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s (knocks) hegemon (knocks) 40 hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "light" hierophant (knocks "in" hiereus (knocks "extension" hierophant "all make the neophyte grade sign towards the altar" hierophant "may what we have partaken of sustain us in our search for the quintessence, the stone of the philosophers, true wisdom, perfect happiness, the summon bonum. and may it sustain us in love, truth, and knowledge. i now invoke the divine scribe of this order to record and place this event into thy tablets. i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. go back to thine own abodes and habitation with the blessings of yehashua yehovashah, for i now de

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nd returns to his place) all rise hiero (knocks) tetelestai! hiereus (knocks) heg (knocks) hiero (knocks) khabs. hiereus (knocks) am. heg (knocks) pekht. hiereus (knocks) konx. heg (knocks) om. hiero (knocks) pax. heg (knocks) light. hiero (knocks) in. hiereus (knocks) extension. all make the signs towards the altar. hiero: may what we have partaken maintain us in our search for the quintessence, the stone of the philosophers. true wisdom, perfect happiness, the summum bonum. officers remain in the temple while the new neophyte is led out by kere 1= 10 zelator grade initiation part i outer order officers hierophant: red robe, red& white nemyss, gold shoes, lamen, white collar, sceptre hiereus: black robe, black& white nemyss, red shoes, lamen, red collar, sword hegemon: white robe, white n

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

e obscure proverb' swer irre rite daz der den sler/el fihide' wjioso astray should ride, that he the s. might fiml, parz. 180, 10 .may refer to a thunder-stone (see cli. viii, donar) which jwints to hidden treasure and brings deliverance, and which only those can light upon, who have accidentally lost tlieir way in a wood; for which reason wolfram calls trunks of trees, from under which peeps out the stone of luck' slegels urkiinde und zil' slegcl's document and mark (aim- haupts zeitschr. 1, 573. lasicz. 47 names a latanus donator bonorum. 138 wodan. the sum total of well-being and blessedness, the fulness of all graces, seems in our ancient language to have been expressed by a single word, whose meaning has since been narrowed down; it was named tvunsch (wish. this word is probably deriv

has heard the same from old people, quotes the rhyme thus: story is told, that odin, in turning his horse out to graze, took the hit off him and laid it on a huge block of stone; the weight of the bit sjijlit tlie stone into two pieces, which were set upriglit as a memorial. another story is, that oden was about to tight an adversary, and knew not where to tie his horse up. in the hurry he ran to the stone, pierced it with his sword, and tied his horse fast through the hole. but the horse broke loose, the stone burst in pieces and rolled away, and from this arose the deep bog named hogrumstrask; people have tied poles together, but never could reach the bottom. abrah. ahkpiist, oelands historia, calmar 1822. 1, 37. 2, 212. there is a picture of the stones in liliengren och brimius, no. xvi

ch. xxxvii^ and stone hammers and knives found in ancient tombs bear the same name. saxo gram. p. 236: inusitati ponderis malleos, quos jovialcs voca^ tliis depth is variously expressed in curses &c. e.g. may tlie thunder strike you into the earth as far as a liare can run in a hundred years- weddigens westfiil mag. 3, 713. wigands arcliiv 2, 320, has nine vears instead of seven^ the grk name for the stone is /sfxe/xvtvt? a missile. 180 thunar. bant. prisca virorum religione cultos. cupiens enim antiquitas tonitruorum causas usitata reruin similitudine comprehendere, malleos, quibus coeli fragores cieri credebat, ingenti aere complexa fuerat (see suppl. to jupiter too the silex (flins) was sacred, and it was held by those taking an oath. from the mention of' elf-shots' above, i would infer

in the mid. ages. immediately after mentioning tlie worship of j\iercurius, hercules, and mars, he adds (cap. 9: i'ars suevorum et isidi sacrificat. unde causa et origo peregrine 1 anti. iior. sjjec. 3, ilafn. 1782. coiif. fiedler, gesch. nndalt. des nnteru germanieiis, 1 'j2(3. 8teiner's cod. inscr. l^heiii no. 632. gotfr^'chiitze, in his essay de dea hludana, lips. 1748, perceived the value of the stone, but could not discern the bearings of the matter- montfaucon ant. expl. 2, 443. vrcdii hist. flandr. 1, xliv. mem. de i'acad. celt. 1, 199 245. mone, heidenth. 2, 346. 17 258 goddesses. sacro, parum comperi, nisi quod signuin ipsuni, in modnm lihurnae figuratum, docet advectam religionem. the importation from abroad can hardly consist in the name ids, seeing that mercury, mars, hercules

agni, thor's son by the giantess larnsaxa: when three nights old]?rina2ttr, he flung the giant hriingni's enormous foot, under whose weight thorr lay on the ground, off his father, and said he would have beaten the said giant dead with his fist, sn. 110 (see suppl. the shape of the gods is like the human (p. 105, only vaster, often exceeding even the gigantic. when ares is felled to the ground by the stone which athene flings, his body covers seven roods of land (etrra s' evecr^^e irekeopa ireaoiv, 1. 21, 407, a size tliat wiih a slight addition the od. 11, 577 puts upon the titan i'ityos. when here takes a solemn oath, she grasps the earth with one hand and the sea with the other (ii. 14, 272. a cry that breaks from poseidon's breast sounds like that of nine or even ten thousand warriors

in ohg. documents: 1 who is also found apparently in a version of the lay of king oswald. billung. oeentil. 375 orcndil, meiclielb. gl; orcntu, trad. fuld. 2, 24 2, 109 (scliannat 308; orcndil a bavarian count (an. 843 in eccard's fr. or. 2, 3g7- a village orcndclsal, now orendensall, in holieulolie, v. haupts zeitsclir. 7, 558. but the edda lias another myth, wliich was alluded to in speaking of the stone in thor's head. groa is busyconning her magic spell, when thorr, to requite her for the approaching cure, imparts the welcome news, that in coming from lotunheim in the north he has carried her husband the bold orvandill in a basket on his back, and he is sure to be home soon; he adds by way of token, that as orvandil's toe had stuck out of the basket and got frozen, he broke it off and

lcome news, that in coming from lotunheim in the north he has carried her husband the bold orvandill in a basket on his back, and he is sure to be home soon; he adds by way of token, that as orvandil's toe had stuck out of the basket and got frozen, he broke it off and flung it at the sky, and made a star of it, which is called 6rvandils-td. but groa in her joy at the tidings forgot her spell, so the stone in the god's head never got loose, sn. 110-1. groa, the growing, the grass-green, is equivalent to breide, i.e, berhta (p. 272) the bright, it is only another part of his history that is related here: orvandill must have set out on his travels again, and on this second adventure forfeited the toe which thorr set in the sky, though what he had to do with the god we are not clearly told. b

swans me i liave a boding. the reference to the vjird seems undenialile, for we also .say in tlie same sense: es wachsen (there grow) mir schwansfcdern (so already in zesen's simson. conf. the eddie' svanfiasrar dro (wore^ kat'n has chosen the reading lara. 428 wise womfn ^vlio laid their wings asido, and then danced up and down the field. he jumped up, fetched the wings away, and laid them under the stone on whicli he sat. when the maidens had danced till they were tired, they came to him, and asked for their wings; he declared, if one of them would stay and be his wife, the other two should have their wings back. from this point the story takes a turn, which is less within the province of the swan-wife myth; but it is worth noting, that one of the maidens offers her lover a drink of wate

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oul and leading it from sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-faced demons, never showing a true image unto mortal gaze. so, therefore, first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud resounding sea. labor thou around the strophaios of hecate, when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching cry aloud, and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation for they are names divine having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when after all the phantoms are banished thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of the kabiri. heg: turns up lights and then c

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

a diary and left- along with scores of similar pleas- on an ancient pile of stones in the forest of broceliande in brittany. archaeologists say that this is the grave of a neolithic hunter, but local tradition says that in this forest dwelled vivien, the lady of the lake of arthurian legend, and that here, having seduced merlin in order to learn his secrets, she ensnared him with his own spells. the stone pile is known as merlin's tomb, and each year hundreds visit the site to thank the wizard or to ask for his aid. when i visited the tomb, prayers- written on scraps of paper or card- were squeezed into gaps in the stones or pinned to the tree that shelters the tomb. whatever the origins of the tomb, it has been transformed into a source of power. for this badly signposted spot, a short w

in the shape of a heart, and leave it on the window ledge on the night of the full moon, surrounded by a circle of rose petals. banishing and protective magick this involves driving away negative feelings, fears and influences by casting away or burying a focus of the negativity. for example, you might scratch on a stone a word or symbol representing some bad memories you wished to shed, and cast the stone into fast-flowing water. alternatively, you could bury it, together with quick-growing seeds or seedlings to transform the redundant into new life. binding magick binding magick has two functions, one to bind a person in love or fidelity and the other to bind another from doing harm. this may be done in various ways, using knots in a symbolic thread, or by creating an image of the object

ways felt when she went home to see her critical mother. cleansing crystals and gemstones you should always cleanse your crystals before and after use in protection, healing and empowerment. when you obtain a new crystal, cleanse it before charging it with your own personal energies. in this way you can remove all the energies, not necessarily negative, of those who have prepared, packed and sold the stone. if the stone was a gift, however, you may wish to accept the loving energies with which it was offered and rely on your innate defensive powers to filter out any unconscious negativity left from the previous owner's life. you will also need to wash your crystals, and your crystal pendulum, if you use one, regularly in running water to keep their energies clear. if you have been in touch

ffects of harmful rays, pollution and all forms of psychic, psychological and physical attack. black agate absorbs negativity, repels psychic attack, irrational thoughts and words, and promotes acceptance and tolerance of differences in others. blue lace agate is a natural peace-bringer and protects against harsh words spoken by self or others. moss agate (clear with green, moss-like tendrils) is the stone for protecting against pollution and deforestation. plant a circle of them in the soil of a tropical plant and each day visualise healing rays being sent to the rainforests. moss agate also protects against food cravings and obsessions. amber known as the honey stone, because of its great antiquity and soft, warm touch, amber is said to contain the power of many suns and has the power to

ast times, the wives of sailors would keep a jet amulet safe at home so that their husbands would return safely from the sea. it protects all who travel by night, alone or in lonely places, and older people in all aspects of their lives. it guards against bad dreams and endows the wearer with the emotional strength to face the ending of a natural phase. lapis lazuli known as the eye of wisdom and the stone of the gods, lapis lazuli jewellery is mentioned in an ancient egyptian papyrus dating from over 3,000 years ago as having healing powers. the sumerians believed it contained the souls of their gods and goddesses and as such would endow them with magical powers, and the goddess ishtar was famed for her beautiful necklaces of this crystal. in egypt, lapis lazuli was first used in a powder

es. it cleanses the auric field around people, animals, plants and places. malachite will absorb pollution and, it is claimed, harmful rays from computers and televisions. it is especially effective if a crystal is placed in the corners of a room where white electrical goods are being used. because it is so powerful, malachite should be cleansed at least every two days. rose quartz rose quartz is the stone of gentle healing and protection. it is known as the children's stone because it is so gentle in soothing away childhood ills and sorrows that may haunt us into adulthood. it is good for protecting families, the home, pets and anyone who is ill or vulnerable. it promotes family love and friendship, and brings peace, forgiveness, emotional harmony and the mending of quarrels. it heals emo

h a topaz has been soaked is a cure for insomnia if drunk an hour before bedtime. a natural energiser, golden topaz is especially good for alleviating work anxieties, especially in the caring professions, and should be kept in the workplace. turquoise mined by the egyptians in sinai more than 6,000 years ago, turquoise and imitations of it have been discovered in graves from around 4000 bc. it is the stone of horsemen, warning them of danger, and will prevent horses from stumbling if placed in a saddle or on a bridle. so it is the stone of all travellers, especially those who travel far by air or sea. in modern times, a small turquoise can be attached to pets' collars and to the mirrors of birdcages to protect them. it can also be plaited into horses' manes to prevent their being stolen or

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n the third book, and many others besides. who then was this abraham the jew? it is possible, though there is no mention of this in the ms, that he was a descendant of that abraham the jew who wrote the celebrated alchemical work on twenty-one pages of bark or papyrus, which came into the hands of nicholas flamel, and by whose study the latter is said eventually to have attained the possession of the stone of the wise. the only remains of the church of saint jacques de la boucherie which exists at the present day, is the tower, which stands near the place du ch telet, about ten minutes walk from the biblioth que de l'arsenal; and there is yet a street near this tower which bears the title of rue nicolas flamel, so that his memory still survives in paris, together with that of the church cl

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ndence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter sol

ndence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter sol

others i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls of slaughtered men, and of women who have dies 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 for

to protect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azug-bel-ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! prese

ly, some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling. another voice joined the first, and soon several men in the black robes of thieves came together over the place where i was, surrounding the floating rock, of which they did not exhibit the least fright. i could see clearly now that the three carvings on the stone monument were glowing a flame red colour, as though the rock were on fire. the figures were murmuring together in prayer or invocation, of which only a few words could be heard, and these in some unknown tongue; though, anu have mercy on my soul, these rituals are not unknown to me any longer. the figures, whose faces i could not see or recognise, began to make wild passes in the air wit

zi azag! ia! ia! zi azkak! ia! ia! kutulu zi kur! ia! the ground where i was hiding became wet with some substance, being slightly downhill from the scene i was witnessing. i touched the wetness and found it to be blood. in horror, i screamed and gave my presence away to the priests. they turned toward me, and i saw a loathing that they had cut their chests with the daggers they had used to raise the stone, for some mystical purpose i could not then divine; although i know now that blood is the very food of these spirits, which is why the field after the battles of war glows with an unnatural light, the manifestations of the spirits feeding thereon. may anu protect us all! my scream had the effect of casting their ritual into chaos and disorder. i raced through the mountain path by which i

ame upon the grey stone monument that had risen unnaturally into the air at the command of the priests. it now upon the ground once more, but the carvings still glowed with supernatural light. the serpents, or what i had then though of as serpents, had disappeared. but in the dead embers of the fire, now cold and black, was a shining metal plate. i picked it up and saw that it also was carved, as the stone, but very intricately, after a fashion i could not understand. i did not bear the same markings as the stone, but i had the feeling i could almost read the characters, but could not, as though i once knew the tongue but had since long forgotten. my head began to ache as though a devil was pounding my skull, when a shaft of moonlight struck the metal amulet, for i know now what it was, an

d upon the world and old vengeance. know that our years are the years of war and our days are measured as battles and every hour is a life lost to the outside those from without have builded up charnel houses to nourish the fiends of tiamat and the blood of the weakest here is libation unto tiamat queen of the ghouls wreaker of pain and to invoke her the red water of life need be split on a stone the stone struck with a sword that hath slain eleven men sacrifices to hubur so that the strike ringeth out and call tiamat from her slumber from her sleep in the caverns of the earth. and none may dare entreat further for to invoke death is to utter the final prayer. ii of the generations of the ancient ones utukk xul the account of the generations of the ancient ones here rendered of the generat

desolation. and i have seen them in their rites, and the awful things they call forth from the lands beyond time. i have seen the signs carved upon their stones, their altars. i have seen the sign of pazuzu, and zaled, and those of xastur and azag-thoth, and similarly those of ishnigarrab and the awful offspring of the goat, and the terrible musicks of their race. i have seen the blood split upon the stone. i have seen that stone struck with a sword, and have seen the stone raise up and the serpent crawl forth. and this power is surely damned; but where does marduk tarry? and what of shammash? the sleeping gods truly sleep. and what crime have i committed? what unknown god have i transgressed? what forbidden thing have i eaten? what forbidden thing have i drunk? my suffering! it is seven!

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o interpret more and more. even as a flower unfolds beneath the ardent kisses of the sun, so will this table reveal its glories to the dazzling eye of illumination. symbolic and barren as it is, yet it shall stand for the athletic student as a perfect sacrament, so that reverently closing its pages he shall exclaim, may that of which we have partaken sustain us in the search for the quintessence, the stone of the wise, the summum bonus, true wisdom, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. the

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ecret in every respect. for those who may be worthy, although not officially recognized as such, this eucharist has been described in detail and without concealment "somewhere" in the published writings of the master therion. but he has told no one where. it is reserved for the highest initiates, and is synonymous with the accomplished work on the 179 material plane. it is the medicine of metals, the stone of the wise, the potable gold, the elixir of life that is consumed therein. the altar is the bosom of isis, the eternal mother; the chalice is in effect the cup of our lady babalon herself; the wand is that which was and is and is to come. the eucharist of "two" elements has its matter of the passives. the wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water (th

's prudence. the privy council of the kingdom of mansoul sits in permanent secret session; it dares not declare what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and personal prejudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods on the stone that it sets on the grave of truth whom it has murdered and buried in the black earth oblivion. moral philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and many another of 340 the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that the laws of ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in certain conditions, more

thy superior. and then do thou compose thyself to holy meditation. 6. also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the god-form of whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unite with him in the adoration of that which is beyond him. 7. thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the great work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. 426 liber iii vel jugorum. 0<equinox i, 4 has a photo before this point showing the scabbed arms of one who tried the exercises> 0. behold the yoke upon the neck of the oxen! is it not thereby that the field shall be ploughed? the yoke is heavy, but joineth together them that are separate- glory to nuit and to h

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h plato thought meant a runner; hence, sun, moon, planets. the best i can do for you, honest injun! is the russian word for god bog; connected probably, though the lithuanian, with the welsh bwq a spectre or hobgoblin. bugge, too. not very inspiring, is it, to replace the old hundredth by "hush! hush! hush! here come the bogey man" or is it. enough of this fooling! out, trusty rapier, and home to the stone heart of the audacious woman that wrote "god within us" i know you thought you knew more or less what you meant when you wrote it; but surely that was a mere slip. an instant's thought would have warned you that the word wouldn't stand even the most superficial analysis you meant "something which seems to me the most perfect symbol of all that i love, worship, admire- all that class of v

istrate "a very natural question" now, fifty years later, here am i in the dock. 1("how can you expect people to take your magick seriously" i hear from every quarter "when you write so gleefully about it, with your tongue always in your cheek) my dear good sister, do be logical! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 221 here am i who set out nigh half a century ago to seek "the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness" i get it, and you expect me to look down a forty-inch nose and lament! i have plenty of trouble in life, and often enough i am in low enough spirits to please anybody; but turn my thoughts to magick- the years fall off. i am again the gay, quick, careless boy to whom the world was gracious. let this serve for an epitaph: g

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are silver, and the grip contains quicksilver, thus making the sword symbolic of the seven planets. but this is a phantasy and affectation "whoso taketh the sword shall perish by the sword" is not a mystical threat, but a mystical promise. it is our own complexity that must be destroyed. 89 here is another parable. peter, the stone of the philosophers, cuts off the ear of malchus, the servant of the high priest (the ear is the organ of spirit. in analysis the spiritual part of malkuth must be separated from it by the philosophical stone, and then christus, the anointed one, makes it whole once more "solve et coagula" it is noticeable that this takes place at the arrest of christ, who is the son, the ruach, immediat

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sis naturae regina ineffabilis; and many other sentences. see crowley, coll. works vol. i. appendix) y r n y enemy r( evil; friend (r 271 earth (ch (whence glow, mean h (r) in these words, as follows (see 256, hrym) rm)l 272 earth)(r) to consume; to injure; brutish r(b a great blow hbr hkm the evening; to grow dark; to exchange, pawn; poplar, willow; desert; arabia; sweet, pleasant; raven br( 273 the stone that the builders rejected (ps. 118:22) mynwbh ws)m nb) the hidden light zwng rw) four (br) rebuked r(g took away (rg 274 paths mykrd 275 pleasant abode h)n hryd the river of justice nyd r)y? scripture (perh. lit. gscratched h) w+rs evil h(r 276 a cithara rwnk the moon (cf. 218 )rhys 277 to sow, propagate; seed, semen (rz favour, benevolence )w(r 278 the world of mevetbau: the natural wo

:49) tydh unity twdx) 420 it was htyh a large earthenware jar; a barrel, tub, cask tybx vapour, smoke n( peace-offerings myml# glowing stones; burning coals mypcr oppression kt the work h#(mh 421 to meditate ddwbth 422 the vast countenance: a title of kether nypn) kyr) the golden line [that encircleth the world] qwry wq 424 living creatures twyx 425 a lion fs whelp (gn. 40:9) hyr) rwg ggazzith h: the stone of the chamber (see 1175) tyzgh be made, done; become; an accomplished fact h#(n hearing h(ym# 426 saviour; deliverer (y#wm medium kwt 428 chashmalim, brilliant ones: the angelic choir of chesed mylm#x they swore [an oath] w(b#n 429 judgment, equity +p#m madness nw(g# 430 nephesch: the animal soul of man #pn covered with mist; darkness, twilight p#n sections, members [of the body; fragme

85 the gods of battle (lit. ggods of hosts h: the divine name of hod tw)bc myhl) a fanfare, trumpet-blast h(yqt to subvert, ruin, change *kph 586 war-trumpet; ceremonial ram fs horn rpw# hermit #wrp stibium (a type of kohl *kwp 589 greenness, verdure pn( nw#l b) first splendour: a title of kether nw#)r dwbk 590 rib (gn. 2:22) t(lc to bring forth abundantly; creeping thing, moving creature cr# 594 the stone of israel (gn. 49:24) l)r#y nb) 598 our iniquities wnytwnw( 600 wonders, or hidden wisdom hmkx tw)ylp a tail, train, fringe [of a garment] tycyc a knot, ligature r#q red qr# six; white marble# samekh: a prop, support *kms a veil, covering, screen *ksm 601 mother *m) 602 the simple light: a title of kether +w#p rw) brightness; splendours twxcxc extremities twwcq 603 to haggle rgt together

my 767 the elders (deut. 21:19 *mynqz demons; injurers *myqyzm 768 coppery, brassy yt#xn the high priest *lwdg nhk 770 going forth (said of the eyes of hwhy; lit. fem. gwanderers h) tw++w#m unfruitful, barren trq( strengthening *nykm a name of god *n( points, pricks, dots *mydwqn giants *mylpn thine enemy *kr( 771 the bearded countenance: a title of tiphareth nypn) ry# 772 seven years myn (b# 773 the stone (or stone channel) of drinking hyt#h nb) high priest *lwdgh nhk 774) the daughter of seven (b# tb an oak; hardness *nswx pleasure, delight: eden *nd( 775 most piercing, most vehement )twnydrqd nine h(#t 776 hospitality *nwlm on: a name of god (cf. 120; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h *nw( 777 gthe flaming sword h (if the path from binah to chesed be taken as 3, for gimel connect

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tal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a fear to him: even to him the mighty one! but the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and jehjaour scorned not his art. roll on in time, thou ball! he cried. move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! taph! tath! arath! 2 he sounded the triple summons, the mysterious syllables that bound the spirit to the stone. then suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not. avaunt! he shrieked, false soul of darkness! and the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man s cheek, and darkened utterly. foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air a

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st 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 quite unimaginable to all who have not as yet experienced it. st. john of the cross, writing of the "intuitions" by which god reaches the soul, says: 147 "they enrich us marvellously. a single one of them may be sufficient to abolish at a stroke certain imperfections of which the soul durin

other the hangman. and there under the stars she whispers to him, and for a moment he trembles, looking deep into her eyes; then he turns and leaves her. presently there is a creaking of chains overhead- an owl, awakened from the 186 gibbet above, where it had been blinking perched on the shoulder of a corpse, flies shrieking into the night. soon he returns, his footsteps resounding heavily along the stone passage, and in his arms he is carrying the dead body of a young man "h" my little sister" he pants, and for a moment he props his heavy load up against the door of the postern. then these two, the sorceress and the hangman, silently creep out into the night, back into the gloom of the forest, carrying between them the slumbering spirit of science and art sleeping in the corse of a young

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of the most exalted interpretation of the sephiroth. i is therefore kether; l, chokmah and binah; a, chesed; n, geburah; 10 r, tiphereth; z, netzach; n, hod; o, jesod. the geomantic correspondences of the enochian alphabet form a sublime commentary. note that the total angels of the aethyrs are 91, the numeration of amen. the cry of the 28th aethyr, which is called bag there cometh an angel into the stone with opalescent shining garments like a wheel of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of 1 the lvx cross hidden in the svastika is probably the arcanum here connoted. svastika itself adds to 231= 0+ 1+ 2+ 21, the 21 keys. the cubical svastika regarded as composed of this lvx cross and the arms has a total of 78 faces- tarot and mezla. scarlet lightning; his face is

"u" shapes, very elongated in the risers. the one to the right is lower than the first, and its left riser extends 2/3's of the way up inside the center of the one to the left. the left "u" turns back down to the far left, ending 1/5th the way down in a tiny circle. the right bends abruptly horizontally left across the other and also ends there in a tiny circle. but there is also much writing on the stone, very minute characters carved. i cannot read them. he points with his flail to the sapphire, which is now outside him and bigger than himself; and he cries: hail! warden of the gates of eternity who knowest not thy right hand from thy left; for in the aeon of my father is a god with clasped hands wherein he holdeth the universe, crushing it into the dust that ye call stars. hail unto th

at, crying: close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14 and i answered: had he not been destroyed he had not come hither, for i am not save in the darkness in the womb of her by whom came evil into the world. and this darkness swallows everything up, and the angel is gone from the stone; and there is no light therein, save only the light of the rose and of the cross. aumale, algeria "november" 23, 1909, between 8 and 9 p.m. the cry of the 27th aethyr, which is 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 year

of these pearls, treasure them in thine heart. is not the kingdom of the abyss accurst" she points downward to the cauldron; and now in it there is the head of a most cruel dragon, black and corrupted. i watch, and watch; and nothing happens. and now the dragon rises out of the cauldron, very long and slim (like japanese dragons, but infinitely more terrible, and he blots out the whole sphere of the stone. then suddenly all is gone, and there is nothing in the stone save brilliant white light and flecks like sparks of golden fire; and there is a ringing, as if bells were being used for anvils. and there is a perfume which i cannot describe; it is like nothing that one can describe, but the suggestion is like lignum aloes. and now all these things are there at once in the same place and ti

s nothing in the stone save brilliant white light and flecks like sparks of golden fire; and there is a ringing, as if bells were being used for anvils. and there is a perfume which i cannot describe; it is like nothing that one can describe, but the suggestion is like lignum aloes. and now all these things are there at once in the same place and time. now a veil of olive and silver is drawn over the stone, only i hear the voice of the angel receding, very sweet and faint and sorrowful, saying: far off and lonely in the secret stone is the unknown, and interpenetrated is the knowledge with the will and the understanding. i am alone. i am lost, because i am all and in all; and my veil is woven of the green earth and the web of stars. i love; and i am denied, for i have denied myself. give m

me me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes. and the noise is confused, thousands of battle-cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river in flood. and all the stone is dull, dull gray. the life is gone from it. there is no more to see. sidi aissa, algeria "november" 24, 1909, 8-9 p.m. the cry of the 26th aethyr, which is called des there is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty angel. and though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe and his armour

oncentrated 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 stone. he bears a pitcher or amphora. and now there comes another angel upon a white horse, and yet again another angel upon a black bull. and now there comes a lion and swallows the two latter angels up. t

was articulate, though i cannot tell you what a single word was. but the meaning of the voice- the second voice- was quite silent, and put the ideas directly into the brain of the seer, as if by touch. it is not certain whether the millstones and the sword-strokes that rained upon him were not these very sounds and ideas) the cry of the 24th aethyr, which is called nia an angel comes forward into the stone like a warrior clad in chain-armour. upon his head are plumes of gray, spread out like the fan of a peacock. about his feet a great army of scorpions and dogs, lions, elephants, and many other wild beasts. he stretches forth his arms to heaven and cries; in the crackling of the lightning, in the rolling of the thunder, in the clashing of the swords and the hurling of the arrows: be thy n

ethyr. 28 now it reverberates like the swords of archangels, clashing upon the armour of the damned; and there seem to be the blacksmiths of heaven beating the steel of the worlds upon the anvils of hell, to make a roof to the aethyr. for if the great work were accomplished and all the aethyrs were caught up into one, then would the vision fail; then would the voice be still. now all is gone from the stone. ain el hajel "november" 26, 1909. 2-3.25 p.m. the cry of the 23rd aethyr, which is called tor. in the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaselessly. and now there is a spider's web of silver covering the whole of the stone. behind the spider's web is a star of twelve rays; and behind that again, a black bull, furiously pawing up the ground. the f

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t the circle) i yet, by the favour of iao, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the pillar. peace and ecstasy enfolded me. it is well. 8.50 but as i was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, i will go to the caf du d me 54 and break my fast humbly with coffee and sandwich. may it strengthen me in my search for the quintessece, the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness! 9.0. i hope (by the way) that i have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. the rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain; and becomes active on every opportunity. the liquid moslem mantra is much easier to get on to t

sed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the "telephone-cross" voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at

of heaven.'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily-told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent' which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. the best poetry in the book is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers. here is some fine work."to be obtained of the" walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c."and through all booksellers""crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64. this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. price 10s a. a. publication in class b. book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of

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it troubled back to his studies, fresher than at first, fierce as a dragon he (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst) sucked at the flagon" 234 plunging into the "tenebrae" of transcendental physics, he sought the great fulfilment, and unknowingly in the exuberance of his enthusiasm left the broad road of the valley and struck out on the mountain-track towards that ultimate summit which gleams with the stone of the wise, and whose secret lies in the opening of the "closed eye- the consuming of the darkness. he who dismisses paracelsus with a twopenny clyster, or raymond lully with a sixpenny reprint, is not a fool, no, no, nothing so exalted; but merely a rabbit-brained louse, who, flattering himself that he is crawling in the grey beard of haeckel and the scanty locks of spencer, sucks pseu

i am the lord of life triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe: i am the reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfecter of matter: and without me the universe is not "may what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the quintessence; the stone of the philosophers; the true wisdom and perfect happiness, and the summum bonum" all then disrobe and disperse. undoubtedly the passing through the ritual of the neophyte had an important influence on p.'s mind, and on his spiritual progress; for shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visions, which we shall enter upon in due course. suffice it t

violin will not at the outset be mistaken for sarasate or paganini; for there will be discord and confusion of sound. so now, as we start upon the first visions of p. we find chaos piled on chaos, much struggling and noise, a roaring of wild waters in the night, and then finally, melody, silence and the communication of the mystic books of v.v.v.v.v. 301 let us now trace his progress in search of the stone of the philosophers, which is hidden in the mountain of abiegnus. there are eighteen recorded visions33 between the commencement of november and the end of december 1898, but as there is not sufficient space to include them all, only six of the most interesting will be given. being all written in his private hieroglyphic cipher by frater p, we have been obliged to re-write them completel

