers, there appeared sometime in 1877, without fuss or warning, a small but perfect and distinct crater. it was only a few short m

KETAB E SIYAH

ght to the garden by adonai yahweh to eat of both fruits that grew upon the trees. but five of that ancient brood were of such age, in times so young, to remember any of that time: satanael, michael, gabriel, raphael, auriel; this is how i know of such arcane secrets. when the spawn of gog and magog threatened also to gain the garden adonai yahweh gave instruction to his children to make war upon the race of giants 140 that they would not eat of those fruits and oppose and rival the power of his nation. thus the giants were destroyed before the prize was won. now for the same prize we must play and, if our creation is to be fulfilled, at least the fruit of knowledge of consequences must be won by the hand of shedim. yet, not for the shortest moment, do i contemplate that this garden is not

gs such news, i implore it, but rather avert your retribution against he that is now the spring of all our grief. again does satan move his traitor's hand against us, working evil upon the earth that will blossom and bring forth the fruit of his hate. remember, adonai yahweh, lord, the garden to which you brought the young elohim race that lay within a vale river-carved within the rock. there did the race of your siring feast upon the fruit of the knowledge of consequences, thus becoming like the father that gave them life, knowing good from evil and how they might make for themselves a bright destiny indeed. and, thereafter, eating also of another fruit 156 the fruit of eternal youth that the fine and noble sons you brought to be would live unfading and endure. beneath the shadow of the s

w, yielding fleece and milk to man, as most worthy gifts to bestow upon so great a prince; the hound then did come to declare his oath to be man's constant ally, knight and hunter to the king, charged to guard the ox and goat and hunt the deer whose wild temperament would submit not to human hand; the stallion and the mare, once untamed, submitted to the halter and became most honoured thralls of the race of nephilim, bearing all across the land man and woman on their strong backs; the sturdy ass surrendered also to the rule of man and did bear burdens to weighty for human toil; the camel also did serve as a steed; 198 the hawk came to bow before the king and queen of earth though would know no master would fly far and catch, for my children's table, the wild hare. all these beasts and yet

nds of men, one of each sex. the female of this pair did set foot upon the yet scorching embers of the flame and gathered to herself the grains of knowledge then, holding all within her hands, flew to the east to distant india, to plant anew the tree of knowledge that sakyamuni might sit beneath the boughs, guided there by the serpent that once before guided to the tree the then-ancient mother of the race of men, and there contend with gabriel and his whirling scythe, the quadruple blade transformed into a flower-garland. the mate of the she-bear alighted also on the burning ground, though he was not burned by that great heat, and gathered to himself the grains of life and bore them to the distant stars, fading into the darkness from the sight of raphael. raphael saw all of this and knew i

hich demons might be convoked and abjured. thus did the children of satan learn their magicks and became magicians of power to rival angels. all this did heaven perceive and become dismayed. as mankind waxed great on earth so did heaven fade, eclipsed by the brighter star of satan's children. the elohim knew humanity to be a foe that, unconquered, would conquer them and thus they feared and hated the race of men. 206 yet every device that heaven had employed did not accomplish the fall of man but his ascendance. they set mankind to make war upon himself and this, like the chirurgeon's knife, cut away the weak, the strong remained and, untainted and tested now in battle, became yet stronger against the elohim's dominion. their plagues and famines killed many but taught the living the lesson

yet the spear of methuselah is stained black with their blood. nothing delights this king more than the torment of others. with the blood of captive does he stain my altars, offering in libation what is most foul to me. as his horses and his chariots crush beneath them those that have submitted to him he sings my name and consecrates their agony to my name. 211 i am dishonoured by this tyrant and the race of man is shamed by the misdeeds of the criminal. though he is your son and amongst the nephilim whom we are sworn to defend and guide as tutors he is unworthy of that noble race or the oath i swore. let me then face the king in battle with my sword, havoc, that bleeds eternal with blood of knights. havoc the ruiner sings for the blood of methuselah and i would leave his body to the dogs

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

is why each creature aspires for freedom. yet, nature does not provide information concerning which actions we are free to choose, and which give us only the illusion of freedom of choice. thus, nature places us in a state of complete helplessness, uncertainty, and disillusionment with our ability to change anything, either within ourselves or in life in general. nature does that to make us stop the race of life and dedicate some thought to the question, what can we influence? if we know what elements shape us within and without, we will be able to understand the exact place where nature allows us to control our destiny. pleasure and pain pleasure and pain are the two forces through which our lives are managed. our inherent nature the desire to enjoy impels us to follow a predetermined be

n nature is leading us in: elevating us to a higher level than our present state, to the level of the corrected speaking. nature will not allow us to diminish our egos, as we can evidently see in countries such as china and india, which until recently maintained a low level of egoism, but 146 from chaos to harmony are presently experiencing an outbreak of egoism. in recent years, they have joined the race for wealth and power and have closed a gap of many generations in record speed. the egoism that is currently sweeping the world is the egoism of the speaking degree. to cope with it, a completely different method must appear, a method whose inclination is opposite from the inclination to decrease the ego. the wisdom of kabbalah is the only method that utilizes the full force of the ego, w

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

, the angels drawing nigh to listen to the subtle tones; by sound he worked upon the astral and mental bodies of his disciples, purifying and expanding them; by sound he drew the subtle bodies away from the physical, and set them free in the higher worlds. his music was quite different from the sequences, repeated over and over again, by which the same result was brought about in the rootstock of the race, which it carried with it into india. here he worked by melody, not by repetition of similar sounds; and the rousing of each etheric centre had its own melody, stirring it into activity. he showed his disciples living pictures, created by music, and in the greek mysteries this was wrought in the same way, the tradition coming down from him. and he taught that sound was in all things, and

clical. the soul of man grows by occupying a succession of bodies, each of which is born, grows slowly to maturity, lives its life, learns (or fails to learn) its lesson, and then dies. just so humanity grows by incarnating in a succession of races, each of which passes through its stage of youth, adolescence, full manhood and decay. often the period of decay seems sad, both with the man and with the race; often the student of history cannot but regret the passing of a once mighty and splendid civilization to make way for a savagery possibly more virile, but certainly in its youth coarser and cruder. 458. a flagrant example of that was the destruction of the gentle and beautiful civilization of peru by the incredibly cruel and atrocious methods of the invading spaniards; another very simil

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

pirits of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of clouds, and of darkness [and so forth (giovetti 1993, 19. among other contents, the book of jubilees repeats the central angel tale in the book of enoch in which a group of angels mate with mortal females. they then fell from grace and became devils after leaving their heavenly abode. the book of jubilees adds that god sent the flood to destroy the race of sinful giants who were the offspring of these unnatural unions. see also enoch; judaism for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light. transl. toby mccormick. 1989. york beach, me: samuel wiser, 1993. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston, mt: summit university

l role in the overall harmony of the cosmos, providing an important counterpoint to the gods. thus, for example, in the story of krishna s defeat of the serpent demon kaliya, krishna is in the process of killing the giant snake when kaliya begs him for mercy: i am not capable of honoring nor of praising you, overlord of the gods, but please take pity on me, o god whose sole thought is compassion! the race of snakes into which i was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. but i am not at fault in this matter. for it is you who pour forth and absorb the whole world; classes, forms and natures have all been assigned by you, the creator (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 115) krishna responds by exiling kaliya from the yamuna river to the ocean, thereby implicitly acknowledging that even

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

that the sailor fs tavern gives him his only glimpse of heaven, just as the destructive criticism of the phallicists has only proved sex to be a sacrament. consciousness, says the materialist, axe in hand, is a function of the brain. he has only re-formulated the old saying, gyour bodies are the temples of the holy ghost. h! now sex is justly hallowed in this sense, that it is the eternal fire of the race. huxley admitted that gsome of the lower animalcula are in a sense immortal, h because they go on reproducing eternally by fission, and however often you divide x 6 liber dcccxi by 2 there is always something left. but he never seems to have seen that mankind is immortal in exactly the same sense, and goes on reproducing itself with similar characteristics through the ages, changed by cir

ed roue might and almost certainly would beget more healthy children than a semi-sexed prude. so the so-called gmoral h restraints are not based on reason; thus they are neglected. but admit its religious function, and one may at once lay down that the act must not be profaned. it must not be undertaken lightly and foolishly without excuse. it may be undertaken for the direct object of continuing the race. it may be undertaken in obedience to real passion; for passion, as its name implies, is rather inspired by a force of divine strength and beauty without the will of the individual, often even against it. it is the casual or habitual.what christ called gidle h.use or rather abuse of these forces which constitutes their profanation. it will further be obvious that, if the act in itself is

the therapeuts, who are devoted to the contemplation of nature and live in it and in the soul alone, citizens of heaven and the world, legitimately recommended to the father and creator of the universe by their virtue, which procures them his love, virtue that sets before it for its prize the most suitable reward of nobility and goodness, outstripping every gift of fortune and the first comer in the race to the very goal of blessedness. h the striking identity of this with the account of the ritual derived from a priori considerations will at once be manifest. transcriber fs note this work was first published in equinox i (9) without a number or author credit, though internal evidence clearly identified the author as crowley. it was subsequently declared to be liber dcccxi= iaw) a a, clas

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

is maintained without an undue amount of stress or pressure (which would ultimately be counterproductive. those with heavy work or administrative burdens, however, should refrain from even this level of commitment. the neophyte should remember that it is better to set reasonable goals and achieve them rather than set lofty ones and fail. there is a lot of truth in the cliche gslow and steady wins the race h. no one profits from an individual burning out. section 1 lucid dreaming (based on working with stephen laberge, ph.d. and howard rheingold fs exploring the world of lucid dreaming) the process of mastering the art of lucid dreaming is conducted in several stages. it is not as easy as one would suppose. however, keeping a dream journal is usually a good place to start, as well as re-rea

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

dogma and despotism; your columns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha.s hand; we are your brothers. but in the race of intellect we have fallen behind a little; will you take no interest in us, who have been your comrades? to science buddhism cries: lead us, reform us, give us clear ideas of nature and her laws; give us that basis of irrefragable logic and wide knowledge that we need, and march with us into the universe! the buddhist faith is not a blind faith; its truths are obvious to all who are not

LIBER SAMEKH

ade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law the word of the new aon, the aon of the crowned and conquering child. thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of men. yea, he wrought also in me a work of wonder beyond that, but in this matter i am sworn to hold my peace* see the maps gminutum mundum h in the equinox i (2, 3) and the general relations detailed in liber 777, of which the most important columns are reprinted in book 4, part iii, appendix v. for an accound of these matters see the equinox, vol. i, gthe temple of solomon the king, h

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

lso ymir references and further reading: on the etymology, see adolf noreen, gurkon audhumla och nagra hennes sprakliga slaktningar, h namn och bygd 6 (1918: 169.172. deities, themes, and concepts 63 aurboda (gravel-offerer) giantess, mother of gerd, frey fs wife. the relevant source is hyndluljod, stanza 30, lines 5.8: frey possessed gerd, she was the daughter of gymir [corrected from geymir] of the race of giants, and of aurboda. in gylfaginning snorri repeated this information. stanza 38 of fjolsvinnsmal, which is stanza 54 in the poem editors create out of grogald and fjolsvinnsmal and which they call svipdagsmal, also mentions an aurboda. she occurs in a list of nine maidens who sit at the knees of menglod. although menglod is a giantess, these are not giantess names.one, indeed, is e

thither, h he adds in stanza 11. the word gpeople h in stanza 10 could, in the language of poetry, refer to the speaker fs people, that is, the giants, or it could refer to everyone in the world. the rest of the poem indulges in prophecies: the mountains will tumble, the earth will move, men will be scoured in hot water and burned by fire, and so forth, and this may be a mix of the destruction of the race of giants and of humans, as in ragnarok (surt fs fire is mentioned in stanza 10. but many of the predictions of disruption on earth could also fit the volcanic activity that is so common in iceland. at the end of the poem the speaker tells his listeners to remember it or bear a punishment. thord has it word-for-word, but the servant does not. he dies a year after the night in the cave. th

delling; nott; nari and/or narfi dain (dead) according to grimnismal, stanza 33 (and therefore snorri in gylfaginning, one of the four harts that gnaws on yggdrasil; elsewhere an appropriate and much-used dwarf name, except in havamal, stanza 143, where he appears to be an elf. this last stanza lists various people who carve runes, and since odin carves for the asir, the others presumably are of the race for which they carve, and dain carves for the elves. perhaps the name gdead h was just very useful mythologically. see also dvalin; yggdrasil delling father of dag, who is day personified. delling is found in vafthrudnismal, stanza 25, vafthrudnir fs response to odin fs question in stanza 24, gwhence comes the day/ that goes over people/ or the night with tides? h 92 norse mythology delli

some commentators distinguish galdrar from ljo. as spoken rather than sung, it is difficult to find any primary source material that enforces the distinction. interestingly, one of the meters of eddic poetry is called galdrar meter. it is an extended form of ljo.ahattr, gsong or chant meter. h see also seid game of the gods motif associated with the golden age of the gods and with the survival of the race of gods after ragnarok. the key passages are in voluspa, which gives a synopsis of the entire mythology. in stanza 8 the gods have just completed their creation and ordering of the cosmos and their building of cult sites and tools: 8. they played a game in the home field, were merry for them there was no lack of gold. at this point their ggolden age h is disrupted by the arrival of three

he too allowed them no rest. a little later the ship sank, presumably through the grinding of the slave girls, and that is why the sea is salty. although frodi is descended from odin, the story belongs to heroic legend. the poem itself, which snorri goes on to cite, is also a part of heroic legend, but it approaches the mythology more closely because of the explicit association of the slaves with the race of giants. in the very first stanza, the slaves are called gprescient. h they grind away, contentedly at first, and they indeed grind gold, prosperity, and even the peace of frodi (stanza 6. but frodi will not let them rest, and their good will evaporates. stanzas 8 and 9 reveal that frodi fs problem has a mythological side. 8. you did not, frodi, wisely guard your interests, eloquent fri

f the nine daughters of agir and ran. these fulfill the condition of being sisters, and since many of them bear names meaning or associated with the waves of the sea, heimdall could somehow be the daughter of nine waves. alternatively, he may be the one referred to in stanzas 35.38 of hyndluljod, in the gshort voluspa. h 35. a certain one was born in days of yore, with greatly increased power, of the race of gods; nine bore him, a man full of grace, giant maidens on the edge of the earth. 37. gjalp bore him, greip bore him, eistla bore him and eyrgjafa, ulfrun bore him and angeyja, imdr and atla and jarnsaxa. 38. that one was increased by the might of the earth, of the wave-cold sea and the blood of a sacrificial boar. many of these names are those of known giantesses. thor killed gjalp an

