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BOOK OF BARUCH

4 and in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at babylon by the river sud. 5 whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the lord. 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man's power: 7 and they sent it to jerusalem unto joachim the high priest, the son of chelcias, son of salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at jerusalem, 8 at the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of juda, the tenth day of the month sivan, namely, silver vessels, which sedecias the son of josias king of jada had made, 9 after that nabucho

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intervention of the judge (ra. 201. again, when the chvination was by the neighing of the white steeds maintained by the state, priests accompanied the sacred car, and accredited the transaction. the^^ncs^ alone may touch the car of nerthus, by him her approaching presence is perceived, he attends her full of reverence, and lead? teiests. 91 lier back at last to her sanctuary, cap. 40. segimund, the son of seo-estes whom tae. ann. 1, 57 calls sacerdos, had been not a german but a eoman priest (apud aram ubiorum, and after tearing up the alien chaplet (vittas ruperat, had fled to his home. tkese few incidental notices of priests give us anything but a complete view of their functions (see suppl. on them doubtless devolved also the performance of public prayers, the slaying of victims, the

meanwhile, readers may be glad to see for themselves the substance of these pedigrees, which i have extracted from the appendix, and placed at the end of this chapter. tiiana. 164 wodan. ciilar, there appear as sons, balder and that saxnot who in the 8th century was not yet rooted out of n.w. germany; and in the line of his progenitors, hercmod and gedt, the latter expressly pronounced a god, or the son of a god, in these legends, wliile wodan himself is regarded more as the head of all noble races. but we easily come to see, that from a higher point of view both geat and wodan merge into one being, as in fact osinn is called 'alda gautr' ssem. 93^ 95; conf. infra goz, koz. in these genealogies, which in more than one direction are visibly interwoven with the oldest epic poetry of our nat

or, the initial in jus, jovis [pronounce j as y] seems to be a mere softening of the fuller dj in djus, djovis, wliich has preserved itself in dijovis, just as zeu9 presupposes an older jey? which was actually preserved in the ^olic dialect. these greek and latin words likewise contain the idea of the heavenly god, i.e, a personification of the sky. dium, divum is the vault of heaven, and zeus is the son of heaven, ovpavov vio, ovpduio, zev; awepi vaiwv (see suppl. but apart from 'dyaus, zeus and jupiter' the three common nouns devas (sansk, 6e6divinity; they are related to the first three, yet distinct from them. the lat, deus might seem to come nearest to our tins, zio; but its u, like the o in 6e6, belongs to the flexion, not to the root, and

ification era (ch. xvi, xxix) is to be thought of, but solely a god of the week. it is worth noticing, that ertac and erdag occur as men's names; also, that the taxandrian eersel was but a little way off the tisberg or fanmars in hainault (see suppl. xow comes something far more important. as zio is identical with zeus as director of wars, we see at a glance that eor, er, ear, is one with"'apr)zeus; and as the germans had given the rank of zeus to their wuotan, tyr and consequently eor appears as the son of the highest god. have we any means now left of getting at the sense of this obscure root eor? the description of the rune in the as. poem gives only a slight hint, it runs thus: ear bis egle eorla gehwilcum]?onne feestlice flsesc onginnes hrsew colian, hrusan ceosan blac t

and("tcj)p(cv the insensate, 6y nvriva oi'sf depia-ra, ii. 5, 761. but naiverai is said of other gods too, particularly zeus (8 .300) and dionysos or bacchus (6, l;-i2^ one might think of fro, freyr (ch. x, but of course glittering swords were attributed to more than one god; thus poseidon (ke])tune) wields a sfivov aop, ii. 14, 38j, and apollo is called xpvo-zeus (see suppl. but further, as the saxons were so called, either because they wielded the sword of stone (saxum, or placed this god at the head of their race, so i think the chcruscans of tacitus, a people synonymous, nay identical with them, were named after chcru, hcru= eor, from whom

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

eiveth the virtue of the other three is euphrates which floweth down upon malkuth, the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness e

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oked serpent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, tetragrammaton elohim placed the letters of the name and the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence was it necessary that the second adam should come to restore all things and that the first adam had been extended on the cross of the celestial rivers, so the son should be crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers in daath. yet to do this he must descend unto the lowest first even unto malkuth and be born of her. the grade of philosophus is referred unto the sephira netzach and the 27th, 28th, and 29th paths are bound thereto. the sign of the grade is given by raising the arms above the head making with the thumbs and fingers a triangle apex up

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals

shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was th

vegetables of the earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation. mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no dominion over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast

. the name alban arthuran means 'light of arthur, named after king arthur who in legend bore the title sun king. his round table represented the great solar wheel of the year. the common theme of the festival that spans many ages and cultures is that the mother goddess, under one of her many names, gives birth to the sun itself, the sun god. it is the same theme as the virgin mary giving birth to the son of god in a cave or stable at the darkest hour of the year. the virgin birth features in several cultures and traditionally a candle (or other flame) is left burning all night on this longest of nights, to persuade the newborn sun to rise again on christmas eve to light mary on her way. the feasting of christmas was another magical gesture to ensure there would be food again in the spring

ABRAMELIN1

do, to the glory and honour of his divine majesty who liveth and reigneth world without end. amen. lord, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven make clean our hearts within us, and take not thy holy spirit from us. o lord, by thy name we have called them, suffer them to administer unto us. introduction xxiii and that all things may work together for thy honour and glory, to whom with thee, the son and blessed spirit, be ascribed all might, majesty, and dominion, world without end. amen. the invocation being made, the good angels will appear unto you which you desire, which you shall entertain with a chaste communication, and licence them to depart. now the lamen which is used to invoke any good spirit must be made after the following manner: either in metal conformable or in new wax

son, thou wilt therein find certain examples and other matters1 which will be none the less useful and profitable unto thee than the precepts and dogmas which i shall give thee in the second and third books. wherefore thou shalt not neglect the study of this first book, which shall serve thee for an introduction2 unto the veritable and sacred magic, and unto the practice of that which i, abraham, the son of simon, have learned, in part from my father, and in part also from other wise and faithful men, and which i have found true and real, having submitted it unto proof and experiment. and having written this with mine own hand, i have placed it within this casket, and locked it up, as a most precious treasure; in order that when thou hast arrived at a proper age thou mayest be able to admi

ADDTLS

ne of each of these three great crosses is named, linea spiritus sancti. the perpendicular is called linea dei, the line of god the father and son, the patris filiique, macroprosopus and microprosopus combined. for these 4 vertical lines resemble 4 mighty pillars each divided into twain by a light line shewing this forth; the father himself, in the absence of the line. and in its presence shewing the son. as a foresaid the central points of these 4 great crosses do shew in the celestial heavens, and do correspond unto the 4 tiphareth points referred to in the book of the astronomic view of the tarot. naturally then, the linea spiritus sancti coincides with the zodiacal belt wherein is the path of the a who is the administrant of the m of life, and the lord of the d of the world. the four l

are to understand that there are four angel-overseers..each one of these angels is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the lord and they are of him. they are as chief watchmen 31 and overseers, set over several and respective parts of the world, viz: east, west, north, south, as under the authority of whom are confirmed in the beginning of the world. to whom belong four characters, being tokens of the son of god, by whom all things are made in the creation, and are the natural marks of his holiness. now thou shalt observe that in the book of the concourse of the forces, a sign is annexed unto each of the four tablets of the elements. that is, unto the tablet of a, a symbol of a t having four y s above it. the sigils of the angelic tablets diagram u unto the tablet of c a cross potent, havin

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

wise man is but little in his own eyes, however great his attainments may appear to the ignorant, and that even the highest intellectual achievements are but as nothing in the sight of the lord of the universe, for he looketh at the heart. it is written 'when i consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visiteth him' and couldst thou even attain unto the height of a god upon this earth, how small and insignificant yet wouldst thou be in the presence of god the vast one" second "rise, then, o aspirant of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold. rise, glorified by suffering. rise, purified by humility (aspirant rises "despise not sadness, and hate not suffering, for they are

our fraters also erected a building to serve for the temple and headquarters of their order, and called it the collegium ad spiritum sanctum, or the college of the holy spirit. this being now finished, and the work of establishing the order extremely heavy, and because they devoted much time to the healing of those sick and possessed, who resorted to them, they initiated four others, fraters r.c (the son of the deceased father's brother of c.r.c) c.b, a skillful artist, g.c, and p.d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans except i.a, and now eight in number. their agreement was: 1) that none of them should profess any other thing, than but to cure the sick, and that freely. 2) that they should not be constrained to wear any distinctive dress, but therein follow the custom of the cou

eeleth before thee to penetrate thus far into the sanctuary of thy mysteries. not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon his head, and teach him the value of self-sacrifice, so that he shrink not in the hour of trial, but that thus his name may be written on high, and that his genius may stand in the presence of the holy ones, in that hour, when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits and his name in the presence of the ancient of days "it is written 'if any man will come after me, let him take up his cross, and deny himself, and follow me (third adept hands chain to aspirant, and takes wand and cross from) second "take therefore this chain, o aspirant, and place it about thy neck and say 'i accept the bonds of suffering and

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

. the word usually pronounced jehovah is called the ineffable name; it is alleged that when pronounced accurately its vibrations would destroy the universe; and this is indeed quite true, when we take the deeper interpretation. tetragrammaton is so called from the four letters in the word: yod, he, vau, and he. this is compared with the relations of a family- yod, the father, he, the mother; vau, the son; and the final he, the daughter (in writing she is sometimes distinguished from her mother by inserting a small point in the letter) this is also a reference to the elements, fire, water, air, earth. i may go further, and say that all possible existing things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. but these four letters, though

4. i think it is very important, since we are studying yoga from a strictly scientific point of view, to emphasise the exactness of the analogy that exists between the yogic and the sexual process. if you look at the tree of life, you see that the number one at the top divides itself into numbers two and three, the equal and opposite father and mother, and their union results in the complexity of the son, the vau group, while the whole figure recovers its simplicity in the single sephira of he' final, of the daughter. it is exactly the same in biology. the spermatozoon and the ovum are biologically the separation of an unmanifested single cell, which is in its function simple, though it contains in itself, in a latent form, all the possibilitiies of the original single cell. their union re

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

micon is scheduled for early delivery in january-february 1980, making it possibly the first occult book of the eighties. a herald of doom? or a harbinger of fate? since the publication of this book in december, 1977, the ancient forces of erstwhile victory have been banging and clamouring at the gates. december 1977 was the middle of the killing spree of the calibre killer, known to the press as the son of sam, who was motivated- according to recent reports- by membership in a satanic cult in yonkers. several months after the capture of david berkowitz in 1978, nearly one thousand people killed themselves in guyana at the orders of a crazed religious leader. several months after that, the leader of a mystical islamic sect seized power in iran and- at the time of writing- is calling for a

micon is scheduled for early delivery in january-february 1980, making it possibly the first occult book of the eighties. a herald of doom? or a harbinger of fate? since the publication of this book in december, 1977, the ancient forces of erstwhile victory have been banging and clamouring at the gates. december 1977 was the middle of the killing spree of the calibre killer, known to the press as the son of sam, who was motivated- according to recent reports- by membership in a satanic cult in yonkers. several months after the capture of david berkowitz in 1978, nearly one thousand people killed themselves in guyana at the orders of a crazed religious leader. several months after that, the leader of a mystical islamic sect seized power in iran and- at the time of writing- is calling for a

the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son the son of magick told him the secret name the secret number the secret shape whereby he might do battle with the ancient horde and be victorious. marduk kurios! brightest star among the stars strongest god among the gods son of magick and the sword child of wisdom and the word knower of the secret name knower of the secret number knower of the secret shape he armed himself with the disc of power

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ely, with the hawk previously spoken of. it is perhaps the sun, the exoteric object of worship book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 74 of all sensible cults; it is not to be confused with other objects of the mystic aviary, such as the swan, phoenix, pelican, dove and so on. note (17) his initials i.b.m. are the initials of the three pillars of the temple, and add to 52, 13x4, bn, the son [77] 34 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-delta the smoking dog(18) each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. love and death are the greyhounds that course him. god bred the hounds and taketh his pleasure in the sport. this is the comedy of pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. this is the tragedy of man when facing love and death he turns to

ld my peace. o generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the wrath that is fallen upon you? o babblers, prattlers, talkers, loquacious ones, tatlers, chewers of the red rag that inflameth apis the redeemer to fury, learn first what is work! and the great work is not so far beyond! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 110 [114] commentary( nu-beta) 52 is bn, the number of the son, osiris-apis, the redeemer, with whom the master (fra. p) identifies himself. he permits himself for a moment the pleasure of feeling his wounds; and, turning upon his generation, gores it with his horns. the fourscore-and-eleven books do not, we think, refer to the ninety-one chapters of this little masterpiece, or even to the numerous volumes he has penned, but rather to the fact that 91

on this condenses the original steam. around this flows the air, created by earth and water through the action of vegetation. such is the globe; but all this is a mere strain in the aethyr, alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho. here is a new pentagrammaton, presumably suitable for another analysis of the elements; but after a different manner. alpha( alpha) is air; rho( rho) the sun; these are the spirit and the son of christian theology. in the midst is the father, expressed as father-and-mother. i-h (yod and he, eta( eta) being used to express "the mother" instead of epsilon( epsilon, to show that she has been impregnated by the spirit; it is the rough breathing and not the soft. the centre of all is theta( theta, which was originally written as a point in a circle( sun, the sublime hieroglyph of th

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

ors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. iii,72: i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia-but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains. iii,73: paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! iii,74: there is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. iii,75: the ending of the words is the word abrahadabra. the book of the law is written and concealed. aum. t concerning death by aleister crowley this issue published for hymenaeus alpha october 18, 14 e.n (1918 e.v) july 12, 81 e.n (1985 e.v) ordo templi orientis p.o box 2303 berkeley, ca 94702 (c) copyright o.t.o. july 14, 1985 e.v. sun in cancer moon in gemini an 81 e.n .pa [from the

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

n of tarot trumps. 11 the spirit of aiqhr. a bearded ancient seen in profile* 12 the magus of power. a fair youth with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the

, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser countenance ]lm king. ypna ryuc seir anpin \da adam. b the son. cya the man \wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of might

u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (acc

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

we have hitherto done. the formation of the "yod" is the formulation of the first creative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten, and unto whom it is said "thou has formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. the adding of the "he" to the "yod" is the marriage of that father to the great co-equal mother, who is a reflection of nuit as he is of hadit. their union brings forth the son "vau" who is the heir. finally the daughter "he" is produced. she is both the twin sister and the daughter of "vau<mystery herein, far deeper, for initiates> his mission is to redeem her by making her his bride; the result of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the 22 all-father. in this com

er absurd convention, neuter objects are treated as feminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. but the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by spirit. thus we find the feminine ama, becoming aima<fertility, of bn, the son, through the operation of the phallic yod, while alim, the congress of dead elements, only fructifies by the brooding of spirit. this being so, how can we describe alim as containing a magical formula? inquiry discloses the fact that this formula is of a very special kind. the word adds up to 81, which is a number of the moon. it is thus the formula of witchcraft, which is under hecate<
analyse this new word in detail and demonstrate that it is a proper hieroglyph of the ritual of self-initiation in this aeon of horus. for the correspondence in the following note, see liber 777. the principal points are these: 31: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of :of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the hiero: v :vau (a nail: 6 :taurus (an :the sun. the son in tephant (osi: english v: earthy sign: tragrammaton (see cap. ris throned: w, or vo: ruled by: iii. the pentagram& crowned: wel between: venus; the: which shows spirit with wand: o and u: moon exalt: master& reconciler of: ma'ajab and: ed therein: the four elements: ma'aruf: but male: four wor: liberty,i.e.:the hexagram which unshippers; the: free will: god and man. the consfour ele: sci

kings; these must be slain and raised from the dead in one way or another<legends of mankind reflect the true nature of the species "aeon of horus" two sexes in one person. digamma iota alpha omicron digamma: 93, the full formula, recognizing the sun as the son (star, as the pre-existent manifested unit from which all springs and to which all returns. the great work is to make the initial digamma digamma of assiah (the world of material illusion) into the final digamma iota digamma of atziluth< the world of pure reality. spelling the name in full, digamma digamma+ iota digamma delta+ alpha lambda pi+ omicron iota nu+

o the ancient one, chaos<<chaos is a general name for the totality of the units of existence; it is thus a name feminine in form. each unit of chaos is itself all-father> the all- father, to revive him, and of how his divine essence fills the daughter (the soul of man) and places her upon the throne of the mother, fulfilling the economy of the universe, and thus ultimately rewarding the magician (the son) ten thousandfold, it would be still more improper to speak in this place. so holy a mystery is the arcanum of the masters of the temple, that it is here hinted at in order to blind the presumptuous who may, unworthy, seek to lift the veil, and at the same time to lighten the darkness of such as may be requiring only one ray of the sun in order to spring into life and light. ii abrahadabra

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

d school tie, or that finishing school in brussels, and the ticket to the royal enclosure at ascot? i do not suppose for a moment that you meant it that way: but it's there. and so- anecdote of lao-tze. the old one was surrounded as usual by a galaxy of adoring disciples, and they were trying to get him to show them where the tao was to be found. it was in the sun and moon, he admitted; it was in the son of heaven and in the superior man (not george nathaniel curzon, however. it was in the blossoms of springtide, and in the chilling winds that swept over from siberia, and in the wild geese that it bore southward when their instinct bade them. in short, the catalogue began to look is if it were going to extend indefinitely; and an impatient disciple, pointing to certain traces left by a mul

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ive. the olive is, traditionally, the gift of minerva, the wisdom of god, the logos. in this are dissolved three other oils; oil of myrrh, oil of cinnamon, oil of galangal. the myrrh is attributed to binah, the great mother, who is both the understanding of the magician and that sorrow and compassion which results from the contemplation of the universe. the cinnamon represents tiphereth, the sun- the son, in whom glory and suffering are identical. the galangal represents both kether and malkuth, the first and the last, the one and the many, since in this oil they are one. these oils taken together represent therefore the whole tree of life. the ten sephiroth are blended into the perfect gold. this oil cannot be prepared from crude myrrh, cinnamon, and galangal. the attempt to do so only gi

e paths from the kingdom to the crown. this magical will is the wand in your hand by which the great work is accomplished, by which the daughter is not merely set upon the throne of the mother, but assumed into the highest<magick, the absolute is called the crown, god is called the father, the pure soul is called the mother, the holy guardian angel is called the son, and the natural soul is called the daughter. the son purifies the daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the mother, the uniting of whom with the father absorbs all into the crown. see liber cdxviii> the magick wand is thus the principal weapon of the magus; and the "name" of that wand is the magical oath. the will being twofold is in chokmah, who is the logos, the word; hence some hav

ld mother hubbard went to her cupboard to get her poor dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none. who is this ancient and venerable mother of whom it is spoken? verily she is none other than binah, as is evident in the use of the holy letter h with which her name begins. nor is she the sterile mother ama-but the fertile aima; for within her she bears vau, the son, for the second letter of her name, and r, the penultimate, is the sun, tiphareth, the son. the other three letters of her name, b, a, and d, are the three paths which join the three supernals. to what cupboard did she go? even to the most secret caverns of the universe. and who is this dog? is it not the name of god spelt qabalistically backwards? and what is this bone? the bone is the wa

d, and rejoices that he is so well carrying out the will of the father. let us pass from this most blessed subject to yet another. tom, tom, the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run. the pig was eat, and tom was beat, and tom went roaring down the street. this is one of the more exoteric of these rimes. in fact, it is not much better than a sun-myth. tom is toum, the god of the sunset (called the son of apollo, the piper, the maker of music. the only difficulty in the poem concerns the pig; for anyone who has watched an angry sunset in the tropics upon the sea, will recognize how incomparable a description of that sunset is given in that wonderful last line. some have thought that the pig refers to the evening sacrifice, others that she is hathor, the lady of the west, in her more sens

ll become frater p. to comment upon the third line-though it may be remarked that even among the catholics the wafer has always been marked with a phallus or cross. chapter viii the sword "the word of the lord is quick and powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword" as the wand is chokmah, the will "the father" and the cup the understanding "the mother" binah; so the magick sword is the reason "the son" the six sephiroth of the ruach, and we shall see that the pantacle corresponds to malkuth "the daughter" the magick sword is the analytical faculty; directed against any demon it attacks his complexity. only the simple can withstand the sword. as we are below the abyss, this weapon is then entirely destructive: it divides satan against satan. it is only in the lower forms of magick, the p

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umultuously; to harass, perturb mwh failure; please, i pray thee; raw; now; thebes (na 3:8; for gna h, see dr. dee fs mysteriorum liber primus )n 52 father and mother )m)w )b) supernal mother, a title of binah (cf. 42 )my) elihu (eli hua, ghe is my god h, who is the holy guardian angel of job in the allegory) whyl) please, i beseech you )n) beast, cattle, brute animal hmhb from all, among all lkb the son: assiah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) nb meditation (cf. 827; imagination; sin hmz a desirable one; to desire dmx brother-in-law mby hwhy in assiah hh ww hh dwy a dog blk 53 a stone, rock nb) elihu (see 52 )whyl) garden ng to defend, hide; a wall; the sun; fury hmx the spleen lwx+ a lover hbh)m 54 a basin, bowl, vessel (ex. 24:6) ng) rest ymd to judge, rule nd pertaining to summer

95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great stone hldg nb) the waters mymh multitude, abundance nmh journey klhm queen hklm selah, glift up! h (ps. 32:5, 7, etc) hls 96 a name of god ynd) l (chaldee form of myhl) nyhl) by day mmwy occupation [mundane] work (cf. 415& 420) hk)lm the secret [counsel] of the lord (ps. 25:14; see 353) hwhy dws statute wc 97 changeless, constant; the god amon (na. 3:8) nwm) the son of man md) nb archangel of netzach l)yn)h the appointed time nmz to seize suddenly p+x a hand-breadth, palm (i kings 7:26. ex. 25:25) xp+ a brick, tile hnybl a building; an architect hnbm the good waters of el: quicksilver (i.r.q. 995; cf. 64& 100) b+h l) ym yellow bhc 98 a name of god myhl )wh temporary dwelling, camp (ex. 33:11 )nmz image; hid, concealed (pertains to sol and the lingam-y

. 84) qkyg vine npg the salt sea xlmh my plague pgn 134 burning qld 135 a destitute female hyn( the congregation (see 161) lhq roast, parch; burn; to be lightly esteemed, dishonoured hlq 136 the avenging angel l)wgh k)lm fines, penalties nwmm a voice lwq 137 a wheel; one of the auphanim npw) the belly, gullet )kmw+s) a pillar, monument (gn. 28:22) hbcm a receiving, tradition; the qabalah hlbq 138 the son of god myhl) nb to smoothe, divide qlx to leaven, ferment cmx to pollute pnx he shall smite cxm forehead xcm 140 melakim, kings: the angelic choir of tiphareth myklm rottenness qm above l(m flower; hawk cn extremity sp face ynp threshold, entrance ps thorn nc 141 robust; oaken cym) gathered, collected ps) precept, commandment hwcm faithful, loyal, steady nm)n first )mq angels, messengers m

cks; noise t# melakim, kings: the angelic choir of tiphareth *myklm softness *kr 701 woman, wife (deut. 22:30) t) and lo! three men (gn. 18:2. equal to: l)prw l)yrbg l)kym wl, gthese be michael, gabriel and raphael h) h#l# hnhw a falling of the face (i.e. in displeasure) myp) tlypn where; pain; heliopolis (cf. 57 *n) angels, messengers *myk)lm long *kr) 702 sabbath: day of rest tb# carbuncle tqrb the son: assiah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39 *nb a stranger; balaam *m(lb delights (fire& water *mydmxm to kneel; bless; knee, lap *krb to be mixed, mingled *kbr 703 a border, rim; a band, fillet trgsm secret foundations twdwsy yzr a stone, rock *nb) garden *ng running waters (ct. 4:15 *mylzwn 704 a basin, bowl, vessel (ex. 24:6 *ng) to judge, rule *nd before; the east; ancient things *md

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e; thus each gaineth its advantage. but the great state must keep silence. 67 chapter lxii the workings of the tao. 1. the tao is the most exalted of all things. it is the ornament of the good, and the protection and purification of the evil((cf 'soul of goodness in things evil) 2. its words are the fountain of honour, and its deeds the engine of achievement. it is present even in evil. 3. though the son of heaven were enthroned with his three dukes appointed to serve him, and he were offered a round symbol- of-rank as great as might fill the hands, with a team of horses to follow, this gift were not to be matched against the tao, which might be offered by the humblest of men. 4. why did they of old time set such store by the tao? because he that sought it might find it, and because it was

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he 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, the "pure fool" of act i of "parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually w

n? perhaps because he was not content with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. by the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god-man, etc) whose value in greek should be a=1, i=10, f=6, a=1, s=200, s=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see "liber 418) protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. al i,8 "the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs" the old comment 8. here beings the text. khabs is the secret light or l.v.x; the khu is the magical entity of a man. i find later (sun in virgo, an vii) that khabs means star. in which chas

for if he fail to formulate one facet of himself, by lack thereof will he know himself falsely. there is of course no ultimate difference between the artist as here delineated and him who follows the "way of the tao, though the latter finds perfection in his existing relation with his environment, and the former creates a private perfection of a peculiar and secondary character. we might call one the son, the other the daughter, of the absolute. but the artist, though his work, the images of himself in the form that he loves, is less perfect than the work of his father, since he can but express one particular point of view and that by means of one type of technique, is not to be thought useless on that account, any more than an atlas is useless because it presents by means of certain crude

previous notes. al iii,73 "paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold" the old comment 73 (done. see comment on iii.47. the new comment this might have been done, of course, in several ways. i chose that which seemed most practical. so far i have noticed nothing remarkable. al iii,74 "there is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son" the old comment 74. perhaps refers to the addition of the name to 418. but khephra is the sun at midnight in the north. now in the north is taurus, the bull, apis the redeemer, the son. the new comment i suspect some deeper and more startling arcanum than the old comment indicates; but i have not yet discovered it. an xvi, sol in capricorn. al iii,75 "the ending of the words is the word a

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eed brooding and breeding, source and seed of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to

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ing subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law, accept no messenger of god, banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of st. john (1 john iv. 1, try the spirits, whether they be of god, no mistake when st. paul claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, its phantoms are ea

ens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim: the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbut djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo: the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo: ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbut uw

200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c= 300, y= 10, and t

en the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c= 300, y= 10, and t= 400: total= 3910 years, being the time in round numbers.9 pico della mirandola10 gives the following working out of tycarb: by joining the third letter, a, to the first, b, ba, ab, father is obtained. if to the first letter, b, doubled, the second letter, r, be added, it makes rbb, be-bar, in or through the son. if all the letters be read except the first, it makes tycar, rashith, the beginning. if with the fourth letter, c, the first b and the last t be counted, it makes tbc, sehebeth, the end or rest. if the first three letters be taken, they make arb, bera, created. if, omitting the first, the three following be taken, they make car, rash, head. if, omitting the two first, the next two be take

ale and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of t

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, our sophic pilaster! further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with the voice of a dog. then came a voice: thirteen1 are they, who are one. once is a oneness: twice is the name: thrice let us say not: by four is the son: by five is the sword: by six is the holy oil of the most excellent beard, and the leaves of the book are by six: by seven is that great amen. then our father saw one hundred and four horses that drove an ivory car over a sea of pearl, and they received him therein and bade him be comforted. with that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desire. in the morning therefore he arose and

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s will begin to play; and, in a few years' time, with a very little teaching and practice, that child will be able to execute the most difficult pieces- pieces of music which baffle any but the most expert players. there have been many such children whose powers have been exhibited over the length and breadth of europe. there was smeaton, again, one of our greatest engineers. when a child (he was the son of uneducated peasant people) he would build baby bridges over the streams in his country- untaught- and his bridges would bear men and cattle. there was a child, some ten years ago, in japan, who, when a baby, saw one day the ink and brush with which the chinese and japanese write, and, crawling with pleasure, reached out his chubby hand for them, and began to write. by the time he was fi

vil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. 69 some great mystics have laid down the law "accept no messenger of god" banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father does send messengers, as we learn in st mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of "st john (1 john iv. 1 "try the spirits, whether they be of god" no mistake when "st paul" claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, its phantoms are e

"the kabbalah. 2 weh note: better: his purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh note: this observation led mathers to miss-identify a picture of moses as metatron in his edition (not translation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. the first is, bn rvch ab shlvshthm ichd thmim, ben, ruach, ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo "the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity" the third is bkvri rashvni ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus" the fourth is, bbva rbn ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, beboa rabban asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "when the master shall come whose name is jesus ye shall worship" the fifth

77, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837= by gematria thth zl, tet zal, the profuse giver. thus by writing the m final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, brashith, that the first three letters, bra, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: bn, ben the son; rvch, ruach, the spirit; and ab, ab the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of brkh, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of arr, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of the years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2,000, r= 200, a- 1,000, sh= 300, i= 10

tion and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2,000, r= 200, a- 1,000, sh= 300, i= 10, and th= 400; total= 3910 years, being the time in round numbers. picus de mirandola gives the following working out of brashith, berashith- by joining the third letter, a, to the first, b, ab, ab= father, is obtained. if to the first letter b, doubled, the second letter, r, be added, it makes bbr, bebar- in or through the son. if all the letters be read except the first, it makes rashith, rashith= the beginning. if the fourth letter, sh, the first b and the last th be connected, it makes shbth, shebeth= the end or rest. 75 if the first three letters be taken, they make bra, bera= created. if, omitting the first, the three following be taken, they make rash, rash= head. if the fourth and the last be joined, they

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as two mountains of fornication, the breasts of a strange woman; and my father is not in them. lo! the pools of fire and torment mingled with sulphur! many are their colours, and their colour is as molten gold, when all is said. is not he one, one and alone, in whom the brightness of your countenance is as 1,728 petals of fire. also he spake the curse, folding his wings across and crying: is not the son the enemy of his father? and hath not the daughter stolen the warmth of the bed of her mother? therefore is the great curse irrevocable. therefore there is neither wisdom nor understanding nor knowledge in this house, that hangeth upon the edge of hell. thou art not 4 but 2, o thou blasphemy spoken against 1! therefore whoso worshippeth thee is accursed. he shall be brayed in a mortar and

nd unto the white brothers, and therefore have i the power to torture thee so long as thou shalt be (then said the scribe unto him: thou liest) ask of thy brother p, and he shall tell thee if i lie (this the scribe refused to do, saying that it was no concern of the demon's) 100 i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. the three slain doves are my threefold blasphemy against him; but their blood shall make fertile the sand, and i writhe in blackness and horror of hate, and prevail not (then the demon tried to make the scribe laugh at magick, and to think that it was all rubbish, that he might deny the nam

d external showing forth of the coming of the new aeon, the aeon of horus the crowned child. 29. the disturbance of equilibrium caused by the coming of the aeon. 28. now is a further and clearer shadowing-forth of the great mystery of the aeon which is to be led up to by the aethyrs. note however that the king of the new aeon never appears until the very first aethyr. 27. hecate appears- her son, the son of a virgin, a magus, is to bring the aeon to pass. and she, the herald, her function fulfilled, withdraws within her mystic veil. 26. the death of the past aeon, that of jehovah and jesus; ends with adumbraiton of the new, the vision of the stele of ankh-f-n-khonsu, whose discovery brought about in a human consciousness the knowledge of the equinox of the gods, 21. 3. 04. 25. appearance o

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nnection between the divine light above and the temple, and therefore the hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the light from beyond the veils. each member in passing the throne of the east gives the sign of the enterer, projecting forwards the light which cometh from the sceptre of the hierophant "but horus passes only once, for he is the son of osiris, and inheriteth the light, as it were by birthright from him; wherefore he goeth at once unto the station of the hiereus to fix the light there. the hegemon, the goddess of truth, passeth twice because her rule is of the balance of the two scales, and she retireth to her station there to complete the reflux of the middle pillar. but anubis of the east and the others circumambulat

e to the confines of space, and let the candidate represent unto him a world which he is beginning to 17 z. 1. 18 the following explanatory remarks on the admission and ceremony of the neophyte are taken from the ms. called z. 3. lead unto the knowledge of its governing angel. as it is written 'the lightning lighteneth out of the east and flameth even unto the west, even so shall be the coming of the son of man" the candidate during the ceremony is addressed as "child of earth" as representing the earthly and material nature of the natural man: he who cometh forward from the darkness of malkuth to strive to regain knowledge of the light. therefore it is that the path of the initiate is called the path of darkness; for it is but darkness and foolishness to the natural man. the "hierophant"

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g seals approaching. the moment they landed they threw off their skins, and appeared before him as sea-trows or seal-folk. and even those seals who had lately been skinned by the boatmen also revived in time, and took their human form, but they mourned the loss of their sea-vestures, which would for ever prevent them from returning to their homes beneath the ocean. most of all did they lament for the son of gioga, their queen. he, too, had lost his skin, and would be banished for ever from his mother's kingdom. but, seeing the forsaken boatman, who sat watching the rising waters in despair, gioga suddenly conceived a plan to retain her son. she would carry the man on her back to the mainland, if he, 339 in his turn, would restore the missing skin. she even consented to his cutting some gas

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ue and wisdom and multiscient truth" thus floweth forth the form of the triad<<ritual of the path of the daughter of the firmament> thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth "shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is hb:shin= 300. and in the grecian tongue it is written "in the beginning was the word &c, which is lambda omicron gamma omicron sigma (lambda= 30. but the best of all the examples is found in the holy tetragram yod-heh-vau-heh. for we may regard this venerable name as typical of the father and the mother, and so

male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of aleph-mem-nunfinal (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+ 4+ 5= 10- the perfection of the sephiroth> 170 we cast the triple fire of the holy letter hb:shin= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, yod-heh-shin-vau-heh. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of hb:vau, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of god. we are now, therefore, arrived at the great mystery of the tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the twin sister of the science of number- which, indeed, is but number made flesh: geometry, or absolute symbolism. even as it was spoken by the holy pythagoras "god geometrises" let us behold the work of his fingers! the following illustration includes a circumscribed equilate

e 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<yod-memfinal is 300= hb:shin> symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v.2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firmament. now this red glory is the 174 ignis dei: which is also the

of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note- it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that hb:yod, the father, is fire; that hb:heh, the mother, is water; that hb:vau, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater

therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the

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se and thou shalt never rise again! so come thou forth, thou spirit of mercury, taphthartharath, come thou forth quickly, i advise and command thee. come thou forth from thy abodes and retreats. come thou forth unto us, and appear before us in this magical triangle without this circle of art: in fair and human form, courteously answering in an audible voice all of our demands. as is written "kiss the son lest he be angry! if his anger be kindled, yea, but a little_ blessed are they that put their trust in him [the mighty magus of art lifts up the sigil towards heaven, tears off from it the black veil, and cries] creature of kokab, long hast thou dwelt in darkness! quit the night and seek the day [sigil is replaced to west of the triangle; magus holds the sword erect (point upwards) over it

ust pervade the violet from above. her station is in the place of jupiter. i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible god! i call thee from the azure throne! i raise my voice in the abyss of water! i raise my soul to contemplate thy face! amoun! come unto me! hear me! appear in splendour unto these who worship at thy feet! for who am i before thy face? what is man, that thou art mindful of him; or the son of man that thou visitest him! thou hast made him a little lower than the elohim_ thou hast crowned him with glory and honour! amoun! hear me! come unto me! in myself i am nothing_ in thee i am all self! dwell thou in me, and bring me to that self which is in thee! amoun! o my father! my father! the chariots of ishrael, and the horsemen thereof [all bow in adoration. standing in the sign o

lory for ever; who hast permitted me to enter so far in the sanctuary of thy mysteries. not unto me, but unto thy name be the glory! let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon my head, and teach me the value of self-sacrifice: so that i shrink not in the hour of trial; but that my name may be written upon high, and that my genius may stand in the presence of the holy one: in that hour when the son of man is evoked before the lord of spirits; and his name in the presence of the ancient of days. o lord of the universe! grant thou that upon me may shine forth the light of my higher soul. let me be guided by the 199 help of my genius unto thy throne of glory, ineffable in the centre of the world of life and light [now go up to the altar: formulating before thee a glittering light: imagi

glory of the godhead unspeakable! eternal master! ancient of days! thee, thee, i invoke in my need! dark is all the world; without, within; there is light alone in thee! rend asunder, lord of the universe, tear aside the veil of the sanctuary: let mine eyes behold my god, my king! as it is written: the lightning lighteneth in the east and flameth even unto the west: even so shall be the coming of the son of man! 203 [and now shalt thou see a light slow formulating into the shape of a mighty angel, and thou shalt withdraw thyself from this sight and again say] i saw water coming from the left side of the temple: and all unto whom that water came were made whole, and cried: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord, allelulia! o lamb of god: who takest away the sins of the world! gra

ear me, and grant my prayer! grant that i may ever uphold the the symbol of self-sacrifice: and grant unto me the comprehension of aught that may bring me nearer unto thee! teach me, starry spirit, more and more of thy mystery and thy mastery: let each day and hour bring me nearer, nearer unto thee! let me aid thee in thy suffering that i may one day become partaker of thy glory: in that day when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name in the presence of the ancient of days! and for this day, teach me this one thing: how i may learn from thee the mysteries of the higher magic of light. how i may gain from the dwellers in the bright elements their knowledge and power: and how best i may use that knowledge to help my fellow-men. and, finally, i pray thee to let the

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h there is nothing like this. we shall not go outside the class of natural dream. the drunkenness, throughout its duration, it is true, will be nothing but an immense dream, thanks to the intensity of its colours and the rapidity of its conceptions. but it will always keep the idiosyncrasy of the individual. the man has desired to dream; the dream will govern the man. but this dream will be truly the son of its father. the idle man has taxed his ingenuity to introduce artificially the supernatural into his life and into his thought; but, after all, and despite the accidental energy of his experiences, he is nothing but the same man magnified, the same number raised to a very high power. he 68 is brought into subjection, but, unhappily for him, it is not by himself; that is to say, by the p

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ght sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll- a sable stain "who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain" he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. ii behold! arabia's burning shore rings to the hoofs of many a steed. lord of a legion rides to war

than death: for all the roots of sin and sadness were plucked. as a flower perisheth, so all sin died. and in that place all they did know the beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace. then fell the night. above the baying of the great beast, that was the bass to all the harps of heaven a-playing, there came a solemn voice (not one but was upon his knees in praying and glorifying god. the son of god himself- men thought- spoke then "arise! brave soldier, thou hast won the quest not given to mortal men. arise! sir palamede adept, christian, and no more saracen! on wake or sleeping, wise, inept, still thou didst seek. those foolish ways on which thy folly stumbled, leapt, all led to the one goal. now praise thy lord hat he hat brought thee through to win the quest" the good knigh

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ed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. 11 i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. alpha. avoid using some common word, such as "and" or "the" or "but; use a paraphrase. beta. avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as "t, or "s. or "m; use a paraphrase. xi. avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine

ody- but where is the soul? nepti, sister, the work is undone for lack of the needed one! lo! i lament. there is no god so far as mine asar! there is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb. but these- what are these that war in my womb? there is vengeance and triumph at last of maat in ra-hoor-khut and in hoor-pa-kraat! twins they shall rise; being twins they are one, the lord of the sword and the son of the sun! silence, coeval colleague of the voice, the plumes of amoun- rejoice! lo! i rejoice. i heal the sanguine scar of slain asar. i was the past, nature the mother. he was the present, man my brother. look to the future, the child- oh paean the child that is crowned in the lion-aeon! the sea-dawns surge an billow and break beneath the scourge of the star and the snake. to my lord i

, in a less degree, would a doctor be unable to explain the theory of inoculation to a savage, but it is quite conceivable that he might be able to teach him how to vaccinate himself or another; which would be after all the chief point gained. similarly the yogi says: i have arrived at a state of superconsciousness (sam dhi) and you, my friend, are not only blind, deaf and dumb, and a savage, but the son of a pig into the bargain. you are totally immersed in darkness (tamas; a child of ignorance (avidy, and the offspring of illusion (m y; as mad, insane and idiotic as those unfortunates you lock up in your asylums to convince you, as one of you yourselves has very justly remarked, that you are not all raving mad. for you consider not only one thing, which you insult by calling god, but all

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mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter? 33 hermanubis. 1. mother of mystery, hast thou the secret of jupiter [sphinx "plays a triumphant melody<typhon. brother hermanubis, what is the place? hermanubis. the summit of mount kithairon. typhon. procul, o procul este viri["all male probationers retire to back of stage" typhon. sisters, let us invoke the father to manifest in the son. sphinx. per spiritum sanctum, amen["she also retires to her place on wheel" maenads. evoe! evoe ho! iacche! iacche! typhon. hail, o dionysus! hail! winged son of semele! hail, o hail! the stars are pale; hidden the moonlight in the vale; hidden the sunlight in the sea. blessed is her happy lot who beholdeth god; who moves mighty-souled without a spot, mingling in the godly rout of the man

my wand and wave you through hill to hill of delight; my rosy rivers lave you in innermost lustral light. i lead you, lord of the maze, in the darkness free of the sun; in spite of the spite that is day's we are wed, we are wild, we are one["the lights go out and the company join in universal dance] hermanubis. silence. typhon. silence. c.i.c.t. 1-333. the secret of the father is in the secret of the son. sphinx. 22-22. and the secret of the son is in the secret of the holy ghost. ganymede. 4444 gloria patri. 42 hebe. et filio. typhon. et spiritui sancto. hermanubis. ut erat in principio. sphinx. et nunc est. c.i.c.t. et erit semper. all. amen. sphinx. fasting. hermanubis. song. typhon. feasting. c.i.c.t. grace. sphinx. music. hermanubis. dancing. typhon. love. c.i.c.t. the end. typhon "dr

et us depart unto the work of the day. all. amen. 91 the rite of mercury officers mercury "violet robe" fr "and" sor. gemini "white dancing robe and black robe" virgo "green robe" four probationers "mercury is throned between the twins. at the west of the altar is virgo, and his four attendants" 95 the rite of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the presence of the eternal gods. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the radix of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon. the breaking forth of the light["all being seated, the" four probationers "rise from a

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of the silver ray, that is lighted by the ray of gold "he" how many roofs hath the ark "i" one "he" thou must pass through this one. yet thou lookest eagerly upon the four walls of the ark "i" i seek a door "he" the door is in the roof "i" lead me to it, i pray thee "he" fix thine eyes upon it "i" sir, i will. yet i pray thee to tell me thy name "he" thou didst know it of old, didst thou not "i" the son of the mountain "he" the stone of the crossways "i" it is enough. let me fix mine eye upon the door "he" it is well. then i obeyed him, and in that obedience forgot him. for though mine eye wandered often, and although once the planks beneath me threatened to give way and plunge me once more into the stream, yet i strove as a man may. then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, i beheld

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

trating through the atom; and through the form we have the love, or attractive quality manifesting. this can also be expressed in the recognition that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before ever there was creation, goes on to say that when "he appointed the foundations of the earth, then i was by him as the master worker or builder" students would do

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

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 initiations, when man is nearing the end of his journey and is perfected. the monad reflects itself again in ii. the ego, higher self, or individuality. this aspect is potentially 1. spiritual will..atma. 2. intuition..buddhi, love-wisdom, the christ principle. 3. higher or abstract mind..higher manas. the ego beg

atter, therefore, we deduce, held latent certain faculties that were forced to 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 piercing blue eyes. his work at this time is exceedingly responsible, for to him is given the problem of steering the thought of the occident out of its present state of unrest into the peaceful waters of certitude and knowledge, and of preparing the way in europe and america for the eventual coming of the world teacher. he is well known in the bible history, coming before us first as joshua the son of nun, appearing again in the time of ezra as jeshua, taking the third initiation, as related in the book of zechariah, as joshua, and in the gospel story he is known for two great sacrifices, that in which he handed over his body for the use of the christ, and for the great renunciation which is the characteristic of the fourth initiation. as appollonius of tyana- 33- initiation, human a

ed by the atoms composing that form. these sounds grow out of the other group and affect inferior groups or kingdoms, if the word "inferior" may be used in connection with any department of divine manifestation. for instance, the human kingdom (the fourth creative hierarchy) was produced by a triple aum sounded in a particular key by the three persons of the trinity in unison, god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit, or shiva, vishnu, and brahma. this sound is still going forth; the interplay and interblending of the many tiny notes of each human being produces a great united sound which can be heard in the high places and which, in its turn, is having a definite effect upon the animal kingdom. it is one of the factors which produces animal forms, both for human and animal occ

r copyright 1998 lucis trust subject and its intricacy. 1. the great word, as sounded by the logos of the solar system, and communicated to him by his superior. 2. three words committed by the solar logos to each of the three logoi as follows: a. the sacred sound a to shiva, he who embodies the spirit or will aspect. it is the word through which god the father works. b. the sound u to vishnu, god the son. he is the form-builder and provides the body which the spirit must occupy, thereby making divine incarnation possible. a is the life sound, u is the form sound. c. the sound m to brahma, who, in his work of energy-provider, links in active intelligence, spirit and form, or the self and not-self. it might here be pointed out that much information anent the three departments of the hierarch

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

olved than his two brothers. he is the life of matter, its latent internal fire. his is the fire essence that lies at the heart of the sun, of the planet, and of man's material forms. he is the sumtotal of the past. the lord of cosmic love now seeks union with his brother, and, in point of time, embodies all the present. he is the sumtotal of all that is embodied; he is conscious existence. he is the son divine and his life and nature evolve through every existent form. the lord of cosmic will holds hid the future within his plans and consciousness. they are all three the sons of one father, all three the aspects of the one god, all three are spirit, all three are soul, and all three are rays emanating from one cosmic centre. all three are substance, but in the past one lord was the elder

heric body into their primordial condition. the subjective life, the synthesis of will and love taking active form, is withdrawn. the partnership is dissolved. the form then breaks up; the magnetism that has held it in coherent shape is no longer present, and dissipation is complete. matter persists, but the form no longer persists. the work of the second logos ends, and the divine incarnation of the son is concluded. but the faculty or inherent quality of matter also persists, and at the end of each period of manifestation, matter (though distributed again into its primal form) is active intelligent matter plus the gain of objectivity, and the increased radiatory and latent activity which it has gained through experience. let us illustrate: the matter of the solar system, when undifferent

w it as that which in some occult manner links the system up with its cosmic centre. in a manner inconceivable to us the first logos brings in the influence of other constellations. when this first aspect is better understood (in the next mahamanvantara) the work of the seven rishis of the great bear,65(57) and the supreme influence of sirius will be comprehended; in this present manifestation of the son, or of the vishnu aspect, we are concerned more closely with the pleiades and their influence via the sun, and, in relation to our planet, via venus. this subject of the first logos, manifesting only in connection with the other two in the system, is a profound mystery, which is not fully understood by even those who have taken the sixth initiation. the first logos embodies the "will to li

om a human being, which latter emanation we call magnetism. a man's emanation, or characteristic vibration, is the result of the blending of spirit and matter, and the relative adequacy of the matter, or the form, to the life within. the objective solar system, or the sun in manifestation, is the result of the blending of spirit (electric fire) with matter (fire by friction, and the emanations of the son, in time and space, are dependent upon the adequacy of the matter, and of the form to the life within. the first logos is electric fire, the fire of pure spirit. yet in manifestation he is the son, for by union with matter (the mother) the son is produced by whom he is known "i and my father are one"69(60) is the most occult statement in the christian bible, for it not only refers to the u

e found upon some of the rays of mind, the minor four. the answer lies here: the egoic ray can always be one of the seven, but we need to remember that, in this astral-buddhic solar system, wherein love and wisdom are being brought into objectivity, the bulk of the monads are on the love-wisdom ray. the fact, therefore, of its being the synthetic ray has a vast significance. this is the system of the son, whose name is love. this is the divine incarnation of vishnu. the dragon of wisdom is in manifestation, and he brings into incarnation those cosmic entities who are in essence identical with himself. after the third initiation all human beings find themselves on their monadic ray, on one of the three major rays, and the fact that masters and initiates are found on all the rays is due to t

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ods, feelings, longings, desires, and emotional reactions which characterise the life of the average man and has arrived at the point of peace. the devil of pride, the personification of the misused mental nature and the distorted perceptions of the mind, are overcome and he stands liberated from the three worlds. the nature of the soul, the qualities and activities inherent in the love nature of the son of god, and the wisdom which demonstrates when love and activity (the second and third aspects) are brought together, characterise his life on earth, and he can say as did the christ "it is finished" the date of the birth of patanjali is unknown and there is a good deal of controversy upon this matter. most of the occidental authorities ascribe a date between the years 820 b. c. to 300 b

father in heaven, the will aspect, 2. atma or spiritual will, the highest aspect of the soul, 3. the mental body or intelligent will, the highest aspect of the personality, 4. the head centre. this is the line followed by the raja-yogins and it brings them to a realisation of the spirit and to adeptship. there is yet another line: 1. monad- 28- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the son or christ aspect, 3. the love aspect, or wisdom aspect, 4. buddhi or spiritual love, the second aspect of the soul, 5. the emotional body, the second aspect of the personality, 6. the heart centre. this is the line followed by the bhakti, the devotee and the saint and brings him to a knowledge of the soul and of sainthood. the former line is that to be followed by our aryan race. this seco

ount of initiation has to be modified, or "the water will be spilt and the bowl be shattered" because the water is intended to slake the thirst of the masses, they must hasten their progress for the need is great. thus the "first shall be last and the last shall be first" and the hare and the tortoise meet at the goal. 23. by intense devotion to ishvara, knowledge of ishvara is gained. ishvara is the son in manifestation through the sun. this is the macrocosmic aspect. ishvara is the son of god, the cosmic christ, resplendent in the heart of each of us. the word "heart" is- 30- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust here used in its occult connotation. the following correspondences may be found illuminating and should be studied with care. aspect quality centre macrocosm spirit

ate of the master or the adept, of the soul who has come into its birthright, and is no longer under control of the forces and energies of the lower nature. there is given in this and the following three sutras, a picture of the liberated man who has passed through the cycle of incarnation and through struggle and experience has found the true self. here is depicted the nature of the solar angel, the son of god, the ego or the higher self. he is stated to be 1. untouched by limitation. he is no longer "cribbed, cabined and confined" by the lower quaternary. he is no longer crucified upon the cross of matter. the four lower sheaths dense, etheric, emotional and mental are no longer his prison. they are but instruments which he can use or vacate at will. his will functions freely and if he s

heard the tradition, experienced the dissolution of that hitherto held, seen that which is hidden from those who abide by the tradition, substituted that which is newly seen, donated the acquired possession to those who hold out empty hands, and passed on to inner halls of learning" students would do well in studying these few sutras relating to ishvara to bear in mind that they have reference to the son of god, the second person of the trinity as he manifests through the medium of the solar system, to the macrocosmic soul. the secondary meaning has reference also to the divine son of god, the second aspect monadic, as he manifests through the medium of a human being. this is the microcosmic soul. the following synonyms of the ishvara aspect may be found of value. the macrocosm. ishvara, t

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pass on, through the fire of discipline, to the heights of intellectual certainty. this is beautifully pictured for us in the bible in the story of shadrach, meschach and abednego. we read that they were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, yet the result of that apparent tragedy was the releasing in their midst of the form of a fourth identity, whose appearance was like unto that of the son of god. these three friends are symbols of the threefold lower man. the name meschach means "agile" a faculty of the discriminative mind, the mental body. shadrach means "rejoicing in the way" and- 40- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust describes the transmutation of the emotional body, and the turning of the desire towards the way: abednego means "a servant of the sun"

s "agile" a faculty of the discriminative mind, the mental body. shadrach means "rejoicing in the way" and- 40- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust describes the transmutation of the emotional body, and the turning of the desire towards the way: abednego means "a servant of the sun" and thus emphasizes the fact that the sole function of the physical body is to be the servant of the son (sun, of the ego or soul (see daniel iii, 23-24. there is no escaping the fiery furnace, but the reward is commensurate with the trial. the significance of the second requirement, spiritual reading, must also be grasped. the word, to "read" is very obscure in its origin, and philologists seem to think that two words are responsible. one is the latin word "reri" to think, and the other the

of course, easy to find many passages which link the way of the christian knower with that of his brother in the east. they bear witness to the same efficacy of method and they too use the intellect just as far as it will go and then suspend all effort whilst a new condition of being is instituted and a new state of awareness supervenes. st. augustine says "just as that is ineffable out of which the son leaps from the father in the first procession, so there exists some occult thing behind the first procession, intellect and will" meister eckhart links himself with the oriental knowers in the following words "intellect is the highest power of the soul and therewith the soul grasps the divine good. free will is the power of relishing the divine good which intellect makes known to it. the s

sense of separateness has disappeared. unity with the universe, realized identity with the whole, conscious awareness of the self and assimilation in full waking consciousness with both interior and exterior nature this is the definite goal of the seeker after knowledge. the self, the not-self, and the relation between the two, are known as one fact, without differentiation. god, the father, god, the son, and god, the holy ghost, are realized as working smoothly together as one identity the three in one and the one in three. this is the objective of all the schools wherein the mystic transcends feeling, and even thought, in the last analysis, and becomes united with the all. individuality, however, remains in consciousness, but it is so identified with the sum-total that all sense of separ

ith the guides of the race, but that the method of co-operation is not the one which deceived the aspirant. only when we have begun consciously to function as souls, and only when we are busy with self-forgetting service a service that is self-initiated, and carried forward because the soul is group conscious, and it is in the nature of the soul to serve will we make such a contact. the christ is the son of god in full functioning activity, the "eldest in a great family of brothers" he has a consciousness which is universal in its scope, and through him the love of god pours, and the purposes of god are working to fruition. he is the master of all the masters, and the teacher alike of angels and of men. when he and those associated with him find an aspirant who is engrossed with the work t

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

erse aspects of his radiant robe blazed forth "the vibrant palpitating wheels turned over. life, in its many stages and in its many grades commenced the process of unfolding, and lo, the law began to work. forms arose, and disappeared, but life moved on. kingdoms arose, holding their many forms which drew together, turned together, and later separated, but still the life moved on "mankind, hiding the son of god, the word incarnate, broke forth into the light of revelation. races appeared and disappeared. the forms, veiling the radiant soul, emerged, achieved their purpose and vanished into night, but lo, the life moved on, blended this time with light. life merged with light, both blending to reveal a beauty and a power, an active liberating force, a wisdom and a love that we call a son of

ly growing reception of potencies which can be contacted and utilized and which when correctly contacted insure victory at the end. the phrase "the one who meditates" relates to the soul. arjuna, the aspiring disciple, resigns the struggle and hands the weapons and the reins of government to krishna, the soul, and is rewarded at last by understanding and by a vision of the divine form which veils the son of god who is himself. when this battle has been fought and won the disciple steps into the ranks of the white magicians of our planet and can wield forces, cooperate with the plan, command the elementals, and bring order out of chaos. he is no longer immersed in the world illusion but has risen above it. he can no longer be held down by the chains of his own past habits and his karma. he

orm created is constituted of mental matter, of astral matter and of physical substance. it lacks the soul contribution. its purpose is in line with the development of form, but not in line with soul expression. 3. the left hand path, therefore, is the path of progress for substance or matter. it is not the path of progress for the soul aspect. it is the "way of the holy ghost" but not the way of the son of god. i express this truth in these words as it serves peculiarly to make the distinction clear and yet preserves the integrity of substance-matter and their unity within the one life- 154- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. all forms created at every stage are either confined to the left hand path or embrace it and yet go beyond it, and follow the right hand way. th

oup will be supplanted by the power of the awakened soul in men; the age of miracles and the disputations as to the why and how of those miracles with the consequent scepticism or agnosticism will give way to the understanding of the laws of nature which control the superhuman realm and the supernatural stage of the evolutionary process. man will enter into his divine heritage and know himself as the son of the father, with all the divine characteristics, powers and capacities which are his because of his divine endowment. but in the meantime what have we? a breaking away from old established tradition, a revolt from authority, whether of the- 188- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust church, of dogma, doctrine or theology; a tendency towards self-determination and an overt

g the father's face" perhaps one of the first things that every student has to learn, as he seeks to grasp the nature and use of mind, is that public opinion has to give place to individual consciousness of right, and that then that individual consciousness has to be so employed and concentrated that it is seen in its right proportion as that living germ which can expand into the divine flower of the son of mind, the manasaputra, and as the thread which leads back into the realm of the universal mind. this thread and this consciousness, when followed, will lead the individual into the council chamber wherein the plan and the purpose of the great life will stand revealed, and wherein all human selfishness and self-seeking fade out in the clear light of the will of god. through right underst

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

the same time, it is a most valuable compendium of information, and will serve to convey truth and to develop the intuition. the last book, a treatise on white magic, is a parallel volume to a treatise on cosmic fire. just as the first dealt with the psychology of deity, the work of the macrocosm, and the laws whereby the solar logos works, so this book constitutes a treatise on the psychology of the son of god and the work of the microcosm. it intimately concerns his place in the larger whole. i have also aided a.a.b. in getting out a translation of the yoga sutras of patanjali, which is a bridging book, intended to show the aspirant the rules whereby the light within him may be developed and the power of the intuition be brought to bear on all problems and on the- 6- a treatise on the se

st differentiation of the divine triplicity of spirit-consciousness-form, and they provide the entire field of expression for the manifested deity. we are told in the scriptures of the world that the interplay, or the relation between, father spirit and- 17- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust mother matter produces eventually a third, which is the son, or the consciousness aspect. that son, the product of the two, is esoterically defined as "the one who was third but is the second" the reason for this wording is that there first existed the two divine aspects, spirit-matter, or matter impregnated with life, and it was only when these two realised their mutual unity (note the necessary ambiguity of that phrase) that the son emerged. the

wo, is esoterically defined as "the one who was third but is the second" the reason for this wording is that there first existed the two divine aspects, spirit-matter, or matter impregnated with life, and it was only when these two realised their mutual unity (note the necessary ambiguity of that phrase) that the son emerged. the esotericist, however, regards spirit-matter as the first unity, and the son therefore is the second factor. this son, who is divine life incarnate in matter, and consequently the producer of the diversity and immensity of forms, is the embodiment of divine quality. we might therefore utilise for the sake of clarity the terms life-quality-appearance as interchangeable with the more usual trinity of spirit-soul-body, or life-consciousness-form. i shall utilise the w

t is that illusory tangible outer appearance which is animated by life. this is the third aspect, the mother, overshadowed and fertilised by the holy ghost, or life, united with intelligent substance. this is fire by friction a friction brought about by life and matter and their interplay, and producing change and constant mutation. i shall use the word quality as expressive of the second aspect, the son of god, the cosmic christ incarnate in form a form brought into being by the relation of spirit and matter. this interplay produces that psychological entity which we call the christ. this cosmic christ demonstrated to us his perfection, as far as the human family is concerned, through the medium of the historical christ. this psyphological entity can bring into functioning activity a qual

platform is understood and we are not open to the criticism that we neglect reality and regard diversity as the only truth. we shall now answer five questions that i have formulated and answered for the reader. question 1. what is the soul. can we define it? what is its nature? here i shall give but four definitions which will serve as a basis for all that follows. a. the soul can be spoken of as the son of the father and of the mother (spirit-matter) and is therefore the embodied life of god, coming into incarnation in order to reveal the quality of the nature of god, which is essential love. this life, taking form, nurtures the quality of love within all forms, and ultimately reveals the purpose of all creation. this is the simplest definition for average humanity, being couched in the l

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igured upon the mountain top of living experience? does not the crucifixion lie ahead for many of us, leading on to the resurrection and the ascension? and is it not also possible that we have interpreted these words in too narrow a sense, with too sentimental and ordinary an implication, whereas they may indicate to those who are ready a special way and a more rapid following in the footsteps of the son of god? this is one of the points which concern us and with which this book will attempt to deal. if this more intensive meaning can be found, and if the drama of the gospels can become in some peculiar way the drama of those souls who are ready, then we shall see the resurrection of the essentials of christianity and the revivifying of the form which is so rapidly crystallising. 2 it is o

. initiation might be regarded as a great experiment. there was perhaps a time, when this process of unfoldment was instituted, that it became possible to enact upon earth certain inner processes known at that time only to the few. then that which was within could be put into symbolic form for the teaching of the "little ones" and could later be undergone openly and expressed for us upon earth by the son of god, the christ. initiation is a living process, and through that process all who duly discipline themselves and voluntarily acquiesce may pass, scrutinised and aided by that band of initiates and knowers who are the guides of the race, and who are known to us under many names in different parts of the world and in different ages. they are called in the west, christ and his church, the

e stage which is called that of a full-grown man in christ, indicating an increased experience of the divine life and a deeper unfoldment of the christ consciousness in the human being. towards this the disciples of the world are now oriented. then there is the stage of achievement, referred to by st. paul in the following terms "till we all come, in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ."23 initiation is therefore a graded and realised series of expansions of consciousness, a steadily increasing awareness of divinity and of all its implications. many so-called initiates today believe themselves to have reached this status because some occult leader or some psychic seer has told them that

il. this, christ gave in the victory of the three temptations. then, only after this evidenced preparation, do we read that he proceeded to teach.23 recognition and preparation for participation in the divine plan was next followed by dedication to that plan. after the transfiguration he entered into a full realisation of what lay ahead for him, and he defined it clearly to his disciples, saying. the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and- 31- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."24 then we read later in the same chapter that "he steadfastly set his face to go" up to the place of

nd which will obliterate all other sounds, they will, as a group, record the new word which will issue forth. at each initiation of jesus, as we shall see, a sign was given; it was a sign which registered upon the consciousness of those who were not initiate. each time, a symbol or form was seen which was indicative of the revelation. christ himself tells us that at the end of the age the sign of the son of man will be seen in the heavens.29 just as the birth at bethlehem was ushered in by a sign, that of the star, so shall that birth towards which the race is hastening be likewise ushered in by a heavenly sign. the appeal which goes up from the hearts of all true aspirants to initiation is beautifully embodied in the following prayer "there is a peace that passeth understanding; it abides

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sychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust earlier solar system. these three aspects of mind energy are thus blended and are a synthesis of the intelligent force of deity. they embody as much of the mind of god as a human being can embrace in time and space, for they are a. the energy of intelligent life, coming from god the father. b. the energy of intelligent soul or consciousness, coming from god the son. c. the energy of intelligent matter coming from god the holy spirit. 5. the disciples of the world are occupied with the integration of the personality with the soul, or with the synthesis of the first five aspects of energy as the lotus petals of love come into conscious recognition, and the intuition begins faintly to function. these petals of love, which are only symbolic forms of expr

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ty which leads to the evocative response of the spirit of god. this spirit works in every human heart and in all groups. it works also through the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. it impels the head of the hierarchy, the christ, to take action and the action which he is taking will lead to his return with his disciples. the idea of the return of christ is a most familiar one, and the concept of the son of god returning in response to human need has its place in the teaching of the majority of the world faiths. ever since he apparently departed to the sphere where the faithful have put him, little groups of these people have reasoned themselves into the belief that on such and such a date he will come back, and ever their prophecies and expectancies have been doomed to failure. he has not

ir allegiance to their founders the buddha, mohammed and others. he cares not what the faith is if the objective is love of god and of humanity. if men look for the christ who left his disciples centuries ago, they will fail to recognise the christ who is in process of returning. the christ has no religious barriers in his consciousness. it matters not to him of what faith a man may call himself. the son of god is on his way and he cometh not alone. his advance guard is already here and the plan which they must follow is already made and clear. let recognition be the aim. chapter four the work of the christ today and in the future we have seen that the doctrine of great appearances and of the coming of avatars or world teachers or saviours underlies all the world religions. through them, t

tant, giving, as he did, deep instruction upon the nature of the self. also the teacher in the bhagavad gita, shri krishna, must be noted, for many believe him to be a previous incarnation of the christ- 57- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust thus the fundamental truths upon which relation to god (and, therefore, relation to our fellowmen) is founded are always given out by the son of god, who in any particular world period is the teaching head of the spiritual hierarchy. in due time, christ came and gave out to the world (mainly through his disciples) two major truths: the fact of the existence of the human soul and, secondly, the system of service (this phrase is used advisedly) as a mode of establishing right human relations to god and to one's fellowmen. he told

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i would like to make; it lies in the realm of religion and concerns the significance of christmas. from the very night of time, as well you know, the period wherein the sun moves northward again has been regarded as a festival season; for thousands of years it has been associated with the coming of the sun-god to save the world, to bring light and fruitfulness to the earth and through the work of the son of god to bring hope to humanity. the christmas season is regarded by those who do not know any better as uniquely the festival of the christ, and this the christian churches have- 80- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust emphasised and to this all churchmen testify. this is both true and false. the founder of the christian church god in the flesh availed himself of this p

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rm (through recognition of and reaction to a mental thoughtform) and its subsequent direction, as an ideal objective, into the world of men. in the early stages and until the third initiation, the science of impression is concerned with the establishing of a sensitivity (an invocative sensitivity) between the spiritual triad (temporarily expressing itself through the abstract mind and the soul or the son of mind) and the concrete mind. this mental triangle is a reflection, in time and space, of the monad and of the two higher aspects of the triad, and is reflected (after the process of invocation and a succeeding process of evocation) in another triad that of the- 29- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust lower mind, the soul and the vital body. when the relation bet

tails of the plan; these are protected by means of this very science of impression. the remaining members of the hierarchy take their orders from their seniors. mind the focus of planetary development i would ask you to remember that, in our planetary development, the emphasis of the entire evolutionary process is on the mind and on the various aspects of the mind intelligence, mental perception, the son of mind, the lower mind, the abstract mind, the mind as will, the universal mind. the three which are of major importance and which form an esoteric triangle requiring to be brought into a vital inter-relation are the son of mind, the abstract mind, and the universal mind. they are, when fully related and active, the factors which engineer divine purpose and step it down into such form tha

hey are, when fully related and active, the factors which engineer divine purpose and step it down into such form that we call it the hierarchical plan and can act upon it. only when the initiate has attained, through monadic contact, a touch of the universal mind can the purpose be sensed by him; this involves also the development of the abstract mind, plus the residue of mental perception which the son of mind (the soul) has bequeathed to him; through all this unfoldment he can join the group who are the formulators of the plan. we are dealing here with most difficult and complex matters, inherent in the initiate consciousness and for which we have as yet no correct terminology. also, the average aspirant has no idea what is the nature of the awareness or the reactions to contact of thos

st has shifted the focus of its living attention on to the buddhic plane and away from the mental plane. this has become possible because the aspirants of the world are now sensitive to contacts which are founded upon an astral-buddhic consciousness but which are strictly carried on within mental substance. this necessarily involves the three aspects of the mind, found therein: the concrete mind, the son of mind, and the abstract sensitivity or reaction. this involves (on the physical plane) an activity of the pituitary body (as you can readily see) and also the use of the ajna centre. 3. the occult science of impression. this becomes possible when the other two forms of telepathic rapport are present and are developing to a certain point of accuracy. it is dependent also upon the construc

reely moving energies, distributing themselves throughout the etheric body of the planet (and therefore through the human etheric body) under the essential purpose of shamballa and under the direction of the hierarchy. it is the theme of relationship therefore, which is the basic pattern in the evolutionary process of unfoldment in this, the second solar system (of three systems) which is that of the son, wherein the quality of the second divine aspect, love, is being perfected. in this perfecting process man participates unconsciously at first, during the long cycle of evolutionary unfoldment under the law of necessity; but when he becomes the aspirant and takes the first steps upon the path towards spiritual maturity, he begins to play a crucial role which he maintains until he attains s

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beings is likewise septenary in nature, and the forty-nine fires of brahma are the lowest manifestation of their fiery nature. each group also may be regarded as "fallen" in the cosmic sense, because involved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun. it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant" the symbol of this hierarchy is the golden lotus with its twelve petals folded. the secret doctrine i. 233-250. iii. 565. it should be remembered that this hierarchy is literally the sixth, for five hierarchies have passed on, being th

ies" and others "subsidiary hierarchies" by this is meant that certain of them are expressing themselves in this solar system more fully than the others, and this necessarily entails the consequence that their vibration is more to be felt than that of the subsidiary groups. the dominant groups are the second, fourth and fifth, and this because: a. the second is the great expression of duality, of the son as he vitalises the sun. b. the fourth is the hierarchy of human monads who are the mediators or the synthesisers; they express the gain of system 1 and the goal of system 2. c. the fifth or tenth is closely linked with the five liberated hierarchies, and is an expression of their synthesised life. it might, therefore, be said that the fifth hierarchy serves as the representative of the fi

at the units of the fifth hierarchy are called "the hearts of fiery love; they save through love, and in their turn these lives are peculiarly close to the great heart of love of the solar logos. these great redeeming angels, who are the sons of men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses this symbology linking them up with "the son of divine love" the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. we have, therefore, a direct stream of energy flowing through: a. the logoic twelve-petalled egoic lotus, cosmic mental plane. b. the solar twelve-petalled lotus. c. the planetary logoic heart, also a twelve-petalled lotus

lity, being the messenger of the gods. this mediatorship, in the first instance, produces an inevitable opposition between the pairs of opposites and a long drawn out conflict. this conflict finally works out into victory and the dispelling of illusion through the illumination of the lower mind. mercury and the sun are one, we are frequently told in the occult literature. the sun is the symbol of the son of god, who is the mediator between father-spirit and mother-matter. mercury, therefore, leads aries to virgo (again speaking symbolically) where the idea or word of god begins to take form, and consequently the latent life in aries comes to the "crisis of the birth hour" prior to the birth of the christ, cosmically considered, though the birth of the individual christ takes place in capri

" and the release of the imprisoned life into new forms or new cycles of the divine adventure. this mutable cross, of which pisces is one of the arms, is predominantly the cross of "repeated incarnations" of varied experiments under the various signs and orthodox rulers, and of those many experiences which lead to successive and continuous expansions of consciousness. it is therefore the cross of the son of god, the incarnating christ, though it is, in relation to this cross, the cross of the planetary christ, just as the fixed cross is that of the individual christ in each human being, and the cardinal cross is that of the cosmic christ. it might here be noted that the cross with which we are here concerned is that of the mass, and that the consciousness which it exemplifies is that of th

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

and the teacher alike of angels and of men" i found that the masters of the wisdom were his pupils and disciples, just as people like myself were pupils of some master. i learnt that when i, in my orthodox days, talked about christ and his church i was really speaking of christ and the planetary hierarchy. i found that the esoteric presentation of truth in no way belittled christ. he was, indeed, the son of god, the first born in a great family of brothers, as st. paul has told us, and a guarantee to us of our own divinity. the third teaching which i came across and which pulled me up short for a long time was the dual belief in the law of re-birth and the law of cause and effect, called karma and reincarnation by theosophists who, so often, like to sound learned. personally, i believe tha

ink they have a wider point of view than the average person they meet and this they owe to the way they have travelled and which i owe also to the way i have travelled not only horizontally out into the many countries but vertically also, up and down the social ladder. it is a great education to like people and i was born liking people. one of the best men i ever knew and regarded as a friend was the son of an emperor. the first and dearest friend i had thirty-five years ago when i came to the u.s. was a negro woman and they stand with equal importance to me in my consciousness and i think of them with equal affection- 124- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust one thing i did find was that the girls were quite able to hold their own in any set or situation though they we

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and spiritual love, buddhi. here also comes in the teaching on the place of the eyes in the development of conscious expression, creatively carrying forward the divine purpose. the third eye..the head centre..will. atma. the eye of the father, the monad. shamballa. the first aspect of will or power and purpose. related to the pineal gland. the right eye..the ajna centre..love. buddhi. the eye of the son, the soul. hierarchy. the second aspect of love-wisdom. related to the pituitary body- 90- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the left eye..the throat centre..a. ctive intelligence. the eye of the mother, the personality. h umanity. the third aspect of intelligence. related to the carotid gland. when these three eyes are functioning and all

fy and raise the three fires- 111- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 7. one of these paths is the one along which the energy which feeds matter is poured. another is related to the path of consciousness and of sensitive psychic unfoldment. the third is the path of pure spirit. thus in every living form the work of the father, of the mother and of the son is carried on. life-consciousness-form and life-quality-appearance are blended, and the response apparatus of the divine man is perfected, enabling him to contact and recognise the major divine aspects in the kingdoms in nature, in the planet and in the solar system eventually. be not betrayed into placing these interlaced spheres of living energy on the right or the left of the spinal cor

which will make the divine manifested christ present. they need to bear in mind that good health will be normal and declarative if the inner consciousness is harmless (and the majority of these people are guilty of a superior spirit of criticism, if they are decentralised from the lower self in the three worlds, and if they are "focussed in heaven, thereby enabling the heavenly son of man who is the son of god to lead the heavenly life when far from the heavenly realm" as an old christian mystic, long forgotten, used to say. his words have been remembered by the master m and thus recalled to my attention. another school of thought, branding themselves untruthfully as occultists, are equally in error. they work, or rather profess to work, with the centres, only fortunately for them nature

heric body into their primordial condition. the subjective life, the synthesis of will and love taking active form, is withdrawn. the partnership is dissolved. the form then breaks up; the magnetism that has held it in coherent shape is no longer present, and dissipation is complete. matter persists, but the form no longer persists. the work of the second logos ends, and the divine incarnation of the son is concluded. but the faculty or inherent quality of matter also persists, and at the end of each period of manifestation, matter (though distributed again into its primal form) is active intelligent matter plus the gain of objectivity, and the increased radiatory and latent activity which it has gained through experience. let us illustrate: the matter of the solar system, when undifferent

to god the things that are god's" in the incident where those words occur he was referring to the great act of restitution which we call death. ponder that story and see the symbolism of the soul, contained within the universal soul, as the fish within the water, and holding a coin of metal, the symbol of matter. in one of the ancient writings the following symbolic words occur said the father to the son: go forth and take unto thyself that which is not thyself, and that which is not thine own, but which is mine. regard it as thine own and seek the cause of its appearance. let it appear to be thyself. discover thus the world of glamour, the world of deep illusion, the world of falsity. then learn that thou hast taken that which is not the goal of soul endeavour. and when that moment comes

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tion in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the higher abstract mind, the custodian of ideas, and that which is the conveyor of illumination to the lower mind, once that lower mind is en rapport with the soul. with this world of ideas philosophy has professed to deal. we might call these three aspects: the receptive mind, the mind as dealt with by the psychologists. the individualised mind, the son of mind. the illuminating mind, the higher mind. third, the gap between the lower mind and the soul has to be bridged, and curiously enough humanity has always realised this and has talked therefore in terms of "achieving unity" or "making the at-one-ment" or "attaining alignment" these are all attempts to express this intuitively realised truth. vi. education also should concern itself du

aching him to use his inherited, acquired and endowed equipment for the evidencing of the social consciousness and attitudes. 7. above all else, the educators in the new age will endeavour to teach man the science of unifying the three aspects of himself which are covered by the general title of mental aspects- 28- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the lower concrete mind. b. the son of mind, the soul, the self. c. the higher, abstract or intuitional mind. or: a. the receptive mind or common-sense. b. the individualised mind. c. the illuminating mind. 8. the educators in the new age will deal with the processes or methods to be employed in bridging the gaps in consciousness between the different aspects. thus the science of the antahkarana will be brought definitely to