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e. oh! the shameless effrontery of the pope who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! how shocked is the rationalist! my good professor, right or wrong, i may be drunk, but i certainly see a pair of you. 387 so this is where we are got to after these six thousand, or six thousand billion years (as the case may be, that, asking for bread, one man gives us the stone of homoiousios and another the half-baked brick of amphioxus. both are in a way rationalists. wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. while the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the rationalis

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ment, when in truth they should encourage, for that- as the oracles affirm- it is darkest before the dawn. meditation therefore annoyed me, as tightening and constricting the soul. i began to ask myself if the "dryness" was an essential part of the process. if by some means i could shake its catafalque of mind, might not the infinite divine spirit leap unfettered to the light? who shall roll away the stone? let it not be imagined that i devised these thoughts from pure sloth or weariness. but with the mystical means then at my disposal, i required a period of days or of weeks to obtain any result, such as samadhi in one of its greater or lesser forms; and in england the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. i found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably

53 and he smiles gently "patient experiment will prove to you that the microscope is reliable" and i smile gently "patient experiment will prove to you that meditation is reliable" so there we are. x "stay not on the precipice with the dross of matter, for there is a place for thine image in a realm ever splendid" zoroaster "when thou seest a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin- zoroaster as a boy at school i enjoyed a reputation for unparalleled cowardice; in the world i am equally accused of foolhardiness. the judgment of the boys was the better. the truth is that i have always been excessively cautious, have never willingly undertaken even the smallest risk. the paradoxical result is that i have walked hundreds of miles unroped over snow-covered gl

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lightning; the flaming sword. this is shown by 21, the number of eheieh, the divine name of kether; then the tiphereth symbol of the vault; and last the centre of the earth affirmed in turn. this descent from kether to malkuth formulates the flaming sword, and thus is the light invoked in the second place. the seal is iao, ihshvh= 17+ 326= 343= 7 x 7 x 7 "i.e, 7 made into a cube, the formation of the stone of the wise from the seven-fold regimen, and the fixation of the wanderers (the seven planets, or of the volatile. 777= one is she the ruach elohim of lives, and the flaming sword, and olahm ha qliphoth. moreover 17 is the svastika and ihshvh_ the pentagram again, the marriage of isis and osiris (as shown by the signs in the key-word. now the flaming sword is a swift and transitory symbo

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hip in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun

of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance. the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent_ which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing_ together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. the best poetry in the book is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers' here is some fine work" a. crowley's works the volumes here listed are all of definite occult and mystical interest and importance "the trade may obtain them from "the equinox" 124 victoria street, s. w. tel: 3210 victoria; and messrs. simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent& co, 23 paternoster row, e.c "the public may obtain them from "the equinox" 124 victoria street, s

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rlier version. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning of our second year we have little to record but quiet steady growth, a gradual spreading of our tree of knowledge, a gradual awakening of interest in all parts of the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* mr. h. sheidan-bickers will lecture on behalf of the equinox during the year

been cut away. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning of our second year we have little to record but quiet steady growth, a gradual spreading of our tree of knowledge, a gradual awakening of interest in all parts of the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* two days after the bound advance copies of this number were delivered by the

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ship in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun

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terrible: even as the lords of hell, chained in fires before the spell, strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel: so be distant, o profane! children of the hurricane! lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain! so depart, and so be wise, lest your perishable eyes look upon the formless fire, see the maiden sacrifice! so depart, and secret flame burn upon the stone of shame, that the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless name! holy, holy, holy spouse of the sun-engirdled house, with the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows. even as the traitor's breath goeth forth, he perisheth by the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. capricornus. brethren, let us awaken the master of the temple [the leader of the chorus "beats the tom-t

of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent- which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing- together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. the best poetry in the book is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers' here is some fine work" occultism to the readers of "the equinox- all who are interested in "curious old" literature should write to frank hollings for his catalogue of over 1000 items. sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. a few selected items below. the book of ceremonial magic, including the rites and mysteries of goetic theurgy, so

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thy superior. and then do thou compose thyself to holy meditation. 6. also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the god-form of whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unite with him in the adoration of that which is beyond him. 7. thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the great work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. 32 liber a'ash vel capricorni pnevmatici svb figvra ccclxx 33 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber a'ash vel capricorni pnevmatici svb figvra ccclxx 0. gnarled oak of god! in thy branches is the lightning nested! above thee hangs the eyeless hawk. 1. thou art blasted and black! supremely solitary in

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

rosecutor. we say that, forasmuch as many good knights have ridden against it with sword and lance and not availed to pierce it, this was by magic and forbidden art. laylah["contemptuously. it was good armour. bishop. the prisoner mocks us. on the third count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. fourthly, that you did at midnight upon martinmas, 99 eighteen years ago, in the valley of hinnom, on the stone called succoth, bind yourself in a diabolical pact with satan, whereby he granted the power to change your sex at will, since which time you have become the father of an innumerable brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form of an owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the true faith, notably at the convent of st anne in this city, whereby the bodi

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roup. magician, not necessarily a witch. 3lntrobuction since the dawn of history man has believed in miracles. the first tribesmen to discover the healing power of herbs, or to recognize clouds as the forerunners ofrain, were elected magi, or wise men. from this it was but a short step to divining the future and to the formulation of spells to increase fertility or destroy enemies. as long ago as the stone age the wise man of the tribe was dressed in an animal skin; he was called 'devil, which meant 'little god, and was worshipped by his followers as the chief god's representative. the earliest record of this custom is a palaeolithic painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

d the great wheel, the inner fire burst forth. it touched into life wheel the first. it circulated. a million fires rose up. the quality of matter densified, but form was not. the sons of god arose, scanned the depth of flame, took from its heart the sacred stone of fire, and proceeded to the next. in turning next the great wheel launched the second. again the flame burst forth, took to its heart the stone and proceeded in revolution. the sons of god again arose, and sought within the flame "the form sufficeth not" they said "remove from without the fire" faster revolved the greater wheel, blue white emerged the flame. the sons of god again came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank t

heel, blue white emerged the flame. the sons of god again came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank the stone. to the heart of inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the

and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue. the turning of the fifth wheel and its action on the stone rendered it still more fit. yellow the blending tint, orange the inner fire, till yellow, rose and blue mingled their subtle tones. the four wheels with the greater worked thus upon the stone till all the sons of god acclaimed, and said "the work is done- 15- a treatise on

smic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stanza iv in revolution fifth of the great wheel the period set was reached. the lesser wheel, that responded to that fifth great turn, passed through the cycle and entered into peace. the lesser wheels come forth and likewise do their work. the great wheel gathers back the emanating sparks. the five dealt with the work, the lesser two but wrought with detail. the stone had gathered fire, lambent with flame it shone. the outer sheath met not the need till the sixth wheel and the seventh had passed it through their fires. the sons of god emerged from out their source, gazed on the sevenfold work, and stated it was good. the stone was set alone. in dual revolution moved the greater wheel. the fourth lord of the greater twelve handled the work of sevenfold

ssed it through their fires. the sons of god emerged from out their source, gazed on the sevenfold work, and stated it was good. the stone was set alone. in dual revolution moved the greater wheel. the fourth lord of the greater twelve handled the work of sevenfold fire "it is not fit" he said "merge thou this stone within the wheel which started 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 h

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ng "we have found him" annie besant points out in an illuminating passage that "in the christian mysteries as in the ancient egyptian, chaldean, and others there was an outer symbolism which expressed the stages through which the man was passing. he was brought into the chamber of initiation, and was stretched on the ground with his arms extended, sometimes on a cross of wood, sometimes merely on the stone floor, in the posture of a crucified man. he was then touched with the thyrsus on the heart the `spear' of the crucifixion and, leaving the body, he passed into the worlds beyond, the body falling into a deep trance, the death of the crucified. the body was placed in a sarcophagus of stone, and there left, carefully guarded. meanwhile the man himself was treading first the strange obscur

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ucis trust affirmations of other human minds who claim that they do understand and that they have the truth. he does not believe that their minds and their interpretations are any better than his. the same old formulas, the same old theologies and the same old interpretations are deemed adequate to meet man's modern needs and enquiries. they are not. the church today is the tomb of the christ and the stone of theology has been rolled to the door of the sepulchre. there is, however, no point in attacking christianity. christianity cannot be attacked; it is an expression in essence, if not yet entirely factual of the love of god, immanent in his created universe. churchianity has, however, laid itself wide open to attack, and the mass of thinking people are aware of this; unfortunately, thes

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

ricorn. it might be stated that these caves exist in the rocks, deep under the plains. i am speaking figuratively and symbolically. out of the rocky cave, the christ emerged and walked again upon the plains of earth and from that time "the woman knew him not" form had no further hold upon him for he had overcome it in the depths. into the cave of initiation, the light of resurrection streams when the stone at the entrance is rolled away. from life in the form to the death of the form deep in the rocky place, down in the crypts of the temple the human being goes. but into that same place, the new life streams, bringing fresh life and liberation; old things pass away and the darkness becomes light. sex is then seen to be in truth only the relation of the lower nature to the higher self; it i

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

th my parents because i enticed my small sister into an enormous trunk in which our many, many toys were kept. we were lost for quite a while and nearly suffocated, for the lid shut down on us. the second was that i made my first attempt to commit suicide! i just did not find life worth living. the experience of my five years made me feel that things were futile so i decided that if i bumped down the stone kitchen steps from top to bottom (and they were very steep) i would probably be dead at the end. i did not succeed. bridget, the cook, picked me up and carried me (battered and bruised) upstairs where i met much comforting but no understanding- 14- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust as i went on in life, i made two other efforts to put an end to things, only to disco

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ness of the twentieth century and has led to the horror of this world war, 1914-1945 through which we have been passing. the true work of the cycle of conferences about which i wrote earlier will only be inaugurated at san francisco. there the stage will be set for those processes which will usher in an era of relative tranquillity; thus the door of the dark cave of materialism will be opened and the stone rolled from the door of the sepulchre which has too long entombed mankind. then will follow those steps which will lead to a new and better life and which will indicate the expression of the spirit of resurrection. these facts (so near to manifestation) are physical facts; they will demonstrate as such if the disciples of the world recognise what it is that the christ desires, and if the

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

of his own life, but the forces which have been transmuted into spiritual energy begin now to have a dynamic transmutative effect in the world of forms wherein he now chooses to work and serve, according to his ray and ashramic intent. 4. impartation. reference to this is made in the book of revelation, found in the new testament. there we are told that the initiate is given a white stone, and in the stone "a new name" is found written; this is the "hidden name egoic" i am at a loss at this point as to how to express the higher significance of this. this impartation marks a climaxing point in the attainment of the point of tension where the sound can be heard and not the word alone. never forget that the o.m. is simply a symbolically sounded word which is intended to bring into the minds o

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

e sign of "the fallen angels. the sons of god, impelled by this basic urge, fell from their high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre of the soul, and to stand in the liberty of the sons of god. in aries is found the impulse which leads to the building of the form, which for ages will constitute the prison house of the soul. this reaches its mass form in cancer, and its human form in leo; the densest point of illusion in form is reached in scorpio, and in pisces the form dies, only to be

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

with the latter. 5 the six lines following are often heard as a nursery rhyme. 6 probably a mistake for luna. 7 this implies keeping himself warm, and is proof possitive that moonshould here be read for sun.according to another legend cain suffers from cold in the moon. 8 this is a formula which is to be slowly recited, emphasising the repetitions.chapter iii. no footnotes)chapter iv. 9 properly, the stone with a hole in it. but such a stone is called holy on shipboard, and here it hasreally a claim to the name. 10 this is an obscure passage, but i believe that i have given it as the poet meant or felt it. 11 il sasso a palla.chapter v. 12 this passage is not given in the original ms, but it is necessary to clearly explain what followsabruptly. page 76 as such works must have pictures, cir

far more bent on gratifying vin-dictiveness and cruel vanity than on her daughters happiness, was infuriated at this, and when thegentleman came to her, she bade him begone, for her daughter was vowed to become a nun, and anun she should be or die.then the young lady was shut up in a cell in a tower, without even the company of her governess,and put to strong and hard pain, being made to sleep on the stone floor, and would have died ofhunger had her mother had her way.then in this dire need she prayed to dianato set her free; when lo! she found the prison door unfas-tened, and easily escaped. then having obtained a pilgrims dress, she travelled far and wide,teaching and preaching the religion of old times, the religion of diana, the queen of the fairies andof the moon, the goddess of the p

rain speedily followed, and the saint was restored in honour to his place in thechurch.]the spell or conjuration of the round stone. 11 the finding a round stone, be it great or small, is a good sign (e buono augurio, but it should neverbe given away, because the receiver will then get the good luck, and some disaster befall the giver.on finding a round stone, raise the eyes to heaven, and throw the stone up three times (catching itevery time, and say: spirito del buono augurio!sei venuto in mio soccorso,credi ne avevo gran bisogno,spirito del folletino rossogiacche sei venuto in mio soccorso,ti prego di non mi abbandonare!ti prego dentro questra palla dintrare,e nella mia tasca tu possa portare,cosi in qualunque mia bisogna,in mio aiuto ti posso chiamare,e di giorno e di notte,tu non mi

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

trate spirit of my diseased brother, who, from that day to the day of his death, remembered me in his hourly prayers. and his prayers, together with my own diligence, so prevailed with god, that there was revealed to me that great secret which god ever conceals from those who are wise in their own conceits. thus have i been wishing to reveal to you in this treatise, as far as may be lawful to me, the stone of the ancients, that you, too, might possess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve

life. it is also necessary that you should determine to shew your gratitude to god for his unspeakable gift, by succouring the poor and the distressed, and by opening your hand and your heart to the needy. then god will bless your labour, and reward your search with success, and yourself with a seat in heaven as the fruit of your faith. do not despise the truthful writings of those who possessed the stone before us. for, after the enlightening grace of god, it is from them that i received my knowledge. let your study of them be increased and repeated often, lest you lose the thread twelve keys of basil valentine 9 of 95 of insight, and the lamp of understanding be extinguished. give yourself wholly to study, and be not flighty or doubleminded. let your mind be like a firm rock, in which a

the sages are reduced to the unity of their common meaning. for a man who is easily influenced in different directions is not likely to find the right path. as our most ancient stone is not derived from combustible things, you should cease to seek it in substances which cannot stand the test of fire. for this reason it is absurd to suppose that we can make any use of vegetable substances, though the stone, too, is endowed with a principle of growth. if our stone were a vegetable substance, it would, like other vegetables, be consumed by fire, leaving only a certain salt. ancient writers have, indeed, described our stone as the vegetable stone. but that name was suggested to them by the fact that it grows and increases in size, like a plant. know also that animals only multiply after their

am prohibited from doing so by twelve keys of basil valentine 16 of 95 the law of god, and by the fear of his wrath, and of eternal lest the gift of the most high should be abused. if, however, you do not understand the theoretical part of my work, perhaps the practical part will serve to enlighten you more fully. i will therefore proceed to shew how, by the help of god, i was enabled to prepare the stone of the ancients, and, for your further instruction, i will add twelve keys, in which i give a figurative account of our art. take a quantity of the best and finest gold, and separate it into its component parts by those media which nature vouchsafes to those who are lovers of art, as an anatomist dissects the human body. thus change your gold back into what it was before it became gold;

, the glass vblower makes out of it glass, which remains hard and firm in the fire, and in colour resembles a crystal stone. to the uninitiated this is a great mystery, but not to the master whom long experience has familiarized with the process. out of stones the master also prepares lime by burning which is very useful for our work v but before they are prepared with fire, they are mere stones. the stone must be matured and rendered fervent with fire, and then it becomes so potent that few things are to be compared to the fiery spirit of lime. by burning anything to ashes you may gain its salt. if in this dissolution the sulphur and mercury be kept apart, and restored to its salt, you may once more obtain that form which was destroyed by the process of combustion. this assertion the wise

stance is dissolved in a bath, and its parts reunited by putrefaction. in ashes it blossoms. in the form of sand all its excessive moisture is dried up. maturity and fixity are obtained by living fire. the work does not actually take place in the bath of st. mary, in horse v dung, in ashes, or in sand, but the grades and regimen of the fire proceed after the degrees which are represented by these the stone is prepared in an empty furnace, with a threefold line of circumvallation, in a tightly closed chamber. it is twelve keys of basil valentine 66 of 95 subjected to continued coction, till all moisture and clouds are driven off, and the king attains to indestructible fixedness, and is no longer liable to any danger or injury, because he has become unconquerable. let me express my meaning i

the true virgin s milk, take one part of it to three parts of the best gold purged and refined with antimony, the gold being previously beaten into plates of the greatest possible thinness. put the whole into a smelting pot and subject it to the action of a gentle fire for twelve hours, then let it be melted for three days and three nights more. for without the ferment of gold no one can compose the stone or develop the tinging virtue. for the same is very subtle and penetrating if it be fermented and joined with a ferment like unto itself: then the prepared tincture has the power of entering into other bodies, and operating therein. take then one part of the prepared ferment for the tinging of a thousand parts of molten metal, and then you will learn in all faith and truth that it shall

ion! do thou faithfully and simply lay to heart this shorter way, as hereinafter exhibited, for my words are grounded in simplicity, and my teaching is not confused by a labyrinth of language. i have already indicated that all things are constituted of three essences v namely, mercury, twelve keys of basil valentine 75 of 95 sulphur, and salt v and herein i have taught what is true. but know that the stone is composed out of one, two, three, four, and five. out of five v that is, the quintessence of its own substance. out of four, by which we must understand the four elements. out of three, and these are the three principles of all things. out of two, for the mercurial substance is twofold. out of one, and this is the first essence of everything which emanated from the primal fiat of creat

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

on and the descent of man from an animal ancestor[[footnote(s* the term here means neither the dolicho-cephalic nor the brachyo-cephalic, nor yet skulls of a smaller volume, but simply brains devoid of intellect generally. the theory which would judge of the intellectual capacity of a man according to his cranial capacity, seems absurdly illogical to one who has studied the subject. the skulls of the stone period, as well as those of african races (bushmen included) show that the first are above rather than below the average of the brain capacity of the modern man, and the skulls of the last are on the whole (as in the case of papuans and polynesians generally) larger by one cubic inch than that of the average frenchman. again, the cranial capacity of the parisian of today represents an av

was in the first root-race of present humanity. the real line of evolution differs from the darwinian, and the two systems are irreconcilable, except when the latter is divorced from the dogma of "natural selection" and the like. indeed, between the monera of haeckel and the sarisripa of manu, there lies an impassable chasm in the shape of the jiva; for the "human" monad, whether immetallized in the stone-atom, or invegetallized in the plant, or inanimalized in the animal, is still and ever a divine, hence also a human monad. it ceases to be human only when it becomes absolutely divine. the terms "mineral "vegetable" and "animal" monad are meant to create a superficial distinction: there is no such thing as a monad (jiva[[vol. 2, page] 186 the secret doctrine. other than divine, and conse

of three or four weeks the ovum has assumed a plant-like appearance, one extremity having become spheroidal and the other tapering like a carrot. upon dissection it is found to be composed, like an onion, of very delicate laminae or coats, enclosing a liquid. the laminae approach each other at the lower end, and the embryo hangs from the root of the umbilicus almost like the fruit from the bough. the stone has now become changed, by "metempsychosis" into a plant. then the embryonic creature begins to shoot out, from the inside outward, its limbs, and develops its features. the eyes are visible as two black dots; the ears, nose, and mouth form depressions, like the points of a pineapple, before they begin to project. the embryo develops into an animal-like foetus- the shape of a tadpole- an

mysteries symbolised, and very little[[footnote(s* mr. gladstone's unfortunate attempt to reconcile the genetic account with science (see nineteenth century "dawn of creation" and the "proem to genesis" 1886) has brought upon him the jovian thunderbolt hurled by mr. huxley. the dead-letter account warranted no such attempt; and his fourfold order, or division of animated creation, has turned into the stone which, instead of killing the fly on the sleeping friend's brow, killed the man instead. mr. gladstone killed genesis for ever. but this does not prove that there is no esotericism in the latter. the fact that the jews and all the christians, the modern as well as the early sects, have accepted the narrative literally for two thousand years, shows only their ignorance; and shows the grea

of such great cities of primitive structure was built entirely of lava, some thirty miles west from where easter island now stretches its narrow piece of sterile ground, and was entirely destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions. the oldest remains of cyclopean buildings were all the handiwork of the lemurians of the last sub-races; and an occultist shows, therefore, no wonder on learning that the stone relics found on the small piece of land called easter island by captain cook, are "very much like the walls of the temple of pachacamac or the ruins of tia-huanuco in peru("the countries of the world" by robert brown, vol. 4, p. 43; and that they are in the cyclopean style. the first large cities, however, appeared on that region of the continent which is now known as the island of madag

oil, and one resting on the back of its head like the head of a man asleep. their types, though all are long-headed, are different; and they are evidently meant for portraits, as the noses, the mouths and chins differ greatly in form, their head-dress, moreover- a kind of flat cap with a back piece attached to it to cover the back portion of the head--showing that the originals were no savages of the stone period. verily the question may be asked "who made them- but it is not archaeology nor yet geology that is likely to answer, though the latter recognizes in the island a portion of a submerged continent. but who cut the bamian, still more colossal, statues, the tallest and the most gigantic in the whole world, for bartholdi's "statue of liberty (now at new york) is a dwarf when compared

bout or in the first century of the christian era. therefore hiouen thsang, speaking of the colossal statue, says that "the shining of the gold ornamentation that overlaid the statue" in his day "dazzled one's eyes" but of such gilding there remains not a vestige in modern times. the very drapery, in contrast to the figure itself, cut out in the standing rock, is made of plaster and modelled over the stone image. talbot, who has made the most careful examination, found that this drapery belonged to a far later epoch. the statue itself has therefore to be assigned to a far earlier period than buddhism. whom does it represent in such case, it may be asked? once more tradition, corroborated by written records, answers the query, and explains the mystery. the buddhist arhats and ascetics found

lints and pebbles from the standpoint of magic and psychic powers. in a poem on stones attributed to orpheus, those stones are divided into ophites and siderites "serpent-stones" and "star-stones "the 'ophite[[footnote(s* pierres animees et parlantes, p. 283. theologie de la pierre, 270* saturn is kronos "time" his swallowing jupiter lapis may turn out one day a prophecy "peter (cephas, lapis, is the stone on which the church of rome is built" we are assured. but kronos is as sure "to swallow it" one day, as he has swallowed jupiter-lapis and still greater characters[[vol. 2, page] 342 the secret doctrine. is shaggy, hard, heavy, black, and has the gift of speech; when one prepares to cast it away, it produces a sound similar to the cry of a child. it is by means of this stone that helanos

ses of the pond of huelgoat, near concarneau" dr. john watson, quoted by the same author "antiquites celtiques" p. 99, says, when speaking of the moving rocks, or rocking-stones situated on the slope of golcar (the "enchanter "the astonishing movement of those masses poised in equilibrium made the celts compare them to gods. in "stonehenge (flinders petrie) it is said that "stonehenge is built of the stone of the district, a red sandstone, or 'sarsen' stone, locally called 'grey wethers' but some of the stones, especially those which are said to have been devoted to astronomical purposes, have been brought from a distance, probably the north of ireland" to close, the reflections of a man of science, in an article upon the subject published in 1850 in the revue archeologique (p. 473, are wo

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that it applies perfectly to the awakened mahat, the universal mind already projected into the phenomenal world as the first aspect of the changeless absolute, but never to the latter "spirit and matter, or purusha and prakriti are but the two primeval aspects of the one and secondless" we are taught. the matter-moving nous, the animating soul, immanent in every atom, manifested in man, latent in the stone, has different degrees of power; and this pantheistic idea of a general spirit-soul pervading all nature is the oldest of all the philosophical notions. nor was the archaeus a discovery of paracelsus nor of his pupil van helmont; for it is again the same archaeus or "father-ether- the manifested basis[[footnote(s* see schwegler's "handbook of the history of philosophy" in sterling's tran

ng, as he did, that the unconscious evolved the universe only "in the hope of attaining clear selfconsciousness" of becoming, in other words, man; for this is also the secret meaning of the usual puranic phrase about[[vol. 1, page] 107 no man- no god. brahma being constantly "moved by the desire to create" this explains also the hidden kabalistic meaning of the saying "the breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god" the mind-born sons, the rishis, the builders, etc, were all men- of whatever forms and shapes- in other worlds and the preceding manvantaras. this subject, being so very mystical, is therefore the most difficult to explain in all its details and bearings; since the whole mystery of evolutionary c

sformation did not take place on our earth, nor on any material plane, but in the spacial depths of the first differentiation of the eternal root-matter. on our nascent globe things proceed differently. the monad or jiva, as said in "isis unveiled" vol. i, p. 302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of evolution into the lowest form of matter- the mineral. after a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the fourth round, it creeps out of it, say, as a lichen. passing thence, through all the forms of vegetable matter, into what is termed animal matter, it has now reached the point in which it has become the germ, so to speak, of the[[footnote(s* the introductory chapters of genesis were never meant to represent even a remote allegory of the

BLUE EQUINOX

said openly that it teaches hermetic science or occult knowledge, the pure and holy magick of light, the secrets of mystic attainment, yoga of all forms. gnana yoga, raja yoga, bhakta yoga and hatha yoga, and all other branches of the secret wisdom of the ancients. it its bosom repose the great mysteries; its brain has resolved all the problems of philosophy and of life. it possess the secret of the stone of the wise, of the elixir of immortality, and of the universal medicine. moreover, it possesses a secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the brotherhood of man. it also possesses in every important centre of population a hidden retreat (collegium ad spiritum sanctum) where members may conceal themselves in order to pursue the great work without hindrance. liber lii 201 5. th

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

row explains in precious stones: their occult power and hidden significance) that "there are different scales of correspondences and under one circumstance one scale should be applied, whilst under another a different scale holds good. no natural object is pure sun, pure moon or pure saturn. the safest way to use stones for healing, then, is in the manner of the ancient druids: go by the color of the stone and apply the same principles used in color healing above. for example, you know that yellow is good for intestinal and bowel disorders and menstrual problems. for these problems, then, wear a yellow stone such as yellow diamond, jasper, topaz, beryl, quartz, amber, etc. the stone should be placed on the afflicted area for at least an hour each day and should be worn, in the form of a pe

be strong and so you shall remain. but if you be weak; then must you think strong; for thought is the deed. and thinking strong you can then hunt and kill and eat. thus, thinking strong, you are strong and you move. thought brings not the food, but thought doth bring the means to acquire the food. so be it! strength to the strong! strength to the weak! may the arm lift the spear. may the arm hurl the stone. may the arm thrust the javelin. may there be strength, always. so mote it be" sit quietly meditating on the wonderful good health enjoyed and to be enjoyed by the petitioner. sit thus for ten to fifteen minutes. then extinguish the flames, in the reverse order to the way they were lit. repeat this ritual every friday for seven successive fridays, each time moving the red candles closer

with visualizing a white light all around the boy, as a cleansing and purifying agent, then gradually change that to a healing green light. let the green concentrate on the area of his left leg. finish off with a little blue light, to ensure no inflammation and prevent rheumatism from later setting in (b) work with a green stone (precious or semiprecious: e.g. emerald, jade, beryl, turquoise. lay the stone on the area of the break, for at least an hour each day, and then see that he wears it as a pendant, or in a ring, the rest of the day (c) use a photograph of the boy that includes his left leg. project green light onto the photograph, appendix c: answers to examination questions/ 241 either by a colored lamp or by placing the photograph in a frame with a green colored filter in front of

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

s, i cause their return unto myself. i am the life, and the wheel of the law, and the way that, leadeth to the beyond. there is none else. 4 i am the fire of mind which divideth itself into the superior and inferior natures, and putteth on a robe of flesh to come down. i am the vital principle of all that is. nothing is that does not live, and of that life i am the source. as it is written" first the stone, then the plant, then the animal, and then the man" but before the stone, i am the fire, distributed equally in space, nowhere absent, filling all. and before the fire, hidden within it, i am the pure knowing whence all forms flow forth. 5 apart from me there is neither wisdom, nor knowledge, nor understanding. into every state of knowledge do i enter, into false knowledge as well as int

plished by the wise have number for their foundation. for the circle of the tally is the coiled fiery power which cometh from the sun, and to rule this, thou must learn to count [92] t e t h count aright, and thou shalt have oil for thy lamps, for the oil for lighting. containeth the secret of the letter teth. this is the oil which riseth like a serpent, the oil which thy father jacob poured upon the stone in the house of strength. 4 verily, he who knoweth the secret of that stone, knoweth also the secret of the serpent, and in him shall be fulfilled the saying "when israel was a child, then i loved him, and called my son out of egypt" and he who knoweth this shall be a measurer of mercy, and all his works shall be rooted in the strength of my law [93] comment on teth* t e t h, pronounced

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

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e church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment goes to ba

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faraway monastery bell. the chi-lin told cheng that soon she would bear a son who would be a great ruler, but one without subjects, a king without a throne. then the unicorn bowed gracefully and disappeared back into the shadows of the trees. carefully, cheng picked up the piece of jade. the chilin s message puzzled her, and the lustrous jade seemed to hold deep secrets below its cloudy surface. the stone felt naturally cold, yet warmed up quickly in the palm of her hand. the jade appeared dense and cloudy, yet the longer she looked at it, the clearer and more transparent it seemed. jade was harder than the bronze coins in her pocket, yet cheng knew it could be carved into fluid shapes like twisting dragons, chirping insects, and tumbling clouds. when she struck the wonderful stone, the j

orld-renowned art expert, elaborates: already in confucius time, jade was the favorite stone of the perfect gentleman, because it embodied all the cardinal 93 virtues. its warm brilliance was likened to charity, its hardness to wisdom, the sharp yet harmless edges of its contours to justice.4 imperfections such as veins, specks, mottling, calcifications, and uneven patches of color contributed to the stone s beauty rather than detracted from it. professor d argenc explains, its flaws, that are obvious without impairing its beauty, were compared to loyalty and its translucency and radiance to honesty. 5 pure jade is white, but chemicals and other minerals add colors and imperfections to the stone during its formation in the earth. some colors are given especially descriptive names: snow jad

m a magic rock, established his supremacy in the fighting arts. monkey 103 questions and answers q: where is the story of monkey taken from? a: the story is from a novel called journey to the west written by a government official named wu ch eng-en. q: how was monkey created? a: monkey was born from a stone egg that came from a magic rock on the mountain of fruit and flowers. when he emerged from the stone, he bowed in the four directions. q: what qualities defined monkey s personality? a: he was greedy, but joyful, curious, and extremely popular with the other animals. q: what made monkey afraid? a: he realized he would soon face yen-lo, the king of death. q: what did monkey learn from the immortal? a: he learned to study the teachings of taoism, to write and speak properly, how to fly, a

