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candidate, the lamp of the kerux went before you. what does this lamp signify? 4. the three fold cord bound around your waist during the initiation means what? 5. why is secrecy as to the order, did its members, its teachings important? knowledge lecture one 1. the triplicities of fire are: 2. the triplicities of water are: 3. the triplicities of earth are: 4. the triplicities of air are: 5. name the seven ancient planets. 6. recite the hebrew alphabet in order beginning with aleph. after each letter, give the literal meaning and number. 7. name the three mother letters. 8. what are the two pillars referred to as in highlights of knowledge lecture one with hebrew? 9. the rituals of the dead in the egyptian custom as exemplified in the book of the dead or pert em hru, are a form of ceremoni

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y and remember that every obstacle can at length be conquered by perseverance. hiero: before you can pass on to the next higher grade of this order you will have to make yourself perfect in the following: 1) the names and alchemical symbols of the four elements. 2) the names, astrological symbols and elemental attribution of the twelve signs of the zodiac. 3) the names and astrological symbols of the seven planets, also their houses, exaltation and triplicity in the zodiac. 4) the names, characters and numerical values of the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet. 5) the names and english meanings of the ten qabalistic sephiroth. a mss. lecture on these subjects of study may be obtained on application. when you know these thoroughly you must signify the same by letter to the cancellari

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crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse while in christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs are referred to christ and his twelve apostles. heg: leads neophyte to hiereus and then returns to his place and is seated. hiereus: leads neophyte to the south, and says: hiereus: on the southern side of the holy place stood the seven branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the elohim, the seven creative ideas. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches which are in

s burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the elohim, the seven creative ideas. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches which are in asia or assiah- as these again allude to the seven lamps before the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right-hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebrew letter beneath the base is one of the duplicated letters of the hebrew a

the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right-hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebrew letter beneath the base is one of the duplicated letters of the hebrew alphabet which refer to the seven planets. the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet have each two sounds associated with them, one hard, and one soft. they are called double, because each letter represents a contrary or permutation, thus: life and death; peace and war; wisdom and folly; riches and poverty; grace and indignity; fertility and solitude; power and servitude. these seven letters point out 7 localities:

west, north, south, and the place of holiness in the midst sustaining all things. the archetypal creator designed, produced, combined and formed with them the planets of the universe, the days of the week, and in man, the gate of the soul. he has loved and blessed the number 7 more than all things under his throne, the powers of these 7 letters are also shown forth in the 7 palaces of assiah and the seven stars of that vision are the 7 archangels who rule them. hiereus: leads neophyte to w. of altar, and returns to his place, and is seated. hiero: moves to east of altar, takes censer from altar, and holding it with chain short, makes cross and three forward swings, replaces it, and says: hiero: before the veil of the holy of holies, stood the altar of incense, of which this altar is an im

zohar me-ou roth and causeth the current of the divine influx to descend from the prince of countenances, the great archangel metatron. frater (name) before you can be eligible for advancement to the next grade of theoricus you will be required to pass an examination in certain subjects. 1) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature. 2) the metals attributed in alchemy to the seven planets. 3) the names of the alchemical particular principles, the sun and moon of the philosophers, the green lion, the king and queen. 4) the names and astrological value of the twelve houses of heaven. 5) the names, astrological symbols and values of the aspects of the planets. 6) the meaning of the querent and quesited. 7) the four great classes of astrology. 8) the arrangement of th

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

nig, and as soon as harvest begins, let it into the convent crewyard -where it must be allowed generous fare and free access to the corn; there it is left till the thursday after st. adolf's day, when it is slaughtered and divided, half to the farm-bailiff, half to the parish; on the same day there is also a distribution of bread and cheese to the parish. the price of seven shillings tallies with the seven and a half fi.xed by the lauterb. ordin, and is a high one, far exceeding the ordinary value (conf gijtt. anz. 1827, pp. 336-7; it was an arrangement long continued and often employed in these ordinances, and one well suited to a beast selected for sacrifice. the lauterbach goldferch, like that of vinkbuch, is doled out and consumed at a festive meal; the assize itself is named alter it

llowed to get translated into german ones, as if on purpose to put them within easy reach of the people, had they not already been familiar with them for centuries? again, the high antiquity of these translations is fully established by their exact accordance with the terminology used in the first centuries, as soon as people came to turn german gods into roman. in my opinion, the introduction of the seven days' names by 'in ordine vicis. now whether viko expressed to the goths the alternation of the moon's quarters, we do not know for certain; i incline to believe it, as the ohg. weha, woclia, as. wice, wnce, on. vika, swed. vecka, dan. nge, are all limited to the one meaning of septimana. the very absence of consonant- change points to a high antiquity in the word. it is remarkable that

rd or -ith century, on which are carved the .seven gods of the week (1 saturn, 2 apollo, 3 diana, 4 mars, 5 mercury, u jupiter, 7 venus, and in an 8lh place a genius. 128 gods. amongst us must be placed at latest in the fourth or fiftli century; it may not have taken place simultaneously in all parts of teutondom. our forefathers, caught in a natural delusion, began early to ascribe the origin of the seven days' names to the native gods of their fatherland. william of malmesbury, relating the arrival of the saxons in britain, says of hengist and horsa, that they were sprung from the noblest ancestry: erant enim abnepotes illius antiquissimi voden, de quo omnium pene barbararum gentium regium genus lineam trahit, quemque gentes anglorum deum esse delirantes, ei quartum diem septimanae, et s

ry was thought of as a celtic divinity, probably with attributes differing widely from his classical namesake. saxo is quite right in what he means, and his remark confirms the early heathen origin of these names of days^ yet upon occasion, as we saw on p. 122, he lets himself be carried away after all by the overpowering identity of thor and jupiter (see suppl. the variations too in the names of the seven days among the various teutonic races deserve all attention; we perceive that they were not adopted altogether cut-and-dry, nor so retained, but that national ideas still exercised some control over them. the later heathenism of friesland and saxony caused the- old names of wednesday and saturday to live on, while in upper germany they soon sank into oblivion. but what is especially sign

it is therefore not without significance, that also the ivanderings of the herald of gods among men, in whose hovels he now and then takes up his lodging, are parallelled especially by those of offinn and hcenir, or, in christian guise, of god and st. pdcr. our olden times tell of wuotan's wanderings, his waggon, his way, his retinue (duce]\iercurio, p. 128. we know that in the very earliest ages the seven stars forming the bear in the northern sky were thought of as a four-wheeled waggon, its pole being formed by the three stars that hang downwards "apktov 6\ rjv koi d/jia^av i7rii \i](nv koxeovaiv. ii, 18, 487. od. 5, 273. so in ohg. glosses: ursa ivagen, jun. 304; in mhg. himclwagcn, walth. 54, 3^ hcrwagen wackern. lb. 1. 772, 26. the clearest explanation is given by notker cap. 64: sel

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17th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. the large star in the center of the heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the seven planets, each with its sevenfold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah, the great supernal mother, aima elohim pouring upon the earth the waters of creation, wh

hile malkuth is earth, the receptacle of the other three. on this second tablet is the image of nebuchadnezar, whose head was of gold, the breast and the arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass, the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay. in his hands are represented the hot and moist natures. heg: conducts practicus to tablet of yetziratic palaces in the south. heg: these are the seven yetziratic palaces, containing the 10 sephiroth. in each palace are the six letters from the divine name of 42 letters. thus, the name of 42 letters has been taken from the 42 first letters of the history of creation, as far as beth of the word "bohu" by various transmutations which are described at length in the sepher pardes. heg: leads practicus to tablet in north. heg: these are the

of microprosopus, which are chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod and yesod. heg: resumes his seat. hiero: moves to west of altar. hiero: this is the symbolic representation of the fall. for the great goddess who in the practicus grade was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus being tempted by the tree of knowledge (whose branches indeed, tend upward into the seven lower sephiroth, but also tend downwards into the kingdom of the shells) reached down into the qlippoth, and immediately the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic system was shattered, and with it fell adam, the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns, and the garden was made desolate, and malkuth was cut off from the upper sephiroth by his intersectin

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

da, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each beam of coloured light has its own wavelength and is absorbed by the body through the skin and the optic nerves. this triggers complex biochemical changes. each of the seven primary wavelengths or vibrations of light visible to the human eye focuses on different parts of the body, evoking in them both a physiological and psychological response. red has the longest wavelength of visible colour and violet the shortest. the colours that we can see make up only a very small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum and lie between the infra red and ultra violet ra

new hope. gabriel also rules rituals to protect water creatures and to cleanse polluted seas, lakes and rivers. colour: silver crystal: moonstone and opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancient concept in which kings and rulers were constantly tested to prove worthy of their sacred trust and so he is not an angel to invoke lightly. samael is also the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cle

for increasing abundance and prosperity, not just for a minority but the good of all. he restores rundown areas or cities where unemployment has been lost, blending new skills with traditional knowledge. colour: blue crystals: lapis lazuli and turquoise incenses or oils: sandalwood and sage anael anael is the archangel who rules over venus. anael's day is friday. anael, the regenerator, is one of the seven angels of creation; he is prince of archangels and controls kings and kingdoms. his is pure, altruistic love, love of one's fellow beings and of all creatures in the universe. he can be invoked for all matters of forgiveness, both towards ourselves for what is past and towards others that we may be free from their thrall. anael brings harmony to places and people. he restores natural bal

ABRAMELIN1

red me to fast for three days, that is to say, the wednesday, thursday, and friday following; contenting myself with only a single repast in the day, wherein was to be neither blood nor dead things;16 also he commanded me to make this commencement with exactness, and not to fail in the least thing, for in order to operate well it is very necessary to begin well, and he instructed me to repeat all the seven17 psalms of david one single time in these three days; and not to do or practise any servile operation. the day being come he set out, and took with him the money which i had given him. i faithfully obeyed him, executing from point to point that which he had ordered me to do. his return was fifteen days later, and being at last arrived he ordered me the day following (which was a tuesday

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t sole end for which it bath been made, namely for vanquishing therewith the demon and enemies, then shall you be making a good use hereof. i wish also further to give you some instruction upon certain necessary and principal points. the operation of the spirits being finished, you shall continue a whole week to praise god; and as regardeth yourself personally, you shall do no servile work during the seven days, neither shall you make any convocation of the spirits in general, nor of the familiars; and afterwards, when the seven days be passed, you shall commence to exercise your power, as shall be hereafter said (1) take heed before all things to perform no magical operation soever, or invocations of the spirits on the sabbath day, during the whole period of your life, seeing that that da

ef spirits have to operate. nothing else is necessary than to be attentive to the moment when the man is just dead, and then to place the symbol upon him towards the four quarters of the world;128 and at once he will lift himself up and begin to move himself he should then be dressed; and a symbol similar to that which hath been placed upon him should be sewn into his garment. know also that when the seven years be expired, the spirit which was conjoined with the body will at once depart, and that we cannot further prolong the period of the aforesaid seven years. i made proof of this operation in the morea for the duke of saxonia, who had only children who were minors, and the eldest was between of abramelin the mage 103 twelve and thirteen years of age, unfit for the government and manage

n years of age; it should be able to speak clearly, it should be active, and should comprehend what you teach it to the sacred magic 106 do, in order to serve you. and fear not that this child may be able to reveal and tell unto others anything of what he doeth; also he will not in the least remember that which he shall have done, and you can make trial thereof yourself by interrogating him after the seven days be past, and you will find that he will be able to tell you nothing of that which hath passed; the which is a very remarkable thing. when you shall have thoroughly decided to give this present operation unto any, and which should only be given as a free gift, as i have already said; remember to make such person give you seven florins, the which you shall distribute unto seven poor p

arkable thing. when you shall have thoroughly decided to give this present operation unto any, and which should only be given as a free gift, as i have already said; remember to make such person give you seven florins, the which you shall distribute unto seven poor persons with your own hand, and such poor persons must genuinely be in want. them shall you straitly charge, to repeat for seven days the seven penitential psalms, or the pater and ave seven times a day, praying unto the lord for the person who hath given (the florins) unto you to distribute unto them, that he would deign to come unto his assistance, and to grant unto him for ever such strength that he may never transgress his holy commandments. while in the performance of the operation, be certain that each person (undertaking

ADDTLS

s and their squares are painted white. six seniors occupy each tablet. thou shall obtain their names by counting from the sixth and seventh squares of the linea spiritus sancti. thou shall include these squares in the ascertaining of the names and readeth outward along the three lines of the cross to the edge of the tablet. each name of the senior is comprised of seven letters which correspond to the seven flaming torches (the seven spirits of god.(the understanding of this magical principal is beyond the scope of z.a.m. example from the holy tablet of a 7 k y jh b l allocations of the six seniors thou shall take note of the overlapping letters on the central squares. the n is used to invoke both the king of eight letters and the six seniors of seven letters. these seniors and king are att

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

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

which thou bearest" third "a simple wand having the colors of the 12 signs of the zodiac between light and darkness and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the development of creation" chief "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated force of m and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one "associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscrib

undred and twenty years' associate adeptus minor, unto what do those 120 years of the aspirant's symbolic age correspond" third "to the five grades of the first order through which it is necessary for the aspirant to have passed before he can enter the tomb of the sacred mountain. 12 for the three months interval between the grades of practicus and philosophus are the regimen of the elements; and the seven months between the philosophus and the portal symbolize the regimen of the planets; while the elements and the planets both work in the zodiac; so that three plus seven multiplied by twelve yieldeth the number 120. second "o aspirant, ere thou canst enter the tomb of the adepti of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, it is necessary to take a solemn obligation of secrecy, fidelity, fr

of the tomb itself. let the altar be moved aside (done) it is divided into three parts, the ceiling which is white; the heptagonal walls of seven rainbow colors, and the floor whose prevailing hue is black; thus showing the powers of the heptad between the light and the darkness. on the ceiling is a triangle enclosing the rose of 22 petals, within a heptangle formed of a heptagram reflected from the seven angles of the wall. the triangle represents the three supernal sephiroth; the heptagram, the lower seven; the rose represents the 22 paths of the serpent of wisdom "the floor has upon it also the symbol of a triangle enclosed within a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth of the twpylq, the great red dragon of seven heads, and the inverted and evil triangle. thus

sephiroth of the tree of life. each wall of the tomb is said mystically to be in breadth five feet and in height eight feet, thus yielding forty squares, of which ten are marked and salient, representing the ten sephiroth in the form of the tree of life, acting throughout the planet. the remaining squares represent the \ybwrk and the eternal m, the three alchemical principles, the three elements, the seven planets, and the twelve signs, all operating in and differentiating the rays of each planet. note that in all, the 31 central upper square alone remains white and unchanged, representing the changeless essence of the divine spirit, thus developing all from the one, through the many under the government of one "the colors of the varying squares may be either represented by the color of th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

nreliable. one of the most unfathomably dreadful dangers of the path is that you must trust mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. i can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. in one sense mercury is the great enemy; mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. the last of the seven sacred planets is the moon. the moon represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of venus, for the moon corresponds to the sun much as venus does to mars. she is more purely passive than venus, and although venus is so universal the moon is also universal in another sense. the moon is the highest and the lowest; the moon is

n that they left gaps in their system which were exactly filled by these two planets, and the newly discovered pluto. they fill these gaps just as the newly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in mendelejeff's table of the periodic law. 17. herschel represents the highest form of the true will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the true will is the sphere which transcends them 'every man and every woman is a star' herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. but herschel is dynamic; herschel is explosive; herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he has his own path. so the niyama which corresponds to this planet is, first and last, the discovery of the true wil

is any sense in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. there is nothing exclusively hebrew about this theogony. we find, for example, in the teachings of zoroaster and the neo-platonists very similar ideas. we have a pleroma, the void, a background of all possibilities, and this is filled by a supreme light-god, from whom drive in turn the seven archons, who correspond closely to the seven planetary deities, aratron, bethor, phaleg and the rest. these in their turn constitute a demiurge in order to crate matter; and this demiurge is jehovah. not far different are the ideas both of the classical greeks and the neo-platonists. the differences in the terminology, when examined, appear as not much more than the differences of local

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

ed at the feet of the osiris in the ruined temple. now the god osiris sent forth his strange gloom to cover us, lest the people should perceive or disturb; therefore i lay peacefully entranced, and abode in amennti. there i confronted the devouring god, and there was my heart weighed and found perfect; there the two-and-forty judges bade me pass through the pylons they guarded; there i spoke with the seven, and with the nine, and with the thirty-three; and at the end i came out into the abode of the holy hathor, unto her mystical mountain, and being there crowned and garlanded i rejoiced exceedingly, coming out through the gate of the east, the beautiful gate, unto the land of khemi, and the city of thebai, and the temple that had been the temple of the veiled one. there i rejoined my body

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

civilisation seems incredible. that they should both have become prophets and forerunners of a new aeon of man's history is equally, if not more, unbelievable. yet, with h.p. lovecraft and aleister crowley, the unbelievable was a commonplace of life. these two men, both acclaimed as geniuses by their followers and admirers, and who never actually met, stretched their legs across the world, and in the seven league boots of the mind they did meet, and on common soil. sumeria. sumeria is the name given to a once flourishing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is t

shing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is the site of the fabled city of babylon, as well as of ur of the chaldees and kish, with nineveh far to the north. each of the seven principal cities of sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange, non-semitic language of the sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appea

hat realm unblamed, and guiltless. the pope has ridden in aircraft. cardinals have flown in 'choppers' over battlefields in southeast asia, urging technological eco-side, invoking christ; pronouncing damnation and the devil on the industrially inferior man. ecce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of lovecraft. the pride of crowley. the lunar landing was the symbolic manifestation of man's newly acquired potential power to alter the nature- and perhaps, via nuclear weapons, the course- of the heavenly 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

y are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-called "fixed" stars (having no sphere ascertainable to the early astronomers) or the comets, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancie

demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance, and of the walking the book of entrance this is the book of entrance to the seven zones above the earth, which zones were known to the chaldeans, and to the ancient races that preceded them among the lost temples of ur. know that these zones are governed by the celestial spirits, and that passage may be had by the priest through those lands that border on the unzoned wastes beyond. know that, when walking thus through the sea of spheres, he should leave his watcher be

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

the rathe primrose- milton. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 103 [107] 49 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta mu-theta waratah-blossoms seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of it. seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside her bed. seven eunuchs guard her with drawn swords; no man may come nigh unto her. in her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of the seven spirits of god. seven are the heads of the beast whereon she rideth. the head of an angel: the head of a saint: the head of a poet: the head of an adulterous woman: the book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 104 head of a man of valour: the head of a satyr: and the head of a lion-serpent. seven letters hath her holiest name; and it is a b 77 b a (drawn upon this page is the

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

rough the letter gimel. since all things whatsoever (including no thing) may be placed upon the tree of life, the table could never be complete. it is already somewhat unwieldy; we have tried to confine ourselves as far as possible to lists of things generally unknown. it must be remembered that the lesser tables are only divided from the thirty-two-fold table in order to economise space; e.g. in the seven-fold table the entries under saturn belong to the thirty-second part in the large table. we have been unable for the moment to tabulate many great systems of magic; the four lesser books of the lemegeton,4 the system of abramelin, if indeed its qliphothic ramifications are susceptible of classification, once we follow it below the great and terrible demonic triads which are under the pre

arty good, hence the apparently oxymoronic title. it is possible that the theurgia-goetia was based on the steganographia of trithemius by someone who did not realise that the latter was primarily a work of cryptography. the third book, ars paulina, contains a catalogue of angels for the 12 hours of the day and night, and for the 12 signs and 360 degrees of the zodiac; they are also attributed to the seven classical planets. the fourth book, ars almadel, is probably of medieval origin: it divides up the powers it summons into four altitudes, seemingly referred to the cardinal points of the zodiac. the fifth book of the lemegeton, ars nova, is rather a kind of appendix which appears in one ms where it occupies one and a half sides of a single folio leaf: it contains an extended prayer assoc

rst consists solely of kether; the second of chokmah and binah; the third of chesed through to yesod; the fourth of malkuth only. these are identified by some with the four worlds. 3 pillars/ 7 planes: see col. xii. 7 palaces: see col. lxxxvii et seq. notes 52 notes to tables of correspondences table i (the whole scale) col. viii. the numbers after the qliphoth of the sephiroth represent which of the seven palaces they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged th

op. cit, lib. ii, cap. xxii. table iv (the sephiroth) col. lxxxviii. these originally given in latin; i have translated them into english. col. xcii. the original had this in latin; it was a slight garbling of the vulgate of isaiah vi, 2-3. i have translated it into english as it appeared. col. xciv. despite being headed english of palaces this column was originally in latin. the translations of the seven heavens are mostly from godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia, s.v. heaven. col. ciii. this column originally printed in latin. col. cviii. for what it s worth (see crowley s note on this column, here are the transliterations of the hebrew names: line 2. samael( poison of god or blind god. lams= 131= pan. line 3. isheth zanunim (woman of whoredom, said to be the wife of samael \ynwnz tca= 864

ntelligences of the moon so it no longer added to 3321. 10 the golden dawn lectures give a slightly different attribution of the fingers, based on the points of the pentagram, thus: the thumb to spirit, the index to water, the medius to fire, the third finger to earth and the little finger to air. 11 in the golden dawn diagram (in turn derived from von rosenroth) from which col. cvi. was derived, the seven earths of col. civ. were also enclosed by the four seas. the infernal rivers are referred to the elements thus: air, cocytus; water, styx; fire, phlegethon; earth, acheron (source: godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. 12 heled, concealed, and never revealed. 13 the names appear in a supplement to the rituel de haute magie as part of an explanation of the nuctemeron of apollonius of tyana. i

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there are seven great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, then the fourth diagonal, where is i with 8 21 (which indicates el, and we have the name sabathiel continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth the symbolic representation of the universe 6 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-vii

ewski, pat (1990: golden dawn enochian magic. st paul, mn: llewellyn( second edition 1994. finally i will warn the reader that schueler& schueler s enochian books for llewellyn should not be regarded as a reliable source of information on either dee purist or golden dawn enochian magick, or anything else for that matter. endnotes part i 1: these talismans, the ensigns of creation, are referred to the seven planets (clockwise from top) venus, sol, mars, mercury, jupiter, saturn, luna. the details of the ensigns are not visible on the graphic of the holy table (plate i. the seven ensigns and an account of their reception can be found in mysteriorum liber tertius. 2: the letters on the holy table itself are derived from the names of the heptarchic kings and princes. the method is described in

emeliel, or semeschia; the spirit of venus nogahel; the spirit of mercury cochabiah, or cochabiel; the spirit of the moon, jareahel, or levanael. a corabiel is cited as one of the angels of the first heaven ruling monday in the heptameron of pseudo-abano, but there has no particular connection to mercury. crowley omits to mention the names formed from the letters written along the outer heptagon; the seven angels which stand in the presence of god mentioned by agrippa (de occ. phil, tom. ii cap. x. these should be arranged by rows, thus: z l l r h i a a z c a a c b p a u p n h r h d m h i a i k k a a e e e i i e e l l l e e l l m g+ then reading down columns we get zaphkiel, zadkiel, cumael, raphael, haniel, michael, gabriel for the seven classical planets, with the final+ signifying the e

latin immediately following appears to indicate that it is the angels of the 12 tribes who are the governers of the 91 parts, some having many, some fewer, under their rule( per tota terra distributa sub 12 principibus angelis, 12 tribuum israel: quorum 12 aliqui plures, aliqui pauciores partes habent sub sua regimine ex 91 partibus in quas tota terra hic demonstratur esse divisa, suggesting that the seven-letter names in this column are the names of the parts themselves rather than denoting discreet angelic entities associated with the parts. the names of the 91 parts were delivered on the 21st and 22nd of may 1584 (tfr pp. 141-5, 148-152. the equinox publication omitted the numbers of the 91 parts; however as these numbers are used to identify their characters on the table of watchtowers

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pocrates on the lotus) that of "agape" is as follows: dionysus (capital alpha- the virgin earth gamma- the babe in the egg (small alpha- the image of the father- the massacre of the innocents, pi (winepress- the draught of ecstasy, eta. the student will find it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. there is also the gnostic name of the seven vowels, which gives a musical formula most puissant in evocations of the soul of nature. there is moreover abraxas; there is xnoubis; there is meithras; and indeed it may briefly be stated that every true name of god gives the formula of the invocation of that god<degree of the o.t.o. are well aware of a magick word whose analysis contains all truth, human and divine

eded in any case that the long strings of formidable words which roar and moan through so many conjurations have a real effect in exalting the consciousness of the magician to the proper pitch- that they should do so is no more extraordinary than music of any kind should do so. magicians have not confined themselves to the use of the human voice. the panpipe with its seven stops, corresponding to the seven planets, the bull-roarer, the tom-tom, and even the violin, have all been used, as well as many others, of which the 69 most important is the bell<therion. most bells jar and repel, though this is used not so much for actual conjuration as t

t of the divine perfection illustrated by the sevenfold permutation of the dyad. unpublished "liber li. the lost continent" an account of the continent of atlantis: the manners and customs, magical rites and opinions of its people, together 218 with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappearance. unpublished "liber lv. the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake" an account of the magical and mystic path in the language of alchemy. equinox i, p. 88 "liber lviii" an article on the qabalah in equinox v, p. 65 "liber lix. across the gulf" a fantastic account of a previous incarnation. its principal interest lies in the fact that its story of the overthrowing of isis by osiris may help the reader to understand the meaning of the

eae" a secret ritual, the heart of iao-oai, delivered unto v.v.v.v.v. for his use in a certain matter of "liber legis" see liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, pp. 34-5. also appendix vi in his book "liber lxvii. the sword of song" a critical study of various philosophies. an account of buddhism. a. crowley, collected works, vol. ii, pp. 140-203 "liber lxxi. the voice of the silence, the two paths, the seven portals" by h. p. blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by frater o. m. equinox iii, i. supplement "liber lxxxiii- the urn" this is the sequel to "the temple of solomon the king" and is the diary of a magus. this book contains a detailed account of all the experiences passed through by the master therion in his attainment of this grade of initiation, the highest possible to any manifes

05-6> he cannot truly answer even those three question what were first put to him, even the three questions of the ritual of the pyramid; he is not ready to swear the oath of the abyss. 38. but being thus enlightened, let him swear the oath of the abyss; yea, let him swear the oath of the abyss. 422 liber b vel magi sub figura i. 00. one is the magus: twain his forces; four his weapons. these are the seven spirits of unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. thus is the art and craft of the magus but glamour. how shall he destroy himself? 0. yet the magus hath power upon the mother both directly and through love. and the magus is love, and bindeth together that and this in his conjuration. 1. in the beginning doth the magus speak truth, and send forth illusion and falsehood to enslave the s

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ers, is an individual. the other numbers with perhaps a few exceptions (e.g. 41817) are composed of their primes. each of these ideas may be explained, investigated, understood, by means very various. firstly, the hebrew, greek and arabic numbers are also letters. then, each of these letters is further described by one of the (arbitrarily composed "elements of nature" the four (or five) elements, the seven (or ten) planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. all these are arranged in a geometrical design composed of ten "sephiroth (numbers) and twenty-two "paths" joining them; this is called the tree of life. every idea soever can be, and should be, attributed to one or more of these primary symbols; thus green, in different shades, is a quality or function of venus, the earth, the sea, l

consider it best, in view of your complete ignorance as to who he is and where you are, to assume the god-form of harpocrates, as being good defence in any case; but of course this will not take you very far. if you are sufficiently curious and bold, you will make up your mind rapidly on this point. this is where your daily practice of the qabalah will come in useful. you run through in your mind the seven sacred planets. the very first of them seems quite consonant with what you have so far seen. everything suits saturn well enough. to be on the safe side, you go through the others; but this is a very obvious case- saturn is the only planet that agrees with everything. the only other possibility will be the moon; but there is no trace noticeable of any of her more amiable magic without te

l class. a convention is laudable when it is convenient. when laws are unjust, monstrous, ridiculous, that same average man, will he-nill he, becomes a criminal; and the law requires a tcheka or a gestapo with dictatorial powers and no safeguards to maintain the farce. also, corruption becomes normal in official circles; and is excused. i refer you to mr. j. h. thomas.7 one evil leads to another; the seven devils always take possession of a house that is swept and garnished to he point at which people find it uncomfortable. but is not all this beside the point, you ask? no. it was needful to indicate this cumulative progression to social shipwreck,because, to-day an obvious peril of the most menacing, in 1904 no ordinary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. but special knowledge alter

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all note in due course. the first class of objects for serious meditation (as opposed to preliminary practice, in which one should keep to simple recognizable objects, whose definiteness is easy to maintain) is "various parts of the body" the hindus have an elaborate system of anatomy and physiology which has apparently no reference to the facts of the dissecting-room. prominent in this class are the seven cakkras, which will be described in part ii. there are also various "nerves, equally mythical<knowledge has advanced since crowley wrote this> the second class is "objects of devotion" such as the idea or form of the deity, or the heart or body of your teacher, or of some man whom you respect profoundly. this practice is not to be comm

, which hangs from the roof, above the centre of the circle, above the square of tiphereth; and the oil, whose phial is so small that it will suit any altar. on the circle are inscribed the names of god; the circle is of green, and the names are in flaming vermilion, of the same colour as the tau. without the circle are nine pentagrams equidistant<magicians prefer seven lamps, for the seven spirits of god that are before the throne. each stands in a heptagram, and in each angle of the heptagram is a letter, so that the seven names (see "equinox vii) are spelt out. but this is a rather different symbolism. of course in ordinary specialised working the number of lamps depends on the nature of the work "e.g" three for works of saturn, eight for works mercuial, and so on> in th

the hilt is of venus, for love is the motive of this ruthless analysis- if this were not so the sword would be a black magical weapon. the pommel of the sword is in daath, the guard extends to chesed and geburah; the point is in malkuth. some magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are silver, and the grip contains quicksilver, thus making the sword symbolic of the seven planets. but this is a phantasy and affectation "whoso taketh the sword shall perish by the sword" is not a mystical threat, but a mystical promise. it is our own complexity that must be destroyed. 89 here is another parable. peter, the stone of the philosophers, cuts off the ear of malchus, the servant of the high priest (the ear is the organ of spirit. in analysis the spiritual part of

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king: a title oftiphareth *klm 571 the mountains of zion nwyc yrrh balance )lqtm angel *k)lm 572 he was touched (i.r.q. 1117) bc(ty active lbqtm the lord thy god [is a consuming fire (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58 *kyhl) hwhy 573 the hill of frankincense (ct. 4:6; see 456) hnwblh t(bg 574 chaldee (hath a general meaning of movement. see s.d) nw#xry to extinguish *k(d 575 beersheba: the well of the seven (gn. 21:31, 2 sam 24:7. see k.d. p.183 (b# r)b and the myhl) said: glet there be light! h rw) yhy myhl) rm)yw ten hr( journey *klhm 576 wands twlqm 577 the concealed of the concealed: a name of god most high (cf. 583) nyrm+d hrym+ 579 midnight (cf. 188) hlyl twcx sons of adam mygwn(t 580 rich ry( ancient qyt( the scapegoat; he-goat; demon; shaggy, hairy (lev. 16:22) ry# the valley of the

ndb) strength; wealth; trouble, sorrow; heliopolis (cf. 51 *nw) species, kind *nz long, tall *kwr) 708 the angel of the covenant tyrbh k)lm perdition tx# an ear *nz) grace, love, kindness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788 *nx libra: the scales *mynz)m beni elohim, sons of the gods: the angelic choir of hod *myhl) ynb a name of god *myhl) hwhy hy hyh) blessed *kwrb 709 the seven double letters t r p k d g b 710 a cave tr(m six (ch) ty# hidden, secret rtsn tried by fire; a watch-tower *nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride *nw)g to darken, dim *mm( 711 adon: master, lord *nwd) nothing; not *ny) the belly *n+b wealth *nwh hwhy of the gods is one hwhy *dx) hwhy myhl) hwhy prolonged; grew long *kyr) 712 between *nyb 713 the sphere of saturn y)tb# a turning, return

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n now comes the sound as of the fall of snow-flakes and rosepetals: it is the twinkling of the feet of a young maiden dancing. and the music is the whisper of the wind among the pines upon the hill; and that is the breath of the pan-pipe in the mouth of the master. and, all in one, it is the universe in manifestation. the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 15 also; i hear the seven-fold song thereof. carmen. by wisdom forms he matter and space and time, experience to sublime. by virtue spends he his own life through all; mercy majestical. by energy revolves he all in stress of change, the limitless. by order gathers he the worlds of light in beauty infinite. by love destroys he all to recreate fresh phantasies to fate. by reason reckons he his governance, the wonde

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might; and let no man make thee afraid. love is the law, love under wi a the lost continent by aleister crowley ordo templi orientis p.o box 2303 berkeley, ca 94702 (c) copyright o.t.o. june 21, 1985 e.v. sun in cancer moon in leo an 81 e.n .pa the lost continent* preface last year i was chosen to succeed the venerable k-z--who had it in his mind to die, that is, to join them in venus, as one of the seven heirs of atlantis, and i have been appointed to declare, so far as may be found possible, the truth about that mysterious lost land. of course, no more than one seventh of the wisdom is ever confided to one of the seven, and the seven meet in council but once in every thirty-three years. but its preservation is guaranteed by the interlocked systems of "dreaming true" and of "preparation

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fashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his children. lovers they were and lovely, those twins of rape. one was above them, joining their hands. that is well, said our father, and for seven nights he slept in seven starry palaces, and a sword to guard him. note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. and on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said

ow therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the sword, and the pyramid being builded in just proportion, was that light fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before

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eister crowley 113 the hermit 137 the temple of solomon the king (book i) 141 the herb dangerous (part i) a pharmaceutical study. by e. whineray, m.p.s. 233 "special supplement" john st. john- the record of the magical retirement of g. h. 17 frater o. m. i l l u s t r a t i o n s the silent watcher facing page 6 the four positions: the ibis, the god, the thunderbolt, the dragon" 29 the regimen of the seven" 89 blind force (supplement" 2 illustrations are not available in this electronic edition. editorial with the publication of this review begins a completely new adventure in the history of mankind. whatever knowledge may previously have been imputed to men, it has always been fenced in with conditions and restrictions. the time has come to speak plainly, and so far as may be in the langu

death in prison "matthew penry, whose trial for fraud and condemnation will probably still be remembered by our readers because of the very impressive evidence for the prosectuion given by canon bayton, of westminster, died, we understand, in wandsworth prison yesterday morning from syncope- extract from the "times, january 3, 1900. frank harris. 86 the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake 87 illustration facing next page: multi-color lithograph or metal plate resist work, effect like flat watercolors with heavy flat black and metalic overprinting. colors include white, metallic silver, metallic gold, burnt orange, chinese red, grayish blue, dull medium brown (always associated with gold, straw yellow and dull veridian. there are seven figures on a dul

ree each white rays, they touch nothing and the center ray in each set is very short. the plate origin is identified under the lower right as "carl hentschell, ltd eng; london, e.c" this illustration accompanies the next entry, and is read with it in clock-wise fashion starting from the upper right. the illustration is known as "the regimen of seven. the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake "he slayeth sir argon le paresseux" now brother perardua, though he was but a zelator of our ancient order, had determined in himself to perform the magnum opus, and to procure for himself one grain of the power, one minim of the elixir, and the tincture of double efficacy. not fully did he yet comprehend the mysterium of our art, therefore imposed he upon himself th

m more than seven plants, that shone in the blackness; and 89 each plant beareth a single blossom that hath seven petals- one would have thought them stars; for though they were not of a verity in themselves brilliant and flashing, yet so black was that wherein they grew that they seemed brighter than suns. and these were placed one above the other in a single line and straight, even according to the seven centres of his intention that he bare about him in the hollow tube that hath thirty and two joints "he slayeth sir amorex le desirous" these plants did our brother perardua pluck, as the mystic rites ordain; and these did he heat furiously in his alembic, yet with vegetable heat alone, while he kept them ever moist, dropping upon them of his lunar water, whereof he had three and seventy

n the wizard" yet our brother perardua- and by now he was right skilful at the athanor- determined to attain to that higher projection of our art. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will have it, a fiery flying serpent, whereby he should eat up that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venomous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one "he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted" now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that whi

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cecil court i don't suppose one could find a holier man than john g. gichtel. he writes likes a magister templi, does john g; and does indeed communicate a little that may be of use to an adeptus of any kind. but there is nothing for naughty neophytes, or for poor putrid probationers. why doesn't mr. watkins issue easy simple straightforward instructions, like the equinox? probationer. ib. no. 6. the seven valleys. by fariduddin attar. 3"d. a man of good repute who loved god saw majnun sifting earth in the middle of the road, and said to him "oh majnunj! what art thou seeking thus "i seek laylah "can a pearl so pure be found in that dust "i seek laylah everywhere, in the hope of finding her one day somewhere" this was my toil, and the reward is mine. of such gems the volume is full. a. c

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t but a night, and in the morning we shall flee away, comforted. now, to myself, i have imagined the chariot of which the voice spake, and i looked to see who was with me in the chariot. it was an angel of golden hair and golden skin, whose eyes were bluer than the sea, whose mouth was redder than the fire, whose breath was ambrosial air. finer than a spider's web were her robes. and they were of the seven colours. all this i saw; and then the hidden voice went on low and sweet: come away! the price of the journey is little, though its name be death. thou shalt die to all that thou fearest and hopest and hatest and lovest and thinkest and art. yea! thou shalt die, even as thou must die. for all that thou hast, thou hast not; all that thou art, thou art not! nenni ofekufa ananael laiada i m

which looks like that of honorius; but when i would read, the letter that i look at becomes indistinct at once. and now there comes an angel, to hide the tablet with his mighty wing. this angel has all the colours mingled in his dress; his head is proud and beautiful; his headdress is of silver and red and blue and gold and black, like cascades of water, and in his left hand he has a pan-pipe of the seven holy metals, upon which he plays. i cannot tell you how wonderful 32 the music is, but it is so wonderful that one only lives in one's ears; one cannot see anything any more. now he stops playing and moves with his finger in the air. his finger leaves a trail of fire of every colour, so that the whole aire is become like a web of mingled lights. but through it all drops dew (i can't desc

there is a mighty concourse of angels rushing toward me from every side, and they melt upon the surface of the egg in which i am standing in the form of the god kneph, so that the surface of the egg is all one dazzling blaze of liquid light. now i move up against the tablet- i cannot tell you with what rapture. and all the names of god, that are not known even to the angels, clothe me about. all the seven senses are transmuted into one sense, and that sense is dissolved in itself (here occurs samadhi) 33. let me speak, o god; let me declare it. all. it is useless; my heart faints, my breath stops. there is no link between me and p. i withdraw myself. i see the table again (he was behind the table for a very long time. o.v) and all the table burns with intolerable light; there has been no

am lying in the pastos of our father christian rosenkreutz, beneath the table in the vault of seven sides. and i hear these words: the voice of the crowned child, the speech of the babe that is hidden in the egg of blue (before me is the flaming rosy cross) i have opened mine eye, and the universe is dissolved before me, for force is mine upper eye-lid and matter is my lower eye-lid. i gaze into the seven spaces, and there is naught. the rest of it comes without words; and then again: i have gone forth to war, and i have slain him that sat upon the sea, crowned with the winds. i put forth my power and he was broken. i withdrew my power and he was ground into fine dust. rejoice with me, o ye sons of the morning; stand with me upon the throne of lotus; gather yourselves up unto me, and we s

t off the eye-lids, but they are of adamant. and the edge of the dagger is turned. 38 and tears drop from his eyes, and there is a mournful voice: so it hath been ever: so must it ever be! though thou hast the strength of five bulls, thou shalt not avail in this. and i said to him: who shall avail? and he answered me: i know not. but the dagger of penance thou shalt temper seven times, afflicting the seven courses of thy soul. and thou shalt sharpen its edge seven times by the seven ordeals (one keeps on looking round to try to find something else because of the terror of it. but nothing changes at all. nothing but the empty throne, and the eyes, and the avenue of pillars) and i said to him: o thou that art the first countenance before time; thou of whom it is written that "he, god, is one

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ing but this worthless painted face. i do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so that she only lure his secret from time. time dallies like a fool at her feet when he should be smiting cities. time never wearies of her silly smile. there are temples all about her that he has forgotton to spoil. i saw an old man go by and time never touched him. time that has carried away the seven gates of thebes! she has tried to bind him with ropes of eternal sand, she had hoped to oppress him with the pyramids. he lies there in the sun with his foolish hair all spread about her paws. if she ever learns his secret we will put out his eyes, so that he shall find no more our beautiful things- there are lovely gates in florence that i fear he will carry away. 207 we have tried to b

t's" student can sort hair-restoring pamphlets and blackhead eradicators from lectures and essays by lister and m ller. thus frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, p. set out on the quest of the philosopher's stone. visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultam lapidem veram medicinam; this is indeed the true medicine of souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, aqua, and terra, smote them with the cross of hidden mystery, and cried "fiat lux" youth strides on with hasty step, and by summer of this year- 1898- we find p. deep in consultation with the m

rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts "the fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea" and we find him now in the goetic kingdoms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. the bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge "the spiritual guide" and "the cherubic wanderer" are set aside for "the arbatel" and "the seven mysterious orisons" a hurried turning of many pages, the burning of many candles, and then- the key of solomon for a time is put away, with the grimoires and the rituals, the talismans, and the virgin parchments; the ancient books of the qabalah lie open before him; a flash of brilliant fire, like a silver fish leaping from out the black waters of the sea into 236 the starlight, bewilder

to represent the sun "the whole figure represents the rose of creation, and is a synthesis of the visible universe. furthermore the twelve circles represent the twelve foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in the christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs typify our saviour and the twelve apostles."2 after which the hiereus says "at the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches of asia minor, and these again represent

candlestick. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches of asia minor, and these again represent, on a higher plane, the seven lamps before the throne."3 264 illustration described from page 265 "diagram 16. the rose of creation" this is a twelve-pointed star made up of four line-drawn equilateral triangles, effectively two hexagrams placed one on top of the other and rotated to produce a symmetrical duo-decagram. there are small circles touching the outer tips of each of the twelve points. four identical circle

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means of exalting the consciousness from ruach to neschamah. 166 part i in the first verse of the first chapter of the first five books of the holy law: it is written- b'rashith ba ra alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script bet-resh-aleph-shin-yod-taw bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-taw heh-shin-mem-yod-memfinal vau-aleph-taw heh-aleph-resh-tzaddifinal such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning .god. in wisdom :created:the elohim :the essence<<1>:of the heavens in the head<<2 .the holy

ll, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 5= 26 yod-heh-vau-heh. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elemental limitation, the jealous god- p> the number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest- the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the "seventh" day. and 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds. one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get hb:aleph, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; hb:mem, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaeval waters; hb:shin, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim<
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presentment of a lotus wand by the white band in his right hand, then say, as if with the projected astral consciousness] adoration unto ye, ye lords of truth in the hall of thmaist, cycle of the great gods which are behind osiris: o ye that are gone before, let me grasp your hands, for i am made as ye! o ye of the hosts of the hotepischim! purge ye away the wrong that is in me! even as ye purged the seven glorious ones who follow after the coffin of the enshrined one, and whose places anubist hath fix d against the day of "be-with-us" o thoth! who makest truth the word of aeshoori! make my word truth before the circle of the great gods! adoration unto thee, anubi, who guardest the threshold of the universe! adoration unto thee, auramooth, purify me with the living waters! adoration unto t

adeptus major, why in the centre "second" because that is the point of perfect equilibrium [by this system of question and answer the whole symbolism of the vault is explained. thus, the name of the founder signifies the rose and cross of christ, the fadeless rose of creation, the immortal cross of light. the vault itself represents the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one. its seven sides the seven lower sephiroth, the seven days of creation, and the seven palaces. it is situated in the centre of the earth, in the mountain of the caverns, the mystic mountain of abiegnus; which is the mountain of god in the centre of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation. the meaning of abiegnus is explained as follows by the "third adept] illustration on page 209 described "di

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

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

ring of the figure. the next ring outward from the center is composed of three petals, each holding one of the mother letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from top: hb:aleph, hb:shin, hb:mem. this ring is partly overlapped by the lower arm of the inner calvary cross at the junction of the two lower petals. the next ring outward from the center is composed of seven petals, each holding one of the seven double letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from 1 o'clock: hb:koph, hb:taw, hb:gemel, hb:dalet, hb:bet, hb:resh, hb:peh. the last ring outward from the center is composed of twelve petals, each holding one of the twelve single letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from top: hb:heh, hb:qof, hb:tzaddi, hb:ayin, hb:samekh, hb:nun, hb:lamed, hb:yod, hb:tet, hb:chet, hb:zain, hb:vau

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on of the abyss. i know thee! o thou crimson sword of destruction, who chasest the comets from the dark bed of night, till they speed before thee as serpent tongues of flame. 6. o thou sovran archer of the darksome regions, who shooteth forth from thy transcendental crossbow the many-rayed suns into the fields of heaven. i know thee! o thou eight-pointed arrow of light, who smiteth the regions of the seven rivers until they laugh like maenads with snaky thyrsus. 7. o thou sovran paladin of self-vanquished knights, whose path lieth through the trackless forests of time, winding athrough the byss of unbegotten space. i know thee! o thou despiser of the mountains, thou whose course is as that of a lightning-hoofed steed leaping along the green bank of a fair river. 8. o thou sovran surging of

o! o thou summer softness of lips, that glow hot with the scarlet of passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou pearly foam of the grape, that art flecked with the roses of love! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frenzied hand of the seas, that unfurlest the black banner of storm! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou shrouded book of the dead, that art sealed with the seven souls of man! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou writhing frenzy of love, that art knotted like the grid-flames of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou primal birth-ring of thought, that dost encircle the thumb of the soul! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 69 o thou blind flame of nothingness, as a crown upon my brow! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao!

second, nevertheless the light of the second disgorgeth the light of the first, so that there is neither the desire of light nor the need of light_ all being as a woven twilight of day and night, a madness of mingling moons. yet i behold! 11. now mine eyes are seven, and are as stars about a star; and the lids of mine eyes are fourteen, two to each eye. also have i seven arms to do the bidding of the seven eyes; and each arm hath an hand of three fingers, so that i may rule the great ocean and burn it up with the spirit of flame, and that i may drown the fire in the abode of the waters. thus i am rendered naked; for neither flame nor water can clothe me; therefore am i as a breath of wind blown over an earth of adamant, that knoweth neither sorrow nor rejoicing; then do i abide as a river

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self to the level of an occult punch and judy showman. he had attained to powers that were beyond the normal, and now he carried them secretly like some precious blade of damascus steel, hidden in a velvet sheath, concealed from view, but ever ready to hand. he did not display his weapon to the wanton, neither did he brandish it before the 195 eyes of the gilded courtezan- babylon, thou harlot of the seven mansions of god's glory! but he kept it free from rust, sharp and glittering bright, so that when the time came wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap forth from its sheath like a flash of lightning from betwixt the lips of god, and slay him who had ventured to cross his path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones. 196 297 possibly the restraint o

he must have spent years of labour. man he traces back to the pygmies of central africa, these or beings very like them hundreds of thousands of years ago emigrated all over the world- they were paleolithic man, and whether these ape-like little beings had a mythos 341 or not would appear to be doubtful, but the next great exodus, that of neolithic man, carried with it the stellar mythos- that of the seven stars and the pole star, and the varied quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be born in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such

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w having arrived at years of adolescence, he put away childish things, and stepped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him- the arcanum that pupil and master are one! he had become a 6= 5, and it now rested with him, and him alone, to climb yet another ridge of the great mountain and become a 7= 4, an exempt adept in the second order, master over the ruach and king over the seven worlds. by destroying those who had usurped control of the order of the golden dawn, he not only broke a link with the darkening past, but forged so might an one with the gleaming future, that soon he was destined to weld it to the all encircling chain of the great brotherhood. the golden dawn was now but a deserted derelict, mastless, rudderless, with a name of opprobrium painted across

"ave soror" aloud (and i think audibly) and remained some time.166 this astral projection is an operation of chokmah; for the chiah must vivify the nephesch shell. after returning p. records that on his journey back he saw "his magical mirror of the universe very clearly in its colours" towards the end of april p. drew up for himself the following daily task (1) to work through the first five of the seven mental operations.167 (2) the assumption of god forms.168 (3) to meditate on simple symbols with the idea of discovering their meaning (4) rising on planes (5) astral visions.169 (6) adonai ha aretz.170 113 166 this description of hong-kong is as correct as can be expected from so short a visit. the conversation was subsequently verified by letter, and also again when they met several ye

is the great problem. i am inclined to believe in drugs- if one only knew the right drug. 13th. drew a pantacle. 16th. painted wicked black-magic pantacle. held a magical ceremony in the evening. lesser banishing ritual of pentagram and hexagram. invocation of thoth and the elements by keys 1-6182 and g. d. opening rituals. consecrated lamen crown and abrahadabra wand with great force. 16th. did the seven hb:shin of hb:shin operations. worked at a z for 5= 6 ritual.183 17th. position 1. 12 m. not good. evening invocation of mercury, chokmah and thoth. 18th. completed z for 5= 6 ritual. 117 may 19th. 1. assumption of the god-form of harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes: the result was good, for i got a distinct aura around me. 2. physical astral projection. i formed a sphere which took a hu

o is established therein knows things as they really are."224 under faith, is classed tranquillization (sampas dana) and 142 aspiration (sampakkhandana. under perseverance, the rendering of support- tension (paggaha. under mindfulness, repetition (apil pana) and "keeping up (upaganhana. under good conduct, the whole of the royal road from aspirant to arahat- the five mortal powers (indriyabal in; the seven conditions of arahatship (bogghang; the path, readiness of memory (satipatth na; the four kinds of right exertion (sammappadh na; the four stages of ecstasy (gh na; the eight forms of spiritual emancipation (vimokh; the four modes of self-concentration (sam dhi);225 the eight states of intense contemplation (sam patti. it would be waste of time to compare the above states with the states

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is master of the three? salt is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god's grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god's love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned by heavenly alchemy! 14 to the one who sent the seven glory in the highest heaven! to the seven who are the ten glory on the earth, amen! 16. and of the difficulties of this practice and of the results that reward it, let these things be discovered by the right ingenium of the practicus. 15 liber tzaddi vel hamvs hermeticvs svb figvra xc 17 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber tzaddi vel hamvs hermeticvs svb figvra x

uensis whom the apostle john employed. two noticable, but irreconcilable, attempts have in recent years been made to interpret the book, theologically and historically. the learned dr e. v. kenealy made sense out of it, but overdid the subject. he believed it to represent the apocalyptic church of adam, and found in its addresses to the "seven churches" the existence of a great asian hierarchy of the seven temples of the "twenty-four ancients" and further, in its various characters, the acts of the twelve divine incarnations, or messengers, who follow each other at periods of 600 years, as taught in regard to the manifestations of vishnu. then, in 1906, we have a book of the astronomer, nicholas marazoff, verified by the astronomers ramin and lanin, who attempt an astrological view, ground

considerable length, but mr pryse's view is quite a different sort of initiation; it is the development of the semi-miraculous powers of the gnosis of clement, origen, and the early christian church, the birth of the divine three principles, the crestos, in the human soul. the key to this "unsealing" is the text itself, in which is found the nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, 1000, as applied to the seven principal "chakras" of the human body, as taught by greek yogis. apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development of the "kundalini" and each subject is followed in the text by a commentary in application. mr pryse expresses the view that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theol

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

asy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l water deep body dryness, hotness, mind& body feel seperated, no empathy body puffiness, sinus (etc) flows, mood swings "touchiness, apathy goddess aspect: mother astrological rulers: venus, moon keys: love principle, fertility, gabriel (turns force i

willlow, dolphin, fish, water snakes, sea birds, myrrh, ferns, rushes tool: cup spirits: undines under neksa (elusive at first, flowing& difficult to understand, watch politely and learn) shortage: excess: notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l fire goddess aspect: temptress astrological rulers: sun, mars, jupiter keys: light principle, action, michael (victor over ignorance) rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, destruction, purification, hearth

amanders under djinn (elusive& hostile, teach power over fire& energy) shortage: body heavy or chilled, thoughts drag-gy, unenthusiastic excess: hot, hyper, flitting thoughts, insomnia, anger, snappishness notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l air goddess aspect: maiden astrological rulers: jupiter, mercury keys: life principle, intellect, raphael (instructor, traveller, healer) rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge, abstract learning, theories, windy or high places

teach mind control and how to level out your thinking processes) shortage: mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data excess "gas bloat, inability to focus attention "spacey" thoughts notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l the witches' wheel the eight paths notes l this is based on a diagram from "the alex sanders lectures, with a few obvious errors removed. the ways of making magic the [eight pointed asterisk] sign on the athame is said to represent, among other thing

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

igence, in the manifestation of love, or group consciousness, and in the development of will or purpose, lies unity, the- 54- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust oneness of the subjective life, and the eventual recognition that within the form, and in the form only, lies separation and differentiation. the ancient books of the east point out, in considering this subject, that the seven stars of the great bear, the seven stars of the pleiades, and the sun sirius, have a very close connection with our solar system, and that they hold an intimate psychic magnetic relation to our solar logos. we have seen that the goal for the atom of substance is self-consciousness; and that for the entity who is evolving through a planet, the goal may be god consciousness. now, of course

tive. in the eastern books they say that in the sun sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influence or the energy of love emanates from there. then they say that there is a constellation that is even more closely connected with our solar logos, the reason being that he is not, as yet, sufficiently evolved so that he can respond completely to sirius, but he can respond to the influence of the seven sisters of the pleiades. this group is a most interesting one. if you will go to the dictionary and look up the word "electricity" you will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star electra, one of the seven sisters, and- 55- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust supposed by some to be the little lost pleiad. the eastern teachers say that in the mystery

ntal scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration. perhaps the pleiades are the source of the atomic life of our logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was first developed, and which we might call electrical matter. then there is the great bear. there is much that is interesting said about the relation between the great bear and the pleiades in oriental writings. the seven sisters are said to be the seven wives of the seven stars of the great bear. now what is perhaps the truth back of that legend? if the pleiades are the source of the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposite, or the positive aspect, is t

said to be the seven wives of the seven stars of the great bear. now what is perhaps the truth back of that legend? if the pleiades are the source of the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposite, or the positive aspect, is their seven husbands, the seven stars of the great bear. perhaps the union of these two is what produces our solar system. perhaps these two types of energy, one from the pleiades and the other from the great bear, meet, and in their conjunction produce that blazing forth in the heavens which we call our solar system. the relationship of these two constellations, or rather their subjective relationship, must surely hav

