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hey are there.)visualize them joining together into one large bright star. step 5 at this point the magical worker holds arms straight out with palms facing each other, and about six to ten inches apart. create a ball of light between the palms. once the ball of light is as bright as possible, send it up to the large bright star on the smoke of the incense. as soon as the ball of light joins with the star, visualize the star becoming even brighter. step 6 now say: go to _with light so warm and mild. as it is desired, so shall it be!"step 7 now visualize the person that you are helping. see the light. step 8 99 perform the l.b.r.p. to seal the magical work. note: be sure to record results in your ritual diary for future reference. in the 0=0 grade, we give you a basic tarot spread called th

tion is taken, and if you let things go on their current course. to this card you will want to give serious consideration and interpretation. the card to the right of the reading indicates "what is the probable outcome if i perform__gical act or__ysical act." tis card will tell you karmically, the probable outcome. in addition, it will give you some idea as to the mundane effect. for example, the star card would indicate a very positive outcome both on the physical plane and on the spiritual plane. if in your judgment both cards are equally positive, then the card on the left-hand side of the reading is moved next to the card on the right-hand side of the reading. in other words it is a go. it is significant that by doing a magical ritual or the act, you will have a very positive outco

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

n's splayfoot that worked the treadle, and that of the t.mmpling dame stem]3e or trempe. if we had older and minuter descriptions of' frau berhta' in germany, perhaps this foot would also be mentioned in them (see suppl. it still remains for us to explain her precise connexion with a particular day of the year. it is either on dec. 25 (dies natalis, or twelve days after christmas, on jan, 6, when the star appeared to the three kings (magi, that the christian church celebrates the feast of the manifestation of christ under the name of epiphania (v. ducange, sub v, hdhphania or iheopkania (0. fr. tiephaine, tiphagne. in an ohg. gloss (emm. 394, theophania is rendered giperahta naht, the bright night of the heavenly vision that appeared to the shepherds in the field^ documents of the mid. age

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e heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the seven planets, each with its sevenfold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah, the great supernal mother, aima elohim pouring upon the earth the waters of creation, which unite and form a river at her feet; the river going forth from the supernal eden, which overf

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may be made with pure white paper with convenient colours, and the outward form of it may be either square, circular, or triangular, or of the like sort, according to the rule of the numbers; in which there must be written the divine names, as well general as special. and in the centre of the lamen draw a hexagon7 or character of six corners; in the middle thereof write the name and character of the star, or of the spirit his governor, to whom the good spirit that is to be called is subject. and about this character let there be placed so many characters of five corners, or pentacles,8 as the spirits we would call together at once. but if we should call only one, nevertheless there must be made four pentagons, wherein the name of the spirit or spirits with their characters are to be writt

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ewly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in mendelejeff's table of the periodic law. 17. herschel represents the highest form of the true will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the true will is the sphere which transcends them 'every man and every woman is a star' herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. but herschel is dynamic; herschel is explosive; herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he has his own path. so the niyama which corresponds to this planet is, first and last, the discovery of the true will. this knowledge is secret and most sacred; each of you must incorporate for yourself the incidence and quality of herschel. it is the most important o

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

old eunuch (who was very wise) instructed me in the art of magic and in the worship of the veiled one, whose priestess was i destined. i remember now many things concerning those strange rituals, things too sacred to write. but i will tell of an adventure that i had when i was nine years of age. in one of the sacred books it is written that the secret of that subtle draught which giveth vision of the star-abodes of duant, whose sight is life eternal in freedom and pleasure among the living, lieth in the use of a certain little secret bone that is in the bear of syria. yet how should i a child slay such an one? for they had taken all weapons from me. but in a garden of the city (for we had now returned unto a house in the page 5 gulf.txt suburbs of thebai) was a colony of bears kept by a gr

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

pure silk and lain away until the time for its use. know that marduk appears as a mighty warrior with a long beard and a flaming disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers listed within these pages, and they will surely come. the number of marduk is ten and this is his seal: the god of saturn is ninib called adar, the lord of hunters and of strength. he appears with a crown of horns and a long sword, wearing a lion's skin. he is the final zonei before the terrible igigi. his colour is the darkest black. hi

tion. thou must summon thy watcher and instruct it perfectly in its duties, providing it with a time and a place whereby it may serve thee and surround thee with a flaming sword, in every direction. thy clothing for the walking should be fair, clean and simple, but appropriate to each step. and thou should have with thee the seal of the particular step whereupon thou walkest, which is the seal of the star appertaining thereunto. thou must needs prepare an alter to face the north, having upon it the statues of thine deities, or some such suitable images, an offering bowl, and a brazier. upon the earth should be inscribed the gate appropriate to the walking. if above thee is the sky, so much the better. if there be a roof above thine head, it must be free from all hangings. not even a lamp s

scussed elsewhere (if the gods grant me the time. the only light shall be from the four lamps upon the ground, at each of the four gates of the earth: of the north, one lamp; pf the east, one lamp; of the south, one lamp; and of the west, one lamp. the oil should be pure, with no odour, or else sweet-smelling. the perfumes in the brazier should also be sweet-smelling, or especially appropriate to the star where thou wouldst desire entrance, after the fashion of thy country. the seven gates here follow: this is the first gate the gate of nanna, called sin: this is the second gate, of nebo: this is the third gate, of inanna called ishtar: this is the fourth gate, of shammash, called uddu: this is the fifth gate, of nergal: this is the sixth gate, of lord marduk: this is the seventh gate, of

es on the altar. third, thou must light the four lamps from the flaming brazier, reciting the invocation proper to each of these watchtowers in its proper place, summoning the respective star. fourth, thou must recite the invocation of the watcher, thrusting the sword into the earth at its station, not touching it until it is the appointed time for its departure. fifth, thou must take the seal of the star in thy right hand, and whisper its name softly upon it. sixth, thou must recite the incantation of the walking, loudly, and in a clear voice, as thou walkest about the gate in a circular fashion, beginning at the north and walking to the east, then to the south, and to the west, the number of turns being equal to the special number of the star. seventh, thou must needs arrive back at the

e. watch well the stars. for when comets are to be seen in the neighbourhood of capricornus, his cults will rejoice and the spells will increase from their quarter. and when comets are to be seen in draconis, there is a great danger, for the cults of the dragon do rise up at that time, and make many sacrifices, not only of animals, but of men. and when comets are to be seen in the neighborhood of the star sirius, then there will be great difficulty in the house of kings, and brother will rise up against brother, and there shall be war and famine. and in these things the worshippers of the dog will rejoice, and reap the spoils of these conflicts, and will grow fat. if thou happenest upon such a cult in the midst of their rituals, do but hide well so that they do not see thee, else they will

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

6 [58] commentary( kappa-delta) the hawk is the symbol of sight; the blindworm, of blindness. those who are under the dominion of reason are called blind. in the last paragraph is reasserted the doctrine of chapters 1, 8, 16 and 18. for the meaning of the word hriliu consult liber 418. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 57 [59] 25 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-epsilon the star ruby facing east, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath, closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip. then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly thy breath, cry: alpha-pi-omicron pi-alpha-nu-tau-omicron-c? kappa-alpha-kappa-omicron-delta- alpha-iota-mu-omicron-nu-omicron-c. with the same forefinger touch thy forehead

l impressions, but here is an opposite practice, very much more difficult, in which all are accepted. this cannot be done at all unless one is capable of making dhyana at least on any conceivable thing, at a second's notice; otherwise, the practice would only be ordinary mind-wandering. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 78 [81] 36 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-sigma the star sapphire let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. in the centre, let him give the l.v.x. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of n.o.x. being the signs of puer, vir, puella, mulier. omit the sign i.r. then let him advance to the east, and make the holy hexagram, saying: pater et mater unis

ae nec quatuor nec omnia nec duo nec unus nec nihil sunt. gloria patri et matri et filio et [82] filiae et spiritui sancto externo et spiritui sancto interno ut erat est erit in saecula saeculorum sex in uno per nomen septem in uno ararita. let him then repeat the signs of l.v.x. but not the signs of n.o.x; for it is not he that shall arise in the sign of isis rejoicing. commentary( lambda-sigma) the star sapphire corresponds with the star-ruby of chapter 25; 36 being the square of 6, as 25 is of. this chapter gives the real and perfect ritual of the hexagram. it would be improper to comment further upon an official ritual of the a'.a. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 80 [83] 37 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-zeta dragons thought is the shadow of the eclipse

he very sleep that it induces [101] 46 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta mu-digamma buttons and rosettes book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 98 the cause of sorrow is the desire of the one to the many, or of the many to the one. this also is the cause of joy. but the desire of one to another is all of sorrow; its birth is hunger, and its death satiety. the desire of the moth for the star at least saves him satiety. hunger thou, o man, for the infinite: be insatiable even for the finite; thus at the end shalt thou devour the finite, and become the infinite. be thou more greedy that the shark, more full of yearning than the wind among the pines. the weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiated pilgrim stops. the road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome. do this b

to making the divisions. in paragraph 5 it is shown that this is because of allowing enjoyment to cause forgetfulness of the really important thing. those who allow themselves to wallow in samadhi are sorry for it afterwards. the last paragraph indicaed the precautions to be taken to avoid this. the number 90 is the last paragraph is not merely fact, but symbolism; 90 being the number of tzaddi, the star, looked at in its exoteric sense, as a naked woman, playing by a stream, surrounded by birds and butterflies. the pole-axe is recommended instead of the usual razor, as a more vigorous weapon. one cannot be too severe in checking any faltering in the work, any digression from the path. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 117 [121] 56 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

ear light, and some, though not all, in the dark. i,57: invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise* in ms, the symbol found here is usually interpreted as the hebrew letter tzaddi. i,58: i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. i,59: my incense is of resinous woods& gums; and there is no blood therein: because of m

kings: stamp down the wretched& the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. think not, o king, upon that lie: that thou must die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. now let it be understood: if the body of the king dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. nuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! the sun, strength& sight, light; these are for the servants of the star& the snake. ii,22: i am the snake that giveth knowledge& delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. to worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof i will tell my prophet& be drunk thereof! they shall not harm ye at all. it is a lie, this folly against self. the exposure of innocence is a lie. be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fea

rength of its glory. he that lives long& desires death much is ever the king among the kings. ii,75: aye! listen to the numbers& the words: ii,76: 4 6 3 8 a b k 2 4 a l g m o r 3 y x 24 89 r p s t o v a l. what meaneth this, o prophet? thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. there cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. but remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. ii,77: o be thou proud and mighty among men! ii,78: lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among gods! lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. they shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418. ii,79: the end of

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

the stars: dwell with mortality, and feast thereon. for thou art this day made lord of heaven and of earth. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: o thou that hast a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave the in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star abodes, their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-f-na-khonsu hath joined the dwellers of the light, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living. love is the law, love under will. the benidiction of the all-begetter, all-devourer be upon th bduty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 1 duty by aleister crowley get any book for free on: www.abika.com duty get any book for free on: www

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ings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. think not, o king, upon that lie: that thou must die: verily thou shalt not die, but live! now let it be understood if the body of the king dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. nuit hadit ra-hoor-khuit. the sun, strength and sight, light these are for the servants of the star& the snake" duty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 6 each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. the impersonal universe of "nature" is only an abstraction, approximately tru, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. the universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

toms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and he is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisce

they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged the attributions of the star and emperor based on al i.57. col. xix. transliterations of egyptian names have been left as in the first edition. these differ from both modern transliterations and those employed by early 20th-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or title of this god. hadith in this line (

viii. line 7: iynx: grk, iugx (pl. iuggej, the wryneck: a bird of the woodpecker family which had the misfortune to be used in early greek love magick (hence the attribution; but in the chald an oracles the iunges appear to have been a group of ministering powers who stood between the theurgist and the supreme god (source: lewy, chald an oracles and theurgy, whence they are cited in the ritual of the star ruby. not lynx as it is sometimes misread; nor does it rhyme with sphinx. as noted in the remarks on this column in 777 revised, ac s source here was levi. line 8: monoceros de astris means unicorn from the stars and is a title of the grade of 3 =88 practicus (referred to hod) in the golden dawn. col. xxxix. line 8: anhalonium lewinii is now known by the botanical name lophophora williams

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

lements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv the emperor water d populus j vii the chariot air g puella l viii justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer u xv the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi strength water h rubeus n xiii death air k tristesia x xvii the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv temperence water l laetitia q xviii the moon air c albus z vi the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx the last judgement water c via m xii the hanged man air d fortuna minor a 0 the fool earth (elements) earth (e) caput draconis t xxi the universe (if using t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

so the favorite invocation of the master therion. the shiva sanhita. a famous hindu treatise on certain physical practices. the hathayoga pradipika. similar to the shiva sanhita. erdmann's "history of philosophy. a compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. most valuable as a general education of the mind. 209 the spiritual guide of molinos. a simple manual of christian mysticism. the star of the west (captain fuller) an introduction to the study of the works of aleister crowley. the dhammapada (s.b.e. series, oxford university press) the best of the buddhist classics. the questions of king milinda (s.b.e. series) technical points of buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues. varieties of religious experience (james) valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment

nstruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. equinox vi, p. 9 "liber xvii. liber i.a.o" gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts. unpublished. it is the active form of liber ccclxi "liber xxi. the classic of purity" by ko hsuen. a new translation from the chinese by the master therion. unpublished "liber xxv. the ritual of the star ruby" an improved form of the lesser ritual of the pentagram, liber cccxxxiii, the book of lies, pp. 34& 35. also appendix vi of this book "liber xxvii. liber trigrammaton, being a book of trigrams of the mutations of the tao with the yin and yang" an account of the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of dzyan in another system. unpublished "liber xxx "liber librae" an elementary

the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of dzyan in another system. unpublished "liber xxx "liber librae" an elementary course of morality suitable for the average man. equinox i, p. 17 "liber xxxiii" an account of a. a. first written in the language of his 217 period by the councillor von eckartshausen and now revised and rewritten in the universal cipher. equinox i, p. 4 "liber xxxvi. the star sapphire" an improved ritual of the hexagram. liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, p.p. 46& 7, and appendix vi of this book "liber xli. thien tao" an essay on attainment by the way of equilibrium. knox om pax, p. 52 "liber xliv "the mass of the phoenix" a ritual of the law. liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, pp. 57-7, and appendix vi in this book "liber xlvi "the key of the mysteries" a tra

ight- behold within, and not above, one star in sight! one star in sight. a glimpse of the structure and system of the great white brotherhood. a. a<order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. certain swindlers have recently stolen the initials a. a. in order to profit by its reputation. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. the order of the star called s. s. is, in respect of its existence upon the earth, an organized body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. they exist in their own truth, which is both universal and unique. 230 they move in accordance with their own wills, which are each unique, yet coherent with the universal will. they perceive (that is, understand, know, and fee

seek him. nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be 262 torn asunder by the maenads of his insensate impulses; he hath no safety save he himself be bacchus! bacchus, divine and human! bacchus, begotten on semele of zeus, the adulterous lord of thunder ravishing, brutally, his virginal victim! bacchus, babe hidden from hate in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the channel of the star-spate, whereof one serpent is thy soul! bacchus, twyformed, man-woman, bacchus, whose innocence tames the tiger, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to the madness of murder! bacchus, thy thyrsus oozes sap; thine ivy clings to it; thy lionskin slips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissome loins; drunk on delight of the godly grape, tho

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

lt qabalistically backwards? and what is this bone? the bone is the wand, the holy lingam! the complete interpretation of the rune is now open. this rime is the legend of the murder of osiris by typhon. the limbs of osiris were scattered in the nile. isis sought them in every corner of the universe, and she found all except his sacred lingam, which was not found until quite recently (vide fuller, the star in the west. let us take another example from this rich storehouse of magick lore. little bo peep she lost her sheep, and couldn't tell where to find them. leave them alone! and they'll come home, dragging their tails behind them "bo" is the root meaning light, from which spring such words as bo-tree, bodhisattva, and buddha. and "peep" is apep, the serpent apophis. this poem therefore co

isunderstanding of the nature of the latter. dr. dee's "sigillum dei amath" makes a fine pantacle, but it would be useless as a lamen, eliphas levi made several attempts to draw one or the other, he never seemed sure which. fortunately he knows better now. the lamens given in the lesser and greater keys of "solomon" are rather better, but we know of no perfect example. the design on the cover of "the star in the west" represents an early effort of fra. p> in this lamen the magician must place the secret keys of his power. the pentacle is merely the material to be worked upon, gathered together and harmonized but not yet in operation, the parts of the engine arranged for use, or even put together, but not yet set in motion. in the lamen these forces are already at work; even accomplishment

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ture h (see s.d. 1:38-39: thickness, cloud; aub b( revolving; transmigration lwglg 73 chokmah: wisdom hmkx gimel: a camel lmg to trust in, shelter in hsx a day of feast bw+ mwy a title of chokmah hmxk 74 lamed: an ox-goad dml a leader, chief, judge nyyd worn-out; beggars mykd a circuit; roundabout bybs all the way, duration; eternity; booty; witness, proof; ruler d( knowledge (cf. 474 (d 75 nuit, the star goddess (cf. 466 +ywn hues, colours, complexions ynwwg brightness; lucifer, the herald star llyh a lamenting, wailing hlly the pleiades hmyk night; by night hlyl priest nhk unto them mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; desti

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE GREATER RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

.say slowly, and very forcibly, in a low voice: ardent and awful on my right rage ratziel and tzadkiel. red raphael on his burning throne guards me behind: with magian might dread khamael and tzaphkiel war on my left: the avengers own before me flaming out alone the majesty of metatron! for around me in six several ways the fivefold sword-stars beat and blaze; while in the column shines and slays the star that hath eleven rays. abrahadabra! bell. rise and give the threefold sign, remaining in the sign of apophis- typhon to invoke whatever force thou wishest to invoke. bell repeat all of part i, and then forcibly say: by bes-na-maut my breast i beat; by wise ta-nech i weave my spell. show thy star-splendour, o nuit! bid me within thine house to dwell, o winged snake of light, hadit! abide w

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

pyramidal hill of stark black rock? i am too weary to turn my head to look. all of a sudden, far behind me, far beyond that crest, if it be one, rings out a voice, clear, firm, courageous, confident. it is a soldier's voice, the accent of command, the valour of manhood. none can mistake- i am assured- that ringing call. truth, victory, in each trumpet tone: listen! vox. the captain cries "behold, the star in the west" instant on that comes silence. but among us the sudden stirring warns me that not all were sleeping; that there were watchers like myself, men more intent than i. i hear a murmur on my left. i catch three words "the zero hour" they call me back to myself: i know now that i am one of a great army- an army baffled and broken, but yet in being. sharp comes a whisper of swift abs

who had heard the voice of the young captain: for the sleep of all but the youngest and strongest was the sleep of death. even of these the fate was ill indeed; for their minds had been distraught by the bitterness of their hearts. so, when they noted the voice, they mocked. i heard "a star in the west. what folly" or "that is no voice of any leader of ours" or "star in the west? beware: that is the star called wormwood" then, presently, from the blind land behind the mountain, comes one heavy groan, then the sound of a fall, made vile by a titter of malignant tinkling laughter. the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 4 there follow ghoulish wailings. the mystery, the evil darkness of these incoherent cries, sets my teeth on edge with horror. and yet i cannot give

is: all these poor dead men that lay about me had been slain by their own fear, their fault of faith in deeming that the sun- or any star- could die. and now i, who had only felt the fear of that figure, feel the fascination. i understand that he- whoever, whatever he may be- is he for whom we all so long had waited. as i fix my eyes upon it, i become aware that its blackness against the light of the star is only relative; and as i gain confidence in my sight, that darkness goes. the figure is a prism of pure crystal- it is the distortion and interference with the light it transmits which caused those phantoms of terror to dance their witches' sabbath on the moving miasma. and now i am drawn swiftly up by some invisible force; sucked by some vortex towards the hill and now i face him as he

ortion and interference with the light it transmits which caused those phantoms of terror to dance their witches' sabbath on the moving miasma. and now i am drawn swiftly up by some invisible force; sucked by some vortex towards the hill and now i face him as he stands above me. homo his head is slightly bowed as if he brooded some delight. he wears a helm of ruddy gold, radiant with the light of the star. in the midst of his brows is a black diamond in a circlet of ruby and emerald, set in pure mother-of-pearl, so that it seems the eye of some unknown, some unknowable god. this eye has no lid. but his two human eyes are still half-closed, as if in worship or in wonder of rapture. his arms are folded on his breast: upon his corslet is the golden image of the sun. in his right hand is a rod

ike a golden rose, with curling locks and ruddy, and her breasts were of bright ivory, and her gait the gait of a young lioness. upon her brows flamed a star sapphire, and on her cheek was a stark scar, a circle deep and splendid. in whose hands was a writing; and smiling she put it into mine. now i knew not by what name to thank her for this courtesy: which understanding, she told me "my name is the star of the north" and this was the proclamation: to man do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. my term of office upon the earth being come in the year of the foundation of the theosophical society, i took upon myself, in my turn, the sin of the whole world, that the prophecies might be fulfilled, so that mankind may take the next step from the magical formula of osiris to that of ho

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certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice" is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the slave-gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of "sin" wearily seeking or simulating wearisom and tedious "virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star-goddess "i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me" and thus she ends "sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-li

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rule for every man or woman by which they may enjoy, in perfection, their sexual life and make it what it rightly is, the holiest part of the religious life, i say 'holiest' because it redeems even physical grossness to partake with spiritual saintship, the intention of this book of the law is perfectly simple. whatever your sexual predelictions may be, you are free, by the law of thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. it is not indicated here in this text, thought it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns that you have mistaken your true will, and this, if you should imagine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. it may, therefore, be considered improper, as a general rule, for your sexual gratification to destroy, deform, or

odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and no less than one continuous sacrament. you have no word but her praise, no thought but love of her. you have only one cry, of inarticulate ecstasy, the intense spasm, possession of her, and death, to her. you have no act but the priest's gesture that makes your body hers. the wafer is the disk of the sun, the star in her body. your blood is split from your heart with every beat of your pulse into her cup. it is the wine of her life crushed from the grapes of your sun-ripened vine. on this wine you are drunk. it washes your corpse that is as the fragment of the host, broken by you, the priest, into her golden chalice. you, knight and priest of the order of the temple, saying her mass, become god in

ation" is the representation of truth by word. al i,57 "invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise *in ms, a mark in this place is commonly read as the hebrew letter tzaddi. the old comment 57 "invoke me" etc. i take literally. see liber nv for this ritual. love under will- no casual pagan love; not love under fear, as the christians do. but love magically directed and used as a spiritual formula. the fools (not here implying

hee as thou goest, transcendental in joy and in splendour; and thy light is as a beacon to them that wander afar, strayed in the night. amoun" the "old comment" covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose. i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to 'the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and he is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this book to those who have laboure

ut i soon understood that what i had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering humanity; that i had experienced in my own person the succession of winged victories that had been sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be summed up in some such trite expression as "beauty depends upon form. it would be quite impracticable to go fully into the subject of this vision of the star-sponge, if only because its ramifications are omniform. it must suffice to reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for the last five years, and to remind the reader that the essential form of it is "nothingness with twinkles. i conclude this note, therefore, by quoting certain chapters of liber aleph, in which i have described various cognate forms of the vision "de gramin

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is hidden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yu. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades) truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers, with all these methods one ought to be able to make everythin

self as the ego who posits the non-ego (fichte) he hates this magus. it is only the beginner who regards this magus as the wonder-worker as the thing he wants to be. for the adept such little consolation as he may win is rather to be found be regarding the magus as b= mercury= 8= ch= 418= 60 if we accept the reversal of the tarot attributions of h and x this latter part should perhaps read= 5= h= the star= xvii= 17= the swastika= a= the fool= 0. t.s. liber lviii 35 abrahadabra, the great word, the word of double power in the voice of the master which unites the 5 and the 6, the rose and the cross, the circle and the square. and also b is the path from binah to kether; but that is only important for him who is already in binah, the master of the temple. he finds no satisfaction in contempla

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cherous. sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and religion opinions veer; but if shakespeare was a leader of thought, he saw through the humbug of the star-gazers; if not, he was a credulous fool; not the one man of his time, not a debauched genius (for sir r. burton in this phrase has in a sense anticipated my discovery) but a mere elizabethan. this the greatest poet of all time? then we must believe that gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of lear! observe that before this shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic

s won on its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23 sir j. maundevill, voiage and travill, ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34 i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25 in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished t.s] notes 67 149. ra.26 the sun-god. 149. nuit.27 the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28 the waters wild went o er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29 characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30 see two poets of croisic, xci. 159. a jest.31 see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32 god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. intentional speci

heatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right mar

by lightning: it was no house wherein our father might abide. but there he must abide. to destroy it i am come, he said. and through he passed out therewithal, yet twas his home until he had attained. so at last he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the river from two vessels of pure water. she-devil, he cried, have i gone back one step? for the star venus burned above. and with his sword he clave her from the head to the feet, that she fell clean asunder. cried the echo: ah! thou hast slain hope now! our father gladdened at appendix ii 112 adest rosa secreta eros. hermaphroditus. mors janua vitae. adeptus. terrae ultor anima terrae. that word, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should now be ill. and

past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four ye

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nh user" by a. crowley "the upanishads "the bhagavad-gita "the voice of the silence "raja yoga" by swami vivek nanda "the shiva sanhita" 32 "the aphorisms of patanjali "the sword of song "the book of the dead "rituel et dogme de la haute magie "the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage "the goetia "the hathayoga pradipika" erdmann's "history of philosophy "the spiritual guide of molinos "the star in the west (captain fuller "the dhammapada [s.b.e. series, oxford university press "the questions of king milinda [s.b.e. series "777. vel prolegomena &c "varieties of religious experience (james "kabbala denudata "knox om pax" 3. careful study of these books will enable the pupil to speak in the language of his master and facilitate communication with him. 4. the pupil should endeavour

ted star) in a ring is directly below the serpent's head, situated such that the tongue of the serpent frames the upper arc of the ring and the head of the serpent appears in medium coeli like a nemesis above the wheel of fortune. the ring is divided into twelve silver and twelve brown-gold bands, with a red zodiacal symbol over each gold and silver band, gold to widdershins and silver to deosil. the star in the center points to each symbol. aries is at top and the rest proceed deosil around the ring. in center is a star surmounted by the eye in the triangle. the star is in two modes: a large gold star of six narrow points with point to top is on top of a smaller silver star of six narrow points with two points dead horizontal. the silver star and the gold star create a sort of compass ros

i see your destiny- how thin a 101 thread links you to that mighty brotherhood of the silver star whose trembling neophyte i am- how twisted and thick are the tentacles of the black octopus whom you now serve. ah! wrench yourself away while you are yet linked with us: i would not that you sank into the ineffable slime. blind and bestial are the worms of the slime: come to me, and by the faith of the star, i will save you" the girl put him by with a light laugh "i came" she said "but to chatter about clairvoyance- why do you threat me with these strange and awful words "because i see that to-day may decide all for you. will you come with me into the white temple, while i administer the vows? or will you enter the black temple, and swear away your soul "oh really" she said "you are too sill

night& day. 163) and from that place are cast out all the lords who are the exactors of the debts of man- kind, and they are subjugated "the greater holy assembly "xx. 440. 164 illustration on this page: this is a nine-pointed star, unicursal in design, with the points filled in by black triangle wedges about 1/16 inch from the outline. the unicrusality is such that lines connecting the points of the star pass centerward of three points in every instance. the center is occupied by a white disk such that the circumference of the disk is 1/16 inch larger than a disk coterminus with the inner angles of the points of the outer star. this disk completely obscures the continuations of the lines which make the noneagram unicursal, but the inner angles complete themselves upon it. the white disk c

lay me with kisses, burn me in the fire of thy kingdom, o slay me with the sword of thy rapture" then i cried unto her in a loud voice saying "o queen of the lusts of flesh! o queen of the lands haunted by satyrs! o mistress of night! o mother of the mysteries of birth and death! who art girt in the flames of passion, and jewelled with emerald, and moonstone, and chrysoleth. lo! on thy brow burns the star-sapphire of heaven, thy girdle is as the serpent of eden, and round thine ankles chatter the rubies and garnets of hell. hearken, o lilith! o sorceress of the blood of life! my lips are for those who suckle not good, and my kisses for those who cherish not evil. and my kingdom is for the children of light who trample under foot the garment of shame, and rend from their loins the sackcloth

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the two lands with rays of turquoise and beryl, and sapphire, and amethyst; for lord of love, lord of life, lord of immensity, lord of everlastingness is thy name. thou hast become as a tower of effulgence, whose foundations are set in the hearts of me, yea! as a mountain of chrysoleth slumbering in the crown of glory! whose summit is god! 229 [book ii "the scaffolding" will appear in no. 2] f_ the star in the west by captain j. f. c. fuller "fourth large edition now in preparation" through the equinox and all booksellers six shillings net- a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they ar

idden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) nvn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death. smk. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. oin. the secret of generation is death. ph. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. tzdi. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary. qvp. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. rish. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. shin. resurrection is hidden in death. thv. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades) truly there is no en to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers "with all these methods one ought to be able to make every

ar a chalice of lilies under the moon "i bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon" light is no more; oh! let us swoon and die! and the secret way is starlit, star-bestrewn, star-guarded, star-set under the starry moon! is there no way but this beneath the sky? oh, moon of eld, ah! shall we die or swoon? o rose eclipsed, o rose, my rose of roses, the night is pale to death; the lyre reposes under the star-shot glamour of the moon and all her palest roses. victor b. neuburg. 124 the vixen "to and from n. i. l. b. w" patricia fleming threw the reins to a groom, and ran up the steps into the great house, her thin lips white with rage. lord eyre followed her heavily "i'll be down in half an hour" she laughed merrily "tell dawson to bring you a drink" then she went straight through the house, h

ge soul raises, thirsting yet for the life that is done! sharp as rocks where strong billows have thundered, calm as seas where strange tempests have run, strong as death; were the derelicts sundered feed the soul without hope, which is one. in the vault of the infinite spaces, by the moon of a mirrorless sea, i lie, while eternity races- dream-bound in the visions of me. see poppied lips pale in the star-light, the lustiest swoon at my breath, till the were-wolves howl- ho 'tis the far light- even so- i caress- it is death! ethel archer. 143 the big stick a dreamer's tales. by lord dunsany. lord dunsany's prose is like baudelaire's. i can only criticise five of these tales; for the others i have not yet read forty times "poltarnees" is the best tale ever written of the lure of the sea. i

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the figure of our lady nuit, and beneath her is the flaming winged disk, and below the altar of ra-hoor-khuit, even as it is upon the stele of revealing. but below is the supine figure of seb, into whom is concentrated all that clotted blood. and there comes a voice: it is the dawn of the aeon. the aeons of cursing are passed away. force and fire, strength and sight, these are for the servants of the star and the snake. and now i seem to be lying in the desert, exhausted. the desert, near sidi aissa "november" 25, 1909. 1.10- 2 p.m. the cry of the 25th aethyr, which is called vti there is nothing in the stone but the pale gold of the rosy cross. now there comes an angel with bright wings, that is the angel of the 25th aire. and all the aire is a dark olive about 21 him, like an alexandrite

kufa ananael laiada i maelpereji nonuka afafa adarepeheta peregi aladi niisa niisa lape ol zodir idoian. and i said: odo kikale qaa. why art thou hidden from me, whom i hear? and the voice answered and said unto me: hearing is of the spirit alone. thou art a partaker of the five-fold mystery. thou must roll up the ten divine ones like a scroll, and fashion therefrom a star. yet must thou blot out the star in the heart of hadit. 26 for the blood of my heart is like a warm bath of myrrh and ambergris; bathe thyself therein. the blood of my heart is all gathered upon my lips if i kiss thee, burns in my fingertips if i caress thee, burns in my womb when thou art caught up into my bed. mighty are the stars; mighty is the sun; mighty is the moon; mighty is the voice of the ever-living one, and t

e lust of the flesh, and the raven for the lust of the mind; but me did he choose above all to simulate the pure prompting of the soul. them that are fallen a prey to the wolf and the raven i have not scathed; but them that have rejected me, i have given over to the 4 this night i took the shew-stone to my breast to sleep, and immediately a dhyana arose of the sun, seen more clearly afterwards as the star. exceeding was its brilliance. wrath of the raven and the wolf. and the jaws of the one have torn them, and the 43 beak of the other has devoured the corpse. therefore is my flag white, because i have left nothing upon the earth alive. i have feasted myself on the blood of the saints, but i am not suspected of men to be their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not th

e ancient tower is shattered by the lord of the flame and the lightning. and they that walk upon their hands shall build the holy place. blessed are they who have turned the eye of hoor unto the zenith, for they shall be filled with the vigour of the goat. all that was ordered and stable is shaken. the aeon of 61 wonders is come. like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the star and of the snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. for why? because the lord of righteousness delighteth in them. the prophets shall prophesy monstrous things, and the wizards shall perform monstrous things. the sorceress shall be desired of all men, and the enchanter shall rule the earth. blessing unto the name of the beast, for he hath let loose a mighty flood of

gether my chariots and my horsemen and my ships of war. by sea and land shall my armies and my navies encompass it, and i will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall i be utterly devoured. many lying spirits have i sent into the world that my aeon might be established, and they shall be all overthrown. great is the beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant of the star and of the snake. he is the eternal one; he is the almighty one. blessed are they upon whom he shall look with favour, for nothing shall stand before his face. accursed are they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world he shall reveal unto his chosen. and they shall hav

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ant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. 134 the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath parted from the darkling crowds, hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star-abodes; their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living. amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v.x

who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. we follow their fortunes breathlessly. descriptions as vivid as any mr. upton sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. we must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love story of rudoplh and elsie, a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarely to be found in fiction. the star in the west by captain j. f. c. fuller "fourth large edition now in preparation" through all booksellers six shillings net a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excit

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7. cancer. hb:chet. chariot. 18th. 11. leo. hb:tet. strength. 19th. 9. virgo. hb:yod. hermit. 20th. 10. jupiter. hb:koph. wheel of fortune. 21st. 8. libra. hb:lamed. justice. 22nd. 12. water. hb:mem. hanged man. 23rd. 13. scorpio. hb:nun. death. 24th. 14. sagittarius. hb:samekh. temperance. 25th. 15. capricorn. hb:ayin. the devil. 26th. 16. mars. hb:peh. the tower. 27th. 17. aquarius. hb:tzaddi. the star. 28th. 18. pisces. hb:qof. the moon. 29th. 19. sun. hb:resh. the sun. 30th. 20. dee. hb:shin. the angel. 31st. 21. saturn. hb:taw. the universe. 32nd. the two veils are represented in the drawing by heavy horizontal lines, and here by shaded lines, with the text included in the approximation below. 10 =1 kether .ipsissimus 12th .11th. 8 =3. 9 =2 binah. 14th chokmah magister..magus templi

s apex is the word hb:taw hb:aleph (ath) composed of the first and last letters of the alphabet, it signifies essence. the square base represents the material universe. and then the seventeenth key of the tarot: this key represents a star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the divine name eheieh. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog-star, the star of isis-sothis. around it are the seven planets. the nude figure 279 is the synthesis of isis, nephthys, and hathoor. she is aima, binah, and tebunah, the great supernal mother aima elohim pouring upon earth the waters of creation. in this key she is completely unveiled, whilst in the twenty-first she was only partially so. the two urns contain the influences of chokhmah and binah. on the

versal testimony that he believed in the impossibility of the resurrection. supposing such an occurrence was proved, what would follow? must we deny evidence, or renounce reason? it would be absurd to say so. we should simply infer that we were wrong in supposing resurrection to be impossible- e. l vi "the doctrine of transcendent magic" pp. 121, 158, also p. 192 "also see" capt. j. f. c. fuller "the star in the west" pp. 273- 284. 30 as opposed to "free thinker" 31 not "there is not a god "for us" because we have no experience of a god" which, so long as they had no such experience, would be correct. 32 whatever is intelligible and can be distinctly conceived implies no contradiction, and can never be proved false by any demonstration, argument, or abstract reasoning "a priori- hume, iv

kam. i thereupon interposed, ordering him to make the sign of the qabalistic cross, which, however, he could not do"'what god do you worship' i asked"'alas! i have no god' he answered. thereupon i allowed jokam to seize him, and re-entering the cave they sank, uttering most heart-rending yells of agony "as i once again approached the lake, a great albatross rose from the water, and as she did so, the star fell away from me, and a multitude of birds surrounded me and took me back to the garret which i first visited "for this i was very grateful, and on seeing that i had returned, the adept came forward and took my hand, saying 'go on' at which words i felt that a great strength had been imparted to me "i then asked him about 'abramelin' of whose operation 311 i at this time contemplated the

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rtant "a priori" corollary "that matter can neither be created nor destroyed (p. 35. if, however, it can be destroyed, as gustave le bon has attempted to prove, what becomes of the "a priority" of causality? nay, further, of the "a priority" of the transcendental aesthetic itself- of time and of space, the fundamental sensual perceptions of kant's system? must we agree with the learned author of "the star in the west" that kant, after having for a hundred years lost his way in "the night of hume's ignorance" has at length fallen victim to his own verbosity, and has indeed sadly scorched "his fundamental basis? the literary guide and rationalist review, 1908-9. monthly, 2"d. of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of sir francis d

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even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. now their numeration is 41, yielding by gematria aleph-yod-lamed= force: might: power: gemel-aleph-vau-aleph-lamed, divine majesty: and aleph-chet-lamed-bet= fecundity, all symbolic of the attributes of the dual polar force and mother. moreover, 4+ 1= 5= hb:heh, mother supernal once again- and in its geometric symbol the pentagram- the star of unconquered will. add the next two letters on either side, yod-memfinal-aleph-taw and we get earth-air-water-fire, or a concealed tetragrammaton. and this also reads yod-memfinal, the great sea, aleph-taw, alpha and omega, or essence. add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained; and we read heh-yod-memfinal-aleph-taw-heh, which signifies heh-yod-memfinal, swollen, ex

cover the shaming of seb! fling the wide veil, o nuit, on the shame- shame from the knowledge and unto the name- hide it, o hide it, in flowers of flame! now in the balance of infinite things stirs not a feather; the universe swings poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. surely the sable osirian bird sole in the aether shall utter the word now that its crying can never be heard! 192 iv see how the star of the universe blazes! millions of meteors in marvellous mazes mingle their magic of peony praises. oh! the dark streak on the heart of its flood! smitten is the star, and its poisonous blood drips through the race of the luminous scud. poison and poison and poison! i quiver, drenched with the hate of the horrible river- o but the stars of it stagger and shiver! leave me in peace, o disa

tten is the star, and its poisonous blood drips through the race of the luminous scud. poison and poison and poison! i quiver, drenched with the hate of the horrible river- o but the stars of it stagger and shiver! leave me in peace, o disaster of light! leave me to solitude, leave me to night! is there no moon to enkindle the height? v see how the moon with her amrita dews drinks up the death of the star, and renews life in cascades of peonian hues! nay, but she curves to arise, to increase; glamour on glamour to sicken and cease. how shall the warrior wing to the peace? fade, o thou moon, in thy magical bark! sink in the ocean thy silvery spark! leave me, ah leave me alone in the dark! 193 art thou not burnt in the fire of my will? see, by the flashes that crimson and kill i am the maste

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where is a golden sun of six rays. note the reflection of the yonis to the triad about malkuth. also note that the triangle of yonis is hidden, even as their links are secret. from malkuth depends the greek cross of the zodiac and their spiritual centre (fig. 2. for colour scales see 777< 11_ rho 1alpha omega_ 2_ 3* 6_ 9/ 4 8 /10\ 7 5 /13\ 12" represents a six-fold star, points to top and bottom. the star is formed by a line inside which are six diamond shapes making a pointed petal star to the center. a. a. publication in class a a note upon liber dcccclxiii 1. let the student recite this book, particularly the 169 adorations, unto his star as it ariseth. 2. let him seek out diligently in the sky his star; let him travel thereunto in his shell; let him adore it unceasingly from its rising

ords of leaping fire, urge us onward to the wild slaughter of the worlds. 4. o thou sovran might of the most ancient forests, whose voice is as the murmur of unappeasable winds caught up in the arms of the swaying branches. i know thee! o 19 thou rumble of conquering drums, who lulleth to a rapture of deep sleep those lovers who burn into each other, flame to fine flame. 5. o thou sovran guide of the star-wheeling circles, the soles of whose feet smith plumes of golden fire from the outermost annihilation of the abyss. i know thee! o thou crimson sword of destruction, who chasest the comets from the dark bed of night, till they speed before thee as serpent tongues of flame. 6. o thou sovran archer of the darksome regions, who shooteth forth from thy transcendental crossbow the many-rayed s

verlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 47 the chapter known as pisces the twelvefold bewilderment of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve bewilderments and by the unity thereof. 1. o what art thou, o god my god, thou snow-browed storm that art whirled up in clouds of flame? o thou red sword of the thunder! thou great blue river of ever-flowing brightness, over whose breasts creep the star-bannered vessels of night! o how can i plunge within thine inscrutable depths, and yet with open eye be lost in the pearly foam of thine oblivion? 2. o what art thou, o god my god, thou eternal incarnating immortal one? o thou welder of life and death! thou whose breasts are as the full breasts of a mother, yet in thy hand thou carriest the sword of destruction! o how can i cleave the shi

hou perfect nothingness of bliss! 6. o thou unity of all things: as the cloud that flitteth across the white horns of the moon, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot pierce thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i tangle thee in a witch-gossamer of starlight, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 7. o thou unity of all things: as the star that travelleth along its appointed course, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot rule thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i hunt thee across the blue heavens as a lost comet, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 8. o thou unity of all things: as the lightning that lurketh in the heart of the thunder, so art thou, o g

evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unfolder of heaven, red-winged as an eagle at sunrise! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou curling tongue of red flame, athirst on the nipple of my passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou outrider of the sun, that spurrest the bloody flanks of the wind! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dancer with gilded nails, that unbraidest the star-hair of the night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou moonlit pearl of rapture, clasped fast in the silver hand of the dawn! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou wanton mother of love, that art mistress of the children of men! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou crimson fountain of blood, that spoutest from the heart of creation! i adore thee, evoe! i adore t

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es of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held. now first done into english from the latin original published at frankfort in the year 1678. containing 22 celebrated alchemical tracts. translated from the latin and edited by a. e. waite. with numerous most interesting engravings. fcap. quarto, 2 vols. very scarce, 35s. azoth, or the star in the east. a new light of mysticism. by arthur edward waite. imperial 8vo, pp. xvi+ 239. original edition in special binding. price 5s. a presentation of mystic doctrine and symbolism in the light of christian teaching and hermetic philosophy; evolution in the light of mysticism; the way of attainment; and the interior life from the mystic standpoint "note_ many old books on astrology a

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s that flake their lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk's eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame to witness: by this triune star i swear to break the twi-forked bar. but how to attain? flexes and leans the strongest

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inds and the breezes, the king of the spirits of air, in whose bosom the infinite ease is that cradled me there; by the lord of the fields and the mountains, the king of the spirits of earth that nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; 199 by the wand and the cup i conjure; by the dagger and disk i constrain; i am he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again! i am lord of the star and the seal; i am lord of the snake and the sword; reveal us the riddle, reveal! bring us the word of the lord! as the flame of the sun, as the roar of the sea, as the storm of the air, as the quake of the earth- let it soar for a boon, for a bane, for a snare, for a lure, for a light, for a kiss, for a rod, for a scourge, for a sword- bring us thy burden of bliss- bring us the word of t

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nd cure of the worry habit. the gospel of relaxation. work as a factor in health. inspiration of the mental outlook. best books for further reading "it is a cheerful, inspiriting book, and should fulfil its object to give mental galvanic shocks to spiritual paralytics "sunday times "a serious exposition of the way a spiritual guide may helpfully minister to the diseased "bristol times and mirror_ the star in the west by captain j. f. c. fuller "fourth large edition now in preparation" through the equinox and all booksellers six shillings net- a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they ar

y 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 have borne in my womb deep-vaulted this babe for ever exalted! aleister crowley 40 the temple of solomon the king iv. the hermit with the seventh stage in the mystical progress of frater p. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. during the last two years he had grown strong in the magic of the west. after having studied a host of mystical systems he

ranyaka upanishad, 4. 3-4. 28 these refer to the mystic lights in man. compare this with the diagram 2 "the paths and grades" in "the neophyte" after the atman in the aspirant has been awakened by the trumpet of israfel (the angel) he proceeds by the path of hb:shin. the next path the aspirant must travel is that of hb:resh- the sun; the next that of hb:qof- the moon; the next that of hb:tzaddi- the star. this path brings him to the fire of netzach. when this fire is extinguished comes the voice or lightning, after which the light which guides the aspirant is himself, his holy guardian angel, the atman- adonai. 29 the atman. thus the atman little by little came to be known and no longer believed in; yet at first it appears that those who realized it kept their methods to themselves, and s

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s subtly shed the glamour of life's plan. 32 the sea whereon that lotus grows is thought's abyss of tears and woes. leave sirenusa! even greece forget! they are not there! by worship cometh not the peace, the silence not by prayer. leave the illusions, life and time and death, and seek that star sublime, until the lotus and the sea and snake no longer are, and single through eternity exists alone the star, and utter knowledge rise, and cease in that which is beyond the peace [ganymede "dances and falls as dead" typhon. o that the banquet of jupiter might begin! hermanubis. o that the banquet of jupiter might begin! sphinx. o that the banquet of jupiter might begin! c.i.c.t. let the banquet of jupiter begin["all go without veil, except" c.i.c.t "and" sphinx. hermanubis "and" typhon draw and

se flash across the day's["he rises and faces altar" i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of khem; come to face the babe and lion, come to measure force with them! ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth's before the sun, as the earth's before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, gain

mine- are mine! venus am i, the love and light of earth, the wealth of kisses, the delight of tears, the barren pleasure never come to birth, the endless, infinite desire of years. i am the shrine at which thy long desire devoured thee with intolerable fire. i was song, music, passion, death, upon thy lyre- thy lyre! i am the grail and i the glory now: i am the flame and fuel of thy breast; i am the star of god upon thy brow; i am thy queen, enraptured and possessed. hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, ocean of love that shall encompass thee! life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me- to me [pisces "performs a sleepy sinuous dance by herself, and returns to venus' throne lapsed into herself, and as if exhausted] rise, rise, my knight! my king! my love, arise! see th

ust, and so lift up our voices in the dying day indeed to pray: o little hands that are so soft and strong, lead us along [sor. gemini "plays accordingly<gemini. brother virgo, wilt thou not join us who love not speech? virgo. hail unto mercury. he killeth sol at the close of every twilight, and hangeth up the sky of night on the tree of heaven, fastened up with the star-headed nails. mercury. brother gemini, do thou perform the dance of thy virginal sister [fr. gemini "dances["at the end of his dance, he falls before the altar" soror gemini "and all" probationers "circumambulate round him, then stop, facing" mercury] 107 mercury. come, sister, no divine being can be reached, save through me["he descends, and joins the" probationers "leading" soror gemini

he winds and the breezes, the king of the spirits of air, in whose bosom the infinite ease is that cradled me there; by the lord of the fields and the mountains, the king of the spirits of earth that nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; by the wand and the cup i conjure; by the dagger and disk i constrain; i am he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again! i am lord of the star and the seal; i am lord of the snake and the sword; reveal us the riddle, reveal! bring us the word of the lord; as the flame of the sun, as the roar of the sea, as the storm of the air, as the quake of the earth- let it soar for a boon, for a bane, for a snare, for a lure, for a light, for a kiss, for a rod, for a scourge, for a sword- bring us thy burden of bliss- bring us the word of t

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nd many tests of application in the light of our present knowledge "westminster gazette "an extraordinarily interesting book "truth "one closes their comprehensive survey with the conviction that the subject has been dealt with by two well-equipped, careful investigators "t. p.'s weekley "a really useful piece of work "t.p.s. book notes- london william rider& son, ltd, 164 aldersgate street, e.c. the star in the west by captain j. f. c. fuller "fourth large edition now in preparation" through the equinox and all booksellers six shillings net= a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. nowadays human thought has taken a brighter place in the creation: our emotions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they ar

a mummy throned, she sits; the egyptian eyes, the egyptian hair, the band on her brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time a

no stings, in the world's pain, but only bitterness of the memory of time; no sore distress, save for the thought of summer waned and dead, and faded with the gold skies overhead, and the young green beneath; ah! secret rose, here in the heart of the woods i pluck thee forth, fraught with the swell of summer, crimson-bright! and for the world under the stars to-night- it shall be thine, and thine the star that draws the world to worship thee: the days are fled under the heavens; there is no more sun, and no more love; the world is hushed and dead. slim-passing dryad through the lonely woods! i will follow thee in the paths of dank decay; decadent autumn, with thy lonely broods of active gnomes, and little red-capped fays, feasting in the summer dead under the trees dripping with autumn rai

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the flower, bush or tree by the lady blessed be' when the rippling waters flow cast a stone- the truth you'll know; when ye have& hold a need, hearken not to others' greed; with a fool no seasons spend, or be counted as his friend. merry meet and merry part bright the cheeks, warm the heart; mind the threefold law ye should, three times bad and three times good; whene'er misfortune is enow, wear the star upon your brow; true in troth ever ye be lest thy love prove false to thee 'tis by the sun that life be won, and by the moon that change be done; if ye would clear the path to will, make certain the mind be still; what good be tools without inner light? what good be magic without wisdom-sight? eight words the wiccan rede fulfill- an it harm none, do what ye will. notes very well known (pu

is the holy grail of immortality. i am the gracious goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of man. upon earth, i give the knowledge of the spirit eternal; and beyond death, i give peace and freedom and reunion with those who have gone before. nor do i demand aught in sacrifice; for behold, i am the mother of all living, and my love is poured out upon the earth. hp: hear ye the words of the star goddess; she in the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, and whose body encircles the universe. hps: i who am the beauty of the green earth, and the white moon among the stars, and the mystery of the waters, and the desire of the heart of man, call unto thy soul. arise, and come unto me. for i am the soul of nature, who gives life to the universe. from me all things proceed, and un

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

at is even more closely connected with our solar logos, the reason being that he is not, as yet, sufficiently evolved so that he can respond completely to sirius, but he can respond to the influence of the seven sisters of the pleiades. this group is a most interesting one. if you will go to the dictionary and look up the word "electricity" you will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star electra, one of the seven sisters, and- 55- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust supposed by some to be the little lost pleiad. the eastern teachers say that in the mystery of electricity is hidden all knowledge, and that when we have fathomed that we shall know all there is to be known. what the relationship of the pleiades to our solar system may be, it is not possib

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

hisattva, and are therefore the first two initiations. 3. for the higher three initiations at which sanat kumara wields the rod. at all initiations the lord of the world is present, but at the first two he holds a position similar to that held by the silent watcher, when sanat kumara administers the oath at the third, fourth and fifth initiations. his power streams forth and the flashing forth of the star before the initiate is the signal of his approval, but the initiate does not see him face to face until the third initiation. the function of the three kumaras, or the three buddhas of activity at initiation is interesting. they are three aspects of the one aspect, and the pupils of sanat kumara. though their functions are many and varied, and concern primarily the forces and energies of

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ter will be either the second or the sixth, and it must be remembered that: a. the planets venus and jupiter are exceedingly closely connected with the earth, and form eventually an esoteric triangle. b. saturn is the synthesising scheme for the four planets which embody manas purely and simply, or is the major resolution of the minor four, and eventually for all the seven. see figure c. mercury, the star of the intuition, or of transmuted manas, is, at this stage, considered as the fifth scheme. therefore, the heavenly men of venus and jupiter are magnetically linked with the heavenly man of our scheme. the relationship of the logos of jupiter and his influence will not be realised nor felt until the sixth round is in full force, though during the sixth root-race his vibration will be ack

e. from these three centres, man on the probationary path, and up to the third initiation, directs and controls his sheath, and from them spreads that illumination which will irradiate the physical plane life. by the time the third initiation is reached, the internal triangle is in full process of circulatory transmission, and the whole life of the personality is subjected to the will of the ego "the star absorbs the light of the moon, so that the rays of the sun may be reflected back" is the occult way of expressing the truth anent this point in evolution. it might be of value here also to point out the condition of the etheric centres during this process of direct solar control. before the three physical head centres awaken, man is largely subjected to force flowing through the four mino

seven rishis of the great bear on their own plane, and, secondly, of buddhic force, which is transmitted via the seven sisters or the pleiades from a constellation called the dragon in some books, and from which has come the appellation "the dragon of wisdom" a third type of energy is added and, therefore, can be detected in these centres, that of manasic type. this reaches the logoic centres via the star sirius, and is transmitted from that constellation which (as earlier i have hinted) must remain obscure at present. these three great streams of energy form the total manifestation of a logoic centre. this is known to us as a planetary scheme. within the planetary scheme, these streams of energy work paramountly in the following manner: a. spiritual energy..three higher planes..the monads

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, and emancipation. there is the way of yoga as outlined by patanjali whereby, through the use of the will, discrimination between the self and the not-self is achieved and pure spirit is arrived at. this is the way for the fifth or aryan race, for those whose function it is to develop the fifth principle or mind and thus become true sons of mind. it is their part to become the five-pointed star, the star of the perfected man, in all his glory. through following this way the five planes of human and superhuman evolution are dominated and atma (or the will of god, the father aspect) stand revealed through the medium of buddhi (or the christ consciousness, having for its vehicle, manas or higher mind. the other way is the may of pure devotion. through intense adoration and entire consecratio

ings: a. numbers, b. colours, c. vibrations, the seer becomes aware of the freedom of his aura from "death producing" effects. he knows there is nothing more written, symbolically, in the records which can bring him back to the three worlds, and therefore "by signs" his path is seen to be clear. this has been expressed for us in the ancient writings found in the masters' archives as follows "when the star with five points shines with clarity and no forms are seen within its points, the way is clear. when the triangle encloses naught but light, the path is freed for the passing of the pilgrim. when within the aura of the pilgrim the many forms die out and colours three are seen, then the road is freed from that which might obstruct. when thoughts call not to forms and when no shadows are re

ife and in veiling the true man for so long. the thorny path must lead to the northern path and that in turn to the path of initiation. in one of the old books in the archives of the lodge, are found these words "let the seeker after truth escape from drowning and climb the river's bank. let him turn towards the northern star and on firm ground stand, his face directed towards the light. then let the star lead" 3. liberation from the mire refers to that mixed nature of kama-manas, desire and lower mind, which causes the unique problem of humanity. it is a symbolic way also of referring to the great illusion which snares the pilgrim for so long. when the aspirant can walk in the light, having found the light (the shekinah) within himself in the holy of holies, then the illusion is- 183- the

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er, will give the personality diagram, the individual life pattern. amazing symbolic charts and lineal forms will be found to emerge when this his done, and the "geometry of the individual" will grow out of this, for it will be found that each line will function in relation to another line, and the trends of the life energies will become apparent. eventually, even in this department of knowledge "the star will shine forth" this will constitute a new branch of psychology and its true exponent for our age will duly be found. i but indicate the lines of the future astrology in order to safeguard the present. one thing astrologers need at this time to do and that is to make due allowance for this transition period out of pisces into aquarius. this is seldom done, but it is evident that the tre

er phrase. the life continues on its way "enter the field where children play and join their game" awakened to the game of life, the soul passes the gate. the field is green and on its broad expanse the many forms of the one moving life disport themselves; they weave the dance of life, the many patterned forms god takes. the soul enters "the playground of the lord" and plays thereon until he sees the star with five bright points, and says "my star" the star is but a point of light, not yet a radiant sun. stage iii the way of red desire fails. it loses its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

t 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 in the hearts of those who live in the eternal. there is a power which maketh all things new. it lives and mov

s of former sungods and with the actual career of the sun through the heavens so many indeed that they cannot well be attributed to mere coincidence or even to the blasphemous wiles of the devil! let us enumerate some of these. there are (1) birth from a virgin mother (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber; and (3) on the 25th december (just after the winter solstice. there is (4) the star in the east (sirius) and (5) the arrival of the magi (the `three kings; there is (6) the threatened massacre of the innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country (told also of krishna and other sungods. there are the church festivals of (7) candlemas (2nd february, with processions of candles to symbolise the growing light; of (8) lent, or the arrival of spring; of (9) easte

identification with the joyous old pagan yule a word apparently meaning a `jollification' gave it a merry character which it did not possess in the south. this character has survived, and is in marked contrast to its nature amongst the latin races, with whom the northern custom of feasting and giving christmas presents was unknown until recent years."45 at the time of the birth of christ, sirius, the star in the east, was on the meridian line, orion, called "the three kings" by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation virgo, the virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation. it is interesting also to note that the brightest and largest star in the constellation virgo is called spica;

y is not confined to the bible but has ever been held before men's eyes in the vault of heaven. thus as "the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament sheweth his- 42- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust handiwork,"46 we have the prophecy of that world event which took place when christ was born in bethlehem, the "house of bread" and virgo rose above the horizon, whilst the star in the east shone forth. christ came, then, to his own flesh and blood because the world of men drew him and the love of the father impelled him. he came to give to life a purpose and fulfilment, and to indicate to us the way: he came to give us an example, so that we could be galvanised by the hope that "maketh not ashamed"47 to "press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling."4

made the necessary journey to bethlehem. but another sign was seen by the many, and given by the angel of the lord to the shepherds who were watching in the fields by night "and this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."57 here was a sign given to those watching ones, two or three, who were ready to consecrate their all, who perceived the star of initiation flashing forth and hastened to the initiation chamber. the larger number, who were interested and watching, needed a more concrete and more easily interpreted sign and were sent to see the infant with his mother. their attitude is expressed in the words "let us now go even unto bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass."58 but the three who understood came to worshi

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call your attention is that the human being has the power to be inclusive in many directions, just as a line can be drawn from the point at the centre of the circle to any point upon the periphery. you must remember that for a large part of his career and for the most important part of his human experience, he remains the dramatic actor, holding the centre of the stage and in his own eyes playing the star part; he is always conscious of his acting and of the reactions to that acting. when man was little more than an animal, when he was in the- 336- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust state which we have earlier called the lemurian consciousness and the early atlantean consciousness, he lived unthinkingly; life unrolled like a panorama

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consideration, illumination may pour in. these verses do not refer to your recognised lethargy of that you are aware and with it i need not deal. these occult phrases deal with things basic and oft unrecognised. if recognised, they are not adequately appraised. here are the verses "one star shone forth within the dark blue vault of heaven. then another and still another could be seen until around the star were many shining points. the circle of the stars revolved and kept its place and darkness was around on every hand. each star within its tiny orbit kept its place and slow revolved. its contacts with the circle's edge proved adequate"`there is but one great circle' came a voice `not many little spheres. some stars are small and time must feed their flame. some stars are suns and shed the

t centre of magnetic force draw to yourself cooperators in the plan and not consumers of your energy. go through the lists of those you have sought to help and relinquish them to their own souls. mind not their criticism but dedicate yourself to more important work a work which will appear when you have freed yourself from the clinging hands of well-meaning but weak-minded aspirants. then, around the star which is your soul will be many "shining points" there have been times when i have been hard put to it to find you because of the obscuration brought about by those who surround and well nigh smother you as they cling to you. stand free. having pointed this out, brother of old, go forward towards the goal and the vision with confidence, sure judgment and the knowledge that i, who for year

xercise to be done prior to the group meditation. 1. after achieving alignment, inner poise and rest, see each of your co-disciples (whom you may know) in the light- 361- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. then visualise them each with a star between the eyebrows, as the symbol of an awakened ajna centre and of an integrated personality. it is a four-pointed star. the star of initiation is, as you know, a five-pointed star. 3. then say something to each of your brothers, after due effort to link up with them. study the ideas which give utterance to your words and note, in writing, their general import. 4. then rise, and going to the window, send out love and light to those who guide the destinies of men upon the earth (i refer not to the hierarchy) in londo

er phrase. the life continues on its way "enter the field where children play and join their game" awakened to the game of life, the soul passes the gate. the field is green and on its broad expanse the many forms of the one moving life disport themselves; they weave the dance of life, the many patterned forms god takes. the soul enters "the playground of the lord" and plays thereon until he sees the star with five bright points, and says "my star" stage iii. the way of red desire fails. it loses its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, th

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ssion of the second aspect of divinity) is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the hierarchy of sirius. these are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic christ works upon the christ principle in the solar system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. it is esoterically called the "brilliant star of sensitivity" you have therefore: polaris the star of direction governing shamballa. later, another pole star will take the place of polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement. but the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation. sirius the star of sensitivity governing the hierarchy. alcyone the star of the individual governing humanity. you can see from the above ho

etween two activities that of the piscean age which is passing and that of aquarius which is coming in libra will eventually rule, and the end of this century will see the influence of libra steadily coming into pronounced control and into a position of power in the planetary horoscope. there is, therefore, no need for real anxiety. a certain relationship or configuration of stars of which one is the star regulus, in leo will bring about a situation wherein the re-orientation of the attitude of the legal profession will take place; its functions and duties will be centralised for the purpose of world usefulness, and in this process legislation for children will assume great importance and be the motivating power. this legal step will be primarily advocated by russia and endorsed by the uni

ning ground and subsequent release. 3. ray 5. concrete knowledge or science, under the influence of capricorn, focussed through venus, which will enable the man to take initiation. these three energies, focussed through the three planets governing gemini, are essentially dedicated to the development of the fourth kingdom in nature and are polarised in the earth, itself one of the rulers. mercury, the star of conflict, is also the major planet of relationships, for it governs and "engineers (if i may use such a term) the interplay between our earth with its conditioning constellations. in the case of gemini, it relates our small planet to virgo (mutable cross, to aries (cardinal cross) and to scorpio (fixed cross, and its mission, therefore, emerges as one of supreme importance. through the

ness..hierarchy. 3. the mutable cross..form..a. ctivity..humanity. the initiate is one who is in process of relating consciously and effectively all these three within himself. man the essential triangle of energy, man the square, man upon the cross, and finally, man the five-pointed star! in these four simple symbolic forms lies the whole history of the fourth kingdom in nature. the triangle and the star are subjective expressions of a fixed consciousness, focussed in reality, whilst the square and the cross are objective expressions of the man focussed outwardly. we come now to a brief study of the rulers of this sign. as taurus is so close, esoterically speaking, to the sign aries which in this world cycle is the sign of beginning, it constitutes, relatively speaking, a very complex agg

man upon the reversed wheel. in a certain sense these six signs constitute two major triangles of force. i have here indicated to you the higher or spiritual aspect of king solomon's seal. when these six types of energy are fused and blended and so form one unity, you will then find emerging the "star of christ" this is one of the symbols of the sixth initiation and is the inner correspondence of the star with which you are familiar. in order to understand this more clearly i would point out to you that: 1. that which is begun or "entered into" at the first initiation is consummated and completed in pisces- 230- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. that which impelled to the processes of involution and evolution (the desire to incarnate

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hierarchy. i would remind you that when you think of the hierarchy you think in terms of the masters (as most people do) or of the higher initiates. this is not correct. every accepted disciple is within the periphery of the hierarchy and of its influence, and as i have frequently pointed out all have in some past life taken the first initiation. every disciple has been to bethlehem and has seen the star in the east that star which shines forth in fuller splendour each time another initiation is taken. the difference between such disciples as you and the more advanced initiates is that your basic orientation is different to that of the masters. they are oriented to shamballa; they are relatively unaffected by affairs and happenings in the three worlds, even though that is the sphere where

nted with it) is slowly crystallising into expression, through the medium of this hastened initiation process. disciples are today witnessing the emergence of a solar characteristic, through the medium of their planetary logos, just as the "lives of similar intention" as it is esoterically called witnessed it many aeons ago. it is to this unknown and mysterious quality that the "shining forth" of the star refers. more than this i cannot say, for you would not understand; what i have said above you can accept as a possible hypothesis without outraging your commonsense or violating your intention, that i do ask you to do just accept. a great opportunity is presented to you, and the success of the system of raja-yoga, the kingly science of the mind (started by the great initiate, patanjali, e

d with which the desires of mankind through the medium of the astral world have, fortunately for the individual man, become entangled? at this point, he knows that he must, inevitably and eventually, contribute something. he realises that he must intelligently work towards the separation of the astral plane from the six planes of divine creation. i would ask you to remember, brother of mine, that the star of creation is the six-pointed star and not a seven-pointed star. 2. as the needed service which must be rendered takes possession of the heart and mind of the initiate, the method is simultaneously revealed to him. this method is the use of an "advancing point of light; it is, however, a form of light which can only be implemented by the will; this will can only fully complete its task w

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ich is not itself, generates the warmth which lies behind all growth, and is vitality itself. this initiate realisation is all brought about by the sudden appreciation or apprehension of sound, by the awakening of the inner ear to the significance of the voice, just as the disciple in the earlier stage awakened to the significance of vision. that is why, at the third initiation, the initiate sees the star and hears the sound. at the first two initiations, he sees the light and hears the word; but this is something different and is the higher correspondence to the earlier experience. it will be obvious that i can say no more upon this subject. it is essential, however, that some knowledge begin to reach the public anent the highest spiritual centre to which (as the gospel story intimates) c

en sense. in the familiar words (familiar to all esotericists) which are so often said or chanted at moments of highest spiritual aspiration, the neophyte refers to the time when "we stand where the one initiator is invoked, when we see his star shine forth" two ideas then stand forth: the idea of invocation and of the result of that invocation, which is the sudden and unexpected shining forth of the star. this star is simply a point of vivid light. this invocation, though used as the affirmation of a fixed objective by the aspirant to initiation, is nevertheless a mantram definitely appropriate to the third initiation. it is only effective in its invocative appeal when used in conjunction with a word of power. this word of power is communicated to the candidate (ever an initiate of the se

ion. it is only effective in its invocative appeal when used in conjunction with a word of power. this word of power is communicated to the candidate (ever an initiate of the second degree) by the christ who has initiated him in the first two initiations but whose protective aura (in conjunction with the initiate's master and another master or an adept of the fourth initiation) is required before the star can shine forth the focussed light of the one initiator. for the first time the expanded consciousness of the initiate can contact shamballa and the one who rules there, the lord of the world. for the first time, the focussed purpose which brought sanat kumara into incarnation makes an impact upon the enlightened brain of the initiate, bringing something new and different into his equipme

t that evil disappears. evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action. the dualities are then resolved in synthesis and, again for the first time, the initiate comprehends the meaning of the ancient words, so inappropriately translated "isolated unity" to him, in the future, there is no light or dark, no good or evil, no difference or separation. the star that has shone forth, veiling and standing between him and the lord of the world, the ancient of days, is seen as the entrance or doorway and as the admitting agency into something other and larger than simply the planetary life. in the earlier two initiations, the angel of the presence stood between the disciple-candidate and the presence. at the later initiations, the angel of the prese

nable him to contact cosmic evil and yet remain untouched, eventually to play his part in bringing the black lodge and its brotherhood to an unholy finish. the roots of the black lodge are on the cosmic astral plane, as the roots of the white lodge and its brotherhood are on the cosmic mental plane; this is, in reality, only for the time being and in order to see certain organised activities upon the star sirius perfected and carried to a consummation. this has oft been hinted in my writings "the way of the higher evolution" leads to the cosmic astral plane, and the goal which carries a man there is the transcendent vision accorded at some of the higher initiations; the quality which enables him to work as a creative factor in the great white lodge is the developed buddhic faculty. it is u

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

g the ruler, the sun god; and hercules "the one who comes to labor. they represent, therefore, the two aspects of man's nature, the soul and the personality, the spiritual man and the human being through which that spiritual entity is functioning: christ incarnate in matter, god working through form. castor was regarded as mortal and pollux as immortal. it is an interesting astronomical fact that the star, castor, is waning in brilliancy and has not the light that it had several hundred years ago; whilst pollux, the immortal brother, is waxing in brightness and eclipsing his brother, so reminding one of the words of john the baptist, spoken as he looked at the christ "he must increase, but i must decrease (st. john, iii, 30) thus [65] we have a most significant constellation, because it ho

nitude. sirius has always been associated with great heat, hence we have the phrase of "the dog days" in the middle of the summer, when the heat is supposed to be greatest. from the standpoint of the occultist, sirius is of profound significance "our god is a consuming fire, and sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as of the individual soul. it is therefore, esoterically considered, the star of initiation. in the language of symbology we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the initiate, signifying his realization of his identity with the universal soul, and this he suddenly glimpses through the medium of his own soul, his own star- 42- the labours of hercules canis major is the immortal hound of heaven, that chases forever the lesser dog, the underd

divinity. aegle symbolizes the glory of the life and the splendor of the setting sun; the magnificence of manifestation on the physical plane. she gives an apple to hercules, saying "the way to us is ever through deeds of love. erytheia keeps the gate, the soul, which is ever opened by love-wisdom, and she gives to hercules an apple marked with the golden word service. hesperis, the evening star, the star of initiation, typifies the will. she says to hercules "tread the way. body, soul and spirit; intelligence, love and will, visioned and contacted by the selfless aspirant through service [77] labor iv the capture of the doe or hind- part 1 (cancer, june 21st- july 21st) the myth the great presiding one, who sits within the council chamber of the lord, spoke to the teacher, standing by his

lso be shown that these astrological factors have set their mark upon our christian tradition and upon our church usage. it is interesting to note in this connection that on christmas eve, the brightest of the fixed stars, sirius, is seen to the left of the meridian line somewhat to the south. two thousand years ago, owing to the precession of the equinoxes, it stood on the meridian line. this is the star in the east. at the same time, the constellation virgo, the virgin, became visible in the east, and it is interesting to note the coincidence that spica, the brightest star in that constellation, means "an ear of wheat" and bethlehem, the town in which christ was born, means "the house of bread. when this arrangement cyclically comes about in the heavens, the great historic sons of god ma

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piction. ghosts are sidereal he wrote and it seems to me that his strange geometric experiments pierce through to the soul of the stars. from this i can find a definite magickal thrust that culminates in the commissioned work he did for his friend kenneth grant s occult group, the nu-isis lodge in the 50 s. spare was commissioned to produce numerous magickal paintings including depictions of isis the star goddess. the stunning pastel isis smiles is perhaps the most famous of these. there also exists a very novel picture called female nebula that shows a swirling spiral galaxy, literally the body of the stars: a depiction of the feminine mystery of space and a reference to the children of isis being the stars themselves. this in turn recalls aleister crowley s maxim every man and every woma

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om stasis. the very fire force of the sun is in the eye of satanas/saturnus, misrule and self-liberation through antinomianian awakening of saturn. the higher octave of saturn is lucifer, being light, wisdom and illumination. lucifer/iblis is the imagination thus azazel, the fallen djinn of fire. lucifer represents also rebirth, inner strength, reason and solitude. in the unity of saturn are both the star of algol[9] hidden (without the averse pentagram) and the mark of demiurge saturnus. it is through satan/iblis (fire) that one emerges in light, thus lucifer is the black flame in the darkness, the light in the darkness. it was in medieval times that saturn itself was the outermost planet, holding the secrets of self transformation, death and the darkness of the soul. the workings of satu

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this verse is explained in another of its meanings, and also to the "book of the dead" chap. cix, v. 4 and 5 "i am the queen of these regions" says the egyptian isis "i was the first to reveal to mortals the mysteries of wheat and corn. i am she who rises in the constellation of the dog (dog-star. rejoice, o egypt! thou who wert my nurse (book i, chap. xiv* sirius was called the dog-star. it was the star of mercury or budha, called the great instructor of mankind, before other buddhas. the book of the chinese y-king, attributes the discovery of agriculture to "the instruction given to men by celestial genii "woe, woe to the men who know nought, observe nought, nor will they see. they are all blind* since they remain ignorant how much the world is full of various and invisible creatures wh

. 14; saying which, he was evidently unjust. astoreth and the new-moon (the crescent argha) festivals, had no worse significance as a form of public worship than had the hidden meaning of the moon in general, which was kabalistically connected directly with, and sacred to, jehovah, as is well known; with the sole difference that one was the female and the other the male aspect of the moon, and of the star venus. the sun (the father, the moon (the mother, and mercury-thoth (the son, were the earliest trinity of the egyptians, who personified them in osiris, isis, and thoth (hermes. in[[pistis sophia, the seven great gods, divided into two triads and the highest god (the sun) are: the lower[[tridunameis, whose powers reside respectively in mars, mercury and venus; and the higher triad("the t

part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth" and whose place, with that of his angels "was found no more in heaven" what the seven heads of the dragon (cycle) mean, and its five wicked kings also, may be learned in the addenda which close part iii. of this volume. from newton to bossuet speculations were incessantly evolved in christian brains with regard to these obscure verses "the star that falls, is the heresiarch theodosius. explains bossuet "the clouds of smoke, are the heresies of the montanists. the third part of the stars, are the martyrs, and especially the doctors of divinity" bossuet ought to have known, however, that the events described in revelation were not original, and may, as shown, be found in other and pagan traditions. there were no scholastics nor mo

, that suidas shows the ancients counting, in their chronological computations, days for years. dr. sepp in his ingenious plagiarism- exposed elsewhere- of the hindu 432 in thousands and millions of years (the duration of the yugas) which he dwarfed to 4,320 lunar years before the "birth of christ- as "foreordained" in the sidereal (besides the invisible) heavens, and proved "by the apparition of the star of bethlehem- appeals to suidas and his authority. but suidas had no other warrant for it than his own speculations, and he[[vol. 2, page] 620 the secret doctrine. was no initiate. he cites, as a proof, vulcan, in showing him as having, according to chronological claim, reigned 4,477 years, i.e, 4,477 days, as he thinks, or rendered in years, 12 years, 3 months, and 7 days; he has 5 days

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ephiroth; but the first heavenly man is the unmanifested spirit of the universe, and ought never to be degraded into microprosopus- the lesser face or countenance, the prototype of man on the terrestrial plane* of this, however, later on. the six-pointed star refers to the six forces or powers of nature, the six planes, principles, etc, etc, all synthesized by the seventh, or the central point in the star. all these, the upper and lower hierarchies included, emanate from the "heavenly or celestial virgin* the great mother in all religions, the androgyne, the[[footnote(s* indeed, the microprosopus- who is, philosophically speaking, quite distinct from the unmanifested eternal logos "one with the father- has been finally brought, by centuries of incessant efforts, of sophistry and paradoxes

r. pp. 30 and 419. the author of the natural genesis thinks that "the septenary of stars seen in the great bear (the septarshis) and seven-headed dragon furnished a visible origin for the symbolic seven of time above. the goddess of the seven stars" he adds[[vol. 1, page] 408 the secret doctrine "was the mother of time, as kep; whence kepti and sebti for the two times and number seven. so this is the star of the seven by name. sevekt (kronos, the son of the goddess, has the name of the seven or seventh. so has sefekh abu who builds the house on high, as wisdom (sophia) built hers with seven pillars. the primary kronotypes were seven, and thus the beginning of time in heaven is based on the number and the name of seven, on account of the starry demonstrators. the seven stars as they turned

ess fathers- the seven sons of light, still themselves, to whom may be applied the brahmanical mystic phrase "thou art 'that- brahm" it is from these dhyani-buddhas that emanate their chhayas (shadows) the bodhisattvas of the celestial realms, the prototypes of the super-terrestrial bodhisattvas, and of the terrestrial buddhas, and finally of men. the "seven sons of light" are also called "stars" the star under which a human entity is born, says the occult teaching, will remain for ever its star, throughout the whole cycle of its incarnations in one manvantara. but this is not his astrological star. the latter is concerned and connected with the personality, the former with[[footnote(s* the tanmatras are literally the type or rudiment of an element devoid of qualities; but esoterically, th

(s* the now universal error of attributing to the ancients the knowledge of only seven planets, simply because they mentioned no others, is based on the same general ignorance of their occult doctrines. the question is not whether they were, or were not, aware of the existence of the later discovered planets; but whether the reverence paid by them to the four exoteric and three secret great gods- the star-angels, had not some special reason. the writer ventures to say there was such a reason, and it is this. had they known of as many planets as we do now (and this question can hardly be decided at present, either way, they would have still connected with their religious worship only the seven, because these seven are directly and specially connected with our earth, or, using esoteric phras

al bodies were formed through the progressive condensation of a primordial pregenetic matter, which had almost a negative weight, and was spread out through space in an extremely sublimated condition. tycho brahe, who viewed the milky way as an ethereal substance, thought the new star that appeared in cassiopoeia, in 1572, had been formed out of that matter("progymnasmata" p. 795) kepler believed the star of 1606 had been likewise formed out of the ethereal substance that fills the universe("de stella nova in pede serpentarii" p. 115. he attributed to that same ether the apparition of a luminous ring around the moon, during the total eclipse of the sun observed at naples in 1605("hypotheses cosmogoniques" c. wolf) still later, in 1714- the existence of a self-luminous matter was recognised

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on more than any other. the goetia. the most intelligible of all the medi val rituals of evocation. contains also the favourite invocation of the master therion. curriculum of a.a. 21 erdmann.s .history of philosophy. a compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. most valuble as a general education of the mind. the spiritual guide of molinos. a simple manual of christian mysticism. the star in the west (captain fuller. an introduction to the study of the works of aleister crowley. the dhammapada (s. b. e. series, oxford university press. the best of the buddhist classics. the questions of king milinda (s. b. e. series) technical points of buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues. liber dcclxxvii vel prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mystic vi explicand, fundamentum

h, action and thought. liber xiii. graduum montis abiegni. an account of the task of the aspirant from probationer to adept. liber xvii. liber i.a.o. gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts. this book has not been published. it is the active counterpart of curriculum of a.a. 33 liber hhh. the article .energized enthusiasm. is an adumbration of this book. liber xxxvi. the star sapphire. is chapter xxxvi of the book of lies, giving an improved ritual of the hexagram. liber clxxxv. liber collegii sancti. being the tasks of the grades and their oaths proper to liber xiii. this is the official paper of the various grades. it includes the task and oath of a probationer. liber ccvi. liber r v vel spiritus. full instruction in pranayama. liber ccclxi. liber hhh. gives

: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. is this not better than the death-in-life of the slaves of slave- gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of .sin. wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious .virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star- goddess .i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me. and thus she ends .sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-l

said (of the water .it is thyself (or thy mind. could distinguish nothing for some time. presently a star appeared in the centre of the pool, evidently reflected through a circular hole in centre of roof. looking up, could not see this star from where i was standing on the step at front of temple. someone said .enter the water. did so, finding it reached to the neck. looked up, and could discern the star clearly. someone said .you must travel up through the roof to the star. did so, and discovered i was without clothes. some time elapsed before i could get near the star, but on doing so i was whirled round it three times and alighted. then became conscious that the body had given place to a flame only. ascended as a flame into the air. became dimly conscious that the flame was in the hear

e or reality of the object must be destroyed as well as the outer image and the ideal image. 77. thou art now in dharana, the sixth stage. dharana has been explained thoroughly in book 4, q.v. the equinox 32 78. when thou hast passed into the seventh, o happy one, thou shall perceive no more the sacred three, for thou shalt have become that three thyself. thyself and mind, like twins upon a line, the star which is thy goal, burns overhead. the three that dwell in glory and in bliss ineffable, now in the world of maya have host their names. they have become one star, the fire that burns but scorches not, that fire which is the upadhi of the flame. it would be a mistake to attach more than a poetic meaning to these remarks upon the sacred three; but ego, non-ego, and that which is formed fro

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the hanged man the spirit of the mighty waters mem water 70 death the child of the great transformers: the lord of the gates of death nun scorpio 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.p

BOOK OF PLEASURE

nscience, there is pain the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 19 germinating: there is no freedom. he who believes anything he perceives or imagines, falls into sin. by believing without feeling perturbation, forgetting ideas of external and internal, he regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non-resistance, has no horizon: he is free. on seeing the star-lit eyes and rosebud mouths, the breasts and loins of beautiful women, you become lovingly attached, but if you fear, consider constantly that they are merely the charred flesh and bones of yourself after the torture. the space between the eternal and "self" is it not a moral doctrine? by unbelieving all one believes and sedulously without anxiety not believing (by the "neither-neither" p

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stroy thou] the p. 41 darkness which is in ament in thy name of sekher-shetau-ur-a, illumine thou the thick darkness, o af. his jawbones are to him, and ra taketh up his position in ament. thy boat is to thee, and it is thy right, thou art guided along, and those who convey thee over the water and who dwell in the earth make calamities to come upon apep straightway on thy behalf. thy protector is the star-god (sba, thou art praised and adored, thy soul passeth on, thou goest onward and thy body is equipped with power, and the regions) are opened [to thee. the doors of the hidden land are opened [before thee, osiris cometh unto thee, osiris avengeth thee, and thy word is maat against thy enemies. thou goest to rest, thou goest to rest in ament, and thou comest into being in the form of khep

re- 1. the boat of the sun, in which stands the god under a canopy formed by the body of the serpent mehen; on his head are horns and a disk. on the high prow of the boat is a disk, encircled by a uraeus, which is called pestu. the text reads: p. 234 "this great god journeyeth on his way in the city in this picture, and his sailors, who are the gods, guide him into the eastern horizon of the sky. the star pestet which is on its boat guideth this great god into the ways of the darkness which gradually lightens, and illumineth those who are on the earth" 2. twelve gods, who march before the boat of the god bearing the serpent mehen on their heads; their names are- 1. mehni. 2. semsem, 3. sekhennu, 4. shetu, 5. ama, 6. amu, 7. erta. p. 235 click to view mehni. semsem. sekhennu. shetu. click t

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ine power that created everything. thus one of the tests whereby a student may know whether or not he has really succeeded in meditation is this: let him find out whether or not what he has been doing takes form in the production of something better than he had before he began to meditate" students of tarot will be interested in this comment on the relation between tzaddi and the 17th key, called the star "the application to the tarot is that to the selfcontemplation of spirit the universe appears as it really is. the divine mother is always unveiled before her lord. to man, except in those rare moments when he participates in the divine meditation, she is at best the veiled isis, and at worst the demon of the 15th key, the devil "a great silence" in hebrew is domam, d v m m, which adds to

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ted to a university chair by emperor ferdinand. publishes: wonders of the world. and there the monster of the terrestrial paradise< 1553, paris; sibyllinorum versuum virgilio in quarta bucolicorum versuum ecloga transcriptorum ecfrasis commentarii instar phoenix superis stellas qui viuidus aequat "bring forth the superior phoenix, which vigorously reaches as high as the star> 1554 january, postel gives address on phoenician and hebrew languages. by may, postel leaves vienna for venice to submit before the inquisition's hearing concerning his works. 1555 postel detained in venice by the inquisition. postel has published in padua 2 works on his mystical immutation and the teachings of his "mother johanna" il libro della divina ordinatione and le prime nove del

