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venly androgyne (male and female united in one) and represents a state of mystical transcendence and union with the supreme. it is compared to satori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great father, the giver of the seminal spark of life which is potent only when it enters the womb of the great mother, binah. from the union of the great father and great mother come forth all the images of creation. chokmah is associated with such deities as kronos, saturn, thoth, atum-ra, and ptah in other pantheons. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in

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god took place sundry passages of love, dimly liintcd at by saemund also 12^ 23^ 24, but we are nowhere told what heroes were begotten in the three nights that osiim passed with the giant's daughter. gunnloff belongs to the race of giants, not of men, which is also the case with ger&r whom freyr wooed, and perhaps with others, who are not reckoned among the asynjor. the greeks also held that from the union of gods with titans' daughters might spring a hero, or even a god (like tyr, p. 208. only saxo, p. m, and no other authority, tells us of a norwegian king and hero' frogcrus, ut quidam ferunt, otliino patre natus' to whom the gods gave to be invincible in fight, unless his adversary could grasp the dust from 1 ohg. wuotufjoz (zeitschr. f. d. alt. 1, utt, conf. wiietclii above, p. 132, an

nd the elder helgi, sam. 148^ 169. in the volundarqvisa tliree other valkyrs make their appearance together: jllad'gud'r svanhvit, rervor cdvitr, and olrlxn, the first two being daughters of king losver, the third of kiar; they unite themselves to slagfisr, volundr and egill, live with them seven years, and then escape' at vitja viga' to pursue their old trade of war again. on the whole, it seems the union of these half-goddesses with heroes turned out detrimentally to both parties: the heroes came to an early death or other harm, as staufenberger's example teaches; and' sigrun vars skammlif' she grew scant of life. stem. 169\ perhaps we should be right in assuming that promotion to the valkyrs office took place under an walachuriun. 425 oblitration of virginity which again reminds one of

aretin's legend of charlem. p. 89) has instead of it a ring, which archbishop turpin removes from the mouth of the corpse, and throws into a lake near aachen; this jake then attracts the king, and that is why he made tlie town his favourite residence. there is no further mention of the maiden's fairy existence. it w;x.s a popular belief (applied to the frankish king and gradually distorted) about the union of a wild-woman or mermaid with a cjiristian hero. not very ditlerently was charles's ancestress berhta, as we saw above (p. 430, made into a 'good woman' i.e. a fay [the similarity of names in the heroic line: pejjin of herstal, charles martel, pepin the little, charles the great, seems to have made it doubtful whether berhta was charlemagne's mother or his great-grandmother] 436 wise w

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the goddess as focus many beliefs emphasise the polarity of the female/male, goddess/god and anima/animus energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of earth and sky, is a ritual that permeates all cultures. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the ris

oncept of using swords, even though they are pretty spectacular for drawing out a circle on a forest floor, and swords are rarely used in home ritual magick. if you do want to use one, however, you can obtain reproduction ceremonial swords. the sword is the male symbol to the female symbol of the cauldron, and plunging the swords into the waters of the cauldron can be used in love rituals and for the union of male and female, god and goddess energies as the culmination of any rite. however, the chalice and the athame, or wand, tend to be used for the same purpose, unless it is a very grand ceremony. the bell the bell stands in the north of the circle and is an earth symbol. it is an optional tool and can be made from either crystal or protective brass. best for magick is the kind that you

h of the four elemental quadrants, before creating the invoking pentagram, to request the presence of each elemental guardian. it can also be sounded as you pass your chosen symbol around each quadrant of the circle. however, you should not use the bell to excess- it is better under-utilised. the broom the broom, or besom, was originally- and still is- a domestic artefact. it represents magically the union of male and female in the handle and the bristles and so is a tool of balance. brooms have several uses in magick. a broom is sometimes rested horizontal to the altar to add protection, and couples jump over one in their handfasting ceremony. most important, you should use your broom to cleanse the ritual area before every ritual. brooms are easily obtainable from any garden centre (you

ipened. he became robin hood to her maid marian. once again, there is also a christian connection here: the name marian is a form of the name mary, and st bridget was called mary of the gaels. the maypole, which we still recognise today, once symbolised the ancient cosmic tree and was the focus of fertility dances whose origins are unknown. red, blue, green, yellow and white ribbons, representing the union of earth and sky, winter and summer, water and fire, were entwined and the spiralling dance stirred up the life force and fertility of the earth. the maypole formed a central phallic symbol that could be 40 foot high and echoed the rising potency of the sun, or corn, god and the growing corn. fires were lit and it was believed that the height the young men could leap over the fires would

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ga means union. how are we to apply this word to the phenomena of mind? what is the first characteristic of everything in thought? how did it come to be a thought at all? only by making a distinction between it and the rest of the world. the first proposition, the type of all propositions, is: s is p. there must be two things- different things- whose relation forms knowledge. yoga is first of all the union of the subject and the object of consciousness: of the seer with the thing seen (9) now, there is nothing strange of wonderful about all this. the study of the principles of yoga is very useful to the average man, if only to make him think about the nature of the world as he supposes that he knows it. let us consider a piece of cheese. we say that this has certain qualities, shape, struc

ality the cheese is nothing but a series of electric charges. even the most fundamental quality of all, mass, has been found not to exist. the same is true of the matter in our brains which is partly responsible for these perceptions. what then are these qualities of which we are all so sure? they would not exist without our brains; they would not exist without the cheese. they are the results of the union, that is of the yoga, of the seer and the seen, of subject and object in consciousness as the philosophical phrase goes. they have no material existence; they are only names given to the ecstatic results of this particular form of yoga (10) i think that nothing can be more helpful to the student of yoga than to get the above proposition firmly established in his subconscious mind. about

wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us begin this evening by going briefly over the ground covered by my first four lectures. i told you that yoga meant union, and that this union was the cause of all phenomena. consciousness results from the conjunction of a mysterious stimulus with a mysterious sensorium. the kind of yoga which is the subject of these remarks is merely an expansion of this, the union of self-consciousness with the universe. we spoke of the eight limbs of yoga, and dealt with the four which refer to physical training and experiences. the remaining four deal with mental training and experiences, and these form the subject of the ensuing remarks. 2. before we deal with these in detail, i think it would be helpful to consider the formula of yoga from what may be called t

n us for the moment. 3. when we apply these symbols to yoga, we find that fire represents the yogi, and water the object of his meditation((you can, if you like, reverse these attributions. it makes no difference except to the metaphysician. and precious little to him) the yod and the he combine, the father and mother unite, to produce a son, vau. this son is the exalted state of mind produced by the union of the subject and the object. this state of mind is called samadhi in the hindu terminology. it has many varieties, of constantly increasing sublimity; but it is the generic term which implies this union which is the subject of yoga. at this point we ought to remember poor little he' final, who represents the ecstasy- shall i say the orgasm- and the absorption thereof: the compensation

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e to discuss in this elementary manual. weh note: i have made a correction in the above list of chapters from liber 333. the published text cites iota-digamma, which does not exist. the correct chapter is iota-sigma, which does exist and discusses the subject> even that does not persist unchanged. it is always growing. the cross is a barren stick, and the petals of the rose fall and decay; but in the union of the cross and the rose is a constant 14 succession of new lives<333, for several sermons to this effect. the whole theory of death must be sought in liber cxi aleph> without this union, and without this death of the individual, the cycle would be broken. a chapter will be consecrated to removing the practical difficulties of this method of invocation. it

the very brink of that spasm, until a time arrives when the idea of exercising that will fails to occur<magician, no minutest atom saying nay, is irresistibly flung forth. in blinding light, amid the roar of ten thousand thunders, the union of god and man is consummated. if the magician is still seen standing in the circle, quietly pursuing his invocations, it is that all the conscious part of him has become detached from the true ego which lies behind that normal consciousness. but the circle is wholly filled with that divine essence; all else is but an accident and an illusion. the subsequent invocations, the gradual deve

ms all its critics; they are powerless either to make or break a genius; it can only testify to the fact that it has met its master> the other half of the work needs no such complex effort; for his angel is simple and unperplexed, ready at all times to respond to rightly ordered approach. 295 but the results of the ritual are too various to permit of rigid description. one may say that, presuming the union to be perfect, the adept need not retain any memory soever of what has occurred. he may be merely aware of a gap in his conscious life, and judge of its contents by observing that his nature has been subtly transfigured. such an experience might indeed be the proof of perfection. if the adept is to be any wise conscious of his angel it must be that some part of his mind is prepared to re

m to "a quantity of little pears. again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflames the idolised idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolerance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the destinies of empires. but the phenomena of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel are a side issue; the essence of the union is the intimacy. their intimacy (or rather identity) is independent of all partial forms of expression; at its best it is therefore as inarticulate as love. the intensity of the consummation will more probably compel a sob or a cry, some natural physical gesture of animal sympathy with the spiritual spasm. this is to be criticised as incomplete self-control. silence is nobler. in any cas

threatening ceremonially "to burn the blood of osiris, and to grind down his bones to power" this method is altogether contrary to the spirit of love unless the particular deity be himself savage and relentless; as jehovah or kali. in such a case the desire to perform constraint and cursing may be the sign of the assimilation of the spirit of the devotee with that of his god, and so an advance to the union with him. 40 "concerning the value of this particular form of union or samadhi- all samadhi is defined as the ecstatic union of a subject and object in consciousness, with the result that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. it would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of meditation. for example, the samadhi 401

cstatic union of a subject and object in consciousness, with the result that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. it would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of meditation. for example, the samadhi 401 called atmadarshana might arise from simple concentration of the thought on an imagined triangle or on the heart. but as the union of two bodies in chemistry may be endothermic or exothermic, the combination of oxygen with nitrogen is gentle, while that of oxygen with hydrogen is explosive; and as it is found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the most important

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beasts or birds of prey attack him. 2. the young child's bones are tender and its sinews are elastic, but its grasp is firm((a baby can hang from a bough for quite an indefinitely long period. this is because of monkey-atavism; in other words, it is the subconscious of the child that is at work. this subconsciousness is of its true nature, therefore, in accord with the tao) it knoweth nothing of the union of man and woman, yet its organ may be excited. this is because of its natural perfection. it will cry all day long without becoming hoarse, because of the harmony of its being. 3. he who understandeth this harmony knoweth the mystery of the tao, and becometh a true sage. all devices for inflaming life, and increasing the vital breath((prana) by mental effort((hatha-yoga, etc) are evil a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

lf as two complementary forms of energy- the small active negative electron (hadit) and the large passive positive electron (nuit (it has recently been shown that the mass of matter is zero. when these satisfy each other, two phenomena occur (1) their opposed equalities cancel out to zero (perhaps even to 0 to the 0 power, thus restoring the original indeterminate nothing (2) a "child" is born of the union; i.e, a positive phenomenon is ;produced, whose nature is entirely different from that of either of its 'parents; for it is finite, and possesses limitations and qualities of its own. groups of such primaeval units form the various kinds of 'atom, according to the number and geometric disposition thereof (this involves projection in space and time, ideas which are not necessary to the el

or attempting to pervert it, as ignorance and fear, shame and weakness, so often induce him to do. whatever the act which expresses the soul, that act and no other is right. but, on the other hand, whatever the act may be it is always a sacrament; and, however profaned, it is always efficient. to profane it is only to turn food into poison. the act must be pure and passionate. it must be held as the union with god in the heart of the holy of holies. one must never forget that a child will be born of that deed. one must choose the environment appropriate to the particular child which one wills to create. one must make sure that the conscious will is written, on the pure waters of a mind unstirred, in letters of fire, by the sun of the soul. one must not create confusion in the talisman, wh

kundalini again. the mystic union is to be practised both with spirit and with matter. the new comment the magical power is universal. the free man directs it as he will. leave him alone, or he will make you sorry you tried to interfere! there is here a reference to the two main types of the orgia of magick; i have already dealt with this matter in the comment. observe that in the "mystic" work, the union takes place spontaneously; in the other, venom is shot forth. this awakes the earth to rapture; not until then does union occur. for, in working on the planes of manifestation, the elements must be consecrated and made "god" by virtue of a definite rite. al ii,27 "there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit

is summis. now then to this doctrine, o my son, add thou that which thou hast learned in the book of the law, that death is the dissolution in the kiss of our lady nuith. this is a true consonance as of bass with treble; for here is the impulse that setteth us to magick, the pain of the conscious mind. having then wit to find the cause of this pain in the sense of separation, and its cessation by the union of love, it is the summit of our holy art to present the whole engine in true and real appurtenance of our force, without leak, or friction, or any other waste or hindrance to its action. thou knowest well how an horse, or even a machine propelled by a man's feet, becometh as it were an extension of the rider, through his skill and custom. thus let thy star have profit of thy vehicle, as

tentialities to be satisfied. in other words, the more complex the khu of the star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his need to achieve it. al ii,75 "aye! listen to the numbers& the words" the old comment 75. a final revelation. the revealer to come is perhaps the one mentioned in i, 55 and iii, 47. the verse goes on to urge the prophet to identify himself with hadit, to practice the union with nu, and to proclaim this joyful revelation unto men. the new comment this passage following appears to be a qablaistic test (on the regular pattern) of any person who may claim to be the magical heir of the beast. be ye well assured all that the solution, when it is found, will be unquestionable. it will be marked by the most sublime simplicity, and carry immediate conviction (the a

"force& fire" of horus fever from the "skies" of nuit skies. another woman see comment on "venus" of the shall awake chapt. i. 15. adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust and the might and worthiness the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of the of matter and spirit in son of god, fertilized our doctrine. by the dove- or bull, swan &c. the doctrine of the regenerate incorruptible body. another sacrifice love is the magical crucifixion &c, as shall stain formula: sex as the key to the magical the tomb life "

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

e names rwbg \yhla, elohim gibor, and lha, elah, and the angelic name \yprc, seraphim (isaiah vi, 6. this sephira is also called djp, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephirah, trapt, tiphereth, beauty or mildness,18 represented by the divine name tudw hwla, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names \ynanc, shinanim (psalm lxviii, 18) or \yklm, melekim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty and clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or path or numeration for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called together with the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as ypna ryuz, zauir anpin, the lesser contenance, or microprosopus, by way of antithesis to macr

here is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial worlds created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced force, and destroyed.22 these primordial worlds are called the kings of ancient ti

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tch-tower, or the awakened one. 161 the third method is found almost entirely in the second book. the third and fourth books of this essay consist of purely symbolic pictures. for the key of the portal the neophyte must discover for himself; and until he finds the key the temple of solomon the king must remain closed to him "vale" 162 19 nine pictures between darkness and light, or eleven in all. the union of the pentagram and the hexagram is to be noted; also the eleven-lettered name abrahadabra; 418; achad osher, or one and ten; the eleven averse sephiroth; and adonai. book i the foundations of the temple of solomon the king and the nine cunning craftsmen who laid them between the watch-towers of night& day. 163) and from that place are cast out all the lords who are the exactors of the

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by the divine names, alhim gbvr, and alh, eloh, and the angelic name shrpim, seraphim (isa. vi. 6. this sephira is also called pchd, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephira, thparth, tiphereth, beauty or mildness, represented by the divine name alvh vdoth, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names, shinanim, shnanim (ps. lxviii. 18, or mlkim, melakim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty or clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or "path" or "numeration- for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called- together with the fourth, fifth, seventh eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as zoir anpin, zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, microprosopus, by way of antithesis to mac

e is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son, and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolised by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial world created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced force and destroyed. these primordial worlds are called the "kings of ancient time"

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mistress of all. not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. beautiful art thou, o babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued their strength. for in that union thou didst "understand" therefore art thou called understanding, o babylon, lady of the night! this is that which is written "o my god, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many" for she is 83 love, and her love is one, and she hath divided the one love into infinite loves, and each love is one, and equal to the one, and therefore is she passed "from the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto the anarchy of solitude and darkness. for ever thus must she veil the brilliance of her self" o babylon, babylon, thou mighty mother, that ridest upo

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the art of uniting the mind to a single idea; and that gnana-yoga, raja-yoga, bhakta-yoga and hatha-yoga283 were but one class of methods leading to the same result as attained to by the holy qabalah, the sacred magic, the acts of worship and the ordeals of western ceremonial magic; which again are but subsections of that one art, the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. and, that all these, the union by knowledge, the union by will, the union by love, the union by courage found their vanishing point in the supreme union through silence; that union in which understanding fails us, and beyond which we can no more progress than we can beyond the equilibrium set forth as the ultimate end by gustave le bon. there all knowledge ceases, and we like b hva, when he was questioned by v shkali

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does the supreme atman become unknowable, on account of the individual atman23 remaining unknown; and further, will remain unknowable as long as consciousness of a separate supremacy exists in the heart of the individual. 20 "there are two persons of the deity, one in heaven, and one which descended upon earth in the form of man("i.e, adam qadmon, and the holly one, praised be it! unites them (in the union of sam dhi, that is, of "sam (greek sigma upsilon nu "together "with, and "adhi" hebrew "adonai, the lord. there are three lights in the upper holy divine united in one, and this is the foundation of the doctrine of every-thing, this is the beginning of the faith, and every-thing is concentrated therein("zohar iii" beginning of paragraph "she'meneeh" fol. 36a. 21 it is fully realized tha

palms placed upon the ground, he should strike the ground softly with his posteriors. by this the pr n, leaving ida and pingala, goes through the sushumn. the body assumes a death-like aspect. then he should breathe out.104 99 we believe this to be the exoteric explanation of this symbolism, the esoteric one being that shiva represents the solar or spiritual force, and shakti the lunar or bodily, the union of these two cancels out the pairs of opposites and produces equilibrium. 100 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 1-11. also see "gheranda sanhita" p. 23. 101 the jalandhara banda is performed by contracting the throat and pressing the chin firmly against the breast. 102 "hatha yoga pradipika" pp. 45, 46. also see "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 11-20. the breath is always exhaled slowly so as not to ex

the mudras. the "hatha yoga pradipika" gives a long description of how the "fraenum linguae" is cut. see pp. 49-56. 106 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 57 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 48- 52. 107 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 58 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, p. 41-44. 108 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 60 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 38- 40. 109 "hatha yoga pradipika" p. 62 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 45- 47. again this is the union of shiva and shakti, and that of the solar and lunar pingala and ida by means of the sushumn- the path of the gods. 110 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 76-81. between the ganges and the jamuna there sits the young widow inspiring pity. he should despoil her forcibly, for it leads one to the supreme seat of vishnu. you should awake the sleeping serpent (kundalini) by taking hold of its tail..11

ing gravitation (4) garima (the power of increasing gravitation (5) prapti (the power of instantaneous travelling (6) prakamya (the power of 111 "hatha yoga pradipika" pp. 63, 69. 112 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 53-75. 113 on the doctrines of this mudra many popular american semi- occult works have been written, such as "karezza "solar biology" and "the goal of life" 114 it is to be noted here that the union is again that of the mystical shakti and shiva, but now within the man. all this symbolism is akin to that made use of by the sufis. 115 "shiva sanhita" chap. iv, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63. 116 "any person if he actively practises yoga becomes a siddha; be he young, old or even very old, sickly or weak. siddhis are not obtained by wearing the dress of a yogi, or by talking about them; untir

ices as have been recorded between january and april 1901. object meditated upon. time. remarks. winged-globe.143 4 min. the entire meditation was bad. tejas ak sa.144 3" there was no difficulty in getting 139 see also "the yogasara-sangraha" p. 74. 140 it is to be noted that the symbolism made use of here is almost identical with that so often made use of in the yoga shastras and in the vedanta. the union of kundalini (shakti) and shiva. 141 revelation, xxi, 1-4. 142 "the bhagavad-g ta" ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. cf "konx om pax" pp. 73-77. 143 the ordinary egyptian winged-globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind's eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. so with the following practises. 144 tejas-ak sa is the element of fire. it is symbolized by a red triangle of