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the years passed, the only remaining connection with the stonemasons were the symbolic paraphernalia and names for the levels of initiation like apprentice, fellow craft, and master mason. the working tools of the stonemasons- the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel, and chisel- were still used in the bizarre ceremonies and rituals and the freemason's apron was another throwback to the stone masons. but freemasonry now had a very different agenda. during the rituals which the founders of the new freemasonry introduced, barechested initiates were blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger held 184 .and the truth shall set you free to their heart. they had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. the penalty for divulg

f the energy grid is raised, so is that of the planet. you work through compatible human minds to build roads, factories, power stations, and transmission towers, at key points on the grid. the black magicians of the global elite know that if you can control the energy passing through the grid, you can control the collective mind of the human race. the village and road built through the centre of the stone circles at avebury in wiltshire, england, is a prime example. this strategy pours negative energy into the network at these points, weakening the flow within the lines, and suppressing the frequency. i have spoken to many people recently who have begun to identify a pattern in the united kingdom of roads and broadcasting transmitters of various kinds which are sited very near or on well

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the earth. they declared these major vortex centres to be sacred and these are the locations of the standing stone circles, pyramids and ancient earthworks all over the world (figure 13. also, the figure 13: the ancient sacred sites of the world, like stonehenge, are points on the global energy grid where many force lines, or "ley" lines, cross and create a massive vortex of energy. this is where the stone circles, pyramids, and the major freemasonic temples are located. energy= power if you know how to use it 60 children of the matrix correlation between these sites and "faults" in the earth's magnetic field are obvious, and studies have shown that "paranormal" events and experiences, including "ufo" sightings, tend to happen mostly at or near these magnetic faults in her book, where scie

ocated on these points. the ancient atlantean- lemurian-sumerian knowledge has been passed on through this covert network while being systematically suppressed among the people. religion has condemned it as "evil, and science" has dismissed it as nonsense. and the source of both religion and "science" is the same illuminati network. surprised? it is claimed by historians that british druids built the stone circles, but they confuse using them with building them. groups use them today for rituals, but no one is suggesting that these groups built them! archaeologists find druidic remains on these sites and assume they created them. they do the same with the later mayans of central america and the incas of south america. the later druidic religion and knowledge was brought by the atlanteans o

nd sacred buildings in relation to, or in acknowledgement of, their knowledge of precession. suppressing the grid i have a rather controversial view (makes a change) of at least some pyramids, stone circles, and earthworks placed on the vortexes. from the start of my conscious journey in 1990 1 have had a bad feeling about many of these constructions. new agers see them as sacred places and go to the stone circles and pyramids for their ceremonies and so on. but just because the vortex points are power centres on the global grid, it doesn't mean that the structures built at these places by the bloodlines have been designed and located with humanity's best interests at heart. i am not talking about all of them here, but i don't feel good myself about the giza site or stonehenge, among other

ity attis with jesus. some montanists were locked in their churches by christians in asia minor and burned alive.7 cybele was the "goddess of the caves, a location where many of the saviour-gods in the jesus mould are said to have been born. the reptilian underground network? the red rose of el the many versions of el are said to be goddesses of sexuality and fertility, and of the moon and venus. the stone baptismal bowls found in every christian church are symbolic of the "magic stone bowl" of the serpent cult or illuminati described in the edda. the gothic "christian" doorways and the ridges around them are depictions of the vulva and many even have a clitoris symbol at the top of the arch. the same is depicted in windows and especially the rose windows of the gothic cathedrals. at chart

y of nimrod, the father, symbolised as a fish; tammuz or ninus, the son, who was said to have died to save humanity on december 25th; and queen semiramis, the babylonian "isis, who was symbolised as a dove. they said that nimrod and tammuz, the father and son, were "one. when tammuz died for the sins of humanity, the priesthood said he was put in a tomb and, three days later when they rolled back the stone, he was gone. all this was thousands of years before christianity and it is just one of so many versions of the "jesus" story that were told long before "jesus" was supposed to have lived. oh yes, in the spring rituals to mark the death and resurrection of tammuz/ninus, they offered buns inscribed with a solar cross- the hot cross buns of the much later "christian" festival called easter

fourth fingers until required to "manifest. the "valuable" jewellery turned out to be worthless trinkets purchased in the local village and elsewhere. baba "materialised" a ring for david bailey, which, the living god told him, was of great commercial value. when he took it to a jeweller in southern india for repair, the man in the shop immediately recognised it as a "sai baba ring. he said that the stone was a valueless zircon and underneath he would find a piece of silver paper to make the zircon glitter. when the stone was removed, there indeed was the silver paper and the jeweller said that the rings were made especially for baba to "manifest. the baileys also document how baba has conned people and the local community out of tens of millions of dollars and how he is implicated in a n

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ain egypt have also been dated to around 3,000 bc using the latest carbon datingmethods. traces of charcoal found within the mortar apparently made this possible.3467the aryans of the near and middle east had many names, the hittites, the phoenicians,the goths and so on. y ou can follow words and names through these apparently differentcultures to show that they came from the same source. some of the stone circles aresometimes called hare-stones which, according to l. a. waddells research, evolvedthrough harri or heria, the title for the ruling goths, and from the hittite title of harri, arrior aryan: hare stones are aryan stones. just as han khrishna means aryan khrishna, veryappropriate given that the hindu religion was the work of the aryans. you also havecastlerigg stone circle near ke

ound, he must know that it isnt?eventually the roman church withdrew its support for the merovingians and theylost their power and faded from the public scene until the last few years. anotherbloodline monarch from the reptilian stable became king of the franks. his name wascharles, better known as charlemagne, one of the most celebrated monarchs in thehistory of europe. he was an early patron of the stone masons who later built thegothic cathedrals of europe for the templars. in toulouse he is said to have founded alodge of the rosicrucian order, which has its origins at least as far back as ancientegypt,4 and relates, as stated, to the rosi-crusis, the symbol of the reptilian bloodlines.charlemagne vastly extended the frankish empire and in 800 he was installed asemperor of the west in t

his connections to the esoteric underground. hewrote in his work, the magical mason, that the freemasons originate from the essenes,the pharisee (levite) jews, the ancient mystery schools of egypt and greece, the v ehm-gerichte of westphalia, germany, the roman collegia, the french compagnons, andthe rosicrucians.28 the official (and inaccurate) story is that freemasonry emergedfrom the lodges of the stone masons who worked on the great churches and cathedrals,craftsmen with the knowledge of sacred geometry. they had enjoyed a close connectionwith the knights templar since the building of the gothic cathedrals. but by the time ofhenry viii, their work was in decline. far from building more cathedrals, henry setabout looting the monasteries and the fraternities, brotherhoods and guilds to r

ood brought from the lebanon because that was the wood said to be used tobuild solomons temple. the tapestry in the chamber depicts the judgement ofsolomon. westminster abbey, the christian cathedral, is in fact a pagan temple. eventhe floor is made of black and white squares like a freemasonic temple.at the start of the ceremony in 1953, the queen sat on the coronation chair andunder her bum was the stone of destiny which edward i had stolen from scone(pronounced scoon) abbey in scotland in 1246. the stone was supposed to have beenbrought to ireland from israel via egypt and is also known as jacobs pillar or pillow. ithink the basic theme of that is correct, but there is a great deal more to know about thedetail and its true significance. the archbishop of canterbury turned to the north,s

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part of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying. the magician uses the stone as a focus to induce a trance that causes images to appear in the depths of the stone. siddhis: magickal abilities such as clairaudience (q.v, levitation (q.v, telepathy (q.v, and clairvoyance (q.v) that manifest themselves as the by-products of yogic/magickal practices. they are not denigrated by hindu and buddhist yogis but are actively sought in their own right by sensitives (q.v, psy

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ccultism to make their first experiments with no other guidance than that of a book. preliminary training is necessary; also a guide with a rope in case of difficulties. but those who have already passed through the outer court and stand waiting at the door between the pylons will find, in mr. regardie's books, the keys they need. i, for one, wish them godspeed on their journey; and may they find the stone of the wise; the summum bonum; true wisdom; perfect happinefemystical qabala page 1 the mystical qabalah mystical qabala page 2 foreword the tree of life forms the ground-plan of the western esoteric tradition and is the system upon which pupils are trained in the fraternity of the inner light. the transliteration of hebrew words into english is the subject of much diversity of opinion

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teachings of those of ancient days, and upon matters of historical accuracy stand subject to cor rection from any who are bettet informed than i am in these matters (and their name is legion, i care not one jot for the authority of tradition if it hampers the free development of a system of such practical value as the holy qabalah, and i use the work of my predecessors as a quarry whence i fetch the stone to build my city. neither am i limited to this quarry by any ordinance that i know of; but fetch also cedar from lebanon and gold from ophir if it suits my purpose. mystical qabala page 16 4. let it be clearly understood, therefore, that i do not say, this is the teaching of the ancient rabbis; rather do i say, this is the practice of the modern qabalists, and for us a much more vital ma

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cture of gold, and the production of the baser metals was only accidental as the result of an unfavorable environment. the philosophers stone was the combination of the male and female seeds that form gold. the composition of these was so veiled by symbolism as to make their precise identification impossible. occult scholar arthur edward waite, summarized the alchemical process once the secret of the stone was unveiled: given the matter of the stone and also the necessary vessel, the processes which must be then undertaken to accomplish the magnum opus are described with moderate perspicuity. there is the calcination or purgation of the stone, in which kind is worked with kind for the space of a philosophical year. there is dissolution which prepares the way for congelation, and which is p

nd supposed to proceed from the nervous system. it is described as a cloud of light suffused with various colors. this is seen clairvoyantly, being imperceptible to the physical sight. some authorities trace the existence of the aura in such biblical instances as the bright light shining about moses, which the children of israel were unable to look upon when he descended from the mountain bearing the stone tablets engraved with the ten commandments (exod. 34:29.30; in the exceedingly brilliant light that shone about st. paul s vision at the time of his conversion (acts 9:3; and in the transfiguration of jesus christ, when his raiment shone so brightly that no one on earth could match it (matt. 17:1.2. many of the medieval saints were said to be surrounded with a cloud of light. it is told

bably places in which a large number of the people in the surrounding countryside gathered, but their essential functions remain a matter of widespread speculation. sources: brown, peter lancaster. megaliths and masterminds. new york: charles scribners s sons, 1979. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. avebury 133 burl, aubrey. rings of stone. new haven, conn: ticknor& fields, 1980. the stone circles of the british isles. new haven, conn: yale university press, 1976. thom, alexander. megalithic sites in britain. oxford: oxford university press, 1967. avenar a fifteenth-century astrologer who promised the jews, on the testimony of the planets, that their messiah should arrive without fail in 1444, or at the latest, in 1464. he gave, for his guarantors, saturn, jupiter, the cra

1922. for years she did excellent work at the british college of psychic science, giving psychic healing sessions in conjunction with her husband and offering voice seances with her daughter. sitters often received apports in the form of beautifully cut stones. white hawk would place bar- barbault, andre encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 156 kel s hand over that of the sitter and the stone would appear to grow in between them. sources: bradley, h. dennis. and after. london, 1931. barker, elsa (ca. 1869.1954) american novelist and poet, born in leicester, vermont. she allegedly produced through automatic writing the scripts for letters from a living dead man (1914, war letters from the living dead man (1915, and last letters from a living dead man (1919. these remarkable co

to which some came in their ordinary forms, while others joined the dance in the guise of dogs, cats, donkeys, pigs, and other animals. however, no reliance can be placed on the confessions of any victims of de lancre, as he used torture and believed that most of the 30,000 inhabitants of labourd, including the priests, were infected with witchcraft. belmez faces strange pictures that appeared on the stone hearth in the kitchen of juan pereira sanchez in the village of belmez de la moraleda, spain, during 1971. the sanchez family was puzzled and frightened when the first face gradually manifested on the hearth, and eventually the son of the family hacked out the face with a pickaxe and filled in the hole with cement and sand. soon afterward, however, a second face appeared near the site of

lved in the dream state. reportedly kruger, corda, and maignan solved mathematical problems in dreams and condillac finished an interrupted lecture. for many of the romantic writers, such as coleridge and nodier, these creative dreams were induced by the ingestion of opium. a dream of louis agassiz is frequently quoted. he tried for two weeks to decipher the obscure impression of a fish fossil on the stone slab in which it was preserved. in a dream he saw the fish with all the missing features restored. the image escaped him on awakening. he went to the jardin des plantes in the hope that an association with the fossil would recapture it. it did not. the next night he again dreamed of the fish, but in the morning the features of the fish were as elusive as ever. on the third night he place

he features of the fish were as elusive as ever. on the third night he placed paper and pencil near his bed. toward morning the fish again appeared in a dream. half dreaming, half awake, he traced the outlines in the darkness. on awakening he was surprised to see details in his nocturnal sketch that he thought impossible. he returned to the jardin des plantes and began to chisel on the surface of the stone using the sketch as a guide. reportedly agassiz found the hidden portions of the fish as indicated in the drawing. the dream of a professor hilprecht, a babylonian scholar who tried to decipher writing on two small pieces of agate, is more complicated and belongs to the clairvoyant order. as reported in the proceedings of the societry for psychical research (august 1900, he went to sleep

an evil spirit, and it was said that the arrows were manufactured by the devil with the help of attendant imps who roughhewed them while the archfiend finished the work. cases are on record of elf arrows allegedly made and used by the witches of scotland within historic times. in 1662 isobel gowdie confessed that she had seen such elf arrows made. similar superstitions regarding these remnants of the stone age prevail in italy, africa, and turkey. sources: kirk, robert. the secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies. 1691. reprint, london: d. nutt, 1893. elf-fire the ignis fatuus, or foolish fire, a name also given to fire obtained by rubbing two pieces of wood together, used in superstitious ways. the elf-fire proper is the phosphorescent light seen hovering over marshy ground. when

ascination the following remedies against fascination rest upon the authority either of vairus or frommann, or both, and several may encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. fascination 547 be traced to pliny: an invocation of nemesis; the root of the satyrios orchis; the skin of a hyena s forehead; the kernel of the fruit of a palm tree; alyssum (madwort) hung up anywhere in the house; the stone catochites; spitting on the right shoe before it was put on; hyssop; lilies; fumigations; sprinklings; necklaces of jacinth, sapphire, or carbuncle; washings in river water, provided silence be kept; licking a child s forehead, first upward, next across, and lastly up again, and then spitting behind its back; sweeping the child s face with the bough of a pine tree; laying the child on th

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overned by a few well-defined laws. chief among these is that of sympathy, which can be subdivided into the laws of similarity, antipathy, and contiguity. the law of similarity and homeopathy is divisible into two tenets (1) the assumption that like produces like.an illustration of which is the destruction of a doll in the form of an enemy; and (2) the idea that like cures like.for instance, that the stone called bloodstone can staunch the flow of blood. the law dealing with antipathy rests on the assumption that the application of a certain object or drug expels its contrary. the idea of contiguity assumes that whatever has once formed part of an object continues to form part of it. thus, if a magician can obtain a portion of a person s hair, he can work harm upon that person through the

and that delivered occult teaching in moses s scripts. magus did not disclose his name on earth, but he said that he lived 4,000 years ago and belonged to an ancient african wonder-working brotherhood. in the nineteenth book of the moses scripts, a topaz is mentioned as the material counterpart of a spiritual jewel worn by magus, which was to be given to stainton moses to help him to see visions. the stone, set in a ring, was reportedly dropped from the air in stainton moses s bedroom. sources: moses, stainton. spirit identity. london: london spiritualist alliance, ltd, 1908. spirit teachings. 1883. reprint, new york: arno press, 1976. maharaj ji, guru (1957) teacher in the sant mat tradition and head of elan vital (formerly known as the divine light mission. guru maharaj ji, a title rathe

ial counterpart of his spiritual jewel, which would enable him to see scenes in the spheres on looking into it. the jewel was found in his bedroom. moses was excited. he believed it to be an apport, taken without the consent of the owner. he never received any definite encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. materialization 995 information as to its origin. it cannot be traced how long the stone, which was set in a ring, remained in his possession. gems and pearls were frequently brought to moses circle. his theory was that they were made by spirits because he could see them falling before they reached the table, while others could not see them until they had fallen. further, an emerald had flaws in it, and therefore it could not have been cut or have been an imitation. flower m

ey arrived. sometimes the medium seized upon the flowers and ate them voraciously, together with stalks and soil, often wounding his mouth by thorns on rose stalks. returning to normal consciousness, he blamed a particular control for the occurrence. the flowers seemed to arrive toward the medium and were not thrown out from him. these phenomena were very impressive. the same could not be said of the stone apports. they were invariably very small, and led to his detection in fraud. in the sittings of 1926, the doctor in charge slipped his hands at the back of the ears of the medium and discovered two small light colored stones affixed by flesh-colored sticking plaster. the medium s only attempt at excuse was that by that stage his power had gone and that he had been tempted by an undesirab

used by jesus at the last supper. uterpendragon (with merlin s magical help) seduces the wife of one of the noblemen. from that union, arthur is born. though the king married the woman, who was widowed soon after conceiving arthur, merlin advises that arthur be given to foster parents for his own protection. that action set up arthur s later claiming the throne based upon his pulling a sword from the stone. from boron s basic story, merlin s story grew and developed. by the nineteenth century, he had become the quinessential magician, and in the twentieth century the number of appearances in fantasy novels soared. sources: lacy, norris j, ed. the arthurian encyclopedia. new york: garland publishing, 1986. loomis, roger sherman, ed. arthurian literature in the middle ages. oxford: clarendon

difficult circumstances, which i have expressly omitted, not to weary the reader, who ought to be very diligent and intelligent if he wishes to arrive at the accomplishment of this great work. paracelsus himself described in archidoxa his own recipe for the completion of it, and profited by the occasion to criticize his fellow-workers. i omit what i have said in different places on the theory of the stone; i will say only that this arcanum does not consist in the blast [rouille] or flowers of antimony. it must be sought in the mercury of antimony, which, when it is carried to perfection, is nothing else than the heaven of metals; for even as the heaven gives life to plants and minerals, so does the pure quintessence of antimony vitrify everything. this is why the deluge was not able to de

but agreeing to the foundations of the art, have arrived at the desired end. for some with great labour have drawn forth the quintessence of the thickened mercury of the regulus of antimony, and by this means have reduced to action the mercury of the antimony: others have considered that there was a uniform quintessence in the other minerals, as for example in the fixed sulphur of the vitriol, or the stone of the magnet, and having extracted the quintessence, have afterwards matured and exalted their heaven with it, and reduced it to action. their process is good, and has had its result. meanwhile this fire.this corporeal life. which they seek with toil, is found much more easily and in much greater perfection in the ordinary mercury, which appears through its perpetual fluidity.a proof th

the transmutation operation. by the application or admixture of this substance, often called the powder of projection, any metal might be transmuted into gold or silver. zosimus, who lived at the beginning of the fifth century, was one of the first to allude to the philosophers stone. he said that it was a powder or liquor formed of diverse metals, fused under a favorable astrological condition. the stone was supposed to contain the secrets not only of transmutation, but of health and life, for through it the elixir of life could be distilled. the author of a treatise on philosophical and hermetic chemistry, published in paris in 1725, stated: modern philosophers have extracted from the interior of mercury a fiery spirit, mineral, vegetable and multiplicative, in a humid concavity in whic

not obtain it. the wizard, having obtained something belonging to the person whom he wished to injure, buried it in a deep hole with leaves of poisonous plants and sharp-pointed pieces of bamboo, accompanying the action by suitable incantations. if he chanced to be a member of the iniat society, he would place on the top of this package one of the sacred stones. the iniat believed that as long as the stone was pressing down on the article that had been buried in the hole, the man to whom it belonged would remain sick. because of this, as soon as a man fell sick he sent to find out who had bewitched him, and there was usually someone who did not deny it. if the victim did not succeed in having the spell removed he would almost certainly die, but if he succeeded in having it taken away, he b

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50 years, and became extinguished as soon as exposed to the air; the whole body was in perfect preservation, and was found floating in a vessel of oil. see "pancirollus, rerum memorabilium deperditarum" vol. i, p. 115, franciscus maturantius, hermolaus, and scardeonius. such a lamp is stated to have been found in 1401, in the reign of hen. iii, king of castile, not far from rome, on the tiber, in the stone tomb of pallas, the arcadian, son of evander, slain by "turnus rex rotulorum" in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words "filius evandri pallas, quem lancea turni militis occidit, mole sua jacet hic"-see "martianus, liber chronicorum" lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation

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ft and its tiny crew. ac c o rding to ratliff, two years earlier melvin gray of louisville had been mow i n g his lawn when he came upon an unusual stone. he kept it and studied it for months, e ventually concluding that it was living pro o f of a prehistoric space visit. gray handed it ove r to ufologist ratliff, who also examined it at length. from this examination he was able to determine what the stone contained and what e vents had precipitated its creation. it was, as he would write, a fossilized craft containing seven very small creatures. three. are ape-like in appearance. the other four are humanoid. all creatures are approximately three inches in height, are vertebrates, and have a physical build that indicates they were very strong for their size. the [ape] cre a t u res died in

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s, who hopes for miracles, more faith possess. emperor. so let the time in merriment be spent! ash-wednesday s coming to our heart s content. meanwhile we ll celebrate, whate er befall, all the more merrily mad carnival. trumpets, exeunt. mephistopheles how closely linked are luck and merit, is something fools have never known. had they the wise man s stone, i swear it, there d be no wise man for the stone. a spacious hall with adjoining apartments decorated and adorned, for a masquerade. herald. don t think ye ll here see german revels, a dance of death, of fools and devils! a cheerful festival awaits you here. our ruler, when to rome he went campaigning, his profit and your pleasure gaining, the perils of the alps disdaining, won for himself a realm of cheer. first, at the holy feet bowe

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

shkat al anwar) by al ghazzali (d.1111, and the recorded teachings of sufi masters such as rumi, ibn arabi, al- suhrawardi, ibn ata allah, al bayazid al bistami, al junaid of bagdad, abdul qadir al jilani, al hallaj and others.30 western alchemy was derived in great measure from the writings of a number of sufis concerning the mystical analogy of the purification and transformation of metals into the stone of unity, known as the philosopher s stone. 31 33' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the mystical worldview of sufism, as delineated in the qur an, is basically identical to the qabalistic worldview rooted in the torah. as with the qabalah, someone new to the study of sufism will find a plethora of specialized and abstract terminology used to describe its mystical worldview. the challenge is further exa

ed by the clear blue light of the endless. another object that might be included in a shrine to vast face is a smooth vertical stone, called a lingam in the tantric tradition. the lingam represents the erect penis, and is symbolic of the yang or male potency of vast face. as part of the tantric ritual involving a lingam, the priest or celebrant pours milk or some other special liquid mixture over the stone. the reader may certainly find it odd to include an apparently tantric article of worship on a mystical qabalistic altar. however, the ancient hebrews had a ritual similar to the anointing of the lingam, which is mentioned prominently on a number of occasions in the torah. two different chapters in torah b reshith mention two separate instances of a ritual performed by the patriarch ya a

apparently tantric article of worship on a mystical qabalistic altar. however, the ancient hebrews had a ritual similar to the anointing of the lingam, which is mentioned prominently on a number of occasions in the torah. two different chapters in torah b reshith mention two separate instances of a ritual performed by the patriarch ya aqov, in which he anointed with oil and poured a libation over the stone pillar he erected at beth el.5 this obviously important component of the ancient hebrew religion is conspicuously absent from modern judaic ritual. relative to external ritual, it may appeal to the vast face aspirant to make ablution before entering the shrine room. he/ she may then also want to perform prostration before the altar' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% light a candle and burn incense, and

you wish to make to the file. you continue as this program if/when you reenter the small face creation as a differentiated being. the old self is totally gone upon movement into the roots, like a salt doll dissolved in the ocean. you can also place an executable code in the silver cord of the geviyah, which establishes a vibrational affinity between the salt doll copy you leave in small face and the stone doll in the ayn. the process of creating a copy of yourself is very deep, and difficult to describe- 0' meditation, complementary practices, and rituals such as pesach (passover) are laboratories for mystical scientists. in the mystical qabalah, meditation and remembrance (zakhor) of names of power are the foundation for everything else. they purify and strengthen mind and bodies, cultiv

FULL MOON RITUALS

es. then, he stood, shed all sense of himself and waited- until awareness of a distinctly different atmosphere accosted his skin and his nose with smells of ancient oak, selaginella and leaf mold. opening his eyes, he sees the moon reflected in a glass smooth lake which also reflects the walls and turret of the old castle off to the south, and realizes that his gateway into this place has brought the stone circle just to the eastern edge of the ancient grove, where so many previous moons have been celebrated. becoming aware of a faint smell of ozone and then noticing that, while grove and castle appear solidly limned, the lithons about him possess a certain transparent quality, deer turns to each of the quarters, contemplating the wise words inscribed upon each of the quarter stones, and r

n memories of many moons spent within these walls. lowering his pack to the floor, deer retrieves from its depths a large beeswax globe of deepest crimson, which he sets upon the broad sill of the window that sidelights the ancient door, and lights the wick protruding from its crown. almost instantly, a specter of cinnamon flows into the cavernous depths of the great room as the light illuminates the stone foyer and shines as a beacon through the window and out into the night. deer lays a blessing about the doorway for all who enter here this eve and places a wicker basket upon the sill of the sidelight window opposite to the candle, which is filled to overflowing with small felt reindeer (rodney's, rhonda's, ramona's and randy's from the local hallmark) intended to depart homewards with e

per into the belly of this place. elenya's willow broom still leans beside the massive walk-in fireplace, black with the smoke and soot of generations, behind the long feasting table that runs the length of the hall- a broom which will soon be put to good use. before cleaning, however, deer leaves his pack upon the table, and proceeds to ferry and kindling and logs from the wood pile outside into the stone fireplace. as soon as this work is done, deer adds flame to the mix and is soon warmed by the fury of a roaring fire. while the fire lends even more light to the cavernous room, that job is not complete until each of the thirteen torches which line the eastern wall are lit, along with their counterparts on the western wall as well. now, surrounded by the warmth which comes both from the

room. then decides that this is simply one of the many mysteries of the place. by the altar, cloud's apple broom stands and he wastes no time taking it in hand and sweeping widdershins in a widening spiral, until he removes all the dust and unwanted energy into the great hall and then into the fire. upon returning to the circular room, deer again admires the hemicolumns set against the wall about the stone room's perimeter, which support the ribwork of its vaulted ceiling, before opening the small panel on the eastern section of the wall. here lay two discoveries- the first and foremost cloud's and the latter his own- both embodied in a simple lever. deer pulls it down and watches as a small skylight irises open in the center of the domed ceiling above, then pulls it further to its lowest

and drop all the way down to rest upon the capitals of the room's thirteen columns. in here, those same stars he'd lain beneath earlier seem even brighter, and twinkle with the promise of a presence which he eagerly anticipates. deer spreads the evening's altar cloth- black silk embroidered with a double spiral of spun silver, between the arms of which shine moons and stars- upon the old slab in the stone room's center. he has just placed candlesticks with one silver taper and one black, when he hears the rustle of folk arriving in the great hall. deer gives the cloth a final adjustment, assuring that the silver pentagram of celtic knotwork in its center is appropriately oriented and quickly places quarter candles upon the four sculpted pedestals positioned at the room's perimeter- beeswa

, and let friendship warm the hearts as the fires warm the hearths. so mote it be..owl's melody merges seamlessly into another, which makes its way to deer's heart..a black bear wanders into a stone circle, followed by a low flying small grey owl. the circle smells fresh, but the stones are old. so is the black bear. she is an older bear, her coat is still black but tinged with new grey. sniffing the stone altar in the center, she recognizes the scent. deer. but not. there is a calling she has been following all evening, and she knows she is on the right track. she wanders to the lake, moon reflected in its mirror finish. she turns and spies the castle. this smells old, very old. and this is where she is to go. she looks back at the moon hanging in the sky, stands on her rear legs for a mo

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

isting, shape and size. h 10 this sephirah is the spiritus mundi. from 'hokmah is derived the balance of the sephiroth, the next six of which refer to the dimensions of the universe- length, breadth, and depth moving as it were outwardly towards the positive and the negative, the male and the female principles each, therefore, in two directions. together they form the six faces of a perfect cube (the stone of the wise: the tenth sephirah, malkuth, the kingdom or sabbath represents rest, poise, and completion. these first three sephiroth- kether, binah, and 'hokmah (father, mother, and son- the supernal triad- constitute the intelligible or intellectual world. and since the holy ancient is expressed and impressed by three [i.e. ayin, ain soph, and ain soph aur the expression; and kether, bi

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

ange gods that are among you' that there were images of god which were not strange, and that in these early times there were orthodoxy and heterodoxy in images as there are now. in ancient times the emblem of life-giving energy was an orthodox emblem; it is now a horror and its place is taken by an image of death. we infer from the context that laban's gods were orthodox" so, also, must have been the stone pillar set up by jacob at bethel (place of the sun. from a study of similar stones, examples of which are to be found in nearly every country of the globe, it is known that they represent the male energy, and from all the facts connected with the story of laban's gods it is probable that they were emblems of this power. we may suppose then that the "strange gods" the unorthodox gods, whi

in taurus, was worshipped in the form of a bull. crishna, or the sun in aries, was adored under the figure of a ram with a man's head. the true significance of these figures was the fructifying sun or reproductive energy as manifested in animal life, and this meaning to those who worshipped them was identical with the carved figures on the caves of india, the lares and penates of the romans, and the stone pillars or crosses in the market-places and at the intersection of roads in brittany. eusebius says that at elephanta they adored a deity in the figure of a man in a sitting posture painted blue, having the head of a ram with the horns of a goat encircling a disk. the deity thus described is said to be of astronomical origin, denoting the power of the sun in aries. this figure, which was

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

and communicates; but when he is handed the chalice he consumes the wine and holding the cup on high turnsitupside down and cries with a loud voice:kerux:'itis finished' all rise.thekerux restores the chalice to the altar and returns to his place.hierophant:(knocks 'tetelestai!'hiereus:(knocks once. all give sign.hierophant:'may what we have received sustain us in our search for the quintessence the stone of the philosophers, true wisdom and perfecthappiness-thesummumbonum.'hierophant(knocks:'khabs'hiereus(knocks:'am'hegemon(knocks:'pekht'appendixchiereus(knocks:'konx'hegemon(knocks:'om'hierophant(knocks:'pax'hegemon(knocks:'light'hierophan:(knocks:'in'hiereus(knocks:'extension'125ifthe hall is not reserved exclusively for temple meetings, it should be purified by the lesser ritualofthe p