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r claptrap. it depends on the competence of the channel and the level of the wavelength to which they are connecting. as someone once said of contact with those no longer on this earth "death is no cure for ignorance. if you connect with wavelengths close to this one, you can be seriously misled. the veil of tears 5 bringers of the dawn claims to be the words of a consciousness communicating from the star system we know as the pleiades. i know if you are new to this, it all sounds so fantastic and hard to accept. but all i can do- all any of us can do- is to say what we believe and feel. i believe that this star system called the pleiades, or at least the more evolved groups from there, are part of a universal operation to set humanity and this world free from the prison we have unknowingl

ards when the jamming frequency was installed, and the levels of consciousness which contained the knowledge enjoyed before recorded human history were denied to us. the prison door slammed shut and we are now flinging it open again. human civilisation did not begin on planet earth, i am convinced. it came to this planet from other areas of the galaxy. some say the first humans on earth came from the star system called vega, 26 light-years from here, and three times the size of the sun. it is the brightest star in the lyra constellation and the fifth brightest in our sky.14 wherever it was, i feel the human race originally came from another star system and took the opportunity to populate and experience this magnificent new planet. genetic manipulation, both positive and negative, has cont

crop up most often in channelled information relating to these conflicts are the systems of orion, sirius, and the pleiades. interesting, then, that these were at the fore of ancient beliefs and worship on earth over thousands of years, across scores of cultures. the pyramids at giza and the giant spider drawn in ancient times on the plains of nazca, peru, are exactly aligned with orion. i think the star arcturus in the bootes constellation is also significant to the earth's history. the veil of tears 15 the aim of the negative extraterrestrials in relation to the earth was to turn humans into little more than a slave race. this has been a theme all along and it remains so today, although in another form. instead of controlling us physically by occupation of the planet, over the past few

ollar note, you find 13 steps on the pyramid, the 13 degrees of the illuminati. the pyramid has 33 stones. on the great seal the bald eagle (the phoenix until 1841) has 13 feathers on each wing, 13 arrows in the right talon and an olive branch with 13 leaves in the left. in his beak he has a scroll with the 13 letters of "e pluribus unum- out of many, one. around this are 13 stars in the shape of the star of david. there is also a shield with 13 stripes which represent the original 13 states. on the united nations logo, the map of the world is arranged in 33 segments within 13 ears of corn, and the un building is sited over one of the most sacred springs (energy points) to the native americans. the proctor and gamble logo is an old masonic symbol with a bearded man in a circle alongside 13

obal pyramid of manipulation which (at its highest levels) is knowingly in contact with- and guided by- a negative force from another dimension. the number of scientists and computer programmers in the uk and the usa working with advanced technology who have met strange, unexplained, deaths is ridiculous. most have been written off as.'suicide. one after the other has died, many of them linked to the star wars project and marconi, a subsidiary of general electric in the uk. if the elite do have 'flying saucer, antigravity craft (and i believe they certainly do, or technology in the 'defence' field they wish no-one to know about, it is just such scientists and computer programmers who might know about it, either by accident or design. maybe they found out too much about that or the technolo

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ple in mali, northwest africa, had told french researchers in 1931 some remarkable information about the sirius system. according to these researchers, the dogon also knew about all the planets of the solar system out to pluto, and of moons that have only recently been confirmed. they said that a star orbited sirius and it was so heavy all the people of the world could not lift it.14 at the time, the star they were talking about, now called sirius b, was not yet discovered by scientists. the dogon are claimed to have said that it took about 50 years to orbit sirius a and that it was "infinitely tiny".15 we now know this is true. sirius b is a dwarf star and fantastically heavy. the story goes that they said there was a third star, which also orbits sirius a, and takes 50 years to complete

ient "jewish" symbol at all. as some jewish historians have stated, it is a far ancient symbol found all over the world, and only became associated with the jewish faith when the banking and illuminati bloodline dynasty, the rothschilds, 76 children of the matrix began to use it in the 18th century. a researcher who saw the symbols on the necklace at one of my talks, also saw the connections with the star, sirius, from which, according to ancient accounts, a reptilian race came to the earth. he wrote "i noticed that the south african shaman necklace with the carved hand had a picture of orion on it. orion's belt points to the binary star sirius. on the carved hand, the belt of orion points directly to the eye in the centre, suggesting a link between the eye cult and sirius. indeed, through

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

perors were the same. they were known as lung or dragons and many of the earliest emperors were depicted with reptilian features, very much like the nagas. one of them, called huang ti, was said to have been born with a "dragon-like countenance. it was claimed that he was conceived by a ray of golden light that entered his mother's womb from the big dipper constellation.12 the big dipper includes the star alpha draconis, the star of set in egypt. alpha draconis is an alleged base of the "draco" reptilian "royalty. one chinese legend says that when he died huang ti transformed into an etheric dragon and flew to the realm of the immortals. the priest kings of the peruvian incas were symbolised by the snake and they wore bracelets and anklets in the image of a snake. the earliest of the royal

entre of the forehead that was so bright the creature seemed to be projecting fire.3 sometimes this middle eye is called a dracontia4 and the eye in the centre of the forehead in the ancient stories of the beings called the cyclops may well relate to this, too. credo mutwa and modern abductees describe how the most "royal" and senior reptilians, the draco, have horns. some look like darth maul in the star wars 112 t serving the dragon: the past 113 movie with the nodules or "horns" around his head. so much truth is told as fiction through hollywood movies, both by those trying to get the story out and, overwhelmingly, by those conditioning humanity for the open appearance of these beings in the years to come. in my view, george lucas of star wars is among the latter. the sumerians depicted

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sewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so much likedragons that they have been given the name draco after the star constellation fromwhich the reptilian hierarchy are said to originate. of even more interest to me is thearmoured lizard called moloch horridus which also has a dragon-like appearance.moloch is an ancient deity to which children were sacrificed thousands of years ago andstill are today in the vast satanic ritual network. they are sacrificed to the reptilians inother words because, as will

, thesesocieties were not unconnected. as we shall see, they had the same origins. the templesat angkor wat are covered in reptilian images, a feature of all the ancient cultures,including the egyptian, the central american and the indian. professor phillip calahanin his study of the surviving and mysterious round towers of ireland has said that theyare positioned with remarkable synchronicity to the star constellations of the northernsky at the winter solstice. and the towers most perfectly align with the constellationof. draco. the head and eyes of the draco formation, as designed on the ground inireland, are, according to calahan, located either side of lough neagh right in thefigure 4: the draco dragonconstellation to which so many ancientmonuments appear to be aligned. 24centre of nor

hebrew, bene-ha-elohim, which reallytranslates as sons of the gods. the early offspring of these genetic encounters werethe giants of legend and there are many records of such hybrids being born. there arenumerous accounts throughout the ancient world, on every continent, of a giant raceand the biblical goliath could well have been symbolic of these people. the nativeamericans have many tales of the star people coming down from the skies to breedwith human women and alex christopher says that a common denominator in theabduction of humans by reptilians in the united states appears to relate to the personsbloodline, particularly those that go back to native americans or ancient indians. thehopi, you will recall, speak of originating within the earth. the ethiopian text, thekebra nagast (na

i, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be rather crowded because khrishna, vishnu, buddha,quetzalcoatl and others, will also be there. the star at the birth ofjesus is another multideity story and goes back at least to thebabylonian tale of nimrod who, in a dream, saw a brilliant starrising above the horizon. the soothsayers told him that this foretoldthe birth of a child who would become a great prince.24 its allrecycling. jesus is a myth man.the invented character of jesus was a sun god, symbolic ofgods sun. the light of the wo

reated by the babylonianbrotherhood to serve their needs. we have seen that the accounts of the watchers andtheir offspring, the nefilim, include references to their blood drinking activities. thebrotherhood know that blood contains the life-force energy. drinking menstrual bloodhas always been a feature of the reptilian bloodlines because they need blood to live inthis dimension. it was known as the star fire, the female lunar essence. the femalemenstrual cycle is governed by the cycles of the moon and the blood contains thatenergy. it222s ingredients are supposed to ensure a long life. in india it was called somaand in greece it was ambrosia, some researchers suggest. this was said to be the nectarof the gods and it was- the reptilian gods who are genetic blood drinkers. the 221holygrail

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riment with joe parr's 7.4 astronomical correlations with great pyramid there are numerous relationships of the great pyramid to various astronomical bodies. the two main constellations which are related to the pyramid are taurus (the bull) and orion (the hunter. both these constellations are in the same portion of the sky. taurus is located just above orion. 7 .4.1 the taurus/pleiades connection the star alcyone in the constellation taurus marks the foundation setting (i.e, when construction was initiated on the great pyramid) date of the great pyramid.6 alcyone is one of the brightest stars in the pleiades, which is part of the taurus constellation. the ascending passageway in the great pyramid has a score line on it which pointed to alcyone in 2144 bc. alcyone is lined up with the sun a

ection the big conduit in the middle of december, shown in figure 7.4.1-1, and first week of january loads to another important connection, that of the great pyramid and the orion constellation (see figure 7.4.2-1. figure 7.4.2-1. orion constellation research by one of the early great pyramid surveyors, sir flinders petrie, revealed that the king's chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid

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model. harris points out also the invocation used to conjure cain in charles leland s aradia gospel of the witches. nathan harris writes also that some claim hereditary witchcraft is that the children are of cain, who in some traditions is also the son of adam and lilith, or the traditional myth of samael (the devil) and eve. a further interesting connection that lilith holds with samael/satan is the star algol which was originally called arabic the ri'b al ohill and later the hebrew rosh ha sitan meaning the head of satan and also lilith. algol can be viewed as a star which represents the essence of satan and lilith, the twin fire of becoming through the left hand path. in luciferian sorcery, algol is presented as an 8 pointed chaos sigil with the inverted pentagram in the center. this is

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dawn, the [g.d: a secret society organized in the late 1880's. it was able to unite several forms of magick and occult philosophy. most books on magick written in this century have been written by people who were members of that order, or who were directly or indirectly influenced by that organization. hexagram: a star of six (6) points formed by two overlapping equilateral triangles. also called the star or shield of david, it is the symbol of modern day jewish faith. in modern magick, it is used to evoke (q.v, invoke (q.v) and banish (q.v) the spirits and powers of the seven ancient planets. a celestial symbol of the macrocosm (q.v) in the greater and lesser rituals of the hexagram. see lbrh (q.v. this figure is used by members of the order of the astral star when a figure involving plan

degree is founded upon the ideals of christian knighthood, and the magickal secrets of the christian eucharist. the order practices golden dawn [g.d (q.v) style ceremonial/ritual magick. the symbol of the order is an eight rayed star on it's point, inscribed with the glyphs of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the numbers, and colors. a gold, silver, and red crux mystica is in the center, and the star itself is surmounted by a crux mystica. the order was incorporated in kentucky on the vernal equinox, 1993. ordo templi orientis [o.t.o: the order of the temple of the east. a well known and still existing originally german occult order which has become the primary promulgator of the teachings of aleister crowley (q.v, who at one time was the head of that international order. kenneth gran

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ust perforce be very limited because we have not had time to build up through experience a body of images and ideas that shall serve to represent them. these can only be got together with mystical qabala page 133 time, each transcendental experience adding its quota and subsequent rational meditation organising them. 26. mystics are very apt to make the mistake of thinking that they are following the star to the place of the sermon on the mount, not to the manger at bethlehem, the birth-place. it is here that the method of the tree is so valuable, enabling the transcendent to be expressed in terms of symbolism, and symbolism to be translated into terms of metaphysics; thus linking the psychic with the spiritual via the intellect, and bringing all three aspects of our trinitarian consciousn

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odour of pepi's body is the odour of the eye of horus.[5] throughout the pyramid texts the osiris of the deceased is the son of tmu, or tmu-ra, shu, tefnut, seb, and nut, the brother of isis, nephthys, set, and thoth, and the father of horus;[6] his hands, arms, belly, back, hips and thighs, and legs are the god tmu, and his face is anubis.[7] he is the brother of the moon,[8] he is the child of the star sothis,[9] he revolves in heaven like orion and sothis,[10] and he rises in his place like a star.[11] the gods, male and [1. recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391. 10. ibid, t. iii, p. 205 (l. 221. 10. ibid, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391] p. lxxiv female, pay homage to him,[1] every being in heaven adores him; and in one interesting passage it is said of pepi i. that "when he hath come forth i

the throne of the great god proclaim eternal life and power for him"[4] here like the supreme god he is declared to be "one" and the four children of horus proclaim his name to ra. having gone to the north of the aaru field he makes his way to the eastern portion of the tuat, where according to one legend he becomes like the morning star, near[6] his sister sothis.[7] here he lived in the form of the star sothis, and "the great and little companies of the gods purify him in the great bear" the egyptian theologians, who conceived that a ladder was necessary to enable the soul to ascend to the next world, provided it also with an address which it was to utter when it reached the top. as given in the pyramid of unas it reads as follows-"hail to thee, o daughter of amenta, mistress of peteru)

an, with a head-dress in the shape of a seat, the hieroglyphic for which forms her name. the animal sacred to her was the cow, hence she sometimes wears upon her head the horns of that animal accompanied by plumes and feathers. in one aspect she is identified with the goddess selk or serq, and she then has upon her head a scorpion, the emblem of that goddess;[3] in another aspect she is united to the star sothis, and then a star is added to her crown. she is, however, most commonly represented as the mother suckling her child horus, and figures of her in this aspect, in bronze and fa ence, exist in thousands. as a nature goddess she is seen standing in the boat of the sun, and she was probably the deity of the dawn. heru or horus, the sun-god, was originally a totally distinct god from hor

are the buttocks of the eye of horus. vignette: osiris, wearing the atef crown and holding the flail and crook. text (17) the privy member of osiris ani, triumphant, is the privy member of osiris. vignette: the goddess nut. p. 355 text (18) the legs of osiris ani, triumphant, are the legs of nut. vignette: the god ptah. text (19) the feet of osiris ani, triumphant, are the feet of ptah. vignette: the star orion. text (20) the fingers of osiris ani, triumphant, are the fingers of saah (orion. vignette: three ur i. plate xxxii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod37.htm (5 of 7 [8/10/2001 11:29:09 am] text (21) the leg-bones of osiris ani, triumphant, are the leg-bones of the living ur i. appendix: the complete version of the xliind chapter of the book of the dead, referring to the ident

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nes, and we evoke them with the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are, gob for the gnomes, djiu for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs, and nicksa for the undines. when an elementary spirit comes to torment, or at least to annoy the inhabitants of this world, we must conquer it by means of air, water, fire and earth, blowing, sprinkling, burning perfumes, and tracing on the earth the star of solomon and the sacred pentagram. these figures should be perfectly regular, and made either with coals from the consecrated fire, or with a reed dipped in diverse colors which we mix of pulverized magnet. then, while holding in the hand the pentacle of solomon, and taking by turns the sword, the wand, and the cup, we pronounce in these terms and in a loud voice the conjuration of the

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ed sensational allegations about crowley and his associates allan bennett and george cecil jones. in response, jones sued the journal in 1911, and crowley obtained considerable publicity through the court hearing. although crowley must have reveled in such public attention, he lost several friends through it, in particular his disciple j. f. c. fuller, who had written the eulogy of crowley titled the star in the west (1907. meanwhile, crowley had joined another secret order, the ordo templi orientis (oto, which strongly emphasized the power of sex magic. after crowley departed to the united states toward the end of 1914, the a a ceased working as a group in london. sources: king, francis. ritual magic in england: 1887 to the present day. london: neville spearman, 1970. suster, gerald. the

r books, 1971. reprint, magnolia, mass: peter smith, 1972. thompson, charles j. alchemy: source of chemistry& medicine. london, 1897. reprint, sentry press, 1974. valentine, basil. triumphal chariot of antimony. london, 1656. waite, a. e. the alchemical writings of edward kelly. new york: samuel weiser, 1973. alchemists through the ages. blauvelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1970. azoth, or the star in the east. london, 1893. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. the occult sciences. london, 1923. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. waite, a. e, ed. the hermetical& alchemical writings of paracelsus. 2 vols, london, 1894. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. the works of thomas vaughan, mystic and alchemist. london, 1919. reprint, new hy

t the philosophers stone had often been discovered, but its fortunate discoverers would not reveal the secret to blind, incredulous, and unworthy man. geber s summa perfectionis, a manual for the alchemical student, has been frequently translated. one english version, of which there is a copy in the library of the british museum, london, was published by an english enthusiast, richard russell, at the star, in new market, in wapping, near the dock, in 1686. geber s true name was abou moussah djafar, to which was added al sofi, or the wise, and he was a native of houran in mesopotamia. he was followed by avicenna, averroes, and others equally gifted and fortunate. according to geber and his successors, the metals were not only compound creatures, but they were also all composed of the same t

ey prophesied the year, the hour, and the manner of his death, and agreed with his father in foretelling that he astrological society encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 108 should perish not by poison, but by the dagger. the early christians gave some sanction to astrology in the gospel of matthew, which opens with the visit of the three magi (persian astrologers) who, having seen the star in the east, have come to worship christ. after the age of the antonines and the work of the thirdcentury c.e. roman scholar censorinus, we hear little of astrology for some generations. in the eighth century the venerable bede and his distinguished scholar, alcuin, are said to have pursued this mystic study. immediately following, the arabians revived and encouraged it. under the patrona

some accounts, azer is also the name of the father of zoroaster, legendary author of the zend-avesta, the sacred work of the ancient persians. azoth (or azoch) name given by ancient alchemists to mercury, also known as astral quintessence, flying salve, animated spirit, ethelia, and auraric. the term also implied the essential element of the transmutation process. sources: waite, a. e. azoth; or, the star in the east. london, 1893. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. azael encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 136 b ba the egyptian conception of the soul, which, in the form of a man-headed bird, left the body after death and winged its flight to the gods. it returned at intervals to the mummy for the purpose of comforting it and reassuring it concerning immort

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. the pentagram, the sign of the microcosm, was held to be the most powerful means of conjuration in any rite. it might represent good as well as evil, for with one point in the ascendant it was the sign of christ, and with two points in the ascendant it was the sign of satan. by the use of the pentagram in these positions, the powers of light or darkness were evoked. the pentagram was said to be the star that led the magi to the manger where the infant christ was laid. the preparation and consecration of this sign for use in magical rites was prescribed with great detail. it might be composed of seven metals, the ideal form for its expression, or traced in pure gold upon white marble never before used for any purpose. it might also be drawn with vermilion upon lambskin without a blemish p

, was born in miami, florida on january 10, 1946. after high school he enter the army and soon was assigned to the army security agency. after 13 years of service overseas, in 1977 he returned to the united states to work with the intelligence and security command where he became a warrant officer. in 1978 he was recruited into the secret psychic spy unit of the government program, later known as the star gate project, designed to develop an operative intelligence operation using remote viewing. he worked with the unit until his retirement in 1984. he moved to rural virginia where he met and eventually married nancy lea honeycutt, the step-daughter of robert a. monroe, known for his out-of-body experiences. she was the director of the monroe institute for applied sciences. following his re

til his retirement in 1984. he moved to rural virginia where he met and eventually married nancy lea honeycutt, the step-daughter of robert a. monroe, known for his out-of-body experiences. she was the director of the monroe institute for applied sciences. following his retirement, mcmoneagle was also hired by the cognitive sciences laboratory, responsible for the research and development side of the star gate project. he worked both as a remote viewer and as a research assistant. he continues as an employee of the laboratory. mcmoneagle has written two nonfiction books about remote viewing, mind trek (1993) and the ultimate time machine (1998. in the wake of the declassification of data on the government s paranormal research in 1995, mcmoneagle has made numerous media appearances discuss

evoked by the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs, and necksa for the undines. these names, it will be noticed, are borrowed from folklore. the laying of an elementary spirit is accomplished by its adjuration by air, water, fire, and earth, by breathing, sprinkling, the burning of perfumes, by tracing on the ground the star of solomon and the sacred pentagram, which should be drawn either with ash of consecrated fire or with a reed soaked in various colors, mixed with pure loadstone. the conjuration of the four should then be repeated, the magus holding the pentacle of solomon in his hand and taking up by turns the sword, rod, and cup, this operation being preceded and terminated by the kabalistic sign of th

christopher. eliphas levi and the french occult revival. new york: samuel weiser, 1974. waite, arthur edward. the unknown philosopher: louis claude de st. martin. blauvelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1970. order of napunsakas in the west the order of napunsakas in the west (on) was founded in 1996 as a special interest group (sig) associated with the thelemic magical order the servants of the star and the snake (sss. it was inspired by the writings of the late scholar of hinduism, alain danielou (author of such books as the gods of india: hindu polytheism; shiva and dionysus and while the gods play. the hindu word napunsaka designates some 16 categories of non-heterosexual, gender variant types mentioned in the sanskrit dictionary of v. s. apete. members of the order seek to reesta

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

t of martyred contactee gloria lee, who died in 1962 while fasting under the direction of space people. a principal communicator is christopher, an aide to the king of the moon and spokesman for the lunarian station of united cosmic planets. according to christopher, the moon is a complete authority in itself, but working with an interplanetary confederation. these messages are circulated through the star light fellowship, established in 1962. see also: j.w. further reading melton, j. gordon, 1996. encyclopedia of american religions. fifth edition. detroit, mi: gale research. chung fu sometime in the 1960s, marshall leve r, then a student at a pre s byterian seminary, began ex- chung fu 61 photograph of chief joseph by edward curtis (corbis) perimenting with trance mediumship. in this stat

an; brown s martians; dentons s martians and venusians; hopkins s martians; martian bees; mince- pie martians; muller s martians; shaw s martians; smead s martians; wilcox s martians further reading ferguson, william, 1954. my trip to mars. potomac, md: cosmic study center. kihief kihief was the spirit guide to the late francie paschal steiger, who with her then-husband, brad steiger, spearheaded the star people kihief 143 movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. paschal steiger believed herself to be a reincarnated extraterrestrial. kihief, who guided her through her life, said he was from a place like unto venus (steiger and steiger, 1981. she took his words to mean that he was from an otherdimensional counterpart to earth s (uninhabitable) sister planet. throughout her lifetime, pasc

fetime, paschal steiger interacted with a variety of friendly, spiritually advanced space people. she met the first of them when, as a fiveyear- old child, she saw a robed being whom she took to be an angel. see also: star people further reading steiger, brad, 1976. gods of aquarius: ufos and the transformation of man. new york: harcourt brace jovanovich. steiger, brad, and francie steiger, 1981. the star people. new york: berkley books. steiger, francie, 1982. reflections from an angel s eye. new york: berkley books. king leo king leo is a reptilian being who is descended from the dinosaurs. he and his fellows live in an underground kingdom, where they have resided since just before the catastrophe that destroyed other life from the age of reptiles. some have met him in person, but most o

be channeling. she was led to a channeling class in los angeles. by 1985, a number of entities were making their presence known to her. one was raydia, who stayed with royal for three years. royal went on to found the association of l ove and light, channeling raydia as well as some others. raydia was a heart- c e n t e re d female entity, a collective consciousness with a strong affiliation with the star arct u rus. she last communicated in 1988, telling persons who we re sitting in on a channeling session, you will never see me in this form again. royal says that raydia integrated herself into an entity royal would subsequently channel, germane( behind the veil, 1998. see also: bashar; channeling; germane further reading behind the veil: a look at the phenomenon of channeling, 1998. http

ent, she decided that she had served her life purpose and would go on to another level of existence, though without dying; instead, she gave her body to a being of higher consciousness. this being would be able to obser ve and offer insight into upcoming planetary changes that will affect everybody who lives on earth. the intergalactic council of twelve (consisting of space people and angels) and the star command, working with the earthwoman, carefully effected the change over a period of six months between january and july 1989. on july 14, the exchange occurred. by this time, the woman was out of the hospital and had resumed a part-time occupation, the conducting of channeling workshops. the woman was holding one on an island in the pacific northwest when she was instructed to go to the

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ught but slights; a feast that s fleet is ours by rights. exeunt. mephistopheles [to the spectators] here haps a hap of long ago; with naboth s vineyard it happed so (i kings 21) deep night lynceus [the warder singing on the watch-tower of the castle. keen vision my dower, placed here for my sight, and sworn to the tower, in the world i delight. i gaze at the far, i look at the near, the moon and the star, the wood and the deer. in all things around me is grace without end, and as they astound me, myself i commend. thou fortunate vision, thou mayest have seen whatever there may be, yet fair hath it been. pause. but not only to delight me am i stationed here on high; what a gruesome sight, to fright me, threatens from the dark world nigh! flashing sparkles i see gushing through the lindens

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

t mystical manual on, and possibly the source text for, the original hebrew alphabet. its chapters explain the significance of the twenty-two letters and ascribe various attributes to them. it is second only to the sefer hashmoth as the most prolific source of distinct forms of the tree of life. the first chapter of the book is the earliest known textual source for the six-pointed symbol known as the star of david. the six-pointed star has come to be seen as a flat, twodimensional symbol of two interlocking triangles. the sefer yetzirah, however, presents the star as a three-dimensional, sixpointed form of the tree of life comprised of two interfacing pyramids. the sefer yetzirah provides one of the two vastly different sets of names commonly found in the qabalah for the spheres (called se

(tvma sls, shalosh imote) and seven double letters (tvlvpk ibs, shevah kuhfoolote) and twelve simple letters (tvuvsp hrsi, esrae puhshootote. 2 the verses beginning with ten intangible sefiroth generally allude to various forms of the tree of life, some of which are unique to this book. we mentioned earlier that the sefer yetzirah is the textual source for the six-pointed star, commonly known as the star of david. the star of david, a two-dimensional symbol composed of two interlocking triangles, is easily the most recognizable symbol of the jewish religion. this way of viewing the star certainly presents a wealth of interpretative possibilities. the sefer yetzirah yields two forms of the six-pointed star as trees of perfection. the first is a flat, circular form (see figure 4.9 on page 1

tar of david, a two-dimensional symbol composed of two interlocking triangles, is easily the most recognizable symbol of the jewish religion. this way of viewing the star certainly presents a wealth of interpretative possibilities. the sefer yetzirah yields two forms of the six-pointed star as trees of perfection. the first is a flat, circular form (see figure 4.9 on page 127. the second presents the star as two interfacing pyramids containing the ten sefiroth 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% and the letter-gates (see figure 4.10 on page 128. by way of comparison, it is interesting to note that the six-pointed star is also an ancient and important symbol in the north indian tantric tradition, dating back to the second millennium bce. in the tantric tradition, it is associated with the anahata chakra i

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which they take for granted is always astrological, even where this is not expressly stated. the material world is under the rule of the stars, and of the seven planets, the "seven governors. the laws of the nature within which the religious gnostic lives are the astrological laws, and they are the setting of his religious experience. there is, however, a fundamental difference in the attitude to the star-ruled world among the various authors of the hermetica. festugiere has classified these writings as belonging to two types of gnosis, namely pessimist gnosis, or optimist gnosis.1 for the pessimist (or dualist) gnostic, the material world heavily impregnated with the fatal influence of the stars is in itself evil; it must be escaped from by an ascetic way of life which avoids as much as p

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

ce and a body. and this divinity, this power, he recovers in the vision of the divine mens, which is like his own divine mens, shown him by pimander. pimander leaves trismegistus after he has been "invested with powers and instructed in the nature of the all and the supreme vision" in short, the egyptian genesis tells the story of the creation and fall of a divine man, a man intimately related to the star-demons in his very origin, man as magus. the egyptian genesis tallies well with that famous outbreak in the asclepius on man as the magnum miraculum (with which pico della mirandola was to open his oration on the dignity of man: what a great miracle is man, o asclepius, a being worthy of reverence and honour. for he passes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god; he has f

es to be good. the methods of sympathetic magic' presuppose that continual effluvia of influences pouring down onto the earth from the stars of which the author of the asclepius speaks. it was believed that these effluvia and influences could be canalised and used by an operator with the requisite knowledge. every object in the material world was full of occult sympathies poured down upon it from the star on which it depended. the operator who wished to capture, let us say, the power of the planet venus, must know what plants belonged to venus, what stones and metals, what animals, and use only these when addressing venus. he must know the images of venus and know how to inscribe these on talismans made of the right venus materials and at the right astrological moment. such images were hel

perator who wished to capture, let us say, the power of the planet venus, must know what plants belonged to venus, what stones and metals, what animals, and use only these when addressing venus. he must know the images of venus and know how to inscribe these on talismans made of the right venus materials and at the right astrological moment. such images were held to capture the spirit or power of the star and to hold or store it for use. not only the planets had attached to each of them a complicated pseudo-science of occult sympathies and image-making, but the twelve signs of the zodiac each had their plants, animals, images, and so on, and indeed so had all the constellations and stars of the heavens. for the all was one, united by an infinitely complex system of relationships. the magic

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days of the writing of the book of the law. 19: is a god to live in a day? no! but the highest are of us. they shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us *76*:4638abk24algmor3yx2489rpstoval. what meaneth this o prophet? thou knowest not; nor shall thou ever know. there cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound upon it. but remember, a chosen one to be me; to follow the love of nu in the star lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. 77: be thou proud and mighty among men! side note: this is some fucked up shit. iii (liber al) 6: dung it about with enginery of war! 7: i will give you a war engine 42: the ordeals that thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. refuse none, but thou shalt know and destroy the traitors. i am ra-hoor-khuit; and i

s of this particular style of magick for the educated. ii/1a: we have an automatic drawing of the black well. ii/1b: the eye with a tear. the sorrow which is gained by understanding. this is seen macro-cosmically by the one being one, whose sorrow is actually joy. in the microcosmic this is the i which thinks of itself as isolate. ii/2a: we see the letter zain repeated seven times in the shape of the star of babalon. a flaming sword is shown in the shape of a key which also looks like a head. the words is to be is written upon the sword (denoting future prophecy as well as a method of use. the babbler is mentioned which is chrnzn. this chapter takes the tone of another and not chrnzn. it is something altogether different. vehicles are used for transport. keys open things up. a snake figure

way of the abyss, this must be resonated. this is a win or lose situation as demonic forces attempt to tear the initiate apart for the duration of this trial. we see a doorway on it s side in the shape of daleth, with some form of monster coming out of it. iii/2b: this being the first explicit reference to the scarlet brotherhood. and our rejection of the concepts and truth of both the brother of the star and the babe of chrnzn. being exalted in scarlet. our school and way is, and has been. a paradigm for the new aeon if you will. the sigil of our lady is shown. iii/3a: this being a reference to the trials of the shell of the magician when engaged in intercourse with the almighty. this obviously being an illusion (because we can represent it. but coming so close to this thing sends any fra

is scarlet path (a view from above? for nothing is absolute, the path of the scarlet brother is one of dis-enfranchisement. what meaneth this? our brotherhood seeks recreation, thus it is that we are bound beyond time and space into the thrusting disarray of void. to establish a splotch of black amid the white. the inverse spaces bring calamity into their boring tunnels. the point of crossover is the star of daath. we leap and propel our light (under the guidance of the angels) into ideo-spheres and vacuity. a transmutation, ex-nihilo. how this is accomplished is the domain of the given star and is approached quite naturally. the gift of babalon is that we are of her, and the shells of victory become unraveled. this appears paradoxical at first, for she is zos complete. but the schizophren

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

he lord of light and love, a blessing sent with power; o may we all this blessing prove, e'en life for evermore. iv. on friendship's altar rising here, our hands now plighted be, to live in love, with hearts sincere, in peace and unity. the lambskin, or white leather apron. is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a mason; more ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle; more honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred upon you at this or any future period, by king, prince, potentate, or any other person, except he be a mason, and which i hope you will wear with pleasure to yourself and honor to the fraternity. the twentyfour inch gauge. is an instrument made use of by operative masons to measure and lay out their work; but we, as free and accepted ma

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on, kent and co, ltd, 1921, p. 10-11. occult writer, r.p. lawrie krishna said the same thing in the lamb slain- supreme sacrifice. the hexagram uniting the water triangle with the fire triangle, the hexagram is formed. it forms a six pointed star also known as the seal of solomon. this symbol is a counterfeit star of david, the national symbol of israel(god's chosen nation. the difference between the star of david and the occult seal is the triangles which make up the occult seal interlock and the two triangles of the star of david lie flat against each other. mary ann slipper, a masonic author, writing in symbolism of the eastern star, 1927, on page 14, makes a most telling admission, when she says "the six pointed star is used in masonic work and is also found in other well known secret

many places. the pentagram it was proven in part 1, that from masonic books that masons worship both lucifer and satan. they serve both the "good" lucifer and the "evil" satan. they believe that both good and evil exist in equal measure in the world. they also believe good cannot exist without an equally powerful evil. this belief is the reason we see both type of 5-pointed stars within masonry; the star with the upright single point is a symbol of the "good" lucifer, while the star with the two points upward is a symbol of the "evil" satan. it also takes 33 degrees of rotation of a pentagram(one point u. p) to achieve a satanic pentagram(two points upcoincidence? i don't think so. both these stars were taken from freemasonry graphics sites, http//www.eskimo.com/ daylight/pix/main.html ht

m freemasonry graphics sites, http//www.eskimo.com/ daylight/pix/main.html http//www.eskimo.com/daylight/pix/main.html http//167.217.91.135/graphics/home.htm the women's division of freemasonry; eastern star (above right) is based upon the "evil satan" star, the goats head of mendes. this is one of the infernal names of satan within satanism. in looking at the eastern star goatshead (above right, the star itself is a goatshead, and the star in the middle is a plain goatshead, which is within an inverted pentacle. in one symbol there are three instances of inverted pentagrams. so, just how important is the pentagram to the satanist? listen to the witch of salem, massachusetts, laura cabot, on this question. in her book, power of the witch: the earth, the moon, and the magical path to enligh

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

e the law of zoroaster. after him will be the resurrection"[123] this last named son was to be born of a pure and spotless virgin, whereupon a star would appear blazing even at noonday with undiminished lustre [123] quoted by waite, history of the christian religion, p. 168 "you, my sons" exclaimed the seer "will perceive its rising before any other nation. as soon, therefore, as you shall behold the star, follow it, withersoever it shall lead you; and adore that mysterious child, offering your gifts to him, with profound humility. he is the almighty word, which created the heavens"[124 [124] ibid, 169. waite notices the conclusion of faber that this prediction was long before the birth of christ, and states that one of the reasons for such a conclusion was, that in the old irish history a

ra" the identity of this irish prophecy with the one in the east ascribed to zarathustra or zoroaster, is so singular that faber thinks it can be accounted for only on the hypothesis "of an ancient emigration from persia to ireland by the northwest passage, which carried the legend with it" by those who have investigated the origin of the early gospels, it is stated that the story of the magi and the star appeared in the gospel of the infancy early in the second century, and was subsequently incorporated into the preparatory chapters of luke and matthew. according to waite, there was a sect of christians called prodiceans whose leader, prodicus, about a.d. 120, boasted that they had the sacred books of zoroaster. from an extant fragment of the chronography of africanus is the following "ch

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

he order. apart from mathers, one of the principal causesof dissension was the existencewithintheorderof 'secret groups' dedicated to private and unofficial 'occult working and ceremonial. chief among them was florence farr's 'sphere group, in which twelve members obtained astral visions by means of ritualized meditationupona sphere onwhichwere projected symbols taken fromboththe tree of life and the star maps used in the order.thesphere andothergroups were bitterly opposed by anniehornimanand w. b. yeats,bothofwhomlookeduponthemas magically wholly undesirable,butno satisfactory solution of the dispute was arrived at and misshornimaneventually resigned. there was also the very differentbutequally serious problemofmmehoros and her husband. this pair of criminal adventurers had tricked mathe

craft, we believe in the magnificence of the exterior sign, and in the grandeur of outward worship; but,withfull sympathy for the spirit which governs them, we must deprecate these designs, which have only the elements of failure. at the same time, it is pertinent to draw attention to their existence,for they are part of that spiritual ferment in which we all of us breathe and move [fromazoth:.or the star in theeast,pp.126-8__appendix b _theconstitutionofthesecretcouncilofrites(1)thes. c. r. was constituted on december 2nd,1902for the determination in a particular direction of existing mystic interests, more especially in connectionwithmasonry and the orders which are connectedwithand dependent uponit.(2)thework of the s. c. lies entirely outside that of any legislative bodies, grand lodge

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

circle was seen by annie horniman as a threat to the unityoftheorderand in1902she appealed to the chiefsofthe second order to permit her to disperse the group by means of a banishing ceremony, for she believed that there were occult as well as disciplinary reasons for its undesirability.herpetition to the chiefs describes the group:'thisgroup consistedof12members and the symbols were adapted from the star maps andtreeof life projected on a sphere, whence they were sometimes called the sphere group.thetwelve members had astral stations assigned to them around this sphere and a certain egyptian astral form was supposed to occupy the centre" a paper on the group bydrfelkin enlarges on its activities and provides us with florence's justification 'when the first group was formed by mrs emery sh

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jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bible216partfour: masonic22.freemasonry and its relation to the essenes233 23.the resemblances of freemasonry to the cult of mithra244 24.the religious and masonic symbolism of stones256partfive: miscellaneous papers25.an essay on the ancient mysteries269 26.a recent spiritual development287 27.an essay upon the constitution of man: spirit, soul, body296 28.man's blood and gen

ii. 14 'blessed be the lord for the precious things put forth by the moon.'thepleiades, called kimah, and the constel255 lation orion, as kesib, are found mentioned in jobix.9. orion appears to have been also a name applied to nimrod the mighty hunter ruler. amos v. 8 speaks of the seven stars, and orion.thename arcturus, called ash and aish, is believed by some to be stars of ursa major, and not the star now so called. in job xxxviii. 32, arcturus and his sons are referred to. jupiter, as zeus, either as pagan god, or as a planet, is referred to in acts xiv. 12; and in 2 maccabee vi. 2, we read that antiochus senttothe jews a message that the holy temple was to be dedicated to jupiter olympus.176themagical masonin judges v. 20 we read:'thestars in their courses fought against sisera; whic

n astronomer, schiaparelli, and a notable englishman, walter maunder of the greenwich astronomical observatory have published volumes concern255 ing the biblical references to the sun, moon and stars.theformer has written a learned treatise with explanation of hebrew words in connection with the subject; the latter is more concerned with the relations of the jewish faith and christian religion to the star lore to be found in the bible. these eminent astronomers agree in the opinion that the jews of bible times possessed very little knowledge in regard to the heavenly bodies, and that the biblical mention of them is mainly of a poetical character, or they are referred to as symbols or signs of the supremacy of jehovah the creator and ruler of the universe. we must remember that the jews fro

eudoxus of cnidos aboutb.c.400, and hipperachus, and their discoveries were amplified in the great school of alexandria which arose aboutb.c.300 and flourished for a long period. among their successors were artus and claudius ptolemy who are respected even at the present day for their writings on the sun, moon and stars.theancient astronomy upon which greek culture founded classical astronomy was the star lore of chaldea and babylon, and of egypt; it originated at a much earlier date, and so very little of a definite character can be asserted upon its extent and accuracy: modern research among brick tablets and ancient papyri is furnishing some further data. it may be noted that greek astronomy arose about the time of the writing of the later old testament books. in a consideration of the

shorayish.arcturus is the brightest star visible in our sky, it is in the constellation named bootes. in job xxxviii, 32, we read 'canst thou guide arcturus with his sons, but in the revised version we find 'canst thou guide the bear with her train [or her sons' in job xxxvi, 9, the hebrew word ayish is translated 'the north, so this may be a reason for the change from arcturus to ursa major, for the star arcturus could not be regarded as a northern star in palestine, any more than in england. the greekarktosmeant the north, hence our word arctic. the old vulgatebibleina peculiar manner gaveas-arcturus the four different hebrewwords-kimah,ash,mezarimandkesil.theconstellation of the great bear, ursa major, is always visible in the northern hemisphere when the sky is clear, and everyone reco

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r and cord. inhis.left hand he bears a flame255 headed sceptre. he is the image offateorfatality,good or evil.16. the lightning-struck tower.a tower whose upper part is like a crown, struck by a lightning-flash (two men fall headlong fromit,one of whom is in such an attitude as to form a hebrew letterayin.)sparks and debris are falling.itshowsruin, disruption.60 the sorcererand his apprentice 17. the star.a nude female figure pours water upon the earth. fromtwovases. in the heavens above her shines the blazing star of the magi (surrounded by seven others, trees. and plants grow beneath her magic influence (and on one thet butterfly of psyche alights. she is the star ofhope. 18. the moon.the moon shining in the heavens, drops of dew falling, a wolf and a dog howling at the moon, and halted

fested byaction(3) should find itsrealisation(4) in deeds ofmercyandbeneficence(5. thewise disposition(6) of this will give himvictory(7) throughequilibrium(8) andprudence(9, over thethetarot 61fluctuations offortune(10).fortitude(11, sanctified bysacrificeof self (12, will triumph overdeathitself(b),and thus a wisecombination(14) will enable him to defyfate (15).in eachmisfortune(16) he will see the star ofhope(17) shine through the twilight ofdeception(18; and ultimatehappiness(19) will be theresult(20).folly(0, on the other hand, will bring about an evilreward (21).to prepare the pack for fortune-telling, write at the top of each card its number and signification when in its proper position, and at the bottom its meaning when reversed. to facilitate this, and to assist in reading them i

ransformation, alteration fori the worse; r. death just escaped, partial change, alteration for the better.14.temperance.combination, conformation, uniting; r. ill-advised combinations, disunion, clashing interests, etc. is.the devil.fatality for good; r. fatality for evil.16."the lightning-struck tower.ruin, disruption, over: throw, loss, bankruptcy; r. these in a more or less partial degree.17. the star.hope, expectation, bright promises;r.hopes not fulfilled, expectations disappointed orfulfilled-ina minor degree.18. the moon.twilight, deception, error; r. fluctuation:'light deceptions, trifling mistakes.19. the sun.happiness, content, joy;r. these in a minor degree.20. the lastjudgrnent.renewal, result, determinationofamatter; r. postponement of result, delay, matterre-opened later.the

only on the lines of the tatwic currents which we have been considering for the last few meetings, and for that purpose i will ask you just for a moment to conceive of the whole solar system being out of existence. carry your mind back to the time before the solar system, as we know it now, was created, and just imagine this little bit of space where we are, void, an empty space in the centre of. the star sphere. probably there are a great many such spaces. probably this space is no wider than other spaces.ifyou went up from here to the nearest fixed star, you wouldthetatwas201probably find a distance quite as great between you and the next nearest fixed star. but however that may be- which we have nothing particular to do with just at present- we find a hollow sphere to all intents and pu

ion, lines of effect running about vaguely, hither and thither, and productive of chaos and not of cosmos.thetatwas203well, now,ifthese premises are correct, it is pretty obvious that the precise direction of the plane of the solar system with regard to the stars must somehow or other have been determined by the action of the forces that created it, and by the forces whose operation first whirled the star mist, the fire mist, into a nebulous form, and then consolidated it into planets.ifthat premise again be accurate, it follows that the precise direction and position of that plane with regard. to the star sphere surroundingitmust beinsome way or other the key to the constitution and nature of the solar system, because it is the key to the operation of the forces which produced it. now tha

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

te appendix b masonic writings of a. e. waite (1) books wholly or partly relating to freemasonry the real history of the rosicrucians founded on their own manifestos, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren (redway, 18 87) the occult sciences, a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment (kegan paul, 1891 (part 3, section 3: the freemasons) azoth, or the star in the east (theosophical publishing society, 1893 (appendix ii: the secret of freemasonry) devil-worship in france, of the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates (redway, 1896) the life of louis claude de saint-martin, the unknown philosopher, and the substance of his transcendental doctrine (wellby, 1901 (app

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not accept the sixpointed star as a symbol of the prophet solomon, but as a symbol of ancient egyptian paganism. an article in mimar sinan entitled "allegory and symbols in our rituals" relates a number of interesting facts about this matter: an equilateral triangle with three points equidistant from one another show that these values are equivalent. this symbol adopted by the masons is known as the star of david; it is a hexagram formed by the imposition of one equilateral triangle on another. today it is known as the symbol of judaism and appears on the flag of israel. but actually, the origin of this symbol is in ancient egypt .this emblem was first created by the templar knights which they began to use as symbolism in wall decoration in their churches. this is because they were the fi

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

te appendix b masonic writings of a. e. waite (1) books wholly or partly relating to freemasonry the real history of the rosicrucians founded on their own manifestos, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren (redway, 18 87) the occult sciences, a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment (kegan paul, 1891 (part 3, section 3: the freemasons) azoth, or the star in the east (theosophical publishing society, 1893 (appendix ii: the secret of freemasonry) devil-worship in france, of the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates (redway, 1896) the life of louis claude de saint-martin, the unknown philosopher, and the substance of his transcendental doctrine (wellby, 1901 (app

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

o go beyond the lower forms of morality, to disdain reproduction and to refuse family may seem to some the most frightening aspect of the transfigurative process. however, as we go beyond all the limits of the lower kingdoms, a higher ethic is experienced. this higher ethic is that of the pleroma, it is a flash of lightning from the throne of the virgin spirit. it is a vision of the true orbit of the star self that has been awakened. transfiguration for the gnostic the reality of this world is brutal, it is eternal re-occurrence and death. man is caught in a cage, this cage is called the endura. the endura is self perpetuating and the more man surrounds himself with the illusions of his false self (his false persona) the stronger the illusion becomes and the farther he gets from his true o

he nucleus in which much of the esoteric tradition developed. while much of the form of modern kabbalah originated in medieval mysticism, alchemy and hermeticism, we can clearly see that the basic mythology and forms was egyptian in origin. the recorded history of egypt covers an immense period of time. even the earliest forms of egyptian civilisation- which concentrated on the stellar worship of the star goddess had a highly evolved structure and form. by the first dynasty a wide range of esoteric and religious cults could be found, and a complex system of burial was evolved to guide the deceased into the treasury of light, bypassing the fallen gnostic theurgy page 191 worlds. these ceremonies later evolved to include complex mummification processes and were chronicled in the egyptian boo

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ected in a sphere. these keep their place and move not. but the man himself places in his sphere of sensation that point of the zodiac which ascended at the moment of his birth and conception (for the same degree of the zodiac ascendeth as both, otherwise the birth could not take place. which is to say that those times, the same degree of the zodiac that is ascending in the east of the heavens of the star whereon he is incarnated. thus does he remain during that incarnation, facing that particular point in his sphere of sensation. that is to say, this sphere does not revolve about the physical body. from dsj and hrwbg are formed the arms. therein exists the faculties of operative action, and at their extremities are the symbols of the four elements and the spirit. thus: thumb- spirit, thir

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l hexagram employs or denotes the rulership of presidency of the a and 5 over the four elements. all of these are united in as they come together. there is some information about the unicursal hexagram in various books which will be covered in higher grades for those of you who would wish to pursue this hexagram and its workings. in regards to the traditional hexagram, which is often times called the star of david or jewish star. it represents the force of the planets acting through the various signs of the zodiac. this is very powerful and effective in sealing the astral image of nature under the presidency of the sephiroth, as well as the seven palaces. the hexagram is especially attributed to a. this symbol is one of great power and of great strength. in it are both the combination of t

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

cted from each third point, yields eight triangles. these eight triangles become representative of the triad operating within each element in its dual form. thus, we have the positive and the negative under the power of the third aspect of the triad which becomes ynda hwhy, but is written as if it is bound together as yahdnhy if we take the octagram and reflect it from every fourth point, we have the star of b, and this certainly is akin to the nature of b. it is a further potent symbol representing the binding together of concentrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enn

point, we find that we arrive at the triple ternary operating both in the seven planets with the cauda and caput draconis of 5 and also with the alchemical principles counterchanged and interwoven. it is not akin much to the nature of 5 as it is to the sphere of dwsy. it is only when the enneagram is reflected from every fifth point that it becomes consonant with the nature of 5. the enneagram is the star of 5. it is a fitting representation of the 5's administration to the l through the virtues of the solar system under the presidency of the sephiroth. when the enneagram is reflected from every fourth point, it is composed of the three triangles united with a circle which alludes to the triple ternary of the three alchemical principles, q3p. when reflected from every fourth point, it is n

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

er the ancient egyptians at any stage in their history, nor even their successors the greeks, or for that matter the europeans until the renaissance, are supposed to have possessed cosmological data of anything approaching this quality. how, therefore, can its presence be explained in compositions which date back to the dawn of egyptian civilization? another (and perhaps related) mystery concerns the star sirius, which the egyptians identified with isis, the sister and consort of osiris and the mother of horus. in a passage addressed to osiris himself, the pyramid texts state: thy sister isis cometh unto thee rejoicing in her love for thee. thou settest her upon thee, thy issue entereth into her, and she becometh great with child like the star sept [sirius, the dog star. horus-sept cometh

the ancient egyptians themselves, who made no secret of their belief that their calendar was a legacy which they had received from the gods. we consider the possible identity of these gods in more detail in the following chapters. whoever they were, they must have spent a great deal of their time observing the stars, and they had accumulated a fund of advanced and specialized knowledge concerning the star sirius in particular. further evidence for this came in the form of the most useful calendrical gift which the gods supposedly gave to the egyptians: the sothic (or sirian) cycle.49 the sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as the periodic return of the heliacal rising of sirius, which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at daw

alexander badawy and the american astronomer virginia trimble demonstrated that the southern shaft of the king s chamber in the great pyramid was targeted like a gun-barrel on the belt of orion during the pyramid age around 2600 to 2400 bc.2 bauval decided to test the southern shaft of the queen s chamber, which badawy and trimble had not investigated, and established that it had been sighted on the star sirius during the pyramid age. the evidence that proved this was provided by the german engineer rudolf gantenbrink as a result of measurements taken by his robot upuaut in march 1993. this was the robot that had made the startling discovery of a closed portcullis door blocking the shaft at a distance of about 200 feet from the queen s chamber. equipped with a high-tech on-board clinomete

because the entire arrangement correctly depicts two very unusual celestial events that occurred only at that time. first, and purely by chance, the milky way, as visible from giza in 10,450 bc, exactly duplicated the meridional course of the nile valley; secondly, to the west of the milky way, the three stars of orion s belt were at the lowest altitude in their precessional cycle, with al nitak, the star represented by the great pyramid, crossing the meridian at 11 08 .8 precession and the stars of orion s belt. the reader is already familiar with the way the earth s axial precession causes sunrise on the vernal equinox to migrate along the band of the zodiac over a cycle of about 26,000 years. the same phenomenon also affects the declination of all visible stars, producing, in the case o

retty effective means of specifying the epoch of the eleventh millennium bc by using the phenomenon of precession, which has been rightly described as the only true clock of our planet .23 confusingly, however, we also know that the great pyramid incorporates star shafts locked in to orion s belt and sirius at around 2450 bc.24 the hypothesis resolves the anomaly of the missing years by supposing the star shafts to be merely the later work of the same long-lived cult that originally laid out the giza ground-plan in 10,450 bc. naturally, the hypothesis also suggests that it was this same cult, towards the end of those 8000 missing years, that provided the initiating spark for the sudden and fully formed emergence of the literate historical civilization of dynastic egypt. what remains to be

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

avored by the gods with the foreknowledge of agricultural cycles, then fast becoming the basis of life and death for civilization. that other, irregular events were noted as well can be defined as the beginning of ufology. no doubt to some extent we can explain such events in terms of comets and supernov. however, these celestial occurrences leave unexplained such events as the mythos surrounding the star sirius and the knowledge of its dark star neighbor, or semi-aquatic beings called the oannes (oannes were considered visitors from the sirius region who taught on earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. they are known to the sumerians and their babylonian successors, and to the egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote african tribal

uts. one could easily interpret this as, reading mantong means using the cipher based in the number 11. at one point shaver tells us we have allies in the caves, capitalizing for emphasis, all cavern people are not deros which equals 329, the exact numerical equivalent of resistance is not futile, a phrase now showing up in the secret cipher of the ufonauts 47 more contemporary science fiction of the star trek mythos. someone is, obviously, trying to tell us something. mutan mion, the central protagonist of shaver s seminal i remember lemuria! has a value of 142, identical to men in black. such capitalization is standard practice among modern cipher initiates as a means of pointing out phrases to be reduced to cipher for decoding. the overall cipher picture reflects certain qualities about

and otherwise, which humans emit and which desperate vampire-aliens consume like the soul-famished pathetic creatures they are, become poison to them in the transformed 70 allen h. greenfield human. cosmic consciousness is literally poison to them. men in black= 142= they pass as shadows. if such powers are physical, they cer- tainly manifest in the occult form. resistance is futile, the borg of the star trek mythos tell us. resistance is not futile, the answer, carries the cipher value of 329, that of qabalistic alchemist church and 11, i see to learn this writing, i.e, to decode the cipher of the ufonauts. also that lie that thou must die and, our having not forgotten that mohammed and alexander were higher men as well, law of the battle of conquest. carry to the alien nest the law of t

door knob and pushing the door. resistance is not futile= 329= abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words. in the seminal and quintessential chapter 36 of the book of lies, aleister crowley informs us, let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. the magick rood, or wand, is the supreme male symbol; the mystic rose the female complement. the ritual, called the star sapphire, is the revelation to the initiated of the key secret of the magick of the conquest of the universe. thus, we find the wand: the double wand of power= 329= resistance is not futile. the blond alien khyia of procyon, our alleged informant from the stars= 150= mystic rose. combined, by theosophic addition, the wand and rose together are 3+2+9= 14= 1+4= 5 and 150 or 1+5+0= 6, or 5+6

rse. thus, we find the wand: the double wand of power= 329= resistance is not futile. the blond alien khyia of procyon, our alleged informant from the stars= 150= mystic rose. combined, by theosophic addition, the wand and rose together are 3+2+9= 14= 1+4= 5 and 150 or 1+5+0= 6, or 5+6 or 56. 56= isis (5+6= 11, of course, the number of magick, of transformation by will, of decoding. at the end of the star sapphire in crowley s commentary we find, it is not he (the adept) that shall arise in the sign of isis rejoicing. the transformed adept, greater than the most advanced aliens, is the ultimate victor in the battle of conquest not merely earth, but the omniverse is his domain. 71 12 interview with terry r. wriste june 24, 1994[ the law of the battle of conquest section presented previously

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ee. the appropriate hierarchy of deities must be addressed during all magical operations in the watchtower squares. use the following hierarchy for your invocations: kings seniors sephirothic cross angels kerubic angels archangels angels lesser angels demons 53 the major magical instruments and weapons let theadeptbe armed with his magickrood jand pro vided with his mystic rose. aleister crowley, the star sapphire the temple. as a magician, your temple is your universe. enochian magcck does not recognize only one universe but a myriad of universes, one for each man. as our thinking tends to be similar to that of others, so our universes tend to overlap. as thinking (le, our inner subjective universe) tends to be dissimilar, so our universes tend toward isolation. this fact is dearly seen i

se tthe letter z can be either 9 or 3. this is the numberfor k hr, the 20th aethyr, the aethyrof the wheel. the enochian formula of mzkzb expresses the spiritual impulse which is cyclic and yet continuous. the special aspect of this formula addresses the intoxicating effects of truth on the magician. the letters of this formula touch on a special aspect of qabalistic doctrine. the emperor (m) and the star(b) are the two extremes of this formula.crowley switched the pplaces of these two tarot paths on the tree of life tto better accord with his message. according to the formula of mzkzb, it doesn'tmatter which position they take because bzkzm is an iidenticalformula. the emperor and the star acting together encircle the impulse to create (z) which is ttemperedby experiencedjudgement (k. the

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

nders think of anningtat, the moon, as pursuing his sister ma/llina, the sun. an ital. story (pentam, 5, 5) makes sole and luna children of talia (in perrault they are named jour and aurore. the slavs make the moon masc, a star fern, the sun neut; thus in a servian, lay (vuk 1, 134, god calls the sun.(suntse, euss. solntse -tse dim. suff) his child (chedo, the moon (mesets) being its brother, and the star (zvezda) its sister. to think of the stars as children or young suns is nothing out of the way. wolfram says- in wh, 254, 5: jungiu sunneun mohten wahsen." 7 1 the servians call the deepest part of a lake oko (eye, yak s montenegro 62. 2 when the iliad 14, 344 says: ov8 &v vcii siadpakci hexttss. 7re/&gt, osre /ecu 6^ijta.tov trexerat 0dos, etvo/)aacr$cu, it resembles the lay of

has given away her all, they bring down with them [or turn into] gold-pieces (kinderm. 153; nay, whatever wish you form while the snuff is falling, is fulfilled (tobler 408b. the lithuanians beautifully weave shooting stars into the fatemythus: the verpeya (spinneress) begins to spin the thread of the new-born on the sky, and each thread ends in a star; when a man is dying, his thread snaps, and the star turns pale and drops (narbutt, 1, 71. a comet is called tail-star, hair-star in aventin 74b. 119b, peacock-tail (schm. 1, 327; and its tail in detmar 1, 242 schinscliove, from schof a bundle of straw. its appearing betokens events fraught with peril, especially the death of a king (greg. tur. 4, 9: man siht an der zit einen sterren, sam einen pfaiven zagel wit (wide as a peacock s tail, s

agan (though gl. hrab. 1 ich han den glanzen mmelwagen und daz gestirne besehen, troj. 19062. there may for that matter be several himelwagens, as there were many gods with cars. cervantes too, in a song of the gitanilla (p. m. 11, says: si en el cielo hay estrellas, que lacientes carros formau. chaeles s wain. 725 951 b has arctus the bear= ivagan in himile, that is explained by the proximity of the star to the great bear s tail, as the very name apfcrovpo? shews. 1 i have to add, that netherland cities (antwerp, groningen) have the stars of the great or the lesser bear on their seals (messager de gand 3, 339, and in england the charles-wain is painted on the signboards of taverns. the greeks have both names in use, ap/cros bear, and a^a^a waggon, the eomans both ursa and plaustrum, as we

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

d had other rosicrucian degrees conferred upon him in brussels. in 1936, he was initiated into the rose-croix kabalistique order and into the traditional martinist order of europe. he had previously been made a fellow of the andhra research university of india, which body had conferred upon him, because of his philosophic writings, the honorary degree of doctor of literature. he had also received the star and cross of science from the international academic council in 1939. on august 12, 1939, following the transition of dr. h. spencer lewis, further high powers of the office of imperator were transmitted to him, and he was duly and legally elected by the board of directors of the supreme grand lodge of the a.m.o.r.c. as imperator for this jurisdiction. in the early part of 1940, the supre

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ave him again."thegentleman departed in great derision of hodges, and went where he left his horse; when he came there he found the boy fast asleep upon the ground, the boy's arm in the bridle. he returns again to hodges, desiring his aid, being sorry for his former abuse. old will swore "begone, begone, go look for your horse" this business ended not so, for the malicious man brought hodges into the star chamber for sorcery, bound him over to the assizes, put hodges to great expence; but by means of the lord dudley, if i remember aright, or some other person thereabouts, he overcame the gentleman and was acquitted' and again lilly says 'i was very familiar with one sarah skelhorne, who had been speculatrix unto one arthur gaunt255 lett, about gray's inn, a very lewdfellow,professing physi

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

e underworld. after moving through the underworld reviving its inhabitants with his light, the sun would be reborn. each sunrise was a new beginning for the cosmos. in early times, this cycle could be described in more brutal terms.52 in the evening, the sun god died by being eaten by his mother, the sky goddess, and was replaced by a multitude of stars. in the morning, the reborn sun god ate all the star gods, staining the sky with their blood (the redness of dawn) and absorbing their power. the one god became many and the many gods became one, so life came out of death. other sources envisaged the sun god in an eternal voyage across the skies above and below the earth. at sunset, the day boat of the sun left the upper sky to be replaced by the barques for the moon and the stars (see boat

eath in the jaws of the eater of souls. the fortunate spirits could take their place among the stars or among the followers of osiris, ra, thoth, or hathor, but they could not escape the cycles of destruction and renewal. the soul might experience life in the field of reeds, a paradise similar to egypt, but this was not a permanent state. when the night sun passed on, darkness and death returned. the star-spirits were destroyed at dawn and reborn mythical time lines 93 each night. even the evil dead, the enemies of ra, continuously came back to life like apophis so that they could be tortured and killed again. as the western souls, the justified dead formed part of the crew of the embattled boat of millions. they might be thought of as rowing or towing the sun boat or even defending it aga

atet was associated with the purifying powers of nile water and desert spring water. her sacred animal, the antelope, was renowned for its ability to find water in the desert. the pyramid texts mention the four water jars of satet that are used to purify the dead king so that he can take his place among the gods. by the greco-roman period, satet (mistress of the water of life) was identified with the star goddess sopdet-isis. the heliacal rising of sopdet (sirius) coincided with the coming of the inundation. this awe-inspiring natural phenomenon became linked to the myth of the return of the distant goddess, the eye of ra. satet seems to have represented the ferocious aspect of this goddess. in pyramid text 439, satet, the fiery one, claims to be a deity more powerful than ra. in the coffi

s rose above the horizon at dawn coincided with the coming of the inundation. this event also marked the start of the egyptian year. in the pyramid texts, sopdet is named as a manifestation of the goddess isis. later in egyptian history, sopdet was equated with the eye of ra and the heliacal rising of her star was linked to the myth of the return of the distant goddess. sopdet formed a triad with the star gods sah and sopdu-hor. sah is almost certainly the great southern constellation known to the greeks as orion. the pyramid texts describe sah of the long stride as a stellar manifestation of osiris. as the lone star, sopdu-hor acted as the herald of the sun god morning and evening. various forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible tha

r acted as the herald of the sun god morning and evening. various forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible that the planet mercury was associated with seth. the constellation we know as the great bear was interpreted by the egyptians as several deities guarding seth s bull form or its severed leg. this is one of the few recognizable parts of the star maps that decorate the ceilings of some royal tombs. the babylonian concept of the stars of the zodiac was introduced into egypt by the greeks. three decan stars were assigned to each zodiacal sign. nut could be shown on coffins or temple ceilings surrounded by the hours of the day and night and the twelve signs of the zodiac. see also boats; eye of ra; feline deities; hippopotamus goddes

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oon after day-break, and the knowledge of the gods in it, and of their forms and names, was believed to ensure to its possessor the power to emerge from the tuat as a spirit equipped for travelling with the sun-god over the sky. the boat of afu-ra makes its way through this region, and on looking at it (vol. i, p. 233) we see on its prow a disk of light encircled by a serpent; the disk is that of the star pestu, and it "guideth this great god into the ways of the darkness which gradually lighteneth, and illumineth those who are on the earth" the boat is now towed by twelve gods, who employ as a rope the immensely long serpent mehen, the tail of which is supposed to be fastened to the front of the boat (vol. i, p. 235; so soon as they have towed the god to the end of this division, and he h

d aper-hra-neb-tchetta, with the crown of the south on one head, and the crown of the north on the other. next come the god temu, his body, and his soul, the former in the shape of a serpent with two pairs of human legs and a pair of wings, and the latter in that of a man, with a disk on his head, and his hands stretched out to the wings (vol. i, p. 242. in front of these are the body and soul of the star-god shetu, who follows afu-ra and casts the living ones to him every day. all the other deities here represented assist the god in his passage, and help him to arrive on the horizon of the east. the region to the left of the boat is one of fire, and representations of it which we have in the book am-tuat and the book of gates may well have suggested the beliefs in a fiery hell that have c

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was in egypt that the role of stellar worship was at an apotheosis in recorded history; as man looked to the heavens there turned the great dragon about the zenith, marking out the year and tracing the ancient circle in the firmament of nu. from thence recall the dracontiae,-the circles of stone which mark the crossroads of hidden and secret tracks of force within the earth, reflecting the web of the star-lit heights; recall the crooked path which crosses the sacred isle of albion and lies throughout all the lands of the earth- where-e'er upon the serpents back is placed the witches' step! when next you tread the circle round, when next you face the quarters and call upon their guardians, remember the far-flung design of which you are a part; remember that the path upon which you now stand

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

usying himself with his invisible but potent fluids, like a painterwith his brush when giving the last touches to a picture. nightmare talescan the double murder?3 the old lady, who had silently watched him, with her chin in her hand the while, put her thin,skeleton-looking hands on his arm and arrested it, as he was preparing himself to begin the regular mesmericpasses "wait" she whispered "till the star is set and the ninth hour completed. the vourdalaki are hovering round;they may spoil the influence "what does she say" enquired the mesmerizer, annoyed at her interference. i explained to him that the old lady feared the pernicious influences of the vourdalaki "vourdalaki! what's that- the vourdalaki" exclaimed the frenchman "let us be satisfied with christianspirits, if they honour us t

ements lulled! a solemn silence reigns in nature. alone the silvery, scarcely audible ripple of the wave, as itruns caressingly over the moist sand, kissing shells and pebbles on its up and down journey, reaches the earlike the regular soft breathing of a sleeping bosom. how small, how insignificant and helpless feels man,during these quiet hours, as he stands between the two gigantic magnitudes, the star-hung dome above, andthe slumbering earth below. heaven and earth are plunged in sleep, but their souls are awake, and theyconfabulate, whispering one to the other mysteries unspeakable. it is then that the occult side of nature liftsher dark veils for us, and reveals secrets we would vainly seek to extort from her during the day. thefirmament, so distant, so far away from earth, now seems

remony was to help me to find ralph. by degrees, the bright patch, as if it had drawn through the sunbeam a greater splendour from without andcondensed it within its own area, shaped itself into a brilliant star, sending out rays in every direction as froma focus. a curious optical effect then occurred: the room, which had been previously partially lighted by the sunbeam,grew darker and darker as the star increased in radiance, until we found ourselves in an egyptian gloom. thestar twinkled, trembled and turned, at first with a slow gyratory motion, then faster and faster, increasing itscircumference at every rotation until it formed a brilliant disk, and we no longer saw the dwarf, who seemedabsorbed into its light. having gradually attained an extremely rapid velocity, as the girl had do

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

to swedenborg. he became a mystic in 1743, and four years later (in 1747) resigned his office (of assessor extraordinary to the college of mines) and gave himself up entirely to mysticism. he died in 1772. page 169 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt taijas (sans) from tejas "fire" meaning the "radiant" the "luminous" and referring to the manasa-rupa "the body of manas" also to the stars, and the star-like shining envelopes. a term in vedanta philosophy, having other meanings besides the occult signification just given. taraka raja-yoga (sans) one of the brahmanical yoga systems, the most philosophical, and in fact the most secret of all, as its real tenets are never given out publicly. it is a purely intellectual and spiritual school of training. tetragrammaton (gr) the deity-name in

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, and invokes appropriate emotions. much of what we see served up on the silver screen is powerful mythic images& situations, repackaged for modern tastes, which is a cue to start going on about star trek. more people are familiar with the universe of star trek than any of the mystery religions. it s a fairly safe bet that more people are going to know who mr. spock is, than who know who lugh is. the star trek universe has a high fantasy content, and seemingly few points of contact with our everyday worlds of experience. yet star trek is a modern, mythic reflection of our psychology. the characters embody specific qualities- spock is logical, sulu is a often portrayed as a martial figure, scotty is a master builder, and kirk is an arbitrator, forever seeking resolution of conflict through

gh fantasy content, and seemingly few points of contact with our everyday worlds of experience. yet star trek is a modern, mythic reflection of our psychology. the characters embody specific qualities- spock is logical, sulu is a often portrayed as a martial figure, scotty is a master builder, and kirk is an arbitrator, forever seeking resolution of conflict through peaceful means. as we get into the star trek universe, we find greater depth and subtlety. we find that the universe has its own rules which the characters are subject to, and is internally consistent. each episode, we may find that we are being given insights into the personal world of a key character. like our everyday worlds, the universe of star trek has a boundary beyond which is the unknown- the future, unexplored space

rse of star trek has a boundary beyond which is the unknown- the future, unexplored space, the consequences of our actions- whatever wild cards that we may be dealt. so we watch tv, and enter, as an observer, the unfolding of a mythic event. we can increase this sense of participation through a role-playing game, where group belief allows us to generate, for a few hours at least, the semblance of the star trek universe, 39 oven-ready chaos in the comfort of your sitting room. it s relatively easy to generate the star trek world, due to the plethora of books, comics, videos and roleplaying supplements which are available to support that universe. the final proof of all that being that one of my colleagues had to sit a computer exam, and was wracking his brains trying to think of an appropri

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ed to this monstrous megalopolis of old in the millions of years since the time of my dreams? of the subterrene mazes which had underlain the city and linked all the titan towers, how much had still survived the writhings of earth's crust? had i come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism? could i still find the house of the writing master, and the tower where s'gg'ha, the captive mind from the star-headed vegetable carnivores of antarctica, had chiselled certain pictures on the blank spaces of the walls? would the passage at the second level down, to the hall of the alien minds, be still unchoked and traversable? in that hall the captive mind of an incredible entity- a half- plastic denizen of the hollow interior of an unknown trans-plutonian planet eighteen million years in the fut

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edented and almost blasphemous link with forgotten aeons normally closed to our species. this rampart, shaped like a star and perhaps three hundred feet from point to point, was built of jurassic sandstone blocks of irregular size, averaging 6 x 8 feet in surface. there was a row of arched loopholes or windows about four feet wide and five feet high, spaced quite symmetrically along the points of the star and at its inner angles, and with the bottoms about four feet from the glaciated surface. looking through these, we could see that the masonry was fully five feet thick, that there were no partitions remaining within, and that there were traces of banded carvings or bas-reliefs on the interior walls- facts we had indeed guessed before, when flying low over this rampart and others like it

ing else, with one tremendous exception, that we encountered. that was, we have since agreed, the oldest domestic structure we traversed. were it not for the support of those flashlights soon to be made public, i would refrain from telling what i found and inferred, lest i be confined as a madman. of course, the infinitely early parts of the patchwork tale- representing the preterrestrial life of the star-headed beings on other planets, in other galaxies, and in other universes- can readily be interpreted as the fantastic mythology of those beings themselves; yet such parts sometimes involved designs and diagrams so uncannily close to the latest findings of mathematics and astrophysics that i scarcely know what to think. let others judge when they see the photographs i shall publish. natur

l sorts of temporary organs under hypnotic influence and thereby forming ideal slaves to perform the heavy work of the community. these viscous masses were without doubt what abdul alhazred whispered about as the "shoggoths" in his frightful necronomicon, though even that mad arab had not hinted that any existed on earth except in the dreams of those who had chewed a certain alkaloidal herb. when the star-headed old ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms and bred a good supply of shoggoths, they allowed other cell groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes, extirpating any whose presence became troublesome. with the aid of the shoggoths, whose expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, the small, low cities under the s

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ac, whose fantastic notions must have come from the crude hereditary folk-tales which circulated in even the most decadent of communities. all this he tells me- yet i cannot forget what i saw in the sky on the night after slater died. lest you think me a biased witness, another pen must add this final testimony, which may perhaps supply the climax you expect. i will quote the following account of the star nova persei verbatim from the pages of that eminent astronomical authority, professor garrett p. serviss "on february 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by doctor anderson of edinburgh, not very far from algol. no star had been visible at that point before. within twenty-four hours the stranger had become so bright that it outshone capella. in a week or two it had visibly faded

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york who hang around the columbus circle. 2. sorry, i have heard of some faint hearts. but never a blasted one! 3. as for gauffridi and charlotte cadiere. i prefer to make no comment. besides i had nothing to do with them anyway. 4. the last act of the witches sabbeth and the talkmongers have me stumped too. but, you might check with jesse unruh and see what he can come up with. 5. i'd say that's the star of david with an arrow going through it. and last but not least: if it's o.k. with you i would just as soon not incriminate myself concerning the grand bois, carrafour, cematiere, and the damb-allah. are you sure you won't settle for the griffith observatory, pershing square, forest lawn and the los angeles city hall? i guess by your description i am not a very 'good' witch! but, if what

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and other parts less comdy, of the body of christ "a monk of st. antony" says stephens "having been at jerusa- lem, saw there several relics, among which was a bit of tht finger of the holy ohott, as sound and entire as it had ever been; the snout of the seraph that appeared to st. francis; one of the nails of a cherub; one of the ribs of the verbum euro factum (the word made fiesh; some rays of the star that appeared to the three kings of the east; a phial of st. michael's sweat, that exuded when he was fitting against the devil, etc 'all which things' observes the monkish treasurer of relics 'i have thought home with me very devoutly" and if the foregoing is set aside as the invention of a protestant enemy, may we not be allowed to refer the reader to the history of eng- land and authen

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ld lead to; but being a man, though a rustic and a clown, of courage, and most probably urged by his idea that the staircase led to some secret repository where treasure lay buried, he descended the first few steps cautiously, and tried to peer in vain down into the darkness. this seemed impenetrable; but there was some object at a vast, cold distance below. looking up to the fresh air and seeing the star venus the evening star shining suddenly like a planet, in encouraging, unexpected brilliancy, although the sky had still some beautiful placid sunset light in it, the puzzled man left the upper ground, and descended silently a fair, though a somewhat broken, staircase. here, at an angle, as near as he could judge, of a hundred feet underground, he came upopn a square landing-place, with a

bling a hippocampus, both of which, or objects closely similar, appear on ancient sculptured stones in scotland. the same two things, a cross and a strange-looking animal, half mammal, half fish or reptile, but called by mr. hodgson, of newcastle-upon-tyne, a basilisk, appear together on a mitliraic sculptured slab of the roman period, found in the north of england. what is more remarkable still, the star and crescent, or sun and moon, also appear, the whole being enclosed in what has been called the fire-triangle, or triangle with its face upwards. 134 the rosicrucians. the builder, london architectural journal, of june 6th, 1863, has some valuable observations on geometrical and other symbols. in regard to the word alhambra, we may associate another word appropriated to druidical stones

s manner, and denoting fecundity and abundance as borne in the god s hand, is transformed, by a simple inversion, into the orb surmounted by the cross, and the ensign of royalty. refer to the gnostics and their remains, p. 72. the famous stone of cabar, kaaba, cabir, or kebir, at mecca, which is so devoutly kissed by the faithful, is a talisman. it is called the tabernacle (taberna, or shrine) of the star venus. it is said that the figure of venus is seen to this day engraved upon it, with a crescent. the very caaba itself was at first an idolatrous temple, where the arabians worshipped al-uza that is, venus. see bobovitis, dr. hyde parker, and others, for particulars regarding the arabian and syrian venus. she is the urani corniculat sacrum (selden, de venere syriaca. the ihr m is a sacre

rves of the lotus. chapter the twenty-third. the beliefs of the rosicrucians meaning of lights and of commemorative flambeaux in all worship. rom the name of the temple, now stonehenge, comes the name of ambresbury, which stands a few miles from it. this is called the ambres of the abiri. it is two words, and means the ambres of the dii potentes, or of the yryba, or cabiri, for they are the same. the star of the l gion d honneur bears the inscription napol on, empereur des fran ais. this order was instituted by the emperor napeleon the first, after the discovery and elimination of the secret society, or brotherhood, of which general pichegru, georges cadoudal, the famous moreau, and other noted revolutionary men, were members. this order possessed, it is stated, a talisman, or mystic head

entals; for above the pomegranate-which is figured sometimes as the crescent moon in the heraldic insignia of the plantagenets the six-pointed star appears in the hollow of the crescent, with its points in the curvilinear or serpentine form. the crescent moon of egypt and that of persia is moorishand roman architecture. 223 the thin sickle of the new moon reclining on her back, and seemingly with the star issuant from between her horns; which is evidently an egyptian hint coming from the old fig. 108. mosque of omar. fig. 110. moorish tower. fig. 110a. curves of a moorish or saracenic horseshoe arch. fig. 112. cathedral of cordova: form of the arches. fig. 113. patterns of moorish doors. fig. 114. moresque arch. fig. 115. alhambra. hieroglyphic times. this mysterious crescent and star is t

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intra-mercurial planets. but swift saw them in different places. whereas watson's two were several degrees apart, swift's were very close together. the members of the astronomical fraternity, who were not there, and observed nothing, were scathingly sarcastic. they maintained that swift and watson saw nothing but some stars which they had failed to identify accurately. but these men had memorized the star-fields and had made careful measurements. to have made mistakes of which they were accused, they would have been guilty of puerile errors. 144 an attitude common, even among primitives "i haven't been there or seen such a place or a thing or person or happening so i must show a semblance of intellec& doubt this thing until i see it myself (too common) strangely, no sailor would believe th

on that evening the comet was found with but little difficulty although it was quite pale in the bright twilight i obtained a preliminary determination of its position for the purpose of identifying some comparison star, when i discovered one in the field it was blurred by the thick haze and mists near the horizon. i believe it to have been as bright as second magnitude. on attempting to identify the star i found it in none of the catalogues. on the next evening i scrutinized the region without finding any visible star. a glance at the comet, which had moved nearly 3 northward, showed no visible object (accompanying it. i send you the observations as they were made: position of the comet determined from the setting of the telescope: right ascension 5h 11m 04s; declination 9 36: sidereal ti

ger, editor of the astronomische nachrichten, calculated the position of the comet for june 11, using orbital elements determined in the meanwhile, and analyzes the whole situation. his analysis was translated and published together with still further editorial discussion. since dr. gould's position for the comet agrees well enough with the calculated position, the erratic motion is attributed to the star. after considerable mathematical deduction, the conclusion of the european astronomers was that a second comet had been mistaken for a star. this, however, did not account for the irregular motion. normally, this would have closed the discussion. but they reckoned without the intrepid amateur from australia, the active and competent mr. john tebbutt. he immediately took pen in hand to add

nt entered the celestial jousting. in a publication of the royal astronomical society, january 1882, we find a letter to the editor from w. bone, m.d, another amateur in australia. dr. bone deposed as follows: on june 10th, 1881, whilst measuring the position of the comet (at this time it was called comet 1881b) i noticed a peculiar discordance in each succeeding measure, and at length found that the star) from which i was measuring, was a rapidly moving body. at first i was inclined to believe it (the star) was the result of refraction, but this would have affected both the comet and the star nearly equally. on more careful inspection, i found it was somewhat discoid, but its light, although bright, was diffused and hazy. it moved through 6' of arc in 34m 34s of time, in a northerly direc

tory: sir: no sooner had dr. gould's mysterious observation of comet 1881b been, as i conceive, satisfactorily explained, than another bone of contention (italics by tebbutt) is presented to astronomers in the shape of two papers in the monthly notices, but it is one which i trust may soon be disposed of 159 tebbutt then goes on to point out that the comet was only sixteen minutes of arc south of the star 8 leporis when observed by bone, and that at about that very moment the comet was being compared with that star by the astronomers at melbourne only a few miles away. he says that the last of mr. white's comparisons must have corresponded very closely with dr. bone's observation, and that mr. white did not see any such object as was described by dr. bone. so great was the interest in the

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ht in front of you. in this ritual you the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 29 will use the full sweep of your arm to draw the pentagram in the air. follow the description below by beginning at the lower left and sweeping your magical weapon up toward the right, etc. as shown. do not bend your arm at the wrist or elbow. while you do this, visualize the lines and eventually the star as vibrant white, floating in the space before you. you are projecting energy to do this, and the result will be a gleaming 5-pointed star floating in the east; visualize this as vividly as you can. now you will energize it further by piercing the center of it with your magical weapon and vibrating (speaking slowly in a slightly lower than normal pitch, remember "yod-he-vau-he- descriptio

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

f, elight f( etool f+ elight f, efire f, elamp f (halloran 1999) and is not connected with utu/.ama. the version gi.-nu is probably just phonetic, as nu11 means efire f while nu is eimage f. figure 7. common ways to write esun f in cuneiform: d20, dutu, d.a-ma. and dgi..nu. all these are still usually read .ama. 20 jupiter the name mul d marduk (g260. star of god marduk. confirms that jupiter was the star of marduk, who was, first of all, a god caring for the state and royalty, thus making jupiter the star connected to the king. though jupiter fs name mul damar.utu shows it as the star of the babylonian main god, it is clear that this relation appeared only after marduk fs theological rise during the rise of the babylonian state with the more this same name was used also for mercury (brown

ver by assur. in any case, this relation is so strong that brown characterises it as gtraditional/fundamental h (brown 2000: 63. as marduk was the babylonian main god, there started the tradition by which jupiter later became the main god both in greece and rome. but their clear relations cannot be compared to the tangle in mesopotamian planet names: e.g. on some occasions mercury was also called the star of marduk (e.g. on the new year, and sometimes even mars was called so. eking star f mullugal (g240 (akkadian kakkab .arr) means besides jupiter also regulus( leo) and, more seldom, centauri( cen. jupiter is nearly as bright as venus and in some respects even more conspicuous as it may shine all night long. this is also the origin of the appellation mulud.al.tar (g137, akkadian umu dapinu

tion with jupiter seems to originate from earlier times (brown 2000: 65. figure 8. the most popular ways of writing ejupiter f in cuneiform: mul2.babbar, mulsag.me.gar, mulud.al.tar, d.ul.pa.e3. 22 the best illustration about how a planet fs names can depend on time and place is an akkadian table that presents names of jupiter by month (gossmann 1950: 97.98: table 3. different names of jupiter as the star of the god marduk by months. in gossmann fs original writing. here, the determinative of stars ul and determinative of gods il are used. the month nisan lasted approximately from the middle of april to the middle of may. the first row is to be read as gin the month of nisan. lord of the bright dawn. god marduk h. other rows have to be interpreted analogously. venus venus, or i.tar, sister

we fd like to mention also dnun.sar.a (g309, dgal.a.ru.ru (g63) and u.dar, which mark both venus and i.tar in the assyrian astrological predictions (hunger 1992:350. things become even more confused if we take into account that venus, too, could be named differently in different months, e.g. mulsag, akkadian kakkabu re.tu ehead/main star f. venus in the simanu month. mercury mercury is primarily the star of the god nabu. mulna-bu-u2 (g290, who was identified with sumerian ninurta. in later period, nabu was considered to be son of the state god marduk or assur (in babylonia and new assyria, accordingly; therefore he came to be protector of the crown prince. hence a name of mercury dumu.lugal= m r .arri ecrown prince f. e.g. esarhaddon fs enthronement was to have been predicted by a meeting

ewee f. saturn fs connection to the sun is indirectly proved by the appellation mul2genna, akkadian kakkab kit-tu u mi-.ar estar of law and justice f; cf nissinen (1998: 92: gsaturn is star of the sun, sun is star of the king h. although saturn has been also written as mul kurmar.(tu).ki, this does not denote ewild/barbaric god f martu who represents amorites in sumerian mythology, but saturn as the star of their land amurru; this is apparent from the determinative of land kur and the use of the same name to denote mars, which is related to all things evil and foreign. figure 11. some variants of saturn in cuneiform: muludu.idim.sag.u, mul2genna and dnin-urta, which was earlier read as dnin.ib (g69. genna consists of two symbols (ge/inna, which could also be read as tur.di (or tur.ti. 27