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

anifestations which are purely material, is just as much occupied with the study of the divine as is his frankly religious brother who only concerns himself with the spiritual side; and that the philosopher is, after all, occupied in emphasising for us the very necessary aspect of the intelligence which links the matter aspect and the spiritual, and blends them into one coherent whole. perhaps by the union of these three lines of science, religion, and philosophy we may get a working knowledge of the truth as it is, remembering at the same time that "truth lies within ourselves" no one man's expression of the truth is the whole expression, and the sole purpose of thought is to enable us to build constructively for ourselves, and to work in mental matter. i should like to outline my plan th

ars of the great bear. now what is perhaps the truth back of that legend? if the pleiades are the source of the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposite, or the positive aspect, is their seven husbands, the seven stars of the great bear. perhaps the union of these two is what produces our solar system. perhaps these two types of energy, one from the pleiades and the other from the great bear, meet, and in their conjunction produce that blazing forth in the heavens which we call our solar system. the relationship of these two constellations, or rather their subjective relationship, must surely have some basis in fact, or we would not have

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

transmute knowledge into wisdom, and experience into quality. the ordinary average man transmutes ignorance into knowledge, and experience into- 104- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust faculty. it would be helpful if all of us pondered upon the difference between inherent quality and innate faculty; one is the very nature of buddhi, or wisdom, and the other of manas, or mind. the union of these two, through a man's conscious effort, results in a major initiation. these results are brought about in two ways: first, by a man's own unaided effort, which leads him in due course of time to find his own centre of consciousness, to be guided and led by the inner ruler or ego entirely, and to unravel, through strenuous effort and painful endeavour, the mystery of the universe

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ind and spirit till they are lost from sight in the general flame; the fires of mind and spirit burn up matter and thereby bring about liberation from the confining vehicles. the altar of earth is the birthplace of spirit, its liberator from the mother (matter, and its entrance into higher realms. hence, when the pranic vehicle is working perfectly in all three groups, human, planetary and solar, the union with latent fire will be accomplished. here lies the reason for the emphasis laid on the necessity for building pure, refined physical vehicles. the more refined and rarefied the form, the better a receiver of prana will it be, and the less will be the resistance found to the uprising of kundalini at the appointed time. coarse matter and crude immature physical bodies are a menace to the

s of the son, in time and space, are dependent upon the adequacy of the matter, and of the form to the life within. the first logos is electric fire, the fire of pure spirit. yet in manifestation he is the son, for by union with matter (the mother) the son is produced by whom he is known "i and my father are one"69(60) is the most occult statement in the christian bible, for it not only refers to the union of a man with his source, the monad, via the ego, but to the union of all life with its source, the will aspect, the first logos. we will now endeavor to confine ourselves strictly to the subject of fire in matter, and its active effect upon the sheaths of which it is the animating factor, and upon the centers which come primarily under its control. as we have been told, and as is genera

ed by life, and consciousness demonstrated through appropriate vehicles. how can this be expressed? in terms of fire, when the two electric poles are brought into definite relationship we have demonstrated, along the line of occult sight and of occult feeling, both heat and light. this relationship is brought about and perfected during the evolutionary process. this heat and light are produced by the union of the two poles, or by the occult marriage of male and female, of spirit (father) and matter (mother. in terms of the physical, this union produces the objective solar system, the son of the father and the mother. in terms of the subjective, it produces the sun, as the sum total of the qualities of light and heat. in terms of fire, by the union or at-one-ment of electric fire (spirit) a

a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust perfected sun. the system will then be characterised by a "blaze of refulgent glory" and by a radiation that will link it up with its cosmic centre, and thus effect the liberation of the son, and his return to the far distant source from whence the primal impulse originated. therefore, bear in mind: first, that the son is the radiant result of the union of spirit and matter, and may be considered as the totality of the solar system, the sun and the seven sacred planets. second, that the son manifests through his qualities of light and heat, as does the solar sun. third, that the son is the product of the electrical union of "fire by friction" and electric fire, and is himself "solar fire" or the manifestation of the other two, hence tha

r the manifestation of the other two, hence that which is seen and that which is felt. finally, that the son, therefore, is the middle manifestation, and is produced by that which is above, and that which is below, in the occult sense. therefore, the son on his own plane (the cosmic mental plane, is the egoic body of the logos in the same sense as the egoic body of the microcosm is the product of the union of the monad, or spirit, and matter. just as the body egoic of man (that which is called the causal body) is only in process of formation, and is not yet perfected, so we may predicate the same of the solar system, as it expresses the life of god. it is in process of perfecting. the son, manifesting through the sun and its sphere of influence, is yet in a state of gradual development, an

logos, the brahma aspect of the deity, who is an expression of pure energy or intelligence, motivating that tenuous something which we call substance. he is not wholly spirit, the expression of the first logos, the mahadeva aspect, which is an expression of pure will or necessitous desire, impelling to manifestation. it is the fundamental motive itself or the great will to be. man is a product of the union of the two; he is the meeting place of matter or active intelligent substance, and of spirit or the basic will. he is the child born of their marriage or at-one-ment. he assumes objectivity in order to express that which is in each of the two opposites, plus the result of their merging in himself. 2. its nature and duality. in terms of quality what have we? active intelligence at one wit

to the not-self, of the knower to the known, and of the thinker to that which is thought about. all these definitions involve the acceptance of the idea of duality, of that which is objective and of that which lies back of objectivity.99(88) consciousness expresses that which might be regarded as the middle point in manifestation. it does not involve entirely the pole of spirit. it is produced by the union of the two poles, and the process of interplay and of adaptation that necessarily ensues. it might be tabulated as follows, in an effort to clarify by visualisation: first pole the point of union second pole first logos..second logos..third logos. mahadeva..vishnu..b. rahma. will..wisdom-love..active intelligence. spirit..consciousness..m. atter. father..son..mother. monad..ego..personal

nature, the points of densest objectivity. 5. this threefold lower nature is in essence a quaternary the etheric vehicle, animating life or prana, kama-manas, and lower mind. manas or the fifth principle, forms the link between the lower and the higher.7(95) we have, therefore, our lower four, our higher three, and the relation between them, the principle of mind. here we have the seven formed by the union of the three and the four, and another factor, making eight. the ultimate seven will be seen when buddhi and manas are merged. much has been hinted at in certain of our occult books about the eighth sphere. i would suggest that in this linking factor of intelligent mind, we have a clue to the mystery. when mind becomes unduly developed and ceases to unite the higher and the lower, it for

seeks to utilise and co-ordinate the physical body at will. it deals with or links up the consciousness to the three forms in one direction; it repulses and causes separation in another. the astral vibration deals with the quality, with the attractive measure. it is the psychic element. the physical is the meeting ground of consciousness with the material form. this last is the result produced by the union of the key measure and the quality of tone. b. seven centres of force which hold the three forms in one coherent whole, and cause their vitalisation and their co-ordination. they put the triple unit into correlation with their main centre of consciousness on the higher planes, whether that centre is the causal body of man, of a planetary logos, or of a solar logos. c. millions of infinit

wed on others, and that many of the present advanced units of humanity individualised normally, and through the driving force of evolution itself. they found (to express it as far as possible in terms of fire, their opposite electrical pole through the activity of animal instinct, and- 196- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust by the blending of the two a human being was produced, the union of the three fires in the causal vehicle. man passes into the fifth kingdom through the transmutation of the discriminative faculty of mind, which as in the animal's individualisation brings about at a certain stage a spiritual individualisation which is the correspondence on higher levels to what transpired in lemurian days. therefore, we have: instinct..the key from the animal into the

ifth systemic ray holds a peculiar position in the scheme of things. he is the embodiment of the fifth logoic principle of manas. his is the synthesising scheme for the five schemes of the five kumaras who are brahma, when viewed as the sum total of the third logoic aspect, though he is not the synthesising factor for the seven schemes which are the sum total of logoic manifestation considered as the union of the second and third aspects. this is a point of prime importance to bear in mind. his is the influence that leads to the scientific adaptation of matter to form, and his is the life that unifies ever the three and the five. let us see if, by illustration, we can make this idea more simple. he is, as we know, the embodiment of the fifth principle. his influence, therefore, may ever be

on the mental plane they are sounded by the lord of the fifth ray, causing a vibration not only in what we might call "the lower levels" but producing response on the first or archetypal plane and on the cosmic mental plane likewise. on the physical plane the words, uttered by the seventh logos, produce the following results: first. the anchoring of the permanent atoms within their group soul, or the union of matter and consciousness. second. the guidance of the stream of life into any particular kingdom, or the blending of form and consciousness. third. the transference of the conscious, sentient life from form to form, from group to group, from kingdom to kingdom within the hierarchies. in connection with the human kingdom, the fifth ray had to function or pour forth its influence in ord

tivities of those devas who work with flowers, fruits, trees and herbs. every root race has its own particular style of vegetation, or certain basic forms and designs which can be traced in all countries where the race locates. these results are brought about by the interaction between the basic note of the vegetable kingdom itself, and the note of the race of men who are evolving simultaneously. the union of these two notes is that which produces distinctive vegetation, though it should be remembered that when the human note dominates too strongly it is apt to drive out the life of the forms of this second kingdom. the devas who work in this kingdom are a special group, and have a closer and more peculiar relation to it than have the builders or devas in any other kingdom. the transmutati

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

in can be brought en rapport with the soul and its messages received, 6. the "light in the head" can be increased, so that a man becomes a living flame, 7. the path can be found and man himself become that path. the following triplicities may be found of value to the student, especially if he remembers that it is the central column which contains the terms applicable to the soul or second aspect. the union to be achieved is that of the third and second aspects. this is consummated at the third initiation (in christian terminology, the transfiguration. a later synthesis is then effected between the united third and second aspects and the first: 1st aspect 2nd aspect 3 rd aspect spirit soul body father son (christ) h oly ghost monad ego personality divine self h igher self l ower self life c

e world) may cause no pain or distress, as they will be seen and met by the non-attached yogi. nor will further pain-producing causes be allowed to be set in motion. 17. the illusion that the perceiver and that which is perceived are one and the same, is the cause (of the pain-producing effects) which must be warded off. this sutra brings us right back to the great basic duality of manifestation, the union of spirit and matter. it is their interplay which produces all the form-producing modifications or activities on the various planes and which is the cause of the limitations which pure consciousness has imposed upon itself. in a small commentary such as this it is impossible to enter with any fullness into this subject. all that it is possible to do is to touch upon the subject as it aff

ce the great value of the present era of criticism and polemical discussion, as it forms part of the planetary discriminative process) and later experimentally. this discrimination leads eventually to three things: 1. an understanding of the distinction between spirit and matter, 2. a comprehension of the nature therefore of the soul which is the product of this union, and is the son, produced by the union of the father-spirit and of the mother-matter, 3. a development whereby the soul begins to identify itself with the spiritual aspect and not with the phenomenal world of forms. this later stage is greatly aided and hastened through the practice of raja yoga and hence the determination of the hierarchy to give this science to the critical discriminating west. it should be borne in mind th

not with the phenomenal world of forms. this later stage is greatly aided and hastened through the practice of raja yoga and hence the determination of the hierarchy to give this science to the critical discriminating west. it should be borne in mind that the soul passes through great stages in the unifying process and that the word yoga covers the evolutionary development of the human monad. 1. the union of the soul with the form and its identification with the matter aspect, 2. the union of thinking man or the self-conscious reflection in the three worlds with the spiritual man on its own plane, 3. the union of the spiritual man or divine thinker with its father in heaven, the monad or spirit aspect. stage i covers the period from the first incarnation up to the treading of the probatio

tice of the means of yoga or union, e. initiation, f. realisation, g. union. 26. the state of bondage is overcome through perfectly maintained discrimination. a word here on discrimination will be of value as it is the first great method of attaining liberation or freedom from the three worlds. based as it is on a realisation of the essential duality of nature, and regarding nature as a result of the union of the two polarities of the absolute all, spirit and matter, discrimination is at first an attitude of mind and must be sedulously cultivated. the premise of the duality is admitted as a logical basis for further work and the theory is tested out in an effort to prove the truth. the aspirant then definitely assumes the attitude of higher polarity (that of spirit, manifesting as the soul

me his work of service in the three worlds, without ever really leaving his true home in the subtler realms and higher spheres of consciousness. 23. union with others is to be gained through one-pointed meditation upon the three states of feeling compassion, tenderness and dispassion. some understanding of this will come if the student will compare this sutra with one in the first book (sutra 33. the union here dealt with marks a step further than the previous attainment. in that, the nature of the aspirant is being trained to harmonious peaceful association with all around him. in this, he is taught to identify himself with all other selves through concentration upon what are sometimes called the "three states of feeling" these are: a. compassion, the antithesis of passion which is selfis

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as a man, controlled by his emotions, impelled by energy, and directed by his mind, but knows himself to be the self, thinking through the mind, feeling through the emotions, and acting consciously. as this- 26- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust consciousness stabilizes and becomes permanent, the work of evolution in his case is consummated, the great at-one-ment is made, and the union between the self and its vehicle of expression is established. thus a divine son of god consciously incarnates. through the work of education in all its many branches, the co-ordination of the personality has been tremendously hastened. the mentality of the race is steadily mounting the ladder of achievement. humanity, through its vast groups of educated and mentally focussed people is r

of sensuous perception, but there is something more. there is direct knowledge. there is an understanding of the laws governing this new realm of being. there is submission to a new procedure and to those steps and passwords which lead to the door and procure its opening. it is here that meditation plays its part and the mind steps in to fulfil its new function of revelation. through meditation, the union for which the mystic yearns, and which he senses, and of which he has brief and fleeting experience, becomes definite and is known past all controversy, being recoverable at will. father joseph mar chal in his notable book points out that..the symbol vanishes, imagery fades, space disappears, multiplicity is reduced, reasoning is silent, the feeling of extension gathers itself together a

of being with the divine principle, or, if preferred, with the universal. the proper meaning of this word yoga is in fact 'union' and nothing else..it should be noted that this realization ought not strictly to be regarded as an 'achievement' or as 'the production of a non-pre-existent result- 35- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust according to shankar ch rya's expression, for the union in question, although not actually realized in the sense in which we here intend it, exists none the less potentially, or rather virtually; what is involved is merely the effectual attainment by the individual being..of the consciousness of that which truly is from all eternity."13(48) through the ordered stages of the meditation process, a relationship is gradually and steadily establis

ion copyright 1998 lucis trust "what would you do within, o soul, my brother? what would you do within? bar door and window that none may see: that alone we may be (alone! face to face in that flame-lit place) when first we begin to speak one with another" evelyn underhill we have studied briefly the objectives which we set before ourselves as we seek to reorient the mind to the soul, and through the union thus effected, enter into communication with a higher world of being. we are seeking to utilize the equipment with which a long series of life experiments and experience has endowed us, and whether we undertake the work from the standpoint of the mystical devotee or the intellectual aspirant, there are certain basic requirements which must precede any definite exercises. the words of the

e, and the lower or personal self is entirely quiescent and still, whilst the true spiritual entity enters into its own kingdom and registers the contacts that emanate from that spiritual realm of phenomena. the world of the soul is seen as a reality; the transcendental things are known to be facts in nature; union with deity is realized as constituting as much a fact in the natural process as is the union between the life of the physical body and that body. the man's consciousness, therefore, is no longer focussed in that waiting mind, but has slipped over the borderland into the realm of spirit and he becomes literally the soul, functioning in its own realm, perceiving the "things of the kingdom of god" able to ascertain truth at first hand, and aware in full waking consciousness of its

ipline. for the vast and unthinking majority, it is perhaps true that the mystic way of love and devotion should be the goal, but for the thinkers of the world the attainment of illumination should be the goal of their endeavor. in the truly illuminated man, we have that rare combination of the mystic and the knower; we have the product of the mystical methods of the east and of the west; we have the union of head and heart; of love and the intellect. this produces what, in the orient, is called the yogi (the knower of union) and, in the occident, is termed the practical mystic which is our rather unsatisfactory way of designating that mystic who has combined the intellect with the feeling nature, and is, therefore, a co-ordinated human being with brain, mind and soul functioning with the

st intelligence."3(115) all other factors below the spiritual reality are but ways to the centre, and must be entirely superseded in the contemplative state wherein the man slips out of the form consciousness into that of the spiritual reality, the soul. this, being a conscious indivisible part of the universal soul (paradoxical as those words may be, is devoid of all sense of separateness; hence the union with god is a realization of a fact in nature which has always been. the soul consciously knows itself to be one with god. with this idea in our minds and with an understanding of the part that intellection has played, the words of st. paul take on a new clarity, when he says "let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus, who, being in the form of god thought it not robbery to

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

tive. negative darkness. light students must clearly have this essential unity in mind e'en when they talk (as they needs must) in finite terms of that duality which is everywhere, cyclically, apparent. ii. the second postulate grows out of the first and states that the one life, manifesting through matter, produces a third factor which is consciousness. this consciousness, which is the result of the union of the two poles of spirit and matter is the soul of all things; it permeates all substance or objective energy; it underlies all forms, whether it be the form of that unit of energy which we call an atom, or the form of man, a planet, or a solar system. this is the theory of self-determination or the teaching that all the lives of which the one life is formed, in their sphere and in the

s or states of sentient awareness: a. the consciousness of the mineral kingdom. b. the consciousness of the vegetable kingdom. c. the consciousness of the animal kingdom. d. the consciousness of the animal form through which the spiritual man functions, which after all is but a department of the former group in its highest presentation. secondly, there is that psychic force which is the result of the union of the spirit with sentient matter in the human kingdom and which produces a psychic centre which we call the soul of man. this psychic centre is a force centre, and the force of which it is the custodian or which it- 9- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust demonstrates, brings into play a responsiveness and an awareness which is that of the soul of the planetary life, a

p conditions which the forms in every kingdom of nature demonstrate. c. therefore the soul might be defined as that significant aspect in every form (made through this union of spirit and matter) which feels, registers awareness, attracts and repels, responds or denies response and keeps all forms in a constant condition of vibratory activity. d. the soul is the perceiving entity produced through the union of father-spirit and mother-matter. it is that which in the vegetable world, for instance, produces response to the sun's rays, and the unfolding of the bud; it is that in the animal kingdom which enables it to love its master, hunt its prey, and follow out its instinctual life; it is that in man which makes him aware of his environment and his group, which enables him to live his life i

f the above it becomes apparent in what way the soul acts as the mediator between the monad and the personality. the personality hides within itself, as a casket hides the jewel, that point of soul light which we call the light in the head. this is found within the brain, and is only discovered and later used when the highest aspect of the personality, the mind, is developed and functioning. then the union with the soul is made and the soul functions through the lower personal nature. the soul hides within itself, as the "jewel in the lotus" that faculty of dynamic energy which is the manifested attribute of the monad, the will. when the soul has unfolded all its powers and has learnt to include within its consciousness all that is connoted by the "myriad forms that being takes" then in tu

ies, plus the gains of experience in the human family. for this the solar angel, the soul, is organising itself and re-orienting itself so that its power can be redirected into the world of men. contact must be made by the soul between the lower aspect of its triple nature and the aspect which has already found lodgment in the brain of man. intelligent activity and love wisdom must be united, and the union must take place on the physical plane. in order to do this the soul is entering into "meditation deep, in union with all other souls who may have brought their instrument into a responsive state. this is the basic group meditation, and when a man achieves what the oriental books call "samadhi, he has succeeded in participating, as a soul, in this group meditation, and enters upon that cy

reatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust definitely affect what the psychologists call "behaviour. there are four of these interlaced circular "webs" lying between the five centres found on the rod of the spinal column, such as follows: 0/0/0/0/0, and three are to be found in the head. these three bisect the head, and form a series of crosses, as follows: this is much like the cross upon the union jack, which has always had an esoteric significance for the student, and indicates a point in racial evolution. this cross in the head separates the ajna centre (the centre between the eyebrows) from the head centre, for it lies behind that centre in the forehead, and at the same time forms a protective shield between the ajna and throat centres. these etheric webs are in reality disks

th and knowledge; it is on the plane of the astral that the heresy of separateness has to be overcome, and it is on the field of kurukshetra that the individual aspiring arjuna, and the cosmic arjuna learn the lesson that the knower and the known are one. the secret science of the master of the wisdom is the secret of how to dissipate the fogs and mist and darkness and gloom which are produced by the union of the fires in the early stages. the secret of the master is the discovery that there is no astral plane; he finds that the astral plane is a figment of the imagination and has been created through the uncontrolled use of the creative imagination and the misuse of the magical powers. the work of the hierarchy is primarily to bring to an end the shadows and to dispel the moisture; the ai