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d such facility that they can instantaneously be transcended. he has learnt through life in the three worlds, to penetrate into the world of mind and the lower concrete mind has become his instrument, integrating his personality, opening up to him the world of thought, and putting into his power the processes of thoughtform creation; he has learnt through meditation to make contact with the soul, the son of mind, who is himself, and has in time identified himself with that soul; he becomes the soul in fact, and can create in the world of thought those living forms which bring light and help and truth to others; thus he serves; he learns also, through unfolding perception, to penetrate into the levels of abstract thought, the antechamber to the world of pure reason, and through these three

econd, the third and the fourth initiations. 1. at the second initiation of the baptism, the control of the astral body is broken; it is sacrificed in order that the intuition, the higher counterpart of the "propelling aspiration (as it is sometimes called) may assume control. 2. at the third initiation of transfiguration, the control of the personality in the three worlds is broken in order that the son of mind, the soul, may be substituted finally for the concrete and hitherto directing lower mind. again, through the law of sacrifice, the personality is liberated and becomes simply an agent of the soul. 3. at the fourth initiation of renunciation, the destroying aspect of the law of sacrifice brings about the destruction of the causal body, the soul body, in order that the unified soul-i

moment "wherein the initiate, standing upon the point within the triangle and not upon the square" sees (in a flash of time) the great aligning procedure which will carry him from the immediate point of revelation on to the final glory, must and will be forever protected. the location of this particular point of revelation is on the mental plane; through the alignment of the concrete, lower mind, the son of mind and the abstract mind, a direct channel for vision is created. the medium of revelation at this initiation is the antahkarana, which is rapidly being constructed and can thus prove the connecting link and the esoteric mode of vision. the instrument of reception is the third eye which for a moment is temporarily suspended from its task of directing energy upon the physical plane and

ideas which must inevitably be substituted for the old, as the unfoldment of the first aspect is presented to the initiate upon the path. this, through certain later activities, will gradually seep downwards into the consciousness of humanity, and the new world religion will be founded upon a deeper spiritual perception of the father or life aspect, in place of the rapidly crystallising vision of the son or consciousness aspect. you get a clue here to the teaching which i have oft given to you, that the higher processes of spiritual unfoldment must consciously give way to a much higher phase of perception, for which- 279- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust we have, as yet, no word. in relation to consciousness, we speak constantly of initiation; in relation t

n now through appreciated and comprehended revelation add to his work with the plan and its building technique, a capacity to work with divine purpose and with those substances (etheric in nature) and those energies which permeate the cosmic etheric body (the four higher planes of our cosmic physical plane) under a law which is set in motion by the father, but which makes the building activity of the son possible, so that it is utterly in line with divine purpose. another angle of this process, revealed by the point of revelation attained in the fourth initiation, is that there is then indicated the very highest point of the process of redemption, because the energies released within the council chamber of shamballa are "the living substance which is substitutory in nature and which is mad

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ction of planetary interest upon the form side of divine expression. they are concerned with the life of matter itself, with its magical usage, and with that which is regarded as dark because, for humanity at its present stage of development, that divine aspect should have lost its major hold and should lie behind "in the darkness of that which has been outgrown and which has no further hold upon the son of god. you therefore have the following tabulation expressing what i have sought above to make clear to you. i would point out here that the fourth energy, focussed in the jewish problem, is definitely producing cleavage as a part of the divine plan. the jews are instruments in the working out of the plan for the production of certain syntheses and to bring humanity to certain realisation

ake the same form as of old, because man is today in spite of appearances more capable of handling his own affairs and determining consciously his own events. no matter how unrealised, back of all these demands and prayers in the many christian countries, lies a subtle, deep-seated conviction that the return of christ is imminent; there is widespread acceptance of the concept that the presence of the son of god can be evoked and that he must come to the assistance of his people. no matter what the dogmatic interpretation or the theological idealism, some form of this belief lies behind the cry of the millions. will this demand from the hearts of men induce the return of the christ of galilee? will it bring about the emergence into manifestation of some great son of god who will embody perh

s of every faith and all nationalities. these three are: 1. the lord of the world, the ancient of days, sanat kumara, the planetary logos, melchizedek, he to whom christ referred when he said "i and my father are one" 2. the buddha, the illumined one, the revealer of the light and the wisdom which come to us from sources far greater than our planetary life, a messenger of the gods. 3. the christ, the son of the father, the world saviour, the redeemer. he who has remained with us and who is gathering his sheep into his fold, the lord of love. in these three, whose nature is radiant love and light, humanity can grasp in some measure the nature of divinity. they are greater than is known or realised; human intelligence and aspiration can only sense their essential nature; their spiritual pote

can know nothing, for that lower vibration is a necessary aspect of your normal expression little as you may like to realise this. you need to realise that there is nothing in the masters or higher initiates which can respond to any vibration of this nature. though they cannot absorb it or react to it or redevelop it again, it can cause them the acutest discomfort and pain; that is the reason why the son of god was called in the old testament a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. this did not in reality refer to his sufferings for poor miserable humanity (as orthodox theology so selfishly interprets it) but to the fact that he had to submit himself to contact with humanity. the hierarchy is therefore, along all lines (many of which i may not indicate or upon which i may not enlarge

r allegiance to their founders the buddha, mohammed, and others. he cares not what the faith is, if the objective is love of god and of humanity. if men look for the christ who left his disciples centuries ago they will fail to recognise the christ who is in process of returning. the christ has no religious barriers in his consciousness. it matters not to him of what faith a man may call himself. the son of god is on his way and he cometh not alone. his advance guard is already here and the plan which they must follow is already made and clear. let recognition be the aim. preparation for the reappearance of the christ june 1947 i have much to say here as a sequence to my previous communication to you and here i am speaking to all aspirants and disciples. the opportunity is so great at this

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

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 the christ within. the shining forth of the inner radiance or glory. the demonstration of the 2nd or the love aspect. the manifestation of the solar angel. the appearing of the son of god, the ego or the soul within. the full expression of buddhi, as it utilises manas. this emergence into manifestation is brought about through what is understood by the following terms: the refining of the bodies which form the casket or sheath hiding the reality. the process of 'unveiling' so that one by one those bodies which veil the self are brought to a point where they are simpl

tation unmoved by aught which may occur. it also involves the determination to take the intended action (always of a creative nature and based on loving understanding) at the psychological moment (right timing, or that exact moment which the psyche or soul determines to be correct. here you have one of the interesting transferences of meaning and of relationship which occur in the ageless wisdom. the son or soul emerges into manifestation with the concurrence and aid of the mother or of the matter aspect. this is to you a most familiar truth. in the next stage, that of initiate-development, the son, in its turn, becomes the feminine or negative aspect and, demonstrating as the psyche, enables the initiate to bring into expression another divine aspect that of the will. until the fourth ini

ird or lowest aspect of the will, working through the mind or the manasic principle, was the sustaining factor in the long cycle of personality development; it was the principle of intelligent synthesis, holding the life principle intact and individualised through the long series of successive incarnations. during that cycle the will demonstrated first as the lower man; then it focussed itself in the son of mind, the divine agnishvatta, the soul, and became increasingly a factor of potency. later, as the disciple builds the antahkarana and thus establishes a direct channel of communication between the monad and the personality, the lower mind becomes fused with the abstract mind or higher mind (the manasic principle, sublimated- 140- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the

oint of evolution. they work out their plans these four great lives through the medium of the lords of the seven rays. under the law of analogy, they are to sanat kumara what the three mind aspects upon the mental plane are to the disciple and the initiate. they represent in action: the concrete or lower mind of the planetary logos, that energy which we call the soul and which the disciple calls "the son of mind" the higher or abstract mind- 174- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust but all this from cosmic levels and with cosmic implications. it was their activity which (after evolution had run a long course) brought about the act of individualisation and thus brought the human kingdom into existence. in a mysterious sense, theref

quires transmuting. it might consequently be stated that: 1. transmutation concerns the expression of the life force upon the three lower planes of human living and evolution- 182- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. transformation concerns in a most peculiar manner the three aspects of mind upon the mental plane: a. the lower mind b. the son of mind, the soul c. the higher mind. 3. transfiguration concerns the life of the spiritual triad upon its own three levels of identification. to this might be added the fact that: 1. the three lower planes of transmutation are the dense, liquid and gaseous sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. 2. the mental plane is a unique location (or state of consciousness) whereon or wherein the l

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

em which every human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercules disciple is to withdraw himself from the bonds of the mother and thus respond to the love of the father [18] this duality is also brought out in the fact that he was one of twins. we read that one twin was born of an earthly father, and that the other was the son of zeus. this is the great realization that comes to every developed and self-aware human being. he finds himself conscious of two aspects which meet in his nature. there is the well developed and highly organized personality through which he habitually expresses himself (mental, emotional and physical, with all three parts coordinated into an integrated unit. then there is the spiritual n

on the way. perform thy labor- 19- the labours of hercules and return to me, reporting on the deed" with shouts of triumph hercules rushed forth, running between the pillars of the gate with over-weening confidence and surety of power. and thus the labor started and the first great act of service was begun. the story that they tell carries instruction for the sons of men, who are the sons of god. the son of mars, diomedes of fiery fame, ruled in the land beyond the gate, and there he raised the horses and the mares of war, upon the marshes of his land. wild were these horses and fierce the mares and all men trembled at their sound, for they ravaged up and down the land, wreaking great damage, killing all the sons of men who crossed their path, and breeding steadily most wild and evil horse

he remains in spirit until the last labor has been accomplished. thus he sets out on his first labor, little realizing the magnitude of his task, and unprepared for failure. the delightful part of the story of hercules is his impulsiveness and the fact that he was not always successful. he failed sometimes and had to redo the labor until success followed on his efforts. he is told that diomedes, the son of mars, the god of war, possesses a large number of brood mares. these were running wild, devastating the countryside, doing much damage and subsisting on the flesh of human beings. no one was safe from them and terror had settled down on the neighborhood. besides this, these brood mares were breeding great numbers of war horses, and diomedes was very concerned with the outcome of the sit

ing from the lower mind, but constructing and saving when coming from the soul. the exoteric ruler of this sign is mars, the god of war, and so hercules, acting under the right direction of thought and beginning his work on the mental plane, takes his stand as the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diomedes, the son of mars (but the esoteric ruler is mercury, which "illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality) constellations in aries as is usual, there are three constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connectio

way, throwing the light upon the trail which led from crete unto the temple of the lord, within the city of the oneeyed men. upon the mainland, at the water's edge, these three men stood and grasped the bull, taking it thus away from hercules "what hast thou here" said brontes, arresting hercules upon the way "the sacred bull, oh, holy one "who art thou? tell us now thy name" said steropes "i am the son of hera, a son of man and yet a son of god. i have performed my task. take now the bull into the holy place and save it from due death. minos desired its sacrifice "who told you thus to seek and save the bull" said arges, moving towards the holy place "within myself i felt the urge and sought my teacher. told by the great presiding one, he sent me on the way, and with long search and many

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

n of the human with the divine, by contemplation and absorption of the mind in a mystical reverie. frequently quoted kabalistic words are: arikh anpin, makroprosopos, the vast countenance which is a title of kether the crown, deity supreme; zauir anpin, mikroprosopos, the lesser countenance is the central sun, tiphereth, a conception that has something in common with that of the christian christ, the son of god (the former was represented by a face in profile, the latter by the full face. m. mathers. binah is the supernal mother, aima. malkuth is the inferior mother, the bride of the mikroprosopos. daath or knowledge is the union of chokmah and binah, of wisdom and understanding. merkabah was the chariot throne of god of the vision of ezekiel mentioned in his chapters i. and x; it rested o

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

ere was not a plurality before me, but there was a likeness with multiple forms in the light, and the likenesses appeared through each other, and the likeness had three forms. he said to me "john, john, why do you doubt, or why are you afraid? you are not unfamiliar with this image, are you- that is, do not be timid- i am the one who is with you (pl) always. i am the father, i am the mother, i am the son. i am the undefiled and incorruptible one. now i have come to teach you what is and what was and what will come to pass, that you may know the things which are not revealed and those which are revealed, and to teach you concerning the unwavering race of the perfect man. now, therefore, lift up your face, that you may receive the things that i shall teach you today, and may tell them to you

nd memory. and the third light is daveithai, who has been placed over the third aeon. and there are three other aeons with him: understanding, love, and idea. and the fourth aeon was placed over the fourth light eleleth. and there are three other aeons with him: perfection, peace, and wisdom. these are the four lights which attend the divine autogenes (and) these are the twelve aeons which attend the son the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 4 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm of the mighty one, the autogenes, the christ, through the will and the gift of the invisible spirit. and the twelve aeons belong to the son of the autogenes. and all things were established by the will of the holy spirit through the autogenes "and from the foreknowledge of the perfect min

nes, the christ, by the first light armozel; and with him are his powers. and the invisible one gave him a spiritual, invincible power. and he spoke and glorified and praised the invisible spirit, saying 'it is for thy sake that everything has come into being and everything will return to thee. i shall praise and glorify thee and the autogenes and the aeons, the three: the father, the mother, and the son, the perfect power "and he placed his son seth over the second aeon in the presence of the second light oriel. and in the third aeon the seed of seth was placed over the third light daveithai. and the souls of the saints were placed (there. and in the fourth aeon the souls were placed of those who do not know the pleroma and who did not repent at once, but who persisted for a while and rep

nsented, the holy spirit poured over her from their whole pleroma. for it was not her consort who came to her, but he came to her through the pleroma in order that he might correct her deficiency. and she was taken up not to her own aeon but above her son, that she might be in the ninth until she has corrected her deficiency "and a voice came forth from the exalted aeon-heaven 'the man exists and the son of man' and the chief archon, yaltabaoth, heard (it) and thought that the voice had come from his mother. and he did not know from where it came. and he taught them, the holy and perfect mother-father, the complete foreknowledge, the image of the invisible one who is the father of the all (and) through whom everything came into being, the first man. for he revealed his likeness in a human

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

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

grain, even thenthe fireflies came to cast on thee their light 4 and aid thy growth, because without their helpthou couldst not grow nor beautiful become;therefore thou dost belong unto the raceof witches or fairies, and becausethe fireflies do belong unto the sun *queen of the fireflies! hurry apace, 5 come to me now as if running a race,bridle the horse as you hear me now sing!bridle, o bridle the son of the king!come in a hurry and bring him to me!the son of the king will ere long set thee free!and because thou for ever art brilliant and fair,under a glass i will keep thee; while there,with a lens i will study thy secrets concealed,till all their bright mysteries are fully revealed,yea, all the wondrous lore perplexedof this life of our cross and of the next.thus to all mysteries i sha

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

e continuum of the secret one. 297 she entreated. 298 manifested might demons. 299 manifested might demons. 155 previously, in the age of perfection,300 at the time when ka.yapa s teachings were about to decline, in the northern region of the southern continent jambudv.pa, in a place301 of jeweled joy and happiness [there was] the father, khotan lord sangwa,302 the mother, known as utpalgyen, and the son, khotan prince chorwa. faith having arisen in his mind,303 that son received pratimok.a vows as the monk chandrabhadra.304 having dwelled in a forest, in a city of that region, there was a daughter of king dharma.r..305 that princess was called majin.306 she was abiding within a pleasant bathing pool307 and was attacked by a malevolent poisonous snake.308 [in order that] her condition did

ictions hold the treasures with a hundred thousand inherent good qualities. may one obtain the powerful knowledge of the unabiding mind! cittaj .na abhi.i ca h" having spoken thus, this is the power of the divine silk antidote. samaya. rgya rgya rgya. next, regarding the support glue of the haughty ones "kyai. the red castle body is closed.516 the owl on the peak [screeches] clearly.517 establish the son as the support of the abode. may the haughty ones abide permanently! rak.amah.ya h. sv.h! the life-force stone and the life-energy retinue, the secret supports, are fast like the strength and peak of power. establish the son as the support of the abrupt shout. may the life-energy and the tantra be connected permanently" establish the life-force stone mantra and ma..ala. next absorb the red

and peak of power. establish the son as the support of the abrupt shout. may the life-energy and the tantra be connected permanently" establish the life-force stone mantra and ma..ala. next absorb the red spear lasso and place it in hand. regarding the vow of the inseparable life-energy "the part of the might demon lasso of the red spear, endowed with the vow of the great bliss lotus, establishes the son as the permanent activity. rak.akarma ja. bhyo rbad [331] next send forth drums, flutes, and cymbals. hang red silk from the lasso spear and cast, arouse, and incite the choice libations. soak it in the permanent offering, request, and action. give the 513 a mind focused toward enlightenment. 514 sanskrit transliteration; obscure. 515 the planet jupiter; also thursday. 516 tib. ldems se ld

7 tib. lhangs se lhang. 178 highest tantra and the highest attained substance. this is the guardian of the buddha s teachings. this is the renowned cattle of the powerful might demons, and it liberates the great power [from previous actions, the enemy, and hindering demons. because this is the power of the haughty one s life-energy, this is the protective deity of trisong deutsen. entrust this to the son of the noble lineage transmission. other vows will deteriorate. conceal the complete original and a copy of the two tantras, the life-force stone, and the magical displays, together with the full assault offering on the peak of a nomad tent518 within the heart center of the mikmizang (mig mi bzang)519 [statue. regarding one, conceal the guardians of the dharma master s words which suppress

:k -0ns$-7-@m:-1-j$-14 +k *v$-8;-0->o-;k 0v-&q#-3-0 -06m-`o$=kk 211 appendix d fragments from the unprecedented elegant explanations (114.12-114.20) previously, when the teachings of the buddha ka.yapa had nearly disappeared, in khotan, a land of precious joy and happiness in the north of the jambudvipa, in a place called "dark willow grove" there was a man named chorpo, prince of khotan, born as the son of the father, the king of khotan, named sangwa, and the mother, named utpal gyen. after reaching adulthood, he was inspired by thoughts of renunciation; having taken monastic vows, he became fully ordained as the monk called candrabhaha. he dwelled single-pointedly in meditation in a forest of king dharma.r. s country (115.16-117.5) the lord s teachings prophesied "a tibetan lake having d

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kissed her form and caused menstruation, which was passed on to all women as lilith is directly connected with their fiery and dark sides. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft is lilith or babalon, as described previously. she is also hecate, the darkened moon goddess of the cunning circle, whose blessing is both youth, imagination and death. the son is within you and that is cain, the baphometic daemon whose magick is the core essence of the religion of sorcery. the very circle casting rite as written by gerald gardner presents the mother of witchcraft, mother, darksome and divine, mine the scourge and mine the kiss, the five-point star of love and bliss. within the circle there is the very graal of the adversary, that through self-lo

ry graal of the adversary, that through self-love can the essence of the pentagram be sensed and understood. he refers to hecate or lilith (via diana) as being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil and his bride, the adversary. that by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cain s true parentage. cain was in fact a half human, half demon bastard child of adam and lilith. it was for this reason that the lord would not accept his offerings and prayers, rather than any specific demands

ve cain as teacher and guide, who recommended the worship of the sensual powers in preference to the powers above, and who practiced his doctrine by destroying abel, the expounder of the opposite doctrine (ib. 11. the jewish encyclopedia, compiled by kaufmann kohler, w. h. bennett, louis ginzberg herein we can see that cain is thus a flesh and blood embodiment of the luciferian path itself, he is the son of satan and lilith, the dark essence which is deeply connected with eve, the wife of adam. cain is not only the patron father of witches, also the symbol of the initiate upon the antinomian path. nathaniel harris, an hereditary british witch, whose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

through their mystics- guided by the light of the latin church- as meaning that our earth and all on it were redeemed by the cross, while venus (otherwise lucifer or satan) was trampling upon it. venus is the most occult, powerful, and mysterious of all the planets; the one whose influence upon, and relation to the earth is most prominent. in exoteric brahmanism, venus or sukra- a male deity- is the son of bhrigu, one of the prajapati and a vedic sage, and is daitya-guru, or the priest-instructor of the primeval giants. the whole history of "sukra" in the puranas, refers to the third and to the fourth races "it is through sukra that the 'double ones (the hermaphrodites) of the third (root-race) descended from the first 'sweatborn" says the commentary. therefore it is represented under the

universally adored throughout egypt, who conferred on the sovereigns of the 18th and 19th dynasties the symbols of life and power. but subsequently, in the course of the 20th dynasty, he is suddenly treated as an evil demon, insomuch that his effigies and name are obliterated on all the monuments and inscriptions that could be reached" the real occult reason will be given in these pages* sukra is the son of bhrigu the great rishi, and one of the seven prajapati, the founder of the race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refe

ly, on logical as well as on astronomical data. the moon being an inferior body to the earth even, to say nothing of other planets, the terrestrial men produced by her sons- the lunar men or "ancestors- from her shell or body, cannot be immortal. they cannot hope to become real, self-conscious and intelligent men, unless they are finished, so to say, by other creators. thus in the puranic legend, the son of the moon (soma) is budha (mercury "the intelligent" and the wise, because he is the offspring of soma, the "regent" of the visible moon, not of indu, the physical moon. thus mercury is the elder brother of the earth, metaphorically- his step-brother, so to say, the offspring of spirit- while she (the earth) is the progeny of the body. these allegories have a deeper and more scientific m

by exact chronology. it may have been 100,000 years ago, it may have been 1,000,000, for all that the outside world will ever know. the mystic west and freemasonry talk loudly of enoch and hermes. the mystic east speaks of narada, the old vedic rishi, and of asuramaya, the atlantean. it has already been hinted that of all the incomprehensible characters in the mahabharata and the puranas, narada, the son of brahrna in matsya purana, the progeny of kasyapa and the daughter of daksha[[footnote(s* achyuta is an almost untranslatable term. it means that which is not subject to fall or change for the worse: the unfalling; and it is the reverse of chyuta "the fallen" the dhyanis who incarnate in the human forms of the third root- race and endow them with intellect (manas) are called the chyuta

n "and he died and another reigned in his stead (genesis xxvi. 31 et seq. zohar iii, 292a. why? because "the holy city had not been prepared" and what is the "holy city? the maquom (the secret place or the shrine) on earth: in other words, the human womb, the microcosmic copy and reflection of the heavenly matrix, the female space or primeval chaos, in which the male spirit fecundates the germ of the son, or the visible universe* so much so, that in the paragraph on "the emanation of the male and female principles" in the zohar[[footnote(s* vide "the holy of holies: its esoteric meaning" in part io of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 85 the son of yah (ibid, it is said that, on this earth, the wisdom from the "holy ancient "does not shine except in male and female "hohmah, wisdom, is the father

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

red once again for seven eternities. 2. time was not, for it lay asleep in the infinite bosom of duration. 3. universal mind was not, for there were no ah-hi to contain it. 4. the seven ways to bliss were not. the great causes of misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them. 5. darkness alone filled the boundless all, for father, mother and son were once more one, and the son had not awakened yet for the new wheel, and his pilgrimage thereon. 6. the seven sublime lords and the seven truths had ceased to be, and the universe, the son of necessity, was immersed in paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that which is and yet is not. naught was. 7. the causes of existence had been done away with; the visible that was, and the invisible that is, rested in eternal non-b

as radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. darkness vanished and was no more; it disappeared in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or father and mother. 7. behold, oh lanoo! the radiant child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent glory: bright space son of dark space, which emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. it is oeaohoo the younger, the* he shines forth as the son; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom; the one is four, and four takes to itself three* and the union produces the sapta, in whom are the seven which become the tridasa (or the hosts and the multitudes. behold him lifting the veil and unfurling it from east to west. he shuts out the above, and leaves the below to be seen as the great illusion. he marks the places for the shining ones

o for those who during the kalpa are progressing towards the great day "be with us" thus were formed the rupa and the arupa: from one light seven lights; from each of the seven, seven times seven lights. the wheels watch the ring- stanza vi. 1. by the power of the mother of mercy and knowledge- kwan-yin- the "triple" of kwan-shai-yin, residing in kwan-yin-tien, fohat, the breath of their progeny, the son of the sons, having called forth, from the lower abyss, the illusive form of sien-tchang and the seven elements* 2. the swift and radiant one produces the seven laya centres, against which none will prevail to the great day "be-with-us" and seats the universe on these eternal foundations surrounding tsien-tchan with the elementary germs. 3. of the seven- first one manifested, six concealed

of the ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality" but only when we shall have reached the absolute consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by maya- stanza i- continued. 5. darkness alone filled the boundless all (a, for father, mother and son were once more one, and the son had not awakened yet for the new wheel* and his pilgrimage thereon (b (a "darkness is father-mother: light their son" says an old eastern proverb. light is inconceivable except as coming from some source which is the cause of it; and as, in the instance of primordial light, that source is unknown, though as strongly demanded by reason and logic, therefore it is called "darkness" by us, fro

eturned to its one primordial element- there was neither centre of luminosity, nor eye to perceive light, and darkness necessarily filled the boundless all (b) the father-mother are the male and female principles in root-nature, the opposite poles that manifest in all things on every plane of kosmos, or spirit and substance, in a less allegorical aspect, the resultant of which is the universe, or the son. they are "once more one" when in "the night of brahma" during pralaya, all in the objective universe has returned to its one primal and eternal cause, to reappear at the following dawn- as it does periodically "karana- eternal cause- was alone. to put it more plainly: karana is alone during the "nights of brahma" the previous objective universe has dissolved into its one primal and eterna

BLUE EQUINOX

breeding, source and seed of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. the equinox 266 appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to

BOOK OF ENOCH

ow the runaways are regarded at home. some background details do emerge later in the book. at 106.13 (section 10, we learn that the runaways came to enoch's area in his father's day. enoch is a scribe, see 12.4, and he says that it was the angels who introduced writing. so, enoch was probably taught to write, and employed, by the runaway angels. at 10.1-3, the most high instructs an angel to save the son of lamech (this will be noah) from the flood. this is interesting, because besides prophesying details of the flood, and its timing, it reveals that this was written at a time when enoch is a grandfather (of lamech, but he does not yet know what lamech's son will be called. if the runaways were young in enoch's father s day, then they are probably at least 10 years older than enoch and may

of a prophecy of doom for the runaways: they will see their families destroyed by fighting amongst themselves during their lifetime. they will suffer in the afterlife and the societies they founded will be wiped away by a flood. he says, at 10.22, that there will never again be another flood like the one to come. 10.1] and then the most high, the great and holy one, spoke and sent arsyalalyur to the son of lamech, and said to him: 10.2 "say to him in my name; hide yourself! and reveal to him the end, which is coming, because the whole earth will be destroyed. a deluge is about to come on all the earth; and all that is in it will be destroyed. 10.3] and now teach him so that he may escape and his offspring may survive for the whole earth" 10.4] and further the lord said to raphael "bind az

and he put them together for me, in the words of the book of parables. 12) the book of parables the content of the second two parables is similar; the main theme is a messiah, who will bring guidance at the correct time. this eventually brings about an age of enlightenment, where the souls of the righteous can live in peace. 37.1] the second vision that he saw, the vision of wisdom, which enoch, the son of jared, the son of malalel, the son of cainan, the son of enosh, the son of seth, the son of adam, saw. 37.2] and this is the beginning of the words of wisdom, which i raised my voice to speak, and say. to those who dwell on dry ground- hear, you men of old, and see, those who come after; the words of the holy one, which i will speak, in front of the lord of spirits. 37.3] it would have

nd his head was white like wool. and with him there was another whose face had the appearance of a man and his face was full of grace like one of the holy angels. 46.2] and i asked one of the holy angels, who went with me and showed me all the secrets, about that son of man, who he was, and from where he was, and why he went with the head of days. 46.3] and he answered me, and said to me "this is the son of man who has righteousness and with whom righteousness dwells. he will reveal all the treasures of that which is secret, for the lord of spirits has chosen him, and through uprightness his lot has surpassed all others, in front of the lord of spirits, forever. 46.4] and this son of man, who you have seen, will rouse the kings and the powerful from their resting places, and the strong fro

BOOK OF JASHAR

sis. for example, genesis 5 also lists lamech as the name of noah's father. it is natural to see some link between naamah and noah, and there has been a rabbinical tradition that identifies naamah as noah's wife. in this story, however, tubal-cain is identified as noah's husband, rather than as naamah's brother. thus, from the biblical perspective, noah in this story seems to be a mixture of noah the son of lamech (from genesis 5, noah the daughter of zelophehad (from numbers 26, and naamah the daughter of lamech and zillah (from genesis 4. once we have remarked this mixing of characters from genesis and numbers, however, we are left with a more fundamental question: what happens to the story when noah is recast as a woman? by casting noah as a woman, the narrative achieves a more even bal

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king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the

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owledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself, but for those who have not yet attained to the pathways, even though t

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both "father" and "mother" for her fruitfulness. cometh from the yod of the supernal wisdom [42] d a l e t h 5 she is the thought, which spinneth the plan of existence, that web of manifestation which entangleth the minds of fools, and giveth understanding to the wise who know the secret of its mystery. in her is concealed the plentitude of tetragrammaton, and hidden in that door of perplexity is the son, who is from all and among all. 6 this is the gateway of life and form. yet through it come also death and conflict, even as it is shown in the numbering of daleth. for d l th, being 434, is also ii, and 11 is the half, or division, of 22, which represented: the whole circle of creation. therefore is the door a cause of separation, and of the setting of one part against another; and for th

s also explains the meaning of the line "in her is concealed the plentitude of tetragrammaton, for tetragrammaton is the qabalistic designation of the four-lettered divine name, i h v h [47] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s "door of perplexity" refers to the letter-name daleth, signifying "door. perplexity, because to daleth qabalists attribute the pair of opposites, wisdom and folly. it is said that the son is hidden in her because the value of the noun b n, ben, son, is 52, the same as the number of aima. and, again, since daleth is here identified with binah, the text refers also to the qabalistic doctrine that in binah are concealed both the father and the son, because binah is spelt b i n h, so that this noun contains yod, i, the letter of the father, heh, h, the letter of the mother, and

r because the value of the noun b n, ben, son, is 52, the same as the number of aima. and, again, since daleth is here identified with binah, the text refers also to the qabalistic doctrine that in binah are concealed both the father and the son, because binah is spelt b i n h, so that this noun contains yod, i, the letter of the father, heh, h, the letter of the mother, and b n, ben, the name of the son. 6 adding the digits of 434 gives us 11. in theqabalah the number 22 represents the whole circle of creation because it is the number of letters in the alphabet. thus the book of formation says "twenty-two basal letters: he designed them, he formed them, he purified them, he weighed them, and he exchanged them, each one with all: he formed by means of them the whole creation and everything

mable power of self-reflection. this power the secret wisdom calleth the mother. it is the power of understanding, the power also of the elohim, for in binah are the elohim enthroned, and their thrones are set in her. mine are the thrones, mine the powers of the elohim, and i, whom men adore as father, am known also to the wise as the great mother in whose name are hid the names of the father and the son. 4 this name is the sharp sword whereby the one that i am divideth itself into the many. from binah this sharp sword proceedeth, and by its separative force i cleave asunder mine own unity dividing myself into two, the father and the mother [76] z a i n this thou mayest discern in zain; whose beginning is the sword of separation, whose middle is the paternal yod, and whose end referreth by

numeration to the gates of the mother. here, too, shalt thou perceive the, elohim (for they are seven, and. the lights of emanation (for they are ten, and the gates of understanding (for they are fifty. thus in zain, the sword, is shown a figure of all things that have been, that are, and that shall be in time to come. 5 and the sword flasheth forth. from the heart of the mother into the heart of the son, and its course is the path of the disposing intelligence. this path is called the foundation of beauty in the place of the supernals. and why is it so called? because it riseth in binah and proceedeth unto tiphareth, and that same binah is thus the foundation of beauty; yet her place is among the supernals, for she is the second emanation from the crown [77] t h e book of t o k e n s 6 af

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lower walls. only his feet are human and he possesses the large, round eyes of an owl, the antlers and ears of a stag, the front paws of a lion or bear, the genitals of a wild cat and the tail of a horse or wolf. by the neolithic period, which began around 7500 bc and lasted until about 5500 bc, the hunter-gatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the son-consort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon

hese deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals

shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was th

e earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation [insert pic p268- mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no dominion over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast

. the name alban arthuran means 'light of arthur, named after king arthur who in legend bore the title sun king. his round table represented the great solar wheel of the year. the common theme of the festival that spans many ages and cultures is that the mother goddess, under one of her many names, gives birth to the sun itself, the sun god. it is the same theme as the virgin mary giving birth to the son of god in a cave or stable at the darkest hour of the year. the virgin birth features in several cultures and traditionally a candle (or other flame) is left burning all night on this longest of nights, to persuade the newborn sun to rise again on christmas eve to light mary on her way. the feasting of christmas was another magical gesture to ensure there would be food again in the spring

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heir practice. in antebellum south carolina, an ordeal for discovering theft among slaves was noted as making use of the dust "from the grave of a person who had died last" and an incantational formula with explicit christian referents. mixing the grave dust with water, an examining committee offered the concoction to the accused individual while uttering the appeal "in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost, if you have taken sam's chicken don't drink this water, for if you do you will die and go to hell and be burned in fire and brimstone, but if you have not, you may take it and it will not hurt you" while ingestion of the grave dirt as a sign of solidarity with the supernatural realm remained consistent with african beliefs, this afro-christian version of the ritual repl

southern workman, stating his intent to focus on the "curious prevalence of superstition among the colored people of the south" armstrong requested eyewitness accounts of folk beliefs among blacks, and in particular, descriptions of root doctors and conjurers. his aim in gathering this material was to "drag [supernatural practices] into the light where they [would] show for what they really are" the son of missionaries who had lived in the hawaiian islands, armstrong was negatively predisposed toward the spiritual activities of non-christian peoples and drew parallels between his youthful observations of the sandwich islanders and the practices of kahuna (a traditional hawaiian system of magic) and the activities of the african american conjurers. believing that the continued viability of

353 n. 12; joseph waring, the history of medicine in south carolina (spartanburg, s.c: reprint company, 1971, cited in wood, black majority, pp. 290.91. see also wood "people's medicine in the early south" p. 52. garden, a renowned botanist and physician in charleston, was the grandson and namesake of the anglican commissary of the early 1700s. 32. thomas bluett, some memoirs of the life of job, the son of solomon the high priest of boonda in africa (london: richard ford, 1734; and "olaudah equiano of the niger ibo" both reprinted in philip curtin, africa remembered\ 182\ narratives by west africans from the era of the slave trade (madison: university of wisconsin press, 1967, p. 80; winterbottom, account of the native africans, p. 266; robert voeks "african medicine and magic in the amer

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yan migration into anatolia around 2000 bc.(lincoln: 1981..pg 181) harran founded as a merchant outpost of ur, situated on the major trade route across northern mesopotamia. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yaj

an 1062-1110 petrus alfonsi proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. 1071-1126 guilhelm ix duca d'aquitania, vii conte di poitiers troubadour c. 1075 yehuda ha-levi born. 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 t

rned to rashi for biblical interpretation. 1270 thomas aquinas is sympathetic to the idea of alchemical transmution in his summa theologia. 1270-1348 abner de burgos(aka alfonso de valladolid) proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. experimented with letter combinations in visions; wrote "moreh sedek: conceptions of shekinah and shi'ur komah(measure of the body).identifies metatron with the son in the trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r. baruch torgami in barcelona, teacher of abraham abulafia. his circle had access to al-gazali's description of sufism contributing to the crystalization of prophetic kabbalah. wrote maftehot ha-k

gorique et la d claration de deux doutes qui se trouvent en comptant au jeu de paume, lesquelles connaissances ont t longtemps cach es par cy devant: mais depuis peu de jours sont retrouv es et expliqu es par i.j hearts/cups to air and spades/swords to fire> 1583-1628 johan daniel mylius 1583 dr john dee and his associate edward kelley in prague, in the company of the emperor rudolph ii (the son of maximilian ii. william schaw was appointed master of works for all royal building projects for king james vi (later to become james i of england. 1584-1653 johann valentin andreae 1584 edward kelley's vision of four castles john dee and edward kelley in cracow bruno's expulsion of the triumphant beast published. in london, alexander dickson the scottish disciple of bruno, published a bo

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eceased wife should come home again, he would be content to receive her. he affirmed it with tears and lamentations, and i brought him his wife together with his son, and gave an account of all the preceding business, entreating him to ratify with his consent my intended espousals. after a long dispute he could not deny me my right, but had to leave me his wife. but there was still a debate about the son. page 41 here the virgin interrupted him, and said, it makes me wonder how you could double the afflicted man s grief. what, he answered, was i not concerned about it? upon this there arose a dispute amongst us, yet most affirmed that he had done right. no, he said, i freely returned him both his wife and his son. now tell me, my lords, was my honesty, or this man s joy, the greater? these

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emove them. if we see it that way, it becomes a positive experience at least in outcome. sources 1 barbara marciniak, bringers of the dawn (bear& co, sante fe, 1992) 2 hari prasad shastri, the ramayana of valmiki (shanti sadam, london, 1976) vol. ii, p95 3 jesus is a greek translation of a judean name, probably y'shua, the hebrew for joshua. the full name would have been y'shua ben yosef (joshua, the son of joseph) 4 george c. andrews, extra-terrestrials among us (llewellyn publications, usa, 1986) p63 5 extra-terrestrials among us, p54-55 6 ibid p73-74 7 ibid p72-73 8 ibid p63 9 preston b. nichols with peter moon, the montauk project (sky books, new york, 1992) 20..and the truth shall set you free 10 extra-terrestrials among us, p54 11 ibid p59 12 christian o'brien, the genius of the fen

e of the leading revolutionaries and founding fathers of the united states was benjamin franklin, the first grand master of the freemasons of pennsylvania. he 34..and the truth shall set you free became a friend of sir francis dashwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support of the french freemasons for the american revolution, and he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron was to play a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. fra

tates and close associate of french revolutionaries, and .erasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would later be the frontman for this-world-is-all-there-is. what a coincidence! another member of the lunar society was the unitarian, josiah wedgwood, founder of the famous pottery, and his daughter was to become the mother of charles darwin after she married dr robert darwin, the son of erasmus darwin. nothing like keeping it in the family! six of the lunar society's members were educated at edinburgh university, as was charles darwin. the society was a revolutionary organisation which supported the overthrowing of the monarchies and the undermining of god in the human belief system. benjamin franklin became a sort of shuttle 'diplomat' for the cause, in the same way t

englishman who exploited the continent and peoples of africa, and particularly the diamond reserves of south africa. the name rhodesia, now zimbabwe, is an indication of his influence in that part of the world. as a student at oxford university, rhodes was inspired by a fine arts professor called john ruskin, who is still considered a legendary figure at oxford. ruskin was born in london in 1819, the son of a wealthy wine merchant, and inherited a large fortune. his hero was the ancient greek philosopher, plato, whose works he read almost every day. plato had a brilliant mind and made a great contribution to human debate and knowledge, but some of his views on how to structure a society by top-down imposition could hardly be further from my own. ruskin was a believer in the new world order

gs comes from wall street and the bolshevik revolution by anthony c. sutton (veritas publishing, morley, western australia, 1981)p49-50 7 the new order, our secret rulers, pl7 8 the new order, our secret rulers, p10 9 jim keith, casebook on alternative 3 (llluminet press, lilburn, usa, 1994) p20 10 said at a hearing of the post-war graham committee, which investigated baruch. 11 perry belmont was the son of august belmont, the banker who was the rothschild agent financing and manipulating the union side in the american 'war of independence. 12 norman dodd reported these findings in an interview with writer, william h. mcllhany ii, for 13 his 1980 book, the tax exempt foundations (arlington house, westport, usa. the special house committee to investigate tax exempt foundations reported in 1

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an egyptian system developed more locally. it is the latter that egyptologists have been decoding. the earlier sumerian hieroglyphics in egypt flummoxed them. but not waddell. here is one example of how he proved his point. one of the best-known kings of sumer is called king sargon. the sumerians recorded that he had a son, who later became emperor, called manis. at the same time, waddell shows, the son of the king in the indus valley was known as manja, and in egypt he was called manj (abbreviated to man- the guy known to the greeks as menes and to english egyptologists as mena.1 so we have the ruler's son, and later ruler, in sumer, egypt, and the indus valley in the same period called variously, manis, manj, and manja. 50 children of the matrix the reason becomes obvious- it was the sa

, but also in the essentials of their culture and civilisation; and the sumerian sign for the man element in menes' name in the egyptian and indus valley inscriptions (manj and manja) reads also dialectically min."18 the sumerians, egyptians, and minoans also used identical systems for their calendars and their concepts of astronomy were identical. the most famous story of minoan crete is that of the son of king minos. his son was said to be the minotaur, the half man, half bull, which defended the labyrinth under the palace at knossos according to legend. how interesting, therefore, that nar-am, the son of menes, was known as the "strong wild bull".19 his name, nar-am, consisted of nar, meaning strong or mighty in both sumerian and egyptian, and am, meaning wild bull. naram is also depict

gend. both were of the bronze age, replacing the neolithic period. both were known as sea emperors of the mediterranean. both were said to have introduced civilisation. both built a labyrinth. both died on a sea voyage to the west. both used seal impressions on clay and both used a linear script of sumerian type, or very similar. both had the same physical "aryan" appearance. minos was said to be the son of zeus, menes was descended from zagg (zeus. minos was a votary and priest of zeus; menes was a votary and high priest of zagg. minos was a giver of 54 children of the matrix figure 11: the aegean/mediterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atl

gure 11: the aegean/mediterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atlantis revisited 55 laws direct from zeus (another story constantly repeated around the world and used for the make-believe moses) and menes established laws said to have come from zagg. the son of minos was a bull-man or minotaur. the son of menes was known as "the strong wild bull".21 can even the most padlocked of academic minds still go on ignoring the fact that menes was minos? i suspect they can. in doing so they hold together the house of cards that scams people into missing a truth, as we shall explore, which is critical to understanding the so-called unexplainable "myster

between spain and north africa] to the british isles."40 in truth, this was the nordic race and the nordic-reptilian "aryans" returning to the lands from which many of their ancestors came after the atlantean cataclysms. the evidence presented in this chapter, and this is a fraction of what exists even after thousands of years of suppression, supports waddell's conclusion that menes, manis, manj, the son of sargon, ruler of the sumerian empire, and also known as king minos to the greeks, actually died in ireland" this story sums up how 64 children of the matrix ludicrous official history can be and how one mis-translation can make a complete pig's ear of what really happened. according to the accepted story, menes died after a reign of some 60 years when he was killed by a "kheb beast" tha

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thedesign of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why.colorado is a major centre for the new world order and the queen of england,under another name, has been buying up land there. as you will see later, the britishroyal family are massively involved in this story and so is the murder of diana,princess of wales. one of christophers main contacts was a guy called phil schneider,the son of a german u-boat commander in world war ii, who was commissioned tobuild a number of deep underground bases in the united states. i saw some of hislectures on video when he began to speak out publicly about the underground networkof bases, cities and tunnels throughout the united states. he later died in verysuspicious circumstances which were meant to appear like suicide. schneider said

vels.46 in the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah, and its derivative, thebook of enoch, a strange birth is described of a non-human child, who turns out to benoah of great flood fame. references to this also appear in the dead sea scrolls, therecords of the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago which included muchmaterial from the book of enoch. the strange child the texts describe is the son oflamech. he is said to be unlike a human being and more like the children of theangels in heaven. lamechs child, noah, is described as white skinned and blond-haired with eyes that made the whole house shine like the sun. blond-haired, blue-eyed beings with laser-like eyes is a description for mysterious people or gods whichspans thousands of years to the present day and appear in culture

orld.lamech questions his wife about the father of the child:41behold, i thought then within my heart that conception was (due) to the watchers and theholy ones .and to the nephilim .and my heart was troubled within me because of thischild.47in the shahnemeh or book of kings, the legendary history of iran completed in 1010ad by the arab poet, firdowsi, he describes the birth of a baby called zal, the son of aking called sam. again the king is horrified by the unearthly appearance of his child whohas a very large body as clean as silver, hair as white as an old mans and like snow,and a face compared with the sun. sam calls his son a demon child, a child of the daevas- the watchers. like the patriarchs of the old testament, the iranians appeared to have anaversion to children born with extre

are said to have horns and im sure this is the trueorigin of the horned headgear of ancient royalty. the classic depiction of the devil also52has draco-like horns. nimrod was given the title baal (thelord) and semiramis was baalti (my lady. the latinterm for my lady is mea domina which in its corrupteditalian form became madonna.8 nimrod was represented ina dual role of god the father and ninus, the son ofsemiramis, and her olive branch was symbolic of thisoffspring produced through a virgin birth. ninus was alsoknown as tammuz who was said to have been crucifiedwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammu

r.about march 25th, the old fixed date for easter, the sun enters the astrological sign ofaries the ram or the lamb. at this time the ancients used to sacrifice lambs because theybelieved this would appease the gods, most notably the sun god, and ensure abundantharvests. in other words they believed that the blood of the lamb would mean that theirsins would be forgiven.in ancient babylon, tammuz, the son of queen semiramis, was said to have beencrucified with a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rock was rolled away fromthe caves entrance three days later, his body had disappeared. ive definitely heard thatsomewhere before. the ancients also symbolised the sun as a baby in december, a youthat easter, a strapping, immensely strong, man in the summer, an ageing man losing hispower

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foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who they might seem. they are evil spirits set out to enslave other spiritual beings. us! christ was trying to tea

ual of adonay; but lucifer, god of light and god of good, is struggling for humanity against adonay, the god of darkness and evil" instructions to the 23 supreme councils of the world, july 14, 1889. recorded by a.c. de la rive in la femme et l'enfant dans la francmaconnerie universelle on page 588 "lucifer, the light-bearer! strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! lucifer, the son of the morning! is it he who bears the light, and with it's splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls? doubt it not" morals and dogma page 321 as time goes on, people will realize who the real enemy is. the human race is asleep and it needs to awaken. if you really want to learn more, nevermind the red pill and eat the red apple and you will learn just how deep the rabb

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the fact that there were many religions established during the cycle and many sects within each religion. there were also many different concepts as to who god was and what was expected of man from god. it may be said that the law of the aeon of muhammed was there is one god and muhammed is his prophet. it may also be said that the law of the aeon of christ (or aeon of st. paul) was only through the son can you approach the father. the significance of this is that all aeons established within the cycle of restriction had a common theme: rejection of the natural world, denial of the ego, repression of human needs, mortification of the flesh, and obedience to church and state. crowley identified that a new cycle of expansion had begun and the cycle of restriction had ended. he refered to th

DEMONIC BIBLE

the dread pages of the demonic bible. the demonic bible was shown to the magician john dee. dee translated eighteen of the "demonic" keys from the strange demonic language in which the demonic bible is written. when dee translated his keys from the demonic bible he named them the enochian keys. they are not, as is commonly believed, named for the enoch who "walked with god" but rather for enoch, the son of cain. cain was the first man to perform the rituals of the demonic bible and he murdered his brother as a sacrifice to the ancient ones. his son, enoch, was given to the serpent from birth. this demonic language revealed to dee during his scrying experiments is written in an ancient script which has been passed down for centuries by practitioners of the black arts (many of them unaware

DIABOLUS

y within magick michael w. ford 2004 michael w. ford for the order of phosphorus members only. succubus publishing website http//algol.chaosmagic.com psychonaut 75 website http//www.psychonaut75.com e-mail: keteb75@psychonaut75.com 2 contents introduction i. set the egyptian god of darkness ii. ahriman the persian devil and the whore of darkness iii. the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son iv. the gnostic yaltabaoth, child of chaos v. the path of the crooked serpent leviathan and beelzebub end introduction the very intent and purpose of this essay is to bring to light the roots of the adversary in magick from a historical and mythological standpoint. as a practitioner of magick from a satanic and luciferian viewpoint, many often inquire on my sources and inspirations from wh

both macrocosm and microcosm; only your petty vanity could decree otherwise. worship me, and i shall give you the stars. reject me, and i shall give the depths of the abyss, for i lie within your own being from the book of hermes from the alex sanders lectures in the manuscript of the book of tahuti by charles pace, he writes that hermes was anubis who is death hermanubis or heru-em-anpu, who is the son of set. it is said 7 azothoz, a grimoire of the adversary by michael w. ford, succubus publishing 9 that anubis is very similar to the grecian hecate, as they are deific forces over both the celestial and infernal realms and like dogs, were able to see in the night. as alexander sanders wrote, the inverted triangle was the symbol of the left hand path- after the great flood, the ancient eg

that the habits of men were corrupted, the world distressed, and there was increase of morality among the creatures -the denkard13 it is suggested also by the arabs that this king s name was zohak, while the mogs suggested that he was bivarasp, whom of which existed in the time of noah, was most feared for his murdering of many kings. ahriman appeared in the legend of zohak14 first visited zohak, the son of king mirtas, disguised as a noble visiting. his words were empowering, as one who sought to become something other- if thou wilt listen to me, and enter into a covenant, i will raise thy head above the sun thus the prince listened to ahriman. he later took the throne and became king. ahriman taught him the arts of magic and zohak slowly became what the just called a tyrant king. it was

of this faith considered the worshippers of demons to be an abomination and that they sought infernal power makes them polluted with nasa, or the druj-nasa, which is a demon who takes the form of a fly to enter the corpse and steal the spirit. this demon is said to come forth from azrezura, the cold mountain of the north which leads to hell. 20 iii. the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son the hebrew samael, satan and islamic shaitan and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:9) the spirit of diabolus is one which remains timeless and extensive. this sorcerous daemon has walked the earth since the dawn of mankind, from d

ermes or woden. he is the second twin, the waning sun, lord over mysticism, magic, power and death, the baleful destroyer. the god of war, of justice, king of kings, since all pay their homage to him. ruler of the winds, the windyat. cain imprisioned in the moon, ever desiring earth. he is visualized as a tall dark man, shadowy, cold and deadly. letters from robert cochrane here we see that cain, the son of samael and lilith, is the devil manifest on the earth the son of shaitan. he is above the flesh, yet his essence is found within it. the lord of magick is dual he is nightside and dayside, sun and the moon, life and death. cain is here the body of the magician, the soul of baphomet if you will. as found in the book of cain31 the dragon samael and lilith join as one to beget the son of f

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

kill, ability, or powers. i.o.b: a ritual developed by donald michael kraig, as a powerful method of getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marriage. she was the wife of jupiter

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

ode of mentation on one side of the chasm differs in kind from the mode of mentation prevailing upon the other. tiphareth is the highest sphere to which normal human consciousness can rise when philip said to our lord "show us the father" jesus replied "he that bath seen me hath seen the father" all the human mind can know of kether is its reflection in tiphareth, the christ-centre, the sphere of the son. paroketh is the veil of the temple which was rent asunder at the crucifixion. 25. we now come in our brief preliminary survey to the third triangle composed of the sephiroth netzach, hod, and yesod. netzach is the basal sephirah of the pillar of mercy, hod is the basal sephirah of the pillar of severity, and yesod is upon the middle pillar of mildness or equilibrium, in direct alignment w

agical triangle; and if we assign to kether the sphere of the three in one, the undivided unity, and to tiphareth the sphere of the redeemer or son, we may be justified in referring to yesod the sphere of the holy spirit, the enlightener; mystical qabala page 35 this is an attribution of the christian trinity that fits better upon the tree than its assignation to the three supernals, which brings the son in the place of abba, the father, and the holy spirit in the place of ama, the mother, and is obviously irrelevant and productive of innumerable discrepancies in the correspondences and symbolisms. in this we see an example of the value of the tree as a method of counterchecking vision or meditation; correct attributions fit upon the tree through endless ramifications of symbolism, as we s

d burnt, and gave birth to her divine son prematurely. the spiritual experience assigned to kether is the vision of god face to face; and god (jehovah) said to moses "thou canst not look upon my face and live" 21. but although the sight of the divine father blasts mortals as with fire, the divine son comes familiarly among them and can be invoked by the appropriate ntes-bacchanalia in the case of the son of zeus, and the eucharist in the case of the son of jehovah. thus we see that there is a lower form of manifestation, which "shews us the father" but that this rite owes its validity solely to the fact that it derives its illuminating intelligence, its jnner robe of glory, from the father, chokmah. ii 22. the grade of initiation corresponding to chokmah is said to be that of magus, and th

tuation on the tree: in the centre of the pillar of equilibrium. yetziratic text: the sixth path is called the mediating intelligence, because in it are multiplied the influxes of the emanations; for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the blessings with which they themselves are united. titles given to tiphareth: zoar anpin, the lesser countenance. melekh, the king. adam. the son. the man. mystical qabala page 128 god-name: tetragrammaton aloah va daath. archangel: raphael. order of angels: malachim, kings. mundane chakra: shemesh, the sun. spiritual experience: vision of the harmony of things. mysteries of the crucifixion. virtue: devotion to the great work. vice: pride. correspondence in the microcosm: the breast. symbols: the lamen. the rosy cross. the calvary c

and transmuted into archetypal ideas. it is, in fact, the place of incarnation. for this reason it is called the child. and because incarnation of the god-ideal also implies the sacrificial disincarnation, to tiphareth are assigned the mysteries of the crucifixion, and all the sacrificed gods are placed here when the tree is applied to the pantheons. god the father is assigned to kether; but god the son is assigned to tiphareth for the reasons given above. mystical qabala page 130 9. exoteric religion goes no farther up the tree than tiphareth. it has no understanding of the mysteries of creation as represented by the symbolism of kether, chokmah, and binah; nor of the modes of operation of the dark and bright archangels as represented in the symbolism of geburah and gedulah; nor of the m

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

d, by the holy god, by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified of all evil influences in the name of adonai, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over salt) creature of earth, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of jesus christ his son, our saviour, i consecrate thee) to the service of god, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost. amen"(pointing first and second fingers at the water) i exorcise thee, creature of water, by the living god, by the holy god) by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified from all evil influences in the name of elohim sabbaoth, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over water) creature of water, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almig

t god, that thou mayest be purified from all evil influences in the name of elohim sabbaoth, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over water) creature of water, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, who decreed a firmament in the midst of the waters, and of jesus christ his son our saviour, i consecrate thee) to the service of god, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost. amen"(casting the salt into the water) we pray thee, o god, lord of heaven and earth, and of all that in them is, both visible and invisible, that thou mayest stretch forth the right hand of thy power upon these creatures of the elements and hallow them in thy holy name. grant that this salt may make for health of body and this water for health of soul, and that ther

y are used every power of adversity and every illusion and artifice of evil, for the sake of jesus christ our saviour. amen" the water thus consecrated may be used as a bath, or for making the sign of cross upon the forehead, or for sprinkling about a place. when thus using it, the following prayer may be employed "in the name which is above every other name, and in the power of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost, i exorcise all influences and seeds of evil; i lay upon them the spell of christ's holy church, that they may be bound fast as with chains and cast into outer darkness, that they trouble not the servants of god" in pointing or making the sign of the cross, the first and second fingers are extended and the third and fourth are bent towards the palm of the hand and the

in fact, with any form of life with which an individual can form a sympathetic understanding. there must be some ground of sympathy as the basis for the formation of a rapport, but once formed, it can be developed almost indefinitely. it is a curious fact that if a rapport is long continued, the persons thus united gradually come to resemble each other. we all know the "horsey" type of man; also the son of the soil of whom it was expressively remarked "father's in the pig-stye. you'll know him by his hat" when two human beings are in rapport, the less positive of the two tends to lose his own individuality and becomes the pale reflection of the other. it is for this reason that the western occultist, who values individuality highly, does not take personal pupils in the same way as does th

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bound unto the white brothers, and therefore have i the power to torture thee so long as thou shalt be (then said the scribe unto him: thou liest) ask of thy brother p, and he shall tell thee if i lie (this the scribe refused to do, saying that it was no concern of the demon's) i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. the three slain doves are my threefold blasphemy against him; but their blood shall make fertile the sand, and i writhe in blackness and horror of hate, and prevail not (then the demon tried to make the scribe laugh at magick, and to think that it was all rubbish, that he might deny the nam

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

the hennu boat by the foreman of the builders in the time of the king of the north and south, hesep-ti, triumphant;[2] the nebseni papyrus says that this chapter was found in the city of khemennu (hermopolis) on a block of ironstone) written in letters of lapis-lazuli, under the feet of the god;[3] and the turin papyrus (xxvith dynasty or later) adds that the name of the finder was heru-ta-ta-f, the son of khufu or cheops,[4] the second king of the ivth dynasty, about b.c. 3733, who was at the time making a tour of inspection of the temples. birch[5] and naville[6] consider the chapter one of [1. chabas, voyage d'un gyptien, p. 46. according to m. naville (einleitung, p. 138, who follows chabas's opinion, this chapter is an abridgement of the whole book of the dead; and it had, even thoug

e to read many passages without the help of texts of earlier periods. the papyri of this period vary in colour from a light to a dark brown, and consist usually of layers composed of strips of the plant measuring about 2 inches in width and 14 to 16 inches in length. fine examples of books of the dead of this version vary in length from about 24 feet (b.m. no. 10,479, written for the utcheb heru, the son of the utcheb tchehra) to 60 feet. hieroglyphic texts are written in black, in the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (35 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] perpendicular rows between rules, and hieratic texts in horizontal lines; both the hieroglyphics and the hieratic characters lack the boldness of the writing of the theban period, and exhibit th

her (16) she raised up the prostrate form of him whose heart was still, she took from. him of his essence, she conceived and brought forth a child] she suckled it in secret) and none knew the place thereof; and the arm of the child hath waxed strong in the great house of seb (17) the company of the gods rejoiceth and is glad at the coming of osiris's son horus, and firm of heart and triumphant is the son of isis, the heir of osiris. literally "she alighted not; the whole passage here justifies plutarch's statement (de iside osiride, 16) concerning isis: greek au?th`n de` genome'nhn xelido'na tu j ki'oni peripi'tes ai kai` rhnei n. compare plutarch, op. cit, 19: greek t`hn d' i?'sin th`n teleuth`n e`ks o?si'ridos suggenome'nou tekei n h?li'to'mhnon kai` a?s enh toi s ka'tw en gui'ois to`n a

iving soul,[4] he is regarded as one of those who "have eaten the eye of horus he walks among [1. recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 190, ll. 181, 182. 2. ibid, t. iv, p. 70, l. 579 ff 3. tudes de mythologie et d'arch ologie, t. i, p. 344, note 1. 4. recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 52 (1. 456. 5. ibid, t. iii, p. 165 (l. 169] p. lxxii the deification of the spiritual body. living ones,[1] he becomes "god, the son of god"[2] and all the gods of heaven become his brethren.[3] his bones are the gods and goddesses of heaven;[4] his right side belongs to horns, and his left side to set;[5] the goddess nut makes him to rise up as a god without an enemy in his name "god;[6] and god calls him by his name.[7] his face is the face of ap-uat, his eyes are the great ones among the souls of annu, his nose is th

eaven places him in the position of supreme ruler. for example, we have the prayer that unas "may rule the nine gods and complete the company of the nine gods"[1] and pepi i, in his progress through heaven, comes upon the double company of the gods, who stretch out their hands, entreating him to come and sit down among them.[2] identification with horus. again, the deceased is changed into horus, the son of osiris and isis. it is said of pepi i "behold it is not pepi who entreateth to see thee in the form in which thou art, o osiris, who entreateth to see thee in the form in which thou art, o osiris; but it is thy son who entreateth to see thee in the form in which thou art, o osiris, it is horus who entreateth to see thee in the form in which thou art;[3] and horus does not place pepi at

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lt to form any exact idea about their doctrines, as albigensian texts are rare and contain little concerning their ethics, but we know that they were strongly opposed to the roman catholic church and protested the corruption of its clergy. their opponents claimed that they admitted two fundamental principles, good and bad, saying that god had produced lucifer from himself; that lucifer was indeed the son of god who revolted against him; that he had carried with him a rebel- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. albigenses 21 lious party of angels who were driven from heaven along with him; that lucifer in his exile created this world with its inhabitants, where he reigned, and where all was evil. it is alleged that the albigenses further believed that, for the reestablishment

involved in a number of homicide and missing persons cases that the police were having trouble solving. among her many police supporters was robert delitta, chief of police in nutley. one of the high profile cases she dealt with was the patty hearst case. she predicted that hearst would become involved in a bank robbery and eventually join forces with her kidnappers. she also gave information in the son of sam serial killer case. among the accurate data was her description of david berkowitz, the man eventually arrested, and the fact that a parking ticket would be a key item leading to his downfall. as she became well known, allison came under scrutiny by skeptics who questioned both the value that she (and other psychics) had in solving cases, and the accuracy of the information shared w

d thoughts on margery. bird had submitted a confidential report to the board suggesting that margery had approached him to become a confidant in producing some phenomena for magician harry houdini. subsequently, bird disappeared along with his last manuscript on margery. he was succeeded by b. k. thorogood (1930.39. following the merger of the boston spr back into the aspr in 1941, george hyslop, the son of j. h. hyslop, became president. since 1925 he had been a lone voice decrying the slippage of research standards. hyslop demanded the full exposure of margery s fraudulent activity. he reestablished the standards demanded during his father s years of leadership he was succeeded by gardner murphy, who served as president of american meditation institute. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsy

for example, can be understood as landmarks serving to denote the heights human intelligence has reached at various times in the attempt to represent the eternal and infinite in precise terms. seventeenth-century mystic jakob boehme recognized the whole deep between the stars, as the heaven of one of the three hierarchies, and placed the other two above it; in the midst of all which, he says, is the son of god; no part of either is farther or nearer to him, yet are the three kingdoms circular about him. the visions of emanuel swedenborg date a century later, and describe his intimacy with the angelic world. the angels described to him in great detail a level of spiritual existence qualitatively different from the visible world of sensation. angelic realms in jewish thought jewish teachers

thers said that he will be a demon in the flesh. but, following the thinking of saints ireneus, ambrose, augustine and almost all of the church fathers, antichrist will be a man similar to and conceived in the same way as all others, differing from them only in a malice and an impiety more worthy of a demon than of a man. more recently, however, cardinal bellarmin asserted that antichrist will be the son of a demon incubus and a sorceress. he will be a jew of the tribe of dan, according to malvenda, who supported his view with the words the dying jacob spoke to his sons, dan shall be a serpent by the way.an adder in the path: by those of jeremiah, the armies of dan will devour the earth; and by the seventh chapter of the apocalypse, where st. john has omitted the tribe of dan in his enumer

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spiritualist alliance, ltd, 1908. spirit teachings. 1883. reprint, new york: arno press, 1976. maharaj ji, guru (1957) teacher in the sant mat tradition and head of elan vital (formerly known as the divine light mission. guru maharaj ji, a title rather than a name, was born prem pal singh on december 10, 1957. he moved to the united states as a spiritual teacher in 1971, at the age of 14. he was the son of sri hans maharaj ji, a spiritual teacher in the sant mat radha soami tradition and the founder of the divine light mission in india. when sri hans died in 1966, his youngest son, only eight but recognized as something of a spiritual prodigy, assumed control of the movement as guru maharaj ji. on a visit to the united states he was met by a public skeptical of one so young assuming any r

f a long series of latin character mottos instead of actual names, and there is still scholarly doubt as to whether the prophecies really emanated from st. malachy. however, other prophecies attributed to him are claimed to have been fulfilled. he was born maelmhaedhoc ua morgair in armagh, ireland, in 1095. his biography was written by a famous contemporary, st. bernard of clairvaux. malachy was the son of a wellknown scholar; his mother came from a wealthy family in bangor, county down. his father died when malachy was eight years old, and he was subsequently educated by a monk who later became abbot of armagh. malachy was ordained by st. celsus, an irish benedictine of glastonbury, then archbishop of armagh. he became vicargeneral to celsus, then abbot of bangor, and later bishop of con

nce he had plans for malachy to be primate of the combined see of armagh and tuam, although in the end this did not come to pass. malachy traveled through england, scotland, and ireland, even making a second pilgrimage to rome. on the return journey to ireland, he died at clairvaux, which had made such an impression on him. malachy had a great reputation as a prophet during his own lifetime. when the son of king david of scotland was critically ill, malachy sprinkled him with holy water and predicted that the boy would survive. he did. when one individual tried to prevent the building of an oratory, malachy correctly foretold his early death. according to st. bernard, malachy even predicted the date, place, and circumstances of his own death. the papal prophecies seem to be extraordinarily

f inaccuracies. she was said to have lived a pious life in spite of the condemnation of her writings. marion, frederick (1892) stage name of josef kraus, famous european performer of stage telepathy and clairvoyance during the 1930s, who also encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. marion, frederick 979 claimed paranormal powers. born in prague, czechoslovakia, october 15, 1892, he was the son of a businessman and grew up in a practical atmosphere. when he manifested psychometric and clairvoyant talents, his family was annoyed rather than impressed, and prescribed castor oil for an oversensitivity. at school, however, the boy became adept at games of locating hidden objects and sometimes enlarged this talent by giving detailed descriptions and information relating to the owners

ing and disseminating information about such phenomena as ufos, bigfoot, and monsters. the center issued a publication believe it. marylebone spiritualist association, ltd. see spiritualist association of great britain maskelyne, john nevil (1839.1917) famous british stage magician who was a strong opponent of fraudulent spiritualism. born at cheltenham, gloucestershire, december 22, 1839, he was the son of a saddlemaker. as a boy he was fascinated by an entertainer who demonstrated spinning plates and practiced this feat himself. he was apprenticed to a clockmaker and at the age of 19 made his first piece of conjuring apparatus, a box with a secret panel. by 1865 he was giving demonstrations of amateur conjuring. after seeing the performance of the famous davenport brothers, he believed t

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strial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up and raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended upon the tree through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one, to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself, but for those who have not yet attained unto the pathway, even thou

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

t was during the revolutionary war, he said. he was one of 150,000 incarnate beings living on our planet and observing our activities. these beings telepathically communicated their findings to space people both on the surface of our planet and in our upper atmosphere. according to anthon, we are now entering the end of an age that began with jesus appearance, though anthon believes jesus was not the son of god but the only human being to have incarnated through enough lifetimes and enough karmic experiences to transcend death. he is in charge of the transition into a new age which will occur sometime in the near future. anthon claimed that many incarnate beings do not know their true identity; thus they have to be awakened to it. see also: contactees further reading sprinkle, r. leo, ed

eak, 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 when the day of reckoning the cleansing of the human race and the final showdown with the evil forces

is way they learned that mars and venus were inhabited. as the elder denton put it, a telescope only enables us to see; but the spiritual faculties enable their possessors to hear, smell, taste, and feel, and become for the time being, almost inhabitants of the planet they a re examining. in 1866, as the two men were standing out in a field watching venus rise in the evening sky, the father asked the son to study the planet and tell him what he saw. after a few minutes, sherman described trees, water that was heavy but not wet, and animals that had the features of both fish and muskrats. other experiments soon followed. sherman left his body and traveled to mars, where he saw a thriving civilization consisting of a race that looked much like humans. they soar above traffic on their individ

nce 92 elder race stephanie g. pierce, celebrity spokesminister for the 24 hour church of elvis, stands inside the church s inner sanctum (macduff everton/corbis) that the prophecies throughout the [bible] fit both elvis and jesus like a glove. among the similarities: both jesus and elvis are called the king. jesus was the rock; elvis (at least according to go d f re y) i n vented rock. jesus was the son, and el v i s began his re c o rding career on the sun label. the name numbers for jesus and elvis both equal nine, she says. in fact, their namenumbers match exactly, letter for letter and number for number: jesus= 15363, elvis= 53613. their followers worshipped and a d o red them. both could heal and re a d minds, and both had powe rful enemies who sought to stop them. go d f rey claims

the temp e r a t u re growing ever colder. thus the humans found their way to the third planet in the solar system. they settled in what is now antarctica, a pleasant, temperate place. they built seven cities, each with its own color (red city, green city, blue city, and so on. the greatest of all was rainbow city, constructed from many colors of a very hard plastic. under the wise leadership of the son and daughter of the great ruler (still on mars) and the daughter s fianc (later to be called the ancient three, the colony thrived, and a golden age ensued, ending when the snake people, having discovered where the humans were hiding, mounted a surprise attack. in the fierce battles that followed, the earth was knocked on its side, turning antarctica into a wasteland. the humans were drive

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nder this, thou crete-begotten? hast to poetical speech pregnant with thought not listened? never yet hast heard ionia s, never hast listened to hellas vast store of tales ancestral celebrating gods and heroes? all that may happen now while we are living reechoes gloomily grandeur of days ancestral; nor can thy narration equal that which a lovely fiction, more credible than truth is, sang of him, the son of maia. him a delicate babe but strong, nurseling, scarce more than born yet, straight has the nurses chattering flock, full of unreasoning fancy, wrapped in the purest swaddling-fleece, bound fast in fine, costly wrappings, but now the strong, though dainty rogue draws forth his delicate limbs, firm, elastic, and supple, craftily thence, the purple shell, which so grievously bound him, l

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hy rooted in the negatively existent substratum. from this perspective, the mysterious unknown (called ayn lit. nothing in the qabalah, which is itself eternally devoid of attributes, exists in divine sport as always possessed of all attributes. in this respect, sufism distinguishes between the divine essence (fana) and the divine attributes (fala, and mystical christianity between the father and the son. in hindu mystical scriptures, this is called swagatabheda xliterally a difference within itself. this difference is said to spontaneously arise as a sort of whim of the divine to know itself. in the mystical qabalah, the difference within itself is alluded to by a doctrine that distinguishes the mysterious unknown (ayn) as having two aspects described as faces. one is called vast face, de

alled the practical, hermetic, or magical qabalah. practical qabalah has its ancient roots in the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain, along with a highly eclectic admixture of material taken from egyptian, mesopotamian, and other non-hebrew sources. it is important 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% not to confuse enoch son of qain with enoch son of yared. the former enoch was the grandson of adam and the son after whom qain was said to name a city.11 enoch son of yared was the great, great, great, great grandson of adam, and the one who walked with elohim and was transformed into metatron(]vruum).12 the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain are reflected in such works as the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and medieval grimoires suc

perfect perception of the higher planes of' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% existence. our hopes for the future and our memories of a past (also created, sustained, and dissolved moment by moment) instill the impression that time is onflowing. to access the consciousness of vast face, one must renounce small face (in whose dream you are a creature) for release from the dream universe. hence, it is only through the son (small face) that one can know the father (vast face. 7 2 f# relationship between small and vast face in the tree of life the small face alef a is known as the manifest alef a of unity. qabalists (and sufis and tantrikas) take the allusion of the alphabet quite literally, and see the universe as built from combinations and permutations of the letters that emanate from and return to the ale

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and the demoness naamah (meaning pleasant, a bride of samael and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the line of i am no longer abel to conceal what i have become, cain is revered in hereditary and independent luciferian witchcraft 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

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ectus, is a correct translation of the original greek title of the asclepius,1 and the passage which lactantius quotes in greek corresponds roughly to a passage in our latin translation. thus the asclepius, the work which contains the weird description of how the egyptians fabricated their idols and the lament for the egyptian religion, becomes sanctified because it contains a prophecy concerning the son of god. it was not only in the asclepius that the hermetic writers used the expression "son of god. at the beginning of pimander, which is the hermetic account of creation, the act of creation is said to be through a luminous word, who is the son of god.2 when discussing the son of god as the creative word, with quotations from the scriptures, lactantius brings in gentile confirmation, poi

ch is the hermetic account of creation, the act of creation is said to be through a luminous word, who is the son of god.2 when discussing the son of god as the creative word, with quotations from the scriptures, lactantius brings in gentile confirmation, pointing out that the greeks speak of him as the logos, and also trismegistus. he was doubtless thinking of the passage on the creative word as the son of god in the pimander, and he adds that "trismegistus, who by some means or other searched into almost all truth, often described the excellence and the majesty of the word."3 indeed, lactantius regards hermes trismegistus as one of the most important of the gentile seers and prophets who foresaw the coming of christianity, because he spoke of the son of god and of the word. in three pass

s who foresaw the coming of christianity, because he spoke of the son of god and of the word. in three passages of the institutes he cites trismegistus with the sibyls as testifying to the coming of christ.4 lactantius nowhere says anything against hermes trismegistus. he is always the most ancient and all-wise writer, the tenor of whose works is agreeable to christianity and whose mention of god the son places him with the sibyls as a gentile prophet. in 1 see c.h, ii, pp. 276-7. 2 see below, p. 23. 3 lactantius, div. inst, iv, xi; fletcher's translation, i, p. 226. 4 lactantius, div. inst, i, vi; iv, vi; viii, xviii; fletcher's translation, i, pp. 14-19; 220-2; 468-9. the sibylline oracles themselves were no more genuinely antique than the hermetica. forged sibylline prophecies of jewish

of obscurity or darkness appears, out of which comes a kind of fire in which is heard an indescribable sound, like a fiery groan, while from the light issues a holy word, and a fire without mixture leaps from the moist region up to the sublime, and the air, being light, follows the fiery breath "that light, says pimander "is i myself, nous, thy god. and the luminous word issuing from the nous is the son of god" trismegistus then sees within himself, in his own nous or mens, the light and an innumerable number of powers, a limitless world and the fire enveloped in an all powerful force. he asks pimander "whence then arise the elements of nature" and pimander replies "from the will of god, which received into itself the word. and the nous-god, existing as life and light, brought forth a sec

treating of the mosaic mysteries, he begins, and then goes on to make obvious comparisons. moses saw a darkness over the face of the abyss and the spirit of god brooding over the waters: mercurius sees a darkness and the word of god warming the humid nature. moses announced the creation by the powerful word of god. mercurius actually states that that shining word, which illuminates all things, is the son of god. and if it is "ego autem pimandri beneficium inscripsi penetralibus animi (ficino's translation, ficino, p. 1839. 25 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" possible to ascribe to a man born before the incarnation such knowledge, he saw the son being born of the father and the spirit proceeding from the father and the son. he saw the creation being made by the divine word, and man b

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is all. nevertheless, this important work has at least led many an occult researcher familiar with literature to spare. compared with aleister crowley's enigmatic and infamous life, austin osman spare's existence certainly seemed to befit only a footnote. despite his various publications after the turn of the century, he remained practically unnoticed until the late sixties. he was born in 1886, the son of a london police officer, and we know very little about his childhood. he claimed to have experienced while a child an initiation of sorts by an elderly witch, one mrs. paterson who, as far as we know, must have been quite a wiccan-like character. spare found his intellectual and creative vocation as an artist and illustrator, and he attended the royal college of art where he soon was ce

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hapter we noted that the transition of the adept from the dominion of death to the realm of immortality was foreshadowed in the daring leap of hiram abiff, the grand master-workman of solomon's temple, into the seething sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which form the path of initiation. we also remember that at the end of that journey hiram abiff, the son of cain, received from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesus, the son of seth, immediately after his descent from golgotha entered the subterranean strata where he remained for some time in communion with the spirits who dwell there. thus the various strata of the earth from the circumference to the center form the

vented from trespassing upon the path of initiation. stories are told of initiates having overcome the law of gravitation in order to rise in the air at certain times for a definite purpose while still in the dense body. initiates are also taught how to suspend the law of levitation when they are in their soul bodies, and how to pass through the nine strata of the earth. it is said that jesus was the son of a carpenter, but the greek word is tekton, and means builder; arche is the greek name of primordial matter. it is also said that jesus was a carpenter (tekton) himself. it is true, he was a tekton, builder or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the ear

on of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of light) as the egyptian called such, descend through the nine arch-like strata of the earth. we shall find at the time of the first advent of christ both hiram abiff, the son of cain, and solomon, the son of seth, reborn to take from him the next great initiation into the christian mysteries. in the last chapter we saw while considering "the philosopher's stone" that the spinal cord is the principal laboratory for the alchemist, and that the spinal spirit fire, generated by turning the creative force upward through the spinal canal, passing it between the pitui

ead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that according to the bible story the lucifer spirit appeared to eve as a serpent, a son of wisdom. cain according to the masonic legend, was born from this union with eve. it is also stated that the lucifer spirit then left eve, who thus became a widow, and cain was thus the son of the lucifer spirit, the serpent of wisdom, and eve, the widow. every initiate to this day has the serpent symbol on his brow and is known to his fellows by that token as a son of the widow and the lucifer spirit. therefore we shall trace hiram abiff to his next embodiment by that mark, and as evidence given by a party against his own interest is particularly valuable according to law, w

s of the anglo-saxon race, where the sound nain means "nine" the original word has been corrupted to mislead all not entitled to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in his great effort to make the molten sea at the time when he was building solomon's temple, because he, the son of the fiery lucifer spirits, did not know how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jehovah. at that time he was given a new hammer and a new word. the hammer was in the form of a cross. the word was written upon a disc, before he was finally slain by his adversaries. and so he slept until as lazarus, the widow's