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

unity of the one ideal, in their common aspiration and endeavour, they will meet before the one portal. they will then recognise themselves as brothers, severed by tongue and apparent diversity of belief, but fundamentally holding to the same one truth and serving the same god. alice a. bailey. new york 1922. the constitution of man- 2- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chart the seven planes of our solar system, the constitution of man the constitution of man, as considered in the following pages, is basically threefold, as follows: i. the monad, or pure spirit, the father in heaven. this aspect reflects the three aspects of the godhead: 1. will or power..the father. 2. love-wisdom..the son. 3. active intelligence..the holy spirit. and is only contacted at the final i

rength of the old foundations, and the opportunity to build upon these foundations a structure that will meet the needs of the inner evolving life. three basic facts to be recognised the ideas that are elaborated here find their corroboration in certain facts that are stated in the occult literature now extant. these facts are three in number, and are as follows (a) in the creation of the sun and the seven sacred planets composing our solar system, our logos employed matter that was already impregnated with particular qualities. mrs. besant in her book "avataras (which some of us think the most valuable of all her writings, because one of the most suggestive, makes the statement that "our solar system is builded out of matter already- 4- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis tru

demonstrate in a peculiar way, under the law of cause and effect, as does all else in the universe (b) all manifestation is of a septenary nature, and the central light which we call deity, the one ray of divinity, manifests first as a triplicity, and then as a septenary. the one god shines forth as god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit, and these three are again reflected through the seven spirits before the throne, or the seven planetary logoi. the students of occultism of non-christian origin may call these beings the one ray, demonstrating through the three major rays and the four minor, making a divine septenary. the synthetic ray which blends them all is the great love-wisdom ray, for verily and indeed "god is love" this ray is the indigo ray, and is the blending ray

fection. it is the manifestation of the second aspect of logoic life. it is this aspect, that of the form-builder, that makes this solar system of ours the most concrete of the three major systems. the love or wisdom aspect demonstrates through the building of the form, for "god is love" and in that god of love we "live and move and have our being" and will to the end of aeonian manifestation (c) the seven planes of divine manifestation, or the seven major planes of our system, are but the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane. the seven rays of which we hear so much, and which hold so much of interest and of mystery, are likewise but the seven sub-rays of one cosmic ray. the twelve creative hierarchies are themselves but subsidiary branches of one cosmic hierarchy. they form but one

they form unfolds before us. we know that somewhere in that scheme we, the human hierarchy, have our place. all, therefore, that we can do is to seize upon any data that seems to affect our own welfare, and concerns our own evolution, and from the study of the human being in the three worlds seek to understand somewhat the macrocosm. we know not how the one can become the three, the three become the seven, and so proceed to inconceivable differentiation. to human vision this interweaving of the system forms an unimaginable complexity, the key to which seems not to be forthcoming. seen from the angle of a master we know that all proceeds in ordered sequence. seen from the angle of divine vision the whole will move in harmonious unison, producing a form geometrically accurate. browning had

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

teaching from producing yet one more dogmatic sectarian cult. the present volume, a treatise on cosmic fire, first published in 1925, was the third book jointly produced and carries inherent evidence that it will stand as the major and most far-reaching portion of the thirty-year teachings, notwithstanding the profundity and usefulness of the volumes published in the series entitled a treatise on the seven rays or of any other of the books. during the long course of the work the minds of the tibetan and a.a.b. became so closely attuned that they were in effect so far as much of the production of the teaching was concerned a single joint projecting mechanism. even to the end a.a.b. often spoke of her amazement at the glimpses she obtained through contact with the tibetan's mind, of limitles

introductory questions division a. the nature of manas or mind division b. manas as a cosmic, systemic and human factor division c. the egoic ray and solar fire division b. thought elementals and fire elementals division e. motion on the plane of mind division f. the law of attraction section three. the fire of spirit electric fire division a. certain basic fundamentals division b. the nature of the seven cosmic paths division c. seven esoteric stanzas the above tabulation of the subjects dealt with in this treatise is of very real importance, for it forms the basis of that which we shall be considering. the total lack of a wider consciousness than the individual and the personal, acts as a bar to the true comprehension of things macrocosmic, but if the occult method is adhered to, if the

this is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology. these three aspects of god, the solar logos, and the central energy or force (for the terms are occultly synonymous) demonstrate through seven centres of force, three major centres and four minor. these seven centres of logoic force are themselves so constituted that they form corporate entities. they are known as a. the seven planetary logoi. b. the seven spirits before the throne. c. the seven rays. d. the seven heavenly men. the seven logoi embody seven types of differentiated force, and in this treatise are known under the names of lords of the rays. the names of the rays are ray i..ray of will or power..1st aspect ray ii..r. ay of love-wisdom..2nd aspect ray iii..ray of active intelligence 3rd aspect thes

ic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. these three are cosmic laws. there are seven systemic laws, which govern the manifestation of our solar logos: a. the law of vibration. b. the law of cohesion. c. the law of disintegration. d. the law of magnetic control. e. the law of fixation. f. the law of love. g. the law of sacrifice and death. 4. each of these laws manifests primarily on one or other of the seven planes of the solar system. 5. each law sweeps periodically into power and each plane has its period of manifestation and its period of obscuration. 6. every manifested life has its three great cycles: birth..life..death. appearance..growth..disappearance. involution..evolution..obscuration. inert motion..a.ctivity..r.hythmic motion. tamasic life..r.ajasic life..sattvic life. 7. knowledg

approval. forth came the cry for further light. again he gathered in the sound. he drew to higher levels the feeble spark of light. another tone was heard, the sound of cosmic fire, hid in the sons of manas. they called to their primaries. the lower four, the higher three, and the cosmic fifth met at the great inbreathing. another sheath was formed. stanza iii the great wheel turned upon itself. the seven lesser wheels rushed into being. they revolve like their mother, around, within and forward. all that existeth was. the wheels were diverse, and in unification, one. as evolved the great wheel, the inner fire burst forth. it touched into life wheel the first. it circulated. a million fires rose up. the quality of matter densified, but form was not. the sons of god arose, scanned the dept

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

t only the freeing of the soul from the limitations of the three worlds, but the freeing of the spiritual man from all limitations, even that of the soul itself. the goal is formlessness or freedom from objective and tangible manifestation, and the true significance of this becomes apparent as the student remembers the oneness of spirit and matter when in manifestation; i. e. our seven planes are the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane, the physical. consequently only "the time of the end" and the dissolution of a solar system will reveal the true meaning of formlessness. 3. the gunas are the three qualities of matter, the three effects produced when macrocosmic energy, the life of god which persists independently of form-taking, actuates or energizes substance. the three gunas are:

prana that is the cause of eighty per cent of the present physical diseases. the other twenty per cent is produced through ill directed life force through the centres, and attacks primarily the twenty per cent of humanity which can be called mentally polarised. the clue for the student of occultism who aspires to liberation is not to be found in breathing exercises, however, nor in any work with the seven centres in the body. it will be found in an intense inner concentration upon rhythmic living and in the careful organisation of the life. as he does this, coordination of the subtler bodies with the physical body on the one hand, and with the soul on the other, will eventuate in the automatic subsequent adjustment of pranic and vital energies. 32. to overcome the obstacles and their acco

equent adjustment of pranic and vital energies. 32. to overcome the obstacles and their accompaniments, the intense application of the will to some one truth (or principle) is required. it would be wise here, if the aspirant to yoga would note that there are seven ways whereby peace may be achieved, and thus the goal be reached. these seven are next dealt with, and each has a distinct relation to the seven obstacles earlier considered. obstacle remedy- 45- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. bodily disability. wholesome, sane living (1.33) 2. mental inertia. control of the life force (1.34) 3. wrong questioning. one pointed thought (1.35) 4. carelessness. meditation (1.36) 5. laziness .s elf discipline (1.37) 6. lack of dispassion .c orrect analyis (1.38) 7. erroneous perce

at principle his various forms, sheaths, or bodies are intended to express, then he will know how to direct his will with exactitude so as to bring about the desired conditions. the sheaths and vehicles are simply his bodies of manifestation on the various planes of the system, and those sheaths must express the principle which is the characteristic or quality underlying each plane. for instance, the seven principles with which man is concerned are: 1. prana .v ital energy. etheric body .p hysical plane. 2. kama. desire, feeling. astral body. astral plane. 3. lower manas .c oncrete mind. mental body .m ental plane. 4. higher manas. abstract mind .e goic body .m ental plane. 5. buddhi .i ntuition .b uddhic body .b uddhic plane. 6. atma. spiritual will. atmic body .a tmic plane. and that whi

as the organ of speech. as the study is carried forward it will be seen that two other physical organs, the pituitary body and the pineal gland, correspond to the remaining two aspects, love wisdom and organising power, will or purpose. these seven points in the head (and all are found within a comparatively small area) are the symbols in physical matter of the three great aspects manifesting as the seven. as the aspirant therefore assumes the position of the ruler of the senses and as the analyser of all his sense perceptions, he gradually becomes more mentally concentrated, and the advanced yogi can identify himself at any moment with any one of the ray energies to the exclusion where- 49- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust desired of the others. the student is warned not

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ve the web pulsates. it contracts and expands. let the magician seize the midway point and thus release those "prisoners of the planet" whose note is right and justly tuned to that which must be made. rule thirteen the magician must recognize the four; note in his work the shade of violet they evidence, and thus construct the shadow. when this is so, the shadow clothes itself, and the four become the seven. rule fourteen the sound swells out. the hour of danger to the soul courageous draweth near. the waters have not hurt the white creator and naught could drown nor drench him. danger from fire and flame menaces now, and dimly yet the rising smoke is seen. let him again, after the cycle of peace, call on the solar angel. rule fifteen the fires approach the shadow, yet burn it not. the fire

ognised, it is because the investigating student has found a point of truth in himself which serves to illumine his steps as he slowly and gradually presses forward. 2. there are many types of minds, and it is not to be expected that the information given, for instance, in this treatise will appeal to all. it should be remembered that all people are units of consciousness breathed forth on one of the seven emanations from god. therefore, even their monads or spiritual aspects are inherently different just as in the prism (which is one) there are the seven differentiated colours. even this is so only because of the nature and point of view and the perceiving apparatus of the man whose eye registers and differentiates the varying rates of vibratory light. these seven subsidiary groups again

produces the concretion of ideas on the physical plane. f. strictly spiritual energy, or force from the plane of the monad. the different types of force can all be registered in the human kingdom. some of them can be registered in the subhuman kingdoms, and the apparatus of the vital body in man is so constructed that through its three objective manifestations, the triple nervous system, through the seven major plexi, the lesser nerve ganglia, and the many thousands of nerves, the entire objective man can be responsive to: a. the above mentioned types of force. b. energies generated in and emanating from any part of the planetary etheric web of life. c. the solar web of life. d. the constellations of the zodiac which appear to have a real effect upon our planet and of which astrology is a

re: 1. the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, nature spirits or angels and human spirits, who stand at a peculiar point on the ladder of evolution. of these sanat kumara, embodying a principle of the planetary logos is the highest, and an initiate of the first degree is the lowest, with corresponding entities in what we call the angel or deva kingdom. 2. the hierarchy of rays certain groupings of the seven rays in relation to our planet. 3. a hierarchy of lives, gathered by an evolutionary process out of our planetary evolution and from four other planets, who embody in themselves the purpose and plan of the solar logos in relation to the five planets involved- 30- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust in narrowing the concept down to the microcosm, the ego or soul acts veri

r that attracts to the etheric body of all forms the needed physical atoms and that having so attracted them by the will force drives them into certain activities. 4. this coherent unified body of light and energy is the symbol of the soul in that it has within it seven focal points, wherein the condensation, if it must be so called, of the two blended energies is intensified. these correspond to the seven focal points in the solar system, wherein the solar logos, through the seven planetary logoi, focuses his energies. this will be later elaborated. the point to be noted here is simply the symbolic nature of the etheric or vital body, for it is by understanding the nature of the energies displayed and the unified nature of the form and work that some idea as to the work of the soul, the m

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

ing love for each other, can achieve significant results. that each of you may so work, and that each of you may lose sight of self in the realisation of world need, is the earnest prayer and deepest aspiration of your brother, the tibetan- 366- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust- 367- a treatise on white mandcopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric psychology- volume i a treatise on the seven rays volume i by alice a. bailey copyright 1962 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1990 by lucis trust synopsis of a treatise on the seven rays volume i section one i. introductory remarks ii. certain questions and answers iii. ten basic propositions section two i. the seven creative builders the seven rays ii. the rays and the kingdoms in nature iii. the rays and man iv. some tabulations

iangles iv. the sacred and non-sacred planets v. the three major constellations vi. the three crosses vii. the rays, constellations and planets volume iv i. the basic causes of disease ii. the basic requirements for healing i ii. the fundamental laws of healing volume v i. stanzas for disciples ii. the fourteen rules for disciples and initiates i ii. the rays and the initiations- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the secret doctrine vol. i. page 80. third edition three souls, one man three souls which make

hether they assist or no, and, constituting man s self, is what is and leans upon the former, makes it play, as that played off the first: and, tending up, holds, is upheld by, god, and ends the man upward in that dread point of intercourse, nor needs a place, for it returns to him. what does, what knows, what is; three souls, one man. from death in the desert by robert browning- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust foreword [page xvii] the question arises, each time a book is written which is to be read by earnest aspirants: what line of instruction will carry forward their training with the most speed? for speed is an essential factor, if the present day unfoldment is to be rightly utilised and the stress and strain in the world reli

rtunity. all life is opportunity, and individual reaction to opportunity is one of the factors which indicate soul growth. for this, the training school of the world itself suffices. there should be in all impartation of truth no imposition of authority. aspirants must be left free to avail themselves of the teaching or not, and spiritual work must go forward because of the free- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust choice and self-initiated effort of the individual student. in the books already published three basic lines of teaching can be traced: first, a relatively new technique has been given as to the control of the body. second, teaching has been given anent the formation of the new group of world servers. third, the general lin

this piece of work or that, and, working with lack of intelligent co-ordination, achieve nothing and no group results. but united group effort would eventuate in an inspired reorganisation of the entire world, and the elimination of hindrances; there would be the making of real sacrifices and the giving up of personal wishes and desires in order that group purposes may be served- 5- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust above all, there must be the elimination of fear. with this i have dealt at length in a treatise on white magic, and have given likewise certain rules and formulas for its control. how many who have read the teaching profited by the information imparted? will you not, with determination and because the world cries out for h

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

h went forth "opened anew the gates of life" door after door is opened on the demand of the initiate and at the response by the initiator, standing on the other side of the portal. we shall see what each word signified. the word always issues forth from the centre. again and again in the new testament we are told that "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear,"28 and a study of the words spoken to the seven churches in revelations will bring much light upon the factor of the word. great racial words have been sounded forth and have brought about needed changes, and have signified a potency of true spiritual value to the sensitive. the word or sound for ancient asia in the past was tao, or the way. it stood for that ancient way which the initiates of the far east trod and taught. for our rac

can now learn. we can begin to say "life to me, as i look back on it, is not a succession of experiences but one great experience illumined here and there by moments of revelation."17 this illumination grows more constant as time goes on. the ancient hindu teacher, patanjali, taught that illumination is sevenfold, progressing by successive stages.18 it is as though he were dealing in thought with the seven illuminations which come to all the sons of god who are in process of awakening to their divine opportunities: the illumination which comes when we decide to tread the path of probation, and to prepare ourselves for initiation. then the light is shed on the distant vision, and we catch a fleeting glimpse of our goal. next the light is shed upon ourselves, and we get a vision of what we a

mmed up for us the word that inaugurated the kingdom of god. each of his utterances had relation to that kingdom, and not the usual small, individual or selfish relation which we have so often ascribed to them. what were those seven words? let us consider them, realising while doing so that the causes which gave rise to them produced the manifestation of the kingdom of god on earth. in every case the seven words have been interpreted as having either an individual application in connection with the person to whom they were supposedly spoken, or as having a personal significance to christ himself. we have always read the bible in this manner, with the personal significance in our minds. but these words of christ are of too great importance to be thus interpreted. they have a meaning far wid

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

ring rapidly) we shall have the fulfilment of the angels' song at bethlehem "on earth peace, good will toward men- 175- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes foreword 1: the paganism in our christianity, by arthur weigall, p. 16. chapter 1 1: quoted by w. kingsland in religion in the light of theosophy.uscopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric psychology- volume ii treatise on the seven rays volume ii by alice a. bailey copyright 1942 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1970 by lucis trust- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter i the egoic ray i. the growth of soul influence before taking up our subject as outlined at the close of the previous volume, i would like to speak a word as to the symbolism we will employ in discussing egoic and personality control. all that is sa

xpress itself and so demonstrate the nature of divinity on the plane of appearances. 2. the egoic consciousness is that of the second aspect of divinity, that of the soul, expressing itself as quality and as the determining subjective "colour" of the appearances. this naturally varies, according to the ability of the soul in any form to master its vehicle, matter, and to express- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust innate quality through the outer form. 3. the monadic consciousness is that of the first aspect of divinity, that which embodies divine life purpose and intent, and which uses the soul in order to demonstrate through that soul the inherent purpose of god. it is this that determines the quality. the soul embodies that purp

ho has studied the theme of a treatise on cosmic fire, which deals specifically with the creative process and with manifestation. it deals therefore with the outer personality expression of that great all-encompassing life, which we call god, for lack of a better term. we need to bear in mind that our universe (as far as the highest human consciousness can as yet conceive of it) is to be found on the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, and that our highest type of energy, embodying for us the purest expression of spirit, is but the force manifestation of the first subplane of the cosmic physical plane. we are dealing, therefore, as far as consciousness is concerned, with what might be regarded symbolically as the brain reaction and response to cosmic purpose, the brain reaction o

ness is concerned, with what might be regarded symbolically as the brain reaction and response to cosmic purpose, the brain reaction of god himself. in man, the microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose for the fourth kingdom in nature is to enable man to manifest as a soul in time and space and to tune in on the soul purpose and the plan of the creator, as it is known and expressed by the seven spirits before the throne, the seven planetary logoi. but at this point we can only hint at a great mystery, which is that all that the highest of the sons of god on our manifested planetary world can grasp is a partial realisation of the purpose and plan of the solar logos, as it is grasped, apprehended and expressed by one of the planetary logoi who is (in his place and term of office)

, the seven planetary logoi. but at this point we can only hint at a great mystery, which is that all that the highest of the sons of god on our manifested planetary world can grasp is a partial realisation of the purpose and plan of the solar logos, as it is grasped, apprehended and expressed by one of the planetary logoi who is (in his place and term of office) conditioned and- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust limited by his own peculiar point in evolution. a seventh part of the unfolding plan is being expressed by our particular planetary life, and because this great being is not one of the seven sacred lives and is therefore not expressing himself through one of the seven sacred planets, the plan as unfolded upon the earth is

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

be found. we are taught in the esoteric philosophy that seven great divine emanations, aeons or spirits (in whom we live and move and have our being) came forth from god at the time of the creation. the same teaching can also be traced in the holy bible. upon one or other of these seven rays, the souls of all forms of life are to be found as well as the forms themselves. these seven rays produce the seven major psychological types. these seven rays or emanations are: 1. the first ray of will or power. many great world rulers are found on this ray, such as julius caesar. 2. the second ray of love-wisdom. the christ and the buddha are to be found on this ray. it is the great teaching ray. 3. the third ray of active intelligence. the mass of intelligent humanity are found on this ray. 4. the

ms. they will release the light and peace which will illumine the astral plane and dispel the illusory nature of its life. 3. the third group is that of the magnetic healers. these healers have no relation to the work of the so-called magnetic healers of today. they work intelligently with the vital forces of the etheric body. much of their work is dealt with in the fourth volume of a treatise on the seven rays. this group of healers must bring about the right healing of the personalities of individuals in all aspects of their nature. the work to be done is that of the intelligent transmission of energy to various parts of the nature mental, emotional and physical through the right organisation and circulation of force. present day healers should endeavour to break loose from the modern an

you will note here, consequently, the possibility that this group's main initial work will be concerned with the problem of reincarnation. that problem deals with the taking of an outer garment or form under the law of rebirth. 8. the psychologists will form this next group and they will be concerned with the revelation of the fact of the soul and with the new psychology which will be based upon the seven ray types and the new esoteric astrology. their major task will be to relate, through approved techniques, the soul and the personality, leading to the revelation of divinity through the medium of- 32- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity. they will act also as transmitters of illumination between groups of thinkers and as illuminators of group though

inhibited- 81- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust you are of an age and a mental stability that will make it safe and beneficial if you seek under my supervision for a measure of psychic unfoldment. but along that line we will proceed slowly, my brother; for the next six months we will simply follow the method of a general psychic "washing" or purging by the means of the seven dynamic or electric breaths (anent which i will instruct you) sent forth by an act of the will. these will sweep through your whole being and produce a general stimulation that will eventuate in a more general sensitivity. note, therefore, your response to that inner consciousness and, during the coming half year, keep a most careful spiritual diary, noting every psychic happening, recor

and safe and constitutes no barrier to relationships as does the building of a separative wall. the method is as follows: see before you a wheel of fire with seven spokes. see it immediately before your eyes. then, by an act of the creative imagination, see yourself standing in the centre at the hub of the wheel; there regard yourself as if you were that hub. from that central position, send out the seven streams of living love, radiating upon the world. when you do this you serve and are, at the same time, completely protected. this exercise can be come instantaneous and effective. it generates a protective force and at the same time makes you a living centre of light and love. be not distressed, my brother, but in calmness and in peace pursue your way. there is no life, at this time, wi

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

s of those masses who seek a new and better way of life. they want love in daily living, right human relations and an understanding of the underlying plan. it is these physical happenings which are of moment and not the vague hopes and promises of the theological faiths. it is the physical presence upon our planet of such recognised spiritual figures as the lord of the world, the ancient of days; the seven spirits who are before the throne of god; the buddha, the spiritual leader of the east, and the christ, the spiritual leader of the west all of whom are brought at this climaxing time to our attention. the vague belief in their existence, the dreamy speculations as to their work and their interest in human welfare, and the unconvinced, yet hopeful, wishful thinking of believers (and also

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

, and fashioning the many races and nations. this in no way infringes upon man's freewill; these forces have both their higher and their lower aspects and men respond to them according to their mental and spiritual development, and so do nations and races as a whole. humanity has reached a point today where there is a most sensitive response to that which is higher and better. this teaching anent the seven rays remains a profitless speculation unless it is susceptible of investigation, of eventual proof and of general as well as particular usefulness. too much is written at this time which will have to be relegated to the discard as useless, as not warranting acceptance as a possible hypothesis and as not demonstrating a truth which can be proved. i am, therefore, seeking here to do two th

love wisdom, christ's ray. this energy is poured into the world through the second great planetary centre which we call the hierarchy. the energy which- 9- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust is concentrated in this centre and which is manipulated by the initiates and the masters is making one of its cyclic impacts upon the earth and as i explained in volume ii of a treatise on the seven rays is also making one of its major cyclic approaches to humanity. the energy flowing through the hierarchy at this time the energy of love is seeking to blend with that which is flowing out of shamballa and is needed in order to make the desired application of it. the problem of the hierarchy at this time is to produce a wise and adequate fusion of the shamballa and the hierarchial ene

y personality; her fourth ray energy was responsible for her effort to standardise and harmonise all the elements within her borders to the point of regimentation. this has been the line of least resistance for germany, for though the first ray is not in manifestation at this time, yet the bulk of the people in power in germany during the past world war (1914-1945) were all on the first subray of the seven rays and hence they were inevitably the transmitters of first ray energy. it is for this reason that great britain can contact the german race and handle the people in that sad country more- 28- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust understandingly than can the other nations or great powers. they share similar qualities and one of the services which great britain can rend

ration with the forces of light. i will give you here the present personality influences of the nations, indicated by their governing signs of the zodiac, trusting that you will give due thought to what i impart and assuring you that they are of vital significance at this time, particularly if you compare them with what i gave you anent the rays of the nations in the first volume of a treatise on the seven rays. i would remind you that over the lapse of centuries nations are reborn several times or come into- 35- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust incarnation in a new form which we may call a period, if unimportant, or a civilisation if significant and dramatic enough. therefore, the personality ray and the governing influences change with frequency. this is oft forgotte

tion between soul and personality is today more possible and more easily accomplished than ever before. the new forms, through which that much desired consummation can be affected, must be consequently gradually and scientifically developed. this, as you may well conceive, will be achieved through the intensification of the forces, functioning through the etheric body, through the coordination of the seven major centres, and the establishing of their rhythmic relationship. the seventh ray governs predominantly upon the etheric levels of the physical plane. it does not govern the dense physical form which is under the control of the third ray. it is the vital or the etheric body which is responsive to and developed by the incoming seventh ray influences. in considering the methods whereby t

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

d caution, is greatly to be desired at the present time. such action should be recognized as being pioneering experimental ventures. groups of this sort have already appeared in various parts of the world and may well contribute to the success of the work of the new group of world servers. information about this worldwide group of servers is given in a treatise on white magic and in a treatise on the seven rays, vol. ii. foster bailey, july 1950 certain preliminary clarifications all groups involved in esoteric work have their own dharma or duty and all have their peculiar objective. in order that you may clearly vision what you, as aspirants to discipleship have to do, and so intelligently cooperate, i will concisely state the purpose: dharma means duty, or obligation, and it is your defi

ideas because the general illusion (growing out of the six types of illusion to which i have referred above) is over-dominant in his mind- 39- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust i could continue enlarging on the ways whereby illusion traps the unwary disciple but this will suffice to awaken in you that constructive analysis which leads from knowledge to wisdom. we have noted that the seven major ways of illusion are as follows: 1. the way of wrong perception. 2. the way of wrong interpretation. 3. the way of wrong appropriation. 4. the way of wrong direction. 5. the way of wrong integration. 6. the way of wrong embodiment. 7. the way of wrong application. these are the third steps towards expression. the form of the expression is also qualified. thus the seven ways of illu

ects of force; one finds oneself consciously the victim of force currents; one is swept into activity of some kind by uncontrolled forces, and the world of force becomes a consciously sensed reality to the struggling aspirant. it is for this reason that i have stated that maya is predominantly a difficulty of the etheric body, for in relation to maya we are dealing with the forces pouring through the seven centres of the body (in all or in some, producing reactions and effects that are desirable or disastrous. it is naturally necessary to realise that all manifestation on all levels is an expression of force, but the forces to which i refer here under the term maya are those uncontrolled energies, those undirected impulses which emanate from the world of prana and from the latent force of

might perhaps become clearer to your perception if i worded the truth about maya as follows: the latent impulses of the personality life, when divorced from and not under soul control, are blended with the pranic fluids within the periphery of the personality sphere of influence, and then become potent directed streams of force, seeking emergence into physical manifestation through the medium of the seven centres in the physical body. these forces or impulses, plus the prana available, constitute the etheric body of the undeveloped and frequently of the average man. it will be apparent, therefore, how much the undeveloped man is the victim of mass energy of a low kind, for his etheric body is responsive to, and draws its energy from a type of general environing prana, until such time as t

ific angle. you will note from the above that it is, therefore, my intention to give you a much more careful and intensive training. will you profit by it? in the interim and in order that you can apprehend the truth of what i shall later tell you, will you study yourselves with care during the next six months and see if what i later suggest is not true? use the information given in a treatise on the seven rays as your guide in this self-analysis; i would remind you that the rays govern the three bodies in the following order: 1. rays governing the mental body .r ays 1.4.5. 2. rays governing the astral body. rays 2.6. 3. rays governing the physical body .r ays 3.7. thus you will note that all the rays play their part in the mechanism of man, making all circumstances the vehicles of opportu

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

pression of humanity by: a. the hierarchy, through the stimulating of ideas. these demonstrate through a steadily growing and enlightened public opinion. b. the influence of the ashrams of the masters as they affect the aspirants of the world, the humanitarians and the idealists. these impressing agencies, being seven in number, constitute seven different streams of impressing energy which affect the seven ray types. the united ashrams, forming the great ashram of the christ, affect humanity as a whole; this great united ashram works solely through the new group of world servers whose members are on all rays, of all grades of development, and who work in all the various departments of human living and enterprise- 27- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust c. the activ

veness to phenomena and is peculiarly applied to the reaction, the recognition, the responsiveness, and the registration of all phenomena to be found throughout the cosmic physical plane. this is the plane whereon our entire threefold planetary life finds expression and which- 34- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust we have subdivided (for the sake of clear thinking) into the seven planes (so called) of our solar system from what we call our lowest physical plane up to our highest plane, the logoic. in the earlier stages of responsiveness to the two phases of contact and impact, the first task is to develop the needed apparatus of contact, the medium of learning, the mechanism of registration, and then learning to use it constructively and intelligently. this work

lord of the world to express his own unknown inscrutable purpose. during the cycle of manifestation, this combination of life-awareness, spirit-reason, atma-buddhi, is the product of the multiplicity in unity of which we hear so much demonstrating as activity, quality, ideology, rationality, relationship, unity, and many other expressions of the divine nature. in the earlier part of a treatise on the seven rays, i spoke of life, quality and appearance, mentioning the major triplicity which could be and is already proven and apparent to man. quality was emphasised as the second aspect, not because on all planes and for all time that is so, but because at the present point in human evolution, quality plus activity appear to be the two lower aspects of divine manifestation. already, however

ture, the good and the evil. the dynamic impression which emanates from shamballa reaches forth in great cycles and cyclic waves; these are impulsed from extra-planetary sources, as demanded or invoked by the lord of the world and his associates; they emanate in response to the "acclaimed will" of sanat kumara in the council chamber. this high spiritual and ultimate impression moves outward along the seven rays, viewing them as seven streams of spiritual energy, qualified and coloured by the shamballic impression; this process repeats itself when hierarchical invocation is effective and successfully established. this again is repeated between the hierarchy and humanity in response to human invocation; this is becoming increasingly intelligent, potent and evocative. the problem of the human

archy and humanity in response to human invocation; this is becoming increasingly intelligent, potent and evocative. the problem of the human kingdom is, however, very great. humanity is the recipient of so many impacts, so many impressions, so many telepathic and mental currents and so many- 46- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust qualified vibratory impressions from all the seven kingdoms in nature that aeons have elapsed in developing the adequate discriminative sensitivity and in establishing the certitude of the point in evolution from which conscious invocation must arise and upon which the evoked impression must be registered. unconscious invocation proceeds all the time; when it becomes conscious, it becomes exceedingly powerful. the entire human family is

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

even rays, volume i. 15: a treatise on the seven rays, volume iii; the destiny of the nations. 16: a treatise on the seven rays, volume iii- 114- telepathy and the etheric vehiofcopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric astrology a treatise on the seven rays volume iii by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust tabulations tabulation i tabulation ii tabulation iii tabulation iv tabulation v tabulation vi tabulation vii tabulation viii tabulation ix tabulation x chapter i the zodiac and the rays what i have to say first on this subject is entirely of a preliminary nature. i seek to lay the ground for a somewhat new approach a far mo

of astrology. certain things i may say will probably be regarded by the academic and uninspired astrologer as revolutionary, or as erroneous, as improbable or unprovable. as yet, however, astrology has not really proved itself to the world of thought and science, in spite of many definitely demonstrable successes. i would ask all of you, therefore, who read and study this section of a treatise on the seven rays to bear in mind the above comments and to preserve a willingness to consider hypotheses and to make an effort to weigh a theory or suggestion and to test out conclusions over the course of a few years. if you can do this, there may come to you an awakening of the intuition which will translate modern astrology into something of real moment and significance to the world. it is intuit

world. it is intuitional astrology which must eventually supersede what is today called astrology, thus bringing about a return to the knowledge of that ancient science which related the constellations and our solar system, drew attention to the nature of the zodiac and informed humanity as to the basic interrelations which govern and control the phenomenal and subjective worlds- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. three basic statements. the statement is frequently made that astrology is an exact science but that is far from correct in spite of the many mathematical computations. astrology is based, curiously enough, upon illusion for, as well you know, the zodiac is naught but the imaginary path of the sun through the heavens, and

idual of importance (at least to himself, that he is living on that important planet, the earth (important to humanity, and that, through astrology, he can discover his destiny and know what he ought to do. in making this comment, i do not refer to those few astrologers who possess real esoteric knowledge. they are few in number indeed, and only a handful of them are to be found- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust practising at this time. the modern investigator likes to believe that on him impinge and through him flow all those energies which come from the sign in which the sun "finds" itself at the time of his birth. he regards himself also as responsive to the forces of the various planets as they govern the houses in his horoscope

f the centre of your own stage and consciousness and without depriving you of individuality and of self-identity yet show you how you are part of a greater whole of which you can become consciously aware when you can function as souls, but of which you are today unconscious, or at least only registering and sensing the inner reality in which you live and move and have your being- 5- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust this brings me to the third statement, which is so basic and fundamental that i would ask you to pause and contemplate it, even though you grasp not its full implications as yet. the ancient wisdom teaches that "space is an entity" it is with the life of this entity and with the forces and energies, the impulses and the rhyt

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e suddha dharma mandala to give you these books" and there were all the books i had requested and my faith in the righteousness of the organisation was restored. i heard no more for some time and then i got a letter from a member of the group saying that sir subra maniyer was dead and that my book a treatise on cosmic fire had been his constant companion and that on his death bed he had requested the seven senior members of his organisation to join the arcane school and put themselves under my instruction. this they did and for years this most interesting group of old hindu students worked with us. all these- 129- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust men were old and have gradually died off until today there seem no more for me to be in touch with. they had a great rever

upon these things in the senior degrees of the arcane school that we seek to lay the emphasis. some of the students have been with us twenty years or more. they have faithfully done their work and are definitely getting results. later we hope to develop certain groups that will use some of the techniques with which the tibetan has dealt in what will probably be his outstanding work, a treatise on the seven rays. there he elaborates a new school of healing. he gives the technique for building the path of light between soul and spirit, just as man has created a path between himself and the soul. he emphasises, also, the new esoteric astrology which deals with the purpose of the soul and the way which the disciple must tread. he also gives the fourteen rules which initiates have to follow, an

written on the subject of the physical body and its purification and upon the etheric or vital body. most of them have been compilations of other books, both ancient or modern. this book of mine, however, is intended to train the modern aspirant in the control of his astral body, by the aid of the mind as that mind is, in its turn, illumined by the soul. the next book undertaken was a treatise on the seven rays. it is a long book, not yet completed. it is taking shape in four volumes, two of which are already published, one is ready for publication and the final volume is in process of writing. volumes one and two deal with the seven rays and their seven psychological types and thus lay the foundation for the new psychology for which modern psychology, materialistic as it may be, has laid

a master who arrive at recognition of him from within themselves a recognition which can then be corroborated by their fellow disciples and used by the master himself as a factual condition know their master, accept teaching from him and among themselves speak of him as he is to them but not to the outside world. the books have, therefore, been going out steadily for years and when a treatise on the seven rays is completed, a short book on glamour is ready for the press and a book on the discipleship in the new age is in the hands of the public, the work of a.a.b. for me will be over. she can then resume her work in the ashram of her own master the work of a disciple. the school the next phase of the work which i sought to see accomplished is now in working order. it was my wish (as it is

ies and curriculum. in this she was wise and right and i fully endorse her position. even my books were not used as textbooks and only during the past three years has one of them, a treatise on white magic, been adapted as a course of study and that at the very earnest request of many students. also, some of the teaching upon the antahkarana (which will appear in a later volume of the treatise on the seven rays) has been used for two years in one section of the fourth degree. the teaching on glamour has been given as some of the reading matter for another section. in the arcane school, no obedience is exacted, no emphasis is laid on "obeying the master" for- 141- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust no master is running the school. emphasis is laid upon the one master in

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

r the title, the new group of world servers. 3: these instructions are now available in a book entitled "discipleship in the new age" volume ii of this book will be published shortly foster bailey. 4: by 1951 this number had increased to forty-two known languages plus a great number of little known dialects- 183- the unfinished autobiogractcopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric healing a treatise on the seven rays volume iv by alice a. bailey copyright 1953 lucis trust copyright renewed 1981 by lucis trust- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust introductory remarks the entire subject of healing is as old as the ages themselves, and has ever been the subject of investigation and experiment. but as to the right use of the healing faculty and forces, the knowledge is in its infancy. only in this age and

omatically affects some aspect of the mechanism which is used by the souls they contact. when i employ the word "mechanism" in these instructions i refer to different aspects of the instrument, the body or form nature, through which all souls seek manifestation. i refer, therefore, to: 1. the dense physical body, which is the sumtotal of all the organisms which compose it; these- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust possess the varying functions which enable the soul to express itself on the physical or objective plane as part of a greater and more inclusive organism. the physical body is the response apparatus of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary lo

chanism that has been constructed essentially for physical ends, to serve more subjective purposes. this again produces trouble, and only when man realises that within the outer physical sheath there exist other bodies which serve more subtle response purposes will we see the gradual readjustment and health of the physical body. with these more subtle sheaths we shall later deal- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust you naturally ask here: what is the general plan which i shall seek to follow as i instruct you in the laws of healing, those laws which guide the initiates and must gradually supersede the more physical methods of the present art of healing? you naturally also seek to know what is the special technique which you as healers mus

elves and as regards those you seek to heal. i will briefly outline the teaching i shall endeavour to give and point out where you must lay the emphasis, as you commence the study of this subject. i shall endeavour first of all to touch upon the causes of disease, for the occult student must ever begin in the world of origins and not in the world of effects. in the second place, i shall elaborate the seven methods of healing which govern the "work of restitution (as it is called in the occult terminology) as practiced by the initiates of the world. these determine the techniques which must be employed. you will note that these methods and techniques are conditioned by the rays (of which i have written elsewhere*(1) and that therefore the healer has to take into consideration not only his o

o the world of outer happenings. we shall see that all that concerns the health of man originates from: 1. the sumtotal of forces, feelings, desires and occasional mental processes which characterises the three subtler bodies and determines the life and experience of the physical body. 2. the effect upon the physical body of the condition of humanity as a whole. a human being is- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust an integral part of humanity, an organism in a greater organism. conditions existing in the whole will be reflected in the unit self, and many of the ills from which man suffers today are the effect upon him of conditions existing in the fourth kingdom in nature as a whole. for these he is not held responsible. 3. the effect up

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

educators have to deal (the mind and the brain, i have indicated the answer to the second question asked, which was "are there definite types of activities, changing with the growing years and based on the phases of the growth process in the individual, that make for his best all-around development" i differ somewhat concerning the periods indicated by such occult teachers as steiner, for though the seven year cycles have their place, the division is apt to be over-applied. i would also suggest ten year cycles of development, divided into two parts: seven of learning and three of application. in the first ten years of a child's life he is taught to deal intelligently with information coming to him via the five senses to the brain. observation, rapid response, and physical coordination as

o experiment in many fields of opportunity. pure vocational training should not be emphasised until the later years of the educational process. the time is coming when all children will be studied in the following directions: 1. astrologically, to determine the life tendencies and the peculiar problem of the soul. 2. psychologically, supplementing the best of modern psychology with a knowledge of the seven ray types, which colours eastern psychology (see pages 18-23. 3. medically, with special attention to the endocrine system, plus the usual modern methods in relation to eyes, teeth and other physiological defects. the nature of the response apparatus will be carefully studied and developed. 4. vocationally, so as to place them later in life where their gifts and capacities may find fulle

love petals" are also unfolded, then a genius makes his appearance. this is a technical piece of information for those students who are studying the science of the ageless wisdom, but it is of no value to those who do not recognise symbology, or the fact of the higher ego or soul. it might be of value here if i clarified my use of the words "higher ego" as you know, if you have read a treatise on the seven rays, vols. i and ii (esoteric psychology, the soul is an aspect of the divine energy in time and space. we are told that the solar logos circumscribed for his use and for the meeting of his desire, a certain measure of the substance of space and informed it with his life and consciousness. he did this for his good purposes and in conformity with his self-realised plan and intent. thus h

if this seems to you as yet impossible, remember that the children who will or have come into incarnation, after the period of increased stimulation found between the years 1935 and 1942, will normally and naturally respond to this evocation of the mind element. one of the major functions of those who train the infant minds of the race will be to determine, as early as possible in life, which of the seven determining energies are controlling in each case- 22- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust the technique to be later applied will then be built upon this important initial decision hence again, the growing responsibility of the educator. a child's note and quality will be early determined, and his whole planned training will grow out of this basic recognition. this is not

ne, and as the active participator in physical life. this intelligent activity is always used from the wisdom angle. 11. the new education will take into consideration: a. the mind and its relation to the energy body, the etheric body, which underlies the nervous system and which galvanises the physical body into activity. b. the mind and its relation to the brain. c. the mind and its relation to the seven centres of force in the etheric body, and their externalisation and utilisation through the medium of the major nerve plexi to be found in the human body, and their relation (which will become increasingly obvious) to the endocrine glands. d. the brain as the coordinating factor in the dense body, and its capacity to direct the activities of the man through the medium of the nervous syst

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ght and stands within its radiance is blinded to the issues of the world of men; he passes on the lighted way to the great centre of absorption. but he who feels the urge to pass that way, yet loves his brother on the darkened path, revolves upon the pedestal of light and- 11- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust turns the other way "he faces towards the dark and then the seven points of light within himself transmit the outward streaming light, and lo! the face of those upon the darkened way receives that light. for them, the way is not so dark. behind the warriors twixt the light and dark blazes the light of hierarchy" i have been thinking of you all with tenderness and love. the struggle is so hard and oft you feel alone. there is strength in all of you or i

bout which nothing can be said and which will be individual as well as group expansion. i will outline the outer processes in the order of their present importance, and this in its turn is determined by the group condition for which you are one and all responsible. i. definite and planned meditation. the theme, if i might so call it, of the work will be threefold: a. the interior interrelation of the seven centres in the body will be the objective of the meditation, basing the work upon the occult maxim that "energy follows thought" we have started upon one formula which relates the heart, the higher head centre, and the solar plexus. b. the subsequent relation of the centres in any one individual to the remainder of the group members, regarding the centres as radiating transmitters of ene

t your national and racial thoughtforms have upon you, and also the assets and the liabilities of your personality and egoic rays. i shall endeavour to bring to your attention your personal point in evolution. i would remind you at this point that these seven rays are sharply different as to colouring and phenomenal effect and, at the same time, i would remark that under the law of occult paradox the seven lords of being (the seven rays) are widely different but remain non-separative. vii. we are also trying the experiment of externalising the ashram. this is an effort which, if successful, will be the prelude to the manifestations of the hierarchy upon earth. this is one of the next intended undertakings, if and when the forces of light have driven the forces of evil and of aggression bac

openly in the outer world of men, thus duplicating in their numbers what christ experienced when he "descended into hell" many things have to be considered; the objectives in view of the masters concerned, the rays in manifestation, and many astrological relationships. in this deciding judgment sanat kumara is being aided by certain members of the great council at shamballa, by the christ and by the seven masters who are responsible for the seven groups of ashrams. he is also reaching certain conclusions as to the groups of disciples who have hitherto been under training during the final stages of the path of discipleship. this decision has to take under advisement the rapidity with which the entrance of men and women into the ashrams can take place; it is also dependent upon the members

cipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the same ray, and who were also at exactly the same point in evolution, would be relatively futile and useless? such a group would lack dynamic the dynamic which comes into expression when many and different ray qualities meet and combine. when you speak of an ashram being a first or a second ray ashram to mention only two out of the seven it is essential that you bear in mind that though its members may have the same basic soul ray, they are apt to be found on one or other of the six subsidiary sub-rays; there is also a constant shifting of people as they make true progress from a minor ray to a major ray or (for service reasons) on to a different sub-ray of their own ray; this is a point which is very apt to be forgotten

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

his year, those who are seeking to lift humanity nearer to the light and to expand the consciousness of mankind, will be gathering their forces for a renewed approach with its inevitable consequences. these consequences are the stimulation of the human family to a fresh spiritual effort; the process and the exalted personnel involved have been described by me in my previous message (a treatise on the seven rays, vol. ii, esoteric psychology, pp. 683-688; they will also bring about the strengthening of the new group of world servers so that they can work with greater effectiveness, vision the plan with greater clarity and within themselves as a group bring about greater integration. thus they can aid in carrying out the plans of the council of the hierarchy to meet the immediate human emerg

f loving kindness which will make you a pure channel. thus will the work of the hierarchy be facilitated and the door opened to the regenerative forces of those extra-planetary beings who offer their help at this time and particularly during 1936. the response of this festival will submit a gauge of opportunity for the guidance of the great ones (this theme is developed in the book, a treatise on the seven rays, vol. ii, esoteric psychology, pp. 629-751, which contains the writings from may, 1935, to april, 1938, inclusive) one practical thing also i will ask of you. will you say, each night and morning, with all your heart's desire and with the attention of your mind as well, the following words. their united saying will set up a rhythm and a momentum of great potency. let the forces of l

in pralaya, or in solution, until the time for the manifestation of the next and third solar system comes around. then they will constitute the advanced guard and the symbol of the coming humanity of that system. the same thing occurred in the system before this one and those whom we now call the jews (a purely modern name and distinction, as i tried to show in the last few pages of a treatise on the seven rays, vol. i, esoteric psychology, are the descendants of that earlier group which was held in pralaya between the first and second solar systems. if you will remember that the third ray governed that system and also governs the jewish race, if you bear in mind that that system was occupied with the divine aspects of matter only and with external conditions, and that the jews were the hi

each other. they saw and they desired that which then appeared. they sensed the first, the second and the third. they were themselves the fourth, but of the fifth they had as yet no knowledge for they were prisoners of the world and the fifth could not appear. the fires which were forty-nine in number proceeded then to do their work, and the prison bars grew firm as steel. but time persisted and the seven each on his own lot began to grow too large for the confining bars- 59- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust this parable will be apparent to esotericists. the clue to what i have to say comes later in the same ancient writing, and here i will roughly paraphrase or freely translate it for you "the seven each on his own lot acquired knowledge. the knowledge was

ier stage of founding the fourth kingdom. the "seven men, each on his own lot" reach a moment of tension and of creative power wherein the seeds of life, which they contain within themselves, can come to fruition, and groups of such appearing seeds can appear in the world "on their own lot" putting it more simply and in terms symbolic, and therefore more easy of understanding, we might state that the seven rays, expressing themselves in the human family through the seven ray types, are now at the stage of unfoldment where the process can be carried forward into the formation of the seven ray groups, and these in their totality will express the kingdom of god. groups will be formed which will be outstandingly of a particular ray type but which will work in all the nine major fields of human

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

or thousands of years, and is the expression of the accumulated wisdom of the ages. you must tell them above all else that god is love, that the hierarchy is love, and that christ is coming because he loves humanity. this is the message which you must give at this time. and with this responsibility i leave you. work, my brothenacopyright 1998 lucis trust the rays and the initiations a treatise on the seven rays volume v by alice a. bailey copyright 1960 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1988 by lucis trust part one the fourteen rules for group initiation preliminary remarks it might be here of value, my brothers, if i again laid emphasis upon the fact that the formless world is only entered when the aspirant has acquired somewhat the capacity to center himself on the abstract levels of the

play of coordinated cooperation with the purpose of manifestation. human lives demonstrate the quality of rajas, of mobility, of constant and conscious change in order to ascertain what is the real and through the medium of experience demonstrate the true nature of rhythmic response. subhuman lives express the guna of tamas or of inertia. they work blindly and have no ability to- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust respond consciously to the plan. they are the sumtotal of the "units of inertia" just as the human units are called "the points of light moving within the square" this may have its appeal to masons. this subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where i give you mo

w this. the development of the faculty of mind control, so that the thinker grips and holds steady the mental processes and learns to regard the mind as the interpreter of the states of consciousness, as the transmitter of egoic intent to the physical brain and as the window through which the ego, the real man looks out upon vast and (to the majority) unknown fields of knowledge- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. an emergence into manifestation of the subjective aspect in man. one of the objects of evolution is that the subjective reality should eventually be brought forward into recognition. this can be expressed in several symbolic ways, all of them dealing with the same one fact in nature: the bringing to the birth of

be found. iv. a series of tests leading to initiation. when a man is beginning to demonstrate the qualities of his ray and to prove of gradually increasing importance to his group, he will be prepared through tests, through trials, and through temptations for those final stages in development which will put into his power: the knowledge of certain laws governing matter and form- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the keys of the mysteries connected with energy, with polarity, and with group relation. certain words of power which will give him control over the elemental forces of nature. insight into the planetary plans. upon these i need not enlarge, nor need i take up with you here the subject of initiation (discipleship in

at perfection is achieved when the highest type of energy inherently possible dominates. if the lower energy of the aggregate of the form-atoms is the controlling factor three things will take place: 1. the form itself will grow by accretion and will become ever more potent, until the dominant voice of its 'lunar lords' will stifle all other voices and the man be swept back into- 5- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust inertia blindness bondage 2. many people are not only under the control of some one or other of their forms but are the captives of all the three. in studying the lower threefold man and the energies or lives that seek to control him it should be remembered that they fall into three categories: a. the individual tiny

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

attain complete control of the thought processes of his nature. the practical significance of the power of thought has been well expressed for us in the words of thackeray "sow a thought, and reap an action. sow an action, and reap a habit. sow a habit, and reap character. sow character and reap destiny" the two keywords of the sign aries are (from esoteric astrology, volume iii of a treatise on the seven rays, p. 108. received three years after a.a.b. gave the hercules lectures in new york) 1 "and the word said: let form again be sought (the man. 2 "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule (the initiate [38] labor ii the capture of the cretan bull (taurus, april 21st- may 20th) the myth the presiding one spoke to the teacher of the man whose light shone forth among the sons of men

bands of orion" thus become clear. the pleiades are the symbol of the soul around which the wheel of life revolves. it is interesting to discover again, in taurus, the triplicity which is so constantly recurrent in astronomical lore and in mythology: taurus, representing form and the attractive pull of matter; the pleiades, representing soul and the vast recurring cycle of experience; and, among the seven pleiades [note the "seven sisters" singing- 30- the labours of hercules about hercules, in the statement of the myth] the lost pleiad (for only six are visible) a symbol of the obscuration of spirit, whilst soul, through desire, takes a body. thus the idea of the relation of the self and the not-self, in order to produce the ultimate revelation of the spirit, underlies all mythological t

that of sagittarius, the archer, who shoots straight and rides unhindered to the goal. no deviations, no failure! there is only a steady going forward [64] labor iii gathering the golden apples of the hesperides- part 2 (gemini, may 21st- june 20th) the field of the labor gemini has in it two stars, called by the greeks, castor and pollux, or the twins. these personify two major groups of stars, the seven pleiades, and the seven stars of the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient

scorpio. the lesson of the labor two thoughts, taken out of the christian bible, summarize the lesson of this labor. in st. peter's epistle we find these words "your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" and in revelations v, 5, we find the words "behold, the lion of the tribe of judah the root of david, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof" hercules, the aspirant, the soul, symbolized the lion, the prince, the king, the ruler, and because of this he symbolically wore the lion's skin. the nemean lion stands- 63- the labours of hercules essentially for the coordinated, dominant personality, for the aspirant has always to be a highly evolved individual. with the triple aspects of the lower personal self fused an

ve him; not from a superior standpoint of saving "poor thing, some day he will be where i am, but from the standpoint of saying "i have been just like that, or "i am just like that. the gift of existence, the gift of opportunity, and the gift of power; the three great gifts of the zodiac. three constellations there are three constellations connected with this sign, the three most beautiful. lyra, the seven-stringed harp. the aspirant learns to play upon the harp and he makes music with his life. ara, the altar, because the aspirant places all upon the altar, not in the spirit of sad renunciation, bracing himself to be perfectly miserable, but in the spirit of "there is nothing else to [167] do. i am detaching myself from these things in order that i may more perfectly and fully serve. drac

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ons of the kabalah is that spiritual wisdom is attained by thirty-two paths, typified by the ten numbers and the twenty-two letters; these ten again being symbols of the divine emanations, the sephiroth, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea, the great sea, the mother supernal, binah; and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolised by the three primary elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" now to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament

ual, moral, and sensuous (neglecting malkuth, the material body, thus connecting the kabalah with mental and moral philosophy and ethics. by three lines again we consider the sephiroth to be divisible into four planes, upon each of which i have already said you must conceive the whole ten sephiroth to be immanent. by a series of six lines we group them into seven planes referable to the worlds of the seven planetary powers, thus connecting the kabalah with astrology (w. gorn old has recently published a volume called "kabalistic astrology) to each sephira were allotted in briah an especial archangel, and in yetzirah an army of angels; these connect the kabalah with talismanic magic. there is also a close relation between the old kabalistic theology and alchymy; each sephira of assiah becom

to the jews and has never been known to the christians (see diagram) the views of the kabalists on cosmogony are not easy to explain, but as before said the supreme boundless god, the "ain suph" was not the direct creator of the world, nor was the world made out of nothing. the highest trinity of "the crown, king and queen" having arisen by divine emanation, its powers descended and expanded into the seven lower sephiroth, and produced the universe in their own image, a decad of forces, as a whole constituting the adm qdmun adam quadmun, or adam kadmon, the primordial or archetypal man; the world produced is the existing universe of which we have cognizance. the universe is called the "garment of god: this lower world is a copy of the divine world, everything here has its prototype above (

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

name of rtk. the descent of the light from rtk to twklm formulates the flaming sword and descendeth from the above to the below. in that trapt is a reflection of rtk and that which is in rtk is reflected in trapt, the rose and cross exists in rtk as a beam of brilliance and is made manifest and pronounced in trapt. the rose and cross is a symbol of the crux ansata and is the key to the opening of the seven-sided vault of the adepti. the vault is a mystical symbol of that which is truly alive and yet buried and beyond the range and comprehension of animal man. the vault cannot be approached by the candidate unless, first, he be scourged and his physical body be likened to christ. second, he must be crucified and die with christ "for if ye will die with christ, ye shall rise with christ" cle

the aspirant the candidate hangs on the black cross of suffering. although black is symbolic of evil, in this instance, it is also the charging or flashing color of white. as the candidate hangs upon the cross the arrow of i within the aspirant is formulated upward into trapt. all has been done to bring the aspirant to a state of equilibrium (see the 14th key in the portal initiation. the three, the seven, and the twelve are bound as one in the aspirant. the rose of the aspirant is formulated- twenty-two petals, the five grades preceeding love forged this cross. the aspirant is now in touch with his yechidah (in rtk only as yet. the crucifixion on the cross of pain and suffering has served the candidate well in that now he is equilibriated. the invocation of h v a follows after the obliga

5=6 ceremony symbols of trapt are used to open the vault; three words consisting of three, four, and five letters each. it should be carefully noted that there is an interchange between the three chiefs throughout the entire initiation. all now repeat lvx signs with the aspirant. the aspirant is bearing the chief adept wand and crux ansanta. this allows him safe passage within the gate of isis of the seven-sided vault, the door of c. upon entrance, the trampling down of the forces of evil takes place. at one time, that same evil the aspirant tramples down on was his support and foundation in the physical world. the aspirant now stands in the vault of seven sides, seven is an esoteric holy number to the qabbalist. each side has a total of ten primary squares and thirty lesser squares which

APOCALYPSE MOSES

tanding in the presence of god and i wept for fear, and i cried aloud to my son seth and said, 2 'rise up, seth, from the body of thy father adam and come to me, and thou shalt see a spectacle which no man's eye hath yet beheld' chapter 35. 1 then seth arose and came to his mother and to her he saith 'what is thy trouble? why weepest thou (and) she saith to him: 2 'look up and see with thine eyes the seven heavens opened, and see how the soul of thy father lies on its face and all the holy angels are praying on his behalf and saying 'pardon him, father of all, for he is thine image 'pray, my child seth, what shall this mean? 3 and will he one day be delivered into the hands of the invisible father, even our god? 4 but who are the two negroes who stand by at the prayers for thy father adam'

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

rth one is yabel. the fifth one is adonaiou, who is called sabaoth. the sixth one is cain, whom the generations of men call the sun. the seventh is abel. the eighth is abrisene. the ninth is yobel. the tenth is armoupieel. the eleventh is melceir-adonein. the twelfth is belias, it is he who is over the depth of hades. and he placed seven kings- each corresponding to the firmaments of heaven- over the seven heavens, and five over the depth of the abyss, that they may reign. and he shared his fire with them, but he did not send forth from the power of the light which he had taken from his mother, for he is ignorant darkness "and when the light had mixed with the darkness, it caused the darkness to shine. and when the darkness the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/a

ek "but yaltabaoth had a multitude of faces, more than all of them, so that he could put a face before all of them, according to his desire, when he is in the midst of seraphs. he shared his fire with them; therefore he became lord over them. because of the power of the glory he possessed of his mother's light, he called himself god. and he did not obey the place from which he came. and he united the seven powers in his thought with the authorities which were with him. and when he spoke it happened. and he named each power beginning with the highest: the first is goodness with the first (authority, athoth; the second is foreknowledge with the second one, eloaio; and the third is divinity with the third one, astraphaio; the fourth is lordship with the fourth one, yao; the fifth is kingdom w

e first one, goodness, created a bone-soul; and the second, foreknowledge, created a sinew-soul; the third, divinity, created a flesh-soul; and the fourth, the lordship, created a marrow-soul; the fifth, kingdom created a blood-soul; the sixth, envy, created a skin-soul; the seventh, understanding, created a hair-soul. and the multitude of the angels attended him and they received from the powers the seven substances of the natural (form) in order to create the proportions of the limbs and the proportion of the rump and the proper working together of each of the parts "the first one began to create the head. eteraphaope-abron created his head; meniggesstroeth created the brain; asterechme (created) the right eye; thaspomocha, the left eye; yeronumos, the right ear; bissoum, the left ear; a

much wickedness arises, and empty pride, and similar things. and from desire (comes) anger, wrath, and bitterness, and bitter passion, and unsatedness, and similar things. and from fear (comes) dread, fawning, agony, and shame. all of these are like useful things as well as evil things. but the insight into their true (character) is anaro, who is the head of the material soul, for it belongs with the seven senses, ouch-epi-ptoe "this is the number of the angels: together they are 365. they all worked on it until, limb for limb, the natural and the material body was completed by them. now there are other ones in charge over the remaining passions whom i did not mention to you. but if you wish to know them, it is written in the book of zoroaster. and all the angels and demons worked until th