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

l forms or appearances, within that unity which we call a solar system, veil the quality and purpose of deity. it is only when man is no longer deluded by appearance and has freed himself from the veil of illusion that he arrives at a knowledge of the quality of god's consciousness and at the purpose which it is revealing. this he does in a triple way: a. he discovers his own soul, the product of the union of his father in heaven with the mother or the material nature. this last is the personality. he then, having discovered the personality- 27- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust discovers the quality of his own soul life, and the purpose for which he has "appeared" b. he finds that this quality expresses itself through seven aspects or

and the soul is now the dominant factor; consciousness is now identified with itself (or with its ray) and not with its phenomenal appearance. later, the soul itself is superseded by the monad, and that monad becomes, in verity, embodied purpose. the process can be expressed by a very simple symbology, as follows: o.o.o. or o.o..o or o..o.o, thus portraying the separateness of the three aspects. the union, then, of the aspects of appearance quality purpose or life, results in an abstraction from the appearance, and therefore the end of phenomenal existence. ponder on the simple arrangement of these signs, for they portray your life and progress: unevolved man .o o o. appearance, quality, life. disciple .o o .o.appearance quality .life. initiate .o..o o.appearance. quality life. finally. w

appearance. diversity of form life. aspirants who are studying and training themselves to live the life of service might be regarded as having reached the point where the line is to be found. to visualise this correctly the sign should be regarded as in rapid revolution, thus producing a turning wheel, which is the wheel of life. let me again repeat: 1. the soul is the son of god, the product of the union of spirit and matter. 2. the soul is an embodiment of conscious mind, the expression, if one might so phrase it, of divine intelligent awareness. 3. the soul is a unit of energy, vibrating in unison with one of the seven ray lives, and coloured by a particular ray light. the personality of the soul is intended to be an embodiment of love, applied with intelligence and producing those "at

he subtle bodies, etheric or vital, astral or emotional, and the lower mental apparatus. these three vehicles humanity shares with the animal kingdom as regards its possession of vitality, sentiency, and potential mind; with the vegetable kingdom as regards vitality and sentiency; and with the mineral kingdom as regards vitality and potential sentiency. 3. the soul is also the spiritual being, or the union of life and quality. when there is the union of the three souls, so called, we have a human being. thus in man you have the blending or fusion of life, quality and appearance, or spirit, soul and body, through the medium of a tangible form. in the process of differentiation these various aspects have attracted attention, and the underlying synthesis has been overlooked or disregarded. ye

ego starts on its upward climb through the human kingdom. this is the third outpouring for each soul. the influence of this secondary or individual ray constitutes the main factor in the earlier stages of evolution, i.e, in the elemental, mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms; but of course the deepest rooted influence must be that which affects the divine centre of consciousness; therefore when the union above referred to takes place, and the entity has become the re-incarnating ego, the primary ray becomes and remains the dominant force. but there is still another influence to be spoken of. this is the planetary ray under which each human being is born, it must of course be understood that the so-called influence of a planet is really the influence of the hierarchy ruling over that plan

alves on all three planes, physical, emotional and mental then we shall see the solution of the sex problem and the restitution of the marriage relation to its intended position in the mind of god. today it is the marriage of two physical bodies. sometimes it is the marriage also of the emotional natures of the two people concerned. rarely indeed is it a marriage of minds as well. sometimes it is the union of the physical body of one party, with the physical body of the other party left cold and uninterested and uninvolved, but with the emotional body attracted and participating. sometimes the mental body is involved with the physical body, and the emotional nature left out. seldom, very seldom, do we find the coordinated, cooperating fusion of all the three parts of the personality concer

al body of one party, with the physical body of the other party left cold and uninterested and uninvolved, but with the emotional body attracted and participating. sometimes the mental body is involved with the physical body, and the emotional nature left out. seldom, very seldom, do we find the coordinated, cooperating fusion of all the three parts of the personality concerned in both parties to the union. when this is indeed found, then you have a true union, a real marriage, and a blending of the two in one. it is here that some of the schools of esoteric teaching have gone sadly astray. the false idea has crept into their presentation of truth that marriage of this kind is essential for spiritual liberation and that without it the soul remains in prison. they teach that through the mar

you have also the reality of love itself expressing itself. love in reality connotes a relation, but the word "love (like the word "sex) is used with little thought and with no attention to its true meaning. basically, love and sex are one and the same thing, for both express the meaning of the law of attraction. love is sex, and sex is love, for in those two words the relation, the interplay and the union between god and his universe, between man and god, between a man and his own soul, and between men and women are equally depicted. the motive and the relation are emphasized. but the impelling result of that relation is creation and the manifestation of form through which divinity can express itself and come to be. spirit and matter met together, and the manifested universe came into bei

es below the diaphragm have to be lifted up and blended with those above the diaphragm. with the process and rules for so doing we cannot here deal, except in one case, the raising of the sacral energy to the throat centre, or the transmutation of the process of physical reproduction and of physical creation into that of the creativeness of the artist in some field of creative expression. through the union of the energies of these two centres we shall come to that stage in our development wherein we shall produce the children of our skill and minds. where, in other words, there is a true union of the higher and the lower energies, you will have the emergence of beauty in form, the enshrining of some aspect of truth in appropriate expression, and thus the enriching of the world. where there

gain, he cannot see the kingdom of god" said the christ. this is the second birth, and from that moment vision comes with increasing power. this is again the great drama of sex, re-enacted in man. thus in his personal life he three times knows the meaning of union, of sex: 1. in the physical plane sex, or his relation to his opposite, the woman, resulting in the reproduction of the species. 2. in the union of the lower energies with the higher, resulting in the creative work. 3. in the union within the head of the energies of the personality with those of the soul, resulting in the birth of the christ. great is the glory of man and wonderful are the divine functions which he embodies. through the passage of time, the race has been brought to the point where man is beginning to raise the lo

n we find appearing in man his great gift of synthesis and his prerogative of unification, for as earlier said he blends in himself the qualities of three kingdoms in nature, including the one before and the one after his own. 1. the kingdom of souls..intuition. 2. the human kingdom..intellect. 3. the animal kingdom..instinct. hence his problem, and hence his glory. we might also say that through the union of the positive intuition and the negative instinct the intellect is born, for man repeats in himself the great creative process as enacted in the universe. this is the inner creative side of consciousness, just as we have the outer creative side in the creation of forms. process: in the human family, owing to the presence within the human physical form of a thinking entity, called by us

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e womb of the form. 3. in due time, the personality physical, emotional and mental is fused into one living whole. the virgin mary is ready to give birth to her son. 4. the long journey draws to a close, and the hidden christ child is born at the first initiation. this truth dr. inge touches upon in these words "macarius, following methodius, teaches that the very idea of the incarnation includes the union of the logos with pious souls, in whom he is well-pleased. in each of them a christ is born. thus besides the ideas of ransom and sacrifice of christ for us, these theologians placed the ideas of sanctification and inner transformation of christ in us, and they considered the latter as real and as integral a part of our redemption as the former. but the doctrine of divine immanence in th

cognition that though god suffers in the person of his son, he also suffers with similar acute agony in the person of that son's mother, the material form which has given him birth. christ stands midway between the two the mother and the father. therein is his problem, and therein is found the problem of every human being. christ draws the two together the matter aspect and the spirit aspect, and the union of these two produces the son. this is humanity's problem and humanity's opportunity. the fourth word from the cross admits us into one of the most intimate moments of christ's life a moment that has a definite relation to the kingdom, just as had the three previous words. one always hesitates to intrude upon this episode in his life, because it is one of the deepest and most secret and

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

ese expressions of purpose. we shall not, therefore, take any time dealing with the law of expansive response, or with the law of the lower four, beyond giving two ancient stanzas which will convey much to the initiate but may only be sounding words and meaningless symbolic phrases to the average reader and student "the sun, in all its glory, has arisen and cast its beams athwart the eastern sky. the union of the pairs of opposites produce, in the cycles of the time and space, both clouds and mists. these veil a mighty conflagration. the flood pours forth. the ark floats free..the flames devour. the three stand free; and then again the mists envelop. above the clouds of earth, a sign shines forth..only the eye of vision sees this sign. only the heart at peace can hear the thunder of the vo

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

n system long before other nations did so. they are deeply paternalistic in their handling of smaller and less developed nations and have really helped them. being conservative, it is hard for them to know when to withdraw that paternal help. the motto of the house of wales is "i serve. the innate tendency of the british race is to serve the nations and the races which are gathered together under the union jack. it must be remembered that since the beginning of the 20th century, great changes have taken place in the thinking of the english people. old things have passed away; the caste system with its aloofness, its separativeness and its paternalism is rapidly disappearing as the war and labour emphasize essential equality. great britain seeks no more territory; she is now a commonwealth

strength and that together they could defy the employer and wrest from the monied interests decent wages, better living conditions and that greater leisure which is the right of every man. the fact of the steadily increasing power of labour and of its international strength is well known and a primary modern interest- 44- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust powerful individuals among the union leaders came to the surface of the movement. some of the employers, who had the best interests of their workers at heart, stood by them and aided them. they were relatively a small minority but they served to weaken the confidence and power of the majority. the fight of the workers is still going on; gains are steadily being made; shorter hours and better pay are constantly being demande

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

the new, the past and the future through the light of the present. hence, the subjective usefulness of the present general trend towards meditation processes which bring about the capacity to be "impressed from on high (technically understood) and to be illumined by the light of the soul. when the task of saturn and of mercury has been accomplished, then during the third decanate, venus, which is the union of heart and mind, will usher in the long hoped for era of love-wisdom, of brotherhood and of expressed brotherly relationships. opportunity- 89- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust illumination brotherhood: these are the gifts that shamballa is planning to confer upon mankind during the aquarian age, if man will but prepare for them, a

e on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the rulers of this sign are three in number: 1. mercury. this is the orthodox ruler. it signifies the versatile energy of the son of mind, the soul. it is interchangeable for the sun (son) and stands for the mediator or intermediary, between the father and the mother, between spirit and matter, and yet is the result of the union of these two. 2. the moon (vulcan. this is the esoteric ruler. the significance of this is similar to that of the orthodox ruler. the moon (or fourth ray energy) is here seen as an expression of first ray energy, manifesting through vulcan. the moon rules the form and it is the will of god to manifest through the medium of form. 3. jupiter. this is the hierarchical ruler and rules the se

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ther countries because they recognise no grand architect of the universe and their planned sex relationships are based upon a purely utilitarian concept which is basically sound provided there is nothing in the world but material living. today, in 1947, the world is sex mad. great britain, the u. s, and all other countries are riddled by divorce procedures; young people marry on the basis that if the union is not a happy one it can be dissolved, and who shall say they are wrong? illegitimate children as a result of the war psychosis in every country are almost the rule and not the exception. wherever marching armies march hundreds of thousands of illegitimate children are the result. the church fulminates against the modern view of marriage and its disillusion but offers no solution, and b

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

of the soul body or causal body as the relationship reaches its highest point of intensified recognition. d. it is that centre, therefore, in the physical body through the medium of which the hierarchy works; it is also the agent of the soul. when i here use the word "soul" i refer not only to the individual soul of man but to the soul also of the planetary logos, both of which are the result of the union of spirit and matter, of the father aspect and the mother aspect. this is a great mystery which only initiation can reveal. e. the heart centre registers the energy of love. it might here be stated that when the antahkarana has been finally constructed, the three aspects of the spiritual triad will each find a point of contact within the etheric mechanism of the initiate who is functioni

friction, and are related in their usage to the three stages of the path of evolution: the path of evolution in the material, earlier stages; the path of probation, and the early stages of the path of discipleship until the third initiation; and the path of initiation itself. 9. the kundalini fire, about which so much is taught and written in the east, and increasingly in the west, is in reality the union of these three fires, which are focussed by an act of the enlightened will, under the impulse of love, in the basic centre. this unified fire is then raised by the use of a word of power (sent forth by the will of the monad) and by the united authority of the soul and personality, integrated and alive. the human being who can do this in full- 112- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv:

ad centre to the ajna centre, combining personality energy and soul energy. then, by an act of the will, it is projected down the spinal column, via the alta major centre, which conditions the carotid gland. as it passes down the spinal column it vitalises two aspects of the centres; when it reaches the basic centre, it combines with the latent energy of substance itself, and you have, therefore, the union of all three divine energies and the manifestation in man of the three divine aspects. these combined energies then rush up the central channel in the spinal column, and the third or highest receptive aspect of the centres is energised. all the centres are thus brought into full expression; all limitations are destroyed; every part of the body is vitalised and material perfection is prod

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

therefore, the path of life, which reaches from the monad to the personality, via the soul. this is the thread soul and it is one and indivisible. it conveys the energy of life and finds its final anchor in the centre of the human heart and at some central focal point in all forms of divine expression. naught is and naught remains but life. the consciousness thread (antahkarana) is the result of the union of life and substance or of the basic energies which constitute the first differentiation in time and space; this produces something different, which only emerges as a third divine manifestation, after the union of the basic dualities has taken place. it is the thread which is woven as a result of the appearance of life in form upon the physical plane. speaking again symbolically, it mig

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

n the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust in the coming cycle of service, however, you will not have the association that you have had during this life with a.a.b. and f.b, who will then be working in the ashrams of their own masters, as will also f.c.d. and r.s.u. do not infer from the above statement that contact and mutual interplay in world service will not then be present; it will. the union of all the ashrams under the spiritual plan is complete and the interlocking relationships will be increasingly present. but neither of these four people will be working in my ashram and for this i would have you prepare. remember nevertheless that personal karmas have been established and are based upon many unexpected relationships, and there is much personal karma in this group of ove

e cosmic physical plane. as he has penetrated into the higher stages of the path of initiation, he has moved forward into a light which has been revealed to him by the use of the triple light of his personality and the threefold light of his soul which (when blended) represent two great lights; as he moves forward again, he now blends with these lights the triple light of the spiritual triad; and the union of all these lights reveals a light and lights which are extra-planetary. the above elucidation is of a deeply instructive, though symbolic, nature and can only be correctly understood if the basic premise is grasped that "light is substance" and that "substance is energy" i have here attempted to reduce to words which you could understand some pages out of the rules for disciples to whi

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ies so that coordinated empires and cultural nations are appearing everywhere and, secondly, the changing of frontiers and the altering of boundaries so that a complete re-adjustment of the map of the world in asia, europe and africa can take place. it will be apparent to you that three major methods or modes of producing these fusions can be noted. great britain, the united states of america and the union of socialist soviet republics (the u.s.s.r) are working out the principle of federation, of relation and of the fusion of bodies into concentrated wholes, responding to the same inspiration but employing their own specialised methods to bring about the desired ends. be not surprised by my including russia in this triplicity. their ideology is fundamentally as sound as that in the other g

l of pride and the desire to gain that which is not their own by right. this spirit of acquisitiveness belongs to no one group; it has been a universal and general fault, and has produced the present disastrous economic situation, thus precipitating the world into war, hate and cruelty. the fusion of many minds into one directed activity is today of supreme importance; this has been symbolised in the union which now exists between two great nations, france and great britain. unity of directed thought and purpose is the guarantee of inevitable and future success. the power of massed thought is omnipotent. the potency of focussed and directed mental activity is unpredictable. if you accept this premise and this statement, then act upon it. the spirit of peace is hovering close to humanity, s

the destruction of outworn and crystallised interpretations (called doctrines) of the spiritual realities. by these means, the way is- 278- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust cleared for a new and simple recognition of divinity which will satisfy not only the heart of the simplest person, but which will meet the need of the most intelligent. i have talked in terms of the union of eastern and western thought and of the need for the great civilisations nurtured under the influence of shri krishna, the buddha and the christ to be brought closer together. i have said (and i here re-affirm) that he who comes will make this union possible and effective. this event will evoke world-wide recognition. i have stated also that we are reaching a climaxing period in human

erarchy of love; it naturally expresses itself in the political fields and in the realm of governments, through rulers, officials, statesmen and politicians. when the "little wills" of the intelligentsia, of those who serve the public in some capacity or other, and those above all who are working in some connection with the united nations, become strengthened, stimulated and focussed on goodwill, the union of the two energies of love-wisdom and of will can bring about the needed changes in the planetary life. this is not an immediate happening, but it is not a visioning of the impossible. 3. the energy of active intelligence. this third type of energy is the easiest one for modern humanity to receive which is perhaps a sad commentary upon man's aspirations. the proof of this lies in the fa

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

in substance is left as its contribution individual, group or planetary to the sumtotal of manifestation. all that remains is a point of light. this point is conscious, immutable and aware of the two extremes of the divine expression: the sense of individual identity and the sense of universality. these are fused and blended in the one. of this one the divine hermaphrodite is the concrete symbol the union in one of the pairs of opposites, negative and positive, male and female. in the state of being which we call the monadic, no difference is recognised between these two because (if i can bring such ideas down to the level of the intelligence of the aspirant) it is realised that there is no identity apart from universality and no appreciation of the universal apart from the individual rea

therefore, the path of life, which reaches from the monad to the personality, via the soul. this is the thread soul and it is one and indivisible. it conveys the energy of life and finds its final anchor in the centre of the human heart and at some central focal point in all forms of divine expression. naught is and naught remains but life. the consciousness thread (antahkarana) is the result of the union of life and substance or of the basic energies which constitute the first differentiation in time and space; this produces something different, which only emerges as a third divine manifestation after the union of the basic dualities has taken place. the life thread, the silver cord or the sutratma is, as far as man is concerned, dual in nature. the life thread proper, which is one of th

estroyer aspect) is being changed; old things are passing away, having served their purpose. the new thing is not yet noted or appreciated, though already present. the work of preparation for the planting of the germ or seed of the divine will on earth is nearly over; when the hierarchy is externalised, and men as a whole recognise the position on earth of the christ and of his church "invisible (the union of all souls made perfect, which is a true description of the hierarchy, then in a manner unforeseen by humanity shamballa will assume control, and from the council chamber of sanat kumara will issue forth the sower of the seed; he will sow it within the ground prepared by humanity, and thus the future is assured, not for the planetary logos alone, but for that greater whole in which our

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

that complexes result. but may it not be that the true celibacy has been expressed for us in the words of christ, when he said "if thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light? may it not be that true celibacy is the refusal of the soul any longer to identify itself with the form? may not the real marriage relation, of which the physical plane relation is but the symbol, be that of the union of the soul and the form, the positive spirit aspect and the negative mother-matter? let the soul be single in its purpose and freed from the thralldom of matter, and then right action and a right point of view will inevitably be the characteristics of the physical plane life. let the soul ride the form, controlling and mastering it, and then it will surely know its right obligations. it

tion of 'light' effectiveness will be produced which will make possible the expression of the whole. we still make the mistake of hercules, when we forget that the triangle of the trinity is an equilateral triangle, all angles of equal importance, to the working out of the plan (esoteric astrology, pp. 558 et seq) it is in virgo, after complete individualization in leo, that the first step toward the union of spirit and matter is made "the subordination of the form life to the will of the indwelling christ [122] the three rulers of the sign virgo definitely relate it to eight other signs, as has been noted, making it the outstanding sign of synthesis. including virgo itself, we have nine signs or energies interplaying, the number of the months of gestation of the human embryo. again "as ab

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

the pack of tarot cards (tarocchi) are also related to these paths. the 22 paths, added to the 10 sephiroth form the famous "thirty-two ways" by which wisdom descends by successive stages upon man, and may enable him to mount to the source of wisdom by passing successively upward through these 32 paths. this process of mental abstraction was the rabbinic form of what the hindoo knows as yoga, or the union of the human with the divine, by contemplation and absorption of the mind in a mystical reverie. frequently quoted kabalistic words are: arikh anpin, makroprosopos, the vast countenance which is a title of kether the crown, deity supreme; zauir anpin, mikroprosopos, the lesser countenance is the central sun, tiphereth, a conception that has something in common with that of the christian

ity supreme; zauir anpin, mikroprosopos, the lesser countenance is the central sun, tiphereth, a conception that has something in common with that of the christian christ, the son of god (the former was represented by a face in profile, the latter by the full face. m. mathers. binah is the supernal mother, aima. malkuth is the inferior mother, the bride of the mikroprosopos. daath or knowledge is the union of chokmah and binah, of wisdom and understanding. merkabah was the chariot throne of god of the vision of ezekiel mentioned in his chapters i. and x; it rested on wheels and was carried by four cherubim, the sacred animal forms, which resembled the man, lion, bull and eagle, which were related to the four quarters of the world, and to four types of humanity. the four letters yod, h, vau