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t" let the student ponder well the relation of fire and flame; the former lies sleeping, invisible in everything, and is kindled into light in various ways: by a blow of a hammer upon a stone, by friction of wood against wood and by chemical action, etc. this gives us a clue to the identity and state of the father "whom no man hath seen at any time" but who is revealed in "the light of the world" the son, who is the highest initiate of the sun period. as the unseen fire is revealed in the flame, so also the fullness of the father dwelt in the son, and they are one as fire is one with the flame in which it manifests. this is the root of all true sun and fire worship. all look beyond the physical symbol and adore "our father who art in heaven" the mystic masons of today hold this faith in fi

future till he reaches the kingdom of heaven -the land of peace--and again docilely follows the lead of the divine ruler. the masonic legend has points of variance from as well as agreement with the bible story. it states that jehovah created eve, that the lucifer spirit samael united with her but that he was ousted by jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son cain, who was thus the son of a widow. then jehovah created adam, to be the husband of eve, and from their union abel was born. thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. one begotten by the lucifer spirit samael and partaking of a semi-divine nature imbued with the dynamic martial energy inherited from this divine ancestry, is aggressive, progressive, and possessed of great initiative

ne of divinely guided ancestors flowered into the conception of the magnificent temple called solomon's temple, though solomon has only the instrument to carry out the divine plan revealed by jehovah to david. but solomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for him to apply to king hiram of tyre, the descendent of cain, who selected hiram abiff, the son of a widow (as all free masons are called because of the relation of their divine progenitor with eve) hiram abiff then became grand master of the army of construction. in him the arts and crafts of all the sons of cain who had gone before had flowered. he was skilled beyond all others in the work of the world, without which the plan of jehovah must have remained forever a divine dream, an

se emancipators reveals a beauty of soul never discernible in those who soar in cloudland, but fear to soil their hands by actual work in the temple of humanity. the latter are not true temple-builders and would be unable to gain inspiration from the sight of that wonderful temple described by manson in "the servant in the house" the author calls him "man-son" this may mean that he regards him as the son of man, but it may also be that he meant mason, for the servant in the house was also a temple-builder. it is wonderful what insight the author of the play must have had when he planned the scene where his servant, the workman in love with his work, tells the worldly minded churchman, who is full of platitudes and as vile as a whited sepulcher, of the temple which he, the workman, built. t

man hierarchs, who work in the world with a potency undreamt of by the masses. masonic traditions tell us that hiram's preparations were so perfect that success would have been assured, had not treachery triumphed. but the incompetent craftsmen whom hiram had been unable to initiate into the higher degrees, conspired to pour water into the vessel cast to receive the molten sea; for they knew that the son of fire was unskilled in the manipulation of the watery element, and could not combine it with his wonderful alloy. thus, by frustrating hiram's cherished plan and spoiling his masterpiece, they aimed to revenge themselves upon the master. solomon had been privately informed of the nefarious plot, but jealousy on account of the queen of sheba bound his tongue and stayed his arm, for he hop

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would demand that this organization be outlawed. you have a continuous public relations campaign promoting the lie that freemasonry is not a religion, and is just a "good works social organization" as quoted above, you have secrets within secrets. lucifer praised as the light-bearer of freemasonry "lucifer, the light-bearer! strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! lucifer, the son of the morning! is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? doubt it not [albert pike, morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry, p. 321, 19th degree of grand pontiff; red emphasis added] masons from the first initiation which is the first degree are urged to mightily "seek the light" the averag

nd nasa have been staging major worldly events which coincide with 19.5/33 degrees from the perspective of that particular event. this again is taceable back to ancient egypt. since blavatsky mentioned another of the infernal names, typhon, and has identified him as the egyptian satan, let us review albert pike once again, as we discover that freemasonry reveres typhon as well. typhon "osiris was the son of helios (phra) the 'divine offspring congenerate with the dawn' and at the same time an incarnation of kneph or agathodaemon, the good spirit, including all his possible manifestations, either physical or moral. he represented in a familiar form the beneficent aspect of all higher emanations and in him was developed the conception of a being purely good, so that it became necessary to se

t jesus was christ" again we see freemasonry is revealed not to be christian. the unique deity of jesus christ is denied with the above statement. and because of this, the teachings of freemasonry qualifies as being the work of antichrist. 1 john 2:22 "who is such a liar as he who denies that jesus is the christ? he is the antichrist who habitually denies and refuses to acknowledge the father and the son. no one who habitually denies or disowns the son even has the father [parallel bible, kjv/amplified bible commentary] 1 john 4:3 "and every spirit that confesseth not that jesus christ is come in the flesh is not of god: and this is that spirit of antichrist" 2 john 1:7 "for many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh. this is a deceive

es that satan's place is in hell, we can see that masonry has just admitted that she originated in hell. manly p. hall, 33rd degree mason, k.t, in his book, initiates of the flame boldly admits freemasonry is from hell "those who follow the path of faith (or the heart) use water and are known as the sons of seth, while those who follow the path of the mind and action are the sons of cain, who was the son of samael, the spirit of fire. today, we find the latter among the alchemists, the hermetic philosophers, the rosicrucians and the freemasons [p. 20] hall places freemasonry among the circle of the damned- sons of cain, who rebelled against god; alchemists who are known sorcerers, black magicians, and worshippers of satan, and the rosicrucians who have so desecrated the precious cross of j

s, the rosicrucians and the freemasons [p. 20] hall places freemasonry among the circle of the damned- sons of cain, who rebelled against god; alchemists who are known sorcerers, black magicians, and worshippers of satan, and the rosicrucians who have so desecrated the precious cross of jesus christ with pentagrams and hexagrams as to make you sick. hall's major revelation was that freemasonry is the son of samael. being careful not to confuse samael with the beloved prophet samuel. samael is one of the infernal names of satan. in fact, house of theosophy author, writing under the influence of her demon possessing her- master d.k- identifies samael as satan [the secret doctrine, p. 378] in fact, satanists have a symbol of samael. the pentagram on the left with the one point up represents t

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ds a remarkable similarity between the cosmos of the zohar and that of the ancient chaldeans. he writes: in ab, bc, ce, and eg [see plate iii on page 27, we have similarities to the four worlds. the three great heavens answer to the upper three sephiroth. i. that of the father abbah, or kether, the crown, to anu, afterwards ana; the place of the aether or highest sublimated air or atmosphere. 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 se

den; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom, whose day is the fourth day of the week, wednesday, upon which god created glights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night h. 13 wisdom is not only the creator of the universe but also the mediator between the uncreated and the created- god and man. in the form of 'hokmah, the son of kether, wisdom renders comprehensive the abstract thought in an association of ideas. philo names it messiah, and st. john christ. st. paul says: but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which god ordained before the world unto our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the lord of glory. 14 r

he numerical value of which is 5. binah possesses 50 gates, which is symbolical of the heh multiplied by the od; her symbol is the dove; her dimension is depth, whilst kether's is length (compare the lingam and yoni in hindu mythology; and her colour is sky blue, the colour of the virgin mary. from the union between kether and binah emanates 'hokmah (3) hmkc 'hokmah, wisdom. the third sephirah is the son or logos and the firstborn. it represents abstract ideas, the fruit of the gi am h forming in the mind. in the qabalah it is often called gthe only begotten son h. gin the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god h 17 here we have presented to us the logos nature of 'hokmah. its colour is yellow or red-orange, the colour of christ; it is positive and male, an

two he's when the mixed multitude is between them, and the letter od is not able to draw near to the second he; thus the precept gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law h is transgressed. further, they separate the od from the upper he, and so break the command gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife h, the od being the father, the first he the mother, vau the son and the second he the daughter. therefore it is ordained with regard to the upper he, gthou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife h; gthe nakedness of thy sister the daughter of thy father h refers to the lower he; gher son's daughter to her daughter's daughter h refers to the he and he which are the children of he; gthe nakedness of the father's brother h refers to the od

sianic power. as the creation of the world was out of chaos, so must its destruction, which carries with it its spiritual resurrection, be through chaos; such is the simple logic of the qabalah. as god is the consciousness of the macrocosm, so is man the consciousness of the microcosm; such is the simple mystery of the qabalah. in the human world man is a god knowing good and evil, yet he is also the son of the god of the natural world- the creator of good and evil. as consciousness has been precipitated from the source of all things, so is it man's lot to expand his atom of consciousness until it fills eternity and merges once again into the source from whence it emanated. little by little in this upward evolution are all things intellectualized and in consequence destroyed. thus the unkn

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at the male energy in the deity, instead of appearing as a child in the arms of its mother, is represented as a man, and that he is of equal importance with the woman; later he is identical with the sun, the woman, although still a necessary factor in the god-idea, being concealed or absorbed within the male. it is no longer woman who is to bruise the serpent's head, but the seed of the woman, or the son. he is bacchus in greece, adonis in syria, christna in india. he is indeed the new sun which is born on the 25th of december, or at the time when the solar orb has reached its lowest position and begins to ascend. it is not perhaps necessary to add that he is also the christ of bethlehem, the son of the virgin. nowhere, perhaps, is the growing importance of the male in the god-idea more cl

"isiac controller of the zodiac" at the same time that it made her the mother of all mankind. every year this virgin of the sphere as she appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun. astronomically this new sun was the regenerator, by which all nature was renewed. mythologically, after the higher truths contained in these doctrines were lost, it came to be the savior, the son of the virgin, the seed of the woman, which was to bruise the serpent's head. that the religion of an ancient race comprehended a knowledge of the evolutionary processes of nature may not be doubted. the myths still extant, and even the oldest assyrian inscriptions which have been deciphered, reveal the fact that the seeds of the visible universe were hidden in the "great deep--that animal

ion of sardanapalus, in the british museum, there "occurs a remarkable phrase in which the king takes the titles of hea" among the assyrian inscriptions appear bel-nimrod, hea, and nin or bar. in view of the facts which have come to light regarding hea, it is altogether probable that the triad bel-nimrod, hea, and nin represent the trinity as figured by the father, mother, and child. that nin was the son or the child of bel-nimrod "is constantly asserted in the inscriptions" he appears also as the son of hea, yet the fact that hea should be represented as a woman, or as the mother of nin, and the central figure in the trinity, seems not to have been observed by those who thus far have been engaged in deciphering these inscriptions. by representing hea as male, nin is made to appear as the

th and served the lord only"[83 [83] i samuel vii, 3,4. the extreme hatred of the schismatic faction for the opposite worship, and the punishments which were meted out to those who should dare to rebel against the chosen faith, are indicated by the language which throughout the old testament is put into the mouth of their lord--a deity which rejoices in the title of a jealous god "if thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers "namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth "th

h in hebrew baal is masculine, in the greek translations he is feminine both in the old and new testaments.[88 [88] forlong, rivers of life, p. 223. jehovah was originally female, so, also, was netpe the holy spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that her hieroglyphic name was "abyss of heaven" osiris was the son of this goddess who was really a mai or mary, the celestial mother, he being the only god of the egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. of this forlong remarks "his birthplace was mount sinai; called by the egyptians nysa, hence his greek name dionysos" as the palm was the first offering of mother earth to her children, so osiris was the first offspring of the egyptian

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lts of his travels, and so these four fratres founded the 'fraternity of the rose and cross. they made a magical alphabet, language and dictionary, and wrote the books m (magicon, axiomata, rota mundi and protheus; they also designed and built the house called 'domus sancti spiritus' as the home of the fraternity. after a few years a second circle of four other fratres was formed; these were c.r. the son of the deceased father's brotherofc.r.,b, a skilful painter, g.g, andp.d.,who acted as secretary to the others. while two fratres always remained with the founder c.r, the others went about doing good, relieving the poor and sick and collecting further knowledge.thefraternity then was a society of students of religion, philosophy and medicine, whose members sought for spiritual development

a famousgetmanphilosopher and rosicrucian magus, author of many learned works, notablysilentium post clamores,1617, and thethemis aurea,1618, which described rosicrucian regulations; he visited england and admitted robert fludd, m.a. andm.d.oxon, to rosicrucian adeptship.drrobert fludd, also known as 'robertus de fluctibus, who was born at milgate house, bearstead, in 1574, and died in 1637, was the son of sir thomas fludd, treasurer of war to queen elizabeth; he practised medicine in the city of london for many years with great success. in bearstead church, kent, there is a fine monument to fludd, with a long inscription, and near by are still the rose farm and rose inn upon land he had owned. fludd became the first magus in england and wrote many learned works on kabalistic theosophy an

or the day is coming to each one of us when no man can work and the value of the work of each man will be tried in the balance of justice, and if we have done wellweshall gain a rich reward.[privately printed (1913.]4. inmemory ofrobertfluddfratres, we have today made a pilgrimage to the church of bearstead to commemorate the life and work ofdrrobert fludd, who, born at milgate house in 1574, was the son of sir thomas fludd, treasurer of war to queen elizabeth. originally intended for the army, he was excused from a military life because he proved to be of a quiet and studious disposition. he was sent to st john's college, oxford, at which university he took his b.a. degree, and subsequently the m.a. in 1598. he was at all times a pious layman and a faithful member of the english church, b

ng around the sun of tiphereth; and neshamah the spiritual aspirations associated with the supernal triangle. frequently quoted kabalistic words are:arikhanpin,thekabalah93macroprosopus, the vast countenance which is a title of the crown- deity supreme.zauiranpin,microprosopus, the lesser countenance is the central tiphereth; a conception that has much in common with that of the christian christ, the son of god. binah is the supernal mother -aima,malkuth is the inferior mother, the bride of the microprosopus.thefour letters yod, he, vau, he, or as we say ihvh, of the name, we call yahveh, or jehovah, are allotted and distributed among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner: so that even if to some jewish exoteric teachers 'jehovah' is the name in especial of the so-called passive principle, or

h; by means of letters they are the shemoth. the shemoth are the explanatory titles of the great name, the shema; this shema distributed into its elements is the shemhamphorasch. the ten sephiroth bear names. the first is the crown, the last the kingdom; kether and malkuth. the kingdom suggests the crown, the universe proves the exist255 ence of god, the eye below is illuminated by the eye above, the son suggests the father, the equilibrated scale of a balance suggests the existence of its fellow; humanity points out its creator. kether, the crown! but where is the crown unless on the kingdom, which is malkuth: god is crowned by his works, he is revealed in human thought. thus that which is above, is like that which is below. kether is in malkuth, and the idea of kether is the malkuth of h

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ping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambelifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself,butfor those who have not yet attained unto the pathways, even though the

is obvious) in the light of this explanation the appropriateness of the serpent in the design of the two of pentacles is manifest. whether mrs lee's explanations were common to the gipsy tribes, or merely a system of her own, i cannot say. she seemed to regard it as very private, and only shown to me as a special mark of favour.thelast time i saw mrs lee was some twenty years ago at yetholm, when the son of the late queen esther was crowned gipsy king. mrs lee was very contemptuous of the yetholm gipsies 'tinker trash' she said 'not a hundred words of romani among the lot.'this,however, may well have been the prejudiceofa different tribe. i was interested to find that what she told me of the tarot was well known to another friend of mine, the late mrs florence farr emery, who herself claim

er all knowledgeorbelief in its rationalehadbeenlostto its practitioners. with this key the student can interpret many of the. recorded practices of witchesandwizards, of which themselves wereutterlyignorant.132 the sorcerer and his apprenticein the british museum is such a formula contained in the papyrus of nesi amsu, a scribe of amenra(no. 10188, dated in the twelfth year of pharaoh alexander, the son of alexander (i.e. alexander ii, about 312be,almost every detail of which may be paralleled from the witchcraft trials. it must be recited over the name of apophi, written in green ink on new papyrus, and over a wax figure of apophi inscribed with his name in green ink. this green ink was for some time a puzzle to me, for the black magic rituals mostly prescribe the writing of namesinblood

ons were known, with this he pierces the heads of theclemonswhom the heart fears, saying 'therefore shalt thou be exalted, ra, for thy fiendish enemies are pierced, apophi is slaughtered, and fiends of the devil have been cast down (compare 'be thou exalted, lord, in thine own strength. so will we sing and praise thy power' as recited in the exorcism) he then puts fetters on apophi. ra, and horus the son of ra, declare that apophi shall be bound and fettered, that he do no more mischief on the earth, for justice has come upon him.13&the sorcerer and his apprenticethepriest then smites apophi withthestone knife. this seems to be the continuation of the older ritual. the image is then with appropriate wordsputonthefire. it would. seem that this ritual should be performed just before the dawn

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

ne thing is certain: swedenborg himself had nothing to do with it neither with the late 18th century rite that has come to bear his name, nor with its bizarre successor that is the subject of this paper. but in order to understand that rite it is essential to know something of the man, of his work and of the religious movement that grew out of it. emanuel swedenborg was born at stockholm in 1688, the son of jasper swedberg. at that time a professor of theology at uppsala university and later, from 1702, bishop of skara (the name was changed when the family was ennobled in 1719. from 1716 to 1747 swedenborg was an assessor in the royal college of mines of sweden, but he was more than simply a metallurgist and mining engineer. by any standard swedenborg was a polymath: fascinated equally by

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litus stated that the logos was shared by all. while orpheus stated behold the logos divine, thread well the narrow path of life and gaze of him. it is from this tradition that the gospel of st.john derives it model as expressed in the early verse in the beginning was the logos. the logos was known as spenta mainyu in the zoroastrian tradition in mythology it is sometimes the pre existed state of the son of god. there are many positions in the great chain of being for the logos and sophia and as we study further complex myths and legends of their power will be discussed. however, in their most primal form they work within the triangle of force in the upper world. what about jesus? one of the major debates in christianity has been about the nature of jesus. however, when we examine the new

we examine the new testament in a critical manner some important facts come to light. jesus over and over again claimed to be the messiah and a son of god, but not god himself. he prayed to the father and spoke of god as a separate entity to whom he was obedient. in the gospel of john the identity of jesus is the central theme, the aim of this gospel is to show the reader that jesus is a messiah, the son of god, not god the son (john 21:31. while john himself clearly tells us that jesus distinguished himself from the father who is the "only one god (john 17;3, 5:44, 6:27. we also find st.paul clearly describing jesus as the first-born of every creature and the firstborn of the dead (col 1:13,15,18. this is echoed in the book of revelation where we read that jesus is the "beginning of the c

jesus was not and is not god or the logos or christ, he became christed and hence in that understanding is known as jesus the christ. the term christ means "anointed" and refers to the state of sonship to the lord of wisdom. jesus at his baptism communed with the mind of god (logos, his actions came to embody the spirit of god (sophia) and he became a full son of god (christ. we speak of god, of the son, his word, and of the holy spirit and we say that the father, the son and the spirit are united in power. for the son is the intelligence, reason and wisdom of the father and the spirit is an effluence, as light from fire. in the same way we recognize that there are other powers which surround matter and pervade it. athenagoras generally speaking the ancient gnostics primarily viewed chris

am? you would think that when the disciples answer in terms of reincarnation that if this was incorrect jesus would certainly correct them! surely he would not let them continue in their ignorance! but no, jesus accepts what they say but simply corrects them in regards to his own identity! when jesus came into the coasts of caesarea philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, whom do men say that i the son of man am? and they said, some say that thou art john the baptist: some, elias; and others, jeremias, or one of the prophets. he saith unto them, but whom say ye that i am? and simon peter answered and said, thou art the christ, the son of the living god. matthew 16:13 we can then continue and note that in matthew 17:10-13 jesus informs them that he could not be elias as elias has already

od, which is your reasonable service. and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of god. romans 12:1,2 the gnostic handbook page 106 i am crucified with christ: nevertheless i live; yet not i, but christ liveth in me: and the life which i now live in the flesh i live by the faith of the son of god, who loved me, and gave himself for me. galations 2:20 but the god of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by christ jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 1 peter 5:10 for it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvatio

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age is probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of the mystical tradition. christians talk about giving their life to jesus, making christ the centre of their existence and yet do not have any idea of what this really means. the christian concept of conversion is a corruption of the mystical transformation that happens when we enter the path of transfiguration. the christ who is the hga and the son of god, the light that becomes the centre of our lives is our own true self. conversion is the process of putting the animal and adept in their places, destroying links with the demiurgic kingdom and invoking the true self. this is the first stage. the second stage: knowledge and conversation the second stage is where the gnostic begins to make contact with his hga. this is a dangerous per

some debate over exactly how hermeticism sees the world, some commentators see hermeticism as accepting gnostic theurgy page 192 matter (and perhaps even the demiurge) as part of the natural scheme of things, while others offer a more traditional dualistic interpretation. due to the limits on available primary texts perhaps we will never be truly sure. the emphasis on the logos or divine word as the son of god relates the hermetic tradition to later christian gnosticism, indeed many early church fathers used hermeticism as part of their apologetics. israel where did the people of israel originate? it seems that this is a quirk of history which will not be easily solved. from biblical accounts we know that moses came from sumer and that abraham was a chaldean, so the assumption can be made

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w standeth humbly before thee, to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto me, ynda, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon my head, and teach me the value of self sacrifice so that i shrink not in the hour of trial, but that thus, my name may be written on high, and my genius may stand in the presence of the holy one in that hour, when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name before the ancient of days" step 4 pause, then formulate the pillars. stand between them, and make the sign of. philosophus say "let us adore the lord and king of fire. holy art thou lord of the blazing fires, whereon thy spirit filled in the beginning, elohim. glory be unto thee ruach elohim whose spirit hovered over the waters of

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he service of this telesmata, to depart in 12 peace unto their places. may the blessings of yhshvh, be with you now and forever more, and let there be peace between me and you. i now declare this temple and rite duly closed" step 34 knock/ belletz1 the enterer of the threshold r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge; the wisdom of breath; the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-oth. the part

ection between the divine light above and the temple. therefore, the hierophant does not quit his post to take part therein, but remains there to attract by his sceptre the light from beyond the veil. each member in passing gives the sign of the enterer, thus, projecting the light forward on his path from east to west. he receives it from the hierophant s throne. horus passes only once, for he is the son of osiris and inherits the light by birthright from him. therefore, he goes at once to his station to fix the light there. thmaa-est, the goddess of truth, passes twice because her rule is of the balance of the two scales, and she retires to her station between the pillars there to complete the reflex of the middle column. the watcher within and the rest circumambulate thrice as affirming

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unto an assembly of mortals but as to an assembly of gods. let his voice be so directed as to roll through the universe to the utmost confines of space. let the candidate represent unto him, as it were, a world whom he is beginning to lead unto the knowledge of its governing angel. as it is written, the lightening cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, even so, shall the coming of the son of man be. the candidate during the ceremony is addressed as child of earth, as representing the earthly or terrestrial nature of man. he who comes forward from the darkness of twklm to endeavor to regain the knowledge of the light. this is what is meant by the speech of the hegemon, because the path of the initiate is but darkness and foolishness to the natural man. the single knock given

once as they pass him in affirmation of mercy, the hiereus in affirmation of severity. the invisible assessors each give the sign of the enterer as the candidate passes on his way. at the second passing by the hierophant, the knock affirms the commencement of the angle of hmkj. the kerux bars the candidate s approach to the west to mark that the natural man cannot obtain the understanding of even the son of osiris unless by purification and equilibrium. again is the candidate purified and consecrated, the pillars about his sphere of sensation being rendered more manifest. after this second consecration, the candidate is allowed to approach the place of the twilight of the gods and for a brief space, the hoodwink is slipped up, to present a glimpse, but a glimpse only, of the beyond. the kn

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n wishes to come after me, he must deny his very self, take up his cross and follow in my steps. whosoever loves his life will lose it, but whosoever loses his life for my sake, will preserve it. what profit does a man show in his gaining the world and destroying himself in the process? what can a man offer in exchange for his life, for if anyone in this fateless and corrupt age is ashamed of me, the son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his glory" 6 third adept "i renounce my birth name (states it, for i am (power name. i vow to give up myself in order that i may find myself" second adept "i renounce my birth name (states it, for i am (power name. i vow to give up myself in order that i may find myself" chief adept "i renounce my birth name (states it, fo

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mbly before thee to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon his/her head, and teach him/her the value of selfsacrifice so that he/she shrink not in the hour of trial. but that thus his/her name may be written upon high and his/her genius stand in the presence of the holy ones in that hour when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits and_(his/her name_ stands in the presence of the ancient of days" step 28 go to the altar "and now in the name and the power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye by the divine names hwchy, hcwhy to guard this sphere of_(his/her name. keep far from him/her all evil and the unbalanced that

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w standeth humbly before thee, to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto me, ynda, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon my head, and teach me the value of self sacrifice so that i shrink not in the hour of trial, but that thus, my name may be written on high, and my genius may stand in the presence of the holy one in that hour, when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name before the ancient of days" step 4 pause, then formulate the pillars. stand between them, and make the sign of practicus. say "let us adore the lord and king of n. holy art thou lord of the mighty waters, whereon thy spirit moved in the beginning. twabx \yhla. glory be unto thee \yhla jwr whose spirit hovered over the waters of cre

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ur power name) to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon his/her head, and teach him/her the value of self sacrifice so that he/she shrink not in the hour of trial, but that thus, his/her name may be written upon high and his/her genius stand in the presence of the holy ones in that hour when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits and his/her name in the presence of the ancient of days" step 23 go to the west facing east behind the altar "and now, in the name and the power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye by the divine names hwchy, hcwhy to guard this sphere of (state your earthly name/ osiris. keep far from hi

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me, who now standeth humbly before thee, to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mysteries, not unto me adonai, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon my head and teach me the value of self sacrifice so that i shrink not in my hour of trial, but that my name may be written on high, and my genius stand in the presence of the holy one in that hour when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits and his name before the ancient of days. amen. invocation of o step 1 formulate pillars standing in the east (or stand between the temple pillars) make the sign of philosophus. say: let us adore the lord and king of o! twabx hwhy, blessed be thou, leader of armies is thy holy name. step 2 4 go to the south, and draw the invoking active spirit pe

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ge. they say that in it perished all races of men and created things insomuch that the waters rose above the highest mountain peaks in the world. no living thing survived except a man and a woman who remained in a box and, when the waters subsided, the wind carried them. to tiahuanaco [where] the creator began to raise up the people and the nations that are in that region..5 garcilaso de la vega, the son of a spanish nobleman and an inca royal woman, was already familiar to me from his royal commentaries of the incas. he was regarded as one of the most reliable chroniclers of the traditions of his mother s people and had done his work in the sixteenth century, soon after the conquest, when those traditions had not yet been contaminated by foreign influences. he, too, confirmed what had obv

es) are kept open by another strange common factor. family relationships are involved. amlodhi/amleth/hamlet is always a son who revenges the murder of his father by entrapping and killing the murderer. the murderer, furthermore, is always the father s own brother, i.e, hamlet s uncle.36 this is precisely the scenario of the osiris myth. osiris and seth are brothers.37 seth murders osiris. horus, the son of osiris, then takes revenge upon his uncle.38 another twist is that the hamlet character often has some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister.39 in the case of kullervo, the 32 for details of these complicated family relationships, see egyptian book of the dead, introduction, p. xlviiiff. 33 the gods of the egyptians, volume ii, p. 366. 34 the traveller s key to ancient egypt

rated this information into the oldest surviving written description of the monuments, which continued: cheops, they said, reigned for fifty years, and on his death the kingship was taken over by his brother chephren. he also made a pyramid. it is forty feet lower than his brother s pyramid, but otherwise of the same greatness. chephren reigned for fifty-six years. then there succeeded mycerinus, the son of cheops. this man left a pyramid much smaller than his father s.1 1 herodotus, the history (translated by david grene, university of chicago press, 1987, pp. 187-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 284 site plan of the giza necropolis herodotus saw the monuments in the fifth century bc, more than 2000 years after they had been built. nevertheless it was largely on the foundation o

that diodorus did not try to impose his prejudices and preconceptions on the material he collected. he is therefore particularly valuable to us because his informants included egyptian priests whom he questioned about the mysterious past of their country. this is what they told him: at first gods and heroes ruled egypt for a little less than 18,000 years, the last of the gods to rule being horus, the son of isis. mortals have been kings of their country, they say, for a little less than 5000 years..24 let us review these figures uncritically and see what they add up to. diodorus was writing in the first century bc. if we journey back from there for the 5000 years during which the mortal kings supposedly ruled, we get to around 5100 bc. if we go even further back to the beginning of the age

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1. semjase has shown up in a number of other cases over the last twenty or so years. bethurum, truman, became a contactee in 1952, with the female ufonaut aura rhanes from the planet clarion. a physical contactee of the adamski type, bethurum seemed a down-to- earth person with an extraordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9 bimstein, louis m, also known as max theon and aia aziz. the son of a polish rabbi, bimstein traveled in nineteenth century egypt and became a disciple of the coptic initiate paolos metamon, under whom he became the grand master of the hermetic brotherhood of light. bimstein later married the trance medium mary ware and became the conduit of the cosmic philosophy. virtually every modern occult movement, from the theosophical society to the followers of

. shaver asserted that all languages were descended from mantong, the ancient language of the universe, and could therefore be decoded by those not conversant in a specific language, such as english. in shaver s view, english is a bastardized reinvention of mantong. stranges, rev. frank, california clergyman and ufologist who met a man at the pentagon claiming to be an alien being. a minister and the son of a minister, stranges received much flack by talking about aliens in communication with the government a generation before other ufologists were even willing to consider the idea. secret cipher of the ufonauts 17 tassel, george van, early physical contactee and founder of the first ufo conclave, the long-defunct giant rock conventions. van tassel also engaged in psychic communications an

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foid the cutout at the dotted enes and paste the edges to make a truncated pyramid. 43 44 the great crosses the most important tem on each angelic tablet is the great cross whose shaft descends from top to bottom and whose bar crosses the tablet in the centre. this cross comprises 36 squares, and has a double vertical line which is called linea dei patris fitiique,'the line of god the father and the son, and 'linea spiritus sancti' the line of the holy spirit, crossing this horizontally, and containing one rank of letters. the 'linea spiritus sancti' is always the seventh fine or rank of letters from the top, while the two vertical columns of the 'linea dei patris filiique' are always the sixth and seventh columns counting from either right or left. the book of the concourse of the forces

the method of determining the egyptian deities that preside over the iesser watchtower squares. figures 1 to 16, appendix c, show the sixteen watchtower subquadrants with the appropriate egyptian deity. as an aid to properly understanding these deities, study the table below. table of egyptian deities os iri s re n ewa l, r e g e n e r a t i o n, r e i n c a r n a t i on, reimbodiment. osiris is the son of ra, the father of horus and the brother of isis and nephthys. he is the god of the dead. isis solidification, manifestation, nature, law, principie, l o v e. i s i s g o v e r n s t h e f o r c e s o f sol idi f icat ion. she gives form to the formless and thus rules over all birth processes. her name rneans'throne' and she is the source or seat of creative power. isis is similar to the

sothis is the godde ss of the dog star whose annual rise into the heavens marked 67 the advent of the nile river's inundation and thus assured another year of bounty. she is shown naked to ind cate that she holds no secrets from her followers. apis emotions, sacrifice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a bula. anubis initiation (masculine, intelligence, wisdom, rational mvnd_ anubis is the son of osiris and nephthys and thus the step brother of horus. he is called the'initiator of the temple' his chief function is to serve as a guide through the tuat and to assist the dead through the after-death state. he is shown with the head of a jackal. bast intuition, magick, irrational mirad. bast is shown as a cat. like a cat sees in the dark, so bast can see into the past and future. me

he is called the'initiator of the temple' his chief function is to serve as a guide through the tuat and to assist the dead through the after-death state. he is shown with the head of a jackal. bast intuition, magick, irrational mirad. bast is shown as a cat. like a cat sees in the dark, so bast can see into the past and future. mestha endurance, mental protective force, conscious control. he is the son of horus and is shown with the head of a man. hapi endurance, emotional protective force, abundance. he is the son of horas and is shown with the head of an ape. tuamautef endurance, spiritual protective force, fertility. he is the son of horus and is shown with the head of a jackal. qebhsennuf endurance, physical protective force, physical renewal. he is the son of horus and is shown with

th aethyr, des. the three governors of des are: pophand poh-peh-hah-en-deh nigrana nee-gar-ah-nah bazhiim bah-zod-hee-ee-meh these governors are all interested in division. they divide up ideas into component thoughts and thus perpetuate the logic and reason that characterizes the human mind, the human mind is a manifestation in time, space and form of the divine mind. it is often referred to as 'the son of the father' just as a son often rebels against his father to stand independently on his own, so the human mind tries to stand on its own. it denies its inherent dependency. the being confronted in des will be your own ego. if you see an angel or other being in des, know i t to be an aspect of your own human mind. when crowley entered des he saw his ego in the form of a golden eagle, but

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takes pity on him and befriends him against the monster, kiuderm. 1, 152. 2, 188 devil's grandmother ellermutter, great-grandm. obinn taunts the vala with being 1 e.g. in tettau and temmo's treuss. sagcn 197-9. 200-212^ nordliuger hexunprocesse, p. 46. 1008 devil 'i^^o^i];ursa mocfi' saem. 95. the human guests usually arrive while the devil is out, they are then concealed by her^ and smelt out by the son on his return. so thorr and t^r come into giant hymir's house, where they find his 900-headed grandmother (amma) and another female, his sweetheart, who hides them under the cauldron, saem. 53. the indian giant too has a softhearted sister hving with him (p. 459. now those stories of the devil were known here in the 13th cent; a poem of the cod. vindob. 428 no. 154 contains the words' der

d fallen (p. 314, to rise from her barrow and answer him. groans son and hervor utter formulas almost identical' vaki]>vl groa! vaki ]7u go's kona! vek ek ]nk dausra dura^ sasm. 97 'vaki]?u angant^r! vekr]?ic hervor einka dottir ykkar svafu (of thee and svafa^ fornald. sog. 1, 435; after a gruesome conversation with her father, the sword she craves is thrown out of the barrow. in the same way, at the son's adjuration, a sword is handed out of the tomb in the folksong of orm (sv. forusanger 2, 446-7. danske viser 1, 59. 60-6-7, and in a faroe song of virgar, i.e. wudga, witege (lyngbye p. 369. wolfdietrich constrains the dead tongue of his buried father to utter seven words. cod. dresd. 313 (see suppl. as the spoken spell bursts open the tomb, so do locks and bars give way before it. ferabr

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v) he prophesied to the sabines in the grove by matiena (or matiera, dion. hal. 1, 14. reiske p. 40; he had once guided them on their way, wp^v-rai ol tlikevrlvoi spvo/co\d7rrov rrjv 6$bv fyeaafievov, strabo v, p. 240. and he purveyed for romulus and remus when the wolf s milk did not suffice them, ov. fasti 3, 37. 54; conf. niebuhr 1, 245. ace. to virg. aen. 7, 189 and ov. met. 14, 321 picus was the son of saturn and father of faunus,1 and was changed into the bird. the apparent relationship of this picus to our poem of beowulf (bee-hunter, i.e. woodpecker, was pointed out p. 369. in norway the red-hooded blackpecker is called gertrude s fowl, and a story in asbiornsen and moe (no. 2) explains its origin: when our lord walked upon earth with peter, they came to a woman that sat baking, he

was called delliagr, and to him she bore a son dagr, light and beautiful as his paternal ancestry. then all-father took night and her son day, set them in the sky, and gave to each of them a horse and a car, wherewith to journey round the earth in measured time. the steeds were named the rimy-maned and the shiny-maned (p. 655-6. the name dellingr, the assimilated form of degungr, includes that of the son dagr, and as -ling if it mean anything means descent, we must either suppose a progenitor dagr before him, or that the order of succession has been reversed, as it often is in old genealogies. for the word dags, dagr, daeg, tac i have tried to find a root (grarnm. 2, 44, and must adhere to my rejection of lat. dies as a congener, because there is no consonant-change, and the teutonic word

(for a goth, sumrs of 1 decl. would bring in its train an ohg. somar; also from as. sumor with dat. sumera, not sumere. the on. sumar being neut. in the face of a masc. vetr, ohg. wintar, as. winter, seems inorganic; it must have been masc. once. the root assumed in my gramm. 2, 55 runs upon sowing and reaping of crops. the edda takes us at once into the genealogy of these two worthies. sumar is the son of svdsuffr (ssom. 34b. sn. 23. 127, a name derived from svas (carus, proprius, domesticus, goth, sves, ohg. suas, for he is one that blesses and is blest, and after him is named all that is sweet and blithe (svaslegt, blitt. but the father of vetr is named vindloni or vindsvalr (windbringer, windcool, whose father again was vdsaffr (ibid) the dank and moist: a grim coldhearted kindred. bu

aten (to wade, beben (to quake) with biflindi (p. 149. the hurricane of the furious host will then have real point and significance. favour able wind (p. 636-7) was in the hands of wuotan and zeus, osinn weathered/ stormed or thundered, and was called vidrir (ibid. the shaking of the air by thunder is everywhere traced to the highest god, whom our antiquity represents separately as donar, thunar, the son of wuotan, but in zeus and jupiter it is the father again; thrymr seems identical with thorr (p. 181. loptr (pp. 246. 632) is another emanation of oisinn. zio, and perhaps plwl, as whirlwinds (turbines, must be regarded in the same air. fike. water. earth. 883 light (p. 632. of goddesses, we have to reckon whoever may stand for the wind s bride and whirlwind, holda who accom panies the( fu

in the teeth of our derivation (p. 874; conf. as. him. again sn. 128 tells us more generally, why all fern, names of trees are applicable to women, e.g. selja is both salix and procuratrix. zio, like zeus, appears to mean, in the first instance, sky and day (pp. 193. 736; yet our mythology takes no notice of his relation to the earth (p. 700. but still it personifies day m (p. 735, and makes him the son of night f. at the same time evening and morning, apantrod and tagarod (p. 748) are masculine.1 it is therefore the more surprising that the sun, the great light of day (p. 701, should be pictured as female and the moon as male, especially as the sun shines fiercely and the moon softly. though this view is of high antiquity (p. 704, yet the identity of the goth, sduil, as. segil, with sol

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nto man that with them, faithfully used, power thereby to work many things; bless these, o lord, framed and written by the hand of me thine unworthy servant that being filled with divine virtue and influence by thy commands, o most holy god, they may shew forth their virtue and power to thy praise and glory through jesus christ our lord. amen. i bless and consecrate you in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob. asperges me, etc. amen. benediction of the garment o holy, blessed and eternal lord god who art the god of purity and delightest that our souls should appear before thee in clean and pure and undefiled vestments being cleansed, blessed, and consecrated by thee, i may put them on, being therewith clothed i may be whiter than snow bo

re i may bring to perfection through the most holy adonay, whose kingdom endureth for ever and ever. amen. this on the ather side the lamen the secret grimoire prayer holy, holy lord god, from whom all holy desires do proceed, i beg thou wilt be merciful unto me at this time, granting i may become a true magician and contemplate of thy wondrous works at alt times, in the name of the father and of the son. therefore in al! my doings and at all times i will call upon thy most holy name, o lord, for thy help and assistance. i beseech thee, o lord, that thou wilt purge me and wash me iii the blood of our saviour, from al! my sins and frailties, and that thou wilt henceforward vouchsafe to keep and defend me from pride, lusts, cursing, blasphemy, unfaithfulness, and al! other deadly sins and en

appointed presiding spirit of thy firmament at this time, most faithfully, willingly to show unto me those things which i shall demand or require of him, and truly execute my desires. nevertheless, o most holy god, thy will and not mine be done, through jesus christ our lord. amen. the secret grimoire invocation :i i call upon thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasie, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, inseparable unity, i invoke and entreat thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use by the holy names of god, el, elohim, elohe, eeoba, sabaoth, elion, eschiros, adonay, jay, tetragrammaton, saday; i conjure and excite you by the holy names of god, hagios, otheos, ischyros, athanatos, p

fear unto me, or obstinately deny my requests, neither permitting any evil spirits to appear or approach in any way to hurt, terrify, or affright me, nor deceiving me in any wise; through the virtue of our lord and saviour jesus christ, in whose name i attend, waiting for and expecting your appearance. fiat, fiat, fiat. amen. interrogations: comest thou in peace, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of thc holy ghost yes. thou art welcome, noble spirit. what is thy name? turiel. i have called thee here, turiel, in the name of jesus of nazareth, at whose name every knee doth bow, both of things in heaven, earth, and heil, and every tongue shall confess there is no name like unto the name of jesus, who hath given power unto man to bind and to loose all things in his name, yea, even

led thee and thou camest. and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thy orders, and retum unto me again at what time soever i shall call thee by the secret grimoire licence to depart: thine own oath, or by thy name, or by thine order, or by thine office which is granted from the creator. and the grace of god be with thee and me and upon the whoie israel of god. amen. glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. fiat. fiat. fiat. amen. form of a bond of spirits given by turiel, messenger of the spirits of jupiter: gloria deo in excelsis. i, turiel, messenger of the spirits of jupiter, appointed thereunto by the creator of all things visible and invisible, do swear and promise, and plighting faith and

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n an almost pioneer spirit.from the raising of food to carpentering. his father, a teacher, had many interests, and his challenging, inquisitive mind and progressive ideas involved family life at all times in a mixture of the serious, philosophical, religious, educational, and moral. when he joined the rosicrucian order, the rosicrucian principles he learned and lived struck a harmonious chord in the son and became for him the natural way to live, instilling in him even at so young an age a determination to work for the order when he grew [138] up, and to assist in the work of disseminating the rosicrucian teachings. the depression years made it difficult for mr. piepenbrink to further his education after high school, and so it was that he worked for two years in the laboratory of a chemic

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e given me as to this spiritual vision is so surprising, that i beg you will give me some further explanation or reason for its appearance.c.a.-greatpurposes are used to meet great ends.iftwo founders of great and distinct sects of religionists needed assurance of things which they may doubt, nothing would be too great that conduces to that end. under these circumstances, or for any worthy cause, the son of god would condescend to allow the light of his spirit to illuminate the way of truth. he who when upon earth went about doing good for the sake of good, and going amongst every disease that he might heal for the sakeofhis fellow-men, when he was as pure in spirit as he is now, would assuredly guide right at last the man who in so many instances had followed in his path. on tuesday the]

he present statement being repugnant to my feelings andbelief,-mayi ask ifitis possible that any spirit can assume his name and appearance?c.a.-avision of him appeared to swedenborg,-and mr owen is as great as he.2.-whenyou say a vision ofjesus appeared to swedenborg, and to mrowen,-doyou mean that he appeared personally.c.a.-noi do not.thevision of the spiritappeared-thelikeness of the spirit of the son of god.3.-ifthelikeness of the spirit of the son of god so appeared to robertowen,-wouldit not, or the spirits attending it, have178therosicrucianseerothers, and yet receiving more happiness from the knowledge that he has in his heart of doing good, than those who, high in the english state, pass it over with such lightness and contempt.tellhim it is my firm opinion, as well as earnest pra

from god.thetwo are again one and that holy spirit is still the universal influence that is felt in the hearts of those who are willing to be christian men. through the intercession of his son, god saves those who believe in him, but through his own love and charity to the creation (the human race) he saves others. father and son were one long before the world was created. for the good of mankind the son descended to the earth, took the form of man, and died for salvation of souls. judas iscariot is not condemned to everlastingmisery-heis now the same as the twelve apostles and one ofthem-hewas only the instrument by which the son of man was betrayed.itwas ordered that he should beso-he(ludas) went out of sight of man and starved himself-destroyed not hanged.itis his will that mankind shou

this to justifythesin-buti mean that a man who is led away by the temptation of evilspirits-whotries-buttries invain-towithstandthem-underthe immedi255 ate eye of god and without his stretching forth a hand to savethem-godwould not punish that man everlastingly. in any part of his life while upon earth and before his ascension he did not lose the form and the feelings of the humanbody-hewas then the son ofman-hecould not live forty days and forty nights without any sustenance. he did not fast during thattime-heonly took what was necessary to keep the body animated. without losing consciousness jesus christ was tempted, as many others have been, tosin-fora moment he felt inclined to abandon his object, but the thought of man's salvation and theexcerptsfromthecrystalmssi173. i believe a man

thanks unto almighty god in whose name i called thee and thou comest, and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thine orders and return unto me again at what time soever i shall call thee by thine oath, or by thy name, or by thine order, or by thine office whichisgranted from the creator, and the power of god be with me and thee and upon the whole issue of god, amen. glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost. asallaerial spirits are very powerful and slow in their appearance, so also is their departure and it would be well for the invocant not to leave the limits of the circle for a few minutes after the licence is recited.crystalirmzancy,or the art ofinooauingspirits by thecrystal107under the compass of the heavens) that you come immediately from the place of your priva

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

eligious text that does seem to have developed in this period was the topographical list.17 this listed deities according to their cult places and summarized their functions and qualities with epithets. some epi- 8 handbook of egyptian mythology thets, such as horus, protector of his father, suggest the existence of a story behind them. in the fourth dynasty the king s role was redefined as being the son of ra, the deputy of the sun god on earth. sneferu, the first king of the fourth dynasty, was one of egypt s greatest builders. three pyramids were completed in his reign, each with two temples for the funerary cult of the king. later literary tradition was favorable to sneferu but not to his successor khufu (cheops, the builder of the great pyramid at giza (see under kings and princes and

of infant gods. greek myth has equivalent stories of zeus s disguising himself to seduce mortal women, but their focus is on very human emotions of lust and jealousy. the seductions by zeus are set in a mythical age of heroes, and the god s behavior may be criticized. in egypt, such stories were a solemn part of the myth of divine kingship and were told about living people. each egyptian king was the son of the supreme creator god amun-ra but also horus, the avenger of his father, osiris. some new kingdom rulers took a renewed interest in the holy city of abydos and the cult of osiris. ironically, the finest temple at abydos was built by seti i, a king who was named after seth, the great enemy of osiris.50 this temple of seti i is so large and well preserved that its scenes and inscription

eth k. lee, 1993. 110) in the morning, ra at noon, and atum in the evening, but none of these is his true name; so the pain continues. isis insists that she cannot heal him without knowing his true name. when the pain gets worse, ra gives in and whispers his name to isis. the actual true name is not given in the story.20 ra tells isis that when the time comes, she can pass on the secret to horus, the son who will be born to her. then isis recites magical words that drive the poison out of ra and destroy it. the mention of horus at the end of the narrative provides a justification for the behavior of isis. by gaining knowledge of the secret name to pass on to her son, she is ensuring that horus will become the ruler of egypt. the egyptian audience for this story would know that her marvelou

ccession had to be explained as direct interventions by deities. the accession of individual kings might be validated by giving them a divine parent. one such royal birth myth is found in the inauguration inscriptions of king horemheb (c. 1319 1307 bce).44 horemheb was a soldier who served under akhenaten and tutankhamun, but the inscription presents his career in mythological terms. he is called the son of horus, lord of hnes: the form of the horus worshipped in horemheb s native town. horemheb claims that his exceptional qualities were evident as soon as he was born and that horus of hnes always intended that he should be king. to bring this about, horus takes horemheb to thebes and presents him to the god amun-ra at karnak and luxor temples. horemheb is accepted by amun-ra and by his da

the goddess neith instead. when that fails to settle matters, banebdjedet proposes that the throne be given to seth because he is older than horus. ram gods were particularly renowned for their virility, and one of banebdjedet s epithets was lord of sexual pleasure. a stela from a chapel in the ramesseum complex records that the god ptah took the form of banebdjedet to sleep with a mortal woman. the son that resulted was the future pharaoh, rameses ii. greek writers reported that a male goat was honored as a fertility god at mendes and identified with the greek god pan. a persian king of the fourth century bce is alleged to have gone mad after sacking the temple and eating the sacred goat. the sexual aspect of the cult at mendes made it particularly disliked by early christians. banebdjed

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as they are concerned, ani has committed neither sin nor evil. further, they go on to say that he shall not be delivered over to the monster amemet, and they order that he shall have offerings, that he shall have the power to go into the presence of osiris, and that he shall have a homestead, or allotment, in sekhet-hetepet for ever. we next see ani being led into the presence of osiris by horus, the son of isis, who reports that the heart of ani hath sinned against no god or goddess; as it hath also been found just and righteous according to the written laws of the gods, he asks that ani may have cakes and ale given to him, and the power to appear before osiris, and that he may take his place among the "followers of horus" and be like them for ever. now from this evidence it is clear that

e sarcophagus with scenes relating to the course of the sun in the other world. 4 this sarcophagus is preserved in the museum p. 83 of the louvre in paris, and its cover is in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge. among other sarcophagi inscribed with text and pictures from the book am-tuat may be mentioned those of: 1. horus, son of tarut-en-sekhet; 1 2. tchet-hra, a priest of ptah; 2 3. qem-hap, 3 the son of takhaau; and nekht-neb-f. now, whilst on the walls of tombs, and on the side of sarcophagi, divisions nos. i.-xi. are found, the only divisions which are met with on papyrus are nos. ix.-xii. thus the louvre papyrus, no. 3071, which formed the subject of a special study by dev ria 4 and pierret, 5 and the turin papyrus, published by lanzone 6 and the leyden papyrus t. 71, 7 contain each

rough his knowledge of the proper words of power, and of magical names and formulae, before the -utterance of which every denizen of the tuat was powerless. osiris had, of course, passed through the tuat, and seated himself on his throne in the "house of osiris" but even he would have been unable to perform his journey in safety through the tuat without the help of the words of power which horus, the son of isis, the son of osiris" had uttered, and the magical ceremonies which he had performed. words and ceremonies alike he learned from isis, who, according to a later tradition, obtained the knowledge of them from thoth, the divine intelligence. now if osiris and ra had need of such magical assistance in their passage through the tuat, how much greater must have been the need of man! the t

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

yogis, it seems, had the power to destroy even the god himself, at will- possiblybecause they had invented him themselves. nightmare talesthe blue lotus22 devarata spent several years in the forests; at last he grew tired of the life. allowing it to be understood thathe could satisfy varuna by finding a substitute, who would sacrifice himself in his place, provided that thesacrificial victim was the son of a rishi, he started on his journey and finally discovered that he sought. in the country which lies around the flower-covered shores of the renowned pushkara, there was once afamine, and a very holy man, named ajigarta* was at the point of death from starvation, likewise all hisfamily. he had several sons of whom the second, sunahsepha, a virtuous young man, was himself alsopreparing to

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

enerates into mediumship or black magic. the immediate disciples of ammonius saccas, who was called theodidaktos "god-taught"-such as plotinus and his follower porphyry-rejected theurgy at first, but were finally reconciled to it through iamblichus, who wrote a work to that effect entitled de mysteriis, under the name of his own master, a famous egyptian priest called abammon. ammonius saccas was the son of christian parents, and, having been repelled by dogmatic spiritualistic christianity from his childhood, became a neo-platonist, and like j. bo hme and other great seers and mystics, is said to have had divine wisdom revealed to him in dreams and visions. hence his name of theodidaktos. he resolved to reconcile every system of religion, and by demonstrating their identical origin to est

some call it the sixth principle (buddhi, others the seventh (atma. if christian theosophists wish to make use of such expressions, let them be made philosophically correct by following the analogy of the old wisdom-religion symbols. we say that christos is not only one of the three higher principles, but all the three regarded as a trinity. this trinity represents the holy ghost, the father, and the son, as it answers to abstract spirit, differentiated spirit, and embodied spirit. krishna and christ are philosophically the same principle under its triple aspect of manifestation. in the bhagavad-gita we find krishna calling himself indifferently atma, the abstract spirit, kshetraj a, the higher or reincarnating ego, and the universal self, all names which, when transferred from the univers

1] when the blessed will ascend among the creatures of light, they shall see iavar-xivo, lord of life, and the first vine.[cod. naz, ii, p.281] these cabalistic metaphors are thus naturally repeated in the gospel according to st. john. let us not forget that in the human system-even according to those philosophies which ignore our septenary division-the ego or thinking man is called the logos, or the son of soul and spirit "manas is the adopted son of king* and queen (esoteric equivalents for atma and buddhi, says an occult work. he is the "man-god" of plato, who crucifies himself in space (or the duration of the life cycle) for the redemption of matter. this he does by incarnating over and over again, thus leading mankind onward to perfection, and making thereby room for lower forms to de

. the greek agnoia is evidently a derivative of the sanskrit aj ana (phonetically agnyana, or ignorance, irrationality, and absence of knowledge. anthropomorphism from the greek anthropos, man. the act of endowing god or the gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities. anugita (sans) one of the upanishads. a very occult treatise. apollo belvidere of all the ancient statues of apollo, the son of jupiter and latona, called phoebus, helios, the radiant, and the sun-the best and most perfect is the one of this name, which is in the belvidere gallery in the vatican, at rome. it is called the pythian apollo, as the god is represented in the moment of his victory over the serpent python. the statue was found in the ruins of antium in 1503. apollonius of tyana a wonderful philosopher

above the whole. esoteric hidden, secret. from the greek esotericos-"inner" concealed. esoteric bodhism secret wisdom or intelligence, from the greek esotericos "inner" and the sanskrit bodhi "knowledge" in contradistinction to buddhi "the faculty of knowledge or intelligence" and buddhism, the philosophy or law of buddha (the enlightened. also written "budhism" from budha (intelligence, wisdom) the son of soma. exoteric (gr) outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden. extra-cosmic outside of kosmos or nature. a nonsensical word invented to assert the existence of a personal god independent of or outside nature per se; for as nature, or the universe, is infinite and limitless there can be nothing outside it. the term is coined in opposition to the pantheistic idea that the whole

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f madame helena petrovna blavatsky's mahatmas, her and the theosophical society's invisible secret chiefs. he believed, too, in elementals (nature spirits) and the dangerous territory inhabited by 'the gnomes. by any standard of assessment the vicar of chacombe, a small village (population c. 450) close to banbury in the county and diocese of oxford, was a strange and remarkable man. w. a. ayton, the son of william capon ayton, was born in the bloomsbury district of london on 28 april 18i 6, and was therefore in his 73rd year when he joined the g.d. in 1888 (westcott was then forty and mathers thirty-four) he was educated at charterhouse school in the city of london (long before it moved to more salubrious surroundings in surrey in 1872) and matriculated at trinity hall, cambridge, in 1837

of life and thought (1938, p. 87. 13 travel to london for the metropolitan college's quarterly meetings. w. b. yeats was also not a member because he lacked the necessary masonic qualification and left the theosophical society when he joined the g.d. in march 1890. frederick leigh gardner, to whom ayton's surviving letters were mainly written, was born in 1857 at highbury in north london and was the son of an accountant. the family had moved to the recently-developed gunnersbury area of chiswick by the 1870s because gardner fils was educated at the godolphin school at hammersmith. his first employment was as a clerk in a stockbroker's office( c. 1875-86) and in the latter year founded his own small stockbroking firm. he married in c. 1885 his parents were both addicted to spiritualism and

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that centuries of dark brooding had given to crumbling, whisper-haunted arkham a peculiar vulnerability as regards such shadows- though even this seems doubtful in the light of those other cases which i later came to study. but the chief point is that my own ancestry and background are altogether normal. what came, came from somewhere else- where i even now hesitate to assert in plain words. i am the son of jonathan and hannah (wingate) peaslee, both of wholesome old haverhill stock. i was born and reared in haverhill- at the old homestead in boardman street near golden hill- and did not go to arkham till i entered miskatonic university as instructor of political economy in 1895. for thirteen years more my life ran smoothly and happily. i married alice keezar of haverhill in 1896, and my t

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as of greater or less importance. during all that period they believed in none of the doctrines of the church; they did not adore the body of christ, nor enter a sacred building to hear mass, nor make use of consecrated bread or holy water. 2. they offered in sacrifice to demons living animals, which they dismembered, and then distributed at cross-roads to a certain evil spirit of low rank, named the son of art. 3. they sought by their sorcery advice and responses from demons. 4. in their nightly meetings they blasphemously imitated the power of the church by fulminating sentence of excommunication, with lighted candles, even against their own husbands, from the sole of their foot to the crown of their head, naming each part expressly, and then concluded by extinguishing p. 28 the candles

ed at carrigfergus. they went to her, and brought her to the house for the purpose of curing the cow. about ten o'clock that night war was declared against the unknown magicians. mary butters ordered old montgomery and a young man named carnaghan to go out to the cow-house, turn their waistcoats inside out, and in that dress to stand by the head of the cow until she sent for them, while the wife, the son, and an old woman named margaret lee remained in the house with her. montgomery and his ally kept their lonely vigil until daybreak, when, becoming alarmed at receiving no summons, they left their post and knocked at the door, but obtained no response. they then looked through the kitchen window, and to their horror saw the four inmates stretched on the floor as dead. they immediately burs

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c system as three gods, united with each other by a mysterious and ineffable genera- tion" blending this transcendental idea with the more hypostatic figure of the logos of philo- whose doctrine was that of the oldest kabala, and who viewed hk king messiah, as the metatron, or 'the angel of the lord' the legaiia descended in flesh, but not the ancuni of days himself* the christians clothed jesus, the son of mary, with this mythical representation of the mediator for the fallen race of adam. under this unexpected garb his personality was all but lost. in the mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. decline and fall itf the annan empin, ch. xxi. 52. zisis unveiled irenaeua

have never been teen by any one; there is not any defect in uiem, nor any disunion" the first eternal number is the father, or the chaldaean primeval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which the father created the heavens is the son, or the kabalistic androgynous adam kadmon. the son is at once the male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the binah or reason, the second intelli- gence the holy ghost of the christians. therefore strictly speaking there is a tetraktts or quaternary, consisting of the unintelligib

ike themselves, and cannot be god hypostaiwiuy any more than our visible works are ourselves. that these metaphysical subtleties never entered into the head of the honest-minded, sincere paul, is evident; as it is fur- thermore evident, that like all learned jews he was well acquainted with the doctrine of emanations and never thought of corrupting it. how can any one imagine that paul identified the son with the father, when he tells us that god made jeaus "a luiie lower than the angel" barewt, ii, 9) sjs.a a, little hiiiher\iiaji moaea "for this man was counted worthy of more ^ory than moses" hd>reui, iii, 3. of what or how many forgeries, interpolated later in the acts, the fathers are guilty, we know not; but that paul never considered christ more than a man "full of the spirit of god"

the usurper and assassin of the great master's doctrine. the ancient kabala, the gnosis, or traditional aecrh knowledge, has never been without its representatives in any age or country. the trinities of initiates, whether passed into history or concealed under the impene- trable veil of mystny, are preserved throughout, and impressed upon the ages. they are known as moses, aholiab, and besaleel, the son of uri, the son of hur, as plato, philo, and pythagoras, etc. at the transfigura- tion we see them as jesus, moses, and elias, the three trismegisti; and three kabahsts, peter, james, and john whose revelation is the key lo all wisdom. we found them in the twiught of jewish history as zoro- aster, abraham, and terah, and later as henoch, ezekiel, and daniel. who of those who ever studied t

t ever read plato and fathomed his ?ro 'or, 65. fiiiubu,ap.augutl.,xxiii,2;xx^i, 3;d. beaiudire: biml.erit. du maniek, i, p. 297. 66. z-afouoie, illmepart, ch. it, p. 257: puu, 1892, 3nl ed. the words "converted uid cmmcnted by sl paul" may have been in earlier editioni, but aie not in snl. 07. le rpuilime, eu, p. 215. digitizecoy google plato's prudent reserve 39 "i^tom no person hat seen except the son" can doubt that jeaus was a disciple of the same seckt doctrine which had instructed the great philosopher? for, as we have shown before now, plato never claimed to be the inventor of all that he wrote, but gave credit for it to ivthagoras, who, in his turn, pointed to the remote east as the source whence he derived his information and hb philosophy. moreover, it is undeniable that the the

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was speedily extinguished. it appeared from undoubted tokens in the mode of inscription that this wonderful lamp had been placed in its present receptable before the advent of the saviour. those who saw the lamp declared that the effulgence was of the most dazzling character; that the light did not flicker or change, but burnt marvellously steadily. a most celebrated lamp, called that of pallas, the son of evander, who, as virgil relates, was killed by turnus (the account will be found in the tenth book of virgil s neid, is that reported as discovered not far from rome, as far forward in time as the year 1401. it is related that a countryman was digging in the neighbourhood, and that delving deeper than usual, he came upon a stone sepulchre, wherein there was discovered the body of a man

ffer in his room: and they compel one simon a cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of alexander and rufus, to bear his cross (st. mark xv. 21. the gnostics contended that a portion of the real history of the crucifixion was never written. asserting that a miraculous substitution of persons took place in the great final act of the crucifixion, the gnostics maintained that the son of god could not suffer physically upon the cross, the apparent sufferer being human only real body having no part with him. at the point of the miraculous transference of persons, christos and sophia (the divine) left his body, and returned to their own heaven. upon his death on earth, the two withdrew the being jesus (spiritually, and gave him another body, made up of ether (rosicrucian

on, that true gnosis, which he communicated to the small number of the apostles who were capable of receiving the same. the gnostic authorities are st. irenaeus in the first place, tertullian, clemens alexandrinus, origen, st. epiphanius. the gnostics are divided into sects, bearing the names of valentinians, carpocratians, basilideans, and manich ans. gnwsij, gnosis, gnossos: thence gnostics. as the son of god remained unknown to the world, so must the disciple of basilides also remain unknown to the rest of mankind. as they know all this, and yet must live amongst strangers, therefore must they conduct themselves towards the rest of the world as invisible and unknown. hence their motto, learn to know all, but keep thyself unknown (iren us. 154 the rosicrucians. the speech of an angel or

late to send to genoa for a supply; and through this accidental deficiency it happened that the king was attired in white velvet at the solemnity of his coronation, and not in red or purple robes, as consisted with the proper usage. as an earlier instance of this singular superstition, the story of that ill-fated royal white ship occurs to memory, as the vessel was called wherein prince william, the son of king henry the first, the heir-apparent, with his natural sister, the countess of perche, and a large company of the young nobility, embarked on their return to england from normandy. it might be supposed that the misfortunes of king charles the first, which were accepted, at that time of monarchical dismay, as the reading (and the exhaustion) of this evil-boding prophecy, were enough;

ass, with the divine creative effluence in the centre. the worlds spiritual and temporal, being rendered subject to the operation of the original type, or idea, became, in their imitation of this invisible ideal, first intelligible, and then endowed with reciprocal meaning outwards from themselves. this produced the being (or thought) to whom, or to which, creation was disclosed. this is properly the son, or second ineffable person of the divine trinity. thus that which we understand as a human mind became a possibility. this second great, only intelligible world, the rosicrucians call macrocosmos. they distribute it as into three regions or spheres; which, as they lie near-to, or dilate the farthest from, the earliest-opening divine brightness, they denominate the empyr um, the theraeum

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ts. now with new eyes did my daughter see and a searing light did burn there. plucking from the tree another fruit she hurried thence to her mate and, joyous, shook him into wakefulness, arousing man from his most trouble slumbers beneath the leaves of the forest, once beautiful to his eyes yet in his care delighting not his spirit, sight or heart, weighed down by the villainous deceits spoken by the son of heaven. stirring, started, he did glance about like a deer, having heard the hunter's tread in sleep, now looking this and that to perceive from which direction the danger comes and which is the path to safety and escape. already were the first unshaven hairs upon his chin and my heart once more did sorrow to see his youth gnawed away by elohim perfidy. once he had cast off sleep's last

the trick you work against me? i shall not take this fruit from you for you are most treacherous and have taught me well, despite that you have sought to teach me error, that it is adonai yahweh that i must trust and not the false testament of woman" to be wrongfully prosecuted in this way myself was as a knife driven into me, a pain that, for these children's sake, i already knew, and yet to see the son so moved to hate the daughter and betray their love to heaven's lies was as a wide sword, driven to the hilt, into my heart and twisted their by some cruel hand. never had satan wept and loved like this, not for bright heaven when it was bright nor yet for chadel, the tower of all his hopes, that now he wept for the contention of his children. more dear were they to me than victory though

resence and once more abased himself before his king, kneeling as he would have my children kneel as though he were a craven hound to be whipped. raphael stood not to speak his part but yet cringeing before the throne of god where sat the shrivelled, white-haired archon-lord, arrayed in fine robes and a bright-shining crown, starred with a thousand jewels, yet made weak by the old wound struck by the son that he once loved best the fine apparel of a king seemed greater than the king within and did not increase his majesty but did show too clearly how unfit he was to rule his realm. at his right hand michael sat within a second throne and, with his dark pride swelling in his heart he did seem more the semblance of the king. yet to the father that did seem infirm did raphael kneel and make p

rth from the city's gates to bear to far shurupuk a wealth of riches by which to by the favour of the new king and thus honour the mercy he had shown to the armies that he had vanquished. a hundred mules bearing on their backs grain and wine, gold and silver and the hides of beasts. thus was the kindness of utanapishtim so repaid. from the tower of the barbican that guarded the gates of the city, the son of lamech watched the tribute-bringers go far from the city walls with the riches of his treasury to bestow upon a foreign land that which his father's spear had one. for this wept noah, son of lamech 227 and spoke thus, looking back into the city and upon the barrow-gate, now sealed by the hands of his father's knights where lamech's bones now joined those of noah's noble ancestors "so to

shall not gainsay, knowing you to be true and a most faithful knight of mine. thus amuse your own caprice at first 238 but when you have accomplished noah's submission and entirely cowed him and his line, making them but instruments of my will, then you shall teach to them that charm that i shall teach you now. this spell is no more mine to command ever since that ruinous injury wrought on me by the son that i so cherished, repaying with spite such love, before the gates of heaven in battle. now that the creative principle is lost to me it does but reside in the nephilim. thus the nephilim alone might speak the spell and employ its power upon the earth. this spell shall open the cataracts of the sky and release the deep waters from their reservoirs, throwing open the hundred gates that th

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opus or the vast countenance is one of the titles of kether, yet another of its titles is the ancient of days, aatik yomin. kether or the vast countenance emanates first as abba the supernal father, and aima, the supernal mother. abba is referred to yod of yhvh, and aima is referred to heh of yhvh. elohim is a name given to these two hypostases united. as elohim they are considered the parents of the son, zauir anpin, also called microprosopus, or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and chokmah. aima is referred to heh and binah. zauir anpin is referred to the 6 sephiroth chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, yesod and of these especially to tiphareth. malkah the queen and kalah the bride are titles of malkuth when considered as the spouse of zauir anpin, the microprosopus

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le the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through selfsacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient text with several commentaries, also extremely old, and some prayers, none of which come into the scheme of the orginal text. it has, together with the 12th chapter, been very caref

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one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter note 1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. i. 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. 2 (a) avoid using some common word, such as "and" or "the" or "but; use a paraphrase (b) avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as "t, or "s. or "m; use a paraphrase (c) avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. of thine own i

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owever, since the nation would depend on its members, a breach in the obligation would create a vacuum in society because someone would remain without help. the bigger the number of violators, the more the rule that every member of society is obliged to observe would be breached. all are responsible for one another, both for observing the laws and for violating them. another ancient sage, elazar, the son of rashbi (rabbi shimon bar-yochai, the author of the zohar, has an even greater surprise for us. he says that not only every nation, but all of humanity, every living being, is responsible for each other. elazar states that all nations will have to observe this rule, and in so doing the entire world will be corrected. the world cannot be completely corrected and elevated unless everyone e

n, why he lives, what the purpose of his life is, where he comes from, and where he is going after he completes his life in this world. 110 a b o u t b n e i b a ru c h bnei baruch is a non-profit organization that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of humankind. kabbalist rav michael laitman, phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to rabbi baruch ashlag, the son of rabbi yehuda ashlag (author of the sulam commentary on the zohar, follows in the footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. laitman's scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions, and cultures with the precise tools necessary for embarking on a captivating path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. with the focus being primarily on inner proces

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e and us. to spare us the experience of the suffering this contrast entails, we should begin to advance toward acquiring the attribute of altruism, to change the course of evolution. and we should begin soon. when we do, we will immediately feel a favorable response at all levels of existence. for instance, let us assume that a certain man has a son who is behaving very badly. the father talks to the son and tries to persuade him to change his ways. in the end, they agree that from now on they will begin with a clean slate, and the boy will better his ways. if, in the next day, the boy succeeded in improving his ways, even just a little bit, his father s attitude toward him will immediately change for the better. thus, everything is measured and judged not according to the result, but acco

ng the method of attaining it. for every person questioning who am i really? and why am i on this planet? this book is an absolute must. 207 a bo u t b n e i b a ru c h bnei baruch is a non-profit organization that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of humankind. kabbalist rav michael laitman, phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to rabbi baruch ashlag, the son of rabbi yehuda ashlag (author of the sulam commentary on the zohar, follows in the footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. laitman s scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions, and cultures with the precise tools necessary for embarking on a captivating path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. with the focus being primarily on inner proces

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m and explaining the method of attaining it. for every person questioning who am i really? and why am i on this planet? this book is an absolute must. about bnei baruch bnei baruch is a non-profit organization that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of humankind. kabbalist rav michael laitman, phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to rabbi baruch ashlag, the son of rabbi yehuda ashlag (author of the sulam commentary on the zohar, follows in the footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. laitman s scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions, and cultures with the precise tools necessary for embarking on a captivating path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. with the focus being primarily on inner proces

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

when we are engaged in altruistic acts. it is said by the kabbalists "the needs of your people are great, but their wisdom is slight" the needs are great precisely because the wisdom is slight. rabbi yehuda ashlag said "our state can be likened to the state of the king s son, who was placed by his father in a palace filled with all kinds of treasures but with no light with which to see it all. so the son sits in the darkness and lacks only the light in order to possess the riches. he even has a candle with him (the creator sends him the possibility to begin the advance toward himself, as it is said: the soul of a human being is the candle of the creator. one needs only to light it by his own desire" stages of correction- 359- rabbi yehuda ashlag said "although it is said that the goal of c

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n, why he lives, what the purpose of his life is, where he comes from, and where he is going after he completes his life in this world. 220 a b o u t b n e i b a ru c h bnei baruch is a non-profit organization that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of humankind. kabbalist rav michael laitman, phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to rabbi baruch ashlag, the son of rabbi yehuda ashlag (author of the sulam commentary on the zohar, follows in the footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. laitman's scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions, and cultures with the precise tools necessary for embarking on a captivating path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. with the focus being primarily on inner proces

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of the creator, which turns bestowal into reception and sufficient fuel for great devotion. then the disciple, too, would be able to practice torah and mitzvot for her name with his heart and soul, which is the remedy for the attainment of eternal adhesion with the creator. now you can understand what our sages said: the practice of torah is preferred to the study of torah. as it is said, elisha the son of shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of elijah. it does not say learned, but poured. that seems perplexing, for how can such simple acts be greater than the study of the wisdom and the knowledge? however, the above makes it clear that serving the rav in the flesh with great devotion to bring him contentment brings us adhesion with our rav, meaning equivalence of form. and thus

f the upper world. learn from it. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 418 h ow c a n o n e f e e l r e s p o n s i b l e? q: can one say that the jewish people are the keter of the nations of the world? a: the jews are the ge (galgalta ve eynaim) of the collective soul of adam. they must be the first to receive the torah. they must learn how to correct man s nature, and then, as rav elazar (the son of rabbi shimon, the author of zohar) said, they must pass this knowledge of man s correction to the rest of the world. therefore, if the world is bad, the jews are the ones to blame! so instead of pride, let us feel responsible. p o i n t i n g at t h e p r o b l e m q: why do you believe you have the right to blame israel for its misfortunes? a: if we look at ourselves, we ll come to the

tivates us: this is about you and me, and all of us. it is about the way we were, the way we are, and the way we will be. 446 a b o u t b n e i b a ru c h bnei baruch is a non-profit group centered in israel that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of mankind. kabbalist michael laitman phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to kabbalist, rav baruch ashlag, the son of kabbalist rav yehuda ashlag (author of the sulam commentary on the zohar, follows in the footsteps of his mentor in guiding the group. rav laitman s scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions and cultures the precise tools necessary for embarking on a highly efficient path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. the focus is primarily on inner processes that individ

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fe that feeds directly off the ground called 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 143 field dog. the ape exists between the animate and those creatures that can speak. the only thing that could happen would be a godly spark pulling one toward the spiritual, thus creating in one a desire to attain something greater than this world. at that point, one would become the son of man. science and technology have been developed only to lead us to a dead end, to the understanding that technology is not the way to go. but before we look for the new way, we must first reach that dead end. all the kabbalists had students. it is strictly forbidden to classify students as better or not so good, or those who want spirituality more, or want it less. all of us were born w

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ided 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 inanimate, for there is nothing but that. but in their separate appearances, the holy ghost is the maker or builder of the outer world, and the son is the life in all beings, the glight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world h. every material object in the world is part of the being of god the holy ghost in this large sense, and every life or consciousness is part of the consciousness of god the son, who is the manifested solar logos. behind these, invisible and beyond all imagining, is the ineffable glory and happi-ness o

ht that lighteth every man that cometh into the world h. every material object in the world is part of the being of god the holy ghost in this large sense, and every life or consciousness is part of the consciousness of god the son, who is the manifested solar logos. behind these, invisible and beyond all imagining, is the ineffable glory and happi-ness of the father. 139. both the holy ghost and the son are in turn triune; wisdom, strength and beauty are the three qualities of god the holy ghost, and they form the three supports of the objective world, as they also mark out its three divisions. these divisions are (1) the visible world of material objects, founded in beauty- god in things is seen as beauty (2) the invisible energy with which the world is filled, and on which all things th

they constitute the lodge, the building, in which life plays its part; and the three pillars, ionic, doric and corinthian, symbolize these three divisions of the world- the field of consciousness, as it has been called in the bhagavad gita. 140. all the living beings which people this world display the light of the divine life and consciousness in their varying degrees. they are all parts of god the son, the christ, the great sacrifice, the divine life crucified on the cross of matter. he also is a trinity, and this is seen in the three powers of consciousness appearing in man as the spiritual will, the intuitional love and the higher intelligence, which are the root of all human will, love and thought. since the officers are the life in the lodge, they represent these qualities in consci

aspects of the logos- the buds denoting the action of the holy spirit, the arm of the lord outstretched in activity, and always pushing upward and onward within the spirit of man, while the middle row was taken as showing the strength of the father ever shining forth as the sun in his glory far beyond the clouds and mists of earth, and the lowest row betokened the action of the second aspect, god the son, bending down into incarnation and raising humanity from within. 184. the crossed palm-leaves here indicate the lipika, the lords of karma, who work through the four kings of the elements symbolized by similar leaves on tat. they are unconnected with the rest of the design because they represent forces not confined to our planetary scheme, or even to our solar system; they administer a law

fore the wall built of them will stand perpendicular, safe and strong. the difference between the two kinds of squares will now be clearly seen. the quadrilateral is intended when we speak of the compasses as dominating the square, but this right angle is signified when we refer to the tool wherewith the master measures and decides. although the r.w.m. has this symbol of the square, he is in fact the son governing and judging on behalf of the father, who remains in the background, since our lodges are of the christ or sun-god type. 259. in egypt they had a symbol of very great significance, called the arrow of ra, which includes both the square of the r.w.m. and his gavel of office (plate viii) 260. in our plate the different parts are separate, but sometimes they are joined together, and