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

tery, and immediately he disappeared from him. and he went to his fellow disciples and related to them what the savior had told him. jesus christ, amen. the apocryphon according to j a 30 this passage recalls strangely enough the worship of the graeco-roman goddess pavororfear, the attendant on mars. she was much invoked, as in the present instance, to terrify intrudersor an enemy. aeschylusmakes the seven chiefs before thebes swear by fear, mars, and bellona.mem. acad. of inscriptions, v. 9.appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts. 31 hence the saying that to know all would be to forvive all; which may be nine-tenths true, butthereisa tenth of responsible guilt. 32 friedrich, symbolik, p. 283.(33) i am here reminded, by a strange coincidence, that i having rediscovered the very ancient a

r witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes forth in the earliest morning to seekfor verbena or verbain. theancient persian magi, or rather their daughters, worshipped the sun as it rose by waving freshlyplucked verbena, 32 which was one of the seven most powerful plants in magic. these persianpriestesses were naked while they thus worshipped, nudity being a symbol of truth and sincerity.the extinguishing the lights, nakedness, and the orgie, were regarded as symbolical of the bodybeing laid in the ground, the grain being planted, or of entering into darkness and death, to berevived in new forms, or regeneration and light. it was the

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

idate enters the lodge poor and penniless, because that was the condition at their beginning of the templars and the other orders of christian knighthood. the candidate is prepared for the second craft degree in a somewhat different manner from that of the first, and this has reference to certain distinctions between the clothing of a knight of the holy sepulchre and that of a knight of st. john. the seven steps are emblematic of the seven sacraments of the holy church, by the help of which the christian chivalries maintained their faith against the infidel, and also of the seven deadly sins which they trampled under their feet. the blazing star inscribed with the letter yod, being the initial letter of the name of god in hebrew, signified the divine light which enlightened the chivairies

an authorised ambassador of the secret headship or sovereign chapter in scotland. his mission was to organise the order in germany, and for a time von hund accepted and submitted, from which it follows that his own rite was still in very early stages. i make no doubt that it made a beginning privately circa 1755, and that a few persons were knighted, but von hund had enough on his hands owing to the seven years' war, so that from 1756 to 1763 there could have been little opportunity for templar grades under his custody, either on his own estates or elsewhere. meanwhile the clermont rite was spreading in germany and in 1763 there were fifteen chapters in all. there is hence an element which seems nearer certitude rather than mere speculation in proposing that the templar claim on masonry w

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

putting forth their strength. know also that there must come a twofold wind, and a single wind, and that they must furiously blow from the east and from the south. lf, when they cease to rage, the air has become water, you may be confident that the spiritual will also be transmuted into a bodily form, and that our number shall prevail through the four seasons in the fourth part of the sky (after the seven planets have exercised power, and that its course will be perfected by the test of fire in the lowest chamber of our palace, when the two shall overpower and consume the third. for this part of our magistery skill is needed, in order to divide and compound the substances aright, so that the art may result in riches, and the balance may not be falsified by unequal weights. the sky we spea

e, and in the lists, the heavenly father has bidden me make known to thee the following means of obtaining thy prayer: take blood from thy right side, and from the left side of thy spouse. for this blood is the heart s blood of your parents, and though it may seem to be of two kinds, vet, in reality, it is only one. mix the two kinds of blood, and keep the mixture tightly enclosed in the globe of the seven wise masters there that which is generated will be nourished with its own flesh and blood, and will complete its course of development when the moon has changed for the eighth time if thou repeat this process again and again, thou shalt see children s children, and the offspring of thy body shall fill the world. when phoebus had thus spoken, he winged his flight heavenward. in the mornin

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

out my life; it is to them that i dedicate this work. iv table of contents list of figures list of abbreviations abstract introduction tsiu marpo review of the literature methodology chapter outline a note on tibetan transliteration 1. tibetan text and context tibetan cosmography the divine hierarchy tibetan bodies and souls ritual texts important figures 2. origins where he began where he is now the seven riders settings variations tsiu marpo in history 3. iconography tsiu marpo and company the purpose of violence the ma..ala the ma..ala and tibetan deities vii ix x 1 2 3 5 7 8 10 10 11 15 18 21 29 29 32 35 36 38 40 47 47 52 57 60 v 4. text and ritual ritual materials the warlord s tantra the perfect feast petition offering the lightning garland fragment the ritual goal 5. oracle oracle f

rated texts at the age of thirty-eight. one such composition is the treatise which ascertains the three vows (sdom gsum rnam par nges pa i bstan bcos. ngari pa.chen s most famous text is a terma he discovered and composed when he was forty-six, the final gathering of the transmitted precepts which is the doctrinal cycle of the entire gathering of awareness-holders, the means for the attainment of the seven-chapter supplication (bka dus phyi ma rig dzin yongs dus kyi chos skor gsol debs le u bdun ma i sgrub thabs. this terma was discovered at samy; perhaps he discovered the warlord s tantra around the same time. along with his younger brother, lekden dorj (legs ldan rdo rje; 1512-1625, and a treasure-revealer named rinchen p ntsok ch kyi gyelpo (rin chen phun tshogs chos kyi rgyal po; 1509

t is necessary to begin with his origins. what follows is an account of tsiu marpo s birth and subsequent exploits as provided in his root tantra, the warlord s tantra by ngari pa.chen. portions of this account also draw on lelung zh p dorj s text, the unprecedented elegant explanations. after discussing his origins, i will explore tsiu marpo s current residency at samy, as well as his entourage, the seven riders. an analysis of the various settings found within the tsiu marpo narrative will follow, along with a discussion of significant variations within the story. the chapter will conclude with a brief look at tsiu marpo s origins within textual history. where he began what follows is a short narrative account of tsiu marpo s beginnings. this summary is based on the translations provided

armic benefits and food offerings. later, in india, the great spiritual master padmasambhava arrived at a charnel ground on the banks of a boiling lake of man-eating demons. at the midnight hour of the day he arrived, seven wolves with blood-clotted hair cried out. in response, the spiritual master manifested the form of the glorious tamdrin (skt. hayagr.va. the wolves retreated to their masters, the seven horsemen, and the latter prostrated themselves before padmasambhava. the spiritual master asked "who are you" the master of the horsemen replied "i am tsiu marpo, lord of the violence demons. previously, tamdrin conferred empowerments on my team, and from then on we promised to guard the buddhist teachings" padmasambhava then asked "tell me, where is your abode? who are your parents? whe

ower of the fierce, all-pervading vajra" later, when padmasambhava arrived in tibet, he was welcomed by tsiu marpo and his team of riders. there is some complexity in the conversion portion of this narrative. the root tantra explains that tsiu marpo and his team of horsemen were subdued and converted by avalokite.vara, yet its accompanying ritual scripture and lelung zh p dorj s text describe how the seven horsemen were initially subdued by tamdrin.46 after an encounter with 44 this refers to three realms discussed in the introduction; the heavenly, intermediate, and earthly realms. 45 one of the two main provinces of central tibet, the other being (dbus. 46 see mpg, p. 327.4 and appendix a, p. 159; and dcts, p. 122.18-20 and appendix d, p. 215, respectively. 31 padmasambhava, the horsemen

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly man" in the collective sense of the word, namely, from the creative spirits; and in the fragments (collected by george smith) of chaldean tablets on which is inscribed the babylonian legend of creation, in the first column of the cutha tablet, seven human bei

ge smith) of chaldean tablets on which is inscribed the babylonian legend of creation, in the first column of the cutha tablet, seven human beings with the faces of ravens (black, swarthy complexions, whom "the (seven) great gods created" are mentioned. or, as explained in lines 16 and 18 "in the midst of the earth they grew up and became great. seven kings, brothers of the same family" these are the seven kings of edom to whom reference is made in the kabala; the first race, which was imperfect, i.e, was born before the "balance (sexes) existed, and which was therefore destroyed (zohar, siphrah dzeniouta, idrah suta, 2928, la kabbale, p. 205 "seven kings, brethren, appeared and begat children, 6,000 in number were their peoples (hibbert lectures, p. 372. the god nergas (death) destroyed t

ng merged in their own progeny (by exudation; that is to say, the sexless race reincarnated in the bisexual[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] is esoterically a septenary which represents seven men, or rather groups of men. for the first adam- the kadmon- is the synthesis of the ten sephiroth. of these, the upper triad remains in the archetypal world as the future "trinity" while the seven lower sephiroth create the manifested material world; and this septenate is the second adam. genesis, and the mysteries upon which it was fabricated, came from egypt. the "god" of the 1st chapter of genesis is the logos, and the "lord god" of the 2nd chapter the creative elohim- the lower powers* thus saith pymander "this is the mystery that to this day was hidden. nature being mingled w

t was fabricated, came from egypt. the "god" of the 1st chapter of genesis is the logos, and the "lord god" of the 2nd chapter the creative elohim- the lower powers* thus saith pymander "this is the mystery that to this day was hidden. nature being mingled with the heavenly man (elohim, or dhyanis, brought forth a wonder. seven men, all males and females (hermaphrodite. according to the nature of the seven governors- book ii. v. 29- or the seven hosts of the pitris or elohim, who projected or created him. this is very clear, but yet, see the interpretations of even our modern theologians, men supposed to be intellectual and learned! in the "theological and philosophical works of hermes trismegistus, christian) neoplatonist" a work compiled by john david chambers, of oriel college, oxford

s, men supposed to be intellectual and learned! in the "theological and philosophical works of hermes trismegistus, christian) neoplatonist" a work compiled by john david chambers, of oriel college, oxford, the translator wonders "for whom these seven men are intended" he solves the difficulty by concluding that, as "the original pattern man (adam kadmon of ch. i. genesis) was masculine-feminine, the seven may signify the succeeding patriarchs named in genesis (p. 9. a truly theological way of cutting the gordian knot[[vol. 2, page] 3 the lemnos-born kabiri (potentially; the latter in the androgynes; these again in the sexual, the later third race (for further explanation, vide infra. were the tablets less mutilated, they would be found to contain word for word the same account as given in

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ism. 2 the one life, active and passive. 4 the secret doctrine- pantheism- atheism. 6 "space" in all religions and in occultism. 9 seven cosmic elements- seven races of mankind. 12 the three postulates of the secret doctrine. 14 description of the stanzas from the book of dzyan. 20- book i- part i. cosmic evolution. seven stanzas from the book of dzyan. 27- stanza i- the night of the universe. 35 the seven eternities. 36 "time. 37 the universal mind and the dhyan chohans. 38 nidana and maya: the causes of misery. 39 the great breath. 43 being and non-being. 45 the eye of dangma. 47 alaya, the universal soul. 49[[vol. 1, page] x contents. page. stanza ii- the idea of differentiation. 53 the absolute knows itself not. 55 the germ of life was not yet. 57 the universe was still concealed in th

e "principles" of nature. 119 the mystery of the fire. 121 the secret of the elements. 123 the square of the tabernacle. 125 the planetary spirits and the lipika. 129 the ring "pass not. 130 the sidereal book of life. 131 the soul's pilgrimage and its "rest. 134- stanza vi- our world, its growth and development. 136 the logos. 136 mystery of the female logos. 137[[vol. 1, page] xi contents. page. the seven layu centres. 138 the "elementary germs. 139 the evolution of the elements. 140 the building of the worlds. 145 a neutral centre. 147 "dead" planets- the moon. 149- theosophical misconceptions. 152 the planetary divisions and the human principles. 153 the moon. 155 transmigrations of the ego. 159 the septenary chain. 161 relation of the other planets to the earth. 163- explanations conce

formation of man: the thinker. 238 occult and kabalistic pneumatics. 243 akasa and ether. 257 the invisible "lives. 259 occult vital chemistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial s

. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and night

n. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle. 426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic system

BLUE EQUINOX

given in full detail by frater o.i.v.v.i.o. this is the record of a man who actually attained by the system taught by the a.a. liber dxxxvi. a complete treatise on astrology, by frater o.m. this is the only text-book composed on scientific lines; by classifying observed facts, instead of deducting from a priori theories. liber xlix: shi yi chien. an account of the divine perfection illustrated by the seven-fold permutation of the dyad. the equinox 16 liber lxxviii: a complete treatise on the tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all planes. liber lxxxiv. the completion of this book (begun in equinox i, vii, viii, which explains the system of the universe devised by dr. john dee (queen elizabeth.s astrologer) and sir edward kelly. lib

oundation of the new on, and thus of the whole of our work. liber vii. liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli, adumbratio kabbal gyptiorum sub figur vii, being the voluntary emancipation of a certain exempt adept from his adeptship. these are the birth words of curriculum of a.a. 31 a master of the temple. the nature of this book is sufficiently explained by its title. its seven chapters are referred to the seven planets in the following order: mars, saturn, jupiter, sol, mercury, luna, venus. liber vi. liber o vel manus et sagitt. the instructions given in this book are too loose to find place in the class d publications. instructions given for elementary study of the qabalah, assumption of god forms, vibrations of divine names, the rituals of pentagram and hexagram, and their uses in protection

ip, even as you have, whenever you wish to accept it. the equinox 186 and the moment you desire to do so you have only to remember this.look at things from the point of view of the sun. love is the law, love under will. 187 the sevenfold sacrament in eddies of obsidian at my feet the river ran between me and the poppy-prankt isle, with tangled roots embanked, where seven sister poplars stood like the seven spirits of god. soft as silence in mine ear, the drone and rustle of the weir told in bass the treble tale of the embowered nightingale. higher, on the patient river, velvet lights without a quiver echoed through their hush d rimes the garden s glow beneath the limes. then the sombre village, crowned by the castellated ground where, in cerements of sable, one square tower and one great g

of churches! the gods seem to send imbeciles like louis xvi. and nicholas romanoff, and certain other persons whom i will not mention, at the moment when free men decide that it is time to strike for freedom. hear the word of the lord: in the next few years sanine and his like are going to hang a lot of people to a lot of lamp-posts. 666. special supplement the voice of the silence the two paths the seven portals liber lxxi the voice of the silence by helena petrovna blavatsky 8 =38 with a commentary by frater o.m. 7 =48 v a.a. publication in class b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius the way lam is the tibetan word for way or path, and lama

ospels, in the vision and the voice, and in the books of it does not mean asceticism in the sense usually understood by the world. the 12th thyr (see the equinox, vol. i, no. 5, supplement) gives the clearest explanation of this phrase. 22. three halls, o weary pilgrim, lead to the end of toils. three halls, o conqueror of mara, will bring thee through three states into the fourth and thence into the seven worlds, the worlds of rest eternal. if this had been a genuine document i should have taken the three states to be srotapatti, etc, and the fourth arhat, for which the reader should consult science and buddhism and similar treatises. but as it is better than .genuine. being, like the chymical marriage of christian rosencreutz, the forgery of a great adept, one cannot too confidently refe

BOOK OF ENOCH

e same way. 23.3] and i asked saying "what is this which has no rest" 23.4] then raguel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, answered me, and said to me: this burning fire, whose course you saw towards the west, is the fire of all the lights of heaven. 9) the fragrant trees (pages 39-44) in this section, enoch is taken on another tour. at the beginning, 24.1, there is perhaps a volcano. then the seven mountains again, 24.2-3, this time with more detail. from-24.3 to 25.6, there are the fragrant trees. these sound like cannabis to me. the description at 25.6 of "drawing the fragrance into the bones, is quite an apt description of smoking it. the part where it says, at 25.4 "no one will have authority to touch it, could represent the present prohibition. at 31.1 enoch mentions galbanum

BOOK T

t in writing or translating any prayer books [to welcomrabook t- the tarot comprising manuscripts n, o, p, q, r, and an unlettered theoricus adeptus minor instruction a description of the cards of the tarot with their attributions; including a method of divination by their use h r u the great angel is set over the operations of the secret wisdom "what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven abodes which be in aushiah "and i saw in the right hand of him that sate upon the throne a book, sealed with seven seals "who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof' the titles of the symbols 1. the ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. the ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 3. the ace of swords is called the root of the powers

y. also affront, detection, knowledge, and in some instances contention and strife arising from unwarranted self-assertion and vanity. sometimes thankless and presumptuous; sometimes amiable and patient. according to dignity as usual. tiphareth of hb:h (beginning of wish, happiness, success, or enjoyment. therein rule hb:nlkal and hb:yyyal. xxxii. the lord of illusionary success seven of chalices the seven cups are arranged as two descending triangles above a point: a hand, as usual, holds lotus stems which arise from the central lower cup. the hand is above this cup and below the middle one. with the exception of the central lower cup, each is overhung by a lotus flower, but no water falls from these into any of the cups, which are all quite empty. above and below are the symbols of the d

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

ore intense the darkness, by so much more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, as it were, increased force from the blackness. the infernal habitations in the circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of the ocean, in the fourth circle is the false sea. upon the right hand in the lesser circles are names of the seven earths: 1. aretz- dry, crumbling earth 2. adamah- reddish mould 3. gia- undulating ground, like the side of a valley 4. neshiah- pasture, or meadow 5. tziah- sandy or desert land 6. areqa- earth 7. thebel or cheled- mixed earth and water. upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations: 1. sheol- the depths of the earth [or literally, pit -editor] 2. abaddon- perdition 3. titahion

e denieth a god; and he uniteth the forces of the averse chokmah. the third is othiel or gothiel, a black, bloated man-insect, horrible of aspect, his breth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of the averse binah. the fourth form is samael the black. all these are of gigantic nature and terrible aspect. the evil and averse sephiroth these be the evil and averse sephiroth contined in the seven evil palaces, and these sephiroth have their place from behind the holiness of the world of assiah. and samael the evil surroundeth the whole evil sephiroth who are thus eleven instead of ten. there are eleven letters in the word lieutenant governors: esther ix.3; eleven days from horeb, deut. i.2; the word where in deut. xxxii.37 is in value eleven; eleven were the curses of ebal; eleve

souls of the redeemed into heavenly blessedness. amen+ then finish by reciting jn 1.1-18, isa 8.19-22, ps 90& 69. the orders of angels. the shekinah the four great princes ruling over the four camps of the shekinah are michael, gabriel, uriel and raphael. michael is appointed over the water or seas, gabriel rules over the fire, uriel over the wind and raphael over the dust of the earth. these are the seven great princes which are appointed over the seven heavens: michael rules over the seventh (and highest) heaven. gabriel rules over the sixth heaven. shataqiel is appointed over the fifth heaven. shahaqiel, a prince of the host, is given dominion over the fourth heaven. badariel governs the third heaven. barakiel is appointed to the second heaven. pazriel is given the realm of the first he

most flame in the midst of fire" the seraphim the seraphim is four in number and is ruled by seraphiel; he is a prince, wonderful, noble, great, honorable, mighty, terrible, a chief and leader and a swift scribe. his body is like that of an eagle and he wears a crown. he is accompanied by satan, samael and dubbiel. these are the accusers. it is through the spirit samael in which the absolution of the seven deadly sins is accomplished, through the bidding of god. the ofannim the ofannim is four in number and is ruled by offanniel; he is a prince and rules over the moon. he is an ancient and great prince. he has sixteen faces, four on each side and 8466 eyes. he is beset with two hundred wings, one hundred on each side. the cherubim cherubiel is the prince of the cherubim and it is these ang

ur angels are the next above the galallim. they have four faces, four wings and weareth crowns upon their heads. the angels of the hyyoth act in service to the ministering angels of the throne of judgement. the galagallim these are eight in number and each has eleven angels which accompany them; they are ruled by galgalliel, who rules over the globe of the sun; and they rule under the dominion of the seven great angelick princes. the hosts and choir of angels the host of angels are eleven in number and these are their names: sallisim, parashim, gibborim, sebahim, geduthim, memunnim, sarim, haylim, mesarethim, malhakim and degalim. the angels of the twelve signs aries malchidael taurus asmodel gemini ambriel cancer muriel leo verchiel virgo hamaliel these are the angels which assist the mag

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either understand themselves nor can they understand time. 3.11. the great infernal empire is the threshold of chaos and abyss. 3.12. there are four main realms in the great infernal empire. 3.13. the first realm of the great infernal empire is the infernal government, with lucifer, belial, satan, beelzebub, astaroth, and pluto. 3.14. the second realm of the great infernal empire is the domain of the seven infernal grand dukes, whose names are: mephistophilis, ariel, anifel, marbuel, aziel, aziabel, and barbuel. 3.15. the third realm of the great infernal empire is the domain of the five grand ministers and secret infernal counsels, whose names are: asmodeus, leviathan, baal, belphegor, and lucifuge. 3.16. the fourth realm of the great infernal empire is the domain of the twelve dukes, who

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one. five the number of wo/man. it represents materialism, expansion, change, understanding and justice. it is three and two. six the number of cooperation and balance. it represents interaction between the material and the spiritual; mental and physical. it signifies psychism, peace and completion of the second plane. it is twice three. seven completion; old age; endurance; evolution and wisdom. the seven stages of spiritual transformation. four and three. eight the number of dissolution and separation.the law of cyclic evolution and invention. five and three. nine rebirth and reformation. intuition; travel; karma and completion of the third plane. three times three. zero the circle. infinity; the universe; the all. ocean: opportunity; spirituality. owl: wisdom; need for further evaluatio

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is called ament sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 85 chapter v. the fifth division of the tuat, which is called ament. in the scene that illustrates the fifth division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the fifth hour of the night, we see the boat of the sun being drawn along by seven gods and seven goddesses (see pp. 91, 95, 99, 103, 107. the legend over the seven gods is partly broken away, but what remains of it proves that it must have been similar in meaning to that which is over the heads of the goddesses, which reads "these are the goddesses which tow ra along in the tuat over this circle, and they make this great god to advance so that he may rest in nu in the tuat" in front of the seven goddesses march four gods, who appear to be under the

t" and who are described as the "great sovereign chiefs who provide food in this circle" p. 86 the first god is called her-khu, and holds a staff in his hand; the second is an-hetep, and holds the sceptre in his hand; the third is heru-hequi, is hawk-headed, and holds the crook in his hand; the fourth is ut-metu, and holds a tree in his left hand. the text containing the address of the sun-god to the seven gods is broken away, and all that remains of it reads "this great god maketh his journey by means of those who tow him over this circle in [his] boat" a portion of the answer of the seven gods to him is also broken away, but what remains of it reads "is opened to thee the earth to such an extent that thou hast passed over the beautiful land, and the roads concerning which ra hath spoken

our spears, o ye who stand by your tchefau food, who sit down to your offerings, who are the warders of food and bread and are the lords of the provisions in ament, isis giveth herself unto you, and ament joineth herself unto you, so that i may p. 91 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 93 stand up by you for your protection when i pass by you in peace" the "land of sekri" which is mentioned by the seven gods who are towing the boat of ra, lies immediately below the mound of earth, and forms, as it were, an oval island in the river of the tuat; its shape is, as m. maspero has said, an elongated ellipse, and it is formed wholly of sand. the "land of sekri" is described in the legend which is written at each end of the oval as "the horizon) of the hidden country of sekri, which guardeth th

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the fifth sephirah. the middle pillar, composed of the first, sixth, ninth and tenth sephiroth, is named the pillar of mildness. the ten sephiroth are also divided into a supernal triad, which includes the first three, and a heptad, which includes the sephiroth from chesed to malkuth. this heptad is the basis for many septenary schemes to be found in the literature of occultism. yet always behind the seven, and beyond it, is the supernal triad, for, as the book of formation tells us, the lights of emanation are "ten and not nine, ten and not eleven; that is, neither more nor less than ten. 4 "i am the eternal longing. this is an example of the author's use of gematria, the qabalistic method of establishing identities of meaning between words of the same number. each hebrew letter is also a

at of the letter-name i v d is 20. the ten ineffable sephiroth subsist eternally, but the manifested sephiroth come and go, as cycle succeeds cycle in the cosmic outbreathing and in-breathing. during a cycle of expression, therefore, when the sephiroth are both unmanifest and manifest, they arc represented by the number 20. all the forces represented by the ten lights of emanation are included in the seven spirits of god, or elohim. the number seven includes the number ten, because the theosophic extension of 7 is 28, which digits to 10, the heptad below the supernal triad consists of the sephiroth from chesed to malkuth inclusive, and this heptad begins and ends in 10, because the extension of 4, the number of chesed, is 10, and the number of malkuth is also 10. malkuth is sometimes calle

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da, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each beam of coloured light has its own wavelength and is absorbed by the body through the skin and the optic nerves. this triggers complex biochemical changes. each of the seven primary wavelengths or vibrations of light visible to the human eye focuses on different parts of the body, evoking in them both a physiological and psychological response. red has the longest wavelength of visible colour and violet the shortest. the colours that we can see make up only a very small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum and lie between the infra red and ultra violet ra

o rules rituals to protect water creatures seite 144 wicca01.txt and to cleanse polluted seas, lakes and rivers. colour: silver crystal: moonstone and opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancient concept in which kings and rulers were constantly tested to prove worthy of their sacred trust and so he is not an angel to invoke lightly. samael is also the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cle

ce and prosperity, not just for a minority but the good of all. he restores rundown areas or cities where unemployment has been lost, blending new skills with traditional knowledge. colour: blue crystals: lapis lazuli and turquoise incenses or oils: sandalwood and sage anael seite 145 wicca01.txt anael is the archangel who rules over venus. anael's day is friday. anael, the regenerator, is one of the seven angels of creation; he is prince of archangels and controls kings and kingdoms. his is pure, altruistic love, love of one's fellow beings and of all creatures in the universe. he can be invoked for all matters of forgiveness, both towards ourselves for what is past and towards others that we may be free from their thrall. anael brings harmony to places and people. he restores natural bal

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scriptures into latin. 410-485 proclus: epistles on alchemy. commentary on euclid's elements. 411: rome is sacked by alaric the the visigoth. 5th century latin text, liber hermetis, translated from the greek, gives special attention to the decans "man is called by the informed, a world, since he is wholly correspondent with the world s nature. indeed at the moment of conception there spurts from the seven planets a whole complex of rays that bear on each part of the man. and the same thing happens at the birth-hour, according to the position of the twelve signs" c. 420 "de nuptiis philologi et mercurii" martianus capella 475-525 boethius c. 475 horapollo of nilous hieroglyphica. suda refers to him as a leader of one of the last pagan philosophical schools in menouthis near alexandria, und

. friend of abraham ibn ezra. helped amalgamate ismailite thought and muslim mysticism to jewish thought. 1075-1129 rupert of deutz. trinitarian division of history: the age of the father from the creation to the fall; of the son from the fall to the passion; and that of the holy spirit from the resurrection until the resurrection at the end of time. identified an "age of the spirit "during which the seven spiritual gifts (isa 11:2) are poured out on the faithful, each gift dominating a different age of church history" 1075-1160 abelard of bath translates euclid into latin from arabic 1076-1153 shahrastani refers to sabian "philosophers" 1080-1167 bernard sylvestris school of chartres philosopher of neo-platonic and neo-pythagoreanism tendencies probably influenced by the writings of eriug

i visit the camp of the nearest mongol army on the frontier of asia minor seeking alliance with the mongol general ilchikdai (ilchikadai, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the islamic powers for the conquest of syria. 1248-1298 peter john olivi(known as enoch returned to the beguins) important joachite scholar shifted the focus from the three status of joachim onto his theory of the angels of the seven seals, granting the role of the sixth angel to francis himself. 1248 joseph gikatilla, spanish sephardic kabbalist born. christian armies under ferdinand iii take seville after 16 months of seige, despite muslim catapults, greek fire, and bowmen who pierce armor. mongol envoy sargis/sergius meets pope innocent iv in italy. 1248-1309 angela of foligno franciscan tertiary. 1248- 1251 oghul

e land "where dwelleth the pope of the idolators" tibet? 1331 commentary on "sefer yezirah" by meir b. solomon ibn sahula (rome, angelica library, ms. or. 45. 1332-78 ibn khaldun the muqaddimah "we saw with our eyes one of these magicians fashion the image of the person he desired to bewitch" 1335 petrus bonus of ferrara pretiosa margarita novella c. 1336 alaoddawleh semnani, persian sufi linking the seven prophets of the koran with the mystical physiology of seven latifa and referred to seven grades of being which constitute the ascent of the soul to the godhead. 1338-1400 geoffery chaucer 1329-1419 nicolas flamel (supposed) 1339 pope benedict xii orders an investigation into the alchemical activities of some clerics and monks c. 1350-1370: outbreaks of the "black death (mostly bubonic pl

and poet. first book to ascertain the historical truth about the writing system of ancient egypt on the basis of the bembine table, inscriptions on roman obelisks, the hieroglyphica of horapollo. 1557 catelin geofroy tarot(lyon. gabriel du preau -deus livres de mercure trismegiste hermes 1557-1607 thomas brightman. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore- seven churches prophesied the seven ages of church history. anticipated a jewish kingdom, separate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon t

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aken out of my hat into my hands, and thereupon presently through her page graciously requested them of me, and i readily sent them to her. and so this first act was finished about ten in the morning. whereupon the trumpets began to sound again, which nevertheless we could not as yet see. meantime the bands were to step aside with their prisoners, and await the judgement. after which a council of the seven captains and us was set, and the business was propounded by the virgin as president, who desired each one to give his opinion how the prisoners were to be dealt with. the first opinion was that they should all be put to death, yet one more severely than another, namely those who had presumptuously intruded themselves contrary to the express conditions. others would have them kept close p

our engagements, and not repine at the pains we were hereafter to undergo, but be helpful in restoring the present buried royal persons to life again; and therefore without delay to rise up with her, to journey to the tower of olympus, to fetch from there medicines useful and necessary for this purpose. this we soon agreed to, and followed her through another little door right to the shore. there the seven aforementioned ships stood all empty, on which the virgins stuck up their laurel branches, and after they had distributed us in the six ships, they caused us thus to begin our voyage in god s name, and looked upon us as long as they could have us in sight, after which they, with all the watchmen, returned into the castle. our ships each had a peculiar device. five of them indeed had the

a little upon the sea too, which was now exceedingly calm. and thus having good opportunity to consider more about astronomy, i found that this present night there would occur a conjunction of the planets, the like of which was not otherwise usually to be observed. now having looked a good while at the sea, and it being just about midnight, as page 66 soon as it had struck twelve i saw from afar the seven flames passing over the sea towards here, and taking themselves towards the top of the spire of the tower. this made me somewhat afraid, for as soon as the flames had settled themselves, the winds arose, and began to make the sea very tempestuous. the moon also was covered with clouds, and my joy ended with such fear that i scarcely had enough time to find the stairs ended with such fear

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horus overcoming those of the aeon of osiris. yet the only thing that can be said of seven is that it is an effective destroyer of six. it has no creative properties of its own; it has neither the strength of symmetry nor the magical powers of its asymmetrical predecessors (1,3,5. proponents of six-isms instinctively fear seven: they warn about such things as the seventh son of a seventh son, of the seven towers of satan in yezidi legend, of the seventh seal, of the jewel of the seven stars. seven is thus a harbinger of doom to six: a shadowing- forth of the apocalypse to come. geometrically and numerically, like the aeon of horus, seven has an "identity crisis. additions or multiplications or powers of seven yield all sorts of random values and relationships. eighth angle: the temple con

temple containing the trihedral angles is a truncated pyramid: the power of the trapezoid perfectly manifest in a golden section-based threedimensional structure. thus its architects are the masters of the realm (the all-embracing term for the iv+ in the original church of satan: the sorcerers who beam from their towers the powers of darkness to rebuild the world corrupted by six and shattered by the seven, and their seal is the seal of the order of the trapezoid (seal of the priesthood of the original church of satan. ninth angle: the culmination of this dynamic process: the black flame in its perfection: the 'will to power" of nietzsche in a glory of desire: the extension of the enlightened will and initiated psyche throughout all dimensions of space, time, and thought: what in the aeon

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

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the masters and the great white brotherhood of discarnate entities promoted by people like the theosophical psychic of the post-blavatsky period, alice bailey,2 is a theme that remains well entrenched in parts of what is known today as the new age movement. alice bailey claimed to 'channel' an entity she called "the tibetan" and she produced a number of books, including hierarchy of the masters, the seven rays, a new group of world servers, and new world religion. she said that her tibetan master had told her the second world war was necessary to defend the plan of god. that sounds ridiculous to me, but there are many in the new age field who believe that everything is meant to be and is the will of god, the super elite- the black magicians 205 even a global holocaust. it seems like a gre

al their food growing land and to destroy the industries and incomes of those in the developed world, also. in doing this, the elite create anger, despair, and division, the perfect combination for manipulation. that, my friends, is the 'free' trade the economists, politicians, and news correspondents tell us we desperately need more of. the word in my head at this moment does not bear repeating. the seven sisters oil cartel working alongside the banks, and owned by the same people, are the oil companies. these are responsible for countless coups and conflicts and the grotesque manipulation of sovereign countries. as late as 1882, oil had little commercial value. it was used in lamps and not much more. william "doc" rockefeller also peddled oil at $25 a pint as a cure for warts, snake bite

d 'protocols' rosenberg, at his estate near windsor castle. researcher oswald dutch claims that in 1931, deterding and his backers (the samuel family) gave hitler 30,000,000. eventually the 'oil wars' between the rival companies ended in the late 1920s with an agreement finalised at achnacarry, sir henry deterding's scottish castle. this created the anglo-american oil cartel which became known as the seven sisters. the meeting between deterding, john cadman of anglo-persian oil (bp, and franklin d. roosevelt's close friend, walter teagle, of the rockefellers' standard oil (exxon, was held secretly under the cover story of a grouse shoot. the seven sisters cartel has worked as one unit since then to control price and supplies to suit its sordid ambitions. the ultimate control is with the el

even sisters. the meeting between deterding, john cadman of anglo-persian oil (bp, and franklin d. roosevelt's close friend, walter teagle, of the rockefellers' standard oil (exxon, was held secretly under the cover story of a grouse shoot. the seven sisters cartel has worked as one unit since then to control price and supplies to suit its sordid ambitions. the ultimate control is with the elite. the seven sisters is comprised today of shell, bp, esso/exxon (standard oil of new jersey, gulf, mobil, standard oil of california (socal, and texaco. this virtual amalgamation of interests and policy mirrored to an extent the post-war banking mergers which created giants like the rockefellers' chase manhattan, the amalgamation with the kuhn loeb (rothschilds, bank of manhattan. the oil industry

ion, with appropriate compensation to the foreign oil companies. the iranian government also guaranteed supplies to britain as before and the employment of british workers in iran. the british government responded by imposing an economic stranglehold on iran, freezing her assets held in british banks, introducing full sanctions and an embargo on iranian oil. this was supported by other members of the seven sisters cartel. mossadegh went to the united nations to plead his case in 1953, but the security council, dominated by the us and britain, did not want to know. he then went to washington for help, but again got nowhere. the us sent a 'mediator' to iran with a delegation full of people connected to the american oil companies. who was this 'mediator? it's that man again..w. averell harrim

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ere also called the "shining ones. a theme of modern extraterrestrial research, and the reports of abductees, is that the pleiades star system, the so-called "seven sisters, is peopled by a blond, blue-eyed, race (and a reptilian one) and once again a reverence for the pleiades can be found throughout the sumer empire and beyond. the pleiades, in fact, is a grouping of some 200 stars and not just the seven with which it is associated. some suggest that alcyone, the brightest star of the pleiades, is the pivotal centre of this part of the galaxy around which our sun and solar system orbit. cherokee and maya legend in north and central america and the greek historians, apollodorius and diodorus, are among those who refer to pleiadians visiting atlantis. the greeks said that pleiadians had ma

e pivotal centre of this part of the galaxy around which our sun and solar system orbit. cherokee and maya legend in north and central america and the greek historians, apollodorius 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 diam

nehenge, avebury, glastonbury tor, bath, and iona were other significant druid centres. glastonbury tor (hill or mound) was located in the isle of avalon and avalon means "island of the immortals- a name that is common to many of these "serpent" centres. the island of iona off the scottish coast was formerly known as innis nan druidhneah or "island of the druids. the arch druids were indicated by the seven "serpent eggs" displayed on their breasts.54 the goddess artemis (dana, diana) was also depicted with eggs on her chest. was the legend of the mythical st patrick chasing the snakes out of ireland the destruction of the druid or adder network? if this was so, it happened for public consumption only as the knowledge was taken out of general circulation, but remained very much alive within

crocodile in their coronations. the great ancient egyptian city of alexandria was called "city of the serpent's son (alexander the great) and there they worshipped the serpent god, serapis. he was known as the "sacred serpent" or "fire serpent" and from this comes the biblical "seraphim, the serpents associated with yhvh or yahweh (jehovah. the temple of serapeum in i alexandria was dubbed one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as was the 400-foot-high pharos lighthouse in the city, which was topped by the illuminati's key symbol the lighted torch or eternal flame. in the temple, serapis was portrayed as a massive statue standing on a crocodile holding a staff with a serpent coiling serving the dragon: the past 129 around it. at the top of the staff were the heads of a lion, dog, a

s churchward reveals from ancient tablets and artwork that lemurians worshipped the goddess called "queen moo, and that lemuria/mu was called the "motherland. around the mediterranean the priest-kings were known as the "children of the serpent goddess".2 in this same region, temples and mystery schools were created in her name, most notably the temple of artemis/diana at ephesus in turkey, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. turkey (formerly asia minor, greece, and the islands of samothrace, cyprus, and crete were among the main centres of the goddess cult. samothrace "the sacred isle, seems to have been the headquarters for this in the mediterranean/aegean region. here the rites of the "sisterhood of daughters" of the goddess hecate were performed.3 she was depicted with snake

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oats of arms, advertising and company logos.that brotherhood creation, the european union, has a circle of 12 stars as its symbol.we are talking sacred numbers and geometry here. the proportions of egyptian statues,whether big or small, were multiples or sub multiples of 12 or 6.the numbers 7 and 40 are also code numbers in the bible and the mysteries. so in thebible we have seven spirits of god, the seven churches of asia, seven golden candlesticks,seven stars, seven lamps of fire, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven angels, seven thundersand the red dragon in revelation with seven heads and seven crowns. the story of jerichohas joshua marching his army around the city for seven days, accompanied by sevenpriests carrying seven trumpets. on the seventh day they circled jericho seven times a

ose thatcontrol the drug corporations do know, however, and they use every means possible tosuppress alternative healing methods which treat the cause and not the symptom.it is also the chakras which suck energy into our consciousness field and in a fullyfunctioning state we take in vast amounts of energy, particularly through the basechakra at the bottom of the spine. from there it moves through the seven major chakrasgoing up along the spine and out through the crown chakra at the top of the head. iexplain all this in detail in other books like i am me i am free. for reasons i will gointo in a later chapter, the more energywe suck into our energy field, themore power we have to create andcontrol our own destiny. it is vital,therefore, that those who wish todiminish and dominate us find w

the new united states by the babylonianbrotherhood in london. a letter dated june 3rd 1778, written by john norris, an agentof dashwood, says that he: did this day heliograph intelligence from doctor franklinin paris to wycombe.7the american war of independence broke out officially in 1775, triggered by theimposition by the british crown of higher taxation on the colonies to meet the hugecosts of the seven years war between britain and france, another brotherhood-manipulated conflict. the seven y ears war itself began after george washington, then ayoung military leader in the british colonial army, had apparently ordered the killing offrench troops in ohio. the seeds of revolution in america were sown when thebrotherhood in london ensured that new taxes were introduced and their represent

great whitebrotherhood of discarnate entities promoted by people like the theosophical psychic ofthe post-blavatsky period, alice bailey, is a theme that remains well entrenched in whatis known today as the new age movement. alice bailey founded the arcane esotericschool. she claimed to channel an entity she called the tibetan and she produced anumber of books including hierarchy of the masters, the seven rays, a new groupof world servers, and new world religion. bailey said that her tibetan master had toldher the second world war was necessary to defend the plan of god. that soundsridiculous to me, but there are many in the new age field who believe that everythingis part of the plan and the will of god, even a global holocaust. it seems like a greatexcuse to do nothing and a cop out of

the merovingians established the city of parison a major vortex point which is why the notre dame cathedral is built on that spot.meroveus, the founder of the merovingian dynasty, followed the goddess cult of dianaand this is not surprising because the epicentre for diana worship was at the famoustemple at ephesus in asia minor, not far from the alleged site of troy. the temple isnamed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. diana was known as queenof heaven, just like semiramis. outside the original paris- and now very much insidethe modern city- the merovingians established an underground chamber for the worshipof the goddess diana and for the blood rituals and human sacrifices to her. this site datesback at least to 500-750 ad and it was here that kings in dispute over proper

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the tibetan yogis and buddhists have an infinitude of mandalas which are claimed to be foci of various gods and spirutal qualities. additionally, mandalas are also used in meditation to draw in higher spiritual energies and to attune the practitioner to these spiritual forces. mandalas are designed to tune up a person's energy centers (i.e, the chakras) as there are specific mandalas for each of the seven major chakras. the pyramid shape has a rich history of shape power effects 5,6,7. what has been discovered is that the pyramid shape collects, intensifies, and focuses the aetheric or space energy around the pyramid. many interesting effects have been noted about the pyramid shape, such as the ability to mummify dead animals, fruit, vegetables, and flowers. the pyramid has also been used

y paradise geoffrey ashe, new york: a john macrae book, henry holt and company, 1992 6. a quest for the beginning and the end. graham hancock, gerald hawkins, new york: a delta book, 1965. 7. divining, the primary sense. herbert weaver, routledge& kegan paul ltd, 39 store street, london wc1e 7dd, 1978. c h a p t e r 4 pyramid energy 4.1 introduction to the pyramid the pyramids in egypt are one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the only one left standing. there are a number of pyramids in egypt as well as in other parts of the world. most of them are step pyramids made of successive layers of some building material, usually stone. the three most well known are the three pyramids on the giza plateau just outside of cairo. of these, the great pyramid has been studied and analyzed

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to hinder. the last page of the demonic bible is a diagram entitled the map of the spheres. the spheres illustrated are essentially archetypal. they have been described countless times in grimoires and magical treatises. in the physical world there are four elemental spheres: earth, air, fire, and water. there are also the four great watchtowers: north, east, south, and west. above the earth are the seven planetary spheres: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. beyond the planetary spheres are the fixed stars and the primum mobil, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the heavenly spheres. beneath the earth lies the land of the dead (hades, the tartaran abode (hell, and the realm of the abominations of chaos. all spirits, demons, angels, and other beings of an archet

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e demonic bible presents an independent system of magic which can be easily adapted to function with rituals from other sources. the magician could, for example, extend the invocation of his unholy guardian demon so that it takes place over a six month period of time beginning immediately after easter as described in the grimoire of abramelin the mage, or he could replace the rituals for crossing the seven planetary spheres with the rituals described in the necronomicon. while carrying out these rites he might also perform rituals from the satanic bible, the satanic rituals, the crystal tablet of set, and other satanic texts, or might simultaneously perform the pathway working of the ona septenary system. it is possible that the magician may dedicate a lunar month to forming each of the al

e union, however, regardless of the practitioner's sexual inclinations since magical marriage follows a natural balance (yin/yang, anima/animus) which exists in the physical world] crossing the planetary spheres preliminary statement i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. i shall cross the planetary sphere, the seven spheres above the earth. i shall now cross the *first of the seven planetary spheres *or second, or third, as appropriate the lunar sphere hecate, i invoke thee. hecate, i summon thee. hecate, i conjure thee. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. ope

forth, n, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate. come forth, n, and manifest thyself. n, grant unto me thy power. n, grant unto me thy knowledge. n, bestow upon me thy blessing. n, bestow upon me thy favor. come forth, n, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) ritual of descent preliminary statement i have crossed the planetary spheres, the seven spheres above the earth. and have walked amongst the azonei and the igiggi, the unzoned ones and the wanderers from the wastes beyond the stars. i shall perform the ritual of descent and shall descend to the realm of chaos. i shall now cross the *first of the gates in the ritual of descent *or second, or third, as appropriate the first gate ereshkigal, i invoke thee. ereshkigal, i summon

baptized in the river styx and in the flames of hell. i have been reborn in the image of satan, as a living demon in the flesh. i have been ordained as a priest of the dark lord and ambassador of his infernal empire. i have sat upon the throne of the infernal empire as lord of the living and the dead. i have taken the dark goddess as my wife and as my lover. i have crossed the planetary spheres, the seven spheres above the earth, i have walked amonst the azonei, the unzoned ones, and the wanderers from the wastes. i have performed the ritual of descent. i have descended to the realm of chaos. i have become one with the ancient one, the dragon of chaos. i have crossed the nine spheres, the nine angles between the worlds. i have stood at the center of the universe and become a god upon the

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empowering essence of your mind, it is the darkest recesses and atavistic desires which may be explored and mastered. azazel (azazil) is known within muslim lore to have been the same as the angel of death, who was most feared in tribal cultures. various lore describes azazil worshipped god in the seventh hell for over one thousand years, ascending until he reached the earth. azazil arose through the seven hells and upon reaching earth he then sat at the gates of heaven, tormenting adam and eve. the bundahishn relates an original tale of azazel or ahriman- the evil spirit, on account of backward knowledge, was not aware of the existence of ohrmazd; and, afterwards, he arose from the abyss, and came in unto the light which he saw. 10. desirous of destroying, and because of his malicious nat

rth one is yabel. the fifth one is adonaiou, who is called sabaoth. the sixth one is cain, whom the generations of men call the sun. the seventh is abel. the eighth is abrisene. the ninth is yobel. the tenth is armoupieel. the eleventh is melceir-adonein. the twelfth is belias, it is he who is over the depth of hades. and he placed seven kings- each corresponding to the firmaments of heaven- over the seven heavens, and five over the depth of the abyss, that they may reign. and he shared his fire with them, but he did not send forth from the power of the light which he had taken from his mother, for he is ignorant darkness. the apocryphon of john it must be considered that darkness cannot be considered complete ignorance that it is where the rebellious journey into it is the forbidden and u

hn "but yaltabaoth had a multitude of faces, more than all of them, so that he could put a face before all of them, according to his desire, when he is in the midst of seraphs. he shared his fire with them; therefore he became lord over them. because of the power of the glory he possessed of his mother's light, he called himself god. and he did not obey the place from which he came. and he united the seven powers in his thought with the 34 authorities which were with him. and when he spoke it happened. the apocryphon of john here we see that lucifer first awoke the other angels that they saw not only his brilliance, but that fire within them was awakened. he called himself a god, that which recognized its self-divinity and his power to create. thus here we find that initially yaltabaoth wa

e ocean of the subconscious itself. the mysteries of leviathan have for long challenged magicians, christians and occult scholars alike. let us seek to determine workable points which may present a clear definition of what this name means, how it may be used as a model in sorcery, thus presenting the magician in the coils of this dragon "the fleeing serpent, the coiling serpent, the powerful with the seven heads" a caanite description of lotan, a form of behemoth and leviathan. in the 60th chapter of the book of enoch, leviathan is presented as a great dragon which is of the sea, the primordial chaos which this great serpent dwells, and the very abyss. leviathan is also another name for rahab, the angel of violence. the concept of this mysterious dragon is, according to the system of justi

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of clergy (chief deacon/ deaconess) of a working lodge of the society whose station is at the white pillar in regular working, or at the middle of the hall during initiations to symbolize a balance and reconciliation of forces. heh-cha-loht: hebrew for "accent" see merkabah. heptagram: a star of seven (7) points drawn with a straight, single, unbroken, reflecting line. it's points are related to the seven traditional planets of astrology. the principle symbol of the argentium astrum [a.a,(q.v. hermetic order of the golden dawn, the [g.d: a secret society organized in the late 1880's. it was able to unite several forms of magick and occult philosophy. most books on magick written in this century have been written by people who were members of that order, or who were directly or indirectly

y have been written by people who were members of that order, or who were directly or indirectly influenced by that organization. hexagram: a star of six (6) points formed by two overlapping equilateral triangles. also called the star or shield of david, it is the symbol of modern day jewish faith. in modern magick, it is used to evoke (q.v, invoke (q.v) and banish (q.v) the spirits and powers of the seven ancient planets. a celestial symbol of the macrocosm (q.v) in the greater and lesser rituals of the hexagram. see lbrh (q.v. this figure is used by members of the order of the astral star when a figure involving planetary operation requiring the applications of elemental (q.v) fire (q.v) or water (q.v) is needed. hexagram, unicursal: a hexagram (q.v) that is drawn with a single, unbroken

krit for "warp and woof of all creation" or "that which extends knowledge" a mystical philosophy from ancient india (and later tibet) which sees the physical world as spiritual. also, several books about tantrik philosophy. tantra centers on the great mother, shakti, as the fountain of all life. in the west, it is understood in a narrow sense to be the yogic practices and rituals involve piercing the seven major chakras (q.v) of the body with awakened kundalini (q.v) energy. tantra of the "left hand" advocates sexual practices that have been traditionally condemned by ascetic christian and buddhist priests, yet their ultimate goal is an exalted one- no less than the union of shiva and shakti vessels of human flesh for the purpose of transcendent enlightenment. taoism: tao means "way" the t

ation and orgasm. tikune: hebrew for "correct" pronounced "tee-koon" according to donald michael kraig, the word tikoon is synonymous with the sanskrit word, karma (q.v. times, observance of: traditionally in magick, it has been considered essential to take into account the arrangement of the stars and planets in the heavens when working a ritual. even the hours of the day and night were assigned the seven ancient planets. a magician who takes astrology into account when working magick is said to observe the times. see hours, magickal. tipheret: hebrew for "beauty" pronounced "tih-fehr-eht" it is the sixth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalist

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, but rather the lower astral and etheric planes which, together, form the background of matter. upon the physical plane the divine emanations manifrst through what may not inapdy be called the ten mundane chakras, likening these centres of manifestation to the centres that exist in the human body, an exact analogy. these chakras are the primum mobile or first swirlings, the sphere of the zodiac, the seven planets, and the elements taken together-ten in all. 19. it will be seen from the foregoing that each sephirah will therefore consist, firstly, of its mundane chakra; secondly, of an angelic host of beings, devas or archons, principalities or powers, according to the terminology used; thirdly, an arch-angelic consciousness, or throne; and fourthly, a special aspect of the deity. god as h

f the unconscious. mystical qabala page 60 14. broadly speaking, then, we sort out the gods and goddesses of all the pagan pantheons into the ten pigeon-holes of the ten holy sephiroth, relying chiefly upon their astrological associations to guide us, because astrology is the [page 90] one universal language, for all people see the same planets. space is referred to kether, the zodiac to chokmah, the seven planets to the next seven sephiroth, and earth to malkuth, consequently, any god who has an analogy with saturn will be referred to binah, as will any goddess who might be termed the primordial mother, the superior eve ,as distinguished from the inferior eve, the bride of microprosopos, malkuth. the supernal triangle of kether, chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which ever

parently divergent as the mother, the sea, and time. 46. to each planet is assigned a virtue and a vice; in other words, each planet may be, in the words of the astrologers, well or badly aspected, well or ill dignified. we cannot go through life without noting that every type of character has the vices of its virtues; that is to say, its virtues, carried to extremes, becomes vices. so it is with the seven planetary sephiroth; they have their good and bad aspects according to the proportions in which they are represented; when there is lack of equilibrium owing to the unbalanced force of a particular sephirah, we experience the evil influences of that [page 158] sephirah; for instance, saturn ate his children! death began to destroy life before it had fulfilled its function. no sephirah, t

ala page 158 carries out the same idea of masterful and victorious energy. the god-name is jehovah tzabaoth, meaning the lord of hosts, or god of armies. the order of angels assigned to netzach are the elohim, or gods, the rulers of nature. 32. the four tarot cards assigned to this sephirab all contain the idea of battle, even if in a negative form. it is curious to note, however, that it is only the seven of wands which has a good, or positive, significance, the other three sevens are all cards of ill fortune. the reason for this becomes clear) however) when we understand the symbolism as a whole, so we will put it aside for the moment, and reconsider it later. 33. let us now turn to the consideration of the other set of symbolic images. the mundane chakra of netzach is the planet venus

e of the earth-plane, it may be as well to explain what these lesser cards of the tarot pack represent in divination. they symbolise the different modes of function of the different sephirothic forces in the four worlds of the qabalists. the suit of wands corresponds to the spiritual level; cups to the mental level; swords to the astral plane; and pentacles to the physical plane. consequently, if the seven of pentacles turns up in a divination, it means that the mystical qabala page 161 influence of netzach is playing a part on the physical level. there is an old proverb "lucky in love, unlucky at cards" which is but another way of saying that the person who is attractive to the opposite sex is usually in perpetual hot water. venus is a disturbing influence in worldly affairs. she distract

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mage to you, o ye lords of right and truth, and ye holy ones who [stand] behind osiris, who plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (9 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] utterly do away with (84) sins and crime, and [ye] who are in the following of the goddess hetep-se(85)-khus, grant that i may come unto you. destroy ye all the faults which (86) are within me, even as ye did for the seven shining ones (87) who are among the followers of their lord sepa.[1 (88) anubis appointed their place on the day [when was said 'come therefore thither" what then (89) is this? these lords of right and truth are thoth and (90) astes, lord of amenta. the holy ones who stand behind osiris, even mestha (91) hapi, tuamautef, and qebhsennuf, are they who are (92) behind the thigh[2] in the no

dess hetep-se-khus is the eye of (95) ra, or (as others say, it is the flame which followeth after osiris to burn up (96) the souls of his foes. as concerning all the faults which are (97) in osiris, the scribe of the holy offerings of all the gods, ani, triumphant [they are all that he hath done against the lords of eternity][3] since he came forth (98) from his mother's womb. as concerning (99) the seven shining ones, even mestha, hapi, tuamautef, qebhsennuf (100) maa-atef-f, kheri-beq-f, and horus-khenti-maa, anubis appointed (101) them protectors of the body of osiris, or (as others say (102 [set them] behind the place of purification of osiris; or (as others say, those seven glorious ones are (103) netcheh-netcheh, aqet-qet, an-erta-nef-bes-f-khenti-heh-f,[4 (104) aq-her-unnut-f,[5] t

text [chapter lxxxiii (1) the chapter of changing into a bennu. saith osiris, the scribe ani, triumphant in peace "i came into being from unformed matter (2) i created myself in the image of the god khepera, and i grew in the form of plants. i am hidden in the likeness of the tortoise. i am formed out of the atoms of all the gods (3) i am the yesterday of the four [quarters of the world, and i am the seven ur i which came into existence in the east, the mighty one who illumineth the nations (4) by his body. he is god in the likeness of set; and thoth dwelleth in the midst of them by (5) judgment of the dweller in sekhem and of the spirits of annu. i sail (6) among them, and i come; i am crowned, i am become a shining one (7) i am mighty, i am become holy among the gods. i am the god khonsu

rudders; and on the extreme right are four triads of gods, each triad having a table of offerings bearing a libation vase and a lotus-flower. text [chapter cxlviii (i) saith osiris ani, triumphant "homage to thee (2) o thou lord, thou lord of right and truth, the one, the lord of eternity and creator (3) of everlastingness, i have come unto thee, o my lord ra. i have made (4) meat offerings unto the seven kine and unto their bull. o ye who give (5) cakes and ale to the shining ones, grant ye to my soul to be with [1. in the turin papyrus, published by lepsius, the god wears the triple or atef crown instead of a disk and serpent, and the text describes him as "osiris the lord of eternity, the prince, the lord of everlastingness, the great god, the governor of akertet" behind the god stands