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

rre d'aumont, who escaped with a few other knights to the isles of scotland, disguised as operative masons. they remained there and under the same veil the templars continued to exist in secret from generation to generation under the shadow of the mythical mount heredom of kilwinning. to whatever date the old dreams ascribe it, when emblematic freemasonry emerged it was- ex hypothesi-a product of the union between knights templar and ancient scottish masonry. such is the story told. the strict observance was founded by baron von hund in germany between about 1751 and 1754 or 1755, and is usually regarded as the first masonic chivalry which put forward the story of templar perpetuation. i have accepted this view on my own part, but subject to his claim at its value- if any- that he had been

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

e darkness, the path. the order of phosphorus is symbolic of fire illuminated from clay, of light emerging from darkness. the magicians and witches of this 'skir-hand' guild are 2 equally focused on not only low sorcery, but utilizing the hidden nature of darkness to reveal light within themselves. here we find the foundation and essence of baphomet, the father of wisdom. the sabbatic god is both the union of the beast and the whore, ahriman (satan, samael) and az (lilith, babalon) which beget cain (by the circle of leviathan, the serpent of the depths. an initiatory image of cain as baphomet (by soror lilitu azhdeha) may be found in the book of cain and represents the black lord of the sabbat as a form of the adversary. a representation of this path may be found in my publications, lucife

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rial emanation from the subjective and purely spiritual entitative being in the region of noumena. well might godfrey higgins have compared hydrogen to, and even identified it with, the to on, the "one" of the greeks. for, as he remarks, hydrogen is not water, though it generates it; hydrogen is not fire, though it manifests or creates it; nor is it air, though air may be regarded as a product of the union of water and[[footnote(s* see "genesis of the elements" by prof. w. crookes, p. 21[[vol. 2, page] 106 the secret doctrine. fire- since hydrogen is found in the aqueous element of the atmosphere. it is three in one. if one studies comparative theogony, it is easy to find that the secret of these "fires" was taught in the mysteries of every ancient people, pre-eminently in samothrace. ther

e tablet, disfigured by christian hands "the superior agrees with the inferior; and the inferior with the superior; to effect that one truly wonderful work- which is man. for the secret work of chiram, or king hiram in the kabala "one in essence, but three in aspect" is the universal agent or lapis philosophorum. the culmination of the secret work is spiritual perfect man, at one end of the line; the union of the three elements is the occult solvent in the "soul of the world" the cosmic soul or astral light, at the other; and, on the material plane, it is hydrogen in its relation to the other gases. the to on, truly; the one "whom no person has seen except the son; this sentence applying both to the metaphysical and physical kosmos, and to the spiritual and material man. for how could the

u mars is, like adam, born from no woman and mother. with the egyptians, mars was the primeval generative principle, and so are brahma, in exoteric teaching, and adam, in the kabala* abel is chebel, meaning "pains of birth" conception* see "isis unveiled" vol. ii, p. 398, where jehovah is shown to be adam and eve blended, and hevah, and abel, the feminine serpent* see "isis unveiled" vol. i, 305 "the union of the two create a third race, etc[[vol. 2, page] 126 the secret doctrine. while seth is the first result (physiologically) after the fall, he is also the first man; hence his son enos is referred to as the "son of man (vide infra) seth represents the later third race. to screen the real mystery name of ain-soph- the boundless and endless no-thing- the kabalists have brought forward the

h-enos, etc. it is that third, the last semi-spiritual race, which was also the last vehicle of the divine and innate wisdom, ingenerate in the enochs, the seers of that mankind. the fourth, which had tasted from the fruit of the tree of good and evil- wisdom united already to earthy, and therefore impure, intelligence* had consequently to acquire that wisdom by initiation and great struggle. and the union of wisdom and intelligence, the former ruling the latter, is called in the hermetic books "the god possessing the double fecundity of the two sexes" mystically jesus was held to be man-woman. see also in the orphic hymns, sung during the mysteries, we find[[footnote(s* compare ezekiel's vision (chap. i) of the four divine beings who "had the likeness of a man" and yet had the appearance

one side and female on the other (like manu's brahma, but afterwards the parts were separated" the one hundred and thirty-ninth psalm of david recited by rabbi jeremiah ben eliazar is evidence of this "thou hast fashioned me behind and before" not beset as in the bible, which is absurd and meaningless, and this shows, as prof. wilder thinks "that the primeval form of mankind was androgynous* see the union of chochmah, wisdom, with binah, intelligence, or jehovah, the demiurge, called understanding in the proverbs of solomon, ch. vii. unto men wisdom (divine occult wisdom) crieth "oh, ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools, be of an understanding heart" it is spirit and matter, the nous and the psyche; of the latter of which st. james says that it is "earthly, sensual, and devilish[[vo

d have declared that "ila was primarily food, nourishment, or a libation of milk; thence a stream of praise, personified as the goddess of speech" the "profane" are not told, however, the reason why "a libation of milk" or "a stream of praise" should be male and female by turn: unless, indeed there is some "internal evidence" which the occultists fail to perceive. in their most mystical meanings, the union of swayambhuva manu with vach-sata-rupa, his own daughter (this being the first "euhemerization" of the dual principle of which vaivasvata manu and ila are a secondary and a third form, stands in cosmic symbolism as the root-life, the germ from which spring all the solar systems, the worlds, angels and the gods. for, as says vishnu "from manu all creation, gods, asuras, man must be produ

soulless at the time he begot, with a female animal monster, the forefather of a series of apes. this speculation- if speculation it be- is at least logical, and fills the chasm between the mind of man and animal. thus it accounts for and explains the hitherto unaccountable and inexplicable. the fact that, in the present stage of evolution, science is almost certain that no issue can follow from the union of man and animal, is considered and explained elsewhere. now what is the fundamental difference between the accepted (or nearly so) conclusions, as enunciated in "the pedigree of man" viz, that man and ape have a common ancestor; and the teachings of occultism, which deny this conclusion and accept the fact that all things and all living beings have originated from one common source? ma

his creator ilda-baoth but rather that of the supreme being, the 'primitive man' ennoia. then the demiurgos was filled with rage and envy; and fixing his jealous eye on the abyss of matter, his looks envenomed with passion were suddenly reflected as in a mirror; the reflection became animate, and there arose out of the abyss satan, serpent, ophiomorphos 'the embodiment of envy and cunning. he is the union of all that is most base in matter, with the hate, envy, and craft of a spiritual intelligence" this is the exoteric rendering of the gnostics, and the allegory, though a sectarian version, is suggestive, and seems true to life. it is the natural deduction from the dead letter text of chapter iii. of genesis. hence the allegory of prometheus, who steals the divine fire so as to allow men

visions. these vary with the schools, and become- according to their applications- the upadhis and the vehicles, or the noumena of these. in the exoteric accounts, they are personified by the "three sons of surpassing brilliancy and splendour" of agni abhimanin, the eldest son of brahma, the cosmic logos, by swaha, one of daksha's* daughters. in the metaphysical sense the "fire of friction" means the union between buddhi, the sixth, and manas, the fifth, principles, which thus are united or cemented together; the fifth merging partially into and becoming part of the monad; in the physical, it relates to the creative spark, or germ, which fructifies and generates the human being. the three fires, it is said (whose names are pavaka, pavamana and suchi) were condemned by a curse of vasishta

s trilateral and secret, and he was[[iao (isis unveiled, vol. ii, p. 298) the cross, say the kabalists, repeating the lesson of the occultists, is one of the most ancient- nay, perhaps, the most ancient of symbols. this is demonstrated at the very beginning of the proem (vol. i. the eastern initiates show it coeval with the circle of deific infinitude and the first differentiation of the essence, the union of spirit and matter. this was rejected, and the astronomical allegory alone was accepted and made to fit into cunningly imagined terrestrial events. let us demonstrate this statement. in astronomy, as said, mercury is the son of coelus and lux- of the sky and light, or the sun; in mythology he is the progeny of jupiter and maia. he is the "messenger" of his father jupiter, the messiah o

ce of the binary; the triangles with the central point common to both yield the quaternary; the six points are the senary; and the central point, the unit; the quinary being traced by combination, as a compound of two triangles, the even number, and of three sides in each triangle, the first odd number. this is the reason why pythagoras and the ancients made the number six sacred to venus, since "the union of the two sexes, and the spagyrisation of matter by triads are necessary to develop the generative force, that prolific virtue and tendency to reproduction which is inherent in all bodies* belief in "creators" or the personified powers of nature, is in truth no polytheism, but a philosophical necessity. like all the other planets of our system, the earth has seven logoi- the emanating r

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ge. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and nights of brahma. 368 human gods and divine men. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii

he sacred symbolism represents it as a perfect circle with the (root) point in the centre. this sign was universal, therefore we find it in the kabala also. the western kabala, however, now in the hands of christian mystics, ignores it altogether, though it is plainly shown in the zohar. these sectarians begin at the end, and show as the symbol of pregenetic kosmos this sign[[diagram, calling it "the union of the rose and cross" the great mystery of occult generation, from whence the name- rosicrucians (rose cross! as may be judged, however, from the most important, as the best known of the rosicrucians' symbols, there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern mystics. it is that of the "pelican" tearing open its breast to feed its seven little ones- the real creed of

in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or father and mother. 7. behold, oh lanoo! the radiant child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent glory: bright space son of dark space, which emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. it is oeaohoo the younger, the* he shines forth as the son; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom; the one is four, and four takes to itself three* and the union produces the sapta, in whom are the seven which become the tridasa (or the hosts and the multitudes. behold him lifting the veil and unfurling it from east to west. he shuts out the above, and leaves the below to be seen as the great illusion. he marks the places for the shining ones, and turns the upper into a shoreless sea of fire, and the one manifested into the great waters. 8. where

finite. it is triple, because it is ever manifesting" this manifestation is triple in its aspects, for it requires, as aristotle has it, three principles for every natural body to become objective: privation, form, and matter* privation meant in the mind of the great philosopher that which the occultists call the prototypes impressed in the astral light- the lowest plane and world of anima mundi. the union of these three principles depends upon a fourth- the life which radiates from the summits of the unreachable, to become an universally diffused essence on the manifested planes of existence. and this quaternary (father, mother, son, as a unity, and a quaternary, as a living manifestation) has been the means of leading to the very archaic idea of immaculate conception, now finally crystal

ntinued. 7. behold, oh lanoo* the radiant child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent glory, bright space, son of dark space, who emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. it is oeaohoo, the younger, the (whom thou knowest now as kwan-shai-yin- comment (a. he shines forth as the sun. he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom. the eka is chatur (four, and chatur takes to itself three, and the union produces the sapta (seven) in whom are the seven which become the tridasa (the thrice ten) the hosts and the multitudes (b. behold him lifting the veil, and unfurling it from east to west. he shuts out the above and leaves the below to be seen as the great illusion. he marks the places for the shining ones (stars) and turns the upper (space) into a shoreless sea of fire, and the one mani

isleading word) and the transformations through manas and- owing to the accumulation of experiences- of the finite into the infinite, of the transient into the eternal and absolute. each of these three systems has its own laws, and is ruled and guided by different sets of the highest dhyanis or "logoi" each is represented in the constitution of man, the microcosm of the great macrocosm; and it is the union of these three streams in him which makes him the complex being he now is "nature" the physical evolutionary power, could never evolve intelligence unaided- she can only create "senseless forms" as will be seen in our "anthropogenesis" the "lunar monads" cannot progress, for they have not yet had sufficient touch with the forms[[footnote(s* vide conclusion in part ii. of this book[[vol

nd damage' she awakes karabtanos 'who was frantic and without sense and judgment' and says to him 'arise, see, the splendour (light) of the newest man (fetahil) has failed (to produce or create men, the decrease of this splendour is visible. rise up, come with thy mother (the spiritus) and free thee from limits by which thou art held, and those more ample than the whole world' after which follows the union of the frantic and blind matter, guided by the insinuations of the spirit (not the divine breath but the astral spirit, which by its double essence is already tainted with matter; and the offer of the mother being accepted, the spiritus conceives "seven figures" and the seven stellars (planets) which represent also the seven capital sins, the progeny of an astral soul separated from its

on downward into matter, these very elohim- or pitris, the lower dhyan-chohans- are evolving pari passu with it on a higher and more spiritual plane, descending also relatively into matter on their own plane of consciousness, when, after having reached a certain point, they will meet the incarnating senseless monad, encased in the lowest matter, and blending the two potencies, spirit and matter, the union will produce that terrestrial symbol of the "heavenly man" in space- perfect man. in the sankhya philosophy, purusha (spirit) is spoken of as something impotent unless he mounts on the shoulders of prakriti (matter, which, left alone, is- senseless. but in the secret philosophy they are viewed as graduated. though one and the same thing in their origin, spirit and matter, when once they

ss by the ancients, because it represented and contained in itself (chaos and space being synonymous) all the elements in their rudimentary, undifferentiated state. they made of ether, the fifth element, the synthesis of the other four; for the aether of the greek philosophers is not its dregs- of which indeed they knew more[[footnote(s "new aspects of life" by henry pratt, m.d[[vol. 1, page] 343 the union of chaos and spirit. than science does now- which are rightly enough supposed to act as an agent for many forces that manifest on earth. their aether was the akasa of the hindus; the ether accepted in physics is but one of its subdivisions, on our plane- the astral light of the kabalists with all its evil as well as good effects. on account of the essence of aether, or the unseen space

s, as well as those of sanchoniathon and berosus, are all based upon one irrefutable formula, viz, that the aether and chaos, or, in the platonic language, mind and matter, were the two primeval and eternal principles of the universe, utterly independent of anything else. the former was the all-vivifying intellectual principle; the chaos, a shapeless liquid principle, without 'form or sense' from the union of which two sprung into existence the universe, or rather the universal world, the first androgynous deity- the chaotic matter becoming its body, and ether its soul. according to the phraseology of a fragment of hermias 'chaos, from this union with spirit, obtaining sense, shone with pleasure, and thus was produced the protogonos (the first-born) light* this is the universal trinity, ba

as sir william grove has it, the electricity we handle is but the result of ordinary matter affected by something invisible, the "ultimate generating power" of every force, the "one omnipresent influence" then it only becomes natural that one should believe as the ancients did; namely, that every element is dual in its nature "ethereal fire is the emanation of the kabir proper; the aerial is but the union (correlation) of the former with terrestrial fire, and its guidance and application on our earthly plane belongs to a kabir of a lesser dignity- an elemental, perhaps, as an occultist would call it; and the same may be said of every cosmic element. no one will deny that the human being is possessed of various forces: magnetic, sympathetic, antipathetic, nervous, dynamical, occult, mechan

olstices, the periods and various phases of the solar course, astronomically and numerically expressed, are only the concrete symbols of the eternally living verity, though they do seem abstract ideas to uninitiated mortals. and this explains the extraordinary numerical coincidences with geometrical relations, as shown by several authors. yes "our destiny is written in the stars" only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection man and his celestial prototype, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations- which neither buddhas nor christs can escape. this is not superstition, least of all is it fatalism. the latter implies a blind course of some still blinder power, and man is a free agent during his stay on earth. he cannot escape his ruling destiny, bu

its application it is in this case, when one half of the "lights" imposes its forces and "modes of motion" on the belief of the faithful, and the other half opposes the very existence of the same "ether, matter, energy- the sacred hypostatical trinity, the three principles of the truly unknown god of science, called by them physical nature! theology is taken to task and ridiculed for believing in the union of three persons in one godhead- one god as to substance, three persons as to individuality; and we are laughed at for our belief in unproved and unprovable doctrines, in angels and devils, gods and spirits. and[[vol. 1, page] 669 the exact sciences of- negation. indeed, that which made the scientists win the day over theology in the great "conflict between religion and science" was prec

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finition .all that hinders the execution of the will. therefore is it written .the word of sin is restriction. it should also be noted that in the book of the thirty thyrs evil appears as choronzon whose number is 333, which in greek importeth impotence and idleness: and the nature of choronzon is dispersion and incoherence. then in the way of love evil appears as .all that which tends to prevent the union of any two things. thus the book of the law sayeth, under the figure of the voice of nuit .take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will! but always unto me. for every act of love must be .under will. that is, in accordance with the true will, which is not to rest content with things partial and transitory, but to proceed firmly to the end. so also, in th

at, that self am i. 7 .not this, not this. a hindoo phrase used in the practice of rejecting all thoughts as they arise. liber clxv 167 eyes half closed, fixed on nose. shut them about the middle of the meditation and turned them to ajna. very few invading thoughts. presently all became brilliant light, with which i became identified. realization of oneness. no doubt remained that this was indeed the union with the higher self. then again arose the question .what about the others when this state subsides again. then it seemed that a voice spoke clearly to the brain, saying .truly when united so thou art one with the holy guardian angel that speaks unto thee now. therefore worry no more about attaining. in future it is thy work to see that not only the part attain, but that other parts, tho

the motions. the author .goes through the motions. not only in l homme moyen sensuel: he is always making you the equinox 284 think he is about to do something, then he never does it. take any of the first four pavannes pieces. there are all the preliminaries, but never the achievement. the most elaborate and painstaking preparations have been made for mr. pound.s marriage with his art, but alas! the union has never been consummated. yet even about his sterility there is something engaging. he is much too american for any englishman ever to dislike him. the americans who rile us are the ones who are not american enough. as it is impossible to be angry with the authentic professor or the authentic american, so it is impossible to be angry with mr. pound. for one thing, what a simple wholeso

BOOK OF JASHAR

control the dispute between his sons. both men faced the perennial problem of disputes that threaten to fracture the community. but whereas the story of human and cain is a tragedy resulting from weak leadership, the story of nimrod and isaac is a tragedy resulting from leadership that grows too strong. even nimrod, a philosopher-king and prophet, could not achieve the suppression of disputes and the union of the noahites without force and killing. when his ability to exercise force weakens in his old age, he finds that he is trapped in his position, because the families of his victims are waiting for revenge. he understands that they will devour him if he ever lets go of the reins of power, but his great hands are weakening. with a flash of genius, nimrod solves his problem by developing

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riestess "god-winter ends his reign" all "as goddess-summer turns to face the light" priestess "hail and farewell" all "hail and farewell" priest and priestess lead coven in a dance about the circle leading to the maypole. each of the coven-ers takes a ribbon and dances around the pole with it, intertwining one with another. this is continued till all ribbons are tied around the pole, symbolizing the union of male and female; the joining of all together. a suitable chant/song to sing while dancing is found in the gardnerian book. it is gerald gardner's version of a rudyard kipling poem "oh, do not tell the priests of our art for they would call it sin. but we shall be in the woods all night a-conjuring summer in. and we bring you good news, by word of mouth, for women, cattle and corn; now

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the goddess as focus many beliefs emphasise the polarity of the female/male, goddess/god and anima/animus energies. the bringing together of these two powers, the sacred marriage that is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of earth and sky, is a ritual that permeates all cultures. in egyptian mythology, isis, the sister-wife of osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother seth. in this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, the bone goddess, and restored him in a more evolved form. the annual celebrations of this event coincided with the ris

oncept of using swords, even though they are pretty spectacular for drawing out a circle on a forest floor, and swords are rarely used in home ritual magick. if you do want to use one, however, you can obtain reproduction ceremonial swords. the sword is the male symbol to the female symbol of the cauldron, and plunging the swords into the waters of the cauldron can be used in love rituals and for the union of male and female, god and goddess energies as the culmination of any rite. however, the chalice and the athame, or wand, tend to be used for the same purpose, unless it is a very grand ceremony. the bell the bell stands in the north of the circle and is an earth symbol. it is an optional tool and can be made from either crystal or protective brass. best for magick is the kind that you

h of the four elemental quadrants, before creating the invoking pentagram, to request the presence of each elemental guardian. it can also be sounded as you pass your chosen symbol around each quadrant of the circle. however, you should not use the bell to excess- it is better under-utilised. the broom the broom, or besom, was originally- and still is- a domestic artefact. it represents magically the union of male and female in the handle and the bristles and so is a tool of balance. brooms have several uses in magick. a broom is sometimes rested horizontal to the altar to add protection, and couples jump over one in their handfasting ceremony. most important, you should use your broom to cleanse the ritual area before every ritual. brooms are easily obtainable from any garden centre (you

ipened. he became robin hood to her maid marian. once again, there is also a christian connection here: the name marian is a form of the name mary, and st bridget was called mary of the gaels. the maypole, which we still recognise today, once symbolised the ancient cosmic tree and was the focus of fertility dances whose origins are unknown. red, blue, green, yellow and white ribbons, representing the union of earth and sky, winter and summer, water and fire, were entwined and the spiralling dance stirred up the life force and fertility of the earth. the maypole formed a central phallic symbol that could be 40 foot high and echoed the rising potency of the sun, or corn, god and the growing corn. fires were lit and it was believed that the height the young men could leap over the fires would