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of the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever sleep until, once more, do the stars conjoin with planets, unrecorded and invisible, in the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, 19 shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the c

g memory of the dream. with its star, heaven too shall die, passing away like a cloud, and when, once, all feared its power, it shall be forgotten by time. time has no respect for kings and the empires they build with blood. it watches them grow and fall and then its caprice finds a new toy. yet a new star grows in the sky and its coming is auspicious, indeed. it rises by that very orbit by which the star of heaven descends. by my art and insight, scrying the pattern of future days and reading the many omens to be read, i have determined the passage of the star, this star that rises in opposition to us, is notable for two just reasons. the first reason is this: as both the star of heaven and this new planet of great omen follow the same path, though one is in ascension and the other, our o

this highest point within the arches of the sky, never shall it fall from there, remaining constant and eternal, as though it were the very keystone that kept the sky from falling in. now i have heard my brother, satan, speak the same truth with different words and i am resolved to make myself his disciple in his new venture for now i know in my heart that the name of this rising sun is, indeed, the star of satanael" and the host of my brothers paid heed to the speech of aset, some cursing her words as treachery and reviling her who spoke them, some bemoaned her speech and mourned her passing from their number, but others looked up, bright with new purpose and understanding and praised the courage of their sister with joyous hearts and silent lips. then from my brothers' midst, came anoth

the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, 80 illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever sleep until, once more, do the stars conjoin with planets, unrecorded and invisible, in the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the ceru

g memory of the dream. with its star, heaven too shall die, passing away like a cloud, and when, once, all feared its power, it shall be forgotten by time. time has no respect for kings and the empires they build with blood. it watches them grow and fall and then its caprice finds a new toy. yet a new star grows in the sky and its coming is auspicious, indeed. it rises by that very orbit by which the star of heaven descends. by my art and insight, scrying the pattern of future days and reading the many omens to be read, i have determined the passage of the star, this star that rises in opposition to us, is notable for two just reasons. the first reason is this: as both the star of heaven and this new planet of great omen follow the same path, though one is in ascension and the other, our o

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

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

at saint and teacher still lives, and his present body has no appearance of great age. i myself met him physically in rome in 1901, and had a long conversation with him. 32. in co-masonry we refer to him as the head of all true freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the h.o.a.t.f) and in some of our lodges his portrait is placed in the east, above the chair of the r.w.m, and just beneath the star of initiation; others place it in the north, above an empty chair. upon his recognition and assent as head of the seventh ray the validity of all rites and degrees depends. he often selects pupils from among the brn. of the masonic order, and prepares those who have fitted themselves in the lower mysteries of masonry for the true mysteries of the great white lodge, of which our masonic in

th the head to the north, others with the head to the south. among the hindus it is considered that only an ascetic should sleep with his head to the north. the householder, the man of the world, should lie with his head to the south. 102. the celestial canopy 103. the ritual tells us that the covering of a, free-mason fs lodge is a celestial canopy of divers colours. this may very well symbolize the star-lit heavens which canopy the true temple of humanity, when we regard the lodge as universal; but the reference to divers colours indicates another meaning, for the vault of the sky is not of various hues, except at sunrise and sunset, but is blue. the real celestial canopy is the aura of the man whom we have thought of as lying on his back; it is the vividly tinted thought-form that is ma

s usually inscribed the letter g, for god. in the old jewish form of masonry they had instead of that letter their sacred word yhvh, standing for jehovah. in co-masonic lodges the usual form of this figure is a serpent curled round with its tail in its mouth, a symbol of eternity. this was the original form, but the head of the serpent was altered so as to form the letter g. the sacred fire below the star is a reflection of it; in some lodges, as for example at adyar, in india, it hangs just underneath the ceiling on a pulley arrangement, and is lowered that light may be taken from it and carried to the candles. the blazing star also represents the sun, the dispenser of innumerable blessings to mankind and the world in general; but as the sun is the symbol of god there is no difference bet

f them, for there is nothing in the lodge that is mere ornament, without meaning- on the contrary, even the simplest thing is there for a purpose and has great significance. the six-pointed star is, as we have seen, an emblem of the unity of spirit and matter, of god in manifestation in his universe. the five-pointed star is placed in the east on the wall over the head of the r.w.m. and is called the star in the east, and also the star of initiation. it is the symbol of the perfect man, god manifesting through man, not through the universe as a whole. man is a five-fold being- physical, emotional, mental, intuitional and spiritual; and when all these parts of his nature are perfectly developed as far as that is possible in a human state of existence, he becomes the perfect man, the adept

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these can as yet be awakened. the actual conferring of the degree was and is a very splendid experience when seen with the inner sight; for the hierophant of the mysteries (who in these modern days is the h.o.a.t.f, stands above or beside the initiator in that extension of his consciousness which is called the angel of the presence. if the recipient of the degree happens to be already an initiate the star (called in egypt the star of horus) which marks the approval of the one initiator once more flames out above him in all its glory; while in any case the two great white angels of the rite flash down in splendour from the heavenly places, showing themselves as low as the etheric level that they may give their blessing to the candidate. 181. the hierophant makes the actual links both with h

es of atlantis, which was somewhat modified in later days, to suit the needs of the slowly-evolving humanity of the aryan race. 189. the first three initiations 190. the first of the true inner initiations was called the birth of horus, and corresponded in that great religion to the birth of christ in bethlehem in the christian presentation. horus was born of isis, the virgin-mother; at his birth the star shone forth, and the angelic hosts sang their song of triumph; he was adored by shepherds and wise men, and saved from danger which threatened him from without. in the book of the dead it is said: i know the power of the east, horus of the solar mount, the star of dawn. the story of the initiate is the story of the sun-god, the universal christ who is born into the heart of man, and his m

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h the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its pure form the pentagram is shown encompassing the figure of a man in the five points of the star three points up, two points down symbolizing man s spiritual nature. in satanism the pentagram is also used, but since satanism represents the carnal instincts of man, or the opposite of the spiritual nature, the pentagram is inverted to perfectly accommodate the head of the goat its horns, representing duality, thrust upwards in defiance; the other three points inverted, or the trinity d

ledge and understanding useful to those following the seven-fold sinister way (c) implement this knowledge and understanding in a practical way, thus causing change(s) in society/societies. areas of importance for the immediate future are (i) music (ii) art/images/ film etc (iii) the creation of an esoteric community; and (iv) the development and extension of an abstract symbolic language( beyond the star game. ordo templi astarte 197 4. to implement sinister strategy i.e, to presence the acausal (or the dark forces) via nexions and so change evolution. one immediate aim is to presence acausal energies in a particular way so creating a new aeon and then a new, higher, civilization from the energies unleashed (order of nine angles 1994, website) in other words, in addition to promoting indi

ivinities, serving the loa in return for favors for their devotees. in line with african tradition, ancestors are revered. within vodoun, the human being is pictured as being composed of five ingredients: n me, z toile, corps cadavre, gros bon ange, and ti bon ange. corps cadavre refers to the physical flesh. n me is the vital energy that allows the body to function during life. z toile refers to the star of destiny of the particular human being. gros bon ange (literally, big good angel) and ti bon ange (literally, little good angel) constitute one s soul. the gros bon ange enters humans during conception, and is a portion of the universal life energy, a a vodoun ceremony in haiti, 1969: dancing, leading to ecstasies and possession (fortean picture library) 274 vodoun (also voodoo; vodun)

ase of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:war, famine, death, and civil conflict. this is followed by martyrs calling out for justice, then an earthquake on earth while the sun turns black and the moon red.when the seventh and last seal is opened, wormwood appears: a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water. the name of the star is wormwood (rev. 8:10 11. here on earth wormwood causes the death of many mortals by his poisoning of the rivers and waters. wormwood is also referred to in a work of fiction by c. s. lewis entitled the screwtape letters. the letters are addressed to wormwood, who is the nephew of screwtape( an important official in his satanic majesty s lowerarchy. wormwood himself is characterized by l

LIBER 141

lso to certain trusty brethren of the viii, vii, and vi chosen for this moment of peril. for at this hour the clouds gather again upon the face of the sun our father; all those who know may perish in the world-war; even as it is written in the ritual of the v "it is the hour when the veil of the temple was rent in twain, when darkness began to overspread the earth, when the altar was thrown down, the star called wormwood fell upon the earth, when the blazing star was eclipsed, the sacred tau was defiled with blood and water, despair the tribulation visited us, and the word was lost" now therefore that the floods menace the earth, and the winter of civilisation is upon us, it is fitting that an ark of the sanctuary be builded wherein the sacred phallus may be hidden, a field sown wherein th

LIBER 777

s of the spiritual being strength yellow, greenish 20 i. of will hermit green, yellowish 21 i. of conciliation wheel of fortune violet 22 faithful i. justice emerald green 23 stable i. the hanged man [cups] queens. deep blue 24 imaginative i. death green blue 25 i. of probation or tentative one temperence blue 26 renovating i. the devil indigo 27 exciting i. the house of god scarlet 28 natural i. the star violet 29 corporeal i. the moon crimson (ultra violet) 30 collecting i. the sun orange 31 perpetual i. the angel or last judgement [wands] kings or knights. glowing orange scarlet 32 administrative i. the universe indigo 32 bis. empresses [coins] citrine, russet, olive, and black (quartered) 31 bis. all 22 trumps white, merging grey table of correspondences 6 xvi* the queen scale of colou

toms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and h is the star, the trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces

they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged the attributions of the star and emperor based on al i.57. col. xix. transliterations of egyptian names have been left as in the first edition. these differ from both modern transliterations and those employed by early 20th-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or title of this god. hadith in this line (

viii. line 7: iynx: grk, iugx (pl. iuggej, the wryneck: a bird of the woodpecker family which had the misfortune to be used in early greek love magick (hence the attribution; but in the chald an oracles the iunges appear to have been a group of ministering powers who stood between the theurgist and the supreme god (source: lewy, chald an oracles and theurgy, whence they are cited in the ritual of the star ruby. not lynx as it is sometimes misread; nor does it rhyme with sphinx. as noted in the remarks on this column in 777 revised, ac s source here was levi. line 8: monoceros de astris means unicorn from the stars and is a title of the grade of 3 =88 practicus (referred to hod) in the golden dawn. col. xxxix. will parfitt in living qabalah (first edition) gives a much fuller version of thi

LIBER ALEPH

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, that our trinity is our path inwards in the solar system, and that h being of our lady nuith starry, is an anchor to this magick which else were apt to deny our wholeness of relation to the outer as to the inner. my son, ponder these w

hou dost well to purge it from its costiveness. for it is written that there is no bond that can unite the divided but love, so that only those complexes which are in truth simplicities, being built cell by cell unto an unity by virtue of love under will, are worthy to endure in their progression. k liber aleph vel cxi 106 db de operibus stell microcosmi, quorum sunt quattour minores (of works of the star of the microcosm, of which there are four lesser) have already written unto thee, my son, of the paradox of liberty, how the freedom of thy will dependeth upon the bending of all thy forces to that one end. but now also learn how great is the .conomy of our magick, and this will i declare unto thee in a figure of the holy qabalah, to wit, the formula of the tetragrammaton. firstly, the ef

el, the vau with the h, is of he yang and the yin, and maketh one the human with the divine, as in the attainment of the master of the temple. yet his work hath his perversion, which is of death. thus then for these four works, they pertain all to the natural formula of the cross and rose. i the book of wisdom or folly 107 dg de operibus stell microcosmi, quorum sunt quattuor majores (of works of the star of the microcosm, of which there are four greater) my son, behold now the virtue and mystery of the silver star! for of these four works not one leadeth to the crown, because tetragrammaton hath his root only in chokmah. so therefore the formula of the rosy cross availeth no more in the highest. now then in the pentagram are two lines that invoke spirit, though they lead not thereunto, an

her) unto the end. from each of these eight works is derived a separate mode of practical use, each after his kind; and it should be well for thine instruction if thou study upon hese my words, and found upon them a system. o my son, forget not therein the arcanum of their balance and proportion; for herein lieth the mystery of their holiness. o liber aleph vel cxi 108 dd de stella macrocosmi (of the star of the macrocosm) hus far then concerning the pentagram, how it is of the cross, and its virtue of the highest; but the hexagram is for the most part a detail of the formula of the rose and cross. already have i shewed unto thee how the most holy trinity is the yang; but the spirit, and the water (or fluid) and the blood, that bear witness in the inferior, are of the yin. thus the operati

s complex, and diffuse reacting to every stimulus or impression. if then the mind be attached constantly to the body, death hath no power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying shell of the dead man, his mind holding together for a little his body of light, haunteth the earth, seeking a new tabernacle (in its error that feareth change) in some other body. these shells are broken away utterly from the star that did enlighten them, and they are vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the astral world without magical protection, or invoke them, as do the spiritists. for by death is man released only from the gross body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the astral plane, as he was in his life. but this wholeness suffereth stress, and its girders are loosened, the we

LIBER ARARITA

em into one picture, beautiful to behold. 7. and having thus conquered them, there was a certain glamour of holiness even in the hollow sphere of outward brilliance. 8. so that all became splendid. 9. and having firmly established them in order and disposition, 10. he proclaimed the perfection, the bride, the delight of god in his creation. 11. but though thus he worked, he tried ever his work by the star 418. 8 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 12. and it deceived him not; for by his subtlety he expanded it all into the twelve rays of the crown. 13. and these twelve rays were one. 9 v y 0. in the place of the cross the indivisible point which hath no points nor part nor magnitude. nor indeed hath it position, being beyond space. nor hath it existence in time, for it is beyond time. nor hath it c

that the seven might move indeed, yet ever point to the unchanging one. 8. he hath established the eight belts, wherewith he hath girdled the globes. 9. he hath established the trinity of triads in all things, forcing fire into fire, and ordering all things in the stable abode of the kings of agypt. 10. he hath established his rule in his kingdom. 11. yet the father also boweth unto the power of the star 418 and thereby 12 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 12. in his subtlety he expandeth it all into twelve rays of the crown. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 13 vii a 0. then in the might of the lion did i formulate unto myself that holy and formless fire, cdq, which darteth and flasheth through the depths of the universe. 1. at the touch of the fire qadosh the earth melted into a liquor clear

LIBER ARCANORUM

ings increased and the lord tahuti stood forth. the voice came from the silence. then the one ran and returned. 2. now hath nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister. 3. the virgin of god is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh seventy to her four. in her heart is hadit the invisible glory. 4. now riseth ra-hoor-khuit, and dominion is established in the star of the flame. 5. also is the star of the flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe. 6. here then beneath the winged eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other. he is asar between asi and nepthi; he cometh forth from the veil. 7. he rideth upon the chariot of eternity; the white and the black are harnessed to his car. therefore he reflecteth the fool, and the sevenfold ve

LIBER CCXLII AHA

r lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung liber ccxlii 24 down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk fs eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame to witness: by this triune star i swear to break the twi-forked bar. but how to attain? flexes and leans the strongest

LIBER CHANOKH

(saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv. the emperor water d populus j vii. the chariot air g puella l viii. justice fire (cardinal signs) earth j carcer o xv. the devil fire e fortuna minor f xi. strength water h rubeus n xiii. death air k tristesia x xvii. the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v. the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv. temperence water l laetitia q xviii. the moon air c albus z vi. the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix. the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx. the last judgement water c via m xii. the hanged man air d fortuna minor a 0. the fool earth (elements) earth (e) caput draconis t xxi. the universe (i

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

said (of the water) it is thyself (or thy mind. could distinguish nothing for some time. presently a star appeared in the centre of the pool, evidently reflected through a circular hole in centre of roof. looking up, could not see this star from where i was standing on the step at front of temple. someone said: enter the water. did so, finding it reached to the neck. looked up, and could discern the star clearly. someone said you must travel up through the roof to the star. did so, and discovered i was without clothes. some time elapsed before i could get near the star, but on doing so i was whirled round it three times and alighted. then became conscious that the body had given place to a flame only. ascended as a flame into the air. became dimly conscious that the flame was in the heart

LIBER CXX

of the directions, there are several markouts that make unclear whether he intends to use the ordinary elemental directions: e. air, s. fire, w. water, n. earth (as is implied in liber samekh, and used in the lesser pentagram, star ruby and others) or if he intends the directions of the cherubic signs (as in the planetary stations: e. fire, s. earth, w. air, n. water (used in the lesser hexagram, the star sapphire and others) or even the directions in liber reguli: n. air, s. fire, e. earth, w.water. the only set of directions that agree with the order of the spell itself (ignoring markouts on the directions) and go in order of the verse to be said, is that of the elemental directions, which i have used. there are a couple of other lacunae that i have not attempted to fill in, though it is

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

from the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et a.c] john st. john 113 the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinning charm; i lure thee with the billowy tune. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath parted from the darkling crowds, hath joined the dwellers of the light, opening duant, the star-abodes; their keys receiving. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living.1 amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

verything. only this i saw, that the celebrants made no expected motion. the movements were extremely small and yet extremely strong. this must have continued for a great length of time. to me it seemed as if eternity itself could not contain the variety and depth of my experiences. tongue nor pen could record them; and yet i am fain to attempt the impossible. 1. i was, certainly and undoubtedly, the star in the canopy. this star was an incomprehensibly enormous world of pure flame. 2. i suddenly realized that the star was of no size what-ever. it was not that the star shrank, but that it(=i) became suddenly conscious of infinite space. 3. an explosion took place. i was in consequence a point of light, infinitely small, yet infinitely bright, and this point was without position. 4. consequ

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

in gthe wake world h (liber 95. in addition to the citation of gscience and buddhism, h there are references in slightly later works( gliber r v vel spiritus h and gliber viarum via h) to a liber xxv treating of mah.satipatth.na (approx. ggreat steadfast mindfulness h; this work is not believed extant, although ingeneous explanations have been advanced in some quarters as to how it could refer to the star ruby, ostensibly a banishing pentagram ritual. the practice is also, of course, described in canonical buddhist texts, principally the mah.satipatth.na sutta. 17 see gliber iii vel jugorum, h ii. 18 while there was doubtless a mystical or qabalistical reason for not giving the dominus liminis a distinct numbered section, it might be worth noting that the duties of this grade are given in

LIBER LVII

is hidden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yo. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades* inspiration, equilibrated produces material energy [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the seed of the

the wonder-worker.as the thing he wants to be. for the adept such little consolation as he may win is rather to be found be regarding the magus as b= mercury= 8= ch= 418= abrahadabra, the great word, the .word of double power in the voice of the master. which unites the 5 and the 6, the 62 [if we accept the reversal of the tarot attributions of h and x this latter part should perhaps read= 5= h= the star= xvii= 17= the svastika= a= the fool= 0 .t.s] 42 liber lviii rose and the cross, the circle and the square. and also b is the path from binah to kether; but that is only important for him who is already in binah, the .master of the temple. he finds no satisfaction in contemplating the tree of life, and the orderly arrangement of the numbers; rather does he enjoy the qabalah as a means of

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

cherous .sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and religion opinions veer; but if shakespeare was a leader of thought, he saw through the humbug of the star-gazers; if not, he was a credulous fool; not the one man of his time, not a .debauched genius (for sir r. burton in this phrase has in a sense anticipated my discovery) but a mere elizabethan. this the greatest poet of all time? then we must believe that gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of lear! observe that before this shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic

playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23.sir j. maundevill .voiage and travill. ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34.i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25.in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished. t.s] 64 the sword of song 149. ra.26.the sun-god. 149. nuit.27.the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28..the waters wild went o.er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29.characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30.see .two poets of croisic. xci. 159. a jest.31.see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32. god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. intentional sp

heatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right mar

y lightning: it was no house wherein our father might abide. but there he must abide .to destroy it i am come. he said. and through he passed out therewithal, yet .twas his home until he had attained. so at last he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the river from two vessels of pure water .she-devil. he cried .have i gone back one step. for the star venus burned above. and with his sword he clave her from the head to the feet, that she fell clean asunder. cried the echo .ah! thou hast slain hope now. our father gladdened at intellectus. deus. h. et s. v. a. luna. quid umbratur in mari. deo duce comite ferro. vestigia nulla retrorsum 80 appendix ii that word, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should

past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba.s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four ye

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

d that the two central ones are am, the supernal mother; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. now their numeration is 41, yielding by gematria lya= force: might: power: lawag, divine majesty: and blja= fecundity, all symbolic of the attributes of the dual polar force and mother. moreover, 4+ 1= 5= h, mother supernal once again.and in its geometric symbol the pentagram.the star of unconquered will. add the next two letters on either side, and we get e t d a c\ b y, or a concealed tetragrammaton. and this also reads \y, the great sea, ta, alpha and omega, or essence. add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained; and we read hta\yh, which signifies \yh, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence thou (i.e, god, ateh, the all) in extension. but by

LIBER RV VEL SPIRITUS

tices endeavour to master a cycle of 10. 20. 40 or even 16. 32. 64. but let this be done gradually and with due caution. and when he is steady and easy both in .sana and pr.n.y.ma, let him still further increase the period. thus let him investigate these statements which follow: 1 [despite the ingenious explanations which have been advanced in some quarters, i am not convinced that this refers to the star ruby; if nothing else the dates involved are problematic. in any case the buddhist meditation technique known as mah.satipatth.na is described in crowley.s essay .science and buddhism. t.s] liber r v vel spritvs 2 (a) if pr.n.y.ma be properly performed, the body will first of all become covered with sweat. this sweat is different in character from that customarily induced by exertion. if

LIBER SAMEKH

d with brilliance of the light above! draw into nought all life, death, hatred, love: all self concentred in the sole desire. hear thou the voice of fire! 29 point iii scholion on sections g& gg gthe seeds of immortality h the adept who has mastered this ritual, successfully realizing the full import of this controlled rapture, ought notto allow his mind to loosen its grip on the ctual imagery of the star-spate, will-symbol, or soul-symbol, or even to forget his duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. nor should he omit to keep his body of light in close touch with the phenomena of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. but he should have acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of detatchi

ereupon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte,38 and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. and this is enough. and he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal.39 and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra-hoor-khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage.40 also, if he choose, he may insread wear a closeliber viii 42 fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered wit

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

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 green of the master. 9. in the midst a cup of green wine. 10. at the foot the star of ruby. 11. the altar shall be entirely bare. 12. first, the ritual of the flaming star. 13. next, the ritual of the seal. 14. next, the infernal adorations of oai. mu pa telai tu wa melai. tu fu tulu! tu fu tulu! pa, sa, ga. liber stella rubea 2 qwi mu telai ya pu melai .se gu malai; pe fu telai, fu tu lu. o chi balae wa pa malae .t .t .t! ge; fu latrai, le fu malai k.t! h.t! n.t! al. r

LIBER V

powers of al (la, to east) c "on my right hand the powers of la (al, to north) d "on my left hand the powers of al (la, to south) e "above me the powers of sht (ts, leaping in the air) f "beneath me the powers of sht (ts, striking the ground) g "within me the powers (in the attitude of phthah erect, the feet together, the hands clasped upon the vertical wand) h "about me flames my father's face, the star of force and fire" i "and in the column stands his six-rayed splendour (this dance may be omitted, and the whole utterance chanted in the attitude of phthah) the final gesture. this is identical with the first gestufiliber v vel reguli the ritual of the mark of the beast v a a publication in class d liber v vel reguli being the ritual of the mark of the beast; an incantation proper to inv

LIBER V VEL REGULI

west) b .behind me the powers of al (to east) c .on my right hand the powers of la (to north) d .on my left hand the powers of al (to south) e .above me the powers of sht (leaping in the air) f .beneath me the power of sht (striking the ground) g .within me the powers (in the attitude of ptah erect, the feet together, the hands clasped upon the vertical wand) h .about me flames my father fs face, the star of force and fire. i .and in the column stands his six-rayed splendour (this dance may be omitted, and the whole utterance chanted in the attitude of ptah) the final gesture. this is identical with the first gesture* 8 liber v vel reguli (here followeth an impression of the ideas implied in this paan.)7 i also am a star in space, unique and self-existent, an individual essence incorruptib

t to practice smelling assaf.tida until one likes it; but not arsine* the people of england have made two revolutions to free themselves from popish fraud and tyranny. they are at their tricks again; and if we have to make a third revolution, let us destroy the germ itself! 14 liber v vel reguli or hydrocyanic acid. again, one might have a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star which she is; it would be too dangerous to overcome the distaste for dishonesty by forcing oneself to pick pockets. acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they should be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involv

rick) might also be taken as an argument for it being this .x. posture. however the figure in book 4 part ii apparently referred to (cap. iii, a .design suitable for top of altar) is from the title page of tom. i of fludd.s utriusque cosmi. historia and shows a different posture; the feet, hands, and top of the head mark the points of an upright pentagram centred at the groin (the pentagram being the star of the microcosm; the total design is intended to illustrate the harmony of microcosm and macrocosm; it is not captioned as the microcosm of vitruvius but the text might lead the casual reader to infer that it is that figure. in one of crowley.s ms. notebooks in the warburg, a copy of the fludd figure has been pasted in with the words .ego sum quoque. written around it, which argues for t

LIBER VII

d thereupon shall he burn incense made of four parts of olibanum and two parts of stacte, and one part of lignum aloes, or of cedar, or of sandal. and this is enough. and he shall also keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal. and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra hoor khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage. also, if he choose, he may instead wear a close-fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered with golden sequin

LIBER XXV THE STAR RUBY

the author of the body of the work as crowley; it is not clear what grounds, if any, f.i. regardie in the introduction to gems from the equinox (from which compilation he omitted the present document on the grounds that it .said nothing) had for attributing the text to fuller. text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. last revised 13.06.200orliber xxv the star ruby v a a publication in class d 1 facing east, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath, closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip. then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly thy breath, cry .1 with the same forefinger touch thy forehead, and say ,2 thy member, and say ,3 thy right shoulder, and say ,4 thy left shoul

; but say .9 1 [grk, approx gaway all evil spirits. h] 2 [grk, gunto thee. h] 3 the secret sense of these words is to be sought in the numeration thereof [note in first edition of the book of lies (grk, go phallus h= 1366. see also stirling, the canon, p. 219 n] 4 [grk, gmighty. h] 5 [grk, ggrateful. h] 6 [chaos. the sign of horus is the sign of the enterer described in gliber o. h the version of the star ruby in magick has groar h (grk, gbeast h. 7 [the sign of silence, see gliber o. h magick has g c of hoor-paar-kraat. h] 8 [babalon. magick has gsay nuit. h] 9 [eros. magick has gwhisper babalon. h] liber xxv, the star ruby 2 go round to the south and repeat; but bellow .10 completing the circle widdershins, retire to the centre, and raise thy voice in the paian, with these words with the

tetragrammaton, as chaos and babalon (see gthe vision and the voice h) represent yod and he. magick has gbellow hadit. h. t.s] 11 [the signs of n.o.x. are described in gliber v vel reguli. h the order in which they are given is left to the ingenium of the aspirant. t.s] 12 [grk, gbefore me the iunges, behind me the teletarchs, at my right the sunoches, at my left the daimons; for about me flames the star of five and in the column the star of six is fixed. h for the iunges, teletarchs and sunoches see the chaldaan oracles and the secondary literature thereon. t.s] 13 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie o liber xxxiii an account of a a first written in the language of his period by the councillor von eckhartshausen and now revised and r

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE

amending all specifically christian references) of letter ii of the cloud upon the sanctuary, a late 18th-century german work of christian mysticism, translated into french by persons unknown, and from french into english by one isabel de steiger (late 19th century (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ n.i.w.g. this e-text last revised 13.06.200-tliber xxxvi the star sapphire v a a publication in class d 1 let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. in the centre, let him give the l. v. x. signs;1 or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of n. o. x. being the signs of puer, vir, puella, mulier. omit the sign i.r.2 then let him advance to the east, and make the holy h

f lies, which see. t.s] 4 [lat .father and mother [are] one god ararita. ararita is a qabalistic divine name, said to be the initials of a hebrew sentence meaning .one [is] his beginning; one [is] his individuality; his permutation [is] one] 5 [lat .mother and son [are] one god ararita] 6 [lat .son and daughter [are] one god ararita] 7 [lat .daughter and father [are] one god ararita] liber xxxvi, the star sapphire 2 baphomet.8 also shall set appear in the circle. let him drink of the sacrament and let him communicate the same] then let him say: omnia in duos: duo in unum: unus in nihil: hac nec quatuor nec omnia nec duo nec unus nec nihil sunt. gloria patri et matri et filio et filia et spiritui sancto externo et spiritui sancto interno ut erat est erit in sacula saculorum sex in uno per n

os: duo in unum: unus in nihil: hac nec quatuor nec omnia nec duo nec unus nec nihil sunt. gloria patri et matri et filio et filia et spiritui sancto externo et spiritui sancto interno ut erat est erit in sacula saculorum sex in uno per nomen septem in uno ararita.9 let him then repeat the signs of l.v.x. but not the signs of n.o.x: for it is not he that shall arise in the sign of isis rejoicing* the star sapphire corresponds with the star-ruby of chapter 25, 36 being the square of 6, as 25 is of 5. this chapter gives the real and perfect ritual of the hexagram. it would be improper to comment further upon an official ritual of the a a .10 [this ritual formed chapter (36) of the book of lies. it appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice with no substantial changes (c) ordo t

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

rendel, gdawn, ray of light, h so there may be a germanic myth here, despite the absence of aurvandil from the norse poetic corpus. thor also made stars out of thjazi fs eyes, and in my view we should read these acts as his contribution to cosmogony, an area in which he is otherwise absent. references and further reading: rudolf much, gaurvandils ta, h altschlesien 5 (1934: 387.388, speculates on the star that aurvandil fs toe may represent. baldr god, member of the asir group, killed by his blind half brother hod, buried in a solemn funeral, and left in the world of the dead when an attempt to retrieve him fails. the death of baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology. parts of the story are alluded to in various skaldic poems; much of it is told in the codex regius versi

dda) lifts it off, saying that he could have killed the giant easily. thor is visited by the seeress groa, who is to sing the whetstone out of his head. when thor thinks the cure is imminent, he wishes to reward her, and he tells her that he carried her husband aurvandil back from giantland in a basket. a toe was sticking out and it froze, so thor broke it off and threw it up into the sky to make the star aurvandilsta (aurvandil fs toe. he tells her aurvandil will soon be home. at this news groa loses her concentration, and the piece of whetstone never does get out of thor fs head. the most important aspect of this myth is of course that thor is able to defeat the strongest of giants in a formal duel. duels had a certain legal status, and the gods therefore once again ratified their hierar

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

stablishment of the egyptian empire. in the subterranean chamber, however, are markings which indicate that the romans gained admission there. in the light of the secret philosophy of the egyptian initiates, w. w. harmon, by a series of extremely complicated yet exact mathematical calculations; determines that the first ceremonial of the pyramid was performed 68,890 years ago on the occasion when the star vega for the first time sent its ray down the descending passage into the pit. the actual building of the pyramid was accomplished in the period of from ten to fifteen years immediately preceding this date. while such figures doubtless will evoke the ridicule of modern egyptologists, they are based upon an exhaustive study of the principles of sidereal mechanics as incorporated into the s

d lower nature--consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties--reflects the light of his threefold divinity and bears witness of it in the physical world. man's three bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by an inverted triangle. these two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the jews "the star of david "the signet of solomon" and are more commonly known today as "the star of zion" these triangles symbolize the spiritual and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both nature and divinity. man's animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator. the celestial inhabitants o

he sign of leo, the celestial lion. next: the zodiac and its signs sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 53 the zodiac and its signs it is difficult for this age to estimate correctly the profound effect produced upon the religions, philosophies, and sciences of antiquity by the study of the planets, luminaries, and constellations. not without adequate reason were the magi of persia called the star gazers. the egyptians were honored with a special appellation because of their proficiency in computing the power and motion of the heavenly bodies and their effect upon the destinies of nations and individuals. ruins of primitive astronomical observatories have been discovered in all parts of the world, although in many cases modern arch ologists are unaware of the true purpose for which

itive egyptian radicals, zo, life, and on, a being" the greeks, and later other peoples influenced by their culture, divided the band of the zodiac into twelve sections, each being sixteen degrees in width and thirty degrees in length. these divisions were called the houses of the zodiac. the sun during its annual pilgrimage passed through each of these in turn, imaginary creatures were traced in the star groups bounded by these rectangles; and because most of them were animal--or part animal--in form, they later became known as the constellations, or signs, of the zodiac. there is a popular theory concerning the origin of the zodiacal creatures to the effect that they were products of the imagination of shepherds, who, watching their flocks at night, occupied their minds by tracing the fo

r theory concerning the origin of the zodiacal creatures to the effect that they were products of the imagination of shepherds, who, watching their flocks at night, occupied their minds by tracing the forms of animals and birds in the heavens. this theory is untenable, unless the "shepherds" be regarded as the shepherd priests of antiquity. it is unlikely that the zodiacal signs were derived from the star groups which they now represent. it is far more probable that the creatures assigned to the twelve houses are symbolic of the qualities and intensity of the sun's power while it occupies different parts of the zodiacal belt. on this subject richard payne knight writes "the emblematical meaning, which certain animals were employed to signify, was only some particular property generalized;

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

fety's sake if nothing else. in italy, pico della mirandola, ficino and giordano bruno began experimenting with the old art of the employment of magical archetypal images, while in northern europe abbot trithemius and his pupils paracelsus, cornelius agrippa, and wierus turned their attentions circumspectly to the black arts. in england, dr. john dee, preoccupied with the lost lands of logres and the star temple at glastonbury, began his scrying experiments using a "great chrystalline globe" or seeing stone. it was during the course of these experiments that certain parts of the pre-flood language are said to have been rediscovered, a so-called enochian tongue, the original language of the nephelim. by the seventeenth century, the persecution of witches, by protestants now as well as catho

o activity, may in fact only succeed in lulling it back to sleep. the redeeming qualities of the process, however, lie in its firm basis in witch principles, with its invocations of the powers of the earth, moon, and star earendel, with the moon representing the lady as initiator of desire. incidentally, i omitted to mention but by now it should go without saying, when you utter the invocation to the star mentally summon up your mercury symbolism from chapter 3, and when you invoke the moon, concentrate on habondia and her attendant images. for the earth, which i will deal with in the next chapter, summon up in your mind's eye an image of all growing things; of plants and mosses and great ancient forests, of the smell of peat and loam; the darkness of cellars and caves, the silence of gard

nd finishing with the centre. as you write each magical word, chant it deliberately out loud in combination with the following charm: l 1 "be ye far from us, all hostility, deceit, and illusion, in the name of abdia" l 2 "be ye far from us, all hostility, deceit, and illusion, in the name of ballater" and so on. when you have finished, repeat the process, this time using your athame to trace over the star and the symbols above the paper, in your witchly imagination seeing them burn in the air with spectral blue witch fire. now take your second piece of parchment and draw on it the six-pointed star, or hexagram of solomon, as in the illustration, inscribing the t-shaped cross in the centre last. this cross, referred to by witches of the last century as the triple tau of the arch mosms, is a

and the six minor taus, it is regarded by witches as an extraordinarily powerful talisman of protection. when the ink has dried, retrace the inverted triangle [upside down traingle] with salt water from your cup, chanting these words "so therefore he who would govern the works of fire must first asperge with lustral water of the loud resounding sea" then with the thurible, trace in the air above the star the upright triangle, chanting "and when after all the phantoms are banished, thou shalt perceive that holy formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe: hear thou the voice of fire" finally, retrace the whole star yet again with the athame, this time in silence, visualizing the symbol glowing in blue light. the design on the third piece of pa

the cross and the paper in your thurible with these words: three blows hast thou dealt; by evil heart, evil eye, and evil tongue. these same three blows be thine own reward! by fire and water, earth and air, and that which binds and governs them i charge thee, touch him not! with the last words, draw a pentagram above the flame with your athame blade, and stab the centre with your blade, charging the star with magical light. this is known as banishing. if the means of bewitchment is that of a power object such as a voodoo doll, conveyed into the presence of the victim, then simply remove the pins, if there should be any, and exorcise the image with fire and water. obliterate the name of the victim inscribed on it if there is one, and rewrite that of the attacker instead. the doll will be i

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

e who masters time by the dream and the twilight world made flesh by desire. the goal of the ritual is a form of self-initiation, adversarial crystallization of the self, that the individual strengthens the psyche and the shadow of the sorcerer. it is the utterance of a word, the embodiment of a god or goddess in flesh. the rite of the adversarial shadow the chant of the infernal sabbat as i face the star of al ghul the two horns become one. i cast the circle as kabed-us-spae, that within is the circumference of my divinity. by the star of algol i bask in the brilliance of the sun at midnight, the eye of blackened flame and smoke, of arimanius, 25 witchcraft or persian sorcery which involves developing a solitary of spirit or druj practice. 13 dire initiator of my night and infernal dreami

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

b it and set it s fleshing in motion. never forget that sigils must be aligned with your natural ability, not just a system devised by another. the most significant sigil of vampyric sorcery and the vampire current is that of the varcolaci or devilcosm seal. the sigil, which is composed of an inverted pentagram carried/connected by two varcolaci vampire spirits. the inverted pentagram also called the star of set- represents the crossing into the abyss, for it is by mastering the upright and inverse pentagram that the magickian truly evolves. the union of the two varcolaci represents them as the doors of the gate of the abyss, the entry to the astral plane of knowledge as well as the qliphoth, being the astral abode of vampires and other spirits. the bat like wings of the varcolaci represen

lit sky. to me! to me! io baphomet" a call unto baphomet, the black shadow of the sabbat "in silence the mirror becomes black with my many forms of i, whispered and howled in the congress of the witches conclave i am this form, known in the whole as the desire of all manes of past and that very desire of the body of lust the crown of blackened flame between the horns of the goat is but my sign of the star joined in algol, that lucifer breathes in this very source of being. throught my hands, the point of will which is as above and so below, acts as the vision through the gates of hell and heaven, this dual ecstasy is the gateway of my eyes, burning in the flame of azazel. 72 72 as within the light of hekate, thus our union of the seed of the sun and the nectar of the moon shall bring forth

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ose from thence and went to the end of the earth and cried aloud to his grandfatherenoch, and noah said bitterly, three times, hear me, hear me, hear me! and i (enoch)said unto him, tell me what it is that is falling upon the earth that it is in such evil plight andshaken(book of enoch)and the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as if it were alampand the name of the star is called wormwood; and many men died of the water ,because they were made bitter (rev 8:7 9:1) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation7 earths first deluge and the fourth angel sounded and a third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of themoon and the third part of the stars, so as the third part of them was darkened (rev 8:7 9:1)and i beheld and heard an angel fl

us..computations clearly show that on the day the declaration of independence was agreed inphiladelphia, the sun was on sirius. the mason who first signed the declaration of independence would have been aware of theparticular significance of july 4 as a cosmic event. the day was the second in the so-calleddog dayswhich begin on july 3. the dog days are so-called because they refer to the risingof the star sirius.this emphasis on the star sirius is singular since a name of the monarch of atlantis, posei-don, comes from the syllable po, meaning sirius and don meaning lord. even more sugges-tively, poseidon was the god of earthquakes and was said to be the creator of men. sirius also played a part in the moon landing of apollo 11. it appears that the eagle landedwhen the light from this star

tis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation99 serpents in the streets official placing of the american flag, a masonic ceremony took place, which was never tele-vised or revealed to the american free public. buzz aldrin produced a masonic bannerwhich was specially embroidered for the strange trip by the librarian of the masonic houseof the temple in washington d. c. the egyptian hierogram for the star sirius consists of three shapes: a five-pointed star, anoval, and an obelisk. amazingly, this is just what we find in stone in washington d.c. theentire city is dedicated astromantically to the star sirius and its occult deities. astrology isgood enough for the ruling plutocrats it seems. pity that when the ordinary person seeks touse the divination arts for their own personal physical an

ates (p. 137)declaration of independencecomputations clearly show that on the day the declaration of independence was agreed in philadel-phia, the sun was on sirius (p. 138)july 2, 1776which i have argued is the true chart for the founding of the united statesthe sun was in 1122 can-cer, which means that it was in the same degree as sirius (p. 150)the significance of the starwhen found in a text, the star determined (or indicated to the reader) that the group of hieroglyphs asso-ciated with it was related to spiritual matters. it was related to the heavens, to invisible energies (whichthe greeks called aetheric (p. 242)the star of the white house is arcturus in taurusthe star of the capitol is regulus in leothe star of the washington memorial is spica in virgoapril 3, 1791the eclipse of 17

shambhala.(see p. 1) their plan was to connect america with a group of spiritual masters whom they believed sur-vived the cataclysm of atlantis and who lived in shambhala, secretly influencing world affairs (p. 2)alien stone of powerat that time roerich made the bold claim that he was in possession of a piece of a mysterious stonefrom another worldroerich claimed, had sent the stone to earth from the star sirius. it had previouslybeen given to the emperor of atlantis and then to king solomon in jerusalemthe stone had been hid-den in a tower in shambhala broadcasting rays that influenced the destiny of the world (c. 1000 b.c.)the sphinxthe code name for fdr used by his agents.camp davidpreviously named shangrila by fdr.ritual murderalthough it is painful to consider, have we become complace

MORALS AND DOGMA

e ornaments of a lodge are said to be "the mosaic pavement, the indented tessel, and the blazing star" the mosaic pavement, chequered in squares or lozenges, is said to represent the ground-floor of king solomon's temple; and the indented tessel "that beautiful tesselated border which surrounded it" the blazing star in the centre is said to be "an emblem of divine providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the east to the place of our saviour's nativity" but "there was no stone seen" within the temple. the walls were covered with planks of cedar, and the floor was covered with planks of fir. there is no evidence that there was such a pavement or floor in the temple, or such a bordering. in england, anciently, the tracing-board was surrounded with an i

enges, will necessarily be indented or denticulated, toothed like a saw; and to complete and finish it a bordering is necessary. it is completed by tassels as ornaments at the corners. if these and the bordering have any symbolic meaning, it is fanciful and arbitrary. to find in the blazing star of five points an allusion 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 seaso

this. although, indeed, no absolute satisfaction may be vouchsafed to philosophy, any more in circumscribing the cause than in limiting the effect, the man of thought and contemplation falls into unfathomable ecstacies in view of all the decompositions of forces resulting in unity. all works for all. destruction is not annihilation, but regeneration. algebra applies to the clouds; the radiance of the star benefits the rose; no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. who, then, can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand? who, then, understands the reciprocal flow and ebb of the infinitely great and the infinitely small; the echoing of causes in the a

and these are the principles of faith. no man can suffer and be patient, can struggle and conquer, can improve and be happy, without conscience, without hope, without a reliance on a just, wise, and beneficent god. we must of necessity embrace the great truths taught by masonry, and live by them, to live happily. everything in the universe has fixed and certain laws and principles for its action--the star in its orbit, the animal in its activity, the physical man in his functions. and he has likewise fixed and certain laws and principles as a spiritual being. his soul does not die for want of aliment or guidance. for the rational soul there is ample provision. from the lofty pine, rocked in the darkening tempest, the cry of the young raven is heard; and it would be most strange if there we

god apis, and fell down and adored it. they were ever ready to return to the worship of the gods of the mitzraim; and soon after the death of joshua they became devout worshippers of the false gods of all the surrounding nations "ye have borne" amos, the prophet, said to them, speaking of their forty years' journeying in the desert, under moses "the tabernacle of your malec and kaiun your idols, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. among them, as among other nations, the conceptions of god formed by individuals varied according to their intellectual and spiritual capacities; poor and imperfect, and investing god with the commonest and coarsest attributes of humanity, among the ignorant and coarse; pure and lofty among the virtuous and richly gifted. these conceptions gradual

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ical rule for every man or woman by which they may enjoy in perfection their sexual life and make it what it rightly is, the holiest part of the religious life, i say 'holiest' because it redeems even physical grossness to partake with spiritual saintship, the intention of the book of the law is perfectly simple. whatever your sexual predilections maybe, you are free, by the law of thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. it is not indicated here in the text, though it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns you that you have mistaken your true will, and that is, if you should imagine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. it may, therefore, be considered improper, as a general rule, for your sexual gratification to destroy, defor

odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and no less than one continuous sacrament. you have no word but her praise, no thought but love of her. you have only one cry, of inarticulate ecstasy, the intense spasm, possession of her, and death, to her. you have no act but the priest's gesture that makes your body hers. the wafer is the disk of the sun, the star in her body. your blood is spilt from your heart with every beat of your pulse into her cup. it is the wine of her life crushed from the grape of your sunripened vine. on this wine you are drunk. it washes your corpse that is as the fragment of the host, broken by you, the priest, into her golden chalice. you, knight and priest of the order of the temple, saying her mass, become god in he

resent, the hierophant of the masters of the temple. 57. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise "love is the law, love under will, is an interpretation of the general law of will. it is dealt with fully in liber aleph. see chapters 105, 120, 121, 139, 141, 142, 192, 193, 194, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203 among others. i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to 'the wise; others will hardly understand my explanatio

the wise "love is the law, love under will, is an interpretation of the general law of will. it is dealt with fully in liber aleph. see chapters 105, 120, 121, 139, 141, 142, 192, 193, 194, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203 among others. i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to 'the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, trump tv, and he is the star, trump xvii. aquarius and aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of pisces, just as, in the trumps viii and xi, leo and libra do about virgo. this last revelation makes our tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this book to those who have laboured fo

at must be corrected. dove--symbol of heterosexual love. serpent--symbol of homosexual love. thelemites must choose well. well. 6+6+5+30+30= 77, oz, a goat, the devil. also, ye= yod+he= 15, which is 3 x 5, which suggests the path of cheth, the chariot, the link between binah and geburah, but also iii x v, the empress coupled with the hierophant, and xv, the devil again. yod+ he is the hermit plus the star. also, 1 +5= 6, the sun "choose" implies that a choice must be made and a mistake avoided "the stars also have tribes and nations--see liber 418, and chapter 77 of liber 333. the general key is that you should practice homosexuality only with a fellow thelemite. the house of god, in a sense, is the phallus, xv, the devil, but also is pe, 80, the blasted tower. still in another sense, the

ONYX TABLET OF SET

you can recognize some quite properly, and have them toss away their mind in a week. if we had more rules, we would have better adepts. that would follow that the organization with the most rules wins. the second degree is a state that exists outside of the temple. no, there are people who are more advanced then any of our ii s (or our v s for that matter, but we and they aren't working together. the star quarter back on another team isn't your quarterback. feel free to share any of the following material with any setian youfeel would find it of interest: what is recognition? the temple of set, set's chief tool of the on, recognizes second degrees for two reasons. onyx tablet: ot.o.4.13 temple of set author: don webb v date: march 8, 1998 ce revision: html revision: june 11, 1998 ce 1. bec

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

lcosm is the mirror of lucifer, the bringer of light through astral projection and search of balance of knowledge. the applications of such magick can be used in every facet of ones' life. it is only limited by the imagination "ain soph" indeed! aleister crowley's patterns and formation of "thelema" is based within the luciferian principle. the bringing of light towards the individual, from which the star may find it's one unique path "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" from which none may deny thee. such a brilliant system can be found in further developments of such tomes as "magick in theory and practice "the book of the law "thoth-tarot" and such an edited work as "the goetia. the map towards godhead soon comes into clear and unadulterated focus. perception is existent th

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ast a couple of books which have used them at great length, though without acknowledgement, but in this instance that does not mean very much. some abstruse teaching relative to the tarot and other germane matters is scat10 the golden dawn tered through several of these order documents. one matter which i have never seen taken up by astrological writers is that concerning starting the zodiac with the star regulus in leo. the teaching emphasizes that were this done, the constellations and the signs would coincide "within the zodiac" wrote louis macniece in his book astrology "there are twelve constellations. these bear the same names as the twelve signs used by the astrologers, but astrologically they have nothing to do with the case. if you are told that the sun was in that particular sign

juggler 3 i2 13 2 the high priestess f d 14 3 the empress f q 15 4 the emperor il t 16 5 the hierophant 1 'tl 17 6 the lovers t x 18 7 the chariot t7% 19 8 strength (justice) d 5 q 20 9 the hermit (prudence "7 21 10 the wheel of fortune 2 3 22 11 justice (strength) 9 rr 23 12 the hanged man t3 v 24 13 death f n-l 25 14 temperance b fl 26 15 the devil y w 27 16 tower struck by lightning 3 d 28 17 the star 3 2x 29 18 the moon? x 30 19 the sun 1 0 31 20 last judgment v a 32 21 the universe. n k 72 the golden dawn: volume i book one <140> meditation let the practicus meditate upon the symbols of the rhomboid and the vesica. let him seek out their meanings and correspondences let him contemplate the symbol mercury and the number 8. let him now learn to control his emotions, on no account givin

ted in a sphere. these keep their place and move not. but the man himself places in his sphere of sensation c204> that point of the zodiac which ascended at the moment of his birth and conception (for the same degree of the zodiac ascendeth at both, otherwise the birth could not take place. that is to say that at those times the same degree of the zodiac is ascending in the east of the heavens of the star whereon he is incarnated. thus doth he remain during that incarnation facing that particular point in his sphere of sensation. that is to say, this sphere doth not revolve about the physical body. from chesed and geburah are formed the arms. therein exist the faculties of operative action, wherefore at their extremities are the symbols of the four elements and the spirit, thus- thumb..spi

ing upon you the title of lord of the 29th path. you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return the ceremony of your passage of the 28th path will take place. hegemon conducts practicus out. 186 the golden dawn: volume 11 book two <131> the path of tzaddi the arrangement is the same. the letter tzaddi is substituted for that of qoph in the s. e. on the altar is the tarot key of the star officers seated as before, each with a cup of water. hegemon requires the admission badge of the solid pyramid of the elements. l atls path 28 tj el 1-1 q- z 0 7 f =f d 7 h e. star [we s t i b the temple is symbolically in yesod, whence the candidate is taken by the path of tzaddi to the gate of netzach. therefore the other paths symbolically in the east are those of resh in the n. e, and

before you upon the altar is the 17th key of tarot which symbolically resumes these ideas. the large star in the centre of the heavens has seven principal and <135> fourteen secondary rays and this represents the heptad multiplied by the triad. this yields 21- the number of the divine name eheieh which, as you already know, is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense, it is sirius the dog-star, the star of isis- sothis. around it are the stars of the seven planets each with its seven-fold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagrarn on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys, and of athor. she also rep resents the planet venus through whose sphere the influence of chesed descends. she is aima, binah, tebunah, the great supernal mother- aima eloh

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

ience and used by the author in his experiment, is that which is found at the head of this chapter, and it is more perfect than any in the keys of solomon or in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau. we must remark, however, that the use of the pentagram is most dangerous for operators who are not in possession of its complete and perfect understanding. the direction of the points of the star is in no sense arbitrary, and may change the entire character of an operation, as we shall explain in the ritual. paracelsus, that innovator in magic, who surpassed all other initiates in his unaided practical success, affirms that every magical figure and every kabalistic sign of the pantacles which compel spirits, may be reduced to two, which are the synthesis of all the others; these a

comparable to that of mezentius. therein the soul freezes and burns at the same time, and has no means of getting free except by re-entering the current of exterior forms and assuming a fleshly envelope, then energetically battling against instincts to strengthen that moral liberty which will permit it at the moment of its death to break the chains of earth and wing its flight in triumph towards the star of consolation which has smiled in light upon it. following this clue, we can understand the nature of the fire of hell, which is identical with the demon or old serpent; we can gather also wherein consists the salvation and reprobation of men, all called and all elected successively, but in small number, after having risked falling into the eternal fire through their own fault. such is t

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

rdid mistress of our tearful valley, and, scythe in hand, these indefatigable labourers reap their eternal harvest. that queen is old as time, but her skeleton is concealed in the wreckage of women's beauty, which she abstracts from their youth and love. her skull is adorned with lifeless tresses that are not her own. spoliator of crowned heads, she is embellished with the plunder of queens, from the star-begemmed hair of berenice to that-white, but not with age-which the executioner sheared from the brow of marie antoinette. her livid and frozen body is clothed in faded garments and tattered winding-sheets. her bony hands, covered with rings, hold diadems and chains, scepters and crossbones, jewels and ashes. when she goes by, doors open of themselves; she passes through walls; she penetr

en, and he proved him by his wrath only to confirm him in his power. so also the word of god himself, as if jealous of lucifer, willed to come down from introduction 5 heaven and pass triumphantly through the shadows of hell. he willed to be proscribed and condemned; he premeditated that terrible hour when he should cry, in the throes of his agony: emy god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me? f as the star of the morning goes before the sun, the rebellion of lucifer announced to new-born nature the coming incarnation of god. possibly lucifer, in his fall through night, carried with him a rain of suns and stars by the attraction of his glory. possibly our sun is a demon among the stars, as lucifer is a star among the angels. doubtless it is for this reason that it lights so calmly the horrib

th are being used, which sensation the subject should experience at the same time, but in a contrary sense, that is, with a wholly opposite alternative. the pentagram, or sign of the microcosmos, represents, among other magical mysteries, the double sympathy of the human extremities with, each other and with the circulation of the astral light in the human body. thus, when a man is represented in the star of the pentagram, as may be seen in the occult philosophy of agrippa, it should be observed that the head corresponds in masculine sympathy with the right foot and in feminine sympathy with the left foot; that the right hand corresponds in the same way with the left hand and left foot, and reciprocally of the other hand. this must be borne in mind when making magnetic passes, if we seek t

e cup of libations. their 32 the ritual of transcendental magic respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs and nicksa for the undines. when an elementary spirit torments, or at least vexes, the inhabitants of this world, it must be conjured by air, water, fire and earth; by breathing, sprinkling, burning of perfumes; and by tracing on the ground the star of solomon and the sacred pentagram. these figures must be perfectly correct and drawn either with the charcoal of consecrated fire or with a reed dipped in various colours, mixed with powdered loadstone. then, holding the pantacle of solomon in one hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following

us system. 35 chapter v the blazing pentagram we proceed to the explanation and consecration of the sacred and mysterious pentagram. at this point, let the ignorant and superstitious close the book; they will either see nothing but darkness, or they will be scandalized. the pentagram, which in gnostic schools is called the blazing star, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. it is the star of the magi; it is the sign of the word made flesh; and, according to the direction of its points, this absolute magical symbol represents order or confusion, the divine lamb of ormuz and st. john, or the accursed goat of mendes. it is initiation or profanation; it is lucifer or vesper, the star of morning or evening. it is mary or lilith, victory or death, day or night. the pentagram wit

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ve on our side; with it let us take another look at this man and his own brand of magic. traced back through forty grand and great-grand sires to abraham, jesus emerges as a rather nondescript infant born circa 30 ce, amid what has been calculated as the time of some spectacular astronomical displays. described in biblical commentaries as "perhaps a miraculously governed meteor, star or comet"(1) the star of bethlehem was more probably an alignment of the major planets or a supernova than any god-guided phenomenon. still, no random association is too unbelievable when power seekers ply their trade on the sheep. acts of irrational faith grant any number of illogical things the status of truth. the bible itself tells us little of jesus' childhood except for his city of birth, the alleged pos

is concerned. this is the realm of the magi. 57. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but tzaddi is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. nuit is to be invoked during the hours of darkness "love is the law, love under will" became one of crowley's key aphorisms [generally used to close any document opened with the "do what thou wilt" quote from #i-40. he understood it to mean a profound empathy with all entities of creation, guided not by fear [which he considere

grounds that it was reserved to the highest grades of initiation, was simply that he believed sex-magic to be the most potent form of the art. explained only at the highest degrees of the o.t.o. crowley understood "book" as the tarot, and the hebrew letter tzaddi as the emperor trump in that deck. in his commentary he proceeded to explain why this passage identified this trump as complementary to the star trump xvii. which i simply do not see implied by the above passage of the book of the law [crowley devised a hebrew/cabalistic interpretation for the tarot, which i consider useless. 58. i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstacy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. the promise of nuit to mankind upon its re-integra

kings: stamp down the wretched& the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. think not, o king, upon that lie: that thou must die; verily thou shalt not die, but live. now let it be understood: if the body of the king dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. nuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! the sun, strength& sight, light: these are for the servants of the star& the snake. the "law of the jungle" raised to its most complex expression in the writings of nietzsche. one of the prerogatives of an independent intellect, however, is that of defying the law of the jungle. to enable the weak or injured to survive in order that they may prove their worth under other circumstances. excessive devotion to one extreme means cruelty. excessive devotion to the

f the gods. human shells for him to inhabit might be required, but the "actual" pharaoh was immortal. in this verse may also be found one of the assumptions behind the practice of mummification: if the body is permitted to dissolve, the ba("heart-soul) and ka("double) cease to exist and are absorbed by the objective universe [see the book of opening the mouth, translated by sir e.a. wallis budge] the star is the silver star (a:.a) of babalon, and the snake is subsequently(#ii-22) identified as harwer. 22. i am the snake that giveth knowledge& delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. to worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof i will tell my prophet& be drunk thereof! they shall not harm ye at all. it is a lie, this folly against self. the exposure of inn

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o effectuate the occult arte in the hand of the divine artist. firstly the elements are represented through this four-fold exposition, when properly adjusted it construct the fifth from the mage, who then becomes the sum of the four into the fifth and the one. therefore this cell acts as the window, in accordance with the symbolism in the fifth letter heh. properly enough heh is also connected to the star or the pentalpha. the sexual suggestions of the procedures to follow in the conjuration of this aat is evident and refers to the various modes of sexual congress and the type of kala these sexo-magical asanas will lead to. this aat is under the influence of aquarius and inhabits the potentiality of cultivating the new language of the famulus through the use of the divine artist as the ves

d by the lovers. importance must be stressed on the concept of love in this cell. the ultimate adoration a nd humbleness in fore the path of initiation and before the eyes of the gods are taken on as a necessity and a sheer want born from the virgin-will of the mage. the other construction in this cell is the solar fasette found in the letter tzaddi which means fish-hook, but is also connected to the star through its kabbalistic connotations. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of the emperor. this explains the warrior like flavour of the cell and the solar influences of the cell. the formulae of zayin is captured in the formulae of the op

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ir was loose. i took my eyes away from her because she was falling and it was not respectful to look up inside her clothes" rekha and her children fell from everest; no survivors. the whispers blamed gibreel. let's leave it at that for the moment. oh: don't forget: he saw her after she died. he saw her several times. it was a long time before people understood how sick the great man was. gibreel, the star. gibreel, who vanquished the nameless ailment. gibreel, who feared sleep. after he departed the ubiquitous images of his face began to rot. on the gigantic, luridly coloured hoardings from which he had watched over the populace, his lazy eyelids started flaking and crumbling, drooping further and further until his irises looked like two moons sliced by clouds, or by the soft knives of his

that he, eustace, invariably ended up black and blue, having been beaten stupid by a little old guy whom he could've eaten for breakfast, on _toast, and had he ever, even once, lost his temper? well, then? how could anyone think he would hurt the immortal gibreel- they fired him anyway and the police put him in the lock-up, just in case. but it was not the punch that had flattened gibreel. after the star had been flown into bombay's breach candy hospital in an air force jet made available for the purpose; after exhaustive tests had come up with almost nothing; and while he lay unconscious, dying, with a blood-count that had fallen from his normal fifteen to a murderous four point two, a hospital spokesman faced the national press on breach candy's wide white steps "it is a freak mystery"

the dreamer, feels his heart leaping in alarm, who, me? i'm supposed to know the answers here? i'm sitting here watching this picture and now this actor points his finger out at me, who ever heard the like, who asks the bloody audience of a "theological" to solve the bloody plot- but as the dream shifts, it's always changing form, he, gibreel, is no longer a mere spectator but the central player, the star. with his old weakness for taking too many roles: yes, yes. he's not just playing the archangel but also him, the businessman, the messenger, mahound, coming up the mountain when he comes. nifty cutting is required to pull off this double role, the two of them can never be seen in the same shot, each must speak to empty air, to the imagined incarnation of the other, and trust to technolog

ded by the whiz-kid tycoon billy battuta, whose interest in cinema was well known, had entered into an association with the reputable, independent indian producer mr. s. s. sisodia for the purpose of producing a comeback vehicle for the legendary gibreel, now exclusively revealed to have escaped the jaws of death for a second time "it is true i was booked on the plane under the name of najmuddin" the star was quoted as saying "i know that when the investigating sleuths identified this as my incognito- in fact, my real name- it caused great grief back home, and for this i do sincerely apologize to my fans. you see, the truth is, that grace of god i somehow missed the flight, and as i had wished in any case to go to ground, excuse, please, no pun intended, i permitted the fiction of my demis

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ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps the most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its "pure" form the pentagram is shown encompassing the figure of a man in the five points of the star- three points up, two pointing down- symbolizing man's spiritual nature. in satanism the pentagram is also used, but since satanism represents the carnal instincts of man, or the opposite of spiritual nature, the pentagram is inverted to perfectly accomodate the head of the goat- its horns, representing duality, thrust upwards in defiance; the other three points inverted, or the trinity d

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ligious atheists believe in an impersonal source that orders the universe. in the hindu tradition this impersonal cosmic reality or oneness is called brahman. world religions: almanac 21 agnosticism and atheism texts dated to the seventh century bce describe brahman in ways that make it clear that brahman is not a god. instead, it is a characteristic of the universe, like gravity, or the force in the star wars movies. religious atheism this same trend can be seen in china. during the shang dynasty (a period when the country was ruled by members of a single family, from about 1750 to 1100 bce, the supreme god was known as shangdi, the king above, the organizer of human society. by the beginning of the zhou dynasty in 1100 bce, belief in a more impersonal cosmic concept was taking hold. tian

. for example, isis, in her aspect as the mother of horus, also influenced the later christian cult of the virgin mary. like the mesopotamians, the egyptians also passed on additional products of their religion in the form of mathematics and medicine. for example, their numbering system was based on the number ten, as in the modern decimal system. the egyptian calendar, based on the appearance of the star sirius, held 365 days and was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. the remaining five days were given to festivals. herbs were in common usage for illness, as were magic potions and prayers. the egyptians had a large number of recipes of herbs and other materials for different kinds of illness. yeast, for example, was recognized for its healing qualities and was applied to leg

on against idol worship. islamic law forbids the depiction of living things, so there are no statues. this is also why traditional islam does not depict the prophet muhammad in any media, although artists from other faiths and cultures have made likenesses of him. islamic art, to the extent that it includes living things, tends to be highly abstract rather than realistic. some people believe that the star and crescent flag is an islamic symbol, but it has no connection with islam. rather, its roots lie with the ottoman empire, which used the star and crescent on its flag. the primary symbols in islam are behaviors rather than objects. for example, when muslims pray, they turn in the direction of mecca and the ka aba, a cube-shaped shrine in the city that the prophet abraham is believed to

he five-pointed star of david, more accurately referred to as the shield of david or the magen david. it appears on jewish synagogues (houses of worship, on the flag of the nation of israel, and as the symbol for the israeli 356 world religions: almanac judaism magen david, the equivalent of the red cross. it is thought traditionally to have been the symbol on the shield of the jewish king david. the star consists of two interlocking triangles. many attempts have been made to read some religious significance into the design of the magen david. some people have argued, for example, that one of the triangles points up, toward god, and the other points down, toward earth, suggesting the unity of god and his people. none of these theories, though, can be proved. the magen david began to appear

. each book of shadows is compiled by the individual practitioner, but such books are often passed from wiccan to wiccan. they contain not rules but suggestions about wiccan practice, including invocations and rituals. the pentacle is one of the most visible symbols of wicca. it consists of a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle. contrary to popular belief, it is not a satanic symbol. rather, the star s geometric shape symbolizes wisdom and balance, while the circle symbolizes unity and eternity. the wiccan calendar is quite similar to that of other neo-pagan religions, especially druidism. it follows the cycles of the moon, the sun, and the natural world. wiccans celebrate thirteen esbats, or full moons, each year. wiccans also mark a number of days called sabbats throughout the cycle

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ful head, shadowed by its redundant tresses, bent before him; and after a moment's pause he drew near to her, and said, in a voice of the most soothing sweetness, and with a half smile upon his lip "do you remember, when i told you to struggle for the light, that i pointed for example to the resolute and earnest tree? i did not tell you, fair child, to take example by the moth, that would soar to the star, but falls scorched beside the lamp. come, i will talk to thee. this englishman" viola drew herself away, and wept yet more passionately "this englishman is of thine own years, not far above thine own rank. thou mayst share his thoughts in life, thou mayst sleep beside him in the same grave in death! and i but that view of the future should concern us not. look into thy heart, and thou wi

iving into the heart, ever alive to the least as to the greatest of the complicated truths of existence; descending to what pedants would call the trivial and the frivolous. from every mesh in the social web, he can disentangle a grace. and for him each airy gossamer floats in the gold of the sunlight. know you not that around the animalcule that sports in the water there shines a halo, as around the star (the monas mica, found in the purest pools, is encompassed with a halo. and this is frequent amongst many other species of animalcule) that revolves in bright pastime through the space? true art finds beauty everywhere. in the street, in the market-place, in the hovel, it gathers food for the hive of its thoughts. in the mire of politics, dante and milton selected pearls for the wreath of

steadfastly on yonder star" glyndon obeyed, and mejnour retired into the chamber, from which there then slowly emerged a vapour, somewhat paler and of fainter odour than that which had nearly produced so fatal an effect on his frame. this, on the contrary, as it coiled around him, and then melted in thin spires into the air, breathed a refreshing and healthful fragrance. he still kept his eyes on the star, and the star seemed gradually to fix and command his gaze. a sort of languor next seized his frame, but without, as he thought, communicating itself to the mind; and as this crept over him, he felt his temples sprinkled with some volatile and fiery essence. at the same moment a slight tremor shook his limbs and thrilled through his veins. the languor increased, still he kept his gaze upo

e star, and the star seemed gradually to fix and command his gaze. a sort of languor next seized his frame, but without, as he thought, communicating itself to the mind; and as this crept over him, he felt his temples sprinkled with some volatile and fiery essence. at the same moment a slight tremor shook his limbs and thrilled through his veins. the languor increased, still he kept his gaze upon the star, and now its luminous circumference seemed to expand and dilate. it became gradually softer and clearer in its light; spreading wider and broader, it diffused all space, all space seemed swallowed up in it. and at last, in the midst of a silver shining atmosphere, he felt as if something burst within his brain, as if a strong chain were broken; and at that moment a sense of heavenly liber

own the souls of men to the cabined darkness of the hour; and that from the cloud and thunderstorm often swoops the olympian eagle that can ravish us aloft! and the invocation was heard, the bondage of sense was rent away from the visual mind. he looked, and saw, no, not the being he had called, with its limbs of light and unutterably tranquil smile not his familiar, adon-ai, the son of glory and the star, but the evil omen, the dark chimera, the implacable foe, with exultation and malice burning in its hell-lit eyes. the spectre, no longer cowering and retreating into shadow, rose before him, gigantic and erect; the face, whose veil no mortal hand had ever raised, was still concealed, but the form was more distinct, corporeal, and cast from it, as an atmosphere, horror and rage and awe. a

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ed her about her birth, and she replied "i was born of a voice untimely, the socalled echo of a man's ordure [1] dropped in a wood [1. for the demon born of an echo we have an analogue in the hebrew bath kol "the daughter of a voice" in the gnostic hymn to hermes, edited by dieterich, abrasax, p 19, we read, l. 104] 19. and i said to her "under what star dost thou pass" and she answered me "under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things" then i said to her "and what angel is it that frustrates thee" and she said to me "he that in thee [or "through thee] is reigning" and i thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier strike her. but she cried aloud, and said "i am [subjected] to thee, o king, by the wisdom of god given to thee, and by the angel joel

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

library has a bookplate therein designed by the artist, fritz eichenberg. his bookplate "depicts the ancient cross in the shape of a t, surrounded by a serpent symbolizing wisdom and healing, and forming the letter s. the- 12- t and s, thomas sugrue's initials, are crowned by the lotus, vedantic representation of all being. in the background lies the city of jerusalem over which shine two stars, the star of the east of christianity and six-pointed star of judaism. a flame spreads an arc of light above, proclaiming the continuity of life and the immortality of the soul (ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cro

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

os, wherein set was identified with the local god ash in the iind dynasty. set s original worship as a night time polar deity suffered a decline with the rise of solar worship in the ivth dynasty. the great pyramid of khufu is one of the last early monuments connected with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king s akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh, principle of the seven faces of darkness. during the middle kingdom, set was reduced to a symbol of upper egypt and apparently seen only during the setian festival of heb-sed, or tying together. it was during this time that set was first blamed for the murder of osiris, a semitic corn god who had arrived in the ii

ichard valantasis. with the coming of christianity as a state religion, individualism was again despised. the coptic fathers identified set with satan, and he almost disappears as a figure in egyptian magic. the european manuals gave away to medieval grimoires and perhaps the last practicing setian, the 8th century abulfaiz dhu l nun, changed his name to thuban the black (thuban being the name of the star alpha draconis. thuban as pir, or chief of his order, was called king or lord of the fish the fish being a typhonic animal. thuban was third in teaching succession after daud of tai and maaruf karkhi (in the order of the builders. thuban founded the malamati, or blameworthy, order of sufi, which has certain similarities with freemasonry. the masonic pillar of the temple boaz (the black pi

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e holy bible records, for example, the worship of baal, the horned fire god. michaelangelo and some other artists, strangely, created sculptures blasphemously showing moses, the biblical prophet, with horns. all of these horned deities and images represent lust, because the horn is itself a phallic symbol in the occult world. of stars and goatees in recent times, communist revolutionaries adopted the star, also symbol of baphomet (see the star on the baphomet goat's forehead in this chapter, and some karl marx, che gueverra and others adopted the huge and straggly beard in honor of the goatee of baphomet, the deity whom they secretly worshipped. revealingly, the late anton lavey, spouting his hellish philosophy in his final book, satan speaks, says 100 codex magic a of baphomet's beard "th

amulet, described as satanist eliphas levi's "baphomet god of the witches" 108 la codex magica the grand master of a satanic secret society in the country of greece wears a goat's head. the irregular pentagram with an image of baphomet filling up the interior spaces is called the "goat of mendes" it is yet another representation of satan. president george herbert walker bush. we do not know what the star and longhorn stand for on his cap, nor the meaning of the sash around his neck. speculatively, perhaps it has something to do with a texas state group or a texas (lone star state) cattlemen's association, etc. however, from australia come two reports that the senior george bush once stunned congressional leaders waiting to see him in his oval office at the white house. the president enter

new aeon (new age. the magnetic (e.g. magical) powers of lucifer and his goddess mate are boastfully shown to uphold planet earth. 118 codex magic a the demon, mephistopheles, shown being conjured up by a magician in masonic scholar and 33rd degree illuminatus manly p. halls 1928 occult book classic, secret teachings of all ages, bears a remarkable resemblance to yoda, the wise ascended master of the star wars saga, return of the jedi. look closely and you'll see a painting of baphomet, the androgynous goat god, on the wall at left and also a skeleton's head at top right. this is a member of the radical environmentalist group, earth first. he's decked out as pan, an ancient, mystical greek deity who had a mistress said to be the "earth goddess" seven "el diablo" shows his horns the devil r

xual union, the sex act, and the reconciliation of opposites, yin and yang, or god and satan. the blasphemous suggestion in the symbol becomes clear. remember: everywhere in the world of illuminism, we discover sexual connotations. theirs is a sex cult; indeed it is the world's greatest sex cult; yet, the illuminati use symbols and signs to mask their sexually perverted messages. 362 codex magica the star of david and the beast's number, 666 the supremely evil nature of the double triangle, the hexagram, solomon's seal, the magen david (shield of david, is proven by the fact that the symbol contains the hidden number 666, the number of the beast (revelation 13. notice that there are six triangles incorporated on the outside of the hexagram; that it has six out points, and that six lines ar

balism is pure illuminism because it teaches the secret doctrine that, ultimately, the higher level adept learns: that the holy serpent is the true god; that all the evil that a person does, through alchemy, is magically transformed into righteousness; and that, yes, lucifer is lord. satan is the true and only god. that is the essential doctrine of cabalism. magical signs of the jewish cabala 427 the star of david and the jewish utopia the symbol of the jewish six-pointed star, known as the seal of solomon and as the magen david, is the preeminent symbol of cabalism, but other symbols, signs, and marks also hold the interest of cabalists, including the pentagram or pentacle, the triangle, the circle, the sun, the obelisk, the yoni, and the diamond. it is believed by cabalistic rabbis that

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but not in the naive and more illusory form that can be experienced on the spheres below. for a white magician a feeling of total goodness is experienced. both states are self-sufficient in themselves, but has often been traps for many magicians. this level is only half the way. the sun sphere can in a basic terminology be called a level everything of it self. beyond is the higher divine levels, the star sphere or the transcendental plane that could be called a level more than itself. this is the goal for a draconian magician. tiphereth corresponds with the sun in the form of light, while thagirion represents the black sun. the black sun represents the sun in its inner form where it shines inside man and reveals the hidden qliphotic worlds. the ordinary sun is the outer sun that shines on

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tion there is fear. so long as there is perception of self-reproach or conscience, there is pain germinating: there is no freedom. he who believes anything he perceives or imagines, falls into sin. by believing without feeling perturbation, forgetting ideas of external and internal, he 31 regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non-resistance, has no horizon: he is free. on seeing the star-lit eyes and rosebud mouths, the breasts and loins of beautiful women, you become lovingly attached, but if you fear, consider constantly that they are merely the charred flesh and bones of yourself after the torture. the space between the eternal and "self" is it not a moral doctrine? by unbelieving all one believes and sedulously without anxiety not believing (by the "neither-neither" p

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flame of truth. yet must thou fortify thyself with liberty, which is truth, if thou wouldest truly attain. 18. be thy body the temple of the rose and cross of light and life. be thy mind a pure vehicle of our holy genius. be thy soul the high altar of our eternal sacrifice of union. be thine all one with us. 19. dissolve thine all in us, who art one in truth: we are the sun in his rising! we are the star of the east! we are the lord of the aeon! hail! hail! to the child of the aeon, whose name is our life and whose spirit is our light. he is our truth; and we adore him in all his mighty splendour and power. thus we say unto thee, behold the mystery of the sixfold star initiator: how we are of him and he is of us. concealed in his symbol is our glory of forces: ararita! 20. ours is the sev

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ddess in this posture, you are standing erect, your face tilted slightly up, and your arms upraised in welcome. this is the posture that the witches in the craft used, when they invoked monon at the beach. h god in this posture, you are standing erect with your arms crossed over your chest, with your hands upon your shoulders, right hand-left shoulder, left hand-right shoulder (sometimes known as the star) there are other postures, but if you can master these, you will have a formidably group of skills in your ritual tool box. to master any of the above listed postures, stand (or sit) in that posture while preforming your breathing practice. record the results in your work journal. page 14 visualization or dharana, is the art of controlling your thoughts. this is a required skill in the ar

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ons and laws, and that they were seemingly powerless to alter those laws. mysterious supernatural forces sometimes benign, often hostile appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx

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ons and laws, and that they were seemingly powerless to alter those laws. mysterious supernatural forces sometimes benign, often hostile appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx

ttle better in empire of the ants (1977, when collins portrayed a real estate broker who, through a bizarre transformation machine, became a slave to intelligent, human-sized ants. in the science fiction classic donovan s brain (1953, nancy davis (mrs. ronald reagan (1921) played the girlfriend of a scientist who falls under the telepathic control of the rich man s brain that he is keeping alive. the star of such motion picture masterpieces as champion (1949, lust for life (1956, and spartacus (1960, kirk douglas (1916) faced supernatural monsters in two films. in the chosen (1978, he played a nuclear power industrialist whose son (simon ward, turned out to be the antichrist, perhaps the ultimate monster. in the fury (1978, douglas s luck as a father was little better when his son (andrew

tural powers imparted to him at birth by extraterrestrials who is forced to battle another powerful, but evil, mind similarly endowed. in love 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 110 mysterious creatures at first bite (1979, hamilton brought his film career back from limbo with his portrayal of a comedic vampire. in 1968 charlton heston (1924, the star of the ten commandments (1956) and ben hur (1959, for which he won an oscar, appeared in planet of the apes as an astronaut who arrived in earth s future to discover that intelligent apes were ruling the planet. he continued his role as an astronaut displaced by time in beneath the planet of the apes in 1970. in the grimly futuristic the omega man (1971, heston is the single human immune

r intent: the government coverup of the ufo experience. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice hall, 1984. good, timothy. above top secret the worldwide ufo coverup. new york: william morrow, 1988. story, ronald d, ed. the encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters. new york: new american library, 2001. ufos in ancient times since primitive humans first crawled out of their caves and gazed up in awe at the star-filled night, humankind has been intrigued by the unexplained mysteries of the universe. early myths and legends tell of mysterious objects roaring across the heavens. scraps of ancient documents reveal phenomenal, unexplained manifestations in the skies. virtually every religion relates visitations from angels, demons, devils, and gods who descended to earth in ancient times. with the hi

, i. s, and carl sagan. intelligent life in the universe. new york: dell books, 1968. sitchin, zecharia. the 12th planet. new york: avon, 1978. von daniken, erich. chariots of the gods? new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1970. gods from outer space. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1971. space visitors in the bible and other holy books one of the most beloved stories in the christian tradition concerns the star of bethlehem that hovered over the stable where lay the infant jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e. in recent years, some ufo researchers have suggested that the star was actually a spaceship from another world, thus raising the controversial question of whether the holy bible, the most revered book in the western world, contains references to ufos and alien visitors. provoking even greater cont

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ons and laws, and that they were seemingly powerless to alter those laws. mysterious supernatural forces.sometimes benign, often hostile.appeared to be in control of human existence. divination, the method of obtaining knowledge of the future by means of omens or sacred objects, has been practiced in all societies, whether primitive or civilized. the ancient chaldeans read the will of the gods in the star-jeweled heavens. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod. pharaoh elevated joseph from his prison cell to the office of chief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph fs interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx

han the darkness. m delving deeper meyer, marvin, and richard smith, eds. ancient christian magic. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. magi everyone who knows the traditional story of christmas has heard of the three magi who followed the star in the east and who traveled afar to worship at the manger wherein lay the baby jesus (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e. these magi were not kings, but gwise ones, h astrologers and priests of ancient persia, philosophers of zoroastrian wisdom, and their title has provided the root for the words gmagic, h gmagician, h and so forth. such men were the councilors of the eastern empires, the possessors

tures who react to their environment emotionally as well as physically, felt themselves surrounded by powerful and mysterious forces over which they had no control. hoping to influence the supernatural beings whom they believed controlled their destiny, or at least to appease the beings f wrath, humans sought to know the will of the gods. the ancient chaldeans read the machinations of the gods in the star-filled heavens, as well as in the bloody livers of sacrificed fowl. when the king of babylon went forth to war, he wrote the names of cities on his arrows, put them back into the quiver, and shook them. he then removed an arrow and attacked first the city whose name was written thereon. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod; and jonah deemed it a ju

nection between the motions of the planets and positions of the stars with every kind of terrestrial activity. their ability to predict future trends.even actual events.has been repeatedly demonstrated. h the gstar gospel, h outlined in the history of creation and origin of species (1967) by reuben luther katter, attaches religious interpretations to the 12 signs of the zodiac. katter stated that the star gospel, also called adamic theology, antedates the old testament by 2,500 years. the star gospel uses the same 12 zodiacal signs as does astrology, but begins with virgo and ends with leo. katter stated that, according to tradition, jacob and his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 si

seven small stars on the card symbolize the universe along with the charity and hope represented by the number seven. the water in the stream before which the woman kneels symbolizes patience, utilized in overcoming obstacles. above the kneeling woman fs head are seven stars, symbols of solar energy directing beneficent rays on the enlightened adept. directly above the woman fs head, the top star.the star of the magi.indicates the challenge presented by youth in its attempt to revitalize the earth. the number 17 represents wisdom and immortality. the moon (arcanum eighteen) is the representation of unknown facts, of knowledge obscured, and an interference with the search for hidden knowledge. the moon fs magnetism preserves and generates life, and the dog pictured on the card undoubtedly b

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made itself a body in its own image. that will be the kingdom of heaven upon earth, and the body will be the temple of the soul, as the regenerated universe will be the body of god. and bodies and souls, and form and thought, and the whole universe, will be the light, the word, and the permanent and visible revelation of god. amen. so be it. 63 xvii the number seventeen seventeen is the number of the star; it is that of intelligence and love. warrior and bold intelligence, accomplice of divine prometheus, eldest daughter of lucifer, hail unto thee in thine audacity! thou didst wish to know, and in order to possess, thou didst brave all the thunders, and affronted every abyss! intelligence, o thou, whom we poor sinners have loved to madness, to scandal, to reprobation! divine right of man

their hidden signification shall soon be made known, that is to say, at the end of the age "oh, well, sir" solemnly replied the professor of magic "even before the end of the age, i will explain them to you; these three qabalistic signs are the signature of the devil "it is impossible" cried the old priest "it is the case" replied eliphas, with determination. now, the signs were these: 1 degree- the star of the micrososm, or the magic pentagram. it is the five-pointed star of occult masonry, the star with which agrippa drew the human figure, the head in the upper point, the four limbs in the four others. the flaming star, which, when turned upside down, is the hierolgyphic sign of the goat of black magic, whose head may then be drawn in the star, the two horns at the top, the ears to the

gamut, and in the zodiac the quadrature of the ternary circle of all initiations. 187 the emperor julian, that "adept of the spirit" who was never understood, that initiate whose paganism was less idolatrous than the faith of certain christians, the emperor julian, we say, understood better than dupuis and volney the symbolic worship of the sun. in his hymn to the king, helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the absolute. it is a remarkable thing that julian has ideas of the supreme god, that the christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the church, who were his contemp

r living creatures or symbolic signs and numbers and letters formed in a circle; then the seven planetary signs, with the indication of their repetition signified by the three colours, to symbolize the natural world, the human world and the divine world, whose 288 hieroglyphic emblems compose the twentyone trumps of our tarot. in the centre of the ring may be perceived the double triangle forming the star or seal of solomon<jewish lore, solomon having the five-pointed star> it is the religious and metaphysical triad analogous to the natural triad of universal generation in the equilibrated substance. around the triangle is the cross which divides the circle into four equal<
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e who masters time by the dream and the twilight world made flesh by desire. the goal of the ritual is a form of self-initiation, adversarial crystallization of the self, that the individual strengthens the psyche and the shadow of the sorcerer. it is the utterance of a word, the embodiment of a god or goddess in flesh. the rite of the adversarial shadow the chant of the infernal sabbat as i face the star of al ghul the two horns become one. i cast the circle as kabed-us-spae, that within is the circumference of my divinity. by the star of algol i bask in the brilliance of the sun at midnight, the eye of blackened flame and smoke, of arimanius, 17 witchcraft or persian sorcery which involves developing a solitary of spirit or druj practice. 20 dire initiator of my night and infernal dreami