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lxxxvi] hathor, lady of amentet, dweller in the land of urt, lady of ta-sert, the eye of ra, the dweller in his brow, the beautiful face in the boat of millions of years.[1 [1. the few remaining words are corrupt] plate xxxvii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod41.htm [8/10/2001 11:29:28 oof the abbot trithemius is a very curious and interesting dissertation upon the ruling of the world by the seven great archangels, to each of whom in succession is alloted a period of 354 years and 4 months. the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mu

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le mingling in it the consecrated salt, with a little of the ashes which remain in the perfuming pan. the sprinkler is made with branches of vervain, of periwinkle, 3 of sage, of mint, of valerian, of ash and of basil, tied by a thread from the distaff of a virgin, with a handle from a walnut-tree which has not yet borne fruit, and upon which you will engrave with a magic dagger the characters of the seven spirits. you will bless and consecrate separately the salt, and the ashes of the perfume, in saying: upon the salt in isto sale sit sapientia, et ab omni corruptione servet mentes nostras et corpora nostra, per hochmael et in virfute rauch-hochmael, recedant ab isto fantasmata hylae ut sit sal coelestis, sal terrae et terra salis, ut nutrietur bos trituraus et addat vpei nostrae cornua t

soul, spirit, harmony and number of all things. amen. we exorcise the earth by the sprinkling of water, by the breath and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day, and we say the prayer of the gnomes. invisible king who has taken the earth as a support, and who has dug abysses in order to fill them with the omnipotence! thou whose name makest the arches of the world tremble! thou who makest the seven metals circulate in the veins of stone; monarch of seven luminaries! rewarder of subterranean workmen! bring us to the desirable air and to the kingdom of light. we watch and work without respite. we seek and hope by the twelve stones of the holy city, for the talismans which are buried by the magnetic nail which passes through the center of the earth. lord! lord! lord! have pity upon th

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ociation. his paper extrasensory behavior was presented at the seventh annual congress of the parapsychological association at oxford in 1964. abraxas (or abrasax) the basilidian sect of gnostics of the second century claimed abraxas as their supreme god and said that jesus christ was only a phantom sent to earth by him. they believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven greek letters which form the number 365, the number of days in a year. abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day. the older mythologists consider abraxas an egyptian god, and demonologists describe him as a demon with the head of a king and with serpents forming his feet. ancient amulets depict abraxas with a whip in his

e was yet six leagues away, and albigerius told the company assembled around him the exact moment when the priest would arrive. albumazar (or abu-maaschar (805.885 c.e) arabian astrologer of the ninth century. born in balkh, he lived in baghdad and was known principally for his astrological treatise entitled thousands of years, in which he declares that the world could only have been created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of aries, and that the end of the world will take place when these seven planets (the number has now risen to twelve) will be together in the last degree of pisces. his treatises include de magnis conjunctionibus (augsburg, 1489, introductorium in astronomian (venice, 1506, and flores astrologici (augsburg, 1488. he died at wasid, central a

ns suspected. the pebbles were then buried under the doorstep over which the thief or the sorcerer was to pass, and a plate of tin was attached to it, on which was written the words christ is conqueror; christ is king; christ is master. every pebble must bear the name of one of the suspected persons. the stones are removed at sunrise, and the one representing the guilty person is hot and glowing. the seven penitential psalms must then be recited, with the litanies of the saints, and the prayers of exorcism pronounced against the thief or the sorcerer. his name must be written in a circular figure, and a triangular brass nail driven in above it with a hammer, the handle of which is of cypress wood, while the exorcist declares, thou are just, lord, and just are thy judgments. at this, the th

tation of a dream (daniel 8:16.27) but earned his lasting fame as the one to announce both the birth of john the baptist to zachariah and the coming birth of jesus to the virgin mary (luke 1:11.38. developing notions about angels in the intertestimental period (the centuries just prior to the christian era) as the jewish notion of angelic orders developed, michael and gabriel were named as two of the seven archangels. the alleged prophecy of enoch states, michael, one of the holy angels who, presiding over human virtue, commands the nations. the same volume notes that raphael, presides over the spirits of men. and other angels who will become integral to western angelic and magical lore appear: uriel, who angel of north america encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 52 reigns o

ruler of adam. 3. ehjeh, attributed to the holy spirit, whose divine light is received by the angel sabbathi, and communicated from him through the sphere of saturn. it denotes the beginning of the supernatural generation, and hence of all living souls. the ancient jews considered the three superior names to be those above, to be attributed to the divine essence as personal or proper names, while the seven noted below denote the measures (middoth) or attributes that are visible in the works of god. but modern jews, in opposition to the tripersonalists, consider the whole as attributes. the higher three denote the heavens, and the succeeding ones the seven planets or worlds, to each of which a presiding angel is assigned. 4. el, strength, power, and light, through which flows grace, goodnes

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this theory of numbers agrippa applied to the casting of horoscopes. divination by numbers was one of the favorite methods employed in the middle ages. in magical rites, numbers played a great part. the power of the number three is found in the magic triangle, in the three prongs of the trident and fork, and in the three-fold repetition of names in conjurations. seven was also of great influence, the seven days of the week each representing the period most suitable for certain evocations, and these corresponding to the seven magical works (1) works of light and riches (2) works of divination and mystery (3) works of skill, science, and eloquence (4) works of wrath and chastisement (5) works of love (6) works of ambition and intrigue; and (7) works of malediction and death (see also numerol

t controversial of such tools. within tantric systems, the practice of maithuna may be either symbolic (the right-hand path) or actual (the left hand path. tantra seeks union with the goddess shakti and speaks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictured as lying latent, like a coiled serpent, at the base of the spine. in tantric practice, kundalini is released to travel up the spine, opening the chakras, and eventually bringing enlightenment. in right-hand tantra, th

the first in that of the second day, and so on until the five days are exhausted. each of these had a color, and according to the color first seen or noticed on such and such a day would it be fortunate to ask a boon of a certain god. a variation of this system, known as the five moments, was similar in origin, but possessed a muslim nomenclature. still another scheme, katika tujoh, was based on the seven heavenly bodies, dividing each day into seven parts, each of which was distinguished by the arabic name for the sun, moon, and principal planets. the astrology proper of the malays is purely arabic in origin, but a system of hindu invocation was in vogue by which the lunar month was divided into parts called rejang, which resembles the nacshatras or lunar houses of the hindus. each divis

mbay, 1895. radha, swami sivananda. mantras: words of power. spokane, wash: timeless books, 1994. shiva montra from mantra on net. http :www.mantraonnet.com. february 26, 2000. woodroffe, sir john. the garland of letters (varnamala: studies in the mantra-shastra. madras, india: ganesh, 1951. manu according to theosophy, a grade in the theosophical hierarchy below the planetary logoi, or rulers of the seven chains. the charge given to manus is that of forming the different races of humanity and guiding humanity s evolution. each race has its own manu, who represents the racial type. this theosophical concept derives from hindu mythology of manu (man; thinker, a series of fourteen progenitors of the human race, each creation being destroyed in a mahayuga (vast cycle of time) involving a delu

aith. amen. sela. so be it. water is exorcised by the laying on of hands, by breathing and by speech, and by mixing sacred salt with a little of the ash left in an incense pan. the aspergillus is made of branches of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash, and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin s distaff, with a handle of hazelwood which has never borne fruit, and on which the characters of the seven spirits must be carved with a magic awl. the salt and ashes of the incense must be separately consecrated. the prayer of the undines should follow. fire is exorcised by casting salt, incense, white resin, camphor, and sulphur therein, and by thrice pronouncing the three names of the genii of fire: michael, samael, and anael, and then by reciting the prayer of the salamanders. the earth i

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

tense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, as it were, increased force from the blackness. the infernal habitations in the first circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of ocean, in the fourth circle is the false sea. upon the right hand in the lesser circles are names of the seven earths: 1. aretz- dry, crumbling l 2. adamah- reddish mould 3. gia- undulating ground, like the side of a valley 4. neshiah- oblivion 5. tziah- sandy, or desert land 6. areqa- l 7. thebel or cheled- mixed l and n 3 the water of tears the water of creation the water of ocean \nhyg lbt twmyruc aqra twmlx hyx tjcrab hycn w yh f yf ayg wdba hmda lwac ra the false sea upon the left hand are t

enieth a god, and he uniteth the force of the averse hmkj. the third is laytu, athiel, a black bloated man-insect, horrible of aspect, his breadth is greater than his length, and he united the force of the averse hnyb. the fourth form is lams the black, and all these are of gigantic statue and a terrible aspect. the evil and the averse sephiroth these be the evil and averse sephiroth contained in the seven palaces of evil, and these sephiroth have their place from behind the holiness of the world of hycu. and lams the evil and black surrounded the whole of the evil sephiroth; who are eleven instead of ten \ynprdcjahw eleven were the curses of ebal and the dukes of edom. in the evil palaces, the first contains rtk, hmkj and hnyb. unto rtk is attributed laytrk (kerthiel, which meaneth "cut o

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

swer it. other times, though rarely, the entity with whom david had conferred, the master, would speak, always briefly. the master s voice had an odd, eerie quality and a tone of absolute authority. over many dozens of hours of channeling, this story emerged: just before moses was given the ten commandments, seven citizens of landa were elected by the masters for a mission on earth. the leader of the seven select, also called the habanas or the warriors of god, was daniel (pronounced dan-yell, the son of david and corinthian. once on earth, the habanas s souls occupied human bodies. with the passing of centuries, during which the habanas reincarnated repeatedly, other habanas arrived, filling earth with extraterrestrial agents who with each life gained new knowledge that would be useful wh

herself much closer to the hub of contactee activity. both truman be t h u rum and george hunt williamson (a contactee, fringe a rchaeologist, and alleged witness to ad a m s k i s first venusian encounter) lived in arizona. t h e laugheads, now resettled in southern california, dropped in from time to time. through williamson s channelings, the laugheads and martin learned of the brotherhood of the seven rays, a supernatural order dating back to lemurian times and headquartered in the present lake titicaca in peru. guided by further prophecies of imminent apocalypse channeled through both williamson and martin, the two along with a small band of disciples moved to titicaca to establish the priority of all saints in the remote northern town moyobamba. from hemet, california, the laugheads

class dealing with the higher laws of god, she said. he gave me full instructions. the lessons were brought and taught by michael and his angels. michael is the head of our class as well as our protector. she came to understand that her original vision was of the group she would form, the arising sun s interplanetary class of thee elohim. she explained to writer brad steiger that thee elohim are the seven spirits of god: chamuel, gabriel, raphael, zadkiel, michael, jophiel, and uriel. they stand before god and co-create with him, she explained. they manage and direct all forms that exist. in 1972 jophiel, the angel of intuitive light, told her that because she had managed to ove rcome your desires of the flesh, he and his colleagues we re giving her back the name she had held in her previ

uction few ufo abduction cases are as spectacular or as puzzling as one that allegedly took place in november 1975 in a remote area of eastcentral arizona. forestry worker travis walton s five-day disappearance received worldwide attention when it occurred, and it has since been the subject of books, television dramas, a movie, polygraph tests, and endless controversy. w 261 the incident began as the seven-member crew of young men, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-eight, were quitting work at 6 a.m. on november 5. as they left the site, located in the apache-sitgreaves national forest, they noticed, ahead of them, a brilliant glow, its source hidden by the trees. as their pickup continued down the road, they observed a disc-shaped structure, approximately one-hundred feet in diamete

m s o n d e l ved ever deeper into the occult and pursued his own attempts at space communication by various means. in 1955, he and richard mi l l e r formed the telonic re s e a rch center to establish radio and other contacts with extraterre strials, though within months he and mi l l e r p a rted amid much mutual re c r i m i n a t i o n. the following year he joined up with the brotherhood of the seven rays, a band of psychics and contactees (including dorothy martin, better known as sister thedra, and spent a year at its colony in a remote area of peru, convinced that cataclysmic earth changes were soon to occur. when they did not, williamson and everyone except martin returned to the united states. there williamson resumed writing books, one of them a thinly disguised anti-semitic wo

FAUST

ned, and mirror-smooth like steel! to climb there- why, the very thought slides down! and inside are great courts and roomy spaces girt by structures roundabout of every kind and use. there ye see arches, archlets, pillars, pillarets, balconies, galleries for gazing out and in, and scutcheons. chorus what are scutcheons? phorkyas ajax used to bear a coiling serpent on his shield, as ye have seen. the seven against thebes, each one upon his shield, a pictured emblem bore, rich in significance. one saw there moon and stars in heaven s nocturnal field, a goddess, hero, ladder, swords, and torches too, and all that fiercely threats good towns with violence. such emblems are borne also by our hero-band, aglow with colour, heritage from primal sires. there ye see lions, eagles, also claw and bea

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

terms found in the literature and teachings of the mystical qabalah, sufism, and the tantras. even then, transliterating the hebrew requires further decisions. there are some distinct differences between the sefardic and ashkenazi pronunciation of the same words, and the pronunciation of some letters may have been lost over time. clearly distinguishing between the two different aspects of each of the seven double letters also presents some problems. since the ashkenazi hebrew is a more recent dialect that generally developed and evolved outside of palestine, and was substantially influenced by european languages, the sefardic pronunciations have been selected as more faithful to the original hebrew and aramaic dialects of the middle eastern semitic cultures. throughout the text, an effort

reflecting the six symmetry breaks of modern quantum physics.42 some other authors have also speculated on the correlation between qabalistic formulations and the components of particle physics.43 another core idea in modern cosmology that finds its counterpart in qabalistic doctrine is that time is relative and subject to compression and expansion. the first chapter of torah b reshith describes the seven days of creation. in zohar b reshith, it says that the entire cycle of creation is contained in the first verse of torah b reshith. in this light, it can then be said that the hebrew calendar of seven thousand years spans the entire life of this universe in matter, which is currently estimated 8- f e 0 to be twenty billion years. the implication of this idea is that the sequence of event

of the chariot trust subsequently published sinatic hebrew, ezra hebrew, and english versions of the sefer hashmoth in 1971-72. most of the working and perfect forms of the tree of life that appeared in those books had never been seen before. the complete list of divine names contained in the work of the chariot edition is provided in appendix a. all of the various trees diagrams are included in the seven chapters of this text( the sefer yetzirah (book of formation) attracts heated debate about its authorship and date of origination. many scholars attribute a medieval or hasmonean date to the book. it is not in the scope of the present work to delineate the varied opinions that attribute a medieval date to the book s inception. the references to the book of abraham in the qur an (see sura

rting from crown/above, corresponds to the tree of the world of atziluth. the second circle within each sefirah, starting from wisdom/east, corresponds to the tree of the world of b riyah. the third and next smaller circle within each sefirah, starting from sefirah understanding/north, corresponds to the tree of the world of yetzirah. the final and smallest set of concentric circles, representing the seven sefiroth of the world of asiyah, completes the tree in the four worlds. 2 f# four worlds in the fallen and perfect trees (1) 5' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f+ four worlds in the fallen and perfect trees (2, 0*,0( consciousness manifests substantially in the four worlds as different shells of embodied existence (tvpylq, p.qlifoth, s.qlifah. the qlifoth of embodied human consciousness correlate wi

rise from the fact that the tree spans the four worlds, and at the same time, each sefirah is a complete tree. however, the sefer hashmoth and the sifra detzniyutha in the verses cited above clearly ascribe the yod y entirely to sefirah crown/above, the upper heh h with sefirah wisdom/east, and the vav v with sefirah understanding/north. the lower heh h and the world of asiyah are associated with the seven lower sefiroth beginning with sefirah knowledge/first. it may help to visualize the ezra letter yod y as an eddy spinning around a still centerpoint. this still centerpoint is the infinitesimally small point (smaller than the planck constant 2" 2' 8: 0 of 10-34cm) in sefirah crown/above, where the light of the endless enters the tzimtzum (contraction) and descends as the central column o

FLY THE LIGHT

t covens as the first witch and satanist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who ha

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

i, pp. 85 ff. 2 the attribution, which is incorrect, dates from the ninth century; see c.h, ii, p. 259: on the coptic version, see below, p. 431, note 2. 3 it is not known when the corpus hermeticum was first put together as a collection, but it was already known in this form to psellus in the eleventh century; see c.h, i, pp. xlvii-1 (preface by nock. 4 festugiere, i, pp. iff. m. w. bloomfield, the seven deadly sins, michigan, 1952, p. 342, and the references there given. festugiere allows hardly anything to it and concentrates almost entirely on the greek influences in the hermetica. a cautious summary by bloomfield (op. cit, p. 46) is as follows "these writings are chiefly the product of egyptian neoplatonists who were greatiy influenced by stoicism, judaism, persian theology and possi

ry b.c" the mystery cult theory is opposed by festugiere, i, pp. 81 ff. 3 hermes trismegistus was highly organised and at peace. the pax romano, was at the height of its efficiency and the mixed populations of the empire were governed by an efficient bureaucracy. communications along the great roman roads were excellent. the educated classes had absorbed the graeco-roman type of culture, based on the seven liberal arts. the mental and spiritual condition of this world was curious. the mighty intellectual effort of greek philosophy was exhausted, had come to a standstill, to a dead end, perhaps because greek thinking never took the momentous step of experimental verification of its hypotheses a step which was not to be taken until fifteen centuries later with the birth of modern scientific

viour, but through a religious approach to the universe. it is this religious approach, their character as documents of religious experiences, which give the hermetica a unity which they entirely lack as a thought system. the cosmological framework which they take for granted is always astrological, even where this is not expressly stated. the material world is under the rule of the stars, and of the seven planets, the "seven governors. the laws of the nature within which the religious gnostic lives are the astrological laws, and they are the setting of his religious experience. there is, however, a fundamental difference in the attitude to the star-ruled world among the various authors of the hermetica. festugiere has classified these writings as belonging to two types of gnosis, namely p

the will of god, which received into itself the word. and the nous-god, existing as life and light, brought forth a second nows-demiurge, who being the god of fire and breath, fashioned the governors, seven in number, who envelop with their circles the sensible world" the word united itself with the nows-demiurge, being of the same substance, and the nous- demiurge conjointly with the word moves the seven governors on which all the lower elemental world depends. after the nous-demiurge-word of fire and breath had fashioned the seven governors and set them in motion, there comes in trismegistus' account the creation of man, which is the direct action of the nous-father "now the nous, father of all beings, being life and light, brought forth a man similar to himself, whom he loved as his ow

ential man. although in fact immortal and having power over all things, he has also through his body the condition of mortality, being under destiny and the slave of the armature of the spheres "now, says pimander "i will reveal to you a mystery which has been hidden until now. nature being united to man in love produced an amazing prodigy. man, as i said, had in him the nature of the assembly of the seven, composed of fire and breath. nature from her union with man brought forth seven men corresponding to the natures of the seven governors, being both male and female and rising up towards the sky" the generation of the seven first men was made in the following fashion. female was the earth, water the generative element; the fire brought things to maturity, and from ether nature received t

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

rk, scorpio, sirocco, and typhon, the typhoon. in the egyptian list this head is described as 'hissing to come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered with solar p

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

english by lavey s fellow satanist, michael aquino9. another group which employs lovecratian elements in their workings is the black snake cult, or la couleuvre noire, a voodoo coven which combines the rites of the left-hand path with archetypes from the cthulhu mythos. its leader, michael bertiaux, is one of the chief adepts of the ordo templi orientis antiqua and its offshoot, the monastery of the seven rays, and was initiated as a voodoo-gnostic master in haiti in 1963. in his study of modern-day voodoo, cults of the shadow, kenneth grant describes a ritual practised by the cult with the intention of making contact with the deep ones at a deserted lake in wisconsin, the cult of the deep ones flourishes in an atmosphere of moisture and coldness, the exact opposite of the fire and heat g

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

oon. 3321. shed barshemath sharthathan, supreme demon of the moon. 3321. malka be-tarshishim ad be-ruah shehaqim, supreme intelligence of the moon. 120/ practical sigil magic individual s your first name) may be formed by using t, defined the numerical value of the name, the sigil is made by going over the chosen planetary camea. obviously, the same name will have a completely different design in the seven different cameas. now if we, for example, assign the purpose of a special sigil operation to a specific planetary sphere, we an, with this method of construction, assume the identity magical name is merlin. in hebrew, this would be written in the following manner (from right to left (final) nun yod lamed resh mem 700 10 30 200 40 e am is basic matrix. t (after the proper reduction of the

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

of god's bounty to man, we shall add that memory, imagination, taste, reasoning, moral perception, and all the active powers of the soul, present a vast and boundless field for philosophical disquisition, which far exceeds human inquiry,and are perculiar mysteries, known only to nature and to nature's god, to whom we and all are indebted for creation, preservation, and every blessing we enjoy* of the seven liberal arts and sciences. grammar teaches the proper arrangement of words, according to the idiom or dialect of any particular people; and that excellency of pronunciation, which enables us to speak or write a language with accuracy, agreeably to reason and correct usage. rhetoric teaches us to speak copiously and fluently on any subject, not merely with propriety, but with all the adva

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

. ii. the son, bel, el or baal, the sublimated fire, answering to 'hokhmah, wisdom. iii. the mother, immah, to ea, the sublimated water, to binah, the comprehending intellect. above all these is ao, llu or el, the unknown ideal deity; which parallels the ain soph, endless, to man's comprehension no- thing. this unknown ideal deity held the highest place in the chaldean mythology. under these were the seven planets in their seven orbits, or spheres; the probable germ of the idea of the sephiroth, or media between the highest and lowest worlds. 12 historically interesting as these general origins are, philosophically the most important correspondences are those connected with the sephirah 'hokmah; for in many places in the old testament and in the new, especially in the works of st. paul and

of kether, y, the father. here we see symbols of the former, the harmony, and the to be formed. all energy must have resistance, all light must have darkness, all projecture or emanation, a hollow or excavation to receive efflux. affirmation supposes a negation; if the first androgene had not been separated into male and female, the result would have been entire sterility, as was the result as to the seven kings of edom described in genesis and the qabbalah; and the balance not existing, the forms did not and could not exist, and the emanation of the existences could not proceed and be manifest. 9 sympathy and antipathy governed by harmony is the secret not only of the spiritual but of the moral and physical worlds. the letters od, heh, and vau are their symbols, and together they form yhv

ut of thought-forms, whether mathematical religious or whatnot in shape. they are all shadows, all in gsubstance h illusionary. pope said in his dunciad, see mystery to mathematics fly! h. still the keystone is mystery. to the qabalist the number 137 is a number of awe, a complete book of mysteries (qabalah hlbq= 5+ 30+ 2 +100= 137. from the ayin soph to the three supernal sephiroth and thence to the seven inferior spheres it symbolizes the entire universe; but to the astronomer it is the value of gthe finestructure constant h. 14 something very different, nevertheless something equally mysterious. yet to scoff at science would be foolishness, just as it is foolishness to scoff at any honest idea. science is a means to an end- the knowledge of shadows. so also is the qabalah, though it loo

we read and jacob [the vau] rose up that night, and took his two wives [the two hehs, also the pillars of the temple- yakhin and boaz] and his eleven sons [the conjunction of the five and six pointed stars, the microcosm and macrocosm; also the van and heh final, which symbolize purification through the balancing of opposites] and passed over the ford jabbok [the veil of the abyss which separates the seven lower sephiroth from the three supernal ones. and jacob was left alone [in meditation, being cut off from the lower emanations] and there wrestled a man [the od] with him until the breaking of the day [the vision of the shin. and he [the man- od] said, let me go, for the day breaketh [the od fearing that if the sun rose, namely the shin, his identity as the potential tetragrammaton would

on of the shin. and he [the man- od] said, let me go, for the day breaketh [the od fearing that if the sun rose, namely the shin, his identity as the potential tetragrammaton would be lost in the emanation of yhshvh, and his dominion would thus come to an end. and he [jacob] said, i will not let thee go, except thou bless me [unite with me, which he can only do through the two wives-the od heh in the seven lower sephiroth. and he said unto him, what is thy name? secret wisdom of the qabalah page 69 and he said, jacob. and he said, thy name shall be called no more jacob, but israel: for as a prince has thou power with god and with men [as above so beneath] and hast prevailed [attained to the spiritual vision. jacob then asks of him his name, but the wrestler is silent because his name canno

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

cybele, the universal mother, with the mural crown on her head, and the wings of pervasion growing from her shoulders, mixing the productive elements of heat and moisture by making a libation upon the flames of an altar. on each side of her head is one of the discouri, signifying the alternate influence of the diurnal and nocturnal sun; and, upon a crescent supported by the tips of her wings, are the seven planets, each signified by a bust of its presiding deity resting upon a globe, and placed in the order of the days of the week named after them. in her left hand she holds two cornucopiae, to signify the result of her operation on the two hemispheres of the earth; and upon them are the busts of apollo and diana, the presiding deities of these hemispheres, with a golden disk, intersected

aint glimmering. for all the really valuable moral and philosophical doctrines we possess, dutens has shown to have existed there" from what is known relative to the speculations of an ancient race, the fact is observed that creation was but a re-formation of matter. wisdom, or minerva, formed the earth and the planets; she did not create the heavens and the earth, as did the later jewish god. of the seven principles of the universe, matter was the first, and of the seven principles of man, the physical body was the earliest. through evolutionary processes, or through cyclic periods involving millions of years, mind was developed, and in course of time spirit was finally manifested. mai, the mother of gotama buddha, was simply matter, or illusion, from which its higher manifestation, mind

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

these points, when and where you will.7at the time of their meetingbothmen were involvedwithgeorge redway, waite as an author and machen aseditor of jluzlford's antiquarian,in which capacity he persuaded waite to produceessaysforthejournal, although in a matter ofmonthsit would come to an end. after the demiseoftheantiquarianthey continued toworktogether on redway's behalf, compiling between them the seven issues ofgeorgeredway'sliterarycircular,andwhenwaite'shandbook of cartomancywas published (pseudonymously) in1889,machen's delighful advertising puff,achapterfromthebookcalledtheingeniousgentlemandonquijotedelamancha,wasboundupwithit.8it was atjustsuch briefessaysthat machen excelled; he never enjoyed the labour ofwritingand marvelled at waite's capacity for it. hewroteabout waite's indu

th a brief acknowledgment from benson. i shall be curious to learnwhathe proposes to make ofourmasterpiece. you see he calls itmyplay: of course i told him that it was ourjointlabour. in any case, i feel certain that he will not give an order to his wardrobe master for the making of seven dalmatics of redsilk-tosay nothing of a set of red episcopal vestments. it would bepossibleof course to dress the seven as easterndeacons-albsand redstoles-buti should prefer dalmatics (20 september 1904).it would have been a startling departure for a shakespearean company. their lives,by1908,were beginning to separate. machen took up journalism and fleet streetjustas waite was leaving thecityand settlingdownagain to the precarious life of an author. he was also increasingly preoccupiedwithhis 'independen

to take shape in him. during seven days he will rule our thoughts, and will be therefore the ascending star which will govern during that period in the spiritual sky.thelessons and discourses which constitute the second division of the service will be followed by a dedicatory rite, which will openwitha choral hymn and a devout invocationallitany. a solemn act of dedication will then be made, and the seven-branched candlestick, which now overshadows you, will be lighted on the altar, representing the fivesenses,or faculties, and the two principles of the interior man, among otherprofoundsignificances.thesymbolic sacrifice of incense and perfume will be offered to the divine substance, representing the aspiration of the worshippers. acts of mystic renunciation will then be made by all prese

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

efull-eventhe name, for as a new order it required a new name, was grandiose: ordo roseae rubeae at aureae crucis, although this did no more than reflect the order's rosicrucian nature.theadeptus minor ritual was a re-enactmentofthe death and resurrection of christian rosenkreuz, involving the symbolic crucifixion of the candidate and the rising of the chief adept from the tomb, or pastos, within the seven-sided vault that was central to the ritual. both vault and tomb were intricately painted with a multitude of occult symbols, all in their correct colours, and the candidate received instruction in their meaning from the three adepts who initiated him.theeffect on candidates must have been overwhelming; even the normally cynical waite was impressed:'itcould not be denied that the culminat

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ndthe two heptagoni, so we kneeled altogether down, and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal god,whohath taught us morethanallmen'swit could have foundout,praised be his holy name.thevault was parted in three parts: theupperpartor ceiling, the wall or side, the ground or floor.oftheupperpart,you shall understand no more of it, at this time,butthatit was divided according to the seven sides in the triangle, which was in the bright centre;butwhat therein is contained, you shall (god willing (that are desirous ofoursociety) behold the same with your own eyes,butevery side or wall ispartedintotensquares,everyonewith their several figures and sentences, as they are truly showed and set forthconcentratumhere in our book. now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our care

atriach. this is a most curious philosophical scheme of creation, drawing a parallel between the origin of the world, the sun, the planets, the elements, seasons and man, and the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, dividing them into a triad, a heptad and a dodecad: three mother letters a, m, and sh, referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters referred to the planets and the seven-fold division of time, etc, and the twelve simple letters referred to the months, zodiacal signs, and human organs. modern criticism tends to the statement that the existing ancient versions were compiled abouta.d.200.thesepher yetzirahis mentioned in thetalmuds,both of jerusalem and of babylon, and is written in the neo-hebraic language, like themishnah.we must next consider thezohar,or

re, air, and water, the three first sephiroth. five to hold a lodge and seven to make it perfect, these are the hebrew seven double letters, parallel emblems to seven planets and seven lower sephiroth. three, five, and seven amount to fifteen, which is equivalent to jah, god, yod, and he, ten and five; every hebrew word is also a number, and the reverse. these seven persons, again, are typical of the seven most learned rabbis who held the assembly named in the zohar, idra suta, in which the essenceof deity is discussed as a holy mystery.thestill more holy assembly of rabbis, the idra rabba included three more, these formed the keepers of the veils of the original r.a. chapter, for whom the lower offices oftreas, i.g, and sentinel are now substituted; some very learned patron of the order c

ld testament to respect it asthecomplete statement of the relations of god to man, andboundin a more dogmatic manner than are the worshippers of any other religion by their sacred books, should yet have accumulated the vastest mass of traditional teaching that is known to the literary world.inthe apocryphal book oftobitthere is a mention in cap. xii. 15 of the angel raphael, who says 'i am one of the seven holy angels, and four other references tohimare found in the same book.128themagical masonaccording to one jewish tradition which has met with much christian support, they are four principal angels who stand around the throne of jehovah; they are michael, gabriel, raphael and uriel.inthe curious ancient jewish volume named the book of enoch there is constant reference to many named angel

spirit, the human soul, the animal soul or the passional element, and the material body; thus showing two higher principles from the celestian world and two from mundane sources. you will recall the harlequin, who is always veiled and is carrying a magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven divine and planetary forces as they are shown to man in the rainbow of heaven; he is always silent; with his wand he transforms the outward appearance of every object he wills to strike. colum255 bine, named from columba, the dove, is the human soul; she is constantly at the side of harlequin, is always obedient to his wish, is light, aerial and fairy-like, beautiful and pleasing;butshe

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e intense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, asitwere, increased force from the blackness.theinfernal habitations in the first circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of ocean, in the fourth circle is the false sea. upon the right hand in the lesser circles are names of the seven earths:[hebrewlettersommitted.]rg(i)aretz- dry, crumbling earth (2) adamah- reddish mould (3) gia--undulating ground, like the side of a valley (4) neshiah- pasture, or meadow (5) tziah- sandy, or desert land (6) areqa- earth (7) thebe! or cheled- mixed earth and water. upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations (1) sheol- the depth of the earth (2) abaddon- perdition (3) tita

l, he. who denieth a god; and he uniterh the force of the aversechokmah.thethird is othiel or. gothiel. a black, bloatedwlan-insect, horrible of aspect, his breadth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of averse binah. the fourth form is samael the black. all these areofgigantic nature and terrible aspect.theevil and averse sephiroth .these be the evil and averse sephirothcontainedin the seven evil palaces, and.these sephiroth have their place from behind the holiness of the worldofassiah. and samsel the evil surroundeth the whole evil 225 sephiroth whoarethus eleven instead of ten. there are eleven letters in the word28 the sorcererand his apprentice'lieutenant governors: esther ix.3; eleven days from horeb, deut, 1.2; the word 'where' in deut.xxxii.37 is in value eleven; ele

sephiroth are thus united in seven palaces. 19. in each of the 4 worlds are the ten sephiroth of that world, and each sephira has its own ten sephiroth; thus there are 400 sephiroth in total number, the number of the letter, tau, the cross, the universe, the completion of all things. and 400 is the square of the number 10 multiplied by 4, the number of the letters of tetragrammaton. 20. these are the seven angels ruling the seven planets under the seven archangels thereof: h cassiel.zl sachiel,r3zamael,oanael,raphael) gabriel.34 the sorcererand his apprentice21. the seven heavens of the planets are:hghareboth,2!.zebol,r3makon, 0sagun,raquie) shamain2.2.theintelligences of the seven planets are:2!.yophiel, cfgraphiel, 0 nakhiel,hagiel, beni seraphim, and ki267ha-seraphim,tiriel, jmalkah-be

archangels thereof: h cassiel.zl sachiel,r3zamael,oanael,raphael) gabriel.34 the sorcererand his apprentice21. the seven heavens of the planets are:hghareboth,2!.zebol,r3makon, 0sagun,raquie) shamain2.2.theintelligences of the seven planets are:2!.yophiel, cfgraphiel, 0 nakhiel,hagiel, beni seraphim, and ki267ha-seraphim,tiriel, jmalkah-be-tharsisim, ve255 ed: ruachoth,schechalim,23.thespirits of the seven planetsare;hzazel,2!.hismaelij.,r3bartzabel,s,0.sorath.te,tharethor,225.:dchasmodai s and shedbarshemoth .shartathan. 24. the seals and names .of'the intelligences should be used onalltalismans for a good effect. those of the. spirits of the planets serve for evil, and should not be employed in any operation for a beneficent end. these latter are subject to the' former;andwhen it is abso

in the reign of seun-ho, for the amusementofhis numerous concubines.i.f.vaillant,inlesromes,histoirevraiedesvraiesbohemiens,paris, 1857, says that the chinese have a drawing divided into compartments or series, based on combinationsofthe number 7.'itso closely resembles thetarot,thatthefour suits of the latter occupy its first four columns; ofthetwenty-oneatoutsfourteen occupythefifth column, and the seven otheratoutsthe sixth column.thissixth column of sevenatoutsis thatofthe six days of the week of creation. now, according to the chinese, this representation belongstothe first agesoftheir empire, to the drying up of the waters of the deluge bylao;it may be concluded, therefore, that it is an original, or a copyofthetarot,and,underany circumstances, that the latter is of an origin anterio

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he traditional model, the neo-platonic cosmos, theosophical and modern maps, the kabbalistic tree of life, yggdrasil:the world tree. 3 first principles who or what is god? what s in a name? the pleroma, the divine will, logos and sophia, what about jesus? jesus, christ and logos, what is sophia, the polarity of the god and goddess, impersonal to personal, the solar logos:christ, gods and spirits, the seven spirits (logoii, the seven planes, the earth and the underworld, the immortals. 4 the secret of saturn the secret of saturn, perceptional dualism, the watchers of enoch, archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild, the battle within, summary:the nature of evil in gnosticism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gnostic concept of time (yugas, historical models of cyclic time, rene guenon

onal immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven and hell, hell on earth and what is heaven. 9 the mystery of deification what is the aim of this spiritual process? the nature of theosis, the mystery, to be born again, the nature of transfiguration, the two paths, the mysteries and the mystery of the melchisedek priesthood. 10 the seven stages of salvation first steps:repentance, first steps:detachment and controlled awareness, first steps:study, conviction and emotion, faith and education, baptism, initiation, the anointing and living the life of a gnostic:overcoming the dialectic system and life on the path 11 the secret way celestial transfiguration, going beyond the law, the parfait, wisdom from india, the secret of

g from max heindel's rosicrucian cosmo conception to the work of rudolf steiner and alice bailey. in theosophy and related traditions, there is an original nothing or absence (1st c, a triune principle of will, the word and wisdom (2nd c) and a series of seven planes which bring together the other characteristics. the underworld is subsumed within the astral plane which is heindel s desire plane. the seven planes according to the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (heindel) divine plane. plane of virgin spirits. plane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies

lane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies of man, seven colours and rays etc. it can also be counter traditional and reductionist. the tendency is to use the seven planes in a standard "scientific" chart and ignore the more organic view that was held of the planes in early theosophy. in the next chapter we will examine this in more detail and consider it in terms of the gnostic tradition. the kabbalistic tree of life the kabbalah is a system of some controversy, it has been heralded as the greatest mystical system of all, handed down by moses and g

luminous realities, from the highest forces or aeons to choirs and angels. traditionally this complete spiritual kingdom is known as the pleroma or fullness, because it is filled to the brim with light and life. at the same time, the major spiritual forces within it are known as aeons. while in the gnostic tradition we tend to emphasize the three principles, the divine will, logos and sophia and the seven spirits or aeons, there is a universe of created beings which exist in the pleroma and which fulfill the creative directive expressed by the lord of wisdom. in one gnostic tradition, michael (as a manifestation of the logos ray) and first the gnostic handbook page 26 estate predecessor of jesus, who was the first created immortal. the divine will the divine will is the first principle of

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riptions of his disciples in the gospels have such an application. there are 12 disciples, 70 outer disciples and then the multitudes. here we have an obviously hierarchical structure. the twelve disciples who are symbolic of twelve signs of the zodiac and the twelve tribes of israel. they may be related to the innermost teachings- the esoteric mysteries. the seventy disciples who are symbolic of the seven rays and the seven days of creation etc. they may be related to the mesoteric or intermediate teachings. the multitudes who are symbolic of the exoteric or outer teachings. to understand the alpha event we need to consider the various myths, legends and religious stories and deduce the essential event from behind them. due consideration should be given to the way in which myth and legend

in theological terms the first cause energises the logos or the word (the matrix) and the multi-faceted universe results. in this model we can see three distinct stages: gnostic theurgy page 23 1. the source of energy. 2. the matrix. 3. the resulting spectrum. this can be applied to many different levels of spiritual reality. from a universal perspective it can be seen as a way to understand how the seven planes of existence are formed and how the one becomes the many. when considering humanity our model is even more expressive, energy is received into the mind/brain complex (the matrix) and it is distributed through the sevenfold systems in the organism. these systems vary depending on the form of energy received, we have the seven states of consciousness, the seven chakras or, on a more

of existence are formed and how the one becomes the many. when considering humanity our model is even more expressive, energy is received into the mind/brain complex (the matrix) and it is distributed through the sevenfold systems in the organism. these systems vary depending on the form of energy received, we have the seven states of consciousness, the seven chakras or, on a more physical level, the seven phases of the endocrine system and related physiological structures. ramifications of the refraction model when we begin to contemplate this model we can start to see how eloquent it really is. the first consideration is what variations can be made to effect the spectrum s results. two answers come to mind: fig 4 1. source of energy 2. the matrix. 3. the resulting spectrum gnostic theurg

hich operate within these alternate realities. to get a more comprehensive picture we should discuss each plane in detail. the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of kether in the kabbalah and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the source of light originates. this is the goal for those on the celestial path. the seven planes. four worlds traditional lifeforms (rosicrucian (kabbalah. divine plane. atziluth. source of all light. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of life spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of thought. yetzirah. angels. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. physical world. assiah. human spirits. from briah through to assiah there are mixtur

human spirits. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 28 the plane of virgin spirits this is also known as the monadic plane. from this plane the true self (yechidah) or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in a embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarisation and differentiation originates. it is on this level that the seven rays regulate the cycles of creation. the divine plane and the plane of the virgins spirits are equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. t

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

"for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" give the adoration to the lord of the universe go to the north and give the zelator sign facing north recite the prayer of the gnomes: o invisible king who, taking the earth for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name shaketh the arches of the world! thou who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rocks! king of the seven lights! rewarder of the subterranean workers! lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendor. we watch and we labor unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the lodestone which passes through the center of the earth. o lord, o lord, o lor

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

m/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:59 am the prayers of the elementals from dogme et rituel de haute magie by eliphaz l vi translated by persons unknown the prayer of the gnomes or earth spirits. o invisible king, who, taking the earth for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name shaketh the arches of the world, thou who causest the seven metals to flow in the veins of the rocks, king of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean workers, lead us into the desirable air and into the realm of splendour. we watch and we labour unceasingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the buried talismans, by the axis of the lodestone which passes through the centre of the earth o lord, o lord, o lord! h

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erial herein with the current published material available. the z.a.m. should create the symbol in its various colors on a black background. this symbol then should be studied and utilized for "skrying in the spirit vision" it should also be utilized in all important magical operations in which the hexagram must be employed. the hexagram is a potent magical symbol that represents the operation of the seven planets under the presidency of the sephiroth and the letters of the seven lettered notarikon or name: atyrara. as the pentagram is the signet star of the microcosm, the hexagram is the signet star of the macrocosm (see full page diagram of complete hexagram) ararita atyrara atyrara is a notarikon that forms the divine name of seven letters with the hebrew initials of the sentence: dja w

wsy and is represented by the bow and shaft of luna. in the center of the lowest point of the hexagram is the letter a, the seventh letter in the name atyrara. around the outside of the flaming hexagram is written "one beginning of his unity, one beginning of his individuality, his permutation is one" this is expressed in english. in hebrew at the angles from which the divine issueth its rays are the seven letters of the name atyrara. the hexagram rituals in the supreme ritual of the hexagram, the hexagram is traced in accordance with the attributions of the sephiroth on the tree of life. the uppermost point or angle alludes to the supernals, but its point answereth to tud. the bottom angle answereth unto dwsy, and the remaining points of the hexagram or angles unto the remaining sephiroth

ts 1. when you desire to attract the force of the zodiac in the supreme ritual, trace in the center of the hexagram the planet that rules the zodiacal force desired and the sign of the zodiac beneath the planetary sign. 2. if the desired force is not sufficient, trace also the invoking pentagram of the sign. 3. when invoking a planet, vibrate the divine name of the sephira which rules the planet, the seven lettered name atyrara, and also the particular letter of that name which corresponds to that specific planet. illustrations: a a l r r" a a? r r a i y! t t- a a 5 4. when invoking a planetary force, find the quarter of the heavens that the planet is situated at the time. 21 5. always consecrate and guard your place of working by using the b.r.h. 6. after performing the b.r.h, then perfor

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

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hin a circle. the rose cross lamen is one of the most powerful pieces of spiritual telesmata that the adept posseses. it is important to draw a circle around the lamen, to contain the energy to that particular location or talisman. step 15 holding the white portion of the lotus wand, trace a circle over the outer twelve petals of the rose while vibrating "ynda" step 16 trace a smaller circle over the seven middle petals of the rose while vibrating "atyrara" step 17 trace an even smaller circle over the innermost petals of the rose and vibrate the divine name "hwhy" step 18 from the top of the rose cross lamen to the bottom, draw a vertical line while vibrating "hyha" from the left of the rose cross lamen to the right, draw a horizontal line while vibrating"\yhla" 8 step 19 wrap the newly c

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

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fixed signs are attributed to h and are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittery in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are considered the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. the four elements are most earthy, their operation being mainly terrestial in nature. note: the reason the l symbol is used in place of the b symbol is as follows "though one of the seven lords who wander, l is yet classed with those who abide because it is the heaviest of the seven and thus formeth a link between the wanderers and the abiders" this should explain why l is not included with the rest of the wanderers (planets) in the sephirotic cross. example (shaded areas are blue) b angle of water tablet aces& court cards attributions on tablet of union: here be the attr

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he ruach where it acts on the rays from hmkj and hnyb which govern the reason- tud. this faculty can be thrown downward into the 6 ruach, and thence, can radiate into the nephesch. it consists of seven manifestations answer to the hexagram, and it is like the soul of the microprosopus or the \yhla of the human tetragrammaton. therefore, in the head, which is the natural and chief seat, are formed the seven apertures of the head. this is the spiritual consciousness as distinct from the human consciousness. it is manifested in seven, as just stated, or in eight if tud be included. the father is the sun, hmkj. the mother is the moon, hnyb. the wind beareth it in its bosom, the ruach. its nurse is the earth, the nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the f

is the spiritual consciousness as distinct from the human consciousness. it is manifested in seven, as just stated, or in eight if tud be included. the father is the sun, hmkj. the mother is the moon, hnyb. the wind beareth it in its bosom, the ruach. its nurse is the earth, the nephesch. the power is manifested when it can be vibrated through the earth. the following is the true attributions of the seven appetures of the head: right ear- l; right eye- a; mouth- b; right nostril- f; left ear- k; left eye- 5; left nostril- c. these latter represent here the sonofirerous sense. the right and left eye, the luminous sense, as the sun and the moon are the illuminaries of the macrocosm. the right and left nostrils through which the breath passes, giving strength to the physical body are under f

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een olive yet rich and glowing withal. and the synthesis of all these is a blackness which bordereth upon the typylq. thus are the colors of the sephiroth completed in their feminine or rainbow scale. moreover, though the \yyhj u operates through all the ten sephiroth, yet it is referred in a special manner to trapt. also, though the branches of the tree of knowledge of good and evil stretch into the seven lower sephiroth and downwards into the kingdom of shells, yet it is referred especially unto twklm. similarly with jxn and dwh, the right and left columns of the sephiroth are referred respectively thereto. in twklm, rah ynda is god, the lord and king, ruling over the kingdom and empire which is the visible universe. and twdwsy \lwu the world of foundations, the world of the elements, is

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hape suitable to the forces he represents. on the dais are places for the three chiefs, the past hierophant and the hierophant. the order in which they sit (as you face east) is: imperator--nephthys cancellarious--thoth hierophant--osiris past hierophant--aroueris praemonstrator--isis the names below are those of the god-forms they represent. the following are the descriptions of the god-forms of the seven officers of the neophyte grade. hierophant: osiris in the netherland. expounder of the mysteries in the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth. the hierophant is represented by two god-forms, the passive and active aspects of osiris. seated on the dais as hierophant, he is clothed in the god-form of osiris. he wears the tall white crown of the south flanked by feathers st

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ence. in my heart is hwchy, the reconciler who is the symbol of the red 5 rose on the golden cross. my two thighs are as mighty pillars on the right and on the left supporting me; splendor and victory, for they cross with the currents reflected from the supernal light. i am established as an eternal rock of righteousness, for dwsy is the foundation of the righteous. the sphere of my nephesch, and the seven palaces of twklm are cleansed and consecrated, balanced and pure, in the might of thy name, ynda, to whom be twklm, hlwdg, hrwbg, the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley. amen" step 10 perform the advanced middle pillar and the circulation of the body. seal the energy by drawing a rose cross before you. step into it. step 11 assume the god form of hoorpokratist. say "hoorpokratist

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gons. so we kneeled down altogether, and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal god, who hath taught us more than all men's wits could have found out, praised be his holy name. this vault we parted into three parts, the upper part or ceiling, the wall or side, the ground or floor. of the upper part you shall understand no more at this time but that it was divided according to the seven sides in the triangle which was in the bright center; but what therein is contained you (that are desirous of our society) shall, god willing, behold the same with your own eyes. every side or wall is parted into ten squares, every one with their several figures and sentences, as they are truly shewn and set forth concentratum here in our book. the bottom again is parted in the triangle

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orward the great work" step 27 pass forward to between the pillars. with arms in the form of a cross, attract the genius from above, and say "o mighty being, the locks of whose head are formed from the divine white brilliance of the eternal crown, who are clothed with the garment of purity, and girt with the golden girdle of the sun of beauty, in whose right hand are grasped with an absolute rule the seven mighty archangels who govern the seven states of mortal man, grant unto me the power, i beseech thee, to rise above the planetary darkness wherein i must live, here on earth, until my regeneration is accomplished. out of the darkness may the light arise for me. o thou, from whose mouth cometh the sword of flame, rend, i beseech thee, with that sword the evils of darkness which hide from

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igher grades for those of you who would wish to pursue this hexagram and its workings. in regards to the traditional hexagram, which is often times called the star of david or jewish star. it represents the force of the planets acting through the various signs of the zodiac. this is very powerful and effective in sealing the astral image of nature under the presidency of the sephiroth, as well as the seven palaces. the hexagram is especially attributed to a. this symbol is one of great power and of great strength. in it are both the combination of the pentagram and the cross, thus, forming a very potent and positive triad which are in harmony with each other. the heptangle refers to the seventh sephira of jxn. as we disperse the power of the seven planets through the week and the year, we

ed to a. this symbol is one of great power and of great strength. in it are both the combination of the pentagram and the cross, thus, forming a very potent and positive triad which are in harmony with each other. the heptangle refers to the seventh sephira of jxn. as we disperse the power of the seven planets through the week and the year, we have the creation of the heptagon. it also alludes to the seven colors of the rainbow. the heptagram is the star of f and is applicable to her nature. the lineal figure of the seven planets is the heptagram, which is representative of f gates or entrances. it is also a fitting symbol of the isis of nature, as well as the seven lower sephiroth of the bride. this is a powerful symbol when f or jxn energy needs to be employed. it is extremely effective

t symbol representing the binding together of concentrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enneagon. it also shows the operating power of nature by the dispersal of the rays of the seven planets, and of the head and tail of the dragon of the moon, otherwise known as cauda and caput draconis. when we reflect on the enneagram from every third point, we find that we arrive at the triple ternary operating both in the seven planets with the cauda and caput draconis of 5 and also with the alchemical principles counterchanged and interwoven. it is not akin much to the nature of

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

began to settle during periods of relative calm, that a degree of global warming would have occurred. a number of authorities attribute the repeated advances and retreats of the great ice sheets to precisely this see-saw interaction between volcanism and climate.34 global flooding geologists agree that by 8000 bc the great wisconsin and wurm ice-caps had retreated. the ice age was over. however, the seven thousand years 31 path of the pole, p. 133, 176. 32 the evolving earth, guild publishing, london, 1989, p. 30. 33 ice ages: solving the mystery, p. 64. 34 path of the pole, pp. 132-5. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 213 prior to that date had witnessed climatic and geological turbulence on a scale that was almost unimaginable. lurching from cataclysm to disaster and from misfortu

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

contact witnesses, but speedily developed a vast following of his own for his channeled communications. other communications were by radio. a mysterious and elusive figure, his best-known works include the saucers speak and other tongues, other flesh, but he was sometimes rumored dead long before his (presumed) actual demise in january 1986. ric williamson organized the mysterious brotherhood of the seven rays, which he presided over as brother philip in a remote retreat high in the andes mountains of south america. he was certainly an initiate, much given to ciphers and intrigue. one can only guess at his complex motives. 18 allen h. greenfield the grid page from liber al vel legis. 19 3 secret cipher of the ufonauts discovered a s those who have studied the prehistory of ufology will te

gordon melton has gone so far as to describe the contactees as an emerging religious movement with an impetus and a life of their own. as with the theosophical masters and the secret chiefs of magick, there is a political as well as spiritual undertone in contactee lore. of particular note is the work of george hunt ric williamson (a/k/a brother philip, d. january 1986, head of the brotherhood of the seven rays with an abbey near lake titicaca in south america. williamson was a serious student of the new bible oahspe, and, perhaps, from india to the planet mars (which influenced occultism in that period. williamson acted as a bridge from 19th century occult mediumship to modern trance channeling. veteran ufologist james w. moseley tells us that williamson would go into mediumlike trances a

symbols. one seems to be the royal arch masonic glyph for x written three times, translated beneath as births give cataclysms. during hunrath and wilkinsin s channeling period, ric williamson took to calling himself by his space name, mark iii, and hunrath and wilkinsin became known as firkon and ramu. later, after firkon and ramu mysteriously disappeared, ric williamson set up his brotherhood of the seven rays in a remote south american location, to deliver messages from ascended master araru-muru and others, working with the theosophically based light ray system under the ancient amethystine order. this information is all a treasure-trove from a new aeon qabalist s point of view, and points again to the continuity from the old mediumship and magical orders to the later contactees and tra

oup. the full story of the vril society, the thule group, the ahnenerbe, the schwartze orden (the black order) and other manifestations of the black lodge in the pre-nazi secret cipher of the ufonauts 61 and nazi era has yet to be told, though pauwels and bergier take an informal stab at it in the morning of the magicians. rudolph hess, the last known member of the thule group, told jack fishman (the seven men of spandau) that thule leader and occult initiate general karl haushofer (1869-1946) was the magician, the secret master. of nazi germany. hess believed in the cause to the end of his life. the last prisoner at spandau, hess died at the significant age of 93, proclaiming his loyalty to the thule ideal to the very end. the period, in the middle 1930s, in which these groups attained th

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ed for use with the hebrew alphabet. figure 6 contains the enochian equivalent. there are three rows containing a total of 21 regions and 26 letters. the symbolism of the rose is as follows: 1. the inner three regions surrounding the central circle symbolize the active cosmic elements of water, air and fire which surround, and operate upan, the earth. 2. the second row of seven letters represents the seven sacred planets. 3. the third and outermost row of eleven regions represents the pentagram and hexagram united (5+6=11. 4. each region of letters represents a petal of the rose. using aik bkr (reference aik bkr and the aethyrs later in this manual) the petals/regions add to 3 (3+7+11 21=2+1=3, the number of rows in the rose. the rose is used to determine the sigils for the deities of the

flaming pentagrams in the air alter tracing them with your wand. at the end of step 10 you should be able to feel the four kings and yourself together as a living pentagram. 101 hexagrams of the elements the hexagram, symbol of the macrocosm and microcosm interlaced, and hence of the end of the great work. aleister crowley, gematria the hexagram is a powerful symbol representing the operation of the seven planets under the presidency of the sephiroth. usuaily, it is traced with the single point uppermost. it is not an evil symbol with the two points upward, and this is a point of dif ference from the pentagram. the golden dawn's the ritual of the hexagram when invoking, evoking, or banishing deities of the watchtowers you should always include tracing the proper hexagram. in addition to t

rney in a chariot of mother-of-pearl and ivory. his guide stated that "every moment that we fly shall cover an aeon. and every place on which we rest shall be a young universe rejoicing in its strength" this dearly shows how human concepts of time and space will shift in nia. 210 crowley's guide was female. she had golden hair and skin, blue eyes, and scented breath. she wore see-through robes of the seven major colors. she was an aspect of the goddess venus, or perhaps venus herself. she told him "the price of the journey is l it tle, though its name be death" death of the human self is a small thing relative to the higher self, and is the price of spiritual adeptship. you must die to your lower nature in order to be born again to your higher nature. the method used to accomplish this bir

ah-en these governor's names add up to 1460 (175+491+ 587+207=1460) which is the number for drix-kia.ofizakare which means "to bring about a terrible change" un is an area of change and after your experiences here, you will never be the same. the guide here is the god pan. crowley saw pan as winged and mul t i -colored wi th an ai r of pride and strikingly handsome. he often plays his pan-pipe of the seven holy metals. you may hear this, but owing to the personal nature of these experiences, you also may not. the main thing to remember, as in all of these aethrys, is to keep an open 214 mind and carefully observe whatever you see and hear. for example, you should be able to feel the immense expanse of this aethyr. it will seem to go on forever in all directions. but although un is enormous

i rise above the forces of restriction. i rise up. i rise up 299 through the four radiant regions of tex. i retain full consciousness throughout. may i never forget the kingdoms of tex and ever hold the wisdom of the heavens. papnorlondoh-tex (pah-peh-noh-ar-loh-en-doh heh-teh-etz) ananael-piripsol (ah-nah-nah-el-pee-ree-peh-soh leh) tex! tex! tex! tex! may the four fountains of heaven pour forth the seven to form eleven. part 7. imagine yourself to be without karma (i.e, without guilt or regret, without selfish desires of any kind, in full consciousness and without limiting yourself in any way. remain in this state for as long as you can. part 8. return to your physical body. banish the forces around you and record the results in your diary. 300 enochian ritual of iao this ritual is for m