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

d as soon as exposed to the air; the whole body was in perfect preservation, and was found floating in a vessel of oil. see pancirollus,rerummemorabiliumdeperditarum,vol.i.,p. 115, franciscus matur255 antius, hermolaus, and scardeonius.thoughts on the ever-burning lamps 61such a lamp is stated to have been found in 1401, in the reign of hen.iii,king of castile, not far from rome, on the tiber, in the stone tomb of pallas, the arcadian, son of evander, slain by'turnusrex rotulorum' in the wars at the time of the building of rome; nothing could extinguish the flame of this lamp until it was broken. on the tomb were the words 'filius evandri pallas, quem lanceaturnimilitis occidit, mole sua jacet hie' see martianus,liberchronicorum,lib. xii, cap. 67. two miles from rome an inundation broke a

of the church, the cape stone of the church fabric and the key (stone) of heaven.theold testament had also, before the time of jesus, used the term corner stones to mean persons of eminence, and prophetically for the messiah; in isaiah xxvi, 16, we read of 'a precious corner stone to be laid in zion'.theworship of stones as representing gods was perhaps the earliest form of religious observance; the stone from its solidity and durability would suggest the power and stability of a deity; stone worship has been traced in almost all lands and among almost all uncivilised races, and is hardly extinct even in our days. certainly traces have been found in europe within the last two centuries: scheffer in 1673 describes the worship of an unhewn stone by laplanders: martin also found reverence gi

erence must be made to the two tables of stone, exodus xxii and xxiv, on which were written the ten commandments of jehovah; the first pair was broken by moses; the second set was preserved in the ark in horeb, and was later on placed in the temple of solomon. note that the two pillars at the entrance of the temple of solomon were not of stone but of brass; they are said symbolically to represent the stone pillars of seth, enoch and hermes, of which many works make mention, but in regard to which i am unable to find any real information, although josephus is said to mention them in his first book of antiquities, and two pillars erected before the noachian deluge are referred to in ancient masonic charges, for example in the 'cooke ms' of the 15th century, it is narrated that all science wa

at all science was written upon each of two pillars, one of which could not be destroyed by fire, and the other not injured by water; the legend relates that after the flood these two pillars were recovered by hermes and pythagoras and the inscriptions260themagical masonupon them formed the basis of all other knowledge. samuel erected a stone pillar between mizpah and shen and called it ebenezer (the stone of help, i samuel, vii, 12. king saul is said to have set up a pillar or monument at carmel as a memorial of his success over the amalekites.therewas also the pillar of absalom which he raised to commemorate himself because his sons had died 'and it is called absalom's monument unto this day, ii samuel, xviii, 18.thejewish historian josephus said it was standing 'in the king's dale' in h

ew, xxii, and adds:'hethat falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces,buton whomsoever it shall fall it will scatter him as dust' st peter calls jesus, in his first epistleii,4, a precious stone and a living stone; while peter was calledcephas-a stone -byjesus himself, matthew xvi, 18, and john i, 42. in revelation ii, 17, we read:'tohim that overcometh i will give him a white stone and upon the stone a new namewrittenwhich no man knowethbuthe that receivethit.'this is taken by the church to mean a full pardon and absolution, and a reward of merit.theprophet zechariah had a vision of joshua the high priest with satan standing beside him as an adversary; incap.iv, we read of a very mysterious stone:'forbehold the stone that i have set before joshua, upon one stone are seven eyes.'theco

rted to spain, was thence carriedtoireland, placed in the cathedral of cashel, and upon it the kings of munster were crowned; it was there called lia fail, or fatal stone, and then on to scotland in 513, where it was used as a coronation stone for fergus, a royal prince, and for later kings of scotland, crowned at scone. our english king, edward the first brought it to london in 1297, and this is the stone now preserved in westminster abbey upon which our kings and queens are crowned; its sizeis small and said to be 22 by 13 by11inches. some persons believe this coronation stone to be the very pillar of jacob, and the sacred stone of the temple at jerusalem;butunbelievers declare that the west255 minster coronation stone is of the sandstone formation of the west coast of scotland and was q

st coast of scotland and was quarried there.itis to be seen under the coronation chair in the chapel of edward the confessor. england has also another coronation stone at kingston-on-thames; upon this stone several of the saxon kings were crowned.theirish believe that they have still a royal stone embedded on the summit of the hill of tara in county meath, and this is sometimes called lia fail or the stone of destiny. tara was the capital and palace of the early kings of ireland, and a notable seat of learning.aidjewish legends narrate marvellous stores ofthe'stone of foundation; these are to be found in thetoledothjeshu,and in the talmudic bookyoma:prideaux'sconnection between the old andnewtestamentalso refers to this stone, and some masonic authors associate it with the double cube of o

of olden time who taught the doctrine of metempsychosis, believed that a man's soul might after death not only be born again in a human body, but for its sins in an animal body, and even imprisoned in astone.in the262themagical masonhebrewemehhamelechfolio 153 we may read 'the soul of a slanderer may be sent to inhabit a silent stone. in the old testament book of habakkuk, ii, ii, it is written 'the stone shall cry out of the wall. rabbi isaac livria was once walking past the school house of rabbi jochanan at tiberias and pointing to a stone in the wall said,'inthat stone is imprisoned a man's soul and it cries out for me to pray in its behalf' the hebrewpesachimsaysthat god taught adam to procure fire by strikingstonestogether. the rabbis had another quaint conceit about stones: we read

and each of two friends kept a portion.thehebrews, too, in early times, used a pledge calledoirabon,orbun,which was regarded as a sort of talisman to perpetuate friendship.theearly christians are said to have adopted this custom, and they marked their stones with the letters'p.u.a.p.'meaningpater-father,uios-son, andagion pneuma -holy spirit. mention must also be made of the 'philosophers' stone, the stone of the wise, in search of which so many students in past centuries have worked in vain, although there are many narratives in medieval tracts which declare the reality of such a stone and its discovery. there was a material aspect of the stone by which it might transmute the baser metals into gold; andreligious and masonic symbolism of stones 265there was a spiritual stone which should c

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

nd( n) manasseh, classedtogetherundertheirfather'sname,jacob says,'iosephis a fruitfultwelvesigns and twelve tribes 43bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall; the archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him, and hated him:buthis bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mightygodof jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of israel) even by the god of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessingsofthedeep thatiiethunder, blessings of the breasts and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of joseph, and on the

aught coming down the hill-side?'isaw a little mist wreath clinging to the ground, just over a rough path 'that's not a mist' he said rather impatiently 'it's a little procession.there'sa man carrying a wee bit coffin on his shoulder.idoubt they would notgeta cart up there, and there's twelve men, and three women following. but why will they be going the other side of theburn,'tis a mile round by the stone bridge. well! it will*pronouncedthek.some celtic memories109two days from now; come ye here and ye shall see that funeral, and then go and talk about your marsh gas if ye like. marsh gas indeed' he walked off rather contemptuously. but there is no question that on the second day from that i saw the baby's funeral as he had described, and the reason they went round by the far side of the

asbetrothedto a beautiful girl, but another man carried her off. whereupon the originalloverhad solemnly cursed the man who had taken her. i inquired how he had done it, and the details seemed to have been well preserved. itwasonce a month in the dark of the moon that he set up each stone walking round thrice widdershins and crying to thel:>evilto .curse and blast the man's life. he also baptized the stone in the devil's name with water from a certain spring, said to. be the haunt of evil spirits. where he got the ritual from no one knows. i believe there are some spells somewhat similiar in thegrimoire.i asked whether the curses had taken effect 'the man i was told had fallen off a roof and broken his l1eck, and the girl had died with her first child. the curser raarried soon after this,b

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

ontent. 1 of 3 6/27/2004 7:51 am lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram (lbrp) introduction to the ritual there is a much employed ritual which utilizes the symbol of the pentagram as a general means to banish and invoke the elemental forces. this ritual is called the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces the uses of the pentagram ritual: opening and closi

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

uld destroy me, be thou destroyed! you who would desecrate this temple or order by intentional acts of malice, be thou desecrated! by all the forces and powers invoked here this day, and by the power of the blood of the rose, as it is desired, so shall it be (all move back to original positions) chief adept "fraters and sorors, let us first seek always in all things true wisdom, the summun bonum, the stone of the philosophers. our order is dedicated to healing, not to hurting, to helping, not to hindering, to the higher genius the true will and the great work. but let us remember the blood of the martyrs, and let us always commit to defending this temple, this order and all those who in innocence seek the true and celestial light with whatever force necessary. let us kneel "oh lord of the

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

d his jawline back to his ears. above and below the ears, on the side of the head, were carved odd graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 79 representations of animals. or perhaps it would be better to describe these carvings as representations of odd animals, because they looked like big, clumsy, prehistoric mammals with fat tails and club feet. there were other points of interest. for example, the stone figure of viracocha had been sculpted with the hands and arms folded, one below the other, over the front of a long, flowing robe. on each side of this robe appeared the sinuous form of a snake coiling upwards from ground to shoulder level. and as i looked at this beautiful design (the original of which had perhaps been embroidered on rich cloth) the picture that came into my mind was of

ands folded across its belly encircling an empty plate, and its back set at an awkward angle as though it were just about to lever itself upright. had it done so, i calculated, it would have stood about eight feet tall. even reclining, coiled and tightly sprung, it seemed to overflow with a fierce and pitiless energy. its square features were thin-lipped and implacable, as hard and indifferent as the stone from which they were carved, and its eyes gazed westwards, traditionally the direction of darkness, death and the colour black.2 1 mexico, lonely planet publications, hawthorne, australia, 1992, pp. 839. 2 ronald wright, time among the maya, futura publications, london, 1991, pp. 343. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 101 chichen itza. rather lugubriously, i continued to climb the

gods 116 in a sacred sanctuary in the mixtec capital achiotlan? we know of this curious object through the writings of a sixteenth-century eyewitness, father burgoa: the material was of marvellous value, for it was an emerald of the size of a thick pepper-pod [capsicum, upon which a small bird was engraved with the greatest skill, and, with the same skill, a small serpent coiled ready to strike. the stone was so transparent that it shone from its interior with the brightness of a candle flame. it was a very old jewel, and there is no tradition extant concerning the origin of its veneration and worship.7 what might we learn if we could examine this very old jewel today? and how old was it really? we shall never find out because fr. benito, the first missionary of achiotlan, seized the ston

he visible evidence of the kinds of drilling and sawing that had been done, however, compelled him to infer that such instruments must have existed. he became especially interested in this and extended his study to include not only the king s chamber sarcophagus but many other granite artefacts and granite drill cores which he collected at giza. the deeper his research, however, the more puzzling the stone-cutting technology of the ancient egyptians became: the amount of pressure, shown by the rapidity with which the drills and saws pierced through the hard stones, is very surprising; probably a load of at least a ton or two was placed on the 4-inch drills cutting in granite. on the granite core no 7 the spiral of the cut sinks 1 inch in the circumference of 6 inches, a rate of ploughing o

992, p. 51. 19 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 322 because identical vessels had been found in pre-dynastic strata dated to 4000 bc and earlier,20 and because the practice of handing down treasured heirlooms from generation to generation had been deeply ingrained in egypt since time immemorial. whether they were made in 2500 bc or in 4000 bc or even earlier, the stone vessels from the step pyramid were remarkable for their workmanship, which once again seemed to have been accomplished by some as yet unimagined (and, indeed, almost unimaginable) tool. why unimaginable? because many of the vessels were tall vases with long, thin, elegant necks and widely flared interiors, often incorporating fully hollowed-out shoulders. no instrument yet invented was c

f the style of the old kingdom; the simplicity of the actual building also points to it being of that early date. the decoration was added by seti i, who in that way laid claim to the building, but seeing how often a pharaoh claimed the work of his predecessors by putting his name on it, this fact does not carry much weight. it is the style of the building, the type of the masonry, the tooling of the stone, and not the name of a king, which date a building in egypt.25 this was an admonition frankfort might well have paid more attention to, for as he bemusedly observed of his cenotaph, it has to be admitted that no similar building is known from the nineteenth dynasty. 26 indeed it is not just a matter of the nineteenth dynasty. apart from the valley temple and other cyclopean edifices on t

s involved in making it is in many ways almost beyond our own capacities, contradicts the belief that civilization and technology have evolved in a straightforward, linear way. because even with the best modern technology we almost couldn t carry out the various tasks that were involved in the project. the sphinx itself, that s not such a staggering feat. i mean if you get enough sculptors to cut the stone away they could carve a statue a mile long. the technology was involved in taking the stones, quarrying the stones, to free the sphinx from its bedrock and then in moving those stones and using them to build the valley temple a couple of hundred feet away. this was news to me: you mean that the 200-ton blocks in the valley temple walls were quarried right out of the sphinx enclosure? yes

tant? because they have a colossal bearing on our understanding of the past of our own species. the very careful, very precise site-planning and setting-out that appears to have been done here in 10,450 bc could only have been the work of a highly-evolved, probably technological civilization. whereas no such civilization is supposed to have existed anywhere on earth in that epoch. exactly. it was the stone age. human society was supposed to have been at a very primitive level, with our ancestors wearing skins, sheltering in caves, following a hunting-gathering way of life and so on and so forth. so its rather unsettling to discover that civilized people seem to have been present in giza in 10,450 bc, who understood the obscure science of precession extremely well, who had the technical cap

the essence of the knowledge we have accumulated during the 5000 years of our recorded history. 18 the bhagavata purana, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 88. 19 berossus fragments cited in the sirius mystery, p. 249. 20 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 471 we start by preparing for the worst. we assume that there will be survivors but that they will be blasted back into the stone age by the cataclysm. realizing that it may take ten or twelve thousand years for a civilization as advanced as our own to rise again like a phoenix from the ashes, one of our top priorities is to find a way to communicate with that postulated future civilization. at the least we would want to say to them: kilroy was here! and to be sure they got the message no matter what language they

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

rganic and inorganic matter. h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the voice of the silence the practice of alchemy has often been associated with the chemical process of turning base metals into gold. how-ever, enochian magick recognizes another important branch of alchemy- turning ignorance into wisdom, sickness into health, and mortality into longevity. it is symbolically called the philosopher's stone, the stone of the magician, and it works through a magical process of transmutation. it is not just a physical process but mental as well. the 'base metal' is the human body and mind, and the 'pure gold' is the body immunized against sickness and age with mind enl ightened to the true nature of things. within and around the human body is an aura, a subtle body of light with several gradations. the

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

beside the carolingian berhta, beside the eddie biort (p. 1149, beside the deeply rooted tradition of the' white lady' of dame holda the legend was never written down till the 1 7th century; if holda was in the venus-mountain, which goes as far back as the 14th, she at once gains in importance; then further, in the 12th century we can point to pharaildis (p. 284; and if, to crown all, huldana in the stone inscription is correct (p. 266, we can have but little doubt of a gothic worship of hul 7o (p. 990. now, as bei'hta and holda are adjective names, i was fain to claim for nerthus also an adj. basis nairthus, with the sense of mild, gracious, fair. frigg too p. 301-2) i interpret by the adj. free, fair, gracious- if gaue, gauden, is a corruption of the masc. woden, it might still have an

wishes for children; of the snow-child in the modus liebmc; of the giants made out of frost and ice (pp. 440. 465; aphrodite's bemg generated out of sea-foam is a part of the same thing. 3 the technical term' inn dyri mio'sr' recurs in saem. 23. 28. a drink. od-heceri. 903 pulled a whetstone^ out of his belt, and gave them an edge; they cut so much better now, that the mowers began bargaining for the stone, but 05inn threw it up in the air, and while each was trying to catch it, they all cut one another's throats with their scythes- at night osinn found a lodging with another giant, suttung's brother baugi, who sorely complained that he had that day lost his nine men, and had not a woi'kman left. osinn, who called himself eolverkr, was ready to undertake nine men's work, stipulating only f

on a snoiv-white steed; then the horse stamped with his foot on the ground, and broke away a piece of rock; out of the opening gushed a bubbling spring (pp. 226. 584, and the whole army was watered. gushorn is the name of the spring, to whose clear cold waves the country-folk impute a higher cleansing power than to common water, and women froia surrounding villages come to wash their linen there. the stone with the hoof-mark may still be seen, let into the wall of gudensberg churchyard. after that, king charles fought a great haitle at the foot of the odenberg: the streaming hlood tore dee) furrows in the ground (they have often been filled up, but the rain always washes them open, the red waves rolled (wulchen) together, and poured down all the way to bessa. charles won the victory: in th

ion of felicity^ this banning differs from metamorphosis, inasmuch as it does not transform, but rather throws a spell upon things in their natural shape, only removing them into a new position; though common parlance calls whatever is transformed' verwiinscht (banned. further, what is metamorphosed remains, till the moment of its emancipation, in the new shape given it, visible to all eyes, e.g. the stone or tree into which a man has been changed; whereas, when a thing is banned, in the sense in which i use the word, it seems to me essential that it be ivithdrawn from our senses, and only re-appear from time to time, and then in the same shape as before. in other words: what is metamorphosed remains corporeal, what is banned becomes imperceptible, and can only on certain conditions become

eading characters with a lasting inextinguishable life. but siegfried is also wuotan (pp. 26n. 134, dietrich is wuotan^ other signs that the end of the world is at hand: when the swan drops the ring from his bill (p. 429; when the giant's rib, from which a drop falls once a year, has all trickled away (deut. sag. no. 140; when the tongue of the balance stands in (ib. 294; when, says a swed. song, the stone in the green valley falls; when the ship made of men's 7iails is built (p. 814* p. 822-3; even the particles ever, once, one day, olim, apply to both states of being. heroes inside hills. 961 future. in the castle-cellar of salurn, in the silesian zobtenberg (p. 937, charles is wuotan (p. 394; and wuotan, after muspilli, rises on the world anew, a god alive and young again. once before

eking god' on p. 145 was another thing (see suppl. often the banished one bears no name at all: the shepherd from the ostenberg found in the cavern of the willberg a little man sitting at a stone table, which his heard had grown through (deut. sag. no. 314; and a grizzled man conducted the shepherd ofwernigerodeto the treasures oi i\ie mountain cave (ib. no. 315, the beard's growing round or into the stone expresses forcibly the long duration of the past time, and the slow advance of the 1' et prius arturus veniet vetus ille britannus' henr. septimell. in leyser, p. 460' cujus in artitri tempore fructus erit' ib. p. 477. 2 wartb. kr. jen. hs. 99. 100 (i)o*;n 1, 132-3* barrois, preface p. xii. pulci 28. 36. 962 translation. were found tliree men sitting at tlie table (ib. nos. 15. 143, who

f a pillar was wanting, when esbern began to be alarmed, because he knew not yet the trold's name. anxious and sad he wandered in the fields, when at the top of a rock he heard the voice of a trold-wife 'hush, hush, my child, to-morrow comes thy father fin bringing thee esbern snare's heart and eyes to play with' esbern came home comforted; he stept into the church, the trold was just bringing up the stone shaft that was still wanting, when esbern hailed him by the name of fin! in a rage the ti'old shot up into the air with the half-pillar: that is why the church stands on three pillars and a lialf only. fiimr is the name of a dwarf in the edda. the german legend on p. 549 is told thus in lower hesse: a peasant on the euenbach (by the sandershiiuser mt. near cassel) had so much corn to gat

nicht; de olden seden' auimam qiiaeri, men scholde eiu kat edder hunt dariii drenken' als diser gebleven, wert it mit der hchte togeslagen (easily stopt up, neocor. 2, 340. conf. in chap. xxxvi. inserting the shrewmouse into the ash. built in alive. 1143 are laying tlie fouudatiou-stone of a new building, shall die within a year; the builders, to avert the calamity, kill a lamh or a hack cock on the stone, just as at frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, ds. no. 185. at arta a thousand masons wrought at a bridge: all that they raised in the day rushed down at night. then sounded the archangel's voice from heaven' unless ye dig theveinto a child of nutn, the masonry shall not stand; yet no orphan nor stranger shall ye bury, but the master-builder's wife' when the wife

orphanus vocatur. est autem colore vinosus, subtilem habens vinositatem, et hoc est sicut si candidum nivis candens sen micans penetraverit in rubeum clarum vinosum, et sit superatum ab ipso. est autem lapis perlucidus, et traditur quod aliquando fulsit in nocte, sed nunc tempore nostro non micat in tenebris. fertur autem quod honorem servat regalem' if the ohg. weiso had already had the sense of the stone, it would hardly fail to appear in the glosses. we find it in full play in the mhg. poets, ever since the tale was told of how in distant land duke ernst with his sword cut it out of the living rock, and presented it as a gift to the king (11. 3604 23 and 5543 of the lay, and in odo's latin poem 6, 357 'philippe setzeu welsen uf' walth. 9, 15' schouwe wem der weise ob sime nacke ste, der

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14, mentions a large stone in the t, and says < once a great giant came this way with a pebble m his shoe that hurt him, and when he untied the shoe, this stone fell out/ the story is still told of a smooth rock near ar, how the great christopher carried it in his shoe, till he* eudolst. 1788, p. 52, giants. 541 felt something gall his foot; he pulled off the shoe and turned it down, when the stone fell where it now lies. such stones are also called crumb-stones. on the soiling near uslar lie some large boundary-stones, 16 to 20 feet long, and 6 to 8 thick: time out of mind two giants were jaunting across country; says the one to the other, this shoe hurts me, some bits of gravel i think it must be/ with that he pulled off the shoe and shook these stones out. in the valley above il

s with balls. once, as thor was going past linneryd in smaland with his henchman (the thialfi of the edda, he came upon a giant to whom he was not known, and opened a conversation: whither goes thy way? i go to heaven to fight thor, who has set my stable on fire. thou presumest too much; why, thou hast not even the strength to lift this little stone and set it on the great one. the giant clutched the stone with all his might, but could not lift it off the ground, so much weight had thor imparted to it. thor s servant tried it next, and lifted it lightly as he would a glove. then the giant knew it was the god, and fell upon him so lustily that he sank on his knees, but thor swung his hammer and laid the enemy prostrate. all over germany there are so many of these stories about stones and ha

age of gombet, lies a stone which she hurled all the way from homberg at one throw, and you see the fingers of her hand imprinted on it. the scharfenstein by gudensberg was thrown there by a giant in his rage. on the tyrifjordensstrand near bum in norway is a large stone, which one jutul fighting with another is said to have flung obliquely across the bay, and plain marks of his fingers remain on the stone (faye, p. 15. two or three miles from dieren in the meissen country there lie a block of quartz and one of granite; the former was thrown by the giant of wantewitz at the giant of zadel, the latter by the zadeler at the wantewitzer; but they both missed, the stones having fallen wide of the mark.1 so two combatants at refnas and asnas threw enormous stones at each other, one called sorte

l shews the fingers of the thrower (thiele 1, 47. a kind of slaty stone in norway, says hallager 53a, is called jyvrikling, because the jyvri (giantess) is said to have smeared it over with butter, and you may see the dint of her fingers on it. two giants at nestved tried their hands at hurling stones; the one aimed his at riislov church, but did not reach it, the other threw with such force that the stone flew right over the steinwald, and may still be seen on the high road from nestved to ringsted (thiele 1, 80; conf. 176. in the wood near palsgaard lies a huge stone, which a jette flung there because the lady of the manor at palsgaard, whom he was courting, declined his proposals; others maintain that a jette maiden slung it over from fiinen with her garter (thiele 3, 65-6; conf. 42. wh

from fiinen with her garter (thiele 3, 65-6; conf. 42. when giants fight, and one pursues another, they will in their haste leap over a village, and slit their great toe against the church-spire, so that the blood spirts out in jets and forms a pool (deut. sag. no. 325; which strikingly resembles wainamoinen, rune 3. in leaping off a, steep cliff, their foot or their horse s hoof leaves tracks in the stone (ibid. nos. 318-9. also, when a giant sits down to rest on a stone, or leans against a rock, 1 preusker in kruse s deutsch. alterth. iii. 3, 37. giants. 547 his figure prints itself on the hard surface/ e.g. starcather s in saxo gram. 111. it is not as smiths, like the cyclops, that giants are described in german legend, and the forging of arms is reserved for dwarfs. once in our hero-le

ng-house he built on rocks, his fields he fenced with stone ramparts. once he had a quarrel with a merchant of libau; to punish him, he put his w/iite mare to draw a stone equal to twelve cartloads all the way to libau, intending to drop it at the merchant s door. when he reached the town, they would not let him cross the bridge, fearing it would break under the load, and insisted on his removing the stone outside the liberties. the strong man, deeply mortified, did so, and dropt the stone on the road that goes to grobin by battenhof. there it lies to this day, and the lettons, as they pass, point to it in astonishment.1 kinte s white mare may stand for the scandinavian smith s svaftilfari; the defeat of the giant s building designs is effected in a different way. king olaf brooked many ot

ivided from it by a sound. sfc. olaf sailed up to them, and commanded the cliffs to part and let him pass through. they did so, but instantly a giantess leapt out of the mountain and cried: sig (see, du mand med det hvide skag (white beard, hvi splitter du saa min klippevag? olaf: stat (stand) trold nu evig der i steen, saa gjor du ei nogen mand (not any man) meer meen. his word came to pass, and the stone figure stands yet on the cliff (faye 124. olafs red beard (like those of our hero-kings otto and friedrich) reminds us of thorr the foe of giants (p. 177; pipuga skagg is apparently the same as the pipskdgg, wedge- 1 danske viser 2, 12-3. thiele 1, 32; conf. faye 118-9. 2 fernow s varmeland, p. 223. 3 nyerup s karakteristik af christian 4, p. 17. trlants. 551 like or peaked beard, quoted

son (kallewepoeg, who furrowed up grassy lands wibh a wooden plough, and not a blade has grown on them since (see suppl. this trickiness of the finnish giants is a contrast to the rough but honest ways of the grerman and scandinavian. above all, there is no clear line to be drawn between giants and the wild hairy woodsprites dealt with in pp. 478-486. in the woods of the bingenheim mark are seen the stone seats of the wild folk (conf. p. 432) who once lived there, and the print of their hands on the stones (deut. sag. no. 166. in the vale of gastein, says muchar, p. 137, wild men have lived within the memory of man, but the breed has died out since; one of them declared he had seen the forest of sallesen near mt. stubnerkogel get mair (die out and revive again) nine times: he could mind w

is expressed in snorri 39 by( freyr leit i nor&rcett. in the danish folk-song of the stolen hammer, thorr appears as tord (thunder) af hafsgaard (seaburgh, while the giant from whom loke is to get the hammer back dwells in nordenfjeld; the swedish folk-song says more vaguely trolltrams gard/ a but what runs into gianthood altogether is the nature of the man-eating huorco or ogre (p. 486. like him the stone-hurling cyclops in the odyssey hanker after human flesh; and again a tartar giant depeghoz (eye on top of head) 2 stands midway be tween polyphemus, who combs with a harrow and shaves with a scythe (ov. metam. 13, 764, and gargantua. as an infant he sucks all the nurses dry, that offer him the breast; when grown up, the oghuzes have to supply him daily with 2 men and 500 sheep. bissat, t

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sband of eurydice before him. charmed with the magicsounds of his violin, the wheel of ixion was at a standstill once more, thus affording relief to the wretchedseducer of juno, and giving the lie to those who claim eternity for the duration of the punishment ofcondemned sinners. he perceived tantalus forgetting his never-ceasing thirst, and smacking his lips as hedrank in the heaven-born melody; the stone of sisyphus becoming motionless, the furies themselves smilingon him, and the sovereign of the gloomy regions delighted, and awarding preference to his violin over thelyre of orpheus. taken au serieux, mythology thus seems a decided antidote to fear, in the face of theologicalthreats, especially when strengthened with an insane and passionate love of music, with franz, euterpeproved alwa

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believing that the spilling of one blood washes out the other blood spilt-this is preposterous! can the results of a crime be obliterated even though the crime itself should be pardoned? the effects of a cause are never limited to the boundaries of the cause, nor can the results of crime be confined to the offender and his victim. every good as well as evil action has its effects, as palpably as the stone flung into calm water. the simile is trite, but it is the best ever conceived, so let us use it. the eddying circles are greater and swifter as the disturbing object is greater or smaller, but the smallest pebble, nay, the tiniest speck, makes its ripples. and this disturbance is not alone visible and on the surface. below, unseen, in every direction-outward and downward-drop pushes drop

p blavatsky.txt bottom are touched by the force. more, the air above the water is agitated, and this disturbance passes, as the physicists tell us, from stratum to stratum out into space forever and ever; an impulse has been given to matter, and that is never lost, can never be recalled! so with crime, and so with its opposite. the action may be instantaneous, the effects are eternal. when, after the stone is once flung into the pond, we can recall it to the hand, roll back the ripples, obliterate the force expended, restore the etheric waves to their previous state of non-being, and wipe out every trace of the act of throwing the missile, so that time's record shall not show that it ever happened, then, then we may patiently hear christians argue for the efficacy of this atonement -and ce

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effects of encounters with earth light phenomena. unbeknown to me at the time (which was later discovered when i related this tale) two friends of mine who were members of the west yorkshire earth mysteries group had experienced a strange encounter at the then newly-uncovered backstone stone circle. their experience included seeing earth lights, small dwarf-like shades, and lines of energy around the stone circle that they spent a night sitting in. it seems strange, on reflection, that the appearance of the entity claiming to originate from a newly-disturbed site seems to relate to their experience. what this experience did do, was to lead me to making a more intensive study of earth mysteries and magithwhat is magick? what is magick? several definitions float into my mind, but none of the

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lchemy, but i had arrived at as much 30 perhaps 40 years ago, and yet.i have not accomplished it, partly certainly, because i ?ave n?t tned: when you come to the astral practice, then your difficulties begin, i will explain to you as to books and mss, when i see you. as to the gift of god &c, that does not mean e.xact y what it says, any more than it does as to the very long time it takes to make the stone of the philosophers. mrs ayton has not been at all well- congestion of the brain_ but is. nearly herself again, and will accompany me to london, but will not go about much. she joins me in kind regards to mrs gardner and yourself. i do not know whether the time of the gd. will not clash with the thursday seance at no. 17 [lansdowne road. we would go there if we could. 21 chacombe vicarag