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

count of gods who came from a place where the sea now is. h. p. blavatsky thus sums up the causes which precipitated the atlantean disaster "under the evil insinuations of their demon, thevetat, the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or

t with their right arms and defended the vital centers with their left arms, on which was carried the protecting shield. the right half of the body was regarded therefore as offensive and the left half defensive. for this reason also the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine. several authorities are of the opinion that the present prevalent right-handedness of the race is the outgrowth of the custom of holding the left hand in restraint for defensive purposes. furthermore, as the source of being is in the primal darkness which preceded light, so the spiritual nature of man is in the dark part of his being, for the heart is on the left side. among the curious misconceptions arising from the false practice of associating darkness with evil is one by which

araphrase of its salient points is embodied in this work. few realize the influence exerted by qabbalism over medi val thought, both christian and jewish. it taught that there existed within the sacred writings a hidden doctrine which was the key to those writings. this is symbolized by the crossed keys upon the papal crest. scores of learned minds began to search for those arcane truths by which the race should be redeemed; and that their labor was not without its reward, their subsequent writings have demonstrated. the theories of qabbalism are inextricably interwoven with the tenets of alchemy, hermeticism, rosicrucianism, and freemasonry. the words qabbalism and hermeticism are now considered as synonymous terms covering all the arcana and esotericism of antiquity. the simple qabbalism

ng which julian dared not speak? if this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses, for whom a simpler code had been devised, is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modern civilization--philosophic, ethical, religious, and scientificare ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their beliefs are founded? do the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older nations conceal beneath their fair exterior a mystery so great that only the most illumined intellect can grasp its import? such is undoubtedly the case. albert pike, who has gathered ample evidence of the excellence of the doctrines promulgated by the mysteries, supports his assertions by quoting from the writings of clement of alexandria, plato, epictetus, procl

an be determined only by the excellence of its products. the mysteries have demonstrated the superiority of their culture by giving to the world minds of such overwhelming greatness, souls of such beatific vision, and lives of such outstanding impeccability that even after the lapse of ages the teachings of these individuals constitute the present spiritual, intellectual, and ethical standards of the race. the initiates of the various mystery schools of past ages form a veritable golden chain of supermen and superwomen connecting heaven and earth. they are the links of that homeric "golden chain" with which zeus boasted he could bind the several parts of the universe to the pinnacle of olympus. the sons and daughters of isis are indeed an illustrious line--founders of sciences and philosop

MEANING OF MASONRY

onscious of the loss and who are compelled to cry" machabone! macbenah! the master is smitten" or, as the christian scriptures word it" they have taken away my lord, and i know not where they have laid him" hiram abiff is slain. the high light and wisdom ordained to guide and enlighten humanity are wanting to us. the full blaze of light and perfect knowledge that were to be ours are vanished from the race, but in the divine providence there still remains to us a glimmering light in the east. in a dark world, from which as it were the sun has disappeared, we have still our five senses and our rational faculties to work with, and these provide us with the substituted secrets that must distinguish us before we regain the genuine ones. where is hiram buried? we are taught that the wisdom of th

etual watchfulness of humanity's spiritual interests and an unfailing purpose to retrieve" that which was lost--the fallen human soul. we have already said that in early times the humanity then under its influence was far less materialized and far more spiritually sensitive and perceptive than it subsequently became or is now; and accordingly it follows that with the increasing age and density of the race the influence of the proto-religion itself became correspondingly diminished, though its principles remained as valid and effective as before; for the self-willed vagaries and speculative conceptions of man cannot alter the principles of static truth and wisdom. to follow in any detail the course of its history is not now necessary and would require a long treatise. and to do so would als

r the self-willed vagaries and speculative conceptions of man cannot alter the principles of static truth and wisdom. to follow in any detail the course of its history is not now necessary and would require a long treatise. and to do so would also be like following the course of a river backwards from its broad mouth to a point where it becomes an insignificant and scarcely traceable channel. for the race itself has wandered backwards, farther and farther from the original wisdom-teaching, so that the once broad and bright flood of light upon cosmic principles and the evolution of the human soul has now become contracted into minute points. but that light, like that of a master mason, has never been wholly extinguished, however dark the age, and, by the tradition, this of ours is spiritual

f which provides the key, not only to the problems of one's being, but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day. astronomy for them required no telescopes; it dealt not with the stars of the sky, but was the science of metaphysics and the understanding of the distribution of the forces latent in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the race. finally music (or harmony) was for them not of the vocal or instrumental kind; it meant the l iving practice of philosophy, the adjustment of human life into harmony with god, until the personal soul became unified with him and consciously heard, because it now participated* the four cardinal virtues are referred to in both plato's phoedo and the book of wisdom, ch. viii, 5-7, indicating

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

of all that was elevated and good is erroneous, beingfounded less on fact and more on wishful thinking. lemuria and homo atlantis26atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation on atlantis genetic experiments were begun on indigenous earth humans with theequipment that was brought from the alien planet of origin: and god said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness(genesis 1:26) the race that they subsequently created, the sons of the serpents, possessed thedna of their alien fathers, as well as that of the indigenous earth people, the homosapiens (in the bible, the correct translation of create is build) these geneticallycreated offspring were made to serve the needs of their creators in the garden ofedinu or eden. they are homo atlantis. the original pre-visitation eart

mankind. an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation27 chapter 5the race of adam in a late sumerian mythit is declared that men were created to relieve the gods of the oner-ous task of tilling their fields. men were to do that work for them and provide them with foodthrough sacrifice (joseph campbell, occidental mythology)the serpent masters deduced that the first time round they had made a fundamentalmistake. they had given their progeny the same intellectual

obediently. weread of this in the popul vuh: let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! whatshall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered onearth? w e have already tried with our first creations,our first creatures; but we could not make them praiseor venerate us. so, then, let us try to make obedient,respectful beings who will nourish and sustain us. satan and eve by william blake the race of adam28atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the words adam and eve, like those of jehovah and elohim, do not imply individ-uals but races. when this is understood, so much more becomes clear when reading andinterpreting the scriptures. the adamic race, like the original indigenous peoples of earth, were of both gen-ders, although the modified eves could not reproduce sex

er of possible explanations for this anomaly. one is that man-kind evolved in the sea, and that crucial fossil evidence is thus missing. another is that dar-winian theory itself has a missing link. and a third explanation is that the genes for modernman were suddenly implanted by an intelligent extraterrestrial species who colonized theearth. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation29 the race of adam sir leonard woolley writes in ur of the chaldees:there is nothing to show to what race the first inhabitants of mesopotamia belongedat adate which we cannot fix, people of a new race made their way into the valley, comingwhence we do not know in uriel s machine, authors christopher knight and robert lomas write: neanderthals did not contribute mitochondrial dna to modern humans; n

smologist immanuel v elikovsky, probably oneof the most abused scholars in history, wrote: most controversial is the evolutionary question. i have done a great deal of work on darwinand can say with some assurance that darwin did not derive his theory from nature butrather superimposed a certain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 yearstrying to gather the facts to make it stick. the race of adam30atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and researcher laurence gardner puts it this way: it took man over a million years to progress from using stones as he found them to the real-ization that they could be chipped and flaked to better purpose. it then took another 500,000years before neanderthal man mastered the concept of stone tools, and a further 50,000years be

ho are believed to be.they write: and the greatest riddle of all comes up where did cro-magnon man, the first of our ownhomo sapiens species, come from 35,000 years ago?the disappearance of neanderthal man and the advent of cro-magnon man at approxi-mately the same time is one of the truly big stumbling blocks to the evolution theory, for theyatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation31 the race of adam are non-sequitur species. neanderthal most decidedly could not be the direct ancestor ofcro-magnon, for they were two distinctly different types of human, physically and even skel-etally.had a big brain, but small mental capacity. was a mass of muscle. was replaced suddenly bycro-magnon, who was a completely separate species. neanderthal most decidedly could not be the direct ance

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

al illnesses; headaches, insomnia, nightmares, laziness, and anti-social behavior have all been frequently attributed to the influence of jinn. muslims also believe in the vampiric nature of jinn, claiming that those who sleep in the presence of jinn will wake up tired and depleted. muslims, and members of the occult, believe that there is some kind of contract, or agreement, between our race and the race of jinn; in the occult, this contract is referred to as the covenant. this covenant allows humans to use words of power and thoughts to--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 35 command the demons. for example, the phrase bismillah is used by muslims to cleanse food, water, and whole rooms of demonic influence. i have heard occult writers remark that this covenant, which was formed between

d that jehovah transformed his children, the arch-angels, into new kinds of beings when they were young. god exists outside of creation, and when god desires to drop down into lower realms such as the heavens or earth, he is often described as no longer all-knowing, but instead capable of being deceived. jehovah is frequently depicted as an aging old man whose love for humans exceeds his love for the race he spawned, the angels. osiris too is said to have reclaimed all his parts, except his phallus. i can t believe it s not fiction: god enfleshed the chosen one (2007) the archangels [5.2] it was arch-angel michael and his army who expelled satan (his uncle/brother) from heaven. satan, and the other expelled angels, were cast into the black void in the universe now called hell. before satan

any in the christian community have equated gog and magog with world powers like russia. i ll spare you the details of their belief (because it s so stupid and) because it is not supported by mythologies and religions, who speak of these two as individual entities. the occult s perspective of gog and magog is by far the most colorful, and probably right. magog is apparently the parent of gog, and the race this duo spawned were the first giants. this race was always at war with the race of the angels and, in some cases, was spoke of as triumphing over the angels and even making slaves of them. gog was apparently the father and leader of this race, making magog his mother and consort. this race of giants which desecrated the earth was eventually defeated by the heroics of jehovah, satan, and

MORALS AND DOGMA

nto the world's wide treasury, and forming a part of the heritage which each generation receives, enlarges, and holds in trust, and of necessity bequeaths to mankind; the personal estate of man, entailed of nature to the end of time. and masonry early recognized it as true, that to set forth and develop a truth, or any human excellence of gift or growth, is to make, greater the spiritual glory of the race; that whosoever aids the march of a truth, and makes the thought a thing, writes in the same line with moses, and with him who died upon the cross; and has an intellectual sympathy with the deity himself. the best gift we can bestow on man is manhood. it is that which masonry is ordained of god to bestow on its votaries: not sectarianism and religious dogma; not a rudimental morality, tha

as they will, all they have, lands, houses, body, and soul, are stamped with the royal brand"_i am the state" said louis the fourteenth to his peasants"_the very shirts on your backs are mine, and i can take them if i will" and dynasties so established endure, like that of the c sars of rome, of the c sars of constantinople, of the caliphs, the stuarts, the spaniards, the goths, the valois, until the race wears out, and ends with lunatics and idiots, who _still_ rule. there is no concord among men, to end the horrible bondage. the state falls inwardly, as well as by the outward blows of the incoherent elements. the furious human passions, the sleeping human indolence, the stolid human ignorance, the rivalry of human castes, are as good for the kings as the swords of the paladins. the worsh

ng general, until success cannot be surely had by any more honorable means--the result being a state ruled and ruined by ignorant and shallow mediocrity, pert self-conceit, the greenness of unripe intellect, vain of a school-boy's smattering of knowledge. the faithless and the false in public and in political life, will be faithless and false in private. the jockey in politics, like the jockey on the race-course, is rotten from skin to core. everywhere he will see first to his own interests, and whoso leans on him will be pierced with a broken reed. his ambition is ignoble, like himself; and therefore he will seek to attain office by ignoble means, as he will seek to attain any other coveted object--land, money, or reputation. at length, office and honor are divorced. the place that the sm

h and wisdom, a lesson for the study of nations, embodied in a single sentence, and expressed in language which every man can understand. if a deluge of despotism were to overthrow the world, and destroy all institutions under which freedom is protected, so that they should no longer be remembered among men, this sentence, preserved, would be sufficient to rekindle the fires of liberty and revive the race of free men. but, to _preserve_ liberty, another must be added "that a free state does not confer office as a reward, especially for questionable services, unless she seeks her own ruin; but all officers are _employed_ by her, in consideration solely of their will and ability to render service in the future; and therefore that the best and most competent are always to be preferred" for, i

f life as an action; and a single thought sometimes works greater results than a revolution, even revolutions themselves. still there should not be divorce between thought and action. the true thought is that in which life culminates. but all wise and true thought produces action. it is generative, like the light; and light and the deep shadow of the passing cloud are the gifts of the prophets of the race. knowledge, laboriously acquired, and inducing habits of sound thought--the reflective character--must necessarily be rare. the multitude of laborers cannot acquire it. most men attain to a very low standard of it. it is incompatible with the ordinary and indispensable avocations of life. a whole world of error as well as of labor, go to make one reflective man. in the most advanced natio

nate. the true mason is an ardent seeker after knowledge; and he knows that both books and the antique symbols of masonry are vessels which come down to us full-freighted with the intellectual riches of the past; and that in the lading of these argosies is much that sheds light on the history of masonry, and proves its claim to be acknowledged the benefactor of mankind, born in the very cradle of the race. knowledge is the most genuine and real of human treasures; for it is light, as ignorance is darkness. it is the _development_ of the human soul, and its acquisition the _growth_ of the soul, which at the birth of man knows nothing, and therefore, in one sense, may be said to _be_ nothing. it is the seed, which has in it the _power_ to grow, to acquire, and by acquiring to be developed, a

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

esentful) to which i had no possible reply, involving a knowledge of my own mental state which was superior to my own. these two verses are sufficient in themselves to demonstrate the praeter-human qualities of the author of this book (on the contrary, they demonstrate that the author is of our species, though one of its most highly evolved members. obviously, he was one of the first specimens of the race to achieve consciousness. aiwass is human it is we who aren't) 14. now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness! the subject changes. hadit will give an exordium upon himself in the next two verses. then he will propound an ethical doctrine so terrible and strange that men will be "devoured and eaten up with blindness" because of i

oncealed within the sphere of which we see but one minute part of the surface. as to reason itself, what is more certain than that its laws are only the conscious expression of the limits imposed upon us by our animal nature, and that to attribute universal validity, or even significance, to them is a logical folly, the raving of our megalomania? reason is no more than a set of rules developed by the race; it takes no account of anything beyond sensory impressions and their reactions to various parts of our being. there is no possible escape from the vicious circle that we can register only the behaviour of our own instrument. we conclude, from the fact that it behaves at all, that there must be 'a factor infinite and unknown' at work upon it. this being the case, we may be sure that our a