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on also governs the cyclic aspects of nature, as well as the tides and feminine menstrual energies. it is therefore appropriate that the letter attributed to this path is that of qoph, meaning "back of the head, where the more primitive parts of the brain reside, regulating these energies. netzach is spelt in hebrew, ntzch, nun-tzaddi-cheth. the tarot attributions of these cards is that of death, the star, and the chariot. the egyptian deities of this sequence are revealing of netzach, being typhon, nuit and hormakhu; typhon (or seth) is the serpent deity connected with storms, a natural phenomena appropriate to netzach, and was the pilot of the solar boat (tiphareth) who speared apophis, symbolic of the death atu connecting netzach to tiphareth. nuit resided in the "lower mansion of helio

perfected, which refers to both basic astronomy and the fact that the "orb of the sun" symbolises the sephiroth about tiphareth, to which the sun is attributed. netzach represents the instincts and processes of nature, and yesod represents the "foundation, or "compilation" stage of an activity or creative process. thus this path is where life takes on levels of meaning and is woven into a whole. the star card shows this as the pouring forth of water, as does the zodiacal sign of aquarius which is also attributed to this path and card. on the other side of the tree, path 30 is where "astrologers derive the speculations and perfection of their science according to the movement of stars. this path is thus related to the science (hod) regarding the hidden substructure (yesod) of the world (ma

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of the circle, the archangels are invoked to consecrate the circle with the forces of the divine light. before me, raphael, behind me, gabriel, on my right hand, imichael, on my left hand, uriel. then comes the statement "for about me flame the pentagrams, and in the column shines the six-rayed star (refer to chapter three, endnote 20) the six-rayed star is the hexagram or "star of david" whch is the star of the macrocosm or "greater universe" it is formed from the two triangles of fire and water, and it symbolizes perfection and total balance. while the pentagram is the symbol of man, the hexagram is the symbol of perfected or purified man, balanced withn the greater universe. trus is followed once again by the qabalistic cross, whch further strengthens and seals the cross of light within

who do not comprehend its sacred meaning: we proceed to the explanation and consecration of the sacred and mysterious pentagram. at this point, let the ignorant and superstitious close the book; they will either see nothing but darkness, or they will be scandalized. the pentagram, which in the gnostic schools is called the blazing star, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. it is the star ofthe magi; it is the word madejlesh..the sign of the pentagram is also the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science.l6 as will be seen, all mysteries of magic, all symbols of the gnosis, allfigures of occultis

ah" meaning "gods of the north. charge the figure with "tau("earth. invocation return to the east and form the tau cross. say "before me, hathoor, the mother of light. behind me, toum of the setting sun. on my right hand, sakhmet, mighty lady of flame. on my left hand, hapi-wer, the bull of the earth. for about me the pentagram 197 flames sehedj("a heaven of stars. and above me shines tau nudjer("the star of godu).28 repeat the egyptian qabalistic cross as in the beginning. egyptian banishing rituals alternative versions the student may choose to replace the pentagram in the above ritual with symbols that retain a more egyptian character. rather than tracing the pentagram in the four quarters, the magician could draw the sign of the ankh or the wedjat (the eye of horus. both were considere

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at november and i plodded from house to house searching for a telephone so i could call a tow truck. i had just come up from atlanta, georgia, where i had delivered a speech to a local ufo club. west virginia was almost a second home to me in those days. i had visited the state five times, investigating a long series of very strange events, and had many friends there. one of them, mrs. mary hyre, the star reporter of the athens, ohio, messenger, was with me that night. we had been out talking to ufo witnesses, and earlier that evening we ourselves had watched, a very strange light in the sky. since there was a heavy, low cloud layer it could not have been a star. it maneuvered over the hills, its brilliant glow very familiar to both of us for we both had seen many such lights in the ohio v

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pure silk and lain away until the time for its use. know that marduk appears as a mighty warrior with a long beard and a flaming disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers listed within these pages, and they will surely come. the number of marduk is ten and this is his seal: the god of saturn is ninib called adar, the lord of hunters and of strength. he appears with a crown of horns and a long sword, wearing a lion's skin. he is the final zonei before the terrible igigi. his colour is the darkest black. hi

tion. thou must summon thy watcher and instruct it perfectly in its duties, providing it with a time and a place whereby it may serve thee and surround thee with a flaming sword, in every direction. thy clothing for the walking should be fair, clean and simple, but appropriate to each step. and thou should have with thee the seal of the particular step whereupon thou walkest, which is the seal of the star appertaining thereunto. thou must needs prepare an alter to face the north, having upon it the statues of thine deities, or some such suitable images, an offering bowl, and a brazier. upon the earth should be inscribed the gate appropriate to the walking. if above thee is the sky, so much the better. if there be a roof above thine head, it must be free from all hangings. not even a lamp s

scussed elsewhere (if the gods grant me the time. the only light shall be from the four lamps upon the ground, at each of the four gates of the earth: of the north, one lamp; pf the east, one lamp; of the south, one lamp; and of the west, one lamp. the oil should be pure, with no odour, or else sweet-smelling. the perfumes in the brazier should also be sweet-smelling, or especially appropriate to the star where thou wouldst desire entrance, after the fashion of thy country. the seven gates here follow: this is the first gate the gate of nanna, called sin: this is the second gate, of nebo: this is the third gate, of inanna called ishtar: this is the fourth gate, of shammash, called uddu: this is the fifth gate, of nergal: this is the sixth gate, of lord marduk: this is the seventh gate, of

es on the altar. third, thou must light the four lamps from the flaming brazier, reciting the invocation proper to each of these watchtowers in its proper place, summoning the respective star. fourth, thou must recite the invocation of the watcher, thrusting the sword into the earth at its station, not touching it until it is the appointed time for its departure. fifth, thou must take the seal of the star in thy right hand, and whisper its name softly upon it. sixth, thou must recite the incantation of the walking, loudly, and in a clear voice, as thou walkest about the gate in a circular fashion, beginning at the north and walking to the east, then to the south, and to the west, the number of turns being equal to the special number of the star. seventh, thou must needs arrive back at the

e. watch well the stars. for when comets are to be seen in the neighbourhood of capricornus, his cults will rejoice and the spells will increase from their quarter. and when comets are to be seen in draconis, there is a great danger, for the cults of the dragon do rise up at that time, and make many sacrifices, not only of animals, but of men. and when comets are to be seen in the neighborhood of the star sirius, then there will be great difficulty in the house of kings, and brother will rise up against brother, and there shall be war and famine. and in these things the worshippers of the dog will rejoice, and reap the spoils of these conflicts, and will grow fat. if thou happenest upon such a cult in the midst of their rituals, do but hide well so that they do not see thee, else they will

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ended, all is unified and transcendental; neither is there joy nor laughter, sorrow nor weeping, for all is as a divine mastery of truth and knowledge to those who worship the new-born god, like the magi of the east, with gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. above whose heptagonal cradle flashes the magic star lusanaher, that great star cor leonis, which heralds and directs our reverent pilgrimage. the star has arisen; let us like men drop the silly pretence of an ostrich-like self-delusion that the cindery asteroid still lights our way; let us rather apply our mental spectroscope to the analysis of its rays. there shall we perchance discover the blending of all opposites in one harmonious light; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart, wherein our god is born, whose

ith due reverence on the pages of this volume, they must seek it in the sibylline verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life-blood. and they are: aceldama. the tale of archais. songs of the spirit. jezebel. an appeal to the american people. jephthah. the mother fs tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the sabbatic goat, the baphomet of mendes, the signatures of solv

eath, h and the link between these two is love. here we will give but one or two curious examples, dealing with the great songs of love in the next chapter. as a singer of love-songs aleister crowley excels. the following is from gthe star and the garter h: your lips are gathered up to mine; your bosom heaves with fearful breath; your scent is keen as floral wine, inviting me, and love, to death *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 11. also the following is charming in its simplicity: she has a lithe white body, slim and limber, fairy-like, a snake hissing some babylonian hymn tangled in the assyrian brake *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 10. a curious swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of gwhy jesus wept. h percy, the youth flatulent with love, chan

questered state; my birth is from the house of death. i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paan, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of khem; come to face the babe and lion, come to measure force with them! ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth fs before the sun, as the earth fs before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, ga

e turc i made her drink as she had never had had before; set her where you are sitting; chatted; found where the fires of laughter lurk; played with her hair, tangled and matted; fell over strict nice conduct fs brink, gave all she would, and something more. she was an honest little thing, gave of her best, asked no response. what more could heaven fs immortal king censed with innumerous orisons *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 10. nina is not a prostitute, of course, in the commercial sense. what more indeed! nina is charming, and we wish we could say the same of many a society dame who holds her breath each time she passes such a one. we have by now certainly slightly diverged from true love, let us now enter those enchanting realms of free love, which is true love in its truest fo

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l. it signifies sterile projects, ill-considered enterprises which are doomed to failure, ambitions which are frustrated, and death by catastrophe. and it represents the false security which results from material success and the reliance upon purely material science, as well as the sure punishment which is attracted ultimately by all those who use magical forces in the attainment of selfish ends. the star--arcanum xvii. in divination, arcanum xvii may be read as truth, hope or faith. arcanum xvii is figured by a blazing star of eight rays in the center of which is a white trine with point upward joined at its base to a black trine with its point downward. this star is surrounded by seven other stars. it hovers over a nude young girl who has one foot upon the sea and one foot upon the land

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

lus, is he having a spiral force. the right side a.h.b. means love. the base b.v.l. means on high. in all, the love of the supernal mother-father. you will further recognize in j.a.h. a name of god so sacred that the hebrews dared not utter it, and dare not to this day. it represents the father and mother conjoined with the microcosm represented by the letter a whose shape suggests the pentagram, the star of the microcosm contained in that conjunction. h.b.v. adds to 13 and thus expresses both unity and love, while v.l.j. is 46, a female slave, here referring to the unenlightened soul. combining all this into a single sentence, we read: the most high by love and unity exalts the daughter to the throne of the mother. that is a pure rendering of the way of salvation by samadhi or union with

laces jahbul under on, and gives v.s.l. to viii who hides it in his breast or in altar. altar of w. with sword, drinking sponge, and hell-broth placed behind viii) file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (1 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. brethren, to order (all give sign of combat) let us form the sacred pentagram, the star of unconquered will (herald and r.w.m. take position indicated. all sheathe swords and stand to order as iv) viii: herald: 3rd: no limit to the light! 2nd: no limit! viii: naught! from the many to the one and all, from the one and all to naught! sic transeat gloria coeli! aumn! all: so mote it be! viii: brethren, assist me to open a council of princes of jerusalem (all advance within bann

nd perfect grand marshal, see that the castle gates are duly guarded, and that all is secure within (the door is tested. the grand marshal receives the first three signs from all present) g.m: all is secure both within and without. m.w.s: what is the hour? h.p: it is the hour when the veil of the temple was rent in twain, when darkness began to outspread the earth, when the altar was thrown down, the star called wormwood fell upon the earth, when the blazing star was eclipsed, the sacred tau was defiled with blood and water, the word was lost, and despair and tribulation visited us (solemn musick) m.w.s: since the royal art has experienced such dire calamities, it is our duty, very excellent and perfect princes to retrieve the loss; and may the influence of truth, silence, and love prosper

ur brows. an earthquake rends the fair breast of our mother, and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (4 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the head of the great serpent is exalted. the veil of the temple is rent asunder (g.m. flings aside) our altars are thrown down; the sacred tau is defiled with blood and water; the star called wormwood is fallen upon the earth; and the blazing star is eclipsed. also, the word is lost (slow musick) m.w.s: nevertheless, we rejoice that you have arrived at this hour of peril: your strength and courage may assist us to retrieve our loss, and recover the word. worthy sir (noble dame) i direct you to travel 33 years, 11 to the south, 11 to the west, 11 to the north, returning

in the 18 of ancient and accepted masonry. the closing of a sovereign chapter of rose croix the red room m.w.s: very excellent and perfect princes, assist me, if it be your pleasure, to close this. chapter of the holy order of rose croix of heredom (all rise) holy mother, what is the hour? h.p: it is the hour when the lost word is found; when the sacred tau has bloomed into the mystic rose; when the star called wormwood is cast into the abyss, and the blazing star has reappeared in all its splendour; when our altars have been renewed, and the light restored to our eyes. the new covenant is established; do what thou wilt is the whole of the law. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (13 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

rd the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 5:23 take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for i will not hear the melody of thy viols. 5:24 but let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 5:25 have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, o house of israel? 5:26 but ye have borne the tabernacle of your moloch and chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. 5:27 therefore will i cause you to go into captivity beyond damascus, saith the lord, whose name [is] the god of hosts. 6:1 woe to them [that are] at ease in zion, and trust in the mountain of samaria [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of israel came! 6:2 pass ye unto calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to hamath the grea

, he demanded of them where christ should be born. 2:5 and they said unto him, in bethlehem of judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 2:6 and thou bethlehem, in the land of juda, art not the least among the princes of juda: for out of thee shall come a governor, that shall rule my people israel. 2:7 then herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. 2:8 and he sent them to bethlehem, and said, go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found [him] bring me word again, that i may come and worship him also. 2:9 when they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 2:10 when they saw the star, they

y made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 7:42 then god turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, o ye house of israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness? 7:43 yea, ye took up the tabernacle of moloch, and the star of your god remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and i will carry you away beyond babylon. 7:44 our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 7:45 which also our fathers that came after brought in with jesus into the possession of the gentiles, whom god dra

s cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 8:9 and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 8:10 and the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 8:11 and the name of the star is called wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 8:12 and the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the revelation page 716 third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and t

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ed in the private museum of the duc de blacas, is of calcarous stone, nine inches long by seven broad, and four and a half deep, with a lid about two inches thick. it was found in burgundy. on the lid is sculptured a figure, naked, with a head-dress resembling that given to cybele in ancient monuments, holding up a chain with each hand, and surrounded with various symbols, the sun and moon above, the star and the pentacle below, and under the feet a human skull.1 the chains are explained by von hammer as representing the chains of ons of the gnostics. on the four sides of the coffer we see a series of figures engaged in the performance of various ceremonies, which are not easily explained, but which von hammer considers as belonging to the rites of the gnostics and ophians. the offering of

form, the womb, or matrix; the fecundating organ is penetrating the one, while the infant is emerging from the other. the last figure in this series, which we have also copied,3 is identical with that on the lid of the coffer found in burgundy, but it is distinctly represented as androgynous. we have exactly the same figure on another coffer, in the vienna museum,4 with some of the same symbols, the star, pentacle, 1 plate xxxix, fig. 1. 2 plate xxxix, fig. 2. 3 plate xxxix, fig. 3. 4 plate xxxix, fig. 4. generative powers 201 and human skull. perhaps, in this last, the beard is intended to show that the figure must be taken as androgynous. on an impartial comparison we can hardly doubt that these curious objects, images, coffers, cups, and bowls, have been intended for use in some secret

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

human being standing with arms and legs spread apart can with some difficulty form a perfect penta- gram, the points of which touch the forehead, hands, and feet. this was accepted as profoundly significant by the hermetic philosophers of the middle ages, as it served to confirm their intuited understanding that humanity and the pentagram are closely bound together. the ordering of the points of the star is of some importance in practical work- ing. it defines the structure of many rituals. the lower four points, which form a rough square, are given to the four elements and have been set in their order for thousands of years. they are emblematically depicted by the four beasts: 1) the lion (fire) on the lower right, 2) the eagle (water) on the upper right, 3) the angel (air) on the upper

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

l forms of the heptagram. in the more common form the line is reflected from every third point. this results in a star with very sharp points. in the alternative form the line is reflected from every second point. the second form has blunter points and a more open center. the common heptagram is more often used in magic. the alternative form is sometimes used when space is needed in the center of the star for writing words or symbols. if the heptagram were drawn on the ground or floor to act as a ritual circle, the second form would be used. as is true of all symbols, the heptagrarn can only be comprehended by regard- ing it from a higher level, which is the as yet unmanifested eighth point of its cen- ter. this point reveals the dynamic balance between the three of heaven and the four of

hings, physical or mental. in simplicity is strength-in com- plexity is personality. the points of the dodecagram are magically expressed through the zodiac, a system of twelve archetypal forces loosely related to patterns of stars in the night sky. it should be understood that the symbolic figures and beasts of the zodiac did not arise from contemplation of the night sky, but were projected onto the star patterns by ancient chaldean philosophers who discerned in humanity and in table of dodecagram sign aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces element and motion form wild tame artist land-water wild priest lawyer land warrior tame laborer water level beast beast man creature beast man man creature man beast man creature color key i red red-pu

e point of elemental fire, then psychically and physically inscrib- ing the symbol of leo in its center. when manipulating the zodiac powers in this manner, it is advisable always to use the appropriate form of the tetragrammaton so that the signs and the fourfold names of god become ritually linked. after the magus draws the pentagram and forms the sign of the zodiac in its center, the points of the star should be assigned the letters of the permutation of the divine name in order. the upper point of the pentagram can then be given the hebrew letter shin (a, which signifies the radi- ance of elemental spirit. this is equivalent to lighting the mystical lamp and empowers the symbol 'h5) 5 in although theoretically possible to invoke and banish the powers of the signs of the zodiac by using

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ritation, they would have committed some breach of the peace; but all of a sudden the damsel revived.65 65. brewer, dictionary of miracles, 310. 58- soul flight the deathlike state of the body during soul flight, and the near impossibility of awakening those entranced, is mentioned in connection with the astral projections of both witches and shamans. on another occasion, while columba was seeing the star of bethlehem on one of her astral excursions, her confessor noticed a globe of fire above her house and hurried over to learn the cause. the girl told him she had just seen the star of the magi, which had filled her chamber with light and left behind it a sweet scent.66 the intensity of her astral vision communicated itself to the priest who, being close to her on an emotional level, was

rm vril originates in the novel the coming race by the english writer edward bulwer-lytton (1803-1873. it is an early science-fiction novel, published in 1871. vril is a mysterious and powerful force that in the novel has been harnessed by an advanced race of human beings living in a great cavern within the earth, who use it to accomplish a wide variety of functions. it is not unlike the force in the star wars films-a potent occult energy. many germans during the period between the two wars who involved themselves in mystical theories were convinced that the earth is a hollow sphere, so the fanciful notion that an entire race of humanity could dwell in its depths struck them as plausible. it was believed in some quarters that bulwer-lytton's novel was fact disguised as fiction. 122 soul fl

d other parapsychologists to distance their work from anything that hinted at spiritualism, but when the rv program was in its decline, those running it were willing to use anything they thought might provide the results they needed, including tarot cards. extended remote viewing the extended remote viewing technique began with a period of stepped relaxation of the body and mind that was known in the star gate program as the cool-down process. the viewer lay in a quiet, dimly-lit room on a comfortable recliner listening to classical music that played softly in the background. with the viewer was another person known as the monitor, who was there to ask questions and to write down the spoken responses of the viewer during the experiment. the object of the cool-down process was to enter the

tualist term "the physical body is never left in remote viewing. there is always contact, but the physical body begins to manifest the physiological signs of what the projected consciousness is experiencing in the target area"'68 this is clearly a reference to repercussion, the belief that an injury done to the projected astral body will show itself on the physical body. morehouse, and presumably the star gate team with whom he worked, preferred to use the term bilocation to describe the projection of his astral double. you will remember from earlier chapters that the term bilocation is used in the catholic church to describe the appearance of saints in two places at once. the star gate team described it as folding space so that distant events came to the remote viewer, rather than the rem

am described it as folding space so that distant events came to the remote viewer, rather than the remote viewer traveling to distant locations. as i have pointed out, no form of astral travel actually involves travel since all projection is done into the astral world-and this is contained within the mind, which in its entirety embraces all points in the universe. the analogy used by the heads of the star gate program to teach morehouse and other remote viewers is that the unconscious mind is like the spine of a book, and the pages of that book are different planes of existence, all linked by the unconscious mind. 167. dowbenko, nexus magazine, vol. 4, no. 5 4. 168. ibid. 132 soul flight remote viewing experiences remote viewing journeys were made not only to distant worlds such as jupiter

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ur astral perception see and feel it all around you like a softly glowing second skin that lies within several inches of your physical skin. it is sustained by tiny jets of astral light that stream outward through your pores. imagine a bright blue-white star blazing in the heavens directly above the top of your skull, but far away in the distant darkness of space. raise your point of awareness to the star and enter it. for a minute or so, feel the star all around you, enveloping you within its intense electric whiteness. deliberately extend a ray of the star's blue-white fire straight downward so that it passes through the roof of your house, the ceiling of your practice room, and the top of your skull, to focus at the center of your chest between your nipples. this place in your body is k

center. allow your awareness to slide down the interior channel of this ray into your chest. concentrate your will on the focal point of the ray. visualize inside your torso a spark of light that grows into a shining sphere three inches across. as the spark expands into the sphere, its color dims and changes from blue-white to a softer yellow-white, the color of the sun. mentally draw energy from the star down the channel of the ray and into the sphere so that the sphere radiates more and more strongly. when you sense that the sphere at your heart-center cannot hold any more energy from the star, sever the link between the sphere and the ray, and observe with your inner awareness as the ray snaps upward like a contracting rubber band that has been released at one end. from your point of vi

peaking, it becomes easier to gain an awareness of the ever-existing link between these two sephiroth. you need not understand these terms from the system of jewish occultism known as the kabbalah in order to perform this exercise properly. i merely mention these associations for the interest of those readers familiar with the tree of the sephiroth, to show that a basis exists in the kabbalah for the star and golden sphere, which play so important a part in later exercises. grounding and centering f ace a blank wall, curtain, door, or other surface that has few visual distractions, and assume the standing pose described in the previous exercise, with feet together, arms at sides, back straight, chin tucked in, and pelvis pushed forward. strive for straightness in your body, but do not stra

rom the ground and fill the pillar of gray stone with your awareness. observe that while you were beneath the earth, day has passed into night. in the moonless sky directly overhead is a large star that outshines all the other stars in the black vault of heaven. draw this star downward in the form of a blazing point of light and cause it to enter the pillar through its rounded, grass-covered top. the star continues to sink until it reaches the heart of the pillar, where it stops. contemplate the star inside the pillar. around the star forms a golden sphere three inches in diameter. the intense blue-white radiance from the star energizes the sphere and causes it to shine with bright golden light. feel its warming rays penetrate every cranny of the stone like sunlight. extend three white ray

ght. extend three white rays from the blazing star at the heart of the golden sphere. the first shines up through the top of the pillar into the night heavens, and down through its base to pass through the center of the earth. the second shines outward through the right and left sides of the pillar. the third ray shines outward through the front and back of the pillar. all three rays intersect in the star at right angles, and are infinite in length. contemplate the three rays for half a minute or so. 88 standing exercises draw the rays back into the star in reverse order-first the ray passing through the front and back of the pillar, then the ray passing through the sides, and finally the ray passing through the top and bottom. release the star and watch it rise straight up from the golden

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

r thee in the city of saut, for thee their lord, in thy name of 'lord of saut' for their god, in thy name of 'god' they praise thee; go not thou far from them in thy name of 'tua' they present offerings to thee; be not wroth in 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 hi

to be opened the great gates [of the sky. thou art the lord to whom praises are sung in the southern heaven, thou art he to whom thanks are given in the northern heaven. the stars which never diminish are under the place of thy face,[fn#138] and thy seats are the stars which never rest.[fn#139] offerings appear before thee by the command of keb. the companies of the gods ascribe praise unto thee, the star-gods of the tuat smell the earth before thee,[fn#140] the domains [make] bowings [before thee, and the ends of the earth make supplication to thee [when] they see thee [fn#138] i.e, they are under thy inspection and care [fn#139] i.e, the stars which never set. the allusion is probably to certain circumpolar stars [fn#140] i.e, do homage. those who are among the holy ones are in terror of

s, thou floodest the two lands like the disk at the beginning of the dawn. thy white crown pierceth the height of heaven saluting the stars,[fn#144] thou art the guide of every god. thou art perfect[fn#145] in command and word. thou art the favoured one of the great company of the gods, and thou art the beloved one of the little company of the gods [fn#144] or "becoming a brother to the stars" or the star-gods [fn#145] or, beneficent. thy sister [isis] acted as a protectress to thee. she drove [thy] enemies away, she averted seasons [of calamity from thee, she recited the word (or, formula) with the magical power of her mouth [being] skilled of tongue and never halting for a word, being perfect in command and word. isis the magician avenged her brother. she went about seeking for him untir

the granite, the substance whereof is hard 'stone of abu' it is called [fn#183] kens extended south from philae as far as korosko [fn#184] perhaps sunut= the syene of the greeks, and the hbw suweneh of the hebrews [fn#185] i.e, syene [fn#186] i.e, contra syene [fn#187] i.e, the island of elephantine"[here is] a list of the names of the gods who dwell in the divine house of khnemu. the goddess of the star sept (sothis, the goddess anqet, hap (the nile-god, shu, keb, nut, osiris, horus, isis, and nephthys"[here are "the names of the stones which lie in the heart of the mountains, some on the east side, some on the west side, and some in [the midst of] the stream of abu. they exist in the heart of abu, they exist in the country on the east bank, and in the country on the west bank, and in th

tell us that hermes had one hand shorter than another, that typhon was of red complexion, horus fair, and osiris black, does not this show that they were of the human species, and subject to the same accidents as all other men?[fn#323] nay, they go farther, and even declare the particular work in which each was engaged whilst alive. thus they say that osiris was a general, that canopus, from whom the star took its name, was a pilot, and that the ship which the greeks call argo, being made in imitation of the ship of osiris, was, in honour of him, turned into a constellation and placed near orion and the dog-star, the former being sacred to horus and the latter to isis [fn#323] red is the colour attributed to all fiends in the egyptian texts. one of the forms of horus is described as being

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

he fulminated tower. seventh hour of apollonius. the fire comforts the animated beings and if any priest, purified enough, steals it and then he projects it and if he mixes it with the holy oil and then consecrates it, he will achieve the curing of all diseases simply by applying it to the affected part (the initiate can see here his material fortune threatened and his businesses fail. arcanum 17 the star of hope. the eigth hour of apollonius. arcanum 18 the star of the the magicians. the ninth hour of apollonius. the astral virtures of the elements, of the seed of everykind (study of the minor mysteries, the ninth arches by the student has to ascend. arcano xiii (13) la muerte. cuarta hora de apolonio. el ne fito vagar de noche entre los sepulcros, experimentar el horror de las visiones

fable symbol of the verb made flesh, the terrifying star of the magi. when the pentagram elevates its two inferior rays towards the sky it represents satan. when the pentagram becomes light, it elevates only one of its rays towards the sky; this represents the internal christ of every human being who comes into this world. the human being with his legs and arms spread out to the right and left is the star of five points. brain and sex live in an eternal struggle. brain must control sex. when sex overcomes the brain, then the star of five points (the human being) falls into the abyss with the feet pointing upwards and the head pointing downwards; this is the inverted star, the male goat of mendes. a human figure with the head aiming downwards and the feet aiming upwards naturally represents

l influences (esoteric astrology, influence of letters, numbers, correspond-dences, and sympathies (kabbalah. the sacred principles of alchemy are: 1. unity 2. a pair of opposites (man/woman; active/passive) 3. trinity (active, passive, neutral) 4. the elements (fire, air, water and earth) the entire work of the great work (the magnus opus) is synthesized in the seal of solomon. the six points of the star are masculine; the six outer obtuse angles that exist between point and point are feminine. in synthesis, this star has twelve rays: six masculine and six feminine. the star of solomon is the perfect symbol of the central sun, all of the zodiacal measurements are found summarized within the seal of solomon. en los misterios de eleusis las parejas danzaban para magnetizarse mutuamente. ent

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

to muestra que los cuerpos existen en ambos alquimistas (el hombre y la mujer, el sol y la luna) ya que estos se engendran cuando combinamos el elixir rojo (el sol) y el elixir blanco (la luna) en la novena esfera (representada por la escalera de jacob, el centro sexual) 93 [in the center of the garden of eden we find a cherub (an androgynous being) located between the man and the woman. he holds the star of david in his right hand, indicating to us that he is the outcome of the union of the two triangles, the two elixirs (sun and moon, man and woman. they combine the substances of their seven bodies (above and below) by crossing the four elements (fire, air, water and earth) of sex, which are represented in each corner of the square] the process of creating a new being (the true human bei

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

hree, then jupiter (four, mars (five, sun (six, venus (seven, mercury (eight, and the moon (nine. this is quite an astonishing little glyph, for it has another harmonious relationship. besides the ordered numeration of the spheres on the tree, the days of the week can be traced in correct order if one starts at the sun and goes downward toward the moon and around the lines marked by the figure of the star. even more amazing has been the discovery of the atomic weights, which in order of density are: lead (saturn, mercury (mercury, gold (sun, tin (jupiter, silver (moon, copper (venus) and iron (mars. this can also be incorporated into the figure in a symmetrical pattern with every other one going clockwise. it has been calculated that the mathematical probability of these kinds of symmetric

butions which correspond to one of the quinaries (divisions of five degrees) of the zodiac. furthermore, to each side of the pentagon is assigned one of the letters of the divine name elohim (alhim, which is attributed to both binah (ihvh elohim) and geburah (elohim gibor. the pentegram is a symbol of human dominion and is appropriately attributed to the power of geburah. it is sometimes known as the star of the will. figure 7-j: traditional figure 7-k: alternate 5: sephirah of geburah 5: abb, ahbah: to blossom or to bear fruit("the whole universe is an expansion of my primal will to yield fruit" book of tokens, meditation on heh) 5: heh (h, the number of the fifth letter of the hebrew alphabet, attributed to the emperor and aries 5: ad, ade: vapor, mist root: relative unity, an emanation

of the path of aleph (value 111, one of the magic numbers of the sun. binah lies at the end of the path of the second letter, beth. because tiphareth lies at the end of the third letter, gimel, case points out that this sephira was brought into manifestation before chesed or geburah, the fourth and fifth sephiroth (see tree diagram on page 2. the symbol of tiphareth, the hexagram, is also called the star of the macrocosm because lines drawn from its center to its six points and intersections divides the circle into the twelve houses of heaven, and thus it is a symbolic map of the universe. when we use the golden dawn banishing ritual (see regardie's middle pillar) and say the affirmation "behind me shines the six-rayed star" we are implying that all powers represented by the hexagram are

66: euporia: greek for material wealth, gold 666: the heart or soul in greek 666: the number of the beast in rev. 13: 18 (a certain wisdom is needed here; with a little ingenuity anyone can calculate the number of the beast) 666: thsrv: you shall turn aside (g. g. locks) the kamea of netzach/venus chapter 9 the mystical numbers of the venus kamea are seven, forty-nine, 175, 1225. we have examined the star of venus in chapter four. the vault of brother c. r, the legendary founder of the rosicrucian order, was said to have seven sides and seven corners.the ground plan of a heptagon (figure 9-a. the rosicrucian manuscript fama fraternitatis says the sides of this vault (which concealed his incorruptible body) measured five by eight feet. in his true and invisible rosicrucian order, case notes

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

efilim, include references to their blood drinking activities. the brotherhood know that blood contains the life-force energy. drinking menstrual blood has always been a feature of the reptilian bloodlines because they need blood to live in this dimension. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (55 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:00] it was known as the star fire, the female lunar essence. the female menstrual cycle is governed by the cycles of the moon and the blood contains that energy. its ingredients are supposed to ensure a long life. in india it was called soma and in greece it was ambrosia. this was said to be the nectar of the gods and it was the reptilian gods who are genetic blood drinkers. the 'holy grail' chalice or cup is also sy

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

er at the beginning of the best life the retributions will be of profit to their recipients? and whether he, who is bounteous to all through justice, and who watches the end through his mentality, whether he is the life-healing friend of the people? o ahura mazda, this i ask of thee: speak to me truly! who was the first father of justice by giving birth to him? who established the sunlit days and the star glistening sphere and the milky way? who, apart from thee, established the law by which the moon waxes and wanes? these and other things would i like to know! o ahura mazda, this i ask of thee: speak to me truly! who was from beneath sustaining the earth and the clouds so that they would not fall down? who made the waters and the plants? who yoked the two swift ones, thunder and lightning

rom the roots of the earth was i made, from the broom and the nettle, from the water of the ninth wave. math enchanted me before i was made immortal, gwydion created me with his magic wand. from emrys and euryon, from mabon and modron, from five fifties of magicians like math was i made made by the master in his highest ecstasy by the wisest of druids was i made before the world began, and i know the star-knowledge from the beginning of time. bards are accustomed to praises. i can frame what no tongue utters. 1 slept in purple, i was in the enclosure with dylan eil mor, i was a cloak between lords, two spears in the hand of the mighty, when the torrent fell from the height of heaven. i know four hundred songs which bards both older and younger cannot sing nine hundred more, unknown to any

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le house of sol cancer sole house of luna gemini day house of mercury taurus night house of venus aries day house of mars this is very fully explained by coley in his astrology, and also by john middleton in his astrology, 1679. herodotus tells us that the egyptians founded the system of a twelve-god theology, euterpe iv. the hebrews certainly at times worshipped the sun, moon, seven planets, and the star rulers of the twelve zodiacal signs see 2 kings, xxiii. 5, and job, xxxviii. 32. dunlop, in his vestiges, remarks that of the names of the twelve months in use among the jews, several are identical with names of deities, as tammuz, ab, elul, bul. groups of twelve gods are to be noticed in the religions of many of the ancient nations, as the chaldeans, etruscans, mamertines, romans etc. nu

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scholem, major trends, p. 409 n. 19 and p. 412 n. 77; idem, kabbalah, pp. 134 and 200; idel, kabbalah: new perspectives, p. 264; beach, potencies of god(s, pp. 1 2, 6 13, 25 45, 226 230; also courine, schelling, pp. 95 114; drob, kabbalistic metaphors, pp. 83 85, and see the detailed study of schulte cited in n. 250, this chapter. here we should also recall the important comment in the urzelle to the star of redemption, in rosenzweig, philosophical and theological writings, pp. 56 57 (see reference to haberman cited, op. cit, p. 57 n. 23. in describing the god that is before all relation, whether to the world or to himself, the seed-point of the actuality of god, rosenzweig mentions schelling s dark ground, an interiorization of god, which precedes not merely his self-externalization, but

ernalization, but rather even his self, an idea that he further associates with what lurianic kabbalah teaches. see idel, franz rosenzweig, pp. 166 167. this source, which in my facing the 194 notes to page 35 effaced i regrettably neglected to mention, confirms my surmise regarding the influence of lurianic kabbalah through the channel of schelling in rosenzweig s discussion in the first part of the star of the self-negation of the divine naught that yields the positive aught of creation. see wolfson, facing the effaced, pp. 75 76. see also the brief comment in idem, divine suffering, p. 151 n. 87. for a sustained discussion of the influence of schelling s positive philosophy on rosenzweig, see freund, franz rosenzweig s philosophy of existence, pp. 17 45. see also rubinstein, an episode

ond roussel. translated by charles ruas, with an introduction by james faubion and a postscript by john ashbery. london: continuum, 2004. freeman, kathleen. ancilla to the pre-socratic philosophers: a complete translation of the fragments in diels, fragmente der vorsokratiker. cambridge: harvard university press, 1978. freund, else-rahel. franz rosenzweig s philosophy of existence: an analysis of the star of redemption. the hague: martinus nijhoff, 1979. funkenstein, amos. perceptions of jewish history. berkeley: university of california press, 1993. gallagher, shaun. disrupting seriality: merleau-ponty, lyotard, and post- husserlian temporality. in re-reading merleau-ponty: essays beyond the continental- analytic divide, edited by lawrence hass and dorothea olkowski, 97 119. amherst, ny:

by rheinhold mayer. afterword by gershom scholem. frankfurt am main: suhrkamp verlag, 1988. franz rosenzweig s the new thinking. edited and translated by alan udoff and barbara e. galli. syracuse: syracuse university press, 1999. philosophical and theological writings. translated and edited with notes and commentary by paul w. franks and michael l. morgan. indianapolis: hackett publishing, 2000. the star of redemption. translated by william w. hallo. new york: holt, rinehart, and winston, 1971. zweistromland: kleinere schriften zur religion und philosophie. with an afterword by gesine palmer. berlin: philo, 2001. rospatt, alexander von. the buddhist doctrine of momentariness: a survey of the origins and early phase of the doctrine up to vasubandhu. stuttgart: franz steiner verlag, 1995. r

rimordial adam as a symbol of apocalyptic time in the midrashic sources. harvard theological review 90 (1997: 155 174. rubin, solomon. heidenthum und kabbala: die kabbalistische mystik ihrem ursprung wie ihrem wesen nach, gr ndlich aufgehellt und popul r dargestellt. vienna: commissions- verlag von bermann and altmann, 1893. rubinstein, ernest. an episode of jewish romanticism: franz rosenzweig s the star of redemption. albany: state university of new york press, 1999. rudavsky, tamar m. time matters: time, creation, and cosmology in medieval jewish philosophy. albany: state university of new york press, 2000. rumi, jalal al-din. the mathnawi of jalalu ddin rumi. edited by reynold a. nicholson. london: luzac& co, 1968. 296 bibliography sack, bracha. the kabbalah of rabbi moshe cordovero. b

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earth-nature, the goat under the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus d eclared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this n

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f earth-nature, the goat under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus declared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this nam

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o his quadrant" the visions of the enochian aethyrs were done some years before i had the chance to see crowley's work on the same subject, which he entitled the vision and the voice in his equinox books. the following visions are a comparison with crowley's work, giving a condensed version only. 166 vision of the 30th aethyr 'tex. came and rose through the heights of the dark grey clouds and saw the star shine on the clouds, manipulating them. i entered the cloud and saw a huge eye that shed a tear, reminding me of the card judgement. then left" crowley's vision of 'tex. lift up your heads, 0 houses of eternity: for my father goeth forth to judge the world. one light, let it become a thousand, and one sword ten thousand, that no man hid from my father's eye in the day of judgement" the co

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s to ankh pillar. he sprinkles incense on the flame, falls on right knee and cries) post "fire to fire and life to life. in the names of jah, everlasting, i dedicate my life to the service of the highest (he looses the black cord, throws it through the loop and ankh. king of salam comes forward, raises him and hangs red star across his breast saying) kg "thy heart is as the heart of the lion. and the star of the king, even regulus shall burn upon thy breast (postulant turns back and is directed to approach the vault entrance where the scarlet mars on the green curtain hangs. he raises his lantern on high, lays his staff across the threshold before the curtain and cries) post "light to light and spirit to spirit. in the name that may not be uttered, i dedicate my spirit to the service of th

s, the first born of the gods "i have become a divine being "i have renewed my youth as the eagle "behold, i was watched and guarded; but now i am released "behold, i was bound with cords, but now is my crystal sphere within the starry heavens "lo i have knowledge and i have truth; yea movement is restored unto my hands and feet "i have passed through the gate of fomalhaut "i have come forth from the star sothis "i have received the heart of the lion "i am crowned with the crown of 72 rays "now let my soul be called into thy presence, and my spirit laid upon thine altar "oh my father, i have come before thee and thou has caused me to enter the hidden abode. strengthen thou me as thou has strengthened thyself, and show thyself unto thy son. oh thou who returnest and withdrawest thyself: let

e divine may come down therein. as here depicted, the key of temperance is really a synthesis of tiphereth and of the path which leads thereto. that path in the sepher yetzirah is called the intelligence of temptation or of trial, because it is the test of merit which god applies to those whom he calls to his service. the sacred name of tiphereth is bound upon the breast of the figure before you; the star of the hexagram is beneath it. the splendour of her five-pointed crown is drawn from the five upper sephiroth, and she directs with her hands the influences of chesed and geburah upon the sephiroth that are below. she is the symbol of the purified life in spiritual consciousness, and he that has attained thereto shall draw, my brother, all the parts of his personality into the redemption

BOOK OF BARUCH

who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold? 31 no man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path. 32 but he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts: 33 he that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear. 34 the stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them. 35 this is our god, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him 36 he hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto jacob his servant, and to israel his beloved. 37 afterward did he shew himself upon e

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o south and north of altar respectively. hiero: takes neophyte by right hand with his left, and pointing to the altar and diagram says: hiero: and tetragrammaton placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower, and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and in the birds. when the times are ended, he will call the kerubim from the east of the garden, and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy. receive now the secrets of this grade. the step is thus given 6 by 6 showing yo

r minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness- o golden splendor! o crown of living and harmonious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars! lire, reign and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the guardians. depart ye in peace unto your abodes and habitations. may the blessing of adonai ha-aretz be upon you. hiero: makes banishing pentagram of earth. hiero: be there peace between us and you, and be ye ready to come when ye are called. all return to their places and face east. hiero: in th

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the horse is stepping over the sea-waves. as for that heklumad'r of the hat with its rim turned up, he is our hakolberend at the head of the wild host, who can at once be turned into a gothic^ conf. tritas in the fountain, kulin in hofer 1, 290. ace. to the popiilar religion, you must not look into running water, because you look mgod's eye, tol)ler's appenzel p. 369; neither must you point at the stars with your fingers, for fear of sticking them into the angels' eyes. 2 there is a swed. miirchen of greymantle (grakappan, molbech 14, who, like mary in german tales, takes one up to heaven and forbids the opening of a lock, kinderm. 3, 407. wodan. 147 ilahdahairands, now that hakuls for (f)e\6vr]odin as bald-headed, iduna 10, 231

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ht, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery or clothed with gold, or naked or shooting with the bow shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse. but if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of the lion. then when no longer are visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, the mass of the earth, when to thee the stars have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled when the earth abideth not, and around thee is the lightening flame, then call not before thyself the visible image of the soul of nature. for thou must not behold it ere thy body is purged by the sacred rites. since ever dragging down the soul and leading it from sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-f

the 2nd is mekon referred to geburah, wherein are the treasures of the spirit of life. the 3rd is maghon referred to tiphareth, wherein are angels. the 4th is zebel, referred to netzach, wherein is the supernal altar, whereon michael the great high priest sacrificeth the souls of the just. the 5th is shachaqim referred to hod, wherein is the manna. the 6th is raquie wherein are the sun and moon, the stars and planets and all the 10 spheres; it is referred to yesod. the 7th is velun referred to malkuth. following this is shamayim containing 18,000 worlds, and also gehennah, and the garden of eden. the 9th is 18,000 more worlds wherein abide shekinah and metatron. and the 10th is thebel wherein standeth the earth, between eden and gehennah. heg: leads theoricus to tablet of 10 averse sephir

tly refer to the sun's motion through the zodiac. these signs being further arranged in the arms of the cross according to the four elements with the sun in the center, represent that luminary as the center of the the 30th path of the sepher yetzirah. which answereth unto the letter resh is called the collecting intelligence, and it is so called because from it astrologers deduce the judgement of the stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science according to the rules of their revolutions. it is therefore, the reflection of the sphere of the sun, and the path connecting yesod with hod, foundation with splendor. hierophant, theoricus and hegemon come to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 19th key of the tarot which symbolically resumes these ide

igure. in gradual descent we obtain luna, mars, sol, venus, and below saturn and jupiter, right and left. heg: places theoricus in a seat in west facing hierophant and returns to his own place. hiero: i now congratulate you on having passed through the ceremony of the grade of practicus and in recognition thereof i confer upon you the mystic title of monokeros de astris which means the unicorn of the stars, and i give you the symbol of mayim which is the hebrew name for water. take your seat in the south (knocks) in the name of elohim tzabaoth i now declare that you have been duly advanced to the grade of practicus, and lord (lady) of the 30th and 31st paths. before you are eligible for advancement to the grade of philosophus you must be thoroughly and genuinely perfect in certain subjects

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ough oxygen for a family of four and absorbs the carbon dioxide that we exhale, transforming it again to life-giving oxygen. and this sacred spark of a common source of divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers from our own, separate dynamos. through them and through us courses the universal life force, known as ch'i to the chinese, and prana in hindu philosophy. it is a source upon wh

urity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fe

and the universe, but these i will share with all who come with willing heart and open mind. for they are not hidden from you, but are all round you in every season. i am in the moon as she passes through the sky, in the fertile earth and the mighty waters, for i am them as i am part of you, and you of me, and you too are of the same divine fabric as the moon and the fertile earth and the waters, the stars, the sunshine and the life-giving rain 'i do not ask sacrifice or worship, for i come to you in love as a gentle mother, with compassion, understanding and forgiveness of those things in your heart that you fear to look on in yourself. i am fierce, defending my young and my green places and creatures from all who would do them harm, but i would rather teach than avenge, restore and regen

peace, not only to myself and my loved ones, but to people whose lives are blighted by polluted places and, especially, water. cleansing using the forces of nature leave your artefact(s) on a piece of white silk in a sheltered, safe place out of doors or near an open door where children, pets or the curious cannot reach them. begin at dusk where they can absorb the light of the sun, the moon and the stars, for 24 hours. this will be effective even if you cannot see any of these heavenly bodies in the sky. charge at the time of the waxing moon to the full moon if possible; if not, let them stand for 48 hours. if the moon is waning and so not good for energising, create a circle of alternate moonstones and crystal quartz for the powers of the sun and moon, and leave the tools within this ci

with logistics. creating a temple before you begin a formal ritual, you must cast an astral or spiritual temple above and surrounding the circle and the location. in your mind's eye, visualise your own temple, perhaps one from the ancient world, resplendent with gold and jewels, with a statue of a deity in marble, gold or silver. the roof of the temple may form a crystalline pyramid or be open to the stars (readers of the late dion fortune's occult novels will have no difficulty in forming images of such splendid edifices) or you may create a grove of oak or olive trees or one of the ancient stone circles as your working place or a castle room whose battlements are lashed by a stormy sea. the altar in your temple may be pure gold, ornate stone or beaten copper, and the candles may be set i

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tion xxv the prayer. adonai, elohim, el, eheieh asher eheieh, prince of princes, existence of existences, have mercy upon me, and cast thine eyes upon thy servant (n) who invoketh thee most devoutly, and supplicateth thee by thy holy and tremendous name, tetragrammaton, to be propitious and to order thine angels and spirits to come and take up their abode in this place; o ye angels and spirits of the stars, o all ye angels and elementary spirits, o all ye spirits present before the face of god, i the minister and faithful servant of the most high conjure ye, let god himself, the existence of existences, conjure ye to come and be present at this operation; i the servant of god, most humbly entreat ye. amen. after which thou shalt incense it with the incense proper to the planet and the day

certain deep mysteries of the holy qabalah, he by no means arrived at the goal; and in his magic he did not in any way make use of the wisdom of the lord, but instead availed himself of certain arts and superstitions of infidel and idolatrous nations, in part derived from the egyptians,6 together with images of the medes and of the persians, with herbs of the arabians, together with the power of the stars and constellations; and, finally, he had drawn from every people and nation, and even from the christians, some diabolical art. and in everything the spirits blinded him to such an extent, even while obeying him in some ridiculous and inconsequent matter, that he actually believed that his blindness and error were the veritable magic, and he therefore pushed no further his research into

eady a thousand lies and excuses. in the same city of constantinople i found two men of our law, namely, simon and the rabbin abrahame, whom we may class with rabbin moses of mayence. in egypt the first time i found five persons who were esteemed and reputed as wise men, among whom were four, namely, horay, abimech, alcaon, and orilach, who performed their operations by the means of the course of the stars and of the constellations, adding many diabolical conjurations and impious and profane prayers, and performing the whole with great difficulty. the fifth, named abimelu, operated by the means and aid of demons, to whom he prepared statues, and sacrificed, and thus they served him with their abominable arts. in arabia they made use of plants, of herbs, and of stones as well precious as co

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e stamp of wisdom; the which alone would be nothing worth were they not mingled with the foundation of the sacred ministry, whence later arose the mixed qabalah. the arts are principally twelve. four in number, 3, 5, 7, 9, among the numbers in the mixed qabalah. the second is the most perfect one, the which operateth by sign and visions. two of the even numbers, namely 6 and 2, which operate with the stars and the celestial courses which we call astronomy. three consisteth in the metals, and 2 in the planets.3 as to all these arts, the which be conjoined and mingled together: the sacred magic 44 with the sacred qabalah; both he who maketh use of these same, either alone, or mingled with other things which be in no way from the qabalah; and he who seeketh to exercise himself in performing o

er a very great error. wherefore i have resolved to write this particular chapter, in order that this error might appear more plainly evident unto him who readeth it, and that he may draw profit therefrom so as to operate with judgment. 7 of abramelin the mage 51 the sixth chapter. concerning the planetary hours and other errors of the astrologers. t is true that the wise in astrology do write of the stars and of their movements, and that these attaining thereto do produce divers effects in inferior and elemental things; and such are, as we have already said, natural operations of the elements; but that they should have power over the spirits, or force in all supernatural things, that is not, neither can ever be. but it will instead be found that by the permission of the great god it is th

s; and such are, as we have already said, natural operations of the elements; but that they should have power over the spirits, or force in all supernatural things, that is not, neither can ever be. but it will instead be found that by the permission of the great god it is the spirits who govern the firmament. what foolishness then would it be to implore the favour of the sun, of the moon, and of the stars, when the object would be to have converse with angels and with spirits. would it not be an extravagant idea to demand from the wild beasts the permission to go hunting? but what else is it, when they23 have elected a certain day, when they have divided it up into many false divisions such as hours, minutes, etc. here, they say, we have the planetary hours, and the planet appropriate to

cond number mentioned above, 5, is perfect because of its analogy with the pentagram that potent symbol of the spirit and the four elements; 6 is the number of the planets (as known to the ancients, without the recently discovered herschel and neptune. as the chaldean oracles of zoroaster say" he made them six, and for the seventh, he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun. 2 operates in the stars and planets as representing their good or evil influence in the heavens, in other words their dual nature. 3 consists in the metals because, the ancient alchemists considered their bases to be found in the three principles which they called sulphur, mercury, and salt; but by which they did not mean the substance which we know under these names. 4 ie, probable as opposed to certain. 5 ie

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ingness, with twinkles' i concentrated upon this vision, with the result that the void space which had been the principal element of it diminished in importance. space appeared to be ablaze, yet the radiant points were not confused, and i thereupon completed my sentence with the exclamation 'but *what* twinkles' 20. the next stage of this vision led to an identification of the blazing points with the stars of the firmament, with ideas, souls, etc. i perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each other star. in the world of ideas, each thought possessed a necessary relation with each other thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; each such ray is itself a star. it is here that logical difficulty first presents itself. the seer has a direct perce

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! but the astrologers rent their robes and beat their faces on the ground; for the dread moment, the unknown terror, had gone by; and with it i had come to light. in their terror, indeed, as i learnt long after, they sent messengers to the oldest and wisest of the priests; the high-priest of nuit, who lived at the bottom of a very deep well, so that his eyes, even by day, should remain fixed upon the stars. but he answered them that since they had done all that they could, and fate had reversed their design, it was evident that the matter saw in the hands of fate, and that the less they meddled the better it would be for them. for he was a brusque old man- how afterwards i met him shall be written in its place. so then i was to be brought up as befitted one in my station, half-prince, half

o the seeker after truth. thus the priest reads wrongly the silence of the goddess, and the seeker understands ill the speech of the priest. then come forth fools, saying "the goddess hath lied- and in their folly they die. while, therefore, they held me beneath the surface of the pool, the high priestess took the vows on my behalf saying: i swear by the orb of the moon; i swear by the circuit of the stars; i swear but the veil, and by the face behind the veil; i swear by the light invisible, and by the visible darkness; on behalf of this virgin that is buried in thy water; to live in purity and service; to love in beauty and truth; to guard the veil from the profane; to die before the veil- and then came the awful penalty of failure. i dare not recall half of it; yet in it were these word

ome strange way she gripped me body and soul, twining herself about me and within me even as death that devoureth mortal man. still, still my being increased; my consciousness expanded until i was all nature seen as one, felt as one, apprehended as one, formed by me, part of me, apart from me- all these things at one moment- and at the same time the ecstasy of love grew colossal, a tower to scale the stars, a sea to drown the page 16 gulf.txt sun. i cannot write of this. but in the streets people gathered apples of gold that dropped from invisible boughs, and invisible porters poured out wine for all, strange wine that healed disease and old age, wine that, poured between the teeth of the dead (so long as the embalmer had not begun his work, brought them back from the dark kingdom to perfe

g boys with broad leaves of palm. also he sent me the dancing girl of sleep. it was the art of this girl to weave such subtle movements that the sense, watching her, swooned; and as she swayed she sang, ever lower and lower as she moved slower and slower, until the looker-listener was dissolved in bliss of sleep and delicate dream. then as he slept she would bend over him even as nuit the lady of the stars that bendeth over the black earth, and in his ears she would whisper strange rhythms, secret utterances, whereby his spirit would be rapt into the realms page 24 gulf.txt of hathor or some other golden goddess, there in one night to reap an harvest of refreshment such as the fields of mortal sleep yield never. so then i woke at dawn, to find her still watching, still looking into my eyes

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in childbirth, victims of the she-fiend lammashta. i have traveled beneath the seas, in search of the palace of our master, and found the stone of monuments of vanquished civilisations, and deciphered the writings of some of these; while still others remain mysteries to any man who lives. and these civilisations were destroyed because of the knowledge contained in this book. i have traveled among the stars, and trembled before the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with

secrets of the scene i had witnessed in one word: kutulu. in that moment, as though whispered fiercely into my ear, i understood. these are the signs carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers

, it appears as though i have failed in some regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting, dreaming, drooling for my departure. i pray the gods that i am saved, and not perish as did the priest, abdul ben-martu, in jerusalem (the gods remember and have mercy upon him. my fate is no longer writ in the stars, for i have broken the chaldean covenant by seeking power over the zonei. i have set foot on the moon, and the moon no longer has power over me. the lines of my life have been oblitered by my wanderings in the waste, over the letters writ in the heavens by the gods. and even now i can hear the wolves howling in the mountains as they did that fateful night, and they are calling my name, a

n here, in the manner this prescribed. prepare the rituals without erring, and in the proper places and times render the sacrifices. may the gods be ever merciful unto thee! may thou escape the jaws of the maskim, and vanquish the power of the ancient ones! and the gods grant thee death before the ancient ones rule the earth once more! kakammu! selah! of the zonei and their attributes the gods of the stars are seven. they have seven seals, each of which may be used in their turn. they are approached by seven gates, each of which may be opened in their turn. they have seven colours, seven essences, and each a separate step on the ladder of lights. the chaldeans were but imperfect in their knowledge, although they had understanding of the ladder, and certain of the formulae. they did not, ho

s and then sit down and go no further than that, enjoying the benefits that they have found on the preliminary spheres. but this is evil, for they are not equipped to deal with the attack from without that must surely come, and their people will cry unto them for safety, and it will not come forth. therefore, set thy face towards the ultimate goal and strive ever onward to the furthest reaches of the stars, though it mean thine own death; for such a death is as a sacrifice to the gods, and pleasing, that they will not forget their people. the zonei and their attributes, then, are as follows: the god of the moon is the god nanna. he is father of the zonei, and the eldest of the wanderers. he is long of beard, and bears a wand of lapis lazuli in his palm, and possesses the secret of the tide

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the gun-barrel mighty and erect is this will of mine, this pyramid of fire whose summit is lost in heaven. upon it have i burned the corpse of my desires. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 38 mighty and erect is this phi-alpha-lambda-lambda-omicronsigma of my will. the seed thereof is that which i have borne within me from eternity; and it is lost within the body of our lady of the stars. i am not i; i am but an hollow tube to bring down fire from heaven. mighty and marvellous is this weakness, this heaven which draweth me into her womb, this dome which hideth, which absorbeth, me. this is the night wherein i am lost, the love through which i am no longer i [40] commentary( iota-epsilon) the card 15 in the tarot is "the devil, the mediaeval blind for pan. the title of th

s in the last sentence are magick pentagrams, emphasising this curse. note (15) in nature the tortoise has 6 members at angels of 60 degrees. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 61 [63] 27 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-zeta the sorcerer a sorcerer by the power of his magick had subdued all things to himself. would he travel? he could fly through space more swiftly than the stars. would he eat, drink, and take his pleasure? there was none that did not instantly obey his bidding. in the whole system of ten million times ten million spheres upon the two and twenty million planes he had his desire. and with all this he was but himself. alas! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 62 [64] commentary( kappa-zeta) this chapter gives the reverse of the med

ich in no way concern him. the number 41 is that of the barren mother. note (20) i.e. food suitable for americans [93] book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 90 42 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta mu-beta dust-devils in the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called i. it breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. all life is choked. this desert is the abyss wherein the universe. the stars are but thistles in that waste. yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss. now and again travellers cross the desert; they come from the great sea, and to the great sea they go. as they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. see! five footprints of a camel! v.v.v.v.v [94] commentary( mu-beta) book of lies get any book for free on: w

ter 3. it is also said to be the seal upon the tombs of them that she hath slain, that is, of the masters of the temple. in connection with the number 49, see liber 418, the 22nd aethyr, as well as the usual authorities [109] 50 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu the vigil of st. hubert in the forest god met the stag-beetle "hold! worship me" quoth god "for i am all-great, all- good, all wise..the stars are but sparks from the forges of my smiths "yea, verily and amen" said the stag-beetle "all this do i believe, and that devoutly "then why do you not worship me "because i am real and your are only imaginary" but the leaves of the forest rustled with the laughter of the wind. said wind and wood "they neither of them know anything" book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 106

d butterflies. the pole-axe is recommended instead of the usual razor, as a more vigorous weapon. one cannot be too severe in checking any faltering in the work, any digression from the path. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 117 [121] 56 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-digamma trouble with twins holy, holy, holy, unto five hundred and fifty five times holy be our lady of the stars! holy, holy, holy, unto one hundred and fifty six times holy be our lady that rideth upon the beast! holy, holy, holy, unto the number of times necessary and appropriate be our lady isis in her millions-of-names, all-mother, genetrix-meretrix! yet holier than all these to me is laylah, night and death; for her do i blaspheme alike the finite and the the infinite. so wrote not frater perd

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e, my heart& my tongue! i,7: behold! it is revealed by aiwass the minister of hoor-paar-kraat. i,8: the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs. i,9: worship then the khabs, and behold my light shed over you! 10: let my servants be few& secret: they shall rule the many& the known. i,11: these are fools that men adore; both their gods& their men are fools. i,12: come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! i,13: i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. i,14: above, the gemm d azure is the naked splendour of nuit; she bends in ecstasy to kiss the secret ardours of hadit. the winged globe,the starry blue, are mine, o ankh-af-na-khonsu! i,15: now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest t

is the naked splendour of nuit; she bends in ecstasy to kiss the secret ardours of hadit. the winged globe,the starry blue, are mine, o ankh-af-na-khonsu! i,15: now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. i,16: for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. i,17: but ye are not so chosen. i,18: burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! i,19: o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! i,20: the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. i,21: with the god& the adorer i am nothi

my body. i,27: then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! i,28: none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. i,29: for i am divided for love s sake, for the chance of union. i,30: this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. i,31: for these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my kno

is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. ii,59: beware therefore! love all, lest perchance is a king concealed! say you so? fool! if he be a king, thou canst not hurt him. ii,60: therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master! ii,61: there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. ii,62: i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. ii,63: thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell s own worm. ii,64: oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of nu! prophet of had! prophet of ra-hoor-khu! now rejoice! now come in our splendour& rapture! c

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stle of baphomet to the illustrious damozel ana wright, companion of the holy graal, shining like the moon. concerning death that she and her sisters may bring comfort to all them that are nigh death, and unto such as love them. beloved daughter and sister, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. it is written in the book of the law; every man and every woman is a star. it is our lady of the stars that speaketh to thee, o thou that art a star, a member of the body of nuit. listen, for thine ears are become dulled to the mean noises of the earth; the infinite silence of the stars woos thee with subtle musick. behold her bending down above thee, a flame of blue, all- touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet

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ave made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge.18 the three mighty names of god almighty coming forth from the thirty thyrs the first name l a z o d a p e l a m e d a z o d a z o d a z o d i l a z o d u o l a t a z o d a- p e k a l a t a

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quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape<equinox (i, v. supplement: tenth aethyr) for an account of an operation where this was done. magical phenomena of the creative order are conceived and germinate in a peculiar thick velvet darkness, crimson, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, in the body of our lady of the stars. see 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of nature with drugs, perfumes, etc> those magicians who abject to the use of blood have endeavored to replace it with incense. for such a purpose the incense of abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. dittany of crete is also a valuable medium. both these incenses are very catholic in their nature, and suitable for almost any ma

perges me, therion, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. those of consecration are: accendat in nobis therion ignem sui amoris et flammam aeternae caritatis<lust of result, is every way perfect (ccxx, i, 44) to banish; and (b "i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body (ccxx, ii, 62) to consecrate. for the book of the law contains the supreme spells> these, as initiates of the vii degree of o.t.o. are aware, mean more than appears. ii it is a strange circumstance that no magical writer has hitherto treated the immensely important subject of the magical link. it might almost be called the missing link. it has apparently always be

which have up to now been misunderstood or neglected, the result will be incalculably effective. the event will establish the kingdom of the crowned and conquering child over the whole earth, and all men shall bow to the law, which is "love under will. this is an extreme case; but there is one law only to govern the small as the great. the same laws describe and measure the motions of the ant and the stars. their light is no swifter than that of a spark. in every operation of magick the link must be properly made. the first requisite is the acquisition of adequate force of the kind required for the purpose. we must have electricity of a certain potential in sufficient amount if we wish to heat food in a furnace. we shall need a more intense current and a greater supply to light a city than

d, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts or light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse, then if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of a lion" this passage- combined with several others- is paraphased in poetry by aleister crowley in his "tannhauser "and when "invoking often" thou shalt see that formless fire; when all the earth is shaken, the stars abide not, and the moon is gone, all time crushed back into eternity, the universe by earthquake overtaken; light is not, and the thunders roll, the world is done: when in the darkness chaos rolls again in the excited brain: then, o then call not to thy view that visible image of nature; fatal is her name! it fitteth not thy body to behold that living light of hell, the unluminous, dead

tance to that one end and conclusion of the matter. and let him not perform the act until he hath done this. as it is written: liber vii, cap. 5- 22 "every breath, every word, every thought is an act of love with thee. 23 "the beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24 "the songs of me are the soft sighs. 25 "the thoughts of me are very rapture. 26 "and my deeds are the myriads of thy children, the stars and the atoms" and remember well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, all this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19 "concerning the lections- let the philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of thelema, during the whole period of his devotion. but if he weary, then let him read books which have no part w

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her. 9. yea! i gave her of the flower of my youth. 10. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. 11. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. also it came to pass, that thereby she sickened, and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. 13. then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from abyss of ages of sleep, and her body embraced me. altogether i melted in her beauty and was glad. 15. the river also became the river of amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, tha

teth, resh, ayin. you add these up and get 279. this again is divisible by the saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. on the plane of saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you. you man now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith, and may proceed to inspect him more closely. the stars above his head suggest the influence of binah, whose number also is three, while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter yod (one does not count the termination "ah: being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light) this yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of the pale greenish gold which one sees (in this world) in the fine

hshare of reason, in showing the validity of this doctrine in detail. it satisfies my sense of rhythm and of symmetry to explain that every experience, no matter what, must of necessity be a gain of grandeur, of grip, of comprehension and enjoyment ever growing as complexity and simplicity succeed each other in sublime systole and diastole, in strophe and antistrope chanting against each other to the stars of the night and of the morning! of course it is easy as pie to knock all this to pieces by "lunatic logic" saying "then toothache is really as pleasant as strawberry shortcake" you are hereby referred to eight lectures of yoga. none of the terms i am using have been, or can be defined. all my propositions amount to no more than tautology: a. is a. you may even quote the book of the law

d in the air. for the first three phenomena i have found no difficulty in devising quite simple physiologi- 32 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 178 cal explanations. but i can form no theory as to how the practice could counteract the force of gravitation, and i am unregenerate enough to allow this to make me sceptical about the occurrence of levitation. yet, after all, the stars are suspended in space. there is no priori reason why the forces which prevent them rushing together should not come into operation in respect of the earth and the body" the allan part of this is the best evidence at my disposal. he couldn't have got where he did by hopping, and he couldn't have got into that position intentionally; he must have been levitated, lost balance, and dropped

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ve mahalingam. the difficulty with such an one is naturally that his wand being very thin in proportion to its length is liable to wobble. very few artists are conscious of their real purpose, and in very many cases we have this infinite yearning supported by so frail a constitution that nothing is achieved. the magician must build all that he has into his pyramid; and if that pyramid is to touch the stars, how broad must be the base! there is no knowledge and no power which is useless to the magician. one might almost say there is no scrap of material in the whole universe with which he can dispense. his ultimate enemy is the great magician, the magician who created the whole illusion of the universe; and to meet him in battle, so that nothing is left either of him or of yourself, you mus

r in the magick cup is infinite; there is no point different from any other point<marks, saying: they are one; or saying, they are many. then expect the direful judgments of ra hoor khuit. sic: error of capitalization, should be "if ye confound the space-marks> this shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister" these are the words of nuit, our lady of the stars, of whom binah is but the troubled reflection. thus, ultimately, as the wand is a binding and a limitation, so is the cup an expansion- into the infinite. and this is the danger of the cup; it must necessarily be open to all, and yet if anything is put into it which is out of proportion, unbalanced, or impure, it takes hurt. and here again we find difficulty with our thoughts. the grossn

to the man who is under its control, so is it, and much more, with the divine love of which it is now spoken. for human love is an excitement, and not a stilling, of the mind; and as it is bound to the individual, only leads to greater trouble in the end. this divine love, on the contrary, is attached to no symbol. it abhors limitation, either in its intensity or its scope. and this is the dew of the stars of which it is spoken in the holy books, for nuit the lady of the stars is called "the continuous one of heaven" and it is that dew which bathes the body of the adept "in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat<equinox vii. sic to the quote, correctly. bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let> in this cup, th

destruction becomes possible; and there is no element therein which may not be occasionally helpful. and so- beware! select! select! select! this pantacle is an infinite storehouse; things will always be there when we want them. we may see to it occasionally that they are dusted and the moth kept out, but we shall usually be too busy to do much more. remember that in travelling from the earth to the stars, one dare not be encumbered with too much heavy luggage. nothing that is not a necessary part of the machine should enter into its composition. 104 now though this pantacle is composed only of shams, some shams somehow seem to be more false than others. the whole universe is an illusion, but it is an illusion difficult to get rid of. it is true compared with most things. but ninety-nine

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milky way (ar; lit. gthe river of fire h; cf. 387) rwn yd rhn 526 a lintel pwq#m 527 coins tw(b+m 529 gaffatura ollaris cum iusculo dulci h: g[will be] speaking of a pot with a sweet broth h hrydq yqyc 530 the rose tlcbx voices tlq to thee *kl 533 king of terrors twhlb klm 534 a certain name of god q#dlq 535 to walk *klh 536 the world of assiah (matter; referred to malkuth) hy#(h mlw( orbits [of the stars/planets (another aspect of the name of the sphere of the zodiac. see 483) twlsm a white cloak hnbl tyl+ 537 emanating; nobility; atziluth: the archetypal world twlyc) the marrow, or innermost part of the spine hrd#h +wx the opening of the uterus mxr r+p 538 daughter of the voice: echo (a method of divination by use of the ark of the covenant) lwq tb 540 loins; the upper part myntm creepi

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result from the departure from homogeneity) oh tao, how vast art thou, the abyss of abysses, thou holy and secret father of all fatherhoods of things! 2. let us make our sharpness blunt((for sharpness implies a concentration) let us loosen our complexes((for these are the ganglia of thought, which must be destroyed) let us((on the same principles. cf. the doctrine in ccxx as to the 'space-marks. the stars are blemishes, so to speak, on the continuity of nuit) tone down our brightness to the general obscurity. oh tao, how still art thou, how pure, continuous one beyond heaven! 3. this tao hath no father; it is beyond all other conceptions, higher than the highest. 5 chapter v the formula of the vacuum. 1. heaven and earth proceed without motive, but casually in their order of nature, deali

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nce's book is best to con. 26 the ta khu hexagram earth of lingam- ta khu: the great accumulation; quit thy private virtue when state needeth it. peril; move not, but look within thine heart. then, with due care, be ready for the start. now, with good horse, well trained, play hard thy part! block even the young bull's horns! he's safer so. castrate the boar- its teeth will gently show. then rule the stars- good fortune aid thine art! 27 the i hexagram earth of fire- i: nourishment; the matter and the mode, demand that thought should indicate the road. suffice thyself; else- how thy jaw shall quiver! look neither down nor up, the sages say. ill nourished, action merely means affray. but lo! below thee bleats the tiger's prey. improper method? firm and cautious stay! but thou, who nurturest

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ing could be so glad? look, brother, we are free! rejoice with me, sister, there is no law beyond do what thou wilt! ii. i write this for those who have not read our sacred book, the book of the law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understand its perfection. for there are many matters in this book, and the glad tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the book as the stars are scattered through the field of night. rejoice with me, all ye people! at the very head of the book stands the great charter of our godhead "every man and every woman is a star" we are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven, who is also matter

n is a star" we are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven, who is also matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. hear her first summons to us men and women "come forth, o children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy" later she explains the mystery of sorrow "for i am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union "this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all" it is shown later how this can be, how death itself is an ecstasy like lov

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minds only because those minds are conscious, and therefore think of "two" as their own state. but the unconscious mind thinks nothing, and is nothing. yet it is the same mind. nuith selects three centres of her body to become "two" with hadit; for she asks me to declare her in these three. infinite freedom, all-embracing, for physical love; boundless continuity for life; and the silent rhythm of the stars for language. these three conceptions are her gift to us. al i,7 "behold! it is revealed by aiwass the minister of hoor-paar-kraat" the old comment 7. aiwass- see introduction. he is 78, mezla, the "influence" from the highest crown, and the number of cards in the tarot, rota, the all-embracing wheel. hoor-paar-kraat- see ii, 8. aiwass is called the minister of hoor-paar-kraat, the god o

t changes instantly, as it seems. i prefer to suggest that these "fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wisdom or folly" and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every st

le world of stars. this is again also a call to unite or 'love, thus formulating the equation 1(-1= 0<initiates of the ixth degree of o.t.o. it could be expressed: phi k- t= 0, where phi- k= 0, and phi and k are both positive integers, which is the general magical formula in our cosmos "come forth- from what are you hiding "under the stars, that is, openly. also, let love be 'under' or 'unto' the body of nuith. but above all, be open! what is this shame? is love hideous, that men should cover him with lies? is love so sacred that others must not intrude? nay 'under the stars, at night, what eye but theirs may see? or, if one see, should not your worship wake the cloisters of his soul to echo sanctity for that so lovely a d

nce. note that nuith, although she is infinite space, speaks as an individual might do, often enough. this is not that she is 'talking down to our level; it is a fact. in the cosmos almost any aggregation can think and act as an ego. for instance, the cells of our bodies are each units, diverse in composition and character, living each a life of its own. yet we think and act for them, and say "i. the stars are the cells of her body. each one of us is such a cell; not less itself but more because of its secret function in her. it should be evident that nuith obtains the satisfaction of her nature when the parts of her body fulfil their own nature. the sacrament of live is not only so from the point of view of the celebrants, but from that of the divinity invoked. it is said that for every s

d lost himself in, nuit. when the "child" appears as two, it is magick, as the other is mysticism. this is the essential difference between these arts. al i,15 "now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men" the old comment 15. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. i am inclined, however, to believe that "the beast" and "the scarlet woman" do not denote persons, but are titles of office, that of hierophant and high priestess( vau and

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d in the soul s splendour! hear is peace; here earnest of assured release. here is the formless all-pervading spirit of the world, rising, fading 445 into a glory subtler still. here the intense abode of will closes its gates, and in the hall is solemn sleep of festival. peace! peace! silence of peace! 450 o visionless abode! cease! cease! through the dark veil press on! the veil is rent asunder, the stars pale, the suns vanish, the moon drops, the chorus of the spirit stops, 455 but one note swells. mightiest souls of bard and music maker, rolls over your loftiest crowns the wheel of that abiding bliss. life flees down corridors of centuries 460 pillar by pillar, and is lost. life after life in wild appeal cries to the master; he remains and thinks not. the polluting tides 465 of sense ro

e is to be found in act i. sc. ii. ll. 132-149: this is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty notes to ascension day and pentecost. blind chesterton is sure to err, and scan my work in vain; i am my own interpreter, and i will make it plain. note to introduction notes 47 of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my m

rld about him. he is illegitimate: shakespeare is no true child of that age, but born in defiance of it and its prejudices. having taken this important step, let us slew round the rest of the play to fit it. if it fits, the law of probability comes to our aid; every coincidence multiplies the chance of our correctness in increasing proportion. we shall see and you may look up your proctor that if the stars are placed just so by chance not law, then also it may be possible that shakespeare was the wool-combing, knockkneed, camel-backed, church-going, plasterof- paris, stick-in-the-mud our scholars have always made him. edmund being the hero, regan and goneril must be the heroines. so nearly equal are their virtues and beauties that our poet cannot make up his mind which shall possess him be

i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie s play little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea! let us consider what the words can mean. the taking of life can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha s speaking this command, living protoplasm was changed into dead matte

end miss br. c .1 would say) that this biting and pregnant phrase slipped out unaware. as a rule, of course, i hate the introduction of foreign tongues into an english essay. a.c. 1 a fast woman who posed as a bluestocking. the sword of song 56 easily interpreted (as all buddhists do interpret the precepts) can avail against them; do not mop up the ganges with a duster; nor stop the revolution of the stars with a lever of lath. awake, awake only! let there be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so for

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y core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering with ethereal azure in each exquisite embrasure. on the shaft the letters laced, as if dryads lunar-chaste with the satyrs were embraced, spelled the secret of the key "sic pervenias" and he went

r than the bee-sweet showers in the chalice of the flowers, more intoxicating than all the purple grapes of pan. ah! my proper lips are stilled. only, all the world is filled with the echo, that dips over like the honey from the clover. passion, penitence, and pain seek their mother's womb again, and are born the triple treasure, peace and purity and pleasure- hush, my child, and come aloft where the stars are velvet soft! aleister crowley. 46 the magic glasses1 47 1 weh note: this frank harris story reads like a metaphor of crowley's subsequent career. biographers, consider the possible impact of this theme on crowley's attitude to public life. the magic glasses one raw november morning, i left my rooms near the british museum and turned down regent street. it was cold and misty: the air

ely bride "blest among women" they say: i stand here in the market-place, and the crowd throngs by in this lonely land, nor stays to heed my face. my head is bowed down with the shame of my thought; mine eyes grow hot with disgrace. oh the evil that men have wrought! i was once a king's daughter, back in the olden time, they called me the bride of water: i went to the sea for her rhyme; i went to the stars for their song of life, for then i was in my prime. now i am filled with strife. i stare all day at the men that pass, and all that i see i crave; there are simple-gatherers fresh from the grass, there are mariners brown from the wave, there are merchants stout with tablets wide; there is many a fair young slave; they call me the lonely bride. 95 i was men's wonder the day i came; i was

happier when we examine the many, separately or together. they converge and diverge, each fresh hill-top of knowledge disclosing a vast land unexplored; each gain of power in our telescopes opening out new galaxies; each improvement in our microscopes showing us life minuter and more incomprehensible. a mystery of the mighty spaces between molecules; a mystery of the ether-cushions that fend off the stars from collision! a mystery of the fulness of things; a mystery of the emptiness of things! yet, as we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition- what shall i call it- that being is one, and thought is one, and law is one- until we ask what is that one? then again we spin words- words- words. and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. what is the moon made

nd which, when they have gone, stand out as luminous peaks in the moonlight of the past. sad to say, they come but seldom, so seldom that often they are looked back upon as miraculous visitations of some vastly higher power beyond and outside of ourselves. but when they do come the greatest joys of earth wither before them like dried leaves in the fire, and fade from the firmament of our minds as the stars of night before the rising sun. now, if it were possible to induce these states of ecstasy or hallucination, or whatever we care to call them, at will, so to speak, we should have accomplished what was once called, and what is still known as, the great work, and have discovered the stone of the wise, that universal dissolvent. sorrow would cease and give way to joy, and joy to a bliss qu

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e magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory. 120 a nocturne in the little cleft of the rocks whence life first sprang to birth, by the secret shadowy molten sea, where aphrodite sprang to greet the sun, low voices murmur: shadowy under-world in the void of time; light song of erebus on the lips of a courtesan of rome- ah! list! a wandering singer caught the light o' the stars on his lips, and the sun-dawn of the world in his heart. for i that dwelt within the city of time was lost in a cloudy dawn; the silken veil of dew that clothed the green grass of the fields was the veil of olympus; now the shadowy night that sang to me, that sand, that sang to me, sprang from the underworld of eld: the moon that circled in the heavens sang to me, and i that heard the ol

e; moonlight weeps fro sunlight faded in the dark; the sea is under the dark clouds; still one by one soft, silver stars creep silently upon me, leaving soft trails of light; o wonder dawn of the inverted thunder of the skies! back to the gardens of old babylon, the hanging lamps, the slow, enchanted moon, the gold-eyed stars, the pillars of the sea, and the call of her forgotten- oh, i lie under the stars, upon the dewy sward; and all around me is the silent city, the soft white city, softened by the dawn; and i hear the sistron, and i hear the songs sung to the hanging moon, and thou, istar, radiantly comest on the brains of men to the slow illumination of desire; the old enchanted palace of the will is thine, and god-like dreams of eld are thine, of the underworld of the stars, beneath

ms of eld are thine, of the underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee! fallen to idle sleep, and borne within the temple of mind, the soul of night is bared under the starry canopy of the worlds, and the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, let her still slumber! oh, my radiant one, thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, 122 come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, o thou far inmost and supernal dawn, o thou that bearest the torch for the feast o' the gods! in the core of night i found thee, and a rose was thy heart, and thorns were thy crown, and tiny rosebuds. girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair glittered with the dust of the stars! by the river-side thou camest unto me; ho, the secre

, fountain-cool thy hands, and thine eyes bright with celestial fire drawn from the world's heart! oh, my little one, come to me here in the great slow silences, in the radiant dimness of the after-glow of the passionate ache of the world; i am pan no more, but the virgin of the starlight of the world. her in the silence, in the great, green woods, lie thou with me! slumber with me to-night under the stars, and the yellow drifting moon. we ill love no more as syrinx and pan; diana! come unto me, and i will grant the thing thou cravest! oh! the foaming milk of the stars "i bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon" 123 rosa ignota! ah! the pale moon flowers; the soft shy glances, and the virgin unwon! oh! the sweet burden of the sunless hours: love! i am conquered! nay, love! i have won! oh

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the day of judgment of my god. let the gods hide themselves: let the angels be troubled and flee away: for the eye of my father is open, and the book of the aeons is fallen. arise! arise! arise! let the light of the sight of time be extinguished: let the darkness cover all things: for my father goeth forth to seek a spouse to replace her who is fallen and defiled. seal the book with the seals of the stars concealed: for 3 the rivers have rushed together and the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod is broken in a thousand pieces (against the cubic stone. tremble ye, o pillars of the universe, for eternity is in travail of a terrible child; she shall bring forth an universe of darkness, whence shall leap forth a spark that shall put his father to flight. the obelisks are broken; the stars have

cry of the twenty and ninth aire or aethyr, which is called rii the sky appears covered with stars of gold; the background is of green. but the impression is also of darkness. 6 an immense eagle-angel is before me. his wings seem to hide all the heaven. he cried aloud saying: the voice of the lord upon the waters: the terror of god upon mankind. the voice of the lord maketh the skies to tremble: the stars are troubled: the aires fall. the first voice speaketh and saith: cursed, cursed be the earth, for her iniquity is great. oh lord! let thy mercy be lost in the great deep! open thine eyes of flame and light, o god, upon the wicked! lighten thine eyes! the clamour of thy voice, 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

to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the universe. let me dwell in peace within the breast of the angel that is warden of the aethyr. let not the shame of my mother be 12 unveiled. let not her be put to shame that lieth among the lilies that are beyond the stars. o man, that must ever be opening, when wilt thou learn to seal up the mysteries of the creation? to fold thyself over thyself as a rose in the embrace of night? but thou must play the wanton to the sun, and the wind must tear thy petals from thee, and the bee must rob thee of thy honey, and thou must fall into the dusk of things. amen and amen. verily the light is hidden, therefore he w

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

scroll over the top, saying "ecclesia abhorret a sanguine" and there is another scroll below it in a language of which i do not know the sounds. the meaning is, not as they have understood. the blood is thicker and darker now, and it is becoming clotted and black, so that everything is blotted out; because it coagulates, coagulates. and then at the top there steals a dawn of pure night-blue- oh, the stars, the stars in it deeply set- and drives the blood down; so that all round the top of the oval gradually dawns the figure of our lady nuit, and beneath her is the flaming winged disk, and below the altar of ra-hoor-khuit, even as it is upon the stele of revealing. but below is the supine figure of seb, into whom is concentrated all that clotted blood. and there comes a voice: it is the da

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is up here now with me, but i shall try to meditate. charming as she is, i don't want to make love to her. 8.40. mixed mantra and caresses rather a success.(at her request i gave m. a minimum dose of x. 9.15. asana and meditation with mantra since 8.40. the blackness seems breaking. for a moment i got a vague glimpse of one's spine (or rather one's sushumna) as a galaxy of stars, thus suggesting the stars as the ganglia of the universe. 9.18 to continue. 10.18. not very satisfactory. asana got painful; like a 20 worm i gave up, and tried playing the fool; got amused by the new monster, but did not perform the "vajroli mudra.[for this see the shiva sanhita, and other of the holy sanskrit tantras. ed. however, having got rid of her for the moment, one may continue. 10.24- p.y.[prana yama. e

adonai! adonai! o lord adonai! let thy light illumine the path of that darkling wight john st. john, that being who, separate from thee, is separate from all light, life, love. adonai! adonai! let it be written of o. m. that "the lord adonai is about him like a thunderbolt and like a pylon and like a serpent and like a phallus and in the midst thereof like the woman that jetteth the milk 110 of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps."the tenth day" 12.17. now that the perfume of the incense is clearly away, one may most potently perceive the invoked perfume of the ceremony itself. and this mystical perfume of adonai is like pure musk, but infinitely subtilised far stronger, and at the same time far more delicate.(p.s. doubt has arisen about this perfume, as to

er, so gropeth thy little child after thee, o thou self- glittering one! 12.55. he hath read through days viii. and ix. he is too tired to understand what he reads. he will, despite of all, do a little pranayama, and then sleep, ever willing adonai. for pranayama with its intense physical strain is a great medicine for the mind. even as the long trail of the desert and the life with the winds and the stars, 111 the daily march and its strife with heat, thirst, fatigue, cure all the ills of the soul, so does pranayama clear away the phantoms that mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep.(the pranayama precipitated a short attack of