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because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outside cellar-door. as wilcox would have said, the geometry of the place was all wrong. one could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable. briden pushed at the stone in several places without result. then donovan felt over it delicately around the edge, pressing each point separately as he went. he climbed interminably along the grotesque stone moulding- that is, one would call it climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal- and the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast. then, very softly and slowly, the acre-great lintel

had begun to break. earl sawyer went out to the whateley place with both sets of reporters and camera men, and called their attention to the queer stench which now seemed to trickle down from the sealed upper spaces. it was, he said, exactly like a smell he had found in the toolshed abandoned when the house was finally repaired; and like the faint odours which he sometimes thought he caught near the stone circle on the mountains. dunwich folk read the stories when they appeared, and grinned over the obvious mistakes. they wondered, too, why the writers made so much of the fact that old whateley always paid for his cattle in gold pieces of extremely ancient date. the whateleys had received their visitors with ill-concealed distaste, though they did not dare court further publicity by a vio

fully six feet above the surrounding streets- there stood a grim, titan bulk whose identity, despite blake's new perspective, was beyond dispute. the vacant church was in a state of great decrepitude. some of the high stone buttresses had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neglected weeds and grasses. the sooty gothic windows were largely unbroken, though many of the stone mullions were missing. blake wondered how the obscurely painted panes could have survived so well, in view of the known habits of small boys the world over. the massive doors were intact and tightly closed. around the top of the bank wall, fully enclosing the grounds, was a rusty iron fence whose gate- at the head of a flight of steps from the square- was visibly padlocked. the path from

ith vague suggestions of charring. this charring extended to some of the fragments of clothing. the skull was in a very peculiar state- stained yellow, and with a charred aperture in the top as if some powerful acid had eaten through the solid bone. what had happened to the skeleton during its four decades of silent entombment here blake could not imagine. before he realized it, he was looking at the stone again, and letting its curious influence call up a nebulous pageantry in his mind. he saw processions of robed, hooded figures whose outlines were not human, and looked on endless leagues of desert lined with carved, sky-reaching monoliths. he saw towers and walls in nighted depths under the sea, and vortices of space where wisps of black mist floated before thin shimmerings of cold purp

nd beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of darkness, where solid and semisolid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and arcana of the worlds we know. then all at once the spell was broken by an access of gnawing, indeterminate panic fear. blake choked and turned away from the stone, conscious of some formless alien presence close to him and watching him with horrible intentness. he felt entangled with something- something which was not in the stone, but which had looked through it at him- something which would ceaselessly follow him with a cognition that was not physical sight. plainly, the place was getting on his nerves- as well it might in view of his gruesome f

rcle around the whole group of buildings until summoned by a final emergency signal. the river party would break down the hillside door at the sound of a single whistle-blast, then wait and capture anything which might issue from the regions within. at the sound of two whistle-blasts it would advance through the aperture to oppose the enemy or join the rest of the raiding contingent. the party at the stone building would accept these respective signals in an analogous manner; forcing an entrance at the first, and at the second descending whatever passage into the ground might be discovered, and joining the general or focal warfare expected to take place within the caverns. a third or emergency signal of three blasts would summon the immediate reserve from its general guard duty; its twenty

ns. he had with him a whistle of great power and shrillness, and did not fear any upsetting or misunderstanding of signals. the final reserve at the landing, of course, was nearly out of the whistle's range; hence would require a special messenger if needed for help. moses brown and john carter went with capt. hopkins to the river-bank, while president manning was detailed with capt. mathewson to the stone building. dr. bowen, with ezra weeden, remained in capt. whipple's party which was to storm the farmhouse itself. the attack was to begin as soon as a messenger from capt. hopkins had joined capt. whipple to notify him of the river party's readiness. the leader would then deliver the loud single blast, and the various advance parties would commence their simultaneous attack on three poin

london, where he knew another branch of the family had lived. it seems that the fenners, from whose house the doomed farm was distantly visible, had watched the departing columns of raiders; and had heard very clearly the angry barking of the curwen dogs, followed by the first shrill blast which precipitated the attack. this blast had been followed by a repetition of the great shaft of light from the stone building, and in another moment, after a quick sounding of the second signal ordering a general invasion, there had come a subdued prattle of musketry followed by a horrible roaring cry which the correspondent luke fenner had represented in his epistle by the characters 'waaaahrrrrr-r'waaahrrr' this cry, however, had possessed a quality which no mere writing could convey, and the corresp

y's tale, whom the gods decided must not only cease to be, but must cease ever to have been. mrs. tillinghast, as the widow became known after 1772, sold the house in olney court and resided with her father in power's lane till her death in 1817. the farm at pawtuxet, shunned by every living soul, remained to moulder through the years; and seemed to decay with unaccountable rapidity. by 1780 only the stone and brickwork were standing, and by 1800 even these had fallen to shapeless heaps. none ventured to pierce the tangled shrubbery on the river-bank behind which the hillside door may have lain, nor did any try to frame a definite image of the scenes amidst which joseph curwen departed from the horrors he had wrought. only robust old capt. whipple was heard by alert listeners to mutter onc

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or because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outside cellardoor. as wilcox would have said, the geometry of the place was all wrong. one could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed fantasmally variable. briden pushed at the stone in several places without result. then donovan felt over it delicately around the edge, pressing each point separately as he went. he climbed interminably along the grotesque stone moulding- that is, one would call it climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal- and the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast. then, very softly and slowly, the acre-great panel b

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

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

ealed everything. swung back open against the left-hand wall of the passage was a massive door of brass, incredibly thick and decorated with fantastic bas-reliefs, which could if closed shut the whole inner world of light away from the vaults and passages of rock. i looked at the step, and for the nonce dared not try them. i touched the open brass door, and could not move it. then i sank prone to the stone floor, my mind aflame with prodigious reflections which not even a death-like exhaustion could banish. as i lay still with closed eyes, free to ponder, many things i had lightly noted in the frescoes came back to me with new and terrible significance- scenes representing the nameless city in its heyday- the vegetations of the valley around it, and the distant lands with which its merchan

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yet i cannot recall any person except myself, or anything alive but the noiseless rats and bats and spiders. i think that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of somebody mockingly like myself, yet distorted, shrivelled, and decaying like the castle. to me there was nothing grotesque in the bones and skeletons that strewed some of the stone crypts deep down among the foundations. i fantastically associated these things with everyday events, and thought them more natural than the coloured pictures of living beings which i found in many of the mouldy books. from such books i learned all that i know. no teacher urged or guided me, and i do not recall hearing any human voice in all those years- not even my own; for although i h

higher i knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the slab was the trapdoor of an aperture leading to a level stone surface of greater circumference than the lower tower, no doubt the floor of some lofty and capacious observation chamber. i crawled through carefully, and tried to prevent the heavy slab from falling back into place, but failed in the latter attempt. as i lay exhausted on the stone floor i heard the eerie echoes of its fall, hoped when necessary to pry it up again. believing i was now at prodigious height, far above the accursed branches of the wood, i dragged myself up from the floor and fumbled about for windows, that i might look for the first time upon the sky, and the moon and stars of which i had read. but on every hand i was disappointed; since all that i fo

in the cosmos there is balm as well as bitterness, and that balm is nepenthe. in the supreme horror of that second i forgot what had horrified me, and the burst of black memory vanished in a chaos of echoing images. in a dream i fled from that haunted and accursed pile, and ran swiftly and silently in the moonlight. when i returned to the churchyard place of marble and went down the steps i found the stone trap-door immovable; but i was not sorry, for i had hated the antique castle and the trees. now i ride with the mocking and friendly ghouls on the night-wind, and play by day amongst the catacombs of nephren-ka in the sealed and unknown valley of hadoth by the nile. i know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts o

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oldness amidst which none shall vex his mind with thought or his eyes with beauty. go thou then to athok the cobbler or be gone out of the city by sunset. all here must serve, and song is folly" so iranon went out of the stable and walked over the narrow stone streets between the gloomy square house of granite, seeking something green, for all was of stone. on the faces of men were frowns, but by the stone embankment along the sluggish river zuro sat a young boy with sad eyes gazing into the waters to spy green budding branches washed down from the hills by the freshets. and the boy said to him "art thou not indeed he of whom the archons tell, who seekest a far city in a fair land? i am romnod, and borne of the blood of teloth, but am not olf in the ways of the granite city, and yearn dail

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ds o' favour in return. they met the things on the little islet with the queer ruins, an' it seems them awful picters o' frog-fish monsters was supposed to be picters o' these things. mebbe they was the kind o' critters as got all the mermaid stories an' sech started. they had all kinds a' cities on the sea-bottom, an' this island was heaved up from thar. seem they was some of the things alive in the stone buildin's when the island come up sudden to the surface, that's how the kanakys got wind they was daown thar. made sign-talk as son as they got over bein' skeert, an' pieced up a bargain afore long "them things liked human sacrifices. had had 'em ages afore, but lost track o' the upper world after a time. what they done to the victims i ain't fer me to say, an' i guess obed was'n't none

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

granite slabs, we stepped back some distance to survey the charnel scene; and warren appeared to make some mental calculations. then he returned to the sepulcher, and using his spade as a lever, sought to pry up the slab lying nearest to a stony ruin which may have been a monument in its day. he did not succeed, and motioned to me to come to his assistance. finally our combined strength loosened the stone, which we raised and tipped to one side. the removal of the slab revealed a black aperture, from which rushed an effluence of miasmal gases so nauseous that we started back in horror. after an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable. our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inne

s nod i took one of the latter and seated myself upon an aged, discolored gravestone close by the newly uncovered aperture. then he shook my hand, shouldered the coil of wire, and disappeared within that indescribable ossuary. for a minute i kept sight of the glow of his lantern, and heard the rustle of the wire as he laid it down after him; but the glow soon disappeared abruptly, as if a turn in the stone staircase had been encountered, and the sound died away almost as quickly. i was alone, yet bound to the unknown depths by those magic strands whose insulated surface lay green beneath the struggling beams of that waning crescent moon. i constantly consulted my watch by the light of my electric lantern, and listened with feverish anxiety at the receiver of the telephone; but for more tha

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

but in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement. spurred on by a voice which must have come from the hideous soul of the forest, i resolved to enter the beckoning gloom in spite of the ponderous chains which barred my passage. in the waning light of day i alternately rattled the rusty impediments with a view to throwing wide the stone door, and essayed to squeeze my slight form through the space already provided; but neither plan met with success. at first curious, i was now frantic; and when in the thickening twilight i returned to my home, i had sworn to the hundred gods of the grove that at any cost i would some day force an entrance to the black, chilly depths that seemed calling out to me. the physician with the

no one of my information or my resolve. it is perhaps worth mentioning that i was not at all surprised or terrified on learning of the nature of the vault. my rather original ideas regarding life and death had caused me to associate the cold clay with the breathing body in a vague fashion; and i felt that the great and sinister family of the burned-down mansion was in some way represented within the stone space i sought to explore. mumbled tales of the weird rites and godless revels of bygone years in the ancient hall gave to me a new and potent interest in the tomb, before whose door i would sit for hours at a time each day. once i thrust a candie within the nearly closed entrance, but could see nothing save a flight of damp stone steps leading downward. the odor of the place repelled ye

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

or dreamed of before. into the sky the spires of its temples reached, so that no man might behold their peaks; and far back beyond the horizon stretched the grim, gray walls, over which one might spy only a few roofs, weird and ominous, yet adorned with rich friezes and alluring sculptures. i yearned mightily to enter this fascinating yet repellent city, and besought the bearded man to land me at the stone pier by the huge carven gate akariel; but he gently denied my wish, saying, into thalarion, the city of a thousand wonders, many have passed but none returned. therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon lathi, that reigns over the city. so the white ship sailed on past the wa

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

f witchcraft, known for her sympathetic intervention into affairs of the heart. she has never turned her face from anyone who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no attempt should be made to cast a spell, perform a ritual, work a charm, enchant or fascinate without the protection of the ring described, called a full moon ring. the birthstone is said to offer the most protection. however, the stone that you associate with your moonsign is also highly effective. the chant variation is "in the name of isis, goddess of the moon, i offer my energies as a gift of the cosmos; my soul belongs to the wind. i am the cosmos; i am the wind" witchcraft can be a comforting modus operandi. in spell casting, the ritual is performed in a forceful attempt to alter a moment in time, by creating a vi

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ea. therefore it is always advisable to load the room with the thought vibrations corresponding to your respective work and experiments. so for instance, you might charge a ring, a stone or any other object with the wish that the person wearing it should be favored by fortune and success. now there are two possibilities of fixing and timing. the first method consists in fixing the vital virtue on the stone or the metal with your imagination and your concentrated wish, timing it so that the force shall remain forever in it, drawing even further from the universe to bring fortune and success to the person concerned as soon as she will wear the object. you may, of course, load the object you choose for a short time only if you like, so that the influence is broken off as soon as the purpose a

ISIS UNVEILED

ternal meaning there was not a far deeper and spiritual significance. it is positively absurd to judge the ancients from our own standpoint of propriety and virtue. and most assuredly it is not for the church which now stands accused by all the modem symbologists of having adopted precisely these same emblems in their coarsest aspect, and feels herself poweriess to refute the accusations to throw the stone at those who were her models. when men like pythagoras, plato and lamblichus, renowned for their severe morality, took part in the mysteries, and spoke fii them with veneration, it ill behooves our modem critics to judge them so rashly upon their merely external aspect. lamblichus explains the worst; and his explanation, for an unprejudiced mind, ought to be digitizecoy google ennobling

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

c came upon something stony and hard, which struck a spark, clearly visible in the increasing gloom. at this surprise he resumed his labour, and, curiously enough, found a large, flat stone in the centre of his field. this field was far away from any of the farms or cotes, as they were called inthose days, with which the now almost twilight country was sparingly dotted. in a short time he cleared the stone free of the grass and weeds which had grown over it; and it proved to be a large, oblong slab, with an immense iron ring fixed at one end in d 6 the rosicrucians. a socket. for half an hour the countryman essays to stir this stone in vain. at last he bethought himself of some yards of rope which he had lying near amongst his tools; and these he converted, being an ingenious, inquisitive

nse iron ring fixed at one end in d 6 the rosicrucians. a socket. for half an hour the countryman essays to stir this stone in vain. at last he bethought himself of some yards of rope which he had lying near amongst his tools; and these he converted, being an ingenious, inquisitive, inventive man, into a tackle by means of which, and by passing the sling round a bent tree in line with the axis of the stone, he contrived, in the last of the light, and with much expenditure of toil, to raise it. and then, greatly to his surprise, he saw a large, deep, hollow place, buried in darkness, which, when his eyes grew accustomed a little to it, he discovered was the top-story to a stone staircase, seemingly of extraordinary depth, for he saw nothing below. the country fellow had not the slightest id

e chair, reading in a great book, with his elbow resting on a table like a rectangular altar, in the light of a large, ancient iron lamp, suspended by a thick chain to the middle of the roof. a cry of alarm, which he could not suppress, escape from the scared discoverer, who involuntarily advanced one pace, beside himself with terror. he was now within the illuminated chamber. as his foot fell on the stone, the figure started bolt upright from his seated position, as if in awful astonishment. he erected his hooded head, and showed himself as if in anager about to question the intruder. doubtful if what he saw were a reality, or whether he was not in some terrific dream, the countryman advanced, without being aware of what he was doing, another audacious ever-burning lamps. 9 step. the hood

od of his companions seems to turn to old age in an hour. he remembers the far-off ancestors of his contemporaries. fashions fleet, but your unsuspected youth is accommodated to all. yours is, indeed, the persecution of the day-life, which will not let you fall to sleep and cease to see the vanity of everything. your friends of any period disappear. the assurance of the emptiness of all things is the stone as into which your heart is turned. gray hairs (and the old face) have nothing with you, though you see them appearing upon all others. familiar objects disappear from about you, and you and the sun seem the only things that survive 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 o

tics an onyx carved with a beetle which threatens to gnaw at a thunderbolt. see notes and queries; bee mythology. the lilies are said not to have appeared in the french arms until the time of philip augustus. see montfau on s monumens de la monarchie fran aise, paris, 1729, also jean-jacques chifflet, anutasis de childerie, 1655. see also notes and queries, 1856, london, 2d series, for some under the stone or the mystic human possibility, is the infant saviour, born in the mysterious month of the propitiation, or the mystical astrological and astronomical escaped month of the zodiac; and the stone is the philosopher s stone. the lisses of france. 43 learned papers on the fleur-de-lis. in the early armorial bearings of the frankish kings, the lilies are represented as insects, sembed (seede

s: those universal votive torches, which are lost sight of in the mists of antiquity, and which were so continual in the pagan countries, so reiterated through the early ages, and which still remain so frequent in the feudal and monastic periods, these were all connected* it was also something else to which we make reference in other parts of our book. 104 the rosicrucians. closely with religion. the stone tower was only, as it were, a stationary flame, the origin of beacons may be traced to the highest antiquity. according to the original hebrew (which language, as the samaritan, is considered by competent judges as the very oldest, the word beacon may be rendered a mark, monolith, pillar, or upright. at one time the ancient bale, bel, or religious fires of ireland were general all over t

e s india in greece, vol. ii. part i. p. 218. the temple of venus at cyprus was the temple of venus- urania. no woman entered this temple (sale s koran, chap. vii. p. 119; note, p. 149. accordingly, anna commena and glycas (in renald. de mah) say that the mahometans do worship venus. several of the arabian idols were no more than large, rude stones (sale s discourse, p. 20; koran, chap. v. p. 82. the stone at mecca is black. the crypts, the subterranean churches and chambers, the choirs, and the labyrinths, were all intended to enshrine (as it were) and to conceal the central object of worship, or this sacred stone. the pillar of suerio, near forres, in scotland, is an obelisk. these obelisks were all astrological gnomons, or pins, to the imitative stellar mazes, or to the fateful charts i

of the various kinds of christian acceptable cross which was placed on the summit. we have the single stone of memorial surviving yet in the fire-towers (round towers of ireland. this phallus, upright, or pin of stone, is found in every gilgal or druidical circle. it is the boundary-stone or terminus, the parish mark-stone; it stands on every motehill; lastly (and chiefly, this stone survives in the stone in the coronation chair at westminster (of which more hereafter, and also in the famous london stone, or the palladium, in cannon street, city of london: which stone is said to be london s fate which we hope it is not to be in the unprosperous sense. the letter s, among the gnostics, with its grimmer or harsher brother (or sister) z, was called the reprobate, or malignant, letter. of thi

orial, in its material form, is the perpetuation of the idea of the male generative principle, as the physical means, in conjunction with the yoni (loni, or discus, of the production of all visible things. in this connection, the addition to the name of simon peter (petra, or pietra, cephas. jonas, bar-jonas, lonas) will be recalled as suggestive. there is a sacred stone in every temple in india. the stone, or pillar, or pillow, of jacob was sacred among the jews. it was anointed with oil. there was a sacred stone among the greeks at delphi, which was also anointed with oil in the mystic ceremonies. the stone of caaba, or black stone at mecca, is stated to have been there long before the time of mohammed. it was preserved by him when he destroyed the dove and images. the obelisks at rome w

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ttle-men when they aren't on business. on june 20, 1887, during a violent storm, a small stone fell from the sky at tarbes, france. it was thirteen millimeters in diameter, five millimeters thick, and weighed two grams. it was reported to the french academy by m. sudre, professor of the normal school, tarbes. it is difficult for the conventionalists to press the old, convenient expostulation that the stone was there in the first place. such a dodge must be resisted, for the stone was covered with ice. the object had been cut and shaped by means" similar to human hands and human mentality" that expression "similar to" begins to tell a story. it was a disc of worked stone "tres regulier "il a ete assurement travaille" there is no word of any known whirlwind or tornado, or notes of any other

confined to a narrow strip of land. 1908: a white substance, like ashes, fell at annoy, france, on march 27. 1910: charles f. holder wrote that on september 10 "many years ago a strange stone, resembling a meteorite, fell into the valley of the yaqui, mexico, and the sensational story went from one end of the country to the other, that a stone bearing human inscriptions had descended to the earth the stone was brown igneous rock, about eight feet long, and on the 'eastern' face was the deep-cut inscription i submitted the photographs to the field museum and the smithsonian, and others, and, to my surprise, the reply was that they could make nothing of it" a lot of coke, cinders, ashes and slag fell in, the proximate to, the decade of the 1880's. there are too many cases of stones, fire bal

feet below the surface..there is no doubt but that this curiosity was blown out of the rock as above stated..the matter is worthy of investigation, as there is no deception. inlay work the mark of atruscan-lemurians. the london times, for june 22, 1844, reports that some workmen, quarrying rock close to tweed, not far from a place called rutherford mills, had discovered a gold thread embedded in the stone at a depth of about eight feet. a piece of the gold thread had been forwarded to the office of the kelso chronicle. that is a very simple item, indeed! just a wee bit of gold thread in solid rock! matching the gold thread in interest is something found inside a lump of coal by a mrs. culp, at morrisonville, illinois, in 1891. when the lump of coal for her cooking range fell apart she was

nine inches thick. there was little, if any, evidence as to what part of the quarry it came from, except that it could not have come form the surface. the quarry had been worked for about twenty years, and consisted of alternate layers of hard stone and a substance called "till" the point of the nail extended upward into the till and was badly eaten by rust. part of the nail lay on the surface of the stone, but about an inch, including the head, was embedded in the stone. 70 head imbedded thus could not have been pounded in head first, it would not go in. this till intrigues me. once upon a time i read the book, raganork, by ignatius donnelly, who was a u.s. congressman with time on his hands, and who spent that time in the library of congress, making himself one of the most literate congr

osphere frequently. visiting! they live here& work here& build here but fortunately all undersea. to list but a few of some of the other materials reported: ashes, sand, algae, iron, gelatinous matter, seeds, red edible stuff, mud, dust, powder, vegetable matter, white substance, soot, coke, charcoal, coal, earthy matter, soft substance, wedge shapes, black rain, colored rain. add these things to the stone, ice, water, organic matter, living organisms, gadgets, gold thread, etc, and you have three possible explanations: the surface debris of an exploded planet, the surface debris of a continent blasted off the earth, or the rubbish of a space life of vast extent and unspeakable age; perhaps also, curiosity, a trait of intelligence. i believe it substantiates a "space life" of some sort. sp

has no obvious reference or necessary position. i do not know much about the ancient l-m' colonies. 104 aside from written records, to be discussed later, which establish mechanical flight at a remote time of maybe 70,000 to 200,000 years ago, we concern ourselves at the moment only with the gigantic stone masonry which remains in almost all parts of the world. certain characteristics of some of the stone work bespeak origin in a single, widespread civilization, highly developed in some way, but not mechanical in the same sense as ours of today. we will presently limit ourselves to one phase only: the massive size and weight of the various monoliths. the manner or method of their carving is material for another report, but it can be confidently said that the first civilization had simple

and it does, too 1 italics and question marks by jemi. 2 italics and the insertion of parentheses by mr. a 110 marks and "footprints" the following series of oddities is perhaps the most conclusive of all. because i wish to develop "the devil's footprints" fully, i shall not go into detail about the innumerable marks and depressions in stone. however, after the footprints study, and a mention of the stone depressions and what they are, i believe the case for the ufo's will be clearly in your mind. what other source but something from space could account for these erratics? the story of "the devil's footprints" is classic. it was told as follows, by frank w. lane, in fate, april-may, 1952 the material being largely the product of research by rupert gould as printed in stargazer folks and e

irst concern. the whys and wherefores must be secondary issues. have you heard of the vitrified forts of scotland, ireland, brittany and bohemia? there are a number of very ancient forts, many on hilltops, which are scattered through those areas. they are from the below he may have surmised that there were two types of people, at war with one another. can't say for sure. unique, because a part of the stone work is vitrified. it isn't clear as to just what enemies caused the building of the forts whether they were built by invaders or defenders, or already in place prior to an invasion. these forts seem almost to surround england, and since some are in brittany and bohemia, one wonders if england at that time was connected with the mainland of europe. true. archaeologists postulate that the

at enemies caused the building of the forts whether they were built by invaders or defenders, or already in place prior to an invasion. these forts seem almost to surround england, and since some are in brittany and bohemia, one wonders if england at that time was connected with the mainland of europe. true. archaeologists postulate that these incredibly ancient people built vast fires to vitrify the stone forts and cement them together by melting them externally. even where there was not a good supply of wood to burn; but then, that was a long time ago and there might, then, have been wood, coal, oil, or something. but a miss russel, in the journal of the b.a.a, has pointed out that single stones, much less long walls, are not vitrified when large houses are burned to the ground, or where

KETAB E SIYAH

fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire 27 of his mo

delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was all but lost and all spark of life within me extinguished by the bleak snows that have fallen for an eternity i saw the sun dawning, bringing new light and warmth to my frozen heart and to this land of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. ah! how old we have become and how tired in those long

fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, 88 beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire of his mo

delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was all but lost and all spark of life within me extinguished by the bleak snows that have fallen for an eternity i saw the sun dawning, bringing new light and warmth to my frozen heart and to this land of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my winter, the herald of my spring and the spring of the world, for in satan alone, is there hope for spring, for rebirth, renewal. 109 ah! how old we have become and how tired in those l

ay our wrath but move now against these shedim-spawn before the shedim can return and fulfil their plan. let us go against these new creatures with great force of arms and destroy them utterly before the shedim can yet muster hosts to avail their infant race. adonai yahweh, my lord, i implore you, restrain not your hand but strike most surely against this new assault upon your kingship lest, like the stone falling from the mountain's summit, the impetus of this yet ungrown crime becomes so great that no force exists by which its motion might be opposed. 157 adonai yahweh, king, we must move with haste we must move now" gravely did the archon-emperor listen to the testament of raphael and once all had been divulged to him sat a while in still contemplation of all that had passed and might y

nd their columns. twenty towns, by sword and by torch, did methuselah lay waste and with skins and tusks were his coffers filled. 210 all those that would deny him that for which he hungered were put to death, both the warriors and the innocent, thus did methuselah bring shame upon his father's name. the lamentations of the slaves and captives and the bereaved percolated down through the soil and the stone to echo amongst the deep caverns of the earth. in the darkness the sorrows of the wronged, the weeping of the infants before the spear were heard by the shedim in hidden chadel and they too mourned those who fell to methuselah's cruel hand. hearing of what transpired upon the earth to the spire of opal and ruby by the fount of flame came abaddon, the battle-lord, marshal of my hosts. ent

cted as is the parent's duty and thus have earned of men the respect due to parents who so fulfil what is asked of them though, led astray by heaven's lies, i have been reviled. 225 in such a spirit are the libations poured out. so did utanapishtim honour the shedim and the ancient shades of his great ancestors. from a bowl of gold was the wine poured out upon a great table of marble, carved from the stone of mountains, set with grooves to drain what was offered down into the earth and to chadel. as the night grew dark after day the streets were lit with great braziers of steel, filled with charcoal and incense and even to the rising of the sun shurupuk was full of merriment and the people of shurupuk were full of wine and mead. at this time the army of lamech returned to the gate whence t

out gabriel. do you stand with us" like a spear cast or a bolt, burning, shining flew these words. they struck me like a thunder bolt. they tore into my very heart. it was as though i burned with flame or was consumed by a poison. a weakness came upon my limbs and my very soul was trembling. like one struck a mortal blow i stumbled across the tower's floor and fell. a lay and beat my fist against the stone i cried out and wept. my fingers were dyed with blood as i tore my flesh in misery. i rent apart my fine robes and wailed a long lamentation. i howled and howled until i was hoarse then fell into silence. forgive me! o forgive me! i am an unworthy parent to so fine a race. forgive me, my children, forgive your unworthy sire. why could i not see who saw most clearly once before? those thr

l against your children that have yet some years to grow. do not lay down your sword before the battle is truly won. heaven's walls fall not so easily" hearing these words i laughed for it was a truth from the elohim, the first i heard in many years. then i took up a spear and cast it at tower by the gate, shining with beaten gold by the ruddy light of dawn. 381 there was a crack like thunder and the stone was fractured, torn in two to its foundation. all about fell flaming stone. i looked upon the wall and raphael was gone. i looked again upon the ruined tower then turned from those haughty walls and walked the road to earth. 382 liber domini santanae the book of the lord satan 1. my power is above all power in the earth and beyond the stars, i am will itself, the mighty lord satan. 2. no

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

thelemites note that the traditional g.d. qabalistic cross does not include iao] introduction to the ritual there is a much employed ritual which utilizes the symbol of the pentagram as a general means to banish and invoke the elemental forces. this ritual is called the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces. the qabalistic cross and lesser ritual of the pent

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

but because he was so goodhearted, he did not know who to share his goodness with. he did not have anyone to- 218- pour his affections on, to play with, to spend time with, to think about. the magician also needed to feel wanted, for it is very sad to be alone. what should he do? he thought he would make a stone, just a small one, but beautiful, and perhaps that would be the answer "i will stroke the stone and feel there is something constantly by my side, and we will both feel good because it is very sad to be alone" he waved his wand and in an instant there was a stone exactly as he wanted. he began to stroke the stone, to hug it and talk to it, but the stone did not respond. it remained cold and did nothing in return. whatever he did to the stone, it remained the same unfeeling object

y by my side, and we will both feel good because it is very sad to be alone" he waved his wand and in an instant there was a stone exactly as he wanted. he began to stroke the stone, to hug it and talk to it, but the stone did not respond. it remained cold and did nothing in return. whatever he did to the stone, it remained the same unfeeling object. this did not suit the magician at all. how can the stone not respond? he tried creating some more stones, then rocks, hills, mountains, land, the earth, the moon and the galaxy. but they were all the same. nothing. he still felt sad and all alone. in his sadness, he thought that instead of stones, he would make a plant that would blossom beautifully. he would water it, give it some air, some sun, play it some music, and the plant would be happ

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

alchut of ein sof differ in their measure of desire (and in that alone, thus creating the various degrees of nature: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. everyone is interested in the difference between men and women in terms of the correction they must pa r t s e v e n: t h e i n n e r m e a n i n g 339 perform, but no one wants to know what is the correction that a stone must perform. even the stone was created in our world, and it, too, must reach the goal of creation. the correction of all of nature depends on the correction of mankind. it is the work of man that enlivens nature toward the end of correction. animals and plants were not given the torah because they have no free choice and their egoism is not under their control, hence, it is not for them to correct it. and as for p