, who castrates herself psychically, deserves only that scorn that we must reserve for all cowards. as long as "nuns" and "chaste" women are treated with more social consideration than "adulteresses" and "promiscuous" girls, the sex-life of mankind will remain stunted, and the factors that most contribute to the formation of enslaving traumas will continue to manifest in the psychic atmosphere of the race. the concept of woman as a thing that "shuts itself up" comes from inside the "black brethren" who really have shut themselves up. their souls shut upon themselves, refuse to become open to the influence of their fellowmen, to the influence of the whole, pan. any form of sexual intercourse is permissible. any occasional voluntary abstention is understandable. but the laying down of rules

whole duty in the position proper to its peculiar potentialities! 71. but exceed! exceed "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom "you never know what is enough until you know what is too much" so wrote william o'neill (blake. progress, as its very etymology declares, means a step ahead. it is the genius, the eccentric, the man who goes one better than his fellows, that is the saviour of the race. and while it is unwise possibly (in some senses) to exceed in certain respects, we may be sure that he who exceeds in no respect is a mediocrity. the key of evolution is right variation. excess is evidence at least of capacity in the quality at issue. the golf teacher growls tirelessly "put for the back of the hole! never up, never in" the application is universal. far from me be it to d

uld consider their welfare to be its first duty; for if they are for the moment dependent on it, it is also dependent on them. a man might as well cut out his heart because it was weak, and in need of cautious care. but he would be no less foolish if he tried to prevent the used- up elements from eliminating themselves from his body. we respect the will-to-live; we should respect the will-to-die. the race is auto- intoxicated by suppressing the excretory processes of nature. each case must of course be judged on its merits. his neighbours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfortune, if he wishes to recover. but it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting

of your arms" in the classification of the elements of the hindus, heru-ra-ha stands for akasha, hadit for the sixth and nuit for the seventh. 18. mercy let be off: damn them who pity! kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! what has been the net result of our fine 'christian' phrases? in the good old days there was some sort of natural selection; brains and stamina were necessary to survival. the race, as such, consequently improved. but we thought we knew oh! so much better, and we had "christ's law" and other slush. so the unfit crowded and contaminated the fit, until earth herself grew nauseated with the mess. we had not only a war which killed some eight million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six mont

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

fects of her rash deed, althea, in remorse and despair, took away her own life. the news of the courage and intrepidity displayed by [91]atalanta in the famous boar-hunt, being carried to the ears of her father, caused him to acknowledge his long-lost child. urged by him to choose one of her numerous suitors, she consented to do so, but made it a condition that he alone, who could outstrip her in the race, should become her husband, whilst those she defeated should be put to death by her, with the lance which she bore in her hand. thus many suitors had perished, for the maiden was unequalled for swiftness of foot, but at last a beautiful youth, named hippomenes, who had vainly endeavoured to win her love by his assiduous attentions in the chase, ventured to enter the fatal lists. knowing t

r, whose beauty won his heart. but an oracle having foretold to oenomaus that he would die on the day of his daughter's marriage, he threw every obstacle in the way of her suitors, and declared that he would only give her to him who succeeded in vanquishing him in a chariot race, but that all unsuccessful competitors should suffer death at his hands. the conditions of the contest were as follows:.the race was to be run from a given point at pisa to the altar of poseidon at corinth; the suitor was allowed to start [233]on his course whilst oenomaus performed his sacrifice to zeus, and only on its completion did the king mount his chariot, guided by the skilful myrtilus, and drawn by his two famous horses, phylla and harpinna, who surpassed in swiftness the winds themselves. in this manner m

perished; for although a considerable start was given to all competitors, still oenomaus, with his swift team, always overtook them before they reached the goal, and killed them with his spear. but the love of pelops for hippodamia overcame all fears, and, undeterred by the terrible fate of his predecessors, he announced himself to oenomaus as a suitor for the hand of his daughter. on the eve of the race, pelops repaired to the sea-shore and earnestly implored poseidon to assist him in his perilous undertaking. the sea-god heard his prayer, and sent him out of the deep a chariot drawn by two winged horses. page 263 when pelops appeared on the course, the king at once recognized the horses of poseidon; but, nothing daunted, he relied on his own supernatural team, and the contest was allowe

t him in his perilous undertaking. the sea-god heard his prayer, and sent him out of the deep a chariot drawn by two winged horses. page 263 when pelops appeared on the course, the king at once recognized the horses of poseidon; but, nothing daunted, he relied on his own supernatural team, and the contest was allowed to proceed. whilst the king was offering his sacrifice to zeus pelops set out on the race, and had nearly reached the goal, when, turning round, he beheld oenomaus, spear in hand, who, with his magic steeds, had nearly overtaken him. but in this emergency poseidon came to the aid of the son of tantalus. he caused the wheels of the royal chariot to fly off, whereupon the king was thrown out violently, and killed on the spot, just as pelops arrived at the altar of poseidon. as t

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s, then, and recognize the highest of life who thus proclaims your triumph; whose being is beyond natural life and death; who came as flame to your world and enlightened your desire for perfection and truth. arise thus in your glory, behold the genius of your creation, and be prideful of being, for i am the same- i who am the highest of life" since that day of the coming of the fire, the story of the race of man has been as that of the universe- torn and tortured by war, famine, pestilence, and death. yet in the midst of death we are in life- by the gift of set there is that within us which is immune to the savagery of mortal flesh, which preserves the self inviolate, which presages for us an eternity of unique existence unfettered either by stasis or chaos. the word of set became a link b

tagram and the trapezoid author ever-unfolding memorials to the creative genius of man. think not that because the first sights before your opened eyes are these sacred keys, that they shall be reverenced. indeed with the passage of time they shall be changed and effaced by those who have forgotten their power, and their origin shall fade into the mists of time "but this temple shall endure until the race of man shall cease, and those who enter its fold shall behold the heart of the fire, and they shall gaze upon the face of set. yea, nevermore shall they know the simple peace of their animal brothers, but their eyes shall be opened, and they shall become as daemons, and the forces of all creation shall bend before their will. so it shall be done" so spoke xepera, the word become form, who

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by cronos (saturn, seized power from uranus; and in turn were defeated by their own children, led by cronos son zeus. after the defeat of the titans, zeus and his brothers poseidon and hades drew lots for the governance of the sky, the sea, and the underworld. eros eros, the god of love, represented as a child or a youth, is usually said to be

that he will repay them with interest all they have to do is pull on a rope of liana and they will recover a treasure chest. so without realizing it, they engage in a tug-of-war, each unaware that the other is pulling at the far end of the rope. of course, in the meantime, hare escapes. in only one story of the many that reveal his wily character, is he completely outwitted. this is the story of the race between hare and tortoise, in which tortoise, instead of racing hare, simply positions members of his family along their circular racecourse, and sits waiting to greet hare at the finishing line. anansi the spider anansi the spider is a trickster figure belonging to the west african ashanti tribe. among the zande tribe he is known as ture. one of the best-known myths is the one in which a

PROMETHEUS

of trees, and others again with roots; and to a certain number for food he gave other creatures to devour: to some he attached a paucity in breeding, and to others, which were being consumed by these, a plenteous brood, and so procured survival of their kind. now epimetheus, being not so wise as he might be, heedlessly squandered his stock of properties on the brutes; he still had left unequipped the race of men, and was at a loss what to do with it. as he was casting about, prometheus arrived to examine his distribution, and saw that whereas the other creatures were fully and suitably provided, man was naked, unshod, unbedded, unarmed; and already the destined day was come, whereon man like the rest should emerge from earth to light. then prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservat

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

he body of the text very little by way of explankon need h&e be said. the first depicts a personified representation of the three fundamental vrincivles in man. each of these is api;arently separate, functioning independently bn its own plane without co <58> operation with, because apparently unaware of, either the higher or the lower. principally, it represents man in the now departed morning of the race, in the primal rounds of evolutionary effort when self-consciousness had not yet been won by self-induced and self-devised efforts, and when peace and harmony prevailed both within and without by right of heritage rather than through personal labour. the diagram appears in the water grade of practicus, since water is a fitting representation of this placid peace. at the summit of the diag

genius, stands for the dark "earthborn, feminine principle with its emotionality and instinctiveness reaching far back into the depths of time, and into the roots of physiological continuity" between the two stands adam, supported by the fundamental strength of eve, the ruach or ego not yet awakened to a realisation of its innate power and possibility. from the larger point of view he represents the race as a whole and "is the personified symbol of the collective logos, the 'host, and of the lords of wisdom or the heavenly man, who incarnated in humanity" otherwise he represents <59> the individual candidate on the path, prior to the awakening of the "sleeping dogs" within his being, to use blavatsky's apt expression. beneath these three figures sleeps a coiled dragon, silent, unawakened

stands proven" claims blavatsky "that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the 'lord of phosphorus' and lucifer, or 'light-bearer' is in us; it is our mind- our temptor and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and saviour from pure animalism" in the evolutionary scheme, the fall occurs through a higher type of intelligence coming into close contact with nascent humanity, thus stimulating the psyche of the race- or so the magical tradition has it. the recapitulation of this process within the individual sphere of consciousness proceeds through the technique of initiation whereby the red dragon is stirred into activity through contact with the fructifying powers of the elements, invoked through the skill and power of a trained initiator. the use of the divine prerogative, brought about by the mag

siderably wider view. moreover it attempts to associate the results of training with the terminology of analybcal psychology. i. r) we are told in the portal that the nine months' wait which must intervene before the portal is again opened for the aspirant has a correspondence to the nine months of gestation before birth. as the unborn child, stage by stage, grows through the ancestral history of the race so the candidate in the portal by a single circumambulation for each, recalls his past grades and, at the end of the first point regards their symbols upon the altar as parts of his body, and contemplates them as coming together in one place-the unity of his person. in the second point, he sacrifices his name-symbol of his idea of himself in order that the idea of a new self and a new con

y in the legends of ogres and, in certain records, cannibalism and its rites. regarding the beasts, they are, for the most part, easily obsessed, and they have not the spiritual responsibility of the man. their nature is not evil, but, following a natural law--seeing that man is head of the assiatic creation--so the animal is higher than the vegetables or mineral. also bear thou well in mind that the race of the transformers are given unto cruelty. such are above all the race of creeping things. as man hath his ruach which is upright in the tree of life, so hath the beast his ruach which is horizontal; as it is said "the ruach of a man which goeth upwards (i.e. directeth itself upwards, and the ruach of the beast which goeth downwards (or crosswise) in the earth" the neschamah in the beast

thyself to me and in me, to help me to <258> purify my lower self, to teach me and assist me to unite myself unto ritual for spiritual development 441 thee in divine perfection, so that i also may be built into the living rock, a pillar of the temple of my god. that i may no more come out to dwell on earth as mortal man, but that i may be as osiris going forth to seek and to save the lost ones of the race of man. after contemplating. thus at length have i been enabled to begin to comprehend the form of my higher self. return to west of altar, facing east. and now in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch-towers of the universe, and charge ye to guard this my sphere. keep far from me the evil and the unbalanced, that they penetrate not into my abode of

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

ributed nothing to chance, they read the answers of providence in the oracles of the tarot, which were called theraph or theraphim by the hebrews, as the erudite kabalist gaffarel, one of the magicians employed by cardinal richelieu, was the first to perceive. as to the court-cards, a final couplet will suffice to explain them: king, queen, knight, esquire. the married pair, the youth, the child, the race; thy path by these to unity retrace. at the end of the ritual we shall provide further details, together with full documents, concerning the marvellous book of the tarot, of all books the most primitive, the key of prophecies and dogmas, in a word, the inspiration of inspired works, a fact which has remained unperceived, not only by the science of court de gebelin but by the extraordinary

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ight to stream down equally upon all creatures together, and gives both good and evil their portion of justice "for god made all things to be common property. he thus showed 'righteousness' to be a universal sharing along with equality "yet how absurd sound the words of the lawgiver 'thou shalt not covet' and even more absurd the addition 'what is thy neighbor's. for he who gave desire to sustain the race now orders its suppression, though he takes it away from no other living creature. and with the words 'thy neighbor's wife, he says something still more absurd, since he now transforms common property by compulsion into private possession" in his book, epiphanes contends that the laws of the demiurge (the dark, false god of the old testament) conflict with the true intent of the real god

one upon the altar] aleister crowley [priest michael kelly] do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. in the early years of this century i came into being as a magus of the aeon of harwer, uttering the word thelema. think, o setians, upon that word and its implications, and the motivations of the prince of darkness in making it manifest through me. harwer is the opposite self of set; he is the race of makind, in whom set has placed his gift. thelema, the will, is the recognition that there is that faculty in man which is self-aware, which is not to be smothered in the death and stasis which is osiris. through the exercise of will, we may distance ourselves from harwer and approach set directly; we may become as set is, unique and self-ordered. thelema has been described as a map, an

, and history: man. set created harwer by creating man from animal, an evolutionary manipulation, and then giving of his essence to form man. man has the power to counter/mold the cosmic order, and has used this power, freeing set to be. man is both individual and species. individuals, past magi and masters, have consciously wielded the gift; they have effected change according to their will. man the race has also wielded the gift, reflexively and subconsciously. both uses of magic are explored in black magic in theory and practice.6 man is strange and fitful. man has risen and fallen, several times. man has acted and refrained from acting. man has improved his lot, and has slit his own throat. mankind now hastens toward an annihilation which none but the elect may hope to avoid."7 i submi

re he who opens the way and is the guide: i do call you forth from the shadows! he who did come has departed, but i do call him forth again! he who has revealed the secrets is silent, but i do bid him speak again! he who abides in darkness and shadows: i do call him forth in the night! by the magic of the pentagram of set and him who fashioned it, by the word of the aeon and those who hear it, by the race of the elect among humans and him who created it; by the call of this power of darkness, by this will that moves forth through the shimmering gate, by the mingled essence of this magician and set, prince of darkness: move through the angles and come forth! hail, anpu-ap uat! invocation of names prince of darkness! master of the night! through countless ages, man has called thee by many di

SATANIC BIBLE

ral for enemies to do good unto each other- and what is good? 3. can the torn and bloody victim "love" the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb from limb? 4. are we not all predatory animals by instinct? if humans ceased wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to exist? 5. is not "lust and carnal desire" a more truthful term to describe "love" when applied to the continuance of the race? is not the "love" of the fawning scriptures simply a euphemism for sexual activity, or was the "great teacher" a glorifier of eunuchs? 6. love your enemies and do good to them that hate and use you- is this not the despicable philosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back when kicked? 7. hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, smash him on the other