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re the sarcophagus is. thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. he shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. we will kiss thy painted face, o sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us time. and yet i fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the house of man. dunsany. 208 the priestess of panormita hear me, lord of the stars! for thee i have worshipped ever with stains and sorrows and scars, with joyful, joyful endeavour. hear me, o lily-white goat! o crisp as a thicket of thorns, with a collar of gold for thy throat, a scarlet bow for thy horns! here, in the dusty air, i build thee a shrine of yew. all green is the garland i wear, but i feed it with blood for dew! after the orange bars that ribbed the green

ipped ever with stains and sorrows and scars, with joyful, joyful endeavour. hear me, o lily-white goat! o crisp as a thicket of thorns, with a collar of gold for thy throat, a scarlet bow for thy horns! here, in the dusty air, i build thee a shrine of yew. all green is the garland i wear, but i feed it with blood for dew! after the orange bars that ribbed the green west dying are dead, o lord of the stars, i come to thee, come to thee crying. the ambrosial moon that arose with breasts slow heaving in splendour drops wine from her infinite snows. ineffably, utterly, tender. 209 o moon! ambrosial moon! arise on my desert of sorrow that the magical eyes of me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever

le of the thirty- first path, which ends the first part of the ceremony of 3= 8. the second part consists of the ritual of the thirtieth path. the "hierophant" explains the solar greek cross, and then says "the thirtieth path of the sepher yetzirah, which answereth unto the letter 'resch' is called the collecting intelligence; and it is so called because from it astrologers deduce the judgment of the stars, and of the 272 celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their resolutions. it is therefore the reflection of the sphere of the sun; and the path connecting yesod with hod, the foundation with splendour" 13 "see 777" cols. xciii, xciv, xcv, pp. 21, 20. 14 "see 777" col. viii, p.2 illustration on page 273 approximated below_ hb:resh hb:samekh hb:tza

ustration on page 274 described "diagram 32. the altar symbol in the 3= 8 ritual" this is a calvary cross rising up from the base of an inverted equilateral triangle. a smaller inverted equilateral triangle is centered within the larger. the "hierophant" then congratulates the newly made practicus, and confers upon him 274 the mystic title of "monokeros de astris,"20 which means "the unicorn from the stars" and gives him the symbol of maim- water. the closing of the temple now takes place, and the prayer to the undines is rehearsed, and in the name of elohim tzabaoth is the dismissal pronounced. illustration on page 275 discussed (too complex for a full description. weh note- this figure represents a theory of eden on the tree of life that is very much different from the symbolism of tradi

slowly the pillar loosened itself, and spiral puffs of smoke, creeping away from the mighty column, began to circle round 303 me, at which i stepped back to where my guide was still standing. then he advanced, and beckoning me to follow him, we entered the great pillar of smoke and were carried through the bright dome of the temple "on, on we soared, through regions of cloud and air; on, on, past the stars and many myriads of burning specks of fire, till at length our journey led us to a vast blue sea, upon which was resting like a white swan a ship of silver. and without staying our flight, we made towards the ship, and descending upon it, rested awhile "on awaking, we found that we had arrived at a fair island, upon which stood a vast temple built of blocks of silver, square in form, and

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i not gilded my nails and painted my lips with vermilion? am i not wholly stript of the deeds and thoughts that obscure thee? i wait for thee, my soul distraught with aching for some nameless naught in its most arcane crypt- am i not fit to endure thee? girded about the paps with a golden girdle of glory, dost thou wait me, thy slave who am, as a wolf lurks for a strayed white lamb? the chain of the stars snaps, and the deep of night is hoary! thou whose mouth is a flame with its seven-edged sword proceeding, 351 come! i am writhing with despair like a snake taken in a snare, moaning thy mystical name till my tongue is torn and bleeding! have i not gilded my nails and painted my lips with vermilion? yea! thou art i; the deed awakes: thy lightning strikes, thy thunder breaks wild as the br

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torts the natural man and his mood of the moment" the whole of 38 ludlow's wonderful introspection seemed to me to fortify this suggestion "well, then, let me see whether by first exalting myself mystically and continuing my invocations while the drug dissolved the matrix of the diamond soul, that diamond might not manifest limpid and sparkling, a radiance 'not of the sun, nor of the moon, nor of the stars" and then, of course, i remembered that this ceremonial intoxication constitutes the supreme ritual of all religions. first, however, it was necessary to determine the normal action of the drug upon my particular organisation. there are various preparations of "cannabis indica" all alike in this, that their action is so uncertain as to be not easily or surely standardised. it is not even

rth when the lictor passeth by "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the eternal will of the father, and not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives not true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud; flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled "stoop not down unto the darkly splendid world; wherein continually lieth a faithless

science only brings us up to a blind wall, the wall of philosophy; here is your great ram to batter a breach and let in the forlorn hope of the children of the curse to storm the heights of heaven. one single trained observer with five years' work, less money than would build a bakehouse, and no more help than his dozen of volunteer students could give him, would earn himself a fame loftier than the stars, and set mankind on the royal road to the solution of the one great problem. scientific illuminism would have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce an

square n.s.f. 5 degree= 6 square "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the eternal will of the father, and not for your sake alone. dismiss from your mind the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled" zoroaster 138: m a c a n e h: a r o l u s e: d i r u c u n: a l u h u l a: s e r u r o

sides her in the temple was but one strange image. carved of that polished black granite of egypt, which seems, as it were, the very bodily form of the night of time, there squatted a god upon his pedestal; an inscrutable god, smiling, ever smiling with a smile that spoke unfathomable lust and cruelty resolved- by what theurgic alchemy- into a pure and passionless bliss. it was a thing eternal as the stars- nay, before it the very stars might bow as in the reverence of youth to age! yet in it stood a strength and beauty as of golden youth. its skin was polished and shining, not as if reflecting the guarded light of the electric globes, but as if the very soul of light- a light too essential to be recognized as light by men- did inhabit and inform it. as she lay, the gilded lily, she moved

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and two off horizontal points, not outlined and two ancillary rays extending between the upper and lower points to 3/4 circumference. to the left, the hand of the figure is extended palmer to front with all fingers spread except the 2nd and 3rd which are straight but joined. there are seven hexagonal stars about this hand, one in center. each star has a dot in center and is haloed by radial rays. the stars are not exactly aligned in point orientation. to the right of the figure, left hand of the figure itself holds an open book, pages facing front across part of torso. the figure is full bearded and draped in a loose and voluminous robe. the tips of two feet can be seen just barely at the bottom of the robe, toes down and shod. there is a girdle suggested about the waist. issuing from the

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to-day. and, since it is the current interpretation of buddhistic thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. this forbids the taking of life in any form.4 what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself "go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea" let us consider what the words can mean. the "taking of life" can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha's speaking this command, living protoplasm was changed into dead mat

point about that; there is a great virtue in completeness. 309 yes! do not believe that the buddha was a fool; that he asked men to perform the impossible or the unwise.10 do not believe that the sorrow of existence is so trivial that easy rules easily interpreted (as all buddhists do interpret the precepts) can avail against them; do not mop up the ganges with a duster: or stop the revolution of the stars with a lever of lath. awake, awake only! let there be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so for

may eat and live" the philosophy of this little book shows that darkness alone is not evil, and that neither is light good. both are beyond: but the mingling twilight begets the illusion of duality, the goodness and wickedness of things external. it is a little volume which one who reads will grow fond of, and will carry about with him, and open at random in quiet places, in the woods, and under the stars; and it is a little book which one learns to love the more one reads it, for it is inspired by one who at least has crept into the shadow of god's glory. j. f. c. f. 316 evolution from nebula to man. by joseph mccabe. milner and co. 1"s" mr. mccabe has written another little book on evolution: how many more of these small, small, small volumes are to appear? the subject seems a tall orde

live, and, surrounded by a thousand foolish folios, have sat gloomily in the mouldering colleges of oxford, or walked the horrid marshes of cambridge, and produced uncounted pages of most learned drivel. frank harris had another way than that. he took life in both hands and shook it; he made his own study of the heart of man, enlarging, not restricting, his own; and many a night has he lain under the stars on the savannah or the sierra, with shakespeare for his pillow. his result is accordingly different. his knowledge of shakespeare is a living, bleeding, truth; there is no room in his great heart and brain for the lumber of the pedants. more, frank harris is himself a creative artist, a freeman of the city of god, and knows that as there is no smoke without fire, so is there no speech wi

's a well_ a druid well; a wood_ a druid wood; a boat (druid) on a druid sea. why druid? because willie is not a british workman. the expletive is harmless enough. look! more wells and woods and boats and apple- blossoms. when in doubt, play apple-blossom. try and scan it as a dactyl. you can't? he can. oh! there are some people in the boat. druid people. a queen with hair like the casting-net of the stars. what's that? never mind. there's nothing rude or offensive about the casting-net of the stars? very good, then; let's get on. what are they doing? drifting. that's dead sure, anyway. drifting. drifting. that's the beautiful celtic glamour of it. druidically drifting druids on a druid sea of apple-blossom in the middle distance. foreground, a well in a wood. background, a casting-net of

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er? olympas. by my kiss from that abode to this_ to this" my wings? marsyas. thou hast no wings. but see an eagle sweeping from the byss where god stands. let him ravish thee, and bear thee to a boundless bliss! 15 olympas. how should i call him? how beseech? marsyas. silence is lovelier than speech. only on a windless tree falls the dew, felicity! one ripple on the water mars the magic mirror of the stars. olympas. my soul bends to the athletic stress of god's immortal loveliness. tell me, what wit avails the clod to know the nearness of its god? marsyas. first, let the soul be poised, and fledge truth's feather on mind's razor-edge. next, let no memory, feeling, hope stain all its starless horoscope. last, let it be content, twice void; not to be suffered or enjoyed; motionless, blind an

quickening skies the oriflamme of beauty beats heralding loyal legionaries, whose flame of golden javelins fences those peerless paladins. there are the burning lamps of them, splendid star-clusters to begem the trailing torrents of those blue bright wings that bear mine angel through! o thou art like an hawk of gold, miraculously manifold, for all the sky's aflame to be a mirror magical of thee! the stars seem comets, rushing down to gem thy robes, bedew thy crown. like the moon-plumes of a strange bird by a great wind sublimely stirred, thou drawest the light of all the skies into thy wake. the heaven dies in bubbling froth of light, that foams about thine ardour. all the domes of all the heavens close above thee as thou art known of me who love thee. excellent kiss, thou fastenest on th

es magnificent as lionesses_ tender and terrible caresses! fire lives, and light, in eager eyes; and massed huge hair about them lies. they lead their hosts to victory: in every joy they are kings; then see that secret serpent coiled to spring and win the world! o priest and king, let there be feasting, foining, fighting, a revel of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars' kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die- ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs, henceforth to all eternity. olympas. hail! i adore thee! let us feast. marsyas. i am the consecrated beast. i build the abominable house. the scarlet woman is my spouse_ 49

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

and terrible, which is that of all habits. all such soon transform themselves into necessities. he who has recourse to a poison in order to think will soon be unable to think without the poison. imagine to yourself the frightful lot of a man whose paralysed imagination will no longer function without the aid of hashish or of opium! in philosophical states the human mind, to imitate the course of the stars, is obliged to follow a curve which loops it back to its point of departure, when the circle must ultimately close. at the beginning i spoke of this marvellous state into which the spirit of man sometimes finds itself thrown as if by a special favour. i have said that, ceaselessly aspiring to rekindle his hopes and raise himself towards the infinite, he showed (in every country and in ev

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path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones. 196 297 possibly the restraint of brahmach rya produced the siddhis, and that further restraint in its turn produced an accumulation of these occult powers, the benefit accruing from which is again placed to the credit of the bodily powers. pan to artemis uncharmable charmer of bacchus and mars in the sounding rebounding abyss of the stars! o virgin in armour, thine arrows unsling in the brilliant resilient first rays of the spring! by the force of the fashion of love, when i broke through the shroud, through the cloud, through the storm, through the smoke, to the mountain of passion volcanic that woke- by the rage of the mage i invoke, i invoke! by the midnight of madness- the lone-lying sea, the swoon of the moon, your s

f his body; the flashing swiftness of his word, that was the word that formulated that which was beyond chaos and cosmos; the might of him, greater than that of the elephant and of the lion and of the tortoise and of the bull fabled in indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the name; the glory of him, that was even as that of the sun which is before all and beyond all suns, of which the stars are little sparks struck off as he battled in the infinite against the infinite- all these points the great white spirit noted and appreciated. this is certainly the person, thought he, to do my business for me. but alas! for five, and for twenty-five, and for sixty-five, 206 and for three hundred and twenty-five myriads of myriads of myriads of kotis of crores of lakhs of asankhayas of

a baby! euphemia. come to him mummy, then! carr. you're not my mummy! that's what i complain of; you always treat me as a cheops, ever since that night on the great pyramid! euphemia["hides her head in his bosom] oh shame, shame! carr. not a bit of it! think of the infinite clearness of the night "the magical green of the sunset, the magical blue of the nile" the rising of the great globed moon- the stars starting from their fastnesses like sentries on the alarm- the isolation of our stance upon the summit- the faery distance of cairo and its spear-sharp minarets- and we- and we- euphemia. oh me! oh me! carr. shall i remind you- 221 euphemia. must "i" remind "you" carr. no; my memory is excellent. euphemia. of what you swore? carr. i swore at the granite for not being moss. euphemia. you

expressed the infinite sweetness, the love merciful; the pure innocence of the eternal equi-balanced. they were like crystalline drops of dew falling on a perfect rock of carrara marble; eyes that looked upon you and created you holy; eyes clearer than the clearest rivulet, more beautiful than the most royal amethyst; eyes that illuminated the darkest corner of hell; eyes that set the fashion to the stars of the celestial vault of heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect mirror of the soul behind. such was the ten-years-old ljubov of the goodly countenance. when, later on, the usual legend grew around her, it was said that wolves had once entered the village, in the midst of 296 winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed, when little ljubov chanced upon them a

y ought to have been all that time. miracle of miracles! she saw as you and i do. she saw poor little piotr who stood before her, almost out of his mind, sharing her excitement. she took his hand, drew him to her and kissed his forehead. then she wept for a long time. finally, she sat down by him and told him of her new sensations. vi but they were unsatisfactory. the sky she saw was, in spite of the stars, inferior to the beauty she had endowed it with. the sweet face of her little friend even was less sweet to behold than it had been to her childish fancy. and, gently, with an extraordinary delicacy, she spoke of her disappointment "oh! it was more beautiful as we thought it, piotroushka" she exclaimed. 307 and, acting upon an impulse, she dropped her eyes in her hand and threw them behi

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smote his bosom murderous. his nails like eagles' claws were grown; his eyes were wild and dull; but thus sir lancelot spake "thy deeds atone by knightly devoir" he returned that "while the land was overgrown with giant, fiend, and ogre burned my sword; but now the paynim bars are broke, and men to virtue turned: therefore i sit upon the scars amid my beard, even as the sun sits in the company of the stars" then lancelot bade this deed be done, the achievement of the questing beast. which when he spoke that holy one rose up, and gat him to the east with lancelot; when as they drew unto the palace and the feast he put his littlest finger to the dwarf, who rose to upper air, piercing the far eternal blue beyond the reach of song or prayer. then did sir palamede amend his nakedness, his horre

not i cannot even die! who chose me, of the table round by miracle acclaimed the chief? here, waterlogged and muscle-bound, marooned upon a coral reef" 68 xxvi sir palamede the saracen hath gotten him a swift canoe, paddled by stalwart south sea men. they cleave the oily breasts of blue, straining toward the westering disk of the tall sun; they battle through those weary days; the wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king "now, then, by goddes reed" quod he "behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! 69 for all these paynim knights may rest

he beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen" 77 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to'sfeet- a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight

a goat, as palamede the saracen" 87 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit's cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge; all his soul, with perfect sense and sight fulfilled, 88 touched the extreme, the giant goal! yea! all things in that hour transcended, all power in his sublime control, all felt, all th

pure life is bubbling in his blood. all youth comes back, all strength, all you indeed flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood! 103 yet was his heart immeasurably sad, for that no questing in his ear he had. nay! he saw all. he saw the curse that wrapped in ruin the world primaeval. he saw the unborn universe, and all its gods coeval. he saw, and was, all things at once in him that is; he was the stars, the moons, the meteors, the suns, all in one net of triune bars; inextricably one, inevitably one, immeasurable, immutable, immense beyond all the wonder that his soul had won by sense, in spite of sense, and beyond sense "praise god" quoth palamede "by this i attain the uttermost of bliss. god's wounds! but that i never sought. the questing beast i sware to attain and all this miracle

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ith their thought, word and deed.50 ii. place "solitude and silence" 48 in bhakta yoga the disciple usually devotes himself to his guru, to whom he offers his devotion. the guru being treated as the god himself with which the chela wishes to unite. eventually "he alone sees no distinctions! the mighty ocean of love has entered unto him, and he sees not men, animals and plants or the sun, moon and the stars, but beholds his beloved everywhere and in everything. vivek nanda "bhakti yoga" udbodham edition, p. 111. the sufis were bhakti yogis, so was christ. buddha was a gnani yogi. 49 a guru is as necessary in yoga as a music master is in music. 50 "shiva sanhita" chap. iii. the place where yoga is performed should be a beautiful and pleasant place, according to the shiva sanhita.51 in the 74

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er coeli. what is the hour? capricornus. mother of heaven, it lacks a quarter of midnight. mater coeli. be it unto your desire["she plays< as she ends she kneels: the veil slowly parts, and" magister templi "is seen standing in shrine. he slowly enters temple" mater coeli "returns to throne, having been blessed and raised by him] magister templi. mother of heaven, beloved of the stars, wherefore hast thou awakened the poison of eld, the dweller in eternity? mater coeli. shabbathai [magister templi "comes down to hell-broth and recites "the eyes of pharaoh] dead pharaoh's eyes from out the tomb burned like twin planets ruby-red. enswathed, enthroned, the halls of gloom echo the agony of the dead. silent and stark the pharaoh sate: no breath went whispering, hushed or s

take of the banquet of jupiter, or come to the centre of the wheel? for this is the secret of jupiter, that he who created you is in each of you, yet apart from all; before him ye are equal, revolving in time and in space; but he is unmoved and within["a pause" typhon. 1 [typhon "recites" sweet, sweet are may and june, dear, the loves of lambent spring, our lamp the drooping moon, dear, our roof, the stars that sing; the bed, of moss and roses; the night, as long as death! still, breath! life wakens and reposes, love ever quickeneth! sweet, sweet, when lion and maiden, the motley months of gold, swoop down with sunlight laden, and eyes are bright and bold. life-swelling breasts uncover their warm involving deep- love, sleep- and lover lies with lover on air's substantial steep. ah! sweeter

bis, 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 many mystic loves. holy maidens, duly weave dances for the mighty mother bacchanal to bacchus cleave! wave his narthex wand, and leave earthly joys to earth to smother! io! evoe! sisters, mingle i

snake! autonoe. evoe, ho! give me to drink! agave. run wild! mountain and mountain let us leap upon like tigers on their prey! maenads. crush, crush the world! agave. tread earth as 'twere a winepress! autonoe. drink its blood, the sweet red wine! maenads. ay, drink the old earth dry! agave. squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse like an old wineskin! autonoe. so the sooner sup among the stars! agave. the swift, swift stars! maenads. o night! night, night, fall deep and sure! autonoe. fall soft and sweet! agave. moaning for love the woods lie. autonoe. sad the land lies thirsty for our kisses. maenads. all wild things yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. agave. blood! blood! bring wine! ha! bromius, bromius! maenads. come, sweet god, come forth and lie with us! 36 autono

the adamantine girth. i rose in glory, gathered of the foam. the sea's flower folded, charioting me risen where dawns rose stole from its pearl-glimmering home, and heaven laughed, and earth: and mine old prison, the seas that lay beneath the mighty dome, shone with my splendour. light did first bedizen earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, when i looked forth and cried "it is the day" the stars are dewdrops on my bosom's space; the sun and moon are glances through my lashes, long, tender rays of night; my subtle face burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes with solemn joy and laughter of love; the grace of all my body swaying stoops and dashes swift to the daisy's dawn of love: and swiftest, o spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! dawn shakes the molten fir

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illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. but the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the great goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, amen! 38. therefore lift up thyself as i am lifted up. hold thyself in as i am master to accomplish. at the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of nuit, do thou slay thyself as i at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. so therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the indus is 38 water in the cavern of the glacie

only "i wish to know" and of the dark man "i wish it were light" the first clearly a confession of ignorance, the second a patent evasion; which things discomforted me much. yet we progressed evenly and rapidly, and were mightily 57 cheered after a while to see just a flash of lightning sundering two dark clouds; next a pale crescent, heavy and slow, yet silvered; next, as if it had dropped from the stars, an unicorn galloped past us and was gone ere we could fix it; next a tall lighthouse upon the water "here" said the dark man my comrade "is a pleasant place for refreshment before we turn to the further journey" as he spoke, although no sun was visible, a mighty rainbow appeared, and crowned the tower. i cried out joyfully "the bow of promise" but they answered nothing. and at that i un

e earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of demeter. nay (even) the oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of persephone, of death the daughter of love. those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that i who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of spring. it is night, but only the sea whispers of persephone, as the stars intimate urania whose mystery is the third, and beyond. my body is absorbed in scent and touch; for the consuming fire of my sight has burnt itself out to blindness, and in my mouth is only the savour of an infinite kiss. the moist earth burns my lips; my fingers search down about the roots of the grass. the life of earth itself is my life: i shall be glad to be buried in the earth. let

hide from the sunless world, and the nymphs are faded to air, to be reborn in the sun-light: there is no more joy, for mournfulness is fallen on the world, and decadence and decay and the odour of eld. 151 the spirit sleeps; the rose of the world is buried under the soil of every star that glows, a hanging lamp, under the firmament. there shall be no more roses, no more roses, until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world. then shall be light again, o secret rose, and thou shalt be born anew, with radiant star-light for dew, and all thy petals shall be dreams crystallised of the gods who swing the chains of the worlds in space; and at the heart of thee shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred word, the logos of the throbbing universe. and the years shall pass in myriads over the t

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conjure thee anew by the holy name aradia and by the holy name cernunnos; i conjure thee, o sword (athame, that thou servest me for a protection in all adversities; so aid me now! again the man asperges, and the woman censes, and the weapon is returned to the pentacle, saying: both "i conjure thee, o sword (athame) of steel, by the great gods and gentle goddesses, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars and of the spirits who preside over them, that thou mayest receive such virtue that i may obtain the end i desire in all things wherein i shall use thee, by the power of aradia and cernunnos. the partner gives the fivefold kiss unto the owner of the weapon. if the owner is not present, or if the weapon is jointly owned by them both, the man will give the fivefold kiss to the woman. for t

the chanted prayer, as the moon bewitches the midnight air. evoke thy powers that potent bide in shining stream and the secret tide, in fiery flame by starlight pale, in shadowy host that rides the gale. and by the ferndrakes, faerie haunted, of forests wild and woods enchanted. come, o come! to the heartbeat's drum! come to us who gather below, when the broad white moon is climbing slow. through the stars to the heavens' height, we hear thy hoofs on the wind of night! as black tree branches shake and sigh, by joy and terror we know thee nigh. we speak the spell thy power unlocks, at solstice sabbath and equinox" notes l lots of published sources for this one, in several variants l michael harrison's the roots of witchcraft attempts to explain it. published sources include: doreen valiente

with the coveners in a circle, alternately man and woman, about the cauldron between them. the circle now moves slowly deosil once about the circle. as each passes the hps they kiss her upon the cheek; as they pass the hp, he hands each one a candle which is lit from the balefire. coveners dance slowly deosil as the hp calls: hp: queen of the moon, queen of the sun, queen of the heavens, queen of the stars, queen of the waters, queen of the earth, bring to us the child of promise! it is the great mother who gives birth to him; it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside when the sun shall come up early. golden sun of hill and mountain, illumine the land, illumine the world, illumine the seas, illumine the rivers, sorrows be laid, joy to the world! blessed be

l, o sun, ever-returning light, the hidden god, who ever yet remains, who now departs into the land of youth through the gates of death to dwell enthroned, the judge of gods and men, the horned leader of the hosts of air- yet even as he stands unseen about the circle, so dwelleth he within the secret seed- the seed of newly-ripened grain, the seed of flesh; hidden in earth, the marvellous seed of the stars. in him is life, and life is the light of man. that which never was born, and never dies. therefore the wise weep not, but rejoice. hps hands hp the wand, and picks up a sistrum; they lead the dance three times round the altar. the candle game is played, followed by cakes and wine and any other games the high priestess decides on. notes l based on stewart farrar's what witches do, which

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ievement, and the incentive to persist in our endeavour. the old books of the east have held secreted for many ages the truth about much which is only now beginning to sink into the consciousness of the occidental. they taught the radio-activity of matter thousands of years ago, and so perhaps, after all, there may be an equal amount of truth in their teaching about the constellations. perhaps in the stars that we can see in the distant heavens, and in the life that is evolving within them, we have the objective of our solar logos, and the influences that are flowing towards him, attracting him towards them, and making him, in due course of time, radio-active. in the eastern books they say that in the sun sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influence or the energy of love emanat

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arted revolution" the lords of the greater seven plunged the stone within the moving wheel. the lords of the greater fifth and sixth likewise plunged their stone. within the fire, deep at the inmost sphere, as whirled through space the greater wheel, bearing the lesser seven, the two were fused. the fourth, the fifth, the sixth blended, merged and intermingled. the aeon closed, the work was done. the stars stood still. the eternal ones cried to inmost heaven "display the work. draw forth the stones" and lo, the stones were one. stanza v the moment manvantaric, for which had waited all the triads, the hour that marked the solemn point of juncture, arrived within the scope of time, and lo, the work was done. the hour for which the seven groups purushic, each vibrant to the sounding of the wo

wever, are of prime importance at this time. these two, with the lesser triangle of our chain, constitute the focal point of energy viewed from our planetary standpoint. in addition to these some hints in connection with the microcosmic and macrocosmic centres, we might here give the cosmic correspondences at which it is possible to hint. the cosmos. our solar system, with the pleiades and one of the stars of the great bear, form a cosmic triangle, or an aggregation of three centres in the body of him of whom naught may be said. the seven stars in the constellation of the great bear are the correspondences to the seven head centres in the body of that being, greater than our logos. again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the pleiades, make a lower quaternary which a

h, out from the flaming fire down to the circle of gloom, rideth the secret avatar, bearing the sword that pierceth. naught can arrest his approach, and none may say him nay. to the darkness of our sphere he rideth alone, and on his approach is seen the uttermost disaster, and the chaos of that which seeketh to withstand. the asuras veil their faces, and the pit of maya reeleth to the foundation. the stars of the eternal lhas vibrate to that sound, the word uttered with sevenfold intensity. greater the chaos becometh; the major centre with all the seven circulating spheres rock with the echoes of disintegration. the fumes of utter blackness mount upwards in dissipation. the noise- 442- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust discordant of the warring elements greets the oncomi

e and play through that one of the planetary logoi who is the logos of any particular planet, and is the "reflection" of any specific rishi. in this relation, at present lacking perfect adjustment, lies hid the mystery of cosmic evil as it makes itself felt in any particular planetary scheme. again, when the heavenly triangle is duly equilibrated, and the force circulates freely through a. one of the stars of the great bear, b. the pleiad involved, c. the planetary scheme concerned, then again cosmic evil will be negated, and a relative perfection achieved. this will mark the attainment of primary perfection, and the consummation of the greater cycle. cyclic evil, or tertiary evil, lies hid in the relation between the globes in any particular scheme, two of them ever being in opposition un

eive and think" upon the cosmic mental plane. that supposes a realisation beyond that of the buddhas who have the consciousness of the cosmic physical plane, and beyond that of the planetary logoi. it is the consciousness and knowledge of a solar logos. to the occult student, who has developed the power of the inner vision, the vault of heaven can therefore be seen as a blazing fire of light, and the stars as focal points of flame from which radiate streams of dynamic energy. darkness is light to the illumined seer, and the secret of the heavens can be read and expressed in terms of force currents, energy centres, and dynamic fiery systemic peripheries. 4. the law of radiation. it will be found that more time will be given to this expression of divine activity than to any other in this sec

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m total of the expression of any identity, god or man, and the appearance of any man in exoteric expression on the physical plane is dependent upon the rhythmic or cyclic outgoing or indrawing energy of the great life in whom he lives and moves and has his being. this is the basis of the science of astrology or the relationship of the planet, or planets to the human being and of their relation to the stars and the various signs of the zodiac. some knowledge of this is essential to the right control of the life currents, so that the disciple can avail himself of the "times and seasons" wherein progress can be expedited. iii. the process of illuminating the lower man becomes possible through the right control of the pranas and this "illuminating process" is an exact science for which these f

ion upon the awakened light will produce the consciousness of that which is subtle, hidden or remote. 26. through meditation, one-pointedly fixed upon the sun, will come a consciousness (or knowledge) of the seven worlds. 27. a knowledge of all lunar forms arises through one-pointed meditation upon the moon. 28. concentration upon the pole-star will give knowledge of the orbits of the planets and the stars. 29. by concentrated attention upon the centre called the solar plexus, comes perfected knowledge as to the condition of the body. 30. by fixing the attention upon the throat centre, the cessation of hunger and thirst will ensue. 31. by fixing the attention upon the tube or nerve below the throat centre, equilibrium is achieved. 32. those who have attained self-mastery can be seen and co

t. the earth plane is described by him as "supported respectively by solid matter, by water, by fire, by wind, by air and by darkness. wherein living creatures, having been allotted a long and grievous length-of-life, feeling the misery incurred as the result of their own karma, are born" comment here is needless. in connection with the second plane, the astral, reference is made to the fact that the stars (the lives, on that plane are "driven by the wind as cows are driven by the ploughman in a circle around the threshing floor" and that they are "regulated by the steady impulsion of the wind- 164- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust we have here a wonderful picture of how all lives are driven by the force of their desires on the wheel of rebirth. vyasa notes that the mind wo

eful however to remember that the moon aspect is the governing one in all the kingdoms below the human, whilst the sun aspect should dominate in the human. a knowledge of the lunar mansions or of forms would give an understanding of the physical body, of the astral or desire vehicle and of the mental sheath. 28. concentration upon the pole-star will give knowledge of the orbits of the planets and the stars. this sutra is of small significance to the ordinary student, but is of profound use to the initiate or pledged disciple. suffice it here to say that this sutra forms the background for all astrological investigation and from an appreciation of its meaning will eventuate an understanding of: 1. the relation of our solar system to the other six constellations which (with ours) form the se

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

wn included) have their periods of ebb and flow, under the law. the periods of ebb in the case of those holding prominent position cause at times consternation to all those who follow their personalities, and not the inner god within their own heart. thirdly, bear in mind, also, that just as in the individual life there come the periods wherein the vision is obscured, the valley is traversed, and the stars shut out by the fog, so in connection with groups will the same be seen. but bear equally in mind that after the valley is crossed (for all aspirants and for all truly spiritual groups) the mount of initiation is seen and ascended; after obscuration succeeds the vision, and after night comes the day. in the great cycles affecting cosmic groups this also can be seen; in the lesser cycles

ess. let it be equally well remembered that the prime hindrance to the advanced and highly evolved personality is selfhood, or the prolongation of the selfish attitude. the characteristics therefore are in their sequential development as follows: 1. the ability to say i am, i wish, i desire, i will. 2. the consciousness of being in the centre of one's tiny universe "around me the heavens move and the stars in their courses revolve" is the motto of this stage. 3. the sense of drama and the capacity to visualise oneself as the centre of one's environment- 228- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. the sense of responsibility and the aptitude to regard the surrounding members of the human family as dependent upon one. 5. the sense of importance the outgrowth of the above. th

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

ntensely disordered that the wrong people come into power and the wrong aspects of truth become emphasized. a disordered inharmonious national unit is a menace to the comity of nations, and therefore the separative house-cleanings and rearrangements must go forward before the federation of nations can be an accomplished fact. the new era is however upon its way, and nothing can prevent that which the stars decree and which the hierarchy of guiding minds consequently foresee. the new executives who will succeed the present dictators and powers will take over the control towards the year 1955, and they will be seventh ray aspirants and disciples in the majority of cases; their capacity towards integration and towards fusion along right lines will then rapidly bring about the needed internati

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

s the mystery of man and the significance of our purpose of such importance that nowhere else can it be paralleled? can anything really happen on this "ball of dust" of such vital import that it can warrant the angels in singing "glory to god in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men? we like to think that it can be so. we dread the moment when our futility appears as we look upon the stars of heaven, realising that there are thousands of millions of universes and tens of thousands of millions of constellations! we are such specks in a great immensity. perhaps we are of more importance than we had guessed. perhaps what happens to us in the realm of consciousness really does matter in the cosmic scheme. we know that it does not much matter what happens to the body. it is wha

irit of god stretched upon a cross of material form, in order eventually to make possible the appearance of the kingdom of god on earth. this connotes the spiritualisation of matter and form, the assumption of matter into heaven, and the release of god from the cosmic crucifixion. the poet, joseph plunkett, makes this beautifully clear in the following verses "i see his blood upon the rose and in the stars the glory of his eyes, his body gleams amid eternal snows, his tears fall from the skies. i see his face in every flower, the thunder and the singing of the birds are but his voice and carven by his power rocks are his written words. all pathways by his feet are worn, his strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea, his crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, his cross is every tree" 10

t stirs the ever-beating sea, his crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, his cross is every tree" 10 the wonder of christ's mission lay in the fact that, though he was one of a long continuity of perfected divine men, he had a unique function. he summed up in himself and brought to a conclusion the symbolic presentation of god's eternal sacrifice upon the fixed cross of the heavens, to which the stars bear testimony and which the history of religion has so successfully veiled, and today refuses to recognise. the heavenly man is today pendant in the heavens, as he has been since the creation of the solar system, and as christ said "i, if i be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me,"11 and not all men only, but eventually all forms of life in all kingdoms will render up the

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

which govern every individual, little as he may think it. it will be recognised that the astrology with which we are here concerned and which i will later somewhat elaborate, does not deal with the expression of the personality. it is the planetary and racial astrology which those who work on the inner side, know to be of deep significance. it is the astrology of discipleship and the relation of the stars to the activities of the soul which they regard of importance. it is the astrology of initiation with which they are most profoundly concerned. though the time is not yet, we shall some day be able to cast the horoscope of the soul, and make more clear to the awakening human being the way that he should go. of this more anon. it will also be apparent that, as the relationships of the dif

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

r circle of spiritual influences which contact our system as it pursues its orbit in the heavens (the twelve constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognized this and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera (judges v.20 "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades (job xxxviii.31. many other passages bear out this contention of the knowers. many church festivals are fixed by reference to the moon or a zodiacal constellation. investigation will prove this to be the case and when the ritual of the new world religion is universally established

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

. in this instruction i seek to cast some light upon the glamour which confronts the disciple as an individual and also consider the aspect of glamour with which he must deal as a world server in training. speaking symbolically, i would say that the planetary astral body (viewing it from soul levels) is lost in the depths of a surrounding fog. when at night you look out at some clear sky, you see the stars and suns and planets shining with a clear cold brilliancy and with a twinkling blazing light which penetrates for many millions of miles (or light years as they are called) until the human eye registers them and records the existence of these shining stars. looking, however, at the astral- 42- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust body of the planet, could you but do so, yo

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

nd also virgo, of which- 60- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust mercury is the exoteric ruler. through uranus also, aries is related to aquarius, the sign of world service, leading to death and liberation in pisces. uranus is the planet through which zodiacal energy flows, in connection with the creative hierarchies upon our planet, from one of the stars of the great bear. it is these relationships with which esoteric astrology deals, and from them the universal can be grasped and the particular understood. the human being in his eventual recognised group relationships is of more importance than appears in his individual life, which the orthodox horoscope seeks to elucidate. it only determines his little destiny and unimportant fate. eso

ticularly where scorpio is concerned. scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs the path of discipleship. you will note here also how leo-scorpio-aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, but of this i will later deal in chapter iii under the heading, the science of triangles. aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the great bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called the pointers; these point to the pole star which is at this time a major "star of direction" direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar logos and with his evolutionary undertakings in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system. all these respond to the influences of the first ray- 117- a treatise o

science king solomon's seal is the well known symbol. these stars, triangles and squares are found in all horoscopes human, planetary, systemic and cosmic and constitute the life pattern of the particular being under investigation; they determine the time of manifestation and the nature of the emanations and influences. the squares or quaternaries relate to material appearance or form expression; the stars concern the states of consciousness, and the triangles are related to spirit and to synthesis. in the archives of the esoteric astrologers connected with the hierarchy, charts are kept of those members of the human family who have achieved adeptship and upwards. they are composed of superimposed squares, stars and triangles, contained within the zodiacal wheel and mounted upon the symbol

touch, presenting on a tiny scale a condition analogous to the contacting and interlocking series of triangles such as those referred to above. behind these concepts of the relation existing in time and space between the constellations of the great bear, the pleiades and the sun, sirius, and our solar system, there exists, it must be remembered, an immense series of interlocking triangles between the stars which compose these constellations interiorly and our solar system. you have, therefore, a relationship between: 1. the seven stars, composing the great bear. 2. the seven stars, composing the pleiades, sometimes called the seven "sisters" or "wives" of the rishis or informing lives of the great bear- 246- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis

t is prolonging the difficult and cruel situation and leading him individually to sink deep into glamour. the simplification of the world's problem in terms of matter comes through a recognition of the essential dualism underlying events. i commend this thought to all students, suggesting that they base optimism on the long range vision, endorsed by the heavens and corroborated by the activity of the stars, and thus feel sure of the ending of this immediate tragic situation. it is interesting to note that the seventh ray of ceremonial law and order works through uranus which is today the transmitter of sirian force via pisces to the hierarchy. from that "middle centre" it passes to that sensitive band of disciples, aspirants and workers to whose hearts and hands is committed the heavy task

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

bedtime. they were exceedingly good but exceedingly excited. they knew everyone on board, who they were, where they came from and what their names were, and they were most popular. only a few years ago i came across a big bundle of material which when i unrolled it proved to be three fancy ball dresses i had made for the girls on board the boat. the idea was most unoriginal, for the dresses were the stars and stripes, dark blue skirts striped with white and white bodices trimmed with red five-pointed stars. i refused to put forty-eight stars on each bodice as it imposed too much sewing but the general effect was most patriotic and gay. i shall never forget the day when we wound our way up the scheldt river and docked at antwerp. the girls, of course, had never seen a foreign city. everyth

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

influences which contact our solar system as it pursues its orbit in the heavens (the twelve constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted, but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognised this relationship, and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades; and many other passages bear out this contention of the knowers. many church festivals are fixed by reference to the moon or a zodiacal constellation. investigation will prove this to be increasingly the case, and when the ritual of the new world religion is universally established this will b

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

aster r. may be sensitised and become increasingly conscious of reality through the development of an inner mechanism of light which in its turn will condition and develop the outer mechanism of contact. ashrams on atmic levels are under the control of the master m, who fosters the will aspect within the developed forms and who (as the old commentary expresses it "adds darkness unto light so that the stars appear, for in the light the- 110- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust stars shine not, but in the darkness light diffused is not, but only focussed points of radiance" the symbolism will be obvious to you though not the full significance. embracing, fusing and unifying the endeavour of all these groups of ashrams, stands the li

with hierarchical energies and with the forces of the kingdoms of nature in the three worlds; the master receives instruction in the handling of the energies which are extra-planetary but within the solar ring-pass-not. those masters whose decision it is to tread the second path are taught the control and direction of systemic energies and of certain energies emanating from libra and from one of the stars in the constellation of the great bear. in the more advanced stages of their work, and when the master is far more advanced than the word indicates, he works consciously upon the cosmic mental plane; his activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of the great bear to the pleiades, and their dual relationship (a higher correspondence to atma-buddhi) to the solar s

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

f the hesperides the myth the nature of the test- 1- the symbols labor iii- part 2 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the field of the labor the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor iv- part 1 the capture of the doe or hind the myth synthesis of the signs meaning of the story labor iv- part 2 the capture of the doe or hind qualities of the sign the cardinal cross the stars at-one-ment with capricorn symbols the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor v the slaying of the nemean lion the myth the number five the story of the myth the field of the labor the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor vi seizing the girdle of hippolyte- 2- the labours of hercules the myth introduction interpretations of the myth the two way

prologue reflections of a libran the rulers of libra and its opposite sign the constellations and stars some highlights from the lecture by alice bailey labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra the myth introduction psychological analysis of the myth the nine heads of the hydra fighting the hydra: modern version applications to life what is death scorpio, the sign of magic the constellations and the stars labor ix killing the stymphalian birds the myth interpretation of the labor silence two gates, three constellations the chrysalis symbol the spirit of truth the spirit of right three gifts three constellations- 3- the labours of hercules details of the story labor x the slaying of cerberus, guardian of hades the myth prologue interpretations of the labor in capricorn meanings of the sign

the twelve signs of the zodiac. in each sign he expressed its characteristics, and in each sign, he achieved some fresh knowledge of himself, and through that knowledge demonstrated the power of the sign and acquired the gifts which the sign conferred. in each of the signs we shall find him surmounting his natural tendencies, controlling and governing his destiny, and demonstrating the fact that the stars incline, but do not control [7] the form of astrology which will, i believe, in time supersede the ordinary kind, dealing with horoscopes, is that synthetic presentation of cosmic happenings which have their reflection in our planetary life, in the life of humanity as a whole, and in the life of the individual, who is ever the microcosm of the macrocosm. this type of astrology confines i

he seven stars of the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to exist) between the stars of the pleiades and those of the great bear. these two groups of stars represent god, the macrocosm, whilst in gemini, castor and pollux were regarded as symbols of man, the microcosm. they were also called apollo and hercules: apollo, meaning the ruler, the sun god; and hercules "the one who comes to labor. they represent, therefore, the two aspects of man's nature, the soul and the per

ciated with these two constellations, contains a star of the most intense crimson color, almost like a drop of blood. red is ever the symbol of desire for material things. in the zodiac of denderah, the name given is bashtibeki, which means "falling confounded. aratus, writing about 250 b.c, speaks of lepus as being "chased eternally, and it is interesting to note that the hebrew names of some of the stars found in this constellation signify "the enemy of the coming one, which is the meaning of the name of the brightest star, arneb; whilst three other stars have names meaning "the mad "the bound "the deceiver. all these words are characteristics of the lower self chased eternally by the higher self; the human soul pursued by the hound of heaven. as we look at the starry heavens at night an

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ceano,colla tua barca, fatta,fatta mezza luna,la tua barca rilucente,barca e luna crescente;fai sempre velo in cielo,e in terra sulla sera,e anche navigareriflettata a sulla mare,preghiamo di dare a questo,questo buon melambo.qualunque parlaredi qualunque animali!the invocation of the serpents mother to diana.diana! diana! diana!queen of all enchantressesand of the dark night,and of all nature,of the stars and of the moon,and of all fate or fortune!thou who rulest the tide,who shinest by night on the sea,casting light upon the waters;thou who art mistress of the oceanin thy boat made like a crescent,crescent moon-bark brightly gleaming,ever smiling high in heaven,sailing too on earth, reflectedin the ocean, on its water; page 71 n r r r r r come lappetito viene mangiando,e viene il guadagn

o dothe most for themselves. page 69 n r r r r r it would be a great gratification to me if any among those into whose hands this book may fall, whomay possess information confirming what is here set forth, would kindly either communicate it orpublish it in some form, so that it may not be lost.the children of diana, or how the fairies were born.all things were made by diana, the great spirits of the stars, men in their time and place, the giantswhic were of old, and the dwarfs who dwell in the rocks, and once a month worship her with cakes.there was once a young man who was poor, without parents, yet was he good.one night he sat in a lonely place, yet it was very beautiful, and there he saw a thousand littlefairies, shining white, dancing in the light of the full moon.gladly would i be li

thoughts. thus confuciusis said to have composed amelody which was a personal description of himself. now if this be not understood, we cannotunderstand the soul of early music, and the folk-lorist who cannot get beyond the letter and fancieshimself scientific is exactly like the musician who has no idea of how or why melodies wereanciently composed.the strange and mystical chapter how diana made the stars and the rain is the same given inmy legends of florence, vol. ii. p. 229, but much enlarged, or developed to a cosmogonic-mytholog-ic sketch. and here a reflection occurs which is perhaps the most remarkable which all this witchevangel suggests. in all other scriptures of all races, it is the male, jehovah, buddha, or brahma,who creates the universe; in witch sorcery it is the female who

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

, diana, thou shalt not know.answer well the prayer ive sent thee,or day and night will i torment thee! page 26 and with what power i have i conjure theet o grant to me the favour i implore!three things ive gathered in the garden here:a lemon, orange, and a mandarin;ive gathered them to bring good luck to me.two of them i do grasp here in my hand,and that which is to serve me for my fate,queen of the stars!then make that fruit remain firm in my grasp.[something is here omitted in the ms. i conjecture that the two are tossed without seeing them intothe air, and if the lemon remains, the ceremony proceeds as follows. this is evident, since in it theincantation is confused with a prose direction how to act.]saying this, one looks up at the sky, and i found the lemon in one hand, and a voice s

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apet of the subconsciousness in humanity: and humanity sinking into the pit of conventionality. hail! the convention of the age is nearing its limit. and with it a resurrection of the primitive woman. and then there are his film stars. they are sidereal seductresses, sirens and cyphers, pictures of ravishing beauty that resonate with bewitching frequencies. sidereal means relating to or involving the stars. spare developed a curious technique of subtle distortion in which his slightly askew portraits seem to suggest much more of the sitters personality and magickal content than is apparent in a more conventional depiction. ghosts are sidereal he wrote and it seems to me that his strange geometric experiments pierce through to the soul of the stars. from this i can find a definite magickal

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

l from the east must be deprived of its lion s skin, and lose its wings. then it must plunge in the salt water of the vast ocean, and emerge thence in renovated beauty. plunge thy volatile spirits in a deep spring whose waters never fail, that they may become like their mother, who is hidden therein, and born of three. twelve keys of basil valentine 21 of 95 hungary is my native land, the sky and the stars are my habitation, the earth is my spouse. though i must die and be buried, yet vulcan causes me to be born anew. therefore, hungary is my native land, and my mother encloses the whole world. when all that were present had received these his sayings, he thus continued: cause that which is above to be below; that which is visible, to be invisible; and that which is palpable, to become imp

that is to say, it must itself be essentially twelve keys of basil valentine 34 of 95 incombustible. he, then, who would prepare the incombustible sulphur of the sages, must look for our sulphur in a substance in which it is incombustible v v which can only be after its body has been absorbed by the salt sea, and again rejected by it. then it must be so exalted as to shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is cove

nd growth, seeing that it is devoid of the quickening spirit. this spirit is the life and soul that dwell in the earth, and are nourished by heavenly and sidereal influences. for all herbs, trees, and roots, and all metals and minerals, receive their growth and nutriment from the spirit of the earth, twelve keys of basil valentine 40 of 95 which is the spirit of life. this spirit is itself fed by the stars, and is thereby rendered capable of imparting nutriment to all things that grow, and of nursing them as a mother does her child while it is yet in the womb. the minerals are hidden in the womb of the earth, and nourished by her with the spirit which she receives from above. thus the power of growth that i speak of is imparted not by the earth, but by the life vgiving spirit that is in it

ccurs only by putrefaction. the reason is that the soil in such places is so disposed, and, as it were, impregnated, that it produces these fruits, which is a result of the properties of sidereal influence; consequently the seed is spiritually produced in the earth, and putrefies in the earth, and by the operation of the elements generates corporeal matter according to the species of nature. thus the stars and the elements may generate new spiritual, and, ultimately, new vegetable seed, by means of putrefaction. but man cannot create new seed; for it is not in his power to order the operation of the elements and the essential influences of the stars. by natural conditions, however, new plants are generated simply through putrefaction. this fact is not noticed by the farmer, simply because

h, and the residuum of yellow powder washed away, you obtain a sweet powder which causes no diarrhoea, but is justly regarded as a marvellously beneficial medicine. this excellent powder is dissolved in a moist place into a liquid which is profitably employed as a painless agent in surgery. let me sum up in few words what i have to say. the substance is of heavenly birth, its life is preserved by the stars, and nourished by the four elements; then twelve keys of basil valentine 58 of 95 it must perish, and be putrefied; again, by the influence of the stars, which works through the elements, it is restored to life, and becomes once more a heavenly thing that has its habitation in the highest region of the firmament. then you will find that the heavenly has assumed an earthly body, and that

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

kyai! 1.3. reconsecration offerings (28.4-28.6) regarding the lords of life-energy; regarding the possessions of delight for you, the assembly of the seven terrifying emanating ones: the tormas of red flesh and blood are piled up like a mountain. the uncontaminated nectar is contained like a lake. the oblation liquid of blood fills a pool. the possessions of the deity offering are spread out like the stars. the music of the thigh-bone trumpet roars like a dragon together with the assembly of pleasant song. 1.4. vow amendment (28.6-29.5 (29) amend the vows of the seven oath-bound brothers! amend the vows of the radiant wild might demons! amend the vows of the eight thousand classes of demons! amend the vows of the oath-bound shrine protectors! amend the vows of the messengers of the four ac

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and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a reference to the celestial serpent" remarks that "it is not astonishing that a constellation so extended should be represented by the author of that book as a great dragon with seven heads, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dupuis, tome iii, p. 255. only dupuis never knew why draco, once the pole-star- the symbol of "guide" guru and director- had been thus degraded by posterity "the gods of our fathers are our devils" says an asiatic proverb. when draco ceased to be the lode-star, the guiding sidereal divinity, it shared the fate of all the fallen gods. seth and typhon wa

w. and the rabbi in commenting upon them says "it teaches the alhimness (31415) and one-ness (the diameter to alhim) through words (dbrim, 41224, by which on the one side there is infinite expression in heterogeneous creations, and on the other a final harmonic tendency to one-ness (which as everyone knows is the mathematical function of[[pi" of the schools, which measures, and weighs and numbers the stars of heaven, and yet resolves them back into the final oneness of the universe through words "their final accord perfects itself in that oneness that ordains them and which consists in[[hebrew (book of al-chazari, that is the rabbi, in his first comment, leaves the jod, or i, out of one of the words, whereas afterwards he restores it again. if we take the values of those subordinate words

est astronomer in aryavarta, one to whom "the[[footnote(s* sesha, who is also ananta, the infinite, and the "cycle of eternity" in esotericism, is credited with having given his astronomical knowledge to garga, the oldest astronomer of india, who propitiated him, and forthwith knew all about the planets and how to read omens[[vol. 2, page] 50 the secret doctrine. sun-god imparted the knowledge of the stars" in propria persona, as dr. weber himself states, is identified by him, in some very mysterious way, with the "ptolemaios" of the greeks. no more valid reason is given for this identification than that "this latter name (ptolemaios, as we see from the inscription of piyadasi, became the indian 'turamaya' out of which the name 'asuramaya' might very easily grow" no doubt it "might" but th

the "flames? michael depends upon that of his creator and master. who the latter is, one may find out by carefully studying the allegory of the "war in heaven" with the astronomical key. as shown by bentley, the "war of the titans against the gods" in hesiod, and also the war of the asuras (or the tarakamaya) against the devas in puranic legend, are identical in all save the names. the aspects of the stars show (bentley taking the year 945 b.c. as the nearest date for such conjunction) that "all the planets, except saturn, were on the same side of the heavens as the sun and moon" and hence were his opponents. and yet it is saturn, or the jewish "moon-god" who is shown as prevailing, both by hesiod and moses, neither of whom was understood. thus it was that the real meaning became distorted

h, that function of this power that "made the barren woman. a mother. for they are the gift of jehovah. which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the shunamite, as to her going to the man of god "for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon (2 kings, iv, 23) the living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. bentley comments on the hindu "war between the gods and the giants" as marked by the eclipse of the sun at the ascending node of the moon, 945 b.c, at which time was born* or produced from the sea, sri (sarai, s-r-i, the wife of the hebrew a-bram. sri is also venus-aphrodite the western emblem "of t

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s said in "isis" this divine and unseen canvas is the book of life. as it is the lipika who project into objectivity from the passive universal mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the "builders" reconstruct the kosmos after every pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the seven angels of the presence, whom the christians recognise in the seven "planetary spirits" or the "spirits of the stars" for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the eternal ideation- or, as called by plato, the "divine thought" the eternal record is no fantastic dream, for we meet with the same records in the world of gross matter "a shadow never falls upon a wall without leaving thereupon a permanent trace which might be made visible by resorting to proper processes" says dr. draper "the por

he systems of worlds were at rest and plunged in their periodic sleep[[vol. 1, page] 117 the antiquity of physical sciences. tendency, from the first awakening of kosmos to a new "day" to circular movement. the "deity becomes a whirlwind" they are also called rotae- the moving wheels of the celestial orbs participating in the world's creation- when the meaning refers to the animating principle of the stars and planets; for in the kabala, they are represented by the ophanim, the angels of the spheres and stars, of which they are the informing souls (see kabala denudata "de anima" p. 113) this law of vortical movement in primordial matter, is one of the oldest conceptions of greek philosophy, whose first historical sages were nearly all initiates of the mysteries. the greeks had it from the

verseer near it, it is not individuals but entire species of things that must be understood, each such species having indeed its particular angel to watch it. he is at one in this with all the philosophers. for us these angels are spirits separated from the objects. whereas for the philosophers (pagan) they were gods" considering the ritual established by the roman catholic church for "spirits of the stars" the latter look suspiciously like "gods" and were no more honoured and prayed to by the ancient and modern pagan rabble than they are now at rome by the highly cultured catholic christians[[vol. 1, page] 124 the secret doctrine. angels and the devils. for the kabalist and occultist there is but one; and neither of them makes any difference between "the rectors of light" and the cosmocra

their head: or the "seven spirits of the face: the seven sephiroth separated from the first triad, etc, etc* they build or rather rebuild every "system" after the "night" the second group of the builders is the architect of our planetary chain exclusively; and the third, the progenitor of our humanity- the macrocosmic prototype of the microcosm. the planetary spirits are the informing spirits of the stars in general, and of the planets especially. they rule the destinies of men who are all born under one or other of their constellations; the second and third groups pertaining to other systems have the same functions, and all rule various departments in nature. in the hindu exoteric pantheon they are the guardian deities who preside over the eight points of the compass- the four cardinal a

haldeans, with the greek as with the roman catholics- with a slight variation of the texts in their interpretations- they all were the genii of the seven planets, as of the seven planetary spheres of our septenary chain, of which earth is the lowest (see isis, vol. ii. p. 186) this connects the "stellar" and "lunar" spirits with the higher planetary angels and the saptarishis (the seven rishis of the stars) of the hindus- as subordinate angels (messengers) to these "rishis" the emanations, on the descending scale, of the former. such, in the opinion of the philosophical gnostics, were the god and the archangels now worshipped by the christians! the "fallen angels" and the legend of the "war in heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from india via persia and chaldea. the only

BLUE EQUINOX

the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under will. 666 44 the tent only the stars endome the lonely camp, only the desert leagues encompass it; waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, embattled cold, imagination.s cramp. now were the desolation fain to stamp the congealed spirit of man into the pit, save that, unquenchable because unlit, the love of god burns steady, like a lamp. it burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. it burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars

eting could be so glad? look brother, we are free! rejoice with me, sister, there is no law beyond do what thou wilt! ii i write this for those who have not read our sacred book, the book of the law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understand its perfection. for there are many matters in this book, and the gald tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the book as the stars are scattered through the field of night. rejoice with me, all ye people! at the very head of the book stands the great charter of our godhead .every man and every woman is a star. we are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven who is also matter i

e are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven who is also matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. hear her first summons to us the equinox 48 men and women .come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. later she explains the mystery of sorrow .for i am divided for love.s sake, for the chance of union .this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. it is shown later how this can be, how death itself is an ecstasy like love, b

paz, and of deep amethyst, and of gray sapphire, and of deep sapphire with a tinge as of blood. 6. therefore do ye fret yourselves because of this. 7. be not contented with the image. 8. i who am the image of an image say this. 9. debate not of the image, saying beyond! beyond! one mounteth unto the crown by the moon and by the sun, and by the arrow, and by the foundation, and by the dark home of the stars from the black earth. 10. not otherwise may ye reach unto the smooth point. 11. nor is it fitting for the cobbler to prate of the royal matter. o cobbler! mend me this shoe, that i may walk. o king! if i be thy son, let us speak of the embassy to the king thy brother. 12. then was there silence. speech had done with us awhile. there is a light so strenuous that it is not perceived as lig

all, the night shall cover all. 25. thou wast long seeking me; thou didst run forward so fast that i was unable to come up with thee. o thou darling fool! what bitterness thou didst crown thy days withal. 26. now i am with thee; i will never leave thy being. 27. for i am the soft sinuous one entwined about thee, heart of gold! 28. my head is jewelled with twelve stars. my body is white as milk of the stars; it is brightwith the blue of the abyss of stars invisible. 29. i have found that which could not be found; i have found a vessel of quicksilver. 30. thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him. 31 (the scribe looketh upwards and crieth) amen! thou hast spoken it, lord god! the equinox 68 32. further adonai spake unto v.v.v.v.v. and said: 33. let us take

BOOK OF ENOCH

st the watchers (4) the most high of the watchers speaks out (5) enoch meets the holy watchers (6) the book of reproof (7) enoch stays for a while with the watchers (8) the angels who keep watch (9) the fragrant trees (10) the book of methuselah (11) the book of noah (12) the book of parables (13) the storehouses (14) the revolutions of the lights (15) enoch's letter to methuselah (16) the law of the stars (17) enoch's first vision (18) prophecy of the animals (19) prophecy of the ten weeks (20) enoch's message of guidance references and further reading introduction the ethiopic book of enochoxford university pressi first heard about the book of enoch a few years ago, while i was researching into end of days prophesies. when i finally managed to get hold of a copy, i discovered that it was

u will not be able to enjoy them, but they will fall before you by the sword. 14.7] and your petition will not be granted in respect of them or in respect of yourselves. and while you weep and supplicate you do not speak a single word from the writings which i have written. 14.8] and the vision appeared to me, as follows- behold; clouds called me in the vision, and mist called me. and the path of the stars, and flashes of lightning, hastened me and drove me. and in the vision winds caused me to fly, and hastened me, and lifted me up into the sky. 14.9] and i proceeded until i came near a wall which was made of hailstones, and a tongue of fire surrounded it, and it began to make me afraid. 14.10] and i went into the tongue of fire and came near to a large house, which was built of hailstone

nd lifted me up into the sky. 14.9] and i proceeded until i came near a wall which was made of hailstones, and a tongue of fire surrounded it, and it began to make me afraid. 14.10] and i went into the tongue of fire and came near to a large house, which was built of hailstones, and the wall of that house was like a mosaic of hailstones and its floor was snow. 14.11] its roof was like the path of the stars and flashes of lightning, and among them was fiery cherubim, and their sky was like water. 14.12] and there was a fire burning around its wall and its door was ablaze with fire. 14.13] and i went into that house, and it was as hot as fire and as cold as snow, and there was neither pleasure nor life in it. fear covered me and trembling took hold of me. 14.14] and as i was shaking and trem

rembling, i fell on my face. 14.15] and i saw in the vision, and behold, another house which was larger than the former and all its doors were open before me, and it was built of a tongue of fire. 14.16] and in everything, it so excelled in glory and splendor and size, so that i am unable to describe to you its glory and its size. 14.17] and its floor was fire, and above lightning and the path of the stars, and its roof also was a burning fire. 14.18] and i looked, and i saw in it, a high throne, and its appearance was like ice, and its surrounds like the shining sun and the sound of cherubim. 14.19] and from underneath the high throne there flowed out rivers of fire so that it was impossible to look at it. 14.20] and he who is great in glory sat upon it, and his raiment was brighter than

all creation, and i saw the foundations of the earth. 18.2] and i saw the cornerstone of the earth. and i saw the four winds which support the earth and the sky. 18.3] and i saw how the winds stretch out the height of heaven, and how they position themselves between heaven and earth; they are the pillars of heaven. 18.4] and i saw the winds which turn the sky and cause the disc of the sun and all the stars to set. 18.5] and i saw the winds on the earth which support the clouds and i saw the paths of the angels. i saw at the end of the earth; the firmament of heaven above. 18.6] and i went towards the south, and it was burning day and night, where there were seven mountains of precious stones, three towards the east and three towards the south. 18.7] and those towards the east were of colou

BOOK OF JASHAR

en god spoke again. the patterns spread and cooled and, in time, they could flow together and yet remain distinct from each other. so they formed a song of love that echoed throughout the universe, and they found peace. then god said "let there be another story" and great clouds were formed in the patterns. but within each swirling milky way, there was no feeling, no hope and no fear. the sun and the stars formed in the clouds, and dust was gathered into planets and the world. but in the stars and planets there were no dreams, except those of god and peace. the world was warm and wet and nourishing for living things, and so they formed and grew on its surface. new life came from old, which died and gave its place. plants turned their leaves to the sun, and animals grew eyes to see. and yet

en god said "see now what i can do with a spark" and thus fire was given into the hand of eve. she nourished the spark with dry leaves, and human brought her sticks, and they felt the warmth of their fire. faben and flo awoke to a vision of angels with flaming swords, and they fled into the wilderness. so human and eve sat alone by their fire, and its light shone up into heaven, past the moon and the stars, 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 se

whole vastness of the world. seth found rama, flo's daughter, alone along the river, and together they had a daughter named jashar. when jashar had grown into womanhood, she met cain returning home. on that day, seth had killed a great beast, and so they celebrated at the return of cain. eve made a fire, and human sang, and rama and jashar danced. and god married cain and jashar that night, under the stars "in this way" human said "we shall always rejoice when two branches of my family are rejoined" then they feasted late into the night, while human foretold joys and sorrows, and cain described his visions. everything that human said was true, but cain spoke only of the world of the children of abel. so human was the first true prophet, and cain the first false prophet, but they dwelt toge

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

the full or the new moon, then the appropriate segment (below) is inserted at this point. otherwise go directly into the cakes and ale ceremony] full moon rite priestess stands with her legs apart and her arms raised up and out, stretching to the sky. priest kneels before her. all the coveners also kneel. all raise their arms high. covener "when the moon rides on high, as she crosses the sky, and the stars on her gown trail behind, then we wiccans below are with love all aglow, just to see her so brightly enshrined" covener "on the night of full moon, as we sing to the tune of the lady who watches above, we raise high our song as she glides by so strong, and we bask in the light of her love" all lower their arms. priest rises and kisses priestess, then kneels again. priest "lovely lady, yo

he sun and the coolness of the breeze. the spark of life is within me, as is the darkness of death. lesson six: sabbats 169 70/ bucklcind's complete book of witchcraft for i am he who is the gatekeeper at the end of time. lord-dweller in the sea, you hear the thunder of my hooves upon the shore and see the fleck of foam as i pass by. my strength is such that i might lift the world itself to touch the stars. yet gentle am i, ever, as the lover. i am he whom all must face at the appointed hour, yet am i not to be feared, for i am brother, lover, son. death is but the beginning of life, and i am he who turns the key" priestess salutes priest. one by one other coven-ers move around. if they wish to, they may place an offering on the altar or before it. they then embrace and/or kiss the priest

on is generally a matter of personal convenience. for most people it is either the early morning or the late evening. a few usually those who are home during the day find mid-afternoon most convenient. there is some evidence to suggest that a period close to the hour of your birth is best. certainly astrological influences cannot be totally discounted. however, the slight advantage of attuning to the stars can be more than offset by the negative influences such as noisy neighbors or scheduling conflicts with other required activites. so choose the time that is most convenient for you. the important thing is that you do meditate and that you consistently meditate. so, whatever time you choose, stick to that same time every day. persistence to succeed and remain successful in meditation, you

many different hours and minutes that have passed with the years. the astrologer's aids for this are the ephemeris and the table of houses. the ephemeris gives the positions of the planets at the different times, while the table of houses gives the corrections with regard to the place of birth; the geographical location. measurement of time is given in what is known as sidereal time, measured by the stars rather than the sun. the stars appear to move around the sky at a faster rate than the sun, and this must be allowed for in the calculation of sidereal time. working, then, from the ephemeris, you must first calculate the sidereal time (shown as "s.t) at the moment of birth. if born before noon, the necessary hours and minutes will be subtracted from the s.t. given for noon in the epheme

grass lightly tickles them as you move the warrior queen i am the warrior queen! the defender of my people. with strong arms do i bend the bow and wield the moon-axe. i am she who tamed the heavenly mare and rides the winds of time. i am guardian of the sacred flame; the fire of all beginnings. i am the sea-mare, the firstborn of the sea mother and command the waters of the earth. i am sister to the stars and mother to the moon. within my womb lies the destiny of my people for i am the creatrix. i am daughter to the lady with ten thousand names; i am epona, the white mare. tara buckland thelord behold! i am he who is at the beginning and the end of time. i am in the hgat of the sun and the coolness of the breeze. the spark of life is within me as is the darkness of death; for i am the cau

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ister are- click to view heru-her-khent-f. 1. the god heru-her-khent-f, seated on a throne, as his name implies. he is hawk-headed, and wears the solar disk encircled by a serpent; in his right hand is the symbol of life, and in his left a sceptre. the other forms of his name are# and. of this god it is said "the work of this figure who is in this picture is in the tuat, and it is for him to send the stars on their way, and to make the hours to go on their way in the tuat" the stars are personified by gods, twelve in number, who stand each with a star on his head. their names are- 1. ur-kert. 2. kekhert. 3. neb-khert-ta. 4. tuati. p. 155 5. hiat. 6. hi-khu. 7. emta-a. click to view ur-kert. kekhert. neb-khert-ta. tuati. hiat. hi-khu. click to view emta-a. teser-a. emma-a. sem-nes-f. tesem

hat is in this picture, the form (or, image) of the god tem proceedeth from his back; but afterwards it swalloweth itself (i.e, disappeareth" the words# may form the name of the winged serpent. 3. a serpent, with a mummied god seated on his p. 242 click to view back; above the god is written "tchet-s" i.e "its body" and by the tail of the serpent is shetu. the text reads "tchet-s herself is above the stars (i.e, the eight stars which are about the heads of the two serpents; her work is to cast the living ones to ra everyday; she then swalloweth p. 243 her forms in this city of the eleventh hour [and she is] one of those who follow the god" click to view the god tepui. 4. the god tepui, i.e, the "two-headed; one head faces to the right and the other to the left. 5. the god khnem-renit, ram

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ough oxygen for a family of four and absorbs the carbon dioxide that we exhale, transforming it again to life-giving oxygen. and this sacred spark of a common source of divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers from our own, separate dynamos. through them and through us courses the universal life force, known as ch'i to the chinese, and prana in hindu philosophy. it is a source upon wh

urity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fe

and the universe, but these i will share with all who come with willing heart and open mind. for they are not hidden from you, but are all round you in every season. i am in the moon as she passes through the sky, in the fertile earth and the mighty waters, for i am them as i am part of you, and you of me, and you too are of the same divine fabric as the moon and the fertile earth and the waters, the stars, the sunshine and the life-giving rain 'i do not ask sacrifice or worship, for i come to you in love as a gentle mother, with compassion, understanding and forgiveness of those things in your heart that you fear to look on in yourself. i am fierce, defending my young and my green places and creatures from all who would do them harm, but i would rather teach than avenge, restore and regen

peace, not only to myself and my loved ones, but to people whose lives are blighted by polluted places and, especially, water. cleansing using the forces of nature leave your artefact(s) on a piece of white silk in a sheltered, safe place out of doors or near an open door where children, pets or the curious cannot reach them. begin at dusk where they can absorb the light of the sun, the moon and the stars, for 24 hours. this will be effective even if you cannot see any of these heavenly bodies in the sky. charge at the time of the waxing moon to the full moon if possible; if not, let them stand for 48 hours. if the moon is waning and so not good for energising, create a circle of alternate moonstones and crystal quartz for the powers of the sun and moon, and leave the tools within this ci

with logistics. creating a temple before you begin a formal ritual, you must cast an astral or spiritual temple above and surrounding the circle and the location. in your mind's eye, visualise your own temple, perhaps one from the ancient world, resplendent with gold and jewels, with a statue of a deity in marble, gold or silver. the roof of the temple may form a crystalline pyramid or be open to the stars (readers of the late dion fortune's occult novels will have no difficulty in forming images of such splendid edifices) or you may create a grove of oak or olive trees or one of the ancient stone circles as your working place or a castle room whose battlements are lashed by a stormy sea. the altar in your temple may be pure gold, ornate stone or beaten copper, and the candles may be set i

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

an al-kufi. 800-866 al-kindi wrote "on rays (de radiis. al-kindi's theory would tend to imply that the "occult qualities" of plants and stones are a kind of signification "all terrestrial things emit "rays" which exist everywhere simultaneously thereby permitting the magician who understands these things to effect change at a distance. these "rays" of terrestrial things are related to the rays of the stars and planets, thus heaven and earth exist in a reciprocal relation to each other. more than this the human voice can effect change. thus the arts of the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) have esoteric/magical correlates"-robert zoller 825 al-razi(abu bakr muhammad ibn zakariyya, born at rhagae near tehran 836 thabit ibn qurrah (thebit)exiled'sabian' of harran iun baghdad "we are the h

din yahya ibn habash ibn amirak al-suhrawardi. persian sufi whose theosophy of light= ishraqi thought- believed wisdom passed directly from the divine to hermes and from him to egypt and persia eventually extending to greece and thus on to the early sufis of persia illuminating islamic civilization. the soul is exiled into matter but through ishraq(illumination)the soul returns to its home beyond the stars by way of a theurgic angelology. wrote hikmat-al-ishraq 'philosophy of illumination. influence upon isaac luria and the safed qabbalists. c.1155 blondel de nesle trouv re carolled across europe songs to the missing richard i. 1155- 1207 raimbaud de vacqueiras troubadour author of the first known italian poetry. c.1155- 1231 folquet de marselh (marseilles)troubadour "a verse without music

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

he globe, which was thus made: on the sea (there being a large square beside it) was a tablet, on which stood three dedications and the author s name, which a man might gently lift up and by a little joined board go into the centre, which was capable of holding four persons, being nothing but a round board on which we could sit, and at ease, by broad daylight (it was now already dark) contemplate the stars. to my thinking they were mere carbuncles which glittered in an agreeable order, and moved so gallantly that i had scarcely any mind ever to go out again, as the page afterwards told the virgin, with which she often teased me. for it was already supper-time, and i had so much amused myself in the globe, that i was almost the last at the table; so i made no more delay, but having put on m

and had not the duchess yesterday so faithfully warned me, i should have forgotten myself, and have equaled this unspeakable glory to heaven. for apart from the fact that the room glistened with gold and precious stones, the queen s robes were moreover made so that i was not able to behold them. and whereas before i esteemed anything to be handsome, here all things so much surpassed the rest, as the stars in heaven are elevated. in the meantime the virgin came in, and so each of the virgins taking one of us by the hand, with most profound reverence presented us to the king, whereupon the virgin began to speak thus: that to honour your royal majesties (most gracious king and queen) these lords here present have ventured here in peril of body and life, your majesties have reason to rejoice

r our pleasure. for when we had finished our day s work, too, everyone had only a mattress laid on the ground for him, with which we were to content ourselves. for my part i was not very much bothered about sleeping, and therefore walked out into the garden, and at length came as far as the wall; and because the heaven was at that time very clear, i could well drive away the time in contemplating the stars. by chance i came to a great pair of stone stairs, which led up to the top of the wall. and because the moon shone very bright, i was so much the more confident, and went up, and looked a little upon the sea too, which was now exceedingly calm. and thus having good opportunity to consider more about astronomy, i found that this present night there would occur a conjunction of the planets

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the sky? a: she salvaged the legs of a dead warrior-turtle to prop up the sky. q: what did nuwa give the people and why? a: she gave them a bamboo flute in the shape of a phoenix s tail. playing it would make them forget about the horrible things they saw. q: what happened to the geography of china as a result of gong s actions? a: china is tilted so that it is high at the northwest corner where the stars and moon pass through, and low at the southeast corner where the rivers run into the sea. 49 expert commentary the five sacred colors mentioned in the story are connected to five important earth elements: green=wood, red=fire, yellow=soil, white=metal, black=water. in their study of chinese festivals, authors carol stepanchuck and charles wong write: the elements, which are five natural

the precious elixir to his wife, chang-o was delighted. she burned with the anticipation of returning to her sisters in the sky. the goddess begged him to take the medicine immediately, but her husband refused, remembering the warning he had been given by the queen mother. yi said, i have undertaken a long journey to fulfill your deepest desire. we must be patient and wait for a clear night when the stars can guide us homeward. chang-o agreed with her husband s clear reasoning, but her desire to be reunited with her sisters was far stronger than her appreciation of his logic. when her husband left for his daily hunt, the goddess stared at the elixir. as the day and night wore on, yi did not return. as was often the case, chang-o spent the lonely night waiting for her husband s return. the

s could borrow some sky dragons to visit the queen mother of the western paradise. there, they would persuade her to mix up another dose of the elixir solely for the archer so he could join his wife in heaven. as she swallowed the elixir, chang-o felt its bitterness burn her throat. immediately, her body became lighter, and she felt dizzy. as she ran out into the night, her body floated upward to the stars. unfortunately, the night was not clear. chang-o wandered among the stars and lost her way. she finally came to rest, trapped in the cold moon. the archer yi was just returning when he saw his wife drifting up to the sky. he called out to her and ran after her shadow, but she was too far away to hear him. yi was heartbroken and wept for days. no one could console the grieving hunter. the

ascend to the skies to be with his wife. on that one night, the harvest moon shines the brightest and fullest of the year, reflecting the archer yi s love for chang-o. the moon goddess 79 questions and answers q: why was the grand archer yi banished from heaven to live on earth? a: the sun god dijun was angry at him for shooting down and killing the nine suns. q: why did chang-o want to return to the stars? a: she missed her goddess sisters and the luxurious life of heaven. she did not like to feel her body dying on earth, and wanted to regain her youth and beauty. q: what warning did the queen mother of the western paradise give to yi? a: she warned the archer yi to drink the elixir on a night that was clear, or the drinker would be trapped halfway between the earth and heaven. q: what wa

s demonstrate monkey s taoist training and powers. he is vain, rude, and greedy, but monkey s magic tricks and saucy personality make him a beloved character. 96 on the mountain of fruit and flowers, a magic rock gave birth to a stone egg. from this stone egg emerged a monkey whose first act was to jump up and bow to the four directions. his eyes flashed like lightning, and his teeth glinted like the stars at night. he played with other monkeys and with wolves, tigers, and deer, but he had an enormous appetite and often gobbled up their share of grass, leaves, berries, and fruit. still, his joyful personality and curious nature made him the most popular animal on the mountain. one day, monkey jumped through the waters of a cascading waterfall and discovered behind it a cave furnished with

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f earth, who shall inspire the best among man to great heights, to beautiful works of art, and to further discoveries of earth and kosmos. the gift of civilization shall not be obliterated "man shall turn from you again and again, as our spirit abideth with him unto eternity. the gift of satanael shall continue to illuminate. man shall create civilization anew and reach greater heights, even unto the stars, the servility of the descendants of noah shall not endure forever, as even these have the gift of satanael within them, as bequeathed 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

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ed at night by any but a single native woman who, say the chaldean priests, is chosen by the deity out of all the women of the land. the priests also declare, but i for one do not credit it, that the god comes down in person into this chamber, and sleeps upon the couch."10 on a tomb found in rome and dated between the first and fourth centuries ad the inscription read "i am a son of the earth and the stars of the sky, but i am of the celestial race. may the knowledge be passed on!"11 the birth of y'shua (jesus, as described in the gnostic gospels, also has similarities to modern day et experiences. the protoevangelion of james is the oldest of the gnostic gospels which were removed from christian orthodoxy at the notorious council of nicaea in 325ad (see the robots' rebellion. the gnostic

d everyone else's. the decision to put the pyramid/new world order symbol on the dollar was made by the 33rd degree freemason, franklin d. roosevelt, in 1935, with the full support and the birth of the brotherhood 35 encouragement of his vice president, henry wallace, another 33rd degree mason.11 mr roosevelt will be making many appearances in the text of the next few chapters. the american flag, the stars and stripes, was also designed to reflect brotherhood symbolism and the statue of liberty was given to american freemasons by the french grand orient (illuminati) masonic order.12 while ties were 'officially' severed between britain and the united states after the war, those between the american brotherhood societies and ruling families and their brethren in britain and europe grew still

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eloped civilisation in the pacific, which has become known as lemuria, or mu. these peoples and others also founded another great culture on a landmass in the atlantic, which we know as atlantis. the knowledge that created these advanced societies, the knowledge that built the fantastic and unexplainable ancient structures like the great pyramid and other amazing sites across the world, came from the stars- extraterrestrials of many varieties. some were tall blond-haired, blue-eyed, types, while others took a reptilian form (see picture section for artists' impressions of these beings. these and others came here from constellations like orion, draco, andromeda, lyra, and bootes, and other locations like the pleiades, sirius, vega, zeta reticuli, arcturus, aldebaran, and elsewhere. australi

"gods. it is a minefield to decipher which of these gods were flesh and blood real, and which were symbolic of the sun, moon, planets, natural cycles, and so on. most were the latter, but there is substantial evidence to confirm that some of them, particularly the further back you go, were walking, talking, entities, who had, by human standards at the time, amazing knowledge of the solar system, the stars, the universal cycles, the effect of the sun, moon and other planets and star systems on the earth and its people, and technological understanding of such immensity that they were able to build the pyramids and other stunning structures all over the world that we would struggle to build even today. just consider the scale we are talking here with the giza pyramids alone. the great pyrami

r emerged. central to these sumerian accounts were the "gods" the sumerians called the anunna("sons of an. their later semitic names were an.unnak.ki("those who from heaven to earth came) and din.gir("the righteous ones of the blazing rockets. they are best known as the anunnaki and so i shall use that designer history 25 term in the book. the anunnaki, as we shall see, were a reptilian race from the stars. the sumerian tablets describe, according to the author and translator, zechariah sitchin, a collision between the moons of a planet they called nibiru and one orbiting between the present jupiter and mars.54 the debris from this stupendous collision, sitchin's translations say, created what the sumerians called "the great band bracelet- the asteroid belt. the sumerian accounts differ in

tean connection, writes "during the first half of the lemurian age, the involvement of extraterrestrial beings was simply in the role of the observers. that is to say that they did not intervene, interject or become involved with the subjects of their study at that point in time. the development and progression of the human race on earth was under the observation and study of these relations from the stars. in 'the atlantis connection' i refer to this as the 'titan project. the three main extraterrestrial groups, which comprised the titan project, were those from sirius, the pleiades and orion, although there were indeed other extraterrestrial races, which also shared involvement. this is where the reptilian variety comes into play. as where sirians, pleiadeans and those from orion did int

people" from sirius came to the earth. they also speak of a "gigantic war" on sirius in which the fish people drove out those who we now know as humans. credo further confirms that the stories attributed to the dogon are not the only ancient records of the sirius system. the zulu's knew sirius b as the "pit" star long before it was identified by modern technology. credo wrote in his book, song of the stars (station hill openings, barrytown, new york, 1996 "not only among the zulu, but the dogon, and many widespread african tribes, there are stories of the nommo, who resemble the king of the water people in our legend. they are said to be intelligent beings who have visited the earth several times. they are usually described as somewhat like human beings, but with skins like reptiles. i hav

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author graham hancock, theancient temple complex atangkor wat in cambodia is areplica of the dracoconstellation as it would havebeen in 10,500 bc.15 this is the time when the earth and its people, human andextraterrestrial, would have been recovering from the cataclysm of 11,000 bc andrebuilding their civilisation. the author and researcher, robert bauval, says that thepyramids at giza align with the stars on the belt of orion as they would have been in10,500 bc when orion was at the lowest point in its cycle (the orions are anotherextraterrestrial race operating on this planet, i understand. and hancock and otherresearchers suggest that the lion-bodied sphinx at giza, which is believed to be farolder than originally dated, would have directly faced the constellation of leo the lionat that

herald examiner .35when you go with the flow of life and listen to your intuition, you are shown whatyou need to know by the incredible synchronicity that daily surrounds you and guidesyou through the smokescreens and the halls of mirrors. one day in february 1998 injohannesburg, south africa, i spent nearly five hours talking with a zulu shaman calledcredo mutwa. the word zulu means people from the stars because they believe theyare a royal race that originates beyond this planet. we talked about the globalmanipulation and his belief that an extraterrestrial race is behind the global brotherhoodof monarchs, politicians, bankers and media owners. afterwards i went back to thehouse where i was staying and wrote down the main points he mentioned on my laptopcomputer before going downstairs

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"place one reports to the master on accomplishments (new age dictionary. this is again a fulfillment of scripture. lucifer remember in isaiah 14:12-14, where god recalls lucifer's original sin of pride and rebellion? lucifer had every intention of taking god's throne by force and establishing his own reign. in verses 13 and 14, lucifer vowed "i will ascend to heaven; i will exalt my throne above the stars of god; i will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north" did you see that north is apparently the direction in which god's throne is situated, and lucifer planned to take it over. north is the place, occultists believe, where governmental authority dwells. now look at the goathead pentagram again. scott circle is precisely located at the middle of the goathead, and 16th stre

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flow changes. resistance changes in the coil because the atomic lattice's electronic charge in the metal in the wire changes as more or less aether is flowing in the nuclei of the coils atoms, thus changing the wire's conductivity because there are more or less electrons created in the wire by the changing aetheric stress. during the course of a 24-hour period, the sun, moon, planets, as well as the stars, put differing stress levels on the earth's aetheric field, which directly affects the flow rate of aether into the nucleus. 7.1.3 the physics of aetheric stress (i.e, gravity flow) detectors the physics behind the use of materials such as dielectrics and metals as sensors for detecting the stress changes in the local aetheric field are based on the keely vortex model of the atom. the nu