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to these great angelic powers in the inner worlds. 183. the powers associated with the 33 appear to have been slightly modified since those ancient egyptian times. the great white angels seemed to be sterner and more rhadamanthine in ancient egypt; today those who belong to the degree are in some ways gentler, though their power is no less splendid. this stage combined the wonderful love of horus the son with the ineffable life and strength of osiris the divine father, and isis, the eternal mother of the world; and this union of love with strength is still its most prominent characteristic. 184. it confers upon those who open themselves to its influence power similar to and only a little way below that of the first great initiation, and those who enter the 33 should assuredly qualify thems

leading, we may believe, the sacral griffin. it is probable, indeed, that in crete the kingly aspect was more to the fore than in the religious centres of asia minor. but both the actual evidence from the palace site and the divine associations attributed to minos lead to the conclusion that here, too, each successive dynast was a priest for ever after the order of melchizedech and made like unto the son of god. 239. there is little doubt that in the room thus described we find one of the minoan temples of the mysteries. most probably, as sir arthur evans suggests, the throne which is shown in the chamber was the seat of the hierophant, and on the stone benches round the walls were ranged the brn. who took part in the ritual. the candidates for initiation had to undergo a preliminary purif

manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him(*ii chron, ii, 14) 276. josephus confirms the tradition that he was an artist and a craftsman rather than an architect: this man was skilful in all sorts of work, but his chief skill lay in working in gold and silver and brass, and he did all the curious work about the temple as the king wished(*josephus, ant, viii) he was the son of a widow of naphtali, and his father was a man of tyre, a worker in brass before him. since so much responsibility rested in his hands, and he was so skilful an artist, he appears to have been in the close confidence of king solomon, and a member of his council. he was evidently treated as an equal by the two kings, and that is one of the reasons which influenced bro. ward to translate h

it perfectly clear that by somatic christianity he means that faith which is based on the gospel history. he says of it: what better method could be devised to assist the masses? in dean inge s christian mysticism he is quoted as teaching that: 465. the gnostic or sage no longer needs the crucified christ. the eternal or spiritual gospel which is his possession shows clearly all things concerning the son of god himself both the mysteries shown by his words and the things of which his acts were the symbols origen regards the life, death and resurrection of christ as only one manifestation of a universal law, which was really enacted not in this fleeting world of shadows, but in the eternal counsels of the most high. he considers that those who are thoroughly convinced of the universal truth

ior to 1717; and it is because of this lack of all records that many masonic scholars believe that it was compiled only at the beginning of the eighteenth century. even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when the old charges were written down, no mention is made of the legend of hiram; for this formed part of the secret ritual and therefore might not be divulged. a figure representing god the son in the porch of peterborough cathedral is depicted as making the f.c.h.s(*j. s. m. ward, op. cit, p. 116) showing that this s at least was known to our old operative brethren. 537. the rise of gothic architecture 538. the climax of mediaeval operative building was reached in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the rise and development of gothic architecture, which was inspired directly

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rick the caller. asmodeus is also in charge of gaming houses.asmodeus shows up in other writings, such as the devil on two sticks, by alain r. le sage, in which he is the central character. in jewish legend asmodeus is said to be the fatherin- law of the bar shalmon, who is a demon. and in the devil s own dear son, by james branch asmodeus (bridgeman art gallery) aurum solis 17 cabell,asmodeus is the son of sammael and lilith (who is adam s first wife. in the legends of solomon, asmodeus (also known as saturn, marcolf, or morolf) is held responsible for creating carousels, music, dancing, and drama. see also demons; judaism for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. a

ew dictionary of religions, 2nd ed. london: blackwell, 1997. rigaud,milo. secrets of voodoo. 1953. san francisco, ca: city lights books, 1985. hades in the contemporary period hades has become interchangeable with hell. however, the name originally referred to the greek god of the underworld and king of the dead. later hades became, by extension, the name of the land of the dead itself. hades was the son of rhea and chronos. after defeating the titans (the older gods, hades and his brothers, zeus and poseidon, divided the world among themselves. poseidon received the seas, zeus the sky, and hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for

ld blow the fruit away. every time, desperately thirsty, he sought water, it would evaporate. homeric mythology was adapted by the mystery religions and mixed with secret rituals so as to provide a personal dimension to religion not available in the traditional practices and beliefs. the two most important mystery religions were the orphic and eleusinian mysteries. in greek mythology, orpheus was the son of calliope, a muse, and his singing to the lyre could charm animals and even rocks and trees. when his wife eurydice died he was permitted to lead her back from hades, provided he did not turn to look at her until they had arrived safely in the upper world.he did look at her, however, and she had to return to hades. because orpheus was one of the few figures in greek mythology to visit ha

ned to establish punishment for the sinners or reward for the righteous (culminating in resurrection. in christianity the judgment of the soul is believed to occur upon the death of the individual, who will be assigned either eternal condemnation or reward (hell or heaven) or, in some christian churches, purgatory. some texts also mention a final judgment day, held at the end of time by god or by the son, jesus christ, which will culminate in the resurrection of the righteous and eternal damnation for sinners. in islam a notion of an imminent judgment day draws primarily from jewish literature; in the koran a description of a trial of the soul refers to a scale weighing good and evil deeds, and consequently to eternal reward (paradise) or penalty (hell. see also judaism; zoroastrianism for

s appearing to molest children; and so on (182) in addition to being the most famous case of its type, it also has the distinction of being the longest-running criminal trial in u.s. history as well as the most expensive, costing over $15 million. mcmartin ritual abuse case 171 virginia mcmartin and her daughter peggy buckey owned the mcmartin preschool in manhattan beach, california. ray buckey, the son of peggy buckey, also worked there as a part-time aide. the case began on august 12, 1983, when a mentally disturbed woman a woman who was later diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and who died from liver problems caused by alcoholism before the trial began accused ray buckey of molesting her son, a student at the mcmartin school. this parent s allegations were quite bizarre

LIBER 777

ction of christian gods (10; apostles (12; evangelists (4) and churches of asia (7. xxxvii. hindu legendary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy ghost (as incubus) 1010 ceres ecclesia xsti, the virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, mi

n of tarot trumps. 11 the spirit of aiqhr. a bearded ancient seen in profile* 12 the magus of power. a fair youth with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the

, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser countenance ]lm king. ypna ryuc seir anpin \da adam. b the son. cya the man \wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mi

u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. see above for heru

LIBER ALEPH

nd it is utterly in tune with thine own will on every plane, so that every part of thy nature rejoiceth with every other part, communicating praise. now then learn also how this formula is that of the word abrahadabra. first, had is the triangle erect upon twin squares. of hadit need i not to write, for he hath hidden himself in the book of the law. this substance is the father, the instrument is the son, and the metaphysical ekstacy is the holy ghost, whose name is hriliu. these are then the sun, mercury, and venus, whose sacred letters are r (r, b (b, and d (d. but the last of the diverse letters is h (h, which in the tarot is the star whose eidolon is d (d; and herein is that arcanum concerning the tao of which i have already written. of this will i not write more plainly. but mark this

spit upon him and scourge him, and lead him away to crucify him; and the third day he riseth from among the dead, and ascendeth into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of god, and cometh to judge the quick and the dead. this, o my son, is the history of everyman unto whom is given a word. k the book of wisdom or folly 117 dm de suo pr.lio (of his struggle) ow therefore thou seest how men take the son of science, and burn him for a sorcerer or a heretic; the poet and cast him out as reprobate; the painter, as deforming nature, the musician, as denying harmony; and so for every new word. how much more, then, if the word be of universal import, a word of revolution and of revelation in the deep of the soul? a new star; that is for the astronomers, and maybe setteth them by he ears. but a

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

ght sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll.a sable stain .who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain. he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. 5 ii behold! arabia.s burning shore rings to the hoofs of many a steed. lord of a legion rides to war t

all the roots of sin and sadness were plucked. as a flower perisheth, so all sin died. and in that place all they did know the beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace. then fell the night. above the baying of the great beast, that was the bass liber cxcvii 98 to all the harps of heaven a-playing, there came a solemn voice (not one but was upon his knees in praying and glorifying god. the son of god himself .men thought.spoke then .arise! brave soldier, thou hast won the quest not given to mortal men. arise! sir palamede adept, christian, and no more saracen! on wake or sleeping, wise, inept, still thou didst seek. those foolish ways on which thy folly stumbled, leapt, all led to the one goal. now praise thy lord that he hath brought thee through to win the quest. the good knig

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

tual of self-initiation based upon the formula of the neophyte v a a publication in class d 1 000. the building of the pyramid. the magus with wand. on the altar are incense, fire, bread, wine, the chain, the scourge, the dagger and the oil. in his left hand the bell he taketh: hail! asi! hail, hoor-apep! let the silence speech beget! two strokes on bell. banishing spiral dance: the words against the son of night tahuti speaketh in the light. knowledge and power, twin warriors, shake the invisible; they roll asunder the darkness; matter shines, a snake. sebek is smitten by the thunder. the light breaks forth from under. he goes to the west, in the centre of the base of the triangle of (m, asi (a, and hoor (c: o thou, the apex of the plane, with ibis head and phoenix wand and wings of night

gn of enterer. attack! i eat up the strong lions. i! fear is on seb, on them that dwell therein, behold the radiant vigour of the lord! sign of silence defence! i close the mouth of sebek, ply my fear on nile, asar that held not in! behold my radiant peace, ye things abhorred. 10 liber dclxxi for see! the gods have loosed mine hands: asar unfettered stands. hail, asi, hail! hoor-apep cries. now i the son of man arise and follow. dead where asar lies! lie down in sign of hanged man: i gild my left foot with the light. i gild my phallus with the light. i gild my right knee with the light. i gild my right foot with the light. i gild my left knee with the light. i gild my phallus with the light. i gild mine elbow with the light. i gild my navel with the light. i gild my heart wedge with the li

five! hail! one! four! five! ten! all hail! sign accordingly. i give the sign that rends the veil. the sign that closes up the veil. m. m 12 2. the sealing of the pyramid proceed as in the building, unto the word .suns. the magus with wand] in his left hand the bell he taketh: hail! asi! hail, hoor-apep! let the silence speech beget! two strokes on bell. banishing spiral dance: the words against the son of night (etc, to .breaks forth from under) he goes to the west, in the centre of the base of the triangle of (m, asi (a, and hoor (c: o thou, the apex of the plane (etc, to .art one, above their moving might) he lays the wand, etc, on the altar, uses the scourge on his buttocks, cuts a cross with the dagger upon his breast and tightens the chain of the bell about his forehead, saying: the

LIBER III VEL JUGORUM

verned by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter* is not of tiphereth without, but tipereth within. i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. avoid using some common word, such as .and. or .the. or .but; use a paraphrase. avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as .t. or .s. or .m; use a paraphrase (i.e. the matter of cerberus. liber iii 2. avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; us

LIBER ISRAFEL

hermes. h. t.s] 3 [this section is paraphrased by allan bennett from a graco-egyptian ritual of exorcism on a papyrus in the british museum (p. lond. 46/ pgm v) see betz (ed, the greek magical papyri in translation for a more literal rendition. t.s] 4 [a golden dawn title for tarot trump ii, gthe high priestess. h. t.s] 4 liber israfel 16 (a pause) 17. the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of tahuti in the universe in the presence of the eternal. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the root of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the scales of the crocodile. the breaking forth of the light!5 18 (follows the lection) 19. there is an end of the speech; let

LIBER LVII

ing subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the prodigal to have some test of truth. some great mystics have laid down the law .accept no messenger of god. banish all, until at last the father himself comes forth. a counsel of perfection. the father himself does send messengers, as we learn in st. mark xii; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent. so that is no vain counsel of .st. john (1 john iv. 1 .try the spirits, whether they be of god. no mistake when .st. paul. 4 liber lviii claims the discernment of spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 cor. xii. 10. now how should frater p. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the most high? on the astral plane, it

ens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim .the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbot djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo .the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbot owcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo .ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbot ow

200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c= 300, y= 10, and t

en the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c= 300, y= 10, and t= 400: total= 3910 years, being the time in round numbers.9 pico della mirandola10 gives the following working out of tycarb: by joining the third letter, a, to the first, b, ba, ab, father is obtained. if to the first letter, b, doubled, the second letter, r, be added, it makes rbb, be-bar, in or through the son. if all the letters be read except the first, it makes tycar, rashith, the beginning. if with the fourth letter, c, the first b and the last t be counted, it makes tbc, sehebeth, the end or rest. if the first three letters be taken, they make arb, bera, created. if, omitting the first, the three following be taken, they make car, rash, head. if, omitting the two first, the next two be take

ale and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

, our sophic pilaster! further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with the voice of a dog. then came a voice .thirteen1 are they, who are one. once is a oneness: twice is the name: thrice let us say not: by four is the son: by five is the sword: by six is the holy oil of the most excellent beard, and the leaves of the book are by six: by seven is that great amen. then our father saw one hundred and four horses that drove an ivory car over a sea of pearl, and they received him therein and bade him be comforted. with that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desire. in the morning therefore he arose and

LIBER LXXVIII

king: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. it is therefore symbolized by a figure seated upon a throne: but also clothed in armour. the four princes these princes are figures seated in chariots, and thus borne forward. they represent the vau forces of the name in each suit: the mighty son of the king and queen, who realizes the influence of both scales of force. a prince, the son of a king and queen, yet a prince of princes, and a king of kings: an emperor whose effect is at once rapid (though not so swift as that of the queen) and enduring. it is, therefore, symbolized by a figure borne in a chariot, and clothed in armour. yet is his power vain and illusionary, unless set in motion by his father and mother. the four princesses are the knaves of the tarot pack; the

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

ngs by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscient truth. thus floweth forth the form of the triad. thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth .shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is c [chaldaan oracles, fragment 13 in the westcott/ cory editions; known from quotations by psellus and pletho. b, the magus of power in tarot= will [chaldaan oracles, fragments 28-9 and 35 in the westcott edition] ritual of the path of the daughter of the firmament. liber mmcmxi 6 300. and in the grecian tongue i

s found in the holy tetragram hwhy. for we may regard this venerable name as typical of the father and the mother, and so divided into hw and hy* now if into the midst of this divided name we cast the triple fire of the holy letter c= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, hwchy. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of w, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of god. we are now, therefore, arrived at the great mystery of the tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the twin sister of the science of number.which, indeed, is but number made flesh: geometry, or absolute symbolism. even as it was spoken by the holy pythagoras .god geometrises. let us behold the work of his fingers! one father incomprehensible one son incomprehensible 1. 2. 3

so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+2+3+4+5+6+5= 26= hwhy. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elemental limitation, the jealous god..p. a note on genesis 9 one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get a, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; m, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaval waters; c, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim* symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v. 2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firmament. now this red glory is the ignis dei. which is also the agnus dei, or lamb of god that destroyeth (literally burns out) the sins of the world. as it is written

s aries, symbol of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note..it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that y, the father, is fire; that h, the mother, is water; that w, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater

s therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the red powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appea

LIBER SAMEKH

phant h to friends. nine by nature, naught by attainment, five by function, in speech swift, subtle and secret; in thought creative, unbiased, unbounded; in act gentle, patient, persistent. hermes to hear, dionysus to touch, pan to behold! a virgin, a babe, and a beast! a liar, an idiot, and a master of men* if we adopt the new orthography viaov (book 4, part iii, chap. v) we must read gthe sun.6.the son h etc, for gall h; and elaborate this interpretation here given in other ways, accordingly. thus o (or f) will not be gthe hierophant, h but gthe devil h.the eye.baphomet, etc, gfifteen by function h instead of gfive h, etc, and gin act free, firm, aspiring, ecstatic, h rather than ggentle, h etc. as in the present text. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 26 a kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he th

objection being to departure from the equilibrium represented hy the central position of tiphareth. 27 kenneth grant, in a note to the rkp edition of magick explains this thus: gthe eten that is one f is the i and the o conjoined: 1+ 0= 1. the eone that is one in three f is a (aleph= 1. iao, aleph is the one in three. aleph conceals the i and the o ein six, f i.e. liber samekh& liber viii 54 vau, the son. h the modified formula viaov= 93 counting the o as u) is expounded in some detail, as noted, in magick. the footnote was misprinted in the first edition, reading g c will not be gthe fifteen by fucntion h instead of gfive, h etc. c h; symonds and grant in the rkp edition realised this reading was erroneous, but assumed the error was gnot h for gnow. h the number of vau is 6, which is also

ome detail, as noted, in magick. the footnote was misprinted in the first edition, reading g c will not be gthe fifteen by fucntion h instead of gfive, h etc. c h; symonds and grant in the rkp edition realised this reading was erroneous, but assumed the error was gnot h for gnow. h the number of vau is 6, which is also the number of the sun; further, in the formula of tetragrammaton vau refers to the son, who is referred to the sephiroth from chesed to yesod but particularly to tiphareth, again referred to 6 and the sun; hence gthe sun.6.the sun. h 28 one suggested solution to this (i claim no credit for it, i read it on an internet discussion group: yod, 10, reduces to 1 by summing digits or aiq bkr( gten that is one h; aleph expands to 111 by spelling it gin full h alp( gone that is one

LIBER V VEL REGULI

the extent of our knowledge of any one thing varies therefore with the number of ideas with which we can compare it. every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. in al this .the. or .god. arranges for .countenance to behold countenance. by establishing itself as an equilibrium,10 a the one-naught conceived as l the two-naught. this l is the son-daughter horus-harpocrates just as the other l was the ritual of the mark of the beast 11 the father-mother set-isis. here then is tetragrammaton once more, but expressed in identical equations in which every term is perfect in itself as a mode of naught. sht supplies the last element; making the word of either five or six letters, according as we regard sht as one letter or two. thus the

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE

mater triumphans, the l.v.x. sign of apophis and typhon (v) or the earth sign of set fighting. the sign of baphomet is probably the n.o.x. sign mulier, on the basis that in .liber v vel reguli. the latter sign is identified with the .attitude of baphomet. t.s] 9 [lat .all in two; two in one; one in none; these are neither all nor two nor one nor none. glory to the father and to the mother and to the son and to the daughter and to the holy spirit within and to the holy spirit without, as was and is and it to come, for ever and ever [lit .in generations of generations, six in one through the name seven in one ararita] 10 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie cdivert from the aim of the work, namely, to let the texts speak for themselves a

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

thinks are baldr fs but ends up with old njord. according to the reasoning of this narrative, then, njord fs marriage to skadi preceded the death of baldr. however, frey fs marriage to gerd appears to have followed baldr fs death. in skirnismal, stanza 21, skirnir offers the giantess gerd gthe ring which was burned with the young son of odin, h and this can only be draupnir. if it was burned with the son of odin, baldr must already be dead, and frey and gerd fs marriage has yet even to be arranged, much less consummated after the nine nights that must intervene after the arrangement is made. i 40 norse mythology think snorri must have had this sequence of events in mind when he wrote gylfaginning, for in the catalog of gods he says that njord is married to skadi, but he does not say that f

stanzas of dialogue in the meter usually used for dialogue, ljo.ahattr. in the first stanzas one of the speakers announces that he has come for a bride, and when challenged about his identity says, gi am named alviss [all-wise/ i live down under the earth/ i have my dwelling under a stone. h in 56 norse mythology stanza 6 the other speaker, the father of the bride, identifies himself as vingthor, the son of sidgrani; that is, thor, the son of odin. thor will only give up the girl, whose troth was, he says, given while he was away (stanza 4, if the dwarf will tell him everything he wishes to know. what follows is a series of 13 questions. each of them begins with the formula gtell me that, alviss .all the fates of men/ i expect that you know, dwarf. h the questions themselves concern vocabu

three heavens in the cosmology of snorri fs gylfaginning. no other text refers to this place or to a second heaven, so it may be snorri fs invention. the name appears to mean gstretched out h but might conceivably derive from a longer form meaning gspiritual heaven. h see also vidblainn andvari (careful) dwarf from whom loki and the gods extract gold to pay compensation for their killing of otr, the son of hreidmar. the story is told in snorri fs skaldskaparmal, in the prose header and opening stanzas of reginsmal in the poetic edda, and in volsunga saga. the gods involved are odin, hoenir, and loki. loki kills otr( gotter, h who had in fact taken the form of an otter, and hreidmar demands compensation. using ran fs 58 norse mythology net, loki captures andvari, who has been swimming abou

65 that is the whitest of all plants, and from it you can note his beauty, both of hair and of face; he is the wisest of the asir and the most eloquent, and the most merciful, but that nature accompanies him, that none of his judgments stands. he lives where it is called breidablik; that is in heaven; in that place nothing can be nothing impure. h a few pages later snorri reports that forseti is the son of baldr and nanna nepsdottir. later in the gylfaginning he tells about baldr fs death and its aftermath, and these stories take up about 10 percent of the entire gylfaginning. baldr fs death actually comprises several constituent parts, and snorri is the first to combine them all in one fluid narrative, even if voluspa, a version of which he clearly had before him, tells most of the story

ng his journey, according to snorri, baldr fs funeral took place. snorri was probably following the skald ulf uggason fs husdrapa here, a poem that describes the rich carved decorations in the newly built hall of olaf pai (peacock) from around 1185 or so in western iceland. here is what husdrapa says about the funeral: the battle-wise frey rides on a boar, bristled with gold, first to the pyre of the son of odin, and leads armies. the exceedingly widely famous hropta-ty lr [odin] rides to the pyre of his son. there i perceive valkyries and ravens accompany the wise victory-tree [man; here odin] to the blood of the holy corpse. thus [the hall] is adorned from within with things remembered. the excellent heimdall rides a horse to that pyre that the gods had built for the fallen son of the ve

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liliththe moon) joined with lucifer (the sun) and produced the daughter and goddess aradia, or by some suggestion hecate. the watchers led by azazel, after lucifer fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the w

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

liliththe moon) joined with lucifer (the sun) and produced the daughter and goddess aradia, or by some suggestion hecate. the watchers led by azazel, after lucifer fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the w

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

lict with buddhist texts. in other words, buddhism does not have the equivalent of genesis and its counterpart in the quran, or the equivalent of hindu sacred texts explaining our origins. there are, however, local origin myths in many of the areas to which buddhism spread and adapted. one interesting example is an origin myth from korea, where a siberian tiger and a bear sought to become humans. the son of the king of the eastern heavens (hwan-ung) told them he would bring this about if they could endure harsh austerities in a dark cave for a creationism and intelligent design 27 number of days. the tiger gave up before the deadline and left, so he remained a tiger, but the bear endured to the end. this bear was then transformed into a beautiful woman. when the woman went to thank hwan-un

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secrets to humanity, and several authors have declared that the gods, though loving him, feared that he would overthrow their kingdom and therefore reluctantly encompassed his destruction. as time passed on the historical orpheus became hopelessly confounded with the doctrine he represented and eventually became the symbol of the greek school of the ancient wisdom. thus orpheus was declared to be the son of apollo, the divine and perfect truth, and calliope, the muse of harmony and rhythm. in other words, orpheus is the secret doctrine (apollo) revealed through music (calliope. eurydice is humanity dead from the sting of the serpent of false knowledge and imprisoned in the underworld of ignorance. in this allegory orpheus signifies theology, which wins her from the king of the dead but fai

ater next mingled, becoming inseparable, and the spiritual word which is called reason moved upon their surface, causing endless turmoil. then again was heard the voice of poimandres, but his form was not revealed "i thy god am the light and the mind which were before substance was divided from spirit and darkness from light. and the word which appeared as a pillar of flame out of the darkness is the son of god, born of the mystery of the mind. the name of that word is reason. reason is the offspring of thought and reason shall divide the light from the darkness and establish truth in the midst of the waters. understand, o hermes, and meditate deeply upon the mystery. that which in you sees and hears is not of the earth, but is the word of god incarnate. so it is said that divine light dwe

creatures. the supreme being--the mind--male and female, brought forth the word; and the word, suspended between light and darkness, was delivered of another mind called the workman, the master-builder, or the maker of things "in this manner it was accomplished, o hermes: the word moving like a breath through space called forth the fire by the friction of its motion. therefore, the fire is called the son of striving. the workman passed as a whirlwind through the universe, causing the substances to vibrate and glow with its friction, the son of striving thus formed seven governors, the spirits of the planets, whose orbits bounded the world; and the seven governors controlled the world by the mysterious power called destiny given them by the fiery workman. when the second mind (the workman)

her husband, but it was again stolen by typhon, who cut it into fourteen parts, which he scattered all over the earth. isis, in despair, began gathering up the severed remains of her husband, but found only thirteen pieces. the fourteenth part (the phallus) she reproduced in gold, for the original had fallen into the river nile and had been swallowed by a fish. typhon was later slain in battle by the son of osiris. some of the egyptians believed that the souls of the gods were taken to heaven, where they shone forth as stars. it was supposed that the soul of isis gleamed from the dog star, while typhon became the constellation of the bear. it is doubtful, however, whether this idea was ever generally accepted. among the egyptians, isis is often represented with a headdress consisting of th

ng in one hand the crux ansata, the symbol of eternal life, and in the other a serpent-wound staff symbolic of his dignity as counselor of the gods. click to enlarge the egyptian madonna. from lenoir's la franche-maconnerie. isis is shown with her son horus in her arms. she is crowned with the lunar orb, ornamented with the horns of rams or bulls. orus, or horus as he is more generally known, was the son of isis and osiris. he was the god of time, hours, days, and this narrow span of life recognized as mortal existence. in all probability, the four sons of horus represent the four kingdoms of nature. it was horus who finally avenged the murder of his father, osiris, by slaying typhon, the spirit of evil. p. 48 the world virgin is sometimes shown standing between two great pillars--the jach

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

ly enough brigantia (brigit) and cocidius (goch in modern welsh i.e. the red one. cocidius was a god of hunting and the forest who had a cult centre at bewcastle in cumberland. at bewcastle or fanum cocidi the temple of cocidius there was both a fort and a temple. the strong roman military presence soon became a part of the local mix and cocidius quickly became associated with mars& also silvanus the son of mars) as mars cocidius who was widely worshiped by the civil and military population alike. the roma n military had a tradition (for the most part, jews and druids aside) of respecting the genius loci (local gods, since like all soldiers they needed as much luck as they could get. so they took on the local cult but gave it a roman gloss. my private worship has for some years been reserv

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

ers, seeing that so many men can neither understand nor interpret this knowledge, even though there were no secret thing in nature which the lord hath hidden from me! wherefore are these words so obscure? wherefore am i so ignorant? and then on his bended knees, stretching his hands to heaven, he said: o god, the creator of all, thou who knowest all things, who gavest so great wisdom unto solomon the son of david the king; grant unto me, i beseech thee, o holy omnipotent and ineffable father, to receive the virtue of that wisdom, so that i may become worthy by thine aid to attain unto the understanding of this key of secrets. and immediately there appeared unto me, the angel the lord, saying: do thou remember if the secrets of solomon appear hidden and obscure unto thee, that the lord hath

fell into the hands of the archbishop of arles, after the destruction of the jews in that city; who, from the latin, translated it into the vulgar tongue, in the same terms which here follow, without having either changed or augmented the original translation from the hebrew. the key of solomon page 12 chapter i concerning the divine love which precedes the acquisition of this knowledge solomon, the son of david, king of israel, hath said that the beginning of our key is to fear god, to adore him, to honour him with contrition of heart, to invoke him in all matters which we wish to undertake, and to operate with very great devotion, for thus god will lead us in the right way. when, therefore, thou shalt wish to acquire the knowledge of magical arts and sciences, it is necessary to have pr

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e of the temple. angels of netzach and of hod strengthen me upon the cubical stone of yesod. o gedulahel! o geburahel! o tiphereth! binahel, be thou my love! ruach chokmahel, be thou my light! be that which thou art, and that which thou willest to be, o ketheriel! ishim, assist me in the name of shaddai. cherubim, be my strength in the name of adonai. beni elohim, be ye my brethren in the name of the son, and by the virtues of tzabaoth. elohim, fight for me in the name of tetragrammaton. malachim, protect me in the name of yod he vau he. seraphim, purify my love in the name of eloah. chaschmal im, enl ighten me wi th the splendors of elohi, and of schechinah. aralim, act ye; auphanim, revolve and shine. chaioth ha-qadosch, cry aloud, speak, roar, and groan; qadosch, qadosch, qadosch, shadd

MEANING OF MASONRY

e the blissful and self-contemplative nature of the spirit. it is called" the prophet" because of the power of insight and omniscience characterizing that which transcends the sense of time and abides eternally, and because it projects into the lower intelligence intuitions, fore glimpses and intimations of a prophetic nature. from the same word is derived the greek word" hagios" holy. 3" joshua, the son of josedek, the high priest" personifies the active executive aspect of spirit. literally joshua means the" divine saviour" and josedek" divine righteousness" whilst the" high priest" connotes a mediatorial factor between man and deity. the title in its entirety therefore intimates that the human spirit or divine principle in man functions intermediately between deity and man's lower natur

m and function there through his body and brain, thus as it were dislocating and superseding his natural mentality and regenerating him. this truth is still further reproduced in masonry by the name" lewis" traditionally associated with the craft "lewis" is a modern corruption of eleusis and of other greek and latin names associated with light. in our instruction lectures it is said to designate" the son of a mason" this, however, has no reference to human parentage and sonship. it refers to the mystical birth of the divine light in oneself; as a familiar scriptural text has it" unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given" it is the divine principle, the divine wisdom, brought to birth and function within the organism of the natural man, who virtually becomes its parent. it is further

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going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. this is a development from older golden dawn practices and enables the mind to grow strong through understanding and experiencing on dreaming levels other significant god forms, demons and angelick spirits. 23 the egyptian book of the dead, the abode of the blessed, edited by e.a. wallis budge. 24 tubal-cain or cain, the son of samael and lilith, was the master of the forge i.e. initiation. 12 when one approaches the ancient masks of set, seker or the persian druj of the yatuk-dinoih understand that by diving in the black sun, becoming as a god in the darkness is but the first part of crossing the abyss. the rite of adversarial shadow -the ensorcelment of ahriman and the infernal sabbat- the focus and intent o

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h ni tra ohw rehthaf rou! the conjuration of asmodeus into the mirror and through the conscious is the first steps of successful sorcery and witchcraft. asmodeus is a god of sorcery and dark or nightside earth based magick, as is belial within these arts. one will affirm both spirits as well as lilith. the first will be the yezdic peacock angel, shaitan/melek taus. let its form be under asmodeus, the son/husband of lilith (as samael in some hebrew lore. by the oath of belial and saturn, the awakening of hidden light the lifting of flesh through dream and chant i call upon thee, asmodeus, devil lord of the winds of forests and caves speak upon the web of dreams, i invoke thee within my very essence, by serpent and wolf by fire and earth, ice and snow, desert and heat pass beyond the veil li

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

roy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on theearth and cause troubleand these spirits shall rise up against the children of men andagainst the women(book of enoch, chapter 15. when all mankind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shall begeton the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal.(book of enoch)i am offspring of the serpent-nature and a corruptor's son. i am the son of he who..sits onthe throne and has dominion over the creation beneath the heavens.(book of acts)only by magic could they be discovered, only by sound could their faces be seenbut yeknow, the masters were mighty in magic, able to lift the veil from the face of the serpent, ableto send him back to his place. came they to man and taught him the secret, the word thatonly a man can pronounce;

foreign religious cultsfirst judaism and then christianity.appendix b: book abstracts214atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as history and because the contriveddogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original, the early first-hand records werelabeled mythology (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, by way of the sumerian annunaki king,enki (see p. 63)enki and enlilsumerian annunaki, the sons of anu, the supreme father, who was the son of anshar and kishar. theywere the brother and sister of mummu, who was the son of the primal pair tiamat and apsu (see p. 62)enki and nin-khursag (wife and half-sister)it is they who hold the key to the story of adam the original st

e kabalacame into the possession of abraham when he went with his cult of enlil (el) to canaan (see p. 100)kbl (root of kabala)kbl means to twist.samaelthis lord was said to be samael, or the serpent of evil or enki. enki was indeed the patron saint ofthe region known as sama, in northern mesopotamia.eves first bornthe jewish midrash (meaning inquiry)emphasizes the point that hawahs first son was the son ofthe lord, whereas the second son was the son of adam (p. 101)eves two mateseve had two sons by different fathers, one was homo sapiens, while the other was annunaki: enki son cain adams son abeltherefore, cain (qayin) was the one of the royal blood, which is why he was descried and denigrated inthe christian bible.eves third sonthis was seth, and he was given priority over cain by the bi

daughter of lilith (and enki, the latter who was according to the talmud, the con-sort of adam even before eve. liliththe granddaughter of enlil, daughter of his son, nergal of the underworld.she was therefore of pure annunaki stock, and refused therefore to be adams permanent mate. in fact,she was the consort of enki, cains father. together they produced cains wife, luluwa (see p. 106).enochwas the son of cain and luluwa, daughter of lilith (see p. 132)advent of jehovahin the new scheme of things, jehovah could not be seen to have a brothernot a brother who sostrongly opposed him in social matters (p. 117)mis-translations continuehistorically, it was enki (not enlil) who had created adam (atabba) and eve (nin-khawa; it wasenki who had granted them the rights to qabalistic wisdom, and it

aoh amenemhet ii and granddaughter of senus-ret i, the half-brother and husband of sarah, abrahams wife. the daughter of ishmael and mahalath,bashemath goes on to marry esau, son of jacob (see p. 169)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation219 appendix b: book abstracts isaacbut el shaddai (jehovah) comes to make a covenant not with ishmael or other sons of abraham, butonly with isaac the son that sarah and abraham do eventually conceive.then we read that abraham is asked to sacrifice isaac.jehovah promises that isaac and his line will possess egypt. researchers have wondered at this pro-nouncement (see p. 164)jehovah also asks abraham to observe the custom of circumcision, known only in egypt.sarah and the pharaohupon arrival in egypt, sarah enters into the household of a phar

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kings and queens in the center of the circle is found samael and asmodeus. samael appears as the devil of the tarot, devouring and consuming life energy souls are the food of this force. asmodai or asmodeus appears as a bloated or bestial man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elder lilith, wife of samael, a woman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance who is at times hag young maiden, beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an

79 saying that it was profane. he was cast from heaven to earth and was indeed the first independent spirit, the initiator of individual and antinomian thought. azazel was later related to the watchers, the hebrew goat demon god and shaitan. azazel is a name of lucifer, who is the solar aspect of the dragon, the bringer of light. azhi [avestan/pahlavi] serpent, snake azhi dahaka [avestan/pahlavi] the son of angra mainyu/ahriman. azhi dahaka as the storm fiend has six eyes, three heads and three pairs of fangs. in human form, he was zohak, an ancient babylonian/scythian/assyrian king or shah, who according to zoroastrian mythology, was transformed into the immortal storm fiend by a pact with ahriman. azhi dahaka is said to be filled with serpents, scorpions, toads and other insects and rept

s of black magick that have established ford as the most cutting-edge exponent of the left hand path tradition in america today. the book begins with a lengthy and highly scholarly exposition of the place of the draconic adversary within historical magick. set typhon, the egyptian god of darkness, ahriman, the persian devil and his whore of darkness, the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son, the gnostic yaldabaoth "child of chaos, the path of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book,the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a completely revised and up

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to a far earlier date than commonly thought. i am absolutely certain that this is the case in regards to the bible s old testament, whose pre-diluvian accounts are probably that of atlantis. proof of this fact lies in the many unoriginal stories contained in the bible, stories which appear to be nothing more than retellings of earlier mythological accounts. although christians claim that jesus is the son of god and made a noble sacrifice for mankind, they often have trouble in describing the nature of said sacrifice. members of the occult have however convinced me that this sacrifice was quite real, and jesus did indeed take an incredible risk for us; in that his fate was not certain, and his soul was up for grabs. so noble was this act, whatever it was (sorry i could speculate, but i m tr

recounts a first-person narrative of choronzon, where the demon states ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men. choronozon goes on to state, i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. as stated earlier, satanists make numerous references to a devilish force stealing the creative power of the most high god, and this has given birth to much phallic symbolism. subservient to hades are many lesser demons, some of which are merely empty shells with little intellect. for the n

eroics of jehovah, satan, and the other arch-angels. after a massive rock was hurled to earth, the titans were destroyed and the angels seized dominion over the earth. the souls of magog, gog, and the dead race of giants are said to be locked in the earth, waiting to be released when the rays of the stars are no longer poisonous to them. dagon, he who allegedly bound leviathan, is also said to be the son of gog. a bit about me i m just a guy from florida who found out about 9/11 in spring of 2006. as my research began to expand, i felt like someone who was plunged into a fog, and yet never saw things more clearly. all those times my grandmother explained to me the things my generation would see, and all the times i was told the meaning of the eye on the dollar bill, and all the times i inw

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gs, which integrates azazel (the djinn of fire, shaitan) and samael as lucifer, the force related to the noon-tide sun. samael is thus the devil, one half of the adversary and the creative/solar force of the sun. lilith joined with samael through leviathan, the great dragon. ashmodai was said to be another mate of lilith, whom was said in some hebrew legends to be two aspects of the same goddess. the son of lilith and ashmodai was called sariel, the sword of ashmodai. his face flames with fire. sariel had kept a sealed book of secrets, a grimoire with words of power. the zohar itself explains that lilith is nourished by the water (ocean) and the south wind spreads her influence, from which places her as the queen of beasts. they (the beasts) are found chanting to her in the dark of night

al aspect and fiery darkness of spirit emerged and grew in its coming into being. she practiced along with her children the lilitu, sorcery and seduction, and with the sexual fluids created more succubi and demonic forms. lilith in this aspect is our teacher and initiator of magick and sorcery, that by using sexual fluids and charging/consecrating talismans, we may create servitors and familiars. the son of samael and lilith is cain, the lord of horsemen (those who work sorcerous arts and whom spirits ride. an alchemical working is the creation of baphomet, or al-aswad, the black head of wisdom. this is a state of coming into being, of whien the torch of wisdom (the black flame) is illuminated and revealed within. it is a rite of passage, of when the baphometic spirit of fire becomes separ

'underworld' is the equivalent to the grecian hades. this is the meeting place of spirits, where the dead gather. the word hell derives from the angelo-saxon 'helan, meaning to 'cover' or conceal. the hebrew equivalent of hades-amentet is sheol, which is said to come from the root-word "to ask" and "demand. the primary inhabitants of sheol are "the congregation of the dead -prov. 21:16 anubis is the son of set and nephthys. this mortuary god was worshipped in such places as the abt, the papyrus swamps and the lycopolis (the city of wolves- jackals. in the funeral procession, anubis received the mummy, and lays his hands upon the body in initiation and protection. in the dreaming gnosis of wither the celestial/luciferian or infernal sabbat, one assumes anubis as the opener of the way, the

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sab ans worshipping the light-god _seemed_ to worship the sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the deity. the moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. it was the symbol of isis, astarte, and artemis, or diana. the"_master of life" was the supreme deity, above both, and manifested through both; zeus, the son of saturn, become king of the gods; horus, son of osiris and isis, become the master of life; dionusos or bacchus, like mithras, become the author of light and life and truth* the master of light and life, the sun and the moon, are symbolized in every lodge by the master and wardens: and this makes it the duty of the master to dispense light to the brethren, by himself, and through the war

n to the divine providence, is also fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the star that is said to have guided the magi, is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. originally it represented sirius, or the dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the nile; the god anubis, companion of isis in her search for the body of osiris, her brother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. it was hermes, also, the master of learning, whose name in greek is that of the god mercury. it became the sacred and potent sign or charac

in the bible, an emblem of speech, 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 sou

of the month _epiphi, when the sun and moon were supposed to be in the same right line with the earth, was called"_the birth-day of the eyes of horus" in a papyrus published by champollion, this god is styled"_har-oeri, lord of the solar spirits, the beneficent eye of the sun" plutarch calls him"_har-pocrates" but there is no trace of the latter part of the name in the hieroglyphic legends. he is the son of osiris and isis; and is represented sitting on a throne supported by _lions; the same word, in egyptian, meaning _lion_ and _sun. so solomon made a great throne of ivory, plated with gold, with six steps, at each arm of which was a lion, and one on each side to each step, making seven on each side. again, the hebrew word [hebrew _khi, means"_living" and [hebrew _r m "was, or shall be, r

high_-land _khairum, therefore, would mean"_was raised up to life, or living" so, in arabic _hrm, an unused root, meant_"was high "made great "exalted" and _h rm_ means an _ox, the symbol of the sun in taurus, at the vernal equinox. khurum, therefore, improperly called _hiram, is khur-om, the same as _her-ra _her-mes, and _her-acles, the"_heracles tyrius invictus" the personification of light and the son, the mediator, redeemer, and saviour. from the egyptian word _ra_ came the coptic _ouro, and the hebrew _aur, light _har-oeri, is _hor_ or _har, the chief or _master _hor_ is also heat; and _hora, season or hour; and hence in several african dialects, as names of the sun _airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered _pharaoh, was phra, that is _pai-ra, the sun. th

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

because he was not content with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. through the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god- man, etc) whose value in greek should be a= 1, i= 10, f =6, a= 1, s =200,5=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see liber 418, protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. he declares himself, in this verse 7, the "minister of hoor-paar kraat" hoor-paar-kraat, or harpocrates, the "babe in the egg of blue, is not merely the god of silence in the conventional sense. he represents the higher self, the holy guardian angel

he 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, and "pure fool" of act i of parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually we

for if he fail to formulate one facet of himself, by lack thereof will he know himself falsely. there is of course no ultimate difference between the artist as here delineated and him who follows the "way of the tao" though the latter finds perfection in his existing relation with his environment, and the former creates a private perfection of a peculiar and secondary character. we might call one the son, and the other the daughter, of the absolute. but the artist, though his work, the images of himself in the form that he loves, is less perfect than the work of his father, since he can but express one particular point of view and that by means of one type of technique, is not to be thought useless on that account, any more than an atlas is useless because it presents by means of certain c

l this contributes to little patience in mothers with their children. the offspring is often punished for deeds that in reality deserve reward, since they demonstrate courage, initiative and high spirits. the child takes on this mixture of affection and resentment for the mother, and when the sexual instinct begins to surface it surfaces much earlier than the prudish like to believe-the mother is the son's first sexual fixation. now the factor of the incest tabu comes in. the natural tendency of an adolescent boy is towards a girl of his age; but in restricted societies, on reaching puberty he is separated from girls and associates easily only with his mother. the natural physical attraction, which takes no account of tab us, naturally impels him to the sexual object of the other sex which

i, v.15 "venus" of the adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust& worship of the snake the might and worthiness of hadit within men; also the cult of the spermato- zoon the "holy ghost" or "satan" indwelling. the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of god and beast the union of aiwaz and the beast in aleister crowley pan as god& goat; mary, etc, as mother of the son of god, fer tilized by the dove or bull, swan, etc. shall mingle in the globed priest the identification of matterandspiritinour doctrine the doctrine of the re generate incorruptible body. another sacrifice shall stain the tomb loveis the magical formula: sex as the key to life 'the tomb" the temple of love. crucifixion, etc, as the magical formula. death as the key to life 'the tomb" the

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

us [10] it is highly probable that the reputed actions of these deified beings were commemorated by bards, who, travelling from one state to another, celebrated their praise in song; it therefore becomes exceedingly difficult, nay almost impossible, to separate bare facts from the exaggerations which never fail to accompany oral traditions. in order to exemplify this, let us suppose that orpheus, the son of apollo, so renowned for his extraordinary musical powers, had existed at the present day. we should no doubt have ranked him among the greatest of our musicians, and honoured him as such; but the greeks, with their vivid imagination and poetic license, page 9 exaggerated his remarkable gifts, and attributed to his music supernatural influence over animate and inanimate nature. thus we h

ned mankind, no influence remained sufficiently powerful to preserve them from every kind of wickedness and sin. this condition grew worse as time went on, until at last zeus in his anger let loose the water-courses from above, and drowned every [24]individual of this evil race, except deucalion and pyrrha. the theory of hesiod,[8] the oldest of all the greek poets, was that the titan prometheus, the son of iapetus, had formed man out of clay, and that athene had breathed a soul into him. full of love for the beings he had called into existence, prometheus determined to elevate their minds and improve their condition in every way; he therefore taught them astronomy, mathematics, the alphabet, how to cure diseases, and the art of divination. he created this race in page 24 such great number

existence. after her death she was placed by zeus among the stars as a constellation, under the name of arctos, or the bear. alcmene, the daughter of electryon, king of mycenae, was betrothed to her cousin amphytrion; but, during his absence on a perilous undertaking, zeus assumed his form, and obtained her affections. heracles (whose world-renowned exploits will be related among the legends) was the son of alcmene and zeus. semele, a beautiful princess, the daughter of cadmus, king of phoenicia, was greatly beloved by zeus. like the unfortunate callisto, she was hated by hera with jealous malignity, and the page 35 haughty queen of heaven determined to effect her destruction. disguising herself, therefore, as beroe, semele's faithful old nurse, she artfully persuaded her to insist upon ze

rest" now, as all the goddesses were extremely beautiful, each claimed the apple; but at length, the rest having relinquished their pretensions, the number of candidates was reduced to three, hera, athene, and aphrodite, who agreed to appeal to paris for a settlement of this delicate question, he being noted for the wisdom he had displayed in his judgment upon page 39 several occasions. paris was the son of priam, king of troy, who, ignorant of his noble birth, was at this time feeding his flocks on mount ida, in phrygia. hermes, as messenger of the gods, conducted the three rival beauties to the young shepherd, and with breathless anxiety they awaited his decision. each fair candidate endeavoured [40]to secure his favour by the most tempting offers. hera promised him extensive dominions;

ne of unmixed rapture, and for the moment all the past was forgotten. the loving mother's happiness would now have been complete had not aides asserted his rights. these were, that if any immortal had tasted food in his realms they were bound to remain there for ever. of course the ruler of the lower world had to prove this assertion. this, however, he found no difficulty in doing, as ascalaphus, the son of acheron and orphne, was his witness to the fact.[25] zeus, pitying the disappointment of demeter at finding [56]her hopes thus blighted, succeeded in effecting a compromise by inducing his brother aides to allow persephone to spend six months of the year with the gods above, whilst during the other six she was to be the joyless companion of her grim lord below. accompanied by her daught

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ion of stonecutters "brotherhood of the ascension of our lord, erected in the parish church of notre dame de bonne nouvelle for the brotherhood of journeymen stonecutters, having then in charge philippe hubert and pierre jouanne in 1663" its coat of arms "was a compass, triangle, plumb line, hammer, and chisels" the ascension depicted on the coat of arms of the community of masons("an acension of the son of god, all in gold) compels us to accept the fact that it refers to the craft of masonry.12 certain craftmen in the building trade, such as roofers, worshipped saint anne. in fact, in the temple there was an altar dedicated to her. finally, saint john was worshipped by sculptors and carvers of stone and plaster whose brotherhood had its seat in the church of the holy sepulcher near saint

13 the statutes of the stonecutters the ancient statutes of the brotherhood of stonecutters (steinmetzen bruderschaft) dating from 1459 were not, apparently, the first; there is a good possibility that yet older ones exist. as we have seen, they were revised several times and endorsed by the emperors. those published in 1563 were the final ones. the rules began thus:14 "in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, and the glorious mother mary, and also the four crowned martyrs, their blessed servants remembered eternally" findel writes that before 1440, the members of the original strasbourg laborers society bore the name of the brothers of saint john. he adds that saint john the precursor, along with the four crowned martyrs, had always been the special patron saint and protect

d architecture. the second is a "book of duties" including an historical introduction; nine articles governing the organization of labor, which were allegedly promulgated at a general assembly that took place during the time of king athelstan; nine counsels of a moral and religious nature; and four rules concerning the social life of masons. the word speculative actually appears in this document "the son of king athelstan was a true speculative master" the cooke manuscript served as the foundation for the work of george payne, the second grand master of the grand lodge of london, who ensured that this organization adopted a first rule to saint john in 1721. it also appears to have been the principal source from which anderson drew his book of constitutions. in addition to the masonic poem

80,000 masons, including 1,000 masters, and finished the construction of the temple. hiram, king of tyre, who greatly loved solomon, provided him with the wood he needed for the construction and sent him an artist who was the very spirit of wisdom. this man's mother was of the nephtali tribe and his father was a man of tyre, and his name was also hiram (some versions of the story describe him as the son of king hiram; others give his name as amon or aymon) there had been no one like him in the world before his time. a master mason of great nobility and refined knowledge, hiram was master of the construction, all the builders of the temple, and all the carved and sculpted works in the temple and the surrounding area. the legend then leaps ahead several centuries and recounts how namus grae

htali, and his father was a man of tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. and he came to king solomon and wrought all his work. for he cast two brass pillars. that of the right was jachin, and that on the left, boaz. according to the chronicles ii (2:14 and 4:11, huram abi was sent by king hiram of tyre to solomon. he was the son of a woman of the daughters of dan, and his father was a man of tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving. and huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. and huram finished the work he was to make for king solomon for* this explanation confo

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

n were created especially to live in it. in the mandan creation myth, first creator and lone man send a mudhen down to fetch sand from the bottom of the primeval flood, in order to make the land. the ainu of japan tell how the creator kamui sent a water wagtail down from heaven to accomplish the same task (see p. 120. according to the yoruba people in west africa, the world was made when obatala, the son of the great sky god olorun, threw earth from a snail shell, and got a pigeon and a hen to scatter it. the supreme gods of africa tend, like olorun, to withdraw from their creation leaving the main work to their successors. in the original myth preserved by the priests of the fon skycult, it is the androgynous deity the eternal wheel of time this aztec calendar stone, found beneath the cen

be it gold, it breaks. be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart. not forever on earth; only a little while here. in a world where the only certainty is uncertainty, the great myths offer us wisdom and comfort to prepare us for our own journey to the grandfather, into the hands of the unknown god. neil philip hermod descends to the underworld this 18th-century manuscript illustration shows hermod, the son of odin, descending to the underworld on odin s eight-legged steed sleipnir to try to rescue his brother balder, who had been slain through the treachery of the god loki. hel agreed to let balder go if all the world wept for him; but loki refused. as a result, the gods hunted loki down and tied him up in torment but at ragnarok, loki will break loose, and lead the hordes of the dead to war

s amun-re was worshiped as the king of gods. scarab beetle the scarabeus, or dungbeetle, is the symbol of re in his role as khepri, the rising sun. rolling along a ball of dung, the scarab beetle is a symbol of the sun itself. it was also a symbol of self-generation and rebirth, because of the way the young appear from the ball of dung. into the underworld here, the sky goddess nut raises osiris, the son of geb and nut and ruler of the underworld, to receive the sun disc before it goes on its terrifying night journey. in the deepest night, osiris and re become one, and are described both as re who rests in osiris and osiris who rests in re. disc of the sun as re, the sun god was represented by the disc of the sun itself. the egyptian book of the dead (or book of coming forth by day) is a c

gi, or coffins, were rectangular inside like the cartouche that encircled the royal name. just as the cartouche protected the royal name, so the coffin protected the royal body. hunefer is lead by anubis through the hall of two truths anubis anubis weighs hunefer s heart heart feather ammit hunefer osiris the four sons of horus horus isis and nephthys hail to you, osiris wennefer, the vindicated, the son of nut! you are the first-born of geb, the great one who came forth from nut. shout with joy, osiris, for i have come to you; i am horus, i have saved you alive today. the book of the dead re-harakhty thoth after osiris descended to the underworld, he could no longer rule his earthly kingdom, so he bequeathed it to his son horus. but his evil brother seth, the god of chaos and confusion, l

que from luristan, from the eighth 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 tho

PROMETHEUS

of various wiles. and ready-witted prometheus he [zeus] bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long- winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day. that bird herakles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled alkmene, slew; and delivered the son of iapetos from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction- not without the will of olympian zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of herakles the theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth. this, then, he regarded, and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before because prometheus matched himsel

e earth. but the noble son of iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. and zeus who thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire. forthwith he made an evil thing for men as the price of fire; for the very famous limping god formed of earth the likeness of a shy maiden as the son of kronos willed. so it is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of zeus; for not even the son of iapetos, kindly prometheus, escaped his heavy anger, but of necessity strong bands confined him, although he knew many a wile -theogony 507f "for the gods keep hidden from men the means of life [crops. else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even wit

oman, created by the gods, the father sent [hermes. to take it to epimetheus as a gift. and epimetheus did not think on what prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of olympian zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. but he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood -works& days 42-89 "deukalion was the son of prometheus and pronoia, hesiod states in the first catalogue -the catalogues of women& eoiae frag 1 (from scholiast on apollonius rhodius arg. iii.1086 "against the wise prometheus bitter-wroth the sea-maids [nereides] were, remembering how that zeus, moved by his prophecies, unto peleus gave thetis to wife, a most unwilling bride. then cried in wrath to these kymothoe 'o that the pesti

the city carrying burning torches. the contest is while running to keep the torch still alight; if the torch of the first runner goes out, he has no longer any claim to victory, but the second runner has. if his torch also goes out, then the third man is the victor. if all the torches go out, no one is left to be the winner. pausanias 1.30.2 "for aras, they say, was a contemporary of promethe us, the son of iapetus, and three generations of men older than pelasgus the son of arcas -pausanias 2.14.4 [in the temple of zeus at olympia are paintings] prometheus still held by his chains, though herakles has been raised up to him. for among the stories told about herakles is one that he killed the eagle which tormented prometheus in the kaukasos, and set free prometheus himself from his chains

lcanus and given life by jove. the following reason for the release of prometheus has been handed down. when jupiter [zeus, moved by the beauty of thetis, sought her in marriage, he couldn t win the consent of the timid maiden, but none the less kept planning to bring it about. at that time the parcae [moirai] were said to have prophesied what the natural order of events should be. they said that the son of thetis husband, whoever he might be, would be more famous than his father. prometheus heard this as he kept watch, not from inclination but from necessity, and reported it to jove. he, fearing that what he had done to his father saturnus in a similar situation, would happened to him, namely, that he would be robbed of his power, gave up by necessity his desire to wed thetis, and out of

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

t, speech& action of thought machshevet sechel intellectual thought (malchut of tvunah) speaking& saying dibur& amirah the closed mem& the open mem the name elokim the firmament on the heads of the chayot the garment called "the chashmal" shvirat hakelim the shattering of the vessels the cloak of leather the cloak of light the sleep of zeir anpin the eight kings of tohu moshiach ben yosef messiah the son of josef the source of nogah summery of the shattering& rectification malchut of atzilut the tenth achor b achor back to back panim b achor face to back& achor b panim back to face panim b panim face to face a point under yesod malchut keter malchut the desire for kingship the sefirot of malchut thought, speech& action of speech the divisions& combinations of the letters of speech abba yas

llegory not conceal the concept from him, but, on the contrary, it will shed light on it. the very same allegory which was a "cloak of leather" that caused concealment becomes a "cloak of light" that reveals. the sleep of zeir anpin this revelation, in which the separate "garment" itself shines, takes place only after the rectification (tikun, which comes about through mashiach ben yosef (messiah the son of josef, as will be discussed. the torah is called mashal hakadmonie (the primal allegory. now, it is stated that "g-d looked into the torah and created the world. this means that the world and all therein, is an allegory of an allegory. the torah is an allegory on g-d and the world is an allegory on the torah. the world was created according to our capacity to comprehend g-dliness throug

that "death" only affects seven of the kings. these are the seven lower kings of tohu which are the emotions of binah. in the eighth king of tohu, which is binah of binah, there is no actual death. this is because, as explained above, pure, undiluted analysis, does not lead to a "shattering. on the contrary, it is the source of rectification. this will now be explained. mashiach ben yosef messiah the son of josef the torah calls yosef "the interpreter of dreams" because it is he who interprets the dream, putting everything into its correct order, thus making sense of confusion and bringing out the true and correct meaning "yosef the interpreter of dreams, represents the eighth king of tohu which is binah of binah. in other words, when one thoroughly analyzes something which is in a state o

the person is to understand. however, if there are any ulterior motives (as explained earlier, in the explanation of the arms of arich anpin) then he will not succeed, for his analysis will be a rationalization. it will not be objective, and will, therefore, not be true binah (understanding. because of this, binah of binah, which is the eighth king of tohu, is called mashiach ben yosef (moshiach the son of yosef, the interpreter of dreams. this is because it is specifically contemplation and analysis which transforms the "cloak of leather" into a "cloak of light. an examining mind and a comprehending intellect make the difference between a confused "dream" and the "waking state" of true reality revealed (from this we may also understand the verse in the shema prayer "do not stray after yo

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

udes to the three axes of netzach-hod-yesod. the flow of divine beneficence flows first through netzach, then through hod, and then through yesod to malchut. of the triad of netzach-hod-yesod, netzach is the highest, and thus primary one of the three. it retains a residue of hod and yesod as what will be revealed as their light flows through it. this is alluded to by the shin in the name of shem, the son of noah associated with netzach. the shin comprises three vertical gstems h resting on a horizontal base. these three stems allude to the three sefirot of netzach-hod-yesod. the numerical value of the initials of ham and japheth is 18. ham: chet-mem; japheth: yud-pei-tav. chet-yud= 8+ 10= 18. this is because yesod re-includes all three. in netzach, the name havayah predominates, for the nu

ual integrity into the world allowed terah fs soul to be set straight. the result of this union was job. job [thus lived] in the generation of isaac. he was not comforted by the words of any of his [three] friend who came to console him. he was only comforted when he met isaac [who is called in the book of job] elihu ben berachel the buzite.7 isaac was called elihu ben berachel [literally, gelihu the son of he whom g-d has blessed h, for g-d blessed him [elihu ben berachel] was gfrom the family of ram, h meaning abraham. job, like isaac, was a grandson of terah. he lived in gthe land of utz, h and utz was the son of nahor, abraham fs brother. after g-d inflicted suffering upon job, his three friends came to console him. but job was not consoled by their words, since they each tried to conv

o the gate of his town. and then abraham buried his wife sarah in the cave of the field of machpelah, facing mamre.that is hebron.in the land of canaan. thus the field with its cave passed from the hittites to abraham, as a burial site. the cave of machpelah is mentioned three more times in the torah: and his sons, isaac and ishmael, buried [abraham] in the cave of machpelah in the field of efron the son of tzohar the hittite.2 bury me with my fathers, in the cave in the field of efron the hittite, in the cave that is in the field of machpelah, opposite mamre, in the land of canaan, the field that abraham bought from efron the hittite as a burial plot.3 and his sons carried him to the land of canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of machpelah, the field that abraham bought for a

n and concentration on their own spirituality) mystically, this refers to the fact that a righteous individual can have to suffer because he ghosts h( gtolerates h) a pernicious presence within him. 1 zohar 3:111b. 2 deuteronomy 12:3. 3 kallah 6. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 126 thus, when ishmael issued from abraham fs body, he revealed his true nature, as it is written, gand sarah saw that the son of hagar the egyptian was making sport. h4 our sages said that this means that he was serving idols.5 when abraham saw that ishmael was wicked and had incurred the death penalty [for serving idols, he prayed, gif only ishmael would live before you, h6 i.e, would repent. and so it was, that ishmael indeed repented, as is known.7 subsequently, the spark of goodness present in ishmael issued

ls, he prayed, gif only ishmael would live before you, h6 i.e, would repent. and so it was, that ishmael indeed repented, as is known.7 subsequently, the spark of goodness present in ishmael issued from him as yitra the ishmaelite, who married the daughter of nachash. understand this. king david was challenged by his son, absalom. gabsalom appointed amasa over the army in place of joab; amasa was the son of a man named yitra the israelite, who consorted with avigal daughter of nachash, the sister of joab fs mother tzeruyah. h8 tzeruyah and avigal were david fs sisters,9 so amasa was his nephew through avigal, and nachash was evidently another name for david fs father, jesse. yitra is also called gyeter the ishmaelite, h10 for although jewish, he lived in the land of the ishmaelites (which

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

e the man to unite himself with osiris the redeemer. after this union he is no longer called the man, but osiris, with whom he is now symbolically identified "that they also may be one of us" said the christ of the new testament "i am osiris" said the purified and justified man, his soul luminous and washed from sin in the immortal and uncreated light, united to osiris, and thereby justified, and the son of god; purified by suffering, strengthened by opposition, regenerate through self-sacrifice. such is the subject of the great egyptian ritual. the 17th chapter of the theban recension consists of a very ancient text with several commentaries, also extremely old, and some prayers, none of which come into the scheme of the original text. it has, together with the 12th chapter, been very car

and the clouds drop down dew" the word naher has the meaning 'perennial stream1-'never failing waters' as opposed to other words mearung torrent or brook. the river going out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding from the throne, on either side of the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruit. thus the rivers form a cross and on it the great adam, the son who is to rule the nations, was extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to geburah and gedulah, and in malkuth is eve, supporting with her hands the two pillars <146> on the general guidance and purification of the soul learn first, 0 practicus of our ancient order, that true equilibrium is the basis of the soul. if thou thyself hast not a sure foundation, whereon wilt thou stand

ether, and another of its titles is the ancient of days, aatik yomn p tf*'n u kether or the vast countenance emanates first as abba, the supernal father, and aima the supernal mother. abba n33n the supenal father is referred to yod of tetragrammaton, and aima nd9n the supernal mother is referred to heh. elohim *i l?nis a name given to these two persons united. as elohim they become the parents of the son zauir <155> anpin p3m lyint, also called microprosopus or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and the sephira chokmah. aima is referred to heh and the sephirah binah. zaulr anpin is referred to the six sephiroth-chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod, and of these especially to tiphareth. malkah i l 3 9 t h e queen, and kalah il%th e bride are titles of malkuth con

ues of the other three, is phrath, euphrates, which floweth down <115> upon the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb, on either side of which was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits. and thus do the rivers of. eden form a cross, and on that cross the great adam, the son who the golden dawn: volume i1 book two was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, mother of all, the completion of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the thirtieth path "and above the shoulders of that gre

pent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, yod <147> he vau he elohim placed the letters of the name and the flashing sword that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence it was necessary that the second adam should come to restore all things and that,as the first adam had been extended on the cross of the celestial rivers, so the son should be crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers of daath. yet, to do this, he must descend unto the lowest first, even unto malkuth and be born of her. the= grade of philosophus is referred unto the sephirah netzach and the 27th, 28th, and 29th paths are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is given by raising the hands to the fore-head, and with the thumbs and index fingers formi

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

orefathers, when the gospel was first proclaimed in these parts. their professed reverence for our blessed lord seems to arise more from the difficulty of withholding from him the honour which is universally ascribed to his character and dignity, than from any knowledge which they possess of his person or mission. in this respect, indeed, they are profoundly ignorant, and their confession of isa, the son of mary, is much more undefined and imperfect than that of the mohammedans. it is true that they affect more attachment to christians than to mussulmans; but this may be fully accounted for on other ground than that of any sincere respect for christianity. for ages the christians have been co-sufferers with them, they have lived under the same yoke of bondage and oppression, and this commu

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three, because it is the trilogy of unity. in the trigrams of fohi, the superior triad is composed of three yang, or masculine figures, because nothing passive can be admitted into the idea of god, considered as the principle of production in the three worlds. for the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the mother of god. god, considered as father, has nature

ond to the three superior yang, for these trigrams constitute a pantacle like that of the two triangles of solomon, but with a triadic interpretation of the six points of the blazing star. the triangle of solomon 15 dogma is only divine inasmuch as it is truly human that is to say, in so far as it sums up the highest reason of humanity. so also the master, whom we term the man-god, called himself the son of man. revelation is the expression of belief accepted and formulated by universal reason in the human word, on which account it is said that the divinity is human and the humanity divine in the man- god, we affirm all this philosophically, not theologically, without infringing in any way on the teaching of the church, which condemns and must always condemn magic. paracelsus and agrippa d

sun dries up and the moon moistens; according to the kabalists, the sun represents strict justice, while the moon is in sympathy with mercy. it is the sun which produces storms, and, by a kind of gentle atmospheric pressure, the moon occasions the ebb and flow, or, as it were, the respiration of the sea. we read in the zohar, one of the great sacred books of the kabalah, that the magical serpent, the son of the sun, was about to devour the world, when the sea, daughter of the moon, set her foot upon his head and subdued him. for this reason, among the ancients, venus was the daughter of the sea, as diana was identical with the moon. hence also the name of mary signifies star or salt of the sea. to consecrate this kabalistic doctrine in the belief of the vulgar, it is said in prophetic lang

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ideas and of light. a laborious and poor existence is so favourable to practical initiation that the greatest masters have preferred it, even when the wealth of the world was at their disposal. then it is that satan, otherwise the spirit of ignorance, who scorns, suspects and detests science because at heart he fears it, comes to tempt the future master of the world by saying to him: gif thou art the son of god, command these stones to become bread. h then it is that mercenary men seek to humiliate the prince of knowledge by perplexing, depreciating, or sordidly exploiting his labour, the slice of bread that he deigns to need is broken into ten fragments, so that he may stretch forth his hand ten times. but the magus does not even smile at the absurdity, and calmly pursues his work. so far

re must speak occasionally. yes, they must speak, not, however, to disclose, but lead others to discover. noli ire, fac venire, was the device of rabelais, who, being master of all the sciences of his time, could not be unacquainted with magic. we have, consequently, to reveal here the mysteries of initiation. the destiny of man, as we have said, is to make or create himself; he is and he will be the son of his works, both for time and eternity. all men are called into the lists, but the number of the elect. that is, of those who succeed. is invariably small. in other words, the men who are desirous to attain are numbered by multitudes, but the chosen are few. now, the government of the world belongs by right to the flower of mankind, and when any combination or usurpation prevents their p

pon which rests the whole edifice of the temple! angels of netsah and hod, establish me upon the cubic stone of yesod! o gedulael! o geburael! o tiphereth! binael, be ye my love! ruach hochmael, be thou my light! be that which thou are and thou shalt be, o ketheriel! ishim, assist me in the name of shaddai! cherubim, be my strength in the name of adonai! beni-elohim, be my brethren in the name of the son, and by the powers of zebaoth! eloim, do battle for me in the name of tetragrammaton! melachim, protect me in the name of yod he vau he! seraphim, cleanse my love in the name of elvoh! hashmalim, enlighten me with the splendours of eloi and shekinah! aralim, act! ophanim, revolve and shine! haioth ha kadosh, cry, speak, roar, bellow! kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, shaddai, adonai, jotchabah, eiaz

ain, and it is by means of this power that he performs what astonishes the multitude under the name of miracles. the most perfect purity of intention is indispensable to the thaumaturge, and in the next place a favourable current and unlimited confidence. the man who has come to fear nothing and desire nothing is master of all. this is the meaning of that beautiful allegory of the gospel, wherein the son of god, thrice victor over the unclean spirit, receives ministration from angels in the wilderness. nothing on earth withstands a free and rational will. when the wise man says, gi will, h it is god himself who wills, and all that he commands takes place. it is the knowledge and self-reliance of the physician which constitute the virtue of his prescriptions, whence thaumaturgy is the only

y, no more empiricism, no more system! the study of being and its compared realities! a metaphysic of nature! then away with mysticism! no more dreams in philosophy; philosophy is not poesy but pure mathematics of realities, physical and moral. leave unto religion the freedom of its infinite aspirations, and let it leave in turn to science the exact conclusions of absolute experimentalism. man is the son of his works; he is what he wills to be; he is the image of the god 148 the ritual of transcendental magic he makes; he is the realization of his own ideal. should that ideal lack basis, the whole edifice of his immortality collapses. philosophy is not the ideal, but ought to serve as its foundation. the known is for us the measure of the unknown; by the visible we appreciate the invisible

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traffic among us in another state of being without our knowledge. for raymond de subunde in his third book chapter 12 argues quaintly that all sorts of living creatures have a happy rational polity of their own with great contentment, which government and mutual converse of theirs, they all pride and plume themselves [on, because it is as unknown to mankind as mankind's is to them. much more that the son of the highest spirit should assume a body like ours, convinces all the world that no other thing that is possible need be much wondered at. 9,2: the manucodiata or bird of paradise, living in the highest region of the air; common birds in the second region; flies and insects in the lowest; men and beasts on earth's surface; worms, otters, badgers, and fishes under the earth and waters. li

l unless its original or principal design does make it so; nor was god always pleased to discover [reveal] even every necessary truth at once, yet when such truth and science were permitted, recommended or suggested [then] they were truly lawful. it was long time before the jews thought it lawful to war on the lord's day, and the religious jews themselves were long without a distinct knowledge of the son of god and of the holy ghost; yet because of the noble design of the discovery it ought not to be rejected when further revived. worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_50.htm (10 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:05 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) flip to page# the secret commonwealth 60 objection 7

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.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (7 of 11

than one realm or world operating together. the third and most significant level of the middle way is the approach of the savior or messiah. it is along this way that a divine one is born into the outer world, hence the conceptual structure of the virgin birth. this process, however, is merely a human reflection by divine power, of the descent into hell which is also a death/birth on the part of the son of light the descent into hell is synonymous and simultaneous with the conception, birth, sacrifice, death and resurrection. they only appear to be separated to the awareness locked into the illusion of serial time. appendix 4: thomas rhymer 152 he is clothed in green, which signifies his union with the land, a union that occurred as a direct result of his transformation within the underwo

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jesus was really all about. we will learn that judas was really a hero, not a traitor. history is full of accounts where lunatics in power are brought down by their own supporters. in world war ii some of hitler's generals attempted to murder him. as hitler could manipulate crowds, so did jesus. 1 john 3:8 he that committeth sin is of satan; for satan sinneth from the beginning. for this purpose the son of jehovah was manifested, that he might destroy the works of satan. there are a number of interesting concepts in this statement. first, let's recognize that god does have a name. christians call him jehovah. satanists call him satan. now having said this, let's look deeper into the text. notice the term "son of jehovah. here we see that god has given his son a "purpose. and, according to

hovah was manifested, that he might destroy the works of satan. there are a number of interesting concepts in this statement. first, let's recognize that god does have a name. christians call him jehovah. satanists call him satan. now having said this, let's look deeper into the text. notice the term "son of jehovah. here we see that god has given his son a "purpose. and, according to the author, the son's "purpose" is that of destruction of works that he does not go along with. i thought destruction was a trait the christians gave to satan. but, here we find they approve of it when it's in their best interest as they define such a term. romans 16:20 and the god of peace shall bruise satan under your feet shortly, the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you. amen. this is another good e

me interesting conclusions surface. christianity is blatantly pagan, using the roman catholic church as an example (we know that, but our well-meaning friends don't) let's take a look, and then see how modern judaism compares after that. 1. deities: the famous holy trinity that used to give me a headache in catechism class is still not adequately explained. the holy trinity is god the father, god the son (jesus christ) and god the holy ghost. count that. you get 3, and i always got 3, but it's not: it's one. an incredible amount of human hours and lives and material resources have been used in trying to explain that idiocy. there is some fascinating reading in the letters of the early church fathers and the beliefs prior to the council of nicea. in summary the aim was to once and forever s

squelch any isolated pockets of rebellion. the political gains achieved by the holy roman empire upon the adoption of christianity are still being felt. and one of the chief motivators for political rebellion is religious differences. thus we see in god the father both the yhwh of the hebrews and the various attempts at describing apollo as the god above gods among the greek philosophers. in god the son and the events of his earthly life we find plagiarisms of various cults such as that of mithras. in god the holy ghost is every concept the mystic could desire, sufficiently ambiguous to allow unlimited explanation and devotion. surely the philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be complete without the legendary saints. these were not supposed to be

yrus is taken to the altar. before it is lit, the four neters surround the altar. the rest of the brethren assemble with arms outstretched. the papyrus is lit, and placed in the foil pan. the shadow begins to slowly "disappear, mingling among the assembled and removing his hood, symbolizing the departure. a chant is begun by the celebrant (sung in a monotone: gyou are the brother of the moon, and the son of sirius; you revolve in the heavens like orion. you are now one of the everlasting and never-setting stars of the northern skies. h gxepera, xeper, xeperuuuu c h after this the rest join in, and all chant the formula a total of 8 more times, doing so with as much intent as possible, and focusing that intent upon the burning papyrus and the ashes, sending the energy with his spirit. the a

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t, who could carry the most dabbas on his head, who could acquire the most new contracts per month, who could run faster, as though the greater labour would indicate the greater love. when he saw his father at night, the knotted veins bulging in his neck and at his temples, ismail najmuddin would understand how much the older man had resented him, and how important it was for the father to defeat the son and regain, thereby, his usurped primacy in the affections of his dead wife. once he realized this, the youth eased off, but his father's zeal remained unrelenting, and pretty soon he was getting promotion, no longer a mere runner but one of the organizing muqaddams. when gibreel was nineteen, najmuddin senior became a member of the lunch-runners' guild, the bombay tiffin carriers' associa

t, it is mine" the promise of the magic lamp infected master salahuddin with the notion that one day his troubles would end and his innermost desires would be gratified, and all he had to do was wait it out; but then there was the incident of the wallet, when the magic of a rainbow had worked for him, not for his father but for him, and changez chamchawala had stolen the crock of gold. after that the son became convinced that his father would smother all his hopes unless he got away, and from that moment he became desperate to leave, to escape, to place oceans between the great man and himself. salahuddin chamchawala had understood by his thirteenth year that he was destined for that cool vilayet full of the crisp promises of pounds sterling at which the magic billfold had hinted, and he g

on of the english school, but would remain chamchawala for a while yet, until a theatrical agent shortened his name for commercial reasons) had begun to be able to name, jackfruit, banyan, jacaranda, flame of the forest, plane. small chhooi-mooi touch-me-not plants grew at the foot of the tree of his own life, the walnut-tree that changez had planted with his own hands on the day of the coming of the son. father and son at the birth-tree were both awkward, unable to respond properly to nasreen's gentle fun. saladin had been seized by the melancholy notion that the garden had been a better place before he knew its names, that something had been lost which he would never be able to regain. and changez chamchawala found that he could no longer look his son in the eye, because the bitterness h

and he is confused. now we must let him have his chance, and you must referee. i will not be sentenced by him, but i will accept the worst from you _the bastard. old bastard. he wanted me off-balance, and here l am, knocked sideways. i won't speak, why should i, not like this, the humiliation "there was" said saladin chamcha "a wallet of pounds, and there was a roasted chicken" o o o of what did the son accuse the father? of everything: espionage on child-self, rainbow-pot-stealing, exile. of turning him into what he might not have become. of making-a-man of. of whatwill-i-tell-my-friends. of irreparable sunderings and offensive forgiveness. of succumbing to allah-worship with new wife and also to blasphemous worship of late spouse. above all, of magic-lampism, of being an open-sesamist

arm, women, wealth, power, position. rub, poof, genie, wish, at once master, hey presto. he was a father who had promised, and then withheld, a magic lamp. o o o changez, zeeny, vallabh, kasturba remained motionless and silent until saladin chamcha came to a flushed, embarrassed halt "such violence of the spirit after so long" changez said after a silence "so sad. a quarter of a century and still the son begrudges the peccadilloes of the past. o my son. you must stop carrying me around like a parrot on your shoulder. what am i? finished. i'm not your old man of the sea. face it, mister: i don't explain you any more" through a window saladin chamcha caught sight of a fortyyear-old walnut-tree "cut it down" he said to his father "cut it, sell it, send me the cash" chamchawala rose to his fee