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to be destroyed! 12 knowledge, imagination, strength-in-purpose and action all add up to results! 13 occasional solitude is essential for imaginative thought and reflection on life! 14 satan is the original rebel he staged a revolt. do not remain oppressed! we satanists have religious rights and freedoms which need to be exercised now! 15 blaspheme and scorn the xian deities! 16 build and direct the race of evil towards the second coming of babylon! 17 be merciless during and after the religious war! 18 realize that throughout life, and unto death, the only being worthy of passing judgment upon you, is you -10- the satanic philosophy of sexual love we of the antichrist religion recognize our birth-right to instinctual and mythological sexual pleasures. complete sexual freedom is absolute

gle of satan, i conjure the fires of evil! after lighting the second, he evokes: from the angle of belial, i conjure the lands of evil! after lighting the third, he evokes: from the angle of leviathan, i conjure the seas of evil! after lighting the fourth, he evokes: from the angle of beelzebub, i conjure the skies of evil! after lighting the fifth, he evokes: from the angle of lucifer, i conjure the race of evil! the celebrant lights the candle of antichrist and intones: i conjure the will of the great beast antichrist! immediately following each of the six avocations, the celebrant tosses a small amount of conjuration saltes into the candle flames. 3 the celebrant (and all participants) drink from the chalice of change. 4 the celebrant grasps the sword of satan and points it towards the

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

long, be successful and know fulfillment. their limitations vanish, and the y are free to grow in stature. they will also prosper and live in harmony with one another in a land of plenty. you see, there is more to all this than meets the eye, and the ignorant man is much less than his ancestors who once had the gnosis because he has forgotten many of the great truths and principles apportioned to the race of men when its days were short. yes, man has been deceived and cheated by the purveyors of mysticism and deceit. today, ignorant man lives in the realm of choices and confusion, but instead of choosing to seek the power of the force for himself, he has instead traveled the hot, dusty road that ends in failure, deceit and submission to mysticism. he has let the profane mystics talk him ou

ent, so we practice "little deceits" to achieve our goals. in other words, we run a freight train by as a decoy so we can slip in a mouse. often daily events happen so fast they make our heads swim, or we end up talking to ourselves. the keys of wisdom allude to the practice of stilling one's mind. believe it or not, this is just as important as fast thinking. an experienced adept can step out of the race, sit down, and still his or her mind in a few seconds. this has the effect of taking a nap, resting both mind and body at once. what is the advantage? your adversaries will be tuckered out while you are rested. think strategy! many people try to rest, but instead, their minds race. because of this, they get no rest and arise tired and sore, feeling worse than before. some call this insomn

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

all that the chaldeans, the magi, the gymnosophists, and the platonists had taught; and who differed from all the darker sons of magic in the virtue of their lives, the purity of their doctrines, and their insisting, as the foundation of all wisdom, on the subjugation of the senses, and the intensity of religious faith? a glorious sect, if they lied not! and, in truth, if zanoni had powers beyond the race of worldly sages, they seemed not unworthily exercised. the little known of his life was in his favour. some acts, not of indiscriminate, but judicious generosity and beneficence, were recorded; in repeating which, still, however, the narrators shook their heads, and expressed surprise how a stranger should have possessed so minute a knowledge of the quiet and obscure distresses he had re

em like a lake, the barren dreariness of the opposite coast of cephallenia contrasting the smiling shores on which they dwelt, viola and himself would pass days in cruising slowly around the coast, or in visits to the neighbouring isles. every spot of the greek soil "that fair fable-land" seemed to him familiar; and as he conversed of the past and its exquisite traditions, he taught viola to love the race from which have descended the poetry and the wisdom of the world. there was much in zanoni, as she knew him better, that deepened the fascination in which viola was from the first enthralled. his love for herself was so tender, so vigilant, and had that best and most enduring attribute, that it seemed rather grateful for the happiness in its own cares than vain of the happiness it created

world, and place peace between thy conscience and thyself "wilt thou promise "by their sweet lives, i promise" glyndon looked and believed. he whispered the address to the house whither his fatal step already had brought woe and doom "bless thee for this" exclaimed zanoni, passionately "and thou shalt be blessed! what! couldst thou not perceive that at the entrance to all the grander worlds dwell the race that intimidate and awe? who in thy daily world ever left the old regions of custom and prescription, and felt not the first seizure of the shapeless and nameless fear? everywhere around thee where men aspire and labour, though they see it not, in the closet of the sage, in the council of the demagogue, in the camp of the warrior, everywhere cowers and darkens the unutterable horror. but

space, he beheld the gossamer shapes, whose choral joys his spirit had so often shared. there, group upon group, they circled in the starry silence multiform in the unimaginable beauty of a being fed by ambrosial dews and serenest light. in his trance, all the universe stretched visible beyond; in the green valleys afar, he saw the dances of the fairies; in the bowels of the mountains, he beheld the race that breathe the lurid air of the volcanoes, and hide from the light of heaven; on every leaf in the numberless forests, in every drop of the unmeasured seas, he surveyed its separate and swarming world; far up, in the farthest blue, he saw orb upon orb ripening into shape, and planets starting from the central fire, to run their day of ten thousand years. for everywhere in creation is th

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force for change (1981, dr. sisirkumar ghose argues that throughout the evolution of humankind, the mystics have always been among people as evidence of transitional forms within the species. instead of accusing mystics of being dropouts and escapists, ghose insists that it might be fairer to say that in breaking the illusions of the cave dwellers they have been more responsible to reality and to the race. they have been the true scientists of catharsis and conversion. the only radical thinkers, they alone go to the root of the matter, beyond the various shaky schemes of mundane perfection, swaying between the worship of the fatted calf and the horror of the organization man. since many saints, prophets, and mystics have seemingly achieved a state of cosmic consciousness and/or illuminatio

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o longer than the middle of the following year. according to those who hold that jeane dixon was the most famous and accurate seer of political events in the twentieth century, she correctly predicted the results of every presidential election, foretold the deaths of u.n. secretary-general dag hammarskjold (1905.1961) and president john f. kennedy (1917.1963, predicted that the russians would win the race into space, and in general foresaw events on both personal and international scales too numerous to mention. a devout roman catholic who faithfully t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d prophecy and divination 155 psychic jean dixon (1918.1997 (corbis corporation) attended mass each morning, dixon was convinced that the gift of prophecy

irm. while smoothly acknowledging the ambassador fs superior knowledge of the russian situation, she nonetheless predicted that malenkov fs replacement would be a portly military man with wavy hair, green eyes, and a goatee. davies had been in russia for many years and said that he knew of no such man. ignoring his apparent skepticism, dixon went on to predict that not only would the russians win the race into space, they would also dictate the terms of world peace. premier malenkov was replaced by nikolai bulganin (1895.1975. malenkov was not killed, and the new premier was exactly as dixon had described him: g. a portly military t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 156 prophecy and divination jeane dixon foretold the death of u.s. pres

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

e tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32 nimrod and babel are the two primitive allegories of the despot, and of the universal empire which has always filled the dreams of men- a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the assyrians, the medes, the persians, alexander, rome, napoleon, the successors of peter the great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interes

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

h iss not to deny its existence, but only to affirm our previous ignorance. moreover, magical symbolism, which incidentally is of the same type as that employed by the unconscious, also affirms that ths divine genius, being the hghest principle w i t h of whch we still have no awareness, has not yet fully incarnated w i t h us. that is to say, it is a potency whch overshadows us-a principle which the race will be able to realize fully only some thousands of generations hence. the consensus of experienced opinion has it, therefore, that this overshadowing, no matter whether actual or only metaphorical- does assuredly exist, and that the psychc correlative of an overshadowing is a center just above the crown of the head. fantastic this certainly may somd at first. but i cannot make any attem

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

omb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our world through a gate or door that leads from the outside, in. there are certain people, among us, who are devotees of the ancient ones, and who try to open the gate, so that this evidently repulsive organisation may once again rule the earth. chief among these is cthulhu, typified as a sea monster, dwelling in the great deep, a sort of p

eavenly bodies, the zonei, the elder gods. it has a power the ancient ones have been waiting for, for millennia, and it is now within their grasp. the next century may deliver unto mankind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash the barrier and the ancient ones will rule once more. an alternative possibility exists: that, by landing on the moon, we have come to reinstate the ancient covenant and thereby assure our protection against the outside. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for

an's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with his ability to master his inner environment, his own mind his psyche, soul, spirit. perhaps, then, the lunar landing was the first collective initiation for humanity, which will bring it one step closer to a beneficial force that resides beyond the race of the "cruel celestial spirits, past the abyss of knowledge. yet, he must remember that the occult powers that accompany magickal attainment are ornamental only, indications of obstacles overcome on the path to perfection, and are not to be sought after in themselves, for therein lies the truth death. lovecraft saw this evil, as the world passed from one war and moved menacingly towards

member! spirit of the earth, remember) yet, a word like shammash, the name of the solar deity, would read samas or sammas, and in the text of the necronomicon we would make the word read like its original. the "conjuration of the watcher" follows the fire god conjuration. the word "watcher" is sometimes used synonymously with "angel, and sometimes as a distinct race, apart from angelos: egragori. the race of watchers are said not to care what they watch, save that they follow orders. they are somewhat mindless creatures, but quite effective. perhaps they correspond toe lovecraft's shuggoths, save that the latter become unweildly and difficult to manage. after the watcher, comes the maklu text, which appears to be a collection of exorcisms, which includes the famous "xilka xilka besa besa"

y identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6

spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with a

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

not only brutal but absurd; instead of reverencing it because of its great antiquity, or because of our conservative sympathies with the past days of our fathers. woman is as clean as man, and a wife married or unmarried as pure as any virgin. generation is no more filthy than alimentation; both are necessary, both are accompanied by natural appetites; the one maintains the individual, the other the race; both may be carried to extremes, both may become lusts *a disciple of pythagoras once asked him, when was it permitted him to cohabit with his wife? to which that philosopher replied: gwhen you are tired of resting. h theano, wife of pythagoras, was also once asked: ghow long does it take for a woman to be purified who has known a man? h to which she answered: gif it is with her husband

e same metaphysical pitfall, and contented himself by declaring his strangling senior as gfree. h in other words: git (the source of metaphysical knowledge) consists, then, in knowledge a priori, that is, knowledge derived from pure understanding, pure reason h (p. 11 [then it is impossible and its extension zero; for the intension of reason and its forms are alike built up by experience, that of the race (h. spencer *bohn fs edition of the prolegomena. having postulated metaphysical knowledge, kant then proceeds to subdivide it into two headings: 1, analytic; 2, synthetic judgements; the first crowley would identify with [verbal propositions, the second with [real. first kant states: gall analytic judgements are based entirely on the principles of contradiction c and are c a priori h (p

nitions have been found wanting, chiefly on account of the doubtful connotation of the word abstract, but with mctaggart fs emendation read: space is the synthesis of all experiences of co-existence. time is the synthesis of all experiences of sequence *absolute relativism, p. 14. so we find that taking the above as general definitions, they may with equal accuracy be applied to either the ego or the race; in the former case, space and time vanishing with the extinction of the individual; in the latter with that of the race. so also if space be defined as gthe potentiality of all coexistences, h then in the destruction of all existences space will also cease to be. but if space be defined gas that eternal actuality wherein all other things or no things may co-exist, then, even on the destr

swered, gsixty-two. h mysticus then turning to scepticus asks him the seemingly simple question, gwhat is a eyear f? h*2. scepticus answers something about the earth moving round the sun, and is at once shown by mysticus that a man stating a fact in reference to gsince the derby was run, h would be more intelligible than he who would say, gsince may, such and such a day h; g cfor his memory is of the race, and not of a particular item in the ever changing space-relation of the heavens, a relation which he can never know, and of which he can never perceive the significance; nay, which he can never recognize, even by landmarks of catastrophic importance. h*3. scepticus at once grasps the absurdity of such a situation by picturing the cross-examination of a farm-hand by a lawyer *1. time, vol

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the true facts of spirituality. this blind man is the atheist, or materialist, and the man who is so absorbed in material aims that he neglects all thought of spiritual things. it is likewise the man who is a slave to his desires. and the ensemble thus symbolizes the inevitable suffering which follows sin. or, it symbolizes the truly spirit ual man, who is so enthusiastic in his effort to assist the race that he is completely blind to the consequences to himself. and thus, equally well, it symbolizes the law of universal compensation, which decrees that for all effort expended in a constructive channel there inevitably follows increased ability and real advancement. a comparison of one bol tarot card in different versions bol ii 1930s bol iii 1994 bol iv 2003 this page is a part of my pro

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

v.s.l (done) brother p.m, at your initiation you were hoodwinked to find the light of earthly life, only to close in the file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (15 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. 3 in the darkness of death. you were raised, but only in the son; it is not the individual life of man, but the life of the race, which passes through the darkness of the 3. this is the first initiation to the life within, and you have not yet found light (all draw swords and point them at c. 3 principals, however, forming a pyramid above his head, as to utter the word. z. is behind him) let that blessing be bestowed upon the candidate (an assistant lights the flashlight, and the hoodwink is for a moment lifted and

that these mysteries are reasonable and true, and no man can deny them. this is that which is written peace on earth, goodwill toward men! and this is the true and final secret of freemasonry; this sun, is it not the great architect of the universe, the father of the system, the eidolon of the macrocosm? and this phallus, is it not the great architect of this other universe of man, the father of the race, the eidolon of the microcosm? is not this that truth which is established in the mouth of two witnesses? wherefore be ye vigilant, preserving that kingdom of god which is within you from defilement, chaste unto your lord that is light, life, love and liberty indeed. also, remember well that in all this instruction no word is wasted; and that by deep and continuous study of the text may y

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 9:10 whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 9:11 i returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 9:12 for man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it fal

ves of the earth. 11:39 and these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 11:40 god having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 12:1 wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 12:2 looking unto jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of god. 12:3 for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 12:4 ye have not yet resisted unto blood

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

noured with divine titles, expressive of that particular attribute of the deity with which they seemed to be most favoured. new personages were thus enrolled among the allegorical deities; and the personified attributes of the sun were confounded with a cretan and thessalian king, an asiatic conqueror, and a theban robber. hence pindar, who appears to have been a very orthodox heathen, says, that the race of men and gods is one, that both breathe from one mother, and only differ in power.1 this confusion of epithets and titles contributed, as much as any thing, to raise that vast and extravagant fabric of poetical mythology, which, in a manner, overwhelmed the ancient theology, which was too pure and philosophical to continue long a popular religion. the grand and exalted system of a gener