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flew his fleetest, and suttungr as a second eagle gave chase. the aesir saw osinn come flying, and in the courtyard of asgar^ they set out vats, into which o^inn, hard pressed by suttung, spat out the mead, and thus it turned into spittle again, as it had been at first^ the mead is given by osinn to the ases, and to men' hein, as. ban, engl, hone, swed. hen, sskr. s'ana. 2 like dr. faust fooling the seven topers into cutting each other's noses off. 3 here o^inn plays the part of strong hans (kinderm. 90, or of siegfried with the smith* mentioned also in smm. 23; evidently from' rata' permeare, terebrare, goth, vraton, so that it would be vrata in gothic. 5 it is added 'en honum var l^a sva nier korait at suttungr mundi na honum, at hann sendi aptr (behind) suman miodinn, ok var f>ess ecki

in her bosom, and the world of souls is an underground world; elves and dwarfs are imagined living inside mountains, not so much in the depths of the earth as in hills and rocks that rise above the level ground; but popular forms of cursing choose all manner of phrases to express the very lowest abyss^ the swed. hergtagen (taken into mountain) means sunken, hergtagning^ see the famous legends of the seven sleepers (greg. tiir. mirac. 1, 95. paul diac. 1, 3, and of endijmion, who lies in eternal sleep on mt. latmos. conf. pliny 7, 52: puerum aestu et itinere fessum in specu septem et quinqnaginta dormisse annis, rerum faciem mutationemque mirantem, velut postero experrectum die; hinc pari numero dierum senio ingruente, ut tamen in septimum et quinquagesimum atque centesimum vitae duraret a

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t in a vessel, but the fish began to grow, and demanded wider quarters. manus threw it into a large lake, but the fish grew on, and wished to be taken to ganga the bride of the sea. before long he had not room to stir even there, and manus was obliged to carry him to the sea; but when launched in the sea, he foretold the coming of a fearful flood, manus was to build a ship and go on board it with the seven sages, and preserve the seeds of all things, then he would shew himself to them horned. manus did as he was commanded, and sailed in the ship; the monster fish appeared, had the ship fastened to his horn by a rope, and towed it through the sea for many years, till they reached the summit of the himavdn, there he bade them moor the ship, and the spot to which it was tied still bears the n

s movable and immovable. and as he had spoken, so it was done. in the bhagavatam, satydvratas (supra, p. 249) takes the place of manus, vishnus that of brahma, and the facts are embellished with philosophy. the indian myth then, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in the mosaic account adam lives long before noah, and the flood is not followed by a new creation. the seven rishis in the ship, as bopp remarks, are of divine rather than human nature, sons of brahma, and of an older birth than the inferior gods created by manus or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so that in our german mannus (whence manna and

are to this day very careful in picking and carrying the plompen: if you fall with the flower in your hand, you get the falling sickness. plomben, our plumpfen, on. pompa, means plumping or plunging down. ace. to w. barnes, butterpumps= ovary of the yellow waterlily; conf. lith. pumpa, slav, pupa, wen, pimple? mart. hamconii frisia, franekarae 1620, p. 7, says friso intro duced the cognisance of the seven sea-blades: insigne frisonis, ut cappidus refert, septem fuerunt rubra nympheae herbae folia, in tribus argenteis constitutae trabibus per scutum caeruleum oblique ductis. cappidus is said to have been a priest at stavorn at the beg. of the 10th century, but nothing more is known of him. conf. van d. bergh s volksoverlev. p. 33. 41. 110. others connect the division of friesland into 7 se

ance of four wheels and a long slanting pole, deichsel (temo, on the strength of which the as. sometimes has pisl alone: wcenes fiisla (thill, boeth. rawlins. 192b. eeferences are given at p. 151, also the reasons for my conjecture that the waggon meant is that of wuotan the highest god. true, an 0. swed. chronicle connects the swed. name karlwagen with thorr, who stepping into his chariot holds the seven stars in his hand (thor statt naken som ett barn, siu stjernor i handen och karlewagn, which i will not absolutely deny; but it is woden stories in particular that are transferred to the frankish charles (p. 153. when in gl. jun. 188 arturus is rendered wagan (though gl. hrab. 1 ich han den glanzen mmelwagen und daz gestirne besehen, troj. 19062. there may for that matter be several hime

daz lant gleich recht als ain sibenstirn? because the army is so thickly spread over the land (see suppl. the origin of the pleiades is thus related: christ was passing a baker s shop, when he smelt the new bread, and sent his dis ciples to ask for a loaf. the baker refused, but the baker s wife and her six daughters were standing apart, and secretly gave it. for this they were set in the sky as the seven-stars, while the baker became the cuckoo (p. 676 baker s man, and so long as he sings in spring, from st. tiburtius s day to st. john s, the seven-stars are visible in heaven. compare with this the nor wegian tale of gertrude s bird (p. 673. there may be a few more stars for which popular names still exist. 2 in lith. the kids are artojis su jdiiczeis plougher with oxen, and capella nesz

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h, deus exercillum, adonay, deus mirabilis, jao, verax, ampheneton, saday, dominator, on, fortissimus deus, invest with thy blessed help this work begun of thee, that it may be consummated by thy mighty power. amen. amoruli, tametia, latisten, rabur, tanetia, latisten, escha, aloelin, alpha et omega, leytse, oraston, adonay. amen. names and offices of the spirits. messengers. and intelligences of the seven planets spirits of the sun. gabriel. vianathraba. corat. messengers of the sun. burchat. suceratos. capabile. intelligences of the sun. haludiel machasiel. chassiel. spirits of the moon. gabriel. gabraei. madios. the secret grimoire messengers of the moon. anael. pabael. ustael. intefligences of the moori. uriel. naromiel. abuori. spirits of saturn. samael. bachiel. astel. messengers of

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erstanding and mastering of life's duties and obligations; also the complete instruction in the fundamentals of those arts and sciences which will make each student, each member, strong in intellect, masterful in his daily occupation, perfect in his understanding, broad in his comprehension, and magnetic in his influence over the lesser minds of the world. our members will see, therefore, that of the seven points of benefits outlined above, only one, the seventh, pertains to the course of instruction, and that, therefore, to look upon membership in amorc as being simply studentship in a school, is to ignore many of the more important benefits. it is a fact that the average member, or fully seventy-five out of every hundred, has need every month for many of the other six points of benefit

smaller rays represent invocative names of latin, egyptian, and greek origin. the petals of the large rose on the cross are twenty-two in number, and stand for the twenty-two letters of the hebrew kabalistic alphabet. the outer circle of twelve petals represents the twelve single letters of this alphabet, and in particular the twelve signs of the zodiac. the next circle of seven petals symbolizes the seven double letters.in particular the seven astrological planets. the innermost circle of three petals represents the three mother-letters.air, fire, and water. at the center of the large rose is the microcosmic rose cross, an unfolded cube with a five-petaled rose at its center. four barbs emerge from behind this cross, pointing into the four directions in space. the complete symbol or "ency

n illustration no. 2 we see how the law of the triangle shows itself in connection with a demonstration of vibrations. by placing a piece of glass on a pedestal and sprinkling sand on the glass, one can manifest the vibrations by drawing a violin bow on the edge of the glass and cause the vibrations to flow across the surface of the glass and thereby arrange the sand in various forms, as shown in the seven black squares of illustration no. 2. in the lessons of our higher degrees, where the metaphysical principles are taught, we learn that thought vibrations can be directed into designs and "forms" just as with the sand and the physical vibrations on the glass. the rest of the chart shows how nature adheres to the law of the triangle in the formation of snow crystals, ice crystals, mineral

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d or either asleep bodily or spiritually-i should not say bodily, for by this time all the drossofhuman nature has lefthim-buthe has still the form of a body, but so beautiful, so small andangelical-heis now the same as one of the guardian spirits who never resided in thecity-buthe is senseless, there to remain until the judgement day. those who ascend in this manner from the earth gradually into the seven spheres are those who have died in or approaching to the right path. those who have not absolutely committed and died in a greatcrime-ido not call crimes any of those sins not of greatmagnitude-ithink i have before explained to you in what those crimes consist, or do. notconsist-theyare murder in any way-blasphemy-violation of oaths byintention-robberies255i mean to say there are crimes

h, in this he succeeded partially, but over the majority he had no influence. he was degraded for this but in no other way punished. he then blasphemed the most high and cursed the human race. for this he was turned out of the spheres and left to dwell upon earth. it was thro' him that the orders of angels were divided, the holiest were those who would not hearken unto him, these then constituted the seven spheres.theznd agreed with him a little, the 3rd more so, they all agreed more and more with him until they came to thefirst-andthey agreed with him at that time almost entirely. at this time no place of punishment was made, but eve being created and living with adam in the gardenofparadise he thought he could not revenge himself better, on those who expelled him, than by makinghereat th

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 directed by your guardianspirit-thewater which surrounds that wall is what. is termed by menhell-thespace above the atmosphere, and the seven that tower above that the spheres of happiness.crystalmsvol.9,p.135a drop of water is divided by a stream of electricity into two gases ox. and hyd, and by subjecting certain proportions of these gasses to electricity water is produced, may 1 ask please if pure gold can be separated into its elements as a metalicc)or a metalicor a metalicnothing exists in an unalloyed state, everything i

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ods and people, hathor eased the transition from 138 handbook of egyptian mythology death to new life. the time and manner of a person s death was decreed by a sevenfold form of hathor. as lady of the necropolis, she opened the gates of the underworld. as a tree goddess, she revived the newly dead with shade, air, water, and food. the spirits of the dead could imbibe eternal life from the milk of the seven hathor cows. the coffin texts and the book of the dead have spells to help the deceased live forever as a follower of hathor. in a late period story, hathor rules the underworld, emerging to punish those who behave unjustly on earth. by the greco-roman period, dead women in the afterlife identified themselves with hathor instead of osiris. it was only after isis took over many of her att

about this and decided to punish the rich woman. they placed all their poison in the tail of tfn, the leading scorpion. tfn crept into the rich woman s house and stung her baby son. isis was wakened by the rich woman s cries and took pity on the child. she was able to drive out the burning poison deities, themes, and concepts 189 and make the child breathe again because she knew the true names of the seven scorpions. the rich woman was so grateful that she gave all her possessions to the poor girl in order to please the goddess. myths of this type may have been acted out at a festival known from the roman period during which devotees of isis handled live scorpions. see also horus the child; isis; sons of horus references and further reading: f. k nel. la n pe et le scorpion: un monographie

scribing his name on the leaves of the ished tree at heliopolis. seshat usually wears a panther skin, a symbol of priestly office. she sometimes carries a palm frond carved with notches to mark the passing years. her mysterious headdress consists of a seven-pointed star (or seven-petaled flower) topped by an object that may be a bow or an inverted pair of horns. the goddess known as sefkhat-abwy (the seven-pointed one) is probably seshat under another name. as goddess of writing, seshat was the keeper of royal annals and genealogies. she was shown recording the booty gained by kings in battle, perhaps as a reminder that a share was due to the gods. seshat was even said to descend into the underworld to record everything in the realm of the dead. from as early as the second dynasty, she was

tamus goddesses; horus; isis; moon; nephthys; osiris; thoth references and further reading: j. g. griffiths. the conflict of horus and seth from egyptian and classical sources. liverpool: 1960. h. te velde. seth, god of confusion. leiden: 1977. primary sources: pt 215, 222, 356, 359, 477; bd 39; h&s; astarte and the sea; p. leiden i 343+ 345; p. salt 825; pj; pdm xii; pgm xxxvi; i&o seven hathors the seven manifestations of hathor presided over births and deaths. they pronounced the ultimate fate of all humans. see also cattle; hathor; shai shai (shay) shai was the personification of destiny. every individual had his or her own shai, a personal destiny that helped to make that person unique. as a god, shai might be shown in either human or snake form. he could be identified with any of the

yptian thinkers debated how far a person s fate was predestined. some instruction texts took the pessimistic view that it was impossible to evade your fate, but hymns and prayers claimed that gods such as amun had the power to change a person s destiny and bestow extra years of life. a new kingdom story tells how a longed-for son was born to the king and queen of egypt. on the night of his birth, the seven hathors announced that the prince 194 handbook of egyptian mythology was destined to be killed by a snake, a crocodile, or a dog. the king tried to save his son by shutting him in a remote palace away from all animals. when he grew up, the prince begged to be released on the grounds that his fate was in the heart of god. he traveled to the land of naharin and married a princess who had a

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m the book am-tuat p. 148 p. xviii xi. sixth, seventh, and eighth divisions of the tuat. from the book of gates p. 158 xii. tenth and eleventh divisions of the tuat. from the book am-tuat p. 172 xiii. ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions of the tuat. from the book of gates p. 182 xiv. the eastern vestibule of the tuat p. 192 list of illustrations. page scene from the papyrus of nekht frontispiece the seven arits and their warders p. 29 the ten gates and their warders p. 32 -35 the fourteen aats p. 38 -41 sekhet-hetep. from the papyrus of nebseni p. 43 sekhet-hetep. from the papyrus of ani p. 45 sekhet-hetep. from the papyrus of kua-tep p. 53 sekhet-hetep. from the coffin of sen p. 55 sekhet-hetep. from the papyrus of anhai p. 59 sekhet-hetep. from the papyrus of ptolema c period p. 61 nekh

ts" to which reference has already been made, and the "book of the two ways" the coffins of al-barsha p. 14 contain a number of texts of various lengths, many of which have titles, and resemble in form the chapters of the great theban recension of the book of the dead. examples of these have been published in prof. maspero's recueil de travaux, tom. xxvi, p. 64 ff, by m. p. lacau, e.g "chapter of the seven addresses of homage to the goddess meh-urt [chapter of "the reassembling of the kinsfolk of a man in neter-khert "chapter of driving back kebka "chapter of setting out for orion &c. from the considerations set forth above it is quite clear that the practice of illustrating certain sections of books of the dead existed under the xith dynasty, and there is no good reason for doubting that

of the dead down to the, ptolema c period, that is to say, for a period of four thousand years at least, the scribes and artists of the xviiith dynasty devoted much attention, and the results of their views are set forth in the copies of per-em-hru, or the theban book of the dead, which have come down to us. in one of the oldest copies of per-em-hru, i.e, in the papyrus of nu, 1 is a vignette of the seven arits, or divisions of sekhet-aaru; the portion shown of each arit is the door, or gate, which is guarded by a gatekeeper, by a watcher, who reports the arrival of every comer, and by a herald, who receives and announces his name. all these beings save two have the head of an animal, or bird, on a human body, a fact which indicates the great antiquity of the ideas that underlie this vign

a gatekeeper, by a watcher, who reports the arrival of every comer, and by a herald, who receives and announces his name. all these beings save two have the head of an animal, or bird, on a human body, a fact which indicates the great antiquity of the ideas that underlie this vignette. their names are- arit i. gatekeeper. sekhet-hra-asht-aru. watcher. semetu. herald. hu-kheru. p. 29 click to view the seven arits, each with its gatekeeper, its watcher, and its hera.ld p. 31 arit ii. gatekeeper. tun-hat. watcher. seqet-hra. herald. sabes. arit iii. gatekeeper. am-huat-ent-pehui-fi. watcher. res-hra. herald. uaau. arit iv. gatekeeper. khesef-hra-asht-kheru. watcher. res-ab. herald. neteka-hra-khesef-atu. arit v. gatekeeper. ankh-em-fentu. watcher. ashebu. herald. teb-her-kehaat. arit vi. gate

of the blessed were of a purely magical character; the addition of pictures to the formulae, or names, belongs to a later period, when it was thought right to strengthen them by illustrations. the deceased, who not only possessed the secret name of a god or demon, but also a picture of him whereby he could easily recognize him when he met him, was doubly armed against danger. p. 38 in addition to the seven arits, and the ten, fourteen, or twenty-one gates (according to the manuscript authority followed, the sekhet-hetepet possessed fourteen or fifteen aats, or regions, each of which was presided over by a god. their names, as given in the papyrus of nu, 1 are as follows- aat i. amentet wherein a man lived on cakes and ale; its god was amsu-qet, or menu-qet. aat ii. sekhet-aaru. its walls a

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

in our day pokker. it is i place famous for a yearlypilgrimage, and is charmingly situated five english miles from ajmeer in rajisthan. nightmare talesthe blue lotus23 pushkara means "the blue lotus, the surface of the lake being covered as with a carpet withthese beautiful plants. but the legend avers that they were at first white. pushkara is also theproper name of a man, and the name of one of the seven sacred islands" in the geography ofthe hindus, the septa dwipa* varuni, goddess of heat (later goddess of wine) was also born of the ocean of milk. ofthe "fourteen precious objects" produced by the churning, she appeared the second andlakshmi the last, preceded by the chalice of anmita, the nectar which gives immortality. the altar was set up on the shore of the lake, the pyre was prepar

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de to focus a vast panorama of human fancy which claimed to represent and replace that truth. q. but theosophy, you say, is not a religion? a. most assuredly it is not, since it is the essence of all religion and of absolute truth, a drop of which only underlies every creed. to resort once more to metaphor. theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and every religion only one of the seven prismatic colors. ignoring all the others, and cursing them as false, every special colored ray claims not only priority, but to be that white ray itself, and anathematizes even its own tints from light to dark, as heresies. yet, as the sun of truth rises higher and higher on the horizon of man's perception, and each colored ray gradually fades out until it is finally reabsorbed in its t

laid one over the other, for this would only lead to another absurd misconception. what i mean by "layer" is that plane of infinite space which by its nature cannot fall under our ordinary waking perceptions, whether mental or physical; but which exists in nature outside of our normal mentality or consciousness, outside of our three-dimensional space, and outside of our division of time. each of the seven fundamental planes (or layers) in space-of course as a whole, as the pure space of locke's definition, not as our finite space-has its own objectivity and subjectivity, its own space and time, its own consciousness and set of senses. but all this will be hardly comprehensible to one trained in the modern ways of thought. q. what do you mean by a different set of senses? is there anything

tual being, composed of three principles or aspects; and the lower or the physical quaternary, composed of four-in all seven -ooo- the septenary nature of man q. is it what we call spirit and soul, and the man of flesh? a. it is not. that is the old platonic division. plato was an initiate, and therefore could not go into forbidden details; but he who is acquainted with the archaic doctrine finds the seven in plato's various combinations of soul and spirit. he regarded man as constituted of two parts-one eternal, formed of the same essence as the absoluteness, the other mortal and corruptible, deriving its constituent parts from the minor "created" gods. man is composed, he shows, of (1) a mortal body (2) an immortal principle, and (3) a "separate mortal kind of soul" it is that which we r

are always found suffering from feebleness of recollection. when, therefore, we remember that which we know about the physical and the spiritual principles in man, it is not the fact that our memory has failed to record our precedent life and lives that ought to surprise us, but the contrary, were it to happen -ooo- why do we not remember our past lives? q. you have given me a bird's eye view of the seven principles; now how do they account for our complete loss of any recollection of having lived before? a. very easily. since those principles which we call physical, and none of which is denied by science, though it calls them by other names-namely, the body, life, passional and animal instincts, and the astral eidolon of every man (whether perceived in thought or our mind's eye, or objec

y owe it to the devotion of a few friends, they need little more. q. but could not madame blavatsky, especially, make more than enough to live upon by her writings? a. when in india she received on the average some thousand rupees a year for articles contributed to russian and other papers, but gave it all away to the society. q. political articles? a. never. everything she has written throughout the seven years of her stay in india is all there in print. it deals only with the religions, ethnology, and customs of india, and with theosophy-never with politics, of which she knows nothing and cares less. again, two years ago she refused several contracts amounting together to about 1,200 rubles in gold per month; for she could not accept them without abandoning her work for the society, whic

HEPTAMERON

therefore ought to be purified with fasting, chastity, and abstinency from all luxury the space of three whole dayes before the day of the operation. and on the day that he would do the work, being clothed with pure garments, and furnished with pentacles, perfumes, and other things necessary hereunto, let him enter the circle, and call the angels from the four parts of the world, which do govern the seven planets the seven dayes of the week, colours and metals; whose name you shall see in their places. and with bended knees invocating the said angels particularly, let him say, o angels supradicti, estote adjutores me petitioni& in adjutorium mihi, in meis rebus& petitionibus. then let him call the angels from the four parts of the world, that ruke the air the same day wherein he doth the

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ister, and had an especial affection for her only surviving nephew william, who from a sturdy infant had become a sickly, spindling lad. in this year the servant mehitabel died, and the other servant, pre served smith, left without coherent explanation- or at least, with only some wild tales and a complaint that he disliked the smell of the place. for a time mercy could secure no more help, since the seven deaths and case of madness, all occurring within five years' space, had begun to set in motion the body of fireside rumour which later became so bizarre. ultimately, however, she obtained new servants from out of town; ann white, a morose woman from that part of north kingstown now set off as the township of exeter, and a capable boston man named zenas low. it was ann white who first gav

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

not mortal; and they took my hands, saying, come, child, you have heard the voices, and all is well. in teloe beyond the milky way and the arinurian streams are cities all of amber and chalcedony. and upon their domes of many facets glisten the images of strange and beautiful stars. under the ivory bridges of teloe flow rivers of liquid gold bearing pleasure-barges bound for blossomy cytharion of the seven suns. and in teloe and cytharion abide only youth, beauty, and pleasure, nor are any sounds heard, save of laughter, song, and the lute. only the gods dwell in teloe of the golden rivers, but among them shalt thou dwell. as i listened, enchanted, i suddenly became aware of a change in my surroundings. the palm tree, so lately overshadowing my exhausted form, was now some distance to my l

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

written november 1919 published november 1919 in the united amateur, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 30-33. i am basil elton, keeper of the north point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barques of the seven seas. in the days of my grandfather there were many; in the days of my father not so many; and now there are so few that i sometimes feel strangely alone, as though i were the last man on our planet. from far shores came those white-sailed argosies of old; from far eastern shores where warm suns shine and sweet odors linger about strange gardens and gay temples. the old captains of the s

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

th circle, it would be marriage to a man or a woman who had a good heritage, a lot of security- maybe from a very good family, very many generations of a good name. if it's in the third, it might be marriage to somebody in the neighbourhood, or even marriage to a relative, a distant cousin. if it's in the second, a tremendous amount of money is coming to you personally because of the marriage. if the seven of hearts is in the fifth circle, it could be a love affair with a married man or woman, and most likely that's what it is. it also can indicate a new romance that could lead to marriage, or that the love affair would be converted into marriage. the seven of hearts means marriage. six of hearts means some emotional disturbances, maybe a problematic situation having to do with your love i

vacation and you need to get together enough money for two weeks off; then you put the eight of diamonds up in the ninth, and that insures nice, easy money for a vacation, although nothing fantastic. if you're the dramatic type, stick to the nines and the tens for big money. seven of diamonds is your business or marriage partner's luck in money. it's the other person's financial gain. if you put the seven of diamonds in the eleventh circle, it means you'll have friends who are doing well. you don't want them to be doing too well, so you just put the seven of diamonds up there. but it's their money; it's nothing that comes to you. it has to do with the other person. six of diamonds might be a little money loss because of something like a misplaced receipt or an insurance claim that you did

h, you and your partner have arguments all the time. your whole way of living may need to be amended. it's a belligerent attitude, and when it affects emotional circles, it's time to shape up. and it's not very good in your money and career circles, either; you need to watch what you're doing wherever this card hits. six of clubs represents wasted energy, energy losses. it's a fighting card, like the seven and the five in this suit, but while the seven has to do with your emotional reaction, the six relates to how you are affected physically. in the first circle it might mean high blood-pressure or low blood-pressure, some physical reaction to a poor attitude. five of clubs means give it up. if the five of clubs falls into a particular circle, it means move on to something else and forget

INFERNAL UNION

pointed very specifically to this ritual which i was about to perform ,as my next step in finding my true will. i had painted the sigil of infernal union to my satisfaction and placed this over my usual pantacle on my altar. i created a simple sigil for lilith and set up my circle with red and black candles for the infernal aspects of these powers. in the north, i set up my painting of babalon on the seven-headed beast with related sigils. i showered and put on nefilim-zoon. shut off at 11:15, banished, cast circle but without calling the enochian angels. i started the ritual by my declaration of intent and followed this by a simple acceptance of my pure intention and use of intense imagination throughout. manibus plenis, and a drop of blood on the lilith sigil. banished, dismissed. put cr

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

he darkness of midnight. the call unto mahazhael-deval the magister (or chosen officiant) remains silent, bearing the mask of the lord. the covine shall call the spirit into him thus- o mahazhael, hear us! sovereign witch-father of the horned serpent s knowledge! our blessing and our curse upon thee, for thou art twain of mask and face! in all blessing we adore thee as the corn-king, crowned amid the seven wreaths of time, most wise amongst the noble lords who serve on the path of the year and the day. in all cursing we adore thee as the boneherder, who dwelleth in the invisable ossuary at the centre of every charnel-ground. exalted art thou as the emperor in the northern gateway of power! all-hail to thee as the leader of the eight gods in the retinue of bha! we revere thee as our protect

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

oth he. marry i doubt it's never a jot the better for me; for she hath kiss'd my hand, and i have a great pain in that arm, and i verily believe she hath bewitch'd me, if ever she hewitch'd any man. to which she answered, the lord forbid! that all that night, and continually from that time, he was restless and ill, complaining exceedingly of a great pain in his arm for seven days together, and at the seven days' end be complained that the pain was come from his arm to his heart, and then kept his bed night and day, grievously afflicted, and crying out against florence newton, and about fourteen days after he died. p. 125 "francis beseley being sworn and examined, saith, that about the time aforementioned meeting with the said david jones, and discoursing with him of the several reports the

ISIS UNVEILED

ond and third degree? the lives of many of them exemplify a degree of self-sacrifice and sanctity unknown and utterly incomprehen- sible to europeans, who shudder at the bare thought of such self-inflicted tortures. but however shielded from control by vulgar and earth-bound spirits, however wide the chasm between a debasing influence and their self-controlled souls, and however well protected by the seven-knotted ma^cal bamboo rod which he receives from the guru, still the fakir lives in the outer world of sin and matter, and it is possible that his soul may be tainted, perchance by the magnetic emanations from profane objects and persons, and thereby give access to strange spirits and god. to admit one so situated, one not under any and all circumstances sure of the mastery over himself

ts (sons. they are all in his own image, and reflexions one of the other, digitizecoy google 184 isis unveiled which become darker as they successively recede from their father. with the latter, they all inhabit seven regions disposed like a ladd, beginning under the middle space, the region of their mother sophia- achamoth, and ending with our earth, the tesentk region. thus tb^ are the genii of the seven planetary spheres of which the lowest is the region of our earth (the sphere which surrounds it, our aether "hie respective names of these genii of the spheres are loee (jebovab) sabaolh, adonai, elm, ouriaos, a^phaiot* the first four, as every one knows, are the mystic names of ihs jewish 'lord god" being, as c. w. king expresses it" thus degraded by the ophites into the appetla- tiona

ed him to send the forerunner, or precursor. besides that, she mode aim oaum the birth of the man jesus from the virgin mary, her own type on earth "for the creation of a material personage could only be the work of the demiurge, not falling within the province of a hi^er power. as soon as jesus was horn, chnstos, the perfect, uniting himself with sophia [wisdom and spirituauty, descended through the seven planetary regions, amiiming in each an analogous form, and concealing his true nature from their genii, while he attracted into himself the sparks of divine light which they retained in their essence. thus christos entered into the man jesus at the moment of his baptism in the jordan. from that time jesus began to work miracles; before that, he had been completely ignorant of his mission

s out of himself, one of them, a female, prunikoi (concupiscence, descended into the chaos, whence, unable to escape, she remained suspended in the mid-space, being too clogged by matter to return above, and not falling lower where there was nothing in affinity with her nature. she then produced her son bda-baoth, the god of the jews, who, in his turn, produced seven aeons, or angels' who created the seven heavens' in this plurality of heavens the christians believed from the first, tor we find paul teaching of their existence, and speaking of a man "caught up to the third heaven" s cor, xii, 2 "from these seven angels hda-baoth shut up all that was above him, lest they should know of any- thing superior to himself" they then created man in the image of their father* but prone and crawling

is certainly looks like the "jetuoiu god" of the jewa. 41q, it is the elmnt (plural who create adam, and do not wish man to beoome digitizecoy google 188 isis unveiled heaveuty mother, nunikos, wishing to deprive dda-baoth of the power with which she had unwittingly endowed him, infused into man a celestial spark the spirit. inmiediately man rooe upon bis feet, soared in mind beyond the limits of the seven spheres, and ^orified the supreme father, him that ia above ilda-baoth. hence the latter, full of jealousy, cast down his eyes upon the lowest stratum of matter, and begot a potency in the form of a serpent, whom they [ophites] call his son. eve, obeying him as the son of god, was persuaded to eat of the tree of knowledge" it is a self-evident fact that the serpent of the genesis, who ap

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

xteen symbols gives more complete and elaborate answers than does the yi. the method of operation, however, is not too dissimilar: reliance upon the laws of chance, the geomantic intelligences, or the operation of the unconscious psyche. for my purpose, they are equivalent terms. these sixteen figures are attributed, first, to the four primitive elements of earth, air, fire and water. and then to the seven planets of the ancients, as well as to the twelve signs of the zodiac. only a few elementary descriptions need to be given here in reference to the signs and symbols. experience will provide further elaboration. method 21 chapter two method to erect a geomantic chart is the essence of simplicity. the ancient method, which had its origins in the pre-civilizcd nomads of the desert, was to

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

nosity is reduced. the following seven elements are to be understood as being interpenetrating and interwoven with each other. each element emanates from the one before it and thus each successively contains growing complexity, containing not only its own characteristic individuality, but also the aspects of the preceding elements. 1) cosmic monad: the first and unmanifest logos which breaks into the seven elements of: earth, fire, water, air, akasa& cosmic fire. it is the cosmic monad from which the food of gods flows in its purest form. at this level of frequency and purity, it is too refined for our bodies to cope with, without burning out the electrical circuitry of our system, and hence must be stepped down through the inner plane grids for human utilization (we spoke at length about

al emanations of the earth. it is on this wave length that the food of gods can flow into our physical form via the violet light and through the higher aspects of our awakened mind. 7) physical universe: the body or garment of the six more ethereal elements preceding it. these seven elements with their numberless sub-elements are aspects of the first element, the cosmic monad and are connected to the seven human senses, of which people who exist in the beta field usually only use five. in order to access the channel of the food of gods, we need to activate our 6th and 7th senses and utilize the elements that work with them. the relationship between the elements and our physical senses are as follows: astral light: hearing; 2. air: touch; 3. fire: sight; 4. water: taste; 5. earth: smell; 6

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

colours are tones in other senses, and tones are colours; sevenfold in either case, as the planetary powers and influences are septenary which, in the ideas of the rosicrucians, produce both. talisman of the jaina kings. chapter the seventh. mythic history of the fleur-de-lis. he maypole is a phallus. the ribbons depending from the discus, or ring, through which the maypole pierces, should be of the seven prismatic colours those of the rainbow (or r gne beau. according to the gnostics and their remains, ancient and medi val, a work by the rev. c.w. king, m.a, published in 1864, horapollo has preserved a talisman, or gnostic gem, in yellow jasper, which presents the engraved figure of a cynocephalus, crowned, with b ton erect, adoring the first appearance of the new moon. the phallic worsh

knowing, the most heating in the autumn (perpetuating. the chemical rays have more power in the temperate zone; the luminous and heating, in the tropical. there are more chemical rays given off from the centre of the sun than from the parts near its circumference. each prismatic atom, when a ray of light strikes uponit, opens out on a vertical axis, as a radius or ran of seven different widths of the seven colours, from the least refrangible red up to the most refrangible violet. refer to diagram on next page) t the seven colours and vowels. 143 the egyptian priests chanted the seven vowels as a hymn addressed to serapis (eusebe-salverte, dionysius of halicarnassus. the vowels were retained to a comparatively late period in the mystic allegories relative to the solar system. the seven vowe

m the least refrangible red up to the most refrangible violet. refer to diagram on next page) t the seven colours and vowels. 143 the egyptian priests chanted the seven vowels as a hymn addressed to serapis (eusebe-salverte, dionysius of halicarnassus. the vowels were retained to a comparatively late period in the mystic allegories relative to the solar system. the seven vowels are consecrated to the seven principal planets (belot, chiromancie, 16th cent) the cause of the splendour and variety of colours lies violet. 7. indigo. 6. blue. 5. green. 4. yellow. 3. orange. 2. red. 1. most refrangible ray. least refrangible ray. fig. 33. prsmatic spectrum. deep in the affinities of nature. there is a singular and mysterious alliance between colour and sound. there are seven pure tones in the dia

ut from the east, as mosheim long ago maintained: so declares the author of the gnostics and their remains; but it is a thorough mistake, both in his authority (mosheim, and also in himself. we shall successfully show this before we have done. as soon as jesus was born, according to the gnostic speculative view of christianity, christos, uniting himself with sophia (holy wisdom, descended through the seven planetary regions, assuming in each an analogous form to the region, and concealing his true nature from its genii, whilst he attracted into himself the sparks of divine light they severally retained in their angelic essence. thus christos, having passed through the seven angelic regions before the throne, entered into the man jesus, at the moment of his baptism in the jordan* from that

stands for the personification of the gnostic sophia, or achamoth, and as such is the undoubted source of our conventional representation of truth (montfaucon, pi. clxi) reverse, figure 312, which represents harpocrates seated upon the lotus, springing from a double lamp, formed of two phalli united at the base. above his head is his title abraxas, and over that is the name iao. in the field are the seven planets. the sacred animals the scarab, ibis, asp, goat, crocodile, vulture, emblems of so many deities (viz. phre, thoth, isis, merides, bebys, neith) the principal in the egyptian mythology, arranged by threes, form a frame to the design. neatly engraved on a large, bright loadstone (the gnostics, p. 211. origin of the tricolor. theory of sacramental mysticism, adapted from the specula

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

transformer; changing pure (higher) energy into various forms, and connecting the four bodies (ie. spiritual, mental, astral, and physical) together. the chakras are located along the nadies (a network of psychic nerves or channels) and follow the autonomic nervous system along the spinal cord. chakras correlate with major acupuncture points along the 'governing vessel meridian (acupuncture term. the seven major chakras are connected together by three major nadies which are parallel and near each other. the middle nadi is called *sushumna* and it has neutral characteristics. the nadi on the left (ie. nearest your left hand) is the *ida* nadi which has yin characteristics. on the other side of sushumna (nearest your right hand) is the *pingala* nadi, having yang qualities. chakras are visib

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

on, go to www.everburninglight.org. the path of the names. berkeley: trigram/tree, 1976. gfrom sha feri zedek, h gthe question of prophecy, h and selections from haye olam ha-ba, and sefer ha-ot. sefer ha-ot. translated by efrat levy; integral edition in english, hebrew, and aramaic. belize city: providence university, 2006. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. sheva netivot ha-torah: the seven paths of torah. integral edition in english and hebrew. 04/2006. belize city: providence university, 2006. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. albotini, yehuda. sulam aliyah: ladder of ascent. translated by yodfat glazer and adam shohom. integral edition in english and hebrew. belize city: providence university, 2007. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. gin part

KETAB E SIYAH

e made splendid with gold. beneath the waters brazen beaks reflected sunlight and broke the skin of the waves into white froth and yearned to shatter the timbers of the foe. thus was made ready the ships of shurupuk that would bear on white wings the hopes of nephilim and shedim. from the tigris' throat went the fleet, bearing utanapishtim and his knights from the kingdom between two rivers, went the seven ships into the gulf that put water between arabia and persia. upon the shore gathered the people of shurupuk and with bright flags waved upon his voyage their king and his lords though they knew not, not upon the ships or upon the shore, to which harbour sailed white-sailed vessels but utanapishtim alone nurtured in his heart that most bitter intelligence and bit back tears as he hailed

is well then that there is no navigation that our hands can accomplish for it would but blind us to a greater threat. nephilim and shedim shall stand side by side to preserve this little part when all else is lost. make ready for the battle for its time is soon, i know it" thus, without recourse against the currents that bore the ships whither whimsy willed but to lash with strong ropes together the seven vessels cast about by wind and rain that the fleet would not scattered far, the marines of shurupuk, drowned deep beneath the swollen rivers and sea were the noble city's walls and washed from every map of earth were the bright towers, made ready for battle against heaven's hosts, preparing spears and bows and shields or else speaking such incantations to bind fortune's vagaries to their

'il (gabriel, who is sheikh abu bekr. on thursday he created 'azra'il, who is sajadin. on friday he created the angel shemna'il, who is nasiru'd-din. 402 on saturday he created the angel nura'il. he made melek ta'us chief over them all. after this, the invisible one retreated into itself, and acted no more; but melek taus was left to act. seeing the barrenness of the ether, he created the form of the seven heavens, the earth, sun and moon. he created mankind, animals, birds and beasts in the pockets of his cloak. then he brought man up from the pearl accompanied by angels. he gave a great shout before the pearl, after which it split into four pieces. he made water flow from its inside, and that water became the sea. the world was round without clefts. then he created gabriel in the form of

s it is forbidden to eat lettuce (khass- because its name resembles that of our prophetess khassa- and haricot beans; also to use dark blue dye; neither do we eat fish, out of respect for jonah the prophet; nor gazelles, because these constituted the flock of one of our prophets. the sheik and his disciples, moreover, eat not the flesh of the cock, out of respect for the peacock; for it is one of the seven gods before mentioned, and his image is in the form of a cock. the sheikh and his disciples likewise abstain from eating pumpkin. it is, moreover, forbidden to us to make water standing, or to put on out clothes sitting, or to cleanse ourselves in the privy as do the mohammedans, or to perform our ablutions in their baths. neither is it permitted to us to pronounce the name of shaitan (b

wonders. and some of my virtues are manifested in that which exists and i am he who caused the mountains to bow, to move under me, and at my will. and i am he before whose awful majesty the wild beasts cried; they turned to me worshipping, and kissed my feet. and i am adi es-shami, the son of moosafir. verily the all-merciful has assigned unto me names, 412 the heavenly throne, and the seat, and the seven and the earth. in the secret of my knowledge there is no god but me. these things are subservient to my power. and for which state do you deny my guidance. oh men! deny me not, but submit; in the day of judgement you will be happy in meeting me. who dies in my love i will cast him in the midst of paradise by my will and pleasure; but he who dies unmindful of me, will be thrown into tortu

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

the sephiroth its circle should be made larger then that of mercury shown in a previous diagram. another arrangement of the tree there are various formats of the sephiroth. the most frequent has already been given, but there is another in common usage and will be seen to have been employed in some of the large altar diagrams of both the practicus and philosophus grade. it is often referred to as the seven palaces of assiah attributed to the ten sephiroth. this drawing represents the triad of elements operating through the sephiroth and reflected downwards into the tree. air is reflected straight down the middle pillar, from kether through tiphareth to yesod and the upper quadrant of malkuth. water is relfected cross-wise from binah through chesed to hod. fire is reflected cross-wise from

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

of the storm. till i saw ra born again from out of the great waters. his strength is my strength and my strength is his strength. homage to you, lords of truth, chiefs of osiris rules. granting release from sin, followers of ma where rest is glorious. whose throne anubis built in the day when osiris said "lo! a man wins his way to amentet. i come before you, to drive away my faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun "between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer a

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE THREE

igns, mutable and cardinal signs are placed in juxtaposition. the caduceus this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters, shin, aleph. and mem. it represents air, as the mediator between fire above and water below. this symbol has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part and wings touch chokmah and binah. the knob touches kether. these are the three supernals. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: su

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copyright notice are not to be deleted or changed on any copies or print-outs of this file. with these provisos, anyone may copy this file for personal use or research. copies may be made for others at reasonable cost of copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added* the master therion liber b vel magi sub figura i 00. one is the magus: twain his forces: four his weapons. these are the seven spirits of unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. thus is the art and craft of the magus but glamour. how shall he destroy himself? 0. yet the magus hath power upon the mother both directly and through love. and the magus is love, and bindeth together that and this in his conjuration. 1. in the beginning doth the magus speak truth, and send forth illusion and falsehood to enslave the s

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

spiritual, inner content of information. but until an individual acquires the perceptions that correspond to the spiritual meaning of the names and of actions, the reading of words can be compared to placing empty plates on the table, and attaching to them tags with the names of fancy dishes. music presents a more abstract type of transmitting information. just like visible light, it consists of the seven primary forces-qualities-tones, in light of the fact that the spiritual entity (partzuf) that governs our world, known as partzuf zeir anpin de atzilut, consists of the seven parts, or sefirot. depending on one s particular condition, a person will discern various spiritual states of the composer in a given kabbalisticmelody. that person does not necessarily have to be on the same spirit

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

lna gaon (1138-1204) our rabbi [the vilna gaon] engaged extensively in the study of the qualities of nature and the studies of the earth in order to attain the wisdom of the torah, to sanctify the name of god among the nations, and to bring the redemption closer. from his youth, he manifested wonders in all seven teachings. he also asked and commanded his disciples to study as much as possible of the seven earthly teachings, and that too was in order to raise the wisdom of israel according to the wisdom of the torah in the eyes of the nations, as it is written, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples--rabbi hillel shklover in the name of the vilna gaon, the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 115 concerning the study of the seven teachings, our rabbi had told us

is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples--rabbi hillel shklover in the name of the vilna gaon, the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 115 concerning the study of the seven teachings, our rabbi had told us: the messianic revelation comes hand in hand with the revelation of the wisdom of the torah, and appears through the disclosure of the secretes of the torah and the opening of the seven teachings this is what is meant in the zohar (vayera, 117) that in the year 1840 the gates of wisdom will open from above k a b b a l i s t s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 203 and the springs of wisdom from below, with the commencement of the gradual messianic revelation. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 117 he would often sigh heavily and say, why should the nations say, where is

ers. many among the righteous of the nations of the world also extolled the wisdom of the sages of the torah in israel the members of the sanhedrin, the tanaaim, the amoraim, etc. and in later generations our rabbi the rambam, baal hatosafot, and others who did much to sanctify the name of god among the nations through their study in earthly research. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 studying the seven teachings assists in the attainment of the wisdom of the torah in its secrets, elevates the wisdom of israel and the sanctification of god s name in the eyes of the nations, and brings redemption nearer. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 to understand and to attain the wisdom of the torah contained in the upper light of wisdom, it is also necessary to study the seven teachings conceal

evates the wisdom of israel and the sanctification of god s name in the eyes of the nations, and brings redemption nearer. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 to understand and to attain the wisdom of the torah contained in the upper light of wisdom, it is also necessary to study the seven teachings concealed in the lower world, the world of nature. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 119 these are the seven teachings: a) the wisdom of calculus, attribute and measurement; b) the wisdom of creation and assemblage; c) the wisdom of medicine and growth; d) the wisdom of reason, grammar and law; e) the wisdom of playing music and sanctity; f) the wisdom of correction and integration; g) the wisdom of brw k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 204 (between rain and

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x p e r i e n c e 376 q: why is everything in our world divided into seven, ten or twelve? a: creation v a desire for pleasure v divided itself to the nine attributes that it received from him: the upper nine sefirot, and malchut, the tenth sefira. thus, everything in reality is initially divided by ten. then there are other divisions: a partzuf divides to the three sefirot of the rosh (head, and the seven sefirot of the guf (body. then there is a division to twelve, which stems from the number of partzufim (faces) in the world of atzilut. in the wisdom of kabbalah you will find the explanations of every division and the interrelations between them. t h e s e f i r o t y e s o d a n d z e i r a n p i n q: why is zeir anpin divided by six parts instead of the ordinary five? what is the purp

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degrees, spiritual sensations that one feels when one experiences the phases of correction. it is a system that corrects our souls when they are still in an earthly spiritual degree. the soul must be raised from the degree of malchut to that of bina, meaning the egoistic trait of malchut must be turned into the altruistic trait of bina. that process occurs through seven gradual corrections called the seven days of the week. q: will everyone eventually have to come to kabbalah? a: absolutely, if not in this life, in the next, so why wait? our lives are not sweet enough for us to keep returning here. pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g 55 q: what is the reason for suffering? a: suffering exposes the lowness of our situation. it forces us to look for a solution, grow smarter and reassess th

s (nrnhy. besides man, there is only the creator. hence, what we all feel, want, and think, comes from the creator. everything we always feel is only the creator. when the creature climbs from the lowest point (this world) toward the creator, until it attains complete equivalence of form with him (the end of correction, it will go through 620 degrees, also called the 613 mitzvot of the torah, and the seven mitzvot of our sages. a zivug (mating) with the upper light in the screen is called a mitzva. the light that the creature obtains inside his vessel is called inner light, or the light of taamim, or torah. that is why kabbalists always say, taste and see that the lord is good. pa r t t h r e e: t h e s t ru c t u r e o f t h e u p p e r wo r l d s 211 the creature, behina dalet of dalet

ection and eternity, because that is the creator s state of being. that means that what the creator wishes to give us is his own state of being. he is perfect and unique, and because of his perfection, he wants to give his state, meaning his perfection to creation. hence, the purpose of creation is the attainment of the perfection of the creator and the ability to receive what he wants to bestow. the seven days of creation are felt by humanity as 7,000 years. the first six stand for the first six days of the week, during which humanity corrects itself unconsciously at first, and finally consciously, through great efforts. in the end it reaches the seventh millennium, or the seventh day, the sabbath, a state where the light of the creator fills the corrected properties with bounty and delig

in the end it reaches the seventh millennium, or the seventh day, the sabbath, a state where the light of the creator fills the corrected properties with bounty and delight. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 322 the number seven itself bears special significance in kabbalah. the system that manages our world consists of seven parts. that is why things in our world are divided by seven or seventy: the seven days of the week, the seventy nations of the world, man s soul, which also consists of seventy parts, and the length of a human s life, lasting approximately seventy years. the entire path of mankind consists of six days, representing the 6,000 years of correction. we have now entered the year 5766 in the jewish calendar. the conscious correction of the world began in the year 5755 (1995

from the previous situation. the surrounding light begins to gradually enter the soul on sukkot. it is called surrounding light until the holiday of sukkot, because it remains outside the soul. but once inside, it is regarded as inner light. these are special days when the light of the creator enters the soul and fills it completely on the day of simchat torah (rejoicing of the torah. all during the seven days of the holiday, the seven sefirot of our soul fill with light. filling means good days, happy ones. a soul that has been completely filled with light matches the spiritual degree of the holiday of simchat torah. the entire upper light that is to ultimately fill the soul is called torah. when that process is carried out, the spiritual degree of a soul that can perform it is called si

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econd edition: the working tools, and the egyptian interpretation of them. chapter vii the second degree the questions. the preparation. the inner preparation. the opening. the e.a.'s last work. the five stages. the five steps. the o. the working tools. closing the lodge. chapter viii the third degree the opening of the lodge. the c c the preparation. the internal preparation. entering the lodge. the seven steps. the o c the etheric forces. hiram abiff. death and resurrection. the star. the raising of humanity. fire, sun and moon. the villains. the inscription (second edition: our master h. a. instead of hiram abiff) chapter ix the higher degrees the masonic plane. the ceremony of installation. the mark degree. the holy royal arch. still higher. the rose croix. black masonry. white masonry

characterizes the gothic style, differing both from the norman and roman styles with their rounded arches, and from the saracenic or byzantine with its serrated arches and round domes. 136. meaning of the three columns 137. i am indebted for the following luminous sug-gestions to bro. ernest wood. they are an interpretation of the three columns in the light of the principles embodied in his book, the seven rays, and i commend them to the careful study of the brn. 138. in order to understand the full significance of the columns presided over by the three principal officers, we must recall the occult teaching of the great divine trinity of father, son and holy ghost, or shiva, vishnu and brahma. in their unity they are one universal god in whom everything exists, whether it be animate or ina

left-hand pillar, each link of each chain symbolized what in our oriental studies we call a branch-race, and the links as they descended became larger and thicker to indicate a deeper descent into matter, until the fourth was reached, when the life-force begins to draw inward and upward, and so its embodiment becomes less material. 177. each loop of seven links therefore typified a sub-race, and the seven loops which extended round the pillar, making one festoon, correspond to one of the great root-races, such as the lemurian, the atlantean or the aryan. the whole set of seven festoons hanging one below the other denoted one world-period, one occupation of this planet of ours. 178. underneath the chain-work a beautifully executed system of fine network will be seen, and this was employed

ental, intuitional and spiritual; and when all these parts of his nature are perfectly developed as far as that is possible in a human state of existence, he becomes the perfect man, the adept, master of himself and the five worlds or planes in which he has his being. such a man has fulfilled the instruction: gbe ye perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect. h 223. on the t c b c there is the seven-pointed star above the ladder reaching up into the heavens. it is a symbol of the seven great lines along which all life is moving slowly upwards to completer union with the divine, of the seven ways in which man may realize perfection, and the seven rays or emanations of god through which he has filled the whole universe with the light of his life. this star also typifies the christian

ointed star above the ladder reaching up into the heavens. it is a symbol of the seven great lines along which all life is moving slowly upwards to completer union with the divine, of the seven ways in which man may realize perfection, and the seven rays or emanations of god through which he has filled the whole universe with the light of his life. this star also typifies the christian thought of the seven great archangels, the seven spirits who stand before the throne of god. it is likewise another symbol for the perfected man or adept, because while he is master of the five worlds, he is also the wielder of seven powers; he has developed his nature to human perfection on all seven rays, in all seven of the lines of activity of the divine life. 224. the furniture 225. the furniture of the

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y a mere vestige of the original procedure remains. 123. the mystery language 124. besides the teaching upon the life after death- which was elaborated by countless stories of imaginary individuals, showing the results in the astral plane after death of certain courses of action during life- a fine course of education was also given to the initiates of the first degree, embracing what masons term the seven liberal arts and sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. by grammar the egyptians meant the sacred hieroglyphic writing of the priests, which was taught to all the initiates of the mysteries, but it also signified a kind of secret language, a way of speaking peculiar to the priesthood. in the secret language of the mysteries it was not so much that

d recognition; and in the mysteries of osiris the legend was much more in accordance with the real facts of the spiritual world. even in the egyptian inscriptions which have been deciphered there are clear indications of a resurrection. the main outline of the true legend was the death of osiris at the hands of set; the division of his body into twice seven parts, representing the coming forth of the seven rays, or types of manifestation, consequent upon the descent of the logos into matter; the search of isis and the finding of the various portions of the body; their reunion and the final raising of osiris by the third of three successive attempts to triumphant immortality and eternal resurrection. 150. it was at this stage also that the function of osiris as the judge of the dead was stu

ind. 367. further teaching upon cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis was also continued. in the greater mysteries instead of being instructed only as to the broad outlines of evolution by reincarnation (which does not appear to have been clearly taught in the outer religion, and the previous races of mankind, the initiates now received a description of the whole scheme as we have it to-day, including the seven great chains of worlds and their positions in the solar system as a whole. their terms were different from ours, but the instruction was in essence the same; where we speak of successive life-waves and outpourings, they spoke of aeons and emanations, but there is no doubt that they were fully in touch with the facts, and that they represented them to their pupils in wonderful visions of

ct upon the consciousness of the people, for it is one of the means chosen by the white lodge to influence the development of the various nations according to the plan of the great architect of the universe. to understand the significance of the gothic style, we must consider for a moment an important fact of occult history, that which is technically known to students as the cyclic change of ray. the seven rays, or types of the divine consciousness and activity, to one or other of which all living things belong, influence the world in turn, and this cyclic change produces the modifications of outlook which are to be noted as century succeeds century. 542. each race and sub-race has its own especial qualities to develop. the fifth root-race, to which we ourselves belong, is engaged as a who

of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight ewclyde. the latter was commissioned by the king to teach masonry to a large number of children of the lord and estates of the realm. the legend passes then to david, who, when he began the temple of jerusalem, learned the charges and manners of masons from egypt and gave them to his people. solomon continued the bu

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discovered by the apostle paul after he had been snatched up to the third heaven, and delivered by him at corinth. robert turner mentions a sixteenth-century manuscript in the biblioth que nationale [6. although this text is based on earlier versions, repeated mention of the year 1641 and guns, shows a late redaction. the "table of practice" has similarities with dee's "holy table. in the former the seven seals have the characters of the seven planets, which also occur in the "magical calendar (published 1620, but with possible connections with trithemius) saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon the descriptions of the seals for each sign of the zodiac are evidently abstracted from paracelsus, the second treatise of celestial medicines, cf. archidoxes of magic translated by robert turn

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y, abaddon is identified with a demon, or the devil himself, in the third-century acts of thomas, as well as in john bunyan s puritan classic, pilgrim s progress.within modern ceremonial magic, it constitutes the name for god invoked by moses to bring down the rain over egypt, as reported by samuel liddell mathers in the greater key of solomon. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. strayer, j

home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma, to which we should seek to return. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings (one of the aeons) residing in the pleroma inadvertently creates another entity often called yaldabaoth who creates our familiar world (e.g, the apocryphon of john 2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this creation involves the emanation of the seven levels of the classical cosmos, corresponding to seven planetary spheres of the ptolemaic astronomical scheme. the archons are the rulers who govern each of these levels, and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass

mmunity despite receiving queries from individuals about joining ascendancy. for further reading: ascendancy: http//www.jashan.net asmodeus asmodeus means creature (or being) of judgment. he was originally a persian demon, but was later adopted into jewish lore where he was known as a raging fiend, per the book of tobit. it is in this same book that the story is told about how asmodeus had killed the seven previous bridegrooms of sarah, and then planned to strike once more against the eighth a young man name tobias. but this time asmodeus was not successful as the archangel raphael was protecting tobias. raphael exiled asmodeus to upper egypt, where he was kept under restraint by another angel until he finally moved on to hell. in demonology, it is said that one must invoke asmodeus only w

goodies, money, and power. he doesn t realize until it s too late that the price he pays is to become an ugly monster. bedazzled stanley donen s 1967 comedy built around a faust theme was written and performed by comedians peter cook and dudley moore. stumbling and bumbling stanley (moore) wants to attract the attention of his coworker, a beautiful waitress who is unattainable. he wastes most of the seven wishes that are given to him by the devil (played by cook) in exchange for moore s soul following his suicide attempt. harold ramis was the cowriter-coproducer of the 2000 remake.as in the first film, the short-order cook elliott (brandon fraser) is willing to sell his soul to the devil for the attention of the beautiful waitress, margaret (frances o conner. harold ramis cleverly rewrite

sually portrayed as a common condition of the world in which man lives. the great themes of bosch s work, such as the snares of the devil and the soul s perpetual exposure to the wiles of evil, already appear in the paintings attributed to his youthful period, which include: the crucifixion (brussels, coll. franchomme, containing the theme later developed by the painter s scenes from the passion; the seven deadly sins (madrid, prado, in which the circle symbolizes the world and the three concentric circles with the seven sins represent the divine eye with christ as the pupil; and the conjurer (st. germain-en-laye, museum, an image of the credulity that leads to heresy,with the first reference to the tarot cards and astrology. the famous great triptychs, the hay wain (madrid, prado, the gar