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e of the mystery schools and the philosophers of greece. this was the time of the great empires of babylon and rome. this was the time when men discovered astronomy, mathematics, and science. the aeon of isis was not a single aeon but a succession of aeons in a cycle of expansion. the religions which rose during this time involved the worship of fire or of planetary bodies: the sun, the moon, and the stars. 2100 years ago, the previous cycle of expansion ended and the cycle of restriction, which crowley calls the aeon of osirus, began. like the aeon of isis, the aeon of osirus was not a single aeon but a succession of aeons in a cycle of restriction. the fact that the aeon of osirus was not a single aeon with one law is evidenced by the fact that there were many religions established durin

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s, and can bewray treasure that is kept by spirits. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (59) oriax, or orias- the fifty-ninth spirit is oriax, or orias. he is a great marquis, and appeareth in the form of a lion, riding upon a horse mighty and strong, with a serpent s tail; and he holdeth in his right hand two great serpents hissing. his office is to teach the virtues of the stars, and to know the mansions of the planets, and how to understand their virtues. he also transformeth men, and he giveth dignities, prelacies, and confirmation thereof; also favour with friends and with foes. he doth govern 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, etc (60) vapula, or naphula- the sixtieth spirit is vapula, or naphula. he is a duke great, mighty, and strong; appearing i

that battle. he can provide an army with its entire weaponry in three days. his word is banatatu and the seal is thus: the thirteenth name is tutu silences the weeping and gives joy to the end and ill at heart. a most beneficent name, and protector of the household, his word is dirrigugim and his seal is this: the fourteenth name is ziukkinna giveth excellent knowledge concerning the movements of the stars and the meanings thereof, of which the chaldaens possessed this same knowledge in abundance. the word is gibbilannu and the seal is this: the fifteenth name is ziku this power bestoweth riches of all kinds, and can tell where treasury is hidden. knower of the secrets of the earth. his word is giggimaganpa and his seal is this: the sixteenth name is agaku this power can give life to what

l this power has been given the realm of the fire and the forge. he keepeth the sharp point of the sword and the lance, and giveth understanding in the working of metals. he also raises the lightning that comes from the earth, and maketh swords to appear in the sky. his word is baalagnitarra and his seal is this: the forty-seventh name is addu raises storms that fill the entire heavens and causes the stars to tremble and the very gates of the igigi to shake in their stead. can fill the skies with his brightness, even in the darkest hour of the night. his word is kakodammu and his seal is this: the forty-eighth name is asharru knower of the treacherous ways. gives intelligence of the future and also of things past. put the gods in their courses, and determined their cycles. his word is baxt

his word is kakodammu and his seal is this: the forty-eighth name is asharru knower of the treacherous ways. gives intelligence of the future and also of things past. put the gods in their courses, and determined their cycles. his word is baxtandabal and this is his seal: the forty-ninth name is nebiru the spirit of the gate of marduk, manages all things in their ways, and moves the crossings of the stars after the fashion known to the chaldeans. his word is dirgirgiri and his seal is this: the fiftieth name is ninnuam this is the power of marduk as lord of all that is, judger of judgements, decider of decisions, he who determines the laws and the reigns of kings. he may not be called, save at the destruction of a city or the death of a king. his word is gashdig and his seal is this: invo

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

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izes the significance of black witchcraft and how it develops the self save for the dangers of self-destruction. behold me, mortal, for i am thy god, the true image of thyself, and the very essence of life, yet within me lieth a magnitude greater than you can ever behold without. for i am 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 tha

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

n spiritism (q.v, any object taken from a seance by a spirit (q.v) or entity from the physical world to the spiritual world or the astral plane (q.v. assiah: pronounced "ahs-sie-ah" it is the fourth of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of creation. asson: the sacred rattle of voudoun (q.v (see voodoo. they are used to summon the loas (q.v) or gods. astral: greek "from the stars" pertaining to that level of existence which is finer and more penetrating than matter, but denser than mind. in the psyche, it comprises the emotional/instinctual levels which unite mind and body. astral plane: a non-physical level of existence which is the basis for the physical plane, and the place where many non-physical entities exist. astral light: 1) a term used by dion fortune (q

ddenly drawn back into the physical body by either a disturbance near the physical body or an unpleasant occurrence on the astral plane. symptoms can include: headache, dizziness, grogginess, muscle soreness, etc. reprojecting and returning at a normal place will quickly overcome this problem. astrology: 1) the science and art of reading the future and hidden events from the relative positions of the stars and planets at a given time and from a given place upon the earth. 2) the provable science of interpreting what astronomers see. athanor: in alchemy (q.v, a special type of oven. in sex magick (q.v) the penis. attack, psychic: an attack on a person using magickal or psychic methods. in reality they are very rare, almost non-existent. when they do occur they are usually caused by a curren

ol: a form of sex magick (q.v) which is a method of controlling sexual energy via the mind during sexual excitation and orgasm. tikune: hebrew for "correct" pronounced "tee-koon" according to donald michael kraig, the word tikoon is synonymous with the sanskrit word, karma (q.v. times, observance of: traditionally in magick, it has been considered essential to take into account the arrangement of the stars and planets in the heavens when working a ritual. even the hours of the day and night were assigned the seven ancient planets. a magician who takes astrology into account when working magick is said to observe the times. see hours, magickal. tipheret: hebrew for "beauty" pronounced "tih-fehr-eht" it is the sixth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first f

.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtues, occult: the magickal potency of efficacy of herbs, stones, beasts, and other things impressed upon them through the stars at the time of their creation by the heavenly intelligences (q.v. visualize: the process of forming a visualization (q.v. to form a mental image. the important factor for success in this is the knowledge that the image is to be mental, not an optical illusion. it can however seem to be optically visible. visualization: 1) seeing an image in the mind's eye. this is a willed image, and sho

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me chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchers, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, moldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumors picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms" connected with the lost city of the old ones is the hideous chant "ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" which translates into english as "in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming" the old ones count among

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n, thou unformed matter of the world, thou god tum, thou who providest with food the ka's who are with the company of the gods, thou perfect khu among khu's, thou provider of the waters of nu, thou giver of the wind, thou producer of the wind of the evening from thy nostrils for the satisfaction of thy heart. thou makest (5) plants to grow at thy desire, thou givest birth to; to thee are obedient the stars in the heights, and thou openest the mighty gates. thou art the lord to whom hymns of praise are sung in the southern heaven, and unto thee are adorations paid in the northern heaven. the never setting stars (6) are before thy face, and they are thy thrones, even as also are those that never rest. an offering cometh to thee by the command of seb. the company of the gods adoreth thee, the

scendest thy father's throne like ra. thou shinest the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] in the horizon, thou sendest forth thy light into the darkness, thou makest the darkness light with thy double plume, and thou floodest the world with light like the (13) disk at break of day. thy diadem pierceth heaven and becometh a brother unto the stars, o thou form of every god. thou art gracious in command and in speech, thou art the favoured one of the great company of the gods, and thou art the greatly beloved one of the lesser company of the gods "thy sister put forth her protecting power for thee, she scattered abroad those who were her enemies (14) she drove back evil hap, she pronounced mighty words of power, she made cunning he

ris of a man, see wiedemann, die osirianische unsterblichkeitslehre (in die religion der alten aegypter, p. 128. 3. maspero, recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 7, l. 36] p. lxxi the king is identified with this ladder "isis saith 'happy are they who see the 'father' and nephthys saith 'they who see the father have rest' speaking unto the father of this osiris pepi when he cometh forth unto heaven among the stars and among the luminaries which never set. with the ur us on his brow, and his book upon both his sides, and magic words at his feet, pepi goeth forward unto his mother nut, and he entereth therein in his name ladder"[1] the gods who preside over this ladder are at one time ra and horus, and at another horus and set. in the pyramid of unas it is said "ra setteth upright the doctrine of et

the god of all the great gods who "exist in visible forms"[1] and he is at the head of all the sahu, or spiritual bodies in heaven. he carries off the hearts of the gods, and devours the wisdom of every god; therefore the duration of his life is everlasting and he lives to all eternity, for the souls of the gods and their khu's are in him. the whole passage reads-[2"(496) the heavens drop water, the stars throb (497) the archers go round about, the (498) bones of akeru tremble, and those who are in bondage to them take to flight when they see (499) unas rise up as a soul, in the form of the god who liveth upon his fathers and who maketh food of his (500) mothers. unas is the lord of wisdom, and (501) his mother knoweth not his name. the gifts of unas are in heaven, and he hath become migh

esented bowed beneath nut [1 (fig. 2, and this is believed to signify the night sky across which the moon travels. in an interesting picture which m. j quier has published[2] the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms stretched out at full length above her head; on her breast is the disk of the sun, and on her stomach the moon. those who believed that the sky was an iron plane imagined that the stars were a numbers of lamps which were hung out therefrom, and those who pictured the sky as a goddess studded her body with stars. one scene makes the morning and evening boats of ra to sail along the back of nut;[3] another depicts shu holding up the boat of the sun wherein is the disk on the horizon.[4] a third from the sarcophagus of seti i. represents nu the god of the primeval water ho

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constructive level (they will rather just hiss at each other, and therefore unlikely that they will discover the conflicting support given by the church of satan s officials. if they do discover the conflict nonetheless, it can be resolved with a repetition of the above reference to richness and diversity of the religion (that is, serving the church of satan s purpose to confound and confuse till the stars be numbered, the people are being told that they are both right, and that they only do not have the insight to appreciate this fact yet) this stratagem enables the church of satan to let many different people with opposing views interact with people of their own liking. in turn, these people are given the impression that satanism is exactly about their particular interprethe emperor s ne

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t the united states would be at war in 1942. in 1932 she was booked for a 21-night lecture tour but canceled it after predicting her own death, which duly occurred. she is generally recognized as the leading astrologer of her time who laid the groundwork for professional astrology in the united states. she died in new york november 10, 1933. sources: adams, evangeline. astrology: your place among the stars. new york: dodd, mead, 1930. astrology: your place in the sun. new york: dodd, mead, 1928. astrology for everyone: what it is and how it works. new york: dodd, mead, 1931. the bowl of heaven. new york: dodd, mead, 1926. adams, john q(uincy, iii (1938) parapsychologist who experimented with school children and teachers to test clairvoyance and extrasensory effects. he was born march 7, 19

by a disease bearing this name. ahmad ibn sirin (ca. ninth century c.e (also known as achmet. arabian seer who wrote a book on dream interpretation, now known only in the greek and latin translations, which was published in paris in 1603 titled oneirocritica. aho, wayne sulo (1916) wayne aho, one of the 1950s flying saucer contactees, was the founder of a small new age religion, the cathedral of the stars. born on august 24, 1916 in woodland, washington, he dated the beginning of his religious career to a childhood experience. when he was only 12 he had heard a voice telling him that he would be able to do something great for humanity in his later life. he joined the army as a young man and eventually rose to the rank of major during world war ii (1939.45. several additional experiences s

convicted of fraud. charges were dropped against aho when it was determined that he had also been hoaxed in by carr. in 1961 aho was committed to a mental hospital, an event he later attributed to communist agents opposed to his flying saucer message. after his brief hospitalization, aho returned to the state of washington and established the new age foundation, the precursor to the cathedral of the stars that opened in 1975. he published an account of his contacts with the space beings and remained the leader of his small group through subsequent years. by the 1980s he had faded into obscurity. sources: aho, wayne s. mojave desert experience. eatonville, wash: the new age foundation, 1972. sachs, margaret. the ufo encyclopedia. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. ahrimanes the name give

l of one nature. this description, and all others resembling it (the twelve heavenly worlds of plato, and the heaven of the chinese, 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

brethren father. sources: crowley, aleister. the confessions of aleister crowley. edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. new york: hill& wang, 1969. kirban, salem. 666. huntingdon valley, penn: salem kirban, 1970. mcbirnie, william s. anti-christ. dallas: international prison ministry, 1978. antipathy early astrologers claimed that the dislike one feels for another person or thing is caused by the stars. thus, two persons born under the same aspect will be mutually attracted and will love without knowing why. others born under opposite conjunctions will feel an unreasoning hate for each other. but what is the explanation for the antipathy people sometimes have for the commonest things? lamothe-levayer could not bear to hear the sound of any musical instrument. caesar could not hear the

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1891. psychology and medicine. n.p, 1916. psychology, pedagogics, and ethics. n.p, 1917. oculomancy an obscure system of identifying thieves by the turning of their eyes when associated with certain ceremonies. od (odic force (or odyle) the term first used by baron karl von reichenbach to denote the subtle effluence that he claimed emanated from every substance in the universe, particularly from the stars and planets, and from crystals, magnets, and the human body. the term od was derived from odin, the norse deity, indicating a power that permeated the whole of nature. the name od was retained by dr. john ashburner (1816.1878) in his translation of reichenbach s writings, but another translator, william gregory (1803.1858, substituted odyle, probably hoping it would sound more scientific

me. the ufo encyclopedia. vol. 2. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. flournoy, theodore. from india to the planet mars. 1900. reprinted, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1963. harris, thomas lake. arcana of christianity: celestial sense of the divine word. 2 vols. new york, 1858. leslie, desmond, and george adamski. flying saucers have landed. london: t. werner laurie, 1953. lunan, duncan. man and the stars. london: souvenir press, 1974. reprinted as interstellar contact; communication with other intelligences in the universe. chicago: henry regnery, 1975. melton, j. gordon. the contactees: a survey. in the spectrum of ufo research: proceedings of the second ufo conference. chicago: center for ufo studies, 1975. melton, j. gordon, and george m. eberhart. the flying saucer contactee movement

tars and to be surrounded by a nebula. as with many of the heavenly bodies, the pleiades has attracted the speculation of people who have imposed a mythological significance on the objects seen in the night sky. and such speculations have not been limited to prescientific cultures. early in the twentieth century, the leader of the group later known as the jehovah s witnesses suggested that one of the stars of the pleiades was actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story fr

of one of the more important of the modern apparitions of the virgin mary. early on the evening of january 17, members of the barbadette family were at work in their barn when eugene (age 12) went to the door and looked at the starry sky. he noticed something unusual, a blank patch of sky over the house opposite theirs. then within the patch, he saw stars appear in the shape of a triangle. within the stars appeared a beautiful young woman. an expression of surprise brought his 10-years-old brother joseph, who saw the lady immediately, and his father, who saw nothing at all. the two boys began to describe what they were viewing. the lady wore a blue dress decorated with stars and blue shoes with a gold buckle. she had a black veil on her head and a gold crown. the boys mother arrived on the

n medicine and sought to cloak itself in the garb of a science more profound and holy than the common run. it added to its tempting promises the force of religion, after which the human race is groping, especially at this time. further it has brought in the arts of astrology and divination. for everyone desires to know what is to come to him and believes that certainty can be gained by consulting the stars. having in this way taken captive the feelings of man by a triple chain, it has reached such a pitch that it rules over all the world and in the east, governs the king of kings. roosevelt spiritual memorial benevolent association the roosevelt spiritual memorial benevolent association was founded in 1949 among independent spiritualists as a corporation to hold church charters and ministe

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appearance of flight 19. new york: harper and row, publishers. sand, george x, 1952. sea mystery at our back door. fate 5, 7 (october: 11 17. sanderson, ivan t, 1970. invisible residents: a dis- quisition upon certain matters maritime, and the possibility of intelligent life under the waters of this earth. new york: world publishing company. bethurum, truman (1898 1969) truman bethurum was one of the stars of the 1950s contactee movement. in a 1953 issue of saucers magazine, bethurum reported that in the early morning hours of july 28, 1952, he met eight little men of latin appearance and was led to a nearby flying saucer. there he met the captain, a beautiful woman named aura rhanes from clarion, a planet never visible to humans because it is always on the other side of the moon. clarion

nessing a planetarium effect or if the room had become transparent. he would recall that the experience was like sitting in a chair in the middle of space (walton, 1978. on the right arm of the chair, he saw a panel of buttons and a screen with black lines going up and down. on the left there was a leve r. curious, walton pushed the l e ver forw a rd. suddenly the lines on the s c reen moved, and the stars began to spin e ven while maintaining their re l a t i ve positions. when he let go of the leve r, eve ry t h i n g returned to the way it had been before. after walton s abduction 263 a drawing by travis walton s boss, michael rogers, based on walton s description of the being he saw when he was abducted (fortean picture library) he stood up, the light returned to the ro o m, and the st

FAUST

et no day slip by. with resolution seize the possible straightway by forelock and with quick, courageous trust; then holding fast you will not let it further fly and you will labour on because you must. upon our german stage, you are aware, each tries out what he wishes to display, so in your work for me today scenes, mechanism you are not to spare. use both the lights of heaven, great and small; the stars above are yours to squander; nor water, fire, nor rocky wall, nor beasts nor birds are lacking yonder. thus in our narrow house of boards preside and on through all creation s circle stride; and wander on, with speed considered well, from heaven, through the world, to hell! prologue in heaven the lord. the heavenly hosts. afterwards mephistopheles. the three archangels come forward. raph

is cramped and anxious in your breast? why each impulse to live has been repressed in you by some vague, unexplained smart? instead of nature s living sphere in which god made mankind, you have alone, in smoke and mould around you here, beasts skeletons and dead men s bone. up! flee! out into broad and open land! and this book full of mystery, from nostradamus very hand, is it not ample company? the stars course then you ll understand and nature, teaching, will expand the power of your soul, as when one spirit to another speaks. tis vain to think that arid brooding will explain the sacred symbols to your ken. ye spirits, ye are hovering near; oh, answer me if ye can hear! he opens the book and perceives the sign of the macrocosm. what rapture, ah! at once is flowing through all my senses

nt! is that the sacred fountain whence alone there springs a draught that thirst for ever quells? refreshment? it you never will have won if from that soul of yours it never wells. wagner excuse me! but it is a great delight to enter in the spirit of the ages and to see how once a sage before us thought and then how we have brought things on at last to such a splendid height. faust oh, yes! up to the stars afar! my friend, the ages of aforetime are to us a book of seven seals. what you call spirit of the ages is after all the spirit of those sages in which the mirrored age itself reveals. then, truly, that is oft a sorry sight to see! i vow, men do but glance at it, then run away. a rubbish-bin, a lumber-garret it may be, at best a stilted, mock-heroic play with excellent, didactic maxims

ce. other half not so precisely do we take it, in a thousand steps may woman make it; yet though she hastes as ever she can, in a single leap it s done by man. a voice [from above. come with us from the cliff-bound mere! a voice [from below. we d like to go with you up there. we wash and we re scoured all bright and clean, but sterile still as we ve always been. both choruses the wind is stilled, the stars take flight, the dismal moon fain hides its light; in whiz and whirr the magic choir by thousands sputters out sparks of fire. a voice [from below. halt there! ho, there! ho! a voice [from above. who calls out from the cleft below? a voice [below. take me too! take me too! i m climbing now three hundred years and i can never reach the summit. i want to be among my peers. both choruses th

rs now. here magic doth conspire; the arras rolls away as if by fire. the wall is splitting, turning in the gloom, a deep stage seems to be appearing, a light mysterious to be nearing, and i ascend to the proscenium. mephistopheles [rising to view in the prompter s box. i hope for favour here from all and each, for promptings are the devil s art of speech. to the astrologer. you know the tempo of the stars on high; you ll understand my whispering masterly. astrologer by magic might before us doth appear, massive enough, an ancient temple here. like atlas who upheld the sky of old, columns enough, in rows, you can behold. well for the weight of stone may they suffice, since two could bear a mighty edifice. architect so that s antique! i can t say i would praise it; top-heavy, clumsy, is the

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

ystery of the metals, the crafts of shaping, the magicks of transformation: who bequeathed the wise blood unto thy progeny, teaching unto us the art of wedding earth to heaven. thou art he: the scapegoat whose self-sacrifice purifies us of sin, ignorance and illusion, hanging inverted in the night firmament, thy one eye of the goat, open and glittering, who lightens our darkness with the fires of the stars, the myriad lanterns and blazing torches of all-knowledge. by the methods of the art rouse the inner fire and fervently invoke the daimon within by the ancient pact. let the forces of the goat be raised and the dragon-serpent of naamah- lilith be stirred through all five senses perfectly focussed upon the fire within the mortal flesh. o flame-breathing daemon and wizardly smith, who forg

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

gypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a large literature in greek developed under the name of hermes trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on. besides these treatises or recipes for the practice of astral magic going under the name of hermes, there also developed a philosophical literature to which the same revered name was attached. it is not known when the hermetic framework was first used for philosophy, but the asclepius and the corpus hermeticum, which are the most important of the philosophical hermetica which

must strike every reader of the hermetic pimander. from other early christian writers, more about hermes trismegistus could be learned,1 particularly from clement of alexandria, who, in his striking description of the procession of the egyptian priests, says that the singer at the head of the procession carried two books of music and hymns by hermes; the horoscopus carried four books by hermes on the stars. in the course of this description, clement states that there are forty-two books by hermes trismegistus, thirty-six of which contain the whole of the philosophy of the egyptians, the other six being on medicine.2 it is very improbable that clement knew any of the hermetica which have come down to us,3 but the renaissance reader believed that he had in the corpus hermeticum and the ascle

entary on the laws and from his reply to scholarios in f. masai, plethon et le platonisme de mistra, paris, 1956, pp. 136, 138. for a valuable study of ficino's genealogies of wisdom, see d. p. walker "the prisca theohgia in france, j. w.c.i, 1954 (xvii, pp. 204-59. 2 vita di ficino, published from a manuscript of circa 1591 in marcel, op. cit, p. 716. is hermes trismegistus not know this through the stars or the revelation of demons, but lactantius does not hesitate to place him among the sibyls and the prophets.1 these remarks (which we have paraphrased, not fully translated, from the argumentum) show ficino's effort to avoid augustine's condemnation of his hero for the egyptian idolatry in the asclepius, which he does by emphasising the favourable view of lactantius. he next goes on to

n itself evil; it must be escaped from by an ascetic way of life which avoids as much as possible all contact with matter, until the lightened soul rises up through the spheres of the planets, casting off their evil influences as it ascends, to its true home in the immaterial divine world. for the optimist gnostic, matter is impregnated with the divine, the earth lives, moves, with a divine life, the stars are living divine animals, the sun burns with a divine power, there is no part of nature which is not good for all are parts of god. the following accounts of the contents of the five hermetic writings chosen are partly analysis, partly direct quotation.21 have made many omissions and have sometimes slightly rearranged the order. there is a good deal of diffuseness and repetition in thes

of his own image, reflected in the face of nature (just as god loved man, seeing in him his own beautiful image. and nature recognises his power, the powers of the seven governors in him, and is united to him in love. it is true that this is a fall which involves loss, that man in coming down to nature and taking on a mortal body puts this mortal body, puts his mortal part, under the dominion of the stars, and it is perhaps punished by the separation into two sexes (after the curious period of the seven sexless men engendered by man and nature. but man's immortal part remains divine and creative. he consists, not of a human soul and a body, but of a divine, creative, immortal essence and a body. and this divinity, this power, he recovers in the vision of the divine mens, which is like his

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ced in his fiction indicating a dynamic dichotomy between the rational and intuitive aspects of his psychology. with the appearance of subsequent stories, an underlying pattern began to appear in lovecraft s work. in the central theme of the call of cthulhu, written in 1926, this design is clearly revealed. the subject of the story is the suggestion that, at certain times when the conjunctions of the stars assume the correct aspect, certain dark forces can influence sensitive individuals, giving them visions of the great old ones, godlike aliens of extraterrestrial origin. these entities exist in another dimension, or on a different vibrational level, and can only enter this universe though specific window areas or psychic gateways- a concept fundamental to many occult traditions. cthulhu

e facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehistoric times, and from whose presence man s very existence derives. the first of these races to visit the earth was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-shaped heads, and tubular bodies covered with tentacles and cilia. their servants are the mindless, protoplasmic shoggoths. in the novel, at the mountains of madness, lovecraft records the wars which took place between the old ones and other extra-terrestrial races, at the dawn of time

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le virtue. such is the nature of your engagements as a fellowcraft, and to these duties you are bound by the most sacred of ties. chapter v. the third, or master mason's degree. first section* lesson. remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, i have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened; and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all th

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fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of cunning, as a means of attaining mastery over others, which characteristic is indicated in the second of the fiery signs, leo, the lion, the king of beasts; or perchance it may rise above the animal nature, and aim at the stars with the bow of spiritual aspiration, typified by the last of the fiery signs, sagittarius, the centaur. the centaur is just ahead of the watery sign scorpio, a warning that one who tries to reach that prerogative as "phree messen" a son of fire and light, will surely feel the sting of the scorpion in his heel, which will goad him onward upon the path where men become "wise as serpents"

t by another and one who was greater than solomon. and so she insisted on knowing and seeing this king of crafts and his wonderful workmen, much to the chagrin of solomon, who felt that he had fallen in her estimation. the temple of solomon is our solar universe which forms the great school of life for our evolving humanity; the broad lines of its history, past, present and future, are written in the stars, its main outlines being discernible to anyone of average intelligence. in the microcosmic scheme, the temple of solomon is also the body of man wherein the individualized spirit or ego is evolving, as god is in the great universe. work on the true temple, as we are told in 2nd corinthians, fifth chapter, is wrought by invisible forces working in silence, building the temple without soun

FULL MOON RITUALS

s down the chimney. all focus on the dance before them. owl places her hand on deer's breast, feeling the beat of his heart, and the tremble of his body "you are the altar. prepared to receive the god, as we dance, and sing, and light the fires recalling the sun from the distance" owl lifts here arms, and gazes up at the night sky, clearly glistening thru the skylight. the moon is at her fullest, the stars dance around her, and the world waits in expectation. she sings out "father, remember! come to us now at the full moon of yule. let the light of the mother entice you, enthrall you, and bring you back to warm the earth and you're children. renew the promise "hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all who die will be reborn! corn and grain, corn and grain, all who die will come again" father we in

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

orld of angels or spirits. as adam qadmon is the form of the ain soph, metatron is his garment and under his command come the myriads of the angelic hosts of the next world. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 33 plate 5: the zodiacal secret wisdom of the qabalah page 34 (3) yetzirah or the yetziratic world, the world of formation- the ten sephiroth of which represent the angels or intelligences of the stars and planets. the zohar says: for the servants [sephiroth] that serve the holy, blessed be he! it made the throne [the briatic world, and four supports [pillar of mildness] and six steps [pillars of mercy and justice] to the throne, together ten. the whole is like a cup of blessing (see diagram 2) diagram 2: the qabalistic chalice secret wisdom of the qabalah page 35 that which is in the

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

was of course the sun, which in winter died away and rose again in the spring-time as a beneficent savior or renewer of life. the principle involved in these processes represented fertility, life, reproductive energy. as applied to mortals, it comprehended the power to create combined with perceptive wisdom or knowledge. this idea, portrayed as it was by a mother and her child, linked woman with the stars. it produced the "virgin of the sphere" queen of heaven "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 c

of the deity worshipped; namely, the fructifying energies in the sun. we are informed that "all nations have at one time or another passed through violent stages of pyrolatry, a word which reminds us that fire and phallic cult flourished around the pyramids. every town in greece had a pyrtano"[57 [57] forlong, rivers of life, or faiths of man in all lands, vol. i, p. 325. as not alone the sun but the stars also had come to be venerated as agencies in reproduction, the worship of these objects was, as we have seen, closely interwoven with that of the generative processes throughout nature. the attempt to solve the great problem of the origin of life on the earth led these people to contemplate with the profoundest reverence all the visible objects which were believed to affect human destiny

supernatural ideas of the mighty mother of nature. that almost two-sexed entity, without a name--she of the veil which is never to be lifted, perhaps not even by the angels, for their knowledge is limited. in short, this tremendous abstraction, cybele, ideae, mater, isiac controller of the zodiacs, whatever she may be, has her representative in the half-buried sphinx even to our own day, watching the stars although nearly swallowed up in the engulphing sands"[58 [58] phallicism, p. 25. from the time when the two religious elements began to separate in the minds of the people, the prophets, seers, and priestesses of the old religion, those who continued to worship the virgin and child, had prophesied that a mortal woman, a virgin, would, independently of the male principle, bring forth a ch

he birth of the great judean philosopher and teacher. it is plain that crishna of india and the persian mithra furnished the copy for the jesus of the romish church, all of whom mean one and the same thing--the second person in the solar trinity. by the jews, who attempted to ignore the female principle, this god is called the "lord of hosts" and "god of sabaoth" which astronomically means god of the stars and constellations, and astrologically the creator or producer of the multitudes. of this god, ieue, i h s, the author of anacalypsis says that he was the son of the celestial virgin, which she carries in her arms; the horus, lux, of the egyptians, the lux of st. john "it is from this infant that jesus took his origin; or at least it is from the ceremonies and worship of this infant that

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ty of the rose andcross.his declared purpose was, he wrote 'to protect the purity and innocence of the society, and to wipe off spots of shamein memory of robertfludd51 which had been smeared over the fratres, as with a stream of pure wisdom. he refutes the charges of superstitious observances, and of improper magical arts which had been brought against the rosicrucians, and commends the study of the stars, of corres255 pondences, of the cabala and of natural magic, and of divination, saying that the will of god can be found out by such studies and by researches into nature, that all known arts ancient as well as new are to be studied and all men should find means of acquiring them, and should seektoimprove especially the knowledge of medicine, mathematics and chemistry. he concludes that

ead among them, and we find astrological notions become notable in the later years of the roman republic, and were well marked in the curious jumble of eastern and western science which existed in the third and fourth centuries of our era. the greeks made a considerable study of astronomy, and so were in a position to understand the claims made by the chaldeans for their views of the influence of the stars upon human destinies. having learned the elements of the strange astrologic doctrines, the later greeks sought for references to themintheir own earlier writers; and especially in the170themagical masonvenerable works of homer and hesiod, possibly because they disliked to acknowledge that any sort of learning was not in the possession oftheirancestors. sofar as can be judged the deities

odyssey aurora, the dawn is so described. according to the much later roman author manilius, the chariot of the sun had four horses, and the chariot of the moon only two. aristotle is the earliest writer whose works are extant in greek, who mentions the circle of the zodiac. euripides, however, speaks of hippo, daughter of chiron, as being able to divine future events by means of observations of the stars.itis of course true that recent writers on greek myths have asserted relations between the incidents of these myths and astronomical facts, and have explained that greek and roman religious ideals were connected with the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.theprobably mythical orpheus is said to have first taught astronomy to the greeks. there are three lands which contest the claim to t

lonia have led students to postulate that their builders possessed a deep astronomic knowledge. modern researches into sanscrit literature have also led students of eastern lore to the belief that the inhabitants of india in the earliest times must have made long and accurate observations of the heavenly bodies. according to isaac meyer there is a reason to think that the akkadian observations of the stars date back to about 4310b.c.,when the vernal equinox occurred in the sign of taurus.theearliest allusion to actual divination by the stars in greek literature is found in thetimeusof plato. eudoxus became acquainted with chaldean astrology. diodorus the historian, who flourished about 30b.c.,states that the chaldeans foretold the death of antigonus in 315b.c.vitruvius states that astrolog

ks.itwas much cultivated by the stoic philosphers.fromgreece the study passed naturally to italy and to rome. cato the elder refers to it. cneius octavius had an astrologic figure found on his person when he was slain in the days of marius. sylla was advised by the chaldeans. cicero speaks of divination received by pompey and crassus. lucian also states that julius cresar noted the revolutions of the stars. nigidius figulus was famous as an astrologer in the later years of the roman republic, and foretold the supremacy of augustus cesar.172themagical masonthese roman astrologers became generally known as chal255 deans, whether they were greeks or italians; they rose to the zenith of fame in the early century of the empire,butlater were restrained by legal decisions, from the overt practice

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

means that the zodiac is the circumference of an enormous vortex ring.thevortex ring is the first word of creation, so to speak- the tiniest of things. the very best guess at the ultimate atom is that it is a vortex ring, and the band of constellations occupying the ecliptic is likewise a vortex ring. as above, so below; the infinitely great and the infinitelysmall-all one. and the arrangement of the stars, or component atoms, as we might perhaps call them, of this vast vortex ring may give us the thought of god in the creation of the cosmos. but why. the vortex ring? there again the hermetic philosophy gives an answer. matter blown out, sent186 the sorcerer and his apprenticeforth, forms a ring, a vortex ring, on account of a resisting medium, on account of meeting with some resistance to

vortex ring, and howis always. the resisting medium. we cannot blow a.vortexring .in an absolute vacuum. and now. comes inthehermetic philosophy, and says, the first emergence of theword;the breath. the thought of god that blew the vortex ring, met with a resisting medium of limitationiof darkness, of sin, and of death-symbolisedby the dragon,thegreat dragon through the sky. trailing one-third of the stars with its tail. that was the glyph of the darkness, the resistance which the thoughtofgodmetwith, the abyss of evil. and from the contest between these two 255 the word of godsentforthvandthedarkness and the evil which it hadtowithand to overcome- was born these whirling motions",hicl).are the basis, the root, of all motions of the cosmos, and the root of all metaphysical motions--mental

nts passing through that sphere perpetually; also heatrays,we need not go any further, because at present these are enough for our purpose. all that we want to assume just now.is that there are lines of force perpetually passing, and i think we must assume passingina.fixedanddeterminate direction, through that hollow sphere.also it matters not for the present purpose that it is not a sphere- that the stars are at all manner of distances from what we have taken to be our centre. we have imagined this sphere which is void at 'the beginning and round which are. the stars, and within that void sphere we have imaginedthenebula coming into existence and gradually evolving into the solar system. we have currents of forces running in definite direction through that hollow sphere; for if they do no

ture of the solar system; and those groups constitute the belt of the zodiac. some of the old writers used to say that it was called 'zodiac' in consequence of the imaginaryforms.of living animals which the ancient chaldeans fancied that they saw in these constellations, being shepherds of an imaginative turn of mind, and having nothing better to do than to imagine the forms of wild animals among the stars. certainly i should prefer to think that the word is derived fromthegreek word for life,zot1,and. also that it refers rather to the source of life flowing in with the tatwic currents upon the solar system, from that partofthe star sphere which is marked by the belt parallel to and concentric with this plane of the solar system .that is to say, that it indicates the nature of life upon th

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ieve in the eternity and uncreatedness of matter, and that out of this lifeless matter living things came to be by chance. in masonic writings we can read detailed accounts of these basic elements of materialist philosophy. in his book, masonluktan esinmeleler (inspirations from freemasonry, master mason selami isindag writes about masonry's pure materialist philosophy: all space, the atmosphere, the stars, nature, all animate and inanimate things are composed of atoms. human beings are nothing more than a spontaneously occurring collection of atoms. a balance in the flow of electricity among atoms assures the survival of living things. when this balance is destroyed (not the electricity in the atoms, we die, return to the earth and are dispersed into atoms. that is, we have come from matt

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

s. from the chakric perspective the solar plexus is where the focus of our lives lie. here we must have a firm hold on the mysteries and be centred on the static world. the colour here is yellow, that of the trained intellect. gnostic theurgy page 86 the fourth day the sun, moon and stars appear. according to the most ancient arcana the sun represents divine love (agape, the moon divine faith and the stars represent gnosis or divine wisdom. after the great luminaries have been kindled and place in the internal man, and the external receives light from them, then the man first begins to live. arcana celestia, emanuel swedenborg (ac 39. from the chakric perspective this day is that of the heart. the centre from which divine love, faith and wisdom flow. it is green for in its imagery, the pla

nd images which give evidence of early forms of star watching and astronomy. since these earliest discoveries all seem to fall cleanly into one of two classes, then it is tempting to evaluate them in the light of the gnostic tradition. it is likely that the fertility symbols represented the worship of earth, the desire to reproduce, the submission of mankind to the physical, while the watching of the stars (the sky cult) illustrates the early development of the gnostic desire to go beyond. this contradiction is important for it shows that even during the earliest periods, there was a dividing line- a duality between those of the sky cult who knew, and those of the earth cult who were in ignorance. for the gnostic the earth cults and the worship of fertility represents the loss of individua

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ion into the magical secrets of the self. he governs 36 legions of spirits. 7 oriax oriax/orias is the fifty-ninth spirit who is a great marquis. he appears in the form of a lion-beast, who rides upon a large horse with a serpent s tail. he holds in his right hand two large serpents who hiss. he teaches the virtues of stars and how one may contact the shades of the dead through the fascination of the stars. oriax instructs on the mansions of the planets, and how one may hold common knowledgeable associations with them, such as identifying their meanings and associations. he transforms the dreaming body of the sorcerer and grants the favor of friends. oriax governs 30 legions of spirits. 66 8 vapula vapula/naphula is the sixtieth spirit who is a mighty duke. he appears in the form of a lion

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our minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness! o golden splendor! o crown of living and melodious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvelous seed of the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. give the zelator sign repeat the qabalistic cross. note: a few of the benefits that may be obtained from this ritual; it will aid in grounding mental and emotional conditions, it will allow the student to call forth the four elements of earth within his/her circle, and the zelato

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divine name elohim tzabaoth, i open this temple in the element of water. may the archangel gabriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel taliahad and the ruler tharsis be also in attendance! i have gained admission to this temple through the badge of the cup of stolistes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of monocris de astris and the symbol of maim. as a unicorn of the stars i invoke the powers of water to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of water and the creative realm, so that i may obtain greater understanding of hidden things and thereby advance in the great work" circumambulate the temple three times, saluting with the neophyte signs when passing the east. go to the west and face east. give the adoration to th

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minds, enlarge our natures. o stability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never doest withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness o golden splendour! o crown of living and harmonious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens. amen. the prayer of the sylphs or air spirits. spirit of life! spirit of wisdom! whose breath giveth forth and withdraweth the form of all things: thou before whom the life of beings is but a shadow which changeth, and a vapour which passeth; thou who mountest upon the clouds, and who

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ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, aboapri! tabaori priaz ar tabas adrpan cors ta let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until aoiveae cormpt. 25 the stars be numbered. torzu! zacar! od zamran aspt sibsi butmona arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth ds surzas tia baltan. odo cicle which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of qaa od ozozma plapli iadnamad. your creation and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge. notes on the calls the adept should be aware that the first call in reality is a sil

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a 0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, aboapri! tabaori priaz ar tabas adrpan cors ta let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until aoiveae cormpt. the stars be numbered. torzu! zacar! od zamran aspt sibsi butmona arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth 25 ds surzas tia baltan. odo cicle which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of qaa od ozozma plapli iadnamad. your creation and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge. notes on the calls the adept should be aware that the first call in reality is a

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r as follows "o thou,who art goddess of passionate beauty and desire,i invoke thee. exalt my soul to the feet of thy glory. hear me, and manifest in splendor to him who worships at thy throne. when ra created sekhmet, her power became perfected in you, hathor. oh hathor, thou who art like the eye of ra, do i call upon thee. thou art attraction. thou art desire. thou art passion. thou art queen of the stars, and thy very name covers all the skies. most holy mother, mediatrix unto 9 the light divine, source of love, passion, desire, ferver, attraction and hunger for spiritual perfection, thee do i invoke. hathor, lady of flame, thee thee do i invoke. thou who art covered in emerald, thee do i invoke. thou who wearest a purple headband with a passionate green and red feather, i do invoke thee

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face. in the chariot of life eternal is thy seat, and thy steeds course the firmament of nu. behold! thou didst lift up thy voice, and the hills were shaken! thou didst cry aloud, and the everlasting hills did bow. o my father, my father, the chariots of israel and the horsemen thereof, the sound of thy voice was freedom. thy lightnings were kindled and lighted. thy thunder was heard on the deep. the stars with thy fear shook and whitened while the voice of the lord was uplifted. the wilderness also obeys, for the flames of thy fire are rifted, and the waves of the sea know thy ways. they did hear thee, the cedars of lebanon; and the desert of kadesh hath known. o amoun (vibrate, thou spirit of illimitable light and life and love. thou with the plume and the wands, is thy path in the water

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

s i was, i couldn t sleep. what kept me awake was the idea of the civilizers. the bearded gods and their companions. in mexico, as in peru, they seemed to have confronted failure. that was what the legends implied, and not only the legends, as i discovered when we reached monte alban the next morning. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 143 chapter 19 adventures in the underworld, journeys to the stars the hypothetical third party theory explains the similarities and fundamental differences between ancient egypt and ancient mesopotamia by proposing that both received a common legacy of civilization from the same remote ancestor. no serious suggestions have been made as to where that ancestral civilization might have been located, its nature, or when it flourished. like a black hole in

s roots to its topmost branches. mountains crumbled or split from top to bottom, and the dwarfs who had their subterranean dwellings in them sought desperately and in vain for entrances so long familiar but now disappeared. abandoned by the gods, men were driven from their hearths and the human race was swept from the surface of the earth. the earth itself was beginning to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift from the sky and falling into the gaping void. they were like swallows, weary from too long a voyage, who drop and sink into the waves. the giant surt set the entire earth on fire; the universe was no longer more than 24 folklore in the old testament, p. 101. 25 maya history and religion, p. 336. 26 the mythology of south america, pp. 140-2. graham hancock fingerprints

d this is what it tells us about a scholar named hipparchus, the supposed discoverer of precession: hipparchus, also spelled hipparchos (b. nicaea, bithynia; d. after 127 bc, rhodes, greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes. this notable discovery was the result of painstaking observations, worked upon by an acute mind. hipparchus observed the positions of the stars, and then compared his results with those of timocharis of alexandria about 150 years earlier and with even earlier observations made in babylonia. he discovered that the celestial longitudes were different and that this difference was of a magnitude exceeding that attributable to errors of observation. he therefore proposed precession to account for the size of the difference and he gav

lysm reviewed in chapters twentyfour and twenty-five. in norse mythology for example, we saw how the wolf fenrir, whom the gods had so carefully chained up, broke his bonds at last and escaped: he shook himself and the world trembled. the ash-tree yggdrasil was shaken from its roots to its topmost branches. mountains crumbled or split from top to bottom. the earth began to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift in the sky. in the opinion of de santillana and von dechend, this myth mixes the 1 livio catullo stecchini, notes on the relation of ancient measures to the great pyramid, in secrets of the great pyramid, pp. 381-2. 2 martin bernal, black athena: the afro-asiatic roots of classical civilization, vintage books, london, 1991, p. 276. graham hancock fingerprints of the go

ack athena: the afro-asiatic roots of classical civilization, vintage books, london, 1991, p. 276. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 241 familiar theme of catastrophe with the quite separate theme of precession. on the one hand we have an earthly disaster on a scale that seems to dwarf even the flood of noah. on the other we hear that ominous changes are taking place in the heavens and that the stars, which have come adrift in the sky, are dropping into the void. 3 such celestial imagery, repeated again and again with only relatively minor variations in myths from many different parts of the world, belongs to a category earmarked in hamlet s mill as not mere storytelling of the kind that comes naturally .4 moreover the norse traditions that speak of the monstrous wolf fenrir, and of

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mystery by robert temple for a discussion of the sirius connection also kenneth grant s outside the circles of time discusses the matter from a magical perspective. 60 allen h. greenfield times have made claims to being our saviors. there are keys for decoding which is which for example, rituals that have been generated or handed down to the magical lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the great white brotherhood. ciphers for decoding messages between the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed. but confusions of a deliberate nature exist; the ancient gnostics uncovered a cipher which clearly indicates that the story of the garden of eden in its conventional form is turned on its head. the s

eligious vantage point he maintained that the phrase king felix was a cipher for the coming of a new being, who would deliver humanity from the black iron prison. king felix= 147= resistance. much of the starseed speculation centers on sirius or sothis, the dog star so important as a calendar yardstick in ancient egypt, and the object of the sirius mystery speculations on ancient visitations from the stars. sirius= 85= of our lady (see valis= 41= her, a phrase from crowley s liber cheth. from liber al. sirsecret cipher of the ufonauts 79 ius= 85= am above and visit and follow me. the sirius tradition has apparently been perpetuated by many generations of priests, so it is interesting that sirius= 85= bishop. the cycle quoted here does seem to lend weight to the starseed transmission concep

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allows the followers of osiris to enter finto and to come forth from the magical universe, and who rewards the lords and masters so that their light will be strengthened and nourished. 71 astrological influences astrology in education is usefui as geology is to the prospector; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction in which to explore. aleister crowley, magick without tears the stars impel, they do not compel. ancient maxim the astrological influences in the four great crosses are shown in appendix d. how these forces influence the lesser watchtower squares is shown in appendix c. the primary meanings of these signs are given below. aries: the first cause, the life-principle, pure spirit. taurus: pure substance, undiferentiated matter. gemini: motion, phenomena, elem

this formula, you can enter the city of the pyramids without becoming trapped there (the letter vau will assure that you not carry detachment to extremes. the sigh of vrelp from the rose (figure 6) is: the letters vau, don, graph, ur, orals are written: 190 the formula of ivitdt i pluck thee, 0 my god, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. how thou dost melt in my mouth, thou consecrated sugar of the stars! aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word ivitdt is pronounced ee-veetehdeh-teh. it is comprised of the first letters of the words ial-prg vaoan ial tibibp doalim telok which means "the burning flames of truth that consume sorrow, sin and death" the entire phrase adds up to 1130, the number for the sum of the names of the three governors of the 15th aethyr, oxo: tahamdo =140 nokiabi

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uis, anguifer hostis, letifer unguis, serpens (greg. m. opp. 1, 111. jonas bobb. pp. 5. 15. yita burguudofarae p. 427. vita s. romani p. 743, serpens antiqims, caes. heisterb. 7, 35, the old dragon, as. draca, el. 765. the belief is founded chiefly on rev. 20, 2, and on the interpretations the fathers gave of leviathan. a dragon is mentioned in rev. 12, 4, who with his tail drew the third part of the stars from heaven^ it is in this biblical sense that our old poets call the devil sjange, hellewurm, lohengr. 141, heuetracke, mart. 141; but there also went with it an inkling of the native superstition about venomous fire-spitting worms, treasure-guarding dragons (p. 978) and wondei'ful serpents (p. 684. as a dragon the devil appears in numberless folktales, e.g. deutsche sag. nos. 520. 858

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reasure. but the fish were gone, and nothing was found at the bottom but snakes, toads and salamanders, which came creeping out and lodged with the ruffian brood. but the eim rose higher and higher, and swept like a white cloud through the air; said the hunters in the woods: what is this murky weather passing over us? and the herdsmen: what white swan is flying in the sky? all night he hung among the stars, at morn the reapers spied him, how that he was sinking, and the white swan became as a white ship, and the ship as a dark drifting cloud. and out of the waters came a voice: get thee hence with thy harvest, i come to dwell with thee/ then they bade him welcome, if he would bedew their fields and meadows, and he sank down and stretched himself in his new couch. they set his bed in order

es; but we should have to get more exact information as to the legend of the bee-wolf (pp. 369, 673) and the mythic relationship of the woodpecker (lith. melleta) to the bee (see suppl. chapter xxii. sky and staks. the visible heavens have in many ways left their mark on the heathen faith. not only do gods, and the spirits who stand next them, have their dwelling in the sky, and get mixfc up with the stars, but earthly beings too, after their dissolution, are transported thither, and distinguished heroes and giants shine as constellations. from the sky the gods descend to earth, along the sky they make their journeys, and through the sky they survey unseen the doings of men. and as all plants turn to the light of heaven, as all souls look up to heaven, so do the smoke of sacrifice and the

ic belief 1 was engrafted on that; i know of nothing like it in other languages. all the heavenly bodies have particular spots, seats, chairs assigned them, which they make their abode and resting-place; they have their lodges and stages (sterrono girusti, 0. i. 17, 10. this-1 holds especially of the sun, who daily sinks into his seat a translation of the tongue to heaven. or was the twinkling of the stars likened to a tingling [ziingeln, a quivering nickering motion like that of the tongue? the moon s steady light does not bear that out, nor the ohg. form without the i. sun. moon. 701 or settle (see chap. xxiii; but similar chairs (km. 25, and a seat-going (sedelgang) are attributed to all the stars. n. bth. 210. 223 says, bootes( trago ze sedele gange/ and tiu zeichen ne giant nicht in s

nickering motion like that of the tongue? the moon s steady light does not bear that out, nor the ohg. form without the i. sun. moon. 701 or settle (see chap. xxiii; but similar chairs (km. 25, and a seat-going (sedelgang) are attributed to all the stars. n. bth. 210. 223 says, bootes( trago ze sedele gange/ and tiu zeichen ne giant nicht in sedel. as chair and table are things closely connected, the stars may have had tables of their own, or, what comes to the same thing, may have been regarded as tables of the sky; in saying which, i am not thinking of the egyptian sun-table, but more immediately of the bio&um yppa/ sidera extollere, of the voluspa (saem. lb, the three creative bors synir having set up as it were the tables of the firmament: biosr is the goth, biuds, ohg. piot (pp. 38. 6

wheel into the village. and this was called at \rille juul i by, trundling yule into town; outzen sub. v. i6l,.p. 145. sun. moon. 703 like the giant, the god (wuotan, the sky) has but one eye, which is awheel and a shield. in beow. 113.5 bedcen godes is the sun, the great celestial sign. 1 with this eye the divinity surveys the world, and nothing can escape its peering all-piercing glance 3, all the stars look down upon men.3 but the on. poets, not content with treating sun, moon and stara as eyes of heaven, invert the macrocosm, and call the human eye the sun, mooiv or star of the skull, forehead, brows and eyelashes -y they even call the eye th shield of the forehead: a confirmation of the similar name for the sun. another title they bestow on the sun is gimsteinn himins.(getnma coeli)

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stones, and types of hard stone that could be used to make long-lasting buildings and artifacts. the south of the country often went without rain for many years at a stretch. when rain did 2 handbook of egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. much early mythology may have developed to explain the movement of celestial bodies. the habitable part of egypt was effectively a giant oasis created by the nile and its annual flood, which is known as the inundation. every year a combination of melting snows and monsoon rains in the mountains of ethiopia caused a huge increase in the amount of water in the nile. when the s

xes of the old and middle kingdoms, in temples of ancient egypt, ed. byron e. shafer (ithaca, 1997, 31 85. 19. for a full bibliography of translations and interpretations of the pyramid texts and all the other funerary texts mentioned in this chapter, see erik hornung, the ancient egyptian books of the afterlife, trans. david lorton (ithaca and london, 1999. 20. recent research has suggested that the stars and planets were thought of as forming part of the great cycle of the sun s progression through the sky, so it was not contradictory to claim that the deceased king was joining both the sun and the stars. 21. these statements are from pyramid text 477. this is typical of the way in which the death of osiris was alluded to (he has fallen upon his side) but never clearly described. the bel

n the sense that they were thought to be effective in bringing about a desired state. 57. in a forthcoming book, crowns in egyptian funerary literature symbols of royalty, rebirth, and destruction, katja goebs suggests that the myth of the destruction of mankind evolved from a myth of the sun god s reabsorption of the powers of all the other celestial beings, just as the sun appears to swallow up the stars at dawn. 58. for translations of a selection of these hymns, see hymns and prayers to amun-re: the apogee of ancient egyptian religious thought, in j. l. foster, hymns, prayers and songs: an anthology of ancient egyptian lyric poetry, ed. susan tower hollis (atlanta, 1995, 55 79. the problem of the nature of the relationship between the one creator deity and the myriad other gods and god

in her contrasting benevolent and destructive aspects. she was most commonly shown as a beautiful woman wearing a red solar disk between a pair of cow s horns. hathor s name means domain (or mansion) of horus, which may make her the original mother of the celestial falcon. in the pyramid texts, the domain of horus was a special part of the sky where the dead king would be rejuvenated. as lady of the stars, hathor was associated with the nocturnal sky. as the eye of ra, she could be identified with the solar disk or the morning or evening star (venus. by the greco-roman period, hathor was honored as a moon deity. she was the goddess of all precious metals, gemstones, and materials that shared the radiant qualities of celestial bodies, such as gold, silver, copper, turquoise, lapis-lazuli

nd nephthys as wailing women. numen 5 (1958: 1 18. l. troy. patterns of queenship in ancient egyptian myth and history. uppsala: 1986, 36 39. primary sources: pt 534, 555; ct 74; bd 125; lamentations; i&o 38 nun (noun, nu) nun was a personification of the primeval ocean from which all life came. after creation, the watery darkness known as the nun continued to surround the world. it existed above the stars and as an abyss that formed the lowest depths of the underworld. as a deity, nun was considered the oldest of beings and called the father of the gods. he and his female counterpart naunet were among the eight primeval beings who made up the ogdoad of hermopolis. as a member of the ogdoad, nun had a frog or frog-headed form. from the new kingdom onward, he was also shown as a fecundity f

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e right of the path of afu-ra are the twelve akhemu-seku gods, each with his paddle; they are born each day, and after the new sun-god has entered his boat they join him, and act as his mariners. beyond these are twelve goddesses who help to tow the boat of afu-ra just before dawn, and then come a god of the gates of the tuat, the captain of the gods in the boat, two gods who order the courses of the stars, a star-god in the form of an ape, the eye of ra, which unites itself to the face of ra, and the guardian of the p. 188 [paragraph continues] gate of this division, who does not leave his place. all the other gods travel onwards to the day with afu-ra (vol. ii, pp. 273-278. on the left of the path of afu-ra we again see the serpent apep. to his neck is attached a chain, which is grasped

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43 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt motion by nous (universal intelligence, the mahat of the hindus, which nous is an immaterial, eternal, spiritual entity; by this combination the world was formed, the material gross bodies sinking down, and the ethereal atoms (or fiery ether) rising and spreading in the upper celestial regions. antedating modern science by over 2,000 years, he taught that the stars were of the same material as our earth, and the sun a glowing mass; that the moon was a dark uninhabitable body, receiving its light from the sun; and beyond the aforesaid science he confessed himself thoroughly convinced that the real existence of things, perceived by our senses, could not be demonstrably proved. he died in exile at lampsacus, at the age of seventy-two. anima mundi (lat

d to the four paths and truths. aspect the form (rupa) under which any principle in septenary man or nature manifests is called an aspect of that principle in theosophy. astral body the ethereal counterpart or double of any physical body-doppelg nger. astrology the science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future events from the positions of the stars. its antiquity is such as to place it among the very earliest records of human learning. it remained for long ages a secret science in the page 145 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt east, and its final expression remains so to this day, its esoteric application only having been brought to any degree of perfection in the west during the lapse of time since varaha mihira wrote his boo

on to meteorology, seismology, husbandry. 2. state or civic, in regard to the future of nations, kings, and rulers. 3. horary, in reference to the solving of doubts arising in the mind upon any subject. 4. genethliacal in connection with the future of individuals from birth unto death. the egyptians and the chaldeans were among the most ancient votaries of astrology, though their modes of reading the stars and the modern methods differ considerably. the former claimed that belus, the bel or elu of the chaldeans, a scion of the divine dynasty, or the dynasty of the king-gods, had belonged to the land of chemi, and had left it to found a colony from egypt on the banks of the euphrates, where a temple, ministered by priests in the service of the "lords of the stars" was built. as to the origi

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e first men, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of r'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him. meanwhile no more must be told. there was a secret which even torture could not extract. mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. but these were not the great old ones. no man had ever seen the old ones. the carven idol was great

ons of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. there had been aeons when other things ruled on the earth, and they had had great cities. remains of them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape- for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plun

ions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape- for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, they could not live. but although they no longer lived, they would never really die. they all lay in stone houses in their great city of r'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty cthulhu for a glorious surrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for them. but at that time some force from outside must serve to liberate their bodies. the spells that preserv

n their tombs. when, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the great old ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals. then, whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around tall idols which the great ones shewed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu from his tomb to revive his subjects and resume his rule of earth. the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teac

me chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and the high-priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumours picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms. but of them old castro dared not speak much. he cut himself off hurriedly, and no amount of persuasion or subtlety could elicit more in this direction. the size of the old ones, too, he curiously declined to mention. of the cul

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rly indicated; yet one could not be exact as to the limit of its later adaptations. the wings, after all, held a persistent suggestion of the aerial. how it could have undergone its tremendously complex evolution on a new-born earth in time to leave prints in archaean rocks was so far beyond conception as to make lake whimsically recall the primal myths about great old ones who filtered down from the stars and concocted earth life as a joke or mistake; and the wild tales of cosmic hill things from outside told by a folklorist colleague in miskatonic s english department. naturally, he considered the possibility of the pre-cambrian prints having been made by a less evolved ancestor of the present specimens, but quickly rejected this too-facile theory upon considering the advanced structural

before the true life of earth had advanced beyond plastic groups of cells- rocks laid down before the true life of earth had existed at all. they were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths which things like the pnakotic manuscripts and the necronomicon affrightedly hint about. they were the great "old ones" that had filtered down from the stars when earth was young- the beings whose substance an alien evolution had shaped, and whose powers were such as this planet had never bred. and to think that only the day before danforth and i had actually looked upon fragments of their millennially fossilized substance- and that poor lake and his party had seen their complete outlines- it is of course impossible for me to relate in proper

id me to say that they are earth s highest. that grim honor is beyond doubt reserved for something which half the sculptures hesitated to record at all, whilst others approached it with obvious repugnance and trepidation. it seems that there was one part of the ancient land- the first part that ever rose from the waters after the earth had flung off the moon and the old ones had seeped down, from the stars- which had come to be shunned as vaguely and namelessly evil. cities built there had crumbled before their time, and had been found suddenly deserted. then when the first great earth buckling had convulsed the region in the comanchian age, a frightful line of peaks had shot suddenly up amidst the most appalling din and chaos- and earth had received her loftiest and most terrible mountain

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

what swept up the servants? what made them scream so loud. don't know, ehl you'll know soon enough. look at me- listen to what i say- do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude? do you fancy there are such things as form or matter? i tell you, i have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. i have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. i have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. space belongs to me, do you hear? things are hunting me now- the things that devour and dissolve- but i know how to elude them. it is you they will get, as they got the servants. stirring. dear sir? i told you it was dangerous to move, i have saved you so far by telling you to keep still- saved you to

HP LOVECRAFT HYPNOS

spers. i shiver as i speak of them, and dare not be explicit; though i will say that my friend once wrote on paper a wish which he dared not utter with his tongue, and which made me burn the paper and look affrightedly out of the window at the spangled night sky. i will hint-only hint- that he had designs which involved the rulership of the visible universe and more; designs whereby the earth and the stars would move at his command, and the destinies of all living things be his. i affirm-i swear-that i had no share in these extreme aspirations. anything my friend may have said or written to the contrary must be erroneous, for i am no man of strength to risk the unmentionable spheres by which alone one might achieve success. there was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresi

nor would the company of a few persons calm him. his sole relief was obtained in revelry of the most general and boisterous sort; so that few assemblies of the young and gay were unknown to us. our appearance and age seemed to excite in most cases a ridicule which i keenly resented, but which my friend considered a lesser evil than solitude. especially was he afraid to be out of doors alone when the stars were shining, and if forced to this condition he would often glance furtively at the sky as if hunted by some monstrous thing therein. he did not always glance at the same place in the sky-it seemed to be a different place at different times. on spring evenings it would be low in the northeast. in the summer it would be nearly overhead. in the autumn it would be in the northwest. in wint

HP LOVECRAFT NYARLATHOTEP

ysical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. i recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. a sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. there was a demoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown. and it was then that nyarlathotep came out of egypt. who he was

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

e first man, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of r'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him. meanwhile no more must be told. there was a secret which even torture could not extract. mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. but these were not the great old ones. no man had ever seen the old ones. the carven idol was great

of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. there had been aeons when other things ruled on the earth, and they had had great cities. remains of them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still to be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before man came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plung

tions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, they could not live. but although they no longer lived, they would never really die. they all lay in stone houses in their great city of r'lyeh preserved by the spells of mighty cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for them. but at that time some force from outside must serve to liberate their bodies. the spells that preser

n their tombs. when, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the great old ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could their language reach the fleshy minds of mammals. then, whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around small idols which the great ones showed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu from his tomb to revive his subjects and resume his rule of earth. the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teac

me chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumours picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms. but of them old castro dared not speak much. he cut himself off hurriedly, and no amount of persuasion or subtlety could elicit more in this direction. the size of the old ones, too, he curiously declined to mention. of the cul

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

nd, but before i could arise and speak i heard in the upper air the exquisite melody of singing; notes high and low blent with a sublime and ethereal harmoniousness. the sun had by this time sunk below the horizon, and in the twilight i saw an aureole of lambent light encircled the child s head. then in a tone of silver it addressed me: it is the end. they have come down through the gloaming from the stars. now all is over, and beyond the arinurian streams we shall dwell blissfully in teloe. as the child spoke, i beheld a soft radiance through the leaves of the palm tree, and rising, greeted a pair whom i knew to be the chief singers among those i had heard. a god and goddess they must have been, for such beauty is not mortal; and they took my hands, saying, come, child, you have heard the

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

f fear as mine; why no other man shivers so horribly when the night wind rattles the windows. when i came upon it in the ghastly stillness of unending sleep it looked at me, chilly from the rays of a cold moon amidst the desert's heat. and as i returned its look i forgot my triumph at finding it, and stopped still with my camel to wait for the dawn. for hours i waited, till the east grew grey and the stars faded, and the grey turned to roseate light edged with gold. i heard a moaning and saw a storm of sand stirring among the antique stones though the sky was clear and the vast reaches of desert still. then suddenly above the desert's far rim came the blazing edge of the sun, seen through the tiny sandstorm which was passing away, and in my fevered state i fancied that from some remote dep

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

hills lieth oonai, the city of lutes and dancing, which men whisper of and say is both lovely and terrible.thither would i go were i old enough to find the way, and thither shouldst thou go and thou wouldst sing and have men listen to thee. let us leave the city of teloth and fare together among the hills of spring. thou shalt shew me the ways of travel and i will attend thy songs at evening when the stars one by one bring dreams to the minds of dreamers. and peradventure it may be that oonai the city of lutes and dancing is even the fair aira thou seekest, for it is told that thou hast not known aira since the old days, and a name often changeth. let us go to oonai, o iranon of the golden head, where men shall know our longings and welcome us as brothers, nor even laugh or frown at what w

aira, though i think not. aira's beauty is past imagining, and none can tell of it without rapture, whilist of oonai the camel-drivers whisper leeringly" at the sunset iranon and small romnod went forth from teloth, and for long wandered amidst the green hills and cool forests. the way was rough and obscure, and never did they seem nearer to oonai the city of lutes and dancing; but in the dusk as the stars came out iranon would sing of aira and its beauties and romnod would listen, so that they were both happy after a fashion. they ate plentifully of fruit and red berries, and marked not the passing of time, but many years must have slipped away. small romnod was now not so small, and spoke deeply instead of shrilly, though iranon was always the same, and decked his golden hair with vines

nds that never were, and things that never can be! of aira did he speak much; of aira and the river nithra, and the falls of the tiny kra. there would he ever say he once dwelt as a prince, though here we knew him from his birth.nor was there ever a marble city of aira, or those who could delight in strange songs, save in the dreams of mine old playmate iranon who is gone" and in the twilight, as the stars came out one by one and the moon cast on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the floor as he is rocked to sleep at evening, there walked into the lethal quicksands a very old man in tattered purple, crowned wiht whithered vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the golden domes of a fair city where dreams are understood. that night something of youth and beauty

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

some alien and insoluble telegraph message from outer space. the hindoo leaned back, half closed his eyes, and continued in that oddly labored yet idiomatic speech, while before his audience there began to float a picture of what had happened to randolph carter. chapter two the hills beyond arkham are full of a strange magic-something, perhaps, which the old wizard edmund carter called down from the stars and up from the crypts of nether earth when he fled there from salem in 1692. as soon as randolph carter was back among them he knew that he was close to one of the gates which a few audacious, abhorred and alien-souled men have blasted through titan walls betwixt the world and the outside absolute. here, he felt, and on this day of the year, he could carry out with success the message h

r less than the adamantine mass of the solid wall yielding before his spell, and the vortex of thought with which the ancient ones had aided his spell. still guided by instinct and blind deter-mination, he floated forward- and through the ultimate gate. chapter four randolph carter's advance through the cyclopean bulk of masonry was like a dizzy precipitation through the measureless gulfs between the stars. from a great distance he felt triumphant, godlike surges of deadly sweetness, and after that the rustling of great wings, and impressions of sound like the chirpings and murmurings of objects unknown on earth or in the solar system. glancing backward, he saw not one gate alone but a multiplicity of gates, at some of which clamoured forms he strove not to remember. and then, suddenly, he

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

o the grave while the sun is up: the longest life can but give him repetition to satiety of these things, repetitions until he seems almost to tire of the common sun. of which he grows weary, as well as of his waste or extent of knowledge. to some minds, this world does not present such extraordinary attractions. the very possession of the heights of knowledge induces rather stay up there, amidst the stars, than descent. every man almost has felt the sublime exaltation of a great height, when he has achieved the top of a high hill, and looks out and over the landscape for miles and miles. how very little the world looks under him! he is obliged to descend, because he has his home under there. but he quits the upper regions with reluctance, although it is somewhat frightening (as though he

ght, when he has achieved the top of a high hill, and looks out and over the landscape for miles and miles. how very little the world looks under him! he is obliged to descend, because he has his home under there. but he quits the upper regions with reluctance, although it is somewhat frightening (as though he were going to be flown away with) to stay so high up. you become giddy by looking up at the stars, which then seem to be so much nearer as to be attainable. limited as it is, life itself very brief, very empty, very much disposed to repeat dull things, gathering up from about you in a strange sensation sometimes, in folds like a dream, or flowing on like a sleep-inducing river to the sea, carrying faces seen and snatched away, and obliterating voices which change into echoes life, at

urvive as old friends. indeed, it may be doubtful whether, to this supposed man of the ages, the generations would not seem to be produced as a purposeless efflux out of the ground by the sun, like flowers or plants; so as mere matter of mould would all flesh appear, with a phenomenon only going with it in the article of the figure s uprightness as man; it having so strangely set its face against the stars, unlike the creatures doomed to move horizontally. we make these observations to show that, notwithstanding the opinions of the world to the contrary, there may have been men who have possessed these gifts, that is, the power of making gold and of perpetuating their lives, and yet that the exercise of these powers was forborne; and also that their secrets of production have most carefull

on themselves to lust? now, all these things deface and defile man, and the holy temple of man's body, and are plainly against the ordinances of god. for this dream of the world, as also the body or vehicle through which it is made manifest, the lord intended to be pure. and it was not purposed, in the divine arrangement, that men should grow again down to the earth. it is for other purposes that the stars, in their attraction, have raised man on his feet, instead of abandoning him to the all-fours that were the imperfect tentatives of nature until life, through the supernatural impulse, rose above its original condemned level base and relegate. we of the secret knowledge do wrap ourselves in mystery, to avoid the objurgation and importunity or violence of those who conceive that we cannot

69 understand the supernatural truths! reverence fire (for its meaning, and tremble at it; though in the earth it be chained, and the foot of the archangel michael like upon the dragon be upon it! avert the face from it, as the magi turned, dreading, and (as the symbol) before it bowed askance. so much for this great thing fire! observe the multiform shapes of fire; the name-wreaths, the spires, the stars, the spots, the cascades, and the mighty falls of it; where the roar, when it grows high in imperial masterdom, is as that of niagara. think what it can do, what it is. watch the trail of sparks, struck, as in that spouting arch, from the metal shoes of the trampling horse. it is as a letter of the great alphabet. the familiar london streets, even, can give thee the persian s god: though

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ng that, to me, is irresistible. i want to crack this thing wide open. my reasons are simply to enable more work to be done upon this "field theory. i am a star-gazer mr. jessup. i make no bones about this and the fact that i feel that if handled properly, i.e. presented to people& science in the proper psycologically effective manner. i feel sure that man will go where he now dreams of being--to the stars via the form of transport that the navy accidentally stumbled upon (to their embarrassment) when their exp. ship took off& popped-up a minute or so later on several hundred sea 21 travel--trip miles away at another of its berths in the chesapeake bay area. i read of this in another newspaper& only by hypnosis could any man remember all the details of which paper, date of occurrence& etc

vid in color. it rose from the south, crossed the sky with a slow and grave motion, and went northward. out of the front of the pile of fervent red flame burst forth with great beams of light many beholders saw it in collision, and there came sounds of fearful combat, and sounds of crashes "buja" matthew, of paris, says: on july 24, ad, 1239, at the vigil of saint james, in the dusk, but not when the stars came out, but while the air was clear, serene and shining, a great star appeared. it was like a torch, rising from the south, and flying on both sides of it there was emitted in the height of the sky a very great light. it turned towards the north in the aery region, not quickly, nor, indeed, with speed, but exactly as if it wished to ascent to a place in the air. but when it arrived at

ontacting a new racial intelligence as we do on finding new nebulae a few million lights years distant. yeah, if. well, nobody's interested. before you get excited about that harmless little table of figures, and complain that i'm turning technical, i will give a modicum of explanation. right ascension (usually abbreviated ra) is the astronomer's technical way of locating an object eastward among the stars, from an arbitrarily selected point in the sky, and corresponds to longitude on the earth's' surface. declination is the distance north or south of the celestial equator, and corresponds to latitude on the earth's surface. it really is not complicated. we will better understand harrison's observation if we realize that an object hovering directly overhead will move among the stars at a r

. declination is the distance north or south of the celestial equator, and corresponds to latitude on the earth's surface. it really is not complicated. we will better understand harrison's observation if we realize that an object hovering directly overhead will move among the stars at a rate of one minute of ra in one minute of time. imagine yourself lying under a tree at night looking upward at the stars. as the earth turns on it axis the twigs above you move slowly eastward across the stars at exactly one minute of ra per minute of time. harrison's object was moving approximately three times that quickly. these figures of harrison's are the very thing for which ufo protagonists have been praying. they are the scientific pay-off! three minutes of ra per one minute of time is much too rap

e a new type of saucer patrol, and would doubtless result in some genuine comets being discovered as well as xzxxx suspicious characters. so much the better. this would make a good cooperative program for all interest parties. a specially organized saucer club could sponsor it. it would do little good, even if a colony were openly established in u.s. land. for, though, man would then thusly reach the stars they would "feel" the little-men to be "such children" that they i. e. man, would "think" the gift of space light to be much much more mportant than the philosophy by which l-ms live in, with& over those mind wrecking conditions that space& sea contain and yet they live with these, so very happily the only thing "bad" about such a colony is the fact that little-men do not remember to alw

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

rcury. at first sight, the composition of such a table does not seem to be very hard. sumerian nanna and akkadian sin are the moongod, utu or .ama. is the sungod without a hint of doubt. with the rest, however, there are problems. for an estonian, the concept of stars as a heavenly writing. akkadian .i ir .ame or .i ir bur me. sounds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an anu god of heaven enlil marduk (b l) jupiter main god, god of air and earth enki ea god of waters and wisdom nanna sin moon moongod, god of fertility and prosperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (

KETAB E SIYAH

e ruby, huge and bright, and wore upon his head a crown that shone with all the light that was ever seen in the sky, the light of a thousand stars. thus spoke gabriel to that most majestic king "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 the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, be merciful upon this, your son; forgive my tongue that speaks such ill. i weep that i must speak these words to you, sullying this most noble spire by the s

hing eyes filled with deceit and darkness, though that blind archon did not see the vice that burned like venom in those once bright and flawless orbs, and implored thus of the pristine king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, 17 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 the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, indeed i wish and pray most solemnly that i was in error and my brother innocent and not even yet does my alert and lucid mind believe that which i now repor

he seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, 22 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 the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, regard how this untrue son comes before you, seeking to deceive him who cannot be deceived, whose ear can detect all falsehood in voice and heart and whose e

the quest's strenuity, none could find but an atom of complaint against this most worthy reign beneath which we serve according to our most nuclear desire. what could i speak against our father, 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 the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, 25 that might be considered just by even the most unworthy ear? i bear no criticism at all to our infinitely worthy father for no criticism could ever be just' at these words my brother

d the seeming of humility, ill-fitting indeed, like an over-sweet musk that nauseates by the potency of its odour, necessary to mask the stink of corruption, and thus did he speak to his father "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 the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, i need speak little in prosecution for my noble brother, michael, has already spoken much. i shall, however, say this thing, my brother's testament is wholly

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

cable and dirty we are. along with the desire will be the sensation of repulsion at such a desire appearing in us. that is why the recognition of evil exists. an ordinary person does not regard such desires as evil, but rationalizes, well, i m no different than anybody else. it is written that god said to abraham, look now towards heaven and promised him that his seed and his people would be like the stars in the sky innumerable. stars are sparks of returning light that broke from the collective soul. one collects these sparks, corrects them, t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 132 and thus ascends. for that reason, the sparks, which are souls that rise upward, are called stars. the creator promised abraham that if he followed this path, the entire heavens would be his. d e at h q: does a par

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

tes of the brethren are laid as a fitting sacrifice to the genius of our order. the proper form of a masonic altar is that of a cube, about three feet high, with four horns, one at each corner, and having spread open upon it the holy bible, square, and compasses, while around it are placed in a triangular form and proper position the three lesser lights. 111. fig. 2 is taken from the same source. the stars represent the three lighted candles and the black dot the vacancy in the north, where there is no light. in our co-masonic lodges we follow the english custom of having the three candles beside the seats of the three principal officers, but they are still in the same relative positions. in this, as in other matters, there is no orthodoxy in masonry. 112. the symbol upon the eastern side

out these things. the t c b c thus shows that the man who intelligently comprehends the scheme of the evolution of life in the world can deliberately co-operate with the divine plan, until he becomes perfectly evolved as man and reaches the seven-pointed star; and that then he is ready to pass on into still higher conditions, which are indicated on the t c b c by the clouds, the sun, the moon and the stars above. in fact, true philosophy discerns the plan drawn by t.g.a. on the tracing board of time for the building of the universe. 291. the remaining jewels, the rough and smooth ashlars, are seen in the t c b c near the pillars which represent the columns of the w.j.w. and w.s.w. respectively. the smooth ashlar is generally suspended from a pulley, and held by the lewis(*see fig. 11) an i

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

es, dissolves into the waters (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 44) finally, the air fills with great clouds that rain down a ferocious deluge until the world perishes in watery darkness. to cite heinrich zimmer s evocative description from his classic myths and symbols in indian art and civilization, the ultimate elements melt into the undifferentiated fluid out of which they once arose. the moon, the stars, dissolve. the mounting tide becomes a limitless sheet of water. this is the interval of a night of brahma (zimmer 1946, 3. the universe is reabsorbed into the ultimate divinity (vishnu in the puranic texts, who withdraws into inactivity. the deity s static state is traditionally symbolized by the image of vishnu asleep on the coils of a giant serpent, who floats like a raft on the surfa

that a righteous leader (a madhi or rightly guided one) will reign for a brief period in the last days.he will be followed by an imposter messiah (parallel to the christian notion of an antichrist) who will attempt to lead the world astray. finally, however, the prophet jesus will appear to usher in the final judgment. on judgment day the earth will quake and mountains become a heap of sand: when the stars shall be extinguished, when heaven shall be split, when the mountains shall be scattered (arberry 1969, 318. as in the judgment day scenarios of other middle eastern religions, the dead are resurrected: upon the day when the caller shall call unto a horrible thing, abasing their eyes, they shall come forth from the tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers, running with outstretched n

LIBER 141

re results are obtained equal to those garnered when nature herself urges vehemently to the act by enthusiasm. but mediocre states of body and mind are to be avoided. as it is written "i would thou wert cold or hot; but because thou art lukewarm i shall spew thee out of my mouth" nor is it necessarily to be disregarded as superstition to assert that certain hours of the day and certain aspects of the stars are more favourable than others, but rather to be criticised and investigated according to the methods of true science. v of bodily states there is here a certain difficulty, in that the body being full of meat and wine is more apt for the preparation, as it is said "sine cereri et baccho venus friget" while for the consummation the body should be empty of all gross nutriment, so that th

LIBER AASH

illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. but the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the great goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, amen! 38. therefore lift up thyself as i am lifted up. hold thyself in as i am master to accomplish. at the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of nuit, do thou slay thyself as i at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is the mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. so therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the indus is water in the cavern of the glaci

LIBER ALEPH

u become a monster. and if one thing tempt thee overmuch, correct it by devotion to its opposite until equilibrium be reestablished. but seek not to grow by sudden determination toward things that be far from thee; only, if such a thing come into thy thought, construct a bridge thereunto, and take firmly the first step upon the bridge. i shall explain this. dost thou speculate upon the motives of the stars, and on their elements, their size and weight? then thou must first gain knowledge of doctrine mathematical, of laws physical and chemical. so then first, that thou mayst understand clearly the nature of thine whole work, map out thy mind, and extend its powers from the essential outwards, from the near to the far, always with firmness and great thoroughness, making every link in thy cha

estions i obtained from the wizard amalantrah that name olun, that is one hundred and fifty and six even as that of our lady babalon; and then, being inspired, i wrote down her earth-name in greek, marie, which is also that this name (as i have learned) is in the ph.nician tongue, wh lon; which by interpretation is that which is infinite, and space; so that all is consonant with nuith our lady of the stars. thus, o my son, is the word of truth echoed through-out all worlds; and thus have the wise mighty assurance in their way. see, o my son, that thou work not without this guard inflexible, lest thou err in thy perceptions. f the book of wisdom or folly 111 dz de viris magnanimis, amore pr clarissimis (of great men, most distinguished in love) now that in the mind of man is much wisdom tha

communicate the same unto thee when thou hast wit to evoke it from the aditum and sanctuary of thy being. and this is to be done by this repetition of the formula of that truth. note thou further that this which i tell thee is the defence of formalism; and indeed thou must work upon a certain skeleton, but clothe it with live flesh. m liber aleph vel cxi 114 di de luce stellarum (of the light of the stars) t was that most holy prophet, thine uncle, called upon earth william o.neill, or blake, who wrote for our understanding these eleven sacred words: if the sun and moon should doubt they.d immediately go out. o my son, our work is to shine by fore and virtue of our own natures without consciousness or consideration. now, notwithstanding that our radiance is constant and undimmed, it may b

being questioned concerning the abode of the tao, he gave answer that it was in the dung. again, the tathagata, the buddha, most blessed, most perfect and most enlightened, added his voice, that there is no grain of dust which shall not attain to the arhan. keep therefore in just balance the relation of illusion to illusion in that aspect of illusion, neither confusing the planes, nor confounding the stars, nor denying the laws of their reaction, yet with eagle.s vision beholding the one sun of the true nature of the whole. verily, his is the truth, and unto it did also dionysus and tahuti and sri krishna set the seal of their witness. cleanse herefore thine heart, o my son, in the waters of the great sea, and enkindle it with the fire of the holy ghost. for his is his peculiar work of san

didst swim without support? then, little by little all violence dieth away, because thou art adjusted to that condition. therefore the fury of thine early victory in these arts magical and sciences is but the sign of thine own baseness and unworthiness, since the contrast or differential is so overwhelming to thee; but, becoming expert and adept, thou art balanced in the glory, and calm, even as the stars. c the book of wisdom or folly 137 ez de arte amoris et deliciarum mystici (of the art of love and of the pleasure of the mystic) he path therefore unto this beatific vision of beauty, o my son, is that practice of bhakti yoga which is written in the book called eight score and fifteen, or .astarte. by this mine hand when i was in gaul the beloved, at montigny that is hard by the forest

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h of the fire qadosh, o lord, the fire dissipated into space. 5. at the touch of the fire qadosh, o lord, the space resolved itself into a profundity of mind. 6. at the touch of the fire qadosh the mind of the father was broken up into the brilliance of our lord the sun. 7. at the touch of the fire qadosh the brilliance of our lord was absorbed in the naught of our lady of the body of the milk of the stars. 8. then only was the fire qadosh extinguished, when the enterer was driven back from the threshold, 9. and the lord of silence was established upon the lotus flower. 10. then was accomplished all that which was to be accomplished. 14 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 11. and all and one and naught were slain in the slaying of the warrior 418, 12. in the slaying of subtlety that expanded all th

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lusioon of the matter. and let him not perform the act until he hath done this. as it is written .liber vii. cap. v. 22. every breath, every word, every thought, is an act of love with thee. 23. the beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24. the songs of me are the soft sighs: astarte vel liber berylli 6 25. the thoughts of me are very rapture: 26. and my deeds are the myriads of thy children, the stars and the atoms. and remember well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, all this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19. concerning the lections. let the philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of thelema,1 during the whole period of his devotion. but, if he weary, let him read books which have no part what

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

rld. direct therefore now most closely thine attention to the book of the law itself. in it we find an absolute rule of life, and clear instruction in every emergency that may befall. what then are its own directions for the fructification of that ineffable seed? note, pray thee, the confidence with which we may proceed .they shall gather my children into their fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men..4 they .shall; there is no doubt. therefore doubt not, but strike with all thy strength. note also, pray thee, this word .the law is for all..5 do not therefore .select suitable persons. in thy worldly wisdom; preach openly the 1 [quotations in this paragraph are from crowley.s poem argonauts. t.s] 2 [al i. 5] 3 [this may mean more than that the addressee was inca

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

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

inence all life and light, annihilating sense. i have been sealed and silent in the womb of nothingness to burst, a babe fs bold bloom, into the upper aethyr of thine eyes. oh! one grave glance enkindles paradise, one sparkle sets me on the throne above, mine orb the world. astarte. nay, stir not yet. let love breathe like the zephyr on the unmoved deep, sigh to awakening from its rosy sleep; let the stars fade, and all the east grow grey and tender, ere the first faint rose of day flush it. awhile! awhile! there fs crimson bars enough to blot the noblest of the stars, and bow for adoration ere the rim start like god fs spear to ware the world of him! softly! esarhaddon. but kiss me! astarte. with an eyelash first! esarhaddon. treasure and torture! astarte. tantalising thirst makes the dra

e ivy and vine to entwine. my mouth on your mouth, and your mouth on mine! adonis 15 men. burnish our blades with your veils, merry maids! women. sever their cords with the scales of your swords! men. as a whirlwind that licks up a leaf let us bear you, an aureate sheaf adrift in the air! women. as a butterfly hovers and flits, let us guide to bewilder your wits bewitched by a bride! men. now, as the stars shall encircle the moon, our ranks let us marshal in time and in tune! women. leading our lady and lord to the feast, ere the night be abroad, the black rose of the east! men and women. arise! arise! the feast is spread, the wine is poured; the singers wait eager to lure and lull; the dancers tread impatient to invoke the lords of fate. arise, arise! the feast delayed delays the radiant

are high in favour then? psyche. ay, that needs not to be sworn; i am his own daughter born. hermes. in thy blood the spark divine of olympus? psyche. even in mine! hermes. hark, then! at the hour of fears when the lordly lion rears in mid-heaven his bulk of bane violently vivid, shakes his mane majestical, and snake and bull lamp the horizon, and the full fire of the moon tops heaven, and spurs the stars, while mars ruddily burns, liber cccxxxv 26 and venus glows, and jupiter ramps through the sky astride of her, then, unattended, let the king press on the little secret spring that guards the garden, and entering lay once his hand upon him, even while in the white arms of his heaven he swoons to sleep. that dreadful summons from the wild witchery his woman.s, that shaft of shattering tru

ove me! thrice burnt and branded on this bleeding brow, stamp thou the candid stigma.even now [the lamp flashes forth into dazzling but momentary radiance. as it goes out a cone of white light is seen upon the head of the lady psyche, and before her stands a figure of immense height cloaked and hooded in perfect blackness] the king. come! for the throne is hollow. the eagle hath cried: come away! the stars are numbered, and the tide turns. follow! follow! thine adonis slumbered. as a bride adorned, come, follow! fate alone is fallen and wried. follow me, follow! the unknown is satisfied [the lady psyche is lifted to her feet. in silence she bows, and in silence follows him as he turns and advances to the gate while the curtain falls] 30 scene v: the garden of the lady astarte. the lord esa