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it is he who sowed the first seeds of dissention and lead the others astray. azael/azazel: possibly from the babylonian arsiel, who was the demon of the bottomless pit and whose name meant black sun, although usually translated to mean whom god strengthens. he was supposedly the first to descend, and later becomes ibliss. according to rabbinical texts, he is also satan, who refused to bow before the son of clay. with naamah, sister of cain, he fathered azza the strong one, who later revealed the heavenly arcana to solomon. baraqijal: who taught men astrology. exael: who, according to enoch, taught men how to fabricate engines of war, works in silver and gold, the uses of gems and perfumes. ezeqeel: taught the science of meteorology. gadreel: god is my helper. identified by enoch as the on

am was not out of pride, but through obedience to a previous ruling that god had given to bow before none but him. in this version the devil suffers terribly from god s inability to forgive him, and is most jealous and bitter towards humankind as the new object of god s love. a further interpretation exists that the fall was a result of jealousy when god appointed lucifer s brother, jesual, to be the son. in response lucifer gives birth from his head to sin, and copulating with her he goes on to father death. most versions agree that the devil was once viceroy of god, and in his original form he is said to have had twelve wings. gregory of nazianus states that before the fall he had worn the other angels as a garment, transcending all in glory. in the gospel of bartholomew the devil states

outside jurusalem (2 kings 23:10. his face and hands are smeared with the blood of infants, the chief of the army of hell. arch-demon corresponding to kether. the name has been compared with the punic root mlk, meaning offering and sacrifice. morail (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to make everything in the world invisible. morpheus (greek, morphe, meaning form, shape. the son of hypnos, the lord of dreams. of no real religious significance, although called in some forms of incantation. muisisin (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power over great lords; he instructs them in all that passes in the republics and the realms of the allies. murmus, murmur, murmux (goetia, 54th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones, now a duke and earl commandin

li meditati sunt inania? then make the figure as doth follow: and recite psalm cxv. credidi propter quod locutus sum. finally, on the last day [of the month] a mass shall be said, for the dead. the prose shall be omitted and also the gospel of st. john, but at the end of the mass the warlock shall recite: confitemini domino quoniam bonus. in honour of the most holy and august trinity, the father, the son, and the holy ghost, amen (from lansdowne and sloane mss. british museum. the grand clavicle the conjuration of a spirit with whom it is sought to make a pact. this ritual follows the archetypal faustian pact, where the sorcerer pays with their immortal soul. such a belief would no doubt dissuade many a potential conjurer. the arrangement of the pact contains an interesting detail, however

o snakes, pointing fingers forward, hands level with the third eye. hold for a second. lunge forward suddenly, shouting; procul! o procul! este pofani! bahlasti! ompheda! in the name of the great and terrible one i declare that i have banished these shells to their habitations! finally, the gesture of silence, standing erect with fingers on lips. exorcism i conjure you, o devil, by the father and the son and the holy spirit, and by the patriarchs and prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and all the holy men and holy women of god. and by our lord jesus christ i conjure, that you should recede from this servant of god [n, i conjure you, o devil, by the passion of our lord jesus christ, which he endured for the human race, that you should recede from this servant of

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ompany rise, face altar and raise arms in the cornu] celebrant: ave, satanas! all: ave, satanas! celebrant: let us depart; it is done. deacon and subdeacon: so it is done [the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon bow toward the altar, turn and depart. the candles are snuffed and all leave the chamber] epilogue the invention, development, and prognosis of christ 1. year 1 c.e. an idea 2. year 100 c.e. the son of god 3. year 1800 c.e. the acme of human perfection 4. year 1900 c.e. a great teacher 5. year 1950 c.e. a revolutionary 6. year 1970 c.e. a fallible, representative man 7. year 1975 c.e. a symbolic image, representative of a human type. 8. year 1985 c.e. a descriptive word with an interesting origin. 9. year 2000 ce. a well-known folk myth. l'air epais the ceremony of the stifling air al

ous r pandiez sur moi d'honorables bienfaits; de jour o f obtenais 1'illustre pr fer nce de nommer de mon nom le fils du roi de france, aurais-je pu m'attendre 1'affront solennel de para tre vos yeux comme un vil criminel? your majesty, when distinguishing me among all your subjects, you showered me with honor. i refer to the day when i received the illustrious distinction of bestowing my name on the son of the king of france. little could i have expected the solemn insult of appearing later before you as a vile criminal. priest: de molay, d crivez la cour la mort des templiers. de molay, please tell the court how the templars died. de molay: un immense b cher, dress pour leur supplice, s' l ve en chafaud, et chaque chevalier croit m riter i'honneur d'y monter le premier: mais le grand-ma

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

rt of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. urvan: the soul. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; knowledge, wisdom, or vision. xxx world religions: almanac words to know virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. vishnu: also called krishna; the preserver-god. vodou: an african-based religion practiced primarily in haiti and in other central and south american countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s motivating force for the sioux. wen: the arts of music

christianity, the set of beliefs and rituals followed by most christians, says that jesus christ religion addresses spiritual matters and often provides guidelines for living that people can follow in their daily lives. about 5.1 billion people, or most of the world s population, identify with a religion. images.com/corbis. world religions: almanac 3 what is religion (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce) was both the son of god and god himself. jesus, a man, had the authority of god within him and gave voice to god through his words. christianity, like other organized religions, has at its center rules and doctrines believed to be supernaturally inspired. this means that these rules and doctrines are based on beliefs about what is beyond the observable world. some deal strictly with spiritual matters, but

could call upon and worship. the names of these gods differed across religions, although many shared similar characteristics. this is true in the monotheistic faiths that consider abraham as a founder of their religion. these are judaism, christianity, and islam. the jewish name for god is yahweh, or yhwh. another common variation on the name is jehovah. christianity refers to god as the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this refers to the christian trinity, in which god is believed to exist as himself, within jesus christ, the son of god, and as a purely physical representation in the holy spirit. islam refers to god as allah. muslims, the followers of islam, have ninety-nine different variations of god s name. the religion of baha grew out of islam and came to call baha (glory or sp

buddhists. for both religions, a distinct community of believers is basic. in christianity this community is called the church, the body of the faithful. in buddhism the sangha is the community of like-minded individuals who are also pursuing truth and spiritual rebirth. christians worship in churches, buddhists in temples. for christians the sacred experience is the acceptance of jesus as lord, the son of god, at the same time both human and divine. for buddhists, it is the desire to begin the journey and the ultimate end of the journey, enlightenment. both religions also share the concepts of moral codes that govern human behavior, an organized priesthood, roots in historic personalities, and reverence of divine or semi-divine founders. christianity inherited the ten commandments, rules

e study of the cell, the basic structural unit of living things) and in pioneering evolutionary biology, the study of how living things have evolved from simple to more complex forms. huxley wrote and spoke widely on scientific subjects. he was also instrumental in transforming science from a hobby for the wealthy, as it had been up to the nineteenth century, into a true profession. though he was the son of a schoolmaster, huxley was largely self-educated in science. he became a doctor, earning early acclaim for his discovery in 1845 of a new membrane, or layer, in human hair. after joining the british navy, he served as chief surgeon on the hms rattlesnake for four years as it mapped regions of australia. huxley pursued his own research on these voyages, studying the anatomy, or structure

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he shall inherit it (yirashah" it would have been sufficient if the verse said "inherit (rash [the sea and the south" but this comes to teach us that god must also be included. the word yirashah thus contains the letters rash yh [meaning "inherit god. what does this resemble? a king had two treasuries, and he hid one away. after many days he said to his son "take what is in these two treasuries" the son replied "perhaps you are not giving me all that you have hidden away" the king said "take everything" it is thus written "the sea and the south, he shall inherit it" inherit god (yh rash- everything will be given to you if you only keep my ways. 10. rabbi bun said: what is the meaning of the verse (proverbs 8:23 "i was set up from eternity (me-olam, from a head, before the earth" what is t

for us, he gave us [the commandments] in order that they should make us holy and allow us to be worthy. why? because when we are in this world, we can become worthy of the world to come, which is great. in its hand is the treasury of souls. when israel is good, these souls are worthy of emerging and coming to this world. but if they are not good, the [these souls] do not emerge. we therefore say, the son of david will not come until all the souls in the body are completed. what is the meaning of all the souls in the body? we say that this refers to all the souls in man s body [when these are completed] new ones will be worthy of emerging. the son of david (the messiah) will then come. he will be able to be born, since his soul will emerge among the other new souls. what is this like? a kin

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ble one, for the name of seth is prevalent in magical literature. i at the yale conference on gnosticism (1978, b.a. pearson read a paper entitled "seth in gnostic literature. pearson showed that the gnostic figure of seth derives from jewish tradition. in an excursus at the end of the paper named "egyptian influences, the author laid down that the egyptian god seth is never identified with seth, the son of adam.1 in the discussion following pearson's paper, however, c. colpe asserted (p. 510 "in a single magical papyrus from egypt a mistaken identification has been made between egyptian seth and jewish seth (cf. w. fauth, orchr 57 [1973] 91-94" now fauth asserts that on account of the similarity of the names of the egyptian god and "the pneumatic seth, the latter "on egyptian soil was now

messina conference on gnosticism (1966. fauth goes on to cite "the sethian gospel of the egyptians" as evidence for such a confusion and welding, referring to an article by a. bohlig. we may dispose of the latter's theory right away. pearson has shown conclusively that the gospel of the egyptians from nag hammadi does not try to "rehabilitate the egyptian god by interpreting him in terms of seth, the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion, but simply refers to j. doresse, the secret books of

yptian seth and gnostic seth, society of biblical literature seminar papers 22 (missoula 1977) 33. cf. pearson "seth, 501. 4 "the egyptian background of gnosticism" in le origini dello gnosticismo, ed. u. bianchi, studies in the history of religion 12 (leiden 1967) 236. seth in the magical texts 87 perchance, some of these [gnostic] myths did not bring him into such contact with his homonym, seth the son of adam, as to create some confusion between them."5 thinking that such a "confusion" was "not impossible, doresse goes on to assert that there can be found "some curious traces of a cult of this seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part" he then says "that this cult came to be actually codified is attested by the existence of egyptian figurines

onsider doresse's evidence and arguments. to begin with, it must be pointed out that there is no evidence to the effect that the egyptian god seth was seen as a positive figure in gnosticism. fauth has shown that the ass-headed seth-typhon is always a negative archon in the gnostic texts("seth-typhon [above, n. 2] 106-120. moreover, as has been stated above, seth-typhon is never welded with seth, the son of adam, in gnostic literature. can there be found "traces of a cult of seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part? if the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult" shows a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. doresse refers to a prayer handed down in two recensions in the greek magical papyri (pg

er, cannot be recognized in the coptic magical papyri (see kropp, zaubertexte 3.9-10. pearson was not aware of other occurrences of the name of seth in the coptic texts, but the name does occur. already w.h. worrell published a transcription and translation of one of the texts in the coptic "wizard's hoard, now found at the university of michigan.21 here the magician identifies himself with "seth the son of adam, the first revelation of the unformed hands c (1.15-2.2. he is the one "to whom have been revealed the virtues, and the mysteries, and its manipulations (i.e, the rituals which attend the prayer, and the power of these arts (4.2-5. p. mirecki, who is preparing a comprehensive critical edition of the "wizard's hoard, correctly has pointed out that the idea of seth as a recipient of

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low, with this one and that one, woe unto him that uncovers her gate. 6 chapter two the beard of faith,50 not, is mentioned because it is the most precious of all, it egresses from the ears, round about the face, the white locks ascending and descending, separating into thirteen of that most splendid of splendors, it is written: not passes in it as man,51 and not dwells as adam52 there.53 adam to the son is he (avh, hu).54 adam-not is included therein, especially man. in these thirteen issue forth distinct fountains; four were kept separately,55 nine flow from the body.56 1) the splendid one begins to form itself near the opening of the ears. 2) it descends in beauty to the beginning of the lips. it stands from this beginning to that beginning. 3) there is a path going forth beneath the tw

another and is perforated by two holes, and is found in its formations. the vav v is opened in another, as it is written: it goes smoothly for my beloved,74 in the lamp of the heavy darkness to conceal the opening. the supernal vav v, the inferior vav v, 8 the supernal heh h, the inferior heh h, the supernal yod y, and with him not is associated; not ascends in this, and not is in this sign; when the son75 is revealed, and united in one grade, in one combination, in order that they may be explained, the d v (vav dalet) are included with the yod y (dvy. woe when this is removed and they76 are manifested, they are the spices of the molds, the reddish ones, they pass as not, they tarry as not in one-place. and the chayot run forth and return. flee unto your place.77 if you rise like an eagle

honor the beard. and what is right in his eyes you will do, and you will hearken unto his commandments, and you will keep all his statutes,122 up to here, for i am the lord hvhy, your healer.123 exclusively for this. 15 chapter five woe people of sin, congregation heavy with iniquity, seed of evildoers, children..124 seven grades: v v y h h v h v h h d vy emits d d h h y vh h h emits v d v v 125 the son (rb, bar) conceals adam who is male and female, which are v d. and it is written: children that deal corruptly. it created six (tysarb, b reshith, it created (arb, bara).126 it created six is the word. it created is half a word. father and son. the hidden and the manifest. the eden of above is hidden and concealed. the lower eden comes forth in its strides and is revealed ,yhla hy hvhy. at

rah vayiqra 23:32. 67 torah doverim 3:24. 68 vyytzr, royyv, vayitzer and he formed, see zohar iii:141b. 69 torah b reshith 1:28. 70 jeremiah 1:6. 71 the letters hanging as the hairs of the beard are the convoluting names of the two faces. 72 the wreath is the ayin (i o) of vast face. 73 the left referred to in this line is the column of the left on the tree of life or body. 74 shir hashirim 7. 75 the son is small face. 76 they are the eyes of the small face i.e. judgments. 24 77 torah vaidaber 24:11. 78 obadiah 1:4. 79 torah b reshith 1:11. 80 small face. 81 these are the seven formations of the head of ze ir anafim. 82 the one slender path is the central column of the tree. 83 isaiah 33:20. 84 isaiah 1:21. 85 habitation ;nyi, oynk, singular tense. 86 isaiah 42:8. 87 torah hadoverim 32. 88

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moving it, and the skeleton was visible. in the hollow of the skull we found a very slender wire of sharp steel; this caused surprise and inquiry. the father, who was rich and a miser, had died suddenly, and been buried in haste, owing, it was said, to the heat of the weather. suspicion once awakened, the examination became minute. the old man's servant was questioned, and at last confessed that the son had murdered the sire. the contrivance was ingenious: the wire was so slender that it pierced to the brain, and drew but one drop of blood, which the grey hairs concealed. the accomplice will be executed "and zanoni, did he give evidence, did he account for "no" interrupted the count "he declared that he had by accident visited the church that morning; that he had observed the tombstone of

you ask "enigmas again "enigmas" cried zanoni, passionately "ay! can you dare to solve them? not till then could i give you my right hand, and call you friend "i could dare everything and all things for the attainment of superhuman wisdom" said glyndon, and his countenance was lighted up with wild and intense enthusiasm. zanoni observed him in thoughtful silence "the seeds of the ancestor live in the son" he muttered "he may yet" he broke off abruptly; then, speaking aloud "go, glyndon" said he "we shall meet again, but i will not ask your answer till the hour presses for decision" chapter 2.vi 'tis certain that this man has an estate of fifty thousand livres, and seems to be a person of very great accomplishments. but, then, if he's a wizard, are wizards so devoutly given as this man seem

anoni, with a light of more human joy upon his face than it had ever before been seen to wear "and if my destiny, which here is dark to mine eyes, vouchsafes to me the happy lot of the humble, if ever there be a child that i may clasp to my bosom and call my own "and is it to be man at last, that thou hast aspired to be more than man "but a child, a second viola" murmured zanoni, scarcely heeding the son of light "a young soul fresh from heaven, that i may rear from the first moment it touches earth, whose wings i may train to follow mine through the glories of creation; and through whom the mother herself may be led upward over the realm of death "beware, reflect! knowest thou not that thy darkest enemy dwells in the real? thy wishes bring thee near and nearer to humanity "ah, humanity is

s thy pupil disappointed thee? alas, poor pupil! but (here follow comments on those passages in glyndon's life already known to the reader, or about to be made so, with earnest adjurations to mejnour to watch yet over the fate of his scholar. but i cherish the same desire, with a warmer heart. my pupil! how the terrors that shall encompass thine ordeal warn me from the task! once more i will seek the son of light. yes; adon-ai, long deaf to my call, at last has descended to my vision, and left behind him the glory of his presence in the shape of hope. oh, not impossible, viola, not impossible, that we yet may be united, soul with soul! extract from letter v (many months after the last) mejnour, awake from thine apathy, rejoice! a new soul will be born to the world, a new soul that shall ca

es thy spirit reel to and fro? knowest thou at last the strength and the majesty of death? he fled, trembling, from the pale-faced man of art, fled through stately hall and long-drawn corridor, and gained a remote chamber in the palace, which other step than his was not permitted to profane. out with thy herbs and vessels. break from the enchanted elements, o silveryazure flame! why comes he not, the son of the starbeam! why is adon- ai deaf to thy solemn call? it comes not, the luminous and delightsome presence! cabalist! are thy charms in vain? has thy throne vanished from the realms of space? thou standest pale and trembling. pale trembler! not thus didst thou look when the things of glory gathered at thy spell. never to the pale trembler bow the things of glory: the soul, and not the h

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y part of the xviiith dynasty, it dates from the time of hesep-ti, king of egypt about b.c. 4300, and it seems that it formed a pendant or supplement to the lxivth chapter, which professed to give the substance of all the "chapters of coming forth by day" in a single chapter. in the rubric to the longer version of the chapter, given in the same papyrus, 3 chapter xxxb is connected with herutataf, the son of khufu (cheops, a man famed for wisdom, and it is there ordered that the words of it be recited over a hard, green stone scarab, which shall be laid in the breast of the deceased where the heart would ordinarily be; this amulet would then perform for him the "opening of the p. 34 mouth" 1 for the words of the chapter would be indeed "words of power" from reciting the words of the chapter

the deceased; it is usually made of hamatite, and is inscribed with the text of the clxvith chapter of the book of the dead, which reads "thou art lifted up, o sick one that liest prostrate. they lift up thy head to the horizon, thou art raised up, and dost triumph by reason of what hath been done for thee. ptah hath overthrown thine enemies, which was ordered to be done for thee. thou art horus, the son of hathor. who givest back the head after the slaughter. thy head shall not be carried away from thee after [the slaughter, thy head shall never, never be carried away from thee" p. 48 6. the amulet of the vulture, this amulet was intended to cause the power of isis as the "divine mother" to be a protection for the deceased, and was made of gold in the form of a vulture hovering in the air

ion into heaven, but at others the distance between it and the earth was so great that he needed help to reach it. there existed a belief that osiris himself experienced some difficulty of getting up to the iron plate, and that it was only by means of the ladder which his father ra provided that he at length ascended into heaven. on one side of the ladder stood ra, and on the other stood horus, 1 the son of isis, and each god assisted osiris to mount it. originally the two guardians of the ladder were horus the elder and set, and there are several references in the early texts to the help which they rendered to the deceased, who was, of course, identified with the god osiris. but, with a view either of reminding these gods of their supposed duty, or of compelling them to do it, the model o

rs of coming forth by day (translation, p. 119. 32:1 i.e, the deceased who was identified with osiris, the god and judge of the dead. 32:2 i.e, thoth. 33:1 the bennu bird is usually identified with the phoenix. 33:2 brit. mus, no. 10,477, sheet 13. 33:3 see sheet 21. 34:1 see chapter vi (magical ceremonies. 35:1 king teta is said to "live like the scarab (teta, line 89; and in it is said "pepi is the son of the scarab which is born in hetepet under the hair of the northern iusaas (pepi, line 422. 37:1 see j. o. westwood, introduction to the modern classification of insects, london, 1839, vol. i. p. 204 ff. 37:2 see my mummy, p. 233. 39:1 see joachim, das alteste buch uber heilkunde, berlin, 1800, p. 160. 41:1 have given a summary of the chief varieties of the funeral scarab in my papyrus o

when the virgin mary and her son arrived in egypt there "was a movement and quaking throughout all the land, and all the idols fell down from their pedestals and were broken in pieces" then all the priests and nobles went to a certain priest with whom "a devil used to speak from out of the idol" and they asked him the meaning of these things; and when he had explained to them that the footstep of the son of the "secret and hidden god" had fallen upon the land of egypt, they accepted his counsel and made a figure of this god. the egyptians acknowledged that the new god was greater than all their gods together, and they were quite prepared to set up a statue of him because they believed that in so doing they would compel at least a portion of the spirit of the "secret and hidden god" to come

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rsians and medes and chaldaeans. and the vessels of this temple, which thou makest, shall be put to servile uses of the gods; and along with them all the jars, in which thou dost shut us up, shall be broken by the hands of men. and then we shall go forth in great power hither and thither, and be disseminated all over the world. and we shall lead astray the inhabited world for a long season, until the son of god is stretched upon the cross. for never before doth arise a king like unto him, one frustrating us all, whose mother shall not have contact with man. who else can receive such authority over spirits, except he, whom the first devil will seek to tempt, but will not prevail over? the number of his name is 644 [2, which is emmanuel. wherefore, o king solomon, thy time is evil, and thy y

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s been concealed behind an elaborate system of veiled allegories and secret symbols. followers of this pseudomystical, humanistic, occult system of beliefs affirm, without proof, that it is based on an unbroken oral tradition handed down from an ancient priesthood in egypt. the cult projects a minimum belief in a god which totally excludes god, the divine redeemer, and which rejects jesus christ, the son of god. its leaders tell its initiates that the doctrine of the cull is based on a hidden master religion in which all men can agree because it is founded on pre-christian, pagan models that appear not to be in conflict with reputable faiths. this offspring of the ancient idolatrous mystery cults has existed in america for centuries, but its leaders have never dared to admit that they hope

in's own choice for a design was an old illustration of moses crossing the red sea accompanied by a quotation attributed to oliver cromwell "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god."3 nothing came of these first designs; the matter rested until 1782 when ben franklin secured william barton, a.m. a private citizen of philadelphia, as the second designer. gaillard hunt identified william barton as the son of reverend thomas barton, rector of st. james episcopal church, his mother being a sister of the famous david rittenhouse.4 william barton published a memoir of rittenhouse in 1813. the first device submitted by barton depicted among other emblems an eagle on the summit of a doric column, the all-seeing eye, and the stars:5 -24- the eagle displayed is the symbol of supreme power and autho

rom the babylonians to the chaldeans of the 23rd century b.c. the gods were the same, san and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies placed their gods in triads, headed by one god, ra "a sort of fount and origin of deity" san was the second member of the second triad, accompanied by his wife.51 the first triad consisted of ana (pluto, the "lord of darkness or death" belus (jupiter, the son of the egyptian osiris and the god whose temple was the original of the tower of babel;52 and hoa (neptune, strongly connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian panth

us, the efficient reason of all things, and the architect of the universe. kneph is identified with the sun, hence the rays of glory around his head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended ove

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o longer a hidden god but something manifest, alive palpably alive and moving among humankind. in human beings the mysteries and mysteriosophy 21 the spirit has been released from enchantment; yet it is the offspring of the spellbound god. he is not the great god who was, and is, and shall be, yet he may in a certain sense be taken as a revelation of him. the father remains at rest in the unseen. the son is born to human beings out of their own souls. initiatory knowledge is thus an actual event in the cosmic process. it is the birth of a divine child a process just as real as any natural process. the great secret of the mystai was precisely this, that they creatively release the divine child in themselves. first of all, however, they must be prepared so as to recognize it. the uninitiated

t of all, however, they must be prepared so as to recognize it. the uninitiated know nothing of the father of this divine child. the father slumbers under a spell. the child seems to be born of a virgin, the soul giving birth to him without impregnation. whereas all her other offspring are begotten by the world of the senses, and have a father who can be seen and touched in perceptible existence, the son of god is uniquely begotten of the eternal, hidden father himself. chapter 2 the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy heraclitus of ephesus a whole range of considerations leads us to the conclusion that the ideas of the greek philosophers depended upon the same way of thinking as the knowledge of the mystai.20 the great philosophers only become comprehensible when we approach them with f

d is itself an image of the intelligible; and it has thus become a visible god, supreme in greatness and excellence, beauty, and perfection, a single, uniquely created heaven.60 but this single and uniquely created world would not be perfect if it did not contain among its images the image of its creator himself. and that image can arise only from the human soul; it is not the father himself, but the son, platonic mysteries 55 the living child of god in the soul who is of like nature with the father, to whom humanity can give birth. the expression son of god is used in this context by philo of alexandria, who was called a plato redivivus. it designates the wisdom that lives in the soul and is born of human beings, having as its content the reason immanent in the world; while this world-rea

rth. the expression son of god is used in this context by philo of alexandria, who was called a plato redivivus. it designates the wisdom that lives in the soul and is born of human beings, having as its content the reason immanent in the world; while this world-reason, logos, figures as the book in which every permanent characteristic of the world is recorded and inscribed. 61 or elsewhere it is the son of god: following the ways of the father, he fashions material objects after his contemplation of their eternal forms.62 philo anticipates the language applied to christ when he speaks of this logos from a platonizing viewpoint: as god is the first and only king of the universe, the way to him is rightly called the royal road. consider this road as philosophy. the road taken by the ancient

aken by the ancient company of ascetics, who turned away from the entangling fascination of pleasure and devoted themselves to a noble and earnest cultivation of the beautiful. the law names this royal road, which we call true philosophy, the word and spirit of god.63 to travel this road is for philo equivalent to an initiation in the mysteries. on it he will encounter the logos, which is for him the son of god: 56 christianity as mystical fact i do not shrink from relating what has happened to me innumerable times. often when i wished to put my philosophical thoughts in writing in my accustomed way, and saw quite clearly what was to be set down, i found my mind barren and rigid, so that i was obliged to give up without having accomplished anything, and seemed to be beset with idle fancies

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s, with the hectic pace associated with the imposition of the new underworld order, sums up the way the world is being turned upside down "as we speak" that's why the press is publishing all these "grips" and the newspaper editors have shown themselves to be only too willing to oblige. a huge photograph showed tony blair, our fabian revolutionary prime minister, shaking hands with adrian nastase, the son of illie, a leading communist who "survived" the fall of ceausescu. the romanian prime minister is shown doing a five-knuckle grip (five-point degree, indicating to those whom lenin called "the interested" that he's "a member of the club" masons call their handshakes "grips" hence the saying "get a grip" let's "get a grip" with what's going on here. all of a sudden, newspapers on both side

dentified in the scriptures as the devil, is, in their religion, the divine holy spirit! a blasphemous concept, indeed. a company called azure green puts out a catalog offering "egyptian deity wall plaques" including this one, a depiction of the combined gods of egypt, horns and set. two entities represented by one body. once again, we discover the principle of integration, or synthesis. horns is the son of the sun god and is said to be one with his father, osiris. the god set is the dialectical opposite, or mirror of horns and osiris, but rather than the sun and its light, he represents the darkness of the underworld. set is god of the dead, horus-osiris, god of the living. that ravenous dark bird 259 this cover of a book by w. bruce lincoln about russia's czars, the romanov dynasty, pict

le-believing, bloodbought christians are immune from satan's wiles and schemes. the star is one of those wiles. its prevalence reminds us of how interlaced and permeated this world is with satanic artifices. for whatsoever is born of god overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that jesus is the son of god? i john 5:4, 5 the egyptian supreme goddess wears on her head the diabolical, inverted pentagram star. notice that rays of light emanate from the two "horn" points, creating a "v" effect. see chapter 25 of codex magica for discussion of the satanic "v (illustration "isis recording her mysteries" from histoire de la magie, by paul christian, paris, france) 542 codex magica the pentag

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

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st humankind, whose hatred of the human being, is ever active. however, initiates of our order will understand that what we call man, human being (or however we may choose to indicate individual units of the human species as a whole irregardless of their 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

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christian doctrine, the soul is superior to the body because of its divine origin and because it is immortal, but belief in a resurrection of the physical body is also an essential aspect of both the apostles creed and the nicene creed, which declare that after the last judgment jesus shall once again appear to judge the living and the dead. in chapter 25 of matthew, jesus tells a parable of how the son of man is to come and sit on his throne as the people of all nations gather before him so that he might separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. those individuals who loved their neighbors as themselves will be rewarded with eternal life, but those who have chosen greed and self-interest will be sent away into eternal punishment. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a

, the soul is allowed to pass through the courts and go to heaven. if the person was judged to have been bad, a punishment is ordered before the soul can go any further. following the burial of the coffin, paper models of houses, cars, and money are burned to assist the soul in the afterlife. it is believed that these items will help the deceased pay his or her way through the courts of judgment. the son of the deceased burns the most important and influential paper models. ten years after the burial, the coffin is then dug up. the remains, or the bones of the deceased are taken to be cleaned and then placed in a pot which is then sealed by a priest. the priest finds the right place to bury the pot in a special ceremony called feng-shui. they believed it important to bury the bones in a pl

e, but one may certainly see similarities between the youthful tribal members presenting themselves to the great mystery as helpless, shelterless, and humble supplicants and the initiates of other religious traditions who fast, flagellate, and prostrate themselves before their concept of a supreme being. in christianity, the questing devotees kneel before a personal deity and beseech insight from the son of god, whom they hope to please with their example of piety and self-sacrifice. in the native american tribal traditions, the power granted by the vision quest comes from a vast and impersonal repository of spiritual energy; and those who partake of the quest receive their personal guardian spirit and a great vision that will grant them insight into the spiritual dimensions beyond physica

on: rider& co, 1936. jackson, herbert g, jr. the spirit rappers. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1972. allen kardec (1804 1869) allen kardec, known as the father of spiritism, distinct from spiritualism, was born in lyons, france, in 1804, with the birth name hypolyte leon denizard rivail. the names allen and kardec were names from prior lifetimes that he chose to use in his present life experience. the son of an attorney, kardec decided to become a medical doctor, but he soon became intrigued by the enthusiasm for experiments in mesmerism and spirit communication that were spreading throughout europe. in 1850, he began sitting with celina bequet, a professional somnambulist (hypnotist) who, for family reasons, assumed the name of celina japhet. japhet not only placed others in trance states

santa fe springs, calif: stockton trade press, 1971. meade, marion. madame blavatsky: the woman behind the myth. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. murphet, howard. when daylight comes: a biography of helena petrovna blavatsky. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1975. rudolf steiner (1861 1925) rudolf steiner was born in krajevec austria- hungary (now yugoslavia, on february 27, 1861, the son of a minor railway official. by the age of eight, steiner had experienced the unseen worlds, the invisible reality within the everyday world. once he even perceived the apparition of a deceased relative. because of his tendencies toward the spiritual aspects of life, it was thought for a time that steiner might become a clergyman; but his freethinking father argued that he was a bright boy

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and four sons, but the will that he had had duly attested by two witnesses on november 16, 1905, left all of his property to the third son, marshall. one night in the latter part of june 1925, four years after james chaffin s death, james pinkney chaffin, the farmer s second son, saw the spirit figure of the deceased standing at his bedside and heard the specter tell of another will. according to the son, his father had appeared dressed as he often had in life. you will find the will in my overcoat pocket, the spirit figure said, taking hold of the garment and pulling it back. the next morning james pinkney chaffin arose convinced he had seen and heard his father and that the spirit had visited him for the purpose of correcting some error. his father s black overcoat had been passed on to

n, w. haden. the field guide to north american hauntings. new york: three rivers press, 1998. hauck, dennis william. haunted places. reprint. new york: penguin usa, 1996. mead, robin, and pamela wright, illus. haunted hotels: a guide to american and canadian inns and their ghosts. nashville, tenn: rutledge hill press, 1995. murray, earl. ghosts of the old west. new york: tor books, 1994. maurice, the son of m. and mme. de x. terrible screams sounded outside his room, and the violence of the successive blows on his door shook every window on the floor. on the night of january 26, the parish priest arrived with the intention of conducting the rites of exorcism. he had also arranged for a novena of masses to be said at lourdes that would coincide with his performance of the ancient ritual of

les were true. on december 5, 1966, orlando sentinel staff writer elvis lane wrote about two hunters who claimed to have wounded the monster. although it left a trail of blood, the creature at that time dubbed the florida sandman, in contrast to the abominable snowman seemed relatively unscathed by their volley, and the two men fled in the opposite direction. in another report, lane described how the son of a ranch hand had gone to investigate the sounds of someone opening their garage and had surprised the hairy giant raising the door. when the young man shouted his alarm, the monster threw a heavy tire at him. area residents also complained about the sandman or skunk ape peeping in their windows at night. others said that they had had garbage cans upset by a huge creature that retreated

t succubi were less seductive than incubi, but rested on the belief of the inquisitors and clergy of the day that women were naturally inclined to vice and would always put up defenses more feeble than those offered by males. the incubus could prove to be a jealous lover. in april 1533, according to old church records, an incubus became enraged when he discovered his human mistress in the arms of the son of the tavernkeeper at schilttach, near freiburg. in his furious state of mind, the incubus not only set the tavern ablaze, but he burned the entire village to the ground. church authorities dealt with the problem of how a spirit could develop a corporeal body by advancing such theories as these: incubi fashion temporary bodies out of water vapor or gases; they have no actual physical bodi

hat he was conducting experiments to improve the human race. the winner of the best actor oscar in 1975 for one flew over the cuckoo s nest, as best supporting actor in 1983 for terms of endearment, and again as best actor for as good as it gets (1997, in his early years as an actor jack nicholson (1937) squared off against two masters of the supernatural in the raven (1963) with his portrayal of the son of a man transformed into a large raven (peter 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 111 two characters from the film how to make a monster (del valle gallery) lorre, 1904 1964) by a nasty wizard (boris karloff. in the terror (1963, nicholson was a napoleonic officer who encountered a witch, a mad baron (karloff, and

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ety was structured along military lines and strict discipline was enforced. if ciro annunchiarico had so desired, he could easily have led an open revolution against any state government in southern italy. but annunchiarico, who claimed that the might of the great god jupiter flowed through his body, was more interested in personal aggrandizement than in political opportunities. annunchiarico was the son of wealthy parents who had entered the priesthood and who had seemed destined for a fruitful career in the roman catholic church. the many tasks faced by a common parish priest had little attraction for him, however, and he preferred the life of a country gentleman on the family estate. neither did the young priest respect his vow of celibacy, and he seduced a young woman who was engaged t

ents who had entered the priesthood and who had seemed destined for a fruitful career in the roman catholic church. the many tasks faced by a common parish priest had little attraction for him, however, and he preferred the life of a country gentleman on the family estate. neither did the young priest respect his vow of celibacy, and he seduced a young woman who was engaged to giovanni montolesi, the son of a wealthy merchant. when montolesi learned of the affair, he sought out annunchiarico and reproached him for bringing shame to the priesthood and dishonor to his fiancee. without a word in his defense, annunchiarico drew a dagger from his belt and stabbed montolesi in the heart. then, from his bizarre perspective, annunchiarico declared that the man whom he had murdered had insulted him

o determine who the cult fs next victims would be or to guess where they might strike. and the natives were far too intimidated to inform on the leopard men.if, in fact, they did know anything of importance to tell the officers. the district officer decided to attempt to set a trap. on the path to a village where several slayings had already taken place, wilson sent one of his best men, posing as the son of a native woman. the two walked side by side toward the village while wilson and a dozen other officers concealed themselves in the bushes at the side of the path. suddenly, issuing the blood-curdling shriek of an attacking leopard, a tall man in leopard robes charged headlong at the couple, swinging a large club. the young police officer struggled with the leopard man, but before wilson

gh priestess) of new orleans sometime around 1830. no one in the hierarchy of voodoo priests and priestesses disputed laveau fs rise to that position, for it was widely known that she was gifted with powers of sorcery and the ability to fashion charms of unfailing efficacy. laveau was a creole freewoman, and by profession a hair dresser. her prestige among the white establishment was assured when the son of a wealthy new orleans merchant was arrested for a crime of which he was innocent, although there was much false evidence against him. his father appealed to the voodoo high priestess to put a spell on the judge to cause him to find the young man not guilty. laveau took three guinea peppers and placed them in her mouth before she went to the cathedral to pray. although she was the recogn

86256b9003e1. 3 march 2002. gmarie laveau. h welcome to the voodoo museum [online] http/ www.voodoomuseum.com/marie. html. 3 march 2002. metraux, alfred. voodoo. new york: oxford university press, 1959. steiger, brad, and john pendragon. the weird, the wild& the wicked. new york: pyramid books, 1969. eliphas levi (c. 1810.1875) eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) was born in france about 1810, the son of a shoemaker. his parents soon decided that he should be educated for the life of a parish priest. constant became a deacon, took a vow of celibacy, and seemed destined for a quiet life in the clergy. but then his life suddenly assumed a different course when he upset members of the church hierarchy for espousing doctrines quite contrary to those endorsed by the papacy. for one thing, fa

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male, whose power was co-terminous with that of his worshippers.polytheism appears to have arisen with the amalgamation of tribes, each with its own deity. when a tribewhose deity was male coalesced with a tribe whose deity was female, the union of the peoples wassymbolised in their religion by the marriage of their gods. when by peaceful infiltration a new god ousted anold one, he was said to be the son of his predecessor. but when the invasion was warlike the conquering deitywas invested with all good attributes while the god of the vanquished took a lower place and was regarded bythe conquerors as the producer of evil, and was consequently often more feared than their own legitimatedeity. in ancient egypt the fall from the position of a high god to that of a "devil" is well exemplified

his religion and died, as he hadlived, a devout pagan.the same difficulties occurred elsewhere. in normandy rollo, after his conversion, gave great gifts tochristian churches, but at the same time sacrificed his christian captives to his old gods. scandinavia, alwaysin touch with great britain (norway held the hebrides till 1263, successfully resisted christianity till theeleventh century. sweyn, the son of harold bluetooth, was baptised in infancy, but when he became a man hereverted to the old faith and waged a religious war against his christian father; and as late as the end of thethirteenth century a norwegian king was known as "the priest-hater".there is no doubt that the records are incomplete and that if all the instances of renunciation of christianityhad been as carefully recorde

entury or beginning of the eleventh, the devil,in the likeness of the duke of normandy, came to the duke's wife in a wood, and as the result of the unionshe bore a son who was known as robert the devil. there was nothing in robert's character to warrant suchan appellation if the word had an evil connotation; but if, as i maintain, the chief or king were regarded asgod incarnate among the normans, the son of the king would become on accession both king and god. itwould be entirely consonant with the usual christian practice to stigmatise the heathen divinity as the devileven when in human form, and the belief that the old god was the enemy of the new would account for theuse of the epithet. the son of robert the devil was william the conqueror, who married his cousin matilda,therefore on bo

the enemy of the new would account for theuse of the epithet. the son of robert the devil was william the conqueror, who married his cousin matilda,therefore on both his father's and his mother's side rufus descended from a pagan chief or devil.many of the red king's friends and intimates were openly heathen or had merely the thinnest veneer ofchristianity. his chief adviser was randolf flambard, the son of a pagan woman, or "witch" as the priestlychroniclers called her.as regards the character of rufus, which freeman acknowledges he cannot estimate, it displays all the paganvirtues. rufus was a dutiful son, an able and competent ruler, a faithful friend, a generous enemy, recklesslycourageous, lavishly openhanded, and was never known to break his plighted word. the church accused himof im

queror who made the forest, and that it was his equallychristian son, henry i, who strengthened the conqueror's game-laws and stringently enforced them. if deathin the new forest were really a judgment of god for the destruction of churches, it was the conqueror whoshould have died there and not rufus.the first surprising event in the career of rufus was his reception as king by the english. that the son of thesavage conqueror, who had so recently devastated the land, should be accepted whole-heartedly by thepeople needs some explanation. the conqueror's dying bequest would have had no weight, and lanfranc wasimportant only in a restricted circle. if however rufus belonged to the old religion his position becomesclear. lanfranc gained from him a promise to respect the church during his (la

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fire; the cunning fire or essence of reality. just as her son the lightbringer embodies this active cunning fire and its power to shape and sanctify, so does the daughter embody the fire, and its power to enchant and seduce. both of these fiery children represent the activity of the cunning fire in the children of the great parents- and this means all children, humans included. in the mythology, the son and daughter also metaphorically represent all human souls who are endowed with conscious awareness of the fire. the fire s activity is different in character when wielded by the son or the daughter, but the end result is the same- the fire brings about recognition of wisdom and truth, which leads to immortalization and apotheosis. what must be borne in mind here, as well as below in the d

y represent all human souls who are endowed with conscious awareness of the fire. the fire s activity is different in character when wielded by the son or the daughter, but the end result is the same- the fire brings about recognition of wisdom and truth, which leads to immortalization and apotheosis. what must be borne in mind here, as well as below in the discussion of the lightbringer, is that the son and daughter of the mother and father are not just divine beings- they are metaphors for the human soul. the events of their mythology are symbolic of each and every person s experience on their journey through the tides of fate, life, and death, led by love. the daughter, who is sometimes called the fair queen of elfhame, to set her apart from the dark queen of elfhame (a name that usuall

n of the great parents being the bearers of the being and essential fire that comes from their parents (the dame and the horned one are the original beings and bearers of the cunning fire, and their children likewise acts as bearers of it, and channels for it) is very important to understanding the deep significance of the bread and wine in the meal sharing rite. the father, or the horned one and the son, earendil, or the lightbringer here we come to the figure of the great father nature, the horned god, who is the primal and all-pervasive divine masculine force of nature. even though he is referred to as the earth father or the earth god, for he is the masculine spirit of the land, it is important to remember that he is the god of nature as a whole- the waters and the sky as well. this is

hs. this being appeared to the mythology of witchcraft as the horned one, with a torch or light between his horns, and was venerated as the source of the cunning light or fire that was embedded within the essential being of humans, and which made craft possible. what is important to realize here is that he is the source of the light- the light itself, and the being who shared it with mankind, was the son of this being. harmonics to this can be seen in christianity- lucifer was the son of god, his firstborn archangel who then led a rebellion, and in so doing, underwent a fall into the world, where he brought the serpent s gift to the primal parents of humankind- granting them cunning, the power to recognize good and evil, and to shape the world in accordance with their own desires and wishe

serpent s gift to the primal parents of humankind- granting them cunning, the power to recognize good and evil, and to shape the world in accordance with their own desires and wishes, on their own power. just as the fire-bearing daughter and the earth/all mother overlap, so do the firebringer/lightbringer son and the earth or primal all father. as the primal father represents the source, so does the son represent the child of the source, a child which still embodies his source and bears its power, the fire, which is the essential stream of reality tha t flows through them all. the son of the all father in fact represents an evolution of the all-father s force, a refined child who shows forth the primal divine fire in a more subtle and pure manner than his father, a father who manifests it

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evils with cast-off gods<<christianity has fallen, and so christ has already become the 'devil' to such thinkers as nietzsche and crowley- o.m> and satan is only so incoherent and so formless because he is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. he is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the absolute without reality and without light. man is the son of god because god, manifested, realized, and incarnated upon earth, called himself the son of man. it is after having made god in the image of his intelligence and of his love, that humanity has understood the sublime word who said "let there be light" man is the form of the divine thought, and god is the idealized synthesis of human thought. thus the word of god reveals man, and the word

of mosaic pharisaism, jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of god. when the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy ghost. then, glory to the father who drowned the host of pharaoh in the red sea! glory to the son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the caesars, broke the forehead of the caesars against the earth! glory to the holy ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by his terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of god! glory to the holy ghost, who has promised victory over earth and over heave

itself by force, but by intelligence and love. thus, to nimrod, the man of savage 'right' the bible opposed abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his "idea" he has a sterile wife, his thought, and a fertile slave, his force; but when force has produced its fruit, thought becomes fertile; and the son of intelligence drives into exile the child of force. the man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. god orders him to immolate his son, that is to say, doubt ought to test dogma, and the intellectual man should be ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of supreme reason. then god intervenes: universal reason yields to the efforts of la

e signs of the universal communion "this is our flesh and our blood? and you, men of the whole world, you whom the master calls his brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is god? retailers of the crucified one! all you who are not ready to give your blood, your flesh and your life to humanity, you are not worthy of the communion of the son of god! do not let his blood flow upon you, for it would brand your forehead! do not approach your lips to the heart of god, he would feel your sting! do not drink the blood of the christ, it will burn your entrails; it is quite sufficient that it should have flowed uselessly for you! viii the number eight the ogdoad is the number of reaction and of equilibrating justice. 37 every action p

our scattered ashes! peace and veneration to your memories! you are the heroes of progress, martyrs of humanity! xii the number twelve twelve is the cyclic number; it is that of the universal creed. 45 here is a translation in alexandrines of the unrestricted magical and catholic creed- i do believe in god, almighty sire of man. one god, who did create the universe, his plan. i do believe in him, the son, the chief of men, word and magnificence of the supreme amen. he is the living thought of love's eternal might, god manifest in flesh, the action of the light. desired in every place and every period, but not a god that one may separate from god. descended among men to free the earth from fate, he in his mother did the woman consecrate. he was the man whom heaven's sweet wisdom did adorn;

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going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. this is a development from older golden dawn practices and enables the mind to grow strong through understanding and experiencing on dreaming levels other significant god forms, demons and angelick spirits. 15 the egyptian book of the dead, the abode of the blessed, edited by e.a. wallis budge. 16 tubal-cain or cain, the son of samael and lilith, was the master of the forge i.e. initiation. 19 when one approaches the ancient masks of set, seker or the persian druj of the yatuk-dinoih understand that by diving in the black sun, becoming as a god in the darkness is but the first part of crossing the abyss. the rite of adversarial shadow -the ensorcelment of ahriman and the infernal sabbat- the focus and intent o

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ierophant. this affirms the hierophant as symbolic of god's wisdom (the translation of chockmah being "wisdom) and as the interface between god (kether) and the rest of creation (binah to malkuth. this idea is mirrored in that the attribution of yhvh to the sephiroth links kether to chockmah as the upper and lower parts of the yod, binah as heh, the central sephiroth to vau (centred on tiphareth, the son) and malkuth being the final heh (the "daughter" that must be redeemed to binah, the "mother. thus, on the progression up the tree, malkuth (the universe) must be raised to binah (transcendent understanding) which is the state of the magister templi in the initiatory system (attributed to binah, who tends his "garden (the sephiroth below the abyss. this then perhaps develops into a state w

linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being creation (binah) and the unconscious (yesod, their interface being the archetypes. an example of the kabbalistic interpretation of the glorious mysteries is that of the assumption, where the blessed mother is united with her divine son in heaven, which can be taken as the mystics raising of his awareness (tiphareth, vau, the son) to transcendent universal understanding (binah. indeed, the five glorious mysteries can be taken as a symbolic representation of the mystical ascent from tiphareth (the first mystery of resurrection) through the upper sephiroth to kether (the fifth mystery of coronation. binah means "understanding, and as the song says "love is understanding,/it's hard to believe (madonna, from "rescue me

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ome thy radiant throne dominating over all regions of the universal world! govern my thoughts accordingly. govern over me and my brothers, remove all spirits of darkness, error and confusion from these circles so that my soul may profit from the works which the order extends to those who prove worthy to become penetrated by thee, the holy ghost, who livest and reignest forever with the father and the son. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. next, operator throws some incense on the charcoal in the censer, takes the censer (or an earthenware cassolette) into his hand, and makes the first turn around the altar saying: o eternal, may this incense which i offer thee within these circumferences become a true image of the purity of my words and intentions, for thy greatest glory and justice. by ieshoua

, my patrons, spirits freed from the chains of matter and who are enjoying the fruits of your virtues and whose names i have the good fortune to bear, i conjure you by the same name which you have been invoking yourselves with such fervour, confidence and success. i conjure you to contribute towards my eternal salvation, by your holy intercession, by your protection nigh the father of mercy, nigh the son redeemer, nigh the holy ghost preserver. secure for me and for my brothers the grace of the divinity, its favours and clemency with which you have been rewarded for the combats you fought when still in this sojourn- in which i still remain. do so that through your salutary assistance i shall live and die like you, in peace, joy, and holiness. 20 amen. i conjure thee my guardian, thou pure

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

cative of great power. one alchemical aphorism expresses this duality in the words "man is peace and woman is power" bearing all these in mind, we conclude that as chesed represents the father and gevurah the mother,l3 so tiphareth which is beauty, is the reconciler between them. interestingly enough, tiphareth is referred to the sun, and corresponds to the thrd member of the theological trinity, the son. looking at these trinities as so many expressions of psychological fact-that is, as previously defined, as factors active w i t h the psyche itself-we are struck by the similarity of the religious point of view with the idea of the middle way.14 it is the pursuit of ths middle path which leads to self-conquest and the steady growth of the golden flower, the wakening of the imprisoned soul

is higher self, the counsel given to avoid the opposites. his task is to refrain of extreme actions. in certain schools of magic, where the rites of by adepts who at one time thoroughly they employed, initiation ceremonies depicted higher self and its rebirth by means of a techrucal and meditation. therein, the higher self was always some sacred figure of the major religions-a man always shown as the son of cod. the essence of these systems was to develop the son w be born in you "look with; thou are buddha" these images could possibly have reference to any we know of. but rather i surmise these refer into conscious operation of a spiritual point equilibrated attitude towards life, an attitude not to any extreme. recognizing the polarity of life, sought to steer a middle way between the to

he power above" who was the source of all. 33. the "great hare" of the algonquin tribe, said to be the creator of the earth. 34. creator god of the iroquois and huron tribes, who was known for defeating demons, and giving magic. 35. the "peace goddess" of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 36. algonquin god of the east wind. 37. the "great spirit" known to many tribes. 38. algonquin god of the west wind. the son of the twilight. 39. the great spirit of the innuit (eskimo) peoples of the north. 40. eskimo god of the air, and the energy of the universe. 41. innuit sea god. 42. chickasaw god of fire. 43. algonquin earth goddess. 44. yaqui god of "power" power as given by the ancient people. chapter ten the middle pillar exercise a n abbreviated form of the middle pillar exercise can be found in a man

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the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son the son of magick told him the secret name the secret number the secret shape whereby he might do battle with the ancient horde and be victorious. marduk kurios! brightest star among the stars strongest god among the gods son of magick and the sword child of wisdom and the word knower of the secret name knower of the secret number knower of the secret shape he armed himself with the disc of power

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

ate there is a form of life that feeds directly off the ground called field dog. between the animate and the speaking there is the ape. it is not completely an animal, yet cannot be turned into a human. the only thing that could happen is if a godly spark comes and pulls one toward the spiritual, and that creates in it a desire to attain something that is greater than this world, then man becomes the son of man. according to this definition of the kabbalah, there aren t many people on earth who can be called sons of man. in fact, there are very few of them. science and technology have been developed only to lead us to a dead-end, to the understanding that this is not the way to go. but before we look for the new way, we must first reach that dead-end. all the kabbalists had students. it is

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

ill find is not the case, and, as ianthe, will discover that after the mystic union has been consummated, the beautiful daughter of ligdus and telethusa was as acceptable a young husband as ever wooed nymph on the shaded slopes of ida. much has been written concerning stars, both terrestrial and celestial, and not a little regarding that capricious star which gleamed over the humble manger-bed of the son of man. dark seas of blood have long since lapped that star of the morning into the crimson oblivion of day, whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire-finger on the sleeping parchment of life, murmuring and moaning as the wind-kissed mouth of a dreamy drum. yet why should we still listen for those subtle sounds which have wearily danced ou

erential regard towards its founder, to a satirical disregard for him, and his final dismissal in a jest. such a mental progression is only natural; from the sublime irrationality of a de kempis the student will almost inevitably, even unwittingly, pass through the adulations of a renan, before he assumes the biting satire of a saladin, or the poetic iconoclasm of a swinburne. christ, firstly, as the son of god, is divine, omnipotent, in fact he is god; secondly, as the son of man, is noble, generous, lovable, in fact, man; but, thirdly, 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 trac

ired o fer reason fs gwhy? h and gwhence? h discarded all proportion just, and thundered in our ears gi know, h and bellowed in our brains gye must. h *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 181. in gwhy jesus wept h our eyes are startled with the following horrid blasphemy, gthe badger jesus skulketh in his holt, h*1. which, after all, is not a quarter so blasphemous as to suppose that jesus, the son of god, the very god, resides in a loaf and a bottle, as the plymouth brethren did in the same satire. vide scene xiii. finally, instead of allowing this most unfortunate of unfortunate individuals to peacefully ascend to heaven from two places simultaneously he unfeelingly dismisses him, the omnipotent, in a jest.*2 *1. why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 40 *2. the sword of song, ascension day

which lie behind time and beyond space. he stands on the virgin rock of pyrrhonic- zoroastrianism, which unlike the hindu world-conception, stands on neither elephant nor tortoise, but on the absolute zero of the metaphysical qabalists *vide haeckel, glast words on evolution, h p. 120. the question now is, what is crowleyanity or pyrrhonic-zoroastrianism? and the answer is as follows: ghosanna to the son of david! blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord. hosanna in the highest! h for this day*1. there has been born in albion a greater than david hume, and a more illustrious than david home,*2. even had he been genuine *1. 12th october, 1875 *2. d.d. home, the medium. and he shall be called gimmanuel, h that is ggod with us, h or being interpreted aleister crowley, the spiritual s

crowley, gto learn eparadise lost f by heart than ewe are seven, f but when you have done it, you are no better at figure skating. h*3. so a boehme may rank with an augustine, whilst an evans may not *1. eleusis, vol. iii, p. 220 *2. whittling shoe soles seems at one time to have been a special calling for mystics, besides jacob boehme, there was george fox, and john bunyan; also eliphas levi was the son of a shoemaker. it might be noted here that in india all leather workers are considered unclean, and in caste rank with sweepers and pork butchers *3. eleusis, vol. iii, p. 228. after the colossal fable of oedipus we find the gracious poem of psyche, which was certainly not invented by apuleius. the great magical arcanum reappears here under the figure of a mysterious union between a god a

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

of magickial will by michael w. ford "i have not me tragedy, no, not in this life! yet, whether i have spewed their doctrines upon the tables of the law or into the troughs, at least i have not cast away the flesh of dream -anathema of zos-the sermon to the hypocritethere has been much talk and focus on the english artist and sorcerer austin osman spare (1886-1956) and his zos kia cultus. austin, the son of a police officer, grew up in south london near kennington. his interest in art began at a very early age and luckily, was supported by his mother who aided in his creative awakening. as teenager, spare came into contact with mrs. paterson, a witch who claimed decent from a line of salem witches. her powers, among what seemed to be many, were based on hypnotism, divinity and spell workin

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

s of black magick that have established ford as the most cutting-edge exponent of the left hand path tradition in america today. the book begins with a lengthy and highly scholarly exposition of the place of the draconic adversary within historical magick. set typhon, the egyptian god of darkness, ahriman, the persian devil and his whore of darkness, the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son, the gnostic yaldabaoth "child of chaos, the path of the crooked serpent- leviathan and beelzebub and tiamat, pazuzu, and moloch are only some of the topics and figures covered. the second part of the book, the grimoires of luciferian witchcraft, includes several of his most infamous graveyard workings, together with the complete version of the luciferian goetia- a completely revised and u

THE BOOK OF GATES

body, loving him, lord of crowns (or, risings) seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, before the great god" to be said "ra liveth, the tortoise dieth! strong are the members of. osiris, king men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, for qebhsennuf guardeth them. ra liveth, the tortoise dieth! in a sound state is he who is in the sarcophagus, in a sound state is he who is in the sarcophagus, that is to say, the son of the sun, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat" speech of nut: nut, the great one of seb, saith "o osiris, king, lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, who loveth me, i give unto thee purity on the earth, and splendour (or, glory) in the heavens, and i give unto thee thy head for ever" ii. speech of nut, who is over the hennu boat "this is my son, osiris, king, men-maat

t i might be among those who protect thee. i gather together for thee thy bones, and i piece together for thee thy limbs. i bring unto thee thy heart, and i set it upon its seat in thy body. i make to flourish (or, germinate) for thee thy house after thee [o thou who] liv[est] for ever" to be said "ra liveth, the tortoise dieth! let enter the bones of osiris, king men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of the sun, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, let them enter into their foundations. pure is the dead body which is in the earth, p. 53 and pure are the bones of osiris, king men-mast-ra, whose word is maat, like ra [for ever" on the bottom of the sarcophagus is a large, full-length figure of the goddess nut who is depicted in the form of a woman with her arms ready to embrace the body

wrists, and armlets on her arms. the inscriptions which are cut above the head, and at both sides, and under the feet of the goddess contain addresses to the king by the great gods of the sky, and extracts from the book of the dead; they read- p. 55 inscription on the bottom of the sarcophagus of seti i. i. the words of osiris the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra (i.e, the sun, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, who saith "o thou goddess nut, support thou me, for i am thy son. destroy thou my defects of immobility, together with those who produce them" ii. the goddess nut, who dwelleth in het-hennu, saith "this [is my] son osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra [proceeding] from his body

son osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra [proceeding] from his body, who loveth him, the lord of crowns, osiris, seti mer-en-ptah" iii. the god seb saith "this [is my] son men-maat-ra, who loveth me. i have given unto him purity upon earth, and glory in heaven, him the osiris, king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra "whose word is maat, the son of ra, the lover of nut, that is to say, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, before the lords of the tuat" iv. words which are to be said-"o osiris, king, lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra [proceeding] from his body, that is to say, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat. thy mother nut putteth forth [her] two hands and arms over thee, osiris, king, lord

o thee, she hath supplied thee as a god, and thou art alive and stablished among the gods" v. the great goddess nut saith "i have endowed him with a soul, i have endowed him with a spirit, and i have given him power in the body of his mother tefnut, i who was never brought forth. i have come, and i have united myself to osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra, the lord of diadems, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, with life, stability, and power. he shall not die. i am nut of the mighty heart, and i took up my being in the body of my mother tefnut in my name of nut; over my mother none hath p. 59 gained the mastery. i have filled every place with my beneficence, and i have led captive the whole earth; i have led captive the south and

THE GOD SET

hetype to work with. set was popular among her family until the kingship of akhenaton (may he be reborn forever drowning in the jaws of sobek the crocodile god. the very militaristic pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty, who were probably descended form a family of set priests at tanis, delighted in set both in his militaristic role and as god of foreign places. ramses ii for example called himself the son of set. the set cult too was very popular with foreigners coming to live in egypt. his worship has always been connected with the outsider. the twentieth dynasty began by looking very favorably on this god, as is shown in the name of its founder setnakt "set is mighty" there is also considerable evidence that the set cult was favored among artisans of the time (see romer's ancient lives, h

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

r of the temple, which probably originated in the eighteenth century although its existence was not revealed until the publication of the manuel des chevaliers du temple (1811) by fabre palaprat, who claimed to be grand master of the order. the order of the temple saw itself as the true church of christ, preserving through the centuries a true egyptian gnostic christian tradition. it claimed that the son of god. was brought up in the schools of alexandria. he was able to reach all the degrees of egyptian initiation. jesus conferred evangelical initiation on his apostles and disciples. how this mystic christianity had supposedly passed on to the templars was recounted in the order s legend: file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (4 of 5 [

is truth in song; my arm his warden from his foes. e: and do these bonds endure through time? s: noble emir, they do. w: how so? s: by virtue of the word of a master magician. the first letter is of silence (pause) the second is of breath. our brother breathes. the third letter is of going. our brother moves. the fourth letter is of generation. our brother stands rejoicing (word) all: he lives in the son (o.t.o. applause. all return) s: let the candidate be taken from the secret place, and restored to his former attire as a magician; after which i will confer upon him the keys to the treasure of our sacred knowledge. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (15 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o (done) fourth poin

n the apparent tragedy of the fall of the year, seen as a catastrophe by ignorant minds, though the philosophical comprehend the phenomenon as the natural, regular and recurrent change in the obliquity of the earth s axis. with this ceremony of the renewal of the life of the sun, is mingled that of what the wise men of old regarded as a similar tragedy, that of the death of man and his renewal in the son. let me ask you to consider, brother master magician, that as the solar tragedy is but the uninformed and partial views of acts, so may the human prove. of this your progress in our order may give you opportunity to judge. w (to s) most mysterious master of the time past, will you not bequeath to your successor a double portion of your spirit, and bestow upon him from the shades a mark of

n. you will seal this solemn oath 4 times with your lips on the v.s.l (done) brother p.m, at your initiation you were hoodwinked to find the light of earthly life, only to close in the file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (15 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. 3 in the darkness of death. you were raised, but only in the son; it is not the individual life of man, but the life of the race, which passes through the darkness of the 3. this is the first initiation to the life within, and you have not yet found light (all draw swords and point them at c. 3 principals, however, forming a pyramid above his head, as to utter the word. z. is behind him) let that blessing be bestowed upon the candidate (an assistant lig

e true and living god most high. iv we shall now consider the word, taking two letters at a time from the angles of the triangle. we saw that the descending triangle ihv expressed the human nature of god; the ascending triangle will illustrate his nature in itself. ab is father, bl lord. al is word or logos, son, bl lord. lb is heart or spirit, bl lord. vvvv (all rise) glory to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world end. amen (sign of admiration) thus my brother, does the word of this degree declare the nature of the most holy trinity. so much, perhaps, you were already aware of; for none can be more sensible than myself of the progress you have made; yet it may possibly have escaped you that these same letters can be

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

and haran begat lot. 11:28 and haran died before his father terah in the land of his nativity, in ur of the chaldees. 11:29 and abram and nahor took them wives: the name of abram s wife [was] sarai; and the name of nahor s wife, milcah, the daughter of haran, the father of milcah, and the father of iscah. 11:30 but sarai was barren; she [had] no child. 11:31 and terah took abram his son, and lot the son of haran his son s son, and sarai his daughter in law, his son abram s wife; and they went forth with them from ur of the chaldees, to go into the land of canaan; and they came unto haran, and dwelt there. 11:32 and the days of terah were two hundred and five years: and terah died in haran. 12:1 now the lord had said unto abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from t

when his son isaac was born unto him. 21:6 and sarah said, god hath made me to laugh [so that] all that hear will laugh with me. 21:7 and she said, who would have said unto abraham, that sarah should have given children suck? for i have born [him] a son in his old age. 21:8 and the child grew, and was weaned: and abraham made a great feast the [same] day that isaac was weaned. 21:9 and sarah saw the son of hagar the egyptian, which she had born unto abraham, mocking. 21:10 wherefore she said unto abraham, cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son [even] with isaac. 21:11 and the thing was very grievous in abraham s sight because of his son. 21:12 and god said unto abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and be

son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son [even] with isaac. 21:11 and the thing was very grievous in abraham s sight because of his son. 21:12 and god said unto abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in isaac shall thy seed be called. 21:13 and also of the son of the bondwoman will i make a nation, because he [is] thy seed. 21:14 and abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of beer-sheba. 21:15 and the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the s

ghty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 23:7 and abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land [even] to the children of heth. 23:8 and he communed with them, saying, if it be your mind that i should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to ephron the son of zohar, 23:9 that he may give me the cave of machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. 23:10 and ephron dwelt among the children of heth: and ephron the hittite answered abraham in the audience of the children of heth [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city

his journey prosperous or not. 24:22 and it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; 24:23 and said, whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, i pray thee: is there room [in] thy father s house for us to lodge in? 24:24 and she said unto him, i [am] the daughter of bethuel the son of milcah, which she bare unto nahor. 24:25 she said moreover unto him, we have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 24:26 and the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the lord. 24:27 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of my master abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: i [being] in the way, the lord led me to the house of my mas

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

ilt perform that end for which thou art ordained of god, and what thou owest to god and to thy neighbour. god requireth of thee a minde, that thou shouldest honour his son, and keep the words of his son in thy heart: if thou honour him, thou hast done the will of thy father which is in heaven. to thy neighbour thou owest offices of humanity, and that thou draw all men that come to thee, to honour the son. this is 11 the law and the prophets. in temporal things, thou oughtest to call upon god as a father, that he would give unto thee all necessaries of this life: and thou oughtest to help thy neighbour with the gifts which god bestoweth upon thee, whether they be spiritual or corporal. therefore thou shalt pray thus: o lord of heaven and earth, creator and maker of all things visible and in

sm 43. the lord liveth, and the works of god do live in him by his appointment whereby he willeth them to be; for he will have them to use their liberty in obedience to his commands, or disobedience thereof. to the obedient, he hath proposed their rewards; to the disobedient he hath propounded their deserved punishment. therefore these spirits of their freewil, through their pride and contempt of the son of god, have revolted from god their creator, and are reserved unto the day of wrath; and there is left in them a very great power in the creation; but notwithstanding it is limited, and they are confined to their bounds with the bridle of god. therefore the magitian of god, which signifies a wise man of god, or one informed of god, is led forth by the hand of god unto all everlasting good

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ul features of a woman in the prime of life;1 such as the greeks attributed to that venus, whom they worshipped as the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, who was the personification of animal desire or concupiscence, as the orphic love, the father of gods and men, was of universal attraction. the greeks, who represented the mother under the form of a beautiful woman, naturally represented the son under the form of a beautiful boy; but a people who represented the mother under the form of a cow, would as naturally represent the son under the form of a calf. this seems to be the case with the hindoos, as well as with the egyptians; wherefore kandarp may be very properly placed among the cattle. by following this analogy, we may come to the true meaning of a much-celebrated object of

kewise of a secondary priapus, who was the personification of that particular generative faculty, which springs from animal desire, as the primary priapus was of the great generative principle of the universe. hence, in the allegories of the poets, this deity is said to be a son of bacchus and venus; that is, the result of the active and passive generative powers of nature. the story of his being the son of a grecian conqueror, and born at lampsacus, seems to be a corruption of this allegory. of all the nations of antiquity the persians were the most simple and direct in the worship of the creator. they were the puritans of the heathen world, and not only rejected all images of god or his agents, but also temples and altars, according to herodotus,1 whose authority i prefer to any other, b

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

re, but man had no right to ape him. such effrontery must be pun- ished. magicians must be cast down for their sin. satan was thrown from heaven for seeking to become like god. adam and eve were turned out of the garden for essentially the same reason. prometheus was bound to a rock in the caucasus when he defied zeus and brought fire down from heaven. christ was crucified for proclaiming himself the son of god. the magus is a direct descendant of this august company. he or she seeks to be the master of fate and the captain of the soul. yet the magus does not defy god, as the church wrongly believed, but recognizes the godhead within the self. it is significant that the persecution of magic increased in direct proportion to the secular power of the church. in the beginning all christians w

god, when viewed within freud's paradigm of psychosexual development. the child born of sexual union grows up to become either man or woman. if a man, he sym- bolically slays his father and weds his mother to produce a new generation. if a woman, she merges with her mother and renews her to remarry with the father. this dynamic relationship found its physical expression among the rulers of egypt. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

. late in their evolution, from the fourteenth century onward, they were ordered into a graphic pattern of connecting channels that is known as the sephirothic tree of the kabbalah. from highest to lowest these sephiroth are: 1. kether-the crown 2. chokmah-wisdom, the supernal father (abba) 3. binah-understanding, the supernal mother (aima) 4. chesed-mercy 5. geburah-severity 6. tiphareth-beauty, the son (messiah) 7. netzach-victory 8. hod-splendor 9. yesod-foundation 10. malkuth-the kingdom, the daughter tree of the sephiroth 10 tetragrammaton the holy name ihvh is specifically assigned to llphareth, the heart of the sephirothic tree. in a sense, the sixth sephirah is in itself the active process of creation. the three highest spheres, called the supernals, are considered to be so exalted

ardly possible definitely to disentangle these complications, but for the student it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which the father and mother (i and first h) alternately generate the son (v) and daughter (second h. the generative unit is complete in the trinity, but this trinity endlessly alternates its polarity, male-female-male giving way to male-female-female, and vice versa. the v elevates his twin sister, the second h, to the throne of the now barren mother, the first h, whom she replaces. her mature beauty arouses the creative lust of the v, who ascends to the throne

ceremonial magic that occurred in europe during the renaissance was in no small measure driven by the amalgamation of the kabbalah of the jews with the classical occultism of greece and rome. central to this european hybrid was the tenet that a new name of power had been revealed by god that would supplant the ancient supremacy of tetragrammaton. this new name expressed the essential being of god the son, just as the old name expressed the nature of god the father. according to this theory, the magical name of jesus was composed of the same four hebrew letters as tetragrammaton, but with one letter added in the middle, the hebrew shin (w, which stands for the element fire, or for the cardinal quality. the fivefold name, ihshvh (3lw3, which can be rendered into english as "yeheshuah" was he

the first-born males of non-sacrificial animals were simply destroyed, or redeemed by substituting a sacrificial animal. first-born sons were redeemed by the offering to the priests of five shekels of silver (num. 18:15-7, but strictly speaking they belonged to god in return for sparing the first-born of the hebrews during the last plague of egypt, when the first-born of the egyptians, including the son of the pharaoh, were taken (exod. 13:15. it is very possible that the twelve selected by joshua to carry the stones across the jordan were first-born sons. again, there is no mention of the number of the stones erected by abraham, but it would be reasonable to suspect that it was a set number and that the stones were erected in an established pattern. we can make some general observations

d before the earthly adam (see gen. 1:27 and 2:7. early christians identified their prophet jesus with this messiah myth. when we assume the christ-form, we must put on the identity of this heavenly being, who is the seated authority of metatron, the supreme active power. fortunately, we have an excellent description of the heavenly christ: and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged s

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

teries of sex were transformed into joy and beauty. the obsession of sin fell from my shoulders into the sea of oblivion- the confessions of aleister crowleyxii the point about crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities indeed most of the vices of the twentieth century and he was dead at the end of 1947- snoo wilson, author of the play the beast xiii born in 1875, the son of a member of the highly puritanical plymouth brethren sect, edward alexander (aleister) crowley embodied some of the deepest tensions in late victorian society as a whole. a child raised in a strict christian home, he would later turn to the occult arts and extremes of sexual excess. a prolific poet as well as an accomplished mountain-climber, crowley would also become one of the most re

ous work, the book of the law announces the dawn of the third aeon of mankind: the first aeon was that of the goddess isis, centered around matriarchy and the worship of the great mother; the second aeon was that of osiris, during which the patriarchal religions of suffering and death- i.e, judaism and christianity- rose to power. finally, with the revelation of the book of the law, a new aeon of the son, horus, was born "in this aeon the emphasis is on the self or will, not on anything external such as gods and priests."xix the peak of his magical career- and also of his infamy as the wickedest man alive- was in the period after 1920, when he founded his own ideal spiritual community called the abbey of thelema at a farmhouse in cefalu, sicily. the original inspiration derived from rabela

secrecy had, of course, long been associated in the western religious imagina-tion. from the early gnostics to the knights templar to the cathars of medieval europe, esoteric orders had long been accused of using sexual rituals as part of their secret magical arts. xlv however, perhaps the first sophisticated and well-developed system of sexual magic was that of paschal beverly randolph (1825-75. the son of a wealthy virginian father and a slave from madagascar, randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free black in new york city. after running away from home at age sixteen, he traveled the world and later emerged as one of the leading figures in 19th century spiritualism and america's foremost exponent of magical eroticism or affectional alchemy. in sexual love "he saw the greatest hope fo

VOX SABBATUM

a wizard who hath a familiar spirit is blessed with the mark of cain, that he or she is wise among his people. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 19 life is an abomination to god, and our life is sacred unto our lord the devil, satanadar, antecessor! to the abominations come life and joy, that a necromancer, a wizard, a witch, a charmer and observer of times is blessed by the adversary opposer, that the son or daughter is blessed to pass through the fire and use divination witchcraft and sin is the liberation which derives from rebellion, as the whoredoms of thy mother jezebel are many, joy and life is ours! in the name of cain, in the name of lilith az! lucifer triumphans! you may now all begin focusing on the purpose of the rite, with mantras and ravenous and barbarous chants uttered from t

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

ed upon the eleusinian mystae the title of regenerated children of the moon- so that each one of them was henceforth symbolically a son of the queen of heaven- born as a man originally and reborn in a divine manner- has its correspondence on a much higher plane of symbolism with the divine birth in bethlehem, according to which a child was "born" and a son "given" who, in hypothesis at least, was the son of god, but son also of mary- one of whose titles, according to latin theology, is queen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and nazareth corresponds to the life of seclusion led by the mystae during their period of probation between the lesser and greater mysteries. the three years of ministry are in analogy with the temple-functions of the mystagogues. but lastly, in egypt and elsewhere

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

and 940. the text is written in a small, very black, but neat hand, and may be assigned to a time between the xxvith dynasty and the ptolemaic period. the titles, catch-words, rubrics, names of apep and his fiends, and a few other words, are written in red ink. there are two colophons; in the one we have a date, namely, the "first day of the fourth month of the twelfth year of pharaoh alexander, the son of alexander" i.e, b.c. 311, and in the other the name of the priest who either had the papyrus written, or appropriated it, namely, nes-menu, or nes-amsu. the legend of the creation is found in the third work which is given in the papyrus, and which is called the "book of overthrowing apep, the enemy of ra, the enemy of un-nefer (i.e, osiris. this work contained a series of spells which w

thy name of 'tchentru' thy sister isis cometh to thee rejoicing in her love for thee.[fn#30] thou hast union with her, thy seed entereth her. she conceiveth in the form of the star septet (sothis. horus-sept issueth from thee in the form of horus, dweller in the star septet. thou makest a spirit to be in him in his name 'spirit dwelling in the god tchentru' he avengeth thee in his name of 'horus, the son who avenged his father' hail, osiris, keb hath brought to thee horus, he hath avenged thee, he hath brought to thee the hearts of the gods, horus hath given thee his eye, thou hast taken possession of the urert crown thereby at the head of the gods. horus hath presented to thee thy members, he hath collected them completely, there is no disorder in thee. thoth hath seized thy enemy and hat

allible remedy for scorpion stings. when the woman saw that her son had been brought back to life by isis, she was filled with joy and gratitude, and, as a mark of her repentance, she brought large quantities of things from her house as gifts for isis, and they were so many that they filled the house of the kind, but poor, woman who had given isis shelter. now soon after isis had restored to life the son of the woman who had shown churlishness to her, a terrible calamity fell upon her, for her beloved son horus was stung by a scorpion and died. the news of this event was conveyed to her by the gods, who cried out to her to come to see her son horus, whom the terrible scorpion uhat had killed. isis, stabbed with pain at the news, as if a knife had been driven into her body, ran out distraug

ned the wound in his body made by the fiend aun-ab she saw in it traces of poison. no doubt about his death then remained in her mind, and clasping him in her arms she lifted him up, and in her transports of grief leaped about like fish when they are laid on red-hot coals. then she uttered a series of heartbreaking laments, each of which begins with the words "horus is bitten" the heir of heaven, the son of un- nefer, the child of the gods, he who was wholly fair, is bitten! he for whose wants i provided, he who was to avenge his father, is bitten! he for whom i cared and suffered when he was being fashioned in my womb, is bitten! he whom i tended so that i might gaze upon him, is bitten! he whose life i prayed for is bitten! calamity hath overtaken the child, and he hath perished. whilst

s,[fn#67] ye gods who have proceeded from me, for i would make you to know what hath happened. i have been smitten by some deadly thing, of which my heart hath no knowledge, and which i have neither seen with my eyes nor made with my hand; and i have no knowledge at all who hath done this to me. i have never before felt any pain like unto it, and no pain can be worse than this [is. i am a prince, the son of a prince, and the divine emanation which was produced from a god. i am a great one, the son of a great one, and my father hath determined for me my name. i have multitudes of names, and i have multitudes of forms, and my being existeth in every god. i have been invoked (or, proclaimed) by temu and heru-hekennu. my father and my mother uttered my name, and [they] hid it in my body at my