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ccount as a cunning worker in brass, who was sent down to jerusalem by h, k. of t, especially in order to do this and other metal work for king solomon. undoubtedly this man was a true artist, for he took an almost inconceivable amount of trouble to carry out his design exactly as he wanted it. so far as the investigators were able to see, his work was based entirely upon a traditional account of the stone egyptian pillars, which had been handed down from the time of moses. it did not appear that he had any clear idea of the meaning of all these strange decorations, though moses knew perfectly well the whole system of symbology which lay behind it. 174. it is to be understood that all this varied orna-mentation was not arranged in basso-relievo, as would be expected in a casting; on the co

f 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 implement 292. figure 11 293. 294. consisting of wedge-shaped pieces of steel which are fitted into a dovetailed mortise in the stone to be hoisted. this instrument was so named, by the architect who invented it, in honour of the french king louis xiv. one who is the son or daughter of a mason is called a lewis (because he is supposed to support his parents in their old age, and it is generally held that he may be initiated into masonry when only eighteen years old. though some assert that this can be done only by spec

estion which has been made as to the meaning of this stringent prohibition is that the wearing of m c s would render the candidate ceremonially unclean, therefore his initiation would be null and void, so that it would be necessary to remove the m c l and to repeat the ceremony. some writers have supposed that this feeling that m c s are to a certain extent impure probably dates from the close of the stone age. the same idea of conservatism dictated that only a stone knife might be used in the offering of sacrifices or in the rite of circumcision. 469. this part of the preparation is also supposed to refer to the fact that at the building of king solomon fs temple there was not heard within its precincts the sound of any axe, hammer or tool of iron, as the stones were fully prepared in the

perfection, and that the rude material of our natures receives its polish and refinement from repeated efforts alone. 545. in ancient egypt rather a different signification was given to these tools- a little nearer to the original, since it is obvious that education and conscience are not exactly tools for a man to use. it will be noticed that all three are specially connected with the shaping of the stone. as the operative mason shapes the rough ashlar into the perfect ashlar by removing the excrescences and smoothing and measuring it, so must the e.a. in speculative masonry train himself perfectly in morality. in ancient egypt the apprentice remained in that condition usually for seven years, until he satisfied those in authority that he was fit to pass on to the second degree. in the pr

has to perform his last work in that capacity. on this occasion it is the s.d. who leads him, as he is now especially concerned with the lower mind, which must be controlled and developed by the f.c. he brings him first to the pedestal of the w.j.w, gives him a mallet and chisel, and instructs him to k c on his l c k c and give three blows with the mallet, striking the chisel on the rough ashlar. the stone taken from the quarry has all its sides irregular. strictly speaking, it is not an ashlar until the a. has made it regular in form, and at this point he puts the finishing touches to that work; but still the stone will have to be smoothed and polished before it is ready for lifting into the edifice, and that is part of the work of the second degree. looking over with the inner sight a nu

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ons. 237. the salient features in its arrangement (plate ii, 2, following p. 50, in fact, suggest an interesting comparison with a ritual chamber recently discovered in one of the kindred anatolian sanctuaries. this is the hall of initiation excavated by the british explorers in the sanctuary of men askaenos and a mother goddess, described as demeter, near the pisidian antioch. the throne itself, the stone benches round, and the tank on the opposite side to the throne, find all their close analogies, and are arranged in the same relative positions. in the galatian sanctuary we see, on a larger scale it is true, a chamber with a throne- in this case near, not actually against the back wall- to the right of the entrance, while opposite it on the left side on entering the chamber is an oblong

ted to minos lead to the conclusion that here, too, each successive dynast was a priest for ever after the order of melchizedech and made like unto the son of god. 239. there is little doubt that in the room thus described we find one of the minoan temples of the mysteries. most probably, as sir arthur evans suggests, the throne which is shown in the chamber was the seat of the hierophant, and on the stone benches round the walls were ranged the brn. who took part in the ritual. the candidates for initiation had to undergo a preliminary purification in the lustral basin before they could be admitted to the ceremonies. 240. the three columns 241. a plan of this minoan temple is shown in plate ii, 2 (following p. 50. facing the throne of the hierophant were three columns, which are frequentl

degree. it is a matter that might no doubt be elucidated by long and painstaking research, but it would be a task involving far too great an expenditure of energy and time. 450. craft masonry in medieval times 451. evolutionary methods 452. the theory of human evolution ordinarily put before us is that of a slow upward progress of man from extremely primitive and almost animal conditions through the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, until he has arrived at his present level, which is by this hypothesis the highest which he has yet attained. this view is only partially true; it is only on the one hand in a very broad and general sense covering a development lasting many millions of years, and on the other in a purely local sense affecting one or two sub-races, that it can be said to

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that it is the pitting of the david spirit against the goliath matter. and although this proportion be small, it is not indefinitely small. but it may be that the action of this divine substance is catalytic, and capable of transmuting an unlimited quantity of base and blind matter into the plastic and docile image of the will. and this theory is certainly more in accordance with the tradition of the stone and of the medicine. xv of eroto-comatose lucidity the candidate is made ready for the ordeal by general athletic training, and by feasting. on the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen and experienced attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him sexually by every known means (b) to rouse him sexually by every known means. every device and artifice of the courtesan is to be e

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ut the circle) i yet, by the favour of iao, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the pillar. peace and ecstasy enfolded me. it is well. 8.50. but as i was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, i will go to the cafe du dome and break my fast humbly with coffee and sandwich. may it strengthen me in my search for the quintessece, the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness! 9.00. i hope (by the way) that i have made it quite clear that all this time even a momentary cessation of active thought has been accompanied by the rising-up of the mantra. the rhythm, in short, perpetually dominates the brain; and becomes active on every opportunity. the liquid moslem mantra is much easier to get on to

ity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. john st. john 95 here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosicrucian sisyphus with the stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the .telephone-cross. voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at

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gs of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear. 4. but of pure black marble is the sorry statue, and the changeless pain of the eyes is bitter to the blind. 5. we understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the golden rod of the golden god. 6. we know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer olalam! imal! tutulu! as it is written in the ancient book. 7. three words of that book are as life to a new aon; no god has read the whole. 8. but thou and i, o god, have written it page by page. 9. ours is the elevenfold reading of the elevenfold word. 10. these seven letters together make seven diverse words; each word

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

tal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a fear to him: even to him the mighty one! but the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and jehjaour scorned not his art .roll on in time, thou ball. he cried .move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! taph! tath! arath!.2 he sounded the triple summons, the mysterious syllables that bound the spirit to the stone .then suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not .avaunt. he shrieked .false soul of darkness. and the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man.s cheek, and darkened utterly .foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air a

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hy superior.1 and then do thou compose thyself to holy meditation. 6. also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the godform of whom thou adorest,2 as if thou didst unite with him in the adoration of that which is beyond him. 7. thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the great work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the stone of the wise, the summum bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. 1 [for those not in communication with the a a, the adorations from liber legis, ch. iii, from gunity uttermost showed h to gabide with me, ra- hoor-khuit h may be substituted. this is not necessarily the adoration taught in the a a under crowley, or by modern groups claiming to represent the a a. t.s] 2 [this may be read

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an.s prudence. the privy council of the kingdom of mansoul sits in permanent secret session; it dares not declare what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and person prejudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods on the stone that it sets on the grave of truth whom it has murdered and buried in the black earth oblivion. moral philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and many another of the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that the laws of ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in certain conditions, more ofte

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

experience of the hustle of the stockyards; there are business men in a hurry, and they shall travel in central asia to acquire the art of repose. gso much for the equilibrium, and for two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. gbut what of the great tao? for one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the stone of the philosophers. by solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for those afraid of physical pain, by repose for the restless, and toil for the idle, by bull-fights for the humanitarian, and the care of little children for the callous, by rituals for the rational, and by philosophy for the credulous, shall these men, whi

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

y in the viking age a new runic alphabet developed in scandinavia, one with 16 characters. later several variations grew out of this basic viking age runic alphabet. of the approximately 4,000 runic inscriptions, most are from the viking age; most of these are from sweden; and most of these are from the provinces around lake malaren, especially uppland. most are memorial: they explain who erected the stone, whose death is memorialized, and what the relationship was between the two. although the few rune sticks and other kinds of runic inscriptions that have been retained show that runes introduction 11 detail of the rune stone from rok, sweden, from the ninth century c.e. created by varin for his dead son, vemod, with center as ode to theodoric, king of the goths (the art archive/ dagli or

olf of hvin said in his ynglinga tal (stanza 5) that a dwarf tricked the swedish king sveigdir, when the king jumped into the rock after the dwarf, and gthe bright hall of sokmimir and his people, inhabited by giants [jotnar, gaped open. h paraphrasing the poem in ynglinga saga, snorri tells us that the king sveigdir one evening after sundown at a farm called steinn (stone) saw a dwarf sitting by the stone and was summoned into the stone by the dwarf, never to return. the conception of dwarfs as dwelling in the earth or in rocks or mountains is deeply rooted. alviss tells thor that he lives down under the earth, under a stone. when odin sent for the fetter gleipnir, the direction was down. here, however, and in skaldskaparmal as well, in the story of the acquisition of gold from andvari, s

means gbridge of [i.e, over] gjoll, h but we have little information about this river. earlier in gylfaginning, when he cataloged the rivers flowing from hvergelmir, snorri said that gjoll is gclosest to the gate of hel, h but this he may have got from his conception of baldr fs journey. the wolf fenrir is bound by means of a flat rock called gjoll, but there is no compelling reason to associate the stone and the river. the gjallarbru is found only once outside of snorri in medieval iceland, namely in a verse by his nephew, sturla thordarson, who once used the expression gtravel the gjallarbru h for gdie. h but it also turns up several times in draumkvade, a norwegian ballad telling of the otherworld journey of one olav asteson, who fell asleep christmas eve and awoke on epiphany having h

ogether for all time; it is the leather scraps that people cut out of their shoes by the toes and heel, and therefore a person who wishes to take care to help the asir shall throw away the leather scraps. with one hand he takes hold of the upper jaw of the wolf and tears apart his gullet, and that will be the death of the wolf. this shoe is otherwise unknown; tentative identifications of vidar on the stone crosses at gosforth, northumbria, and kirk andreas, isle of man, do not, as far as i can see, show any special footwear. the issue is further complicated by the existence of an alternative version of vidar fs killing of fenrir with a sword, in voluspa, stanza 56: then comes the great son of sigfather [odin; vidar, to fight with the beast of battle; for the son of hvedrung, he makes stand

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maginative historian, herodotus "the pyramid was built in steps, battlementwise, as it is called, or, according to others, altar-wise. after laying the stones for the base, they raised the remaining stones to their places by means of machines formed of short wooden planks. the first machine raised them from the ground to the top of the first step. on this there was another machine, which received the stone upon its arrival, and conveyed it to the second step, whence a third machine advanced it still higher. either they had as many machines as there were steps in the pyramid, or possibly they had but a single machine, which, being easily moved, was transferred from tier to tier as the stone rose. both accounts are given, and therefore i mention both. the upper portion of the pyramid was fin

part, during the many thousands of years since its erection, the evidence adduced to prove this point is not conclusive. the great pyramid was built of limestone and granite throughout, the two kinds of rock being combined in a peculiar and significant manner. the stones were trued with the utmost precision, and the cement used was of such remarkable quality that it is now practically as hard as the stone itself. the limestone blocks were sawed with bronze saws, the teeth of which were diamonds or other jewels. the chips from the stones were piled against the north side of the plateau on which the structure stands, where they form an additional buttress to aid in supporting the weight of the structure. the entire pyramid is an example of perfect orientation and actually squares the circle

e of this niche, however, with its walls converging by a series of overlaps like those of the grand gallery, would indicate that originally it had been intended as a passageway. efforts made to explore this niche have been nonproductive, but mr. dupr believes an entrance to exist here through which--if the well did not exist at the time--the workmen made their exit from the pyramid after dropping the stone plugs into the ascending gallery. biblical scholars have contributed a number of most extraordinary conceptions regarding the great pyramid. this ancient edifice has been identified by them as joseph's granary (despite its hopelessly inadequate capacity; as the tomb prepared for the unfortunate pharaoh of the exodus who could not be buried there because his body was never recovered from

onsecrated their lives to the contemplation of reality. as the physical body of man receives its nutriment from the great earth mother, so the spiritual nature of man is fed from the never failing fountains of truth pouring outward from the invisible worlds. p. 80 the winter solstice of the spirit. reaching the winter solstice, the sun apparently stands still for three days and then, rolling away the stone of winter, begins its triumphal march north towards the summer solstice. the condition of ignorance may be likened to the winter solstice of philosophy; spiritual understanding to the summer solstice. from this point of view, initiation into the mysteries becomes the vernal equinox of the spirit, at which time the chiram in man crosses from the realm of mortality into that of eternal lif

ace" initiates of the egyptian mysteries were sometimes called scarabs; again, lions and panthers. the scarab was the emissary of the sun, symbolizing light, truth, and regeneration. stone scarabs, called heart scarabs, about three inches long, were placed in the heart cavity of the dead when that organ was removed to be embalmed separately as part of the process of mummifying. some maintain that the stone beetles were merely wrapped in the winding cloths at the time of preparing the body for eternal preservation. the following passage concerning this appears in the great egyptian book of initiation, the book of the dead "and behold, thou shalt make a scarab of green stone, which shalt be placed in the breast of a man, and it shall perform for him 'the opening of the mouth" the funeral rit

ntly was difficult to locate. click to enlarge royal egyptian scarab. from hall's catalogue of egyptian scarabs, etc, in the british museum. the flat under side of a scarab usually bears an inscription relating to the dynasty during which it was cut. these scarabs were sometimes used as seals. some were cut from ordinary or precious stones; others were made of clay, baked and glazed. occasionally the stone scarabs were also glazed. the majority of the small scarabs are pierced as though originally used as beads. some are so hard that they will cut glass. in the picture above, a shows top and side views of the scarab, and b and b the under surface with the name of men-ka-ra within the central cartouche. p. 87 its wings, which stretch out as glorious colors on each side of its body--the sola

ant; the plant to the plane of the animal; the animal to the dignity of man; and man to the estate of the gods. the solar system was organized by forces operating inward from the great ring of the saturnian sphere; and since the beginnings of all things were under the control of saturn, the most reasonable inference is that the first forms of worship were dedicated to him and his peculiar symbol--the stone. thus the intrinsic nature of saturn is synonymous with that spiritual rock which is the enduring foundation of the solar temple, and has its antitypc or lower octave in that terrestrial rock--the planet earth--which sustains upon its jagged surface the diversified genera of mundane life. although its origin is uncertain, litholatry undoubtedly constitutes one of the earliest forms of re

ld of wonders opened by the newly discovered element of fire caused pyrolatry to supplant stone worship. the dark, cold father--stone- gave birth out of itself to the bright, glowing son-fire; and the newly born flame, by displacing its parent, became the most impressive and mysterious of all religio-philosophic symbols, widespread and enduring through the ages. click to enlarge saturn swallowing the stone substituted for jupiter. from catrari's imagini degli dei degli antichi. saturn, having been warned by his parents that one of his own children would dethrone him, devoured each child at birth. at last rhea, his wife, in order to save jupiter, her sixth child substituted for him a rock enveloped in swaddling clothes--which saturn, ignorant of the deception practiced upon him, immediately

would dethrone him, devoured each child at birth. at last rhea, his wife, in order to save jupiter, her sixth child substituted for him a rock enveloped in swaddling clothes--which saturn, ignorant of the deception practiced upon him, immediately swallowed. jupiter was concealed on the island of crete until he attained manhood, when he forced his father to disgorge the five children he had eaten. the stone swallowed by saturn in lieu of his youngest son was placed by jupiter at delphi, where it was held in great veneration and was daily anointed. p. 98 the body of every thing was likened to a rock, trued either into a cube or more ornately chiseled to form a pedestal, while the spirit of everything was likened to the elaborately carved figure surmounting it. accordingly, altars were erecte

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etical order, of some of those stones you may care to use as the bezel of your ring or pendant: fascination gems amber diamond onyx beryl emerald peridot bloodstone jade sardonyx carbuncle jasper staurotides (cross-stone) carnelian jet ruby cat's-eye lapis lazuli turquoise coral moonstone zircon you may have your witch name engraved upon the ring or pendant either on the reverse surface or around the stone itself. sometimes the zodiac birth signs are also engraved, occasionally even a cabalistic word of power such as ararita, tetragrammaton, mehafelon, ananizapta, or shemhamphorash. incidentally, a very good idea which some witches resort to is to use a poison ring as their jewel. the inner cavity of the ring itself is very well suited for concealing either written charms to be carried abo

rs, place the lodestone on a piece of talisman paper which in turn covers your workbook. now consecrate it with as many drops of sabbat oil (see chapter 7) as there are years in the prospective bearer's life, plus one extra dab for the present year, chanting the following quaint formula with each touch "may hertha bless thee [n] with all her might and main" see the drops of oil glow as they touch the stone, infusing it with witch power. then tie the stone loosely in a red flannel or chamois leather bag bound with red ribbon with the sealing words "so mote it be" i say "loosely" because every full moon the bearer is going to have to remove the siderite, and after dipping it in a glass of water and drying it, sprinkle on it a small pinch of iron pyrites dust or iron filings "in hertha's name

witch power. then tie the stone loosely in a red flannel or chamois leather bag bound with red ribbon with the sealing words "so mote it be" i say "loosely" because every full moon the bearer is going to have to remove the siderite, and after dipping it in a glass of water and drying it, sprinkle on it a small pinch of iron pyrites dust or iron filings "in hertha's name" this is known as "feeding the stone" the siderite must be worn around the neck or carried about in the pocket. in the past, male practitioners would often carry this amulet about with them suspended close to the genital organs, traditionally this being said to increase the sexual vigour and potency of the bearer. in this instance, the horned one was involved in conjunction with hertha in the initial consecration. however

e is in any doubt. more traditional, perhaps, is the concept of the sword of fire, rod of air (sometimes an airborne arrow or spear, cup or cauldron of water and pentacle, plate or shield of earth. these are directly analogous with the four magical treasures of pre-celtic lore mentioned earlier; in later celtic myth they became known as the sword of nuada, spear of lugh, cauldron of ceridwen, and the stone of fal (the latter, incidentally, is said to be none other than the stone of scone which at present reposes under king edward's throne in westminster abbey) the way to invoke the lords, or dominant entities, of the four watchtowers is thus: place one of your lamps of art at the east just outside the circle boundary and light it; then taking your wand in both hands, raise it high above yo

rshipped by the templars, a christian order of fighting monks of the twelfth century. the name has been variously construed to mean "the father of the temple of universal peace among men" the initials of which phrase in latin spell the name backwards: templi omnium hominum pacis abbas; or by others as a corruption of bathos metis "purification by wisdom" however, many witches take it to refer to "the stone of buffo" buffo being an ancient name for the island of cyprus where legend has it the greek love goddess aphrodite was born; from whence also certain of the feminine witch mysteries were said to have emanated. which brings me to my second consideration, namely, the titles bestowed upon female witch leader whether she be designated high priestess or queen of the sabbat. among the lady's

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

a strength and defence in all magical operations, against all mine enemies, visible and invisible. i conjure thee anew by the holy and indivisible name of el strong and wonderful; by the name shaddai almighty; and by these names qadosch, qdaosch, qadosch, adonai elohim tzabaoth, emanuel, the first and the last, wisdom, way, life, truth, chief, speech, word, splendour, light, sun, fountain, glory, the stone of the wise, virtue, shepherd, priest, messiach immortal; by these names then, and by the other names, i conjure thee, o sword, that thou servest me for a protection in all adversities. amen. this being finished thou shalt wrap it also in silk like all the other instruments, being duly purified and consecrated by the ceremonies requisite for the perfection of all magical arts and operati

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 3

my actions or intentions be real& pure& sanctified before thee, bring thy external presence hither& converse with me, one of thy submissive pupils, in& by the name of the great god jehovah, whereunto the whole choir of heaven sings continually o alappa-la-man hallelujah, amen. when you have said this prayer over several times, as occasion serveth, you will at last see strange lights& passages in the stone& at last you will see your genius, then give him a kind entertainment as you were before directed, declaring unto him your mind& what you would have done. so endeth the book pauline lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 22 afterword by the editor the text and diagrams of this book were taken directly from a copy of sloane manuscript 2731. the handwriting in this section was small and cramped, e

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this is singularly rich in allusion to certain interior processes of introspection well defined in the experience of the contemplative mystics and well attested in their records. the place entered emblematizes once again the material and psychical organism, a dense compact of material particles coating the more tenuous interior spirit of man as a shell surrounds the contents of an egg" roll away the stone" it will be recalled, was the first injunction of the master at the raising of lazarus. this obstruction removed, the psychical organism becomes detached from the physical and the mind is free to become introverted and work exploratively upon its own ground, to search the contents of its own unplumbed depths, to probe deeper and deeper into itself, eradicating defects and removing rubble

that living word by whom all things were made, and are still in the making, and whose life is the light of men. the candidate who recovers that lost word, in the sense of regaining vital organic integration into it, and who, therefore, is one with its life and its light, is able to verify this old creation-story in its personal application to himself. he stands in the presence of his own" earth--the stone vault or dense matrix out of which his finer being has emerged-and of his own" heavens" or ethereal body of substantialized radiance which (as the iridescent sash of the order is meant to denote) now covers him with light as with a garment. he is able to discern that it was himself who at first was" without form and void" and who in virtue of that fiat lux! has at last become transformed

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oak carved into a lavish and noble wolf head, guarded against any approach. since i felt welcomed and wanted it was by that urging i entered the doorway. i do not recall specific details on the exact layout of the rooms except they were lit by dim burning candles. i felt her essence close by, so i drew my astral further into the chambers, until i found myself going down a staircase made of stone. the stone, even in this blue toned light, was gray and worn. there is a kind of pride and character to old brick and stone, often worn with stories of age and struggle. i knew a part of myself was home as i drifted down each stair. it is a very odd and surreal feeling to know a part of you is home especially if you have never traveled there. i only knew a mistress from the shadows, whose ivory whi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

one of the latter was the sacred stone of fal that wasplaced under the throne of the king in tara (drumcain or hill of the serpents. this stone, itwas said, would cry out if a false one sat to be crowned. we might ask what mystery isatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation23 old world disorder secreted in this myth? the word fal actually means stone and is the root of the word phallic.the stone of fal is, therefore, the stone of stones, probably a powerful crystal thatwould indicate if a person was genetically altered in some way (this stone, like the lingamof the hindus, was believed to be connected to the planet saturn, for whom the earthly kingsruled) in folklore, there are covert references to genetic manipulation. consider the entitycalled a changeling. was this an alien s

and their forefathers have beenengaging in a veritable battle of armageddon. this battle is going on every secondof every day. it is not yet won by the light bearers because we, the children of earth,against the very coding of our dna are as yet resistant to taking up arms against ourdeadliest enemies who have kept and will continue to keep us in utter servitude. it istime to draw excalibur from the stone again. but do not wait for any king arthur toreturn from the physical grave. arthur is us, arthur is you! upon investigation, we find that there is much evidence to indicate that the alien visi-tors and their dark progeny have been and still are with us, that they are, in fact, at thevery helm of the echelons of society, making use of powerful secret societies, such asthe masonic and ros

ve occurred from fifty to ahundred thousand years ago (p. 14)iron mines before the iron agean iron mine was discovered in africa (swaziland) that was being worked over 43,000 years before theiron age of the middle east.in front of marseilles in france, under the water have been found a cliff that once would have beenabove sea level. it contains mine shafts and smelting facilities. this dates from the stone age.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation201 appendix b: book abstracts the mediterraneanwas not as large as it is today. under the sea now exist many land masses that were above the waterlevel. the atlantic rose and flooded the land of the countries of mediterranean. domesticated horsesthese are seen depicted on wall drawings in france, as having bridles over 25,000 years

or the body of jesus in 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

osphere and onto the very sur-face, as charles fort and others have researched for decades.scientists find 'lost city' of ancient rocknow researchers probing the ocean bottom have found 18-story-high towers of stone- the tallest ever -near a section of volcanic fault ridges that extend for 6,200 miles along the atlantic ocean floor.inspired by the formations' majestic heights and by the fact that the stone towers appear on a sea-floormountain named atlantis massif, the scientists named the field of about two dozen stone structures thelost city in honor of the fabled, flooded city.not only are the underwater stone spirals unusual in composition and their location, scientists think theymay offer a glimpse into earth's earliest environments when life began and may possibly host new lifeforms

ed black smoker formations, ocean water sloshes nearhot magma at the volcanic vents and then heats up to 750 degrees fahrenheit. the hot water absorbsminerals and chemicals from surrounding rocks and eventually flows upwards. as the hot water rises itcools and releases the minerals and chemicals, which form towers of dark mineral rock and nutrient-rich ecosystems.at lost city, the construction of the stone towers appears to be driven not by hot magma, but by a rarerock. in this region, sections of a glassy green rock known as olivine are exposed directly under smallcracks in the ocean floor. when ocean water seeps into this 1.5-million-year-old mantel rock, it reactswith the olivine to form a scaly, dull green rock known as serpentine.this reaction generates heat, which triggers the same b

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

s kept the merely curious at bay. traces of this truth can be found in popular culture where you have the witch, reading off a list of arbitrary herbs and arbitrary body parts of arbitrary animals, and throwing them into a stirring cauldron on arbitrary nights of the year--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 40 famous phrases: a journey into absurdity likewise any one may cure the tooth-ache with the stone that is in the head of the toad; also, if any one shall catch a living frog before sun-rise, and he or she spits in the mouth of the frog, will be cured of an asthmatic consumption--likewise the right or left eye of the same animal cures blindness; and the fat of a viper cures a bite of the same. black hellebore easeth the head-ache, being applied to the head, or the powder snuffed lip t

MORALS AND DOGMA

ypes of what, except by types, more or less sufficient, could not be expressed at all. the primitive man recognized the divine presence under a variety of appearances, without losing his faith in this unity and supremacy. the invisible god, manifested and on one of his many sides visible, did not cease to be god to him. he recognized him in the evening breeze of eden, in the whirlwind of sinai in the stone of beth-el: and identified him with the fire or thunder or the immovable rock adored in ancient arabia. to him the image of the deity was reflected in all that was pre-eminent in excellence. he saw jehovah, like osiris and bel, in the sun as well as in the stars, which were his children, his eyes "which run through the whole world, and watch over the sacred soil of palestine, from the ye

life was a continuous struggle. he fainted before typhon in the desert; and in the commencement of the autumnal season (cum long redit hora noctis, descended under the guidance of minerva to hades. he died; but first applied for initiation to eumolpus, in order to foreshadow that state of religious preparation which should precede the momentous change. even in hades he rescued theseus and removed the stone of ascalaphus, reanimated the bloodless spirits, and dragged into the light of day the monster cerberus, justly reputed invincible because an emblem of time itself; he burst the chains of the grave (for busiris is the grave personified, and triumphant at the close as in the dawn of his career, was received after his labors into the repose of the heavenly mansions, living forever with zeu

is salt, which is the reason for saying that no substance is foreign to the great work, and that even the most despicable and apparently vile matters may be changed into gold, which is true in this sense, that they all contain the original salt-principle, represented in our emblems by the cubical stone. to know how to extract from all matter the pure salt concealed in it, is to have the secret of the stone. wherefore this is a saline stone, which the od or universal astral light decomposes or re-compounds: it is single and manifold; for it may be dissolved like ordinary salt, and incorporated with other substances. obtained by analysis, we might term it _the universal sublimate_ found by way of synthesis, it is the true _panacea_ of the ancients, for it cures all maladies of soul and body

d, pure and clear, in the centre of all the elementary composites, and is the last to disengage itself from the others "the four elements and three principles reside in all the compounds, animal, vegetable, and mineral; but more potently in some than in others "the fire gives them movement; the air, sensation; the water, nutriment; and the earth, subsistence "the four duplicated elements engender the stone, if one is careful enough to supply them with the proper quantity of fire, and to combine them according to their natural weight. ten parts of air make one of water; ten of water, one of earth; and ten of earth, one of fire; the whole by the active symbol of the one, and the passive symbol of the other, whereby the conversion of the elements is effected" the allusion of the ritual, here

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others o

unceasing lamentations. his longing to behold her once more became at last so unconquerable, that he determined to brave the horrors of the lower world, in order to entreat aides to restore to him his beloved wife. armed only with his golden lyre, the gift of apollo, he descended into the gloomy depths of hades, where his heavenly music arrested for a while the torments of the unhappy sufferers. the stone of sisyphus remained motionless; tantalus forgot his perpetual thirst; the wheel of ixion ceased to revolve; and even the furies shed tears, and withheld for a time their persecutions. undismayed at the scenes of horror and suffering which met his view on every side, he pursued his way until he arrived at the page 88 palace of aides. presenting himself before the throne on which sat the

site for moving this stone. then send him to my palace at athens bearing these tokens of his identity" a son was born to aethra, whom she called theseus, and who was carefully trained and educated by his grandfather pittheus. when page 292 he had developed into a strong and manly youth his mother conducted him to the spot where the rock had been placed by aegeus, and at her command he rolled away the stone, and took possession of the sword and sandals which had lain there for sixteen years, and which she now desired him to convey to his father aegeus, king of athens. his mother and grandfather were anxious that the youth should travel by the safe sea route, the road between troezen and athens being at this time infested [260]with robbers of great ferocity and enormous strength. but feeling

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

e holy land with the building of fortresses, called kraks, which can still be admired today. the crusades and the templars 65 the first krak appears to have been built in 1141 in ibelin, between ascalon and jaffa. numerous workers participated in its construction, outfitting it with four towers just like the tower of the templars in paris/ this project was followed in 1142 by the krak of moab, or the stone of the desert, in transjordania;5 in 1143, the fortress of geth near lydda; and in 1144, on the shining mount or hill near ascalon, a high fortress that was flanked by four towers. the local people called this important construction the "white guard" and the latins, citizens of the latin states in the holy land, called it the "white workman's hut."6 in 1148, the christians, especially th

ris points out the existence in trinity chapel of a confederation of the ascension, which he connects to tailors of religious habits. it may be more likely, however, that this was the seat of a confederation of stonecutters, for the ascension of our lord was depicted on the coat of arms of the association of masons and stonecutters.29 according to a trade legend, it was a stonecutter who unsealed the stone that covered the tomb of jesus and a mason who demolished the rest of it to enable jesus to ascend to heaven.'0 trinity chapel was also the seat of the confederation of the passion and resurrection of our lord, which received patent letters from charles v awarding them the privilege of staging the mystery of the passion and other catholic mystery plays. such performances, which were very

and chisel, as opposed to rough stone or hard stone. later, when the decadence of gothic art had brought about the gradual disappearence of free-stone sculptors, the term freemason would have been commingled with roughmason, but the first name prevailed. this etymology, which robert freke gould also found dubious, cannot be supported. the word free or franc does not apply to the craftsman working the stone but to the stone of pure and good quality that is being worked. in fact, the first use of the term freemason appeared in 1376 in the license for the franchise of the company of masons of london, where it was used in definition of its members. its existence should go back to a much earlier time though (the first half of the thirteenth century) and its meaning, applied to the masons belong

ime when what constituted the borders of license or convention were not at all the same as our own. it is most important to avoid viewing the audacious sculpture of the gargoyles and tympanums as merely a liberal manifestation of somewhat satiric artists who have seen behind the scenes and grasped more than others what was actually going on there. these fantasy depictions show that the freedom of the stone had been in practice for many centuries before that of the press. what was attacked were the mores of the clergy and not the religion itself. such art reconciled with religion in perfect piety. the clerics themselves were not scandalized by it. they may have viewed it as hell's due, but they also saw it as serving a moral purpose: the depiction of these improprieties served as a means of