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

rcissism paranoia mania depression kleptomania bulimia t satyriasis x e m nymphomania- 2 catatonia thus each of the marvels i have given to men for their welfare has been counter- acted by a baneful gift from angra mainyu. it is to him the earth owes the evil instincts which infest it. it is he who established the criminal usage of burying or burning the dead, and all the misfortunes which ravage the race of mankind.17 most people today have this view of the world. they see life as a constant bat- tle of happiness with despair, hate with love, and creation with destruction, where there is no hope of victory for one side since the two opposing forces are equally balanced. they pay little attention to the single emanator since they can see no evidence of its hand in the material world. this

s, as ordinary light shines through a prism, on the manifest universe. when men and women began to worship thor, they did not invent the vari- ous attributes of that deity-thunder and lightning, great strength, courage, unbri- dled fury, destruction-but recognized the common principle behind those qualities and focused it into a form with a name and a human shape. thus the god thor existed before the race of homo sapiens, although he was not personified as a warrior with wild black hair and fiery eyes who carried a hammer. by the power of the all that is within them, human beings drew this symbolic figure from the unmanifest in order to harness and control the forces of the god. they did not cre- ate the underlying reality. what they did was provide a vehicle through which the pre-existing

nd again into the wall of ignorance that sur- rounds materiality. he or she has scant more respect for the mystics who selfishly seek to leapfrog their way out of the universe before fulfilling their life purpose, merely so that they may luxuriate in the soothing timeless ocean of the unmanifest. humanity was not placed on earth to forget heaven and waste eternity rooting in the dirt. neither was the race put here to despise its nurturing mother, the earth, and flee back into heaven. mankind is an instrument whose sole purpose is the furthering, in its infinite complexity, of the desire of the all as expressed in the evo- lution of the universe. since humans were created in the creator's image, the desire of god is also the highest and best desire of human beings. mercury (hermes, the mess

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ith fuller radiance and with dazzling light: and they know their own sun, their own stars. some exercise their limbs on grassy wrestlinggrounds; in sport they contend, and struggle on the yellow sand: some mark the measure with their feet, and sing songs."46 fairyland is the astral realm where human beings who have projected their consciousness out of the physical world perceive and interact with the race of spirits known in europe, and particularly in celtic countries, as fairies. it is commonly thought to be the place where fairies live, but since human beings only are aware of fairies in this place when they themselves are present, this is not something that can be stated with assurance. it is certainly one of the astral meeting places between fairies and humans. but who can say what fo

caverns in which they reside in other myths, can be applied to the fairies. many of the recognized fairy knolls or hills are barrow mounds where lie the bodies of dead heroes, although many others are natural hills. in ancient times, it was not unheard of for whole celtic clains to live in large caves and even to keep their cattle in the caverns with them, so it would have seemed natural to place the race of fairies in caverns, as a way of explaining how fairies could appear and disappear in moments as though from the thin air. the sides of fairy hills are said to open up like great doors to allow the passage of the fairy host going to and from the wild hunt of diana or herodias, and at other times the fairies ride on their miniature horses directly into the slope itself and disappear. the

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

before columbus, i think it is more likely that similar causes produced similar effects on both sides of the world. it may seem impossible to some that any cult could have preserved its identity and teachings for so long; yet you must remember that it is not merely the religious legend which is preserved but also the rite, the conditioning and the effect that it produces. the religion may change, the race may change, the language may change, but the cause and effect remain, and it is this which tends to keep the legend unchanged. as christianity came in witchcraft had to be concealed. under the saxons it continued in out-of-theway communities, or was driven to wales, cornwall and brittany. many of the cult members, together with remnants of the earlier inhabitants, would live in places to

that he was a fairy that was kept secret, which also tends to show his size. in scotland the fairy mistress often helped her husband with his craft; she could foretell his future, when he would die, or whom he would marry after her death or after she left him; but while the association lasted she was usually very jealous. fairy mistresses were said to steal babies and probably they did so to make the race grow stronger. beautiful girls were regularly kidnapped as brides for the fairy king, and male fairies often persuaded girls to leave home, as the highlanders in scotland used to supply themselves with girls from the lowlands three hundred years ago by eloping with them or kidnapping them. the clan of macleods of the isles was founded by leod, son of olaf the black, king of man, who was s

and many of the men attending the sabbat brought back fairy wives and usually had very happy marriages. this was quite common among small farmers who lived in isolated places; but it was frowned on by the more respectable part of the community. times slowly changed. the lords were no longer normans. many had married saxons, some had legitimate or illegitimate children by roman-british women, and the race had become english. the people of the heaths were no longer half-naked savages clad in skins; they wore clothes dyed with woad treated with lime, which, as i said before, produced the famous lincoln green a most excellent camouflage enabling the little people to vanish by diving into the bushes. the robin hood story was spread, the tale of the wonderful archer who never missed his aim. ro

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

py even though they have never earned it. so if your rabbi s explanation were correct, why wouldn t i have simply created only angels rather than mortals? mortal: beats me! why didn t you? god: because the explanation is simply not correct. in the first place, i have never created any ready made angels. all sentient beings ultimately approach the state which might be called angelhood. but just as the race of human beings is in a certain stage of biologic evolution, so angels are simply the end result of a process of cosmic evolution. the only difference between the so-called saint and the so-called sinner is that the former is vastly older than the latter. unfortunately it take countless life cycles to learn what is perhaps the most important fact of the universe evil is simply painful. al

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

"before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears? 20 "before the ears can hear, they must have lost their sensitiveness? 21 "before the voice can speak in the presence of the masters, it must have lost its power to wound" 22 "before the feet can stand in the presence of the masters, they must be bathed in the heart's blood" 23 "one is the nature below which is subject to death, and one is the race without a king which is born above" 24 "and he cried 'a lion; behold i stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime and i am in my wards whole nights" 25 "and he said 'i am thou and thou art i, and wheresoever thou art i am there, and in all am i sown" 26 "wheresoever thou wiliest thou gatherest me, and gathering me thou gatherest thyself" 27 "i shall be merciful to thee in the cr

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cap. 3, from which we clearly gather the identity of tlie three brothers, so that frigg could be considered the wife of any one of them^ lastly, a principal proof of the deeply-rooted worship of this divinity is furnished by wodan's being interwoven with the old saxon genealogies, which i shall examine minutely in the appendix^ here we see wodan invariably in the centre. to him are traced up all the races of heroes and kings; among his sons and his ancestors, several have divine honours paid them. in parti- 1 according to this story, osinn was alroad a long time, during which his brothers act for him; it is worthy of note, that saxo also makes othin travel to foreign lands, and milhothin fill his place, p. 13; this mithothin's position throws light on that of vili and ve. but saxo, p. 45

he identity of phol and balder; it would be odd for phol to be named at the beginning, and no further notice to be taken of liim. rosite. 229 baldaj, bccldwg prevailed among the saxons and "westphalian.s, and the as. bealdor had passed into a common noun. now as tlie bavarian p]or stood opposed to the alamannic zio, we ouglit to find out whether phol was in like manner unknown to the alamanns and the races most akin to them^ lastly, from eastern germany we are transported to the northwest by a name appertaining closely to the balder cultus, and again linking itself with the edda. the edda cites among the ases a son of baldr and nanna, forscti, who like his father dwelt in a shining hall glitnir (glit, nitor, splendor, ohg. kliz) built of gold and silver, and who (as baldr himself had been

things of themselves in future. in the district about hameln, it was the custom, when a reaper in binding sheaves passed one over, or left anything standing in the alaric's funeral (jornand. cap. 29, or those who have hidden a treasure, landn. 5, 12(.see suppl. 1 speaking of nerthus, we ought to notice ptolemy's nertereans, though he places them in a very different locality from that occupied by the races who revere nerthus in tacitus. 2 braunschw. anz. 1751, p. 900. hannov. gel. anz. 1751, p. 662 [is not' haltet' a mistake for' hal' and something else] in the altenburg country they call this harvest-custom building a barn. arch, des henneb. vereins 2, 91. erda, nikdu, gaue, firgunixv, iiluodana. 253 field, to jeer at him by calling out' sclioll diit del gaucfnie pt, defnt gaucn) hebben (

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

and america unless something is done about it, and done in very short order. the yellow school could not remain impassive spectators of the abominations. madame blavatsky was a mere forerunner. they, in conjunction with the secret chiefs of the white school in europe, chiefs who had been compelled to suspend all attempts at exoteric enlightenment by the general moral debility which had overtaken the races from which they drew their adepts, have prepared a guide for mankind. this man, of an extreme moral force and elevation, combined with a profound sense of worldly realities, has stood forth in an attempt to save the white school, to rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. unless his appeal is heard, unless there com

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

and to further them. it is the effort in the abstract mind to pass an examination. it is the honour class in the master's school, and is within the attainment of those souls whose karma permits and whose efforts suffice to fulfil the aim. initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one; a vision of the pageant of the races with the golden thread of pedigree carried through the many types; a vision of the golden sphere that holds in unison all the many evolutions of our system, deva, human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and elemental, and through which the pulsating life can be clearly seen beating in regular rhythm; a vision of the logoic thoughtform on the archetypal plane, a vision that grows from initiati

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ing him as the thinker. these four, with the karmic four, work in the closest co-operation. therefore, we have the following groups interacting: first. the four maharajahs, the lesser lipika lords,49(45) who apply past karma and work it out in the present. second. the four lipikas of the second group, referred to by h. p. b. as occupied in applying future karma, and wielding the future destiny of the races. the work of the first group of four cosmic lipika lords is occult and is only revealed somewhat at the fourth initiation (and even then but slightly) so it will not be touched upon here. third. the fourth creative hierarchy of human monads, held by a fourfold karmic law under the guidance of the lipikas. fourth. the four planetary logoi50(46) of harmony, knowledge, abstract thought and

t fuses and blends the threefold nature of the logos when in physical incarnation; his is the coherent force that makes a unity of the triple logoic personality, but man can only arrive at his essential nature by the study of the logoic physical vehicle hence the difficulty; he can only understand by a consideration of his psychic emanation as it can be sensed and viewed by passing the history of the races in retrospect. man's personality reveals his nature as his life progresses; his psychic quality unfolds as the years slip away, and when he passes out of incarnation he is spoken of in terms of quality, good or bad, selfish or unselfish; the effect of his "emanation" during life is that which remains in men's minds. thus only can the logoic personality express itself, and our knowledge o

three enshrining petals, and permits the full inner glory to be seen, and the electric fire of spirit to be manifested. as this is brought about on the second subplane of the mental plane (whereon the egoic lotus is now situated) a corresponding stimulation takes place in the dense substance which forms the petals or wheels of the centres on the astral and etheric levels (b) individualisation and the races. if this treatise serves no other purpose than to direct the attention of the scientific and philosophic students to the study of force or energy in man and in groups, and to interpret man and the human family in terms of electrical phenomena, much good will have been accomplished. the polarity of a man, of a group, and of a congery of groups, the polarity of the planets and their relati

s round. in earlier and perhaps in later rounds the whole process will follow natural law. in this round and on this chain, our planetary logos on his high level is what is esoterically called "sitting for yoga" and is definitely undergoing certain processes of training in order to stimulate his centres. this fact is being taken advantage of by the hierarchy on earth to produce certain results in the races under their guidance. the whole process is optional, and a man may if he- 489- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust so choose follow the normal process, and take aeons of time to effect what some are choosing to do in a briefer period, through a self-chosen forcing process. at the termination of the 777 incarnations, a man passes through the door of initiation and enters

hohan's cycle of emanatory impulses may be gathered by considering the- 615- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust dates of the foremost scientific discoveries since plato's time; the cycles of the second ray may also be averaged by a summary of the appearances of the great teachers down the ages. the force emanations from the manu, or those of the first ray, are easily traced when the races are considered, and this has been done in the recognition of the races and subraces. what is oft overlooked is that each of these rays of energy demonstrates constructively, through the form-building agencies, and destructively through the ability of the force to destroy prior to building. thus the cycles can be viewed from two angles. it is at this point that students in one branch of o

or matter. 50 55: the monads of the fourth creative hierarchy, the human monads, exist in three main groups: a. the monads of will. b. the monads of love. c. the monads of activity. mahachohan. the officer in our planetary hierarchy who presides over the activities carried on in the four minor rays and their synthesising third ray. he has to do with civilisation, with the intellectual culture of the races, and with intelligent energy. he is the head of all the adepts. bodhisattva. the exponent of second ray force, the teacher of the adepts of men and of angels. this office was originally held by the buddha, but his place was taken (after his illumination) by the christ. the work of the bodhisattva is with the religions of the world, and with the spiritual essence in man. the manu. the one

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

of the silence. from the voice of the silence. introductory remarks the science of raja yoga, or the "kingly science of the soul" as laid down by its main exponent, patanjali, will eventually find its greatest demonstration in the west. this is owing to the fact that under cyclic law the fifth root race (in its fifth subrace) must inevitably touch its highest point. that point, in the economy of the races, is seen exemplified in the right use of the mind and its utilisation by the soul for the achievement of group objectives and the development of group consciousness upon the physical plane- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust hitherto the mind has either been prostituted to material ends or has been deified. through the science of raja yoga, the mind will be known as the instrument of the soul

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

olution, it would appear as if all ways converge and all pilgrims arrive at the same identical position on the way. from this point of junction, they travel the same way, and employ the same methods, and use a curiously similar phraseology. that the time has come when this should be definitely realized becomes apparent when we note the wide study of comparative religion, and the interplay between the races. these two factors are steadily breaking down the old barriers, and demonstrating the oneness of the human soul. speaking generally, this way is almost universally divided into three main divisions, which are to be seen, for instance, in the three great religions, the christian, the buddhist and the hindu faiths. in the christian church, we speak of the path of probation, the path of hol

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

t out by the fog, so in connection with groups will the same be seen. but bear equally in mind that after the valley is crossed (for all aspirants and for all truly spiritual groups) the mount of initiation is seen and ascended; after obscuration succeeds the vision, and after night comes the day. in the great cycles affecting cosmic groups this also can be seen; in the lesser cycles, controlling the races, the same eventuates and the same law persists in all the lesser groups down to the groups of tiny lives that hold sway in the vehicles of man. this needs emphasis. fourthly, do not permit yourselves to be discouraged. discouragement is due to three causes. paramountly it is due to the lowering of the vitality of the bodily organism. when such is the case, the astral body makes too stron