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rough the letter gimel. since all things whatsoever (including no thing) may be placed upon the tree of life, the table could never be complete. it is already somewhat unwieldy; we have tried to confine ourselves as far as possible to lists of things generally unknown. it must be remembered that the lesser tables are only divided from the thirty-two-fold table in order to economise space; e.g. in the seven-fold table the entries under saturn belong to the thirty-second part in the large table. we have been unable for the moment to tabulate many great systems of magic; the four lesser books of the lemegeton,4 the system of abramelin, if indeed its qliphothic ramifications are susceptible of classification, once we follow it below the great and terrible demonic triads which are under the pre

rty good, hence the apparently oxymoronic title. it is possible that the theurgia- goetia was based on the steganographia of trithemius by someone who did not realise that the latter was primarily a work of cryptography. the third book, ars paulina, contains a catalogue of angels for the 12 hours of the day and night, and for the 12 signs and 360 degrees of the zodiac; they are also attributed to the seven classical planets. the fourth book, ars almadel, is probably of medieval origin: it divides up the powers it summons into four altitudes, seemingly referred to the cardinal points of the zodiac. the fifth book of the lemegeton, ars nova, is rather a kind of appendix which appears in one ms. where it occupies one and a half sides of a single folio leaf: it contains an extended prayer asso

consists solely of kether; the second of chokmah and binah; the third of chesed through to yesod; the fourth of malkuth only. these are identified by some with the four worlds. 3 pillars/ 7 planes: see col. xii. 7 palaces: see col. lxxxvii et seq. liber 777 52 notes to table of correspondences table i (the whole scale) col. viii. the numbers after the qliphoth of the sephiroth represent which of the seven palaces they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged th

thim a ad be-ruach shechaqim. table iv (the sephiroth) col. lxxxviii. these originally given in latin; i have translated them into english. col. xcii. the original had this in latin; it was a slight garbling of the vulgate of isaiah vi, 2-3. i have translated it into english as it appeared. col. xciv. despite being headed english of palaces this column was originally in latin. the translations of the seven heavens are mostly from godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia, s.v. heaven. col. ciii. this column originally printed in latin. col. cviii. for what it s worth (probably not much; see crowley s note, here are transliterations of the hebrew names in this column: line 2. samael( poison of god or blind god. lams= 131= pan. line 3. isheth zanunim (woman of whoredom, said to be the wife of samael

. 10 the golden dawn lectures give a slightly different attribution of the fingers, based on the points of the pentagram, thus: the thumb to spirit, the index to water, the medius to fire, the third finger to earth and the little finger to air. 11 in the golden dawn diagram (in turn derived from a figure in plate xvi in tom. i of von rosenroth s kabbala denudata) from which col. cvi. was derived, the seven earths of col. civ. were also enclosed by the four seas. godwin refers the infernal rivers to the elements thus: air, cocytus; water, styx; fire, phlegethon; earth, acheron. 12 heled, concealed, and never revealed. see the oath of an entered apprentice freemason. 13 the names appear in a supplement to the rituel de haute magie as part of an explanation of the nuctemeron of apollonius of

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ndeth over the universe is my mistress; i am the winged globe at her heart. 2. i contract ever as she ever expandeth. 3. at the end it is all one. 4. our loves have brought to birth the father and creator of all things. 5. he hath established the elements, the athyr, the air, the water, the earth, and the fire. 6. he hath established the wanderings stars in their courses. 7. he hath ploughed with the seven stars of his plough, that the seven might move indeed, yet ever point to the unchanging one. 8. he hath established the eight belts, wherewith he hath girdled the globes. 9. he hath established the trinity of triads in all things, forcing fire into fire, and ordering all things in the stable abode of the kings of agypt. 10. he hath established his rule in his kingdom. 11. yet the father

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ajesty will transform the entirety of this realm. 21. lo, i am coming. prepare the ways unto me; make ready my throne upon this, my earth. i am satan! i am the god of this world and all that it contains. prepare for the doom and the splendor, prepare for my furious blaurliber b vel magi svb figvra i v a a publication in class a 1 00. one is the magus: twain his forces: four his weapons. these are the seven spirits of unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. thus is the art and craft of the magus but glamour. how shall he destroy himself? 0. yet the magus hath power upon the mother both directly and through love. and the magus is love, and bindeth together that and this in his conjuration. 1. in the beginning doth the magus speak truth, and send forth illusion and falsehood to enslave the s

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great angels formed thus: take the corner letter s, then the diagonal next to it ab, then the next diagonal ath, then the fourth diagonal, where is i with 8 21 (which indicates el, and we have the name. sabathiel liber lxxxiv 3 continuing the process, we get zedekiel madimiel semeliel nogahel corabiel levanael these names will be found in the pentagram and about it. these angels are the angels of the seven circles of heaven.5 these are but a few of the mysteries of this great seal sigillvm dei meth plate ii the symbolic representation of the universe 4 iii the shew-stone, a crystal which dee alleged to have been brought to him by angels, was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates

90: golden dawn enochian magic. st paul, mn: llewellyn(.second edition. 1994. finally i will warn the reader that schueler& schueler.s .enochian. books for llewellyn should not be regarded as a reliable source of information on either .dee purist. or golden dawn enochian magick, or anything else for that matter. notes 42 notes to part i 1: these talismans, the ensigns of creation, are referred to the seven planets (clockwise from top) venus, sol, mars, mercury, jupiter, saturn, luna. the details of the ensigns are not visible on the graphic of the holy table (plate i. the seven ensigns and an account of their reception can be found in mysteriorum liber tertius; they are reproduced in turner (1989. 2: the letters on the holy table itself are derived from the names of the heptarchic kings an

from the letters written along the outer heptagon; the .seven angels which stand in the presence of god. mentioned by agrippa (de occ. phil, tom. ii cap. x. these should be arranged, thus: liber lxxxiv 43 z l l r h i a a z c a a c b p a u p n h r h d m h i a i k k a a e e e i i e e l l l e e l l m g+ then reading down columns we get zaphkiel, zadkiel, cumael, raphael, haniel, michael, gabriel for the seven classical planets, with the final+ signifying the earth. 6: while there does indeed appear in tfr (p. 179) an arrangement of the letters from the black cross as a five by four table, this appears to have been a convenience adopted during the communication of the great table (table of watchtowers; as the letters were immediately afterwards written into the cross between the four tablets

latin immediately following appears to indicate that it is the angels of the 12 tribes who are the governers of the 91 parts, some having many, some fewer, under their rule(.per tota terra distributa sub 12 principibus angelis, 12 tribuum israel: quorum 12 aliqui plures, aliqui pauciores partes habent sub sua regimine ex 91 partibus in quas tota terra hic demonstratur esse divisa, suggesting that the seven-letter names in this column are the names of the parts themselves rather than denoting discrete angelic entities associated with the parts. the names of the 91 parts were delivered on the 21st and 22nd of may 1584 (tfr pp. 141-5, 148-152. the equinox publication omitted the numbers of the 91 parts; however as these numbers are used to identify their characters on the table of watchtowers

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dentify the rituals and instructions alluded to in the text. 1 papers a to g in class d collectively comprise liber 185, gliber collegii sancti. h each bears on one side the task of one of the a a grades from probationer to adeptus minor, on the other side the oath of the grade in question. 2 that is, those who were deemed to be slacking, being eidle or luxurious. f ritual xxviii, the ceremony of the seven holy kings( gliber septem regum sanctorum h) is unpublished but what appears to be a draft version survives in typescript; i currently only have electronic copies of doubtful provenance. 3 two rituals (not counting minor variants) with this number are extant. gliber dclxxi vel oart, h a scripted ritual with two officers and a candidate survives in a typescript with some ms amendations, d

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fashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his children. lovers they were and lovely, those twins of rape. one was above them, joining their hands .that is well. said our father, and for seven nights he slept in seven starry palaces, and a sword to guard him. note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. and on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said

ow therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the sword, and the pyramid being builded in just proportion, was that light fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before

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cement only. also affront, detection, knowledge, and in some instances contention and strife arising from unwarranted self-assertion and vanity. sometimes thankless and presumptuous; sometimes amiable and patient. according to dignity as usual. tiphareth of h (beginning of wish, happiness, success, or enjoyment. therein rule lakln and layyy. xxxii the lord of illusionary success seven of chalices the seven cups are arranged as two descending triangles above a point: a hand, as usual, holds lotus stems which arise from the central lower cup. the hand is above this cup and below the middle one. with the exception of the central lower cup, each is overhung by a lotus flower, but no water falls from these into any of the cups, which are all quite empty. above and below are the symbols of the d

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

that they readily sublime into the intuitive. this study is truly a royal magistry, an easy and sure means of exciting the consciousness from ruach to neschamah. aleister crowley. 3 part i in the first verse of the first chapter of the first five books of the holy law: it is written:.b.rashith bara alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script rah taw \ymch ta \yhla arb tycarb such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning in wisdom in the head* created god the elohim the holy gods the essence. of the heavens and t

orth the evol-ution of the four worlds and their consolidation: for 1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10= y= atziluth 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5= 15= hy= briah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6= 21= why= yetzirah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 7= 28= 2+ 8= 10 assiah the number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest.the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the seventh day. and 28 is 7 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds* as it is written in the path of the child of the sons of the mighty .and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the b of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the c of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of

LIBER SEPTEM REGUM SANCTORUM

e o o this is the gholy twelvefold table of oit h mentioned in the vision of the fifteenth athyr. note that many print editions reverse the letters left to right; this is believed to derive from an engraver fs error when an image of the table was used as the frontispiece plate in casaubon fs true and faithful relatie 1 liber septem regum sanctorum sub figur xxviii being the ritual admonitions of the seven planetary stations v a\a\ publication in class d ritual xxviii the ceremony of the seven holy kings probationers, who are idle or luxurious, shall be given a task suitable to their natures. if they refuse the task from laziness or from a feeling that they have more important business (as their neophyte may judge) then may v.v.v.v.v. 8 =38 himself inform them with much deference that they

in class d ritual xxviii the ceremony of the seven holy kings probationers, who are idle or luxurious, shall be given a task suitable to their natures. if they refuse the task from laziness or from a feeling that they have more important business (as their neophyte may judge) then may v.v.v.v.v. 8 =38 himself inform them with much deference that they are now fitted for admission to the mystery of the seven holy kings. the temple is arranged as shewn in the attached illustration.1 the god of the first throne hath robes of deep blue; second violet; 3rd. scarlet; 4th. orange; 5th. green; 6th. pale yellow; 7th. bright blue.2 the other officers are the hegemon, clad in white& masked in white& in his hand is the phoenix wand of the planets;3& the hiereus, masked in black& robed in black, in his

halt waste away& thou shalt go a-cold& thou shalt suddenly be slain if thou so much as lift thine eyes unto his face. place therefore thine head upon my knees, that i may put mine hands upon thine head& bless thee with my blessings (he does so) welcome wast thou to me, as thou wast welcome to my brethren; thou didst but lift up thine hand in aspiration to the brotherhood immortal& thou hast swept the seven chords of the celestial harp. pass thou on. 4 they go back, not to the altar, but to the little door of the temple, within which is a dark dungeon. the hegemon thrusts him furiously into this with hand& foot, all crying aloud: osiris is a black god. there he must remain for seven hours (if at any point previous in the ritual he should say: i ask not these blessings; i seek osiris. what s

rds of similar purport, the hegemon answers, removing the hoodwink once and for all:6 verily, thou sayest well; know that osiris is a black god& the straight way unto the sacred& sublime order lieth not through the green pastures& beside still waters. but in the valley of the shadow of death, his crook& scourge shall avail thee. take them therefore& fold thine arms upon thy breast; ascend with me the seven steps of the throne. the aspirant then does so, standing between the officers. the fourth throne is removed to leave a passage. the seven kings rush upon him& belabor him with their weapons; but he makes his way& they fall one by one; the seventh upon the second step, the sixth upon the third, the fifth upon the fourth, the fourth upon the fifth, the third upon the sixth, the second upon

nd upon the seventh& the first at the foot of the throne. the aspirant passes over their bodies& takes his seat. they then, each from his place, adore him while the two officers support him on either side& the hierophant addresses him: frater_ this day have i symbolically placed thee in the seat of a brother of the a\a. see to it that thy life truly reflect this gradual conquest of the powers7 of the seven& never forget that thy path is the path of osiris,8& that osiris is a black god. they then conduct him from the temple) after the seven hours are past, the aspirant is rescued by osiris, the black officer, in the words already given, omitting verily thou sayest well& using a sterner tone for the beginning of the speech. the ceremony then proceeds as before. source: this text was emailed

LIBER TURRIS

t is lady of the sea; lord of air is mercury. now by god fs grace here is salt fixed beneath the violet vault. now by god fs love purge it through with our right hermetic dew. 4 liber tvrris vel domvs dei now by god wherein we trust be our sophic salt combust. then at last the eye shall see three in one and one in three, sulphur, salt, and mercury, crowned by heavenly alchemy! to the one who sent the seven glory in the highest heaven! to the seven who are the ten glory on the earth, amen! 16. and of the difficulties of this practice and of the results that reward it, let these things be discovered by the right ingenium of the practicus (c) ordo templi orientis. this e-text last revised 11.06.2004. key entry, formatting &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ nu isis working group. notes si

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

satan! h gasped the outraged daimio. g.and you are everywhere hailed as the godfather of your country! h gdo not tell me that the british war has ended disastrously for us! h and he called for the elaborate apparatus of hari-kiri. gon the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous sa mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being sick, although his genius for naval strategy had no equal in the seven abysses of water, after a month as stowaway on a fishing boat (by the orders of kwaw) assumed the rank of admiral of the fleet, and has inflicted a series of complete and crushing defeats upon the british admirals, who though they had been on the water all their lives, had incomprehensibly omitted to acquire any truly accurate knowledge of the metaphysical systems of sho pi naour and ni

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

no clear statement to that effect in the account of the cairo working (then again, the cairo working is generally very poorly documented and it has even been suggested that crowley was booked on a ship back to england before april 8th. t.s] 5 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie aliber lv the chymical j o u s t i n g o f brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake v a a publication in class c the regimen of the seven 1 the chymical jousting of brother perardua with the seven lances that he brake he slayeth sir argon le paresseux. now brother perardua, though he was but a zelator of our ancient order, had determined in himself to perform the magnum opus, and to procure for himself one grain of the powder, one minim of the elixi

rom more than seven plants, that shone in the blackness; and each plant beareth a single blossom that hath seven petals.one would have thought them stars; for though they were not of a verity in themselves brilliant and flashing, yet so black was that wherein they grew that they seemed brighter than suns. and these were placed one above the other in a single line and straight, even according unto the seven centres of his intention that he bare about him in the hollow tube that hath thirty and two joints. liber lv 2 he slayeth sir amorex le desirous. these plants did our brother perardua pluck, as the mystic rites ordain; and these did he heat furiously in his alembic, yet with vegetable heat alone, while he kept them ever moist, dropping upon them of his lunar water, whereof he had three a

th sir merlin the wizard. yet our brother perardua.and by now he was right skilful at the athanor!.determined to attain to that higher projection. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will have it, a fiery flying serpent, whereby he should eat up that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venemous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one. the chymical jousting of brother perardua 3 he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted. now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the

g of brother perardua 3 he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted. now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that which cometh forth therefrom is in no wise that which went in. yet are these twelve the children of those two-and-twenty. so when he had broken the cucurbirte, he find therein no trace of the seven, but a button of fused gold.as we say, for it is not gold. now this button hath twelve faces, and angles twenty-four salient and reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it the pavement of the firmament of nu. he slayeth king astur of the arms argent. now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metal; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three th

rticles, so also at a touch this gold philosophical dissolveth his being, ofttimes with a great and terrible explosion, ofttimes so softly and subtly that no man may perceive it, be he never so acute, nay, as a needle for sharpness or for fineness as a spyglass of the necromancer! yet herein lieth the core of the matter that in this explosion liber lv 4 aforesaid naught whatever is left either of the seven or the twelve or of the three mother seeds that lie concealed therein. but in a certain mystical way the other ten are shadowed forth, though dimly, as if the brazen serpent had become a sword of lightning. yet this is but a glyph; for in truth there is no link or bond between them. for this animal gold is passed utterly away; there is not any button thereof, nor any feather of the wings

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

m it the black adept weaves temporary order within the self. in sabbat rites, it is the ritual of transferring the consciousness unto the self. this is reminiscent of the italian witches covens that took to the spirit hunt on the dreaming plane as well. the luciferian essence of attending the conclave is the meeting place of the three (consider hecate/lilith the guardians of the crossroads, it is the seven rayed star which initiates and the eight ray which comes the initiator of magick, set himself. nick hall points out in "chaos& sorcery" that the eight rayed star appeared in mesopotamia around 3,000 b.c. as a symbol to represent dingir (god, heaven (an) and star. this may be viewed in a luciferian context as dingir representing the infinite possibility of being, the fire stole from heave

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

nsciousness ordinarily experienced by most human beings, and that is where most of the apprentice's labor is accomplished. there is not much in the way of elevated consciousness involved in the first degree; but if he practices what he is taught, the newly made mason will become awake to all sorts of new ideas. the officers of a lodge are seven in number, and in this interpretation they represent the seven levels of consciousness on the central column of the tree. upon the central column we see the masonic jewels (shown in light blue) which designate those officers of the lodge who work on, or supervise, the ground floor.54 at malkhut is the tyler, and his jewel is a sword. he is the sentry who stands outside the door of the lodge and keeps off intruders. his function is analogous to that

gure 4, show only seven steps. i think that this is not the major change that it might seem to be. in one way or another the ritual and lectures relate seven of the steps to the liberal arts and sciences, five of the steps to the five classical orders of architecture, and three of the steps to the principal characters in the traditional history of the third degree. seven steps are also related to the seven officers of the lodge.60 i'm quite sure that the staircases in the early pictures conveyed the same teachings, but the three steps were included in the five, and the five were included in the seven. this overlapping of the groups is supported by second lecture.61 in any case, the reference to the liberal arts and sciences and the five orders of architecture certainly points the candidate

. for the experienced craftsman to try, and adjust, his jewels on";63 the second is a representation of the name of deity, often represented by the letter "g."64 we will speak of both later. figure 13. second degree tracing board, c. 1801. the second degree on the tree of life in figure 14 we see the tree of life we have been working on with masonic symbols for the second degree added. at each of the seven levels on the central column of the tree is one of the seven liberal arts and sciences; they fit very nicely. some examples: grammar is a structured mechanism for conducting effective external communication. it fits well on malkhut, the sefirah of connection with the physical world. geometry is said to be the most important of the seven liberal arts and sciences; it is defined as. a regu

now he can share what he has learned and offer assistance to those who seek it. that is, he travels. west to propagate the knowledge (he) has gained" in doing that he practices the third of the theological virtues, charity. figure 18. plan of the master's lodge, la desolation des entrepreneurs modernes, c. 1747. the holy royal arch on the tree in figure 16 the officers of the lodge are placed on the seven levels of consciousness which form steps up the central column of the tree. these are the levels of consciousness as they are defined in the toledano school of kabbalah.74 the seven officers placed in this way fit nicely; but the uppermost triad, the triad of divine contact, is left empty. that empty triad suggests that the masonic system, even though it contains so profound an event as

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

is in the light of modern science-the myth of the dying god-the rite of tammuz and ishtar--the mysteries of atys and adonis-the rites of sabazius--the cabiric mysteries of samothrace. 33 the life and writings of thoth hermes trismegistus suppositions concerning identity of hermes--the mutilated hermetic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the sym

e horoscope of the world. 53 the bembine table of isis plato's initiation in the great pyramid--the history of the bembine table--platonic theory of ideas--the interplay of the three philosophical zodiacs--the chaldean philosophy of triads--the orphic egg. 57 wonders of antiquity the ever-burning lamps--the oracle of delphi--the dodonean oracle--the oracle of trophonius--the initiated architects--the seven wonders of the world. 61 the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagoras and the school of crotona--pythagoric fundamentals--the symmetrical solids--the symbolic aphorisms of pythagoras--pythagorean astronomy--kepler's theory of the universe. 65 pythagorean mathematics the theory of numbers--the numerical values of letters--method of securing the numerical power of words--an introductio

rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines and tenets the confessio fraternitatis--the anatomy of melancholy--john heydon on rosicrucianism--the three mountains of the wise--the philosophical egg--the objects of the rosicrucian order. 141 fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams schamayim, the ocean of spirit--the seven days of creation--the symbolic tomb of christian rosencreutz--the regions of the elements--the new jerusalem--the grand secret of nature. 145 alchemy and its exponents the multiplication of metals--the medal of emperor leopold i--paracelsus of hohenheim--raymond lully--nicholas flarnmel--count bernard of treviso. 149 the theory and practice of alchemy the origin of alchemical philosophy

important of the now recognized schools of philosophy is beyond the space limitations of this volume. the vast area of speculation covered by philosophy will be appreciated best after a brief consideration of a few of the outstanding systems of philosophic discipline which have swayed the world of thought during the last twenty-six centuries. the greek school of philosophy had its inception with the seven immortalized thinkers upon whom was first conferred the appellation of sophos "the wise" according to diogenes laertius, these were thales, solon, chilon, pittacus, bias, cleobulus, and periander. water was conceived by thales to be the primal principle or element, upon which the earth floated like a ship, and earthquakes were the result of disturbances in this universal sea. since thale

red into fragments and sparks flew from it. it is also quite probable that serapis was worshiped in the form of a serpent, in common with many of the higher deities of the egyptian and greek pantheons. serapis was called theon heptagrammaton, or the god with the name of seven letters. the name serapis (like abraxas and mithras) contains seven letters. in their hymns to serapis the priests chanted the seven vowels. occasionally serapis is depicted with horns or a coronet of seven rays. these evidently represented the seven divine intelligences manifesting through the solar light. the encyclop dia britannica notes that the earliest authentic mention of serapis is in connection with the death of alexander. such was the prestige of serapis that he alone of the gods was consulted in behalf of t

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

uld each measure about twelve inches. the triangle is a very old witch symbol, and represents the crystallization of form out of chaos. you will find it employed throughout witchcraft whenever some type of physical or magnetic manifestation is required. some cabalistically inclined witches surround the triangle with a double circle, and between the two circles they inscribe the names and seals of the seven planetary angels and the demon kings of the four quarters of the earth, while others seek to enhance the potency of the figure by fortifying the sides of the triangle with the hebraic divine names primeumaton, anaphaxeton, tetragrammaton and placing the name of michael, leader of the heavenly host, within; but none of these things is strictly necessary. all you basically need is the tria

on or hostile current. portable amulets the cross-stone, also known as staurotides, is, in fact, a crystal of ferrous aluminium silicate or staurolite, which occurs naturally in orthorhombic form (a crystal possessing three planes set at right angles to each other. in fact, the crystal is formed in the shape of a three-dimensional greek cross or solid cross of nature; symbolically, this indicates the seven mystical dimensions of space, namely north, south, east, west, the abyss above, the abyss below, and the holy centre. herein lie the seeds to the complex cabalistic ararita formula. the amulet should be suspended in a red cloth bag tied with red thread from the neck of the bearer, again laying him "under the spell of hertha's protection" also considered a potent earthly amulet is the ima

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

rst prepare, beforehand, all the requisites, such as candles and incense, which thou wilt find described in the following chapters: observing the days, the hours, and the other effects of the constellations which may be found in this chapter. it is, therefore, advisable to know that the hours of the day and of the night together, are twenty-four in number, and that each hour is governed by one of the seven planets in regular order, commencing at the highest and descending to the lowest. the order of the planets is as follows: shbthai, shabbathai, saturn; beneath saturn is tzdq, tzedeq, jupiter; beneath jupiter is madim, madim, mars; beneath mars is shmsh, shemesh, the sun; beneath the sun is nvgh, nogah, venus; beneath venus is kvkb, kokav, mercury; and beneath mercury is lbnh, levanah, th

powerfully urge ye, o demons, in whatsoever part of the world ye may be, so that ye shall be unable to remain in air, fire, water, earth, or in any part of the universe, or in any pleasant place which may attract ye; but that ye come promptly to accomplish our desire, and all things that we demand from your obedience. i conjure ye anew by the two tables of the law, by the five books of moses, by the seven burning lamps on the candlestick of gold before the face of the throne of the majesty of god, and by the holy of holies wherein the kohen ha-gadul was alone permitted to enter, that is to say, the high-priest. i conjure ye by him who hath made the heavens and the earth, and who hath measured those heavens in the hollow of his hand, and enclosed the earth with three of his fingers, who is

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

ranks; e.g (45) vine is both king and earl (25) glasya-labolas is both president and earl, etc. prince and prelate are apparently used as interchangeable terms. probably the seals of earls should be made of iron, and those of presidents in mixture either of copper and silver, or of silver and mercury; as otherwise the metal of one planet, mars, is excluded from the list; the metals attributed to the seven planets being: to saturn, lead; to jupiter, tin; to mars, iron; to the sun, gold; to venus, copper; to mercury, mercury and mixtures of metals, and to luna, silver. in a manuscript codex by dr. rudd, which is in the british museum, hebrew names of these 72 spirits are given; but it appears to me that many are manifestly incorrect in orthography. the codex in question, though beautifully

MEANING OF MASONRY

ction with the quadrangular portion below, that man's nature is a combination of soul and body; the three-sided emblem at the top added to the four-sided emblem beneath making seven, the perfect number; for, as it is written in an ancient hebrew doctrine with which masonry is closely allied" god blessed and loved the number seven more than all things under his throne" by which is mea nt that man, the seven-fold being, is of the most cherished of all the creator's works. and hence also it is that the lodge has seven principal officers, and that a lodge, to be perfect, requires the presence of seven brethren; though the deeper meaning of this phrase is that the individual man, in virtue of his seven-fold constitution, in himself constitutes the" perfect lodge" if he will but know himself and

es, indicating that a higher than the natural light now permeates his being and radiates from his person, and that the wilderness of the natural man is now blossoming as the rose, in the flowers and graces incident to his regenerated of nature; whilst upon either side of the apron are seen two columns of light descending from above, streaming into the depths of his whole being, and terminating in the seven-fold tassels which typify the seven-fold prismatic spectrum of the supernal light. he is now lord of himself; the true master mason; able to govern that lodge which is within himself; and as he has passed through the three degrees of purifying and self-perfecting, and squared, levelled, and harmonized his triple nature of body, soul and spirit, he also wears, on attaining mastership, the

iven the names of" sun" moon" and planets, and the science of their interaction and outworking was the ancient science of astronomy, or, as it is now more often called astrology, which is one of the liberal arts and sciences recommended further to the study of every mason and the pursuit of which notes on belongs in particular to the fellow-craft stage. the positions of the officers of the lodge. the seven officers- three principal and three subordinate ones, with an additional minor one serving as a connecting link with the ourside world -represent seven aspects or faculties of consciousness psychologically interactive and co-ordinated into a unity so as to constitute a "just and perfect lodge" as a man, any one of whose faculties is disordered or uncoordinated, is accounted insane, so a

ing man's outer nature with his inmost divine principle and providing the necessary channels for reciprocal action between the spiritual and material poles of his organism. in other words, and to use an alternative symbol of the same fact, man is potentially a seven-branched golden candlestick. potentially so, because as yet he has not transmuted the base metals of his nature into gold, or lit up the seven candles or parts of his organism with the promethean fire of the divine principle. meanwhile that symbol of what is possible to him is offered for his reflection and contemplation, and he may profitably study the description of regenerated, perfected man given in meaning revelation 1, 12-20. to summarize, the seven officers typify the masonry following sevenfold parts of the human mechan

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

d (fire, sword (air) chalice (water) pentagram (earth. such instruments should be employed during invocations and evocations. each element would hold a significant point within the ritual undertaken. for instance, if one was invoking hecate the pentegram used would be an inverse pentagram, such as the varcolaci sigil, while one invoking babalon would implement the seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the goddess of the sea (witch queen, the wand by babalon or anothe

uth, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalonlilith! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created nganga should be with you (creation of ngangas involves the use of human and animal bones-called a fetish spirit-your blood, sigil, grave soil and snake skin. this nganga will contain active fetish spirits related to the dead. you will use items of the dead which may bring shades or manes of the dead whi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

macrocosm passes away forever, like a shadow in the architecture of a night-mare, and the true renaissance of humankind begins.i salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. for when you are at thecenter within yourself and i within mine, we shall be as one (crazy horse, shaman andchief of the lakota sioux)i am a wave of the sea, i am a murmur of the billows, i am a stag of the seven horns, i am a wide lake on a plain, i am a wind on the deep waters, i am shining tear of the sun,i am a hawk upon the rocks, i am the fairest of plants, i am a battle-waging spear, i am a salmon in the pool, i am a boar of courage, i am a hill of poetry,i am the craft of the artificer, i am a word of science, i am a god who creates in the head, the firewho but i knows the secret of the u

e of ogyges and the journey of bran, of the coming of the tuatha de dannan, the creation of the isle of man, etc.scriptures and texts that mention earth devastationbooks of genesis, job, and revelationthe ramayana and the mahabharatathe shastrasthe v edasthe norse eddathe zed avesta (of the persians)the codex chimalpopoca (of the toltecs)welsh triads, visuddhi magga (of the buddhists)discourse on the seven suns (buddhist)annals of cuauhtitlan (mayan)the ipuwer papyrus (egyptian)the ermitage papyrus (egyptian)there are over 40,000 texts that mention atlantis, the gods, and the cataclysms they created.people from the east claim descent from the west and vice versa.peculiarities of yahwehno other godsno word for goddessno female counterpartthe engis skullalongside the skulls of the neandertha

quivalence to the bur-mese nats, or god-serpents. in the esoteric tradition it is synonymous for adepts, or initiates. in indiaand egypt, and even in central and south america, the naga stands for one who is wise. the [buddhist philosopher] nagarjuna of india, for example, is shown with an aura, or halo, of sevenserpents which is an indication of a very high degree of initiation. the symbolism of the seven serpents,usually cobras, are also on masonic aprons or certain systems in the buddhist ruins of cambodia(ankhor) and ceylon. the great temple-builders of the famous ankhor wat were considered to be thesemi-divine khmers. the avenue leading to the temple is lined with the seven-headed naga. and evenin mexico, we find the naga which becomes nagal. in china, the naga is given the form of th

11.11. its another nameis putkari.bhagavata purana gives the following description of bila-svarga, the subterranean regions comparedfor their opulence to heaven (5.24.7-15):my dear king, beneath this earth are seven other planets, known as atala, vitala, sutala, talatala,mahatala, rasatala and patala. i have already explained the situation of the planetary systems of earth.the width and length of the seven lower planetary systems are calculated to be exactly the same asthose of earth. in these seven planetary systems, which are also known as the subterranean heavens [bila-svarga],there are very beautiful houses, gardens and places of sense enjoyment, which are even more opulentthan those in the higher planets because the demons have a very high standard of sensual pleasure,wealth and influ

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

is the sphere attributed to her. the sphere of the sun is said to have seven times the number of the other demons. the methodology of working with the qlippothic demons is to turn poison into a beneficial medicine of initiation. one must move through the averse sephiroth, the so-called fallen restrictions of the universe, where there sleeps an ancient dragon. seven heads dwell there, yet through the seven the eight arises. this power is essential to the development and empowerment of the vampyre magickian. 53 the qlipphoth and their servitors: neptune kether satan or moloch thamiel (thamal: thadekiel+ abraxsiel+ mahaziel+ azaza l +lufugiel dual giants, bestial atavistic demons with bat wings. this is a form of the adversary. these spirits seek to continually join their bodies with other s

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

the mighty pyramid, the many rooms of which signified the worlds in space; the master whom none might behold save those who had been "born again? he alone fully knew the secret of the pyramid, but he has departed the way of the wise and the house is empty. the hymns of praise no longer echo in muffled tones through the chambers; the neophyte no longer passes through the elements and wanders among the seven stars; the candidate no longer receives the "word of life" from the lips of the eternal one. nothing now remains that the eye of man can see but an empty shell--the outer symbol of an inner truth--and men call the house of god a tomb! the technique of the mysteries was unfolded by the sage illuminator, the master of the secret house. the power to know his guardian spirit was revealed to

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

rgence and strength (lilith takes forth the skull or fetish mask and faces the magister) behold, my tomb of black earth, my mask of shadow and death. you shall all seek my consort ahriman and azrael, whom shall walk you forth into shadow (coven members or magister shall recite) we shall walk this path through you queen ofsuccubi, mother lilith, and through the shadows of azrael shall we emerge as the seven- headed dragon, through the opposer shall this manifest! behold, the light which shines in the darkness, the blackened fire of being! the gift of set itself! azothoz nox barathrum (lilith recites) taste the kiss of the dead and again in dreams shall my wisdom arise from the grave, cast your spirits to the grave and awaken again reborn (each individual kisses the skull, envisioning the ne

MORALS AND DOGMA

, with the angels of god ascending and descending on it. the addition of the three principal rounds to the symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. that these represented the planets, we are assured by clemens of alexandria, in his stromata, and by philo judaeus. to return to its source in the infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend, as it had descended, through the seven spheres. the ladder by which it reascends, has, according to marsilius

human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend, as it had descended, through the seven spheres. the ladder by which it reascends, has, according to marsilius ficinus, in his commentary on the ennead of plotinus, seven degrees or steps; and in the mysteries of mithras, carried to rome under the emperors, the ladder, with its seven rounds, was a symbol referring to this ascent through the spheres of the seven planets. jacob saw the spirits of god ascending and descending on it; and above it the deity himself. the mithraic mysteries were celebrated in caves, where gates were marked at the four equinoctial and solstitial points of the zodiac; and the seven planetary spheres were represented, which souls needs must traverse in descending from the heaven of the fixed stars to the elements that en

planet, through which they pass, in descending or returning. we learn this from celsus, in origen, who says that the symbolic image of this passage among the stars, used in the mithraic mysteries, was a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, divided into seven steps or stages, to each of which was a gate, and at the summit an eighth one, that of the fixed stars. the symbol was the same as that of the seven stages of borsippa, the pyramid of vitrified brick, near babylon, built of seven stages, and each of a different color. in the mithraic ceremonies, the candidate went through seven stages of initiation, passing through many fearful trials and of these the high ladder with seven rounds or steps was the symbol. you see the lodge, its details and ornaments, by its lights. you have already h

peech, or of the utterance of thought. thus, in that vision or apocalypse of the sublime exile of patmos, a protest in the name of the ideal, overwhelming the real world, a tremendous satire uttered in the name of religion and liberty, and with its fiery reverberations smiting the throne of the c sars, a sharp two-edged sword comes out of the mouth of the semblance of the son of man, encircled by the seven golden candlesticks, and holding in his right hand seven stars "the lord" says isaiah "hath made my mouth like a sharp sword "i have slain them" says hosea "by the words of my mouth "the word of god" says the writer of the apostolic letter to the hebrews "is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit "the sword of th

f the seventeenth and eighteenth degrees, or those of the new law. 5--the _composite, of the philosophical and chivalric degrees intermingled, from the nineteenth to the thirty-second, inclusive. the north star, always fixed and immutable for us, represents the point in the centre of the circle, or the deity in the centre of the universe. it is the especial symbol of duty and of faith. to it, and the seven that continually revolve around it, mystical meanings are attached, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be permitted to advance, when you are made acquainted with the philosophical doctrines of the hebrews. the morning star, rising in the east, jupiter, called by the hebrews tsadoc or tsydyk _just, is an emblem to us of the ever-approaching dawn of perfection and masonic light

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

e hurled, whilst in the other he holds the lightning. the head is frequently encircled with a wreath of oak-leaves. page 28 page 29 the most celebrated statue of the olympian zeus was that by the famous athenian sculptor phidias, which was forty feet high, and stood in the temple of zeus at olympia. it was formed of ivory and gold, and was [29]such a masterpiece of art, that it was reckoned among the seven wonders of the world. it represented the god, seated on a throne, holding in his right hand a life-sized image of nike (the goddess of victory, and in his left a royal sceptre, surmounted by an eagle. it is said that the great sculptor had concentrated all the marvellous powers of his genius on this sublime conception, and earnestly entreated zeus to give him a decided proof that his lab

men in knowledge, represents supreme power allied to wisdom and prudence. his union with themis typifies the bond which exists between divine majesty and justice, law, and order. eurynome, as the mother of the charites or graces, supplied the refining and harmonizing influences of grace and beauty, whilst the marriage of zeus with mnemosyne typifies the union of genius with memory. in addition to the seven immortal wives of zeus, he was also allied to a number of mortal maidens whom he visited under various disguises, as it was supposed that if he revealed himself in his true form as king of heaven the splendour of his glory would cause instant destruction to mortals. the mortal consorts of zeus have been such a favourite theme with poets, painters, and sculptors, that it is necessary to g

ating eye had beheld a lovely, fertile island lying beneath the waves of the ocean, and that if the immortals would swear to give him the undisturbed possession of this spot, he would be content to accept it as his share of the universe. the gods took the oath, whereupon the island of rhodes immediately raised itself above the surface of the waters. the famous colossus of rhodes, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, was erected in honour of helios. this wonderful statue was 105 feet high, and was formed entirely of brass; it formed the entrance to the harbour at rhodes, and the largest vessel could easily sail between the legs, which stood on moles, each side of the harbour. though so gigantic, it was perfectly proportioned in every part. some idea of [67]its size may be gained

f music, and as, according to the belief of the ancients, the inspirations of genius were inseparably connected with the glorious light of heaven, he is also the god of poetry, and acts as the special patron of the arts and sciences. apollo is himself the heavenly musician among the olympic gods, whose banquets are gladdened by the wondrous strains which he produces from his favourite instrument, the seven-stringed lyre. in the cultus of apollo, music page 78 formed a distinguishing feature. all sacred dances, and even the sacrifices in his honour, were performed to the sound of musical instruments; and it is, in a great measure, owing to the influence which the music in his worship exercised on the greek nation, that apollo came to be regarded as the leader of the nine muses, the legitima

il. in fact, this great, mighty, and omnipresent power of love, as embodied in the ephesian artemis, was believed by the great thinkers of old, to be the ruling spirit of the universe, and it was to her influence, that all the mysterious and beneficent workings of nature were ascribed. there was a magnificent temple erected to this divinity at ephesus (a city of asia minor, which was ranked among the seven wonders of the world, and was unequalled in beauty and grandeur. the interior of this [93]edifice was adorned with statues and paintings, and contained one hundred and twenty-seven columns, sixty feet in height, each column having been placed there by a different king. the wealth deposited in this temple was enormous, and the goddess was here worshipped with particular awe and solemnity

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

all the ancient charters, despite their various distinguishing features, follow the same general outline. they open with an invocation to the trinity and more or less continue as follows "good breathren and fellows, our purpose is to tell you how and in what manner this worthy craft of masonry was first begun" a memorandum declaring that geometry is the oldest of the sciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons

t nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is said that he also gave them two other rules concerning their science, though it is not known what these were. the next major figure in the narrative was abraham. he left his native region on the euphrates river for egypt, where he taught the egyptians the seven sciences. one of his students was euclid. during this time, the nobility were giving birth to so many children that they were at a loss as to how to find uses for all of them. it was euclid who, with the king's permission, taught the noble children geometry (and it was during this era that this science was given its name) and then saw to it that they built temples, churches, and castles

nd there is important information on masonic history provided by the statutes (the schaw statutes) that were signed and promulgated by william schaw, master builder of the king and overseer of the masons toward the end of the sixteenth century. these statutes consist of a series of articles or rules stripped of any legendary history and disthe corporative masonry of great britain 197 sertation on the seven sciences. they are essentially practical rules established by the masters of the corporation gathered in edinburgh and set as mandatory for all masons to observe. the first date from 1598 and, on the whole, correspond to the rules of other crafts corporations. these concern the election of lodge officers, restrictions concerning admission of apprentices, and other purely operative matter

t has often been said that the stuarts, despite the decline of their political fortunes, ceaselessly took advantage of the high grades of freemasonry to facilitate their undertakings. the jesuits are said to have been their most active allies at infiltrating these higher grades. at the same time, members of this religious order would have acted in their own interests, especially after 1762 during the seven years' war, at which time the society of jesus was dissolved in france and the order found its principal haven with the chief adversary of the king of france, frederic ii of prussia. later, in 1773, pope clement xiv decreed the complete suppression of the order. it was not restored until 1814 so that all its activity in between those two dates was more or less clandestine. while there is

authentic or legitimate the modern freemasonry of the grand lodge of london. all of these lodges would have vanished during the period of world war i, 1914-1918. stretton provided information on the organization, seven-degree hierarchy, and rituals of this operative masonry but unfortunately failed to supply any proof. a number of the revelations made here are so obviously interpolations, such as the seven-degree hierarchy, that it casts a shadow on the veracity of his entire claim. so it is clear that another approach entirely is required to seek out the operative tradition, which is what we have attempted here. an approach that is based on the study of the authentic elements and some of the rites, symbols, and practices of this operative tradition should enable us to grasp and then renew

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

rst equinox riseth and shall be graven with ye sign of he that beareth ye waters, thus: aquarius sigil ye gate of rushing torrents thou cause to beat the west most inner point (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye east) where ye sun dieth in ye evening and ye cycle of night returns. blazon ye stone with ye character of ye scorpion whose tail reacheth unto the stars: scorpio sigil set thou the seven stones of those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first ye stone of saturn at a space of three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each wi

ONYX TABLET OF SET

initiatory systems (the rune-gild, the o.t.o, a local gurdjieff group, the jung society, nlp training, etc. you should explore these things firstly for your own self transformation. of course take the best methods, universalize them and bring them to the temple. remember that even though you are now a teacher, you will always be a student. 3. research: using the methods outlined in chapter one of the seven faces of darkness, you can begin to revive traditional systems. similar methods can be used to create magical systems out of new technology. 4. survey your community. assume you know nothing. look around where you live, discover as many interesting resources as are there- theater, art, science, college libraries, cheap office supplies stores- and make use of them for your entertainment

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ghth century bce, shows the twins, ahura mazda and ahriman, emerging from the body of zurvan, the supreme god and personification of time. on either side stand figures representing the three stages of man youth, maturity, and old age. mithra mithra was a persian god who became widely venerated in the west, especially in the roman empire, as mithras. he was said to be the son of ahura mazda one of the seven divinities created by ahura mazda to oppose the demons created by ahriman. he was a god of order; but in the need to maintain order, became a god of war and warriors. he was seen as a more approachable god one who in a sense mediated between the pure goodness of ahura mazda and the pure evil of ahriman. his shrines depict him slaying a bull, a ritual act thought to ensure new life in the

f his own music. theseus the hero 54 theseus the hero theseus was one of greece s most famous heroes. said to have had two fathers, king aegeus of athens and the sea god poseidon (roman neptune, he grew up unaware of who his father was. he showed heroic qualities even as a child when hercules (see pp. 50 51) visited and caused panic among the children by throwing his great lion skin over a stool, the seven-year-old theseus fetched an ax to confront the beast. when he was 16, theseus mother aethra told him that aegeus was his father. she led him to the altar of strong zeus where aegeus had left his sword and sandals under a heavy rock so that if aethra bore him a son, the boy could reclaim them when he was strong enough and come to athens. theseus moved the rock with ease, claimed the token

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

ight of the soul ohr ein sof the infinite light yachid singular echad one kadmon the primordial the need for restraint& concentration tzimtzum restraint the point and impression reshimu impression kav v chut the line& thread kav hamidah the measuring line the three abilities hagadol, hagibor, v hanorah- the great, the mighty, and the awesome the ten sefirot the three upper sefirot (mochin brains) the seven lower sefirot (midot emotions) the realm of desire the primal desire ratzon hakadoom the primal desire the sefirot of igullim circles the sefirot of yosher upright adam kadmon primal man (ratzon l ratzon) malchut and keter keter of atzilut, atik yomin& arich anpin (pleasure& desire) the enclothement of atik in arich binah comprehension hitbonenut contemplation& analysis da at concentrati

d connecting to a subject. this sefirah represents the intellectual interest into a subject, which relates to the aspect of desire) chochmah (wisdom, which is the ability to have a new insight into a subject. all wisdom derives from this sefirah. binah (understanding or comprehension, which corresponds to having a comprehensive grasp and understanding into the subject by way of detailed analysis. the seven lower sefirot (midot emotions) the next set of sefirot is called the seven lower sefirot, and corresponds to the emotions (midot. they are: chesed (kindness, which is the quality of giving and revealing to others. gevurah (might, which is the diametric opposite of chesed. this is the quality of withholding and concealing from others. tiferet (beauty, which represents the merging of the q

contrast, arich anpin already relates outward, toward the world. for this reason it is considered to be the source of atzilut (the world of emanation. the enclothement of atik in arich more particularly speaking, it is only the upper three sefirot of atik which are considered to be part of the self. this may be understood as follows. each of these two parts of keter, contain ten sefirot as well. the seven lower emotional sefirot of the pleasure (atik yomin) are enclothed in the sefirot of the desire (arich anpin) and enliven them. the sefirah of chesed of atik (kindness of pleasure) is enclothed in keter of arich (desire of desire. this may be comprehended by understanding what chesed of atik is. being that the general matter here is pleasure, therefore all its particular sefirot, are asp

res, that it should be one way and not the other. it would make no difference at all what we did, because the pleasure for everything would be equal. it is specifically chochmah (insight) which determines what is or isn t desirable. for this reason chochmah of arich (insight of desire) is the source of the mitzvot (commandments) of the torah (the above principle applies to the enclothement of all the seven lower sefirot of atik (pleasure) within the seven upper sefirot of arich (desire. an additional example is how malchut of atik (kingdom of pleasure) is enclothed in netzach of arich (conquest of desire. malchut of atik represents the great pleasure of being the king and ruling over others. it therefore is easy to see why malchut of atik is enclothed within netzach of arich which represen

however, creates a society which turns women, who by nature are nurturing and compassionate, to deny life to their own children etc. a solution more connected to the original intention could go along the lines of opening charitable organizations which would provide food, care, schooling etc. for these children. it is clear that the shattering of the vessels takes place only in the "conclusion, in the seven lower qualities, which are the emotions of binah. in contrast, there is no shattering in the analysis of binah of binah itself, although it is the source of the "shattering of the vessels" which takes place in the conclusion. now, there are eight qualities which are associated with the "shattering of the vessels. these are the eight lower sefirot of binah. these are binah of binah, da at

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

e, ima of beriah created, the heavens.i.e, z feir anpin of beriah, and the earth.i.e, nukva of z feir anpin of beriah. thus we see, as the arizal said above, this verse refers entirely to the world of beriah [the torah then proceeds to discuss] the elevation of the [seven] kings [of edom] that died, for as is known, remnants of these gkings h exist in every world. as we have discussed previously, the seven kings of edom who are all referred to as having ruled and died allude to the midot of tohu whose vessels broke. the sparks of tohu gfell h into the subsequently created worlds of tikun (the four mentioned above, the most sublime elements remaining in atzilut, the less refined falling to beriah, the even less refined falling to yetzirah, and the least refined falling to asiyah. this is th

ond installment] we continue the discussion of the opening passage of the torah begun in the previous installment. one could ask: the [account of the] creation of z feir anpin and nukva, as well as in the creation of mankind, is repeated. first, the torah tell us that gg-d created the heavens and the earth, h referring to z feir anpin and nukva. the [account of] the following seven days refers to the seven gextremities h of z feir anpin and nukva, as is known. then, on the sixth day, the torah tells us that gg-d created the man in his image, h and further on, that gg-d formed man out of the dust of the earth, h interrupting these two accounts with [its description of what occurred on] the seventh day, as it is written, gand the heavens [and the earth] were completed c. h in the first accou

ot manifest; only the 63-name began to manifest via the mouth, the nose, etc. this is why [the torah] begins with the letter beit, referring to the 63- name. when the 63-name issued forth [from adam kadmon, it was manifest as the vowels of the 63-name, this being the mystical meaning of the primordial kings [of edom. this is referred to by the phrase gthe heavens and the earth, h which alludes to the seven kings that were broken. since the letter hei alludes to the 63- name, the letter hei is prefixed [as the definite article] in gthe heavens and the earth. h the definite particle [et] is used twice to allude to the z feir anpin and nukva of asiyah within atzilut after the rectification, for the root of all of them was here. and since the primary fall occurred in nukva, the torah says that

om the supernal forehead [of adam kadmon, and it was the principle that rectified [reality, as stated above. this is indicated by the phrase, gand g-d said, elet there be light, f h[ gthe light h] referring to [the light of] the 45-name that rectified [reality. 1 psalms 53:4. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 19 g cand there was light h refers to the actual rectification, which occurred during the seven days of creation [the torah] therefore says at the end [of the creation account] gfor on it he rested from all his work, h for the gwork h took place only in the world of atzilut, inasmuch as all the other worlds.beriah, yetzirah, and asiyah.are nothing but the seal of atzilut. it is therefore stated that gfor on it he rested from all his work. h now, up to this point [in the first creat

shall be yours for eating. h4 meaning, even the tree of knowledge in the garden, for with this man there was no apprehension [that anything negative would happen by his eating of it. 2 genesis 1:27. 3 psalms 33:6. 4 genesis 1:29. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 23 the arizal now addresses the following question: we saw previously that the account of the first seven days of creation refer to the seven midot of the world of atzilut. why, then, does the torah discuss the creation of the gman h of beriah in its discussion of the sixth day of creation, which refers to yesod of atzilut, not beriah? the creation of this gman, h of beriah, is described in [the torah fs account of] the sixth day, while his creation should have occurred after the seventh day, which expressed the nukva of z fei

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

tain, admitting the candidate to a chamber erected in the midst of the temple similar to that described in the lecture. a few words roughly describing it may not be considered amiss. as a climax to the very simple temple fumiture of the outer grades, it comes as a psychological spasm and as a highly significant symbol. the vault itself is a small seven-sided chamber, each side representing one of the seven planets, with their host of magical correspondences. the mediaeval rosicrucian manifesto the fama fraternitatis, translated in arthur edward waite's real histwy of therosicrucians, describes it at great length, though i shall here quote but briefly "we opened the door, and there appeared to our sight a vault of seven sides and seven- comers, every side five fddt broad and thcheight of ei

y of the storm. till i saw ra born again from out the great waters. his strength is my strength, and my strength is his strength. homage to you, lords of truth, chiefs who osiris rules. granting release from sin, followers of ma where rest is glorious. whose throne anubis built in the day when osiris said "lo! a man wins his way to amentet. i come before you, to drive away my faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun,'between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon, as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer

e, death, resurrection <131> the fylfot cross the 17 squares out of a square of lesser squares, refer to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac and the four elements: this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters placed on one another thus: the caduceus has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part wings touch chokmah and binah: these are the three supernal. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and p geburah <132> the meaning of luna on the tree of life is thus: in its increase it embraces the side of mercy; in its decrease the side of severity, and at the full, it reflects the sun of tiphareth <133> meditation let the theoricus practise the moon breath, while saying mentally the word aum (moon breat

n 'so the name jehovah is joined to the name elohim, for jehovah planted a garden eastward in eden' from the three supernals follow the other sephiroth of the tree of life. below the tree, proceeding from malkuth is the tree of knowledge of good and of evil which is between the tree of life and the world or assiah or shells, represented by the coiled up dragon with seven heads and ten horns-being the seven infernal palaces and the ten averse sephiroth (these are described in the text of the rituals but are not read to the candidate at his grade. when studying this diagram, these descriptions should be looked up, but they are not required for the exam) the river naher flows forth from the supernal eden and in daath it is divided into four heads- pison: fire-flowing to geburah where there is

arden of eden after the fall this diagram is described in the philosophus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to a philosophus on entering the sephirah netzach which he has reached by the three paths of qoph, tzaddi, and peh from the sephiroth-malkuth, yesod and hod respectively. the great goddess eve, being tempted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower sephiroth, but also downward to the kingdom of shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. then the sephirotic tree was shattered. she fell and with her fell the great adam. and the great red dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and eden was desolated-and the folds of the dragon enclosed malkuth and linked it to the kingdom of the shells. and

REGARDIE TALISMANS

ing into activity. from these latter alone, it is possible to construct a beautiful and effective talisman, without any supplemental aid. for example, the following is an example of a talisman using exclusively geomantic symbols that i made many years ago. it still strikes me as a good design. the basis of most talismans of old time were predicated either on the twelve signs of the zodiac or upon the seven planets known at that time. in other worlds, most subjects in which one could be interested were classified under one or other of these two sets of symbols. in the last resort, however, since the planets were said to rule the twelve zodiacal signs, the planets became the more prominent categories into which talismanic purposes could be divided. classical examples of this seven-fold divis

n the almost infinite meanings of these saturn symbols should also help to implant in the depths of the psyche the spiritual essence required. some form of ritual consecration should be attempted, after which the talisman, wrapped in an indigo silk pocket, should be carried on the person all the time. the student should also seriously consider the advisability of making a talisman for each one of the seven ancient planets, and thus a different one for use every day of the week. in this manner, the daily use of the appropriate talisman may help rectify some of the astrological imbalances in his horoscope and in his personality make-up. this idea is not necessarily new or revolutionary. it has been suggested before in a somewhat different area. students of alchemy, familiar with what is call

mbol. it has no parallels in occult or symbolic history. the novelty consisted of drawing the twenty-two hebrew letters in the petals of the rose according to the archaic attributions of the sepher yetzirah. they were placed in a certain order. the so-called twelve single letters, referred to the twelve signs of the zodiac, were placed in the outermost circle of rose petals. within this ring were the seven double letters attributed to the seven planets. inside this second ring, was a third subdivision of large petals where were found the three mother letters so-called, referred to the three prime elements of fire, water and air. this resulted in the development of a simple but ingenious schema from which could be drawn an entirely new set of sigils, vastly different from those originally d

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

about in some or other of the yezeedee districts. these are under the absolute control of sheikh n sir, who directs their line of march, and in fn. 1. this seems to be a sacred number with the yezeedees. the reader will remember, that the two lamps on the senjak, already described, had each seven burners. we are reminded here of the worship of the sabeans, of whom gibbon thus writes "they adored the seven gods, or angels, who directed the course of the seven planets, and shed their irresistible influence on the earth. the attributes of the seven planets, with the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the twenty-four constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres, were represented by images and talismans; the seven days of the week were dedicated to their respective deities" it in worth

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

matter to express, if not to comprehend. we say, the constellations of thezodiac govern the earthly animals. every star has its peculiar nature, property and function; the sealand character of which it impresses through its rays upon plants, minerals and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and

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ll others. there is also a science which confers on man powers apparently superhuman. they are enumerated thus in a hebrew manuscript of the sixteenth century: hereinafter follow the powers and privileges of him who holds in his right hand the clavicles of solomon, and in his left the branch of the blossoming almond' aleph. he beholds god face to face, without dying. and converses familiarly with the seven genii who command the entire celestial army. h beth. he is above all griefs and all fears. g ghimel. he reigns with all heaven and is served by all hell. o daleth. he rules his own health and life and can influence equally those of others. x he. he can neither be surprised by misfortune nor overwhelmed by disasters, nor introduction 7 can he be conquered by his enemies. n vau. he knows t

served by all hell. o daleth. he rules his own health and life and can influence equally those of others. x he. he can neither be surprised by misfortune nor overwhelmed by disasters, nor introduction 7 can he be conquered by his enemies. n vau. he knows the reason of the past, present and future. z zain. he possesses the secret of the resurrection of the dead and the key of immortality. such are the seven chief privileges, and those which rank next are these: k cheth. to find the philosophical stone. t teth. to possess the universal medicine. v iod. to know the laws of perpetual motion and to prove the quadrature of the circle[ caph. to change into gold not only all metals but also the earth itself, and even the refuse of the earth. s lamed. to subdue the most ferocious animals and have p

le[ caph. to change into gold not only all metals but also the earth itself, and even the refuse of the earth. s lamed. to subdue the most ferocious animals and have power to pronounce those words which paralyse and charm serpents. a mem. to have the ars notoria which gives the universal science. i nun. to speak learnedly on all subjects, without preparation and without study. these, finally, are the seven least powers of the magus: y samech. to know at a glance the deep things of the souls of men and the mysteries of the hearts of women. r ayin. to force nature to make him free at his pleasure. q pe. to foresee all future events which do not depend on a superior free will, or on an undiscernible cause, tsade. to give at once and to all the most efficacious consolations and the most wholes

sanctuaries of egypt and india to some extent dismay us by their resources, leaving our choice embarrassed in the midst of such abundant wealth. we are eager, moreover, to reach the thebaid at once, that dread synthesis of all doctrine, past, present and future; that so to speak infinite fable, which reaches, like the deity of orpheus, to either end of the cycle of human life. extraordinary fact! the seven gates of thebes, attacked and defended by seven chiefs who have sworn upon the blood of victims, possess the same significance as the seven seals of the sacred book interpreted by seven genii and assailed by a monster with seven heads, after being opened by a lamb which liveth and was dead, in the allegorical work of st. john. the mysterious origin of oedipus, found hanging on the tree o

rces of the great agent, corresponding to jakin and boaz, the two pillars of the temple; the cuirass is the knowledge of divine things, which renders the wise man invulnerable to human assaults; the sceptre is the magic wand; the fiery sword is the symbol of victory over the deadly sins, seven in number, like the virtues, the conceptions of both being typified by the ancients under the figures of the seven planets then known. thus, faith that aspiration towards the infinite, that noble self-reliance sustained by confidence in all virtues the faith which in weak natures may degenerate into pride, was represented by the sun; hope, the enemy of avarice, by the moon; charity, in opposition to luxury, by venus, the bright star of morning and evening; strength, superior to wrath, by mars; pruden