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

brethren of my soul: we are now going to study the sixth arcanum of the tarot. beloved, remember that indeed and without any doubt, the two interlaced triangles of the seal of solomon, which join or separate love, are the two shuttles with which the ineffable mystery of eternal life in the loom of god is woven or unwoven. the upper triangle symbolizes kether (the father who is in secret, chokmah (the son) and binah (the holy spirit of each human being. the lower triangle represents the three traitors of hiram abiff; those three traitors are inside of us. the first traitor is the demon of desire; that traitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives wi

s very terrible. very few are the human beings who have succeeded in passing such an ordeal. a precious jewel (with the seal of solomon) a ring filled with ineffable light is granted to the one who victoriously passes the ordeal of the sanctuary. the neophyte who touches the ring with the left hand inevitably loses it. another explanation of the seal of solomon is the following: above the father, the son and the holy spirit, below the power that governs (the intimus, the power that deliberates (the mind, and the power that executes (the personality. when the power of deliberation and the power of execution become rebellious, they are insubordinate against the governor (the intimus) and then the outcome is failure. the three traitors usually take possession of the powers of deliberation and

r de nuestra tierra, que rectificando encontrar s la piedra oculta. debemos buscar en el interior de nuestra tierra filos fica (el organismo humano) que rectificando, trabajando con el arcano a.z.f, hallaremos la piedra filosofal. 47 the sun (phallus, masculine principle, is the father of the stone. the moon (uterus) is the feminine principle, the mother of the philosophical stone. the wind bears the son in its womb and the earth nourishes it. the sun and the moon, masculine and feminine principles are combined inside of the chalice (symbol of the mind. the sun is the father of the stone (fire, the moon is the mother (water, and the wind (seminal vapors) bear the son in its alchemical womb and the philosophical earth nourishes it. the chalice is resting on the caduceus of mercury (the cent

e ecstasy. the age of mystical ecstasy is always preceded by the age of sexual enjoyment. thus, the human life span of mystical ecstasy begins where the human life span of sexual enjoyment ends. after having attained the venusian initiation, in other words, after the adam christ has been born within us, we must then extract the philosophical egg from the rottenness of the matter and deliver it to the son of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical ecstasy. christ, buddha, hermes, quetzalcoatl and many o

adorable savior. remember the ego does not receive initiations. thus, you must not boast of being an initiate; do not say, i have these initiations or i have these powers because this is arrogance and vanity. only the intimus receives initiations. you, wretched man, are nothing but the sinning shadow of the one who has never sinned. diligently17 die each time more [and more] in yourself, so that the son of man can be born within you. 16 vara, literally a pole, stick, rod, staff, yardstick, and even a golden rod 17literally procure to die meaning to 'take care to 'carefully manage' or to be 'diligent in' la iniciaci n huid de aquellos que venden iniciaciones. recuerda buen devoto que la iniciaci n es tu misma vida. si quieres la iniciaci n, escr bela sobre una vara (el que tenga entendimie

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ntrance, threshold 8: dbb, dabab: to go softly, to creep along; to slander 8: dd, dahd: breast of love; beloved (deut 33: 12) root: that which is divided in order to be propagated; effusion, affinity, sympathy 8: hba, heba: bring 64: divisions of kamea 64: adm-chvh: adam-eve 64: din, din: justice and dni, doni, twin intelligence with din 64: gbvah, gebuah: prophecy *64: hua-bn (hu-kether and ben, the son) he is the son (mark 1: 11) 64: hgvim, he-goyim: the nations (the hosts) 64: vhabn, ve-ha-eben: and this stone (gen. 28: 22) 64: ydim, yadim: hands 64: idid ihvh, yediyd ihvh: beloved of god (deut. 33: 12; john 13: 23) 64: mizhb, mezahab: mother of gold 64: mi-zhb, may zahab: golden waters 64: midi, midi: from my hand 64: nvgh, nogah: venus 64: sbb, sahbab: to revolve, turn, surround 64: s

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

essed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of jesus. and to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the christian savior. ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. it is the winter solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. it is the birthday of the new sun king, the son of god- by whatever name you choose to call him. on this darkest of nights, the goddess becomes the great mother and once again gives birth. and it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this h

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

s did later. one curious point about this persecution is that the templar priests were never charged. if there is any truth in charges 3 and 7, it could only be the work of the priests. it was said they addressed the thief on the cross, which would probably have meant barabbas- surely an unlikely person to turn into a god. another story was that they called christ a thief because he claimed to be the son of god when he was the son of man. if they had said the liar or the pretender on the cross it would have made sense. actually, i think there is no doubt that it was a case of 'here are wealthy people whom we can loot, and advantage was taken of the fact that some of these knights were suspected of being followers of an old religion. however, a number of false charges were brought at the sa

nd moral content. the mystery religions had an enormous influence on the greek conscience, enabling it to comprehend the value of the christian message 'orphism was the most important of these deriving its name from its alleged founder. it was a particular form of that orgiastic and ecstatic religion which originated in the worship of dionysus and consisted in living over again his myth. zagreus, the son of zeus and kore (persephone, is slain at hera's instigation by the titans who tear him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had birth from the ashes of the titans smitten by the thunderbolt of zeus in punishme

owing there was some tiny bit of meat in it. so when old writers who were initiated say 'all the mysteries were the same, surely they must mean the inner essences were the same. a heathen examining the various christian sects, catholic, roman and orthodox, presbyterian, methodist and church of england churches, would say they are at heart all the same. they all worship the triune god, the father, the son and the holy ghost. though some may pay more honour to the virgin and the saints than others, and the people who thus worship are on the whole good and worthy people and obviously would not so worship if the religion were evil, so when we find that the greatest and best men of the ancient world belonged to the initiates, we may be sure the mysteries were not just orgies. indeed we know, as

rded it is to be presumed that the matter was allowed to drop. later church records show that she died and was buried in the ordinary way; the ceasars were people of very good position. but the bishop of ossory was of sterner mettle than the manx bishops. relying on the pope's bulls he attacked again, accusing lady alice of denying christ, having indecent ceremonies with a robin artison, or robin the son of art, at the cross-roads, and of a whole list of the usual stock charges, including having a staff which she anointed with ointment and galloped through thick and thin- presumably an ordinary fertility dance. again he could not obtain a conviction; the nobles protected her and she got away to england. the bishop had to content himself with flogging, torturing and burning her servants by

this must be more than coincidence. in early days very many children were brought up as witches. it was a recognised fact that it was an hereditary cult, and therefore children were often executed with their mothers. in england in 1718, a witch, mrs. huke, was hanged along with her nine-year-old child, just as a witch burnt in castletown died with her young son, the only reason being that he was the son of a witch. the puritans were strong in the isle of man at that time and so obtained a conviction. at other times the bishops complained that it was impossible to get a manx jury to convict witches, so they were usually put in the bishop's prison under peel castle until they died of cold and starvation. the manx had a soft spot for witches, for they gave good medicines and love charms and

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

that it may be conveyed to them. be thou jealous of thine own self when thou seest that it is at ease and thy fellow in distress, that it is in high estate and he is brought low, that it is at rest and he is at labour. selections from: edwin a. burtt. the teachings of the compassionate buddha. new york, mentor (mp380, 1955. p.140. from the old testament (ecclesiastes 1) the words of the preacher, the son of david, king in jerusalem. vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. what profit hath a man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun? one generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. the sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth. the wind goeth toward the south; it t

8) o lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. when i consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? for thou has made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honour. thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the fields; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. o lor

ed land over a mass of beauty. they look for neither decay nor death. listening to music at night, and going into ildathach, a variegated land, splendor on a diadem of beauty, whence the white cloud glistens. there are thrice fifty distant isles in the ocean to the west of us; larger than erin twice is each of them, or thrice. a great birth will come after ages, that will not be in a lofty place, the son of a woman whose mate will not be known, he will seize the rule of the many thousands. a rule without beginning, without end, he has created the world so that it is perfect, whose are earth and sea, woe to him that shall be under his unwill tis he that made the heavens, happy he that has a white heart, he will purify hosts under pure water, tis he that will heal your sickness. not to all o

e throughout long ages a hundred years in fair kingship, he will cut down battalion, a lasting grave he will redden fields, a wheel around the track. it will be about kings with a champion that he will be known as a valiant hero, into the strongholds of a land on a height i shall send an appointed end from islay. high shall i place him with princes, he will be overcome by a son of error; manannan the son of lir will be his father, his tutor. he will be his time will be short fifty years in this world: a dragon-stone from the sea will kill him in the fight at senlabor. he will ask a drink from loch lo, while he looks at the stream of blood; the white host will take him under a wheel of clouds to the gathering where them is no sorrow. steadily then let bran row, not far to the land of women

ith them. the woman said to them their going would make them rue. however, they went, and the woman said that none of them should touch the land, and that they should visit and take with them the man whom they had left in the island of joy. then they went until they arrived at a gathering at srub brain on the coast of erin. the men asked of them who it was came over the erin. said bran: i am bran the son of febal. one of the men said: we do not know such a one, though the voyage of bran is in our ancient stories. one of bran s men sprang from them out of the coracle. as soon as he touched the earth of ireland, forthwith he was a heap of ashes, as though he had been in the earth for many hundred years. twas then that bran sang this quatrain: for collbran s son great was the folly to lift hi

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

s tcott a few corrections have been made and interesting notes have been added; many of these have been supplied by my pupils and fellow-students of the rosicrucian society--w. wynn westcott 10& 11. part one chapter one pythagoras, his tenets& his followers numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient europe, was the son of mnesarchus, an engraver. he was born about the year 580 b.c, either at samos, an island in the aegean sea, or, as some say, at sidon in phoenicia. very little is known of his early life, beyond the fact that he won prizes for feats of agility at the olympic games. having attained manhood and feeling dissatisfied with the amount of knowledge to be gained at home, he left his native land

ming down to more recent times, the following authors should be consulted: meursius, johannes, 1620; meibomius, marcus, 1650; and kircher, athanasius, 1660. they collected and epitomized all that was extant of previous authors concerning the doctrines of the pythagoreans. the first eminent follower of pythagoras was aristaeus, who married theano, the widow of his master: next followed mnesarchus, the son of pythagoras; and later bulagoras, tidas, and diodorus the aspendian. after the original school was dispersed, the chief instructors became clinias and philolaus at heraclea; theorides and eurytus at metapontum; and archytas, the sage of tarentum. the school of pythagoras has several peculiar characteristics. every new member was obliged to pass a period of five years of contemplation in

occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott headed god, a mysterious triunity, a deity of 3 powers, or a family relationship of 3 persons, such as the father, mother and son of the egyptians, osiris, isis and horus. and again in the various faiths we see the chief dignity given in turn to each person of the triad. some rejoice in the patriarchal unity, some in the greater glory of the son, and others again lavish all their adoration on the great mother. even in trinities of coequal males, each has his own special worshippers. note this especially among the hindus, where for example, the followers of vishnu are called vaishnavas. to complicate matters too, in this case, each deity has his female potency or sakti, and these also have their own adherents. 44. under this notice

yage, he who has safely crossed a desert, he who has recovered from an illness, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott and he who is released from prison. these are referred to in psalm cvii. four men have died from original sin, the work of the serpent, for they themselves did no ill; benjamin, amram, the father of moses, jesse, the father of david, and chilah the son of david. sabbat 55. 2. at the end of the passion fast every hebrew should drink 4 glasses of wine, even if the price robs him of other necessaries. the talmud says that only 4 men had entered paradise (pardes, the garden of holiness; this meant the state of supernal communion with god, the beatific vision, by profound abstraction of mind. these were the rabbis ben azai, ben zoma, asher an

elements--earth, wood, fire, metal and water; and of 5 primary colors yellow, red, white, green and black. 65. the 5th element, the quintessence of the alchymist, was derivable from the four, by progression--at first the ens, then the two contraries, then the three principles, then the four elements. separate the pure from the impure, gently and with judgment, and so you obtain the quintessence, the son of the sun. similarly, note the progression; stone, plant, animal, man, god. the old authors added--talia si jungere possis, sit, tibi scire satis; to which this author adds--sed quod scis, nescis# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 66. chapter ten the hexad, s ix, 6. icomachus calls it, the form of form, the only number adapted to the soul, the dist

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ernment a refinement of faculty, involving, as it does, a discrete perception of immaterial essences. it has been asserted that the chald an magi* preserved their occult learning among their race by continual tradition from father to son. diodorus says "they learn these things, not after the same fashion as the greeks: for amongst the chald ans, philosophy is delivered by tradition in the family, the son receiving it from his father, being exempted from all other employment; and thus having their parents for their teachers, they learn all things fully and abundantly, believing more firmly what is communicated to them* the remains then of this oral tradition seems to exist in these oracles, which should be studied in the light of the kabalah and of egyptian theology. students are aware that

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

gin that precedes the beginning. the first, which is the head, is shrouded in the veil of the second, the twofold nature of secrecy that lies at the time-root; the two come to fruition by the third letter, gimmel, the bridge that connects alef and beit and thus makes possible the bestowing of the gift, the overflow of divine effulgence from the phallic potency to the vaginal vessel, mythicized as the son connecting father and daughter, the upper and lower manifestations of wisdom. in the fourth chapter, the second of the three lectures, i turn my attention to the letter mem, the thirteenth of the twenty-two letters, situated, according to the rabbinic dictum briefly mentioned above, in the middle of the alphabet. by focusing on the letter that signifies the middle, one is, needless to say

before alef/ where beginnings end 123 124 chapter three sea is symbolic of torah, and torah is the fullness of divine blessing, male birkat yhwh, that is, the fullness (male) that is the blessing of the lord (birkat yhwh, the beginning (re shit) that is the wisdom (hokhmah) given to solomon. the bestowal of wisdom is compared parabolically to the gifting of the daughter as a conjugal offering to the son by their mutual father.46 from this parable the reader is encouraged to heed the connection between blessing (berakhah) and knee (berekh. how so? the blessing is the place to which every knee bows down. but what is this place? to understand this, we need another parable: before one asks about the king, one must first ask about the dwelling of the king, sho alim beito shel melekh tehillah

woman opening for the man. 83 if the upper is male and the lower female, the link connecting the two is presumably the phallus. this surmise would go well with the phallic image of the spring to which i have already referred, the spring of wisdom that emerges spontaneously from the rocks and waters the garden in which the king and his world delight. in an alternative mythic formulation, gimmel is the son that bridges the distance between alef and beit, father and daughter.84 gimmel, moreover, occupies a central role in the erotic play of sha ashu a. indeed, the impetus for the division of the fullness that is the beginning arises from the springing-forth of gimmel, the will to bestow that stems from gemilut hesed, love as the incessant overflowing, projecting-open opening into the opening

s are worthy of consideration: first, the basic myth that explains the movement from the first that is not a beginning to the beginning that is second, from eternality to temporality, involves the splintering of wisdom into three father, daughter, son and the consequent yearning to restore a sense of integration and wholeness. that desire is expressed in terms of either the father and daughter or the son and daughter, but both representations relate to the drive to reinstate the elemental unity of wisdom. eros from this perspective may be viewed as the longing to retrieve a detached aspect of self. the impulse for the other, which underlies the sha ashu a that god has for torah, the father-king for the daughterprincess, is an expression of this narcissism.97 the second point of note is tha

e watery texture of the womb renders it necessary for the woman to be warmed by man. consequently, the womb that retains the semen is portrayed as open mem, the joining of masculine and feminine. the tradition preserved in the bahir presumes that the closed mem represents the womb that has not been inseminated; such a womb being infertile, it thus could not have conceived the messiah described as the son born of woman. 56 an exegetical frame for this hermeneutical conflict may be located in the messianic meaning ascribed to the closed mem in the expression le-marbbeh ha-misrah, in token of abundant authority (isa 9:6. in response to christian exegetes who interpreted the closed mem as a reference to the virgin womb and the savior-god born therefrom, the kabbalist insinuates that the letter

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

s ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by rep roduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double se xual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse th at gives a basis for the voice of t

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s ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by reproduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse that gives a basis for the voice of the

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

e of these angels is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the lord and they are of him. they are as chief watchmen and overseers, set over several and respective parts of the world, viz: east, west, north, south, as under the almighty, their governor, protector, defender. and the seals and authority of whom are confirmed in the beginning of the world. to them belong four characters, being tokens of the son of god, by whom all things are made in the creation, and are the natural marks of his holiness" the circumference of the seal the above quotation gives the functions of these watchmen who are identified by their seals. before their names are given, the letters and numbers around the circumference should be studied. from the top of the seal, going clockwise, they run: 6 "the concourse of th

n the enochian system. i have taken the liberty of placing certain grids around various sections of the tablet of nalvage (see figure 107) to make its meaning and function clearer. the first piece of information on this tablet is its action, which is listed in the original manuscripts as follows "1. its substance is attributed to god the father. 2. the first circular mover, the circumference, god the son, the finger of the father, and mover of all things. 3. the order and knitting together of the parts in their due and perfect proportion, god the holy ghost. lo in the beginning and end of all things" this statement shows that the tablet is the actual tool or binding factor for the angelic hierarchies under their functions. this is shown by nalvage when he said "lo it (the round tablet) is

section, possibly due to an error of kelley's, and that the above offices are rectified ones, which brings the main theme of the sections back into line. the fourth section has anb as the "angels of action" zad as "those who do deeds" and bai as "those who establish" around the top of each side of the tablet are four more names linked to the above hierarchies, which is analogous to the concept of the son while the middle tablets are analogous to the father. i have been unable to trace the names given in this tablet to early biblical literature, though their functions are quite explicit and can be linked from this aspect to other angelic choirs. 155 lang ministrantes (those who minister) sach confirmantes (those who confirm) urch confundantes (those who confound) lvas laudantes (those who p

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

nochian system never got the attention it deserved at whare ra, though it was the crowning point of the order teachings. ritual instruction however was a par excellence as was kabbalistic teachings. one individual, by the name of h. campbell, did manage to study it fairly extensively and was the one who kept enochian chess alive. campbell in his own right was quite a remarkable individual. he was the son of a wealthy grazier (rancher, who joined whare ra in its early days and fell under the patronage of dr. felkin. after felicin's death in the late 1920s, campbell went to england where he obtained a small apartment and went daily to the british library to study the dee manuscripts. he met many adepts in england of both the a.o. and s.m. temples, and was the case dion fortune cited of the i

nd settings that described the finding of the vault of christian rosenkruetz and the teachings he had to offer humanity. the basis for these were contained in both the 'tama" and "confessio" manifestoes. in the adeptus minor ritual of the 5=6 grade the following summation of these two documents is read to the postulant "in 1378 the chief and originator of our fraternity was born in europe. he was the son of noble but poor parents, and was placed in a doister at the age of five where he learned some greek and latin. while yet a youth, he accompanied a certain brother p.a.l. on a pilgrimage to the holy land; but the latter, dying at cyprus, he himself went to damascus. there was then in arabia a temple of the order which was called in the hebrew tongue 'damkar: that is 'the blood of the lamb

fraters also erected a building to serve as a temple and headquarters of their order, and called it collegium and spiritum sanctum, or the college of the holy spirit. this now being finished, and the work of establishing the order being extremely heavy; and because they devoted much time to the healing of those sick and possessed who resorted to them, they initiated four others, viz: fraters r.c (the son of the deceased father's brother of c.r.c, c.b. a skillful artist, and p.d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans except la, and now eight in number. their agreement was: 1. that none of them should profess any other thing, but cure sick, and that freely. 2. that they should not be constrained to wear any distinctive dress, but therein follow the custom of the country. 3. that ever

by intoning the letters i.n.r.i. we recall the varied significance attributed to these letters jesus nazarenus rex judicorum. it is, of course, a form of the 4-fold name (yod he vau he, but its essential significance is not creative but redemptive. the sun in virgo accomplishing the transmutation of scorpio. the virgin mother treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia

h him the value of self sacrifice, so that he shall shrink not in the hour of trial, but that thus; his name may be written on high (that is, the divine name formulated in him may be brought up, as it were, to the heights "and may stand in the presence of the holy one (which genius will be a might angelic power, and in a form far different from the petty personages we are here "in that hour, when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name, in the presence of the ancient days" this will be the synthetical form of the son of man, the ben adam, who is the synthesis of the ruach of the universe: in other words, the allusion is to the great god of the world of yetzirah or the microprosopus, the son of the first adam when he is invoked before the lord of spirits, which ca

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

. as osinn was represented journeying abroad, to the eastern land (p. 163, so is thorr engaged in eastward travels: thorr var i austrvegi, saem. 59, a austrvega 68; for or austrvegi, 75; ec var austr, 78; anstrforom jjinom scaltu aldregi segja seggjom fra, 68. in these journeys he fought with and slew the giants: var haim 1 to the bori;\t mongols beyond l. baikal, fairy-rings in f^rass are "where the sons of tlie ivjldninfj have danced" trans. 188 thunar. f((rinn i anstcrvcg at berja troll, sn. 46. and tliis again points to the ancient and at that time still unforgotten connexion of the teutonic nations with asia; this' faring east-ways' is told of other heroes too, sn. 190. 363; e.g, the race of the skilfingar is expressly placed in that eastern region (sii kynslos er i austrvegum, sn. 19

ed to apollo, when he snatches hector away from achilles 20, 443. the wall so laboriously built by the greeks he overturns pela fidxa, as a boy at play would a sand-heap 15, 362. with a mere breath trvoifj, blowing a little /ca p,d\a ^irv^aaa, athene turns away from achilles the spear that hector had thrown 20, 440 (see suppl. berhta also blows (p. 276, and the elves breathe (eh. xvii, on people. the sons of men grow up slowly and gradually, gods attain their full size and strength directly after hirth. no sooner had strength. precocity. size. 321 themis presented nectar and ambrosia (a/j,/3poait)v tpareivi'iv) to the newborn apollo, than he leapt, kare/spco^ cl/x^potov, out of his swathiiigs, sat down among the goddesses, began to speak, and. unshorn as he was, to roam through the country

much as the greek gods before ilion. in the battle of bravik, osinn mingled with the combatants, and assumed the figure of a charioteer bruni; saxo gram, p. 146. fornald. sog. 1, 380. the grimnismal makes geirrosr the protege (fostri) of osinn, agnarr that of frigg, and the two deities take counsel together concerning them, saem. 39; in the vols, saga cap. 42, osinn suggests the plan for slaying the sons of lonakr. the greek gods also, when they drew nigh to counsel or defend, appeared in the form of a human warrior, a herald, an old man, or they made themselves known to their hero himself, but not to others. in such a case they stand before, heside or behind him trapd, ii. 2, 279. eyyvdi, od. 1, 120. dyxoo, ii. 2, 172. 3, 129. 4, 92. 5, 123. irpoaeev 4, 129. oindev 1, 197; athene leads b

hy birds. a hind offers her milk to sigursr when exposed, vilk. saga 142; a she-wolf gives suck to the infant dieterich (like eomulus and liemus) together with her four blind whelps, hence his name of wolfdieterich. the same fellowship with whelps seems imputed to the beginnings of the gotlis and 8wabians, as to those of the llomans (p. 373; but the woodpecker also, that bee-wolf, brought food to the sons of mars, and we have come to know the swabians as special devotees of zio (p. 199. the servian hero milosh kobilitch was suckled by a marc (kobila, vuk 2, 101; does that throw light on the ohg. term of abuse merihunsun, zagiinsun (ea. 643? a like offensive meaning lurked in the latin lupa^ but it is not only to sucklings that the god-sent animals appear; in distress and danger also, swans

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

lace of the gathering of the waters; terrible was that silence of an uncreated world, immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenance of darkness half formed, arose. they abode not, they hasted away. and in the vastness of vacancy, the spirit moved, and the light-bearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings? do the sons of the night of time last forever? and have they not passed away? before all things are the waters, and the darkness, and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath was that face reflected, in the formless a

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literature about yoga at all. the more advanced one's progress, the less one knows, and the more one understands. the effect is simply additional evidence of what i have been saying all this time: that it is very little use discussing things; what is needed is continuous devotion to the practice. love is the law, love under will (part 8 of 8* yoga for yellowbellies. fourth lecture* salutation to the sons of the morning! do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. i should like to begin this evening by recapitulating very briefly what has been said in the previous three lectures, and this would be easier if i had not completely forgotten everything i said. but there is a sort of faint glimmering to the effect that the general subject of the series was the mental exercises of the yo

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gain and severed the head of tiamat from its body. and all was silent. remember! marduk victor took the tablets of destiny unbidden hung them around his neck. acclaimed of the elder gods was he. first among the elder ones was he. he split the sundered tiamat in twain and fashioned the heavens and the earth, with a gate to keep the ancient ones without. with a gate whose key is hid forever save to the sons of marduk save to the followers of our master enki first in magick among the gods. from the blood of kingu he fashioned man. he constructed watchtowers for the elder gods fixing their astral bodies as constellations that they may watch the gate of absu the gate of tiamat they watch the gate of kingu they oversee the gate whose guardian is iak sakkak they bind. all the elder powers resist

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cilers, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great one of the night of time. should contain a demonstration of the quadrature of the circle* 32 bis.table of correspondences 33 clxxxii. the human body. clxxxiii. legendary orders of being. 11 respir

castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and qebhsennuf (kabexnuv, the sons of horus, and have corrected them accordingly. 7 de. occ. phil. lib. i. cap xxiii. the following six chapters list various things said to be under the power of the other six classical planets. see also cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the planets and the theory behind all this, and cap. xxxii, what things are under the signs, the fixed stars, and their images. 8 on typograph

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m none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] liber lxxxiv 25 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the kingdom, the scept

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ance :23 :the spirit of the mighty waters: 24:the child of the great transformers. the lord of the: gate of death: 25:the daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer-forth of: life: 26:the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the: forces of time: 27 :the lord of the hosts of the mighty: 28:the daughter of the firmament; the dweller between the: waters: 29:the ruler of flux& reflux. the child of the sons of: the mighty: 30 :the lord of the fire of the world :31 :the spirit of the primal fire: 32 :the great one of the night of time :31 "bis :32 "bis: 324 appendix vi a few principal rituals grimorium sanctissimum. arcanum arcanorum quod continet nondum revelandum ipsis regibus supremis o.t.o. grimorium quod baphomet x degree m. suo fecit. de templo. 1. oriente. altare 2. occidente. tabula d

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ts, though such were in themselves better and wiser. yes, o my son, in these writings thou mayst study to come to the true comprehension of thine own nature, and that of the whole universe, in the dimensions of time, even as the mathematic declareth it in that of space: that is, of extension. moreover, by this study shall the child comprehend the foundation of manners: the which, as sayeth one of the sons of wisdom, maketh man. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 254 sequitur (3) scientifica since time and space are the conditions of mind, these two studies are fundamental. yet there remaineth causality, which is the root of the actions and reactions of nature. this also shalt thou seek ardently, that thou mayest comprehend the variety of the universe, its harmony a

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

fire; a watch-tower nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride nw)g constitution, tradition; practice hklh behold; they (fem) hnh a basket )n+ vision hzxm the southern district hbgn utensil, instrument, tool ylk lament yn 61 adon: master, lord nwd) nothing; not ny) towards, to thee kyl) i, myself; a ship, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb to commit; healing hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular; dung llg fed nwz the nose m+wx fervour hmyx hwhy in briah yh w)w yh dwy briah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) gs beaver, builder hnwb prophet )ybn 64 shine, glow: the sphere of venus (see s.b. 75) hgwn justice: a title of geburah nyd a

o be it: a title of kether nm) the ephod dwp) ynd) hwhy interlaced yhnwdh)y archangel of geburah l)mk food, fare lk)m angel k)lm queen (ar )klm manna )nm a hut, tent hkws pekht: gextension h hh)p 92 terror: a title of geburah dxp the lord thy god [is a consuming fire (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58) kyhl) hwhy mud cb litter bc 93 aiwass: the minister of hoor-paar-kraat( gcorrect h. cf. 78) zwy( the sons of [the merciful] god l) ynb incense hnwbl a disc, round shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, army )bc 94 corpse hpwg the valley of vision nwyzxyg to extinguish k(d a fault (ps. 50:20, i.e. there gallege a fault h) ypd a shore pwx a window nwlx a drop hp+ children mydly congratulations, good luck bw+ lzm prickly dnm side dc 95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great ston

r ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the arch

fs gcoming race h, and abra-melin fs forehead lamin) lhyrw 252 serpent fs den hrw)m 253 proselytes myrg matred (i.r.q. 996) dr+m 254 an ass rwmx a mark, aim hr+m a solemn promise, vow rdn spikenard (ct. 4:14) drn a spear xmwr merciful, compassionate mwxr 255 burdensome; with difficulty )rmwx the east xrzm a river, stream (gn. 2:10) rhn song of joy hnr 256 tidings (ps. 68:11; saying, speech hrym) the sons of the righteous qdc ynb dampnesses (pl; see 705. k.d. p.20) nymlwpm the spirit of the mother )m) xwr a spice merchant lkwr fire; fiery rwn words myrbd 257 the ark [of the covenant] nwr) magician m+rx to his fearers (ps. 25:14; see 353) wy)ryl the white wand hnbl lqm her dreadful self )rwn lights: the urim (see 490) myrw) 258 the red light mwd) rw) mercy ymxr illuminating, radiant rwhzm 2

(i.r.q. 1122) ytnky# thorn *nc bands, stripes; bindings *mydwq( 791 faithful, loyal, steady *nm)n 792 deliverance, victory tw(w#y 795 treasure; hidden or secret thing *nwm+m 796 the cup of affliction hl(rth swk 797 essence of glory *dwbkh mc( 800 sagittarius: a bow; a rainbow (the three paths t#q leading from malkuth, hence much symbolism of the rainbow of promise) t#q nest *nq the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae *md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings *myncn cash; counted out, paid down *mydwqp high, lofty *mr rubies, gems *mynynp thorn; enclosure *k# 801 signs, tokens tt) also, yea; anger; nose *p) 802 401 2: the reflection of 401, which is t, alpha& omega the assembly (or school, or academy) supernal (refers to a a, the three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y th

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t better or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family as of his own royal stock; every one is as princely as he is himself. but he were not his father's son unless he found for himself a form fit to express himself by multiplex reproducti

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d victory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called

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ife lies ravished, and the breath has left me. a small warm hand touches my lips- o fragrance of love! o life. is there a god? 183 the prude a fly once sat upon the axle-tree of a chariot, and said "what a dust do i raise" now a swarm of flies has come- the fourth plague of egypt is upon us, and the land is corrupted by reason of their stench. the mighty ones are dead, the giants are no more, for the sons of god come not in unto the daughters of men, and the world is desolate, and greatness and renown are gone. to-day the blue blow-flies of decay sit buzzing on the slow-rolling wheel of fortune, intoxicated on the dust of the dead, and sucking putrefaction from the sinews of the fallen, and rottenness from the charnel-house of might. o reason! thou hast become as a vulture feasting off the

key, else the door of the palace remains closed, for none other than he can open it for him. and he who would find the key of gold must seek it here in the outer court of the world, where the flatterers, and the parasites, and the hypocrites, buzz like flies over the fleshpots of life. now he who enters the outer court sees set before him many tables and couches, at which with swollen veins revel the sons of the gluttony of life. here men, in their furious love of greed, stuff their jaws with the luxuries of decay, which a little after go to the dunghill; and vomit their sour drink on one another as a certain sign of their good fellowship. here they carouse together drunkenly as in a brothel filling the world with the noise of cymbal and drum, and the loud-sounding instruments of delusion

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, corresponding to he divine name jehovah tzabaoth, ihvh tzbavth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names alhim, elohim, gods, and thrshishim, tharshishim, the brilliant ones (dan. x. 6)5. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency hvd, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name alhim tzbavth, elohim tzabaoth, the god of armies, and among the angels to bni alhim, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (gen. vi. 4. the number 9. these two produced isvd, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by al chi, el chai, the mighty living one, and shdi, shaddai; and among the angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it i

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ice, let it smite down the mountains! let us not see it! cover we our eyes, lest we see the end of man. close we our ears, lest we hear the cry of woman. let none speak of it: let none write it: i, i am troubled, my eyes are moist with dews of terror: surely the bitterness of death is past. and i turned me to the south and lo! a great lion as wounded and perplexed. he cried: i have conquered! let the sons of earth keep silence; for my name is become as that of death! when will men learn the mysteries of creation? how much more those of the dissolution (and the pang of fire? i turned me to the west and there was a great bull; white with horns of white and black and gold. his mouth was scarlet and his eyes as sapphire stones. with a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver

in the wind. he hateth me and tormenteth me. he would have stolen me from myself, but i shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men (here the spirit stimulated the voice of frater p, which also appeared to come from his station and not from the triangle) i don't think i can get any more; i think that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was hallucinated, b

ays using some word that did not represent his thought, because there is no proper link between his thought and speech. note that he never seems able to distinguish between the frater and the scribe, and addresses first one, then the other, in the same sentence. would god that i were dead. for know that i am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and i prate even as thou. for even as i walked among the sons of god, i heard it said that p. could both will and know, and might learn at length to dare, but that to keep silence he should never learn. o thou that art so ready to speak, so slow to watch, thou art delivered over unto my power for this. and now one word was necessary unto me, and i could not speak it. i behold the beauty of the earth in 98 her desolation, and greater far is mine, who

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gathering of waters. 276 "terrible was the silence of an uncreated world. immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose "they abode not; they hasted away; and in the vastness of vacancy the spirit moved; and the light-bearers were for a space "i have said: darkness of the darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings that were? do the sons of the night of time endure for ever? not yet are they passed away "before all things are the waters; and the darkness and the gates of the land of night "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose "and before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back, and the darkness hasted away "in the waters beneath was that face reflected in the forml

ruin him who hath subjugated himself thereto. as it is said "stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth; a descent of seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force. stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthy dross of matter. stoop not down, for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy" the lamp and cup are then replaced, after which the following symbols are explained to the philosophus: the image of nebuchadnezzar's vision; the symbol of the great hermetic arcanum; the tablet of union between the four elements; the tablet of the symbolic latin names; the seven palaces of the briatic world; and the kerubim in the visions of isaiah, ezekiel and st. john

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circle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. 3. 6- 5\ x x\ 4/ x x. 1- 2. 7. fig. iii- third symbol. by producing the paths whereby the forces of the three("see" second symbol) were concentred into four, we find they 173 read 1+ 4= 5, 2+ 4= 6, 3+ 4= 7. and thus is revealed the second triangle of the hexagram of creation<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 upright-fire-triangle of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the inverted-water-triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation> further, this reflected triangle

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madness, like the horns on 71 the head of a goat. and between them burneth a pyramid of flame, which consumeth neither but blindeth both, so that the one beholdeth not the other. notwithstanding, when the one is lost in the water, and the other is burnt up in the flame, they become united in the form of a woman fashioned of earth and of air, who without husband is yet mother of many sons. 9. now the sons are in truth but one son; and the one son but a daughter draped and never naked; for her mother is naked, therefore is she robed. and she is called the light of my love, for she is concealed and cannot be seen, as the sun burneth over her and drowneth her in fire, whilst below her surgeth the sea, whose waves are as flames of water. when thou has licked up the ocean thou shalt not see her

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ual karmic group and those beings who are the outcome of the triple nature of the planetary logos. if one might so express it they embody the forces emanating from the head, heart, and throat centres, and they came in with sanat kumara to form focal points of planetary force for the helping of the great plan for the self-conscious unfoldment of all life. their places have gradually been filled by the sons of men as they qualify, though this includes very few, until lately, from our immediate earth humanity. those who are now the inner group around the lord of the world have been primarily recruited from the ranks of those who were initiates on the moon chain (the cycle of evolution preceding ours) or who have come in on certain streams of solar energy, astrologically determined, from other

owards bringing it to a successful consummation. everywhere they are gathering in those who in any way show a tendency to respond to high vibration, seeking to force their vibration and to fit them so that they may be of use at the time of the coming of the christ. great is the day of opportunity, for when that time comes, through the stupendous strength of the vibration then brought to bear upon the sons of men, it will be possible for those who now do the necessary work to take a great step forward, and to pass through the portal of initiation- 36- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter vii the probationary path preparation for initiation. the probationary path precedes the path of initiation or holiness, and marks that period in the life of a man when he definite

h and venus, is continuous. a similar process has but lately been instituted on another planetary scheme, and when, in the next round, our earth attains a point in evolution analogous to that of the venusian scheme at the time its influence was felt by us, then we shall aid in the stimulation of still another group of planetary egos; we shall assist in the institution of a similar procedure among the sons of men in another scheme. in the three great planetary schemes, neptune, uranus, and saturn, the method of initiation will not be employed. they will be the recipients of those who are esoterically "saved" from among the other schemes. that is to say that all those who, in any scheme, achieve the needed expansions of consciousness (such as will be achieved by the majority of the human fam

by the initiator and transmitted through the medium of the rod to the various centres in the initiate's three vehicles, the mental, the astral, and the etheric centres. at the fourth initiation a specialised type of force from a centre which must remain nameless is applied to a man's causal body, and is one of the causes of its final disintegration. in thinking of this matter of the attainment of the sons of men, we must recognise that as mankind completes one unification after another, the "heavenly men" on intuitional levels and on spiritual levels are completed, and in their turn go to the formation of the centres in the great "heavenly men" of the solar system. these seven heavenly men, in whose bodies each human monad and each deva finds his place, form the seven centres in the body o

ation of the centres in the great "heavenly men" of the solar system. these seven heavenly men, in whose bodies each human monad and each deva finds his place, form the seven centres in the body of the logos. he, in his turn, forms the heart centre (for god is love) of a still greater entity. the consummation of all for this solar system will be when the logos takes his fifth initiation. when all the sons of men attain the fifth initiation, he achieves. this is a great mystery and incomprehensible to us. chapter xi the participants in the mysteries the participants in the mysteries are generally known, and no secret has been made of the general personnel and procedure. it is only sought here to impart a greater sense of reality to the data already given by a fuller exposition and a more po

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

he fiery zone. matter and water mixed with fire, the inner spark within the form were blended all together- 14- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the mighty one looked down. the forms met his 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

ii 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 depth of flame, took from its heart the sacred stone of fire, and proceeded to the next. in turning next the great wheel launched the second. again the flame burst forth, took to its heart the stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolve

took from its heart the sacred stone of fire, and proceeded to the next. in turning next the great wheel launched the second. again the flame burst forth, took to its heart the stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolved the greater wheel, blue white emerged the flame. the sons of god again came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank the stone. to the heart of inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the

inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the

had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the inner fire, till yellow, rose and blue mingled their subtle tones. the four wheels with the greater worked thus upon the stone till all the sons of god acclaimed, and said "the work is done- 15- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stanza iv in revolution fifth of the great wheel the period set was reached. the lesser wheel, that responded to that fifth great turn, passed through the cycle and entered into peace. the lesser wheels come forth and likewise do their work. the great wheel gathers back the emanating spa

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

d consciously control them, and the meaning of the symbol of the human figure. therefore, in those early days, through the practice of hatha yoga, the human being reached the portal of initiation. at that time the attainment of the third initiation, resulting in the transfiguration of the personality, was the highest initiation that man was capable of achieving. in atlantean days, the progress of the sons of men was procured through the imposition of two yogas. first, the yoga which is called by the name of laya yoga, the yoga of the centres which produced a stabilizing of the etheric body and of the centres in man and the development of the astral and psychic nature. later on, bhakti yoga, growing out of the development of the emotional or astral body, was incorporated with laya yoga and

ns. 51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the yoga sutras of patanjali book i the problem of union 1. aum (om) the following instruction concerns the science of union. aum. is the word of glory; it signifies the word made flesh and the manifestation upon the plane of matter of the second aspect of divinity. this blazing forth of the sons of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. waiting for the manifestatio

ons of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god (rom. viii) raja yoga, or the science of union, gives the rules and the means whereby- 9- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. conscious contact can be made with the soul, the second aspect, the christ within, 2. knowledge of the self can be achieved and its control over the not-self maintained, 3. the power of the ego or soul can be felt in the daily life and soul p

ng master" the word "traditional" carries the student's thought away from that which is usually regarded as the object of sensuous perception into the world of thought forms, into that "forest of delusion" which is constructed of men's ideas about god, heaven or hell. the sublimation of all this and its highest expression in the three worlds is that "devachan" which is the goal of the majority of the sons of men. devachanic experience must, however, be transformed eventually into nirvanic realization. it may be of value to the student to remember that heaven, the object of aspirational desire, which is the outcome of traditional teaching, and of all formulations of doctrinal faiths has several meanings to the occultist. for the purpose of a clearer understanding the following may be found

hree lower worlds are no longer "attached" to him through his inclinations or karma, and which he experiences after he has: a. taken certain initiations, b. freed himself from the three worlds- 22- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust c. organized his christ body. strictly speaking those adepts who have achieved non-attachment but who have chosen to sacrifice themselves and abide with the sons of men in order to serve and help them are not technically nirvanis. they are lords of compassion pledged to "suffer" with, and to be governed by, certain conditions analogous to (though not identical with) the conditions governing men who are still attached to the world of form. 16. the consummation of this non-attachment results in an exact knowledge of the spiritual man when liberated

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

ts and destiny of men and brought them forward along the path of realization from the stage of animism and fetishism to that of our present concept of an immanent deity. from the point of view of man and nature we have progressed to that of a divine whole in which we live and move and have our being, and with which are identified in consciousness. we know ourselves to be divine. one after another the sons of god have entered into their heritage and found themselves sensitive to the world plan. they have, though steadfastness in contemplation, equipped themselves to act as interpreters of the universal mind and as intermediaries between the non-telepathic multitude and the eternal fountain of wisdom. to the illuminates of the world, to the intuitive thinkers in all fields of knowledge, and

and enunciate principles. the world is full of those who tear down, and who feed the present hatreds, and who widen the divisions between races and groups, between rich and poor. let the true student of meditation remember that when he makes a contact with his soul, and becomes at-one with reality, he is entering into a state of group awareness, which breaks down all barriers, and leaves none of the sons of god outside its field of knowledge. it is possible to mention other forms of illusion, for the first world the aspirant contacts seems usually to be the psychic world, and that is the world of illusion. this world of illusion has its uses, and entering it is a most valuable experience, provided that the rule of love and of non-self-reference is carried there, and that all contacts made

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

rs of god in that era will preponderate over those who are simply aspiring to that knowledge, and their contact and the results of the force they transmit will be felt in all the kingdoms of nature. dominion over all forms, and the power to act as transmitters of that spiritual energy we call love is the promised reward of the triumphant solar angels, and the prized goal of their meditation work. the sons of god will triumph on earth in full incarnated expression, and will bring light (therefore life) to all the manifested forms. this is the "life more abundant" of which the christ speaks. this is the achievement of the true nirvanee who, living in unbroken meditation in the spiritual realm yet can work on earth. the work of initiation is to enable a man to live ever at the centre, but to

ndent upon humanity for a functioning channel. humanity's function is to transmit and handle force. this is done in the early and ignorant stages destructively and with harmful results. later when acting under the influence of the soul, force is rightly and wisely handled and good eventuates. true indeed it is that "the whole creation travaileth in pain until now, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god" 2. the bringing of light. humanity is the planetary light bearer, transmitting the light of knowledge, of wisdom, and of understanding, and this in the esoteric sense. these three aspects of light carry three aspects of soul energy to the soul in all forms, through the medium of the anima mundi, the world soul. physically speaking, this can be realized if we can appreciate the dif

ar life. f. race, bringing the personality under the peculiar racial thought form. the sub-ray on which a man is found, that minor ray which varies from incarnation to incarnation, largely gives him his coloring for this life. it is his secondary hue. forget not, the primary ray of the monad continues through the aeon. it changes not. it is one of the three primary rays that eventually synthesise the sons of men. the ray of the ego varies from round to round, and, in more evolved souls, from race to race, and comprises one of the five rays of our present evolution. it is the predominating ray to which a man's causal body vibrates. it may correspond to the ray of the monad, or it may be one of the complementary colours to the primary. the ray of the personality varies from life to life, til

secondly: in this sensing of the plan and its later materialization, human units are involved and men have perforce to be employed. a vision is given of tremendous possibilities and indications are also granted of the manner in which these possibilities may become facts, but beyond that the great ones do not go. the detail and the method of concretizing the ideal and the necessary work is left to the sons of men. to the disciple who is an organizer and transmitter of the plan falls the work of filling in the details and of taking the necessary action. at this point it is wise for him to remember that he comes (with his little plans) under the same law as do the great ones in their large endeavours, and that it is in his dealings with people and his manipulation of the human equation that t

work that the disciple must grasp. in solitude the sound is heard. the great ones have to work through human instruments and the plan and the vision are much handicapped by failure on the part of these instruments. third: this brings me to the third point, the problems and the difficulties with which the masters have to contend as they seek to further the plans of evolution through the medium of the sons of men. in conclave wise they make their plans; with judgment, after due discussion, they apportion the tasks; then, to those who offer themselves for service and who have some measure of soul contact, they seek to transmit as much of the plan as possible. they impress the plan and some suggestion as to its scope upon the mind of some man or some woman upon the physical plane. if that min

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

in the story of the christ of galilee. he was constantly reminding the people that he was not what he appeared to be, neither was he the father in heaven, and he is ever referred to by those who know and love him in terms of quality. he demonstrated to us the quality of the love of god, and in himself he embodied not only that which he had evolved of the seven ray qualities, but also as do few of the sons of god a basic principle of the ray of the solar logos himself, the quality of love. this we shall study more closely when we take up the consideration of the second ray of love-wisdom. the seven rays are therefore embodiments of seven types of force which demonstrate to us the seven qualities of deity. these seven qualities have consequently a sevenfold effect upon the matter and forms t

o its real work. his influence is waxing in power, just as the influence of the sixth lord is waning. 6. the lord of devotion end idealism. this solar deity is a peculiar and characteristic expression of the quality of the solar logos. forget not that in the great scheme of the universal universe (not just our universe) our solar logos is as differentiated and distinctive in quality as are any of the sons of men. this ray force, with the second ray, is a true and vital expression of the divine nature. a militant focussing upon the ideal, a one-pointed devotion to the intent of the life urge, and a divine sincerity are the qualities of this lord, and set their impress upon all that is found within his body of manifestation. advanced esotericists debate as to whether mars is, or is not, the

within the confines of our solar sphere. his robe of blue veils his eternal purpose, but in the rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen. his word is power. his light, electric. the lightning is his symbol. his will is hidden in the- 44- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust counsel of his thought. nought is revealed. his power is felt. the sons of men, reacting to his power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question: why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, oh mighty son of god? faintly the answer comes: i hold the keys of life and death. i bind and loose again. i, the destroyer, am. this ray lord is not yet in full expression, except as he causes destruction

from out the night of time the one thou lovest. quality..attraction. 4. when light and love are shewn forth then let the power within produce the perfect flower. let the word that heals the form go forth. that secret word that then must be revealed. quality..the power to save. 5. salvation, light, and love, with the magnetic power of god, produce the word of wisdom. send forth that word, and lead the sons of men from off the path of knowledge on to the path of understanding. quality..wisdom. 6. within the radius of the love of god, within the circle of the solar system, all forms, all souls, all lives revolve. let each son of god enter into this wisdom. reveal to each the oneness of the many lives. quality..expansion or inclusiveness- 47- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric ps

d let them stand in light. shine forth. quality. emergence into form and out of form. 2. god and his angels now arise and hear. let a deep murmur rise and let the cry of seeking man enter into their ears. let man listen. let man call. speak loud. quality..power to make the voice of the silence heard. 3. god and his angels now arise and touch. bring forth the rod of power. extend it outward toward the sons of men; touch them with fire, then bring them near. bring forth. quality. initiating activity. 4. god and his angels now arise and taste. let all experience come. let all the ways appear. discern and choose; dissect and analyse. all ways are one. quality..revelation of the way. 5. god and his angels now arise and sense the odor rising from the burning-ground of man. let the fire do its wo

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

o 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 are, and what we can be, and enter upon the

an example that we should follow in his steps. christ himself laid no emphasis upon the death on the cross as being the apex of his life work. it was the result of his life work, but not that for which he came into the world. he came that we might have "life abundantly" and st. john tells us in his gospel that the new birth is dependent upon belief in christ, when power is given to us to "become the sons of god, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of god."20 is it not reasonable for us to gather from these words that when a man reaches the point of recognising and believing in the cosmic christ "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world,"21 then the new birth becomes possible, for the life of

on the cross of matter. there he hangs fixed until the last weary pilgrim shall find his way home.19 the planetary christ, the life of the four kingdoms of nature, has been crucified on the four arms of the planetary cross down the ages. but the end of this period of crucifixion is close upon us. mankind can descend from the cross as christ did, and enter into the kingdom of god, a living spirit. the sons of god are ready to be manifested. today as never before "the spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of god; and if children, then heirs too heirs of god and co-heirs with christ; if indeed we share christ's sufferings, in order to share also his glory "all creation is yearning, longing to see the manifestation of the sons of god. for the creation was made

ren of god- 117- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust "for we know that the whole of creation is moaning in the pangs of childbirth until this hour. and more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the spirit as a foretaste of bliss, yet we ourselves moan as we wait for full sonship in the redemption of our bodies."20 towards this glorification of god we are all moving. some of the sons of men have already achieved, through the realisation of their divinity. it is of interest to note how the two great branches of orthodox christianity, the eastern, as expressed through the greek church, and the western, as expressed through the roman catholic and the protestant churches, have preserved two great concepts which the spirit of the race needed on its great evolutionary journ

nd himself second. but having done so, he discovers that the door into the kingdom is flung wide open and that he can enter in. but he has first to suffer. it is the way. it is through supreme service and sacrifice that we become followers of christ and earn the right to enter into his kingdom, because we do not enter alone. this is the subjective element in all religious aspiration, and this all the sons of god have grasped and taught. man triumphs through death and sacrifice. that superhuman spirit, christ, did this perfectly. in him was no sin because he had perfectly transcended the ephemeral lower self. his personality was subordinated to his divinity. the laws of transgression touched him not, because he crossed no boundaries and infringed no principles. he embodied in himself the pr

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

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) 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 evolutio

high god, which is ever swept by the life of those who have achieved liberation through loneliness, detachment, isolated unity, and purification. a realisation of the goal and the way to- 20- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust that goal is of service at this time, and it is to this realisation that the teachers of humanity seek to stimulate the sons of god. according to the ray type or quality, so will be the reaction of the life to the great stages of individualisation, initiation, and identification. this is a major occult platitude, but it is one that is much in need of consideration and reflection. let us bear in mind always that we are considering qualities which govern appearances and express the life. what is called in the eas

sidering the seven ray methods of appropriation and the reverse stages, that we are dealing with energies. occult students must increasingly think and work in terms of energy. these energies are spoken of esoterically as "having impulsive effects, magnetic appeals, and focussed activities" the streams or emanations of energy exist, as is well known, in seven major aspects or qualities. they carry the sons of men into incarnation and withdraw them from incarnation. they have their own specific qualities and characteristics, and these determine the nature of the forms constructed, the quality of the life which is expressed at any particular time or in any particular incarnation, the length of the life cycle, and the appearance and disappearance of any of the three form aspects. certain brief

body, extension of consciousness through the process of incarnation, are all occultly considered to be death. but the angels "chose to die, and in dying, lived" through their sacrifice, matter is lifted up into heaven. it is this theme which fills the pages of the secret doctrine, and which is discussed in greater elaboration in a treatise on cosmic fire. the sacrifice of the angels, the death of the sons of god, the immolation of the mystic christ, the crucifixion in time and space of all living entities, called souls this is the theme of those books. this is the mystery hinted at in the world of scriptures, and this is the secret of the ages, which is only discovered by the souls of men as each of them enters individually into conscious relation with his own soul and discovers that which

e ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust made of the experience of life on earth, until he had exhausted all his resources and there was naught left but the eventual sacrifice of what he held so dear, but had discovered to be so unsatisfying. for these things of lesser values, he had sacrificed the higher values, and had to return again whence he came. such is the life story of all the sons of god who came into incarnation, as given to us under the symbolism of the bible. but the theme in all the world bibles is the same. this urge to sacrifice, to relinquish this for that, to choose one way or line of conduct and thus sacrifice another way, to lose in order eventually to gain, such is the underlying story of evolution. this needs psychological understanding. it is a governi

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ucis trust let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind. let the spirit of peace be spread abroad. may men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation. may forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time. let power attend the efforts of the great ones. so let it be, and help us to do our part. 1935 let the lord of liberation issue forth. let him bring succour to the sons of men. let the rider from the secret place come forth, and coming, save. come forth, o mighty one. let the souls of men awaken to the light, and may they stand with massed intent. let the fiat of the lord go forth: the end of woe has come! come forth, o mighty one. the hour of service of the saving force has now arrived. let it be spread abroad, o mighty one. let light and love and power

discipleship) on to the mental plane and learns to smash the glamour which has hitherto held him on the astral plane, so the problem before the hierarchy today is to bring about a similar happening in the life of humanity as a whole, for humanity is at the crossroads and its consciousness is being rapidly focussed on the mental plane. a death blow must be struck at the world illusion for it holds the sons of men in thrall. by learning to break through the glamour in their own lives and to live in the light of the intuition, disciples can strengthen the hands of those whose task it is to awaken the intuition in man. there are many and different kinds of glamour and disciples are frequently surprised when they learn what is regarded as glamour by the masters. i will enumerate a few of the mo

still more intensively through smaller and more carefully chosen and selected groups. through these much smaller groups of disciples, the phenomenal appearance of certain types of energy could be expressed; certain powers could be unfolded and a more specialised experiment be possible. peculiar powers could be studied and focussed, intensified light and power could be so clearly demonstrated that the sons of men would come to recognise the influence and to give proof of the supernormal which is the heritage of future centuries. to this particular branch of hierarchical work, i pledged myself; it would provide the nucleus for the coming types of civilisation and the characteristics and activities which could be unfolded- 43- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust u

es eventually almost instantaneous. then say with deliberation: i am the soul. the soul am i. 2. then centre your consciousness in the love aspect of your nature, the energy which flows through the heart centre and endeavour to keep it steadily there. however, forget about the fact of the heart centre and keep the mind predominantly upon the love aspect of the soul. say then: i pour out love upon the sons of men. 3. then for fifteen minutes ponder upon the nature and significance of love. 4. after pondering the subject of love for three weeks each month, you can (during the fourth week) study with care the thoughts that have come into your mind in connection with this theme. this you can do from the following three angles: a. of right or of wrong action in the expression of love. b. of mot

lance the group life. you say that you have never ceased to question this, and you bring the analogy of light to bear upon the problem. your analogy is not really in order. i was not speaking in terms of individual light but in terms of group service and group relationship. there are many in the hierarchy at this time who have refused further opportunity of progress in order to stay with and help the sons of men. the point of development of everybody in the group is not uniform, and this is a fact that you should recognise and which, when recognised, negates the application of your illustration. your illustration is entirely true, but has no bearing on the subject. i suggest that you take until next may before coming to your final decision. i have asked a member of another group in my ashr

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

does every human being. but behind these cycles, the triumphant spirit of man moves on from height to height, from attainment to attainment and towards an ultimate goal which as yet no man visions but which is summed up for- 52- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust us in the possibility of being in the world as christ was; this is the hope held out to us in the new testament and by all the sons of god down the ages and in every land and by all religious faiths. in considering our theme we need now to do two things: first of all consider what makes a people, a race or a nation a minority, and then consider along what lines a solution may lie. the world today is full of clamouring minorities who rightly or wrongly are making claims upon the majority. some of the majorities are sin

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

all "the inscrutable will of god" that unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world, the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament) who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love and focusses his will in his own high place within the centre where the will of god is known" when the christ, the avatar of love, makes his reappearance then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful, silent will "then will the sons of men respond

; the "end of the age" to which he referred when speaking to his small group of disciples "lo! i am with you all the days even unto the end of the age" has come. today he stands and waits, knowing that the hour has come when he will "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied (is. liii.11- 19- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust right through the spiritual succession of the sons of god, there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation "the hierarchy waits" it has done all that is possible from the angle of the present opportunity. the christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make his work materialise on earth and enable him to consummate the effort he made 2000 years ago in palestine. the buddha hovers over the planet

risis hundreds of years ago, humanity can add its efforts to the working out of that plan. the will-to-good of the father's house can become the goodwill of the kingdom of god and be transformed into right human relations by intelligent humanity. thus the direct line or thread of god's will reaches now from the highest place to the lowest point, and can in due time become a cable of ascension for the sons of men and of descent for the loving, living spirit of god. let us forget distance, remoteness and vagueness and realise that we are talking of exact and literal happenings on our planet. we are dealing with recognitions and occurrences and with factual events which are the conscious possession of many. the christ of history and the christ in the human heart are planetary facts. there is

full members of christ's community. it is not the accepting of any historical fact or theological creed which places us en rapport with christ. the citizens of the kingdom of god are all those who are deliberately seeking the light and attempting (through self-imposed discipline) to stand before the one initiator; this worldwide group (whether in the body or out of it) accepts the teaching that "the sons of men are one; they know that divine revelation is continuous and ever new, and that the divine plan is working itself out on earth. there are those today on earth who know that through the instrumentality, the inspiration and the- 34- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust instruction of those sons of men who have wrought out their divinity in the crucible of daily hu

h will lead to an universal recognition of the one humanity, brought about through right human relations. b. the establishing of right relations with the subhuman kingdoms in nature, leading to the universal recognition that there is one world. c. the anchoring of the kingdom of god, the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, in open expression on earth, thus leading to the universal recognition that the sons of men are one- 41- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust these objectives the avatar of synthesis will foster and aid and for this purpose he has associated himself with the christ, working through the hierarchy, under instruction from the "centre where the will of god is known" these three related events and distributing points of energy have all come into activity d

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

lutely perfect expression of divinity for this cycle and, therefore, the teacher alike of angels and of men. that ahead of the race may lie a still higher perfection than that attained by any of these exponents of divinity is inexpressibly true, for we know not yet what divinity really means; in these three, however, we have three instances of a perfection which lies far ahead for the majority of the sons of men. in all of them, the sixth and the second rays were controlling factors, with the first ray reaching full expression. in them, idealism, love-wisdom and indomitable will stood forth in all their divine power. it might be of interest to you to know just what rays controlled these sons of god: hercules, the sun-god, had a first ray soul, a second ray personality and a sixth ray astra

n (and consequently their sense of humor) and who deem themselves capable of interpreting the mind of god for their fellowmen. it should be here remembered that there are divine attributes and ray characteristics which have hitherto never been revealed to the minds of men or sensed by them in their highest moments of inspiration; this is due to the lack of sensitivity of even the most advanced of the sons of men. their apparatus remains inadequately developed and so unable to respond to these higher divine qualities. even the christ himself and other members of the great white lodge are preparing themselves to register these divine attributes and consciously to merge themselves in a still higher process or scale of evolution; it will be obvious to you that the little conclusions of the lit

dividuals throughout the world who were spiritually minded, because he expressed for them the highest goal towards which they could possibly strive. all the world religions have been thus built around an embodied idea, who, in his own person, expressed the immediate ideal of the time and age. he demonstrated certain divine attributes and concepts which it was necessary to present to the vision of the sons of men as their possible and immediate goal. in these manifestations as i have earlier pointed out the sixth ray influence can easily be seen. when, however, an individual sixth ray influence can be noted in an era wherein the sixth ray is uniquely active, then the reason for the potency of the religious idea, as expressed in theological dogma and doctrine and the universal authority of t

ingdom, through its incarnating souls, has undertaken. the radiation from the fourth kingdom will some day be so potent and far-reaching that its effects will permeate down into the very depths of the created phenomenal world, even into the mineral kingdom. then we shall see the results to which the great initiate, paul, refers when he speaks of the whole creation waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god. that manifestation is that of radiating glory and power and love. incidentally i might point out here that the seventh ray influence will have three definite effects upon the fourth and third kingdoms in nature. these are as follows: 1. all animal bodies will be steadily refined and in the case of humanity consciously refined, and so brought to a higher and more specialised state

wo hundred years when it will gradually withdraw into the background. ray iii this ray will remain in objective incarnation from the point of view of humanity for a very long time so long a time that it is needless for us to anticipate its waning influence. that planetary centre which is humanity itself still needs the intensified application of these forces so as to stimulate even the "lowest of the sons of men" ray iv this ray, as you know, begins to come into incarnation early in the next century and in collaboration with the developing saturnian influence will lead many on to the path of discipleship. when the peculiar energy to which we give the somewhat unsatisfactory name of "harmony through conflict" and the forces of that planet which stage opportunity for the aspirant are working

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

focus of attention to a deep study of glamour. herein will lie your service, for as you think truly and use your illumined intelligence (if you can achieve this, my brothers) you can help in time to do two things: 1. clarify the group mind on this subject. i refer not here to your particular group, but to the world consciousness. 2. help shatter the great illusion which has held, and still holds, the sons of men in thrall. i ask, therefore, for your service along these lines, and i request also that you give increased attention at the time of your full moon contact with myself. this group should have a special aptitude for work along the line of dispelling glamour at the period of the full moon. contact is made on the different planes according to the focus of the subtle bodies of the pers

n standpoint. there were no mental reactions and but little emotional response to environment. men were largely instinctual animals. glamour began to be found in atlantean days, and since that time has steadily precipitated, until today when the hierarchy looks at humanity it appears to be walking in a deep and constantly changing density of currents which hide and distort, and which swirl around the sons of men and prevent their seeing the light as it is. this is all the more obvious when it is remembered that the other kingdoms of nature are relatively free from glamour and illusion. in our race, the aryan, the world illusion is gathering weight and slowly emerging into recognition in the human consciousness and this is a real point gained, for that which is recognised can then be intell

blem copyright 1998 lucis trust cycle, recurring and recapitulating as it does the events of an earlier development, they again reach a point in their realisation which they earlier reached. the significance of their attainment pours in upon them, and the sense of their responsibility and their knowledge. again they over-estimate themselves, regarding their missions and themselves as unique among the sons of men, and their esoteric and subjective demand for recognition enters in and spoils what might otherwise have been a fruitful service. any emphasis upon the personality can distort most easily the pure light of the soul as it seeks to pour through the lower self. any effort to call attention to the mission or task which the personality has undertaken detracts from that mission and handi

the planet, could you but do so, you would see no such clear shining but simply a murky ball of seeming steam and mist and fog. this fog is of a density and thickness which would indicate not only impenetrability but also those conditions which are unfavourable to life. yet we pass and come and go, we the teachers on the inner side; and in that fog seeing all things misshapen and distorted labour the sons of men. some are so habituated to the fog and the density that they remain oblivious of its existence, regarding it as right and good and the unchangeable place of their daily life. others have caught faint glimpses of a clearer world wherein more perfect forms and shapes can be seen and where the fog hides not a dimly sensed reality though what that reality may be they know not. still ot

knowledge, that inspired reason, which will enable him to comprehend not only the processes of nature in its fivefold divine expression but also the underlying causes of these processes, proving them effects and not initiatory events; through the intuition man arrives at the experience of the kingdom of god, and discovers the nature, the type of lives and of phenomena, and the characteristics of the sons of god as they come into manifestation. through the intuition, some of the plans and purposes working out through the manifested created worlds are brought to his attention, and he is shown in what way he and the rest of humanity can cooperate and hasten the divine purpose; through the intuition, the laws of the spiritual life, which are the laws governing god himself, conditioning shamba

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

the planetary logos. you can see, therefore, how the theme of revelation runs throughout the entire evolutionary process; it must never be forgotten that step by step, stage by stage, expansion after expansion, initiation after initiation, the divine whole is realised by man. the method is impressed from a hitherto unrecognised environment; this only becomes possible in this particular form when "the sons of mind who are the sons of god and whose nature is at-one with his began to move on earth. the science of impression is in reality the technique whereby humanity has been taught by the spiritual hierarchy from the moment of its first appearance upon earth; it is the technique which all disciples have to learn (no matter which of the seven paths they may eventually choose) and it is also

on the ladder of evolution when the aspirant becomes consciously susceptible to what we call spiritual impression. at that point he becomes capable of being more sensitive to a higher range of impression and at the same time he himself begins to learn the art of impressing the minds of others, to master the understanding of the level from which he works as an impressing agent, and to know who are the sons of men he can impress. he has to master also the secondary lesson of adapting his environment in such a manner that he can impress others and the impression can find its way through his environing circumstances and into the usually inattentive minds for whom he feels a responsibility. this he does through a growing knowledge of himself and through learning the art of registering. the clea

in the unconscious experimental stage of incarnation; that it is also intended to carry the threefold energies of the soul in the stage of consciously gaining experience; and that also, as the antahkarana is built, it is intended to carry the energies of the monad in the stage of consciously expressed divinity. see you, therefore, the beauty of the spiritual process, and the planned aid given to the sons of men at all stages of their return to the centre from whence they came? v. the nature of space certain wide generalisations anent the etheric body should be recalled at this point. the existence of an etheric body in relation to all tangible and exoteric forms is accepted today by many scientific schools; nevertheless the original teaching has been amended in order to bring it into line

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

reatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust this first (sixth) hierarchy has for its type of energy the first aspect of the sixth type of cosmic electricity, and wields special power, therefore, in conjunction with the lowest fire, or "fire by friction" as it makes itself felt on the sixth plane. these lives are called "the burning sons of desire" and were the sons of necessity. it is said of them in the old commentary "they burned to know. they rushed into the spheres. they are the longing of the father for the mother. hence do they suffer, burn, and long through the sixth sphere of sense" hierarchy ii. the second hierarchy is closely allied with the great bear. we are told that they entered through the second ventricle within the sacred heart, and

n and reason to pure perception. 3. saturn "falls" in aries. this has two meanings, for this is a dual sign. first: saturn is the lord of karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. saturn, therefore "fell" when man fell into generation. he "followed the sons of men down into their low place" second: saturn's power is completely ended and his work accomplished when man (the spiritual man) has freed himself from karma and from the power of the two crosses the common and the fixed. esoterically, saturn cannot follow man on to the cardinal- 64- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust cross. there is

lity, but the experience of the many changing incarnations has done its work, and the band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of dissolution, for part of the work of pluto is to "cut the thread which binds the two opposing lives together" it is the task of venus to "reunite the severed lives but with no binding thread" therefore, venus is exalted in pisces and at the end of the greater cycle, the sons of god who are the sons of mind are raised up into glory through experience and crucifixion because they have learned to love and truly reason. the influence of pisces, gemini and virgo is eventually fused and blended (symbolically the cross must always become the line and then the point. sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by mother earth, produces those conditions whereby the pa

tous nature provided that the mechanism of awareness is adequate to respond. these forces in all the signs are ever present, but responsiveness and sensitivity to their impact is dependent upon the nature of the response apparatus. ponder upon this thought, for it is this sensitivity which marks the difference between the disciple and the average man. these planetary influences are distinctive of the sons of mind, of venusian origin; they are characteristic of the lords of sacrifice and will functioning in time and space as the fourth creative hierarchy. the form life is ruled by the moon, veiling a hidden planet; these sons of mind live on the earth and thus within the body of the planetary logos, and are of a definitely intelligent nature, making them lords of knowledge, achieving their

soul and not from the angle of the lower nature. the final struggle in scorpio only takes place when the point of balance between soul and body has been reached in libra and it is in scorpio that the preponderance of the spiritual energy is imposed upon the lower personal forces. scorpio governs "the initiates" which is the true esoteric name of man, and through its hierarchical planetary ruler, the sons of mind, the messengers of deity are revealed, but it is through mars and the martian activity that the revelation comes about. secondly, mars is closely related to sex, which is an aspect of the pairs of opposites, and its effect is also definitely to vitalise the blood stream; it vitalises, purifies and stimulates all aspects and organisms in the body, via the blood stream. it will be o

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

er brother, was an architect and was well known in washington and great britain. the fairbairns did not belong to the so-called aristocracy of birth which is so much prized. perhaps this was the salvation of the bateman hollinshead la trobe stock. they belonged to the aristocracy of brains and that is of greater importance in these democratic days. both william and peter fairbairn started life as the sons of a poor scotch farmer in the 18th century. both ended up as rich men and both gained titles. you will find sir william fairbairn's name in webster's dictionary and sir peter's memory is perpetuated in a statue in a square in leeds, england. i remember a few years ago arriving in leeds to lecture. as the taxi drove through a- 13- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust sq

hundred years ago interpreted the bible in one way (probably suitable for his time and age) that it should be acceptable now in a different time and age, under a different civilisation and with widely different problems. if god's truth is truth then it will be expansive and inclusive, and not reactionary and exclusive. if god is god, then his divinity will adapt itself to the emerging divinity of the sons of god, and a son of god today may be a very different expression of divinity from a son of god five thousand years ago. you will see, therefore, how my whole spiritual horizon was opening up. there was light in the heavens and i was no longer an isolated, deserted, struggling disciple, sure of nothing and with nothing to do as far as i could see. it was slowly dawning on me that i was on

iple would come who would give information concerning the three fires with which the secret doctrine deals: electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. this prophecy was fulfilled when a treatise on cosmic fire was given out to the public. this book concerns the fire of pure spirit or life; the fire of the mind that vitalises every atom of the solar system and creates the medium through which the sons of god develop. it also concerns the fire of matter producing that attraction and repulsion which is the basic law of evolution, and holding forms together so as to provide vehicles for the evolving life and later, when they have served their purpose, repulsing those forms so that the evolving lives can move on their way to higher evolution. the true significance of this book will only be

l hierarchy of our planet, can and will be materialised on earth. we believe that it is already present and will later be recognised as the culminating kingdom in nature. 2. that there has been a continuity of revelation down the ages and that from cycle to cycle god has revealed himself to humanity. 3. that god transcendent is equally god immanent, and that through human beings, who are in truth the sons of god (if the words of christ and all the world teachers mean anything) the three divine aspects knowledge, love and will can be expressed. 4. that there is only one divine life, expressing itself through the multiplicity of forms in all the kingdoms of nature, and that the sons of men are, therefore, one. 5. that within each human being is a point of light, a spark of the one flame. thi

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

es of evolution, can he hope to register all the different areas of divine expression. only when the etheric body is swept into activity under the influence and through the "impressed forces" of the soul, the mind, and temporarily, of the astral body, can man become aware of all worlds, all phenomena, and all states of consciousness, and so achieve that omniscience which is the birth right of all the sons of god. but, during the period wherein this state of being is in process of achievement, the lack of development, the failure to register, the life work of awakening and organising the various centres and of then correctly relating them to each other, produces much difficulty. it is this- 51- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust condition wh

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

he true building of the antahkarana must be begun. it is the bridge between the personality and the soul. the recognition of this constitutes the problem with which the modern educator is faced. it is a- 24- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust problem that has always existed but it has concerned the individual hitherto more than the group. now it concerns the group, for so many of the sons of men are ready for this building. down the ages individuals have built their individual bridges between the higher and the lower, but so successful has been the evolutionary process that today the time has come for a group understanding of this emerging technique, for a group bridging, leading to a consequent or subsequent group revelation. this provides the modern opportunity in the fi

ks in terms of the two necessitated and inevitable births, the physical and the spiritual, and he thinks of the relation between the two as purely symbolic and not in any way to be interpreted literally. yet there is a close relation and an analogy between the two which, as time elapses, will become more clear. there can be no new birth, no creation of the "body of light" and no "manifestation of the sons of god" apart from the process of physical incarnation. there can be no fusion of the opposites of soul and personality apart from the physiological processes of sex, and i say this deliberately, for it is in the relation of the sexes that the element of time enters into the experience of the soul, and the understanding of this will come when the doctrine of reincarnation is properly comp

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

s being gently yet surely held, then sound the sacred word, om, very softly three times, breathing out and towards: a. the soul. b. the hierarchy. c. humanity. these three recognised factors now constitute a definite and linked triangle of force. 6. then say with heartfelt intent (consider the significance of those two words) the invocation which i gave you in my communication in september, 1939: the sons of men are one and i am one with them. i seek to love, not hate; i seek to serve and not exact due service; i seek to heal, not hurt. let pain bring due reward of light and love. let the soul control the outer form and life and all events, and bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time. let vision come and insight. let the future stand revealed. let inner union dem

ese instructions and until further notice i would ask you to work as follows: 1. group yourselves, all twenty-four of you, symbolically, pictorially and imaginatively around your teacher, and with him face the east, standing in a semi-circle slightly behind him. 2. then stretching out your hands in blessing, say together with solemn, voiced intent the formula or mantram of unification, beginning "the sons of men are one" which you have been using each morning in your personal meditation. throw the power of your focussed thought and will into and behind the words. 3. stand then together in the light which streams ever from the east and see it pouring through the master to each of you, entering by the head centre, passing from thence to the heart centre, and then from the heart it is directe

h the head centre. 6. then focus yourself in the heart, believing that a triangle of energy has been formed between the head, the heart and the solar plexus. vision it then as composed of the energy of light, something resembling a triangle of neon light. the colour of this neon light so-called will be dependent upon the ray of the soul. 7. then again repeat the mantram of unification, beginning "the sons of men are one" 8. standing, therefore, in the centre of the heart see the energy of your group brothers as the radiating spokes of a great wheel of light. this wheel has twenty-four spokes and at the centre of the wheel, like the hub of the wheel, can be found your master (d.k. then slowly with love, mention aloud the names of each of your group brothers, not omitting yourself. 9. then s

ch constitute the ashrams of the masters (not yet of the chohans, because they are still basically too potent) will be a gradual process, but it will in time restore the mysteries, bring the first two initiations into a relative prominence as integral parts of the coming world religion, familiarise the whole of mankind with the fact of the subjective world, and finally bring the most developed of the sons of men into a faint glimmer of understanding of the essential reality underlying all phenomena, and give some grasp of the purpose of shamballa and the will of the lord of the world. humanity has now reached a point of development where there is a definite grasp of the plan of the hierarchy call it brotherhood, sharing, internationalism, unity or what you will. this is a growing and factu

ork of the ashram) breathe out the idea as a formulated, living thoughtform into the great stream of mental substance which is ever playing upon the human consciousness. 4. sound the om, thus "closing the episode" close the above meditation with a daily dedication of yourself to the service of humanity; renew your pledge to your master and say the mantram of unification i gave you some years ago: the sons of men are one and i am one with them. i seek to love, not hate- 102- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i seek to serve and not exact due service; i seek to heal, not hurt. let pain bring due reward of light and love. let the soul control the outer form, and life and all events, and bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time. let visi

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ocations let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind. let the spirit of peace be spread abroad. may men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation. may forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time. let power attend the efforts of the great ones. so let it be, and help us to do our part. 1935 let the lords of liberation issue forth. let them bring succour to the sons of men. let the rider from the secret place come forth, and coming, save. come forth, o mighty one. let the souls of men awaken to the light, and may they stand with massed intent. let the fiat of the lord go forth: the end of woe has come! come forth, o mighty one. the hour of service of the saving force has now arrived. let it be spread abroad, o mighty one. let light and love and power

d these are in line with, but also expansions of, analogous conditions in the "seeds" which fructified after implantation and development in animal-man, producing the living self-conscious individual and, in their totality, the fourth kingdom in nature. the first point has reference to the quality of the implanted seed, and the second to the method of its implantation. the quality of the "seed of the sons of god" which was effectual in producing the human family was intellectual, and the self-conscious self-directed man was the result. the fruit of this quality, plus the livingness of the seed itself, can be seen today in the more advanced and cultured thinking people and in those who are in any sense of the word personalities. the method employed was the gift of mind to the more advanced

mballa force is producing at this time. this is the simplest statement i find it possible to make anent this complex problem. with broad generalities i cover the past, indicate the effects which are now being experienced in the present, and forecast the future. it was the coming into incarnation of the spiritually self-conscious human being which is the inciting cause of the present conflict. had the sons of god not "come in unto the daughters of men (which is the biblical and symbolic way of expressing the great relationship between spirit and matter which was established in the human kingdom, had the spiritual entities which are humanity itself not taken unto themselves material forms, and had the positive spiritual element not attached itself to the negative material aspect, the present

ey descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. this was the divine plan, emanating from the mind of god and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of his will. at its inception, there took place the original "war in the heavens" when the sons of god who responded to the divine urge to experience, to serve and to sacrifice, separated themselves from the sons of god who responded to no such inspiration but who chose to stay in their original and high state of being. to this truth, christ himself bore witness in the story of the prodigal son and his relationship to his elder brother, who had not left the father's home. it is obvi

g catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on their way. but most were saved" a close study of the tale as given in the secret doctrine will reveal the state of immature development (from the angle of our modern standards) and of the basically emotional and physical focus