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

heless within them that germ of the spirit of love which is normally inclusive and intuitive. curiously enough, along this line the seething millions of the orient present a more serious problem to the great ones than do the peoples of the occident, for ignorance is deeply prevalent among the masses of asia as to the trend of affairs in the world of religion, owing to the widespread illiteracy of the races, and their consequent easy exploitation and control by the religious demagogues, fervent prophets and reactionaries. disciples or workers on the second ray are now actively handling this problem. it is interesting to note that the reason for the success in breaking down old barriers and in bringing about a condition of spiritual readiness everywhere in the occident, is largely due to the

ts are upon the first ray; dogs are expressions of the second ray; the cat is a third ray life manifestation, and the horse is sixth ray. animals upon other rays are not yet ready for individualisation*(1) b. the ray of the particular person or persons with whom the animal is associated. c. the ray or rays of a particular periodic cycle. i could give you the techniques with which the guardians of the races and kingdoms work when seeking to bring about individualisation, but of what purpose would it be and what use would such information serve? each ray affects the units found upon it at such a crisis as individualisation in a manner differing from any other ray; each ray finds its point of prime contact through one or other of the centres in the etheric bodies of animals and men. it must b

can that word be spoken which brings the dead to life. such is the work of man for god, of god for man" d. cyclic manifestation so the work proceeds. the rays stream forth in: 1. a solar cycle, such as the present one, in which the second ray of love-wisdom is the major ray, and all the others are but subsidiary to it. 2. a planetary cycle, such as those we have just considered in connection with the races, the five above enumerated and their five controlling rays. 3. cycles connected with the twelve signs of the zodiac. these are primarily two in number: a. those which are connected with a complete zodiacal round, about 25,000 years. b. those which are connected with each of the twelve signs, and which come in and out of manifestation approximately every 2,100 years. 4. those cycles when

t all forms are composed of energy units and are in themselves expressions of force. a ray is but a name for a- 195- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust particular force or type of energy, with the emphasis upon the quality which that force exhibits and not upon the force aspect which it creates. this is a true definition of a ray. the rays and the races we have been told in the past teaching of the ageless wisdom that a human being is a triple aspect of energy, and that he is essentially a trinity, as is the deity. we speak of him technically as monad-ego-personality. we define him as spirit-soul-body. i should like to point out here that in studying the human family as a unit and as a whole, it also will be discovered to be essentially

their destiny in all races, but certain types predominate in certain racial forms. where, then, is to be found any reason for racial predilections or antipathies? in the realisation of the truth that we all, at some time, experience incarnation in all racial forms will come the knowledge that there is only unity. the subject may be clarified if we tabulate the teaching and the ray relationship to the races as follows: ray full expression major influence ray i. will. in the 7th rootrace. 1st and 7th subraces. 1st ray souls. perfection of plan. ray ii. love-wisdom in the 6th rootrace. 2nd and 6th subraces. 2nd ray souls. perfected intuition. ray iii. intelligence. in the 5th rootrace. 3rd and 5th subraces. 3rd ray souls. aryan race. perfected intellect. ray iv. harmony. in the 4th rootrace

e balancing of the forces for our humanity. the effect of the other three rays upon the lemurian race and the two earlier and formless races need not here be considered by us. the nature of the consciousness of the forms found in those races, and the pressure exerted in them by the entity who informs the human family as a whole, are too abstruse for the average reader. he is mainly concerned with the races here enumerated, which summarise for him past and future achievement. consequently, in dealing with the human family, we must endeavour to think in larger terms than those of the individual man as we know him. we must look upon humanity itself as an- 197- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust integrated entity, as a being, as a life in a

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he seeks to impose upon his fellow men for their good, as he sees it. he inevitably destroys as fast as he builds, and finally destroys himself. many worthy aspirants and disciples in training for service at this time work in this sad way. some of the masters of the wisdom and their groups of disciples are actively engaged at this time in an endeavor to impose certain basic and needed ideas upon the races of men, and much of their work is being prepared for by a group of destroying disciples, and also by a group of enunciating disciples, for these two types of work carry forward their task as a unit. the idea to be dominant in the future is proclaimed in writing and by the voice, by one group. the group of destroyers takes it up, and proceed to break up the old forms of truth so as to mak

salvage it. be not, therefore, afraid of the technicalities of wisdom but seek for the reason of the undesirable reaction against them in the latent inertia of the mystical mind, plus the lowered vital condition of the entire race. this brings me to a point i would seek to touch upon: that of the widespread depression which is so seriously affecting the whole of humanity. the physical vitality of the races is low, or it is being whipped up into a better condition by the imposition of applied thought. instead of drawing upon the resources of vitality, stored up in the soil, in food, fresh air and outer environing conditions, men are beginning to draw it from the etheric body itself through the galvanising effect of two things: ideas, as they are presented to them, thereby aligning mind and

t the mind principle may assert its control and the life of the soul can then flow out into matured and considered expression upon the physical plane. this relegation of the psychic powers to a position below the threshold of consciousness is the intent of the development planned for the aryan race. i would like here to point out that i use the word "aryan" in contradistinction to the majority of the races found in asia. speaking generally, we can today classify the races into three groups: 1. the many remnants of the atlantean or fourth root-race people, plus a very small sprinkling of the lemurian peoples so small as to be negligible. 2. the aryan race itself, which includes the civilisation of india and all latins, teutons, nordics, and anglo-saxons, and their various offshoots. 3. a gr

iental nor is it aryan. the jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly present. for ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the old testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. for ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. the result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to force that very separation upon them. under the law, we draw forth from others what is actually present within ourselves, and to this law, races and nations are no exception. through the inter-relation of jew and gentile, of semitic and aryan, and through the solving of the jewish problem will the great heresy of separateness eventu

rt individual, financial and spiritual to the helping of the plan. 2. the new group of world servers the first thing to be grasped is that there is a plan for humanity and that this plan has always existed. it has worked out through the evolutionary developments of the past ages and also through that special impetus which has been given it from time to time by the great intuitives and teachers of the races. today there are a sufficient number of men and women in the world, adequately developed, so that they can contact it and work in connection with it. it is becoming more a matter of group recognition than of intuitive revelation. secondly, it is to be noted that there is upon our planet a group of men and women belonging to every nation, who are definitely upon the path of discipleship a

d who are pledged to the same service and activity. the same language of brotherhood and kindness will be taught, and thus mutual confidence and a spirit of optimism will be promoted. d. to list and investigate the work and the ideals of all groups which purport to have an international program which tends to heal world differences and national quarrels, to work for a better understanding between the races, and to harmonise religious distinctions and class wars. a study will be made of their techniques and modes of work. when such groups are found to be coloured with aims that are truly spiritual and harmonising, when they are true healers of differences and under the guidance of men of good will, cooperation will be offered. such groups now exist. 6. no secrecy must ever be permitted in t

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

tituting such measures as the old-age pension system long before other nations did so. they are deeply paternalistic in their handling of smaller and less developed nations and have really helped them. being conservative, it is hard for them to know when to withdraw that paternal help. the motto of the house of wales is "i serve. the innate tendency of the british race is to serve the nations and the races which are gathered together under the union jack. it must be remembered that since the beginning of the 20th century, great changes have taken place in the thinking of the english people. old things have passed away; the caste system with its aloofness, its separativeness and its paternalism is rapidly disappearing as the war and labour emphasize essential equality. great britain seeks n

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

nd inner fixed intention. the oriental, unless he has attained the fourth or fifth initiation, has no true understanding of the occidental or of his mechanism and equipment which, as the result of a civilisation and a mode of living, differs widely from that of the oriental. in the east, the problem of the teacher or guru is to take negatively polarised people and make them positive. in the west, the races are as a whole positive in attitude and need no such training as is rightly given to the oriental. what exactly do i mean when i make this statement? i mean that in the east, the will factor (the quality of the first aspect) is absent. the oriental, particularly the inhabitant of india, lacks will, dynamic incentive and the ability to exert that inner pressure upon himself which will pro

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

h and produce effects upon our planet, esoteric astrology emphasises the following four types of force because they affect what might be called the personality of our earth: 1. the quality of our solar system. god is a consuming fire but god is also love. this is the teaching of both esoteric and exoteric truth. 2. the quality of the logos of our planet as it pours through the chains, the rounds, the races, and the kingdoms of nature. 3. the quality of the earth's complementary planet, which is the earth's polar opposite, esoterically considered. this planet is venus. 4. the quality of the attraction of the three planets which produce an esoteric triangle of force- 15- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust i have several times used the phra

(personal and egoic. these indicate his type of mechanism and his soul quality. it must not be forgotten either that his seven centres are in close relation to the planetary centres and that he is conditioned not only by the centres in his own nature and their rays but also by the centres found within the human kingdom and also by the planetary centres. with these we will now proceed to deal. 2. the races, the rays and the signs. the theme we will now consider is one which is of general interest but not of individual moment. arguing as one ever must from the universal to the particular, it is essential that humanity relates its own mechanism to the greater mechanism through which the planetary life functions and views his soul as an infinitesimal part of the world soul. it is necessary fo

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

raised inquiries among young people and resulted in dirtiness in their thinking and is something difficult to forgive in the victorian father and mother. today we are suffering from the reaction to this. it is almost possible that young people know too much, but i personally believe it to be a far safer condition than the one in which i was raised. just what is the solution of the sex problem of the races i do not know. i do know that under british law in foreign countries and presumably dutch and any other laws, a man who is a mohammedan may have a plurality of wives. men of every nation, american, british or any other nation have always had plurality of contacts. out of all this promiscuity and out of all this searching for an answer some true solution will eventually emerge. the french

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

races, the fusion of bloods for hundreds of years due to migration, travel, education and mental unity has led to there being no really pure racial types today. this is far more certainly the case than the most enlightened think, if the long, long history of mankind is considered. sexual intercourse knows no impenetrable barriers, and people today have in them all the strains and the blood of all the races, and this (as a result of the world war, 1914-1945) will be increasingly the case. this development is definitely a part of the divine plan, no matter how undesirable it may appear to those who idealise purity of relationship, or how ruthless its application is at the present moment. something intended is being brought about and it cannot be avoided. the urge to mate becomes peculiarly s

very history of the planet itself and also in the racial history of the past of which little or practically nothing is known. surmise and conjecture rule here. 1. diseases of humanity, inherited from the past history, as studied today, goes back but a little way and although the enlightened historian and scientist may extend the story of humanity to millions of years, there is naught known about the races of men who lived those millions of years ago; naught is known of the civilisation which flourished in early atlantean times twelve million years ago; naught is known at all of the still more ancient lemurian civilisation which goes back more than fifteen million years; still less is known of that twilight period which existed twenty-one million years ago when men were scarcely human and

for material good and steadily rejecting the things of the spirit. they demand the so-called restitution of palestine, wresting it away from those who have inhabited it for many centuries; and by their continued emphasis upon material possession they lose sight of the true solution, which is that, symbolically and factually again, they must be assimilated into all the nations, and fused with all the races, thus demonstrating recognition of the one humanity. it is interesting to note that the jews who inhabited southern palestine, and whose chief city was jerusalem, have succeeded in doing this and have fused with and been assimilated by the british, the dutch and the french in a way that the israelites, ruled from samaria, have never done. i commend this to you for your consideration- 157

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

trol of the law of correspondence. i would remind you nevertheless that the only fourth root race people to be found upon our planet are the chinese, the japanese, the various mongoloid races in central asia (and they are somewhat intermixed with the caucasian race) and the hybrid groups found in the many islands in the southern waters in both oceans and hemispheres, as well as the descendants of the races which a million years ago made the south american continent famous for its civilisation. i am necessarily widely generalising. the new racial type is far more a state of consciousness than a physical form; it is a state of mind more than a peculiarly designed body. in time, however, any developed state of consciousness invariably conditions and determines the body nature and produces fin

pain. these virtues are real, but the emphasis has been overdone by the lesser teachers of the race, so that the racial attitude today is one of sorrowful and fearful expectancy and a feeble hope that some reward (in a desirable and usually material form, such as the heaven of the various world religions) may eventuate after death, and thus compensate for all that has been undergone during life. the races today are steeped in misery and an unhappy psychological acquiescence in sorrow and pain. the clear light of love must sweep away all this and joy will be the keynote of the coming new age. 3. to the above thought must be coupled the idea of self-sacrifice. this idea has lately shifted from the individual and his sacrifice to the group presentation. the good of the whole is now held theo

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

gnition which has in it (at this time) the seeds of world salvation. until the fifteenth century, the pull and the magnetic appeal was from the side of the watching elder brothers. today, so numerous are the inner and outer disciples, and so many are the world aspirants, the pull and the magnetic appeal are largely equalised, and what will happen in the world unfoldment and in the recognitions by the races will be the result of mutual interplay of the two intents (i am choosing my words with care) the intent of the masters to help humanity, and that of the world aspirants and disciples to aid in that helping. esoterically speaking, a point of contact, a moment of "spiritual intercourse" is imminent, and out of that moment a new world can be born. if that can be brought about, then there ca

e been constituted the nursery for the seeds of separativeness and why this remnant of humanity, far more advanced than ours, should have been destined to work out its future on our earth, is hid in the knowledge of the lord of shamballa, and is unattainable knowledge for you and, indeed, for many in the hierarchy. it is simply a fact to be accepted by you. the solution will come, as i said, when the races regard the jewish problem as a humanitarian problem but also when the jew does his share of understanding, love and right action. this he does not yet do, speaking racially. he must let go of his own separative tendencies and of his deep sense of persecution. he will do this latter with great facility, when he grasps, as a race, the significance and inevitability of the law of karma, and

inking people and in those who are in any sense of the word personalities. the method employed was the gift of mind to the more advanced among the animal-men in a majority of cases, the stimulation of the instinctual faculty in others, whilst a third method was the leaving of a minority to the ordinary course of evolution. these latter today constitute the least developed and the most backward of the races upon the earth. they are, in fact, a very small number indeed. in connection with the "seed-groups" which are fusing and blending in humanity at this time, and which in their totality constitute the nucleus of the fifth kingdom, the distinguishing quality is the ability to respond intuitionally to higher impression and to present the mind (with which humanity was endowed in the earlier p

e case in germany today when she proclaims germany as the super-race. such efforts will only produce insuperable barriers. with very few exceptions, there are no pure races. germany in particular, by its place at the crossroads of europe, is definitely the fusion of many strains. tides of emigration, marching armies throughout the centuries, and modern travel have inextricably mixed and fused all the races. it may therefore be assumed that any attempt to isolate a race or to enforce so-called "racial purity" is foredoomed to failure. the only solution of this problem is the basic recognition that all men are brothers; that one blood pours through human veins; that we are all the children of the one father and that our failure to recognise this fact is simply an indication of man's stupidit

you, in your place and sphere, will have aided and helped- 252- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. find out and study the methods, techniques and objectives of the various groups and organisations which are interested in world reconstruction. you may not agree with all of them or with their plans and modes of working, but all are needed. the types of men are many, the races and conditions are varied, and the problems to be solved will call for innumerable ways of working. all can play their part if based on real goodwill and if fanaticism is absent. the fanatic is a danger wherever he is found, for he sees only one side of a question and is unable to appreciate the various points of view. he will not admit that all are needed. cooperation is the key to expr

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

ght and the love which are the preparatory streams of spiritual energy and which are already pouring forth in response to human- 433- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust invocation. in comprehending the planetary initiatory processes as instituted by the planetary logos, men must relate them to the great crises which have occurred in all the races of men. just as the initiate-disciple passes from one initiation to another through a process of continuously leaving behind those aspects of the form life which have been destroyed by him as useless, so humanity leaves behind civilisation after civilisation under the stimulus of the evolving purpose of sanat kumara who initiates constantly that which is new and that which will better se