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[tao] c. 330 manetho of sebennytos egyptian historian, priest at heliopolis under ptolemy i and ptolemy ii wrote aegyptiaca a collection of three books about the history of ancient egypt, commissioned by ptolemy ii in his effort to bring together the egyptian and hellenistic cultures. mentioned 36,525 manuscripts of hermes. these books state that the world was made out of fluid; that the soul is the union of light and life; that nothing is destructible; that the soul transmigrates; and that suffering is the result of motion. 330 bc alexander the great (356-323 bc) helps to spread astrology from babylon and egypt throughout the middle east. greek philosophers exposed to new occult ideas from egypt and babylon. astrology is personalized in greece. alexander founds library of alexandria. 300

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: vibration of this releases powerful energies. a key (when used with a crystal tetrahedron) to all the dark forces of the abyss. not to be vibrated without careful preparation. according to tradition the words means `the power within me is great' a reference to the pathways within which lead to the dark gods. binan ath: as above. said to mean `behold the fire' lidagon: symbolic representation of the union of the two sexual opposites (darkat and dagon) in their darker aspects. abatu: an earth bound form of destructive/negative energy. associated with rites of sacrifice. f sharp major key for chant. karu samsu: word of power along the 12th path to be chanted in the key of a flat major. according to tradition it means `i invoke the sun' nemicu: bringer of wisdom. to be vibrated. mactoron: wo

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ation camps established by lord kitchener (comm 300. the british prime minister and foreign minister at the time was lord salisbury (comm 300, of the elite cecil family, a close friend of winston churchill (comm 300. lord salisbury and the cecil family were key players in the rhodes-round table operation. manipulation by the round table secured british control of the mineral wealth and introduced the union of south africa. nathan (baron) rothschild was a member of the round table which represented the interests of the house of rothschild and the bankers they controlled such as the warburgs, schroders, and lazards. j.p. morgan (comm 300) became a member in 1899. when rhodes died in 1902, he bequeathed his funds to the cause. these continued to support the round table to an extent, although

john foster dulles would become us secretary of state and allen, the head of the cia. one other name i should mention here is a family which will appear many times: harriman. edward harriman started work at the age of fourteen with little education, but his fortunes changed after he married mary averell, the daughter of a new york banker and railroad president. harriman built his own fortune with the union pacific railroad, but he was a notoriously corrupt and ruthless businessman. in 1904, he was found guilty of a fraud which earned him $60 million in a deal that also implicated the rothschild company, kuhn loeb and co. harriman stayed out of jail only by insider influence with politicians and their parties. his case was helped enormously by a $250,000 donation to the republican national

g, morley, western australia, 1981)p49-50 7 the new order, our secret rulers, pl7 8 the new order, our secret rulers, p10 9 jim keith, casebook on alternative 3 (llluminet press, lilburn, usa, 1994) p20 10 said at a hearing of the post-war graham committee, which investigated baruch. 11 perry belmont was the son of august belmont, the banker who was the rothschild agent financing and manipulating the union side in the american 'war of independence. 12 norman dodd reported these findings in an interview with writer, william h. mcllhany ii, for 13 his 1980 book, the tax exempt foundations (arlington house, westport, usa. the special house committee to investigate tax exempt foundations reported in 1954. it was named after its chairman, representative b. carroll reece, of tennessee. 14 the ne

arly 1920s. his banking operation in germany was affiliated- through a subsidiary- with the w.a. harriman company in new york (brown brothers, harriman after 1933, which in turn was funded (at least in its earlier days) by the 96. and the truth shall set you free rothschilds. the harriman family was prominent in supporting both the russian revolution and adolf hitler. a thyssen company controlled the union banking corporation in the us, which had e. roland harriman on its board along with known nazis and nazi financial backers. prescott bush, the father of the future president, george bush, was also on the ubc board and owed his wealth to the harrimans. roland was the brother of w. averell harriman (comm 300, who was a director of morgan's guaranty trust when it was financing lenin and tro

net and hopkins were supporters of the soviet union and monnet was deeply involved in the lend-lease policies through which vast amounts of weapons, other materials, and knowledge of us nuclear technology were transferred to the communist world. organisations like the federal union movement- later the atlantic union committee and the atlantic council of the united states- were formed to press for the union of america and britain. such bodies were dominated by cfr members. among the directors of the atlantic council in the 1970s were george bush (comm 300) and one of the world's most influential and tireless manipulators, henry kissinger (comm 300, of whom much more will be revealed as our story progresses. the pressure and propaganda for european union reached new heights in may 1948, when

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are recorded in endless ancient accounts. these were the sons of god who interbred with the daughters of men to seed the hybrid race, the nefilim, as described in the old testament book of genesis. the most important interbreeding was between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic peoples, both of extraterrestrial origin, as an alliance was formed between factions of these races. the union produced what has been called the aryan or "noble" race- the "master race" of the nazis. this is the fusion of the nordic and reptilian dna (the genetic m xxii children of the matrix code that decides physical characteristics) and, as the ancient records confirm, it was these "royal" bloodlines, the reptilian-nordic hybrids, that were placed in the positions of ruling royal power in the

y rests on the shoulders and it has been mentioned in records 500 years old. credo says it goes back at least 1,000 years. the large symbols that hang from the necklace tell the story of humanity. in pride of place at the front are an extraterrestrial with a big copper willy (in come-and-get-me mode, and an earth woman into whom the et "fits, if you follow me. this is symbolic, credo explains, of the union between the people from the stars and humanity, which you find recorded in virtually every ancient culture. significantly, he says the copper willy was once made of gold before it was stolen and replaced with copper. this mirrors the ancient egyptian story about the golden penis of their key god, osiris, which is symbolised by the secret societies today, especially the freemasons, as an

mortality and the anunnaki under their various names constantly recurs in ancient accounts. aeneas says that his mother is the goddess, aphrodite, and his father is anchises, and he can trace his lineage back to dardanus, the son of zeus and legendary founder of the trojan race (trojan race= reptilian-nordic hybrids, the aryans or "master race. other accounts say that dardanus is the offspring of the union of zeus and electra and his origins are in samothrace, the sacred aegean island dedicated to goddess worship, from where he migrates to troad (troy) in the period of the great flood. one of the outstanding characteristics with which aeneas is endowed in the iliad is a close relationship with the gods. the legends of aeneas are peppered with references and codes about his genealogical rel

in the iliad is a close relationship with the gods. the legends of aeneas are peppered with references and codes about his genealogical relationship to the "gods" and so it is no surprise that he plays such an important part in the codes and symbolism of the illuminati bloodlines today. phillip eugene de rothschild told me that this "aeneas" bloodline became what he called the "rothsburg dynasty- the union of the bauer-rothschilds (same family, different name) and the battenbergs. this is the merovingian bloodline and also the line of the habsburgs, the leading family in the holy roman empire for hundreds of years. this was the medieval state that embraced most of central europe and italy from 962 to 1806. the dutch researcher frans kamp suggests that the habsburgs were nordics who interbr

ed into a rage and put a curse on ham and his son canaan. could the big deal here be that ham saw something about noah's body that indicated he was a child of the gods? it appears that some of the hybrids this far back in history still had clear reptilian features, especially some sort of scaly skin on the chest. in the hindu classic, the mahabharata, a "demi-god" hybrid called kama was born from the union between an earth woman and the sun god, surya. the child is described as being "clad in a coat of armour, like a divine being. by the time of "noah, just before the final atlantis cataclysm, humans were rebelling against the control of the anunnaki-nefilim and those of the hybrid bloodline were seriously unpopular. they were said to wear the "badge of shame, which could have been a patch

in he ancient world abounds with stories of the serpent or dragon race and royal kings, queens, and emperors who claim their right to rule through their descent from the serpent gods. the sumerian accounts tell of flying serpents and dragons breathing fire (symbolic of their aerial craft) and how the kings of sumer, going back long before the deluge to some 240,000bc, were "changelings" seeded by the union of the gods and humans. sargon the great, that famous ruler of the sumer empire, claimed this genetic origin and the very existence of "kingship" is reported very clearly to have been a gift of these gods. equally clear is that they were reptilian gods, as in "the reptiles verily descend. and there are many references by the sumerians to their gods as fiery, winged, serpents. the term u

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the understanding of the power ofsexual energy over thousands of years and this knowledge has been practised in thewest in the secret societies and satanic rituals. once again the sexual energy is just that,energy, and can be used to create or destroy. in the eastern religions, the consciouscreation and stimulation of sexual energy is known as tantra. sexual intercourse isseen, quite rightly, as the union and balance of the male and female, the yang (male)and yin (female. the idea of tantric sex is to stimulate the sexual energy held in thebase of the spine, the kundalini energy as it has become known. this was symbolisedas uncurling serpents and in tantra the participants control and delay orgasm totransform the kundalini from its original state (ching) into the higher energy (chi) andfi

r events that have advanced the agendatowards the centralisation of global power, be they wars, economic collapses,assassinations or scandals to remove politicians who are not playing the game. thethree major wars on american soil have been the war with the native americans after thewhites first arrived, the war of independence and the civil war when the states of thesouth sought to withdraw from the union in 1860. we have seen that the wars with thenative americans and the war of independence were engineered by the brotherhood andthe same is true of the civil war also. leading freemasons from all over europeattended six masonic festivals in paris between 1841 and 1845 and it was at six secretsupreme council meetings held under the cover of these events that the american civilwar was plann

f the scottish rite fromalbert pike on march 28th 1860. the president of the rebel or confederate states of thesouth was the freemason, jefferson davis, and the first state to withdraw from theunion was south carolina, the headquarters of pikes southern jurisdiction of thescottish rite. freemasons were at the head of all the other states who followed.significantly, only eleven states seceded from the union, but the confederate flag had13 stars, a sacred number to the freemasons and the knights templar.when abraham lincoln became president of the northern unionists on march 4th1861, he was offered financial backing for the war by the same people who were fundingthe south, the masonic bankers of london. there was one catch, however. lincoln hadto agree to introduce a privately-owned central

of them diedin the concentration camps of the freemason, lord kitchener (comm 300. lordsalisbury was a close friend of winston churchill, another bloodline frontman whowould be used to great effect in the second world war. this manipulation and genocideby rhodes and the round table secured control of the mineral rights in southern africawhich still continues today through the oppenheimer family. the union of south africaitself was created by the round table after a campaign headed by the banker androthschild manipulator, alfred milner (comm 300, who became the new leader of thesecret society after rhodes died in 1902. in his will, rhodes bequeathed funds tosupport the round table, although the rothschilds were the main funders. the will lefta considerable amount of money to fund a scheme

music scene at lake shasta.cathy says she was forced to marry a mind controlled satanist called wayne cox, amember of the jack greene country music band. greene, a cia operative, was also asatanist, she says.22 coxs job was to further traumatise her to create morecompart-ments which could be used to program new personalities, cathy writes. onenight, she says cox took her with him to the ruins of the union railway station innashville and, using a flashlight, found a homeless man asleep. he ordered cathy tokiss the railroad bum goodbye and proceeded to shoot him in the head. that washorrific enough, but then he produced a machete and chopped off the mans handsbefore putting them into a zipper bag.23 as cathy has stated at public meetings manytimes, wayne cox is a serial killer who invariabl

ed controller, was actively ritually anddismembering bums, children, and those who wouldnt be missed and blatantlydistributing body parts from his chatham, louisiana, home base to key satanic capitals ofseveral states which included the little rock-missouri route.24government agencies know this, she says, but he is immune from prosecutionbecause he works for them. cox led cathy to another spot on the union station site, thetower at the old railway depot, and waiting in the room for them, she says,were jackgreene, members of his band and others, dressed in black robes. they were standingaround a black leather altar, she claims. she describes the room as being draped in redvelvet and lit by candles. cathy was laid on the altar and subjected to rape and torturewhile the satanists performed a

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n point of the goathead pentagram represented the spirit of satan reaching into the mind of the goathead, the owl represents the same meaning. in other words, both the executive and the legislative branches of government are to be controlled by satan (ii corinthians 4. in commemoration of the 190th anniversary of the birth of george washington, 48 american flags representing the then 48 states of the union, encircling the monument, were raised on february 22, 1922. the current configuration of the more durable aluminum flagpoles date to 1959, following the inclusion of alaska and hawaii into the union as the 49th and 50th states. let us now quickly look at the washington monument, which lies directly west of the capitol. in fact, the washington monument lies on a straight line, precisely 9

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

the fountain of all life. in the west, it is understood in a narrow sense to be the yogic practices and rituals involve piercing the seven major chakras (q.v) of the body with awakened kundalini (q.v) energy. tantra of the "left hand" advocates sexual practices that have been traditionally condemned by ascetic christian and buddhist priests, yet their ultimate goal is an exalted one- no less than the union of shiva and shakti vessels of human flesh for the purpose of transcendent enlightenment. taoism: tao means "way" the teachings of the chinese philosopher and mystic lao-tse, who, like the buddha, lived in the 6th century b.c. the tao cannot be defined. it may be inadequately described as the undivided, unknowable spiritual source that generated and continues to vitalize all manifest thi

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

factor. when the mind concentrates upon it, it comes into touch with that force; in other words, a .urface channel, a channel in consciousness, has been made between the conscious mind of the individual and a particular factor in the world-soul, and through this channel the waters of the ocean pour into the lagoon. the aspirant who uses the tree as his meditation-symbol establishes point by point the union between his soul and the world-soul. this results in a tremendous access of energy to the individual soul; it is this which endows it with magical powers. 17. but just as the universe must be ruled by god, so must the many-sided soul of man be ruled by its god-the spirit of man. the higher self must dominate its universe or there will be unbalanced force; each factor will rule its own as

sopher, are more like modes of consciousness than linear measures. 19. the initiates of the ancient wisdom made no bones about their philosophy; they took each factor in nature and personified it, gave it a name, and built up a symbolic figure [page 68] to represent it, just as british artists have by their collective efforts produced a standard britannia, a female figure with shield charged with the union jack, a lion at her feet, a trident in her hand, a helmet on her head, and the sea in the back ground. analysing this figure as we would a qabalistic symbol, we realise that these individual symbols in the complex glyph have each a significance. the various crosses which make up the union jack refer to the four races united in the united kingdom. the helmet is that of minerva, the triden

additional titles are abba- father. in all these manifestations let us see the father, the giver of life to the unborn as well as the male lusting after its mate; thus we shall get a truer perspective in matters of sex. the victorian attitude, in its reaction against restoration grossness, practically arrived at the standard of the most primitive tribes, who, travellers tell us, do not associate the union of the sexes with the production of offspring. 12. the colour of chokmah is said to be grey; in its higher aspects, pearl-grey, iridescent. in this we see the veiling of the pure white light of kether descending in its path of emanation towards binah, whose colour is black. 13. the mundane chakra, or direct physical manifestation of chokmah, is said to be the zodiac, called in hebrew maz

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is permitted to heal. from personal experience i can attest that the top of the skull tingles and pricks strongly in a very small radius- no more than the diameter of a pencil- when kundalini is awakened and made to ascend through the body. the sensation is that of being gently pricked with a needle on the top of the head. it is rarely very painful. this happens even when bleeding does not ensue. the union of kundalini with the thousand-petaled lotus confers bliss that is both physical and spiritual. the sensation is sustained, constant, powerful without being harsh, and may be likened to an orgasm that is not localized in the genitals, and is extremely subtle and refined. kundalini is sometimes describes as a serpent that lies sleeping below the muladhara chakra, her body coiled in three

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(gareth knight, a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism. new york: weiser, 1980, pages 32-3) you will remember the words of the archangel gabriel, spoken to john dee through the mouth of his seer kelley, regarding the division of binah (understanding) from geburah (judgement. the abyss and its gateway daath lie between the level of binah and the lower level of geburah on the tree. knowledge is the union of chokmah (wisdom) and binah (understanding, but when the wellspring of chokmah is cut off, knowledge cannot result, and judgement must be unbalanced. there is no passage across the abyss. wisdom remains isolated upon the crown of the hill, a "widow" in the terminology of gabriel, protected by the four winds, shining in isolation with the "brightness of the morning (lucifer is the name

hining in isolation with the "brightness of the morning (lucifer is the name of venus as the morning star) because chokmah cannot unite in marriage with binah. their sexual union, as intimated by gareth knight in the quote above, must occur through daath. on a lower, shadow level, the blindragon, coronzon, is required to sexually unite samael, the slant serpent, with lilith, the tortuous serpent. the union of the watchers with the beautiful daughters of man was a work of daath. gareth knight is correct in a strict sense that daath is unnumbered, but it is worth noting that eleven is the number linked to the goddess nuit and to all thelemites in crowley's book of the law. nuit is quoted as saying "my number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us" since daath is one sephirah more than the

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versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (18 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:55 am] 2. another title reads-"the chapter of going in to the divine chiefs of osiris on the day of the burial, and of going in after coming forth" this chapter had to be recited on the day of the burial. 3. neter xert, the commonest name for the tomb. 4. the egyptian underworld. 5. sam ta "the union with the earth" 6. in some papyri chapters ii. and iii. are united and have only one title; see naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 6] p. xxxii theban version: list of chapters. chapter v. the chapter of not allowing the deceased to do work in the underworld. vignette: the deceased kneeling on one knee. chapter vi. the chapter of making ushabtiu figures do work for a man in the underworld. v

know of what had happened were the pans and satyrs, who dwelt hard by panopolis; and finally the news was brought to isis at coptos, whereupon she cut off a lock of hair[2] and put on mourning apparel. she then set out in deep grief to find her husband's body, and in the course of her wanderings she discovered that osiris had been united with her sister nephthys, and that anubis, the offspring of the union, had been exposed by his mother as soon as born. isis tracked him by the help of dogs, and bred him up to be her guard and attendant. soon after she learned that the chest had been carried by the sea to byblos, where it had been gently laid by the waves among the branches of a tamarisk tree( greek e?pei'khj tini, which in a very short time had grown to a magnificent size and had enclosed

anzone has collected a number of illustrations of this event from papyri and other documents,[1] wherein we have seb lying on the ground, and shu uplifting nut with his outstretched hands. the feet of the goddess rested on the east, and her hands on the west this is shown by the scene wherein shu is accompanied by two females who have on their heads "east" and "west" respectively.[2] the child of the union of seb and nut was the sun, who was born in the east in the morning, and who made [1. dizionario di mitologia egizia, tavv. i 150 ff. 2. ibid, tav. 158] p. ciii the egyptian heaven. his course along his mother's body, until he set in the west in the evening. the moon followed the sun's the abode of the blessed. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod08.htm (1 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:23:43 am

e guardian of the bight of amenta. what then is this? it is the heart of osiris, which is the devourer of all slaughtered things. the urerit crown hath been given unto him with swellings of the heart as lord of suten-henen. what then is this? he to whom hath been given the urerit crown with swellings of-the heart as lord of suten-henen is osiris. he was bidden to rule among the gods on the day of the union of earth with earth in the presence of neb-er-tcher. what then is this? he that was bidden to rule among the gods is [horus] the son of isis, who was appointed to rule in the place of his father osiris. as to the day of the union of earth with earth, it is the mingling of earth with earth in the coffin of osiris, the soul that liveth in suten-henen, the giver of meat and drink, the destr