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

raise up ye stones to form ye gate through which they from ye outer void might manifest thou must set up ye al azif page 2 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 stones in ye elevenfold configuration. first thou shalt raise up ye four cardinal stones and these shall mark ye direction of ye four winds as they howleth through their seasons. to ye north set ye the stone of great coldness that shall form ye gate of ye winter-wind engraving thereupon the sigil of the earth-bull thus: taurus sigil in ye south (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye north, thou shalt raise a stone of fierceheat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon ye stone ye mark of ye lion-serpent thus: leo sigil ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye east where

r point (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye east) where ye sun dieth in ye evening and ye cycle of night returns. blazon ye stone with ye character of ye scorpion whose tail reacheth unto the stars: scorpio sigil set thou the seven stones of those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first ye stone of saturn at a space of three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each with their rightful sign. at ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the alter of ye great old ones and seal it with ye symbol of yog-sothoth and ye mighty nam

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the fon skycult, it is the androgynous deity the eternal wheel of time this aztec calendar stone, found beneath the central plaza of mexico city, is a wheel of time commemorating the five world creations, of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious no

as they were born: first hestia, then demeter, hera, hades, and poseidon. however, when her sixth child, zeus, was due, rhea gave birth to him at the dead of night, and entrusted him to the care of her mother gaia. she gave cronos a stone to swallow in the baby s stead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be made cronos cup-bearer. he mixed his father a powerful emetic, causing him to vomit up both the stone and the five older children. zeus then led his brothers and sisters to war against the titans whom they defeated and confined to tartarus in the underworld. thereafter, zeus reigned supreme among the gods. prometheus 24 prometheus prometheus, a titan, was the creator of humankind, whom he made out of clay and water. although he and his brother epimetheus sided with the olympian god zeus

ireland as the dagda. the dagda was essentially a tribal god and the irish warriors in the ulster cycle swear by the god to whom my tribe swear. his ritual mate was either the triple war goddess, the morrigan, or boann, the goddess of the river boyne. the dagda was the chief of the ancestral irish tribe known as the tuatha de danann, the people of the goddess danu. they had four magic talismans: the stone of fal, which shrieked under a lawful king; the spear of lugh, which ensured victory; the sword of nuadha, from which none could escape; and the cauldron of the dagda, from which none would go unsatisfied. this cauldron is one of the origins of the holy grail (see pp. 80 81. in the welsh myth cycle of the mabinogion it appears as a cauldron of regeneration, bringing dead warriors to life

escape his own fate. a tombstone was raised to king arthur, with the inscription, hic iacet arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus: here lies arthur, the once and future king. folk belief says that arthur and his knights lie asleep under a hill, ready to awaken and lead britain in its hour of deepest need. dragon the dragon on arthur s breast is the crest of his family, the pendragons. the sword in the stone arthur grew up as the son of sir ector, a knight into whose family merlin had placed him anonymously at birth. several years later, king uther pendragon died leaving no heir, and the realm fell into disarray. but soon afterward, merlin placed a sword thrust through an anvil into a stone in a london church, with the words whosoever pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightw

cave, and tricking her into believing that they were welcoming a deity even greater than herself. this superior deity was in fact, amaterasu s own reflection in a mirror. amaterasu emerges this tryptych shows the moment when amaterasu emerges from her cave, amazed at the noise that is going on outside in the darkness. as she appears, the world is flooded with light and ta-jikawa-wo, hauling back the stone at the entrance, is ready to grasp her hand and draw her outside completely. omohi-kane this is probably omohi-kane, the wise thought-combining deity. he was the deep-thinking son of takamimusubi, one of the five original gods. it was he who thought up the ingenious plans to arouse amaterasu s interest and bring her out of her cave. sake tub the goddess ama-no-uzume dances on an upturned

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

we will explain in our comments to parashat eikev, on the verse gyou shall eat and be satisfied, h10 improves his memory, since he is eating them with proper [mystical] intentions that help him purify and rectify them, as will be explained. regarding our sages f statement11 that someone who reads what is written on a tombstone forgets his learning, this applies only to writing that protrudes from the stone, not to writing that is etched into the stone. there is also another [mystical] meditation that rectifies forgetfulness that is elucidated in our explanations of the final blessing of the morning amidah.12 7 etz chaim 14:6. 8 chagigah 9b. 9 see horiot 13b. 10 deuteronomy 8:10. 11 horiot, loc. cit. 12 sha far hakavanot, amidah 6. the arizal on parashat vaetchanan (2) 697 examine this. i a

eality is called gsweetening h the judgement. the first step of ritual slaughtering is preparing the knife. the knife must be perfectly smooth and free of any nicks. the shochet must check the knife by running it gently over his thumbnail before proceeding with the ritual slaughtering. 1 deuteronomy 12:21. 2 chulin 7a. the arizal on parashat re feh 724 when you inspect the knife and sharpen it on the stone, your intention should be to remove all its defects [i.e, nicks. the numerical value of the word for gdefect h [pagam, pei-gimel-mem] is [123] equivalent to three times the number of letters in the divine name ekyeh when it is spelled in its simple form and two iterations of its spelling-out. when it is spelled out thusly, using the letter yud, there are 41 letters. when it is spelled ou

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ts or laws. i dreamed not of poverties, contentions, or vices. all tears and quarrels were hidden from my eyes. everything was at rest, free and immortal. i knew nothing of sickness or death or exaction. in the absence of these i was entertained like an angel with the works of god in their splendour and glory; i saw all in the peace of eden. all time was eternity, and a perpetual sabbath" such is the stone of the philosophers, the quintessence, the summurn bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. psellus, the neoplatonist, has written that the function of initiatory magic was "to initiate or perfect the human soul by the powers of materials here on earth; for the supreme faculty of the soul cannot by its own guidance aspire to the sublimest intuition and to the comprehension of divinity"

rise. hiero (knocks) 1 tetelestai! hiereus (knocks) 1 heg (knocks) 1 hiero (knocks) khabs. hiereus (knocks) am. heg (knocks) pekht. hiereus (knocks) konx. heg (knocks) om. hierophant (knocks) pax. neophyte ritual 133 heg (knocks) light hiero (knocks) in hiereus (knocks) extension. all make the signs towards the altar. hiero may what we have partaken maintain us in our search for the quintessence, the stone of the philosophers. true wisdom, perfect happiness, the summum bonum. officers remain in the temple while the new neophyte is led out by kerux (note: full instructions as to the magical work performed by the officers during the ceremony are given in documents z.1 and 2.3. these latter will be found in volume 111 of this work. i. r) the neopirye signr sign of iiaiipocratps sign of horus

l and leading it from the sacred things, from the confines of matter, arise the terrible dog-faced demons, never showing true image unto mortal gaze. so therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud, resounding sea. labour thou around the strophalos of hecate. when thou shalt see a terrestrial demon approaching, cry aloud and sacrifice the stone mnizourin. change not the barbarous names of evocation, for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable. and when <103> after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire- that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, hear thou the voice of fire. hereunto is the speech of kabir. hegernon conducts the the

ron and part of clay. thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet, which were part of iron and part of clay, and brake them to pieces. then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away and no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. thou, 0 king, art a king of kings, for the god in heaven hath given unto thee (makes qabalistic cross) the kingdom, the power and the glory! thou art this head of gold (to phil) thou art this head of gold! thy head represents in thee the dominion of the divine ruling over the rest of the body. the silver is the worl

kingdom, the power and the glory! thou art this head of gold (to phil) thou art this head of gold! thy head represents in thee the dominion of the divine ruling over the rest of the body. the silver is the world of the heart, the brass is the material passion, the iron is the firm purpose, and the feet, part of iron and part of clay, are the mingled strength and infirmity of the natural man. and the stone made without hands is the eternal stone of the wise, which will become the mountain of initiation, whereby the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of god. hiereus takes phil. to second diagram <172> hiereus. this tablet shows the symbolic manner in which certain names have been used by our ancient brethren. you will note that the initials of this sentence make the latin word v

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

anscendental magic of freemasonry. in his treatise on the wonders of nature, coglenius describes the talismans of solomon and those of rabbi chael. designs of many others that are most ancient will be found in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau, and should have a place in m. ragon's archives on initiation, a vast and scholarly undertaking, to which we refer our readers' 93 xix f t the stone of the philosophers elagabalus vocatio sol aurum the ancients adored the sun under the figure of a black stone, which they named elagabalus, or heliogabalus. what did this stone signify, and how came it to be the image of the most brilliant of luminaries? the disciples of hermes, before promising their adepts the elixir of long life or the powder of projection, counselled them to seek fo

balus, or heliogabalus. what did this stone signify, and how came it to be the image of the most brilliant of luminaries? the disciples of hermes, before promising their adepts the elixir of long life or the powder of projection, counselled them to seek for the philosophical stone. what is this stone, and why is it so called? the great initiator of the christians invites his believers to build on the stone or rock, if they do not wish their structures to be demolished. he terms himself the cornerstone, and says to the most faithful of his apostles, thou art peter (petrus, and upon this rock (petram) i will build my church. this stone, say the masters in alchemy, is the true salt of the philosophers, which is the third ingredient in the composition of azoth. now, we know already that azoth

ng of the arcanum of solomon, represented by the two pillars of the temple, jakin and boaz. the sun and moon of the alchemists correspond to the same symbol and concur in the perfection and stability of the philosophical stone. the sun is the hieroglyphic sign of truth, because it is the visible source of light, and the rough stone is the symbol of stability. this is why the ancient magi regarded the stone elagabalus as the actual type of the sun, and for this reason the mediaeval alchemists pointed to the philosophical stone as the first means of making philosophical gold, that is to say, of transforming the vital forces represented by the six metals into sol, otherwise into truth and light, the first and indispensable operation of the great work, leading to the secondary adaptations and

s it multiplies our forces by those of perpetual motion; it is at once mystical, metaphysical and material, with correspondent effects in the three worlds; it procures charity in god, truth in science and gold in riches, for metallic transmutation is at once an allegory and reality, as all the adepts of true science are perfectly well aware. yes, gold can be made really and materially by means of the stone of the sages, which is an amalgam of salt, sulphur and mercury, thrice combined in azoth by a triple sublimation and a triple fixation. yes, the operation is often easy and may be accomplished in a day, an instant; at other times it requires months and years. but to succeed in the great work, one must be divinus a diviner, in the kabalistic sense of the term and it is indispensable to ha

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

expand our hearts, detach and elevate our minds, enlarge our entire being! o stability and motion! o day clothed with night! o darkness veiled by splendour! o master who never keepest back the wages of thy labourers! o silver whiteness! o golden splendour! o crown of living and melodious diamonds! thou who wearest the heaven on thy finger like a sapphire ring, thou who concealest under earth, in the stone kingdom, the marvellous seed of stars, live, reign, be the eternal dispenser of the wealth whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. it must be borne in mind that the special kingdom of gnomes is at the north, that of salamanders at the south, that of sylphs at the east, and that of undines at the west. these beings influence the four temperaments of man; that is to say, the gnomes af

e supreme magus, the master and conqueror of the serpent, and in the fourfold legend of the evangelists, khunrath finds the allegorical key of the great work. one of the pantacles of his magical book represents the philosophical stone erected in the middle of a fortress surrounded by a wall in which there are twenty impracticable gates. one alone conducts to the sanctuary of the great work. above the stone there is a triangle placed upon a winged dragon, and on the stone is graven the name of christ, qualified as the symbolical image of all nature. git is by him alone, h he adds, gthat thou canst obtain the universal medicine for men, animals, vegetables and minerals. h the winged dragon, dominated by the triangle, represents therefore the christ of khunrath. that is, the sovereign intelli

parently contemptible and vile matters can be changed into gold, which is true in this sense, as we have said, that all contain the fundamental salt, represented in our emblems by the cubic stone itself, as may be seen in the symbolic and universal frontispiece to the keys of basil valentine. to know how to extract from all matter the pure salt which is concealed in it is to possess the secret of the stone. it is therefore a saline stone, which the od, or universal astral light, decomposes or recomposes. it is one and many, for it can be dissolved and incorporated with other substances, like ordinary salt. obtained by analysis, it may be termed the universal sublimate; recovered by the synthetic way, it is the veritable panacea of the ancients, for it cures all diseases, whether of soul or

y, it is the veritable panacea of the ancients, for it cures all diseases, whether of soul or body, and is termed in an eminent manner the medicine of all nature. when, by means of absolute initiation, we can dispose of the forces of the universal agent, this stone is always to our hand, for its extraction is then a simple and easy operation, far different from projection or metallic realization. the stone in its sublimated state must not be exposed to the air, which might dissolve it and spoil its virtue. moreover, to inhale its exhalations is not devoid of danger. the wise man more readily conserves it in the natural envelopes, knowing that he can extract it by a single effort of his will and by a single application of the universal agent to the envelopes, which kabalists term shells. to

of gold, which bore the images of the four sacred words, and placed them by threes round the rational or ephod; that is, between the two onyx stones which served as clasps to the little chains of the ephod. the right onyx signified gedulah, or mercy and magnificence; the left referred to geburah, and signified justice and anger. if, for example, the sign of the lion were found on the left side of the stone which bore the name of the tribe of judah, the high priest would read the oracle thus: gthe staff of the lord is angered against judah. h if the teraphim represented the man or cup and were found also on the left, near the stone of benjamin, the high priest would read: gthe mercy of the lord is weary of the offences of benjamin, which outrage him in his love. therefore he will pour out o

RUBY TABLET OF SET

hieroglyphs; the scepter on the left issues forth the word "xem" while the scepter on the right limits the same. the reason for this is as simplistic as it is obvious. xem is a goal with not an end, but rather a new beginning as its purpose. xem has been compared to the philosopher's stone, and not without good reason. an alchemist labors diligently to create his 'stone' but not for possession of the stone itself- rather for its transformational properties. the same holds true for the initiate in his quest for xem, as will be seen later in this key. between the two scepters is the neter anubis, represented as a black jackal. in this form the neter is pure principle and entirely abstract. no motion is suggested, for the neter is not yet manifested. around the neter are hieroglyphic translit

be touched once again by the majestic hand of set [oomam anubis, light the second candle, and say] come once again, o ancient masters of the mysterious work. we who are the highest of life have reflected upon your words and found them to be most useful. in turn, we invite you to attend and witness our most sacred assembly- for he ones who dare the portal this night shall inscribe their names upon the stone and walk the ancient pathways transcending infinity [xa anubis, light the third candle, and say] welcome, ancient sorcerors! join your mystic ringing voices with ours as we honor the dark one who accompanies us in our work [oomam anubis: light the fourth candle, and say] away! begone all profane, all weak and fear-filled ones! we have no time nor patience for your pleading and your snive

swings silently inward. another four hundred meters more, and i am now standing before the largest and heaviest of the four doors. this door too is inlaid with the pictographs, but is a deep royal blue in color. i make no effort to push against the door, instead i use the method i had employed on the previous door- and with the same results. i am now in set's chamber. in the chamber i notice that the stone comprising the walls are interlocking trapezoids, and i am curious as to why i failed to notice this fact on my preceding trips to the house of set. fascinated both by the cut of the large stones and their inlaid hieroglyphs, i approach the walls for closer scrutiny. the black walls are smooth, finely polished, as if they are made of glass "jade" i say to myself. though the air has a sli

st, i stood upon a central, circular table of silver which revolved slowly, drawn round by four very world-weary kerubic beasts. large mountains loomed in the north and i walked over to them, finding a colossal figure crudely shaped from stone, bound by the shackles of karma. this is the illusion of constraint caused by self-guilt and hypocrisy. but illusions can be shattered and freedom triumph. the stone man fell to pieces as a beautiful, blazing white, nude figure broke out. this was the true fool, der reine thor, all-powerful in his innocence. i rode a camel to a sumptuous palace in the east, a place of decadent luxury, where seminaked youths of great beauty waited upon me as i reclined. but desire must not stagnate, it must progress if it is to spur life to the greatest achievements

ion. here is the will applied unto a goal. without toil, without striving, without progress, there can be no xeper. we come into being by expressing ourselves. without new productivity of action, word and thought, how can we remanifest? how can we perceive runa more clearly and afresh if we do not strive to transcend our old boundaries? i then found myself in ancient egypt, observing the scribes, the stone workers, the planners, the labourers. together their vision, their art, their philosophy, their monuments, have fascinated the world with mystery and magnificence for millennia. in what span will my selfexpression be measured? in tor, the self builds its tower, the expression of its own will, its own abilities. sometimes the tower is struck by lightning and the work is set back, but alwa

ofane. from an angular matrix born of the asylum, my voice blasts forth unto my soul image, nyarlathotep, and screams of terror and merriment are forever heard unto the ending of the cycle. moving upon the winds of the abyss do the elder daemons shriek my name, proclaiming "ias aem'nh ci-cyzb vyni-weth w'ragn jnusf whrengo j nusf'wi klo zyah zsybh kyn-talo huz-u kyno" behold all ye death defiant! the stone with faces unrecognized by the profane and the fearful! within its windows doth reside the blood-stained and corpse-ridden faces of the urilla, worms of bitterness, from whose jaws hang the entrails of adonai, and they went forth from the third angle unto the fourth, and i beheld from within the fourth a mighty boneyard, deathscape beneath blackened sky, and upon the utterance of his mig

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

he 7th and 18th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell is a discourse upon the double will and the divided twins as found in the mystery of the androgyne also known in the occult communities as baphomet. i am her as i am he (p. 241. this cell connects with the supposed mysteries of the templars and the vapours of demolay can be sensed in its discourses of the twin vessels and the construction of the stone-god. the physical representation of the god or famulus are integrated as an important and crucial part on the crooked road towards the light of the midnight-vale. this technique was employed by the german reuss-derived occult group in the concept of the gotos. a title assigned to the highest degree of the order, but also reminiscent of the physical representation of the orders egregoric

of fortune inte racting with the tau, the cross of the universe connecting saturn with the earth. in this we find wisdom and understanding brought circle round and ended up back to the witch who has restored him-or her on the throne of cain, carrying the cross of the world and has towered by all temptations. through the ordeals jupiter has blessed the witch with the fortune of gnosis. worship not the stone but what it conceals is one of the statements in this cell, and through this it refers to the dawning of the famulus in a physical object and the dawning of the adepts occult aspiration of the crooked path. the spiritservitour arises as the most important aspect of the mage. without his famulus and totemic spirits the mage is nothing but an ill deformed child in the occult world always c

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her husband was at a world-wide congress of ball-bearings manufacturers in gothenburg, sweden, and in his absence she invited gibreel into her apartment of stone lattices from jaisalmer and carved wooden handrails from kcralan palaces and a stone mughal chhatri or cupola turned into a whirlpool bath; while she poured him french champagne she leaned against marbled walls and felt the cool veins of the stone against her back. when he sipped the champagne she teased him, surely gods should not partake of alcohol, and he answered with a line he had once read in an interview with the aga khan, o, you know, this champagne is only for outward show, the moment it touches my lips it turns to water. after that it didn't take long for her to touch his lips and deliquesce into his arms. by the time he

something new, something you haven't already agreed to, done, indulged in. lying with a phantom is not such a bad-bad thing. what about down at that old mrs. diamond's- in the boathouse, that night? quite a tamasha, you don't think so? so: who do you think put it on? listen: i can take for you any form you prefer; one of the advantages of my condition. you wish her again, that boathouse mame from the stone age? hey presto. you want the mirror image of your own mountain-climber sweaty tomboy iceberg? also, allakazoo, allakazam. who do you think it was, waiting for you after the old lady died" all that night he walked the city streets, which remained stable, banal, as if restored to the hegemony of natural laws; while rekha- floating before him on her carpet like an artiste on a stage, just

t shepperton; understood, too, that this secluded haven would have to be temporary- that allie, by coming here, was sacrificing her own life, and wouldn't be able to go on doing so indefinitely. what should he do? anything? nothing- if revenge was to be taken, when and how "get these boots on" gibreel commanded "you think the rain will hold off all fucking day" it didn't. by the time they reached the stone cairn at the summit of gibreel's chosen climb, they were enveloped in a fine drizzle "damn good show" gibreel panted "look: there she is, down there, sitting back like the grand panjandrum" he pointed down at the freekirk. chamcha, his heart pounding, was feeling foolish. he must start behaving like a man with a ticker problem. where was the glory in dying of heart failure on this nothin

. the poems had been criticized by the hindu right; one eminent south indian professor had announced that bhupen had "forfeited his right to be called an indian poet, but in the opinion of the young woman, swatilekha, bhupen had been seduced by religion into a dangerous ambiguity. grey hair flopping earnestly, moon-face shining, bhupen defended himself "i have said that the only crop of gagari is the stone gods being quarried from the hills. i have spoken of herds of legends, with sacred cowbells tinkling, grazing on the hillsides. these are not ambiguous images" swatilekha wasn't convinced "these days" she insisted "our positions must be stated with crystal clarity. all metaphors are capable of misinterpretation" she offered her theory. society was orchestrated by what she called _grand n

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forgetfulness of courage, and consent to abjectness. o holy and impious satan, symbol of the degenerate universe, thou knowest and sufferest, may thou become, according to the word of the divine promise, the atoning genius of expiation (seventeenth-century mss. bibliotheque nationale, paris) the rite of summoning when the night of action has arrived, the warlock shall gather up his rod, goatskin, the stone called ematille, and shall further provide himself with two vervain crowns, two candlesticks, and two candles of virgin wax, made by a virgin girl and duly blessed. let him take also a new steel and two new flints, with sufficient tinder to kindle a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be

indle a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be carried to the place chosen for the great work, where everything hereinafter laid down must be described in an accurate manner. you must begin by forming a circle with strips of kid s skin, fastened to the ground by means of your four nails. then with the stone called ematille you must trace the triangle within the circle, beginning at the eastern point. a large a, a small e, a small a, a small j must be drawn in like manner, as also the sacred name of jesus between the two crosses. by this means the spirits will have no power to harm you from behind. the warlock and his assistants may then fearlessly proceed to their places within the triangle

SATANIC RITUALS

jagdhunde die welt zu entflammen! sind die winkel klein und ruhig oder gigantisch in ihrer br llenden gewaltt tigkeit, es ist in der weise, die wir so gut kennen. an dieser grimmigen, grauen k ste herscht der obelisk und f sst su mit seinen vier klauen nach dem ring des fafnir- f hrer, diese verk rperung kommt, welche uns vergr ssert und schl gt jene, die gegen uns sind. o my brothers, study well the stone with planes unrecognized by those without, for within those glaring facets the hounds await that set the world aflame! be the angles small and still or gargantuan in their roaring outrage, the form is that which we know so well. on the grim, gray shore, the monolith prevails, and clutched within the fourfold talons of the ring which fafnir guards, that shape remains to bring forth that w

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hat he had lived on cyprus gerald brousseau gardner 138 world religions: biographies in another lifetime. he used this as the background and setting for his second book, the 1939 novel a goddess arrives. the book centered around the worship of the goddess aphrodite 2,500 years earlier. gardner became fascinated with the idea of a goddess religion that supposedly ruled the peoples of europe during the stone age, the earliest known period of human culture. according to this religion, the mother goddess was the creator and the center of religious power. this feminine- based religion, many say, was the primary form of religious belief for many centuries until it was finally replaced several thousand years ago by what is called the sky god, or male-dominated religious systems that are known now

punishment was carried out on friday, later called good friday in christian tradition, on the hill of golgotha, also known as calvary. among jesus s last words were, as quoted in luke 23:24, father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. the resurrection on the following sunday, celebrated afterwards as easter sunday, when followers went to the tomb where jesus was buried, they discovered the stone covering the entrance pushed aside and jesus gone. his disciples supposedly shared a meal with him after he rose from the dead. others, including his mother, mary, were said to have seen him after this miraculous resurrection. forty days later, after telling his disciples to spread his teachings far and wide, jesus was taken up to heaven. over time the life and death of jesus took on a m

bes in mecca desired the honor of moving it. a heated argument broke out, but eventually all agreed to abide by the decision of the first man to enter the ka aba. that man turned out to be muhammad. muhammad settled the dispute by calling for a large cloak. he placed the black stone in the center of the cloak, then had a representative of each of the tribes grasp one corner of the cloak and carry the stone to its new position. in this way, he preserved peace among the four tribes. 288 world religions: biographies muhammad his own tribe held the position of guardian of the ka aba. despite these pressures from the community, abu talib, muhammad s uncle, continued to support him, although he did try to restrain his nephew somewhat. in 620, a decade after muhammad s first revelation, he report

t. the top half of the shell became the sky, and the bottom half became earth. an african creation story virtually every culture in the world has a creation story that explains how the world came about. the cultures of africa present a rich collection of such stories. here is one from the fulani people of mali. at the beginning there was a huge drop of milk then doondari (god) came and he created the stone. then the stone created iron; and iron created fire; and fire created water; and water created air. the doondari descended a second time. and he took the five elements and he shaped them into man. but man was proud. then doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. but when blindness became too proud, doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; but when sleep became t

of the soul and its mortality or immortality appear in the history of philosophy like the shades of scandinavian heroes, eternally slaying one another and eternally coming to life again in a metaphysical nifelheim. it is getting on for twentyfive centuries, at least, since mankind began seriously to give their minds to these topics. generation after generation, philosophy has been doomed to roll the stone uphill; and, just as all the world swore it was at the top, down it has rolled to the bottom again. all this is written in innumerable books; and he who will toil through them will discover that the stone is just where it was when the work began .more and more eyes have been cleansed of the films which prevented them from seeing it; until now the weight and number of those who refuse to

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ead of the owner. it is thus written [regarding god (genesis 14:19, owner of heaven and earth. when it goes, it is like it is thrown (zarka. following it is treasure (segulah. it is at the head of all letters. 91. why is [this accent] at the end of a word, and not at the beginning? this teaches us that this crown rises higher and higher. it is included and crowned, as it is written (psalm 118:22, the stone that the builders rejected has become the head cornerstone. it ascend to the place from which it was graven, as it is written (genesis 49:24, from there is the shepherd, the stone of israel. 92. he also said: what is the reason that we place blue wool in the tzitzit? and why are there 32 [threads? what is this like? a king had a beautiful garden, and in it were 32 paths. he placed a watc

the world to the pan of merit. it is thus written (isaiah 11:3, i will grant him a spirit of the fear of god, and he will not judge by the sight of his eyes, he will not admonish according to what his ear hears. he will incline all the world to the pan of merit. from there counsel emanates, and from there health emanates to the world [it is also written (genesis 49:24) from there is the shepherd, the stone of israel. this is the place that is called there. regarding this, it is written (habakkuk 3:4 [he has rays from his hand] and his hidden force is there. 188. once this thing comes, sharpen it. what is its sharpening? tell us the meaning of the verse, he has rays from his hand. why does it first say rays and they his hand? it should have said his hands [in the plural. there is no contrad

ruth is identical with peace, as it is written (esther 9:30, words of peace and truth. it is likewise written (2 kings 20:19, for peace and truth will be in my days. this is the meaning of the verse (isaiah 58:14, i will feed you with the inheritance of jacob your father. this is a complete inheritance (nachalah, comprising kindness, terror, truth and peace. it is therefore written (psalm 118:22, the stone despised by the builders has become the chief cornerstone. this is the stone that was despised by abraham and isaac, the builders of the world, and that then became the chief cornerstone. 191. and why did they despise it? is it not written (genesis 26:5, because abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my watch, my commandments, my decrees, and my torahs. what is the meaning of my watch?

aches us that he knew and kept even the decisions (horah) and discussions that are taught on high. 193. and what is the meaning of the verse (genesis 49:24, from there is the shepherd, the rock of israel. from there is nourished the rock of israel. what is the meaning of from there? we say that this is the supernal righteous one (tzadik. what is it? it is [the precious stone called] socheret. and the stone that is below it is called dar. and what are the rays mentioned in the verse (habakkuk 3:4, he has rays from his hand? these are the five fingers of the right hand. the bahir 53 section v mysteries of the soul 194. rabbi rahumai said: this i received [from the tradition. when moses wanted to know about the glorious fearsome name, may it be blessed, he said (exodus 33:18, show my please y

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changing conditions, particularly those created by other persons. see? already, your awareness is increasing. just being apprised of this possibility is the first step, for to know it is to do it. keep on practicing, and your own circle of awareness will fill the all and extend to many yesterdays and tomorrows "a stone cast into a pond of quiet water sends out many rings. that is the awareness of the stone seeking its new environment" expanding yesterday it is said that history has a way of repeating itself. our records of the past will show us much if we just study them, comparing what happened then to what is happening now. we have accurate records reaching back several thousand years, revealing the causes of failure in individuals, tribes, and nations. reading the old history books will

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e form to give way and birth to another. a causal form created to act as a focal point/channel for the fulfillment of wyrd- the beginnings of a practical realization of strategies and aims. the sinister dialectic in action: by its dynamic nature a prelude to- and when realized a creator of- insight. ix a crippled boy a tunnel of bone a star descends into a forest faces are removed and she sits in the stone house unheard. hermit- sauroctonos withdrawal and a revealing; the lying between two stages of alchemical change. intimations of the abyss. the culmination on a personal level of energies created by change- the surfacing of individual factors hitherto only known on an unconscious level. a process of discovery that will lead to insight (further) knowledge of wyrd; or madness, death. x in

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made in his tomb in perpetuity: what then was the poor man to do to save his ka from the ignominy of eating filth and drinking dirty water? p. 107 [paragraph continues] to get out of this difficulty the model of an altar in stone was made, and models of cakes, vases of water, fruit, meat, etc, were placed upon it; in cases where this was not possible figures of the offerings were sculptured upon the stone itself; in others, where even the expense of an altar could not be borne by the relatives of the dead, an altar with offerings painted upon it was placed in the tomb, and as long as it existed through the prayers recited, the ka did not lack food. sometimes neither altar, nor model nor picture of an altar was placed in the tomb, and the prayer that sepulchral meals might be given to the

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people, and said to them "after seven days shalt thou remind me of this epistle. and jerusalem was built, and the temple was being completed. and there was a stone [1, the end stone of the corner lying there, great, chosen out, one which i desired lay in the head of the corner of the completion of the temple. and all the workmen, and all the demons helping them came to the same place to bring up the stone and lay it on the pinnacle of the holy temple, and were not strong enough to stir it, and lay it upon the corner allotted to it. for that stone was exceedingly great and useful for the corner of the temple [1. cp. i pet. ii. 6, 7, who combines in the same way ps. cxviii. 22 and isa. xxviii. 16. cp. matt. xxi. 42, mark xii, 10, luke xx, 17] 119. and after seven days, being reminded of the

ll the arabs knew that he had safely shut in the spirit. 121. then the youth fastened the flask on the camel, and the arabs sent him forth on his way with much honour and precious gifts, praising and magnifying the god of israel. but the youth brought in the bag and laid it in the middle of the temple. and on the next day, i king solomon, went into the temple of god and sat in deep distress about the stone of the end of the corner. and when i entered the temple, the flask stood up and walked around some seven steps and then fell on its mouth and did homage to me. and i marvelled that even along with the bottle the demon still had power and could walk about; and i commanded it to stand up. and the flask stood up, and stood on its feet all blown out. and i questioned him, saying "tell me, wh

demon who presides over the red sea, i will bring up the pillar of air [3, and will stand it where thou wilt in jerusalem [1. cp. the faith which removes mountains. 2. bornemann suggests that the gate of the temple called beautiful (acts iii. 2, 10) is referred to. 3. i conjecture the sense] 123. saying this, i laid stress on him, and the flask became as if depleted of air. and i placed it under the stone, and (the spirit) girded himself up, and lifted it up top of the flask. and the flask went up the steps, carrying the stone, and laid it down at the end of the entrance of the temple. and i solomon, beholding the stone raised aloft and placed on a foundation, said "truly the scripture is fulfilled, which says 'the stone which the builders rejected on trial, that same is become the head o