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

sical plane is one-pointedly seeking. there is prophecy in the united states standard, of the goal of this race when it is grown up, for it is within this race that there will emerge that group of aspirants, merging in their turn into a [158] group of disciples, who will demonstrate to the planet the fact of the subjective world. that is the destiny of this race. it will be the achievement of all the races gathered together in the united states. let us narrow the story down to hercules, the aspirant, and what he has done in each sign. in aries, hercules began on the plane of the mind in his endeavor to capture the man-eating mares, and met with failure because he dealt with them in a personality way. he dealt with thought from the standpoint of personality; he did not work with his problem

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

as it is situated at the antipodes, it is europe and asia minor, almost coeval with it, which are generally referred to by the indo-aryan occultists as the fifth. if their teaching followed the appearance of the continents in their geological and geographical order, then this classification would have to be altered. but as the sequence of the continents is made to follow the order of evolution of the races, from the first to the fifth, our aryan root-race, europe must be called the fifth great continent. the secret doctrine takes no account of islands and peninsulas, nor does it follow the modern geographical distribution of land and sea. since the day of its earliest teachings and the destruction of the great atlantis, the face of the earth has changed more than once. there was a time whe

sented under the symbol of[[diagram (the circle and diameter) during the third (race) and of[[diagram] during the fourth. this needs explanation. the diameter, when found isolated in a circle, stands for female nature, for the first ideal world, self-generated and self-impregnated by the universally diffused spirit of life- referring thus to the primitive root-race also. it becomes androgynous as the races and all on earth develop into their physical forms, and the symbol is transformed into a circle with a diameter from which runs a vertical line: expressive of male and female, not separated as yet- the first and earliest egyptian tau[[diagram; after which it becomes[[diagram] or male-female separated (see first pp. of book i) and fallen into generation. venus (the planet) is symbolised b

race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refer to vishnu's avatars, since these number nine, the tenth being still to come, but to the races on earth. venus, or lucifer (also sukra and usanas) the planet, is the light-bearer of our earth, in both its physical and mystic sense. the christians knew it well in early times, since one of the earliest popes of rome is known by his pontiff name as lucifer "every world has its parent star and sister planet. thus earth is the adopted child and younger brother of venus, but its inhabit

it is equally true that the atman alone warms the inner man; i.e, it enlightens it with the ray of divine life and alone is able to impart to the inner man, or the reincarnating ego, its immortality. thus, as we shall find, for the first three and a half root-races, up to the middle or turning point, it is the astral shadows of the "progenitors" the lunar pitris, which are the formative powers in the races, and which build and gradually force the evolution of the physical form towards perfection- this, at the cost of a proportionate loss of spirituality. then, from the turning point, it is the higher ego, or incarnating principle, the nous or mind, which reigns over the animal ego, and rules it whenever it is not carried down by the latter. in short, spirituality is on its ascending arc, a

ring is identical with that in the secret doctrine of the east with regard to brahma. in "isis unveiled* it was explained by the writer that "cain. is the son of the 'lord' not of adam (genesis iv. i" the "lord" is adam kadmon, the "father" of yodcheva "adam-eve" or jehovah, the son of sinful thought, not the progeny of flesh and blood. seth, on the other hand, is the leader and the progenitor of the races of the earth; for he is the son of adam, exoterically, but esoterically he is the progeny of cain and abel, since abel or hebel is a female, the counterpart and female half of the male cain, and adam is the collective name for man and woman "male and female (zachar va nakobeh) created he them. and called their name adam" the verses in genesis from chs. i. to v, are purposely mixed up for

known, the second hypothesis is far the most probable* abel hovelacque, in his "science of language" comes to a similar conclusion, arguing from the evidence available to a linguistic enquirer. in an address delivered before the british association, professor w. h. flower remarked on this question "the view which appears best to accord with what is now known of the characters and distribution of the races of man. is a modification of the monogenistic hypothesis. without entering into the difficult question of the method of man's first appearance upon the world, we must assume for it a vast antiquity, at all events as measured by any historical standard. if we had any approach to a complete palaeontological record, the history of man could be re-constructed, but nothing of the kind is fort

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

yugas of the seven periods of humanity; four of which are now passed in our life cycle, the middle point of the 5th being nearly reached. the illustration is symbolical, as every one can well understand, and covers the ground from the beginning. the old book, having described cosmic evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth, including physical man, after giving the true history of the races from the first down to the fifth (our) race, goes no further. it stops short at the beginning of the kali yuga just 4989 years ago at the death of krishna, the bright "sun-god" the once living hero and reformer. but there exists another book. none of its possessors regard it as very ancient, as it was born with, and is only as old as the black age[[footnote(s* rabbi jehoshua ben chananea

ce, the first cycle of the first five millenniums, that began with the great cycle of the kali-yuga, will end. and then the last prophecy contained in that book (the first volume of the prophetic record for the black age) will be accomplished. we have not long to wait, and many of us will witness the dawn of the new cycle, at the end of which not a few accounts will be settled and squared between the races. volume ii. of the prophecies is nearly ready, having been in preparation since the time of buddha's grand successor, sankaracharya. one more important point must be noticed, one that stands foremost in the series of proofs given of the existence of one primeval, universal wisdom- at any rate for the christian kabalists and students. the teachings were, at least, partially known to sever

led. by adding to the circle with the horizontal line in it, a perpendicular line, the tau was formed[[diagram- the oldest form of the letter. it was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical fall- i.e, when the separation of sexes by natural evolution took place- when the figure became[[diagram, the circle, or sexless life modified or separated- a double glyph or symbol. with the races of our fifth race it became in symbology the sacr, and in hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races* then it changed into the egyptian[[diagram (emblem of life, and still later into the sign of venus[[diagram] then comes the svastica (thor's hammer, or the "hermetic cross" now, entirely separated from its circle, thus becoming purely phallic. the esoteric symbol of kali yuga is the five

teacher wrote "i believe this will lead to a further confusion. a round we are agreed to call the passage[[vol. 1, page] 168 the secret doctrine. of a monad from globe a to globe g or z. the 'world-ring' is correct. advise mr. strongly, to agree upon a nomenclature before going any further" notwithstanding this agreement, many mistakes, owing to this confusion, crept into the earliest teachings. the races even were occasionally mixed up with the "rounds" and "rings" and led to similar mistakes in "man" from the first the master had written "not being permitted to give you the whole truth, or divulge the number of isolated fractions. i am unable to satisfy you" this in answer to the questions "if we are right, then the total existence prior to the man-period is 637" etc, etc. to all the qu

ge only at the close of the seventh and last round. they will, therefore, not be men on this chain, but will form the humanity of a future manvantara and be rewarded by becoming "men" on a higher chain altogether, thus receiving their karmic compensation. to this there is but one solitary exception, for very good reasons, of which we shall speak farther on. but this accounts for the difference in the races. it thus becomes apparent how perfect is the analogy between the processes of nature in the kosmos and in the individual man. the latter lives through his life-cycle, and dies. his "higher principles" corresponding in the development of a planetary chain to the cycling monads, pass into devachan, which corresponds to the "nirvana" and states of rest intervening between two chains. the ma

been stated that, to become a self-conscious spirit, the latter must pass through every cycle of being, culminating in its highest point on earth in man[[footnote(s* it was, as we shall see, at this period- during the highest point of civilization and knowledge, as also of human intellectuality, of the fourth, atlantean race- that, owing to the final crisis of physiologico-spiritual adjustment of the races, humanity branched off into its two diametrically opposite paths: the right- and the left-hand paths of knowledge or of vidya "thus were the germs of the white and the black magic sown in those days. the seeds lay latent for some time, to sprout only during the early period of the fifth (our race (commentary[[vol. 1, page] 193 the first cause of sin. spirit per se is an unconscious negat

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

e abroad, complete cessation from all work was decreed. no battle could be fought nor ship set sail, neither could a man and woman marry. to the sacred games were taken the statues of the gods in gorgeous procession, chariots of silver, companies of priests, and youths singing and dancing. the gods viewed the games reclining on couches. the chariot races also partook of the nature of rites. after the races, in the field of mars, came one of the most important roman rites, the sacrifice of the october horse. the righthand horse of the victorious team was sacrificed to mars, and the tail of the animal, running with blood, carried to the altar of the regia. the blood was stored in the temple of vesta until the following spring and used in the sacrifice of the festival of parilia. the sacrific

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

and was taken to jupiter where he saw a magnificent building made of marble. he witnessed the dancing of five tribes of indians. in a jupiter city, at the church of the open door, he heard a concert in which handel s the messiah was sung. at one point he saw a screen that recorded scenes from earth. according to standing horse, the people of jupiter are better-looking versions of earthlings, with the races living together in harmony. the chief was returned to earth three days later, on the evening of christmas day. his hosts drove him back to a hollywood bus station in a car without wheels and powered by electromagnetic energy. two cops were arresting two men on the corner, standing horse wrote to john w. dean, and were they dumbfounded when they saw the car come down and let me out! stand

walk before embarking for venus. during one brief stop they saw the ruler of the region engaged in painting. he was clad, like nelson himself, in bib overalls. venus, like mars and the moon, turned out to be a pleasant place without war or conflict, where people lived in harmony under the twelve laws of god (essentially the ten commandments and a couple of verses from the new testament. on venus, the races were strictly segregated. nelson also was told that his own parents were venusians. bucky became a regular visitor at nelson s house. they spent christmas 1956 together. on another occasion, he brought a fully cooked venusian turkey with him. on yet another christmas, bucky took nelson to his home on venus. in the late 1950s and early 1960s, nelson was a minor celebrity on the contactee

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

sly: before the forms of the holy king, the atteek, were prepared, it built worlds and made forms for their preservation, but the female principle was not joined yet with the male principle. therefore they could not exist until this was done. 9 until this balance was established adam qadmon could not appear and replace the adam belial of the unbalanced world and the averse tree of life from which the races of the gentiles are sprung. it would, therefore, appear that the reason for the creation of the kings of edom was to account for the world being peopled with races other than that of israel. adam qadmon. on several occasions already have we made mention of adam qadmon. he is called by various names, such as the primordial man, the archetypal man, microprosopos, the man of the east, the s

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

so a student of the works of the old astrologers.thehistory of astrology179geronimo cardan, born at paris in 1501, has left a large number of volumes which testify to his researches into the laws of astrology; he was both an m.a. and anm.d.a very sympathetic reference to astrology as the forerunner of astronomy will be found inold andnewastronomyby richard a. proctor, london, 1892. hesays-'noneof the races of antiquity roseabovea certain level of civilization without developing a belief in the influences of the heavenly bodies, and without devising systems for reading and ruling the planets' according to lalande it was not until the time of saint clement of alexandria in the second century, that natural became distinguished from judicial astrology, and astronomy from astrology. astrology t

means of cards, beads, pebbles or dice, or by the shoulder-blade bones of sheep; and in general the process is accompanied by the chanting of spells and the recitation of words of power. many well-to-do families keep and use a small divining hand-book called amo-pechato which reference is constantly made. shamanism this old religious system of ancient mongol races, of north american indian and of the races living in north polar regions, the esquimaux and the laplanders, provided a system of divination, which has been known for several centuries.divination and its history 207scheffer, in hishistoryoflapland,1674, describes the shamans as seeking to discover by means of symbols on their sacred drums, the state of affairs in. distant parts, the result of present proceedings, the cure of disea

it is curious to note that in exodus xx, 25, we read that an altar must not be built of hewn stones; and again, joshua raises an altar of 'stones upon which no man has laid a tool (joshua viii, 31) the reason given being that men should not be encouraged to shape stones for religious purposes, lest they come to make statues of gods, and so become led into the worship of idols, which, however, all the races of the holy land were very prone to practise.thecubical stone receives a highly spiritualised symbolism in the christain degrees of our order, notably in the rose-croix ritual which, referring in one point to failure, loss and despair, states that the cubical stone pours forth..and;*here it is taken reverentially as a symbol of the crucifixion. in theological works christ is also referre

n the human form of jesus appeared among the hebrews, a race notable for the constant efforts of its prophets and poets to discountenance the worship, almost universal at that period, of ancestors, demigods, and nature spirits. christ laid the foundation of a new mode of life and of higher aims of spiritual type, setting aside the mere formalism of worship. this new revelation quickly spread over the races of eastern and southern europe where the hold on the faiths in the gods of egypt and in those of the greek pantheon of olympus were being shattered and their temples neglected as effete and outworn. another era arrived, and the men of northern europe came down nation after nation and destroyed the greco-roman civilisation, but they adopted the christian faith; dark ages, centuries of obs

ferer, with favourable results, and without leading to any notable change in the personality of the recipient: this operation is only performed as a last resort, because of the dangers involved in the operation, especially from the risk of admitting air into the veins, and from the risk of the clotting of the blood while traversing the tubes of the apparatus.thestrange results of the crossings of the races of mankind as shown in their offspring, notably the occurrence of black, white and mulatto babies, in curious sequence from the union of white men and negro women, is not due to the admixture of blood as used tobesaid,butto the combination of racial germ255 continuity, to be referred to later on. in the blood then and in its corpuscles while in constant movement we seem to find the vehic

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

to emerge from a mountain. he visited cuzco, and then continued north to ecuador. there, in the coastal province of manta, he took leave of his people and, walking on the waves, disappeared across the ocean.7 there was always this poignant moment of goodbye at the end of every folk memory featuring the remarkable stranger whose name meant foam of the sea: viracocha went on his way, calling forth the races of men. when he came to the district of puerto viejo he was joined by his followers whom he had sent on before, and when they had joined him he put to sea in their company and they say that he and his people went by water as easily as they had traversed the land.8 always this poignant goodbye. and often a hint of science or magic. time capsule outside the window of the train things were

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

-gards, aiihns, a]7n, blotan, inveitan, must have heathen notions lying at their base, and these would offer themselves far more abundantly if portions of the gothic old testament had reached us. after the lapse of a few centuries we find the other dialects all more or less corrupted when compared with the gothic, and as a long xll preface. interval had then passed since the conversion of most of the races, heathenism must have retreated farther from the language also and the poetry. nevertheless the fragment of muspilli, the abrenuntiatio, the merseburg lay and a few others, still allow our glances to rove back beyond our expectation; isolated words occur in glosses, and proper names of men, places, herbs, point to other vestiges; not only do gods and heroes step out of the mist, as wuota

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

he appendix to our heldenbuch offers some fragments of cosmogony: three creations follow one another, that of dwarfs leading the way, after whom come giants, and lastly men; god has called into being the skilful dwarfs to cultivate waste lands and mountain regions, the giants to fight wild beasts, and the heroes to assist the dwarfs against disloyal giants; this connexion and mutual dependence of the races is worthy of note, though on the manner of creating there is not a word. lastly, the threefold arrangement of classes instituted by heimdallr 3 may, i think, be regarded as a later act in the drama of creation, of which perhaps a trace is yet to be seen even in modern traditions (p. 234. 3 another thing i lay stress on is, that in the edda man and woman (askr and embla) come into existen