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e secessionists than any ten men north or south of mason and dixon's line. the style in which he denounced the southern confederacy and all the leaders in it, from the president down, made one's hair fairly rise on end. i can see him now, as the gaunt, spare preacher stood up among us, his eyes blazing, while he rolled out his denunciations and called down the vengeance of god upon the enemies of the union. then he would tell us of our duties to one another as well as to our country. i have seen the tears course down his cadaverous cheeks while thus pleading with us to lead pure and godly lives. then all at once he would break out with his strong and not over musical voice into one of the sweet, grand old methodist hymns, followed by a prayer, like that of some inspired prophet of old "one

d his trunk and went off to new haven, without waiting for me to get back a suitable reply, which i didn't think of until he was aboard of the cars on the way to the junction, there to board the new york train and to go farther eastward. we had each been in college a year when the great civil war came. it was not long before i saw that missouri was sure to become one of the most harried states in the union. nowhere was the strife so merciless and vicious as in the border states, where hundreds of families were broken up by the fratricidal struggle. i was not sorry when my father sent for me to leave college, but i was pained to learn upon arriving home that the general disarrangement of business had brought a reverse io6 camping on his trail to him which made it impossible to keep me longe

tle headway against sterling price, and the governor and authorities who were back of him. i was with colonel mulligan in his desperate but hopeless battle against price at lexington, and was taken prisoner, but soon afterward exchanged. it was at that time that i learned jim mcgibbon was a lieutenant under price. i suspect that if he had discovered i was serving on his side, he would have joined the union forces. i saw him but once during my captivity, and each sneered at the other without speaking. the situation was one of those to which words could not do justice. well, six months later i was at the head of a troop of irregular cavalry raiding through southwestern missouri. i had two-score men under me, and they were as brave fellows as ever rode in saddle. there was hardly a roan among

cription for the 132 a typical lodge general fund for the help of the masonic brethren who were prisoners at camp mangum, the masonic lodge at elmira, new york, voted a subscription to look after the confederate prisoners who were masons and were detained in the federal prison at that place. x tried by fire t may be doubted whether one person out of ten, if asked to name the time when the war for the union was nearest to failure, would give the correct answer. some would say it was directly after the disastrous federal defeat at bull run, at the beginning of the struggle. but such persons forget that at that time both sides were in the flush of patriotic enthusiasm, and the result of the union defeat was to intensify the resolution of the north to press the war to a decisive triumph. it ma

ut such persons forget that at that time both sides were in the flush of patriotic enthusiasm, and the result of the union defeat was to intensify the resolution of the north to press the war to a decisive triumph. it may seem to others that the staggering blows administered by general robert e. lee to the army of the potomac during the repeated campaigns against richmond marked the lowest ebb of the union tide. strange as it may sound, however, the darkest days for the national government followed the most marked union successes. those days belong to 1864, a year following the fall of vicksburg, and the repulse at gettysburg of the finest army the confederacy was ever able to put into the field. and what was the explanation of this profound depression in the north and at washington, when

thousands of lives had been sacrificed !and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, and the call was still for more men and vaster sums of money. volunteering had given place to drafting, the government greenbacks had enormously depreciated, and the prices of the necessities of life were mounting skyward, with the certainty that each day and week and month would make the situation more desperate "the union is not worth what it is costing us" this was the sentiment uttered by multitudes who until then were among the most ardent supporters of the war for the union. they were losing heart; they felt the strain becoming too great to be borne. it is an impressive truth, which all thoughtful persons must concede, that if the stupendous struggle had not closed in 1865, with the union restored, it

as defiant and ready as ever to measure strength with the far more numerous federal hosts, tried by fire 135 whom he had beaten back so many times from its advance upon the capital of the confederacy. at the opening of 1864, the national government decided to make its campaigns against lee and johnston alone, all other military operations contributing to these two that were to decide the fate of the union. hitherto the confederates, operating upon inner lines, were able to reinforce any imperilled point. general grant was given supreme command of the union armies, and he determined to make an advance "all along the line" so that every confederate force would be kept actively engaged and none could go to the help of the other. by such incessant hammering the confederacy sooner or later mus

ble to reinforce any imperilled point. general grant was given supreme command of the union armies, and he determined to make an advance "all along the line" so that every confederate force would be kept actively engaged and none could go to the help of the other. by such incessant hammering the confederacy sooner or later must crumble to pieces. on may 1, 1864, the available military strength of the union was more than three-quarters of a million men. it was intended to launch this colossal host against the attenuated armies of the confederacy and to press them to the wall. this is not the place for a history of the last advance against richmond. our aim is to clear the way for a masonic incident or two connected with that memorable campaign. at the same time it is interesting to recall t

he gloomy depths of the wilderness, and then the struggle was transferred to spottsylvania court house. less furious fighting followed, and on the 28th of the same month what was left of the army of the potomac gathered in the vicinity of the chickahominy, where mcclellan had made his futile attempt two years before. there, on june i and 3, at cold harbor, the confederate lines were assailed, and the union army suffered the most bloody repulse of the war. for twenty minutes the losses in killed and wounded were at the rate of five hundred a minute! the union casualties from the opening of the campaign were fully 40,000, that of the confederates much less. the union army was fought to a standstill, and when another order was given for an advance, it remained motionless. one of the most gall

n to return, bliss rode into town to give his orders to the provost guards. having done so, he was about to go back, when his attention was drawn to the efforts of a vermont cavalry regiment to destroy the railway bridge. they had nearly completed the work before captain bliss heard firing in the distance across the river. looking in that direction, he saw, about a mile away, the enemy driving in the union pickets. the latter fell back to the reserves, who charged and drove the confederates in turn. captain bliss supposed the affair was only a skirmish, but when he saw the union reserve hurled back, he knew it was an attack in force. he galloped back into the village, where captain willis c. capron, of the first rhode island cavalry, had command of about a dozen men as provost guard, and o

messenger went back without him. late at night the wounded were all landed by the cars in charlottesville, and bliss was placed in the officers' hospital. during the two weeks that he remained there he was treated with every courtesy and kindness. the surgeon in charge, j. s. davis, professor in the university of virginia, was specially attentive and did everything in his power for the comfort of the union prisoner* a few days after the arrival at charlottesville, a wounded confederate called upon captain bliss "i am w. t. hanes" said he with a smile "and was the first man you attacked in the ranks of the fourth virginia at waynesborough "but you were not hurt" remarked bliss "no; i was lucky enough to dodge that cut; if i hadn't, i shouldn't be here to shake you by the hand. no man ever t

irly taken prisoner several days before while exchanging newspapers on the picket line. the following day general roger a. pryor (now a retired justice of the supreme court of new york) was captured in similar circumstances. captain burrage, on december 9, was summoned to the office of the prison and told that he had been selected as a hostage for a confederate private, then under sentence within the union lines. captain burrage reminded the commandant, major n. p. turner "that general pryor was already held as a hostage for him, and it was unfair to complicate his case by the new arrangement. major turner admitted the force of this contention and searched through the prison rolls for another massachusetts officer, but finding none, decided that captain bliss, of rhode island, would fill t

massachusetts officer, but finding none, decided that captain bliss, of rhode island, would fill the bill. accordingly, he was notified of the unwelcome honor thrust upon him. moreover, he was told that in addition, three other officers who were named were held as hostages for four privates that had been sentenced to be hanged by general burnside for recruiting men for the confederate army within the union lines in east tennessee. captain bliss was furnished with writing material and advised that if he wished to save his own neck he would better get busy and do what he could to preserve the lives of the condemned prisoners. with such an incentive, the captain promptly wrote to senators anthony and sprague, who were equally prompt in interesting themselves in the matter. few know by what a

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ext, primitive cultures, was soon accepted by his colleagues and remained popular into the mid-nineteenth century. sources: durkheim, emile. the elementary forms of the religious life. new york: collier, 1961. ankh the egyptian symbol of life, perhaps the life which remains after death. it takes the form of a cross with a loop instead of an upper vertical arm. it is conjectured that it symbolizes the union of the male and female principles, the origins of life, and that like the american cross, it typifies the four winds, the rainbringers and fertilizers. it is usually carried in the right hand by egyptian divinities. this symbol of a cross with a handle is also known as crux ansata. annales des sciences psychiques monthly magazine founded in 1891 by charles richet and dr. x. dariex, and e

by various names including human individual metamorphosis and heaven s gate, had first emerged in the 1970s when he and the group s cofounder, bonnie lu truesdale nettles, traveled throughout the united states recruiting people to join them on a flying saucer. applewhite was born on march 17, 1932, in spur, texas, and grew up the son of a presbyterian minister. after finishing college he entered the union theological seminary of virginia to study for the presbyterian ministry, but did not finish his degree. his talent appeared to be music and he obtained a position as the music director of a church in north carolina. he served in the army for two years (1954.56) and after holding several different jobs landed a position as head of the music department at the university of st. thomas in ho

ages necessary to acquire the knowledge of the unity of the soul with brahman. it is characterized as the condition of highest joy arising from the belief of the identification of the self (atman) with brahman. sources: mishra, shri ramamurti. self analysis and self knowledge. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1977. atman usually translated soul but better rendered self. in the hindu religion, atman means the union of the collective human soul with god (brahma, eventually merged in the absolute totality of brahman. it is believed that the soul is neither body nor mind, nor even thought, but that these are merely conditions by which the soul is clouded so that it loses its sense of oneness with god. in the upanishads it is said, the self, smaller than small, greater than great, is hidden in the hear

from emmie. the message so impressed collins s parents that they visited the spiritualist church themselves. in later visits to the church, collins went into trance. after her first marriage and the birth of a son, she developed a talent for spiritual healing and also for clairvoyance. in 1958 she became president of woodford national spiritualist church, essex; she later became vice-president of the union of spiritual mediums (now renamed the institute of spiritualist mediums. among her visitors was a government official from trinidad and tobago, where her fame had already spread. collins s healing talents resulted in several visits to the west indies to heal prominent politicians. eventually, she became a resident psychic at the spiritualist association of great britain, headquarters of

the rings, which were given away, were much in request even by foreign ambassadors (see also king s evil) crandon, mina stinson( margery (1889.1941) famous american medium of boston, whose phenomena became the focus of a major controvery over fraud and physical mediumship. mina stinson was born july 29, 1889 on a farm in princeton, ontario. she moved to boston in 1904 and worked as a secretary to the union congregational church. in 1910 she married earl p. rand, a local grocer, and bore him a son. they were divorced in 1918, and soon afterward mina married dr. l. r. g. crandon, professor of surgery at harvard medical school and author of a textbook on post surgical treatment. margery had met crandon when he performed surgery on her in 1917. crandon was a materialist, but one day he read w

g astrology, i ching, the tarot, jungian psychology, and meditation. it moved to its present location in los angeles, california, in 1984. d.o.m.e. stands for a latin phrase, dei omnes munda edunt, translated as, all the gods/goddesses bring forth/eat the worlds. the inner guide is described as an individual s lost teacher who stands ready to lead the seeker along the inward spiritual path toward the union with the higher self and to the mystic experience of oneness. the inner guide teaches practical ways to create harmony and balance by cooperating with the universal archetypes (familiar from jungian thought, considered the principles of spirit and nature. the actual practice of the inner guide meditation center is found in steinbrecher s book, the inner guide meditation: a spiritual tech

dowling, the channel who received the classic spiritualist text the aquarian gospel of jesus the christ, was the son of a minister in the christian church (disciples of christ, a conservative christian church founded in the early nineteenth century on the american frontier. as a teenager, dowling began preaching and at the age of 18 was pastoring a small congregation and serving as a chaplain for the union army during the civil war (1861.65. after the war, he became involved in the publishing of sunday school literature. he reportedly attended two colleges prior to switching professions from the ministry to medicine, but the nature of his education is unknown. he possibly attended one of the eclectic or homeopathic schools that thrived during the period but have since disappeared. the next

f the exactness of his vision and induced him to publicly denounce the hostility. he did not fish for information nor ask leading questions but wanted to be stopped if he ran off the subject, since, he said, he often experienced the blending of two influences. generally he heard the names, at other times he saw colored pictures or written names. in april 1924 he was appointed general secretary of the union spirite francaise and gave regular clairvoyant sittings at the maison des spirites, paris. on one occasion he visited geley and, very much moved, told him that he had just had a vision of an airplane crash in poland in which a physician was killed. forthuny insisted that his vision be recorded at the institute. he said he did not know who the physician was.possibly a voronoff but he was

sychology. he died march 19, 1961. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. gichtel, john georg (1638.1710) german theosophical mystic in the tradition of jakob boehme. he was born at ratisbon, germany, on march 14, 1638. he attributed his leaving a legal career to a meeting with baron justinianus von weltz, who presented a vision for the union of christianity. as a result gichtel became the head of a small society, the christerbauliche jesusgesellschaft. it was not long before the church authorities expressed their disapproval, and gichtel moved to holland, the most religiously tolerant country on the continent at the time. there he discovered boehme s mystical writings and became an ardent disciple. he saw to the publication

nsmutation of sexual energies and that god manifests as both father (knowledge) and mother (love. the perfect marriage occurs when two people who know how to love unite. individuals could transform themselves into gods with the fire of love. weor taught that during the sexual act, individuals are charged with universal magnetism. the true white magician practices what is known as karazza and ends the union before any semen is spilled. transmuting the creative energies, so that orgasm does not occur and therefore semen is not released, is equated with the committing of an act of sexual magic. the success of the magic is experienced by the awakening of the kundalini energy, which is pictured as stored at the base of the spine, which then travels up the spine. when it reaches the brain, indiv

periments during which he seemed to interact with a kitten while out of his body. during these same years, he was research consultant with the american society for psychical research (1970.71) and was a research consultant with the foundation for research on the nature of man (1972. he graduated magna cum laude from duke university (b.a, 1975) and completed his doctorate at the graduate school of the union institute (1986. since 1982, when he changed his name to keith harary, he has had a dual role as a trained psychologist and a subject of parapsychological research. following graduation he became a writer and lecturer on parapsychological topics. it has been his hope to promote the practical applications of psi. in the early 1980s he worked with russell targ and became known for his pred

he became a minister with the spiritualist national union and in 1953 was encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. harris, bertha 693 honored by her colleagues with an invitation to demonstrate her mediumship for the annual gatherings of the marlybone spiritualist association (now the spiritualist association of great britain) held in albert hall. in 1956 she took the lead in organizing the union of spiritualist mediums (now the institute of spiritualist mediums, an organization for the training of young mediums. she made her first tour in north america in 1973. harris suffered a stroke in 1979 that hobbled her during her last years. she passed away on march 17, 1981, in london. sources: leonard, maurice. battling bertha: the story of bertha harris. chicago: henry regnery, 1974

evil petition was drawn up. it is found in some editions of the service book printed as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century. the belief that kings ruled by divine right was strong in scotland, and so it is natural to assume that the early inhabitants of that land regarded their sovereigns as capable of miracles. there is little or no evidence, nevertheless, that the stuarts, prior to the union of the crowns, practiced touching for king s evil. scarcely was charles i on the british throne, however, before he began to demonstrate his powers, and scrofulous persons flocked from far and near accordingly. they came in such numbers that early in the fifth year of his reign charles found it essential to specify certain times for their reception at court; the proclamation that he issu

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ock feats of stage conjurers. ring experiments and chair threading ring experiments and chair threading were claimed on many occasions. in october 1872 the religio-philosophical journal of chicago claimed to have witnessed this demonstration. the editor wrote: we had the pleasure of attending a seance at which capt. winslow was the medium. the manifestations were very fine. one remarkable feat is the union of two solid iron rings, leaving them thus interlinked, and yet the metal perfectly sound. in the majority of cases, however, this plain test was always shirked for the far less convincing demonstration of placing an iron ring on the sitter s arm after the clasping of the hands or of placing a ring too small to pass over the hand on the medium s wrist. the medium cecil husk wore such a r

aped cactus. dried, the peyote button was consumed in various ceremonial settings. in the late nineteenth century, the use of peyote began to spread among various tribes, and early in the twentieth century strong opposition developed both among native americans who rejected it and whites who sought to control native american behavior and religion. the native american church was founded in 1906 at the union church by peyote users in oklahoma and nebraska. it adopted its present name in 1918 in response to a campaign by the bureau of indian affairs to outlaw peyote. the fight to legalize the practices of the church has continued into the 1990s, though major rulings in the 1960s largely established the place of the church and its major sacrament. serious medical and scientific interest in hal

n each other in intercourse with the creator. perhaps the most distinguished of these were john tauler and nicolas of basle, and the society numbered many inmates of the cloister, as well as wealthy men of commerce and others. ruysbroek, the great flemish mystic, was connected with them, but his mysticism is perhaps more intensely practical than that of any other visionary. the machinery by which the union with god is to be effected is the most attractive. in ruysbroek s lifetime, a mystical society arose in holland called the brethren of common lot, who founded an establishment at which groot dispensed the principles of mysticism to radewyn and thomas kempis. the attitude of mysticism at the period of the reformation is peculiar. we find a mystical propaganda sent forth by a body of rosic

he age of 28. he early experienced an earnest desire to reach the truth concerning existence, and to that end made a deep study of the dialogues of plato and the metaphysics of aristotle. he practiced severe austerities and attempted to live what he called the angelic life, or the life of the disembodied in the body. he was greatly drawn to apollonius of tyana by reading his life by philostratus. the union of philosopher and priest in the character of apollonius fired the imagination of plotinus, and in his pythagorean teachings the young student discovered the elements of both orientalism and platonism, for both pythagoras and plato strove to escape the sensuous and to realize in contemplative abstraction the tranquility, superior to desire and passion, that made men approach the gods. ho

we thus see how in the process of time the principles on which the system of plotinus rested were surrendered little by little, while divination and evocation were practiced with increasing frequency. plotinus had declared the possibility of the absolute identification of the divine with human nature.the broadest possible basis for mysticism. porphyry took up narrower ground and contended that in the union which takes place in ecstasy, we still retain consciousness of personality. iamblichus diminished the real principle of mysticism still farther in theory, and denied that man has a faculty, eternally active and in accessible, to passion; the intellectual ambition so lofty in plotinus subsided among the followers of iamblichus into magical practice. proclus was the last of the greek neopl

. oaten, ernest w(alter (ca. 1937) prominent british spiritualist, and former president of the international federation of spiritualists. he was president of the spiritualists national union from 1915 and edited the journal two worlds (1919.36. he was also a medium and believed that his leading articles were inspired by the spirit of emma hardinge britten, whose work had inspired the formation of the union in 1890. as chairman of the parliamentary committee of the spiritualists national union he pressed for reform of the fortune telling act, the british law relating to mediumship. obe (or oobe or oob) see out-of-the- body travel obeah west indian witchcraft. the term is believed to derive from an ashanti word, obayifo, a wizard or witch, although there are claims that it refers to obi, a w

erm used to indicate a form of anpsi or the psi faculty in animals, in which a pet may trace its owner in a distant location it has not previously visited. psyche anglicization of the greek term for soul which has been adopted in a number of ways by various parapsychological and occult authors and organizations. among them are (1) a german spiritualist monthly founded in 1894 and later, following the union in 1900 of the three largest spiritualist societies of berlin, superseded by a joint organ, the spiritistiche rundschau, of which karl obertimpfler became the editor (2) an english monthly magazine devoted to the philosophy and phenomena of life, beginning in 1899 (3) an english quarterly journal which succeeded w. whateley carington s psychic research quarterly in 1921 as a journal of g

aties, and even the dates for ronald reagan s cancer surgery and the announcement that he would run for a second term. quigley claims that air force one would only take off if she reported a favorable alignment of the planets and that she sometimes also gave the president and his wife political advice. quigley states, i was responsible for timing all press conferences, most speeches, the state of the union addresses, the take-offs and landing of air force one. i picked the time of ronald reagan s debate with carter and the two debates with walter mondale, all extended trips abroad, as well as the shorter trips and one-day excursions, the announcement that reagan would run for a second term, and briefings for all the summits except moscow. quigley also claims credit for influencing the pres

lans began to take on a conspiratorial nature, and efforts were made both to subvert oregon s liberal voting laws (which allowed new residents to vote immediately, and to organize criminal acts to stop their local detractors (including plans to spread salmonella bacteria. the commune eventually collapsed when some of the criminal plans became known to authorities and a federal court ruled against the union of religion and government implied in the rajneeshpuram charter. during the period of disintegration, internal conflict at the highest level broke out. it was discovered that sheela had installed listening devices at houses in the commune and even bugged rajneesh s own bedroom. the two severed their relationship. in september 1985 sheela and some other officials fled from oregon to europ

n india, the manava dharma shastra (ordinances of manu, a code of religious and civil duties, prohibited intoxication on the part of brahmin priests and made it clear that the soma drink was from a plant, not a mushroom. this plant is sometimes called the moon plant, and soma was traditionally associated with the moon. yoga treatises on meditation suggest that the true soma, or elixir of life, is the union of the twin currents of kundalini energy in the human body, culminating in higher consciousness. some hindus believe in kundalini as a latent energy situated at the base of the spine that is activated in normal life in sexual activity, but which may also be drawn upward in subtle channels of the spine to a center in the head, illuminating the consciousness with mystical awareness. the go

human body, culminating in higher consciousness. some hindus believe in kundalini as a latent energy situated at the base of the spine that is activated in normal life in sexual activity, but which may also be drawn upward in subtle channels of the spine to a center in the head, illuminating the consciousness with mystical awareness. the goal of some forms of yoga practice is often referred to as the union of the sun and moon, the fiery and cool kundalini currents in the spinal column. at the junction of these currents, the blissful condition is described as drinking the soma juice, and the energy flow as amaravaruni (wine drinking. the elaborate symbolism and metaphor of hindu mysticism has often misled commentators into literal interpretations. while intoxicants and hallucinatory drugs m

l in essex and runs courses on spiritualist philosophy, religious practice, spiritual healing, and other related subjects. the snu delegates local matters to fourteen district councils, with executive committees formed by directly-elected members in the districts. four hundred spiritualist churches are affiliated with the snu, most are in the uk, along with one in the us and several in australia. the union also maintains a register of national spiritualist ministers and mediums. membership in the union is open to individual spiritualists as well as to churches and other organizations. the primary aim of the union is to promote the religion and religious philosophy of spiritualism on the basis of the seven principles: 1. the fatherhood of god 2. the brotherhood of man 3. the communion of sp

more philosophical system, metaphysics, and epistemology. chuang tzu s teachings of the tao is considered to be transcendental, while lao-tzu s is considered to be a natural form. taoism was originally an esoteric philosophy, concerned with the unity underlying the opposites and diversity of the phenomenal world. taoism taught union with the law of the universe through wisdom and detached action. the union of cosmic and individual energies is reminiscent of the vedanta teachings of india. as central to the taoist tradition as the concepts of yin and yang are the ideas of tao and te( the power. like yin, tao is often identified with the passive (or wu wei; because the way is often given preeminence over the power. it is said a real seeker of wisdom knows the power (te) but seeks the way (ta