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things which speak to us all with the same language. we have sought for such things and we believe that we have found them in the shaft of light striking the shimmering surface of solid rock "so, in the middle of the room we see a symbol of how, daily, the light of the skies gives life to the earth on which we stand, a symbol to many of us of how the light of the spirit gives life to matter "but the stone in the middle of the room has more to tell us. we may see it as an altar, empty not because there is no god, not because it is an altar to an unknown god, but because it is dedicated to the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms "the stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. the block of iron ore has the

god, but because it is dedicated to the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms "the stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. the block of iron ore has the weight and solidity of the everlasting. it is a reminder of that cornerstone of endurance and faith on which all human endeavor must be based "the material of the stone leads our thoughts to the necessity for choice between destruction and peace. of iron man has forged his swords, of iron he has also made his ploughshares "the shaft of light strikes the stone in a room of utter simplicity. when our eyes travel from these symbols to the front wall, they meet a simple pattern opening up the room to the harmony, freedom and balance of apace. 9 "there is an

time within the foundations of the temple of solomon, and afterwards, during the building of the second temple, transported to the holy of holies. it was in the form of a perfect cube, and had inscribed upon its upper face, within a delta or triangle, the sacred tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of god -13- in a "scurrilous book of the middle ages. the life of jesus" there waa another account of the stone''at that time there was in the temple the ineffable name of god, inscribed upon the stone of foundation" this scandalous book proceeded to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles [cf.*mark 3:22. there waa a very general prevalence among the earliest nations

sure foundation, but also that stone which the builders rejected" but what, really, in the christian meaning, is the cornerstone? isaias said (isa. 28, verse 16 "therefore thus saith the lord god: behold i will lay a stone in the foundations of sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. he that believeth, let him not hasten" the corner stone is jesus christ "the stone which the builders rejected (cf. ps. 118, 22; mt. 21, 42ff; acts 4,11; romans 9, 33; eph. 2, 20; 1 pe. 2, 6ff) one need go no further than the inner entrance of the meditation room to see concrete evidence of the godlessness of the u.n. the "stone" the metal altar, in its stark setting in that room is in itself a symbol of idolatry "stone worship was perhaps the earliest form of fetichis

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e real, yet at the same time symbolic. his illness was in fact an initiation, and leads after three days to the reality of a new life.119 lazarus had reached a stage of development suited to the fulfillment of these processes. he had put on the vesture of a mystes, and lapsed into the condition of lifelessness, the image of death. by the time jesus came, three days had passed: then they took away the stone from where the dead man was lying. and jesus looked up and said, father, i thank you that you have heard me. 120 the father had heard jesus; lazarus had reached the final act in the great drama of the achievement of knowledge. he had attained the knowledge of resurrection; his initiation into the mysteries was complete. initiation of this kind was understood everywhere in the ancient wor

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hat men should sacrifice their "energies" on her behalf. the goddess was said to take possession of men's hearts. cutting out hearts and eating them! in the pyramids of mexico, central and south america, the gods were also gods of sacrifice and, once again, the heart was the centerpiece of devotion. bloodthirsty followers, egged on by high priests, cut out the hearts of victims of tribal wars. on the stone altars of the temples, the priests cut the heart out of the breast of sacrificial victims while they were still alive! the hearts were eaten, just as they were in ancient egypt and as they are in a number of satanic cults in existence today. back to egypt freemasonry today freely admits its connection to the religion and rituals of ancient egypt and proudly displays egyptian idols (the s

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l 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. 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 th

ictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. 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 afterlife mysteries 19 osiris, god of the underworld (ap/wide world photos pyramid texts the pyramid texts recorded some of humankind s earliest written insights concerning its concepts about the soul and the afterlife. the texts were inscribed on the stone walls of five pyramids at saccara during the later part of the old kingdom, 2400 2240 b.c.e, and were compiled by priestly scholars from a variety of sources, some dating earlier than the beginning of the historical period, about 3000 b.c.e. beginning with the middle kingdom, about 2000 b.c.e, priests began to copy large portions of the pyramid texts onto the sarcophagi of pharoahs and n

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 afterlife mysteries 21 in the inner mongolia autonomous region in northern china, chinese archeologists have discovered a pyramid which they have dated to be more than 5,000 years old. archaeologist guo dashun stated that the three-stepped pyramid belongs to the hongshan culture period of 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, during the stone age. at the top of the pyramid, the archeologists found seven tombs and the ruins of an altar. also found were many fragments of broken pottery carved with the chinese character mi (rice. they also discovered a bone flute, a stone ring, and a life-sized sculpture of a goddess. archeologists believe that the discovery of these relics, as well as of the pyramid itself, will be crucial in l

pture of a goddess. archeologists believe that the discovery of these relics, as well as of the pyramid itself, will be crucial in learning more about both the spiritual and earthbound life of the peoples of the hongshan culture. sources: xinhua. china daily.http//www.chinadaily.net/cndy/2001-07- 10/19256.html. 10 july 2001. hongshan pyramid discovered in china the pyramid texts were inscribed on the stone walls of five pyramids at saccara. uals and ceremonies carefully performed to prepare the dead for the afterlife journey indicate that the body was as important an aspect of the complete entity as were the ka and the ba. nor can it truly be known if the ka and the ba were viewed strictly as spiritual entities, for they, as well as their mummified human-self, were left food and drink in t

e; the fourth went to the land of the grandparents at the time of physical death. in the chippewa cosmology, the soul passed to another world immediately after death. once in the dimension of the afterlife, the soul would arrive in a beautiful lake and be ferried across by a spirit ancestor in a stone canoe. in the middle of the lake was a magic island of good spirits, and the soul must remain in the stone canoe to await judgment for its conduct during life. if its good actions predominated, the soul would be permitted to reside on the island of good spirits. if the soul in its physical incarnation had spent a life seeking only carnal and material satisfactions, the stone canoe would sink at once and leave only the soul s head above the water. this imagery is reminiscent of the greek belie

creatures and a great variety of two-legged beings with the heads of animals and birds. why, so many anthropologists have wondered, did these cave painters, despite their remarkable artistic gifts, never pass on an accurate idea of their features? why did they confine themselves to portraying beings that were half-human, half-animal? and then lissner has an inspiration. it is quite possible that the stone-age artists really were portraying themselves, but in something more than in human shape. perhaps they were depicting themselves in the guise of intermediary beings who were stronger than common men and able to penetrate more deeply into the mysteries of fate, that unfathomable interrelationship between animals, men, and gods. lissner suggests that what the ancient cave painters may have

rses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. bipedal any animal that has two legs or feet. from the latin stem biped, meaning twofooted. birthstone each month of the year has a particular precious gemstone or a semiprecious stone associated with it. it is believed that if a person wears the stone assigned their birth month, good fortune or luck will follow. bitumen any of a variety of natural substances, such as tar or asphalt, containing hydrocar- 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 324 glossary bons derived from petroleum and used as a cement or mortar for surfacing roads. black magick the use of magic for evil purposes, cal

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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. 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 th

yth, portraying hiram as a primary figure in the creation of the temple. according to masonic tradition, the ancient builders of solomon fs temple created the rites still practiced in modern lodges, with the various degrees of initiation and their secret symbols and handshakes. while the free and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it doesn ft really extend back to the stone masons working on solomon fs temple. nor does it date even farther back to those who labored on the egyptian pyramids, as some masons have claimed. freemasonry did evolve from the guilds of the stonemasons who traveled from city to city in europe of the fourteenth century looking for work on the great cathedrals being constructed at that time. the secret passwords and handshakes were uni

most brilliant of the early experimental chemists. it remains a matter of conjecture whether or not albertus really did accomplish the ultimate alchemical feat of transmuting base metals into gold, but tradition has it that he bequeathed his philosopher fs stone to his distinguished pupil, st. thomas aquinas (1224.1274. once it was in his possession, according to the old legend, aquinas destroyed the stone, fearful that the accusations of communing with satan that had been levied at his mentor might be true. ever since he left the clergy, albertus had lived in pleasant seclusion in his estate near cologne. as he grew older, it is said that the dullness of mind that had characterized his youth returned, and albertus magnus died in relative obscurity. m delving deeper caron, m, and s. hutin

phod; and jonah deemed it a just verdict when the casting of lots decreed that it was he who was the cause of the storm. 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. the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered by the alchemists as a legacy from the master of alchemy and were, therefore, most precious to them. the alchemists, who were concerned with the spiritual perfection of humans as well as the transmutation of base metals into gold, recorded their formulas and esoteric truths in allegorical form. the hermetics believed that the na

authorities state that the gsardis h mentioned as the first stone in the breastplate of aaron, moses fs brother, was a ruby, others suggest that it was a carnelian, or bloodstone. some bloodstones are greenish in color, with bright red flecks of jasper within them that look like flecks of blood. in folk medicine it matters little which bloodstone one employs, for in the mind of the practitioner, the stone is certain to halt the flow of blood and promote healing. and for the practical magician, the use of a bloodstone in rituals and incantations is believed to greatly increase the realization of all desires. m delving deeper kunz, george frederick. the mystical lore of precious stones. san bernardino, calif: borgo press, 1986. pavitt, william thomas. the book of talismans, amulets, and zod

of the world. new york: sterling publishers, 2000. pavitt, william thomas. the book of talismans, amulets, and zodiacal gems. new york: samuel weiser, 1970. knife the original cutting implements used by humans consisted of pieces of flint or other stone that had been chipped to form an edge. such bits of stone evolved into the knife, among the first tools to be developed by humankind. eventually, the stone blade became longer; the handle was wrapped with leather to avoid accidentally cutting the hand; and the knife was carried everywhere its owner went. in the martial encounters between tribes, the spear, which is a knife with a long handle, and the club were favored in order to keep some distance between combatants. but when things got up close and personal, the knife came into play. thus

gthen emotional bonds and promote loyalty. a diamond pendant may be worn to obtain honor and friendship. mounted in a ring, the amulet insures lasting marriage and financial success. emerald. traditionally associated with the astrological sign taurus, this precious green gem has several unique properties. an emerald pendant is thought to afford women protection against assault. mounted in a ring, the stone promotes domestic stability and fortune. according to legend, this amulet may be used to combat epilepsy, depression, and insanity. garnet. this semiprecious gem is the birthstone of capricorn people. early egyptians and phoenicians used the stone extensively. it reputedly healed snakebite and food poisoning by absorbing foreign chemicals in the blood through the skin. a garnet pendant i

assion. when danger is imminent, this amulet reportedly takes on a chalky appearance, which remains until the hazard has subsided. sardonyx. the birthstone of leo people, this gem is a popular remedy for impotence. ancient occultists believed that a sardonyx amulet could be worn to alleviate this affliction in less than a week. mounted in a ring, sardonyx has no power; however, worn as a pendant, the stone combats sterility. given as a gift, the sardonyx amulet is thought to guarantee the recipient fs fidelity. topaz. this gem is the birthstone of scorpio people. some medieval occultists insisted that a topaz amulet promoted psychic sensitivity and facilitated control of destiny. a topaz pendant reputedly bestows honor, happiness, and inner peace in addition to the above benefits. mounted

bestows honor, happiness, and inner peace in addition to the above benefits. mounted in a ring, the gem insures promotion and financial success. turquoise. the birthstone of sagittarians, turquoise has been worn in amulets since the 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 186 objects of mystery and power earliest times. native americans considered the stone sacred, and medieval sorcerers used it in various magic rituals. modern authorities claim that a turquoise amulet is an effective deterrent against illness and injury. worn as a pendant, the stone also protects its bearer from a violent death. a turquoise ring is said to have the power to allow the wearer to rekindle old love affairs. in addition to the 12 birthstones, other gems of magi

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een studied, and from the arts and handicrafts the mentaldevelopment of the palaeolithic and neolithic peoples can be traced. but the religion of those early times hasbeen entirely neglected, with the exception of a few references to mother-goddesses and to burial customs.the student of early religion begins his subject in the early bronze-age of the near east and totally ignoreswestern europe in the stone-ages; he ends his study with the introduction of christianity, as the study of thatreligion is known as theology. there is, however, a continuity of belief and ritual which can be traced fromthe palaeolithic period down to modern times. it is only by the anthropological method that the study ofreligions, whether ancient or modern, can be advanced.the attitude of all writers towards the p

airies were scrupulous in keeping a promise, in which they were better thanthe "mortals" who often cheated them. they were also grateful for kindnesses and repaid a debt of money orhelp generously. in northumberland the fairies were definitely mortal, for they died and lie buried inbrinkburn under a green mound.[33]the characteristic weapon of the fairies, and one which still bears their name, is the stone arrow-head orelf-bolt. these arrow-heads are made of flint and are found on open heaths and downs where the fairypeople dwelt. they are now known to be of the bronze-age. they are so small and slight that they couldhave been used only with a small and light bow, such as that carried by the masked dancer of the palaeolithictimes (plate ii. a little light weapon of this kind could have bee

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terference patterns made by light waves (lasers) about an object onto photographic plate. shining light on the plate from the same angle then produces the image of the object from the viewers location. as itzhak bentov explains, if one were to freeze such an interference pattern, for example, the ripples in water made by a stone being dropped, then one could, analysing the pattern, discover where the stone had broken through the water (see diagram 4. on a note of poetic whimsy, one could perhaps visualise the tree of life as the wave-front of the light of god. one may realise that all the above modern ideas are actually pre-empted and summarised in a more ancient doctrine, which states, in the tabula smaragdina (table of emerald "it is true without lying, certain and most true, that which

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he other hand with the superficial levels of the instinctual life, concerned with primitive things, of self-assertion and the unbridled gratification of its every w h an d caprice. it is ths new factor of adjustment whch comprises the principal impetus to what has been variously called in the east the golden flower, and in mediaeval europe the growth of the red rose upon the cross of gold.3 it is the stone of the philosophers, the medicine of metals.4 to the four central sephroth plus the shadowy daath as the fifth, are attributed divine names-whch, as in the former exercise, are to be vibrated powerfully in conjunction with the imaginative formulation of various images. let me expatiate upon these divine names by stating that they may be considered as the keynote or vibratory rates of var

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others i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls of slaughtered men, and of women who have dies 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 for

to protect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azugbel- ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! prese

ly, some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling. another voice joined the first, and soon several men in the black robes of thieves came together over the place where i was, surrounding the floating rock, of which they did not exhibit the least fright. i could see clearly now that the three carvings on the stone monument were glowing a flame red colour, as though the rock were on fire. the figures were murmuring together in prayer or invocation, of which only a few words could be heard, and these in some unknown tongue; though, anu have mercy on my soul, these rituals are not unknown to me any longer. the figures, whose faces i could not see or recognise, began to make wild passes in the air wit

zi azag! ia! ia! zi azkak! ia! ia! kutulu zi kur! ia! the ground where i was hiding became wet with some substance, being slightly downhill from the scene i was witnessing. i touched the wetness and found it to be blood. in horror, i screamed and gave my presence away to the priests. they turned toward me, and i saw a loathing that they had cut their chests with the daggers they had used to raise the stone, for some mystical purpose i could not then divine; although i know now that blood is the very food of these spirits, which is why the field after the battles of war glows with an unnatural light, the manifestations of the spirits feeding thereon. may anu protect us all! my scream had the effect of casting their ritual into chaos and disorder. i raced through the mountain path by which i

ame upon the grey stone monument that had risen unnaturally into the air at the command of the priests. it now upon the ground once more, but the carvings still glowed with supernatural light. the serpents, or what i had then though of as serpents, had disappeared. but in the dead embers of the fire, now cold and black, was a shining metal plate. i picked it up and saw that it also was carved, as the stone, but very intricately, after a fashion i could not understand. i did not bear the same markings as the stone, but i had the feeling i could almost read the characters, but could not, as though i once knew the tongue but had since long forgotten. my head began to ache as though a devil was pounding my skull, when a shaft of moonlight struck the metal amulet, for i know now what it was, an

d upon the world and old vengeance. know that our years are the years of war and our days are measured as battles and every hour is a life lost to the outside those from without have builded up charnel houses to nourish the fiends of tiamat and the blood of the weakest here is libation unto tiamat queen of the ghouls wreaker of pain and to invoke her the red water of life need be split on a stone the stone struck with a sword that hath slain eleven men sacrifices to hubur so that the strike ringeth out and call tiamat from her slumber from her sleep in the caverns of the earth. and none may dare entreat further for to invoke death is to utter the final prayer. ii of the generations of the ancient ones utukk xul the account of the generations of the ancient ones here rendered of the generat

desolation. and i have seen them in their rites, and the awful things they call forth from the lands beyond time. i have seen the signs carved upon their stones, their altars. i have seen the sign of pazuzu, and zaled, and those of xastur and azag-thoth, and similarly those of ishnigarrab and the awful offspring of the goat, and the terrible musicks of their race. i have seen the blood split upon the stone. i have seen that stone struck with a sword, and have seen the stone raise up and the serpent crawl forth. and this power is surely damned; but where does marduk tarry? and what of shammash? the sleeping gods truly sleep. and what crime have i committed? what unknown god have i transgressed? what forbidden thing have i eaten? what forbidden thing have i drunk? my suffering! it is seven!

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tionalities, so the various parts of malchut of ein sof differ in their measure of desire (and in that alone, thus creating the various degrees of nature: still, vegetative, animate and speaking. everyone is interested in the difference between men and women in terms of the correction they must perform, but no one wants to know what is the correction that a stone must perform. but after all, even the stone was created in our world, and it too must reach the goal of creation. the correction of the entire nature depends on the correction of mankind. it is the work of man that brings life to nature toward the end of correction. animals and plants were not given the torah because they have no free choice and their egoism is not under their control, so it is not for them to correct it. and as f

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

icism (spencer, all and one, with all the other isms, may, with the slightest trouble in the world, be equated into corresponding terms of berkeleyan idealism. and why? because each individual master, each separate school, like the astronomer in the fable, whilst gazing at his own particular star, fell into the open ditch which yawned unperceived at his feet. and berkeley: is he the ultima thule, the stone of the wise? by no means, only i, in the above case, chose to represent the ditch by berkeley; you may call it buchner, spencer, or hume, for you my readers, if you with sufficient patience pursue what i will now call crowleyanity* to its ultimate end, will find that william shakespeare of avon was not the only man in this fair world who doubted not that by any other name a rose would sm

gized, and conditioned, and became the limited, the relative. this is the groundwork of the hegelian philosophy. h *absolute relativism, p. 114. yet once again that added impulse arises in the passing over. what is it? crowleyanity does not, in words, explain; for being beyond reason, it is both inexplicable and undefinable in rational terms; yet it directs, and the weary traveller, searching for the stone of the wise, has but to follow, guided by the sure and certain hope that if he so will, it will guide him to that great and glorious transfiguration he so ardently desires. time kant, as we have seen, places both time and space in the realm of the a priori; a realm utterly devastated by crowley fs scepticism. spencer in answering the questions, what is space? what is time? replied, gspac

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ivination, arcanum iv may be read as realization. arcanum iv is figured by a man; on his head a sovereign's helmet. he is seated upon a cubic stone; his right hand raises a scepter surmounted by a circle, and his right leg bent, rests upon the other, forming with it a cross. the cubic stone, image of the perfect solid, signifies labor which has reached completion. the cat, pictured on the side of the stone, indicates that the vision of the soul penetrates the illusions of matter. the sovereign's helmet is an emblem of force conquered by power. the ruler is in possession of the scepter of isis, indicating that he has knowledge of the spiritual use of the creative energies; and he points downward with his left hand to indicate that he uses these energies in the subjugation of the physical. t

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nd carry him to the well, where he sits crouched, immersed to the neck. they put the coping-stone in place. s. removes his candle, and descends to the well. he knocks thrice with the dagger on the coping-stone, and returns) s: and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the powers of nature said: let there be light! and there was light (w. and e. raise the stone, pull out c, and wrap him in the flag of his country. they lead him to the altar) s: in the name of the secret master (puts the book to his brow) s: in the name of the o.t.o (puts dagger to throat) s: by the authority of the grand master baphomet (puts disk to heart) i declare you a man and a brother (triple handshake, a chain being formed by the three officers and candidate. the noose i

trinity; god, god-man, man. and to this god-man our ancient brethren have given many names. and though this name of jesus christ hath been universally blasphemed by christians, yet this name hath been acknowledged by the true brothers of the rosie crosse: and this which is written of him in the evangels and in the epistles and the apocalypse is true, if it be interpreted in light by the adepts of the stone. for in god-man is our salvation; in him we are both god and man. yet the testament thereof, being betrayed and given to the multitude, hath been profaned; as it is written, cast not your pearls before swine, lest they turn again and rend you! therefore for their ill guarding of the secrets have the adepts been persecuted these two thousand years. see thou to it, very illustrious sir kni

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this land; for i will not leave thee, until i have done [that] which i have spoken to thee of. 28:16 and jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, surely the lord is in this place; and i knew [it] not. 28:17 and he was afraid, and said, how dreadful [is] this place! this is none other but the house of god, and this [is] the gate of heaven. 28:18 and jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 28:19 and he called the name of that place bethel: but the name of that city [was called] luz at the first. 28:20 and jacob vowed a vow, saying, if god will be with me, and will keep me in this way that i go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 28:21 so that i come again

give me i will surely give the tenth unto thee. 29:1 then jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 29:2 and he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well s mouth. 29:3 and thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well s mouth in his place. 29:4 and jacob said unto them, my brethren, whence [be] ye? and they said, of haran [are] we. 29:5 and he said unto them, know ye laban the son of nahor? and they said, we know [him] 29:6 and he said unto them [is] he well? and they said [he is] well: and, behold, rachel his daughter

now [him] 29:6 and he said unto them [is] he well? and they said [he is] well: and, behold, rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. 29:7 and he said, lo [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go [and] feed [them] 29:8 and they said, we cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll genesis page 16 the stone from the well s mouth; then we water the sheep. 29:9 and while he yet spake with them, rachel came with her father s sheep: for she kept them. 29:10 and it came to pass, when jacob saw rachel the daughter of laban his mother s brother, and the sheep of laban his mother s brother, that jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well s mouth, and watered the flock of laban his mother s

s. 49:21 naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 49:22 joseph [is] a fruitful bough [even] a fruitful bough by a well [whose] branches run over the wall: 49:23 the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him] and hated him: 49:24 but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [god] of jacob (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of israel) 49:25 [even] by the god of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 49:26 the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head o

unto the river of egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. 15:5 and the east border [was] the salt sea [even] unto the end of jordan. and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of jordan: 15:6 and the border went up to beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of bohan the son of reuben: 15:7 and the border went up toward debir from the valley of achor, and so northward, looking toward gilgal [that is] before the going up to adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of en-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at en-rogel: 15:8 and the border went up by the valley of the son of hinnom unto th

he end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son of hinnom [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of hinnom, to the side of jebusi on the south, and descended to en-rogel, 18:17 and was drawn from the north, and went forth to en-shemesh, and went forth toward geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of adummim, and descended to the stone of bohan the son of reuben, 18:18 and passed along toward the side over against arabah northward, and went down unto arabah: 18:19 and the border passed along to the side of beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of jordan: this [was] the south coast. 18:20 and jordan was the border of it on the east side. this [was]

t the lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the lord s, and he will give you into our hands. 17:48 and it came to pass, when the philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet david, that david hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the philistine. 17:49 and david put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it] and smote the philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 17:50 so david prevailed over the philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no sword in the hand of david. 17:51 therefore david ran, and stood upon the philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith

caused david to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 20:18 then jonathan said to david, to morrow [is] the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. 20:19 and [when] thou hast stayed three days [then] thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was [in hand] and shalt remain by the stone ezel. 20:20 and i will shoot three arrows on the side [thereof] as though i shot at a mark. 20:21 and, behold, i will send a lad [saying] go, find out the arrows. if i expressly say unto the lad, behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace to thee, and no hurt [as] the lord liveth. 20:22 but if i say thus unto the young man, behold, the ar

y [man] and [his mother] bare him after absalom. 1:7 and he conferred with joab the son of zeruiah, and with abiathar the priest: and they following adonijah helped [him] 1:8 but zadok the priest, and benaiah the son of jehoiada, and nathan the prophet, and shimei, and rei, and the mighty men which [belonged] to david, were not with adonijah. 1:9 and adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of zoheleth, which [is] by en-rogel, and called all his brethren the king s sons, and all the men of judah the king s servants: 1:10 but nathan the prophet, and benaiah, and the mighty men, and solomon his brother, he called not. 1:11 wherefore nathan spake unto bath-sheba the mother of solomon, saying, hast thou not heard that adonijah the son of haggith doth reign, and david our lord k

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ere engraved for the first time,1 appears to be a votive offering to priapus, who seems to be addressed under the name of mentula. it is a rough, unsquared stone, which has been selected for possessing a tolerably flat and smooth surface; and the figure and letters were made with a rude implement, and by an unskilled workman, who was evidently unable to cut a continuous smooth line. the middle of the stone is occupied by the figure of a phallus, and round it we read very distinctly the words: priminvs mentla. the author of the inscription may have been an ignorant latinist as well as unskilful sculptor, and perhaps mistook the ligulated letters, overlooking the limb which would make the l stand for vl, and giving a for ae. it would then read priminus mentul, priminus to mentula (the object

to frea himself; in a charter of the date of 959, printed in kemble's codex diplomaticus, one of the marks on a boundary-line of land is friged ges- tr ow, meaning apparently frea s tree, which was probably a tree dedicated to that god, and the scene of priapic rites. there is a place called fridaythorpe in yorkshire, and friston, a name which occurs in several parts of england, means, probably, the stone of frea or of friga; and we seem justified in supposing that this and other names commencing with the syllable fri or fry, are so many monuments of the existence of the phallic worship among our anglo-saxon forefathers. two customs cherished among our old english popular superstitions are believed to have been derived from this worship, the need-fires, and the procession of the boar s he

taly. three of these are engraved in our plate xxxii. on the top of the right hand jamb of the door5 is a naked male figure, and in the same position on the other side a female,6 which are described to us as representing adam and eve, and our informant, to whom we owe the drawings describes that at the apex7 merely as the figure of a woman holding her legs apart. we understand that the surface of the stone in these sculptures is so much 1 plate xxxi, figs. 1, 2, 3. 2 plate xxxi, fig. 4. 3 plate xxvi, fig. 5. 4 plate xxxvi, fig. 4. 5 plate xxxii, fig. 1. 6 plate xxxii, fig. 2. 7 plate xxxii, fig. 3. 138 on the worship of the worn that it is quite uncertain whether the sexual parts were ever distinctly marked, but from the postures and positions of the hands, and the situation in which these

ted by lying upon the body of the saint, or sitting upon a stone, understood to represent him without the presence of the energetic member. in a corner in the church of the village of st. fiacre, near mouceaux in france, there is a stone called the chair of st. fiacre, which confers fecundity upon women who sit upon it; but it is necessary that nothing should intervene between their bare skin and the stone. in the church of orcival in auvergne, there was a pillar which generative powers 143 barren women kissed for the same purpose, and which had perhaps replaced some less equivocal object.1 traditions, at least, of similar practices were connected with st. foutin, for it appears to have been the custom for girls on the point of marriage to offer their last maiden robe to that saint. this s

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

on the naive assumption that the cosmic scale of probability never tips. magic is built on the opposite conviction that the pivot of the scale is not fixed and can be acted upon by human will effectively directed. the balance of chance is delicately hung; when it is upset the results can be startling. a stone released falls to the earth. there is nothing to prevent it. the molecules of air around the stone strike it on all sides with uniform frequency. but if the air molecules struck the stone on the bottom more often, the stone would rise. such an event is not impossible, just unlikely. magic makes the improbable happen. there is a tendency to look upon the action of magic in a muddle-headed way, as a force that acts within the boundary of the physical world and bends the laws of nature w

the cube is the ultimate symbol of matter, as the square is of form. with an intuitive understanding of this fact, occultists often place a piece of stone inside their altar, or even form the altar itself entirely of stone, as was done in ancient times. stone has always been regarded as the best dwelling place for incorporeal beings such as gods. this natural virtue of stone was intensified when the stone was of a special type that heightened its ability to preserve and sustain spirits, ren- dering easier access to them by human beings. meteorites have been accorded spe- cial reverence throughout history. one such sky stone forms part of the cubic (or roughly cubic) ka'ba in the great mosque at mecca, the center of islamic worship. the black stone, and the ka'ba that was constructed aroun

the center of islamic worship. the black stone, which is roughly the size of a cabbage, is fixed in the southeast, or black, corner several feet above the level of the ground, and held together by a silver setting (it was cracked by fire in the siege of 683. the ancient hebrews also recognized stone, the cube, and especially cubic stones as the most suitable receptacle of spirit. the fragments of the stone tablets of moses, even though the writing that had been upon them could no longer be read, were preserved in the ark of the covenant because those stones had been touched by god, and still preserved the occult virtue of that contact. the inner chamber in the temple of solomon that housed the ark was cubic (see 1 kings 6:20, and the brass altar of solomon was square (2 chronicles 4:l. eve

form the basic outer temple. these are the altar, the lamp, the circle, and the gate. ideally this should be made from a single block of natural stone, unhewn in any way, flat on the top, about two feet square and four feet high. since this is usually not possible, a block of natural stone should be used as the top of the altar, or at the very least enclosed within it. the magus does not worship the stone, nor the earth through the stone. the magus worships the light of spirit through the earth, which is represented by the stone. the altar is always the focal point of the ritual and where possible should be placed in the center of the circle. the ritual instruments are placed on top of the altar when used, and when not in use, are kept inside it if the interior dimensions of the altar all

ermetic of the dawn. it is only in recent decades, with the growing availability of popular treatments of the runes, that they have firmly established themselves as a alphabet. runes are the used by the germanic tribes before the coming of . their beginnings are lost in time. petroglyphs have been found with -like inscriptions that date back to the . around the first cen- tury these signs were merged with the alphabet by barbarians liv- ing in northern italy, and the runic script came into being. at times fiercely persecuted by the , the use of runes continued down into the seventeenth century in iceland and other northern outposts. the alphabet is a complete system that joins meaning wi