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. water is exorcised by imposition of hands, breathing and speech; consecrated salt and a little of the ash which remains in the pan of incense are mingled also with it. the aspergillus is formed of twigs of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin's distaff and provided with a handle of hazelwood from a tree which has not yet fruited. the characters of the seven spirits must be graven thereon with the magic bodkin. the salt and ash must be consecrated separately, saying: over the salt may wisdom abide in this salt, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from all corruption, by hochmael and in the virtue of ruach-hochmael! may the phantoms of hyle depart herefrom; that it may become a heavenly salt, salt of the earth and earth of salt; that it

s! o form of all forms, soul, spirit, harmony and number of all things! amen. the earth is exorcised by aspersion of water, by breathing and by fire, with the perfumes proper for each day and the prayer of the gnomes king invisible, who, taking the earth as a support, didst furrow the abysses to fill them with thine omnipotence; thou whose name doth shake the vaults of the world, thou who causest the seven metals to flow through the veins of the rock, monarch of the seven lights, rewarder of the subterranean toilers, lead us unto the desirable air and to the realm of splendour. we watch and we work unremittingly, we seek and we hope, by the twelve stones of the holy city, by the hidden talismans, by the pole of loadstone which passes through the center of the world! savior, savior, savior

s exercise an incalculable influence upon spirits set free from their material envelope. the sign of the pentagram is called the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science. the sign of the pentagram should be composed of the seven metals, or at least traced in pure gold upon white marble. it may be also drawn with vermilion on an unblemished lambskin the symbol of integrity and light. the marble should be virgin, that is, should never have been used for another purpose; the lambskin should be prepared under the auspices of the sun. the lamb must have been slain at paschal time with a new knife, and the skin must b

septenary. in the belief of the ancients, the world is governed by seven secondary causes. secundii, as trithemius calls them. which are the universal forces designated by moses under the the septenary of talismans 43 plural name of eloim, gods. these forces, analogous and contrary to one another, produce equilibrium by their contrasts and rule the movement of the spheres. the hebrews termed them the seven great archangels, giving them the names of michael, gabriel, raphael, anael, samael, zadkiel and oriphiel. the christian gnostics named the four last uriel, barachiel, sealtiel and jehudiel. other nations attributed to these spirits the government of the seven chief planets, and assigned to them the names of their chief divinities. all believed in their relative influence; astronomy divi

of michael, gabriel, raphael, anael, samael, zadkiel and oriphiel. the christian gnostics named the four last uriel, barachiel, sealtiel and jehudiel. other nations attributed to these spirits the government of the seven chief planets, and assigned to them the names of their chief divinities. all believed in their relative influence; astronomy divided the antique heaven between them and allotted the seven days of the week to their successive rule. such is the reason of the various ceremonies of the magical week and the septenary cultus of the planets. we have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the human mind than the orbs of heaven. the sun, which antique magic

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sh, which i translate. and [i shall also] give the rest [but] only interpreted, for brevity's sate. 1. the general prayer or pater noster, called seachd phaidir, repeated in way of preface and conclusion to every remarkable [that is, individual] charm: mary is first placed, the pater noster of mary [1, the p.n. or prayer of my king [2, of mary [3, of the king [4, of mary [5, of the king [6 [then] the seven seanings or salvations to the son of my king omnipotent 2. the charm against the palsy and falling sickness [that is, epilepsy] written on paper, and tied about the patient's neck: the secret commonwealth 67 in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti amen. dirupisti domine vincula mea, tibe sacrificabo hostiam laudis sed nomen domini invocabo, nomen jesus nazarenus rex http//www.dreamp

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th, and if you lie in bed long enough, you may find yourself committing yet another sin- lust. to have the faintest stirring of sexual desire is to be guilty of lust. in order to ensure the propagation of humanity, nature made lust the second most powerful instinct, the first being self-preservation. the strongest instinct of every living thing is self-preservation, which brings us to the last of the seven deadly sins- anger. is it not our instinct for self-preservation that is aroused when someone harms us, when we become angry enough to protect ourselves from further attack?24 in diametric opposition to st. augustine's contention that pride is the root of all other sin, stands lavey's concept of pride- under the heading of which he subsumes such concepts as self-love, self-esteem, and se

erpret the symbolic representations of pan? 68. what do the letters o.t.o. and a.a. mean, and what are they? 69. who and what is choronzon? 70. what is wilson's "faculty x" 71. what is the "awakened state" 72. who were the nine unknown men, and what were their functions? 73. explain what you can of the symbolism of the ancient egyptian scarab? 74. how would you define the ka? the ba? 75. what are the seven "inexorable" powers, and what do they mean? 76. what do you think are the differences (if any) between neters, magickal names, and telesmic images? 77. explain the "khu" and the "khabs" as discussed in the book of the law. 78. what is meant by a "black brother" 79. what similarities can be noted between azazel and set? 80. explain the egyptian principle of crossing. 81. in your own words

, the reasons are most generally those of destructively disruptive behaviors which are out of line with what is considered to be transformation upward on the ladder. there is absolutely nothing wrong with misusing the facilities of the mind, but it must be done outside the gates of the temple of set. no word is without significance for the initiate who aspires to greater heights of understanding. the seven prominent ones- agape, restriction, thelema, indulgence, xeper, xem, and remanifestation- continue to have visible impact regardless of the time spans between the current moment and their utterances; each also can and should be taken into account as having viable influences in the course of personal evolution. the focus of this article is the word of the tenth magus, and it is in that di

tered name, and so refers to the inner ring. the ophite (serpentine) gnostics knew well this symbolism behind leviathan- whom they identified with the greek ouroboros the world-serpent which bites its own tail surrounding the inner cosmos (see also the norse midhgardhsormr= midgard's worm] or jormungandr= great magical staff) leviathan separates the temporal cosmos of the earth and the spheres of the seven planets from the realm of the fixed stars and the realms of being beyond. the serpent guards the passage between the realms of change and flux and the realm of being (see kurt rudolph, gnosis [san francisco: harper and row 1987, pp. 67-70) leviathan, or the ouroboros, is the inner ring of the seal- whose number of angles is not in reality five but seven. herein is hidden a great secret

iance" a radiance is often the result of a process of transformation- a process which involves both destruction and creation. the symbolism in this passage is difficult. eleven is the number of nuit(14, which can also be interpreted as the prima materia, and so i am inclined to understand this passage as referring to the process of magical creation or transformation of the material universe, with the seven rays being the vivifying force which operates on it. the black stone is that which is the mysterious and invisible source of this vivifying power. to bring it back to the realm of the living is to bring it back to consciousness or to bring about a renewed understanding of what it is. both material creation by magical means and the knowledge of this art are pictured as being very dangerou

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ere, noise and elbows. poets stand on boxes and declaim while pilgrims throw coins at their feet. some bards speak rajaz verses, their four--syllable metre suggested, according to legend, by the walking pace of the camel; others speak the qasidah, poems of wayward mistresses, desert adventure, the hunting of the onager. in a day or so it will be time for the annual poetry competition, after which the seven best verses will be nailed up on the walls of the house of the black stone. the poets are getting into shape for their big day; abu simbel laughs at minstrels singing vicious satires, vitriolic odes commissioned by one chief against another, by one tribe against its neighbour. and nods in recognition as one of the poets falls into step beside him, a sharp narrow youth with frenzied finge

astards, i've always thought. neatest bloody solution" the sword has remained sheathed in its leather scabbard since the day of his conversion by his nephew, but tonight, he confides to the valet "the lion is loose. peace will have to wait" it is the last night of the festival of ibrahim. jahilia is masquerade and madness. the oiled fatty bodies of the wrestlers have completed their writhings and the seven poems have been nailed to the walls of the house of the black stone. now singing whores replace the poets, and dancing whores, also with oiled bodies, are at work as well; night-wrestling replaces the daytime variety. the courtesans dance and sing in golden, bird-beaked masks, and the gold is reflected in their clients' shining eyes. gold, gold everywhere, in the palms of the profiteerin

shed a cutlass, and that was too much _i'm not having it, she decided, and, stumbling downstairs for warm clothing, she fetched the chosen weapon of her retribution: a long coil of green garden hose. at her front door she called out in a clear voice "i can see you quite plainly. come out, come out, whoever you are" they switched on seven suns and blinded her, and then she panicked, illuminated by the seven blue-white floodlights around which, like fireflies or satellites, there buzzed a host of smaller lights: lanterns torches cigarettes. her head was spinning, and for a moment she lost her ability to distinguish between _then_ and _now, in her consternation she began to say put out that light, don't you know there's a blackout, you'll be having jerry down on us if you carry on so "i'm rav

sight of him and cried out "gibreel, for the love of god tell them what's what" hisser moaner popeye turned eagerly towards gibreel "and who might this be" inquired inspector lime "another skydiver" but the words died on his lips, because at that moment the floodlights were switched off, the order to do so having been given when chamcha was handcuffed and taken in charge, and in the aftermath of the seven suns it became clear to everyone there that a pale, golden light was emanating from the direction of the man in the smoking jacket, was in fact streaming softly outwards from a point immediately behind his head. inspector lime never referred to that light again, and if he had been asked about it would have denied ever having seen such a thing, a halo, in the late twentieth century, pull

ar-old weakness had begun to dream her story of stories, which she had guarded for more than half a century, and gibreel was on a horse behind her hispano-suiza, driving from estancia to estancia, through a wood of arayana trees, beneath the high cordillera, arriving at grotesque homesteads built in the style of scottish castles or indian palaces, visiting the land of mr. cadwallader evans, he of the seven wives who were happy enough to have only one night of duty each per week, and the territory of the notorious macsween who had become enamoured of the ideas arriving in argentina from germany, and had started flying, from his estancia's flagpole, a red flag at whose heart a crooked black cross danced in a white circle. it was on the macsween estancia that they came across the lagoon, and

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principalities originally seen as an order in charge of the nations, and later of the religions. there is some disagreement as to who is the chief amongst them. contenders include hami-el, who transported enoch to heaven and is identified with the chaldean deity ishtar, cervill the prince of strength who is said to have come to david s aid in defeating goliath. also ana-el who is named as one of the seven angels of creation and is associated with human sexuality. he is also named as governor of the second heaven, with control of the world s leaders and whose dominion encompasses the moon. the final and strangest contender is nisrock, originally an assyrian deity and is also identified as a prince of hell. 8th choir: archangels according to dionysos these are the messengers which carry the

on. the final and strangest contender is nisrock, originally an assyrian deity and is also identified as a prince of hell. 8th choir: archangels according to dionysos these are the messengers which carry the divine decrees. they are considered the most important intercessionaries between god and humankind and lead the forces of heaven in their constant struggle with the infernal legions. they are the seven angels that stand before god in revelations. the koran of islam recognises four but names only two- jibril (gabri-el, and micha-el. these two also appear in masonic and psuedo-masonic occult lore, accompanied by rapha-el and uri-el, as are summoned in the lesser rite of the pentagram. these are the four guardian angels. the other three are traditionally chosen from remi-el, sari-el, ana

in the prayer of joseph heals jacob of his wounded knee, sustained whilst fighting with uri-el. as with the seraphim, rapha-el is commonly associated with the serpent. he is a chief ruling over the second heaven, and the order of virtues, regent of the sun, and the angel of science and knowledge. guardian of the tree of life in eden, and according to his own admission in the book of tobit, one of the seven angels of the throne. although officially a virtue he has the six wings of a seraph, yet at the same time is of the cherubim, dominions and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the und

ylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent angel apollyon, the fallen apollo, king of locusts. again, we see the incorporation and demonisation of pagan dieties of the previous age. abraxas, abrasax, abraxis (greaco-oriental, gnostic) whose name means king, adds to 365, and the hebdomad of letters is assosciated with the seven planets. who has the head of a cockrel and snakes for legs (abrasax, abraxis, and in scientific literature, angnipede, meaning snake feet. abraxas is recognised as a devil of black witchcraft, and the name appears in various evocatory formulae. it is also applied as a title sometimes given to lucifer/satan. adramelech, adramelek (hebrew king of fire. an angel of the throne, now a fallen

dden treasure. aniquiel one of the nine great dukes of hell, specifically named as being the serpent in the garden. ariton (goetia. demon king of water, and the west. ashmedai, asmodaios, asmodeus, asmoday (goetia, 32nd spirit, latin asmodeus, talmudic asmeddai, meaning being of judgement. ex- cherubim, more of a philosopher than a fiend. originally a persian deity, it is supposedly he who killed the seven bridegrooms of sarah and fought rapha-el, before being banished to upper egypt. classically, the patron demon of passion, lechery, luxury, sensuality, who wreaks havoc seducing nuns and monks. may appear with three heads, a bull, a ram and a man, and the feet of a rooster or goose, and a serpent s tail. shoots flames from his mouth, and rides an infernal dragon with a lance and banner. l

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s of satan moving in his flesh, then he either escapes from the cacklings and carpings of the righteous, or stands proudly in his secret places of the earth and manipulates the folly-ridden masses through his own satanic might, until that day when he may come forth in splendor proclaiming "i am a satanist! bow down, for i am the highest embodiment of human life" some evidence of a new satanic age the seven deadly sins of the christian church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. a satanist knows there is nothing wrong with being greedy, as it only means that he wants more than he already has. envy means to look with favor upon the possessions of others

ropagation of humanity, nature made lust the second most powerful instinct, the first being self-preservation. realizing this, the christian church made fornication the "original sin. in this way they made sure no one would escape sin. your very state of being is as a result of sin- the original sin! the strongest instinct in every living thing is self-preservation, which brings us to the last of the seven deadly sins- anger. is it not our instinct for self-preservation that is aroused when someone harms us, when we become angry enough to protect ourselves from further attack? a satanist practices the motto "if a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other" let no wrong go unredressed. be as a lion in the path- be dangerous even in defeat! since man's natural instincts lead him to

release with a person who would beat him soundly, thereby releasing himself from the very thing which could, if unreleased, make him- as they are- a compulsive church-goer or religious fanatic. by finding adequate release for his masochistic desires, he no longer needs to debase and deny himself in his every waking moment, as do these compulsive masochists. satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the christian church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. the christian church knows that it is impossible for anyone to avoid committing these sins, as they are all things which we, being human, most naturally do. after inevitably committing these sins financial offerings to the church in order to "pay off" god a

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marduk. as such, the poem not only relates how earth was created but also how the gods came to be. the gods, according to this text, came before the creation of the world. this epic describes the fight between the forces of order, as represented by marduk and the young gods, and the forces of chaos, as represented by tiamat, kingu, and the old gods. according to leonard william king s translation the seven tables of creation( london, uk: luzac and co, 1902, it begins: when in the height heaven was not named, and the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, and the primeval apsu, who begat [gave birth to] them, and chaos, tiamat, the mother of them both, their waters were mingled together, and no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen; when of the gods none had been called into being, and

ds in the midst of [heaven. other texts important to this early religion include the epic of gilgamesh. this text tells of the mythical exploits of gilgamesh, a king of uruk, from about 2700 bce and deals with the behavior of the gods towards him. also important are myths such as the one told in the story descent of ishtar to the underworld. in it, ishtar, the goddess of war, travels down through the seven gates of the underworld to find tammuz, the god of the seasons and fertility. ancient egypt s main religious text seems to have been the book of the dead. the book of the dead is often referred to as the papyrus of ani, after the collection of documents in which it was found. papyrus is an early form of paper made from reeds. the book is a collection of two hundred prayers, spells, and i

f egypt and mesopotamia hart, george. egyptian myths. austin, tx: university of texas press, 1997. jacobsen, thorkild. a history of mesopotamian religion. new haven, ct: yale university press, 1976. jacobsen, thorkild. mesopotamian religions: an overview. in encyclopedia of religion. 2nd ed. edited by lindsay jones. detroit, mi: macmillan reference usa, 2005, pp. 5946 5963. king, leonard william. the seven tables of creations. london, england: luzac and co, 1902. lesko, leonard h. egyptian religion: an overview. in encyclopedia of religion. 2nd ed. edited by lindsay jones. detroit, mi: macmillan reference usa, 2005, pp. 2702 2717. mccall, henrietta. mesopotamian myths. austin, tx: university of texas press, 1991. morenz, siegfried, and ann e. keep. egyptian religion. ithaca, ny: cornell un

orld, is forbidden. there are seven houses of worship, or mashriqu l-adhkar, around the globe. baha s also gather in private homes or modest facilities for their services, which include the study of texts, prayer, and the recitation of passages from sacred works. baha s see no distinction between daily life and their religion, and part of their spirituality is performing useful work in the world. the seven houses of worship are large and symbolic structures, each nine-sided and topped by a dome. local materials and individual inspiration have determined each structure s appearance, from the baha temple in wilmette, illinois (near chicago, which is made of cast 80 world religions: almanac baha concrete and is of classic proportions, to the temple near new delhi, india, completed in 1986, wh

yers said for the dead. in tibet it is believed that forty-nine days must pass after the death prayers are world religions: almanac 113 buddhism said before the deceased can enter a new existence. this period between death and rebirth is called bardo. a photograph or image of the deceased is burned at that time, to wish the person goodwill in his or her new life. chinese buddhists also believe in the seven-week period between death and rebirth. they offer prayers for the dead every seven days for fortynine days and also at the hundredth day after death. buddhism s influences with more than four million followers worldwide, buddhism is considered to be one of the major world religions. in addition to its religious influence buddhism has also played an important part in the development of ma

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four elements, being an offspring of the first two, and is the third principle. whenever the first three qualities of the first dark principii gain the upper hand, then the others are tied up around their centro and all seven are evil. then saturnus stands for avarice, mercurius for envy, mars for wrath, sol for vanity, venus for lewdness, jupiter for cunning and luna for bodily desire, which are the seven evil spirits ruling within the old human being. but when the three in the principio of light have the upper hand and are born out of the dark centro, so that they are in accordance with their innermost depths of light, which is the new birth in man, all seven are good, and then saturnius stands for compassion, mercurius for doing good, mars for gentleness, sol for humility, venus for cha

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caretaker and drink, one stone and no stone, one water and no water, nevertheless a stone of living power and a water of living might; a sulphur, a mercury, a salt, hidden deep in nature, and which no fool has ever known nor se n sepher ha-bahir or the book of illumination attributed to rabbi nehunia ben hakana translated by aryeh kaplan the bahir 2 the first verses of creation 3 the aleph-beth 7 the seven voices and the sephiroth 12 the ten sephiroth 32 mysteries of the soul 53 index 57 the bahir 3 section i the first verses of creation 1. rabbi nehuniah ben hakana said: one verse (job 37:21) states "and now they do not see light, it is brilliant (bahir) in the skies [round about god in terrible majesty" another verse, however (psalm 18:12, states "he made darkness his hiding place" it is

ver the chirek touches becomes ice. it is thus written (exodus 34:7 "and cleanses" 44. what is the indication that chirek has the connotation of burning? this is because it is fire that burns all fire. it is thus written (1 kings 18:38 "and god's fire fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and evaporated the water that was in the trench" the bahir 12 section iii the seven voices and the sephiroth 45. he (rabbi amorai) said: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 20:15, and all the people saw the voices. these are the voice regarding which king david spoke. it is thus written (psalm 29:3, the voice of god is upon the waters, the god of glory thunders [this is the first voice [the second voice is (psalm 29:4, the voice of god comes in strength. regarding

, they saw an image, but not an entire image. it is therefore written, you saw no form, only a voice. it is also written (deuteronomy 4:12) a voice of words you heard. 48. one verse (exodus 20:15, states, and all the people saw the voices. another verse, however (deuteronomy 4:12) states, the voice of words you heard. how can [the two be reconciled? at first they saw the voices. what did the see? the seven voices mentioned by david. but in the end they heard the word that emanated from them all. but we have learned that there were ten. our sages taught that they were all said with a single word. but we have said that there were seven. there were seven voices. regarding three of them it is written (deuteronomy 4:12, the voice of words you heard, but you saw no form, only a voice. this teach

alone could not be so powerful. it was for this reason that he came back and included them [in a single word. 49. another explanation: it was so that the world should not say that since there were ten sayings for ten kings, it might be that he could not speak for them all through one. he therefore said (exodus 20:2, i am [the lord you god, which included all ten. what are the ten kings? they are the seven voices and three sayings (amarim. what are the sayings [they are the ones alluded to in the verse (deuteronomy 26:18) god has said for you today. what are the three [two are mentioned in the verse (proverbs 4:7, the beginning is wisdom: acquire wisdom, with all your acquisition, acquire understanding. it is thus written (job 32:8, the soul of shaddai gives them understanding. the soul of

in with a beth? as it is written (proverbs 8:30, i was with him as a craftsman, i was his delight for a day, a day [frolicking before him at every time. these are the two thousand years, which are the beginning. two? but the scripture says seven, as it is written (isaiah 30:26, the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold [like the light of the seven days. and we said, just like the sun was for seven, so the moon was for seven [he replied] i said thousands. 56. they said to him: up until now there are five. what comes next? he replied: first i will explain gold. what is gold? we learn that it is where justice emanates. if you bend your words to the right or left, you will be punished. 57. what is the meaning of the verse (isaiah 30:2

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it, and combining it with the others formed the earth in the world, cold in the year, and the belly in man, male and female, the former with mem, aleph, shin, the latter with mem, shin, aleph. he caused shin to reign in fire, and crowned it, and combining it with the others sealed with it the heavens in the universe, heat in the year and the head in man, male and female (38) chapter iv section 1. the seven double letters, beth, gimel, daleth, kaph, peh, resh, and tau have each two sounds associated with them. they are referred to life, peace, wisdom, riches, grace, fertility and power. the two sounds of each letter are the hard and the soft--the aspirated and the softened. they are called double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus life and death; peace and war; wi

these seven double letters point out seven localities; above, below, east, west, north, south, and the palace of holiness in the midst of them sustaining all things. 3. these seven double letters he designed, produced, and combined, and formed with them the planets of this world, the days of the week, and the gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in man. from these seven he bath produced the seven heavens, the seven earths, the seven sabbaths: for this cause he has loved and blessed the number seven more than all things under heaven (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth

o houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them. so now, behold the stars of our world, the planets which are seven; the sun, venus, mercury, moon, saturn, jupiter and mars. the seven are also the seven days of creation; and the seven gateways of the soul of man--the two eyes, the two ears, the mouth and the two nostrils. so with the seven are formed the seven heavens (41) the seven earths, and the seven periods of time; and so has he preferred the number seven above all things under his heaven (42) supplement to chapter iv note--this is one of several modern illustra

en days of creation; and the seven gateways of the soul of man--the two eyes, the two ears, the mouth and the two nostrils. so with the seven are formed the seven heavens (41) the seven earths, and the seven periods of time; and so has he preferred the number seven above all things under his heaven (42) supplement to chapter iv note--this is one of several modern illustrations of the allotment of the seven letters; it is not found in the ancient copies of the "sepher yetzirah" he produced beth, and referred it to wisdom; he crowned it, combined and formed with it the moon in the universe, the first day of the week, and the right eye of man. he produced gimel, and referred it to health; he crowned it, combined and joined with it mars in the universe, the second day of the week, and the righ

on; the heart of man is as a king in warfare. moreover, he made all things one from the other; and the elohim set good over against evil, and made good things from good, and evil things from evil: with the good tested he the evil, and with the evil did he try the good. happiness (50) is reserved for the good, and misery (51) is kept for the wicked. 3. the three are one, and that one stands above. the seven are divided; three are over against three, and one stands between the triads. the twelve stand as in warfare; three are friends, three are enemies; three are life givers; three are destroyers. the three friends are the heart, the ears, and the mouth; the three enemies are the liver, the gall, and the tongue (52) while god (53) the faithful king rules over all. one above three, three abov

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

tic magical text "biblical seth" occurs in a list of names including, inter alia, adam, seth, noah, methusala (maqousa a; die kopischen zaubertexte der sammlung papyrus erzherzog rainer in wien, ed. v. stegemann, sb. heid. ak. d. wiss, phil.-hist. kl. 1933/4, 1 [heidelberg 1934] 70 xlv [108. lists of the biblical heroes from adam to moses play a great role in jewish christianity; see c. gieschen "the seven pillars of the world: ideal figures lists in the true prophet christology of the pseudo-clementine literature, journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha, forthcoming. 24 w.c. crum, catalogue of the coptic manuscripts in the british museum (london 1905) 147. seth in the magical texts 91 we have still to discuss doresse's reference to the existence of certain egyptian figurines of seth a

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

it is from such experiences as my meagre years have garnered that seven shades of solitude have become known to me, and it is these gradations of the lonely road which are set forth below. each of the shades represents a particular predilection of practice- a disposition of the will and an orientation of the soul upon mystical pilgrimage toward the summit of attainment. it is certain that each of the seven degrees possesses its own wisdom, but this is solely true for each at their own specific level of operation and understanding. from another perspective each mode becomes folly, being limited to a dualistic view that obscures the gnosis of solitude in its ownbeing- 0 0 0- i) the first solitude is the hermitage of convocation. it is the solitude of the practitioner who engages intimately w

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ust of our fellows, as they know from experience that we will make the right choices and have the fortitude to carry them through to completion. we will not change sides in the middle of any fray or betray our fellows to an enemy spy. we do not ever attempt to be everyone's friend as that is not possible, and our strong suit is finishing jobs according to plan. that is why all adepts who practice the seven principles will continually grow in stature among mankind "adepts plan their life, first one day, and then another. they also examine the various bits and pieces that make up the whole of their existence. they look ahead to what the future might hold, all the while figuring out how and when they can improve upon what the winds of fate have cast before them "every time you break your word

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

s revealed with the prayers of those below, 6) the open eye18 that does not slumber but watches constantly, the eye below is by means of the eye of the supernal radiance, 7) the openings of the hollow pillar,19 from whence his spirit20 rushes forth unto all. it created six, it created elohim, the heaven and the earth.21 bara shyt, it created six over them.22 they are all below, and they depend on the seven of the skull as far as the splendor of all splendors. and the earth, that is, the second one is not in the computation; this was already said. for it emerged from the one that was cursed, as it is written, from the ground which the lord hvhy cursed.23..was unformed and empty24 and darkness al (li, lit. upon)25-face of the deep, and the spirit of elohim hovers al-face of the waters.26 thi

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ch thou hast given to nefert, the daughter of the great god, as messengers from heaven to earth (pepi, line 422. 54:2 pepi, line 200. 54:3 pepi, line 471. 54:4 see my chapters of coming forth by day, translation, p. 270. 55:1 see the papyrus of ani, 2nd edition, pl. 22. 55:2 see pepi, line 196. 55:3 i.e, cxl. 57:1 one for each month of the year. 57:2 kenyon, catalogue of greek papyri, p. 61. 57:3 the seven vowels were supposed in the gnostic system to contain all the names of god, and were, therefore, most powerful when used as a spell. 58:1 see goodwin, fragment of a graco-egyptian work upon magic, p. 7. 60:1 see the description of this ceremony in chapter vi. 60:2 menat is connected with the root from which the word for "nurse (menat) is derived; see the article by lefebure "le menat et

he deceased shall p. 123 drink water from the source of the stream, and he shall shine like the stars in the heavens above" it is probable that chapters clxil-clxv. were composed at a comparatively late date. yet another example of the magical pictures of the book of the dead must here be given. the vignette of chapter cxlviii. contains pictures of seven cows "and their bull" and of four rudders; the seven cows have reference to the seven hathor goddesses, the bull is, of course, a form of ra, and the four rudders refer to the four quarters of the earth and to the four cardinal points. the text of the chapter contains the names of the cows and of the bull, and of the rudders, and certain prayers for sepulchral. offerings. now the deceased would be provided with "abundance of food regularly

seven beings who make decrees, who support the balance on the night of the judgment of the utchat, who cut off heads, who hack necks in pieces, who take possession of hearts by p. 165 violence and rend the places where hearts are fixed, who make slaughterings in the lake of fire, i know you, and i know your names; therefore know ye me, even as i know your names" the deceased, having declared that the seven gods know his name and he their names, has no further apprehension that evil will befall him. in one portion of the kingdom of osiris there existed seven halls or mansions through which the deceased was anxious to pass, but each of the gates was guarded by a doorkeeper, a watcher, and a herald, and it required special provision on the part of the deceased to satisfy these beings that he

urther apprehension that evil will befall him. in one portion of the kingdom of osiris there existed seven halls or mansions through which the deceased was anxious to pass, but each of the gates was guarded by a doorkeeper, a watcher, and a herald, and it required special provision on the part of the deceased to satisfy these beings that he had a right to pass them. in the first place, figures of the seven gates had to be made in some substance (or painted upon papyrus, as well as a figure of the deceased: the latter was made to approach each of the gates and to stand before it and to recite an address which had been specially prepared for the purpose. meanwhile the thigh, the head, the heart, and the hoof of a red bull were offered at each gate, as well as a very large number of miscellan

and to stand before it and to recite an address which had been specially prepared for the purpose. meanwhile the thigh, the head, the heart, and the hoof of a red bull were offered at each gate, as well as a very large number of miscellaneous offerings which need not be described in detail. but all these ceremonies would not help the deceased to pass through the gates, unless be knew the names of the seven doorkeepers, and the seven watchers, and the seven heralds who guarded them. the gods of the first gate were--sekhet-hraasht- aru, semetu, and hukheru; those of the second, tun-hat, seqet-hra, and p. 166 sabes; of the third, am-huat-ent-pehfi, res-hra, and uaau; of the fourth, khesef-hra-ashtkheru, res-ab, and neteka-hra-khesef-atu; of the fifth, ankh-em-fentu, ashebu, and tebherkehaat;

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and together we live, sometimes in lydia, sometimes in olympus, sometimes in a great mountain [1. the pleiades seem to be referred to. cp. job xxxviii. 31, in the revised version "canst thou bind the cluster of the pleiades" they had a malign influence. the grouping of evil spirits by sevens is common in babylonian and jewish folk-lore. as examples i may cite the testamentum of reuben, ch. 2, and the seven evil spirits of the n.t. possibly, however, the seven planets are here in question; though this is unlikely, for they do not tally with the description given. 2. rom. xv. 6 has the same phrase. for "thirty-three" we should read "thirty-six" elements. note that later in the testament these seven spirits are not among the kosmokrators, a proof that the document before us is a composite one

n trivia. as a subst. the neut. plur. enodia= blisters caused by walking, in theophr, sud. 15] 45. and i solomon, on hearing this, said to him "tell me how thou dost discharge forth the fire? out of what sources dost thou emit it" and the spirit said to me "from the day-star [1. for here hath not yet been found that elburion, to whom men offer prayers and kindle lights. and his name is invoked by the seven demons before me. and he cherishes them [1. or "from the orient] 46. but i said to him "tell me his name" but he answered "i cannot tell thee. for if i tell his name, i render myself incurable. but he will come in response to his name" and on hearing this, i solomon said to him "tell me then, by what angel thou art frustrated" and he answered "by the fiery flash of lightning" and i bowed

SORCERIES OF ZOS

sorcery, as expressed in zos kia cultus, continues in a straight line not only the petro tradition of voodoo, but also the vama marg of tantra, with its eight directions of space typified by the yantra of the black goddess, kali: the cross of the four quarters plus the inbetweenness concepts that together compose the eightfold cross, the eight-petalled lotus, a synthetic symbol of the goddess of the seven stars plus her son, set or sirius. the mechanics of the new sexuality are based upon the dynamics of the death posture, a formula evolved by spare for the purpose of reifying the negative potential in terms of positive power. in ancient egypt the mummy was the type of this formula, and the simulation by the adept of the state of death- in tantric practice- involves also the total stillin

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

basis. his "cap" on the pyramid is the biblical cornerstone; his "rock" is jehovah in the old testament. yet his own research and documentation on the meaning of the seal proved the contrary. he was always the optimist, even when he wrote that he could not "but feel. the certainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldry of this great people."47 george rawlinson;s massive three-volume history of the seven great monarchies o/ the ancient eastern world48 provides us with vital and pertinent data concerning the symbols with which we are dealing. the babylonians of the 7th century b.c. attached to each god in their pantheon "a special mystic number, which is used as his emblem and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

only in secret. this initiation prepares us for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha. formerly only those who were seers that is, 122 christianity as mystical fact who were initiated could know something of the goal of the mysteries. from now on there could be witnesses to the secrets of a higher reality among those who have not seen, and yet have believed. chapter 8 the apocalypse of john the seven letters at the end of the new testament stands an extraordinary document. it is the apocalypse the secret revelation of saint john. the esoteric character of the work is apparent from the opening words: the revelation of jesus the christ, which god granted him in order to show to his servants how the necessary events will shortly run their course. this is communicated in signs sent by go

ol and must have been chosen because of what it represents; there must in reality have been a number of other communities in asia. moreover, 124 christianity as mystical fact the way in which john receives the revelation equally suggests an esoteric significance: i was in the spirit on the lord s day, and i heard behind me a voice like a trumpet saying, write what you see in a book and send it to the seven communities. 124 he received the revelation when he was in the spirit. also, it is a revelation of jesus the christ, presenting in esoteric form the meaning of christ jesus manifestation to the world. therefore we are to look for the hidden meaning of the apocalypse in the teaching of christ, so that the revelation it contains stands in the same relation to mainstream christianity as the

festation to the world. therefore we are to look for the hidden meaning of the apocalypse in the teaching of christ, so that the revelation it contains stands in the same relation to mainstream christianity as the mysteries in pre-christian times stood to the public religion. this would seem to justify us in approaching the apocalypse as a mystery. what then does the apocalypse mean by addressing the seven communities? to understand it, we must take a specific instance from the seven messages, and we may begin with the first one: write to the angel of the community in ephesus: these are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden lights, i know your deeds, and what you have suffered and also your patient endurance, and that you will no

of the communities, and it must serve as an example for the rest.126 the son of man john turns round, and he sees seven golden lights. and: among the lights was one like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash round his chest. his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.127 subsequently we are told that the seven lights are the seven communities. 128 hence we must understand them as seven different ways to the divine, each in itself more or less imperfect. but the son of man also had in his right hand seven stars, 129 and the seven stars are the angels of the seven communities. 130 the guiding spirits or daimons of mysteriosophy have here become the guiding angels of the seven communities, which

d as the bodies of spiritual entities of which the angels are the soul, on the analogy of the human soul as the guiding power over the body. each community represents a way to the divine from a certain limited point of 128 christianity as mystical fact view, and the guides along these ways are the angels. they must therefore come to accept as their own leader the being who in his right hand holds the seven stars. and out of his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance resembled the shining sun in its glory.131 this sword also figures in the mysteries: the initiand was terrified by a drawn sword. such is the situation of john, who wants actual experience of the divine who wants the countenance of wisdom to shine upon him like the sun, as does john: it is a testing of his in

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d ideas is shown by their preserverance through time- they have something vital and important to say. the cycles of spiritual anarchy and personal individuation that have developed from these principles/ideas are historically annotated.they are documented within the various magical papyri, amulets, legends, and myths that have survived over through time. the following extract from don webb s book the seven faces of darkness gives an indication of the time line involved and the nature of these influences each brought. from pages 23-26 the egyptian god set (god of initiation, magic, the future and the principle of isolate intelligence..rlw) went through periods of immense popularity alternating with total denunciation. set in the predynastic and archaic periods was an essentially positive de

as a night time polar deity suffered a decline with the rise of solar worship in the ivth dynasty. the great pyramid of khufu is one of the last early monuments connected with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king s akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh, principle of the seven faces of darkness. during the middle kingdom, set was reduced to a symbol of upper egypt and apparently seen only during the setian festival of heb-sed, or tying together. it was during this time that set was first blamed for the murder of osiris, a semitic corn god who had arrived in the iiird dynasty. previously, osiris had died of drowning. no matter how evil set was, the essential fu

nscious life. it is here that we begin to develop the praxis of resonance, and demonstrate the extension and retraction that results in a personal symbol of what has been found. to awake is the first step, the second step, to create in accordance to what has been "woke up, requires something new to enter into the scheme of events. it requires the "will to do, and is possibly the most difficult of the seven steps into resonance. willed activity is the single most difficult barrier to cross on the lhp. there is no sidestepping this issue. what delineates pseudo-lhp groups from actual real ones is the absolute necessity to manifest a creation relevant to being awake. there is much to see, and each and every individual must have a personal vision what is to be if they want to extend and expand

t the current lhp setian resurgence has recognized through its research, and the work of its initiates. these ideas have survived through myth, philosophy, literature, culture and through religion. all of these ideas must be understood as the extensions of past energies carried into the present day through countless generational lifetimes over several millenia. many of these ideas are examined in the seven faces of darkness by don webb, further examination of the lords of the left hand path by dr. stephen flowers is also of great intrinsic value in focusing more directly into the ideas and principles of what i am speaking about. another idea mentioned was "aeonic energies" these are the combinative synthesis of the past ideas of the "aeonic resonance" being manifest as creations into the p

of great intrinsic value in focusing more directly into the ideas and principles of what i am speaking about. another idea mentioned was "aeonic energies" these are the combinative synthesis of the past ideas of the "aeonic resonance" being manifest as creations into the present day resurgence. it is what is being created now from the past, that synthesiszes a future. consider the following from the seven faces of darkness "when a person wants anything, a ka or image of that desire appears in the neheh or future. this is a region ruled by set under his cult title set-heh. the desire pulls that person towards the event and sets him in opposition with the matrix of the past, or djet. if he or she succeeds in obtaining (making real) the desire, he or she has slain osiris. however the new obj

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

clothing, shield symbols and runes of red color. a hero viking's death became celebrated on the calendar as a "red-letter day" and thus we have this phrase in common use today. robin was the god of witches in the forest and when human sacrifices were made, they were dedicated to robin redbreast, or the slain cock robin. updated to more recent times, we find that in her occult book, a treatise on the seven rays, lucis trust director alice bailey taught the occult importance of colors "the three major rays" she said "are red, blue, and yellow" the color red, bailey explained, has to do with "will, or power."19 in the symbolism of color, faber birren points out the primacy of the color red. he notes:20 in ancient egyptian religion, the god shu was red, and red animals symbolized seth. the re

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physical sex, is not what the profane generally consider as such. the tree of life is "man, considered as a spiritual entity. yhshvh, the adept, the son of man, is tiphereth. and the solar man, the son of the sun, is the solar intelligence manifesting below the abyss; unity- 111- multiplied by 6 (tiphereth) equals 666, the son of the sun, the great seven headed beast (cf liber cccxxxiii ch 49) or the seven sephiroth below the abyss. this seven headed beast who has ten horns (the manifestation of the "masculine" aspect of the creative power in the ten spheres of the tree of life) is a subject for the dominus liminis of the a .a. and for the inner sphere of our own order and it cannot be more openly discussed in this place. as to the demoniac entities, their nature must be clearly understood

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d the phenomena of florence cook at close hand. for as long as a week at a time, the young medium would be a guest at the crookes s residence, constantly in the presence of some member of his family. crookes became so familiar to the spirit that katie king would allow him to enter the seance cabinet whenever he wished or to touch her at any time. the scientist wrote that it was a common thing for the seven or eight workers in his laboratory to view the materialized king in full glare of the electric lights. after he had seen the spirit many times in the full light of his laboratory environment, crookes added to the points of difference between the medium and the spirit form. in an article for a newspaper, he stated that he had the most absolute certainty that florence cook and the material

the world easy pickings for the advent of a charismatic savior who appears to have all the best ways, financial means, and power to make things right again. this individual shall rise to international domination and deceive many before he is revealed as the antichrist. although those christians who believe in the rapture are certain that it will occur in association with the time of tribulation (the seven-year period of disasters, famine, and illness during which the antichrist will be in power, there are differences of opinion whether it will come about just before the tribulation begins, midway through the sevenyear reign of the antichrist, or at the end of the time of tribulation. there is, however, general agreement that when this awful time of lawlessness and corruption has passed, c

the sixth angel in revelation and a prophet speaking through the feminine aspect of the holy spirit. a young man named vernon howell joined the branch davidians in 1981 and almost immediately caught lois roden s eye as the group s next prophet. howell assumed control of the davidians in 1988 and changed his name to david koresh in 1990. he pronounced himself the lamb of revelation, who would open the seven seals of the scroll and interpret the secrets that would immediately bring about the second coming of jesus christ. koresh believed that the final struggle between good and evil would begin in the united states, rather than israel, so the community of believers stockpiled food, water, and weapons. in 1992, koresh renamed the mount carmel commune ranch apocalypse. rumors began to circulat

february 28, 1993, bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms (batf) agents t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 315 raided ranch apocalypse, resulting in ten deaths and 25 wounded. the fbi took over, and the ensuing siege lasted 51 days. on april 14, koresh had a vision that instructed him to write his translation of the seven seals in revelation and then surrender. but the encircling forces had grown tired of his biblical babblings and apocalyptic pronouncements. on april 19, the fbi attacked and ended the stand-off at ranch apocalypse. koresh and 75 of his followers, including 21 children, died in the fire that swept through the entire compound. prior to the siege at ranch apocalypse, there were about 130 me

f current scientific knowledge. parapsychologist one who studies mental phenomena, such as telepathy or extrasensory perception, the mind/body connection, and other psi or paranormal factors that cannot be explained by known scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often cons

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in the miami herald (july 28, 1997, the unknown apelike creature was between six and seven feet tall, flat-faced, broad-shouldered, cov- 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 mysterious creatures 65 theskunk apes hair absorbs the stench of rotting animal carcasses left behind by alligators. ered with long brown hair or fur and reeking of skunk. the seven witnesses observed the skunk ape in a slough covered with bald cypress trees. rowland added that it loped along like a big monkey or gorilla, then it disappeared into the woods. in february 2001, the sarasota sheriff s department received an anonymous letter containing some photographs of an apelike creature that had been taken by a woman who feared that an orangutan was running loose in

am. the myth of repressed memory. new york: st. martin s press, 1994. new memories erase old by generating new neurons. unisci daily university science news, december 6, 2001 [online] http//unisci.com/ stories/20014/1206614.htm. pinker, steven. how the mind works. new york: w. w. norton, 1999. schacter, daniel l. searching for memory the brain, the mind, and the past. new york: basic books, 1996. the seven sins of memory: how the mind forgets and remembers. boston, mass: houghton mifflin, 2001, ed. memory distortion: how minds, brains and societies reconstruct the past. cambridge, mass: harvard university press, 1997. university of washington. new evidence shows false memories can be created, june 13, 2001 [online] http//www.washington.edu. phobias aphobia is a persistent irrational fear t

led upon to be the 14th guest at a dinner party. the number seven has been regarded with superstitious awe for centuries some consider seven to be lucky; others, unlucky. rather than being viewed as bringing good fortune or misfortune, the number seven has long been considered a digit of great power. for example, there are seven ecstasies of zoroaster, the seventh day that celebrates the sabbath, the seven days of the week, the seven golden candlesticks of solomon s temple. among various early peoples, the seventh son of a seventh son was believed to be born with supernatural powers, a boy who would become a wizard when he grew to manhood. likewise, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter was believed to be born with gifts of prophecy and healing. chinese and japanese people have a supe

groom share the wine, the rabbi and the groom read the marriage contract. when the reading is completed, the groom places a plain gold ring on the first finger of his bride s left hand and announces to all assembled in the synagogue that she is his wife. after making such a declaration, he moves the wedding ring to the third finger. a second glass of wine is offered to the couple. the rabbi says the seven blessings and praises god for marriages and asks for the newlyweds to be happy. after both drink from it, the glass is smashed under the heel of the groom. the breaking of the glass is a reminder of the destruction of the temple in jerusalem. an old tradition adds that the glass is broken to symbolize that the bride and groom will be joined in happiness and love until the glass is t h e

emony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. omen a prophetic sign or occurrence or something that gives an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh an all-powerful person in a position of authority and who expects unquestioning obedience, such as the ancient egyptian rulers of egypt. from the hebrew paroh and egyp

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ed an appropriate uniform, consisting of a white tunic and mantle with a red cross on the left breast. pope honorius ii (d. 1130) approved the following rules of conduct and discipline for the order in 1128. to recite vocal prayers at certain hours. to abstain from meat four days in the week; to cease hunting and hawking. to defend with their lives the mysteries of the christian faith. to observe the seven sacraments of the church, the fourteen articles of faith, the creeds of the apostles and athanasius; 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 20 secret societies knights templar parade in 1930 (corbis corporation. to uphold the doctrines of the two testaments, including the interpretations of the church fathers, the unity of god and the tr

passage in genesis as the origin of the arcane art: gthe sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair. h to this scriptural reference, zosimus added the tradition that in reward for their favors, the gsons of god, h who were believed to be fallen angels, endowed these women with the knowledge of how to make jewels, colorful garments, and perfumes with which to enhance their earthly charms. the seven principal angels whose favor the alchemist sought to obtain for their transformation were michael, who was believed to transmute base metals into gold and to dissolve any enmity directed toward the alchemist; gabriel, who fashioned silver and foresaw the future; samuel, who protected against physical harm; and raphael, sachiel, ansel, and cassiel, who could create various gems and guard

well as the transmutation of base metals into gold, commonly recorded their formulas and esoteric truths in allegorical form. today it is known that there was no single personage named hermes trismegistus and that the leyden papyrus discovered in the tomb of the anonymous magician contains the oldest known copy of the inscription from the legendary emerald tablet, which is itself a description of the seven stages of gold-making. hermes, who is called trismegistus, gthree times the greatest, h was a deity of a group of greeks who once founded a colony in egypt. this transplanted god drew his name from hermes (mercury to the romans, the messenger of the greek hierarchy of deities and the god who conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld kingdom of hades. the egyptians identified herm

d ceased, the blackness surrounding hermes grew terrifying. a harsh and discordant voice boomed through the ether, creating a chaotic tempest of roaring winds and thunderous explosions. the mighty and terrible voice left hermes filled with awe. then from the all-powerful came seven spirits who moved in seven circles; and in the circles were all the beings that composed the universe. the action of the seven spirits in their circles is called fate, and these circles themselves are enclosed in the divine thought that permeates them eternally. hermes was given to comprehend that god had committed to the seven spirits the governing of the elements and the creation of their combined products. but because god created humans in his own image, and, pleased with this image, had given them power over

circles themselves are enclosed in the divine thought that permeates them eternally. hermes was given to comprehend that god had committed to the seven spirits the governing of the elements and the creation of their combined products. but because god created humans in his own image, and, pleased with this image, had given them power over terrestrial nature, god would grant the ability to command the seven spirits to those humans who could learn to know themselves, for they were and could come to conquer the duality of their earthly nature. they would truly become magi who learned to triumph over sensual temptations and to increase their mental faculties. god would give such adepts a measure of light in proportion to their merits, and they would be allowed to penetrate the most profound my

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

e witches were accused,were sacrifices to the devil. child-murders were, however, seldom substantiated and were not more frequentamong the witches than among other classes of society. when the actual testimony of the witches is given,and not the generalisations of biassed christians, there is no doubt that the person or animal who died wasregarded as the god.in traditional accounts of the fairies the seven-year cycle and the human sacrifice to the god are preserved.thomas of ercildoune[16] was carried away by the fairy queen; he remained with her for more than threeyears, she then sent him back to his own home, and when he remonstrated she told him that the next day washallow e'en: the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies50to-morrow, of hell the foul351 fiend among

elonged to ancient egypt or to modern savages. that the sacrifice was repeatedly consummated within thehistoric period of our own country and of france depends upon evidence which would be accepted if it wereoffered in respect of an oriental or african religion.there are indications that in england the sacrifice took place every seven years, in normandy, scandinaviaand france every nine years. in the seven-year cycle king edmund was stabbed at pucklechurch in may,946; in november, 1016, edmund ironside was done to death, according to some authorities by a vote of thewitan, and like rufus the mode of death was by an arrow; in august, 1100, rufus fell in the new forest. inall these instances the month is noticeable as being one in which one of the four great sabbaths was held.in the nine-yea

being illiterate, made no records.the date of rufus's death, august 2nd, seems significant; it is always emphatically called "the morrow oflammas. lammas, the 1st of august, was one of the four great festivals of the old religion and there isevidence to show that it was on the great sabbaths only that the human sacrifice was offered. if then mytheory is correct rufus died as the divine victim in the seven-year cycle.thomas 340 becket[2]the death of thomas 340 becket presents many features which are explicable only by the theory that he alsowas the substitute for a divine king. the relative position of king and archbishop from saxon times onwardwas so peculiar that it suggests a closer connection between the two offices than appears at first sight. the the god of the witchesthomas 340 beck

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

a force to its own excesses is to condemn it to suicide. dupuis failed to understand the universal religious dogma of the qabalah, because he had not the science of the beautiful hypothesis, partly demonstrated and realized more from day to day by the discoveries of science: i refer to "universal analogy" deprived of this key of transcendental dogma, he could see no more of the gods than the sun, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac; but he did not see in the sun the image of the logos of plato, in the seven planets the seven notes of the celestial gamut, and in the zodiac the quadrature of the ternary circle of all initiations. 187 the emperor julian, that "adept of the spirit" who was never understood, that initiate whose paganism was less idolatrous than the faith of ce

to match the major trumps, with a few actually employing traditional design elements from the corresponding trumps> the table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communicate with the seven genii of the planets, and make to speak at will the seventy-two wheels of assiah, of yetzirah, and of briah. for that purpose it is sufficient to understand the system of universal analogies, such as swedenborg has set it forth in the hieroglyphic key of the arcana; then to mix the cards together, and draw from them by chance, always grouping them by the numbers corresponding to the idea

phecy; the medius dominates the whole hand, it is that of destiny; the ring-finger is that of alliances and of honours: chiromancers have consecrated it to the sun; the little finger is insinuating and talkative, at least, so say simple folk and nursemaids, whose little finger tells them so much. the hand has seven protuberances which the qabalists, following natural analogies, have attributed to the seven planets: that of the thumb, to venus; that of the index to jupiter; that of the medius, to saturn; that of the ring-finger to the sun; that of the little finger, to mercury; the two others to mars and to the moon. according to their form and their predominance, they judged the inclinations, the aptitudes, and consequently the probable destinies of the individuals who submitted themselves

that "how is it that you need so much money" they asked another "you have no children and no calls on you "i have my poor folk, and i cannot prevent myself from giving them a great deal of money "make me acquainted with the, perhaps i will give them something too "oh! you know some of them already, i have no doubt. i have seven who cost me an enormous amount, and 247 an eighth who costs more than the seven others. the seven are the seven deadly sing; the eighth is gambling" another dialogue "give me five francs, sir, i am dying of hunger "imbecile! you are dying of hunger, and you want me to encourage you in so evil a course? you are dying of hunger, and you have the impudence to admit it. you wish to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. you want to put a

nes, dots at ends and intersection. dashes at top vertical, center dot dashes to the right and lower dot dashes to left. the vau has three dots, ends and center with dashes in same directions as the vau. the figure is completed by two lines of flourished symbols at the bottom: larger upper line looks like: 3 or h (bottom end of corner vau) z p 7 r 3(or h) 4 (reversed, but is intended to represent the seven planets starting with saturn and ending with jupiter. the smaller lower line looks like: m z p z 3(or h) n 7 m n 3(or h) f (reversed) n, but is intended to represent the twelve signs of the zodiac. these symbols are somewhat doubtful in identity, owing to the obscuration of using letter and number shapes to conceal the standard astrological symbols and to the jumbled sequence. this key i

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

e senses are stimulated. the tree as a meta-model (template theory) in many kabbalistic aphorisms, the basic concepts often refer to the tree of life as a metamodel, that is, a system capable of comprehending other systems within itself. this is implied when authors use such terms as "universal language "cosmic plan" and "blue-print of manifestation. other esoteric examples of meta-models include the seven rays system, the chakra system, astrology, and tarot. earlier meta-models include the platonic and pythagorean systems, and the quest for the supreme meta-model continues with the mathematical/physics search for a grand unified field theory (a single theory which relates all other theories regarding cosmological sciences. the concept of meta-models can be viewed as a template, or perhaps

of strength: strength, power, force, valour, courage, victory, might, god, strong, mighty, hero. geburah is connected with the punishment of god, rigour, severity, and justice. an alternative title of this sephirah is pachad, meaning "fear. its most negative aspect is said to be blind fanaticism, which is often the result of a fear of that which is considered different to one's own beliefs. when the seven sins are allocated to the tree, the sin of geburah is said to be that of anger. it is also connected, in a more positive sense, with discipline and energy. obviously, these aspects are counterbalanced by those of chesed "loving kindness" or "mercy, on the opposite side of the tree, across the path marked by the "strength" card of the tarot. indeed, that card can be taken to depict the ha

n directed at the psyche, whereas the work beyond that point has undergone the holy inversion and is involved with the upper sephiroth and the experiences and states that transcend the personality construct. further, the rose (taken as a symbol of tiphareth) and the lamp (a symbol of kether and the ain soph aur) are both attributed to netzach, which may reflect its sevenfold nature of completion. the seven-petalled rose alludes to the sevenfold pattern, and was used by bosch as emblem dccxxiii of the ars symbolica, and by fludd in the summum bonum. it is to this rose of completion that the golden dawn aim in their elemental initiations, as a preshadowing of the rose cross of tiphareth and the rose of light in kether. charles harness uses this symbology in his magnificent short story "the r

divine influences and by benediction influencing all things that exist. diagram part c the middle pillar of equilibrium has three paths which compose it, being path 13, 25 and 32. in descending order, path 13 is called "inductive of unity, path 25 the path of "trial, and path 32 the "governing intelligence. the lower path, path 32, is seen in its cosmological aspect as governing the "operation of the seven planets. the tarot card attributed to this path is that of the "universe, and its meaning is "synthesis, indeed some cards show the planets as part of the symbology of the card. in terms of the ascending process, the path connects the world of events around us (malkuth) with our own personality (yesod) through the ego, and beliefs. thus, the nature of our beliefs governs our awareness of

he seven planets. the tarot card attributed to this path is that of the "universe, and its meaning is "synthesis, indeed some cards show the planets as part of the symbology of the card. in terms of the ascending process, the path connects the world of events around us (malkuth) with our own personality (yesod) through the ego, and beliefs. thus, the nature of our beliefs governs our awareness of the seven planets, as symbols of the seven sephiroth below the abyss. the path leading from yesod to tiphareth, one of whose symbols is the crucified god-man, is aptly described as the "first temptation by which god tests the devout. the last temptation is made on the cross of the abyss, and is wonderfully portrayed in scorses's film "the last temptation of christ. once tiphareth has been gained