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

s in the higher centers. this is the same as the shekhinah rising up the central column of the qabalistic tree, and the kundalini awakening and rising up the shushumna of the chakric tree. 2 f 0# tree of taoist internal alchemy( 5 1: a> 1) 6) 1) 1 5# when the qi (vital energy) refines and unites with shen (spirit) in the heart center, wood (heart s passion) and metal (original nature) unite. with the union of qi (water) and shen (fire, wood returns to its source in the liver and metal to its source in the lungs, whereby heaven and earth revert to their original positions and the tree returns to the before-the-world sequence i.e. the tree becomes perfect.2 4 4- 0' all types of mystical yogic practices address one of the two faces of the not (al, or both. vast face yoga is impersonal in natu

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

it was by the luminous word, the son of god issuing from the nous that the creative act was made. in genesis"'god spoke" to form the created world, and, since he spoke in hebrew, this is why for the cabalist the words and letters of the hebrew tongue are subjects for endless mystical meditations, and why, for the practical cabalist, they contain magical power. lactantius may have helped to cement the union between hermetism and christian cabalism on this point, for, after quoting from the psalm "by the word of god were the heavens made, and from st. john "in the beginning was the word, he adds that this is supported from the gentiles "for 85 pico della mirandoi.a and cabalist magic trismegistus, who by some means or other searched into almost all truth, often described the excellence and t

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

s practice. the hexagram is also a symbol of the sex act and reproduction. masonic author, albert g. mackey provides us with the occult explanation in his book, the symbolism of freemasonry [p. 195, 1869 a.d] the triangle pointing downward "is a female symbol corresponding to the 'yoni' and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the 'lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical

e; the perpendicular, isis, or the female principle; and the hypotenuse, horus, their son [kenneth r.h. mackenzie, the royal masonic cyclopaedia of history, rites, symbolism, and biography, new york, j.w. bouton, 1877, p. 743] thus, you can see that the hypotenuse was conceived as a result of the sexual union of the base and the perpendicular. within masonic symbolism, the sex act is portrayed as the union of the perpendicular and the base. we have pictured the triangle ithin. masonic author, r. swinburne clymer typifies, above, with the symbol of the tau w masonic symbolism of the tau gam, and the yoni, the male and female emblems of when he states "the phallus, or lin generation, are found in the triangle and the tau [clymer, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, quaker

mer, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, quakertown, pa, the philosophical publishing company, 1951, p. 131] masonic author, albert mackey, tells us of the sexual connotation of this hexagram "the triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [mackey, the symbolism of freemasonry, 1869, p. 195, 219, 361; also albert pike, morals and dogma, 1871, p. 13; also wes cook, editor, did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge for research, 1965, p. 132] to the mason, the interlacing triangles of the hexagra

ysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the cross and the crown symbol here. after all, our savior and lord jesus christ received his crown in heaven after he suffered the agony of the cross. however, freemasons have just a little bit more on their minds than t

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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

forces which can only find equilibrium in the central trunk or pillar. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 30 plate 4: the four planes of the tree of life secret wisdom of the qabalah page 31 plate 4: the three pillars of the tree of life secret wisdom of the qabalah page 32 the active mood of the divine light enters the right-hand pillar through 'hokmah, and the passive mood enters through binah, the union of these two lights creating the central pillar, the word or logos. the formulation of this word, by balancing the moods of light, constitutes the great magical work of the qabalah. to the student of the occult it will be apparent that these two trees closely resemble the letter shin, also the caduceus of hermes with its central rod and its two entwined serpents, and also the ida, pingal

but as soon as they are removed from the world, then it is said of the letters of god's name that gon that day the lord shall be one and his name one h (zech. xiv, 9. 34 as in god above all things become a perfect unity, that is a perfect balance, so also in man below must a perfect unity be established, for all things are also to be found in man. to the qabalist the mystery of faith consists gin the union of god with the female whom he fructifies, after the manner of the union of male and female h. to the christian this may seem a blasphemy, but remembering that in the qabalah the union of the sexes is looked upon as the sublimest act in life, to the jews it is the reverse. gbenediction does not abide save when male and female are together h; 35 and even moses the law-giver of israel was

in life, to the jews it is the reverse. gbenediction does not abide save when male and female are together h; 35 and even moses the law-giver of israel was not considered perfect because he was separated from his wife. 36 god being a unity in the spiritual world, this oneness is manifested in the material world when the male is united to the female gin a righteous purpose h 37; for it is through the union of bodies and souls that perfect unity is attained. so long as jacob was unmarried, god did not manifest to him clearly. after marriage he arrived at the perfection which is above as distinguished from the perfection which is below, and god manifested to him clearly. 38 we thus see that the mystery of sex is but the mystery of good and evil looked at from another angle. and as in the fir

darkness into a luminous mirror enabled yhvh to be reflected upon it. then only was the balance between the former and the formless established. as the divine spark scintillated forth, ghe caused a wind to blow from above against a wind that blew from below. from the shock of the meeting of these two winds, a drop emerged and rose from the depths of the abyss. this drop united the winds and from the union of these winds the world was born h, 3 a simulacrum of elohim- who. these- in which the form of every atom represents a divine idea. or we may try to understand it in another way: the indivisible point or supreme point sends forth a light of such transparency, limpidity and subtlety that it penetrates everywhere. around the point, the penetration of its own light forms a ring or a palace

nsciousness was reflected the unity of these two (satan) as symbolized by their nakedness. as the egyptian hierophants, when they discovered that the earth gravitated round the sun, hid away this knowledge because it revealed the law of attraction and repulsion (the law of creation, so now did man and woman veil the knowledge of the conjunction of the vau and the heh (which is but a reflection of the union of the od and the heh) by means of aprons, tha:t is by turning this knowledge into a mystery no sooner were the mysteries hidden than the eternal opposites, the man and the woman, heard the voice of tetragrammaton gwalking in the garden h. it is the primal light, shin, formulated by the mystic union of the od and heh (jah) and the vau and heh (veh. as they heard it they hid themselves fr

, include an infinite number of a3's, etc. whilst in state j, a3 etc, sinks into illusion, a4, etc, becoming the sole reality, which cannot, however, be secret wisdom of the qabalah page 78 explained to g individuals in any language they can understand. the mystical eucharist at an end, x sinks back into state g, and though in this state his sole instrument is his three-dimensional consciousness, the union he experienced was so overwhelming that state j still remains the supreme reality to him. should he have attained equilibrium in state g before entering state j, he will realize that this is not the only reality; that gas above so beneath h, state g is equally real; that they are in fact two realities, the one belonging to conscious existence and the other to what may be called super-con

esert of arabia, and on his return he began to undermine the power of rome and more than any other man founded christianity. simon ben yohai, the traditional composer of the zohar, retired with his son to a cave and as legend affirms gsat in the sand up to their necks h for twelve or thirteen years gstudying the law h. 10 also ramon lulle, the qabalist, in preparing himself for revelation and for the union with god. sought the loneliest places and the most arduous ways. he withdrew far from the multitude, where there was nothing to distract him. at the foot of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 80 mount randa he constructed a little hut in which he received his pupils and taught them. but when he desired communion with god, he climbed to the summit of the mountain. 11 we will next turn to a

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

ns, who, like other tribes of america, seem plainly to have crossed over from the north-eastern extremity of siberia. upon this subject the same writer remarks thus "agreeably to the mystical notion so familiar to the hindoos, that the self-triplicated great father yet remained but one in essence, the peruvians supposed their tanga-tanga to be one in three, and three in one: and in consequence of the union of hero worship with the astronomical and material systems of idolatry they venerated the sun and the air, each under three images and three names. the same opinions equally prevailed throughout the nations which lie to the west of hindostan. thus the persians had their ormuzd, mithras, and ahriman: or, as the matter was sometimes represented, their self-triplicating mithras. the syrians

otus would have us suppose"[55 [55] the round towers of ireland, p. 159. according to the testimony of inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the trinity--three in one. the triangle typifies the flame of sacred fire emerging from the holy lamp. with its base upwards it typifies the delta, or the door through which all come into the world. with its apex uppermost, it is an emblem of the phallic triad. the union of these triangles typifies the male and female principles uniting with each other, thus producing a new figure, a star, while each retains its own identity.[56 [56] ancient faiths, vol. i, p. 145. thus the primary significance of the pyramid was religious, and in its peculiar architectural construction was manifested the prevailing conception of the deity worshipped; namely, the fructif

evidently very puzzling to the pious indians, and in their attempts to explain them they say they are placed there "in fulfilment of vows" or that they have been wrought there "as punishments for sins of a sexual nature, committed by those who executed or paid for them" it is, however, the opinion of forlong that they are simply connected with an older and purer worship--a worship which involved the union of the sex principles as the foundation of their god-idea. regarding the cause for the "indecent" sculptures of the orissa temples, the same writer quotes the following from baboo ragendralala mitra, in his work on the antiquities of orissa "a vitiated taste aided by general prevalence of immorality might at first sight appear to be the most likely one; but i can not believe that libidio

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

resist oppression and debasemment,theold-time pantomime used to begin with a prologue or a spoken introductionofthe personae: harlequin and colum255 bine were at times shown as king and queen, prince and princess, hero and heroine: the scenes of the performances showed incidents in their career, there were failures and successes, dangers and trials, escapes and rewards, and the drama wouldendwith the union of the heroic pair, represent255 ing the combination of the higher human principles by salvation, the heavenly marriage, and this longed-for consum255 mation was displayed by the grand final tableau, which we now call the transformation scene, of light, joy and glory, suggestiveofthebeatific reward of the virtuous soul which had survived the attractions of the lower principles and had jo

performed as a last resort, because of the dangers involved in the operation, especially from the risk of admitting air into the veins, and from the risk of the clotting of the blood while traversing the tubes of the apparatus.thestrange results of the crossings of the races of mankind as shown in their offspring, notably the occurrence of black, white and mulatto babies, in curious sequence from the union of white men and negro women, is not due to the admixture of blood as used tobesaid,butto the combination of racial germ255 continuity, to be referred to later on. in the blood then and in its corpuscles while in constant movement we seem to find the vehicle of the life essence, the vital force whose presence confers life, whose loss brings man314themagical masonto an end, so far as his

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

stole (or a solar cross) upon her breast, and the book of science open in her hand. she representsscience, wisdom,orknowledge.3.the empress.a winged and crowned woman seated upon a throne, having in one hand a sceptre bearing a globe surmounted by a cross, while she rests the other upon a shield with an eagle blazoned therein on whose breast is the cross. she is the symbol ofaction,the result of the union of science and will.58 the sorcererand his apprentice4. the emperor.he is crowned (and leaning against a throne, his legs form a cross, and besidehim,beneath his left hand,ifa shield blazoned with an eagle. in his right hand hebearsasceptre similar to that of the empress. hisbodyand arms form a triangle, of which his head is the apex, so that the whole figure represents a triangle above

nergising, the fire; while the letter he is the passive, the receptive, the water- the spirit of god moving on the face of the water, the fire moving on the water. hence we get warmth and moisture, which are the basis of all168 the sorcererand his apprenticelife, and without which life is impossible; also the male and female principles which pervade all nature; and we get the letter vau, which is the union of the two, completing the triangle, and making the divine sign. but the second he is the term of transition, the passing from one world to another. the plant grows and flowers, but concealed within the flower lies the seed wherein is the potentiality of an infinite series of plants of the same kind. that seed is the second he. the metaphor may be carried as far as we please, to any mani

that is just one translation of this great name, the yod, he, vau, he. the same thing is found in the cards of the tarot: the four suits mean the four letters of the great name.thefour honours of the tarot pack are the king, queen, knave, and knight; and these four correspond, the king to the active or energising force, the queen to the passive or receptive force, and the knight to the juncture, the union, completing the triangle. the knave or squire(ger255man, knabe)is the term of transition. these again refer not only to the letters of the great name,butto the four worlds orthescience of numbers169planes of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah. assiah, the lowest of all, is the key corresponding to the 4 knaves of the court cards; and these knaves are the terms of transition, as the ma

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

an temples includes a great court, vestibule, hypostyle hall and the great seat. this design was later adapted into what became the israelite sanctuary and kings solomon s temple. in general, the egyptian temple was surrounded by a massive wall of mud-brick. this wall isolated the temple from it surroundings, which symbolically represented the forces of chaos. metaphorically the mud resulted from the union of heaven and earth. the brick wall itself was therefore set in wavy courses to symbolize the primeval waters, representing the first stage of creation. the exterior walls of the temple resembled a fortress, so as to defend it against all forms of evil. the temple was entered through two pylons, beyond which lay an open court. this court sometimes had colonnades along the sides and an al

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

ened being. the four attributes of each church as given in the book of revelation are: 1. characteristics of the church and city. 2. commendation of the church. 3. counsel and warning. 4. promises to overcomers. the church of ephesus the church of ephesus is the base chakra. it is known as desirable and is that of the primal instincts. it is desired by and desires the sahasrara (laodicea) centre. the union of these centres locks the organism into the static currents of the treasury of light. the characteristic of the city is that of change, the change from earthly to gnostic worship. this represents the transmutation of purely "nature" oriented vibrations into forces that serve the spiritual goal. this technology includes the correct use of passion and desire with the process of transfigur

sicrucians are orders steeped in mystery. the knight templars were, at first, considered to be simply an order for the protection of the roads along which pilgrims travelled to the holy land. however, as they become better known, rumours began to circulate about their esoteric knowledge and occult practises and this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were dualistic with an emphasis on the union of the opposing male and female facets of consciousness, this process was reflected in their use of the image of baphomet, an androgynous pan like figure within their secret shrines. their origins can probably be traced to 1188 ce when the order of sion split into two opposed factions, of which the knight templar was the major. as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight te

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

ce of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the first of witchblood unto the path. 20 upon the hour of noon- invocation of the djinn of fire ya! zat-i-shaitan! o ring of flame, scorching sun of the sun s height scorpion soul, who arises as the sun at noon sekak sekak, iasokilam i spea

(of reciting the binding 28 spell) into the vessel. if sexual evocation, allow the elixir to enter the vessel upon climax. if one is working with a partner, a woman, then she may utilize both male and female sexual fluids to create and give material basis for the spirit. this is not by itself necessary; the solitary magician may conduct successfully this creation or summoning method alone. beware the union of the fluids of the sun and the moon, as it leads to a strong familiar who for the inexperienced, may cause mental stress for the magician. after the evocation and binding of the spirit to the vessel, bury it in a graveyard or some designated area by a great tree or hidden place. it shall reside there for a period of when the dark moon begins and grows towards the full moon. you may evo

ception, the instinctual guide which leads one to automatic (in reference to automatic drawing, the subconscious unveiled) communication with the serpent-angel, azal ucel (holy guardian angel/true will) or initiatic guide. self-enchantment is also the directional point which is the obsessional direction of ones sorcerous path. the path of sorcery is the direct road built from self-enchantment and the union with the isolate core essence of being (hga. sorcery is the rejuvenating obsession of encircling belief into flesh. this may be understood by austin osman spare s conceptual theory of manifestation will- desire-belief, self-enchantment/obsession leads to the destruction/vampyric death of unnecessary ideals which plague the self in numerous forms. in primal cultures these dogmatic ideals

is the prince of spirits, angels and daemon. come thou forth and without delay to me, spirit n. by adonai, the lord of the earth, by the axis of the sun and the moon i summon thee. by the eternal fire, come now unto this circle be welcomed unto me. welcome unto the spirit welcome spirit n. you are welcomed in this meeting place within the crossroads. i have summoned you forth, to join with me, by the union of heaven and hell. i bind this within this circle, take flesh and desire within thy sigil of calling, which i shall give unto thee life. thou shalt not leave this circle until i am satisfied, for i shall bring you forth into the world of flesh once again. by the sacred center of the arcanum of shadow and light, within the ourabouris circle i am bound and free, yet as you are spirit n. s

also causes love of people as well. he governs 60 legions of spirits. p zepar zepar is a duke whom appears in red clothing and armor. he is likewise considered a familiar of babalon-lilith, and causes lust and love between women and men. he is also one aspect of the crone as well, making women barren. 26 legions of spirits are under zepar, one may work through this spirit as a means of obtaining the union of another female, or creating a shadow form of a succubus via dreaming sorcery. 44 q botis botis appears in the black mirror as a viper, and then with the command of the magician will appear in a human shape with sharpened teeth, two horns and carrying a flaming sword. botis is a divinatory spirit whom reveals secrets in the depths of the mind, and how one may obtain secrets from others

, causing in dreaming states the consciousness to project to other countries and lands. he rules over 30 legions of spirits. s sallos 45 sallos/saleos is a might duke as well, who appears in the form of a soldier of medieval times riding on a crocodile, whom is crowned. sallos is a spirit of lust and desire, whom one may project to bring on with another and create a flowing inspiration to achieve the union with another. he governs 30 legions of spirits as well. t purson purson is a great king who appears in the black mirror as a man with a lion s face, who carries a serpent/viper in his hand and rides upon a bear. purson is a spirit of divination as well, who holds communicating with the shades of the dead. purson may discover treasures, in the form of insight and inspiration which causes

gnity and honor. he governs 19 legions of spirits. y glasya-labolas being a might president and earl, glasya-labolas appears in the form of a dog with wings. he inspires the learning of the hidden and black arts, and is an author (creator) of bloodshed and manslaughter. glasya-labolas is a demon of cursing, whom causes situations of danger to occur. also being a spirit of divination, he may bring the union of friends and foes as well. glasya-labolas commands 36 legions of spirits as well. z bune bune/bime is a duke, who appears as a dragon with three heads one like a dog, one as a bird and the other as a man with black eyes. bune is a shade gatherer, under the form of azrael the angel of death. bune gathers shades unto one place, or sepulcher that they may reside in your place of dwelling

a book in his right hand, which is the grimoire of high art. dantalion reveals the secret council or thoughts of others, which in an initiatory context means that dantalion may provide the magician to begin the understand of common psychology and human thinking based on cause, body language and such. dantalion is an angel of selfstudy and self-control, and is a powerful spirit. he can also cause the union of individuals that it may be probable, and is a guide to other beautiful places in the world. he governs 36 legions of spirits. 73) andromalius andromalis is the seventy-second spirit who is a might earl. he appears in the form of a man holding a large and hissing serpent in his hand. andromalius may reveal those who have stolen from you, and those who seek to be as a predator against y