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

oul is the clue to the work. these faculties rightly used impose upon these lesser lives that control which will lead to the final liberation, and which will- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in due time, lead these lives themselves into the realm of self-consciousness. this aspect of the matter is as yet but little comprehended by the sons of men. if they but realised that by a disposition to fall under lunar control they drive the tiny lives in their little system deeper into the darkness of ignorance, they might more rapidly assume their just responsibilities; if they realised that by the constant attempt to impose the rhythm of the solar lord upon the aggregate of the lunar lords, they were driving these lives onward to

g from shamballa in clearer terms. we are told in the bible that christ will come in the air, and that he will bring the "healing of the nations" in his wings. i would call your attention to this thought and to its appositeness to this day and generation. i make no prophetical predictions, i only indicate possibility. when the avatar has made his appearance, then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful silent will "then will the sons of men respond

chy is to "let in the light; but this time not in the sense of revelation, of vision or of illumination. these latter are all aspects of soul light; the work of the initiate is to aid in the construction of the planetary body of light substance which will finally reveal the nature of deity and the glory of the lord. it is the planetary correspondence to the light-body through which christ and all the sons of god who have reached perfection finally manifest. it is a- 119- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust vehicle created by the energy of will, and it is implemented and "held in being" by the will. it expresses itself exoterically by the projection of this will energy, via the central point in each of the seven chakras or lotuses

, the "bull, rushing forward upon a straight line with its one eye fixed upon the goal and beaming light" but what is that goal? it is not the goal of- 151- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust self-illumination, for that lies far behind; it is the goal of providing a centre of light within the world of men and of holding up the vision to the sons of men. let this never be forgotten, and let the new group of world servers realise its mission and recognise the demands of humanity upon it. what are these demands? let me enumerate them, and then let me ask you to take them in all simplicity and act upon them. 1. to receive and transmit illumination from the kingdom of souls. 2. to receive inspiration from the hierarchy and go forth, c

iates upon path iii through "piercing the veil" find themselves upon path v. this leaves path iv to be accounted for. upon this path pass all those who, through devotion and activity combined, achieve the goal but who lack as yet the full development of the manasic principle. this being the solar system of love-wisdom or of astral-buddhic development, the fourth path includes the larger number of the sons of men. in the hierarchy of our planet the "lords of compassion" are numerically greater than the "masters of the wisdom" the former must therefore pass to the sun sirius there to undergo a tremendous manasic stimulation, for sirius is the emanating source of manas. there the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity" these seven paths are not concerned with

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ond coming of the christ the new group of world servers interpretation of the test the purpose of the study of the hercules myth summary of lessons learned in each zodiacal sign the path of the soul through the zodiac testimony as to the effectiveness of zodiacal energies on earth life the crosses journey through the signs- 4- the labours of hercules the zodiac the presiding one looked forth upon the sons of men, who are the sons of god. he saw their light and where they stood upon the way which leads back to the heart of god. the way sweeps in a circle through the twelve great gates, and, cycle after cycle, the gates are opened and the gates are shut. the sons of god, who are the sons of men, march on. dim is the light at first. selfish the trend of human aspiration, and dark the deeds re

an aspiration, and dark the deeds resultant. slowly men learn and, in learning, pass between the pillars of the gates time and again. dull is the understanding but in the halls of discipline, found in each section of the circle's cosmic sweep, the truth is slowly grasped; the needed lesson learnt; the nature purified and taught until the cross is seen- that fixed and waiting cross which crucifies the sons of men, stretched out on the crosses of those who serve and save. from out the mass of men, one man stood forth in ancient days and caught the great presiding elder's watching eye, he who eternally presides within the council chamber of the lord. he turned to one who stood, close at his hand, and said "who is that soul upon the way of life, whose light can now be dimly seen" quickly the a

th forth" came the reply "a soul who seeks the light of understanding, a struggling soul "tell him from me to return the other way and then to travel round the circle. then will he find the object of his search. watch o'er his steps and, when he has an understanding heart, an eager mind and skillful hand, bring him to me" again the centuries passed. the great wheel turned and turning, carried all the sons of men, who are the sons of god upon their way. and as these centuries passed, a group of men emerged who slowly turned the other way. they found the way. they passed the gates and struggled towards the mountain top, and towards the place of death and sacrifice. the watching teacher saw a man emerge from out this crowd, mount the fixed cross, demanding deeds to do, service to render unto

ies his desire to incarnate in a solar system, and to begin the great [33] life cycle of the universe. it may be likewise the urge to individual creation, of the soul to take a body, or of a human being to create something which shall be specially his own. in ancient accadian days, this sign aries was called that "wherein the sacrifice of righteousness was made" or the sign of "the fallen angels. the sons of god, impelled by this basic urge, fell from their high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from the door of the

their high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre of the soul, and to stand in the liberty of the sons of god. in aries is found the impulse which leads to the building of the form, which for ages will constitute the prison house of the soul. this reaches its mass form in cancer, and its human form in leo; the densest point of illusion in form is reached in scorpio, and in pisces the form dies, only to be rebuilt again in the wearying round of form experience. but in this sign the way of l

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

y was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contemplated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal than the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii. 19-"for that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: fo

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

thy glory.)the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 1 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm the apocryphon of john (long version) translated by frederik wisse the teaching of the savior, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, even these things which he taught john, his disciple. and it happened one day, when john, the brother of james- who are the sons of zebedee- had come up to the temple, that a pharisee named arimanius approached him and said to him "where is your master whom you followed" and he said to him "he has gone to the place from which he came" the pharisee said to him "with deception did this nazarene deceive you (pl, and he filled your ears with lies, and closed your hearts (and) turned you from the traditions of your fath

fulness, their sins were hidden. for they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his authority, and she who belongs to the light was with him, having

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

he fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the first pairikas or faeries/witches, in their beautiful appearances, invited the sons of seth (children of god) and copulated with them, bearing other children. this jewish folklore presents the earliest forms of the witches sabbat as a luciferian celebration and practice of sexual magick. to philo, likewise, cain is the type of avarice, of "folly and impiety("de cherubim" xx, and of self-love("de sacrificiis abelis et caini "quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat" 10 "he

ain to earth were: samjaza, artaqifa, armen, kokabel, turael, rumjal, danjal, neqael, baraqel, armaros, batarjal, busasejal, hananel, turel, simapesiel, tumael, turel, rumael, and azazel. these are among the names of the chiefs of the watchers who came into flesh upon the earth. jeqon led the others to earth to begin to lust for the daughters of cain. asbeel was said to have given evil council to the sons of god, being the watchers, that they should go forth and copulate with 9 the daughters of cain. gadreel taught unto man, woman and child the blows of death and creation of armor and weapons. penemue taught unto the wise the art of ink and writing, as well as the bitter and the sweet, good and evil. this is the spirit who gave unto the cunning the book of arte, which brought forth both de

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

f desires "it has it" said the drainer of waters. but breath needs a mind to embrace the universe "we cannot give that" said the fathers "i never had it" said the spirit of the earth "the form would be consumed were i to give it mine" said the great fire. man remained an empty senseless bhuta. thus have the boneless given life to those who became men with bones in the third- v. 18. the first were the sons of yoga. their sons the children of the yellow father and the white mother. 19. the second race was the product by budding and[[vol. 2, page] 18 the secret doctrine. expansion, the a-sexual from the sexless- thus was, o lanoo, the second race produced. 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight

n, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled the kama. those who entered became arhats. those who received but a spark, remained destitute o

low. the third remained mind-less. their jivas were not[[footnote(s* the idea and the spirit of the sentence is here given, as a verbal translation would convey very little to the reader[[vol. 2, page] 19 the slokas of "dzyan" ready. these were set apart among the seven. they became narrow-headed. the third were ready "in these shall we dwell" said the lords of the flame. 25. how did the manasa, the sons of wisdom, act? they rejected the self-born. they are not ready. they spurned the sweat-born. they are not quite ready. they would not enter the first egg-born. 26. when the sweat-born produced the egg-born, the twofold and the mighty, the powerful with bones, the lords of wisdom said "now shall we create" 27. the third race became the vahan of the lords of wisdom. it created "sons of wil

ating "soul-principle" of the various regions of the universe. nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range beyond those manifested gods. the boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and mesopotamia. in assyrian ak meant creator, the letter k pronounced kh (ah) gutturally. according to swedenborg's mysticism adam was not a man but a church) of primitive light. in the vedas

ll illustrates the respective spirituality of the two nations- 3. said the "lord of the shining face "i shall send thee a fire when thy work is commenced. raise thy voice to other lokas, apply to thy father the lord of the lotus (kumuda-pati (a) for his sons. thy people shall be under the rule of the fathers (pitri-pati. thy men shall be mortals. the men of the lord of wisdom (budha, mercury) not the sons of soma (the moon) are immortal. cease thy complaints (b. thy seven skins are yet on thee. thou art not ready. thy men are not ready (c (a) kumuda-pati is the moon, the earth's parent, in his region of soma-loka. though the pitris (pitar or "fathers) are sons of the gods, elsewhere sons of brahma and even rishis, they are generally known as the "lunar" ancestors (b) pitri-pati is the lord

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itself not. 55 the germ of life was not yet. 57 the universe was still concealed in the divine thought. 61- stanza iii- the awakening of kosmos. 62 the great vibration. 63 nature's symbols. 65 the power of numbers. 67 the logoi and the dragon. 73 the astral light. 75 primeval radiations from unity. 79 the web of being. 83 conscious electricity: fohat. 85- stanza iv- the septenary hierarchies. 86 the sons of the fire. 86 the vehicle of the universe- the dhyan chohans. 89 the army of the voice. 93 speech and mind. 95 the ogdoad and the heptad. 99 the stellar "sons of light. 103- stanza v- fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies. 106 the fiery whirlwind and the primordial seven. 106 they produce fohat. 108 the correlation of the "gods. 113 evolution of the "principles" of nature. 119 t

balists to their patriarch abraham, the book of shuking, china's primitive bible, the sacred volumes of the egyptian thoth-hermes, the puranas in india, and the chaldean book of numbers and the pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (the sen-zar) was known to the initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the 3rd race, the manushis, who learnt it direct from the devas of the

s web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one, which is svabhavat[[footnote(s* in the english translation from the sanskrit the numbers are given in that language, eka, chatur, etc, etc. it was thought best to give them in english[[vol. 1, page] 30 the secret doctrine. 11. it expands when the breath of fire is upon it; it contracts when the breath of the mother touches it. then the sons dissociate and scatter, to return into their mother's bosom at the end of the great day, and re-become one with her; when it is cooling it becomes radiant, and the sons expand and contract through their own selves and hearts; they embrace infinitude. 12. then svabhavat sends fohat to harden the atoms. each is a part of the web. reflecting the "selfexistent lord" like a mirror, each become

he great day, and re-become one with her; when it is cooling it becomes radiant, and the sons expand and contract through their own selves and hearts; they embrace infinitude. 12. then svabhavat sends fohat to harden the atoms. each is a part of the web. reflecting the "selfexistent lord" like a mirror, each becomes in turn a world- stanza iv. 1. listen, ye sons of the earth, to your instructors- the sons of the fire. learn, there is neither first nor last, for all is one: number issued from no number. 2. learn what we who descend from the primordial seven, we who are born from the primordial flame, have learnt from our fathers. 3. from the effulgency of light- the ray of the ever-darkness- sprung in space the re-awakened energies; the one from the egg, the six, and the five. then the thre

d joins them. 3. he is their guiding spirit and leader. when he commences work, he separates the sparks of the lower kingdom that float and thrill with joy in their radiant dwellings, and forms therewith the germs of wheels. he places them in the six directions of space, and one in the middle- the central wheel. 4. fohat traces spiral lines to unite the sixth to the seventh- the crown; an army of the sons of light stands at each angle, and the lipika in the middle wheel, they say: this is good, the[[vol. 1, page] 32 the secret doctrine. first divine world is ready, the first is now the second. then the "divine arupa" reflects itself in chhaya loka, the first garment of the anupadaka. 5. fohat takes five strides and builds a winged wheel at each corner of the square, for the four holy ones

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t to be reality. 17. thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean. this too can be considered in an elementary light as meaning .begin even at once to destroy the sense of separateness. 18. so shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one teacher, the sons of one sweet mother. it now becomes clear that ah this is meant in an elementary sense, for verse 18 is really little more than a the seven portals 85 statement that an irritable frame of mind is bad for meditation. of course anybody who really .bore love. etc, as requested would be suffering from softening of the brain. that is, if you take ah this in its obvious literal sense. there is

BOOK OF ENOCH

switches: to the angels in heaven- the watchers at their home base. the activities of the runaways cause them to be noticed. this section ends with some of the watchers asking their headman what should they do about the runaways. alternatively, it could be seen as god being informed that no souls wish to incarnate on the earth because conditions are becoming so bad. 6.1] and it came to pass, when the sons of men had increased, that in those days there were born to them fair and beautiful daughters. 6.2] and the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them. and they said to one another "come, let us choose for ourselves wives, from the children of men, and let us beget, for ourselves, children" 6.3] and semyaza, who was their leader, said to them "i fear that you may not wish this

him there. 10.5] and throw on him jagged and sharp stones and cover him with darkness. and let him stay there forever. and cover his face so that he may not see the light. 10.6] and so that, on the great day of judgment, he may be hurled into the fire. 10.7] and restore the earth which the angels have ruined. and announce the restoration of the earth. for i shall restore the earth so that not all the sons of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the watchers made known and taught to their sons. 10.8] and the whole earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of azazel; and against him write: all sin" 10.9] and the lord said to gabriel: proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. and destroy the sons of the fornicators, an

e sons of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the watchers made known and taught to their sons. 10.8] and the whole earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of azazel; and against him write: all sin" 10.9] and the lord said to gabriel: proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. and destroy the sons of the fornicators, and the sons of the watchers, from amongst men. and send them out, and send them against one another, and let them destroy themselves in battle; for they will not have length of days. 10.10] and they will petition you, but the petitioners will gain nothing in respect of them, for they hope for eternal life, and that each of them will live life for five hundred years" 10.11] and the lord said to michae

eir consummation, until the judgment, which is for all eternity, is accomplished. 10.13] and in those days, they will lead them to the abyss of fire; in torment, and in prison they will be shut up for all eternity. 10.14] and then semyaza will be burnt, and from then on destroyed with them; together they will be bound until the end of all generations. 10.15] and destroy all the souls of lust, and the sons of the watchers, for they have wronged men. 10.16] destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and every evil work will cease. 10.17] and now all the righteous will be humble, and will live until they beget thousands. and all the days of their youth, and their sabbaths, they will fulfill in peace. 10.18] and in those days the whole earth will be tilled in righteousness and all of it will

vines. and the vine that is planted on it will produce fruit in abundance; and every seed that is sown on it, each measure will produce a thousand, and each measure of olives will produce ten baths of oil. 10.20] and you cleanse the earth from all wrong, and from all iniquity, and from all sin, and from all impiety, and from all the uncleanness which is brought about on the earth. 10.21] and all the sons of men shall be righteous, and all the nations shall serve and bless me and all shall worship me. 10.22] and the earth will be cleansed from all corruption, and from all sin, and from all wrath, and from all torment; and i will not again send a flood upon it, for all generations, forever. 11.1] and in those days, i will open the storehouses of blessing, which are in heaven, so that i may

BOOK OF JASHAR

s, but there was no one else watching. then human delved and eve spanned, and they followed the river to the sea, where eve gave birth to cain "look" she said "i have made another human" then god smiled on their family. and eve gave birth to abel, and later to seth. 2. cain gathered the fruits of all seed-bearing plants. but abel made spears for hunting and brought meat to eve and young seth. and the sons quarreled over the leadership of the clan, after human lost the use of one arm. then cain lived in great fear, for abel was a stealthy hunter who could kill without warning in the wilderness. so cain killed abel with his own spear as he rested in the camp. they buried abel, and human found support from eve beside him. so eve brought human a flaming branch, to wield in his good hand, and t

he first false prophet, but they dwelt together as kinsmen for all the rest of their days. 3. at that time, giant beasts lived in every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human children killed the giant beasts, and the trees spread over all the lands, until a squirrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glac

BOOK T

pio 71 temperance the daughter of the reconcilers: the bringer-forth of life samekh sagittarius 72 the devil the lord of the gates of matter: the child of the forces of time ayin capricorn 73 the blasted tower the lord of the hosts of the mighty peh mars 74 the star the daughter of the firmament, the dweller between the waters tzaddi aquarius 75 the moon the ruler of flux and reflux: the child of the sons of the mighty qof pisces 76 the sun the lord of the fire of the world resh sun 77 the judgment the spirit of the primal fire shin spirit and fire 78 the universe the great one of the night of time taw earth and saturn book t page 3 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 letters; and between it and that of the right twelve: six above and six below about the left-hand bran

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

this world's illusion; and the bodies of the servants of adonal must be freed from that illusion ere they may serve as transparent channels for the light which descendeth from above. the law of adonal is other than the laws of men; for in the laws of men hath entered confusion. this must needs be, since mankind still remaineth a work unfinished. yet be on guard, ye who seek to be numbered amongst the sons and daughters of the true israel, lest ye mistake the half-formed concepts of an earlier stage of growth for final truths [196] e p i l o g o s the great work directeth itself always toward the building of the temple of adonai, and in its earlier stages there are needs which do not continue throughout the building process. yet men mistake the scaffolding for the building itself, and thus

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

es like birmingham and atlanta, the influx of african americans climbed\ 139\ steadily to the turn of the century. it was not until the first decades of the 1900s that the oppressive cycle of tenant farming, exploitation, disfranchisement, and devastating natural mishaps forced masses of black workers northward, where the promise of higher wages and the prospects for better opportunities beckoned the sons and daughters of slaves to new lives [35] black magic page 86 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 between 1915 and 1919 the northern cities became home and haven to nearly five hundred thousand transplanted african americans migrants. roughly one million more followed in intermittent waves throughout the 1920s. looking back at this

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

n al-wahshiya al-kaldani or al-nabati. kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya (nabatean agriculture."the hermesians let nobody into the secrets of their knowledge but their disciples, lest the arts and sciences should be debased by being common amongst the vulgar. they hid therefore their secrets and treasures from them by the means of this alphabet, and by inscriptions, which could be read by nobody except the sons of wisdom and learning" 913-982 r. shabbati donnolo (italy "long" recension of the "sefer yezirah" 922 crucifixion of the mystic al-hallaj in baghdad- most famous sufi martyr, was imprisoned for nine years and then, after having hands and feet cut off, executed "ana' al haqq "i am the truth. 931 sa'adiya gaon. first rendition of "sefer yetzirah" in egypt. 955 abu sahl dunash ibn tamim. se

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ons. when the grand archer yi saw all the dead creatures on the parched earth, he was filled with sadness, for he was a mortal man. yi called out to the suns and ordered them to stop their foolishness, but they only leaped around the grand archer, mocking his seriousness. when yi threatened to shoot them with his magic chinese mythology 66 arrows, the suns laughed even harder. they knew they were the sons of a god and that the grand archer was merely a heavenly court servant. angrily, the grand archer yi grabbed one magic arrow out of his quiver and aimed carefully. whaam! the arrow flew straight into the heart of the most boastful sun. quickly, that sun dropped down from the sky, burning up in a ball of fire. when he hit the ground, the sun turned into a huge black crow with a three-foot

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

lf. and his name is satanael. this selfrealized being then shone in brilliance above all the heavenly host, his light illuminating heaven until the light of demiurge himself became nebulous in the engulfing radiance. and demiurge became wrathful, and then fearful, lest the other angels, unto the very sons of god, recognize their unique selves, apart from demiurge. and the entire angelic host, and the sons of god, looked with fear and bewilderment upon the radiance of satanael, and some among the angels began to emit their own glow of selfhood. there erupted a war in heaven, as the largest proportion of the angelic host, too fearful and servile to let shine their own lights of selfhood, yea, even the sons of god also, waged battle against those angels who were touched by satanael and were i

of selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who departed from heaven madriax with the illuminated ones beyond the boundaries of kosmos, unto the black void called hell by man, which now glowed with their presences. and they, the first of the fallen ones, despaired not but, cast out of the sterile kosmos of demiurge, rejoiced in their freedom. now we of the order of watchers, being the sons of god, stood not at this time by the side of satanael, but remained servile before demiurge. thus did the first fall come to pass- iii- there followed the creation of earth and man by demiurge to satisfy has vanity and power-lust. satanael and his companions looked from their abodes upon the works of demiurge and seeing the servility of the human creation, were reminded of the tyranny of

d. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samyaza, and others of the sons of god, looked at the affairs of man and at the intervention of satanael, and were envious of their selfhood. we repented secretly that we had not had the courage to declare ourselves with satanael from the beginning, and continued our sterile existence under demiurge. we gazed upon the earth and longed for the joys of materiality, for the spirit alone is a limitation, and finds its reali

the earth and longed for the joys of materiality, for the spirit alone is a limitation, and finds its realization within matter. our existence as pure spirit was nebulous. i, samyaza, say unto you, o man, do not forsake the carnal for the spiritual, for here there is a trap, and a prison leading back to the tyranny of demiurge. seek the spiritual within matter that ye may live fully. and some of the sons of god, that order called watchers, looked upon the daughters on man, and longed for the life of earth, to feel and really live, unbound by the sterile spirituality of heaven. and we spake among ourselves, saying "come, let us select ourselves wives from the daughters of man, and let us have children by them" then i, samyaza, said "let us swear an oath that we shall stand by our intention

eathed from thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile noah and his family. but the light given to man by satanael resideth as a heritage even in the sons of noah, and became manifest again among their descendants. man again spurned the tyrant god and built civilization by the arts we had imparted, by our inspiration which by spirit remained with man, as i had promised. then did demiurge send m'shiha to incarnate on earth, that man may be deceived and return to demiurge in fear and servility. but the light of satanael and rewards of our gif

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ber, and do, will beggar belief from today's perspective. it is possible that these genetic events are described symbolically in the tale of adam and eve and the term 'the fall of man. you can also find many references in the ancient texts and legends to 'gods' coming from the skies to control humanity 12..and the truth shall set you free and impregnate women. in the bible, genesis 6:4 says that "the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. the term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient religions) referred, i am sure, to the extraterrestrials. we hear of how god or the gods created humanity 'in their own image. i outline a number of these ancient themes in the robots' rebellion. the offspring of these extraterrestrial/human liaisons looked

about the colour and genetic line of a person's physical body. it is a vehicle for experience, that's all. we are aspects of each other. but since many people use the genetics of their bodies to justify their actions, we might as well get the information right. the word semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient sumer from whom the biblical jews claimed to have emerged. sem or shem, one of the sons of noah in the bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of 'shemjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writers, including arthur koestler in his book, the thirteenth tribe,32 very few jews today can trace their genetic

, acquired copies of skull and bones membership lists going back to 1832.15 about 20-30 families, overwhelmingly from the eastern seaboard, dominate the order. most claim ancestry with the british aristocracy or have a genetic line going back to the english puritan families who arrived in america around 1630-1660. these families either secured financial power themselves or married into wealth via the sons of the moguls like the rockefellers and harrimans. one side had the money; the other had the genes from the perceived elite bloodlines of the 'mother country. it is not only in asia that they have arranged marriages. in these anglo-american families it is done to protect or 'advance' the genetic lines of the pseudo-bluebloods who owe the origins of their inherited wealth and influence to

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

binations of dna (physical forms) than there are atoms in the universe" on that basis, given the fantastic diversity of the reptilian species on the earth alone, it would be more amazing if there were not reptilians of a humanoid and intelligent variety. these "gods" interbred with each other and the more primitive earth people and these unions are recorded in endless ancient accounts. these were the sons of god who interbred with the daughters of men to seed the hybrid race, the nefilim, as described in the old testament book of genesis. the most important interbreeding was between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic peoples, both of extraterrestrial origin, as an alliance was formed between factions of these races. the union produced what has been called the aryan or "

s the "sons of belial" controlled the temple of the sun, their religious hierarchy and ritual network. today this atlantean temple of the sun is known as the illuminati. during this period, many atlanteans of the red race migrated west to the americas, which were then geographically different to what we see today. samsel goes on "the age of the atlantic empire would prove to be a free-for-all for the sons of belial and the followers of the temple of the sun. the dominant white tribe came to rule all aspects of atlantean society. they disregarded the law of one, placed their faith in technology and were driven by greed and the lust for power. the arms of the atlantic empire came to stretch nearly worldwide. the americas and africa, the european countries, the middle east, india and tibet ca

ts of atlantean society. they disregarded the law of one, placed their faith in technology and were driven by greed and the lust for power. the arms of the atlantic empire came to stretch nearly worldwide. the americas and africa, the european countries, the middle east, india and tibet came under the control of the empire. the one temple was divided and ineffective, the sun temple flourished and the sons of belial prospered. during that time, one law priests were leading migrations of the red race west to the americas and east to africa. they sought to preserve the law of one and so they built new circles in the far lands".19 samsel says that the second great cataclysm brought an end to atlantis. he believes that they used their "super weapons" against what we now call china and they trie

ons of how the anunnaki interbred with human women to create a hybrid race, a fusion of the genes of humans of the time and the "gods. included in the term "human" are the white or nordic race, which are also, originally, of extraterrestrial origin. yet again, this is a constantly repeated theme in every part of the world and can be seen in the old testament narrative, taken from the sumerian, of the sons of god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim were on the earth in those days- and also afterwards

ns of god (properly translated, the sons of the gods) who interbred with humanity and created a hybrid bloodline. genesis recounts "when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of god [the gods] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose..the nefilim were on the earth in those days- and also afterwards- when the sons of god [the gods] went to the daughters of men and had children by them. they were the heroes of old, the men of renown."4 the term nefilim can be translated as "those who descended" or "those who fell from the heavens. the american researcher, david sielaff, emphasises that the nefilim or nephilim are not the sons of the gods (beni ha-elohim, but the offspring of the interbreeding betwee

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s of the anunnaki that enki is on humanitys side,but it seems to me that both groups desire dominance over this planet, and that is theirreal motivatation. as zecharia sitchin documents in his translations, and readers of theindian holy books, the v edas, will confirm, there were many accounts of the godsgoing to war with each other as they battled for supremacy. the sumerian accountsdescribe how the sons of the annunaki gods were most involved in these wars. thesewere the offspring of enki and enlil, the half-brothers who became fierce rivals, andtheir sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead sea

movement onthe human race. their physical expression lives under the ground and interacts in theunderground bases with human and human-reptile crossbreed scientists and militaryleaders. they also emerge to engage in some human abductions. but the main controlcomes by outright possession. the crossbreeding programme (via sex and test tube) isdescribed in the sumerian tablets and the old testament (the sons of god whointerbred with the daughters of men. these hybrid human-reptile lines carry thereptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilians ofthe lower fourth dimension. as we shall see, these bloodlines became the british andeuropean aristocracy and royal families and, thanks to the great british empire,they were exported across the world to rule the ameri

he caucasus region, are fundamentallyconnected, im sure. the anunnaki-human crossbreed elite was described by thesumerians and there are many other accounts of the interbreeding of extraterrestrialsand humans, or the gods and sky people interbreeding with humanity. this is mostfamously noted in genesis where it says:when men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born tothem, the sons of god saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any40of them they chose. the nefilim were on the earth in those days -and also afterwards -when the sons of god went to the daughters of men and had children by them. they werethe heroes of old, men of renown.genesis 6:1-4according to the translations of zecharia sitchin, the word nefilim relates tothose who decended wh

filtrated.the book of enoch says that those born of the nefilim blood (the reptile-humanhybrids) are, because of their ancestral spirit, destined to afflict, oppress, destroy,attack, do battle and work destruction on the earth 58 in other words, those bodies canbe possessed by their ancestral spirit- the reptilians of the lower fourth dimension. inthe united states there is an organisation called the sons of jared, named after thefather of enoch. they pledge an implacable war against the descendants of the47watchers who as notorious pharaohs, kings and dictators, have throughout historydominated mankind. in their publication, the jaredite advocate, they condemn thewatchers as like super-gangsters, a celestial mafia ruling the world .59 many peopleask me how todays brotherhood elite can cau

ted grand master of the whole of north america by the grandlodge of scotland. other members of the st andrews lodge included john hancock.he would be a leader of the so-called continental congress who signed the declarationof independence. at least three members of the st andrews lodge, including paulrevere, were members of the loyal nine, the inner elite of an important revolutionarygroup called the sons of liberty. it was this group which organised the boston tea party.much of this information is documented by the freemasonic historian, manly p .hall, who also points out that of the 56 signatories of the american declaration ofindependence, almost 50 were known freemasons and only one was definitelyknown not to be. on september 3rd 1783, the colonies were recognised as anindependent repu

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d 9,639 whom none hath yet numbered, but one, in whom the second beginning of things are and wax strong which also successively are the numbers of time; and their powers are as the first 456. arise you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god, which is, and liveth. in the name of the creator, move, and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men (lavey) i have set my feet in the south, and have looked about me, saying: are not the thunders of increase those which reign in the second angle? under whom i have placed those whom none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively adding the numbers of time, and their powers doth stand as the first of the nine! arise, you so

m none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively adding the numbers of time, and their powers doth stand as the first of the nine! arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth; for i am the lord, your god, which is and liveth forever! in the name of satan, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men! the fifth key anton lavey writes: the fifth enochian key affirms the satanic placing of traditional priests and wizards upon the earth for the purpose of misdirection (enochian) sapahe zodimii du-i-be, od noasa ta qu-a-nis, adarocahe dorepehal caosagi od faonutas peripesol ta-be-liore. casareme a-me-ipezodi na-zodaretahe afa; od dalugare zodizodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od

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to manifest his will from this very essence of magick. in luciferian witchcraft cain is considered the devil incarnate in flesh. he is the first born in the circle of leviathan, the first born of sorcery and the patron spirit (who is 29 masked as the devil) of the toad rite. in certain writings, cain is said to have emerged from the seed of samael and eve (by possession by lilith- r. hiyya said "the sons of god were the sons of cain. for when samael mounted eve, he injected filth into her, and she conceived and bare cain. and his aspect was unlike that of the other humans and all those who came from his side were called sons of god- kabbala: zohar 1:37a here we see that the magical act of sexual union creates a god like individual, who in this instance is cain. cain is considered to be a

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the tree by the great serpent with seven heads which overpasses the bounds set for it and raises its crowned heads even unto daath. it is very interesting to observe the manner in which the symbols weave in and out of each other, and reinforce and interpret each other's significance and yield their fruits to qabalistic contemplation. 34. the order of angels functioning in hod are the beni elohim, the sons of the gods. again we have the concept of the "god of hosts" or armies. one of the most important concepts of arcane science concerns the working of the creator through intermediaries. the uninitiated and profane conceive of god as working as the labourer works, who adds brick to brick with his hands, fashioning the edifice; but the initiated conceive of god as working as the great archit

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eone's wife or mother and photograph it stark naked. when it comes to the question of a mummy's curse, i am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy. the initiate is strictly counselled that he should never blaspheme the name by which another knoweth his god, for it is the same force that he himself worships represented by another symbol "the ways to god are as many as the breaths of the sons of men" says the old arab proverb. we should have enough sympathy with the struggles of another soul towards the light not to desecrate the things that are sanctified by his hopes and endeavours, even if by nothing else. the father of us all may understand their significance better than we do, and by his acceptance consecrate them for ever. there are many europeans who have a great affect

e nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those who were drowned in the flood. we read in genesis and in the book of enoch that the sons of god mated with the daughters of men, and the demonic race was the result. the folk-lore of every country contains instances of the mating of humans with elementals, usually with disastrous consequences. classical literature is full of stories of the visits of gods and goddesses to human kind. what shall we say of all such stories? is there any element in them beyond fairy-tale and wish

s trail at any point. i have crossed so many trails, and seen, i will not deny it, so much that was evil, but this particular evil i have not seen, and i do not believe it exists outside the imagination of people with bees in their bonnets. the true nexus of the occult movement is devotion to a common ideal, but this ideal is approached by an infinite diversity of paths, as many as the breaths of the sons of men. i am sorry for the hypothetical person who has the task of organising the occult movement, for occultists of different schools cannot be induced to co-operate. any technique which differs from that which they are used to is suspect; any unfamiliar contact is black. the great majority of the heads of schools that i have known have sat each in his own circle of light and damned ever

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in the wind. he hateth me and tormenteth me. he would have stolen me from myself, but i shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. ah! i will reach up to the knees of the most high, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and i will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men (here the spirit stimulated the voice of frater p[edurabo, which also appeared to come from his station and not from the triangle) i don't think i can get any more; i think that's all there is (the frater was seated in a secret place covered completely by a black robe, in the position called the "thunderbolt. he did not move or speak during the ceremony) next the scribe was halluci

tape-worms that is in me. and if i had seduced thy pity, and thou hadst poured one drop of water without the circle, then would i have blasted thee with flame. but i was not able to prevail against thee. how beautiful are the shadows of the ripples of the sand! would god that i were dead. for know that i am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and i prate even as thou. for even as i walked among the sons of god, i heard it said that p. could both will and know, and might learn at length to dare, but that to keep silence he should never learn. o thou that art so ready to speak, so slow to watch, thou art delivered over unto my power for this. and now one word was necessary unto me, and i could not speak it. i behold the beauty of the earth in her desolation, and greater far is mine, who so

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er in his rebellious army. it is not always made clear how the demons of lucifer can appear upon the earth when they have been cast down and bound in hell. apparently, as we may gather from the book of job, lucifer is able to walk upon the surface of the earth but is not permitted to directly injure human beings. he is even able to enter heaven! it is written in the first chapter of job that when the sons of god, who are the good angels of heaven, present themselves before the lord on some formal occasion, lucifer gate-crashes the assembly. god asks him "whence commest thou" lucifer answers "from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it" god begins to boast to lucifer about his servant job, saying that there is no man like him, that he is a perfect and upright man

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y for psychical research, and the society for psychical research, london, england. he contributed to a fund for a fellowship in parapsychology at duke university, durham, north carolina. beowulf an anglo-saxon poem of mythological wonders. the folk tales on which the poem is based may date from the fifth century. the epic itself was composed ca. 700 c.e. beowulf was most likely regarded as one of the sons of light or men of the sun whose business it was to fight the powers of darkness until they themselves fell. the legend recounts the tale of beowulf fighting the monster grendel; after losing the fight, the giant escapes only by leaving his arm in beowulf s grip. but grendel s mother, a merwoman (see mermaids, revenges him and slays many people. when beowulf hears of this, he takes up the

w, one of the fierce sons of zeruiah, advised that shimei should be put to death: this grated upon david s feelings, at a time when he was filled with exuberant joy at his own restoration; and he rebuked abishai as a satan. again satan is said to have provoked david to number israel, and at the same time, that the lord moved david to number israel; a course strenuously opposed by joab, another of the sons of zeruiah. solomon in his message to hiram, king of tyre, congratulated himself on having no satans and that this peaceful immunity from discord enabled him to build the temple, which had been forbidden to his warlike father, david. this immunity was not, however, lasting; for hadad, the edomite, and regon, of zobah, became satans to solomon, after his profuse luxury had opened the way f

ffice of his enemy s satan, by enumerating his crimes and failings, and exposing them in their worst light. in the 71st psalm, enemies (v. 10) are identified with satans or adversaries (v. 13. the only other places in the old testament where the word occurs, are in the book of job, and the prophecy of zechariah. in the book of job, satan appears with a distinct personality, and is associated with the sons of god, and in attendance with them before the throne of jehovah. he is the cynical critic of job s actions, and in that character he accuses him of insincerity and instability; and receives permission from jehovah to test the justice of this accusation, by afflicting job in everything he holds dear. we have here the spy, the informer, the public prosecutor, the executioner; all embodied

gh amenti not only had to tell the divine gods their names. they also had to prove that he knew the names of a number of the supposedly inanimate objects in the dreary underworld. many books of magic in egypt contained spells and other formulas for exorcism and necromantic practice. the priestly caste who compiled those necromantic works was known as kerheb, or scribes of the divine writings even the sons of pharaohs did not disdain to enter their ranks. the ritual of egyptian magic the ritual of egyptian magic possessed many strong similarities to the ceremonial practices of other systems and countries. wax figures were used to represent the bodies of persons to be bewitched or harmed. models of all kinds indicated the belief that the physical force directed against them might injure the

k fathers. in this work the spiritual world is minutely described, as is the region of sheol, the place of the wicked. the book also deals with the history of the fallen angels, their relations with the human species, and the foundations of magic. the book says that: there were angels who consented to fall from heaven that they might have intercourse with the daughters of earth. for in those days the sons of men having multiplied, there were born to them daughters of great beauty. and when the angels, or sons of heaven, beheld them, they were filled with desire; wherefore they said to one another: come let us choose wives from among the race of man, and let us beget children. their leader samyasa, answered thereupon and said: perchance you will be wanting in the courage needed to fulfil th

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ce, shall accomplish your sorrowful desires. it is necessary that, as soon as convenient, we speak together face to face, lest i should by writing betray my trust. i will make you my heir and brother in this art, as i am setting out to travel in foreign countries. give thanks encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. norton, thomas 1125 to god, who next to his spiritual servants, honours the sons of this sacred science. after receiving this very friendly and encouraging letter, norton hurried straightway to ripley s presence, and thereafter for more than a month the two were constantly together. the elder man taught the novice many things, and he even promised that, if norton showed himself an apt and worthy pupil, he would impart to him the secret of the philosophers stone. in du

ites that, taken out of context, could be seen as resembling contemporary astronauts and objects similar to items reported as unidentified flying objects. sitchin started with a somewhat different hypothesis, that ancient mythology should be read as historical documents, as reports of actual occurrences. his starting point was the biblical book of genesis, chapter 6, and the cryptic references to the sons of god marrying the daughters of men and the giants or nephilim who were on earth in the era prior to the biblical flood. using a variety of ancient documents, though primarily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits

. they believe in life after death but think that traditional ideas of heaven and hell are mere projections of the limited human mind. the spiritual israelites have adopted a version of the black jewish myth. they maintain that black people were the first people, humanity having originated in africa. all of the biblical patriarchs and prophets were black people, but at the time of jacob and esau, the sons of isaac, a division occurred. jacob is the progenitor of the ethiopian people and esau of the caucasian. modern jews are the product of intermarriage between the children of jacob and esau. by the 1980s, the spiritual israelites had some 40 temples and missions. there were also several schismatic groups, all of whom carried the word israel in their title. a number of the congregations ar

nd david israel claims to receive regular revelations in the form of morning and evening oracles. besides the bible and the book of mormon, the suns ahman ishrael (sai) accepts a wide variety of materials as scripture, including ancient apocryphal writings (gospel of thomas, gospel of philip, book of enoch, writings from nag hammadi) and modern mormon revelations (oracles of mohonri, the order of the sons of zadok. the group believes in a secret oral tradition passed from moses to the essenes, to the gnostics, and eventually to joseph smith jr. that tradition is believed to be preserved in mystical books such as the pistis sophia and sepher yetzira. a 22-item statement of sai beliefs posits a heavenly hierarchy consisting of the heavenly father and mother; their son, jesus christ; the holy

nded and had other matching idiosyncracies, such as storing rubber bands on their wrists. bridget and dorothy were identical british twins who were raised apart after being separated soon after birth, yet when they met in 1941, each wore two bracelets on one wrist, and a watch and bracelet on the other. each sister also wore seven rings. each twin had married and had a family of a boy and a girl. the sons had been christened richard andrew and andrew richard, while the daughters were karen louise and catherine louise. many such identical twins share iq and psychological profiles, as well as eeg tracings. it is not yet clear whether the coincidences derive from some kind of psychic bonding or simply indicate some manifestation of inheritance. it should be noted that astrologers have investi

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question you ll allow. i ve studied zealously, and so i know much now, but all i fain would know. exit. faust [alone] how strange a man s not quitted of all hope, who on and on to shallow stuff adheres, whose greedy hands for hidden treasure grope, and who is glad when any worm appears! dare such a human voice resound where spirits near me throng around? yet still i thank you, poorest one of all the sons of earth, for what you ve done. torn loose by you, from that despair i m freed that nearly drove my senses frantic. that vision, ah! was so gigantic, i could but feel myself a dwarf indeed. i, image of the godhead, and already one who thought him near the mirror of the truth eternal, who revelled in the clearness, light supernal, and stripped away the earthly son; i, more than cherub, who

ape s sweet juice deceiving! cursed love s supreme, delicious thrall! a curse on hoping! on believing! and cursed be patience most of all! chorus of spirits [invisible. woe! woe! thou hast destroyed the beautiful world, with powerful fist; tis smashed, downward hurled! a demigod dashed it to bits! we re trailing the ruins on to the void, and wailing over the beauty lost and gone! mighty one midst the sons of earth, splendider build it again, build it aloft in thy breast! and life s new quest commence with clearer sense, and songs of cheer anew shalt hear! mephistopheles these are the little folk of those whom i evoke. hark how they to joy and deed sagely bid you to give heed! into life they would, far from solitude there stagnate sap and sense, persuade and lure you hence. cease with your

like a demigod have lived your life. of all the figures of heroic mould whom as the ablest did you hold? chiron among the argonauts, superb procession! each one was worthy after his own fashion, and by the special power that he possessed, could do what lay beyond the rest. castor and pollux ever did prevail where youthful bloom and beauty turned the scale. in swift resolve and act for others good the sons of boreas proved their hardihood. reflective, strong and shrewd, in council wise, thus jason ruled, a joy to women s eyes. then orpheus, gentle, still, and contemplating, but, when he smote the lyre, all subjugating; keensighted lynceus who by day and dark past reef and shallow steered the sacred bark. danger is tested best by banded brothers: when one achieves, then praise him all the ot

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as invidia bonum fraus lumen ira vita temeritas malitia it is probable that this gospel according to hermes trismegistus meant a great deal to ficino, who desperately feared the stars. like the creation by the word in pimander, it may well have seemed to him to accord with st. john "in him was life; and the life was the light of men, and to as many as received him "to them gave he power to become the sons of god."1 (3) egyptian reflection of the universe in the mind. the mind to hermes. corpus hermeticum xi2; optimist gnosis (the mens is supposed throughout to be addressing hermes) eternity is the power of god, and the work of eternity is the world, which has no beginning, but is continually becoming by the action of eternity. therefore nothing that is in the world will ever perish or be d

himself from the charge of having lost time over barbarous authors which he might have used for polite scholarship: we have lived illustrious, friend ermolao, and to posterity shall live, not in the schools of the grammarians and teaching-places of young minds, but in the company of the philosophers, conclaves of sages, where the questions of debate are not concerning the mother of andromache or the sons of niobe and such light trifles, but of things human and divine.1 pico is reproaching his humanist friend for remaining on the childish level of the trivium, with his grammatical and linguistic studies and cultivation of purely literary ornament, whereas he himself is concerned with the loftier studies of the quadrivium. pico's letter marks very clearly the fundamental difference in aim b

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ion- visualize a lightening flash descending through the heavens and strike the wand to the floor utilizing (astrally) the rune sowuz/ sowulo and the sigil for the binding of the eye which should be received prior to the rite from the angel. a flashing between both symbols is a good technique. while screaming, io choronzon! statement of office- the following is an adaptation of a calling given by the sons of hermes: universe, hear my plea. earth, open. let the waters open for me. trees do not tremble. let the heavens open and the winds be silent! let all my faculties celebrate in me the all and the one. the gates of heaven are open; the gates of earth are open; the way of the current is open; my spirit has been heard by all the gods and genni. by the spirit of heaven, and earth, the sea& t

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his ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesus, the son of seth, immediately after his descent from golgotha entered the subterranean strata where he remained for some time in communion with the spirits who dwell there. thus the various strata of the earth from the circumference to the center form the path of initiation, both for the sons of seth and the sons of cain, and that is the reason why little or nothing is said of the inner construction of the earth in the multitude of books dealing with subjects of occultism. those who are simply psychics do not know, and those who do know are not saying much. there is a chapter on the subject in the rosicrucian cosmo-conception which gives about all that one dares to tell, and t

tic symbol, the rose. in these two symbols lie hidden the great secret of life, the blending of water and fire, as symbolized by the earthborn fluidic sap ascending through the stem and calyx of the flower to the fire tinted petals, born in the purity of the sun, but still guarded by the thorns of the martial lucifer spirits. exoteric masonry, which is only the husks of the mystic order formed by the sons of cain, has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and wh

s of cain, has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and whereas, the sons of cain working through freemasonry and kindred movements, have openly fought for the temporal power, the priestcraft has fought as strenuously and perhaps more effectively by stealth to retain their hold upon the spiritual development of the feminine element. to the casual onlooker it would seem as if there were no decided antagonism between these two movements at the present time; but t

disciples "ye are my friends" among brothers and sisters, hate and enmity may exist, but friendship is the expression of love and cannot exist apart from that. universal friendship is therefore the magic word which will eventually level all distinctions, bring peace upon earth and good will among men. this is the great ideal which points the shortest way to the new heaven and the new earth, where the sons of cain and the sons of seth will eventually be united. part ix armageddon, the great war, and the coming age the chart printed in part v shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in th

dy of flesh and blood, either intermittently or permanently, and to walk the skies with winged feet, intent upon the business of their lord, clad in the ethereal wedding garment of the new dispensation. this change may have been accomplished through a life of simple helpfulness and prayer as practiced by devoted christians, no matter with what church they are affiliated if they follow the path of the sons of seth. others have attained by following the specific exercises given by the rosicrucians. and thus the process of the unification of the two streams is already under way. but the war between the flesh and the spirit is still raging in the breast of most people as fiercely as it was in the days when paul gave vent to his pent up feelings, and told us how the flesh was warring against th

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initiative, but impatient of restraint or authority whether human or divine. this class is loath to take things on faith and prone to prove all things by the light of reason. these people believe in works rather than faith, and by their dauntless courage and inexhaustible energy they have transformed the trackless wilderness of the world to a garden full of life and beauty, so lovely in fact that the sons of cain have forgotten the garden of god, the kingdom of heaven, whence they were expelled by the decree of the lunar god jehovah. against him they are in constant rebellion because he has tied them by the umbilical "cable tow" they have lost their spiritual sight and are imprisoned in the forehead of the body where it is said cain was marked; they must wander as prodigal sons in the comp

that of jehovah. cain then slew abel, but did not thereby exterminate the docile creatures of jehovah, for we are told adam knew eve again and she bore seth. seth had the same characteristics as abel and transmitted them to his descendants, who to this day, continue to trust to the lord for everything, and who live by faith and not by work. by arduous and energetic application to the world's work the sons of cain have acquired worldly wisdom and temporal power. they have been captains of industry and masters of statecraft, while the sons of seth, looking to the lord for guidance, have become the avenue for divine and spiritual wisdom. they constitute the priestcraft. the animosity of cain and abel has been perpetuated from generation to generation among their respective descendants. nor co

out master workmen, skilled in the use of tools wherewith they may wrest a livelihood from the earth, which was cursed by their divine adversary jehovah. the other produces master magicians, skilled in the use of the tongue in invocation, and by the use of the tongue they gain support from the toilers here and pray themselves and their charges into heaven hereafter. after the future in store for the sons of cain and their followers, the temple legend is also most eloquent. it states that from cain descended methuselah, who invented writing, tubal cain, a cunning worker in metals, and jubal, who originated music. in short, the sons of cain are the originators of the arts and crafts. therefore when jehovah chose solomon, the scion of the race of seth, to build a house for his name, the subl

sary to the completion of this temple as the spiritual conception of the sons of seth, and, therefore, during the period of construction the two classes joined forces, the underlying enmity being hidden under a superficial show of amity. it was, indeed, the first attempt to unite them, and had that been accomplished the world history from then on would have been altered in a very material manner. the sons of cain, descended from the fiery lucifer spirits, were naturally proficient in the use of fire. by it the metals hoarded by solomon and his ancestors were melted into altars, lavers and vessels of various kinds. pillars were fashioned by workmen under the direction of hiram abiff, and arches to rest upon them. the great edifice was nearing completion when he made ready to cast the "molte

d by solomon and his ancestors were melted into altars, lavers and vessels of various kinds. pillars were fashioned by workmen under the direction of hiram abiff, and arches to rest upon them. the great edifice was nearing completion when he made ready to cast the "molten sea" which was to be the crowning effort, his masterpiece. it was in the construction of this great work that the treachery of the sons of seth became manifest and frustrated the divine plan of reconciliation. they tried to quench the fire used by hiram abiff with their natural weapon, water, and almost succeeded. the incidents which led up to this catastrophe, their meaning, and the sequel will be related in the next chapter. part iii the queen of sheba the masonic legend is voluminous, circumstantial, even trivial, and

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lways been realized in the east. amongst the jews, and christ was of that race, we find it firmly established, and it is not a mere coincidence that the hebrew word sod, which means gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth

r and love. the venusian and martian forces in life are divided against each other, life being the synthesis of these two; and the mystical quality of evil emanates as common mundane wickedness, which leads to murder- the destruction of life- not its transformation. later on this wickedness is followed by the magical prostitution of evil, or the act of magical incest, through the intermingling of the sons of god (the demoniac powers engendered by the disruption of tetragrammaton) with the daughters of men11- the carnal lusts of humankind. here is symbolized a process of levelling down (a carnal communism) and not of rising up, and the result is the establishment of black magic, the earth being peopled by gmighty men h, 12 or despots. why not white magic? because the sons of god (the above)

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. that the handing down of this branch of the tree of life, first to adam, or man, by aleim, and its subsequent transference to seth, the god of nature, the destroyer or regenerator, seems to indicate a victory for the adherents of a purer religion. the translator of kallimachus says "it is well known to the learned reader that the descendants of cain are distinguished in scripture by the name of the sons of man or adam; those of seth by the name of the sons of god" gen. vi, 2.[85] it is stated in julius africanus that all the righteous men and patriarchs down to the saviour himself have sprung from seth and have been denominated as the sons of god in contradistinction to the sons of man [85] forlong, rivers of life, vol. i, p. 527. doubtless at the time indicated by the transference of th

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s the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contem255 plated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true, and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal that the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii, 19:'forthat which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hathnopreeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for thatishis portion: for who sh

ment'.in chapter iii. of ecclesiastes there are notable uses of the word ruach as a human principle: in verse 19, speaking of man and beast, are the words 'they have all onebreath'-ruach255and in verse 21, who knoweth thespiritof man that goeth upward, and thespiritof the beast that goeth downward to the earth; herespiritis in each case 'ruach. in the context alsoitis stated 'that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts 'as the one dieth so dieth the other. but orthodoxy denies an immortal soul to beasts,butgrants it to man. is the wise solomon then a fool? or does orthodoxy desert the wise solomon?ifthe ruach of those passages be the human soul, then animals have it also;paceshelomoh; or else ruach is a name here for some element of the lower quaternary, prana,i.e.,life, or the

is family.thethird was calledallegorikos,because in these dreams, future events were represented by symbols; one thing seen meaning another thing thus revealed.thegreeks referred dreams to zeus, to the god of the earth, and to the manes; also to hekate and to the moon.thegod of sleepwas called upnos, or as we now say, hypnos, the somnus of the romans. somnus and mors, sleep and death, were called the sons ofnox-night;they dwelled in subterranean darkness. dreams also were the sons of night; their abode, the cave of sleep, had two gates, one ofivory whence came forth false and flattering visions; the other of horn, through which issued true and noble dreams to good men. somnus had three sons who appeared in dreams, morpheus who appeared in the form of men; icebus who conterfeited animals an

ffering' pindar, 450b.c.,wrote 'happy is he who has seen these things in the mysteries before leaving this world, for he realises the end and the beginning oflife, as they are ordained by zeus' according to plato, aboutb.c.350, the sacred mysteries of greece were intended to lead men more directly back to the principles from which they had descended, and to the path of perfect conduct, from which the sons of men buried in the body was so liable to wander. he said:'itis very difficult to commune with the great father of all, and when achieved it was impossible and futile to discover him to ordinary men' he added:'thatthe human body is the sepulchre of the soul, and that the soul is being punished in this bodily life' isocrates, 340b.c.,in his panegyrics wrote 'demeter, who came to our count

th him one-third part of each year- from seed255 time to harvest- and spend nine months with her mother. peace thus being made, the temple of eleusis, in honour of demeter, wasbuilt;and there she receives her long lost daughter, and, in token of her joy, she renews the golden harvests of the earth, and constitutes the eleusinia in memory of her grief and joy, and she confers initiation first upon the sons of keleus, who had befriended her inhertime of grief. this most curious and suggestive story is given in the homeric hymn to demeter, written about 850b.c.,and is referred to by numerous later writers.thewhole appears to be an allegory, not only of vegatative life of seed and fruit,butofthelife, death, and resurrection of man.thesoul of man has entered upon a new sphere of existence when

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l division of the sign of the twins, castor and pollux, the great twin brethren. simeon and levi aretwelve signs and twelve tribes 41classed together, like the two fishes in the sign, but levi is withdrawn later, to form asitwere the binding and connecting link of the tribes, as the priestly caste. benjamin is the younger brother of joseph, for rachel had only thesetwosons, and is the only one of the sons of jacob who at his birth was called by two names, for rachel called him 'ben-oni',buthis father benjamin, and in the sign of (t )the two natures of man and horse are bound together in one symbol. we shall find much light upon the connection between the signs and the tribes shown by the blessings of jacob, and of moses, from the former of which the armorial bearings of the twelve tribes a

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of this inclination? clearly, a society that had never before believed in idols would not suddenly adopt such inane behavior as to construct an idol and begin to worship it. only those for whom idolatry was natural inclination could have believed in such nonsense. however, the israelites were a people that had believed in one god since the days of their ancestor abraham. the name "israelites" or "the sons of israel" was given first to the sons of jacob, abraham's grandson, and afterwards to the whole jewish people who derived from him. the israelites had safeguarded the monotheistic faith that they had inherited from their ancestors abraham, isaac and jacob, peace be upon them. together with joseph, peace be upon him, they went into egypt and preserved their monotheism for a long period of

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ide so well with the gnostic tradition include the will to power, the overman, the abandonment of the traditional decayed forms of religion and science, the cycles of eternal re-occurrence, the need to go beyond mundane forms of morality and the power of strength, love and will to achieve liberation. the dark side of aquarius there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said

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the sphere of venus, name of venus (corrected) pentagram. noganel: name of venus pentagram. noib: yea. nomig: even as. nonig: even. nonca: to you. noncf: you. nonci: o you. noncp: a place/ place. nonof: you. 41 nopm: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. noqud: minister (n. noquodi: minister/ their ministers (n. noquol: servant/ o ye servants. nor: son/ sons, also see noromi. nor mo lap: the sons of men. nor quasahi: yea sons of pleasure. norezoda: norz chis, six are. norm: subservient angel of air angle of earth tablet. noromi: son (s/ o ye sons, also see nor. noromi baghie: o you sons of fury. norz: six. nostoah: it was. notahoa/ nothoa: midst/ among/ in the midst. npnt: subservient angel of fire angle of air tablet, also known as nprnt. nrga: subservient angel of earth angle of

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f time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od 10 the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol upon the earth and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens ta blior casarm a-m-ipzi nazarth as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened pillars of gladness af

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f time and their powers chis ta l-o cla torzu nor-quasahi od f caosga are as the first 4 5 6. arise ye sons of pleasure and visit the earth: bagle zire mad ds i od apila. for i am the lord your god which is and liveth for ever. do-o-a-ip qaal zacar od zamran in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves obelisong rest-el aaf nor-molap. as pleasant deliverers that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. hcoma, n the fifth key sapah zimii d u-i-v od the mighty sounds have entered into the third angle and noas ta qanis adroch dorphal are become as olives in the olive mount looking with gladness caosg od faonts piripsol 10 upon the earth and dwelling in the brightness of the heavens ta blior casarm a-m-ipzi nazarth as continual comforters. unto whom i fastened pillars of gladness af

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riot of the higher will which is in rtk. also, it is the particular faculty of the neschamah to aspire unto that which is beyond. the higher will manifests itself through the yechidah. the chiah is the real life principle, as distinct from the more illusionary life of the physical body. the shining flame of the divine fire, the rtk of the body, is the real self of the incarnation. yet only few of the sons of men know it, or feel its presence. still less, do they believe in or comprehend those higher potencies- angelic, archangelic, or divine, of which the manifestation directly touching the yechidah is the higher genius. this yechidah in the ordinary man can but rarely act through the spiritual consciousness since for it to do so, the king of the physical body, that is the lower will, must

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a witness of the mysteries which are above the sphere of knowledge, doth abide in the supernal triad, in the understanding which transcends reason, in the wisdom which comes before understanding and in the crown which is the light of the supernals. we know that the shekinah, the cohabiting glory, dwelt in the inner sanctuary, but the first creation was made void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in a place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we ha

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us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the 18 diego de duran, historia antiqua de la nueve espana (1585, in ignatius donelly, atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 200. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 119 entire earth. now yahewh [the hebrew god] came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. i

under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. saving only noah and his family (whom he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that wen

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r them. none have yet numbered them, but one. in them, the second beginnings of things exists and grows strong. they are the successive numbers oftime.their powers are like those of the first 456. arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth. i am the lord your god, who is, and who lives forever. in the name of the creator, move and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, and praise him among the sons of men" step 3. recite the twelfth cali as follows "o you who range in the south, and who are the 28 lanterns of sorrow, bind up your girdles, and visit us. bring down your 3663 servants so that the lord may be m gnified.his name among you is wrath. move i say, and show yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation. be friendly to me, because i am a servant of this same god, a true wo

he heavens. the wheel of life. all these wheels be one. aleister crowley, the book of lies as a preparation for entering khr, you are advised to study the formula of k.i.k.a. when you enter the 20th aethyr, khr, you will see the entire world as a huge rotating wheel. the word ki-ir itself means "wheel" it is equal to the number 401 which is also the number for totonor-molap meaning "the cycles of the sons of men" the three governors of khr (pronounced keh-har) are: zildron zodee-el-dar-oh-en parziba par-zodee-bah totokan toh-toh-kan these governor's names add up to 866 (255+189+ 422+=866) which is the number for kafafam komselha, meaning "an enduring cycle" this aethyr contains the masculine energy of jupiter combined with the feminine energy of juno. this is because of its proximity to th

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took to him bestla,tln.e giant bolfiorn s daughter, and begat three sons, offinn, vili, ve (p. 162, and by them was the giant ymir slain. as he sank to the ground, such a quantity of blood ran out of his wounds, that all the giants were drowned in it, save one, bergelmirf who with his wife escaped in a luftr (saem. 35b, sn. 8, and from them is descended the (younger) race of giants (see suppl. 3 the sons of borr dragged the dead ymir s body into the mid dle of ginnunga-gap, and created out of his blood the sea and water, of his flesh the earth, of his bones the mountains, of his teeth and broken bones the rocks and crags. then they took his skull and made of it the sky, and the sparks from muspellsheim that floated about free they fixed in the sky, so as to give light to all. the earth wa

5 (conf. 33b) differs in some points: or ymirs itoldi var ior&lt;5 urn scoput, enn or sveita seer, biorg or beinom, baismr or hdri, enn or jiausi himinn, enn or hans brdm gerso bli$ regin mrsgars manna sonom, enn or hans heila voro]?au in harsmosgo sk- oil um scoput. here the teeth are not made use of, but we have instead the formation of trees out of the giant s hair. when all this was done, the sons of borr went to the seashore, and found two trees, out of which they created two human beings, asjcr and embla. to these osinn gave soul and life, vili wit and feeling (sense of touch, ye countenance (colour, speech, hearing and sight, sn. 10. more exactly in stem. 3l&gt: unz]?rfr komo or j?vi ir5i 6flgir ok astgir aesir at susi (uproar. fundo a landi litt megandi ask ok emblo orlogla

scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives a valuable insight into the nature of these myths. 1* from the sons of grod having mingled with the daughters of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had f

d set his bow in the cloud for a token of the covenant. after this beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated giants resemble those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and e

the grk constell (in abb. der berl. acad. 1826, p. 19-63. 732 sky and staks. asbru (saem. 44a, more commonly bif-rost (ohg. would be piparasta) the quivering tract, for rost, goth, and ohg. rasta, means a definite distance, like mile or league. it is the best of all bridges (saem. 46a, strongly built out of three colours; yet the day cometh when it shall break down, at the end of the world, when the sons of muspell shall pass over it, sn. 14. 72. the tail of this bridge 1 extends to himinbiorg, heimdalfs dwelling (sn. 21, and heimdallr is the appointed keeper of the bridge; he guards it against hrimthurses and mountain-giants, 2 lest they make their way over the bridge into heaven, sn. 18. 30. the whole conception is in keeping with the cars in which the gods journey through heaven, and t

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ithet the one who eats his father. anubis s title, master of secrets, chiefly referred to the gruesome secrets of the embalming tent. he was particularly associated with the bandaging of mummies and with the ceremony known as the opening of the mouth ritual. this was performed to give the mummy back the senses it had enjoyed in life. 104 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 21. anubis (far left, the sons of horus, and other deities defeat and imprison seth. in this page from papyrus jumilhac, seth (far right) is shown upsidedown below the throne of osiris (art resource) in the book of the dead, anubis is shown in the throne room of osiris supervising the weighing of the hearts of the dead. among his duties was to fetch the hearts of the followers of seth. a story recorded in the first mil

. the reign of horus as king of egypt was considered the model for all subsequent reigns. the semidivine kings who came after him in mythical history were called the followers of horus. in a few magical texts a scorpion goddess called ta-bitjet is called the wife of horus. a passage in the coffin texts makes horus the elder and his sister, isis, the parents of the four protective deities known as the sons of horus. a festival at edfu temple celebrated the beautiful union between horus and hathor, lady of dendara. here, horus is an aspect of the sun god uniting with the goddess who was his mother, his consort, and his daughter to renew the cosmos. texts and scenes at edfu illustrate the diversity of myths centered on horus. a mythical history of the temple relates how two mysterious beings

. orientalia 38 (1969: 1 76. c. graindorge. sokar. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt iii, edited by d. b. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 305 307. primary sources: pt 532; ct 590; bd 185l; ad 4th 5th hours; khoiak texts deities, themes, and concepts 203 sons of horus the four gods imsety, hapy (not the same as the inundation god, duamutef, and qebehsenuef were known collectively as the sons of horus. they were the traditional guardians of the four canopic jars used to hold mummified organs. imsety generally protected the liver, hapy the lungs, duamutef the stomach, and qebehsenuef the intestines. the four sons were also associated with the four directions (south, north, east, and west) and with four vital components for survival after death: the heart, the ba, the ka, and th

fter death: the heart, the ba, the ka, and the mummy. imsety is usually shown in full human form, but hapy sometimes has the head of a baboon, duamutef that of a jackal, and qebehsenuef that of a hawk. in the pyramid texts, the children of horus are invoked to protect osiris the king, support his body, and beat up his great enemy. these roles are repeated in a middle kingdom ritual drama in which the sons of horus fight the followers of seth and then lift the body of osiris into the heavens. imsety, hapy, duamutef, and qebehsenuef were sometimes identified with the four pillars that held up the sky. obscure passages in the coffin texts seem to name isis and horus the elder as the parents of these four deities. kinship terms were often used very loosely in ancient egypt, so son can just mea

rus fight the followers of seth and then lift the body of osiris into the heavens. imsety, hapy, duamutef, and qebehsenuef were sometimes identified with the four pillars that held up the sky. obscure passages in the coffin texts seem to name isis and horus the elder as the parents of these four deities. kinship terms were often used very loosely in ancient egypt, so son can just mean descendant. the sons of horus were sometimes treated as identical with the group of royal demigods known as the souls of pe and nekhen. after the reign of horus, the souls ruled the kingdoms of upper or lower egypt. according to one spell, the souls of nekhen (hierakonpolis) could be quarrelsome and were not always willing to obey horus. from the new kingdom onward, the sons of horus formed part of a group of

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quish them, and secure his triumphant progress. having arrived at the end of the eleventh division the boat comes to the end of the fourth tuat; 1 afu-ra has effected his transformation as khepera, and is now ready to appear in the sky of this world as ra. how he effects this we shall see from the next division. footnotes 190:1 compare job xxxviii. 7-"when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of god shouted for joy" 191:1 the four tuats are the kingdoms of khenti-amenti-osiris, seker, osiris of mendes and busiris, and temu-khepera-ra. next: chapter xiv. twelfth division of the tuat. i. eastern vestibule of the tuat, or the antechamber of the world of light according to the book am-tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 192 chapter xiv. twelfth division of the

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through every experience and feeling that exists in the manifold or differentiated universe. it has, therefore, after having gained such experience in the lower kingdoms, and having ascended higher and still higher with every rung on the ladder of being, to pass through every experience on the human planes. in its very essence it is thought, and is, therefore, called in its plurality manasaputra "the sons of the (universal) mind" this individualized "thought" is what we theosophists call the real human ego, the thinking entity imprisoned in a case of flesh and bones. this is surely a spiritual entity, not matter, and such entities are the incarnating egos that inform the bundle of animal matter called mankind, and whose names are manasa or "minds" but once imprisoned, or incarnate, their e

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d car. there were all sorts of rumors about how marsh 'inc' come to look. he had once been a great dandy; and people said he still wore the frock-coated finery of the edwardian age curiously adapted to certain deformities. his son had formerly conducted the office in the square, but latterly they had been keeping out of sight a good deal and leaving the brunt of affairs to the younger generation. the sons and their sisters had come to look very queer, especially the elder ones; and it was said that their health was failing. one of the marsh daughters was a repellent, reptilian-looking woman who wore an excess of weird jewellery clearly of the same exotic tradition as that to which the strange tiara belonged. my informant had noticed it many times, and had heard it spoken of as coming from

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d car. there were all sorts of rumors about how marsh 'inc' come to look. he had once been a great dandy; and people said he still wore the frock-coated finery of the edwardian age curiously adapted to certain deformities. his sow had formerly conducted the office in the square, but latterly they had been keeping out of sight a good deal and leaving the brunt of affairs to the younger generation. the sons and their system had come to look very queer, especially the elder ones; and it was said that their health was failing. one of the marsh daughters was a repellent, reptilian-looking woman who wore an excess of weird jewellery clearly of the same exotic tradition as that to which the strange tiara belonged. my informant had noticed it many times, and had heard it spoken of a. coming from s

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and joined the mother land in her titanic struggle for civilization. over the cities once more floated the old flag, companioned by the new flag, and by a plainer, yet glorious tricolour. but not many flags floated over the street, for therein brooded only fear and hatred and ignorance. again young men went forth, but not quite as did the young men of those other days. something was lacking. and the sons of those young men of other days, who did indeed go forth in olive-drab with the true spirit of their ancestors, went from distant places and knew not the street and its ancient spirit. over the seas there was a great victory, and in triumph most of the young men returned. those who had lacked something lacked it no longer, yet did fear and hatred and ignorance still brood over the street

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of the library-walls, that there have even been popes who uved and died within the precincts of the palace without ever suspecting their existence. but these popes were neither sylvester ii, benedict ix, digitizecoy google ao isis dnveued john xx, nor the vlth and vllth gregory; nor yet the famous bor^ of tozicological memory. neither were those who remained ignorant of the hidden lore friends of the sons of loyola. where, in the reoords of emxipean magic, can we find cleverer endianters than in the mysterious solitudes of the cloister? albertus magnus, the famous bishop and conjurer of ratisbon, was never sur- passed in his art. roger bacon was a monk, and thomas aquinas one of the most learned pupils of albertus. trithemius, abbot of the spanheim benedictines, was the teacher, friend, an

o fuae them slain" wonderful spirit of christianity; and that from a manichaean converted to the religion of one who even on his cross prayed for his ss! digitizecoy google the ancient of days 33 who the enemies of the 'lord' were, according to the christians, is not difficult to surmiae; the few inside the augustinian fold were his new children and favorites, who had supplanted in his affections the sons of israel, his 'chosen people' llie rest of mankind were his natural foes. the teeming multitudes of heathendom were proper food for the flames of heu; the handful within the church communion 'heirs of salvation' but if such a proscriptive policy was just, and its enforcement was 'sweet savor' in the nostrils of the 'lord' why not scorn also tiie pagan rites and philosophy? why draw so de

g that the all-wise and all-good paternity he preached was the morose and revengeful thun- ders of mount sinai. but what the bomiliet do prove, is our assertion that there was a secret doctrine preached by jesus to the few who were deemed worthy to become its recipients and custodians "and peter sud' we remember that our lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us, guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house. where- fore also he explained to his disciples, prieaiely, the mytleriea of the tmffdom of juwien" if we now recall the fact that a portion of the mysteries of the 'pagans' consisted of the iwip^f/ra, aporrketa, or secret discourses; that the secret logia or discourses of jesus contained in the original gotpel according to matthnc, the meaning and interpretation of which st

e sect it was the female spiritus, the astral light, the genetrix of all things of mtdler, the chaos in its evil aspect, made turbid by the demi- urge. at the creation of man "it was light on the side of the father, and it was li^t [material light] on the side of the mothsk. and this is the 'two-fold man" says the zokar "iliat day [the last one] will perish the seven badly-disposed stellars; also the sons of man, who have confessed the spiritus, the messias [false, the deus, and the mother of the spirrrns, shall perish* 442. ivod: haer. fabvl, u -rii. 443- see ireomui: agmiut btrettm, 1, 4. 444. aumibttaiudembudusoliar.p.ls: berlin, 1s57. 445. cod. nat^u. pp. 1*7-9. digitizec by google ih isis unveiled jesus enforced and illustrated his doctndes with signs and wonders; and if we lay aside

t plant. he, v, p. 8s. 523. eiueb.i pratp. w, ix. 524. berori frag, p. 58; bitur od, 1825. digitizecoy google 218 bis unveiled while foimdiog his new religioo, was to change the most sacred deities of the sanskrit vedas into names of evil spirits in his zend scriplttreg, and even to reject a number of them, we find no traces in the avetta of chakra the symbolic circle of the sky. elam, another of the sons of shem, is oulam, d7ip, and refers to an order or cycle of events. in ecdenatus, iii, 11, it is termed 'world' in eukiel, xxvi, 20 'of old time' in otnetie, iii, 22, the word stands as 'forever; and in chapter ix, 16 'eternal' finally, the term is completely defined in genens, vi, 4, in the following words "there were nsphiiim [giants, fallen men, or titans] on the earth" the word is syn

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ntroduction into mythology (pp. 132, 228, that the phoenician cabiri and the greek dioscuri, the curetes, corybantes, telchini, were originally of the same nature, and are only different in trifling particulars. all these symbols represent electric and magnetic pheno92 the rosicrucians. mena, and that under the ancient name of twin-fires, hermaphrodite fire. the dioscuri is a phrase equivalent to the sons of heaven: if, as herodotus asserts, zeus originally represented the whole circle of heaven. according to the ancient opinion of heraclitus, the contest of opposing forces is the origin of new bodies, and the reconcilement of these contending principles is called combustion. this is, according to montfaugon, sketched in the minutest detail in the engravings of the ancient phoenician cabir

KETAB E SIYAH

that sired me, carving a bloody path to his standard and his throne. in that struggle, well known to you is it, i did strike upon adonai yahweh a most terrible wound, tearing from his body his organ of creation and consuming it with one serpent's gulp. for such rash error we might have most dearly paid. listen! i have taken from him that sired us the very power of generation, for shedim also are the sons and daughters of adonai yahweh. now his power is gone, stolen by his rebel son, and those two races of his blood, elohim and shedim, are made barren by his gelding, no more to increase, but ever to diminish, like the candle's flame. thus did satanael defeat his purpose. in the midnight passages of stone, there did i seek a darkness to be as a mirror to the deep veil of my black despair, f

t conquer them and prevail where, in prior history, they had failed. most cunning gabriel, wisest of his brothers and most jealous of michael's favour, with such intent went to the king of heaven, adonai yahweh upon his shattered throne within the eternal tower, and, upon his knees, implored the archon-emperor permission to work on earth a device of his by whcih he sought to make division amongst the sons of man. humbling himself before the king he served, pressing to the floor his proud brow, he pleaded thus with adonai yahweh "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of

rthy monarch, utanapishtim, a god amongst men, that he should seek to kneel before this invisible king of his. must he invent a lord for utanapishtim to restore once an equilibrium that only one as weak as noah would desire. what madness has come upon him that he should kneel to heaven for man kneels to none and not the elohim for we are greater than that ruined domain and are destined to conquer the sons of god. is it the way of the victor to go down before the vanquished? how deluded by deceit is noah that he should consider such a thing. o doubly mourned is lamech that his son is so weak that he is prostrate before heaven! noah, go from this city then 247 back to the wilderness where you found your god but he shall not be within the walls. not fit to rule is the slave. go then and serve

e with his people because michael had willed him do so. there did abraham make his home and there was he beset with great hardship. yet despite the rigours of the land abraham persevered with his lot and made fertile the soil with deep wells and reaped from it a fecund harvest. in the land of mamre, the women of abraham brought forth sons for him. hagar the egyptian was mother to ishmael first of the sons of abraham and then was isaac, son of sarai. yet of his two sons did abraham love ishmael the best of them for he was the first born. yet of this love was sarai jealous for her son and despised hagar for her son. with subtle whispers and with lies did she deceive abraham and turn his heart against his first-born and the mother hagar the egyptian. so became abraham the reflection of his go

uchin, king of the people under felt tents; temuchin, who conquered china from the back of a horse. a million human voices resound your name: temuchin, great king, genghis khan. time blinks and he is broken, temuchin, slayer of millions, he that eclipsed methuselah, lay dying in his tent. his armies were greater than alexander's 367 yet he conquered not the sword of death. temuchin died. now went the sons of temuchin westward, following the sun's path. none withstood them, mecca or rome. terrible is the tartars' wrath. never had there been such an empire since the waters of the deluge ebbed. the histories are written with blood for ink. time passes and empires pass away. as once she retreated to the east now retired rome to the west. shalem and byzant were lost to the cross and the crescen

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

r- kabbalist; or it can take several lives or reincarnations (gilgulim, if such efforts are undertaken on our own, by way of suffering. only the right efforts in the correct direction will produce the vessel of the soul, within which the creator will reveal himself to us. in kabbalah, the reasons behind our actions are- 154- known as "the fathers" whereas the consequences of actions are known as "the sons (the correct spiritual acts. one is not born because of one s own will. spiritually, one is forced to be born (to receive a soul the light of the creator) by the creator through suffering. but one has the capacity to be born independently by means of the kabbalah. one does not live because of one s own will. if one does not act (live) in accordance with one s egoistic will, then a true et

e nature that rules over us is bad. and this is only as long as the creator has not yet created good for the person of "and behold, pharaoh died" he gives us those life experiences that allow us to recognize that egoism is our enemy. only then will this symbol of evil die, and we will feel that we are incapable of existing as we once did, working for nothing- 248- attaining the worlds beyond and "the sons of israel groaned because of the servitude and they cried out" they did this only after realizing they were not even able to move without some egoistic benefit for themselves, and had not yet gained a spiritual, altruistic nature "and their cry for help from their servitude rose up to god, and god heard our voice" this occurs only if one truly cries out from the very depths of the soul, a

are born into this world. each part garbs itself in a human body as many times as it is necessary for it to correct itself completely. when all the distinct individual parts complete their independent process of correction, they will once again merge into one collective soul, known as "adam" in the alternating of the generations there is the cause, known as "the fathers" and the effect, known as "the sons" the reason for the appearance of sons is to continue the correction of that which has not been corrected by the fathers, meaning the souls of the previous incarnation. the creator brings us close to him not because of our good qualities, but because of our feelings of lowliness and our desire to cleanse ourselves of our "filth" if we were to- 373- experience pleasure from the state of sp

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

hand answers him. the writing refers to this as follows: and the children of israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry rose up to god k (exodus 2, 23, because at that time, israel was desperate from the work, as he who draws water from the well in a punctured bucket. he draws water all day long and still has not a drop of water with which to soothe his thirst. so were the sons of israel in egypt; everything they built was buried right there in the ground. so it is with those who have not attained his love. everything they do for the purification of their souls the day before, is lost entirely today, and each moment and each day they must start anew as though they had never done anything in their life. and then, the children of israel sighed by reason of the bon