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s .by my kiss from that abode to this.to this. my wings? marysas. thou hast no wings. but see an eagle swooping from the byss where god stands. let him ravish thee and bear thee to a boundless bliss! olympas. how should i call him? how beseech? marysas. silence is lovelier than speech. liber ccxlii 2 only on a windless tree falls the dew, felicity! one ripple on the water mars the magic mirror of the stars. olympas. my soul bends to the athletic stress of god fs immortal loveliness. tell me, what wit avails the clod to know the nearness of its god? marysas. first, let the soul be poised, and fledge truth fs feather on mind fs razor-edge. next, let no memory, feeling, hope stain all its starless horoscope. last, let it be content, twice void; not to be suffered or enjoyed; motionless, blind

uickening skies the oriflamme of beauty beats heralding loyal legionaries, whose flame of golden javelins fences those peerless paladins. there are the burning lamps of them, splendid star-clusters to begem the trailing torrents of those blue bright wings that bear mine angel through! o thou art like an hawk of gold, miraculously manifold, for all the sky fs aflame to be a mirror magical of thee! the stars seem comets, rushing down to gem thy robes, bedew thy crown. like the moon-plumes of a strange bird by a great wind sublimely stirred, thou drawest the light of all the skies into thy wake. the heaven dies in bubbling froth of light, that foams liber ccxlii 30 about thine ardour. all the domes of all the heavens close above thee as thou art known of me who love thee. excellent kiss, thou

es magnificent as lionesses. tender and terrible caresses! fire lives, and light, in eager eyes; and massed huge hair about them lies. they lead their hosts to victory: in every joy they are kings; then see that secret serpent coiled to spring and win the world! o priest and king, let there be feasting, foining, fighting, a revel of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars f kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die. ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs, henceforth to all eternity. olympas. hail! i adore thee! let us feast. marsyas. i am the consecrated beast. i build the abominable house. the scarlet woman is my spouse. ol

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

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ave made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge.19 the three mighty names of god almighty coming forth from the thirty thyrs20 the first name. l a z o d a p e l a m e d a z o d a z o d a z o d i l a z o d u o l a t a z o d a- p e k a l a

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deep amethyst, and of gray sapphire, and of deep sapphire with a tinge as of blood. 2 liber lxv 6. therefore do ye fret yourselves because of this. 7. be not contented with the image. 8. i who am the image of an image say this. 9. debate not of the image, saying beyond! beyond! one mounteth unto the crown by the moon and by the sun, and by the arrow, and by the foundation, and by the dark home of the stars from the black earth. 10. not otherwise may ye reach unto the smooth point. 11. nor is it fitting for the cobbler to prate of the royal matter. o cobbler! mend me this shoe, that i may walk. o king! if i be thy son, let us speak of the embassy to the king thy brother. 12. then was there silence. speech had done with us awhile. there is a light so strenuous that it is not perceived as lig

all, the night shall cover all. 25. thou wast long seeking me; thou didst run forward so fast that i was unable to come up with thee. o thou darling fool! what bitterness thou didst crown thy days withal. 26. now i am with thee; i will never leave thy being. 27. for i am the soft sinuous one entwined about thee, heart of gold! 28. my head is jewelled with twelve stars. my body is white as milk of the stars; it is brightwith the blue of the abyss of stars invisible. 29. i have found that which could not be found; i have found a vessel of quicksilver. 30. thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him. 31 (the scribe looketh upwards and crieth) amen! thou hast spoken it, lord god! 32. further adonai spake unto v.v.v.v.v. and said: 33. let us take our delight in

uth. 10. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 7 11. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. also it came to pass, that thereby she sickened and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. 13. then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from the abyss of ages of sleep, and her body embraced me. altogether i melted into her beauty and was glad. 15. the river also became the river of amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth m

sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from the abyss of ages of sleep, and her body embraced me. altogether i melted into her beauty and was glad. 15. the river also became the river of amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me. 16. o serpent woman of the stars! i, even i, have fashioned thee from a pale image of fine gold. 17. also the holy one came upon me, and i beheld a white swan floating in the blue. 18. between its wings i sate, and the aons fled away. 19. then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. 20. a little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: 21. who art thou that dost float and fly and di

therefore is the vast sea as a veil; therefore is there a rending asunder of all things. 49. yea, also verily thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. i have bathed in thee, and lost me in thy stillness. 50. that which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection. 51. o thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars! 52. o thou son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be thy name, and the name of thy name, throughout the ages! 53. behold! i am a butterfly at the source of creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into thine infinite stream! 54. also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the abode; bear me away upon the bosom of nuit! 55. this is the world of the waters of

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

murderous. his nails like eagles. claws were grown; his eyes were wild and dull; but thus sir lancelot spake .thy deeds atone by knightly devoir. he returned that .while the land was overgrown liber cxcvii 20 with giant, fiend, and ogre burned my sword; but now the paynim bars are broke, and men to virtue turned: therefore i sit upon the scars amid my beard, even as the sun sits in the company of the stars. then lancelot bade this deed be done, the achievement of the questing beast. which when he spoke that holy one rose up, and gat him to the east with lancelot; when as they drew unto the palace and the feast he put his littlest finger to the dwarf, who rose to upper air, piercing the far eternal blue beyond the reach of song or prayer. then did sir palamede amend his nakedness, his horre

not i cannot even die! who chose me, of the table round by miracle acclaimed the chief? here, waterlogged and muscle-bound, marooned upon a coral reef. 61 xxvi sir palamede the saracen hath gotten him a swift canoe, paddled by stalwart south sea men. they cleave the oily breasts of blue, straining toward the westering disk of the tall sun; they battle through those weary days; the wind is brisk; the stars are clear; the moon is high. now, even as a white basilisk that slayeth all men with his eye, stands up before them tapering the cone of speechless sanctity. up, up its slopes the pilgrims swing, chanting their pagan gramarye unto the dread volcano-king .now, then, by goddes reed. quod he .behold the secret of my quest in this far-famed stability! for all these paynim knights may rest in

he beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen. 69 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to.sfeet.a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight

a goat, as palamede the saracen. 78 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit.s cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge; all his soul, with perfect sense and sight fulfilled, touched the extreme, the giant goal! yea! all things in that hour transcended, all power in his sublime control, sir palamedes, the

live, pure life is bubbling in his blood. all youth comes back, all strength, all you indeed flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood! yet was his heart immeasurably sad, for that no questing in his ear he had. nay! he saw all. he saw the curse that wrapped in ruin the world primaval. he saw the unborn universe, and all its gods coeval. he saw, and was, all things at once in him that is; he was the stars, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 91 the moons, the meteors, the suns, all in one net of triune bars; inextricably one, inevitably one, immeasurable, immutable, immense beyond all the wonder that his soul had won by sense, in spite of sense, and beyond sense .praise god. quoth palamede .by this i attain the uttermost of bliss. god.s wounds! but that i never sought. the questing beast i

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

happier when we examine the many, separately or together. they converge and diverge, each fresh hill-top of knowledge disclosing a vast land unexplored; each gain of power in our telescopes opening out new galaxies; each improvement in our microscopes showing us life minuter and more incomprehensible. a mystery of the mighty spaces between molecules; a mystery of the ether-cushions that fend off the stars from collision! a mystery of the fulness of things; a mystery of the emptiness of things! yet, as 6 liber cxlviii we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition.what shall i call it?.that being is one, and thought is one, and law is one. until we ask what is that one? then again we spin words.words.words. and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. what is

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44 of the chaldaan oracles runs .direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carded by the eternal will of the father. and not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud, flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where virtue, wisdom, and equity are assembled. and fragment 170 .having put on the completely armed-vigour of resounding light, with t

he is up here now with me, but i shall try to meditate. charming as she is, i don ft want to make love to her. 8.40. mixed mantra and caresses rather a success (at her request i gave m. a minimum dose of x) 9.15 .sana and meditation with mantra since 8.40. the blackness seems breaking. for a moment i got a vague glimpse of one.s spine (or rather one.s su.umn) as a galaxy of stars, thus suggesting the stars as the ganglia of the universe. liber dccclx 18 9.18 to continue. 10.18. not very satisfactory .sana got painful; like a worm i gave up, and tried playing the fool; got amused by the new monster, but did not perform the vajroli-mudra [for this see the siva samhita, and other of the holy sanskrit tantras..ed] however, having got rid of her for the moment, one may continue. p.y [pr.n.y.ma

ence. adonai! adonai! o lord adonai! let thy light illumine the path of that darkling wight john st. john, that being who, separate from thee, is separate from all light, life, love. adonai! adonai! let it be written of o. m. that .the lord adonai is about him like a thunderbolt and like a pylon and like a serpent and like a phallus.and in the midst thereof like the woman that jetteth the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps..1 1 [liber lxv, v. 65, slightly paraphrased] john st. john 93 the tenth day 12.17. now that the perfume of the incense is clearly away, one may most potently perceive the invoked perfume of the ceremony itself. and this mystical perfume of adonai is like pure musk, but infinitely subtilised.far stronger, and at the same time far mo

her, so gropeth thy little child after thee, o thou self-glittering one! 12.55. he hath read through days viii. and ix. he is too tired to understand what he reads. he will, despite of all, do a little pr.n.y.ma, and then sleep, ever willing adonai. for pr.n.y.ma with its intense physical strain is a great medicine for the mind. even as the long trail of the desert and the life with the winds and the stars, the daily march and its strife with heat, thirst, fatigue, cure all the ills of the soul, so does pr.n.y.ma clear away the phantoms that mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep (the pr.n.y.ma precipitated a short attack of dia

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

hile the organ thundered forth its solemn harmonies. all the knights and dames rose and gave the secret sign of the rose croix. it was at this part of the ceremony that things began to happen to me. i became suddenly aware that my body had lost both weight and tactile sensibility. my consciousness seemed to be situated no longer in my body. i gmistook myself, h if i may use the phrase, for one of the stars in the canopy. in this way i missed seeing the celebrants actually approach the cross. the bell tinkled again; i came back to myself, and then i saw that the high priestess, standing at the foot of the cross, had thrown her robe over it so that the cross was no longer visible. there was only a board covered with ermine. she was now naked but for her coloured and jewelled head-dress and t

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ell it is pronounced with a steady outward breath, beginning with the lips closed, slowly opening the mouth to the maximum, then closing it again; it thus represents the complete course of the breath, and by analogy .the arising of the speech from the silence, and the return thereunto in the end (liber 15ouliber domini satanae with commentary 1. my power is above all power in the earth and beyond the stars, i am will itself, the mighty lord satan. comment: satan s power is, from our point of view as conscious beings on this planet, the greatest single meta-influence that we are aware of. although we are unsure as to the full range and extent of this power, it certainly pertains specifically to our planet and the development of life and consciousness thereupon. he is will, force, drive, and

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

omprehensive astrological textbook, designated by crowley liber 536, ga complete treatise on astrology. h crowley and adams fell out in a row over money after the bulk of the work had been written but before it could be published. much of the surviving material was published by adams under her name alone in the 1920s in two volumes, astrology: your place in the sun and astrology: your place among the stars. a smaller part of the work (an introductory chapter and chapters on uranus and neptune) was published in 1972 under crowley fs name as the complete [sic] astrological writings, edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. the entire work, bound up with some shorter writings on astrology by crowley, was printed in 2003 as the general principles of astrology, edited by william breeze. 10 see

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me: so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, and of the earth, and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god the vast one, may be obedient unto me!3 14. i invoke the priestess of the silver star,4 asi the curved one, by the ritual of silence. 15. i make open the gate of bliss; i descend from the palace of the stars; i greet you, i embrace you, o children of earth, that are gathered together in the hall of darkness. 2 [the last four citations of this section are adapted from the gemerald tablet of 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 tr

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

his adeptship. these are the birth-words of a master of the temple v a a publication in class a 1 prologue of the unborn 1. into my loneliness comes. 2. the sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the utmost hills. 3. even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness. 4. and i behold pan. 5. the snows are eternal, above. 6. and their perfume smokes upwards into the nostrils of the stars. 7. but what have i to do with these? 8. to me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of pan. 9. on all sides pan to the eye, to the ear; 10. the perfume of pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech. 11. the embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure. 12. the sixth interior sense aflame

oh! i love thee. 44. i have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the beyond at thy feet, i have annointed thee and thy staff with oil and blood and kisses. 45. i have kindled thy marble into life.ay! into death. 46. i have been smitten with the reek of thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life. 47. how the dew of the universe whitens the lips! svb figvra vii 5 48. ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother supernal, begone! 49. i am she that should come, the virgin of all men. 50. i am a boy before thee, o thou satyr god. 51. thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure.now! now! now! 52. io pan! io pan! i love thee. i love thee. 53. o my god, spare me! 54. now! it is done! death. 55. i cried aloud the word.and it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to un

. clouds scudding over the sky. a circuit of pines, and of tall yews beyond. thou in the midst! 20. o all ye toads and cats rejoice! ye slimy things, come hither! 21. dance, dance to the lord our god! 22. he is he! he is he! he is he! 23. why should i go on? 24. why? why? comes the sudden cackle of a million imps of hell. 25. and the laughter runs. 26. but sickens not the universe; but shakes not the stars. 27. god! how i love thee! 28. i am walking in an asylum; all the men and women about me are insane. 8 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 29. oh madness! madness! madness! desirable art thou! 30. but i love thee, o god! 31. these men and women rave and howl; they froth out folly. 32. i begin to be afraid. i have no check; i am alone. alone. alone. 33. think, o god, how i am happy in thy lov

d, him will i serve. 43. for the end thereof is tormet unspeakable. 44. better the loneliness of the great grey sea! svb figvra vii 13 45. but ill befall the folk of the grey land, my god! 46. let me smother them with my roses! 47. o thou delicious god, smile sinister! 48. i pluck thee, o my god, like a purple plum upon upon a sunny tree. how thou dost melt in my mouth, thou consecreated sugar of the stars! 49. the world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin. 50. all the wine of it is on these lips. 51. thou hast begotten me upon a marble statue, o my god! 52. the body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. how shall i come forth into the light? 53. thou art he, o god! o my darling! my child! my plaything! thou

eona lastadza maratza maritza.maran! 52. then do they cook the shining god, and gulp him whole. 18 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 53. these are evil folk, o beautiful boy! let us pass on to the otherworld. 54. let us make ourselves into a pleasant bait, into a seductive shape. 55. i will be like a splendid naked woman with ivory breasts and golden nipples; my whole body shall be like the milk of the stars. i will be lustrous and greek, a courtesan of delos, of the unstable isle. 56. thou shalt be like a little red worm on a hood. 57. but thou and i will catch our fish alike. 58. then wilt thou be a shining fish with golden back and silver belly: i will be like a violent beautiful man, stronger than two score bulls, a man of the west bearing a great sack of precious jewels upon a staff tha

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

asssumed in the soul.s splendour! hear is peace; here earnest of assured release. here is the formless all-pervading spirit of the world, rising, fading into a glory subtler still. here the intense abode of will closes its gates, and in the hall is solemn sleep of festival. peace! peace! silence of peace! o visionless abode! cease! cease! through the dark veil press on! the veil is rent asunder, the stars pale, the suns vanish, the moon drops, the chorus of the spirit stops, but one note swells. mightiest souls of bard and music maker, rolls over your loftiest crowns the wheel of that abiding bliss. life flees down corridors of centuries pillar by pillar, and is lost. life after life in wild appeal cries to the master; he remains and thinks not. the polluting tides of sense roll shoreward

we may expect the final statement of the poet.s mind. the passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank me is to be found in act i. sc. ii. ll. 132-149 .this is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,.often the surfeit of our own behaviour,.we make guilty 44 the sword of song of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my m

ld about him. he is illegitimate: shakespeare is no true child of that age, but born in defiance of it and its prejudices. having taken this important step, let us slew round the rest of the play to fit it. if it fits, the law of probability comes to our aid; every coincidence multiplies the chance of our correctness in increasing proportion. we shall see.and you may look up your proctor .that if the stars are placed just so by chance not law, then also it may be possible that shakespeare was the wool-combing, knockkneed, camel-backed, church-going, plasterof- paris, stick-in-the-mud our scholars have always made him. edmund being the hero, regan and goneril must be the heroines. so nearly equal are their virtues and beauties that our poet cannot make up his mind which shall possess him. b

but show myself the better buddhist in the act..a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie.s play .little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself. go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea. let us consider what the words can mean. the .taking of life. can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha.s speaking this command, living protoplasm was changed into dead mat

t (as my friend miss br. c .1 would say) that this biting and pregnant phrase slipped out unaware. as a rule, of course, i hate the introduction of foreign tongues into an english essay..a.c. 1 a fast woman who posed as a bluestocking. notes 53 easily interpreted (as all buddhists do interpret the precepts) can avail against them; do not mop up the ganges with a duster; nor stop the revolution of the stars with a lever of lath. awake, awake only! let there be ever remembrance that existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of desire, its creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of desire; nor is a task so for

LIBER NU

the aspirant comprehend that these two practices are identical. this is the third practice of intelligence (ccxx i. 45. 12. let the aspirant live the life beautiful and pleasant. for this freedom hath he won. but let each act, especially of love, be devoted wholly to his true mistress, nuit. this is the fifth practice of ethics (ccxx i. 51, 52, 61, 63. 13. let the aspirant yearn toward nuit under the stars of night, with a love directed by his magical will, not merely proceeding from the heart. this is the first practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 57. 14. the result of this practice in the subsequent life of the aspirant is to fill him with unimaginable joys: to give him certainty concerning the nature of the phenomenon called death; to give him peace unutterable, rest, and ecstasy. this is t

o be accomplished. 1. assertion of kether-point-of-view. 2. reverence to the order. 3. abolition of human will. 4. exercise of true will. 5. devotion to nuit through a beautified life. 32. summary continued. the actual rite. 1. retire to desert with crown and other insignia and implements. 2. burn perfume. 3. chant incantation. 4. drink unto nuit of the elixir. 5. lying supine, with eyes fixed on the stars, practice the sensation of falling into nothingness. 6. being actually within the bosom of nuit, let hadit surrender himself. 33. summary concluded. the results. 1. expansion of consciousness to that of the infinite. 2. gloss of all h the highest mystical attainment. 3. true wisdom and perfect happiness (c) ordo templi orientis. key-entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. thi

LIBER SAMEKH

or naked, or shooting with the bow-shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse; then if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of a lion. h this passage.combined with several others.is paraphrased in poetry by aleister crowley in his tannhauser:32 and when, invoking often, thou shalt see that formless fire; when all the earth is shaken, the stars abide not, and the moon is gone, all time crushed back into eternity, the universe by earthquake overtaken; light is not, and the thunders roll, the world is done: when in the darkness chaos rolls again in the excited brain: then, o then call not to thy view that visible image of nature; fatal is her name! it fitteth not thy body to behold that living light of hell, the unluminous, dead

uted with intent towards them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666. h (for example, if invoking the powers of the constellation of the bear, associated with typhon-set in graco-egyptian magick, one might used widdershins motions, from the apparent motion of the stars about the pole star. as noted, while in section a. the entity invoked is hailed as gasar-un-nefer h, the opening of section c. is strikingly close to the beginning of an invocation of set-typhon in the leiden papyrus (the greek text of which was also, as it happens, printed by crowley in his edition of the goetia, as a curse against mathers. if on the other hand we do not want to admit t

given the previous paragraphs. 31 chaldaan oracles, the first passage is somewhat rearranged from framgents 196 and 199 in the westcott edn; the second is fragment 198 in the same edition and is here quoted verbatim. for the former, westcott gives: 196: if thou often invokest thou shalt see all things growing dark; and then when no longer is visible unto thee the high-arched vault of heaven, when the stars have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame and all things appear amid thunders. 199: when thou shalt behold that holy and formless fire shining flashingly through the depths of the universe: hear thou the voice of fire( gall the phantasms are vanished h is possibly a gloss by someone in the g.d (the phrase ap

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

e them. 57. follow out these my words. 58. fear nothing. fear nothing. fear nothing. svb figvra lxvi 5 59. for i am nothing, and me thou shalt fear, o my virgin, my prophet within whose bowels i rejoice. 60. thou shalt fear with the fear of love: i will overcome thee. 61. thou shalt be very nigh to death. 62. but i will overcome thee; the new life shall illumine thee with the light that is beyond the stars. 63. thinkest thou? i, the force that have created all, am not to be despised. 64. and i will slay thee in my lust. 65. thou shalt scream with the joy and the pain and the fear and the love.so that the of a new god leaps out among the stars. 66. there shall be no sound heard but this thy lion-roar of rapture; yea, this thy lion-roar of raptuapliber bracyt via memoria svb figvra cmxiii v

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

w they had taking the coffin out of the little room with seven sides. and the coffin was quite, quite empty. then they began to tell us all about it, and i heard my fairy prince within pastos pratris nostri c.r.c. baculum i. adepti crux ansata. pedum et flagellum osiridis. cur inter mortuos vivum petes? non est hic ille; resurrexit. liber xcv 12 the little room saying holy exalted things, such as the stars trace in the sky as they travel in the car called .millions of years. then they took me into the little room, and there was my fairy prince standing in the middle. so i knelt down as we all kissed his beautiful feet, and the myriads of eyes like diamonds that were hidden in his feet laughed joy at us. one couldn.t lift one.s head, for he was too glorious to behold; but he spoke wonderful

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

us in magical work, and act as guides for the great shades of awakening. the primary goal of the witch or sorcerer is to separate the spirit from flesh and control the mind on many levels, it is the seat of our immortal possibility of astral independence. one chant of initiation is meant to be practiced by the solitary witch who seeks the light of lucifer, from which she or he shall invoke under the stars in the wood of their heritage, or the temple consecrated to the great work. 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

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

densing gas clouds, stars, and planets? recall that a source of external energy is necessary to create order from disorder. also recall that during phase 2, the entropy of the universe was the origins of life and the cosmos 139 maximized, meaning that during this phase, order could not have appeared. where could the energy needed for structure formation have come from? it could not have come from the stars themselves since they did not yet exist. it turns out that this source of energy is a direct consequence of the big bang itself, that is, a direct consequence of the expansion of the universe. this model, which describes phase 3, was developed by american astrophysicist eric chaisson and others and goes as follows. remember that after the big bang, the universe cooled down and allowed st

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

onsisting of similar parts, everything being made according to its species by the divine mind, who when all things were at first confusedly mingled together, came and reduced them to order" archelaus declared the principle of all things to be twofold: mind (which was incorporeal) and air (which was corporeal, the rarefaction and condensation of the latter resulting in fire and water respectively. the stars were conceived by archelaus to be burning iron places. heraclitus (who lived 536-470 b.c. and is sometimes included in the ionic school) in his doctrine of change and eternal flux asserted fire to be the first element and also the state into which the world would ultimately be reabsorbed. the soul of the world he regarded as an exhalation from its humid parts, and he declared the ebb and

followed by the process of dissolution. according to spencer, however, disintegration took place only that reintegration might follow upon a higher level of being. the chief position in the italian school of philosophy should be awarded to giordano bruno, who, after enthusiastically accepting copernicus' theory that the sun is the center of the solar system, declared the sun to be a star and all the stars to be suns. in bruno's time the earth was regarded as the center of all creation. consequently when he thus relegated the world and man to an obscure corner in space the effect was cataclysmic. for the heresy of affirming a multiplicity of universes and conceiving cosmos to be so vast that no single creed could fill it, bruno paid the forfeit of his life. vicoism is a philosophy based up

umber, representing the nine worlds of the mysteries. the candidate seeking admission was assigned the task of raising balder from the dead. although he did not realize it, he himself played the part of balder. he called himself a wanderer; the caverns through which he passed were symbolic of the worlds and spheres of nature. the priests who initiated him were emblematic of the sun, the moon, and the stars. the three supreme initiators--the sublime, the equal to the sublime, and the highest--were analogous to the worshipful master and the junior and senior wardens of a masonic lodge. after wandering for hours through the intricate passageways, the candidate was ushered into the presence of a statue of balder the beautiful, the prototype of all initiates into the mysteries. this figure stoo

ea" certain shamans among the american indians tell of holy men dressed in birds' feathers and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts. among the legends of the chaldeans is that of oannes, a partly amphibious creature who came out of the sea and taught the savage peoples along the shore to read and write, till the soil, cultivate herbs for healing, study the stars, establish rational forms of government, and become conversant with the sacred mysteries. among the mayas, quetzalcoatl, the savior-god (whom some christian scholars believe to have been st. thomas, issued from the waters and, after instructing the people in the essentials of civilization, rode out to sea on a magic raft of serpents to escape the wrath of the fierce god of the fiery mirr

for therein lies the secret of immortality" the dragon again revealed its form to hermes, and for a long time the two looked steadfastly one upon the other, eye to eye, so that hermes trembled before the gaze of poimandres. at the word of the dragon the heavens opened and the innumerable light powers were revealed, soaring through cosmos on pinions of streaming fire. hermes beheld the spirits of the stars, the celestials controlling the universe, and all those powers which shine with the radiance of the one fire--the glory of the sovereign mind. hermes realized that the sight which he beheld was revealed to him only because poimandres had spoken a word. the word was reason, and by the reason of the word invisible things were made manifest. divine mind--the dragon--continued its discourse

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

s get out of control! magical times and seasons finally, as a novice witch or warlock, you will need to know about the times and seasons of the witches' year. these are the correct times when you will be able to recharge your magical batteries and draw down to yourself the new currents of elemental power to work your spells. the elemental power tides of the universe are marked by the movements of the stars, the sun, and the moon, but chiefly the latter two. though these heavenly bodies are not the actual sources of the power, they are the main indicators of its ebb and flow in our universe. whenever you wish to perform a magical act, you must work taking these power tides into consideration, in the same way a navigator of a boat times his movements to utilize the sea tides to his best adva

. she is mistress of the moon as well as the realm of venus. in all your operations of romantic love it is her presence you must invoke, by any of the aforesaid names you may find significant again a little mythological research will help you here. you should strive to contact the goddess before your spells of romantic love, by visualizing her clad in silvery garments, mantled in darkness wherein the stars dimly gleam, and with long streaming hair. she is crowned with a wreath of flowers and corn, while above her brow shines the lunar disk on either side of which rise two rearing serpents. on her right hand perches her symbolic bird, the white dove. all flowers and blossoms, particularly those with a perfume, are sacred to the lady, and before beginning the more complex operations of love

f instruments to be discussed later, wild cries of "eee-ooo aah voh aiee" are often given by the members of the coven as they whirl ecstatically, usually after the words of a chant such as one adapted from the invocation of hertha from chapter 5, or if the coven be a solely goddess-oriented variety, the following traditional one: queen of the moon, queen of the sun, queen of the heavens, queen of the stars, queen of the waters, queen of the earth, bring to us the child of promise! it is the great mother who giveth birth to him; it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside when the sun shall come up early! golden sun of the mountains, illumine the land, light up the world. illumine the seas and the rivers, sorrows be laid, joy to the world! blessed by the great

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

by making one which participates of the divine and of the terrestrial, that is to say, man; whose body is gross and terrestrial, while his soul is spiritual and celestial, unto whom he hath made subject the whole earth and its inhabitants, and hath given unto him means by which he may render the angels familiar, as i call those celestial creatures who are destined: some to regulate the motion of the stars, others to inhabit the elements, others to aid and direct men, and others again to sing continually the book one page 7 praises of the lord. thou mayest then, by the use of their seals and characters, render them familiar unto thee, provided that thou abusest not this privilege by demanding from them things which are contrary to their nature; for accursed be he who will take the name of

god communicateth and extendeth his influence over lower things, which are kether, chokmah, binah, gedulah, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, yesod, and malkuth. i conjure ye anew, o spirits, by all the names of god, and by all his marvellous work; by the heavens; by the earth; by the sea; by the depth of the abyss, and by that firmament which the very spirit of god hath moved; by the sun and by the stars; by the waters and by the seas, and all which they contain; by the winds, the whirlwinds, the key of solomon page 26 and the tempests; by the virtue of all herbs, plants, and stones; by all which is in the heavens, upon the earth, and in all the abysses of the shades. i conjure ye anew, and i powerfully urge ye, o demons, in whatsoever part of the world ye may be, so that ye shall be una

y which god will perform wonders, and the winged creatures and birds of the air shall contend with one another; and by the name anael, and in the name anael, by which god will cast down the mountains and fill up the valleys, so that the surface of the earth shall be level in all parts; and by the name zedereza, and in the name zedereza, by which god will cause the sun and moon to be darkened. and the stars of heaven to fall; and by the name sepheriel, by which god will come to universal judgment, like a prince newly crowned entering in triumph into his capital city, girded with a zone of gold, and preceded by angels, and at his aspect all climes and parts of the universe shall be troubled and astonished, and a fire shall go forth before him, and flames and storm shall surround him; and by

mount sinai; and by and in the wonderful name which aaron the high priest bare written upon his breast, by which also god created the world, the which name is axineton; and by the living god who is one throughout the ages, whose dwelling is in the ineffable light, whose name is wisdom, and whose spirit is life, before whom goeth forth fire and flame, who hath from that fire formed the firmament, the stars and the sun; and who with that fire will burn ye all for ever, as also all who shall contravene the words of his will. come ye, then, without delay, without noise, and without rage, before us, without any deformity or hideousness, to execute all our will; come ye from all places wherein ye are, from all mountains, valleys, streams, rivers, brooks, ponds, places, baths, synagogues; for go

any delay, to perform our will and demands, obeying us quickly and courteously, and that ye come by the name and in the name of aleph, daleth, nun, iod, for we exorcise ye anew by the application of these letters, by whose power burning fire is quenched, and the whole universe trembleth. we constrain ye yet again by the seal of the sun which is the word of god; and by the seal of the moon and of the stars we bind ye; and by the other animals and creatures which are in heaven, by whose wings heaven cleanseth itself, we force and attract ye imperiously to execute our will without failure. and we conjure, oblige, and terribly exorcise ye, that ye draw near unto us without delay and without fear, as far as is possible unto ye, here before this circle, as supplicants gently and with discretion

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

erning the needle and other iron instruments. there are several steel instruments necessary in various operations, as a needle to prick or to sew; a burin, or instrument wherewith to engrave &c. thou shalt make such instruments in the day and hour of jupiter, and when it is finished thou shalt say: i conjure thee. o instrument of steel, by god the father almighty, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars, and of the angels who preside over them; by the virtue of stones, herbs, and animals; by the virtue of hail, snow, and wind; that thou receivest such virtue that thou mayest obtain without deceit the end which i desire in all things where i shall use thee; through god the creator of the ages, and emperor of the angels. amen. afterwards repeat psalms iii; ix; xxxi; xlii; lx; li; cxxx. pe

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

and can bewray treasure that is kept by spirits. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (59) oriax, or orias- the fifty-ninth spirit is oriax, or orias. he is a great marquis, and appeareth in the form of a lion,26 riding upon a horse mighty and strong, with a serpent s tail; and he holdeth in his right hand two great serpents hissing. his office is to teach the virtues of the stars, and to know the mansions of the planets, and how to understand their virtues. he also transformeth men, and he giveth dignities, prelacies, and confirmation thereof; also favour with friends and with foes. he doth govern 30 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, etc (60) vapula, or naphula- the sixtieth spirit is vapula, or naphula. he is a duke great, mighty, and strong; appearing i

l things both visible and invisible, curse thee, and deprive thee of all thine office, joy, and place; and i do bind thee in the depths of the bottomless abyss there to remain until the day of judgment, i say into the lake of fire and brimstone which is prepared for all rebellious, disobedient, obstinate, and pernicious spirits. let all the company of heaven curse thee! let the sun, moon, and all the stars curse thee! let the light and all the hosts of heaven curse thee into the fire unquenchable, and into the torments unspeakable. and as thy name and seal contained in this box chained and bound up, shall be choken in sulphurous stinking substances, and burned in this material fire; so in the name iehovah and by the power and dignity of these three names, tetragrammaton, anaphaxeton, and p

MEANING OF MASONRY

fringed with gold, in correspondence with the deep blue centre and luminous circumference of flame" his ministers are flames of fire" provincial and grand lodge officers are drawn from those who are past masters in the craft; that is, from those who theoretically have attained sanctity, regeneration and mastership of themselves, and have become joined to the grand lodge above where they" shine as the stars" it follows from all this that the mason who seriously yields himself to the discipline of the order of is not merely improving his character and chastening his thoughts and desires. he is at the same time unconsciously building up an inner ethereal body which will form his clothing, or covering, when his transitory outer body shall have passed away" there are celestial bodies and bodies

were sciences of transcendental space and numeration (seeing that, as in the words of our own scriptures, god has" made everything by measure, number and weight, the comprehension of which provides the key, not only to the problems of one's being, but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day. astronomy for them required no telescopes; it dealt not with the stars of the sky, but was the science of metaphysics and the understanding of the distribution of the forces latent in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the race. finally music (or harmony) was for them not of the vocal or instrumental kind; it meant the l iving practice of philosophy, the adjustment of human life into harmony with god, until the personal soul became un

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

all be held from the dual gnosis. i hold the golden cup to your lips, that the dragon s elixir hold strong i then hand to you the skull bowl of my flowing blood, that you may taste the bitter sweetness of it s coppered kiss then in your ecstasy and thy devil s phallus reaching towards the sun shall my serpent s tongue enflame you to me. i then found myself wandering in the wilds, sleeping beneath the stars hunting and learning nature without any other being. i perceived myself and what i was, what i became and what i could become. i understood life was precious, and beautiful. i was just as beast yet a part of angel as well. my dreaming guide would speak to me when i sought her, and i knew that i would come to her. i began walking the desert sands. i dreamt of waking and diving a great aby

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

nitiation is to dedicate the sorcerer to the life long path of magick, wherein a great and beautiful flower awaits those of awakened and enlightened paths, the making of a god or goddess. the self is god and goddess, since you ultimately answer to yourself. make your self happy before attempting to do so with others. sabbat symbolism refers to the serpent that sheds his skin, enabling the rise to the stars of midnight and dawn, and entry to haunting mist and subterranean cavern. i stress the issue of sorcery being extremely personal to the individual who practices it. one who approaches magick as impersonal will obviously be a failure since successful sorcery demands a strong and focused conviction and frame of mind. one must understand that in order to create change, significant knowledge

n knowledge and protection be revealed. by the desire of my many forms shall be passed from the grave to life touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) 58 58 touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) facing the south, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalonlilith! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created nganga should be with you (creation of ngangas involves t

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

se words of magic is atlantisit is as ifthis vision of a lost culture touched the most hidden thoughts of our soul.visitation of beings from outside our solar system is not as farfetched as it might seemand is a possibility greeted by many top scientists, including albert einstein. carlsagan personally estimated that this planet has been visited at least 5,000 times. in thebook, mankind, child of the stars, the authors quote dr. harrison h. brown of thecalifornia institute of technology who they say: estimates that virtually every star in our galaxy has a planetary system, in each of whichfrom two or four planets might have an earth-like environment and chemistry that encour-ages our kind of life to exist. he gives the enormous figure of 100 billion stars with planets inthe milky way galax

e indian and shamanistic tra-dition, went into the earth at the time of a great cataclysm .the apache indians tell stories of tunnels between their lands and the city of tiahuan-aco and claim that their ancestors traveled for years by this route. the indian chiefsalso assured that the tunnels were..carved out by rays that destroy the living rock. and that their creators were..beings who live near the stars (from uriel s machine by christopher knight and robertlomas) in celtic mythology, the tuatha de danaan, a powerful tribe of druid warriors,descended into the underworld through what are called the sidhes. we could fill vol-umes with the references of alien visitation in connection with the hollow earth.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation13 earths first deluge these accou

engineering or science but here we are, only 7,000 years later, landingprobes on marsso, how did we inherit wisdom, and from whom? and most mysterious of all, we have the following from the mouth of one of theacclaimed co-founders of the theory of evolution, alfred wallace himself: some intelligent power has guided or determined the development of man and in the fascinating book mankind child of the stars, max h. flint and otto o.binder detail a very important anomaly..molybdenum, a very rare metal plays an important role as a trace element in the physiol-ogy of all earth creatures. it is surprising, therefore, that life so dependant on a rare metalshould arise on a molybdenum-poor world like ours these acclaimed scientists, point out that there are many other specialists with seriousdoub

n and blackseas. the waters of the planet tiamat, after pouring into our atmosphere, helped tosubmerge the continents and eventually became the great oceans we have today. andso, the great pre-diluvian civilizations once occupying these continents were gone for-ever. the pillars of heaven were broken-the earth shook to its foundations-the heavens sunk lowertowards the north- the sun, the moon and the stars, changed their motions-the earth fell topieces, and the waters enclosed within its bosom burst forth with violence and overfloweditthe grand harmony of nature was disturbed (from astronomical revelations by larrybrian radka. the quiche indians of guatemala recorded this event as follows:the waters were agitated by the will of hurakan, the heart of heaven, and a great inunda-tion camemass

were able to success-fully reproduce all the advanced hardware they required, they probably could notleave the planet anyway. this knowledge caused them intense displeasure and confu-sion. they may have come across the stargate by attempting to go beyond it, having atleast one of their special crafts destroyed. such an event seems to have taken place insiberia more recently. in mankind, child of the stars, the authors detail an account ofa strange, previously unexplained accident: a very huge and puzzling meteorite fell thunderously in soviet siberia on july 30th1908.peasants heard the awesome explosion as far as 620 miles away. a large area of for-est was flattened as if an immense object had fallenno remnants of the alleged meteoritecould be found anywhere undergroundradioactivity had i

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

e twin who stayed on earth is indeed 5 years older, and to him his brother was in space for 5 years; there s 5 years of new celebrities, 5 years of new geo-political developments, and 5 years of new inventions and technologies. not only can the twins debate over how long the trip lasted( 2 months or 5 years, but they can also debate over the total distance traveled. the twin who went on a trip to the stars (actually, he never made it to one) will claim to have traveled a distance that is considerably less than the people on earth said he traveled. the effect, that becomes quite measurable when considering things that are moving at high speeds, is call time dilation. this means that if you were to ask every sub-atomic particle in the universe how old the universe is, each would produce a sl

y he visualizes, and when he paints invisible pentagrams in the air, the beings in the other world can see these symbols, and are further subject to their function. wishes, however, isn t the only variable a magician must consider. a principle most magicians live by is never swim upstream, never go against the wind. magicians believe that rays are arriving to earth, or the material universe, from the stars, and these rays contain within them certain trends. these rays make individual people, and whole societies, predisposed to certain behaviors. like tides on the ocean, these behavioral trends wax and wane, and can be predicted. at times when the rays of the heavens make people aggressive, this is the time when the magician seeks to cause strife; when the rays from he stars suggests a time

iterary works of h.p. lovecraft, who used the terms ancient ones and elder gods to refer to the titans and angels, respectively. a fact related in his novels, and echoed by a few in the occult, is that the ancient ones are chained in darkness, and that there is a certain celestial radiation arriving from space that is utterly toxic to these titans. there is a day coming, however, when the rays of the stars will no longer be toxic to the old ones, and this day will be marked by some kind of rare astronomical event. after this event in the sky, the wicked god azag-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dar

e demons and resides at the center of the universe in a dark underworld called the igigi. azag-thoth is described as the embodiment of chaos, extremely powerful, and rendered sightless in some battle. the mad god sits upon a black throne, where he rules the dead spirits of the outer void. the black man of the sabbat, baphomet is considered the messenger of azag-thoth and his will made fresh. when the stars assume the correct positions and the rays that come from them are no longer poisonous, azag--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 81 thoth will lead the old ones (the aforementioned titans) out of the abyss, and into the world of man; the old ones intend on ruling the earth as they once did. in this new age the human race will of coarse be reduced to slaves and food (we already are slaves

his mother and consort. this race of giants which desecrated the earth was eventually defeated by the heroics 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 wou

MORALS AND DOGMA

the sky in their transparency, and been swollen by a hundred affluents, in the majestic path of triumph, suddenly lose themselves in quagmires, like a california river in the sands. the onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should blaze with noble and enduring lessons of courage. deeds of daring dazzle history, and form one class of the guiding lights of man. they are the stars and coruscations from that great sea of electricity, the force inherent in the people. to strive, to brave all risks, to perish, to persevere, to be true to one's self, to grapple body to body with destiny, to surprise defeat by the little terror it inspires, now to confront unrighteous power, now to defy intoxicated triumph--these are the examples that the nations need and the light tha

y the aid of the theological ladder which jacob in his vision saw ascending from earth to heaven; the three principal rounds of which are denominated faith, hope, and charity; and which admonish us to have faith in god, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind" accordingly a ladder, sometimes with nine rounds, is seen on the chart, resting at the bottom on the earth, its top in the clouds, the stars shining above it; and this is deemed to represent that mystic ladder, which jacob saw in his dream, set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, with the angels of god ascending and descending on it. the addition of the three principal rounds to the symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the

solstitial points of the zodiac; and the seven planetary spheres were represented, which souls needs must traverse in descending from the heaven of the fixed stars to the elements that envelop the earth; and seven gates were marked, one for each planet, through which they pass, in descending or returning. we learn this from celsus, in origen, who says that the symbolic image of this passage among the stars, used in the mithraic mysteries, was a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, divided into seven steps or stages, to each of which was a gate, and at the summit an eighth one, that of the fixed stars. the symbol was the same as that of the seven stages of borsippa, the pyramid of vitrified brick, near babylon, built of seven stages, and each of a different color. in the mithraic ceremonie

mysteries are found everywhere in the ancient religions, and most of all in the kabalah and in the bible, is not sufficiently expressed by either the word"_geometry" or the word"_trigonometry" for that science includes these, with arithmetic, and also with algebra, logarithms, the integral and differential calculus; and by means of it are worked out the great problems of astronomy or the laws of the stars* virtue is but heroic bravery to _do_ the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces. man is accountable for the _up_rightness of his doctrine, but not for the rightness of it. devout enthusiasm is far easier than a good action. the end of thought is action; the sole purpose of religion is an ethic. theory, in political

s capable of comprehending. to impose ideal truth or law upon an incapable and merely _real_ man, must ever be a vain and empty speculation. the laws of sympathy govern in this as they do in regard to men who are put at the head. we do not know, as yet, what qualifications the sheep insist on in a leader. with men who are too high intellectually, the mass have as little sympathy as they have with the stars. when burke, the wisest statesman england ever had, rose to speak, the house of commons was depopulated as upon an agreed signal. there is as little sympathy between the mass and the highest truths. the highest truth, being incomprehensible to the man of realities, as the highest man is, and largely above his level, will be a great unreality and falsehood to an unintellectual man. the pr

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ritual current the 'black brethren' think that they are re-incarnations of the magus who originated that particular current. they set out to do another man's job, instead of discovering their own will, and doing it. as a result, all their words are skew-wise. but the unwary may spend centuries following a false master as the roman church, for instance, has proved. 12. come forth,o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in liber aleph and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the whole world of stars. this is again a call to unite, or 'love, thus formulating the equation(+1(-1= 0, which is the general magical formula

evel with the whole world of stars. this is again a call to unite, or 'love, thus formulating the equation(+1(-1= 0, which is the general magical formula in our cosmos (the hon. bertrand russell might prefer to write this: 1(-1= 0. for initiates of the ix of the o.t.o, it could be expressed as: k- t= 0, where- k= 0, and and k are both positive integers "come forth" from what are you hiding "under the stars, that is, openly. also, let love be 'under' or 'unto' the body of nuit. but, above all, be open! what is this shame? is love hideous, that men should cover him with lies? is love so sacred that others must not intrude? nay 'under the stars, at night, what eye but theirs may see? or, if one see, should not your worship wake the cloisters of his soul to echo sanctity for that so lovely a d

exoterically, this is a straightforward description of the relative positions of nuit and hadit in the stele. the esoteric meaning had better remain secret. 15. now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. 16. for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. a. c "was inclined to believe" that "the beast" and "the scarlet woman" are

y isis nuit cannot be regarded as an individual monad! nuit above the abyss does not become one: she is none. the ordeal being a crucial one, it is better that aspirants be forewarned. many ships sank against this rock, some of them vessels of great promise. also, babalon being merely one of the names of nuit, what is true of nuit is true of babalon. 28. none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. 29. for i am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. 30. this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. see the analysis of the word lashtal in liber v, and the following chapters of liber aleph: 119, 121-123, 145-147, 191, 194, 198, 199, 203, for some of the meanings of verses 28-30. 31. for these fools of

commentaries 'by another of which this is one, which are printed in italics and are in class c. 37. also the mantras and spells; the obeali and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the corner-stone of my teaching, to have no standard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. the stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! i decline to be bell-weather, who am born a lion! i will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. i refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. wise in your generation, ye sheep, are ye to scamper away bleating when your ears catch my roar on the wind! are ye not tended and fed an

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ed to the pleasures of the chase, who had made a vow never to marry; but zeus, under the form of the huntress-goddess, succeeded in obtaining her affections. hera, being extremely jealous of her, changed her into a bear, and caused artemis (who failed to recognize her attendant under this form) to hunt her in the chase, and put an end to her 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 princes

d glowing career. this divinity was invoked as a witness when a solemn oath was taken, as it was believed that nothing escaped his all-seeing eye, and it was this fact which enabled him to inform demeter of the fate of her daughter, as already related. he was supposed to possess flocks and herds in various localities, which may possibly be intended to represent the days and nights of the year, or the stars of heaven. helios is said to have loved clytie, a daughter of oceanus, who ardently returned his affection; but in the course of time the fickle sun-god transferred his devotion to leucothea, the daughter of orchamus, king of the eastern countries, which so angered the forsaken clytie that she informed orchamus of his daughter's attachment, and he punished her by inhumanly burying her al

&c. she became united to erebus, and their children were aether and hemera (air and daylight, evidently a simile of the poets, to indicate that darkness always precedes light. nyx inhabited a palace in the dark regions of the lower world, and is represented as a beautiful woman, seated in a chariot, drawn by two black horses. she is clothed in dark robes, wears a long veil, and is accompanied by the stars, which follow in her train. thanatos (mors) and hypnus (somnus. thanatos (death) and his twin-brother hypnus (sleep) were the children of nyx. their dwelling was in the realm of shades, and when they appear among mortals, thanatos is feared and hated as the enemy of mankind, whose hard heart knows no pity, whilst his brother hypnus is universally loved and welcomed as their kindest and m

she therefore instructed the hero how to construct a raft, for which she herself wove the sails. odysseus now bade her farewell, and alone and unaided embarked on the frail little craft for his native land. nausicaa..for seventeen days odysseus contrived to pilot the raft skilfully through all the perils of the deep, directing his course according to the directions [318]of calypso, and guided by the stars of heaven. on the eighteenth day he joyfully hailed the distant outline of the phaacian coast, and began to look forward hopefully to temporary rest and shelter. but poseidon, still enraged with the hero who had blinded and insulted his son, caused an awful tempest to arise, during which the raft was swamped by the waves, and odysseus only saved himself by clinging for bare life to a por

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

d skin. there were no words spoken, there was only passion and it was great. i wasn t afraid when i awoke, just curious what will happen. signed: manuela s, west germany. magical aphrodisiacs another tradition of sexual magic and practice is the custom of feeding your partner with certain foods imbued with aphrodisiac properties that will arouse his or her passions. aphrodisiac foods are ruled by the stars and exert a more potent effect if the correct foods are served to the person whose astrological sun sign agrees with the foods concerned. thus by compliance with the laws of astrology a witch can gain better results from his or her actions. here is a list of the most suitable aphrodisiac foods for the various astrological signs: aries: cinnamon, pepper, and chestnuts. taurus: grapes and

rful one, i require you, who hath dominion over such things to draw close to you the heart and soul of (person s name. from this moment forth, i charge you to never once loosen your hold upon them. by he whose mouth ever flameth, you are required to do as i command. let (person s name) never think of another for his/her soul has now faded from within (person s name) is now bound to my will, until the stars fall from the heavens. repeat daily until results are obtained. it's best to cast this spell on a night when the moon is full. direction is not really important, though facing the moon would certainly help to create the proper atmosphere and frame of mind. thank you letter #9 i have for the past two years really liked a man in our village. he is everything women go for. i am the hairdres

mon of lust is summoned on the night of the new moon. the occult seduction spell is best worked on the night of the new moon, and requires a photo of the person to be seduced. in witchcraft, red is the traditional color used by witches in sexual matters. the conjuration to summon the incubi and succubi works best if it is first worked three days before the new moon. aphrodisiac foods are ruled by the stars and exert a more potent effect if the correct foods are served to the person whose astrological sun sign agrees with the foods concerned. the word aphrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. sex backed by a definite thought or desire is a powerful magical force. you can make the irresistible combination of sex and magic work

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

ye shantaks of leng are the work of their hands, the ghasts who dwelleth in zin's primordial vaults know them as their lords. they have fathered the na-hag and the gaunts that ride the night; great cthulhuis their brother, the shaggoths their slaves. the dholes do homage unto them in the nighted vale of pnoth and gugs sing their praises beneath the peaks of ancient throk. they have walked amidst the stars and they have walked the earth. the city of irem in the great desert has known them; leng in the cold waste has seen their passing, the timeless citadel upon the cloud-vieled heights of unknown kadath beareth their mark. wantonly the old ones trod the ways of darkness and their blasphemies were great upon the earth; all creation bowed beneath their might and knew them for their wickednes

ss azathoth for their master abd abide with him in the black cavern at the centre of all infinity, where he gnaws ravenously in ultimate chaos amid the mad beating of hidden drums, the tuneless piping of hideous flutes and the ceaseless bellowing of blind idiot gods that shamble and gesture aimlessly for ever. the soul of azathoth dwelleth in yog-sothoth and he shall beckon unto the old ones when the stars mark the time of their coming; for yog-sothoth is the gate through which those of the void will re-enter. yog-sothoth knowest the mazes of of time, for all time is one unto him. he knowest where the old ones came forth in time along long past and where they shall come forth again when the cycle returneth. after day cometh night; man's day shall pass, and they shall rule where they once r

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

ng. his might teareth the forest and crusheth the city, but none shall know the hand that smiteth and the soul that destroys, for faceless and foul walketh the accursed one, his form to men unknown. hear then his voice in the dark hours, answer his call with thine own; bow ye and pray at his passing, but speak not his name aloud. concerning nyarlathotep i hear the crawling chaos that calls beyond the stars and they created nyarlathotep for their messenger, and they clothed him with chaos that his al azif page 9 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 form might be ever hidden amidst the stars. who shall know the mystery of nyarlathotep? for he is the mask and will of those that were when time was not. he is the priest of the ether, the dweller in air a

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ho am the highest of life. for those who perceive set as an external influence, the source of set has been discovered within and inspired by the ou rather than the su. the book of coming forth by night lends itself to this approach with the statement "speak to me at night, for the sky then becomes an entrance and not a barrier" one could assume from this statement that set resides somewhere among the stars, or is simply to be looked for outside of oneself. if we believe that set has awakened the black flame within mankind, then it is the "gift of set" that has allowed our fellow initiates to achieve conscious recognition of the self "i am within and beyond you" bridges the gap between the variations of approach and their results. there are always dangers and pitfalls to watch for when opti

spoken so softly. with great reverence i admitted to myself that i was a priest of set. with this my body became ablaze as a falling star. the sepulcher cracked, and the stones shattered. the embryo burst forth from the womb. i was crying and laughing, wailing and screaming "i lay upon the slab, half-conscious, my body engulfed in flames. my flesh peeled and sputtered. as the ashes cooled, i saw the stars from the shattered sepulcher. but it was not destroyed. it had changed. the starry sky shown down through the walls and halfstanding pillars. what was to be found in those stars was the will of my transformation. such was the palette of the night opened to me. from beyond the northern gate i stepped forth" to help define my semi-poetic and metaphoric soliloquy, i shall provide the follow

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ir sacred book, the chilam balam, tells us: all moons, all years, all days, all winds, reach their completion and pass away. so does all blood reach its place of quiet, as it reaches its power and its throne. measured was the time in which they could praise the splendor of the trinity. measured was the time in which they could know the sun s benevolence. measured was the time in which the grid of the stars would look down upon them; and through it, keeping watch over their safety, the gods trapped within the stars would contemplate them. even the dualistic philosophy of zoroastrianism, with its opposing gods of good and evil, ahura mazda and ahriman, was set in motion when the god of eternal time, zurvan, gave birth to the twin gods. introduction it is in the nature of humankind to tell st

see how things should be, and called forth from nun all the plants, birds, and animals. he spoke their names, and they came into being. shu and tefnut had two children: geb, the earth, and nut, the sky. nut lay on top of geb and the sky mated with the earth. but shu was jealous and wrenched the sky away, holding her aloft, and pinning the earth down with his feet. the children of nut and geb were the stars. shu, the air shu, father of the goddess nut, can be identified by his ostrich plume. he is usually shown holding nut and geb, the sky and the earth, apart. ankh the ankh was the symbol of life and whoever possessed it had the power to give or take life from lesser persons. only gods, kings, and queens had the authority to hold an ankh. god of the western desert ha, the god of the wester

of this all-powerful god, and the rest of the gods, brought into being by re, represent other aspects. egyptian gods were also interrelated or merged: amun, the hidden, the chief god worshipped at karnak, was a god of the air, but as amun-re he was a sun god and as amun-min, a fertility god. known by various names, most of the gods could also be depicted in animal as well as human form. mother of the stars nut s union with her brother geb and the birth of her children, the stars (often shown as decoration on her clothing, infuriated her father shu, who cursed her so that she would never again give birth in any month of the year. but nut gambled with thoth, the moon god and reckoner of time, and won from him five extra days outside the 12 lunar months of 30 days each. in these days she gave

see pp. 26 27, was the son of hera produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typically shown, as here, carrying off a nymph. four winds the winds, zephyrus (see pp. 35 5, eurus, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, e

him to tartarus; atlas he condemned to support the heavens on his shoulders for eternity. prometheus 25 the first man prometheus shaped the first man in the image of the gods, by mixing earth and water into clay; athena, the goddess of wisdom, breathed life into him. whereas the other animals hung their heads to look at the ground, prometheus stood man upright, his head held high with his gaze to the stars. chained to a rock by zeus, prometheus was doomed to 30,000 years of agony. he escaped the full term, however, by warning zeus of the oracle that foretold that any son borne to the sea nymph thetis, with whom zeus was in love, would be greater than his father (later, she married a mortal and gave birth to achilles, see p. 63) freed by heracles (see pp. 50 51, with zeus consent, prometheu

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

om the above, it is understood that there must be a soul which animates and enlivens the physical body. now, just as this is so in man, who is a microcosm, likewise, in the macrocosm, it appears that there is a force which enlivens and animates the entire universe. for the physical universe is no more alive than the body of man, and yet we see from observable phenomena, such as the revolutions of the stars and planets, the multitudes of living organisms on our planet, and even the atomic and subatomic particles, that everything is moving. there is nothing in the universe which is stationary, but rather, everything is teeming with activity. but where does all this activity come from, for just as man s body cannot move itself, so too, no body in the universe can move itself? from this it app

is also the meaning of the statement "everything that g-d desired he did, in the heavens and the earth "the heavens" refers to the upper purity before the tzimtzum (the encompassing infinite light- sovev kol almin, and "the earth" refers to the lower purity after the tzimtzum (which includes the entire chaining down of the line of revelation. for example, in the evening prayer we say "he arranges the stars at their watches according to his desire. this means that the stars, planets and constellations, which only receive from the external vessels of malchut of malchut of asiyah, are also only according to his simple desire within the essence of the infinite light. this is true to the finest detail of the finest atom or subatomic particle etc. the chambers& angels in each of the lower worlds

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

es of evil seek to overcome this situation and undergo the rectification process [of becoming a partzuf] as well all the way up to the levels that are opposite arich anpin, abba, and ima of atzilut, and thus be able to channel their light through hairs the same way as is done in the side of holiness. referring to this, scripture states: gif you will ascend like an eagle, and put your nest amongst the stars, i will pull you down from there, says the l-rd. h9 for if.g-d forbid.evil would be allowed to undergo this rectification process at the levels of arich anpin, abba and ima, the world would be destroyed! that is, a contraction of the life force of holiness through the channel of hair to the realm of evil would be disastrous at these levels, since the intensity of their light is much grea

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ded from chaos by the flaming sword of the kerubirn whirling every way on the borders of the abyss. from that aloof spiritual str6nghold it gazes down upon its vehicle, the lower man, evolved for the purpose of providing it with experience- involved in neither its struggles or tribulations, yet, from another point of view, suffering acutely thereby. and seldom does that genius leave its palace of the stars except when, voluntarily, the lower self opens itself to the higher by an act of sincerest aspiration of self-sacrifice, which alone makes possible the descent of the light within our hearts and minds. thus when the hierophant leaves the throne of the east, he represents that higher self inaction, and as osiris marks the active descent of the supernal splendour. for he says, as he leaves

e prose passage in the zelator grade which must be given here- a passage of beauty, high eloquence, and lofty significance "and tetragrammaton 30 the golden dawn placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower. and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and'in the birds. and when the times are ended, he will call the kerubim from the east of the garden, and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy" it would be a happy task, were it advisable, to devote several pages of thi

h and north of altar respectively. hiero takes neo by right hand with his left, and pointing to the altar and diagram says: zelator ritual 147 and tetragrammaton placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower, and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and in the birds. when the times are <55> ended, he will call the kerubim from the east of the garden, and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy. receive now the secrets of this grade. the step is thus given- 6 by 6- sho

s, enlarge our natures. 0 stability and motion! 0 darkness veiled in brilliance! 0 day clothed in night! 0 master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! 0 silver whiteness- 0 golden splendour! 0 crown of living and harmonious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvellous seed of <68> the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens. depart ye in peace unto your abodes. may the blessing of adonai be upon you (makes banishing pentagram of earth) be there peace between us and you, and be ye ready to come when ye are called. all return to their places and face as usual. hiero in the name of adonai melekh, i declare th

light, or of a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery or clothed in gold, or naked and shooting with a bow, shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of a horse. but if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of a lion. then when no longer are visible to thee the vault of the heavens, and the mass of the earth; when to thee, the stars have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled; when the earth abideth not and around thee is the lightning flame- then call not before thyself the visible image of the soul of nature, for thou must not behold it ere thy body is purged by the sacred rites- since, ever dragging down the soul and leading it from the sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible d

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tructure. he was made last because he was theworthiest, the soul was inspired last because yet more noble, for it is the breath of the holy spirit.the soul is liken unto god, for it is one, immaterial, immortal, distinguished into three cowers whichall make up one spirit. yet observe how closely the spirit and the man are united, symbolised, bythe zodiacal sign, gemini, or the twins; and of which the stars of the second magnitude, castor andpollux are typical as they are termed "corposant, or body and spirit.conductor and companions proceed to 1st ancient, whose six lights have just been lit. the tapers ofmedallist and 2nd herald are extinguished.1st ancient,6th sign: now, all created things move in harmony toward the fulfilment of their destiny; theheavens are studded with brilliants, and

the ptolemaic systemwhich had obtained. for 14 centuries: nevertheless it required galileo, keplar, newton and others toperfect the copernican system, which was still entangled with the epicycles of hipparchus and whichwere removed together with the centricities and concentricities by keplar, through the theory of thebiblical astronomer tycho brahe, a dane, who pointed out the apparent fixity of the stars, or theirenormous uncalculated. distances from the earth and sun.the invention of the telescope now gave birth to new and certain astronomic knowledge. thediscovery of the satellites of jupiter by galileo presented a. miniature of our planetary system andconfirmed it. then newton announces the discovery of gravitation about 1660, and picard gives thedimensions of the earth: keplar establ

ver the mind of the earnest rosicrucian. astronomy is anexact science, but an abstruse subject, yet a simple key opens much of its inner mysteries. we dividethe heavens into three classes, the world of air, the world of stars, and the heaven of heavens.the first embraces the atmospheric envelope, clouds, and attendant storms with their inhabitants.the second includes the infinite space containing the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors, comets,star-showers, nebulae and the universal system while the third opens to our view god's holy ofholies, the eternal heavens, the astronomical and divine evidence of a real or an ideal residence ofthe deity.to the ancients, there were known but seven planets, the sun .moon, mercury, mars, venus,jupiter and saturn, revolving about the central earth, each

e were taught in the council that astronomy was an exact science, then why these uncertaintiesand trusting to a future?3rd philos.:mark well, the depths of space lead into infinity in the universe, the invention of the galileantelescope has but opened the eyes of the mind and our instruments though numerous, may beimperfect. the telescope has revealed the aberration of light, the proper motion of the stars, thedetermination of the sun222s distance and the distances of the stars, and we hope soon to know theirvelocity, we have the cosmolabe and astrolabe, the equatorial, the transit instrument, the muralcircle, and a multiplicity of contrivances; and we have great and calculating minds among us, likeunto our frater copernicus. our advance is great, yet we lay the foundation only for that gl

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ions of pythagoras; fable abounded in its miracles, and history, attempting to estimate this unknown power, became confused with fable; it undermined or consolidated empires by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones and governed all minds, either by curiosity or by fear. for this science, said the crowd, there is nothing impossible, it commands the elements, knows the language of the stars and directs the planetary courses; when it speaks, the moon falls blood-red from heaven; the dead rise in their graves and mutter ominous words, as the night wind blows through their skulls. mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of circe it changes m

astral body, which holds him prisoner, still seeks the object of its passions and wishes to return to life. it torments the dreams of young girls, bathes in the stream of spilt blood and floats about the places where the pleasures of its life elapsed. it watches over treasures which it possessed and buried; it expends itself in painful efforts to make fresh material organs and so live again. but the stars draw it up and absorb 64 the doctrine of transcendental magic it; it feels its intelligence weaken, its memory gradually vanishes, all its being dissolves. its former vices rise up before it, assume monstrous shapes and pursue it; they attack and devour it. the unfortunate creature thus loses successively all the members which have ministered to his iniquities; then he dies a second time

nd. now, if this light be so prodigal of images as to impart the visible imprints of a maternal fantasy or appetite to the fruit of pregnancy, still more will it transmit to the plastic and indeterminate temperament of a newly-born child the atmospheric impressions and diverse influences which, in the entire planetary system, are consequent at a given moment upon such or such particular aspect of the stars. nothing is indifferent in nature: a stone more or a stone less upon a road may break or modify profoundly the destinies of the greatest men or even the largest empires; still more must the position of this or that star in the sky have an influence on the child who is born, and who enters by the very fact of his birth into the universal harmony of the sidereal world. the stars are bound

of nature, lost by man's own fault and recovered only by a small number of initiates. to recognize the sign of each star upon men, animals and plants, is the true natural science of solomon, that science which is said to be lost, but the principles of which are preserved notwithstanding, as are all other secrets, in the symbolism of the kabalah. it will be understood readily that in order to read the stars one must know the stars themselves; now, this knowledge is obtained by the kabalistic domification of the sky and by mastering the celestial planisphere, as rediscovered and explained by gaffarel. in this planisphere the constellations form hebrew letters, and the mythological figures may be replaced by the symbols of the tarot. to this same planisphere gaffarel refers the origin of patr

of enoch's, and the kabalistic alphabet would have been a synopsis of the entire sky. this is not wanting in poetry, nor above all in probability, and the study of the tarot, which is evidently the primitive and hieroglyphic work of enoch, as was divined by the erudite william postel, is sufficient to convince us hereof. the signs imprinted in the astral light by the reflection and attraction of the stars are reproduced therefore, as the sages have discovered, on all bodies which are formed by the co-operation of that light. men bear the signs of their star on their forehead chiefly, and in their hands; animals in their whole form and in their individual signs; plants in their leaves and seed; minerals in their veins and in the peculiarities of their fracture. the study of these character

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the peaceful spheres, like a chariot of war between the ranks of a procession of vestals; she dares to face the burning spears of the solar guardians, and, like a bereft spouse who seeks the husband of her dreams during widowed nights, she penetrates even unto the inmost sanctuary of the god of day; again she escapes, exhaling the fires which consume her and trailing a long conflagration behind; the stars pale at her approach; constellate flocks, pasturing on flowers of light in the vast meadows of the sky, seem to flee before her terrible breath. the grand council of spheres assembles, and there is universal consternation; at length the loveliest of the fixed stars is commissioned to speak in the name of all the firmament and offer peace to the headlong vagabond. gmy sister, h she thus c

ed at the breast with a diamond clasp? why float thy tresses, adrip with fiery sweat, through the mists of the night? ah, wouldst thou but take thy place among the daughters of heaven, how much more beautiful wouldst thou be! thy face would burn no longer with the toil of thine incredible flights; thine eyes would be clear, thy smiling countenance white and red like that of thy happy sisters; all the stars would know thee, and, far from fearing thy flight, would rejoice at thine approach; for then thou wouldst be made one with us by the indestructible bonds introduction 3 of universal harmony, and thy peaceful existence would be one voice more in the canticle of infinite love. h and the comet replies to the fixed star: gbelieve not, o my sister, that i am permitted to wander at will and ve

n my long travellings, if my beauty be less mild than thine own, and if my garments are not unspotted, yet am i a noble daughter of heaven, even as thou art. leave me the secret of my terrible destiny, leave me the dread which surrounds me, curse me even if thou canst not comprehend; i shall none the less accomplish my work, and continue my career under the impulse of the breath of god! happy are the stars which rest, which shine like youthful queens in the peaceful society of the universe! i am the proscribed, the eternal wanderer, who has infinity for domain. they accuse me of setting fire to the planets, the heat of which i renew; they accuse me of terrifying the stars which i enlighten; they chide me with breaking in upon universal harmony, because i do not revolve about their particul

lative influence; astronomy divided the antique heaven between them and allotted the seven days of the week to their successive rule. such is the reason of the various ceremonies of the magical week and the septenary cultus of the planets. we have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the human mind than the orbs of heaven. the sun, which antique magic always regarded as fixed, could be only a planet for the vulgar; hence it represents that day of rest in the week which we term sunday without knowing why, the day of the sun among the ancients. the seven magical planets correspond to the seven colours of the spectrum and the seven notes of the musical octave; they r

but god wills it because it is just. h the real and serious android of the ancients was a secret which they have kept hidden from all eyes, and mesmer was the first who dared to divulge it. it was the projection of the will of the magus into another body, organized and served by an elementary spirit; in more modern and intelligible terms, it was a magnetic subject. 98 chapter xvii the writing of the stars we have finished with infernus, and we breathe the fresh air freely as we turn to daylight after traversing the crypts of black magic. get thee behind us, satan! we renounce thee, with all thy pomps and works, and still more with all thy deformities, thy meanness, thy nothingness, thy deception! the great initiator beheld thee fall from heaven like a thunderbolt. the christian legend cha

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ndence betwixt men and them, even in this life [and to convince us] of their operations for our caution and warning [and] of the orders and degrees of angels, whereof one order, with bodies of air condensed and curiously shaped, may be next to man [that is, humankind, superior to him in understanding, yet unconfirmed; and of their region [of] habitation and influences on man, greater than that of the stars upon inanimate bodies. a knowledge reserved for these last atheistic ages, wherein the profanity of men's lives has debauched and blinded their understandings as to moses, jesus, and the prophets, unless they get [such] convictions from things formerly known, as from the regions of the dead. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (7 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker b

he romance poem of thomas rhymer, deriving from a thirteenth-century historical poet, who uttered many local prophecies, some of which seem to have come true.17 in thomas's vision, the underworld or elfland contains rivers of blood and water, vast plains, a magical tree of life, and beautiful halls. it is lit not by the sun or moon, but by a supernatural light, or in some versions by the light of the stars shining within the earth (b) perpetual fires or lamps, a subject which kirk returns to later (page 37, and from which he derives the term lychnobious people to describe the fairies (see kirk's own glossary beginning on page 165, were kept burning in ancient temples. the great example in celtic culture was the perpetual fire at the sanctuary of st. brigit in kildare in ireland. this saint

othing the creator of the world produced four elements that they might be the prior cause as well as the material for creating all things when they were joined together in harmony: the heaven which he adorned with stars and which stands on high and embraces everything like the shells surrounding a nut; then he made the air, fit for forming sounds, through the medium of which day and night present the stars; the sea which girds the land in four circles, and with appendix 7: the vita merlini cosmology 162 its mighty refluence so strikes the air as to generate the winds which are said to be four in number; as a foundation he placed the earth, standing by its own strength and not lightly moved, which is divided into five parts, whereof the middle one is not habitable because of the heat and th

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ngs about him; and they were full of eyes within; and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord jehovah almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. isaiah 14:12-14 how you have fallen from heaven, o morning star, son of the dawn! you have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! you said in your heart 'i will ascend to heaven; i will raise my throne above the stars of god; i will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. i will ascend above the tops of the clouds; i will make myself like the most high' lucifer's five proclamations are: 1. i will ascend into heaven. by this statement lucifer is saying he will remanifest himself within the confines of both l.h.p. and r.h.p. religions. 2. i will exalt my thr

of god; i will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. i will ascend above the tops of the clouds; i will make myself like the most high' lucifer's five proclamations are: 1. i will ascend into heaven. by this statement lucifer is saying he will remanifest himself within the confines of both l.h.p. and r.h.p. religions. 2. i will exalt my throne above the stars of jehovah. lucifer will make himself into a god. 3. i will sit upon the mount of the congregation. lucifer will be the leader of another religion. 4. i will ascend above the heights of the clouds. lucifer mostly travels by air. 5. i will be like the most high. lucifer predicts he will become el-elyon, jehovah's title "the most high. the personality of satan we have seen some biblical ev

as though christians have authority to take their "gospel" to areas unknownst of christian principles. however, what is really explained here is while christian missionaries pursue undeveloped areas with a passion, satan will pursue developed christian areas with a passion. satanic doctrine compels us to educate the known'st, not the unknown'st. revelation 12:4 and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. this is satan's one to two ratio which was spoken about earlier. christians like to believe there is strength in numbers, so they satisfy their belief by making it look as though we can't win; it's as though we are outnumbered. we know satan's forces are more intelligent, more fit, and stronger than christian forces. the intelligence comes from

a is the sun at a. dusk b. midday c. midnight d. dawn 12. the use of drugs is) to the practice of magick. a. useful b. necessary c. antithetical d. ineffective 13. before one can concentrate the mind, one must utilize the a. heart b. will c. intellect d. consciousness 14. the whole essence of the will is a. desire b. singleness of purpose c. intense ambition d. inspiration 15. what is the "dew of the stars" a. love b. will c. knowledge d. evolution 16. which initiatory grade most corresponds to the cup? a. priestess b. adept c. magus d. master of the temple 17. emotions are impressions from a. without b. the heart c. the mind d. the true self 18. the earliest stage in human individual development is a. need for protective love b. narcissism c. survival instincts d. formation of the subcons

inauthenticity of the prior religious systems of the world. crowley proceeded to disregard this admonition, needlessly encumbering his speculations and calculations concerning the book of the law with irrelevant myth-material from buddhism, hinduism, and cabalism. if the results were so often confusing and inconclusive, the beast had no one to blame but himself. 12. come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! crowley interprets this straightforwardly as a statement that sexual or artistic love should be indulged openly and innocently, and that an empathy with nuit will be one of the consequences. it may also be that one's vision, magical abilities, and emotional sensitivity will be heightened at night, when solar light and radiation are at least partially shielded. 13

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ung-beetle from the crab nebula who had run away from his father, and in a fish-tank you could find brains the super-intelligent giant abalone who liked eating chinese, and then there was ridley, the most terrifying of the regular cast, who looked like a francis bacon painting" of a mouthful of teeth waving at the end of a sightless pod, and who had an obsession with the actress sigourney weaver. the stars of the show, its kermit and miss piggy, were the very fashionable, slinkily attired, stunningly hairstyled duo, maxim and mamma alien, who yearned to be- what else- television personalities. they were played by saladin chamcha and mimi mamoulian, and they changed their voices along with their clothes, to say nothing of their hair, which could go from purple to vermilion between shots, wh

er's faith in the myriad and contradictory possibilities of life, and because, too, of what the mountain had taught her "okay" she said, exhaling "i'll buy it. just don't tell my mother, all right" the universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight. she had read, a couple of days back, that as part of their natural processes of combustion, the stars in the skies crushed carbon into diamonds. the idea of the stars raining diamonds into the void: that sounded like a miracle, too. if that could happen, so could this. babies fell out of zillionthfloor windows and bounced. there was a scene about that in fran ois truffaut's movie _l"argent du poche. she focused her thoughts "sometimes" she decided to say "wonderful things happen to me, t

flies. he had to knock all the pieces out, and the glass diamonds seemed to be mocking him as they fell on to the road and into the car, they seemed to speak of the transience and worthlessness of earthly possessions, but a secular man lives in the world of things and mirza saeed did not intend to be broken as easily as a windscreen. at night he would go to lie beside his wife on a bedroll under the stars by the side of the grand trunk road. when he told her about the accident she offered him cold comfort "it's a sign" she said "abandon the station wagon and join the rest of us at last "abandon a mercedes-benz" saeed yelped in genuine horror "so what" mishal replied in her grey, exhausted voice "you keep talking about ruination. then what difference is a mercedes going to make "you don't

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. the embodiment of all evil, who inhabits the cthonian darkeness, from where he delivers us the gifts of sickness, death, blackness and smoke. whose symbol is the serpent. invoked as arimanius. ahrimanes (middle persian. angels that followed ahriman in the revolt against ormazd. expelled, they lived upon the earth but were rejected. thus, they hate humankind. now they reside in the space between the stars and earth. aim (goetia. 23rd spirit, duke commanding twenty-six legions. a man with three heads, being a serpent, a calf, and a handsome man with two stars on his forehead, who rides upon a viper, and carries a torch with which he sets aflame to great places. may answer truly about private matters, or make one witty. akephalos (hellenistic egyptian) the headless one. perhaps originally a

s sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (mathers, waite. astarte- ashtoreth was originally the creating and destroying goddess of the phonicians and zidonians, assosciated closely with the cult of baal. known to the egyptians as athtar, venus in the morning, in aramaic she is the morning star, as astroarche she is queen of the stars. avnas, amy (58th spirit, goetia. president commanding 36 legions, who appears as a flame. teaches astrology and the liberal arts, bewrays treasure kept by spirits. gives good familiars. az (hebrew, from aleph-zain, meaning then, therefore. the dark goddess. azael (hebrew. demon prince of water. also, amongst the watchers (see above. azarak) a name employed to designate the horned one of

watches over the demons exiled to the underworld. olam ha-qlippoth (aramaic, world of shells. the other side of the qabballa. olivier. once an archangel, who now tempts mortals to be cruel to the poor. oriax, orias (goetia, 59th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a man with serpent tail, holding two hissing serpents in his right hand, and riding a huge horse. teaches the virtues of the stars and planets, transforms men, gives dignities, favour with friends and foes. orobos (goetia, 55th spirit. prince commanding 20 legions. appears as a horse. tells fortunes, favour of friends and foes, and true answers concerning divinity and the creation of the world. said to be very faithful. the name itself, however, is probably corrupted from orabous, the serpent swallowing its tail, a

which i desire to know, now therefore, in the name and by the power and dignity of the omnipotent and immortal lord, god of hosts, jehovah, tetragrammaton, i do hereby curse and deprive thee of all thine office, power, and place. i bind thee in the deepest depths of the bottomless pit, there to remain until the day of judgement. may all the company of heaven curse thee, may the sun, the moon, and the stars, the light of the hosts of heaven, curse thee into fire unquenchable, into torments unspeakable, and even as thy name and seal are bound up in this box, to be choked with sulphrous and stinking substances, and to burn in this material fire so, in the name of jehovah, and by the power and dignity of the three names, tetragrammaton, anexhexeton, primematum, may all these drive thee, oh tho

r heavens beneath you, 1madriiax torzu 2oadriax orocha 1let them serve you! 2govem those that govern. 3cast down such as 1aboapri 2tabaori priaz ar tabas 3adrpan cors ta 1fall. 2bring forth with those that increase, 3and destroy the rotten. 1dobix 2iolcam priazi ar coazior 3od quasb qting. 1no place let it remain in one number. 2add and diminish until 1ripir paaoxt sa la cor 2vml od prdzar cacrg 1the stars be numbered. 1aoiveae cormpt. 1arise! move! 2and appear before 3the covenant of his mouth 1torzu zacar 2od zamran aspt 3sibsi butmona 1which he hath sworn 2unto us in his justice. 3open the mysteries of 1ds surzas 2tia baltan. 3odo cicle 1your creation 2and make us partakers of 3the undefiled knowledge. 1qaa 2od ozozma plapli 3iadnamhethe nine satanic statements from the satanic bible, 1

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aoiveae coremepeta! torezodu! zodacare od zodameranu, asapeta sibesi butamona das surezodasa tia balatanu. odo cicale qaa, od ozodazodama pelapeli iadanamada (english) o ye pleasures which dwell in the first air, ye are mighty in the parts of the earth, and execute the judgment of the mighty. unto you it is said: behold the face of satan, the beginning of comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the stars, which provided you for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety; furnishing you a power of understanding to dispose all things according to the providence of him that sitteth on the infernal throne, and rose up in the beginning saying: the earth, let her be governed by her parts; and let there be division in her; the glory of her may be always drunken and vexed in itself

made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger; because she is in the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of lucifer the king. open wide the gates of hell! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those who govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled wisdom. yankee rlethe rites of lucifer on the altar of the devil up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, and madness is sanity. the satanic ritual chamber is die ideal se

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dark, unlighted even by the faintest spark, for us the flitting shadows of a dream. o brothers of sad lives! they are so brief; a few short years must bring us all relief: can we not bear these years of laboring breath? but if you would not this poor life fulfil, lo, you are free to end it when you will, without the fear of waking after death. how the moon triumphs through the endless nights! how the stars throb and glitter as they wheel their thick processions of supernal lights around the blue vault obdurate as steel! and men regard with passionate awe and yearning the mighty marching and the golden burning, and think the heavens respond to what they f eel [ceremony follows progression described in procedure for performance [priest closes ceremony in standard manner] the seventh satanic

is the hand that heals. beasts: sein ist die hand die heilt. his is the hand that heals. invocator: sein ist der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. beasts: sein ist der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. invocator: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. beasts: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. invocator: sein sind die sterne und der himmel his are the stars in the sky. beasts: sein sind die sterne und der himmel his are the stars in the sky. invocator: sein sind die gesetze des landes. his are the rulers of the land. beasts: sein sind die gesetze des lande. his are the rulers of the land. invocator: sein ist der oft genannt himmel his is the place called heaven. beasts: sein ist der ort gennant himmel. his is the place called heaven. invoca

is is the hand that heals. beasts: sein ist die hand die heilt. his is the hand that heals. invocator: sein ist det leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. beasts sein ist der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. invocator sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. beasts sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. invocator sein sind die sterne and der himmel. his are the stars in the sky. beasts: sein sind die sterne und der himmel. his are the stars in the sky. invocator sein sind die gesetze des landes. his are the rulers of the land. beasts sein sind die gesetze des landes. his are the rulers of the land. invocator sein ist der ort genannt himmel. his is the place called heaven. beasts sein ist der ort genannt himmel. his is the place called heaven. invocat

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priest therefore vibrates these words in the direction of the priestess who holds a quartz crystal tetrahedron in her palms. after this vibration has been completed, the priestess lies on the ground, still holding the crystal whilst the priest performs cunnilingus. when the priestess is suitably aroused the priest then begins copulation, during which the priestess visualises a gateway situated in the stars above them opening and a black nebulous chaos flowing downwards to the earth. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 6 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 the second form of the rite of nine angles, known as the cthonic form, is performed with the addition of a congregation who hold an orgy after the rite whilst t

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itus (c. 460 370 bce) suggested that all matter in the universe was made of eternal elements he called atoms. if atoms were eternal, democritus reasoned, then the universe had always existed and would always continue to exist, and, as a result, there was no need for a creator. another early greek philosopher, anaxagoras (c. 500 c. 428 bce, was exiled from the greek city of athens for stating that the stars, planets, and the sun were material objects and not heavenly bodies, or god-like spirits to be worshipped. another thinker, protagoras (c. 485 420 bce, was banned from athens for saying that he had no way to know if gods existed or not, which is the central idea of agnosticism. ancient greece also provides an example of a movement that could be consistent with modern atheism. the epicure

the epic of creation, literally meaning then up there. ritual became more important after the arrival of the babylonians. priests increasingly relied on rituals to ward off evil spirits and to foretell future events to ensure the good will of the gods and to protect against demons. astronomical (relating to the heavens) events took on major importance and astrology, the study of the influence of the stars and planets on human affairs, became nearly a science for the priests. organized mesopotamian religion collapsed after cyrus of persia, a zoroastrian, conquered the babylonian empire in 539 bce. history of ancient egyptian religion the official ancient egyptian religion lasted from about 3110 bce to 550 ce. the official beginning of the religion is the date that menes (c. 2925 bce, a kin

the babylonian period these priests had created elaborate rituals and ceremonies, including offerings and sacrifices. they were responsible for foretelling the future and created more elaborate rituals for such acts of divination, or reading of the signs of the gods. wind, storms, rain, fire, eclipses of the sun or moon, the appearance of a lion, the shape of a sheep s liver, and the movement of the stars all were signs from the gods according to mesopotamian religion, and their priests could read such signs. they became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals. marks on the liver or lungs could provide clues as to what would happen in the future. world religions: almanac 53 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia praise to the gods like many

e prince of everlastingness, thou sovereign [ruler] of all the gods, thou god of life, thou creator of eternity, thou maker of heaven wherein thou art firmly established. hymn to ra. internet ancient history sourcebook. http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ ra-ani.html. ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia 54 world religions: almanac astrology, or predicting the future from the movement of the stars, also became a central practice of babylonian religion. the babylonians were the first to divide the sky into the twelve zones of the zodiac. they followed the movements of planets and stars with great care in an effort to foretell the will of the gods. priests also made a good living in the sale of magic charms and formulas to drive away evil spirits. egyptian worship egyptians also had

e rise of the mesopotamian city-state, and the religion s reliance egyptian tombs for the pharaohs and nobility were elaborately decorated with scenes from the life of the deceased, as well as from the book of the dead. tombs such as this one in luxor were well-stocked with items for the afterlife. gianni dagli orti/corbis. 64 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia on the stars to foretell events led to important developments in mathematics. from ancient egypt, knowledge of anatomy and medicine greatly expanded thanks to the practice of mummification and the use of herbs to treat illnesses. these contributions have greatly aided later societies. mesopotamian influences mesopotamian religion was one of the earliest organized religious systems. it had a formal st