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

edemption to those who are within a certain fold. and, the rosicrucians have never solicited funds for the support of propaganda for any such masters, or the organizing of colonies or utopian places where anticipated masters or new races might be born or created. ques. what are the religious convictions of the rosicrucians? a ns. the religious convictions of the rosicrucians are as diversified as the races and types of persons in the organization. since it is a universal and international movement with members living in all lands, and of every creed and tongue, its religious attitude is strictly nonsectarian. there are members in the organization who are priests, clergymen, rabbis, and directors and workers in every one of the various religions throughout the world. there is nothing in the

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

th the feelings and the high that are produced by pep pills, i call her when i'm going on a radio show and ask her to transfer her sensation of being high to me. by synchronizing we are able to give me the same lift that she gets from the pills. sometimes we witches join forces when we want money to come in. people, however, limit themselves without thinking. when you say you want to win money at the races, you have to be able to control the horses, the jockeys, the trainers, the whole thing- and witchcraft isn't a dead-aim shot. so never put a frame around what you want: play it very loose. when we decide we want money, we never say "i want money to come in through my husband's job" no, that's too narrow, too limited, and probably not enough anyway. none of the witches i know are poor, bu

which jockeys. by racing certain horses on certain days with special jockeys, and betting them heavily, they made a real killing. of course, these men were very strongly motivated for money and winning. i myself only made a small amount of money. it wasn't that i lacked confidence in my forecasts. i'm just not interested in horse racing. i'm hardly conservative, i'm just not the type who goes to the races. if they hadn't come to me i never would have considered the races a source of fortune, but the reluctance is not because of fear that commercialism might abuse my powers. many psychics don't believe they should be paid for being telepathic; they feel that it lessens the force. well, does buying a rembrandt for two million dollars make it a less valuable painting? i don't believe that a

r six consecutive races, you can win thousands and thousands of dollars. i worked out a system for them, basing it almost entirely on numbers, including their own personal numbers, the time they would be going to mexico for this venture and other factors. i picked everything by hours of the day. what i actually was giving them were my calculations of which numbers would be best for which hours of the races. the names of the horses were never a factor; i didn't even know them. it was a matter of choosing, perhaps, the fourth horse in the fifth race for the fifteenth hour of 'the day. so, they took all this information and set off. something happened to them on the way down there. a small accident delayed them so that they arrived a day late, and they were panicky because they felt that all

ach. a number three day would be one in which there's more fun than number one or two. it might be a day to go to a party. a number three person tends to be creative, a diversified personality. there might be a touch of good luck to the day in a way; there's a hand of destiny involved. a number three individual is someone who walks away unhurt from an automobile accident; he's the guy who wins at the races. if you come up with a number three day, by adding up what your environment made you and your destiny number, that's a good day to go to the races and bet all your lucky numbers. number four, the saturn number, has to do with tradition, being conservative, avoiding reckless behaviour, employing natural resources and power. it has to do with solid foundations, so if you are a number four

iny number. if you didn't have a name you'd still have a life with that destiny. for your third number, add your inheritance and your destiny numbers, and you've got yourself, facing the world, the total of your luck and your background. add that to the present day, and that's how your whole aspect adds up for the twenty-four hours at hand. that's the kind of approach that is taken when you go to the races, for example. the whole point is to add your personal numbers and all the numbers involved, so that you've got your name going, your birthdate, the present day- all to be added up to the first race, the second race, and so on, so that you can come up with the horse number and race number most compatible to you and your numbers. take, for instance, the fourth horse in the fifth race; you

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

rned by a law of eternal justice, which renders to each man the fruit of that which he sows, joy for good and suffering for evil. 26. he learns, too, that the world is ruled, under the will of t.m.h, by a brotherhood of adepts, who have themselves attained divine union, but remain on earth to guide humanity; that all the great religions of the world were founded by them, according to the needs of the races for which they were intended, and that within these religions there have been schools of the mysteries to offer to those who are ready a swifter path of unfoldment, with greater knowledge and opportunities for service; that this path is divided into steps and degrees: the probationary path, or the lower mysteries, wherein the candidates are prepared for discipleship, and the path proper

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

or gwill-happen. h however, it is convenient to make further distinctions. the distant past would involve the period before the creation of the universe. at that time there was only ginnunga gap, the vast void of potency and potential, and perhaps also the elivagar, mysterious waters from which life was to emerge. we must assign ymir to this distant past, and also his hermaphroditic generation of the races of giants. similarly, bur, the first of the gods, existed at this time. the focus of the near past would be the creation of the cosmos, from the body of ymir according to most sources. the precondition for forming the cosmos was the killing of ymir by the sons of bur, so we may say that the movement from the distant past to the near past encompasses a move from a stasis between the two m

by the sons of bur, so we may say that the movement from the distant past to the near past encompasses a move from a stasis between the two major groups of gods to a state of enmity. during this near past the gods also enabled the reckoning of time by assigning stations to the heavenly bodies (voluspa, stanza 5, and they similarly enabled culture by creating tools (voluspa, stanza 7. they created the races of dwarfs and humans. finally, i would assign the incorporation of the vanir and of loki into the asir as the final events of the near past. with the completion of these incorporations, the mythological world looks as it does in most of the myths. snorri fs catalog of the gods in gylfaginning includes the vanir and loki, and also baldr, whose death is yet to come. i would call this state

4, if the dwarf will tell him everything he wishes to know. what follows is a series of 13 questions. each of them begins with the formula gtell me that, alviss .all the fates of men/ i expect that you know, dwarf. h the questions themselves concern vocabulary: what is something called, by which thor seems to desire a list of synonyms. in his responses alviss provides these synonyms according to the races or groups of beings in the mythology. the groups are not always quite the same, but humans, gods, and giants are constants, and vanir (as opposed to the gods in general, elves, dwarfs, and the dead occur frequently. generally the everyday word is assigned to humans and the other terms are from the poetic vocabulary. frequently the words assigned to the gods have an elegant feel, while th

gods, according to snorri, are the sons of bor (elsewhere bur).odin, vili, and ve.who find two pieces of wood on the seashore and fashion them into humans. one of bor fs sons gives spirit and life; the second, mind and movement; the third, appearance, speech, hearing, and vision. the sons of bor also gave these vivified pieces of wood clothing and their names, ask and embla, and from them descend the races of mankind. in voluspa, the stanzas about ask and embla follow the catalog of dwarfs, and it is quite possible that stanza 10, which refers to the dwarfs f making of 62 norse mythology human forms out of the earth, may be involved. in this scenario, the dwarfs would have formed humans, but the gods would have endowed them with life. although ask clearly means gash tree, h the meaning of

h beitrage zur geschichte der deutschen sprache und literatur 36 (1910: 219.222. atla one of nine giant mothers, perhaps of heimdall, listed in hyndluljod, stanza 37 (part of the gshort voluspa h. see also heimdall; hyndluljod references and further reading: lotte motz, ggiantesses and their names, h fruhmittelalterliche studien 15 (1981: 495.511. audhumla the proto-cow, involved in the origin of the races of gods and giants. although the name is found among the thulur for gcow, h audhumla fs mythological role is found only in snorri fs gylfaginning. snorri says that audhumla emerged from the drips of rime just after ymir was formed, and that four streams of milk ran from her udders and nourished ymir. she in turn licked salt blocks, and from these there emerged in three days buri, the fir

from the earth, and his son mannus as the origin and founders of their people. to mannus they assign three sons, from whose names are called the ingaevones near the ocean, those in the center as herminones, and the rest istaevones. the name tuisto appears to have in it the root of the word gtwo, h and this has reminded many observers of ymir, whose name meant something like gdoubled. h ymir sired the races of frost-giants through monstrous hermaphroditic conception, and tuisto may well have done something similar. mannus (man) would be the first human being, whose procreation would be done in the usual human way. from the first human come the germanic tribes. see also ymir references and further reading: a fine general treatment of tuisto and the sociogonic creation story in germania is th

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

e pharaoh. the scriptures speak of them having to prove theircredentials to pharaoh by changing aarons rod into a serpent. this is strange, sinceisraelites were forbidden by jehovah to engage in magical practices. anyway, theegyptians produce their own rod, which likewise becomes a serpent, and so on. thistale of the conflict between the two serpents is a barely disguised reference to thatbetween the races. the same motif appears in the arthurian sagas, with the contestbetween the red and white dragons, which is the dream of uther pendragon, father ofking arthur. the very name pendragon means head of the dragons, that is, the raceof good serpents, from which the celts and gaels descended. other cultures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thed

ian gypsies are close behind (9-10. but there are some exceptions to this in that the tartars and hindus show also strong ab. whilstmost groupings are generally split evenly, there are some astonishingly pure groupings. these must beaccounted for in any history of man! one web page on atlantis claims that the o blood group is the blood of royalty (blue blood) that stemsfrom an atlantean heritage. the races that possess this blood (called the red races) are races of theamericas, of the canary islands, the basques, scandinavians, celts, as well as certain polynesian andindonesian peoples (from http//members.aol.com/jimb3d/myth/atlantis.html )the role of the vaticanwhy is it that the v atican owns all the solar telescopes and observatories on the planet, and why all dataconcerning the sun, pa

MORALS AND DOGMA

eat law of necessity, for the peace and safety of the community and country, requires them to remain under the control of those of larger intellect and superior wisdom. it trusts and believes that god will, in his own good time, work out his own great and wise purposes; and it is willing to wait, where it does not see its own way clear to some certain good. it hopes and longs for the day when all the races of men, even the lowest, will be elevated, and become fitted for political freedom; when, like all other evils that afflict the earth, pauperism, and bondage or abject dependence, shall cease and disappear. but it does not preach revolution to those who are fond of kings, nor rebellion that can end only in disaster and defeat, or in substituting one tyrant for another, or a multitude of

trial. boundless profusion is too little likely to spread for any people the theatre of manly energy, rigid self-denial, and lofty virtue. you do not look for the bone and sinew and strength of a country, its loftiest talents and virtues, its martyrs to patriotism or religion, its men to meet the days of peril and disaster, among the children of ease, indulgence, and luxury. in the great march of the races of men over the earth, we have always seen opulence and luxury sinking before poverty and toil and hardy nurture. that is the law which has presided over the great processions of empire. sidon and tyre, whose merchants possessed the wealth of princes; babylon and palmyra, the seats of asiatic luxury; rome, laden with the spoils of a world, overwhelmed by her own vices more than by the ho

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

poems were declaimed aloud, and poets also introduced their own works to the public. musical contests, foot and horse races, and wrestling matches were held, and dances were performed by boys in armour [200] men who had deserved well of their country were presented at the festival with a crown of gold, and the name of the person so distinguished was announced publicly by a herald. the victors in the races and athletic games received, as a prize, a vase of oil, supposed to have been extracted from the fruit of the sacred olive-tree of athene. daphnephoria. the daphnephoria was celebrated at thebes in honour of apollo every ninth year. the distinguishing feature of this festival was a procession to the temple of apollo, in which a young priest (the daphnephorus) of noble descent, splendidly

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

dutch colony in the seventeenth century. it continued after south africa achieved independence as a nation in 1910. in 1948 apartheid became the official policy of the white south african government. desmond mpilo tutu. peter kramer/ getty images. 367 under apartheid each person was assigned to a specific racial group: white, black, coloured (of mixed race, and asian. laws were passed to separate the races, with each assigned separate living areas and public facilities such as parks, restrooms, and beaches. a separate educational system was set up to ensure that blacks could not receive an education equal to that of whites. travel for non-europeans was severely restricted. interracial marriage, or marriage between two people of different races, was strictly forbidden. blacks had no represe

that affects the lungs, and spent nearly twenty months in a hospital. huddleston visited him nearly every day and would prove to desmond mpilo tutu 368 world religions: biographies be a major influence on tutu s own opposition to apartheid. apartheid became official after the 1948 election victories of the national party, a political party whose members had run for office on a promise to separate the races. following his recovery tutu enrolled in the school of medicine at witwatersrand university, with the goal of becoming a doctor. he was forced to leave the university, however, because he and his family did not have enough money to pay tuition. he then enrolled at the pretoria bantu normal college to train as a teacher and earned his diploma in 1953. he went on to earn a bachelor s degre

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

in order to make it so, it was necessary to exterminate all those whose opinions were not the same as mons. jean nicot's. much of this amused, much revolted glyndon; but when the painter turned to dwell upon a science that all should comprehend, and the results of which all should enjoy, a science that, springing from the soil of equal institutions and equal mental cultivation, should give to all the races of men wealth without labour, and a life longer than the patriarchs, without care, then glyndon listened with interest and admiration, not unmixed with awe "observe" said nicot "how much that we now cherish as a virtue will then be rejected as meanness. our oppressors, for instance, preach to us of the excellence of gratitude. gratitude, the confession of inferiority! what so hateful to

t preternatural confidence. meanwhile the prince descended the stairs and sought the room into which the stranger had been shown. he found the visitor wrapped from head to foot in a long robe, halfgown, half-mantle, such as was sometimes worn by ecclesiastics. the face of this stranger was remarkable. so sunburnt and swarthy were his hues, that he must, apparently, have derived his origin amongst the races of the farthest east. his forehead was lofty, and his eyes so penetrating yet so calm in their gaze that the prince shrank from them as we shrink from a questioner who is drawing forth the guiltiest secret of our hearts "what would you with me" asked the prince, motioning his visitor to a seat "prince of" said the stranger, in a voice deep and sweet, but foreign in its accent "son of the

SORCERIES OF ZOS

may or may not be so, but these 'mongols' were not human. they were degenerate survivals of a pre-human phase of our planet's history generally- though mistakenly- classified as atlantean. the characteristic that distinguished them from the others of their kind was the ability to project consciousness into animal forms, and the power they possessed of reifying thought-forms. the bestiaries of all the races of the earth are littered with the results of their sorceries. they were non-human entities; that is to say they pre-dated the human life- wave on this planet, and their powers- which would today appear unearthly- derived from extra-spatial dimensions. they impregnated the aura of the earth with the magical seed from which the human foetus was ultimately generated. arthur machen was, per

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

fields of research. in this volume i have followed one line only ofanthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous european cult and the interaction between it and theexotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. i have traced the worship of the horned god onwards throughthe centuries from the palaeolithic prototypes, and i have shown that the survival of the cult was due to thesurvival of the races who adored that god, for this belief could not have held its own against the invasions ofother peoples and religions unless a stratum of the population were strong enough to keep it alive.if the evidence is carefully examined it becomes clear that this stratum consisted of the descendants of thepalaeolithic, neolithic, and bronze-age races, the palaeolithic people were hunters, the neoli

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