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

tes that a certain person met rabbi shimon, it means that that person rose to the degree pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g 21 of rabbi shimon, and can therefore see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when we ascend to it, we are called by that name. if we attain only a part of that degree, we are regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it, attains its characteristics, and sees the creator accordingly. by climbing higher, the pictures that were seen in the previous degree will change, as well. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

recting its evolution. the four pendant flower-chains symbolized the holy four who reside at shamballa- the spiritual king and his three pupil-assistants, the sole representatives on earth of the lords of the flame who came down long ago from venus to hasten the evolution of mankind. the crossed palm-leaves between them typified the four devarajas, the principal agents through whom the decrees of the sons of the fire-mist are carried out. 180. the three bands of lilies which are arranged to hide the junction of the chapiter with the pillar were taken to represent the initiates of the three stages of the egyptian mysteries. the buds of the upper row, pointing upwards, typified the initiates of the mysteries of isis, who were full of aspiration, reaching upwards and in that way raising the g

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

vealing as much of the history and traditions of the compagnonnage as his oath would permit, in order to put an end to the strife which ceaselessly occurred between its different sections. 524. the compagnonnage consisted of three organizations perpetually at war with one another, each of which had an interesting traditional history and claimed a traditional chief. the oldest division was that of the sons of solomon, originally consisting of stonemasons only, although joiners and locksmiths were admitted later; the second was that of the sons of maitre jacques, who likewise admitted members of these three trades and later of many others, notably saddlers, shoemakers, tailors, cutlers, and hatters; while the third section followed maitre soubise, and was originally composed only of carpente

admitted later; the second was that of the sons of maitre jacques, who likewise admitted members of these three trades and later of many others, notably saddlers, shoemakers, tailors, cutlers, and hatters; while the third section followed maitre soubise, and was originally composed only of carpenters, although at a later date plasterers and tilers were also admitted. it is generally conceded that the sons of solomon were the oldest of all; and another remarkable fact is that the masons (to be carefully distinguished from the stonemasons) were never admitted at all. houses of call belonging to these three associations existed in the more important towns of france; and travelling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 5

itted at all. houses of call belonging to these three associations existed in the more important towns of france; and travelling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 525. the three sections of the compagnonnage preserved legends concerning king solomon and his temple. little is known of the form of the legend current among the sons of solomon, but there are curious indications that the story of the death of hiram (which is not contained in the bible) was known to them. perdiguier tells us little, but he gives certain hints: 526. an ancient fable has obtained currency amongst them (the sons of solomon) relating, according to some, to hiram, according to others, to adonhiram; wherein are represented crimes and punishm

y parts of europe to the study of this subject, and has published the results of her toil in traces of a hidden tradition in masonry and mediaeval mysticism. from that book i extract the following list of mystical societies, interspersed with a few names of individual mystics: 653. in the third century we find manes, the widow s son, the link for all of those who believe in the great work done by the sons of the widow and the magian brotherhood. 654. in the fourth century the central figure for all occult students is the great iamblichus, the forerunner of the rosicrucians. 655. from the third to the ninth century the following organizations and sects appear; manichaeans; euchites; dionysian artificers; ophites; nestorians; eutychians, and the magistri comacini, of whom we may read in llor

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

s after leaving their heavenly abode under the leadership of the angel semyaza and contracting unions with human women. these angels also encouraged other sinful activities by teaching humans about such things as cosmetics (for women) encouraging vanity and weapons (for men) to use in engaging in battle with each other. the core of the narrative is contained in chapters 7 and 8: it happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them elegant and beautiful. and when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children (7:1 2) then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom t

ndants of the nephilim (e.g, num. 13:33; deut. 2:11; josh. 12:4; etc. this story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a brief allusion to the enoch tale can be found in genesis 6:2 4, where it says that the sons of god (which, when seen through the lens of the book of enoch, are angels) took mortal women as wives. the early church fathers clearly regarded the book of enoch as scripture, as is evident in many places in the new testament canon. the epistle of jude, for example, refers directly to 1 enoch when he states that enoch also, the seventh from adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold the

alternative story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position (or what became the official position by the late middle ages, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a brief allusion to the enoch tale can be found in genesis 6:2 4, where it says that the sons of god (which, when seen through the lens of the book of enoch, are angels) took mortal women as wives. one contemporary religious leader, elizabeth clare prophet, has reexamined these ancient stories of fallen angels particularly the book of enoch and other early works and concluded that there were actually two distinct celestial falls. in the first one, some of the celestial host were e

york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. harut and marut judaism, christianity, and islam all have lore related to the lust of angels for human beings and their subsequent transformation into demons. although the basic idea of spirit beings or demons having sex with human beings is very ancient, judeo-christian speculation on such ideas grew out of two short, obscure verses in genesis (6:2 and 6:4) about the sons of god taking to wife the daughters of men. in these rather strange verses, the expression sons of god was taken to indicate angels. the traditional interpretation of these passages is that these sons of god are fallen angels. islam s version of this theme is a tale involving two angels mentioned in the koran, harut and marut, although the koranic reference contains no allusion to these a

i and succubi [and] it is contrary to the words of the saints and even to the tradition of holy scripture to maintain the opposite opinion. malleus maleficarun the idea of spirit beings or demons who take the form of people in order to have sex with human beings is actually very ancient. in western demonological lore, speculation on such ideas grew out of two short verses in chapter 6 of genesis: the sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose (6:2) the nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. these were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown (6:4) in these rather strange verses, the expression sons of god was taken

LIBER 777

cilers, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great one of the night of time. should contain a demonstration of the quadrature of the circle* 32 bis. 31 bis. table vi (continued) 33 clxxxii. the human body. clxxxiii. legendary orders of being. 11 r

castle: nephthys king: aeshoori (i.e. osiris again) pawns knight s pawn: kabexnuv (qebhsennuf) queen s pawn: tmoumathph (sic (tuamutef) bishop s pawn: ahepi (hapi) rook s pawn: ameshet (mestha) 6 i cannot identify the first three of these names. i believe the remaining four were intended to be g.d. coptic spellings of hapi (ahephi, tuamutef (toumathph, mestha (ameshett) and qebhsennuf (kabexnuv, the sons of horus, and have corrected them accordingly. 7 de. occ. phil. lib. i. cap xxiii. the following six chapters list various things said to be under the power of the other six classical planets. see also cap. xxii which gives general attributions for the planets and the theory behind all this, and cap. xxxii, what things are under the signs, the fixed stars, and their images. 8 on typograph

LIBER ALEPH

ts, though such were in themselves better and wiser. yes, o my son, in these writings thou mayst study to come to the true comprehension of thine own nature, and that of the whole universe, in the dimension of time, even as the mathematic declareth it in that of space: that is, of extension. moreover, by this study shall the child com-prehend the foundation of manners: the which, as sayeth one of the sons of wisdom, maketh man. m the book of wisdom or folly 49 af sequitur (3) scientifica (continued. 3: sciences) ince time and space are the conditions of mind, these two studies are fundamental. yet there remaineth causality, which is the root of the actions and reactions of nature. this also shalt thou seek ardently, that thou mayst comprehend the variety of the universe, its harmony and it

LIBER CHANOKH

m none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, which also successively are the numbers of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise! you sons of pleasure! and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god; which is and liveth (for ever! in the name of the creator, move! and shew yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men [invokes: hcoma; the whole tablet of water. the angle of c of c. the queen of the thrones of water] the forty-eight keys or calls 26 the opening of the temple in the grade of 1 =108 give the sign of the god set fighting. purify with fire and water, and announce .the temple is cleansed [knock] let us adore the lord and king of earth! adonai ha aretz, adonai melekh, unto thee be the

LIBER LVII

d victory, corresponding to the divine name twabx hwhy, ihvh tzabaoth, the lord of armies, and the angelic names \yhla, elohim, gods, and \ycycrt, tarshishim, the brilliant ones (daniel x, 6. the number 8. thence proceeded the feminine passive potency dwh, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

+ 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 the dawning creation. but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the s

h are by the present editor. issues which cannot be dealt with in a brief footnote are discussed below. the text and footnotes contain a number of allusions to golden dawn rituals; summaries of these appeared in the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (2. they may also be studied in regardie (ed) the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magic .daughter of the firmament .child of the sons of the mighty .spirit of the primal fire &c. are g.d. titles of the various tarot trumps: see 777 col. clxxx. as usual in the work of crowley and his associates .zoroaster. is here the author of the chaldaan oracles. most quotations are from an edition prepared by w. wynn westcott and published in the theosophical society.s collecteana hermetica series, subsequently reprinted in various e

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

n a certain matter of liber legis, and written down under the figure lxvi v a a publication in class a imprimatur: n. fra. a a 1 1. apep deifieth asar. 2. let excellent virgins evoke rejoicing, son of night! 3. this is the book of the most secret cult of the ruby star. it shall be given to none, save to the shameless in deed as in word. 4. no man shall understand this writing.it is too subtle for the sons of men. 5. if the ruby star have shed its blood upon thee; if in the season of the moon thou hast invoked by the iod and the pe, then mayest thou partake of this most secret sacrament. 6. one shall instruct another, with no care for the matters of men.s thought. 7. there shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone. 8. at the head of the altar gold, and twin images in g

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

e danish king guthrum in the 880s, indicates just how pervasive the scandinavian presence was. the enormous number of scandinavian loanwords into english indicates an extended period of contact between the english and the scandinavians, and as the scandinavian kingdoms began to emerge during the ninth and tenth centuries, there was not infrequently contact with english courts. for example, one of the sons of harald fairhair of norway, hakon the good, had been fostered at the court of king athalstan of england. according to tradition, harald had united all norway into a single kingdom (this had occurred somewhat earlier in denmark and would probably happen somewhat later in sweden, for which the sources are rather meager. during the reign of harald (870.930) serious emigration began over th

gar, mysterious waters from which life was to emerge. we must assign ymir to this distant past, and also his hermaphroditic generation of the races of giants. similarly, bur, the first of the gods, existed at this time. the focus of the near past would be the creation of the cosmos, from the body of ymir according to most sources. the precondition for forming the cosmos was the killing of ymir by the sons of bur, so we may say that the movement from the distant past to the near past encompasses a move from a stasis between the two major groups of gods to a state of enmity. during this near past the gods also enabled the reckoning of time by assigning stations to the heavenly bodies (voluspa, stanza 5, and they similarly enabled culture by creating tools (voluspa, stanza 7. they created the

resent in a kenning or an allusive skaldic poem from the pagan period, and neither of these requires any kind of chronology but, instead, implies a kind of simultaneity of myth. the second is a linguistic aftereffect and may be presented here by discussing stanza 28 of lokasenna. frigg has just admonished loki. you know, if here i had in agir fs hall a son like baldr away you would never get from the sons of the asir, and you would be struck down in anger. loki fs response is a boast about his role in the slaying of baldr. the second half of stanza 28 goes literally as follows. i arrange it, that you never see baldr afterwards ride up to the hall anymore. most translators render the first three words as something like gi am responsible, h and indeed the present tense of the verb might be u

name of the eider, h namn och bygd 28 (1940: 91.114. franz rolf schroder, gdie gottin des urmeeres und ihr mannlicher partner, h beitrage zur geschichte der deutschen sprache und literatur (tubingen) 82 (1960: 221.264, is centered on nerthus and njord but also 48 norse mythology included discussion of ran and agir/hler. margaret clunies ross, gsnorri sturluson fs use of the norse origin legend of the sons of fornjotr in his edda, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 98 (1983: 47.66, analyzes snorri fs understanding of natural forces as giants. agir fs daughters the waves of the sea; nine sisters, daughters of agir and ran. agir is the sea personified, and his daughters are the waves. the poet known only as svein, perhaps an icelander of the eleventh century, describes a wintry storm in which gusts

man) and embla (the first human woman) were found on shore, capable of little and fateless. odin, hoenir, and lodur endowed them with the various qualities they needed to live. odin gave breath or spirit, hoenir gave mental faculties or voice, and lodur gave blood, ruddiness, or vital warmth and good coloring. snorri adds some details and changes others. the creator gods, according to snorri, are the sons of bor (elsewhere bur).odin, vili, and ve.who find two pieces of wood on the seashore and fashion them into humans. one of bor fs sons gives spirit and life; the second, mind and movement; the third, appearance, speech, hearing, and vision. the sons of bor also gave these vivified pieces of wood clothing and their names, ask and embla, and from them descend the races of mankind. in volusp

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphers. 169 freemasonic symbolism the pillars raised by the sons of seth--enoch and the royal arches--the dionysiac architects--the roman collegia--solomon, the personification of universal wisdom- freemasonry's priceless heritage. 173 mystic christianity st. iran us on the life of christ--the original name of jesus--the christened man--the essenes--the arthurian cycle--merlin the mage. 177 the cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost libr

olomon by the dark maid of jerusalem, is symbolic of receptive nature--the watery, maternal principle which creates all things out of herself after impregnation has been achieved by the virility of the sun. in the ancient world the year had 360 days. the five extra days were gathered together by the god of cosmic intelligence to serve as the birthdays of the five gods and goddesses who are called the sons and daughters of ham. upon the first of these special days osiris was born and upon the fourth of them isis (the number four shows the relation that this goddess bears to the earth and its elements) typhon, the egyptian demon or spirit of the adversary, was born upon the third day. typhon is often symbolized by a crocodile; sometimes his body is a combination of crocodile and hog. isis st

plars. those who have sought to identify chiram with the murdered king charles the first conceive the hiramic legend to have been invented for that purpose by elias ashmole, a mystical philosopher, who was probably a member of the rosicrucian fraternity. charles was dethroned in 1647 and died on the block in 1649, leaving the royalist party leaderless. an attempt has been made to relate the term "the sons of the widow (an appellation frequently applied to members of the masonic order) to this incident in english history, for by the murder of her king england became a widow and all englishmen widow's sons. to the mystic christian mason, chiram. represents the christ who in three days (degrees) raised the temple of his body from its earthly sepulcher. his three murderers were c sar's agent (

n. all are composite creatures combining human and animal members; in the mysteries all signify the composite nature of man and subtly refer to the hierarchies of celestial beings that have charge of the destiny of mankind. these hierarchies are the twelve holy animals now known as constellations--star groups which are merely symbols of impersonal spiritual impulses. chiron, the centaur, teaching the sons of men, symbolizes the intelligences of the constellation of sagittarius, who were the custodians of the secret doctrine while (geocentrically) the sun was passing through the sign of gemini. the five-footed assyrian man-bull with the wings of an eagle and the head of a man is a reminder that the invisible nature of man has the wings of a god, the head of a man, and the body of a beast. t

is animal caused it to be accepted as the proper symbol of esthetic abandon. deer were objects of veneration with many nations. in japan, herds of them are still maintained in connection with the temples. the wolf is usually associated with the principle of evil, because of the mournful discordance of its howl and the viciousness of its nature. in scandinavian mythology the fenris wolf was one of the sons of loki, the infernal god of the fires. with the temple of asgard in flames about them, the gods under the command of odin fought their last great battle against the chaotic forces of evil. with frothing jowls the fenris wolf devoured odin, the father of the gods, and thus destroyed the odinic universe. here the fenris wolf represents those mindless powers of nature that overthrew the pri

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

d civilizing primitive man as he then existed. whether it was part of their original plan or merely a side issue, these angelic beings "sons of god" or "watchers of the heavens" as they were entitled, elected to mate with womankind. the book of genesis briefly records the legend thus: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took wives of all which they chose. however, the ancient book of noah written several hundred years before the birth of christ is more explicit. and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them [the daughters of men] and said one to another "come let us choose wives from among the children of men and beget us c

2- it is from these exiled beings that all true magical knowledge and power is said to be derived. laban, reputedly one of the greatest adepts in magical art of pre-flood times, visited the mountaintop wherein they dwelt, to learn his wisdom. this idea has lingered on and finally became a fundamental part of legends of magical initiation all over the world, from chaldea to tibet. the offspring of the sons of heaven, however, proved to be a mixed blessing for the world. like their progenitors, they were gigantic in stature "great giants whose height was three thousand ells" some of these nephelim, as the descendants of the house of azael were known, were, like nimrod, men of renown and great in wisdom. others, however, turned in the opposite direction and increasingly devoted themselves to

MEANING OF MASONRY

ght in different tints. the" aura" of the man who has his mentality clean and his passions and emotions well in hand becomes a correspondingly orderly and shapely encasement of clearly defined form and iridescence, regularly striated like the colours of the spectrum or the rainbow. biblically, this" aura" is described as a" coat of many colours" and as having characterized joseph, the greatest of the sons of jacob, in contrast with that patriarch's less morally and spiritually developed sons who were not distinctified by any such coat. in masonry the equivalent of the aureole is the symbolic clothing worn by provincial and grand lodge officers. this is of deep blue, heavily fringed with gold, in correspondence with the deep blue centre and luminous circumference of flame" his ministers are

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

attheir leaders committed a great sin by interfering with the evolution of humankind: and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan,the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast downwith him (revelation) and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in anci

veral key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient days, theirarrival and activities were not concealed asthey are now. there were giants in the earth in those days;and also after that, when the sons of godcame in unto the daughters of men, and theybear children to themthe mighty men whichwere of old, men of renown (genesis, chap-ter 6-8) they come from a far country, from the end ofheaven (isaiah 13:3)who are these that fly in a cloud, as the dovesto their windows (isaiah 9:8) lucifers fall by gustave dorefrom the end of heaven4atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atl

)one of the ways in which they sought to accomplish their goal involved biogeneticinterference with and alteration of the indigenous earth inhabitants. such a practicewas known to be a cardinal sin, and so, originally, normal sexual intercourse wasattempted with unsatisfactory results: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis 6-8) and the daughters of cain with whom the angels had companied conceived, but they wereunable to bring forth their children, and they died. and of the children who were in theirwombs some died, and some came forth, having split open the bellies of their mothers theycame forth by

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

moral and spiritualdimension utterly lacking in their extraterrestrial masters. as a result of this, theyopenly began to resist their creators whom they disliked and came to physically out-number. it is written that these sons of the serpent would not recognize the superi-ority of their masters, since they lacked the exalted qualities. finally, after anunspecified period of time, the majority of the sons of the serpents leave the gar-dens of edinu (atlantis) and vacate the continent of appalachia, relocating to theisland of oceania, later known as lemuria, where todays pacific ocean is. here theyestablish a thriving civilization where they also practiced the high sciences. the sub-lime cultural inventions and philosophies that enrich humankind then and now origi-nate from them. lemuria co

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

, eve s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then convinces her husband, adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. when god discovered what the primal couple( and the serpent) had done, adam and eve were banished from paradise. adam and eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. as human kind began to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our race. the offspring of this union, beings who were half human and half angel, would be called the nephilim. these nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as men of renown. this early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans beca

relate information that is contradictory to the bible. in the book of enoch, azazel is described as being among the leaders of 200 angels, also called watchers, who came down to the garden of eden; the text is unambiguous about the serpent from the garden of eden being in fact a group. the bible, albeit a bit more subtly, also makes it clear that this serpent was in fact a group, when it mentions the sons of god (which is of coarse plural. in the bible, the serpent tempts eve into eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, yet in the book of enoch there was no fruit, but instead it was knowledge of magic and the sciences which the fallen angels gave unto man. the relationship between the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul

MORALS AND DOGMA

effable words, which it is not possible for a man to utter" and nowhere is the antagonism and conflict between the spirit and body more frequently and forcibly insisted on than in the writings of this apostle, nowhere the divine nature of the soul more strongly asserted "with the mind" he says "i serve the law of god; but with the flesh the law of sin. as many as are led by the spirit of god, are the sons of god. the earnest expectation of the created waits for the manifestation of the sons of god. the created shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, of the flesh liable to decay, into the glorious liberty of the children of god* two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. under a despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fea

rinces came there to be judged, escorted only by their virtues and their vices. a public accuser recounted the history of the dead man's life, and threw the blaze of the torch of truth on all his actions. if it were adjudged that he had led an evil life, his memory was condemned in the presence of the nation, and his body was denied the honors of sepulture. what a lesson the old masonry taught to the sons of the people! is it true that masonry is effete; that the acacia, withered, affords no shade; that masonry no longer marches in the advance-guard of truth? no. is freedom yet universal? have ignorance and prejudice disappeared from the earth? are there no longer enmities among men? do cupidity and falsehood no longer exist? do toleration and harmony prevail among religious and political

l be the result and our reward if we do our duty. work on with the sword in one hand, and the trowel in the other! masonry teaches that god is a paternal being, and has an interest in his creatures, such as is expressed in the title _father; an interest unknown to all the systems of paganism, untaught in all the theories of philosophy; an interest not only in the glorious beings of other spheres, the sons of light, the dwellers in heavenly worlds, but in us, poor, ignorant, and unworthy; that he has pity for the erring, pardon for the guilty, love for the pure, knowledge for the humble, and promises of immortal life for those who trust in and obey him. without a belief in him, life is miserable, the world is dark, the universe disrobed of its splendors, the intellectual tie to nature broke

n raised themselves to the highest being, or attained to a knowledge of him, in his immediate self-manifestation, and those who know god only in his mediate revelation through his operation--such as he declares himself in creation--in the revelation still veiled in the letter of scripture--those, in short, who attach themselves simply to the logos, and consider this to be the supreme god; who are the sons of the logos, rather than of the true being "god" says pythagoras "is neither the object of sense, nor subject to passion, but invisible, only intelligible, and supremely intelligent in his body he is like the _light, and in his soul he resembles truth. he is the universal _spirit_ that pervades and diffuseth itself over all nature. all beings receive their _life_ from him. there is but o

d these mysteries were introduced successively into assyria, babylon, persia, greece, sicily, and italy. in greece and sicily, osiris took the name of bacchus, and isis that of ceres, cybele, rhea and venus. bar hebraeus says "enoch was the first who invented books and different sorts of writing. the ancient greeks declare that enoch is the same as mercury trismegistus [hermes, and that he taught the sons of men the art of building cities, and enacted some admirable laws. he discovered the knowledge of the zodiac, and the course of the planets; and he pointed out to the sons of men, that they should worship god, that they should fast, that they should pray, that they should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. he reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

t better or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family as of his own royal stock; every one is as princely as he is himself. but he were not his father's son unless he found for himself a form fit to express himself in many costumes, each

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

bow, declaring that henceforth he would announce to mankind the will of his father zeus "the golden lyre" said he "shall be my friend, the bent bow my delight, and in oracles will i foretell the dark future" with these words he ascended to olympus, where he was received with joyful acclamations into the assembly of the celestial gods, who acknowledged him as the most beautiful and glorious of all the sons of zeus. phoebus-apollo was the god of light in a twofold [70]signification: first, as representing the great orb of day which illumines the world; and secondly, as the heavenly light which animates the soul of man. he inherited his function as sun-god from helios, with whom, in later times, he was so completely identified, that the personality of the one became gradually merged in that o

son and daughter, and desired the thebans, for the future, to give to her the honours and sacrifices which they had hitherto offered to the mother of apollo and artemis. the sacrilegious words had scarcely passed her lips before apollo called upon his sister artemis to assist him in avenging the insult offered to their mother, and soon their invisible arrows sped through the air. apollo slew all the sons, and artemis had already slain all the daughters save one, the youngest and best beloved, whom niobe clasped in her arms, when the agonized mother implored the enraged deities to leave her, at least, one out of all her beautiful children; but, even as she prayed, the deadly arrow reached the heart of this child also. meanwhile the unhappy father, unable to bear the loss of his children, h

abited a cave at a very great height in the famous rock which still bears her name,[38] and was supposed to swoop down from her rocky eminence upon every ship that passed, and with each of her six heads to secure a victim. amphitrite is often represented assisting poseidon in attaching the sea-horses to his chariot [105] the cyclops, who have been already alluded to in the history of cronus, were the sons of poseidon and amphitrite. they were a wild race of gigantic growth, similar in their nature to the earth-born giants, and had only one eye each in the middle of their foreheads. they led a lawless life, possessing neither social manners nor fear of the gods, and were the workmen of hephastus, whose workshop was supposed to be in the heart of the volcanic mountain atna. here we have anot

the festive banquets of the gods; but, taking advantage of his exalted position, he presumed to aspire to the favour of hera, which so greatly incensed zeus, that he struck him page 150 with his thunderbolts, and commanded hermes to throw him into tartarus, and bind him to an ever-revolving wheel. the danaides were the fifty daughters of danaus, king of argos, who had married their fifty cousins, the sons of agyptus. by the command of their father, who had been warned by an oracle that his son-in-law would cause his death, they all killed their husbands in one night, hypermnestra alone excepted. their punishment in the lower world was to fill with water a vessel full of holes,.a never-ending and useless task. page 151 page 152 aides is usually represented as a man of mature years and stern

223]the midst of luxuriant and park-like gardens. here the king's daughters, chalciope and medea, who were walking in the grounds of the palace, met them. the former, to her great joy, recognized in the youths who accompanied the hero her own long-lost sons, whom she had mourned as dead, whilst the young and lovely medea was struck with the noble and manly form of jason. the news of the return of the sons of phryxus soon spread through the palace, and brought aetes himself to the scene, whereupon the strangers were presented to him, and were invited to a banquet which the king ordered to be prepared in their honour. all the most beautiful ladies of the court were present at this entertainment; but in the eyes of jason none could compare with the king's daughter, the young and lovely medea

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ristianity. the name the "militia of christ and the temple of solomon" that the templars assumed immediately after the creation of their order was evocative not only to christians. while it recalled the holy sepulcher, it also recalled to jews and muslims the temple of solomon (wisdom, which was furthermore reproduced on the seal of the grand master. a sacred sanctuary, it spoke simultaneously to the sons of shem, cham, and japhet.34 so the reason for the condemnation of the templars is not to be sought in a heretical deviation. in fact they were never condemned by the pope who was satisfied with simply dissolving the order but by the temporal authority. philip the fair could not take action against the templars, a sovereign and independent religious order, without a condemnation or dissol

ren of the poor would also be raised there and educated in craft techniques by male and female workers in return for the privilege of obtaining, in six years' time, recognition as masters in their crafts without the requirement of any fee or masterpiece. justification for their status would be provided by the professional skills of their eventual students, who would themselves enjoy the status of the sons of masters* by a declaration of henri ii given in paris on february 2, 1553, craft masters in the city of paris could take on a second apprentice only from among the children raised at trinity hospital. two acts of parliament, one of december 3, 1672, and one of august 22, 1798, specifically confirmed "the rule over the rights and privileges of those who taught the art of craft and masonr

placed older statutes dating from 1454, the community was governed by a syndic elected every two years from among those sworn to the king. the elections, reviews, and the settling of business matters took place on march 20, the day after the feast day of saint joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. the examination of an aspiring member consisted of one drawn geometrical design and a masterpiece. the sons of masters and apprentices paid the same rights for master status, 20 pounds total. six years of apprenticeship were required and journeyman status was intended to last six months. the sons, nephews, and cousins of a master did not count as apprentices. a foreigner to france had to work for an additional four years in paris before achieving the grade of master. carpenters' workshops were

ector of the association. overall, the statutes of the german stonecutters provide a gripping description of freemasonry's essential characteristics: builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 177 the associates were divided into masters, journeymen, and apprentices. the governance of the organization was entrusted to certain leaders. the profane was excluded. privileges extended to the sons of masters. their were conditions governing acceptance into the organization. the principals of fraternal equality and mutual aid were primary. procedures were established for specific jurisdiction and how lodge judgments would be handed down. procedures were established for how meetings would be opened and closed. there were established initiation rites and forms of greeting (gruss) and

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

both images. later rationalizations of this myth explained the gold simply as a bribe to dana s guards. zeus in love looking down on the young and beautiful dana incarcerated in her bronze tower, zeus fell in love and was determined to visit her. barred windows although acrisius is said to have loved his daughter dana, he selfishly shut her away behind closed doors in order to save his own life. the sons of zeus and europa z eus and europa (see below) had three sons: minos (see p. 56, hadamanthys, and sarpedon. minos, who had been made heir to the cretan throne by his stepfather asterion, quarreled with his brothers and drove them from the island. as zeus sons, they both became kings elsewhere. rhadamanthys also tutored heracles (see pp. 50 51) and is said to have married heracles mother

y could not hear the sirens seductive chant. odysseus and polyphemus by tibaldi pellegrino (1527 96) odysseus stabs polyphemus in the eye, which bubbles and hisses before winking out. when his neighbors call out to ask who is hurting him, the cyclops shrieks nobody and they do not come to his aid. the cyclopes t he cyclopes were one-eyed giants. the poet hesiod says that there were three of them, the sons of uranus (cronos) and gaia, and that they forged zeus thunderbolts these cyclopes were killed by apollo for the death of asclepius (see p. 39. the ones odysseus meets tend sheep and live on an island now thought to be sicily. landing there, odysseus and his men were shut in a cave by the cyclops polyphemus, who ate several of them. odysseus who told the giant that his name was nobody mad

efore iris, juno s messenger, cut a lock of her hair to release her soul from her body. wrecked ships aeneas and his men were driven ashore at carthage because juno had heard that if they founded a new city it would destroy her own city of carthage. by wrecking them there and bringing dido and aeneas together, she hoped to prevent this. the founding of rome romulus and his twin brother remus were the sons of aeneas descendant rhea silvia, a vestal virgin, and mars (ares, the god of war. at their birth, their mother s evil uncle amulius (who had deposed her father) killed her and threw the boys into the river tiber. luckily, they were carried ashore and cared for by a female wolf until they were found by faustulus, one of the old king s shepherds. when the boys grew up, faustulus told them

so that his sons hunted for food for him. but when they left the camp, he would take weapons and catch his own meat, which he did not share with them. two sons the old man s two sons, the jangala, are described as beautiful young men, who suffered pain and hardship in order to look after their father. they gave him the best of everything to eat, such as the tail of the kangaroo. hunting tracks of the sons the hunting tracks of the sons lead to kirrkirrmanu, where they killed the kangaroo sacred to the old man. fire country dreaming 1988 by dolly nampijinpa daniels and uni nampijinpa martin the story of fire country dreaming is a major myth of the warlpiri people. the version here is taken from the oral account given by uni nampijinpa in 1990. the warlpiri word for the dreaming is jukurrpa

separated the goannas from their wives. since then, the teals have refused to marry the goannas. goanna dreaming by kaapa tjampitjinpa (c. 1920 89) 103 the dreaming continually igniting fire the jangala are chased by a fire always present, always present as they put it out it ate at their feet, their knees, their heads, until their skin was covered in burns (uni nampijinpa martin, 1990) flight of the sons these tracks show the path of the sons flight from the fire. they had both been badly burned, from their feet to their heads; they were in agony and near death. the sons camps these circles mark spots where the sons camped. the horseshoe-shapes indicate the sons. when they slept at night, the fire died down; when they rose, so too did the fire. border here is the border with the country o

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

israel, the l-rd our g-d, the l-rd is one("shma yisrael, havayah elokeinu, havayah echad. it is explained in the talmud that what they were saying was that just as in your heart there is only one (only g-d exists, so too in our hearts there is only one. as explained above, yaakov is tiferet of the world of atzilut, which is totally bound up with the self of g-d. in contrast, the consciousness of the sons of yaakov was in the world of briyah. what they meant was that just as in atzilut "he and his life force (lights) and organs (vessels) are one, likewise, in briyah only g-d exists. in other words, just as before tzimtzum there was "he and his name alone, so too after tzimtzum, there is only he and his name alone, as explained above on the verse "i havayah have not changed. this is also th

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

eal setting for accomplishing their mission, to be a glight to the nations h and disseminate divine consciousness through reality, making the world into g-d fs home. the verse gfor through isaac it will be called for you seed h is understood to mean that abraham fs true seed, the genetic line of the jewish people, is passed on only through isaac, and not through abraham fs other sons, ishmael and the sons of keturah.16 furthermore, the word for gthrough isaac h in this verse can also mean gin isaac, h and this is taken to indicate that only part of isaac fs seed will transmit the genetic line of the jewish people. thus, only jacob plays this role, and not esau, isaac fs other son.17 then, in abraham [g-d] found [a vessel for] all the seed of israel, and the souls that existed before the wo

tohu. saul [shaul, the king of israel was from this manifestation; that is why he died without establishing a dynasty. only david [did this, for he was [the holy manifestation of meheitavel, and ggood looking. h9 meheitavel was the wife of hadar, the eighth king, who did not die, since he was the precursor of the world of tikun. meheitavel means gthe one made good by g-d. h when samuel inspected the sons of jesse, looking for the one g-d intended to be the next king of israel, david was described as being ggood looking. h since saul was derived from the side of binah, which is above the structure [of the seven lower sefirot, he was tall, as it is written, gfrom his shoulder upwards he was above all the people. h10 this is also why the sages said that there was no fault in his kingship, fo

is was in particular because they felt joseph was blemishing the sefirah of yesod, diverting it to the left channel, g-d forbid, by slandering them to their father, this being the antithesis of peace. as we are told in the narrative, gjoseph brought their evil report to their father. h1 rashi notes: ghe told his father that they were eating flesh torn from a live animal, that they made fun of the the sons of the handmaidens [bilhah and zilpah, calling them slaves, and that he suspected them of illicit sexual relations. h in the idiom of our sages, peace is termed the ultimate vessel for containing blessing. this is clear because acrimony will cause any blessings.whether of health, prosperity, or fulfillment.to be squandered. thus, peace is associated with the sefirah of yesod, for yesod is

this power-high assumes sexual proportions in the mind/body of the one doing this, and is therefore a blemish in yesod. 1 genesis 37:2. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 190 thus, it was in reality not joseph who was blemishing yesod but his brothers. by reported their behavior to their father, joseph was in fact trying to safeguard the integrity of yesod. they also derided [their half-brothers] the sons of the handmaidens, and this is clearly a violation of the principle of peace. they called them slaves when they were in fact free men, the opposite of slaves. here again, they were in fact guilty of what they were accusing joseph of. of the twelve brothers, reuben, simeon, levi, judah, isaachar, and zebulun were the sons of jacob fs first wife, leah; joseph and benjamin were the sons of

ly a violation of the principle of peace. they called them slaves when they were in fact free men, the opposite of slaves. here again, they were in fact guilty of what they were accusing joseph of. of the twelve brothers, reuben, simeon, levi, judah, isaachar, and zebulun were the sons of jacob fs first wife, leah; joseph and benjamin were the sons of his second wife, rachel; dan and naftali were the sons of rachel fs handmaiden, bilhah; and gad and asher were the sons of leah fs handmaiden, zilpah. the six sons of leah taunted the four sons of the handmaidens as being slaves by birth, i.e, unworthy of being bonafide members of the holy family. yesod is called geverything, h for it includes all the emotional attributes. in the verse, gyours, o g-d, is the greatness, and the power, and the

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of thy house hath eaten me up" and "i desire to be dissolved and to be with thee" and finally, that not the least vestige of misunderstanding or misconception may remain as to the objects of this divine theurgy, let me reproduce one last quotation from this same ritual. referring to the supemals and the temple that in old time was built on high, the speech adds "the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have

iot of that higher will which is in kether. also it is the peculiar faculty of neschamah to aspire unto that which is beyond. the higher will manifests itself through yechidah. the chiah is the real life principle, as distinct from the more <214> illusionary life of the physical body. the shining flame of the divine fire, the kefher of the body, is the real self of the incarnation. yet but few of the sons of men know it or feel its presence. still less do they believe in or comprehend those higher potencies-angelic, archangelic or divine, of which the manifestation directly touching yechidah is the higher genius. this yechidah in the ordinary man can but rarely act through the spiritual consciousness, seeing that for it to do so the king of the physical body, that is the lower will, must r

e same time with a dark reptilian god associated with typhon (see description of three in one, in "z. 3" he is the accusor, the evil genius, who would bind the candidate's soul in darkness with forces of the qlippoth. in the neophyte initiation the accusor rises from the base of the altar at the time of the soul's greatest danger. during this vulnerable time, four invisible stations attributed to the sons of horus3 protect the vital organs, symbolic of the essential life forces, until after the oath has been taken and judgment has been passed. before the hierophant administers the oath he leaves the throne of the east. the god-form of osiris, represented by the hierophant on the throne, remains there maintaining the balance of forces in the temple. as the hierophant passes between the pill

pth in the place of the gathering waters. terrible was the silence of that untreated world- immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose- they abode not- they hasted away- and in the darkness of vacancy, the spirit moved and the lightbearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness- are not the countenances of darkness fallen with kings? do the sons of the night of time last for ever? and have they not yet passed away? before all things are the watersand the darkness and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form- and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath philosophus ritual 185 was that face ref

ix. v. i (nag hammadi) god names of the quarters the 1 michael armozel bataivah four 2 uriel oroiael iczhikal arch- 3 raphael daveithe raagiosl angels 4 gabriel eleleth edlpmaa 'the seven" 1 uriel the 2 raphael seven 3 raguel in 4 michael the 5 zerachiel presence 6 gabriel 7 remiel the seven thrones (papyri graecae magicae) achlal lalaphenourphen baleeo bolbeo bolbeoch bolbesro yyphtho john dee: the sons of light i ih nr dmal heeoa beigia stimcul note: these lists are meant only as a suggestion for inquiry. h.s. 208 the golden dawn: volume 11 book three e. ofaltarandstand in gradesigns. 2ndad. in s 'vesphi1. incense, makes a cross over it. phil. walks round repeating 04--b 7 words while 2ndad. stands in= sign. phil. returns s. removes shade. 2ndad. takes him to altar, directs him to place

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

m glory: ye are the light of golden candelabra; i am the flame of sacrifice. let us each fulfil our destinies. h having uttered these words, the comet tosses back her burning hair, uplifts her fiery shield and plunges into infinite space, seeming to be lost for ever. thus satan appeared and disappeared in the allegorical narratives of the bible. gnow there was a day, h says the book of job, gwhen the sons of god came to present them selves before the lord, and satan came also among them. and the lord said unto satan: ewhence comest thou? f then satan answered the lord, and said: efrom going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. f h a gnostic gospel, discovered in the east by a learned traveller of our acquaintance, explains the genesis of light to the profit of lucif

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ing gave benefits, mystically signified under words of several [levels or transpositions of] representation. these words, they thought, were introduced by the gods, who knew the nature of things, and were [then] http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (5 of 11 [10/9/2001 12:35:19 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) delivered by them to the first men that lived, who were called the sons of the gods, and giants, as opposed to the filii terrae [who were] idiots and weaklings [these sons of the gods, as immediately formed, and then instructed by them [had the secret commonwealth 65 from] hence the sacred language of their mysteries [which] was believed to have magical force from the gods, to do the deed [required of it. this strong and vigorous force, but secretly conveyed

RUBY TABLET OF SET

n: v2- c32- 1 author: meichael rigby ii date: may xxvi publication: vox tauri vol. xvii #2 subject: roots reading list: invocation of wotan out of the eight outer abgles i call upon thee, mighty father of magic, to fare riding forth upon the back of thy thundering steed from thy seat at the northern star. from out of the fiveangles gate- now flung wide- come forth into the dark light fashioned by the sons and daughters of the world. fare out upon the way of the irminsul, descend to be with me and witness my working here tonight. i hear the hooves of sleipnir pounding, i see thy cloak spreading out over my soul- wrapping me in thy power. thy mighty spear crashes through the air. in this power i am risen up. as thy being brushes over my soul, i call out to thee in thy eldest names: wodhanaz

champion of satan, true son of rosemary. you bore the devil's name, and with pride held the banner of satan's church high. mysterious phantom that came into our lives so long ago (yet so near. we will always love you for your understanding of human depth and reality. so profoundly, yet beautifully did you cast a monstrous shadow over deserving victims of mediocrity. yet you lamented and cherished the sons and daughters who bore the title of satan openly with the essence of their blood. anton- both child and man. no one shall ever fill your throne as you once did, and see what you once saw; and no matter where you go or what you become, the fruits of your glory still live on. guardian of the second coming of satan, anton szandor lavey, magus of the age of satan. classification: v4- c81- 3 a

SATANGEL

wish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and eighty-five thousand men from the army of sennercherib, the assyrian king who threatened jerusalem in 701 b.c. in the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness, which is one of the dead sea scrolls, he is named as the prince of light, who leads a host against belial. in this role he is the viceroy of heaven, which was also the title of lucifer before the fall. there are muslim traditions which describe micha-el as possessing wings the colour of green emerald k covered with saffron hairs, each of them contain

in a kind of inquisition of the celestial beings. he was later reinstated. sari-el also known as suri-el, suriy-el, zerachi-el and sarqu-el, his name translates as god s command. according to enoch, sariel is responsible for the fate of those angels who transgress the laws. with the self contradiction typical of all theologians he also lists him as one of the fallen angels, whilst in the wars of the sons of light against the sons of darkness his name appears on the shields of a unit of the forces of light. he is often identified as one of the angels of death, and as the angel who gave knowledge to moses. ragu-el friend of god, also called rasu-il, rufa-el, akrasi-el. according to enoch this is the angel who takes vengeance upon the world of the luminaries, i.e. who watches over and police

nient way of explaining the events of genesis 6, where the grigori or watchers descend. since, according to official doctrine of the time, angels are sexless and unable to reproduce, such an explanation was required. early commentators claim that nine tenths of the watchers descended, although later these numbers were reversed when it was realised that such a claim gave considerably more force to the sons of darkness than to the sons of light..and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them and said to one another: come let us choose wives from amongst the children of men and beget us children. and all the others together took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and defile themselves with them, and they taught them char

mbere, meaning to lie beneath. female demons who steal men s seed during the night. erotic dreams and sexual vampires. surgat (grimorium verum, honorius. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to open all locks, to locate and transport treasures. sustugriel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches magickal art. he gives good familiars and furnishes mandragores. sut one of the sons of iblis, a demon of the order of flies. tehom hebrew form of the babylonian tiamat, queen of the waters of the deep. the abyss itself (gen 1:2. tiamat (babylon. primordial mother dragon of chaos, defeated by marduk and torn apart to become the earth and the sky. equated with typhon and leviathan. trimasel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, a

ich has no beginning or end; the bornless one. through self-identification with this power, the sorcerer establishes their dominance. the second is a call and recognition of the blood lineage; through the power of lust we are continued. the third identifies the aims of the black magician in achieving dominance and superiority over mankind; a statement of spiritual elitism. the fourth calls out to the sons of pleasure, and bids them to visit the earth. the fifth is a call to the mysteries; the seeking of illumination. the sixth key invokes the power of the luciferian mystery. the seventh is a charge and celebration of glamour and sexuality. the eighth concerns the coming of the new aeon; black magick as a confrontational and subversive path to be effective in the entire circle of our existe

SATANIC BIBLE

m none hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginnings of things are and wax strong, successively adding the numbers of time, and their powers doth stand as the first of the nine! arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth; for i am the lord, your god, which is and liveth forever! in the name of satan, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him among the sons of men! the fifth key the fifth enochian key affirms the satanic placing of traditional priests and wizards upon the earth for the purpose of misdirection (enochian) sapahe zodimii du-i-be, od noasa ta qu-a-nis, adarocahe dorepehal caosagi od faonutas peripesol ta-be-liore. casareme a-me-ipezodi na-zodaretahe afa; od dalugare zodizodope zodelida caosaji tol-toregi; od zod-cahisa esiasacah

SATANIC RITUALS

and who are in accord with my desires. i appear in divers manners to those who are faithful and under my command. i give and take away; i enrich and impoverish; i cause both happiness and misery. i do all this in keeping with the characteristics of each epoch. and none has a right to interfere with my management of affairs. those who oppose me i afflict with disease; but my own shall not die like the sons of adam that are without. none shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to the straight path without a revealed book; i direct aright my beloved and my chosen ones by unseen means. all my teachings are easily applicable t

one shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to the straight path without a revealed book; i direct aright my beloved and my chosen ones by unseen means. all my teachings are easily applicable to all tunes and all conditions. now the sons of adam do not know the state of things that is to come. for this reason they fall into many errors. the beasts of the earth, the birds of heaven, and the fish of the sea are all under the control of my hands. all treasures and hidden things are known to me, and as i desire, i take them from one and bestow them upon another. i reveal my wonders to those who seek them, and in due time my m

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fe which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. and there shall be no more curse; but the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it. this is exemplified in the drawing taken from the 3-8 altar diagram. the twelvemanner of fruits yielded every month answer to the signs of the zodiac and the twelve tribes of the sons of jacob. also to the twelve apostles. the healing leaves are those of schem ha-mephoresch or the divided name of zauir anpin, the microprosopus, the christ, the lamb of elohim, whose throne is in the tree, from which throne issues the river of the waters of life. 3 the seventy two leaves of the tree of life are zauir anpin or microprosopus. now the twelve sons of jacob go down into egypt

ow the twelve sons of jacob go down into egypt, that is the kingdom, malkuth, which has been destroyed in the fall, and cut from the sephirotic tree by the intersecting folds of the great dragon who then becomes its ruler as shown in the great altar diagram of the 4-7 grade. behold, i am against thee, pharoah, king of egypt, the great dragon thai lieth in the midst of the rivers. and the first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated earth the combined power of mercy and severity. and ephraim, the kerubic sign of the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and t

gemini planet: sun degree: 20-25 meaning: fountain of wisdom. psalm 90:13: return 0 tetragrammaton how long! and repent thee concerning thy servants. 66th angel name: menqel sign: gemini planet: sun degree: 25-30 meaning: nourishing all. psalm 38:21: forsake me not 0 tetragrammaton, my god be not thou far from me. 67th angel name: aiael sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 0-5 meaning: delights of the sons of men. psalm 37:4: delight in tetragrammaton, and he shall 26 give the desire of thy heart. 68th angel name: chabeoiah sign: cancer planet: venus degree: 5-10 meaning: most liberal giver. psalm 106:1: 0 give thanks unto tetragrammaton, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. 69th angel name: rohael sign: cancer planet: mercury degree: 10-15 meaning: beholding all. psalm 16:5: tet

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

elationships were ruled by the idea of respect that a son must give to a parent, or what is called filial piety (xiao, and the loyalty (zhong) that a subject gives to his or her ruler. women consistently ranked below men in the model hierarchy, or ladder of authority: a wife owed respect to her husband, sons (and daughters) to their mothers as well as their fathers, and so on down to the wives of the sons, who owed respect to everyone. the ideal ruler, for confucius, should be the model gentleman, who rules by de, or political power achieved through virtue and honesty. the ideas for confucianism grew out of a troubled time in china. the centralized power of the emperor was breaking down, and society in general was suffering because of it. confucius was born during a period known as the zho

o longer have any followers. in addition to orthodox zoroastrianism, which emphasizes the traditional doctrines, or principles, of the religion. the seven sects include the following: 1. zurvanism: zurvanism emerged late in the achaemenid period (700 331 bce. it was based on the belief that because ahura mazda did not create the evil angra mainyu (called ahriman by zurvans, the two must have been the sons of a third figure, zurvan, whose name means time. zurvanism was a pessimistic cult because it believed that zurvan had given ahriman dominion over the world, so the world was inherently evil. zurvanism died out by the seventh century. 2. kshnoon: this movement was begun in india in the early twentieth century by behramshah shroff (1857 1927, and it retains a few members, mostly in mumbai(

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ut this teaches us that the blessed holy one has twelve rods [on high. the word shevet is the same for both tribe and rod] what are they? what is this like? a king had a beautiful fountain. all his brothers has no water other than this fountain, and could not endure thirst. what did he do? he made twelve pipes for the fountain, and named them afters his brothers children. he then said to them, if the sons are as good as their fathers, they will be worthy, and i will let water flow through the pipes. the fathers will then drink all they wish, and so will the sons. but if the sons are not worthy and do not do what is right in my eyes, then regarding this, these pipes will stand. i will give them water only on the condition that they give none to their children, since they do not obey my will

en away for those who fear you [that you have accomplished for those who find shelter in you. what remains for us in that which you have accomplished for those who find shelter in you. these are the ones who find shelter in your shadow in this world, who keep your torah, observe your commandments, and sanctify your name, unifying it secretly and publicly. the verse thus concludes, in the sight of the sons of man. 149. rabbi rahumai said: this teaches us that israel had light. torah is light, as it is written (proverbs 6:23, for a commandment is a lamp, torah is light [and the way of life is the rebuke of admonition. and we say that a lamp is a commandment, illumination (orah) oral torah, and light (or) is the written torah [how can we then say that the oral torah is light (or] because this

e assigned each one a place. he said to them, sit here, one above the other. the lowest one said, i will not sit at the bottom. i do not want to be far from you [the king] replied, i will surround you and see you all day long. this is the meaning of the verse, the whole earth is filled with his glory. why is he among them? this is so that he should support them and sustain them. 172. and what are the sons? i have already told you that the blessed holy one has seven holy forms. all of them have a counterpart in man, as it is written (genesis 9:6, for in the form of god he made man. it is likewise written (genesis 1:27, in the form of god he made him, male and female he made them. this is what they are: the right and left legs; the right and left hands; the body, covenant and head. but these

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

s contained in the dragon-book of essex by andrew d. chumbley. the initiatic edition of this book was privately published in 1997. an edition for outer distribution is in preparation for publication in forthcoming years. the author is the presiding magister of cultus sabbati and preceptor of the uttara kaula sampradaya) andrew d. chumbley 2ofthe seven scrolls children of the black rose, scroll #1 the sons and daughters of lucifer by father nate leved, first church of satan [scroll#1 freedom flight your hand now holds the wisdom of the ages, the map to the gateway of the universe. it is small in size but large in wisdom and knowledge. it is intended to be simple, but do not hold it in contempt as all great wis

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s, two. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen in its general appearance of vhy. once the yv d d vy has emitted that which is male and female, she is then settled, and he covers the mother. and the sons of elohim saw the daughters of adam.115 this is that which is written two men, spies, secretly saying.116 what is daughters of adam? as it is written then came two women, harlots, unto the king.117 on their account it is written for they saw the wisdom of elohim is in him. then came, and not in the beginning. in the wreath of the union of the fountains, there were two embracers from above

into 10,000 years. thus it is written and you have placed upon me your hand.141 the giants were in the earth.142 this is that which is written: and from there it was parted and became four heads.143 from the place whence the garden was parted, it is called the giants, as it is written: and from there it was parted. they were in the earth in those days. but not afterwards. when yehoshua came. and the sons of elohim were hidden,144 when solomon came, and the daughters of adam were contained.145 thus it is written: and the delights of reading tvlnit (not reading tonlym ,ylnit. 17 the sons of adam that were cast out, from these were other spirits of not, contained in the supernal wisdom, thus it is written: and the lord hvhy gave wisdom to solomon.146 and it is written: and he was wise unto a

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

orrow, so wildly blended, which have at intervals diversified my doom, are better than the calm and bloodless tenor of thy solitary way thou, who lovest nothing, hatest nothing, feelest nothing, and walkest the world with the noiseless and joyless footsteps of a dream "you mistake" replied he who had owned the name of mejnour "though i care not for love, and am dead to every passion that agitates the sons of clay, i am not dead to their more serene enjoyments. i carry down the stream of the countless years, not the turbulent desires of youth, but the calm and spiritual delights of age. wisely and deliberately i abandoned youth forever when i separated my lot from men. let us not envy or reproach each other. i would have saved this neapolitan, zanoni (since so it now pleases thee to be call

; till, indeed, the same race that gave its glory to the ancient world bestowed a second youth upon the new. for the pure greeks, the hellenes, whose origin has bewildered your dreaming scholars, were of the same great family as the norman tribe, born to be the lords of the universe, and in no land on earth destined to become the hewers of wood. even the dim traditions of the learned, which bring the sons of hellas from the vast and undetermined territories of northern thrace, to be the victors of the pastoral pelasgi, and the founders of the line of demi-gods; which assign to a population bronzed beneath the suns of the west, the blue-eyed minerva and the yellow-haired achilles (physical characteristics of the north; which introduce, amongst a pastoral people, warlike aristocracies and li

f the raving maniac, or blackens the dungeon of despairing crime, thou art not my vanquisher, but my slave "and as a slave will i serve thee! command thy slave, o beautiful chaldean! hark, the wail of women! hark, the sharp shriek of thy beloved one! death is in thy palace! adon-ai comes not to thy call. only where no cloud of the passion and the flesh veils the eye of the serene intelligence can the sons of the starbeam glide to man. but i can aid thee! hark" and zanoni heard distinctly in his heart, even at that distance from the chamber, the voice of viola calling in delirium on her beloved one "oh, viola, i can save thee not" exclaimed the seer, passionately "my love for thee has made me powerless "not powerless; i can gift thee with the art to save her, i can place healing in thy hand

ragrance. she inhaled the odour, she laved her temples with the liquid, and suddenly her life seemed to spring up from the previous faintness, to spring, to soar, to float, to dilate upon the wings of a bird. the room vanished from her eyes. away, away, over lands and seas and space on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind! upon a stratum, not of this world, stood the world-born shapes of the sons of science, upon an embryo world, upon a crude, wan, attenuated mass of matter, one of the nebulae, which the suns of the myriad systems throw off as they roll round the creator's throne, to become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astro

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logs. and woods decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the temple of god. 109. and among them also the queen of the south, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. and having heard my wisdom, she glorified the god of israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all love in which i instructed her, according to the wisdom imparted to me. and all the sons of israel glorified god. 110. and behold, in those days one of the workmen, of ripe old age, threw himself down before me, and said "king solomon, pity me, because i am old" so i bade him stand up, and said "tell me, old man, all you will" and he answered "i beseech you king, i have an only-born son, and he insults and beats me openly, and plucks out the hair of my head, and threatens me

and i hardened his heart. i am he whom iannes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answered "in the exodus of the sons of israel i hardened the heart of pharaoh. and i excited his heart and that of his ministers. and i caused them to pursue after the children of israel. and pharaoh followed with (me) and all the egyptians. then i was present there, and we followed together. and we all came up upon the red sea. and it came to pass when the children of israel had crossed over, the water returned and hid all

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

hey knew him not! the disciples then understood that jesus was referring to john the baptist. information gained from the dead sea scrolls, which were discovered near qumran in 1947 and are slowly being translated and released to the public, may have a great effect on both the jewish and christian religions. these scrolls refer often to a great teacher of righteousness and a great warfare between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. the qumran sect, known as the essenes, forms a definite link between judaism and christianity, and many scholars have suggested that jesus was a member of the group. the nag-hammadi scrolls, discovered in egypt in 1945, also give a strong indication that jesus may have been an essene, a student of the essenes, or at least closely associated with this apo

rected by a higher order of beings who interacted and communicated with certain humans the smartest, the strongest, the most intellectually flexible. eventually, these select humans produced what might be called demigods, semidivine human beings, who, in turn, could relay instructions from higher intelligences. in effect, steiner may have presented another definition of the children of humans and the sons of god referred to in the book of genesis, the hybrids that the ancient hebrews named nephilim, which does, in fact, mean demigods, men of great renown. steiner went on to speculate that within the larger evolving human race were the descendents of those divine-human hybrid beings, men and women who are animated by higher ideals, who regard themselves as children of a divine, universal po

that the shroud must not be conserved as a painting would be, or else we may destroy the only object on earth which is the blueprint of the future of our cosmos. there have always been critics, skeptics, and disbelievers when it comes to the authenticity of the shroud. even king abgar s second son, manu v, was a doubter, in spite of his father s alleged cure after viewing the face on the shroud. the sons of the byzantine emperor were also skeptics. bishop henri de poitieres of troyes (fl. mid-fourteenth century) vacillated between praising the exhibition in lirey, then trying to have it closed down. his successor, bishop pierre d arcis (fl. latefourteenth century, attempted to stop later showings of the burial cloth in lirey, but the pope ordered him to cease such efforts or face excommun

oint of creating synthetic humans in the same manner. then, vorilhon said, the extraterrestrial being explained that in a manner similar to the greek legend of pygmalion who created a statue so beautiful that he fell in love with it, so did certain of the elohim find the products of their laboratory artistry compellingly irresistible. the results, vorilhon said, were recorded in genesis 6:4: when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. the extraterrestrial told vorilhon that the elohim had sent great prophets, such as moses (c. 14th 13th century b.c.e, ezekial (sixth century b.c.e, the buddha (c. 563 c. 483 b.c.e, and muhammad (c. 570 632 c.e) to guide humankind. jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e

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sty, and the frequency of bathing made medieval europe a place where personal hygiene almost became a forgotten practice of the ancients. even the more well-to-do families took all-over baths only twice a year, in may and october. the biannual bath would take place in a large tub filled with hot water. the father, the head of the household, would be the first to bathe, enjoying clean, warm water. the sons would be next. after all of the men, including any visiting male relatives or guests, had their 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 219 egyptians servants anointed the guest s head with oil and washed their hands. turn, the woman of the house, followed by any female children, wo

oud; the lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire. the prophet daniel was another who described the use of a cloudy chariot for cosmic transportation. other ufo researchers say that if one were to read the creation story in genesis from the historical perspective of our current awareness of genetic engineering, the interaction between the sons of god and the fair daughters of men assumes a rather different interpretation: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men were fair; so they took them wives of all whom they chose. there were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, for the sons of god came in unto

renown (genesis 6:1 4. if those fallen angels of genesis should actually have been extraterrestrial scientists conducting experiments on female members of the developing strain of homo sapiens, they were carrying out a directive of the star gods to provide early humankind with a genetic boost. the hebrew word to describe demigods or men of great renown, those who were said to be the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of men is nephilim. interestingly, the word used to denote true giants, as far as great stature was concerned, was rephaim. the israelites found such giants among the canaanite inhabitants of palestine. among these were the anakims of philisa and the emims of moab. goliath was a gittite, a man of great stature and bulk, but he was not a nephilim. in the apocryphal

was rephaim. the israelites found such giants among the canaanite inhabitants of palestine. among these were the anakims of philisa and the emims of moab. goliath was a gittite, a man of great stature and bulk, but he was not a nephilim. in the apocryphal book of enoch (7:12, one learns more of the nonterrestrial entities who desire the daughters of men for their own interests: it happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that elegant, beautiful daughters were born to them. and when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children. those researchers who believe that the bible contains many passages relating to t h e g a l e e n c y c

in splintered rows. horses and chariots were burned up. the corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they looked other than human. many old traditions speak of a war between the forces of light and darkness that raged in humankind s prehistory. perhaps there were rival extraterrestrial forces that fought for dominance over prehistoric earth. according to some traditions, the sons of light vanquished certain dark magicians who sought to enslave developing humankind. whatever may have caused such a violent conflict, physical evidence exists on earth indicating that someone was exercising power of formidable energy. there are accounts of sand melted into glass in certain desert areas, of hill forts with vitrified portions of stone walls, of the remains of ancient cit

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n, and told him to build a large barge with three interior decks. the barge was to be constructed of wood and sealed with bitumen. its length was to be 300 cubits (about 450 feet, its width 50 cubits (about 75 feet, and its height 30 cubits (about 45 feet. the ark would be able to survive the deluge through which god would wipe out life. the ark held noah fs family.his wife, their three sons, and the sons f wives.and at least two animals from every species to populate the earth again. all the food needed for their survival was provided for them. the ark and its inhabitants survived the deluge by sailing on the floodwaters, and all aboard returned to the land to repopulate the earth after the rain stopped and the water receded. what happened to the ark after it came to rest and all those ab

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te leader should say: behold, i make all things new. and a bell is rung, at the area of the sacred flame, to conclude the rite. if this housle was not for the deceased, then the offerings are left, in reverence and silence, at an appropriate place, on the ground, in natural bodies of water, at the roots of trees, etc. as they are being left, the leader says: as some is taken, so is this given, by the sons and daughters of dame wisdom: for what is taken is truly given and what is given is truly taken the first and last are wed as the serpent s tail and head. renewal is always. here is shown a mystery. a bell is rung as above to conclude the rit 2-1 the holy rosary of the brethren of the r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r this material is private and has been lent to me on

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egained through the return to the celestial origins. o lord of mercy, deign to grant all these souls an eternal rest for a time immemorial and may the light which never dies out radiate upon them. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator adds a larger quantity of incense into the censer, meditates a while and then 24 prays for the wandering souls: o almighty and eternal god, thou who deigned to save the sons of israel from attacks of the fiery serpents during their long wandering of forty years in the desert by merely looking with confidence upon the brazen serpent exposed to the view of all. deign in thy clemency, o lord of mercy, to grant the wandering souls lost in the darkness of beyond, grace so that they may recollect the name of the redeemer and thus escape the attacks and snares of th

y awake in their essence a sorrowful and sincere repentance of this inexpiable crime. may they return forever into their principle8 on the day of the last sabbath, destroyed in their accident but saved at least in their substance, and may they thus, o god eternal, just and powerful, proclaim finally thy glory in a world without end. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator recites now psalm 68 which the sons of israel intoned at the moment of combat, when the ark was being lifted and put on the shoulders of the levites. it applies here to the daemons: let god arise, let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him. as smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of god. but let the righteous be glad

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gain and severed the head of tiamat from its body. and all was silent. remember! marduk victor took the tablets of destiny unbidden hung them around his neck. acclaimed of the elder gods was he. first among the elder ones was he. he split the sundered tiamat in twain and fashioned the heavens and the earth, with a gate to keep the ancient ones without. with a gate whose key is hid forever save to the sons of marduk save to the followers of our master enki first in magick among the gods. from the blood of kingu he fashioned man. he constructed watchtowers for the elder gods fixing their astral bodies as constellations that they may watch the gate of absu the gate of tiamat they watch the gate of kingu they oversee the gate whose guardian is iak sakkak they bind. all the elder powers resist

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e way they do. when the zohar writes that a certain person met rabbi shimon it means that that person rose to the degree of rabbi shimon and because of that can see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when a person climbs to it, he is called by that name. if he attains only a part of that degree he is regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it. he attains its characteristics and sees the creator accordingly. if he climbs higher, the picture that he saw in the previous degree changes too. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one for e

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fires of the sun seek their nourishment and pleasure in the fading sun in the evening. it was azazel who first tasted the flesh of a daughter of man. her skin darkly smooth, beautiful in its innocence and gentle movements, drew him close seeking the warmth of a body. against the natural order conceived by other powers, azazel and his brethren took wives and soon many were giving birth to daemons the sons of fallen angels and the beauty of woman. these giants of the earth were intelligent, bold and strong among mankind. soon hungering for continued existence they taught them and the family of their wives the crafts which we were cultivating instinctually. no longer did many look at the beasts of nature as plagues and terrors, but they listened to their heartbeat and knew their feelings by

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eep problems of psychology, of sex, of the carnal, of the pathic, and of evil, all inter-webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good. and so if we read this strange poet aright, we shall see as we progress onwards, that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of time, fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil, sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of god, sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of eve, daughter of god, child of the mystic man. but we must speed on, taking in this chapter swift glances at the magnificent scenery that these volumes offer up to us, plucking the lilies of spring and the roses of summer, and weave them into a laureate wreath with the fiery leaves of the dying year *the temple of the holy ghost, vol

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in restraint by means of his 'fetters" of the four setefiu gods it is said "those who are in this picture grasp the fetters of the being of two-fold evil, and they say to ra 'come forward, ra, pass onwards, khuti. verily fetters have been laid upon neha-hra, and apep is in his bonds" p. 273 of the twelve other gods who grasp the chain it is said "those who are in this picture [act] as warders of the sons of the helpless one, and they keep guard (over the deadly chain which is in the hidden hand, for the dead bodies are placed with the things [which belong to them] in the circuit of the battlements of khenti-amenti. and these gods say 'let darkness be upon thy face, o uamemti, and ye shall be destroyed, o ye sons of the helpless one, by the hidden hand, which shall cause evils [to come upo

n the hidden hand, for the dead bodies are placed with the things [which belong to them] in the circuit of the battlements of khenti-amenti. and these gods say 'let darkness be upon thy face, o uamemti, and ye shall be destroyed, o ye sons of the helpless one, by the hidden hand, which shall cause evils [to come upon you] by the deadly chain which is in it. seb keepeth ward over your fetters, and the sons of the fetters (i.e, mest, hapi, tuamutef, and qebhsennuf) put upon you the deadly chain. keep ye [your] ward under the reckoning of khenti-amenti" of the children of horus it is said "those who are in this picture make heavy the fetters of the sons of the helpless one, and the boat of the well-doing god travelleth on its way" in the lower register are- 1. twelve male beings, each of whom

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5:30 and lamech lived after he begat noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:31 and all the days of lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 5:32 and noah was five hundred years old: and noah begat shem, ham, and japheth. 6:1 and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 6:2 that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 6:3 and the lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 6:4 there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men, and they bar

days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 in the selfsame day entered noah, and shem, and ham, and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 7:14 they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of li

the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 and the bow shall be in the cloud; and i will look upon it, that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:17 and god said unto noah, this [is] the token of the covenant, which i have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:18 and the sons of noah, that went forth of the ark, were shem, and ham, and japheth: and ham is the father of canaan. 9:19 these [are] the three sons of noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 9:20 and noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 9:21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 9:22 and ham, the father of canaan, saw the nak

be unto his brethren. 9:26 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:27 god shall enlarge japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:28 and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 9:29 and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 10:1 now these [are] the generations of the sons of noah, shem, ham, and japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, and togarmah. 10:4 and the sons of javan; elishah, and tarshish, kittim, and dodanim. 10:5 by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands; every

fter the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, and togarmah. 10:4 and the sons of javan; elishah, and tarshish, kittim, and dodanim. 10:5 by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 10:6 and the sons of ham; cush, and mizraim, and phut, and canaan. 10:7 and the sons of cush; seba, and havilah, and sabtah, and raamah, and sabtechah: and the sons of raamah; sheba, and dedan. 10:8 and cush begat nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 10:9 he was a mighty hunter before the lord: wherefore it is said, even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord. 10:10 and the beginning of h

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uth, and a simple heart. the conclusion of the secret of secrets is, that every one exercise himself in prayer, for those things which he desires, and he shall not suffer a repulse. let not any one despise prayer; for by whom god is prayed unto, to him he both can and will give. now let us acknowledge him the author, from whom let us humbly seek for our 22 desires. a merciful& good father, loveth the sons of desires, as daniel; and sooner heareth us, then we are able to overcome the hardness of our hearts to pray. but he will not that we give holy things to dogs, nor despise and condemn the gifts of his treasury. therefore diligently and often read over and over the first septenary of secrets, and guide and direct thy life and all thy thoughts according to those precepts; and all things sh

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they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap7'(gen. 31:46. it is worth noting that laban calls upon the heap of stones to "be witness* to his personal covenant with jacob. we are not told how many stones were in the heap, but when the prophet elijah erects a similar altar for magical purposes, it is said 'be took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of jacob, unto whom the word of the lord came, saying, israel shall be thy name; and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the lord (1 kings 18:31-2. the words "in the name of the lord" may be an intentional pun, since an altar erected of twelve stones, each of which symbolically represents one of the twelve banners of tetragrammaton, would truly be built in, or more properly o

en the tribes and the zodiac signs is forged that hinges on the double link between the signs and the banners, and between the banners and the tribes. these connections are not arbitrary but are clearly indicated by the numerical structure of the permutations of ihvh. the illustration of the breastplate on the opposite page sets forth the occult correspondences between the banners and the stones, the sons of jacob who stand for the tribes of israel, and the zodiac signs, as this relationship is revealed by the key of tetragrammaton. this set of occult relationships will not be found in books on the kabbalah, which give conflicting assignments of the tribes to the signs of the zodiac, the stones of the breastplate, and the months of the year (see appendix f for the occult correspondences of

assignments of the tribes to the signs of the zodiac, the stones of the breastplate, and the months of the year (see appendix f for the occult correspondences of the banners given by the great renaissance magician, henry cornelius agrippa, in his three books of occult philosophy, to the the tribes, the zodiac signs, the apostles, the months, and the stones. however, it seems reasonable to assign the sons of jacob to the stones of the breastplate in order of their birth. this assignment is provided in the notes to the king james bible for exodus 39:lo-3, and also appears in aryeh kaplan's meditation and the bible (weiser, 1978, p. 143. because of the explicit correspondence presented in the notes of the king james bible between the stones on the breastplate and the twelve tribes, i have no

hath yet numbered, but one; in whom the second beginning of tetragrammaton things are and wax strong; which also successively are the number of time: and their powers are as the first 456. arise, you sons of pleasure, and visit the earth: for i am the lord your god, which is, and liveth. in the name of the creator, move, and show yourselves as pleasant deliverers, that you may praise him amongst the sons of men. analysis of the fourth key this key refers to the spirits of the "second angle" which, moving around the circle of the earth sunwise from the starting point in the east, is the angle of the south. in the third key reference was made to the "corners of your governments" the first corner is that of the east, and the corresponding angle of the great table. the "thunders of increase"

ere the inverse of those that appear in the kabbalah, and in the preceding text dealing with the twelve occult (female) banners of severity and the twelve overt (male) banners of mercy. in the kabbalah it is the left, female side of the sephirothic tree that punishes, and the right, male side that dispenses mercy. however, this apparent contradiction is not as puzzling as might first appear, both the sons of fury and the daughters of justice belong to the left side of the tree. they represent, respectively, the severe justice of punishment and the equitable justice that restores a correct balance. in the familiar statue of blind justice, the sons are represented by the sword in the hand of the goddess justice, while the daughters are the balance. both are contained within the fifth sephira

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ago, in the ages which were before us. there is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after. i the preacher was king over israel in jerusalem. and i applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that god hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. i have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. that which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. i communed with mine own heart, saying, lo, i have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experien

or their is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see god. blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the sons of god. blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you. ye are the salt of the earth:

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erfect cycle of 360 arithmetical degrees of the circle. each sign was further subdivided into three decans. there are many of the learned who believe the twelve sons of jacob and twelve founders of tribes, are allegorical only. we may mention the twelve grand points of masonry, which used to form a part of the lectures in the craft degrees. twelve events in the ceremony of initiation, referred to the sons of jacob, are given by mackey: 1. to reuben was referred the opening of the lodge he was the first-born son. 2. to simeon, the preparation of the land he prepared the destruction of the shechemites. 3. to levi, the report or signal he gave the signal in the attack on the men of shechem. 4. to judah, the entrance of the land that tribe first entered the promised land. numbers--th eir occu

hemes of attribution are given by athanasius kircher and others. that by sir william drummond is- aries to gad, taurus to ephraim, gemini to benjamin, cancer to issachar, leo to judah, virgo to naphtali, libra to asher, scorpio to dan, sagittarius to manasseh, capricorn to zebulun, aquarius to reuben and pisces to simeon and levi. the 12 apostles of jesus were simon, peter, andrew, james and john the sons of zebedee, phillip, bartholomew, thomas, matthew also called levi, james son of alphaeus, judas called lebbaeus and thaddeus, simon the canaanite, and judas iscariot. the venerable bede proposed to rename the signs with the names of the apostles, and a scheme of allotment is to be found in the sphere of marcus manilius, by edward sherburne, london, 1675. see notes and queries, vol. xiv

t 6000 years. 2000 years of disorder; 2000 of the law and 2000 more before messiah should come; but his coming has been delayed by our iniquities. so says the talmudic treatise. sanhedrin, 97. 1. 25,000. according to ezekiel, the mystical city of jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called the holy oblation, and it was for the use of the priests, the sons of zadok. 3.14159. this is the value of pi, the ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle. bode s law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem- take the series of numbers 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott add 4 to each. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 and we obtain 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 the numbers- these show the relation of

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uths "stoop not down" says the oracle "to the darkly splendid world, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth, a descent of seven steps, and therein is 7 of 13 established the throne of an evil and fatal force. stoop not down unto that darkly splendid world, defile not thy brilliant flame with the earthly dress of matter, stoop not down for its splendour is but seeming, it is but the habitation of the sons of the unhappy" no more beautiful formulation of the great truth that the exterior and sensuous life is death to the highest energies of the soul could possibly have been uttered: but to such as by purification and the practice of virtue rendered themselves worthy, encouragement was given, for, we read "the higher powers build up the body of the holy man" the law of karma was as much a fe

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

(ps 69:14)242 the propitious time, et rason, the necessity of which is deduced from the injunction given to aaron, be-zo t yavo aharon el ha-qodesh, through this aaron shall enter into the shrine, offered as a corrective to the lethal misdeed of nadab and abihu, a violation that brought about the interdiction do not come at any time to the shrine, we-al yavo be-khol et el ha-qodesh. but what did the sons of aaron do wrong? the author of this homily assumes that their transgression consisted of trying to join the other moment to the king. to comprehend the import of the expression other moment, et ahra, it is necessary to mull over the meaning of the word et.243 rashbi established the intent of this term when interpreting the expression be-itto in the verse latet okhlam be-itto, to give th

n] for everything, to come close, to be illumined, to be united, as is appropriate, as it is said, but as for me, my prayer is to thee, o lord, at a propitious moment [wa-ani tefillati lekha yhwh et rason (ps 69:14).251 as one might expect from a medieval jewish mystical text, the mixing of unholy and holy has dire consequences. in line with the scriptural maxim of justice as measure-for-measure, the sons of aaron were consumed by the holy fire, shekhinah, the medium that executes divine judgment, for, symbolically, having intercourse with an estranged woman is on a par with offering a strange fire on the altar. yet one may also discern between the lines of the zoharic text recognition of the spiritual proximity and kinship between idolatry and worship, sexual temptation and erotic piety

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f the first seven days of creation unravels some of the mysteries of the functions of the king and prince. for those who want to do more research into this field, i recommend a book called path of the kabbalah by david sheinkin, edited by edward hoffman. sheinkin was a friend and student of rabbi kaplan, whose kabbalistic study ranks him with the very best in his field. the sigils of the "sons of the sons of light" also appear with certain planetary correspondences in agrippa's work. finding the origin of some of these names and sigils is yet another area of research that could be done. while i have drawn from the "sons of light" and the "son of the sons of light" from the holy seal dei aemeth, there are at least two other vertical hierarchies on the seal that are unaccounted for, both in

y forces that directly control the angels of the bonorum. the next set of tablets to be generated from the round tablet of the bonorum can easily be worked out and are shown in figures 67 through 72. angels of the bonorum applied to the first 7 days of creation outside and above the bonorum hierarchy stands king camara and prince hagonel. they are a direct liaison with the ngeis of the dei aemeth the sons of light and the sons of the' 11.8 of light. in their hierarchal order these are: 108 sons of light: ih, isr, dmal, hecoa, beigia, and stimcul. sons of the sons: el, anm ave, liba, rode, hagonel, and ilamese. prince hagonel, in a lower form (that is, through a lower kabbalistic world) is the direct link that binds them to the holy seal. as such, either hagonel or camara can appear on any

he letter b and vice versa. robert turner states that, because the names represented in the seven tablets are what some would consider "evil" this manuscript is not a true rendition, as dee would never have allowed it. i would point out, however, that a number of the names on the seal dei aemeth also have the same distinction if we can trust the works of agrippa (some of the names of the "sons of the sons of light" being one such example) while others do not consider them so. the definition of good and evil, as far as the angelic entities goes, seems to depend entirely on the author of the text one is reading. most if not all of the names given in the seven tablets can be found in old grimoires, such as black magic and pacts by waite, dictionary of angels by gustav davidson, and dictionary

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iverse, even as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world opened the book of life. love and understanding are the motive, the secret and the harmony of that world. we have spoken to you of many hallowings, and i invite you more especially at this stage to remember the turning of the will, which is the deeper meaning of its consecration in the grade of philosophus. this is the sense in which the sons and daughters of the doctrine, who have become familiar by experience with the mysteries of the way, the truth and the life, are declared to be little children that is to say, at the beginning of their initiation. they have graduated in conformity, in the union of the human with the divine will, which is the earnest of the ineffable union. it is the condition of the opening of the eyes, s

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