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

is always desirous to have the division of manifold things, and man is always battling, when he could return to the unity of simplicity, if he only would come in peace. life's light stands in the middle to point out to men the way to this first rest, and the father in the heaven lets his sun rise over good and evil: but everything grows after its own fashion, and man is only too apt to look upon the stars of the manyfoldness, and in his own discretion, to choose them for his ladders, though they make him stray many times from the true light, and detain him in the whirlpool of uncertainty. this whirlpool of uncertainty leads more and more out of the innermost face of the sun into the outer (world) and can find neither end nor place of rest, unless it leads from the outer (world) back again

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

as loved and blessed the number seven more than all things under heaven (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them. so now, behold the stars of our world, the planets which are seven; the sun, venus, mercury, moon, saturn, jupiter and mars. the seven are also the seven days of creation; and the seven gateways of the soul of man--the two eyes, the two ears, the mouth and the two nostrils. so with the seven are formed the seven heavens (41) the seven earths, and the seven periods of time; and so has he preferred the number seve

tween the ten toes of the feet--this is that of circumcision; and as between the ten fingers of the hands and this is that of the tongue (57) and he formed the twentytwo letters into speech (58) and shewed him all the mysteries of them (59) he drew them through the waters; he burned them in the fire; he vibrated them in the air; seven planets in the heavens, and twelve celestial constellations of the stars of the zodiac- the end of "the book of formation- the fifty gates of intelligence attached to some editions of the "sepher yetzirah" is found this scheme of kabalistic classification of knowledge emanating from the second sephira binah, understanding, and descending by stages through the angels, heavens, humanity, animal and vegetable and mineral kingdoms to hyle and the chaos. the kabal

by it is completed and perfected the nature of all that exists beneath the sun (this path is omitted by rittangelius: i presume by inadvertence) the twenty-ninth path is the corporeal intelligence, so called because it forms every body which is formed in all the worlds, and the reproduction of them. the thirtieth path is the collective intelligence, and astrologers deduce from it the judgment of the stars and celestial signs, and perfect their science, according to the rules of the motions of the stars. the thirty-first path is the perpetual intelligence; but why is it so called? because it regulates the motions of the sun and moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it. the thirty-second path is the administrative intelligence, and it is so called because it directs an

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

read on the stairway to victory. however, as a sister matures, and the force builds within her, fewer and fewer valiant attempts are necessary. one of the great secrets of success is to read the message written upon your heart and harken to its meaning. children of the black rose, scroll #2 [scroll#1 the stairway to the stars the steps on the cbr stairway are: awareness, guidance, learning, application, teaching, transition, and fulfillment. it seems a long stairway at the beginning, but in actuality, most find it much too short. the cbrs way is revered as the right way to live, and you have chosen well. it is said that a long journey begins with the first step, and you have taken it. it is now up to you to c

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

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, and if you will set your nest among the stars, from there i shall bring you down.78 and you, the grasses. were brought forth from the earth.79 when? when the name (hvhy) was implanted. and thus air came forth. and a spark80 came to be. 1) one skull extends to its side.81 full of the dew of two colors over it. 2) three cavities in which the marked letters are manifested as vhy 3) black ones, as a raven, hanging over the deep holes, s

SINISTER TAROT

al product of a grand age, the final works of the ethos of a race fulfilled. the brink of new possibilities; storm clouds gather with promise of the blood of birth, of the heralding of a higher associated civilization. the fulfilling of personal desires and potential, creating intimations/hauntings of further progression. disatisfaction causing aspirations to something higher /beyond reaching for the stars xx the woman beneath the water the temple within of war torn landscapes, black hills grab the lightening and hold it shell shocked the giving within her arms aeon- naos a nexion fully opened: greater wyrd causally fulfilled now dynamically giving expression to new forms of itself via physis; new challenges, new expressions of a continuing ethos- the chaos of birth: the dark gods returned

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

le; and there, under the awning by the doorway, there she still sits, divinely musing. how often, crook-trunked tree, she looks to thy green boughs; how often, like thee, in her dreams, and fancies, does she struggle for the light, not the light of the stage-lamps. pooh, child! be contented with the lamps, even with the rush-lights. a farthing candle is more convenient for household purposes than the stars. weeks passed, and the stranger did not reappear; months had passed, and his prophecy of sorrow was not yet fulfilled. one evening pisani was taken ill. his success had brought on the long-neglected composer pressing applications for concerti and sonata, adapted to his more peculiar science on the violin. he had been employed for some weeks, day and night, on a piece in which he hoped to

lavish but imperious generosity made the implicit creatures of his will. in his house, and in his habits, so far as they were seen, there was nothing to account for the rumours which were circulated abroad. he was not, as we are told of albertus magnus or the great leonardo da vinci, served by airy forms; and no brazen image, the invention of magic mechanism, communicated to him the influences of the stars. none of the apparatus of the alchemist the crucible and the metals gave solemnity to his chambers, or accounted for his wealth; nor did he even seem to interest himself in those serener studies which might be supposed to colour his peculiar conversation with abstract notions, and often with recondite learning. no books spoke to him in his solitude; and if ever he had drawn from them his

exist, it must create another. what magician can do more; nay, what science can do as much? there are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to heaven and away from hell, art and science. but art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. you have faculties that may command art; be contented with your lot. the astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call a universe from the atom; the chemist may heal with his drugs the infirmities of the human form; the painter, or the sculptor, fixes into everlasting youth forms divine, which no disease can ravage, and no years impair. renounce those wandering fancies that lead you now to myself, and now to yon orator of the human race; to us two, w

e love that i feel for thee! it is not a passion, it is a thought! i ask not to be loved again. i murmur not that thy words are stern and thy looks are cold. i ask not if i have rivals; i sigh not to be fair in thine eyes. it is my spirit that would blend itself with thine. i would give worlds, though we were apart, though oceans rolled between us, to know the hour in which thy gaze was lifted to the stars, in which thy heart poured itself in prayer. they tell me thou art more beautiful than the marble images that are fairer than all human forms; but i have never dared to gaze steadfastly on thy face, that memory might compare thee with the rest. only thine eyes and thy soft, calm smile haunt me; as when i look upon the moon, all that passes into my heart is her silent light "often, when t

wledge, and so serene a confidence in destiny, now only troubles and perplexes me. from the height from which i strive to search into the shadows of things to come, i see confused spectres of menace and wrath. methinks i behold a ghastly limit to the wondrous existence i have held, methinks that, after ages of the ideal life, i see my course merge into the most stormy whirlpool of the real. where the stars opened to me their gates, there looms a scaffold, thick steams of blood rise as from a shambles. what is more strange to me, a creature here, a very type of the false ideal of common men, body and mind, a hideous mockery of the art that shapes the beautiful, and the desires that seek the perfect, ever haunts my vision amidst these perturbed and broken clouds of the fate to be. by that sh

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

mised me that for much money he will make the soul of the dead man to return from the place of death p. 14 in the underworld, and to make it to dwell in his body again for a short time" with these words, he led forward a man dressed in linen, and wearing palm-leaf sandals, who, like all the egyptian priests, had his head shaved, and having kissed his hands and embraced his legs he implored him by the stars, and by the gods of the underworld, and by the island of the nile, and by the inundation, etc, to restore life to the dead body, if only for the smallest possible time, so that the truth of his accusation against the widow might be proved. thus adjured zaclas touched the mouth and the breast of the dead man three times with some plant, and having turned his face to the east and prayed, t

come with its name, and in another place 3 we read, homage to thee, o thou ladder that supportest the golden vase of the spirits of pe and the spirits of nekhen, stretch out thy hand to this pepi, and let him take his seat between the two great gods who (care in the place of this pepi; take him by the hand and lead him towards sekhet-hetep (i.e, the elysian fields, and let him take his seat among the stars which are in the sky" in the theban recension of the book of the dead the importance of the ladder is also seen, for in chapter cxlix. 4 the deceased says "i set up a ladder among the gods, and i am a divine being among them; and in chapter cliii. he says "the p. 55 [paragraph continues] osiris nu shall come forth upon your ladder which ra hath made for him, and horus and set shall grasp

he chief, if we may believe greek tradition. according to pseudo- callisthenes, and the versions of his works which were translated into pehlevi, arabic, syriac, and a score of other languages and dialects, this king was famous as a magician and a sage, and he was deeply learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians. he knew what was in the depths of the nile and of heaven, he was skilled in reading the stars, in interpreting omens, in casting nativities, in telling fortunes, and in predicting the future of the unborn child, and in working magic of every kind, as we shall see; he was said to be the lord of the earth, and to rule all kings by means of his magical powers. p. 92 [paragraph continues] whenever he was threatened with invasion by sea or by land he succeeded in destroying the power

t shoulder shall there be the head of a ram. and thou shalt paint the figure of the god of the lifted hand upon a piece of linen immediately over the heart of the deceased, and thou shalt paint the other over his breast; but let not the god sukati who is in the underworld know it" if these things be done "the deceased shall p. 123 drink water from the source of the stream, and he shall shine like the stars in the heavens above" it is probable that chapters clxil-clxv. were composed at a comparatively late date. yet another example of the magical pictures of the book of the dead must here be given. the vignette of chapter cxlviii. contains pictures of seven cows "and their bull" and of four rudders; the seven cows have reference to the seven hathor goddesses, the bull is, of course, a form

SIX WAYS OF KNOWLEDGE

lf-centric forms, the self-centric form being connected with the right half of the body, the other-centric with the left. these modes of perception are vital for the modern magician to learn and practice as they are key to nourishing and expanding the magical part of one's life. these modes of interacting with the world and the self are a means to unify the self, and prepare it for the journey to the stars. as the will of the magician increases, the other-centric forms came be made to manifest much more easily. i will deal with six modes of perception in the order we usually discover them. touch (self-centric. the verb "to grasp" is amn which sounds like amn the word for "the hidden" this punning association lead to the story of amun creating the world by masturbation. this act is a sacred

SOLOMON

esence a hound, having a very large shape, and it spoke with a loud voice, and said "hail, lord, king solomon" and i solomon was astounded. i said to it: who art thou, o hound" and it answered "i do indeed seem to thee to be a hound, but before thou wast, o king solomon, i was a man that wrought many unholy deeds on earth. i was surpassingly learned in letters, and was so mighty that i could hold the stars of heaven back. and many divine works did i prepare. for i do harm to men who follow after our star, and turn them to [1] and i seize the frenzied men by the larynx, and so destroy them [1. the ms. has a vox nihili. can it mean "her that is born of echo (see above, p. 19, n. 8] 48. and i solomon said to him "what is thy name" and he answered''staff (rabdos. and i said to him "what is thi

another again, and i supplied them with food. and then i told the old man after three days to bring his son again to me here "and" said i "i will attend to him" and they saluted me, and went their way. 113. and when they were gone i ordered ornias to be brought forward, and said to him "tell me how you know this" and he answered "we demons ascend into the firmament of heaven, and fly about among the stars. and we hear the sentences which go forth upon the souls of men, and forthwith we come, and whether by force of influence, or by fire, or by sword, or by some accident, we veil our act of destruction; and if a man does not die by some untimely disaster or by violence, then we demons transform ourselves in such a way as to appear to men and be worshipped in our human nature" 114. i theref

rd, or by some accident, we veil our act of destruction; and if a man does not die by some untimely disaster or by violence, then we demons transform ourselves in such a way as to appear to men and be worshipped in our human nature" 114. i therefore, having heard this, glorified the lord god, and again i questioned the demon, saying "tell me how ye can ascend into heaven, being demons, and amidst the stars and holy angels intermingle" and he answered "just as things are fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth (are fulfilled) the types [1] of all of them. for there are principalities, authorities, world-rulers [2, and we demons fly about in the air; and we hear the voices of the heavenly beings, and survey all the powers. and as having no ground (basis) on which to alight and rest, we lose st

fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth (are fulfilled) the types [1] of all of them. for there are principalities, authorities, world-rulers [2, and we demons fly about in the air; and we hear the voices of the heavenly beings, and survey all the powers. and as having no ground (basis) on which to alight and rest, we lose strength and fall off like leaves from trees. and men seeing us imagine that the stars are falling from heaven. but it is not really so, o king; but we fall because of our weakness, and because we have nowhere anything to lay hold of; and so we fall down like lightnings [3] in the depth of night and suddenly. and we set cities in flames and fire the fields. for the stars have firm foundations in the heavens like the sun and the moon [1. cp. heb. viii. 5. 2. cp. rom. viii

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

adelphia, 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 authority, and signifies the congress; the pillar, upon which it rests, is used as the hieroglyphic of fortitude and constancy, and, its being of the doric order (which is the best proportioned and most agreeable to nature& composed of several members or parts, all, taken together, forming a beautiful composition of strength

orted on may 9, 1782 and referred to the secretary of congress, charles thomson, on june 13th. the final device, however, was a composite result of the ideas of barton, thomson and jefferson, who, for example, is known to have placed a triangle around the eye, and to have added the year 1776, e pluribus unum, and other items.7 charles thomson added the olive branch to the obverse side, and placed the stars above the eagle as the crest. the phrase annuit coeptis was drawn from virgil "audacibus annue coeptis" rendered as "favor my daring undertaking (aeneid, book 9 verse 625; also in georgics, i, 40. novus ordo seclorum was taken from virgil's 4th eclogue, 5th verse "magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo" translated "the great series of ages begins anew" the final device was decided upon

rled around the symbolism of the great seal for over 180 years has by no means been limited to the reverse side. the crest heraldically is an independent device; it is correctly considered apart from the eagle and from the reverse side of the seal. as an emblem of arms -27- selected for special dignity the crest represents america herself. the eagle represents the people. the crest is composed of the stars, around which is disposed a circle of clouds, and the glory, a halo or corona of light. totten wrote that "the glory has not been correctly realized upon a single die used for great seal purposes. the primary significance of a glory was to denote the presence of god" heraldry borrowed this emblem directly from the scriptures (ps. lxiii, 2; 1 kings viii, 11, etc. yet, as totten pointed ou

stars. by its arrangement. constitutes the most serious deviation from the fundamental law which authorized the establishment of the seal. the honorary a. loudon snowden, superintendent of the mint of the united states, objected to the appearance of the "13 stars embraced in an oblong or depressed circle [which design he considered] doubtless the result of an unappreciative engraver, who imagined the stars would look more artistically arranged if embraced within the lines of a circle" he also objected to the pyramid on the back side because "each layer representing a state, is subdivided, or broken, and as if composed of several pieces cemented together. this was certainly not the original design [for the] unfinished national pyramid."34 the 13 levels should have been composed of 13 solid

unmistakably the ancient oriental talisman, the seal of solomon. totten wrote:25* the legal specifications of the group of stars as "a constellation" warrants some degree of regularity in the "heraldic" arrangement. but why now a six-pointed constellation of five-pointed stars? this is a clear lapse from the developed standpoint. in the first realization of the seal, as cut from the original die, the stars were conceived as six-pointed and the constellation was very naturally made six-pointed to match. but the lapse was soon discovered from comparison with the stars upon the flag, so while they were changed to the five-pointed order in the websterian die, the six-pointed form of the constellation was unfortunately retained and still mars the realization -28- of our crest. it should be mani

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

from the hidden depths of the soul, for it is there that the eternal laws lie hidden. to find the eternal, one must go down into the psychic depths. in those depths is god the eternal harmony of the cosmos. 38 christianity as mystical fact thus, the human psyche is not limited to the confines of the body, enclosed within the skin; for what come to birth in the human soul are the laws which govern the stars in their courses. the soul is not confined by our personal consciousness. in fact the personality is no more than the instrument through which the cosmic order manifests itself. the spirit of pythagoras is caught by one of the church fathers, gregory of nyssa, who declared: we are told that human nature is a paltry thing, confined and small, whereas god is infinitely great. how then can

e found within, and then he will be recognized as the archetypal essence, sending forth myriads of rays, none of them visible to sense, but all grasped by the mind. 175 that is how philo describes god. and something almost identical can be recognized in plato s timaeus: when the father who had begotten it perceived that the universe was alive and in motion, a shrine for the eternal gods [that is, the stars, he was well pleased.176 compare the bible s and god saw everything, that it was good. in this platonizing way, philo assimilates the meaning of the bible to the experiences of the mysteries, making the knowledge of the divine arise from the creation- process, which takes place in one s own soul as the working-out of its destiny. the story of creation and that of the soul s divinization

o the earth. it answered, i am not god, and all things on earth declared the same. i asked the sea and the chasms of the deep and the living things that creep in them, but they answered, we are not your god. seek what is above us. i spoke to the winds that blow, and the whole air and all that lives in it replied to me, anaximenes is wrong. i am not your god. i asked the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars, but they, too, told me, neither are we the god whom you seek. 183 164 christianity as mystical fact and augustine realized that the answer to his question about how to find god could come only from one source his own soul. his soul said that the eyes and ears could not tell what lay within it, but that it speaks in an immediate, and moreover in an indubitable fashion: men may doubt whet

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

at i have been given does not feel right. this is then followed by a search for the miraculous, for the transforming element, to find individual rightness. this type of transformation leads to the path of thetwo ways- the path of unity, or the path of separation. this book is for those whose way is the path of separation, and the transforming element is the cold icy vision of a desert night where the stars becomes as gates. this is the book of salt. xxx magister roger whitaker 09/08/1997 the year 32 chapter 0. the nature of evil or..the devil made me do it" no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it..emerson to understand the nature of evil is paramount towards glimpsing into the character of the anti

on the other hand, if the ritualists are close to the ocean, or other large body of water (such as the great lakes. the rolling of the tide creates a very nice whitenoise. there is a great deal of difference in the composition of a night sky versus a daytime sky. these differences are significant on several sensory levels. the most obvious difference is that the night sky opens up as a window to the stars that are hidden during the daylight hours. the night, in effect, becomes a gateway to a larger universe beyond our direct apprehension. during the day, the sun permeates the atmosphere with different types of radiation that are not present during the night sky. the night sky is cooler, clearer and also reveals a primal aspect of oneself as the various senses become accentuated through th

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

en giant is a myth begun by his admirers. who, really, is pan? well, of course, pan is simply the devil in a new disguise. baphles me! 105 106 codex magica the bearded revolutionary rebel is symbolic of baphomet, who also has a beard. this artist rendition of notorious cuban guerilla leader che gueverra does bear a remarkable resemblance to eliphas levi's famous drawing of baphomet, complete with the stars on their respective heads. baphles me! 107 a baphomet wall plaque and wall sculpture sold by an occult mail order store, along with a "seal of babalon" and the brotherhood a a wall plaque (the atlantean brotherhood. also offered: a "sabbatic goat" amulet, described as satanist eliphas levi's "baphomet god of the witches" 108 la codex magica the grand master of a satanic secret society in

m one third of the angels. he and they apparently became vile creatures, ugly and deformed, appearing in grotesque forms appropriate to their mental and spiritual deformities. how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, i will ascend into heaven, 1 will exalt my throne above the stars of god..i will ascend above that ravenous dark bird 243 the heights of the clouds; i will be like the most high. yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (isaiah 14:12-15) the bible says that the angry and furious fallen lucifer now walks to and fro in the earth like a lion seeking whom he might devour. his aim is to ruin god's creation, to bastardize and corrupt i

the majority of astrologers who are active in the organization without giving away any real secrets. almost any knowledgeable student of the occult can see hidden meanings in these symbols far beyond the official explanation. symbols that beg for more esoteric (and accurate) explanation include the triangle inside the circle, the pentagram star, the torch and hand, the point within the circle and the stars. 388 codex magica hazelden, a company specializing in products related to alcoholics anonymous, offers such items as tie tacs and lapel pins, money clips, necklaces, and key chains. you can even get the "god's eye pendant" the hazelden catalog glowingly tells potential buyers "in times of trouble or joy, this precious pendant keeps our higher power's eye on our recovery and spiritual gro

removed, and it was. however, world war ii intervened and the gargantuan, monstrous structure was never completed. at the top of the planned monument, a statue of lenin was to tower above the people and landscape, his right hand and finger vertically pointed upward toward the heavens. possibly this was a fulfillment of scripture. in isaiah 14, lucifer vainly boasts that his kingdom will ascend to the stars and that he will be like the most high. but lucifer's true destiny is the pit of hell! 584 codex magica the occult magic of the czar is also back! or did it ever leave? in the european (may 5-m, 1995, p. 4) was found this story reporting on "black magicians" among the highest ranks of russian military and political circles. among the magic techniques common in the kremlin: mantras, medit

THE BOOK OF THE ELDER KINGS GOLDEN DAWN

ace of our heart shalt thou smell our spirit of perfume, as though a thousand and one different perfumes were ignited therein. 7. but hear thou our majestic music of the spheres! hear thou the ineffable sound of our mystic union! 8. halt: halt! now eat the fruit and drink the wine. we are come! our will is one: our will is done! 9. come with us, and we shall uplift thee to the celestial palace of the stars: thou shalt partake of the ineffable glory! we are the ecstasy of thine aspiration to accomplish the great work: we are the purity of thine invocation to the highest! 10. now by way of the serpent, or by way of the arrow, or by some other known or unknown way of initiation, wilt thou attain union with us. whatever thy operation or formulae of initiation, we shall uplift thee into our hol

ent way! the steps of the stairway are seven; the laboratorium is our holy house of song and our holy rose garden, which thou knowest so well. yet to those who are vulgar, it is a secret even though they themselves possess it. 21. six are the rays, and the seventh is in the centre, hidden yet ever glorious. these are the six forces of our one life, and that which is in the centre is the palace of the stars. we are come to uplift thee to that grand palace of the sun where burns the immortal flame of the vast unknown! we are come to uplift thee to the home of the starry wisdom of the highest! thus we say unto thee, hear thou our holy voice of fire; yea, hear thou our holy voice of fi f1-6 the canopic gods symbolism of the four genii of the hall of the neophyte g.h. fratre sub spe (supplement

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hief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the future. 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 xvi introduction objects and places of mystery and power objects of mystery and power

about 165 b.c.e, the belief had been established that the dead would be resurrected and receive judgment: many of those who lie dead in the ground will rise from death. some of them will be given eternal life, and others will receive nothing but eternal shame and disgrace. everyone who has been wise will shine bright as the sky above, and everyone who has led others to please god will shine like the stars (daniel 12: 2 4. while the verses from daniel are the only ones in jewish scripture that specifically mention the afterlife of the soul, the subject is widely discussed in rabbinic literature, the kabbalah, and jewish folklore. generally, the soul is believed to have its roots in the world of the divine, and after the physical death of the body, the soul returns to the place of its spiri

irected by a shaman, for it appears from the presence of fire pits in some of the mounds that religious ceremonies were conducted and funeral rites were observed. in pike county, ohio, on the banks of the scioto river, there is a mound consisting of a circle and square, constructed with great geometric accuracy. in native american pictography, the ring or circle is generally an emblem of the sun, the stars, and the great spirit, the divine being. the oval also represents the creator or the act of creation. the square designates the four cardinal directions. if it is assumed that the ancient mound builders had similar religious philosophies, then some insight may be gained into their beliefs about destiny and life after death. one of the largest of the effigy mounds is a huge bird earthwork

ce the common reference to the happy hunting ground, a place where all needs would be easily met. in this respect, the ghost land, the land of the grandparents, is equivalent to the elysian fields of the ancient greeks, the valhalla of the vikings, and the general concept of a heaven or a paradise that awaits the virtuous soul after death. some tribes believed that their eternal abode would be in the stars. to these people, the milky way was known as the pathway of the dead; and it was their custom to light fires upon the graves of the dead for four days to give the spirits ample time to arrive safely on the glorious path in the sky. for other tribes, the land of the grandparents, the place of the souls, was located under the earth, where the sun would shine during the time of its disappea

r hypnotism, developed out of the theories of certain physicians in the sixteenth century that humans could project and control their animal magnetism, sometimes inducing trance states in themselves or in others. in the 1760s, dr. franz anton mesmer (1734 1815) began healing patients with what he believed was the result of animal magnetism s effect on a kind of universal fluid that flowed between the stars, the human body, and everything on the planet, but which today would likely to be attributed to light trance states and the power of suggestion. with davis s childhood experiences of hearing spirit voices, it is not surprising that he was found to be a good subject by a local tailor named william levingston, who had decided to experiment with mesmerism on his own. once davis had entered

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hief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph s interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the future. 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 xvi introduction objects and places of mystery and power objects of mystery and power

r cliff and nearby westcliff shut off their lights. even the street lights were turned off, but the graveyard lights still danced as brightly as ever. if the ghostly gravemarkers cannot be attributed to the reflection of ordinary house and municipal lights, just what can they be? old-timers and younger theorists have come up with many suggestions. some believe that the lights are reflections from the stars. yet the lights are just as clear on a starless, moonless night. others theorize that they are caused by phosphorescing ore and glowing wood but the darker the night, the brighter the lights. it was suggested that radioactive ores were causing the flickering lights. but geiger counters were then employed to cover the entire area, and no radioactivity was discovered. finally the seekers o

ilet spiders in the hairdo introduction perhaps the oldest and most basic of human instincts is that of fear. early humans experienced an array of bewildering hostility lurking all around them. in addition to predators from the animal kingdom who pursued them as prey, there were such frightening and unexplained natural phenomena as the rumbling terror of thunder and lightning, the glowing eyes of the stars in the night sky, and the deadly volcanic craters that shot fire into the air. equally as terrifying as the physical threats of their world were the fiendish creatures that sprang from their imaginations, specters that could come to life from their own shadows on the walls of their caves or huts. out of these primitive fears and feelings of helplessness, certain beliefs and practices aro

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 211 jewish weddings are usually performed on sundays. made whole again, which is another way of saying forever. before a buddhist wedding can occur, a buddhist monk must check the horoscope of the prospective bride and groom to be certain that they are compatible. if the stars indicate that the couple will be able to adjust to one another s personalities throughout their lives together, the monk next determines the best day for the wedding ceremony to occur. buddhist weddings are not conducted in temples or in religious sites, but in hotels or public halls and are generally regarded as civil ceremonies. the bridal couple are clothed in robes and sit side by si

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 239 chapter 14 invaders from outer space are humans alone in the universe? throughout history, humankind s religions have probed the unknown to provide an answer to what occurs after death, and its sciences have attempted to scan the cosmos for clues to the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the stars. 241 chapter exploration ufos in ancient times space visitors in the bible and other holy books the modern ufo era begins the air force and project blue book the condon/university of colorado report hangar 18 roswell, new mexico socorro, new mexico ufo contactees and abductees george adamski daniel w. fry betty and barney hill the men in black (mib) whitley strieber george van tassel the

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ief minister of egypt and staked the survival of his kingdom on joseph fs interpretation of his dreams. in the same land of egypt, priests of isis and ra listened as those deities spoke through the unmoving lips of the stone sphinx. throughout the centuries, soothsayers and seers have sought to predict the destiny of their clients by interpreting signs in the entrails of animals, the movements of the stars in the heavens, the reflections in a crystal ball, the spread of a deck of cards, and even messages from the dead. all of these ancient practices are still being utilized today by those who wish to know the future. 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 xvi introduction objects and places of mystery and power objects of mystery and power

areas of experimentation, but he was resolutely against the use of incantations, the invocation of spirits, and the casting of spells. in his opinion, magicians were charlatans, reciting magical formulas even though they knew the effects they created were but the products of natural phenomena. bacon recognized that there were mysterious forces that appeared to be magical, such as those that moved the stars and the planets; but he argued that all knowledge that existed on earth depended upon the power of mathematics. the friar also admitted the difficulties in discerning between the natural magic of science and the black arts. he was convinced, though, that natural magic was good and black magic was evil. this thirteenth-century alchemist seemed to have powers of prediction when he told his

he or she should eat the flesh of creatures that are long-lived, such as various reptiles. steadfastly arguing that all human knowledge depends upon a study of mathematics, bacon insisted that the noblest expression of mathematics is astrology. at each person fs birth the heavenly energies determine powerful physical, mental, and emotional factors that strongly affect that individual fs destiny. the stars do not decide one fs fate, bacon conceded, for humans did have free will as a divine gift, but the celestial movements did most certainly dispose one toward one fs fate. therefore, he concluded, astrology should be utilized as a powerful tool in medicine, alchemy, and predicting the future of individuals and nations. friar bacon was well aware that the church did not share his enthusiasm

ose watch on his activities, agrippa began practicing medicine in such cities as cologne, geneva, and fribourg. in 1524, king francis i (1494.1547) appointed him as personal physician to his mother, the duchesse louise of savoy, and agrippa was at last on a pension. such security soon dissipated, however, when he rebuked the duchess for asking him to debase his talents by divining her future from the stars. agrippa continued his nomadic existence, moving from city to city, country to country. in 1529, he was summoned to provide counsel for henry viii of england (1491.1547, the chancellor of germany, an italian marquis, and margaret of austria, governor of the netherlands. twenty years after he had dedicated the superiority of women to her, margaret finally granted her approval to the work

rowns per annum. this stipend dee later exchanged for a rectory at upton-upon-severn. during queen mary i fs (1516.1558) reign (1553.58, dee was accused of trying to kill her by genchantments. h he was seized, confined, and tried. after a long trial that lasted until 1555, he was at last acquitted. when elizabeth i (1533.1603) ascended to the throne in 1558, she consulted with dee as to which day the stars deemed the most propitious hours for her coronation. pleased with his pronouncements, she continued to grant him the favor of her attention, and she made many promises of preferment.none of which were kept. disillusioned by the intrigues of the english royal court, dee left the country for holland. in 1564 while residing in antwerp, dee published his greatest work, monas hieroglyphica. a

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

rm him of her mission until that day at compi350gne, when she was takenprisoner by the burgundians (plate xvi).she came from lorraine, a district where a century earlier the synod of tr350ves[4] had fulminated against "allkinds of magic, sorcery, witchcraft, auguries, superstitious writings, observings of days and months,prognostics drawn from the flight of birds or similar things, observation of the stars in order to judge of thedestiny of persons born under certain constellations, the illusions of women who boast that they ride at nightwith diana or with herodias and a multitude of other women. a century after joan's trial, the inquisitornicolas remy[5] could pride himself on having put to death hundreds of "witches" in that same district. thebackwardness of the country in the time of jo

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

lowed. but as she is the origin and source of all, she is the end of all, that to which all returns, before regeneration. the nine worlds of indo-european mythology were all born from her womb, and at the world-doom, they were withdrawn back into her darkness, to await regeneration, and only she remained, as she was in the beginning. she was the spinning goddess, who spun the threads of fate, and the stars and moon floated in the darkness of her immense being. as the source of life and the place of death, she was depicted as half- fair and half dark and decaying; the outward life of the earth can also be seen as her fair face and the darkness below as her dark face. the original darkness that she embodies, which is the darkness of the mystery of fate, also links her to the figures of sophi

to earth, resolved to the true and lasting well-spring from which all things flow. the blessing of the bread: son of light, consecrate this bread as you consecrate the land and all who dwell upon and within it: lift up the soul of the world and place the crown of heaven upon her. lord of the true light, hear the housle prayer that we may stand with you. though the seas break their boundaries, and the stars fall into water, by awareness of the mystery we may yet stand in our own light. after each blessing, the arms should be crossed on the chest, and the housle should be bowed to; put down the arthame (if you are using one) before you do this. then, standing before the blessed bread and drink, pick up both of the containers holding them, and hold them above the head, declaring: i am the alp

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

d, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. then we shall live in god with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into his works with the light of his thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of his love. we shall be without doubt the elder brethren of a new race, the angels of posterity. celestial messengers, we shall wander in immensity, and the stars will be our gleaming ships. 18 we shall transform ourselves into sweet visions to calm weeping eyes; we shall gather radiant lilies in unknown meadows, and we shall scatter their dew upon the earth. we shall touch the eyelid of the sleeping child, and rejoice the heart of its mother with the spectacle of the beauty of her wellbeloved son! ii the binary the binary is more particularly the

megistus calls the great "telesma" when it produces splendour, it is called light. it is this substance which god creates before everything else, when he says "let there be light" it is at once substance and movement. it is fluid, and a perpetual vibration. its inherent force which set it is motion is called "magnetism" in the infinite, this unique substance is the ether, or the etheric light. in the stars which it magnetizes, it becomes astral light. in organized beings, light, or magnetic fluid. in man it forms the "astral body" or the "plastic medium" the will of intelligent beings acts directly on this light, and by means of it on all that part of nature which is submitted to the modifications of intelligence. this light is the common mirror of all thoughts and all forms; it preserves

o wake me up in the night to tell me all that i needed to know. master, i beg of you, let me see him again "see whom "adonai "do you know who adonai is "no, but i want to see him again "adonai is invisible "i have seen him "he has no form "i have touched him "he is infinite "he is very nearly of my own height "the prophets say of him that the hem of his vestment, from the east to the west, sweeps the stars of the morning "he had a very clean surcoat, and very white linen "the holy scripture says that one cannot see him and live "he had a kind and jovial face "but how did you proceed in order to obtain these apparitions "why, i did everything that it tells you to do in the "grimoire "what! even the bloody sacrifice "doubtless" 156 "unhappy man! but who, then, was the victim" at this questio

aced in their natural form, became the hieroglyphic character of a vice or a virtue; then, by dint of taking the sign for the thing, and expressing the thing by the sign, they ended by confounding them. such is the origin of that fabulous natural history, in which lions allow themselves to be defeated by cocks, where dolphins die of sorrow for the ingratitude of men, in which mandrakes speak, and the stars sing. this enchanted world is indeed the poetic domain of magic; but it has no other reality than the meaning of the hieroglyphs which gave it birth. for the sage who understands the analogies of the transcendental qabalah, and the exact relation of ideas with signs, this fabulous country of the fairies is a country still fertile in discoveries; for those truths which are too beautiful

passive side of the ascendant of 250 another when one wishes to take hold of that other and dominate him. the astral ascendant has been divined by other magi, who gave it the name of "tourbillon (vortex. it is, say they, a current of specialized light, representing always the same circle of images, and consequently determined and determining impressions. these vortices exist for men as for stars "the stars" said paracelsus "breathe out their luminous soul, and attract each other's radiation. the soul of the earth, prisoner of the fatal laws of gravitation, frees itself by specializing itself, and passes through the instinct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. the active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of nature. the free part can no longer

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this astral expansion lies in the fact that the ancient mystical systems hold that the transcendental natu.re of man, the essence of mind, is infinite in nature, a positive void of whch no quality can be predicated. as one eastern scripture puts it: learned audience, the illimitable void of the universe is capable of holding myriads of things of various shapes andforms, such as the sun, the moon, the stars, mountains, etc .space takes in all these, and so does the voidness of our nature. we say that the essence of mind is great, because it embraces all things, since all things are within our nature. the instruction to expand consciousness, or to formulate the astral form as of gigantic proportions standing solitary in space, containing within itself all the forces and worlds of the entire

ou, and when you feel the power of the names, 6. say the prayer of the gnomes: holy art thou, lord of the earth, which thou hast made for thy footstool. adonai ha-aretz, adonai melekh. unto thee be the kingdom, the power and the glory. malkuth, geburah, gedulah. amen. the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valley. 0 thou who hidest beneath the earth, in the valley of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars. live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of thy treasures, whereof thou hast made us the wardens. amen. part vi: circumambulation 1. circumambulate7 the light. see all the power in the feet center. see it rush up like water powerfully pushed up as in a fountain. 2. as it rushes up, it takes all the power from each of the spheres on its ascent. so imagine as it goes from ball to ba

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

t first i thought they might be stars low in the sky, gleaming through the natural haze. but when i flashed my six-celled light at one of these purple blobs it suddenly and jerkily moved to one side, as if it were jumping out of my light beam. fascinated, i repeated the experiment several times. then i tried flashing the light at obvious stars to see if this wasn't just some trick of my eyesight. the stars didn't move, naturally. we sat on the hilltop studying the purple blobs for several minutes when suddenly the whole forest in the valley below lit up and glowed with a bright, eerie purple light. there were no houses or roads down there. it would have been a long hike in the dark and the boys were reluctant to join me, so we just sat and stared at the glowing forest until the light faded

on the hill and the people who lived there went to bed at 9:30 each night, being early risers. so the whole area was silent, deserted, and without lights throughout the night. a few minutes after we arrived, mary pointed out a small reddish light low on a steep wooded hill south of our position. it appeared to be blinking on and off, and bobbing up and down in a manner quite different from any of the stars on the horizon. while we watched breathlessly, barely speaking, it slowly circled the distant fields and woods and crossed in front of us, edging closer and closer. the farmhouse was about seventy-five feet in front of us. the object now appeared to be square or rectangular. it could not be mistaken for a star. it vanished momentarily behind some trees north of the farmhouse and when it

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in childbirth, victims of the she-fiend lammashta. i have traveled beneath the seas, in search of the palace of our master, and found the stone of monuments of vanquished civilisations, and deciphered the writings of some of these; while still others remain mysteries to any man who lives. and these civilisations were destroyed because of the knowledge contained in this book. i have traveled among the stars, and trembled before the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with

secrets of the scene i had witnessed in one word: kutulu. in that moment, as though whispered fiercely into my ear, i understood. these are the signs carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers

, it appears as though i have failed in some regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting, dreaming, drooling for my departure. i pray the gods that i am saved, and not perish as did the priest, abdul ben-martu, in jerusalem (the gods remember and have mercy upon him. my fate is no longer writ in the stars, for i have broken the chaldean covenant by seeking power over the zonei. i have set foot on the moon, and the moon no longer has power over me. the lines of my life have been oblitered by my wanderings in the waste, over the letters writ in the heavens by the gods. and even now i can hear the wolves howling in the mountains as they did that fateful night, and they are calling my name, a

n here, in the manner this prescribed. prepare the rituals without erring, and in the proper places and times render the sacrifices. may the gods be ever merciful unto thee! may thou escape the jaws of the maskim, and vanquish the power of the ancient ones! and the gods grant thee death before the ancient ones rule the earth once more! kakammu! selah! of the zonei and their attributes the gods of the stars are seven. they have seven seals, each of which may be used in their turn. they are approached by seven gates, each of which may be opened in their turn. they have seven colours, seven essences, and each a separate step on the ladder of lights. the chaldeans were but imperfect in their knowledge, although they had understanding of the ladder, and certain of the formulae. they did not, ho

s and then sit down and go no further than that, enjoying the benefits that they have found on the preliminary spheres. but this is evil, for they are not equipped to deal with the attack from without that must surely come, and their people will cry unto them for safety, and it will not come forth. therefore, set thy face towards the ultimate goal and strive ever onward to the furthest reaches of the stars, though it mean thine own death; for such a death is as a sacrifice to the gods, and pleasing, that they will not forget their people. the zonei and their attributes, then, are as follows: the god of the moon is the god nanna. he is father of the zonei, and the eldest of the wanderers. he is long of beard, and bears a wand of lapis lazuli in his palm, and possesses the secret of the tide

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there is the sensation of repulsion at such a desire appearing in me. that is what the recognition of evil exists for. an ordinary person does not have such feelings, he does not regard his desires as evil, but as a normal person: well i am like that but so is everybody else. it is written that god said to abraham, look now toward heaven and promised him that his seed and his people will be like the stars in the sky innumerable. stars are sparks of returning light that broke the collective soul. one collects these sparks, corrects them and thus ascends. for that reason, the sparks, which are tiny souls that rise upward, are called stars. for that reason the creator promised abraham that if he followed this path, the entire heaven would be his. death 92 of 273 q: does a part of the soul pa

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his friends: for the wise king solomon doth testifie of himself, that he upon earnest prayer and desire did get and obtain such wisdom of god, that thereby he knew how the world was created, thereby he understood the nature of the elements, also the time, beginning, middle and end, the increase and decrease, the change of times through the whole year, the revolution of the year, and ordinance of the stars; he understood also the properties of tame and wilde beasts, the cause of the raigning of the winds, and minds and intents of men, all sorts and natures of plants, vertues of roots, and others, was not unknown to him. now i do not think that there can be found any one who would not wish and desire with all his heart to be a partaker of this noble treasure; but seeing the same felicity ca

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d phases of the moon, and by seeking him one may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and devotion. leviathan is the dragon guardian of the abyss, who dwells in the deep and unknown realms of the ocean and the darkest depths of the mind. leviathan is different from the watchers in that this fallen se

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

the seven seals thereof. h for until now gno man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. h yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart aleister crowley has opened the book, breaking not only the first six seals, but the seventh also. for those who read and understand, the heavens shall depart as a scroll, and the stars shall fall, and the mountains be moved out of their places; and they shall become as kings in a new kingdom, and be crowned with that crown which passes understanding. i have attempted in the following seven chapters to interpret the book of the seven seals, and to paint its splendour, as an artist would incarnadine his canvas with the red blood of his mistress, love-kissed from the bloo

c circle of eternity. at times we listen to the yearning hopes of a paracelsus, or the noble words of a tannhauser; at times warm arms are flung around us, and the hot kisses of some messaline suffocate our very breath, leading us into the mansions of a de sade and through the gardens of an aretino, horrid with the frenzy of eros. or, again, we are treading with the sages of philosophy, or emidst the stars in search of the psyche of events; dreams almost monstrous in their intensity seize our troubled brain, deep 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, fulfil

oughout the works before us; in gaceldama, h gmysteries: lyrical and dramatic, h gthe temple of the holy ghost, h gtannhauser, h grosa mundi, h and galice. h ecstasy is the keynote here, as it is of all poetry, all literature. aye! of all life. without it we cease to be even animals. a dog will bay the moon. mere lumps of sodden clay; with it a flaming crown of glory, angel-voiced, singing amidst the stars the anthem of eternity. ii the chapter known as the virgin in which chapter it is related how beauteous and fair she was to behold, and with what joyaunce and jollity she greeted her many lovers, and how she fed off their kisses and growing bold was cast forth to feed amongst the swine. the virgin gto be a singer of sweet songs, h is the great ideal crowley has enshrined before him; for

becomes aware that fate has overtaken them; then all the fury of manhood rises in him: erect, sublime, he swore so fierce an oath that the sea flashed with blasphemy, and loath black thunders broke from out the shuddering deep. he swore again, and from its century fs sleep earthquake arose, and rocked and raved and roared. he swore the third time. but that heaven fs lord curbed their black wrath, the stars of heaven fs vault. had rushed to whelm the sun with vehement assault *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 12. cf. the qabalistic dogma of pistorius: gschema misericordiam dicit, sed et judicium. h the infinite being when exercising his power upon the finite must necessarily chastise to correct and not to avenge himself. the strength of the sin does not exceed that of the sinner, and if the

rn marries a woman for her wealth is as foul a male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of sodom, and down the by-ways of gibeah. tannhauser expresses the whole celebration of this union in two pregnant lines: that is true marriage, in my estimate. aspire together to one deity? yes *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 259. or again in the song of nuith: we are lulled by the whirr of the stars; we are fanned by the whisper, the wind; we are locked in unbreakable bars, the love of the spirit and mind. the infinite powers of rapture are ours; we are one, and our kisses are kind *orpheus, vol. iii, p. 218. a true wife, that is a woman whose very soul palpitates in harmony with that of her husband or lover, is the greatest joy of life. burns sang: to make a happy fireside clime fo

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

hidden knowledge and protection be revealed. by the desire of my many forms shall be passed from the grave to life touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) facing the south, make the sign of the inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit- god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalon! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created nganga should be with you (creation of ngangas involves the use

THE BOOK OF GATES

gods are described as baiu reth-ammu-tuat, i.e "the souls of the men who are in the tuat" the texts read- click to view the boat of ra being towed by the gods of the fifth division of the tua.t p. 144 "the gods of the tuat draw along this great god, and he journeyeth through the hidden place [ra saith 'draw ye me along, o ye gods of the tuat, and sing praises unto me, o ye who are at the head of the stars; let your cords be strong (or, vigorous, and draw ye me along by means of them, and let your hands and arms be steady, let there be speed in your legs, let there be strong intent in our souls, and let your hearts be glad. open ye a prosperous way into the chambers (qerti) of hidden things' click to view the nine gods who hold ennutchi. the text relating to the bearers of the serpent read

and lead ye me along the ways. my births make you to be born, and behold, my coming into being maketh you to come into being. o stablish ye the periods of time and years for him who is among you" 1 "the god who is in this picture adjureth the click to view the twelve goddesses of the hours. pylons to open to ra, and he goeth on his way by his side" 2 "the god who is in this picture crieth out to the stars concerning the births of this great god, and he goeth on his way with them" 3 "the god who is in this picture crieth to the gods of the boat of ra, and he goeth on his way with him" 4 "the god who is in this picture setteth the stars p. 278 in their places (literally, towns, and he goeth on his way with the great god" the above four paragraphs must refer to the four gods banti, seshsha

THE DARK FORCES

much that we cannot see it die, since death is a natural changing of forces. 7) we would rather die than submit to anyone or anything and this pride is the pride of satan, that symbol of our defiance and a sign of our life-enhancing energy. 8) we prepare- through our magick, our deeds and our living- for the age of fire (the aeon of the dark gods) which is to come, when we shall reach out toward the stars and the new challenges they will bring. 9) our way is difficult and dangerous and is for the few who can truly dare to defy the matrix of forms (like `crosstianity) that stifle the potentiality of our being. it has been said (by nietzsche "the more mediocre, the weaker, the more submissive and cowardly a man is, the more he will posit as evil: it is with him that the realm of evil is mos

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

of the o.t.o. s: o thou! lord of the west. i hereby invoke upon this candidate the powers of death, as he offers himself to partake with us the mysterious secrets of a master magician. endue him with such fortitude that in the hour of trial he fall not, but that, passing safely under our protection through the valley of the shadow of death, he may rise from the tomb of transgression, to shine as the stars forever and ever. aumn. send the candidate on his last journey with the sun (w. precedes and e. follows him; they go widdershins.34 solemn and slow music; or s. recites the invocation to hecate from orpheus) w: most mysterious master, the candidate approaches the end of his last journey with the sun. s: our brother is weary; let him be refreshed with meat and drink (w. gives him a piece

mes the sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills. even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness. and i behold pan. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (7 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the snows are eternal above, above and their perfume smokes ever into the nostrils of the stars. but what have i to do with these? to me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of pan. on all sides pan to the eye, to the ear. the perfume of pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech. the embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure the six interior sense aflame with the inmost self of

of grace, for as wine is to water so is it unto the others in its exaltation of the soul of man; and whoso mastereth the same, even he is found worthy of rule. this was the secret of the strength of our grand master caius julius caesar, this of our brother richard wagner that was grand organist in bavaria, and of so many others, whose fame is eternal without our order as within, that they are as the stars of heaven for multitude and glory. to this aspire ye above all things; for the true light abideth therein yet more intensely than in the other. for he that reverseth the whirlings of matter is greater than he that worketh in them. woe therefore, woe exceeding, unto him if failing in strength he be swept away into the abyss! awake, my lords, be vigilant, be stern, be austere, be on your g

s is the sceptre of the realms that are! the possession and right use of this secret giveth an hundred powers; yea, verily, five score is the numeration of the reward thereof. for this mystery is of jove himself whose letter is pk; and these are the initials of our athanor and our cucurbite, their names in the language of the greeks. yet of all these powers i name but seven, the glories of eulis; the stars upon the foreheads of the brothers of hermetic light. luna and of these the first is the building up of one that is not born; verily, a child of wonder shall he be. venus and the second is the harmony and the mastery of one co-eval and co-operative with thee from eternity, twin with thee, and thy mate. mars by the third cometh youth and beauty and energy, be thou never so old. saturn by

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

:14 and god said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 1:15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 1:16 and god made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night [he made] the stars also. 1:17 and god set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:19 and the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 1:20 and god said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly a

eward of my house is this eliezer of damascus? 15:3 and abram said, behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 15:4 and, behold, the word of the lord [came] unto him, saying, this shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 15:5 and he brought him forth abroad, and said, look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. 15:6 and he believed in the lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 15:7 and he said unto him, i [am] the lord that brought thee out of ur of the chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 15:8 and he said, lord god, whereby shall i know that i shall inherit it? 15:9 and he said unto him, take me

hovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, in the mount of the lord it shall be seen. 22:15 and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time, 22:16 and said, by myself have i sworn, saith the lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] 22:17 that in blessing i will bless thee, and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 22:18 and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 22:19 so abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to beer-sheba; and abraham dwelt at beer-sheba. 22:20 and it came to pass after these thing

of the philistines unto gerar. 26:2 and the lord appeared unto him, and said, go not down into egypt; dwell in the land which i shall tell thee of: 26:3 sojourn in this land, and i will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, i will give all these countries, and i will perform the oath which i sware unto abraham thy father; 26:4 and i will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 26:5 because that abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 26:6 and isaac dwelt in gerar: 26:7 and the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, she [is] my sister: for he feared to say [she is] my wife; les

ighty hand? 32:12 wherefore should the egyptians speak, and say, for mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 32:13 remember abraham, isaac, and israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, i will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that i have spoken of will i give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever. 32:14 and the lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. 32:15 and moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [we

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

r means bringeth to pass. such were, and to this day partly, if not altogether, are the corruptions which have made odious the very name of magick, having chiefly sought, as the manner of all impostures is, to counterfeit the highest and most noble part of it. a second kind of magick is astrologie, which judgeth of the events of things to come, natural and humane, by the motions and influences of the stars upon the lower elements, by them observed and understood. philo judaeus affirmeth, that by this part of magick or astrologie, together with the motions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, abraham found out the knowledge of the true god while he lived in caldea, qui contemplatione creaturarum, cognovit creatorem (saith damascen) who knew the creator by the contemplation of the creatur

cause the devil was so adored in the image of baal, dagon, astaroth, chemosh, jupiter, apollo, and the like. neither did the abuse of astrology terrify abraham (if we believe the most ancient and religious writers) from observing the motions and natures of the heavenly bodies. neither can it dehort wise and learned men in these days from attributing those vertues, influences, and inclinations, to the stars and other lights of heaven, which god hath given to those his glorious creatures. i must expect some calumnies and obtrectations against this, from the malicious prejudiced men, and the lazie affecters of ignorance, of whom this age swarms: but the voice and sound of the snake and goose is all one. but our stomacks are not now so queazie and tender, after so long time feeding upon solid

not god suffer thee to be deceived, o thou of little faith, if thou dependest wholly upon god, and adherest onely to him? aphorism 13. the lord liveth; and all things which live, do live in him. and he is truely xnxv, who hath given unto all things, that they be that which they are: and by his word alone, through his son, hath produced all things out of nothing, which are in being. he calleth all the stars. and all the host of heaven by their names. he therefore knoweth the true strength and nature of things, the order and policie of every creature visible and invisible. to whom god hath revealed the names of his creatures. it remaineth also, that he receive power from god, to extract the vertues in nature, and hidden secrets of the creature; and to produce their power into action, out of

thou shalt teach me, and may hide them in my understanding, that i may bring them forth as out of thy inexhaustible treasures, to all necessary uses. and give me grace, that i may use such thy gifts humbly, with fear and trembling, through our lord jesus christ, with thy holy spirit. amen the third septenary. aphorism 15. they are called olympick spirits, which do inhabit in the firmament, and in the stars of the firmament: and the office of these spirits is to declare destinies, and to administer fatal charms, so far forth as god pleaseth to permit them: for nothing, neither evil spirit nor evil destiny, shall be able to hurt him who hath the most high for his refuge. if therefore any of the olympick spirits shall teach or declare that which his star to which he is appointed portendeth, n

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

stem was taught in the orphic school, and adopted by the pythagoreans, the next regularly-established sect. the stoics corrupted it a little, by placing the earth in the centre of the universe, though they still allowed the sun its superior magnitude.1 at length arose the epicureans, who confounded it entirely, maintaining that the sun was only a small globe of fire, a few inches in diameter, and the stars little transitory lights, whirled about in the atmosphere of the earth.2 how ill soever adapted the ancient system of emanations was to procure eternal happiness, it was certainly extremely well calculated to produce temporal good; for, by the endless multiplication of subordinate deities, it effectually excluded two of the greatest curses that ever afflicted the human race, dogmatical t

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ditioning that consists of rewards and punish- ments. the magi sense that the real world is a larger and more wondrous place than they have been led to believe. they know that there is danger in relinquishing the common view, which was born of the necessity for survival, but like the philosophers of olden times, they yearn to put their heads through the sky and look upon the mechanism that drives the stars. to do this, a magus must make his or her own point of view accord with the cen- ter point of the universe. what the magus normally thinks of as self is not the true self but an illusion he or she has created; in the same way, the tables and chairs the magus looks at through the windows of his or her eyes are forms he or she has made. only when the magus locates his or her center can he

be their master. whereas the inverted pentagram signifies the perversion of humanity, the inverted heptagram is the perversion of god. in magic, the heptagram is used to link the powers of the planets to the earth, that is to say, to the microcosm, the human body. the magus, set at the center of the hexagram, becomes exalted when he or she takes the heavenly shape of mer- cury and rises up among the stars. in the heptagram mercury moves to the outer circle with the rest of the planets, and the center is occupied with the sign for the earth, of which substance humans are formed. the ordering of the planets around the heptagram is determined in part by the order of the days of the week: wednesday (mercurii dies) mercury thursday (jovis dies) jupiter friday (veneris dies) venus saturday (sat

ou imagine the entire universe slowly whirling sunwise around your new center of awareness. this is a difficult exercise requiring great powers of visualization. the entry of the awareness into one of the seven chakras is something that must be learned-it cannot be taught any more than a person can be taught to ride a bicycle. success will be heralded by a sense of vertigo and the impression that the stars revolve around the chakra that has been entered. t he common octagram is formed of two overlapping squares with a com- mon center point, one square rotated forty-five degrees on the other. it is drawn with two separate lines, a distinction it shares with the common hexagram, and indeed the octagram has some similarities to the six-pointed star. the hexagram illustrates a duality of trine

riginally repre- sented various gods and goddesses of mesopotamia whose identities have mutat- ed and become obscured over the centuries. the heavens served as a convenient place to f these divine emblems and contemplate their interaction. it becomes evident that the images of the zodiac were not suggested by the con- stellations when we try to trace correspondences between the mythic figures and the stars. beyond a few bright locator stars which are accepted by convention to define key features in the images-the three bright stars that form the belt of orion, for example-the constellations and the signs are not contiguous. this looseness in the relationships allowed other cultures, such as the ancient chinese, to assign com- pletely different mythic figures to the heavens. however, merely

stars which are accepted by convention to define key features in the images-the three bright stars that form the belt of orion, for example-the constellations and the signs are not contiguous. this looseness in the relationships allowed other cultures, such as the ancient chinese, to assign com- pletely different mythic figures to the heavens. however, merely because the signs are not defined by the stars does not lessen their importance as archetypes. the zodiac of the chaldeans is at least 4,000 years old, and has scarcely changed. here are the signs, names, and representations of the zodiac given in tradi- tional order, proceeding counterclockwise around the heavens: aries ram ll libra scales itj taurus bull ?tl scorpio scorpion n gemini twins 2 sagittarius archer cancer crab 25 capric

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

in numerous seemingly distinct ways over the centuries, it always relies on a similar underlying process. the ancient shaman and the modern cold war spy each used the same basic techniques to shift their consciousness from the physical world to the astral world. the experiences of medieval witches at their mountaintop sabbat gatherings and modern alien abductees in the bellies of spacecraft from the stars are not unlike each other even though they are called by different names. another reason i felt a need to write this book was to dispel some popular misconceptions about the nature of astral projection, many of them fossilized relics of theosophy and the spiritualism movement of the nineteenth century. there are numerous other texts available on astral travel, but they tend to repeat the

ts manifest on the astral level, they have no existence to human 15. guazzo, compendium maleficarum, 34. 16. scot, bk. 111, chap. 16, p. 37. 17. leland, aradia, 4. 22 soul flight consciousness. there is also an echo here of the gnostic myth of sophia, goddess of wisdom, who incarnated as a mortal woman in order to aid human souls mired in ignorance to regain their divine birthright to dwell among the stars. witch's power of flight witchcraft is ancient in italy, and even in its pagan beginnings involved soul flight. the second-century roman writer lucius apuleius, in his novel the golden ass, described the flight of the witch pamphile, who smeared her body with a magic ointment and transformed herself into the form of an owl: and when midnight came, she led me softly into a high chamber an

we will later see when we examine the hermetic order of the golden dawn, fox had independently discovered the astral technique known as rising on the planes. the single time that fox saw his silver cord was when he detached his astral body while under the influence of ether. this was also an experience of the type of travel he called skrying "after a few sniffs, it seemed to me that i shot up to the stars, and that a shining silver thread connected my celestial self with my physical bodyl'log on a few occasions, he felt a pull that seemed to draw his astral body back into his physical body, but he never saw the cord before or after this drug experience. this caused carrington and muldoon to doubt very much that fox had ever achieved the full and complete experience of astral projection. h

ded man in a long, gray robe that is like the habit of a monk beckons with a lantern raised in his hand. his back is humped with age. he leans with care on his walking staff so that his feet do not slip in the snow on the edge of the steep slope that extends below him. in spite of his age, he shows no signs of cold. beyond this lonely figure, the sky darkens into night. it will not be long before the stars appear. he has been expecting your approach along the mountain path to the hermitage, and the late hour has caused the old man who is the sole keeper of the high spiritual retreat to use his lantern as a beacon so that you do not become lost and wander off the path and over a cliff in the darkness. the hermitage is a rough building of heavy timbers on a foundation of native stone, build

ppled into the rich black soil, so that they are half concealed by the grass and plants. some distance away there is a temple to the egyptian goddess hathor, whose statues have the shape of a cow and also that of a woman with a cow's head, or a woman with a headdress of curving cow's horns. the ruling intelligence of this trump is the goddess hathor, from whose breasts flow the sustaining milk of the stars. the phoenix will act as her oracle, for if you pose it a question about some future event, it will cry out in its shrill voice if the answer is yes. xviii the moon hebrew letter: qoph (back of the head) correspondence: pisces path: twenty-ninth the full moon shines down her light on a path that winds its way up from the edge of a stagnant pond into the distant hills that line the horizo

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

he world, its axis running from the north 18 reclining exercises pole to the south pole, aligned with your own spine. expand your awareness outward and become conscious of the planets of the solar system and the more distant stars, like glowing jewels set in the turning dome of a great natural cathedral as they rise in the east and descend in the west. mentally speed up time so that you can watch the stars arc across the dark sky, and can feel the turning of the earth. shift your awareness into your left hand, and open your mind to catch a gentle spring breeze blowing from the east that stirs the fine hairs on the back of your hand and tickles the palm. the breeze is temperate and pleasant. your left arm becomes light and almost seems hollow, as though filled with warm, dry air. your left

f the fifth element, spirit or aether, that underlies and pervades the lower four. it is the essence of universal mind, and may be conceived as a subtle fire borne upon the breath and stored up in the blood of living things. it is the pneuma of the greeks, the spiritus of the romans, and the chi of the chinese. it is the ether that was supposed by primitive science to pervade all of space between the stars and act as a conducting medium for light. due to its universal nature, it was assigned both white (all colors) and black (no colors. the rainbow, which also embodies all colors, is appropriate to represent it. when imagining the black egg against the black background of space, visualize an aura of silvery light around its edge. this radiant aura will distinguish the shape of the egg from

e gray eyes. mentally will the angel to turn outward. visualize the angel nod in acknowledgement, then turn and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the east. the wings conceal the head and body of the angel like a shimmering, semitransparent curtain of pale white light, so that the head and body of the angel vanish, but you are able to see through the curtain of light to the stars beyond. draw several normal breaths and allow the expanded balloon of your aura to contract to its normal shape nearer to the limits of your form. allow your giant form to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. the astral circle shrinks with you. maintain an awareness of the opened wings of the angel in the east towering above you like a vast translucent curtai

ntly will the angel with the force of your mind to turn away from the circle and spread its wings. visualize the angel nod its horned head in acknowledgement, turn its back upon the circle, and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the north like a shimmering, translucent curtain of pale light. the head and body of the angel are concealed behind its wings, but through them the stars are visible. draw several normal breaths and allow the expanded balloon of your aura to contract to its normal shape nearer to the limits of your body. allow your giant form to shrink back into your physical body within your practice chamber. maintain an awareness of the open wings of the angel in the north, towering above you like a vast curtain of light. turn a quarter-revolution clock

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

sis of the sixth key the angels of the fourth angle are "mighty in the firmaments of waters" the firmament is the vault of heaven, or heaven itself. the firmament of waters is the ninth sphere, called the crystalline, which was above the eighth sphere of the fixed stars and was thought to be composed of aether "some by that firmamentary division of the waters, have dreamt of a watery heaven above the stars (complete oxford english dictionary "firmamentary. the reference is to genesis 1:6-7. there is also something in alchemy called firmamental water, described as a liquid as pure as the firmament. kelley, who was an accomplished alchemist, would certainly have been familiar with this term, which was in common use in his day. again we find the familiar theme of judgment. the "mighty" angels

made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. 0 you heavens, arise! the lower heavens underneath you, let them serve you. govern those that govern; cast down such as fall; bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number; add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise, move, and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice; open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of undefiled knowledge. analysis of the key of the thirty aethers this same key serves to evoke all thirty of the successive heavenly planes called aethers, or airs. these are, in order: 1. lil 2. arn 3. zom 4. paz 5

the manifest universe. they are "mighty in the parts of the earth" and "execute the judgment of the highest" all thirty of the aethers have the same overall function, which they are commanded to fulfill at the end of the key "govern those that govern; cast down such as fall; bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number; add and diminish, until the stars be numbered (i.e, as many times as there are stars in the sky. within this mandate each aether fulfills its own particular responsibility. why are the aethers being so hard on the goddess earth? they are executing the "judgment of the highest" as is their fundamental destiny. the magician, vibrating the key in the god-form of the messiah, reminds the heavens of their duty, saying to them

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ UNDERSTANDING DARKNESS

your eyes. inside this darkness, you can picture anything. conjure up the notion of an extraterrestrial invader. one entirely of your own making. the fact you can visualize this here-to-fore nonexistent object shows that your awareness is not bound to, nor constrained by, the natural order. the knowledge that your stand separate from the universe is the beginning of the left hand path. 2. look at the stars. find a grassy hill and look up at the stars on a warm, clear moonless night. relax and let your mind soar towards the stars. that feeling of falling up into the abyss of stars is a predictable part of your natural self. the desire to project your psyche to its utmost limits is one of the forces that drives the initiate along the left hand path. it is why we choose role models like set

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

ing of rational thought the source of a tremendous, even superhuman power. the magus who dares to break the boundaries between pure and impure, the rational and the irrational, self and nothingness, can unleash the ultimate magical energy and subdue all of reality to his own will: a sorcerer by the power of his magick had subdued all things to himself..he could fly through space more swiftly than the stars. would he eat, drink, and take his pleasure? there was none that did not obey his bidding. in the whole system of ten million times ten million spheres upon the two and twenty million planes he had his desire. cxiii however, the ultimate goal that crowley sought through his sexual magic seems went far beyond the mundane desire for material wealth or mortal power. in his most exalted mome

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

et aa" i.e "let a great field be produced" and straightway "sekhet-hetep" or the "field of peace" came into being. he next said "let there be reeds (aaru) in it" and straightway "sekhet aaru" or the "field of reeds" came into being. sekhet-hetep was the elysian fields of the egyptians, and the field of reeds was a well-known section of it. another command of the god ra resulted in the creation of the stars, which the legend compares to flowers. then the goddess nut trembled in all her body, and ra, fearing that she might fall, caused to come into being the four pillars on which the heavens are supported. turning to shu, ra entreated him to protect these supports, and to place himself under nut, and to hold her up in position with his hands. thus shu became the new sun-god in the place of r

s in on (heliopolis, memphis, herakleopolis, hermopolis, abydos, and the region of the first cataract, and so. he embodied in his own person the might of ra-tem, apis and ptah, the horus-gods, thoth and khnemu, and his rule over busiris and abydos continued to be supreme, as it had been for many, many hundreds of years. he was the source of the nile, the north wind sprang from him, his seats were the stars of heaven which never set, and the imperishable stars were his ministers. all heaven was his dominion, and the doors of the sky opened before him of their own accord when he appeared. he inherited the earth from his father keb, and the sovereignty of heaven from his mother nut. in his person he united endless time in the past and endless time in the future. like ra he had fought seba, or

or me an abode for multitudes" thus came into being. and his majesty (life, health, and strength be to him) said "let a great field (sekhet) be produced (hetep" thereupon sekhet-hetep came into being [and the god said "i will gather herbs (aarat) therein" thereupon sekhet-aaru came into being [and the god said "i will make it to contain as dwellers things (khet) like stars of all sorts" thereupon the stars (akhekha) came into being. then the goddess nut trembled because of the height [fn#59] or, henen-su, hbw xanes, i.e, herakleopolis, magna [fn#60] i.e, elephantine, or syene, a place better known by the arabic name aswan [fn#61] i.e, the south, north, west, and east of the sky [fn#62] i.e "the fair and gracious goddess [fn#63] literally "my heart hath stopped greatly" and the majesty of r

nti shall be by her shoulder. the supporters [called] heh-enti shall be at her side, and one cubit and four spans of hers shall be in colours, and nine stars shall be on her belly, and set shall be by her two thighs and shall keep watch before her two legs, and before her two legs shall be shu, under her belly, and he shall be made (i.e, painted) in green qenat colour. his two arms shall be under the stars, and his name shall be made (i.e, written) in the middle of them, namely, shu himself "a boat with a rudder and a double shrine shall be therein, and aten (i.e, the disk) shall be above it, and ra shall be in it, in front of shu, near his hand, or, as another reading hath, behind him, near his hand. and the udders of the cow shall be made to be between her legs, towards the left side. an

in the other world [fn#135] three companies are distinguished: the gods of heaven, the gods of earth, and the gods of the other world [fn#136] the indestructible, immortal spirit-soul as opposed to the ba-soul or animal-soul [fn#137] here and in other places i have changed the pronoun of the third person into that of the second to avoid the abrupt changes of the original. the height of heaven and the stars [thereof] are obedient unto thee, and thou makest to be opened the great gates [of the sky. thou art the lord to whom praises are sung in the southern heaven, thou art he to whom thanks are given in the northern heaven. the stars which never diminish are under the place of thy face,[fn#138] and thy seats are the stars which never rest.[fn#139] offerings appear before thee by the command

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

stial influences you wish to contact through working with all of the senses. agrippa said in the first of his three books of occult philosophy: one operative virtue that is diffused through all kinds of things: by which virtue, indeed, as manifest things are produced out of occult causes, so a magician doth make use of things manifest to draw forth things that are occult, viz, through the rays of the stars, through fumes, lights, sounds, and natural things which are agreeable to those celestial, in which. there is a kind of reason, sense and harmony, and incorporeal and divine measures and orders (p 121. in addition to having some clear ideas about the associated symbols to be used in the talisman one was going to make to invoke venusian energy, for example, one could also prepare a venusi

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

n form that could develop crude tools which became ever more sophisticated and refined. a mutation through which the luciferians could exercise their vast, although corrupted, knowledge of the cosmic forces. or rather, a sub-race through which the luciferian "hive" could construct the occult-technology necessary to once again break out of the confines of planet earth and take their battle back to the stars, to the "heavens" themselves, thanks also in part to all of the humans who were willing to offer their assistance and energies to these reptiloids in exchange for "promises" of temporal power, wealth, or carnal pleasures! certainly these repti-poltergiests could not have been able to break free once again from the confines of this planet without "our" help. again, refer to revelation cha

to all of the humans who were willing to offer their assistance and energies to these reptiloids in exchange for "promises" of temporal power, wealth, or carnal pleasures! certainly these repti-poltergiests could not have been able to break free once again from the confines of this planet without "our" help. again, refer to revelation chapter 12. so rather than mankind on earth traveling between the stars, sending our a steady stream of colonists and thus relieving the pressures on population, pollution, energy, and the environment. we have allowed the "serpent" to steal our birthright and become our superiors when instead it should have been the other way around! true, there may have been pockets of humanity who had managed to break free and develop hyperspace technology in order to popu

e technologies, possibly utilizing antediluvian technologies found abandoned in the depths of the planet, that would eventually carry their species-war to the moon and to mars [explaining the reputed "signs" of ancient conflicts on both of those "planets- note: many consider the earth& moon to actually be a double-planet. ultimately once hyperspace travel was refined, they would take their war to the stars. there are some who claim that it took the u.s.a. only approximately 40 years to go from kitty hawk to manipulating hyperspace [philadelphia experiment, although the early experiments with hyperspace were of course very unstable, dangerous and even deadly. anyway, once hyperspace travel was accomplished the ancients might have been able to colonize a good section of the galaxy within onl

eak out of this 'cradle' and our energy, population, pollution, and economic problems will cease. however we should and must of course refrain from violating the sovereignty of other worlds in doing so. i think that's why the draco are so concerned with this planet. most of us meta-gene warrior-instinct sovereigntists will not put up with their crap once we as a free race finally break through to the stars. the thought absolutely terrifies them no end. we can not change the past, however we can change the future. remember, there are only three kinds of people in this world. 1- those who make things happen; 2- those who wait for things to happen; 3- those who wonder what happened! did the philadelphia experiment open up more than just a hole in hyperspace? could it have actually opened up a

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

the pentacle (goddess) position. the high priest stands on the opposite side of the cauldron, leading the chant the others stand round in a circle with torches. they are lighted at the burning cauldron and they dance round in the 'sunwise' direction, i.e. clockwise. the chant i heard was as follows, but others are sometimes used 'queen of the moon, queen of the sun, queen of the heavens, queen of the stars, queen of the waters, queen of the earth bring to us the child of promise (1 [1] the sun, thought of as being reborn- it is the great mother who giveth birth to him, it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside when the sun shall come up early. golden sun of the mountains, illumine the land, light up the world, illumine the seas and the rivers, sorrows be la

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

u sayings of the taoist sages thirty spokes block of wood water counting words traveling sayings of confucius confucius the man on learning reciprocity religion gentlemen from the old testament psalm 104 psalm 8 from the new testament sermon on the mount i corinthians 13 sayings from the zoroastrian prayer for guidance sayings of mohammed morning star overwhelming sayings of the unitarians out of the stars sayings of baha u llah on the soul sayings from the poets a faery song the prophet fergus and the druid sayings of the psychologists green book volume two celtic, native american,african, hindu& greek writings english poetry stopping by the woods jabberwocky welsh and irish poetry the waterfall sadness in spring rain outside winter and warfare mountain snow bright trees spoils of annwn c

lord. selections from: the authorized version (king james) of the holy bible (psalm 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

them, for thou art but a remembrancer, thou art not at all a warder over them. but whoso is averse and disbelieveth, allah will punish him with direst punishment. lo! unto us is their return and our their reckoning. selections from: mohammed marmaduke pickthall, trans. the meaning of the glorious koran. new york, mentor (mt223, 1953. p. 437, 438. 243 sayings of the unitarian universalists (out of the stars) out of the stars in their flight, out of the dust of eternity, here have we come, stardust and sunlight, mingling through time and through space. out of the stars have we come, up from time out of the stars have we come. time out of time before time in the vastness of space, earth spun to orbit the sun, earth with the thunder of mountains newborn, the boiling of seas. earth warmed by su

out of the dust of eternity, here have we come, stardust and sunlight, mingling through time and through space. out of the stars have we come, up from time out of the stars have we come. time out of time before time in the vastness of space, earth spun to orbit the sun, earth with the thunder of mountains newborn, the boiling of seas. earth warmed by sun, lit by sunlight: this is our home; out of the stars have we come. mystery hidden in mystery, back through all time; mystery rising from rocks in the storm and the sea. out of the stars, rising from the rocks and the sea, kindled by sunlight on earth, arose life. ponder this thing in your heart; ponder with awe: out of the sea to the land, out of the shallows came ferns. out of the sea to the land, up from darkness and light, rising to wal

of the shallows came ferns. out of the sea to the land, up from darkness and light, rising to walk and to fly, out of the sea trembled life. ponder this thing in your heart, life up from sea: eyes to behold, throats to sing, mates to love. life from the sea, warmed by sun, washed by rain, life from within, giving birth rose to love. this is the wonder of time; this is the marvel of space; out of the stars swung the earth; life upon earth rose to love. this is the marvel of man, rising to see and to know; out of your heart, cry wonder: sing that we live. selections from: robert t. weston, out of the stars. unitarian- universalist hymnbook commission, hymns for the celebration of life. boston, beacon press, 1964, no. 345. sayings of baha u llah (on the soul) consider the sun when it is comp

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

y perceive, with a terrestrial body laid aside, things imperceptible to us, and hear sounds inaudible to us still in bondage. or with mantle partly unfolded, some adept or truth-seeker may perceive, with eyes upraised, sights invisible to mortals, whilst yet his ears are deaf to the sounds beyond us numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott both. for why do we see the stars, while yet we hear not their motion? why come not angels from the realms of glory to visit earth, as in the days of old? is heaven more distant? or has earth grown cold? 22. part three chapter three the qabalah on numbers numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott any nations of antiquity made use of the letters of their alphabets as substitutes for any in

od 16 17 19 20 22 23 10 26 27. indifferent 5 6 8 12 15 18 21. very bad 24 25 28 29 30# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 109. chapter s eventeen thirteen, 1 3. hirteen was the sacred number of the mexicans and people of yucatan; twelve of many tribes of north american indians, as of so many nations of antiquity. this had an astronomical connection, because the stars and sun were gods to them. the method of computation among the mexican priests was by weeks of 13 days; consult dunlop s vestiges, their year contained 28 weeks of 13 days and 1 day over, just as ours contains 52 of 7 days and one day over. thirteen years formed another week. four times 13, or 52, years was their cycle. in yucatan, there were 13 snake gods numbers--th eir occu lt power a

urn and uranus. the planet corresponding to 28 is missing, and seems to be replaced by the asteroids. uranus was discovered in 1781. the platonic year, or great period, according to tycho brahe, is 25,816 years. ricciolus, 25,920 years; cassini, 24,800 years; norman lockyer now gives 24,450 years. it is the period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space to time wherein the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes by means of a constant precession. the equinoxes moving backwards or westwards, meet the sun constantly earlier. in the time of the oldest greek observations, the equinoctial points were in the first stars of aries and libra respectively; they are now in pisces and virgo. when these names were given, the sun ent

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

by various authorities differently derived: kircher furnishes one of the most interesting derivations when he seeks to show that it comes from tzura= a figure, and tziur= to fashion, ash= fire, and str= hidden; from these he gets the words zairaster= fashioning images of hidden fire; or tzuraster= the image of secret things. others derive it from chaldee and greek words meaning "a contemplator of the stars" it is not, of course, pretended that this collection as it stands is other than disjointed and fragmentary, and it is more than probable that the true sense of many passages has been obscured, and even in some cases hopelessly obliterated, by inadequate translation. where it has been possible to do so, an attempt has been made to, elucidate doubtful or ambiguous expressions, either by m

f the planetary forces was said to have special dominion over, or affinity with, one or other of the zodiacal constellations. communion with the hierarchies of these constellations formed part of the chald an theurgy, and in a curious fragment it is said "if thou often invokest it (the celestial constellation called the lion "then when no longer is visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, when the stars have lost their light the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame, then all things will appear to thee in the form of a lion" the chald ans, like the egyptians, appear to have had a highly developed appreciation of colours, an evidence of their psychic susceptibility. the use of bright colours engenders the recognition of subsisting va

herd that are in subjection to fate" the divine light cannot radiate in an imperfect microcosm, even as the clouds obscure the sun; for of such as make ascent to the most divine of speculations in a confused and disordered manner, with unhallowed lips, or unwashed feet, the progressions are imperfect, the impulses are vain and the paths are dark. although destiny, our destiny, may be "written in the stars" yet it was the mission of the divine soul to raise the human soul above the circle of necessity, and the oracles give victory to that masterly will, which "hews the wall with might of magic, breaks the palisade in pieces, hews to atoms seven pickets speaks the master words of knowledge" the means taken to that consummation consisted in the training of the will and the elevation of the i

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

division of their providential aspects [hilluqei behinatam lehanhagatam, and the holy one, blessed be he, made physical vessels like their matter so that through them we could know the supernal providence [ha-hanhagah ha-elyonah. and this is what it says they shall serve as signs for set times the days and the years (ibid. 14. he set the seasons of the years [tequfot ha-shanah] and the motions of the stars [mehalkhei ha-kokhavim] so that [we may] know from their signs the supernal providence according to their manner in the land of israel.150 cordovero presents divine providence in the natural world, the overflow from the sefirotic pleroma, in strictly temporal terms. natural time, the change of times (shinnuy ha-zemannim) or the seasons of the year (tequfot ha-shanah, which come to pass a

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

lviii tui: let there be an even flow of love to it, a still& subtle dissolution. water, the weakest thing in nature is stronger than the strongest. steady devotion without anxiety or fussiness will penetrate the universe. inward harmony& sincerity: the slow accumulation of karma, constant concentration on the law, utmost faith even in one's opponents, will gather the whole world into the fold of the stars. wed. dec. 29. 1920 e.v. current for this work going to-day& oath renewed in public. i spent all night writing on certain matters proper to the comment- 93 pages of ms. dec. 30 1920 e.v. dei jovis: at about ten o'clock of the forenoon the beast& the scarlet woman performed a mass of the holy ghost with the intention of establishing the law. jan. 3. 1921 e.v. frater iacchaion began a work

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

lviii tui: let there be an even flow of love to it, a still& subtle dissolution. water, the weakest thing in nature is stronger than the strongest. steady devotion without anxiety or fussiness will penetrate the universe. inward harmony& sincerity: the slow accumulation of karma, constant concentration on the law, utmost faith even in one's opponents, will gather the whole world into the fold of the stars. wed. dec. 29. 1920 e.v. current for this work going to-day& oath renewed in public. i spent all night writing on certain matters proper to the comment- 93 pages of ms. dec. 30 1920 e.v. dei jovis: at about ten o'clock of the forenoon the beast& the scarlet woman performed a mass of the holy ghost with the intention of establishing the law. jan. 3. 1921 e.v. frater iacchaion began a work

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ave made man "one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because she is the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen "0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such ag fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten "no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth which he hath sworn unto us in his jus- tice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge" 51 the call of the aethyrs enochian "madriaax ds praf lil (or name the aethyr required) chis micaolz saanir caosgo od fisis balzizas iaida "nonca gohulim: micma adoian mad, iaod bliorb, s

thy command" genesis vs. 14-19 "and god said 'let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day and the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth. and it was so. god made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. he also made the stars. god set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. and god saw that it was good. and there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day" 118 thursday president: hecoa vice president: rocle the seal of rocle is shown in figure 82. king: bynepor prince: bvtmono the seal of bvtmono is shown in figure

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

ught with deceit" 2nd and 3rd ads. put out 4 red candles. ch.ad "i am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness" 2nd ad "homage unto thee in thy domination over the luminaries; the diadem of fire encirdeth thy brows; thou art the one who maketh the strength which protecteth us, and thou dwellest in peace above all, for thou hast died unto the body of the stars" 3rd ad "0, grant unto me a path whereon i may pass in peace, for i am just and true. i have not spoken lies wittingly, nor have i done aught with deceit" 3rd puts out 4 green candks. ch.ad "i am the vine, ye are the branches. he that abideth in me and i in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing" 2nd ad "homage unto thee, 0 lord of the vineyard; thou tur

and true. i have not spoken lies wittingly, nor have i done aught with deceit" 2nd ad. puts out red light in centre. ch.ad "i have glorified thee on earth, i have finished the work which thou gayest me to do; the glory which thou gayest me i have given them, that they may be one" 2nd ad "homage unto thee who art beautiful at morn and at eve: the never resting stars wing hymns of praise unto thee: the stars which never fail glorify thee, for thou art dead unto sin" 3rd ad "0, grant unto me a path wherein i may pass in peace, for i am just and true. i have not spoken lies wittingly, nor have i done aught with deceit" puts out 7 violet candles. ch.ad "i have declared unto them thy name and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and i in them" 2nd ad "homag

and the glory of the lord is risen upon thee" she lays acacia on his/her breast, then anoints the postulant on feet, solar plexus, lips and palms of hands, saying (feet "the life of the trees is thine arise and walk (plexus "the life of the man is thine receive and give (lips "the life of the word is thine utter and love (brow "the life of the world is thine receive the spirit (palms "the life of the stars is thine be filled with joy" thar is a pause, then shekinah moves to foot of pastas and says: shek "thy place of hiding is opened, thy place of hiding is revealed. behold, thy soul hath dwelt in darkness; let her now return unto the light. thy spirit withdrew unto the stars which never diminish, now let it return to bring power unto thy soul. thy brow is like unto the king's, thy lips ar

the pastors. 2nd removes bandages while ch.ad. says: ch.ad "hail, hail, hail unto thee who has died; rise up; thou hast embraced thy bones, thou has gathered together thy flesh and blood; elohim gebur guardeth thee; elohim gebur strengtheneth thy hands; yea, he guideth thy feet; thy lips are open, thou hast received thy head; thou hast received thy soul, and thy spirit hath returned to thee from the stars which never diminish" they lead him out of the vault so that he stands just outside the door. ch.ad. at south, 2nd ad. at north. shek. comes up to door behind him. water drops from her raised hands onto his head 2nd ad "happy is he who hath looked upon the place of rest; the waters shall not overwhelm him (doulce siges) parapedemes de vailis, shall be his name" ch.ad "i am the lord of th

the bell rings. postulant is raised to his feet and drawn across the threshold into the vault with the 70=40 grip. the brown cloak is taken from him and laid aside. at his feet is the cross of 6 squares; beyond this, the altar. kg "the father hath given commandment and the son hath made for me a spiritual body through his own soul. i am he who hath travelled far and who hath made pilgrimage among the stars of heaven, even the heart of the mother and she gave both to me because it was her will to do so "i am osiris, the first born of the gods "i have become a divine being "i have renewed my youth as the eagle "behold, i was watched and guarded; but now i am released "behold, i was bound with cords, but now is my crystal sphere within the starry heavens "lo i have knowledge and i have truth;

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