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

means of a network of minute conduits or canals known as nadis. this psycho-physical circuitry is often called the "subtle body."3 in yoga the physical body is refined not simply for its own sake, but in order that it may serve the subtle body. the main nadi or conduit is called the sushumna, which runs from the bottom of the spine to the top of the cranium. along its length the sushumna connects the seven chakras or main energy centers. many more chakras are said to exist within the body, but all are governed by the primary seven. the two other important nadis are known as the ida and the pingala. they start at the base of the spine and wind around the sushumna like strands of dna. the ida ends at the left nostril and is associated with the moon and the left side of the body. the pingala

ented by a blue circle. vayu symbolizes motion and the principle of vapor or gas. the fifth and final element of ether or spirit is referred to as akasha, symbolized by a black oval. unity and limitlessness are its characteristics. prithivi earth yellow te jas fire red vayu air blue akasha spirit black w apas water silver figure 8: the tattva symbols. yoga, chakras, and the wisdom of the east 165 the seven chakras 1. muladhara, the base or root chakra. the first chakra is located at the sacrum at the base of the spine, near the anus. associated glands/ organs are the ovaries, the testes, and the pelvic plexus.5 the traditional color of this chakra is yellow.6 an alternate color given for this center is red.7 sometimes called the earth chakra, its symbol is prithivi, the yellow square of el

estia (pronounced "heh-stee-ah-eozta, lady of the flame. on my left hand, demeter (pronounced "day-may-tayru-aypyzyp, the great mother of earth. for about me flames stephanos asteron (pronounced "stef-ah-nohs ah-ster-ohn "a crown of starsu-cz $avo< aoz pov "and above me shines the duo trigona (pronounced "doo-oh tri-gon-ah "two trianglesu29- auo tptyovoa "ah, eh, ee, ii, oo, uu, aw (a e y t o u o-the seven vowels of the greek alphabet, said by some to be the true name of god) closing repeat the greek qabalistic cross. alternative greek version a christian banishing ritual the pentagram was used by pythagoras and his followers as a sacred symbol. thus it fits well into a greek framework such as that outlined in the ritual above. however, christian magicians can easily employ a version that

lled heh heh, vav is spelled vav vav, and heh is heh heh. the total value is fifty-two. 20. from which is derived the word zion. 21. it's interesting to note that many of the numbers associated with the pentagram, 5,8,13, and 26, are also associated with the vault of the adepti-the ritual chamber of the golden dawn's inner order. each wall of the vault is 5 feet wide and 8 feet high. every one of the seven triangles formed from the intersecting lines of the vault's heptagram has a base of 8 units and a height of 5 units. if the heptagon of the vault were circumscribed by a circle, the radius of the circle would be 13 units, and its diameter would be 26 units. 22. the banishing earth pentagram is drawn starting from the earth point and moving toward the spirit point. the invoking earth pent

musical qabalah come from the golden dawn notebooks of allan bennett. among bennett's students were dion fortune and aleister crowley. paul foster case applied these correspondences to form a system of invocation and healing which is still being taught by the builders of the adytum (bota. in the golden dawn system, four scales of color are used, each one assigned to the twelve astrological signs, the seven ancient planets, and the three most ancient elements. in western music, the scale is divided into twelve semi-tones. bennett assigned the twelve semi-tones of the chromatic scale (chroma is greek for "color) to the twelve signs, beginning with the note c and the sign aries. as each of the signs had a color associated to it, bennett had, by ths process, derived colors for each of the musi

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

in from the cold i. friday, december 22, 1967, was bitter cold and the frayed christmas decorations strung across the main street of the little west virginia town of point pleasant seemed to hang limply, sadly, as if to match the grim, ashen faces of the townspeople who shuffled about their business, their eyes averted from the gaping hole where the silver bridge had stood only a week before. now the seven-hundred-foot span was gone. clusters of workmen, police officers, and assorted officials stood along the banks of the ohio, watching silently as divers continued to bob into the black waters. occasionally ropes would jerk and a bloated, whitened body would be hauled to the surface. it was not going to be a merry christmas in point pleasant. a few yards from the place where the bridge had

out. joe studied me silently. suddenly an announcer's voice came over the crowd noises "we interrupt this program" he announced flatly "for a special bulletin. a bridge laden with rush-hour traffic has just collapsed at gallipolis, ohio. further details as soon as they are available" i fell back in my chair. there was no bridge at gallipolis, ohio. the only bridge on that stretch of the river was the seven-hundred-foot silver bridge at point pleasant. the bridge i had crossed a thousand times "they've done it again" i finally muttered softly "those lousy bastards have done it again. they knew this was going to happen. and when. and they gave me all that bilge about a power failure. they knew. they just didn't want me to be able to warn anyone "they. who's 'they' john" joe asked gently. the

s partner, harold cundiff, was sound asleep in their tractor-trailer. the traffic jam worsened. the streams of cars and trucks ground to a halt. the old bridge shuddered and squirmed under the weight. frank wamsley spotted his cousin barbara and her husband and waved to them. just ahead, he saw marvin and his two friends. suddenly the whole bridge convulsed. the time was 5:04 p.m. steel screamed. the seven-hundred-foot suspension bridge twisted and the main span split from its moorings at either end. electric cables strung across the bridge snapped in a blaze of sparks. fifty vehicles crashed into the black waters of the ohio, tons of steel smashing down on top of them "it sounded like someone moving furniture upstairs, and then the lights went out" state trooper r. e. o'dell said. he was

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

civilisation seems incredible. that they should both have become prophets and forerunners of a new aeon of man's history is equally, if not more, unbelievable. yet, with h.p. lovecraft and aleister crowley, the unbelievable was a commonplace of life. these two men, both acclaimed as geniuses by their followers and admirers, and who never actually met, stretched their legs across the world, and in the seven league boots of the mind they did meet, and on common soil. sumeria. sumeria is the name given to a once flourishing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is t

shing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is the site of the fabled city of babylon, as well as of ur of the chaldees and kish, with nineveh far to the north. each of the seven principal cities of sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange, non-semitic language of the sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appea

hat realm unblamed, and guiltless. the pope has ridden in aircraft. cardinals have flown in 'choppers' over battlefields in southeast asia, urging technological eco-side, invoking christ; pronouncing damnation and the devil on the industrially inferior man. ecce qui tollit peccata mundi. and a rock group from england, home of the anglican heresy, sings of "sympathy" for the devil. pazuzu. tiamat. the seven deadly sins. the fear of lovecraft. the pride of crowley. the lunar landing was the symbolic manifestation of man's newly acquired potential power to alter the nature- and perhaps, via nuclear weapons, the course- of the heavenly 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

y are "zoned, i.e, having set courses and spheres. they are also known as such in the chaldean oracles. the 'spirits' or bodies that exist beyond the zonei are called the azonei, meaning "un-zoned. whether this refers to the so-called "fixed" stars (having no sphere ascertainable to the early astronomers) or the comets, is unknown to the editor. whatever the case may be, the zonei seem to include the seven philosophical planets, i.e, including the sun and moon as planetary bodies, along with mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. each has their own seal and their own number. kenneth grant, author of aleister crowley and the hidden god, may be interested to know (or may already know) that the number of the sumerian goddess of venus, hence of love and war, is fifteen. in many of the ancie

demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance, and of the walking the book of entrance this is the book of entrance to the seven zones above the earth, which zones were known to the chaldeans, and to the ancient races that preceded them among the lost temples of ur. know that these zones are governed by the celestial spirits, and that passage may be had by the priest through those lands that border on the unzoned wastes beyond. know that, when walking thus through the sea of spheres, he should leave his watcher be

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

iritual sensations that one feels when one experiences the phases of the correction. it is a system that corrects our soul, when it is still in an earthly spiritual degree. 38 of 273 the soul must be raised from the degree of malchut to that of bina, meaning the egoistic trait of malchut must be turned into the altruistic trait of bina. that process occurs through seven gradual corrections called the seven days of the week. q: will everyone eventually have to come to kabbalah? a: absolutely, if not in this life, in the next, so why wait? our lives are not sweet enough for us to keep returning here. q: what is the reason for suffering? a: suffering exposes the lowness of the situation. it forces us to look for a solution, grow smarter and reassess the situation. a person who has everything

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rnhy. besides man, there is only the creator. hence, what we all feel, want, and think, comes from the creator. everything we always feel is only the creator. when the creature climbs from the lowest point (this world) toward the creator, and until he attains complete equivalence of form with him (the end of correction, he will go through 620 degrees, also called the 613 mitzvot of the torah, and the seven mitzvot of our rabbis. a zivug (mating) with the upper light in the screen is called a mitzva. the light that the creature obtains inside his vessel is called inner light, or the light of taamim, or torah. that is why kabbalists always say: taste and see that the lord is good. the creature, behina dalet of dalet, corrects his will to receive, in order to be able to bestow. the correction

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THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

i: so we kneeled altogether down, and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal god, who hath taught us more then all mens wit could have found out, praised be his holy name. this vault we parted in three parts, the upper part or sieling, the wall or side, the ground or floor. of the upper part you shall understand no more of it at this time, but that it was divided according to the seven sides in the triangle, which was in the bright center; but what therein is contained, you shall god willing (that are desirous of our society) behold the same with your own eys; but every side or wall is parted into ten squares, every one with their several figures and sentences, as they are truly shewed, and set forth concentratum here in our book. the bottom again is parted in the tria

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

light; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart, wherein our god is born, whose name is ineffable, a crown of glory, exalted forever above the balance of righteousness and truth. t.a.r.o. as author of the following essay to you my readers, i can but say with the four beasts of the apocalypse: gcome and see. h gbehold the lion c hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. h for until now gno man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. h yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart aleister crowley has opened the book, breaking not only the first six seals, but the seventh also. for those who read and understand, the heavens shall depart as a scroll, and t

the book, breaking not only the first six seals, but the seventh also. for those who read and understand, the heavens shall depart as a scroll, and the stars shall fall, and the mountains be moved out of their places; and they shall become as kings in a new kingdom, and be crowned with that crown which passes understanding. i have attempted in the following seven chapters to interpret the book of the seven seals, and to paint its splendour, as an artist would incarnadine his canvas with the red blood of his mistress, love-kissed from the bloom of her crimson lips. i have not, as samuel, hacked and hewn agag into pieces before the lord in gilgal; but rather elijah-like have called upon wisdom and understanding so that my sacrifice, and even the wood and stone of the altar, and the water whi

lric fs bride, appears, and for a moment his mad fury slackens only to burst out again, as he drags cora from the room. when she re-enters her voice is hoarse and horrible: o phadra! lend me of thy wickedness, lest i go mad to contemplate myself *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 164. then turning to madeline. young, pretty, and foolish. who bids her seek help from the mother of god, gour lady of the seven stars h says: can you not see? i am cut off from god! loathsome bull-men in their corruption linked whisper lewd fancies in my ear. great fish, monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes, and crawling beetles of gigantic strength, crushed, mangled, moving, are about me. go! go! do not touch the carcass of myself that is abased, defiled, abominable *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 65

hirdly, as the offspring of the carnalities of a byzantine mob, which is the true christ of history, he assumes a vampire form, a horror fed on the blood of children, the virility of youths, the chastity of maidens. hardly a single evil of the present day, if traced back a few hundred years, and frequently not half so long as that, but finds its birth in some corruption practised by the harlot of the seven hills, or the monster of the six wives. it is only necessary to study such works as those of buckle or draper, of white or stewart ross, or better still, if time permits, those of ecclesiastical historians, written by the pens of divines, to become aware of the appalling gloom that was cast over the splendour that was greece, and the grandeur that was rome, in that dismal night of a thou

fifteen hundred years an immense power, few can deny; that it has been a power of good, few will deny, though not a few would like to; that it has been a dragonading power of harm few will assert, and still fewer are aware of; for it has ever been the craft of the christian church to pass off on her paramours her worn-out old body as that of untasted virginity. the catholic church, the harlot of the seven hills, comes in for sparse mercy. in tannhauser we find the head of this infallible and august body of swindlers mocked as a mountebank, and his power as a gbarren staff. h*1. in gascension day h the whole christian church as a lie, gabortion and iniquity, h*2. whose soldiers are no ardent warriors in triple steel, but loathly and disgusting worms,*3. who only show fight when cornered an

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

rvan, endless time. ahriman was essentially one who beheld the light from which life could emerge from, however it was cloaked in darkness. this light became passed on to the physical manifestations of ahriman s power, wolves, serpents, scorpions, worms, flies and other such creatures were considered of ahriman 'the twelve signs of the zodiac. are the twelve commanders on the side of ohrmazd, and the seven planets are said to be the seven commanders on the side of ahriman. and the seven planets oppress all creation and deliver it over to death and all manner of evil: for the twelve signs of the zodiac and the seven planets rule the fate of the world and direct it- the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism ohrmazd and ahriman both had elements of their being in the creation and government of

me is sammal malchira and is a manifestation of angro mainyush or ahriman. in the ascension of isaiah, belial is called beliar; for the angel of lawlessness, who is the ruler of this world and is called mantanbuchus or ahriman. in another text, belial has seven spirits of deceit which emanate from his being, that is they are connected with his existence. in the testaments of the twelve patriarchs the seven demons are identical to the archdaevas of ahriman. what things i saw concerning the seven spirits of deceit, when i repented. seven spirits therefore are appointed against man, and they are the leaders in the works of youth [and seven other spirits are given to him at his creation, that through them should be done every work of man. the first is the spirit of life, with which the constit

mudic texts as being the same as satan, the chief of evil spirits who is known as the venom of god. samael is said to have twelve wings rather than the six of normal angels, a favored assumption. as the angel of death, samael was the angel of poison which is sain ha-mawet, along with ashmodai, is the lord of demons. compare to ahriman and his created daeva eshm or aeshma, who controls and directs the seven powers of ahriman. samael as the angel of poison is to the luciferian as a symbol of self-mastery and using the world around us to grow in power and strength, always internal, sometimes external depending on the individual desire. luciferians seek to devour the essence of life, the essence of humanity. all life is made stronger by devouring another, this is the law of nature. to be hones

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

th, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit- god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalon! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created nganga should be with you (creation of ngangas involves the use of human and animal bones-called a fetish spirit- your blood, sigil, grave soil and snake skin. this nganga will contain active fetish spirits related to the dead. you will use items of the dead which may bring shades or manes of the dead which wi

THE BOOK OF GATES

them-'your bread shall be to you from that which cometh forth from your mouths, o ye hetepti-kheperu" in the lower register are- 1. five male figures, who are occupied in tending very large ears of corn; when the scene was complete these figures were twelve in number, and they were called "those who work about the plants of grain in the fields of the tuat" 2. a man holding a sickle; he is one of the seven "reapers" of which this section of the scene originally consisted. the text which relates to those who tend the grain reads- p. 180"[they perform the works in connection with the grain, and they embrace the god of wheat (nepra) which is eaten. their grain becometh glorious in the land through the light of ra, when he appeareth, and sendeth forth heat, and maketh his way by them. the lord

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

upon the members of higher grades/ and to aspire steadfastly/ and with modesty/ to be received into their number/ i further solemnly pledge myself/ so to apply the four powers of the sphinx/ as to obtain full control/ over my subtle body/ so that i may travel freely therein/ upon all spheres as i will/ whether my present physical body/ be alive or no/ i further solemnly pledge myself/ to maintain the seven bonds of brotherhood; in act as well as in word/ my hand shall grip in sure relation as of true brother with true brother; my foot shall be the firm foundation of our straight walking with each other; my knee bend not in supplication file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (8 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o

mph around the chamber of death) third point (re-entering the red room, and the door being closed. m.w.s. presents the cakes of light to h.p, who passes to new kt (dame) and so on, ending with g.m, who presents to m.w.s. the cup then passes) m.w.s: consummatum est (the living circle, and dance. h.p. then advances and consumes the word.58) h.p: consummatum est (all resume thrones) additional note: the seven signs of this degree would seem to be variations of the signs used in the 18 of ancient and accepted masonry. the closing of a sovereign chapter of rose croix the red room m.w.s: very excellent and perfect princes, assist me, if it be your pleasure, to close this. chapter of the holy order of rose croix of heredom (all rise) holy mother, what is the hour? h.p: it is the hour when the los

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

8:12 and he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 8:13 and it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month] the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 8:14 and in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 8:15 and god spake unto noah, saying, 8:16 go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee. 8:17 bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the ea

years, that pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2 and, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 41:3 and, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river. 41:4 and the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. so pharaoh awoke. 41:5 and he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 41:6 and, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. 41:7 and the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. and pharaoh awoke, and, behold [it was] a dream. 41:8 and it came to pa

st seven fat kine: 41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. so i awoke. 41:22 and i saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: 41:23 and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: 41:24 and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and i told [this] unto the magicians; but [there was] none that could declare [it] to me. 41:25 and joseph said unto pharaoh, the dream of pharaoh [is] one: god hath shewed pharaoh what he [is] about to do. 41:26 the seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one. 41:27 and the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up afte

d [this] unto the magicians; but [there was] none that could declare [it] to me. 41:25 and joseph said unto pharaoh, the dream of pharaoh [is] one: god hath shewed pharaoh what he [is] about to do. 41:26 the seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one. 41:27 and the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 41:28 this [is] the thing which i have spoken unto pharaoh: what god [is] about to do he sheweth unto pharaoh. 41:29 behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of egypt: 41:30 and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of egypt;

shall be] very grievous. 41:32 and for that the dream was doubled unto pharaoh twice [it is] because the thing [is] established by god, and god will shortly bring it to pass. 41:33 now therefore let pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of egypt. 41:34 let pharaoh do [this] and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of egypt in the seven plenteous years. 41:35 and let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 41:36 and that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. 41:37 and the thing was good in the eyes of pharaoh, a

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

of this world to be governed: and their visible stars are aratron, bethor, phaleg, och, hagith, ophiel, phul, after the olympick speech. every one of these hath under him a mighty militia in the firmament. 12 arathon ruleth visible provinces xlix. bethor, xlii. phaleg, xxxv. och, xxviii. hagith, xxi. ophiel, xiiii. phul, vii. so that there are 186 olympick provinces in the whole universe. wherein the seven governours do exercise their power: all which are elegantly set forth in astronomy. but in this place it is to be explained, in what maner these princes and powers may he drawn into communication. aratron appeareth in the first hour of saturday, and very truely giveth answers concerning his provinces and provincials. so likewise do the rest appear in order in their days and hours. also e

them ruleth 490 yeers. the beginning of their simple anomaly, in the 60 yeer before the nativity of christ, was the beginning of the administration of bethor, and it lasted until the yeer of our lord christ 430. to whom succeeded phaleg, until the 920 yeer. then began och, and continued until the year 1410, and thenceforth hagith ruleth untill the year 1900. aphorism 17. magically the princes of the seven governments are called simply, in that time, day and hour wherein they rule visibly or invisibly, by their names and offices which god hath given unto them; and by proposing their character which they have given or confirmed. the governor aratron hath in his power those things which he doth naturally, that is, after the same manner and subject as those things which in astronomy are ascri

sun to stand still in heaven. 16 they send some of their spirits to the mean magicians, which do obey them onely in some determinate business: but they hear not the false magicians, but expose them to the deceits of the devils, and cast them into divers dangers, by the command of god; as the prophet jeremiah testifieth, in his eighth chapter, concerning the jews. 4. in all the elements there are the seven governours with their hosts, who do move with the equal motion of the firmament; and the inferiours do always depend upon the superiours, as it is taught in philosophy. 5. a man that is a true magician, is brought forth a magician from his mothers womb: others, who do give themselves to this office, are unhappie. this is that which john the baptist speaketh of: no man can do any thing of

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

t, most of these copies of the formula of faith are more or less defective, but, from a comparison of them, the general form and meaning of the whole is made perfectly clear. this may be translated, let mete be exalted, who causes things to bud and blossom! he is our root; it (the root) is one and seven; abjure (the faith, and abandon thyself to all pleasures. the number seven is said to refer to the seven archons of the gnostic creed. there are certainly several points in this formula which present at least a singular coincidence with the statements made in the examinations of the templars. in the first place the invocation which precedes the formula, yalla (jah la, agrees exactly with the statement of raymond rubei, one of the provencal templars that when the superior exhibited the idol

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ar or lunar qualities blended with the quality of the earth, which is repre- sented by the cross: jupiter: 3 mars: 6 saturn: fi venus: 9 unique and apart, mercury is made up of the symbols of the three primary forces-sun, moon, and earth. it is the only planet that combines the solar and lunar symbols. these are held in harmonious balance by the symbol of earth: mercury: this relationship between the seven traditional planets and the earth is pre- sented clearly and concisely in the following diagram: the symbols? and d represent the nodes of the moon, caput draconis and cauda draconis. they have been modified from their more common shapes to show that the nodes are composed of the essential qualities of sun and moon. a second proof of the mercury-central ordering of the planets is to be f

ange linear a air north smell right arm oak organ saturn blue 0 circular b earth east touch left leg elm bass moon purple v vibratory a inertia (black moon) down motion sexual organs willow z violin f r z$ seven planets of the ancients, which must not be confused with the planets of astronomy, for the ancient planets are god-forms rather than material bodies. it would be reasonable to assume that the seven planets would be most close- ly linked to the star of seven points, the heptagram. traditionally this is not the case. it has been the custom in magic to assign six of the planets to the outer points of the hexagram and one to the emerging center point. therefore, the hexagram to which the planets are assigned is on the verge of becoming the heptagram. under the symbol of the cross was d

e mistaken impression that the meanings of the planets derive from long centuries of observation, or were grafted onto the planets from ancient myths. these were later considerations. in the begin- ning, the magi of persia observed seven wandering bodies, and applied to this set of elements a complete circle of meaning. the fundamental symbols reveal how this totality of meaning was divided among the seven elements of the planetary set. mars is the cross over the circle. in modern usage the cross has been changed to an arrow -symbol of will that suggests the fiery aspect of the planet. it is the mixed essence of the malleable yet substantial earth and the blazing sun. mars represents recklessness and force and is the symbol of con- quest. because it is an inversion of the natural order, th

t each variant contains in the same order the two simple symbols of the traditional planet with which it shares signs, plus the missing third symbol added at the bottom to act as its base. no new base can be added to mercury because it already has three symbols, so the upper two symbols are inverted in the variant that shares gemini and virgo with mercury. it is common practice in magic to assign the seven traditional planets to the hexa- gram in this way, after the teaching of the hermetic order of the golden dawn: the most questionable aspect of this arrangement is the placing of the sun in the center. in magic the sun is not the center of the solar system-the self is the center around which all else revolves. the ancients had little problem with this idea. they automatically assumed tha

it can know nothing beyond what it is. it may help to understand the chakras by relating them graphically to the sephiroth of the kabbalistic tree. the tree is made up of ten sephiroth, or ema- nations of the unmanifest, arranged in three columns. if the columns are united, the right and left being drawn together to overlap in the center, the result is seven spheres of reality that correspond to the seven chakras along the spine: 0 kether a@ crown 0+ 0 chokmahibinah ci* brow 0+ 0 chesedigeburah 0? throat 0 tiphareth+ heart 0 c+ 0 netzachihod y solar plexus 0 yesod 0 b bowel 0 malkuth v d perineum provided they are legitimate and do not result in obvious contradictions, such syncretic relationships are useful because the insights gained through one system can supplement those gained by ano

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el or plane. seven is the most common division. when we examine theosophy, we will again encounter this concept of the spirit realms divided into a series of seven successive planes. the tapti do not correspond, as might be supposed, with ruling deities, but rather with successive levels of spiritual reality. the altaic shaman climbs a tree or a post notched with seven or nine tapty, representing the seven or nine celestial levels. the "obstacles (pudak) that he must overcome are really, as anokhin remarked, the heavens that he must enter. when the yakut make blood sacrifices, their shamans set up a tree with nine notches outdoors and climb it to carry the offering to the celestial god ai toyon. the initiation of shamans among the sibo (related to the tungus) includes, as we have seen, the

ivine, by touch, events connected with an object. in 1901, the egyptian astral announced that he must retire from the group because he was about to ascend to a higher plane, which would make it impossible for him to carry on his former work. this was in keeping with the teachings of blavatsky's theosophy, which held that souls after death continued to evolve and perfect themselves, rising through the seven astral planes until they escaped them entirely to the higher planes of spirit. for some time thereafter, farr and her followers met regularly on the astral level, but they substituted the holy grail in place of the egyptian adept. in 1902, a prominent member of the london temple, annie horniman (1860-1937, who believed herself in astral contact with one of the secret chiefs she called th

l of the universe in ten successive descending emanations, each of which comes forth from the one above it. the golden dawn applied these ten emanations, known as sephiroth, to various parts of the human body. each emanation has other associations or correspondences that can be used to link a part of the body with an astral plane or environment. for example, seven of the sephiroth correspond with the seven spheres of the planets of traditional astrology. these sephiroth also correspond with parts of the body. through the connecting bridge of each of these seven sephiroth, a part of the body can be associated with a planetary sphere. the ten sephiroth the golden dawn system is complex and a bit overwhelming for those unfamiliar with it. i do not propose to examine it in detail here, but i w

urtain masking the second door. at the end of the eleventh path, you would see the temple of kether only as a blinding and indistinct brightness, like the reflection of sunlight in a mirror. the thirty-two paths the following list of the thirty-two paths on the tree provides the essential information you will need to do pathworking. it is vital to have a good understanding of the tarot trumps and the seven planets of traditional astrology before you begin this ritual work, since the trumps and planets play a large part in defining the nature of the connecting pathways and the spheres. the divine and angelic names are less important, but may be useful to know if they are needed to challenge an astral being you encounter on a path. i have provided the names and their translations as they wer

rst path is the perpetual intelligence; but why is it so called? because it regulates the motions of the sun and moon in their proper order, and each in an orbit convenient for it" 32. yesod to malkuth hebrew letter: tau tarot trump: xxi the world correspondence: saturn "the thirty-second path is the administrative intelligence, and it is so called because it directs and associates the motions of the seven planets, directing all of them in their own proper courses" fourteen t here are many sets of esoteric symbols that might be used both as keys and as gateways for astral travel. the tattwa were extremely popular within the ranks of the golden dawn, as were the individual hebrew letters. astrological and alchemical symbols are effective, both the simple glyphs and the more complex compound

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

when talking to yourself under your breath. strive to eliminate references to yourself in your internal monologue. each time you refer to yourself in your own thoughts with one of the prohibited words, mark down a stroke on paper, and at the end of the day, add up the strokes. if you suddenly realize at any point during the day that you forgot to mark a stroke, put down five strokes as a penalty. the seven-day exercise cycle can be repeated on consecutive weeks, or done on individual weeks that are separated by periods of rest. greatest benefit is derived during the first week, before habit patterns develop that allow the exercise to be completed more easily. in the suggested schedule at the end of the book, the second week of practice is separated from the first week by two weeks. comment

hether the person is known to you or is a public figure, or whether the person is living or dead. equally irrelevant is whether or not the person deserves criticism. tf you find yourself engaged in conversation, and someone invites you to criticize someone in any way whatsoever, remain silent. do not indicate agreement with words, facial expressions, or body gestures. carry a pen and paper during the seven days of your practice, and each time you find yourself outwardly expressing criticism of another person, or of what another person has done or said, whether by words, sounds, body posture, gestures, or expressions, mark down a stroke on the paper. if you neglect to mark down a stroke immediately, and later realize your omission, mark down self-awareness i3 criticism of others 7 five stro

cally that you have difficulty being aware of it. this is the real challenge of the exerciseto actively monitor your mental processes so that you can consciously notice critical thoughts or words when these arise. it is best to begin weekly practice for all three of the daily life exercises on the same day of the week. monday is the normally accepted beginning of the week, and a good day to start the seven-day exercise cycle. self-awareness 111: criticism of self a s with all life exercises, this focus of awareness on self-criticism is performed from morning to evening daily over the span of a week. it begins when you get out of bed and ends when you get back into bed. during the course of the day, strive to avoid saying or doing anything critical of yourself or your actions. whenever you

ng sticks of wood, glowing in the form of embers, showering bright clouds of sparks heavenward, and burning with a silent constant flame. on wednesday, after passing through the gateway of the black egg and opening your astral eyes to a featureless pearl-white radiance, visualize the shimmering bands of a rainbow all around you, each colored band dancing with tiny sparks of brilliant white light. the seven bands are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. on thursday, after passing through the gateway of the blue circle and opening your astral eyes to bright yellow on all sides, visualize beams of sunlight shining down from a blue sky upon swirling white clouds to gild them with golden light, and observe the invisible wind make the clouds tumble and move like living creatures

d under these ten trumps that define the triangle. for air and the east, use swords; for fire and the south, use wands; for water and the west, use cups; for earth and the north, use pentacles. beneath the fool put the ace; beneath the universe, the two; beneath the wheel, the three; beneath the empress, the four; beneath the magician, the five; beneath the tower, the six; beneath the hanged man, the seven, beneath the high priestess, the eight; beneath the sun, the nine; beneath the last judgement, the ten. the use of tarot trumps to form the circle and triangle is superior to the methods of tape or coins, since the arrangement of the trumps creates a powerful symbolic machine that aids in evocation. in this present exercise trumps are placed according to golden dawn occult associations

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

gives more than just the fascinating ancient history and modern magical use of the name. it examines the symbolic relationship of the letters from a numerical and a graphic perspective. the significance of the dual threefold and fourfold composition of the name, which is so vital to its true understanding, is treated in depth. from this analysis, a bridge is constructed linking the four elements, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. tetragrammaton is shown to be the primeval binary code that forms the basis for the genetic pattern of dna and the language of modern computers and digital storage systems. it is also the foundation for two ancient methods of divination-the sixty-four hexagrams of the i ching of china and the sixteen geomantic figures of medieval europe. intro

ay beneath the folded garment of the primordial torah. this light became the fiery spheres or vessels of the sephiroth that exist within the primordial point, kether. kether is no more than an infinitesimal speck in the endless expanse of deity, yet that speck is large enough to comprehend all things. medieval kabbalists believed in a set of cosmic cycles called shemittah that were connected with the seven lower sephiroth that emanate from the great mother, binah. each cycle is active for a period of six thousand years corresponding to the six days of creation, followed by a period of a thousand 12 tetragrammaton years of chaos corresponding to the day of rest, during which the universe is torn down and rebuilt in the pattern of the succeeding sephirah. presently we are living in the shemi

attern of the succeeding sephirah. presently we are living in the shemittah of geburah, the age of strict judgement and severity, which accounts for our unceasing wars. the previous age was that of chesed, a period of happiness and love that is dimly echoed in the greek myth of a golden age of heroes. the next shemittah will be that of tiphareth, characterized by beauty and harmony. at the end of the seven cycles of 49,000 years there is a grand jubilee of a millennium when all the lower worlds together and the seven sephiroth that support them are reabsorbed into binah, and the universe begins to repeat itself. each of these shemittah is said to experience a unique revelation of the torah, which is the complete articulation of tetragrammaton. however, the combination of letters of the nam

name of jesus, in which is all the virtue of the four-lettered name; seeing that jehovah the father hath given him all things. therefore the heavens receive from the angels, that which they dart down; but the angels from the great name of god and jesu, the virtue whereof is first in god, afterward diffused into these twelve and seven angels, by whom it is extended into the twelve signs, and into the seven planets, and consequently into all the other ministers and instruments of god, penetrating even to the very depths. hence christ saith, whatsoever you shall ask the father in my name, he will give you; and after his resurrection saith, in my name they shall cast out devils, and do as followeth; so that the name of four letters is no further necessary, the whole virtue thereof being trans

e elements, from the lightest and most active (spirit) to the heaviest and most inert (earth. if the hebrew letters are read in a circle around the pentagram counterciockwise, beginning at the point of yod, the name ihshvh, yeheshuah, results; but if the letters are read in a circle clockwise, the name ihvshh, yehovashah, results. this relationship is very similar to that which links the order of the seven days of the week with the astrological order of the seven planets on the heptagram (see illustration on page 53. if the line of the seven-pointed star is traced clockwise from point to point, the order of the planets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PERFORM A RITUAL TOASTING

over all is truly a mystery. but we are the keepers of mystery and the administrators of the dark estate. uncle setnakt hopes you have a pleasant dcluncle setnakt sez- perform a ritual toasting don webb the spring is upon us. uncle setnakt's yard is yellow with daffodils and fragrant with hyacinths. uncles setnakt is in a generous mood and has decided to give you a seven-step ritual (in honor of the seven heads of the first beast, which must be performed exactly at midnight on the wednesday /thursday cusp or- of course anytime you feel like it. i'll round out my column with a couple of remarks about the rite (in honour of the two eyebrows- ahem horns of the second beast. this rite may be done alone or by a group. if by a group, each participant must take part in each round of toasts- no p

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

iscipline known as kundalini yoga. according to the kundalini system, there are a series of seven energy centers (chakras) located along the axis of the spinal column. at the base of these lies the great goddess as power (shakti) hidden in the human body, which is imagined in the form of a coiled serpent (kundalini. the aim of kundalini yoga is to awaken this serpent power and to raise it through the seven energy centers where it will ultimately be united with the supreme masculine principle, the god, shiva, who is imagined as dwelling in a thousand-petalled lotus at the top of the head. crowley more or less accepts this basic system of seven chakras and the serpent power; yet, quite remarkably, he also adds a special set of lower chakras located beneath the lowest energy center (the mulad

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

eat famine took place in egypt between the reign of tcheser and the period when the inscription was made, and when we consider this fact the choice by the editor of the legend of a famine which took place under the iiird dynasty to illustrate the power of khnemu seems inexplicable. of the famines which must have taken place in the dynastic period the inscriptions tell us nothing, but the story of the seven years' famine mentioned in the book of genesis shows that there is nothing improbable in a famine lasting so long in egypt. arab historians also mention several famines which lasted for seven years. that which took place in the years 1066-1072 nearly ruined the whole country. a cake of bread was sold for 15 dinanir (the dinar= 10s, a horse was sold for 20, a dog for 5, a cat for 3, and a

eizure of the kingdom. isis, as we have already seen, had been made pregnant by her husband after his death, and thoth now appeared to her, and advised her to hide herself with her unborn child, and to bring him forth in secret, and he promised her that her son should succeed in due course to his father's throne. with the help of thoth she escaped from her captivity, and went forth accompanied by the seven scorpion-goddesses, who brought her to the town of per-sui, on the edge of the reed swamps. she applied to a woman for a night's shelter, but the woman shut her door in her face. to punish her one of the scorpion-goddesses forced her way into the woman's house, and stung her child to death. the grief of the woman was so bitter and sympathycompelling that isis laid her hands on the child

ather [whom] he shall avenge,[fn#206 [and he shall take possession of] the exalted position of heq[fn#207] of the two lands"[fn#208 [fn#203] i.e, law, or truth [fn#204] or, obey [fn#205] i.e, flourish [fn#206] he avenged his father osiris by vanquishing set [fn#207] i.e, tribal chief [fn#208] i.e, upper and lower egypt. i came forth [from the dwelling] at the time of evening, and there came forth the seven scorpions which were to accompany me and to strike) for me with [their] stings. two scorpions, tefen and befen, were behind me, two scorpions, mestet and mestetef, were by my side, and three scorpions, petet, thetet, and maatet (or, martet, were for preparing the road for me. i charged them very strictly (or, in a loud voice, and my words penetrated into their ears "have no knowledge of

come nothing short of the hieroglyphical representations themselves, such as "eat not in a chariot "sit not on a measure (choenix "plant not a palm-tree" and "stir not the fire with a sword in the house" and i myself am of the opinion that, when the pythagoreans appropriated the names of several of the gods to particular numbers, as that of apollo to the unit, of artemis to the duad, of athene to the seven, and of poseidon to the first cube, in this they allude to something which the founder of their sect saw in the egyptian temples, or to some ceremonies performed in them, or to some symbols there exhibited. thus, their great king and lord osiris is represented by the hieroglyphics for an eye and a sceptre,[fn#286] the name itself signifying "many-eyed" as we are told by some[fn#287] who

ch osiris was broken refer to the fourteen days in which the moon wanes [fn#342] in egyptian, or# which plutarch seems to connect with set [sec. xliii. the height of the nile in flood at elephantine is twentyeight cubits, at mendes and xois low nile is seven cubits, and at memphis middle nile is fourteen cubits; these figures are to be compared with the twenty-eight days of the moon's revolution, the seven-day phase of the moon, and the fourteen days' moon, or full moon. apis was begotten by a ray of light from the moon, and on the fourteenth day of the month phamenoth[fn#343] osiris entered the moon. osiris is the power of the moon, isis the productive faculty in it [fn#343] marked in the papyrus sallier iv. as a particularly unlucky day [fifth explanation of the story [sec. xliv. the phi

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

eor 5 introduction children of man, do you want to enter into the ineffable bliss of nirvana? do you want to become gods? do you want to convert yourselves into christs? do you want to liberate yourselves from the wheel of birth and death? here we will give you the clue of sexual magic! what else do you want? let s see the existing relationship between the 10 sephiroth with the first tarot cards. the seven planets of the solar system are the seven sephiroth. and the thrice-spiritual sun is the sephirothic crown. these sephiroth live and palpitate within our consciousness and we must learn to manipulate and combine them in the marvelous laboratory of our interior universe. these ten sephiroth are: kether crown; the equilibrated power; the magician, the first arcanum of the tarot whose prime

he sanctuary. then he would teach them the grandiose mysteries of life and death. the volcanic emanations of the earth produced that apparent state of death. some disciples fall in that apparent state of death within the gnostic lumisials. the ceremony of carrying the cross (as was practiced in the gnostic lumisials, serves in order to humbly confirm some internal esoteric initiation. each one of the seven bodies of the human being must be crucified and stigmatized. all students of kabbalah must be familiar with all of the elementals of fire, air, water and earth. the present human being is still not a king or queen of nature, but all are called to be kings or queens and priests and priestesses according to the order of melchizedeck. it is necessary for the student to become familiar with

mistake the mediators with the detrimental mediums of spiritism because people allow themselves to be carried away by false appearances. within the seal of solomon are found represented all the positive and negative forces of universal magnetism. in the works of high magic, it is necessary to trace a circle around us. such a circle must be totally closed, interrupted by the seal of solomon. with the seven metals, gnostic brethren can manufacture medallions and rings with the seal of solomon. the seal of solomon must be utilized in all of the works of invocations, and in the practices with elementals (as we have already taught in arcanum 4 of this series of lectures on kabbalah. the elementals of nature tremble before the seal of the living god. the angel of the sixth seal of the apocalyps

esting on the caduceus of mercury (the central system, spinal column) with the two sympathetic cords known in the east as id and pingal. two influences interact in the generation of the philosophical stone: one of a masculine character and the other of a feminine character. the entire work is performed with the great arcanum. the star of seven points is an inseparable part of the acronym vitriol. the seven serpents of alchemy are related with the seven planets and the seven great cosmic realizations. the acronym vitriol, with its seven letters and its seven words, completely symbolizes the great work. the mysteries of the arcane vii are terribly divine. the acronym vitriol with its seven letters and its seven words symbolizes the entire septenary great work that shines like the sun in the

force of love [and meekness. laziness is transmuted into prudent mercurian diligence. gluttony is transmuted into saturnian temperance. envy is transmuted into jupiterian philanthropy and happiness for others. we can disintegrate our defects and dissolve the psychological "i, only by means of the science of transmutations. work with the arcanum a.z.f. in order to receive the sword. the rulers of the seven planets are: gabriel: moon raphael: mercury uriel: venus michael: sun samael: mars zachariel: jupiter orifiel: saturn the seven notes of the lyre of orpheus correspond to the seven planets. a planetary note corresponds to each one of the seven colors of the solar prism. alchemy is intimately related to music. recordemos que existen siete vicios que debemos transmutar en sabidur a y amor

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presented by the six-pointed star or seal of solomon. the latter symbol is frequently described by the hermetic maxim "as above, so below" or the analogical union of the macrocosm and microcosm. its energy is loving, tolerant, compassionate, and harmonizing. 7. seven is composed of the ternary and the quaternary and is considered sacred in many mystical traditions. it has endless correspondences: the seven planets, the seven notes on the scale, the seven virtues, the seven sacraments, the seven metals, the seven days of the week, etc. it is attributed to the sphere on the tree known as netzach or victory. it's mundane chakra is venus. it is considered reserved, dignified, and affectionate. it is also related to ideas of mastery, conquest, and fulfillment of desire. the magical symbol of th

(some have more than one shape. we have made full-page planetary shapes so the student can photocopy them and use them immediately. other shapes incorporated into the talisman (circles, smaller triangles, squares, etc) should be carefully drawn with a compass and a ruler. planetary relationships very early in its evolution, human consciousness deduced that there was some occult connection between the seven planets, metals, and days of the week. as each of the seven days of the week was considered to be under the auspices of specific spirits in the heavens, so did mother nature generate in her womb a concrete expression of that star in the form of the seven principle metals. talismans were often made of the specific planetary metals and then worn. the science of alchemy seeks to release the

metals and then worn. the science of alchemy seeks to release the spirit from the metal in the process of transmutation. we can visualize the same process happening within us, and much of the psychological interpretation of carl jung uses alchemical allegories. herbs, too, are rooted in ancient lore and are connected to planetary correspondences. many of the charts and correspondence tables have the seven planetary spirits at their center. the ancients did not know about the three other planets which astrologers use today, although the empty space on the tree for the hidden sphere of daath was integrated into qabalah at a very early stage and incorporates much of what we now recognize as plutonian energy. the more ancient understanding of the twelve signs and their planetary rulers is dem

the empty space on the tree for the hidden sphere of daath was integrated into qabalah at a very early stage and incorporates much of what we now recognize as plutonian energy. the more ancient understanding of the twelve signs and their planetary rulers is demonstrated in figure 3-d, which shows how the whole scheme was viewed within the concept of the cycle of the seasons. figure 3-d figure 3-e the seven-pointed star known as the heptagram or septagram is the classic representation of the seven planets of the ancients (see figure 3-e. it represents binah (saturn) and her six children on the tree: starting at the bottom right is saturn (three, then jupiter (four, mars (five, sun (six, venus (seven, mercury (eight, and the moon (nine. this is quite an astonishing little glyph, for it has a

of brother c. r, because he represented true adeptship, or one who had conquered death (which is represented by the letter nun in the death key of the tarot [see figure 9-l, was often referred to as the lamb. in the book of revelations, the lamb with seven horns had the power to open the book of seven seals. there have been many interpretations of this passage, but the most obvious one points to the seven seals that are connected to the seven planetary deities, over which the figure 9-k lamb had authority. the value in latin for lamb (agnus) is fifty-six, and this number is emphasized in rosicrucian teaching as being the length, in feet, of the seven vertical lines bounding to the vault of brother c. r. in the adaptation of the gematria to the german alphabet, often used in rosicrucian te

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

is the celtic new year and is generally considered the more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, t

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

? tree alphabet beith the birch luis the rowan nuinn the ash fearn the alder saille the willow huath the hawthorn duir the oak teinn the holly coll the hazel muinn the vine gort the ivy ngetal the reed ruis the elder tree irish-gaelic poetic wisdom (book of druidry, pg. 89) 254 spirit i am the wind that blows over the sea, i am the wave of the ocean; i am the murmur of the billows; i am the ox of the seven combats; i am the vulture upon the rock; i am a ray of the sun; i am the fairest of plants; i am a wild boar in valour; i am a salmon in the water; i am a lake in the plain; i am the craft of the artificer; i am a word of science; i am the spear-point that gives battle; i am the god that creates in the head of man the fire of thought. the voyage of bran, son of febal (pg. 589 of taliesin

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ern method, the natal epoch of w. r. old. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in both the old and the new testaments we find the day was divided into three day watches and four night watches. the mediaeval occultists divided the days into planetary hours, the scheme of alternation occupied a week, 7 days x 24 hours=168 hours, so 168 hours are divisible among the seven planets, each day beginning with its own different one; see harleian mss. 6483, the herbal, culpepper, 1814. there is also another scheme in which the planets are related to a six-hour period by ragon and blavatsky. 47. among the brahmins there were three great vedas; three margas or ways of salvation; three gunas, the sattva, quiescence; rajas, desire; and tamas, decay. three lokas, swa

t of the father of all things, the monad; even as minerva sprang all armed from the forehead of jove or zeus. hence also obrimopatre, or daughter of a mighty father, and glaucopis, shining-eyed, and ametor and ageleia, she that carries off the spoil. and fortune, for it decides mortal affairs. and voice, for there are seven tones in every voice, human and instrumental. because they are emitted by the seven planets, and form the music of the spheres. also tritogenia, because there are 3 parts of the soul, the intellectual, irascible and epithymetic (desiring) and numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 most perfect virtues are produced. just as of the three intervals, length, breadth, and depth, there are four boundaries in corporeal existence point, lin

lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 most perfect virtues are produced. just as of the three intervals, length, breadth, and depth, there are four boundaries in corporeal existence point, line superficies and solid. it is called agelia, from agelai, herds, as groups of stars were called by the babylonian sages, over which herds ruled 7 angels. also phylakikos, guardian, because the seven planets direct and guide our universe. 73. also aegis, from pallas athene, or minerva, the bearer of the breastplate or aegis, also telesphoros, leading to the end, because the 7th month is prolific; and judgment, because their physicians looked for a crisis on the 7th day in many diseases. among other curious problems and speculations, the pythagorean philosophers attempted to prove tha

perfection of both. ninth 7 years, equity and mildness, passions become gentle. tenth 7 years, the end of desirable life. solon the athenian lawgiver, and hippocrates the physician, also used this 7-year division of life. the pleiades, a group of seven stars in the constellation taurus, was thought of mighty power over earthly destiny; there were seven also of the hyades, daughters of atlas; and the seven stars which guided the sailors. ursa major, in which the hindus locate the sapta rishi, seven sages of primitive wisdom, are a group of the first importance and are easily recognized. duncan, in his astro-theology, gives 7 stages of life with associated planets; thus, infancy, moon, luna; childhood, mercury, knowledge; youth, venus, love; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu

ven evacuations; tears from the eyes, mucous of the nostrils, the saliva, the semen, two excretions and the perspiration. modern medical knowledge corroborates the ancient dictum that in the seventh month the human offspring becomes viable. menstruation tends to occur in series of four times seven days, and is certainly related to luna in an occult manner. the lyre has 7 strings, corresponding to the seven planets. there are 7 vowels in english and some other tongues. theon of smyrna also notices that an average length of an adult s intestine is 28 feet, four times seven, and 28 also is a perfect number. the number 7 is also associated with voice and sound, with clio the muse; with osiris the egyptian deity; with nemesis, fate--adrastia, not to be escaped from; and with mars. numbers--th e

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

superior to these. the third and last order of divine things had a beginning in time and will end, this is the transitory ethereal world. seven spheres extended through these three worlds, viz, one in the empyr um or verging from it, three in the ethereal and three in the elementary worlds, while the whole physical realm synthesized the foregoing. these seven spheres are not to be confounded with the seven material planets; although the latter are the physical representatives of the former, which can only be said to be material in the metaphysical sense of the term. psellus professed to identify them but his suggestions are inadequate as stanley pointed out. but stanley, although disagreeing with psellus, is nevertheless inconsistent upon this point, for although he explains the four world

ne ones, and is said to consent with mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of the mind alone. proclus in theologiam platonis, 321. t. inscrutable. taylor gives "stable" perhaps "incomprehensible" is better. 6. the chald ans call the god dionysos (or bacchus, iao in the phoenician tongue (instead of the intelligible light, and he is also called sabaoth* signifying that he is above the seven poles, that is the demiurgos. lydus, de mensibus, 83. t* this word is chaldee, tzbaut, meaning hosts; but there is also a word shboh, meaning "the seven" 7. containing all things in the one summit of his own hyparxis, he himself subsists wholly beyond. proclus in theologiam platonis, 212. t. hyparxis, is generally deemed to mean "subsistence" hupar is reality as distinct from appearance;

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

rly textual aggregates to espouse the mytho-theosophic orientation that has been identified as the singular contribution of the medieval kabbalistic tradition, the days of creation are interpreted as semiotic ciphers of the divine attributes.167 building on the ancient wisdom transmitted in the bahir, subsequent kabbalists made a point of locating the ontological root of time more specifically in the seven lower attributes, designated sefirot ha-binyan, emanations of the edifice, 168 that is, the potencies that correspond to the temporal dimensions of finitude, which are sometimes called yamim ri shonim, primordial days (deut 4:32),169 linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 83 yemot olam, days of old (ibid. 32:7),170 or, in the language of the zoharic kabbalists based on these earlier form

t, even though it obviously reflects a different hermeneutical perspective: zeit ist innerer raum raum ist a ere zeit, time is inner space space is external 86 chapter two time. 192 the dimensionality of each instant/point charted in the timespace of the sefirotic graph can be demarcated as the duration of a blink or the extension of a swerve. temporal ontology/eventful grammar the correlation of the seven days of creation with the seven lower sefirot, widely attested in kabbalistic literature, seems to suggest that the upper three sefirot transcend temporal classification altogether. todros abulafia, a castilian kabbalist active in the second half of the thirteenth century (possibly a member of the zoharic circle, perhaps even the historical model for the fictional master of the imaginary

em correspond to the days of creation in which all supernal things emerged from potentiality to actuality and corresponding to them in the lower things, and the seventh is the sabbath to the lord (exod 20:10) for in it he rested from all his labor (gen 2:3. 194 what inspired this comment is the obvious discrepancy between two symbolic images applied to the divine emanations: the biblical motif of the seven days of creation, on the one hand, and the rabbinic doctrine of the ten sayings by which the world was created, on the other. how can the emanations be called both days and sayings when there are seven of the former and ten of the latter? to maintain the symmetry of the two symbolic grids, not to mention avoiding a division within the godhead, a single rubric is needed that combines the

o this. and the moment [et] refers to the assembly of israel [kenesset yisra el, and desire [hefes] refers to the sefirot above her, that is, an overflow comes to the assembly of israel from the sefirot that are above her. thus there are days and gradations designated for this matter and others for other matters. and this is [the import of] under heaven [tahat ha-shamayim (eccles 3:1, that is, in the seven emanations of the edifice [sefirot ha-binyan] that are beneath the supernal heavens, which are the three upper ones, for there everything is unified and there is no differentiation of gradations [perishu de-darggin].196 karo presents the emanative overflow from above to below as a temporal process, linking it specifically to the verse la-kol zeman we-et le-khol hefes tahat hashamayim, th

f vilna briefly alluded to above.197 this is the principle of time, which is divided into three stages, past, future, and present, and there are three books by means of which the world was created, which are the three names of yhwh, for each book [sefer] is a name [shem. and this is the secret of the threefold torah. it says, days were formed (ps 139:16, the 88 chapter two secret of created time, the seven days of creation, wherein everything is contained [ha-kol bi-khelal. and they are dependent on the six primordial ones. these are alluded to in the seven words of the verse in the beginning etc (gen 1:1, and from there volition is suspended. and to him one belongs (ibid),198 the secret of the first three aspects of the head-that-is-not-known, for there he is above time [le-ma alah me-ha

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

m some sort of a magical system from them. after ashmole's death, most of his papers lay for years in a wooden chest before they were literally unearthed and sent to the british museum. one set, found among the manuscripts of dr. thomas rudd (1583-1656, was apparently acquired from dee' s son. although incomplete, the rudd papers fill some of the gaps left in the original dee manuscripts, notably the seven seals on the holy table (see british library: harley 6482; also see garstin's introduction to the rosie crucian secrets, which contains information on rudd. the enochian magical system of john dee can be classified into the following major categories: 1. sigillum dei aemeth. the holy seal. this is the complex magical seal shown in figure 2 and described in chapter 1. 2. tabula sancta. th

e the first capital letter at the top of the seal, which is z. go to the first square in the next section, which produces a. the same square in the following five sections produces the name zaphkie (the last square with a cross in it then doubles as a l. the next capital letter is r. go to the next six corresponding squares and the name raphael is produced, etc. the standard method used to derive the seven angelic names places each section in the following manner: 12 now, by way of column, read down each name, the capital letter designating the start of every name. this produces the following: the differences between the two systems produces a differ ent order of the angels. however, for our purposes the abovc method is as good as any, and fits neatly into the order of the sephiroth, where

the pentacle: and the rest of each name following circularly from the capital letter, but in the five exterior obtuse angles of the pentacle. set z of zedekiel within the angle which standeth up towards the beginning of the greatest circle: and so proceed towards the right hand. in the middle now of the pentacle, make a cross like a crucifix and write the last of those seven names, levanael thus" the seven names are those of the planets, given earlier. th cross of levanael is shown in figure 15. on the back of the seal i the sigil shown in figure 16. in the golden dawn, the word agla describes the nort and the element of earth. agla is notariqon for "thou ai mighty forever, 0 lord" agla is an angel in its own right and i 17 the rites of exorcism; the vibration of it is used for the exorcis

l that is destructive to it and keep all the balance and harmony. let this sphere be pure and holy so that the powers of the holy seal of truth may flow in peace and harmony within this humble sphere" take up the lotus wand, holding it by the white band. ci] cumambulate deosil to the east. stand between the pillars. poir the rose of the lotus wand towards the seal and say "seven rest in seven and the seven live by seven. the seven govern seven all government is. i now invoke ye, ye holy lords of the planets whose sigils are on the seal of truth" 25 draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of the moon over the seal and say "now i invite ye noble one, galas (trace sigil) to send forth your light through the holy seal of truth" draw the invoking unicursal hexagram of saturn over the seal and say

hey bring in and depose kings and all governments upon the earth and they vary the nature of things with the variation of every movement. unto them, the providence of the eternal judgement is already opened. they are governed by the 12 angels of the 12 tribes, which are, in turn, governed by the 7 that stand before the presence of god (dee mss) from this we have a direct line of authority back to the seven archangels of the heptagon in the holy seal the sigillum dei aemeth as follows: zadkiel, cumael, raphael, hainiel, michael, and gabriel. these archangels are from the world of briah, the angels from the world of yetzirah with the 30 aethyrs, and their governors from assiah. these assignations will be discussed in depth later. from the mathers lecture on the "zodiac signs and the twelve t

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

aring the esoteric historical account given in the fama with that contained in our 5=6 ritual, several important divergencies and discrepancies become apparent. the fama was written for the public, and is therefore not absolutely correct. instances of the "blinds" introduced into the fama occur where, in the description of the vault, it is stated "this is all dear and bright, as also the seventh (the seven sides the 7th was not different) side and the two heptagons "and again, later on 'every side or wall is parted into ten squares, every one with their several figures and sentences"'every side or wall" is moreover represented as having a door for a chest wherein many things and books lay, including the vocabularium of paracelsus who lived from 1493 to 1541, or during the 120 years of clos

oking at the matter at once makes a reconciliation between the account in the gospel of the christ as a calm, peaceful, and pitiful man, and the representation in the apocalypse of a tremendous and flaming god. a glance at the top half of the pastos shows the descent of a flaming sword which casts out evil, the whole surrounding being with brilliance "and he had in his right hand seven stars. and the seven stars represent the (arch)angels of the seven churches" or abodes in assiah, at his feet. the life of nations is like the life of men: they are born, become intellectual, direct that intellect to black ends, and perish. but every now and then, at the end of certain periods, there are greater crises in the world's history than at other periods. at such times it becomes necessary that sons

im in the air" postulant gives the sign of osiris slain. 2nd adept removs the black cowl. shading before the postulant ch. and 2nd ad. rise and turn towards him. clt. miss wand and ankh on high. ch.ad "oh ye divine ones who are in the presence of the supreme, grant me your arms, for i am he who shall come into being among you" 3rd ad "who then is this" 2nd ad. am the divine soul which dwelleth in the seven spheres" 3rd ad "who then is this" 2nd ad "i am he who is not driven back among the gods' 3rd ad "who then is this" 2nd ad "i am yesterday; i know tomorrow" ch.ad "yesterday is osiris and tomorrow is ra; i am the only one, the ruler of that which is made" 3rd ad "who then is this" 2nd ad "i am the phoenix, the living present, arising from the ashes of the dead past; i am the keeper of th

through sacrifice "the two pairs of brown candles are the four somatic divisions, while the two sets of four are the four zoa and the four archangels of revelation which are their counterparts in the yetziratic and briatic worlds, as green is the ethereal counterpart of earth "the two-three symbolize the six divisions of ruach in the qabbalistic divisions of the soul, the logos or microprosopus "the seven are the seven chakras, the seven steps to the throne. and finally, the three single lights are the three divisions of the higher soul or spirit: neschamah, chiah, and yeschidah" ch.ad "i am the great one, son of the great one; i am fire, the son of fire; i have knit myself together; i have made myself whole and complete; i have renewed my youth; i am osiris, the lord of eternity. thirty

ur red candles are then put out. these show that the fiery emotion has now been left behind "thou hast died unto the passions" the four green candles are extinguished. here, strength and weakness are left behind "thou art the one who maketh strength which protect us" the red light in the center is extinguished. here, the seed of desire is left behind "for thou hast shed the blood of they desires" the seven violet candles are put out. all sin is transgressed here, so that a path be cleared to the heavens so one may obtain the unobtainable "0 grant me a path where i may pass in peace" the six yellow candles are put out. here a sign or some type of contact is asked for "send word and the earth is flooded with silence at thy renunciation" the four green candles are put out. here the petition i

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