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

ion is old fate's blessing: the secret rapport between the gods and the soul; no other may tell of it. its outward signs are inspiration and knowing, married in an indefinable state whereby a man becomes mage. within the cultus sabbati 'the way of the flaming torch' and 'the way of the lightning-bolt' are known as 'the dragon's horns. it is considered a worthy aspiration for a wayfarer to realise the union of the twain: the non-dual path of the double-way. because of this dual emphasis, it is considered that only those with the capacity for receiving teachings and who bear the marks of 'unique transmission- whatever the degree of manifestation- should be invited into the formal sodality. a witch born to the path may still spend many years struggling to make manifest that which lies within

witch born to the path may still spend many years struggling to make manifest that which lies within and yet by vertu of the traditional rites an uncommon fate may be swiftly seized; unto such individuals the process of tuition is in truth a path of remembrance: a reclamation of ancient birthright. mystery rites: the lineages of magistry a customary demonstration of 'attaining the dragon's horns (the union of unique transmission and lineal empowerment) is for an initiate to compose a grand mysterium or mystery-rite. such rites are comprised of diverse 'oracular' utterances, magical ordeals, and highly specialised modes of initiation into specific 'states' of magical rapport with powers and entities. the composer of a mystery-rite is known as its master or mistress, and it is at their behes

n laughing skulls. this requires the practitioner to deliberately seek out lonely and frightening places, and there to call forth the 'demons' which produce the sensations of terror and danger. these demons are then ritually confronted, the task of the practice being to transform the apparent 'poisons' or mis-aligned sentiences into 'nectars' or benefic states of potent magical gnosis: to realise the union of purity and perfidy. oneiric initiation and transmission: the silver thread and road of green a principal way in which knowledge is transmitted within the cultus is via dreams. many of our rites are derived through the medium of lucid or clear-eyed dreaming; their messages being 'fleshed out' using the bases of traditional ritual structures, but enhanced and developed as the dream so d

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

above the first aethyr are without sex, which is to say that masculinity and femininity do not exist as separate qualities in those sublime regions. however, below lil each subplane downward into the physical plane is charged with forces that are either masculine or feminine or combinations of both. masculinity and femininity are two sides of a duality. your great work is to unite all dualities. the union of microcosm and macrocosm, the subjective self with its objective world, implies the union of all dualities including sexual polarities. it is your task as a magician to seek within yourself all of those qual i t ies charact er i zed as mascul ine or feminine. modern psychology suggests that every man has a feminine psychic component and that every woman has a masculine psychic componen

emely happy. crowley saw the dance of salome where salome was a reflex of the goddess nuit. whatever you actually see, the happiness and gaiety of the aethyr will flood your being as it does all who enter here. as you enter deeper into the aethyr you will see that it contains an important initiation that you must undergo. it is the mystery of the rose and the cross. the rosy cross is a symbol for the union of the masculine and feminine currents. these currents rhythmically swirl through oxo. the feminine current is the strongest and is emphasized, but enough of the masculine current is here to provide the initiation. a successful initiation in oxo will furnish an understanding of the true purpose of life. it is a divine dance, the tila' of hinduism, a creative expression of the 230 music o

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

bers were marjced by the jprich of a needle, the while they cursed their maker, and signified their faith and homage to the evil one, as to worldly rulers, by a kiss^ even in the less offensive teach- 1' le dumon ne peut faire pacto avec une vierge' mich. hist, de fr. 5, 68. 159. 160- greek antiquity had its/a;/es about the intercourse of gods with mortals (p. 343, and so had our heathenism about the union of heroes with swan-wives and eltius; at last the far grosser conception could tind credence, of a literal commerce of the devil with mankind! 3 soldau's geschichte dcr hexenprocessc pp. 103 li6. 1066 magic. ing and practice of some heretics there could not fail to be a mixture of heathen things with christian; the church's zeal had to bestir itself at once against new errors of doctrine

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

sdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) a.m.o.r.c. cecil a. poole was born in monmouth, oregon, on sunday, august 11, 1907. his family were early pioneers in the old oregon territory, having come from missouri and michigan over the oregon trail. his great-grandfather, a methodist circuit rider in the willamette valley, was instrumental in helping oregon to become a state of the union. inheriting the sturdy, questing pioneer spirit of his forebears and being influenced by the orthodox religious views of his family, mr. poole first considered the ministry as a vocation. he entered willamette university, a denominational school, located at salem, oregon. there, however, he found himself more drawn to psychology and music. he planned to become a theater organist, but the

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

year, reenacted the creation of the world and the reign of the sun god as well as the establishment of the living horus on the throne of his father.48 each year of a king s reign was seen as mirroring the great cycle of the creation, decay, and renewal of the cosmos. an annual renewal of kingship ceremony at thebes seems to have involved a reenactment of a vital stage in the process of creation: the union between the creator and the hand goddess.49 after thirty years, the length of a generation, the king had to undergo a much more elaborate renewal process to identify himself once again with the life-giving youthful forms of the creator and the sun god.50 the last month of the year was feared as a time when the gods seemed to be punishing humanity as they had after the rebellion against t

ical texts (leiden, 1978. 39. h. te velde argues in seth, god of confusion (leiden, 1977) that the eye of horus was damaged because of sexual activity between horus and seth but that through the intervention of other deities, even this unorthodox union resulted in new life. 40. in this story the disk seems to be the solar disk, but in other versions it is a lunar aspect of thoth, who is born from the union of horus and seth. 41. a spell from the harris magical papyrus (bm 10042) refers to isis weeping on the riverbank after horus has had sex with her. this myth may have arisen through the common identification of horus with the fertility god min, the bull of his mother (see min in deities, themes, and concepts) 42. the myth is in the new kingdom papyrus sallier ix. this seems to be the ear

n lands and their products. when the distant goddess returned, she brought the inundation with her, but she had to be pacified with music, dancing, feasting, and drunkenness. this was the mythical justification for the wild, ecstatic elements in hathor s cult. it was proper for the whole of creation to rejoice when hathor appeared again in all her radiant beauty and joined forces with her father. the union of hathor and the creator could be thought of in sexual terms or, more abstractly, as a merging of the creator with his own active power. hathor was the goddess who personified both the hand that made atum ejaculate and the divine seed itself. as the female creative principle, she could be the most seductive and alluring of deities. this erotic side of her nature made hathor the patrones

r planet crossing the winding waterway of the sky. later texts paint a dazzling picture of the one of dappled plumage who opened his eyes to dispel darkness and chaos. deities, themes, and concepts 143 like other primeval deities, the celestial falcon coalesced with the creator sun god. he then became ra-horakhty (ra-horus of the double horizon) who triumphed over his enemies to rise in the east. the union of these two powers could be symbolized by a falcon crowned with a sun disk or a sun disk with falcon s wings. when a king appeared to his subjects, it was compared with the glorious rising of horemakhet (horus in the horizon. the two lords, horus and seth, were either named as brothers or as nephew and uncle. many theories have been advanced to explain the origins of their combat, from

er, the celestial falcon, and seth, the chaotic god of storms, the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age when opposing elements had to come together to create the divine order. the necessity of horus and seth being reconciled is stressed in many sources. one of the key images of royal art was horus the uniter and seth tying together the heraldic plants of upper and lower egypt to symbolize the union of the two lands into one perfect kingdom. the figure of seth is sometimes re- 144 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 31. horus and isis triumph over the seth hippopotamus before the gods. ptolemaic relief depicting the festival of victory in the temple of horus at edfu (courtesy of geraldine pinch) placed by thoth, an indication that seth s role as the slayer of osiris could not alwa

HEAVEN HELL

ended to illustrate the passage of afu-ra through the region of akert, or aukert, that is to say, the kingdom of the sun-god of annu, or heliopolis. the name of the tenth division is metchet-qat-utchebu, its gate is called aa-kherpu-mes-aru, and the hour-goddess is tentenit-uheset-khak-ab. the pictures and texts which illustrate and describe this region are of peculiar interest, for they refer to the union of khepera with ra, i.e, the introduction of the germ of new life into the body of the dead sun-god, whereby afu-ra. regains his powers as a living god, and becomes ready to emerge into the light of a new day with glory and splendour. it must be understood that the constitution of this division is quite different from that of any which we have seen hitherto, and that the gods who are in

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

d happy god, but a poor pilgrim on his way to regain that which he has lost. i can answer you more fully by repeating what is said of the inner man: from the remotest antiquity mankind as a whole have always been convinced of the existence of a personal spiritual entity within the personal physical man. this inner entity was more or less divine, according to its proximity to the crown. the closer the union the more serene man's destiny, the less dangerous the external conditions. this belief is neither bigotry nor superstition, only an ever-present, instinctive feeling of the proximity of another spiritual and invisible world, which, though it be subjective to the senses of the outward man, is perfectly objective to the inner ego. furthermore, they believed that there are external and inte

he dewdrop is not evaporated, but becomes the sea. is physical man annihilated, when from a fetus he becomes an old man? what kind of satanic pride must be ours if we place our infinitesimally small consciousness and individuality higher than the universal and infinite consciousness! q. it follows, then, that there is, de facto, no man, but all is spirit? a. you are mistaken. it thus follows that the union of spirit with matter is but temporary; or, to put it more clearly, since spirit and matter are one, being the two opposite poles of the universal manifested substance-that spirit loses its right to the name so long as the smallest particle and atom of its manifesting substance still clings to any form, the result of differentiation. to believe otherwise is blind faith. q. thus it is on

s-the "purified" in esoteric or mystery language. in mystic symbology, indeed, christes or christos meant that the "way" the path, was already trodden and the goal reached; when the fruits of the arduous labor, uniting the personality of evanescent clay with the indestructible individuality, transformed it thereby into the immortal ego "at the end of the way stands the christes" the purifier; and the union once accomplished, the chr stos, the "man of sorrow" became christos himself. paul, the initiate, knew this, and meant this precisely, when he is made to say in bad translation "i travail in birth again until christ be formed in you" the true rendering of which is" until you form the christos within yourselves" but the profane, who knew only that chr stos was in some way connected with p

-critic, became the disciple of plotinus, at rome. he was a neo-platonist and a distinguished writer, specially famous for his controversy with iamblichus regarding the evils attending the practice of theurgy, but was, however, finally converted to the views of his opponent. a natural-born mystic he followed, like his master plotinus, the pure indian raja-yoga system, which, by training, leads to the union of the soul with the oversoul of the universe, and of the human with its divine soul, buddhi-manas. he complains, however, that in spite of all his efforts, he reached the highest state of ecstasy only once, and that when he was sixty-eight years of age, while his teacher plotinus had experienced the supreme bliss six times during his life (see "porphyry" in the theosophical glossary) po

INFERNAL UNION

ght, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness -from nox umbra, a vampyric grimoire by michael w. ford the ath1 infernal union by azmareth i toph magick, like alchemy is all about the union of opposites. the lhp seems especially true to this view of the nature of magick. the general method of the masses in establishing their place and role in this world is to categorize, segregate, and divide according to pre-conceived ideas of self, only to be reimmersed in the vast ocean of energy they originated from. while the divisionary behaviour resulting from this deep psychological

circle of witchblood. throughout history he has guided those who truly seek the flame of luciferian becoming. because he is the perfect union of both the sun and moon, he is therefore baphomet. it is the sexual-magickal union of demonic opposites that is ritually re-enacted in the rite of infernal union that we may become more fully developed as baphomet and according to our own individual wills. the union of samael and lilith is made possible according to the zohar by the presence of tanin ver or the blind serpent, leviathan, who represents by its nature the violence and chaos of the vast oceans of the unconscious, the depths of the mind touched upon in sexual union. leviathan like the endless ocean is the immortal essence which joins the sun and moon in establishing the eternal perfectio

nion of samael and lilith is made possible according to the zohar by the presence of tanin ver or the blind serpent, leviathan, who represents by its nature the violence and chaos of the vast oceans of the unconscious, the depths of the mind touched upon in sexual union. leviathan like the endless ocean is the immortal essence which joins the sun and moon in establishing the eternal perfection of the union and balance of both in the individual, the magickal child of this congress. a poignant point of this union is the fact that samael is the daemon of lust who resides within each individual, the darkside from which all desire, positive or negative manifests. the creation-source of each individual from birth, to the manifestation of ones will. this focus is called oz, referred to before. li

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

l source of all beings, has proceeded the spirit, the spiritual ego with the four specific elemental qualities, proper to the immortal spirit, which was created in god s image. the fiery principle, the impulsive part, means the will (volition. the airy principle shows up in the intellect (mind, the watery principle respectively in the life and the feeling, and the earthy principle is representing the union of all the three elements in the consciousness of the ego. all the other qualities of the spirit are based upon these four original principles. the typical part of the fifth, say the etheric principle (akasa) manifests itself, in the highest aspect, in the faith and, in the lowest form, in the instinct of self-preservation. each of these mentioned four elemental principles has many other

mself in uncertainty or get out of his depth. therefore his god always remains something inconceivable, intangible, and incomprehensible to him. it is quite otherwise with the magician who knows his god in all aspects. he holds his god in awe as he knows himself to have been created in its image, consequently to be a part of god. he sees his lofty ideal, his first duty and his sacred objective in the union with the godhead, in becoming the god-man. the rise to this sublime goal shall be described later on. the synthesis of this mystic union with god consists in developing the divine ideas, from the lowest up to the highest steps, in such a degree as to attain the union with the universal. everyone is at liberty to abandon his individuality or to retain it. such genii usually return to eart

as soon as he is able to form an exact idea of these four divine virtues, after long mediation, he has ripened so far as to establish that connection the practice of which will be described in the last step of this lecture. these mediations are producing a kind of deification of the magician s spirit and soul, and finally they will influence his body in an analogous way, enabling him to establish the union with his god, which is the sum and substance of this training course. magic physical training (ix) by continued practice in this course, the scholar has been led a great distance on the way to a state in which there is no more need of a special training of the body. from now on he will have to intensify the powers he has developed so far and to use them in various ways. below i will give

oading with an electromagnetic volt to mitigate karmic influences, to be protected against influences of other spheres and to turn fate according to one s desire, a talisman is loaded for one s own or for other people s purposes with a magic volt. this kind of loading is called volting and represents the strictest imitation of the akasa principle, and only a magician aiming at the highest target, the union with god, should use this kind of loading not to burden himself with an interference in akasa. as i mentioned repeatedly already, everything has been created by the two fluids by means of the four elements. according to the universal law, the electric fluid will always be in the center. on the periphery of the electric fluid, where expansion ceases, the magnetic fluid begins to work and

, sharing all the basic qualities of the godhead he is united with. the method of concreted union with god is of the utmost importance for the magic practice, since a magician ought to be able to contact any godhead whatever, irrespective of the creed, in this manner. this practice is indispensable in theurgy as well as in the conjuring magic, as it is the only way for the magician to bring about the union with a godhead at any time, forcing the lower beings to execute his will. it is evident that in this manner a magician can unit himself with the godhead to such an extent that all the properties and powers indwelling the concreted godhead that he is psychically united with become peculiar to him too, and continue being his qualities even though severed from the imagination. the adepts ca

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

ce of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the first of witchblood unto the path. upon the hour of nooninvocation of the djinn of fire ya! zat-i-shaitan! o ring of flame, scorching sun of the sun s height scorpion soul, who arises as the sun at noon sekak sekak, iasokilam i speak now

ISIS UNVEILED

ely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'heavenly peace-makn* etc" such pictures are not purely astronomical. they represent the mole god and the female goddess, as the sun and moon in conjunction "the union of the triad with the unit" the horns of the cow on the head of isis have the same significance. and so above, below, outside, and inside the cbristiaii church, in the priestly ganneots. and the religious rites, we recognise the stamp of exoteric heathenism. on no subject within the wide range of human knowledge has the world been more blinded or deceived with such per- sistest miarepres

e principle in nature, is to show discrimination and a thorough knowledge of the oldest mythological con- ceptions. they have blended the two deities, and thus represented, in a christian procession, the 'heathen' brahma, or nora (the father, n&ri (the mother, and viraj (the son. says manu "the sovereign master who exists through himself) divid^ his body into two halves, male and female, and from the union of these two principles is bom vir&j, the son* there was not a christian father who could have been ignorant of these symbob in their physical meiming; for it is in this latter aspect that they were abandoned to the ignorant rabble. moreover they all had as good reasons to suspect the occult symbolism contained in ^ese images; although as none of them paul excepted, perhaps had been init

n as it is now, and the sacerdotal caste as confident as now in the 8uprema<7 of its knowledge, and as ambitious of ascendency over the weaker masses; with the difference perhaps that its hierophanta could prove the legitimacy of their claims and the verity (rf thor doctrines, whereas now, beueiwrs must be content with blind faith. while the kabalists called this mysterious and rare occurrence of the union of spirit with the mortal charge entrusted to its care, the 'descent of the angel gabriel (the latter being a kind of generic name for it, the meaaenger of life, and the angel metatron; and while the nasaienes termed the same abel-zivo* the deugatut sent by the lord of celsitude, it waa universally known as the 'anointed spirit' thus it is the acceptation of this doctrine which caused th

bx opktk btuuim-dtmu nunc whenever the eternal awakes from its slumber and desires to mani- fest itself, it divides itself into male and female. it then becomes in every ^stem the doublb-sexbd dettt, the universal father and mother in india in chauuea in ihk ofhttk stctxm bralimt bikod or ain-soph nunden spirit k ra (nude, ntrt (fe- anu (nude. aii u (te- abruu (auk, bttboi mak) male (female) from the union of the two emanates a third, or creative principle the son, or the manifested logos, the product of the divine mind. in india in cbauiaca ofbttk stbtu virtj, tbesod bd. tin son ophii (another name for euioia, the sod moreover each of these systems has a triple male trinity, ead proceeding separately through itself from one female deity. so, tta instance: in india in chaldaxa in thk ophit

e and active potency also called yah, n\ and binah, ru'3, or inteuigence, a female and passive po- tency, represented by the name yehaoah, mn. these three form the first trinity or 'face' of the sephiroth. this triad emanated 'hesed, tdd, or mercy, a masculine active potency, also called eloah, from which emanated geburah, n"1133, or justice, ijso called pa'had, a femi- nine passive potency; from the union of these two was produced tipher- eth, nimdn, beauty, clemency, the spiritual sun, known by the divine name ioatm; and the second triad 'face' or 'head' was formed. these emanating produced in their turn the mainline potency netza'h, mti. firmness, or yehomh-tze'baoih, who issued the feminine passive potency hod, lin. splendor, or elokirri-tze' booth; from these proceeded yesod, tid, fou

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

(j) capricornus (k) aquarius, and (l) pisces. fig. 12 (a) ezekiel's wheel. turning-point libra (the sign libra was added by the greeks) the first six signs, or ascending signs, are represented by the celestial perpendicular, or descending ray, as thus: the last six signs, or descending signs, are represented by the terrestrial ground-line, or horizontal, or equatorial (symbol, or sigma, as thus: the union of these (at the intersection of these rays) at fig. 13. mysteries of the cross. 63 the junction-point, or middle point, forms the cross as thus: fig. 15 (b) cross (c) fig. 16. fig. 17. fig. 18. fig. 19. in figure c, the union of fig. 16 and fig. 17 forms the cross. fig. 18 is the mundane circle. fig. 19 is the astronomical cross upon the mundane circle. the union of fig. 18, fig. 17, an

ot qualities in human nature. they are the qualities of grown men, because they are reflective of the state of the man when he is living in community, not as man. contrariety of evidence, in certain cases, may be derived from several different causes: from the opposition of contrary testimony from the character or number of the witnesses from the manner of their delivering their testimony or from the union of all these circumstances. we entertain a suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other when they are but few, or of a doubtful character-when they have an interest in what they affirm-when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations. there are many other particulars of the same kind, which may dimi

dian symbolism of very early ages passed into the useages of christian times. thus: the high cap and the hooked staff of the god became the bishop s mitre and crozier; the term nun is purely egyptian, and bore its present meaning; the erect oval, fig 24. fig. 25. fig. 26. symbol of the female principle of nature, became the vesica piscis, and a frame for divine things; the crux ansata, testifying the union of the male and female fig 27. fig 28. fig 29. fig 30. i 138 the rosicrucians. principle in the most obvious manner, and denoting fecundity and abundance as borne in the god s hand, is transformed, by a simple inversion, into the orb surmounted by the cross, and the ensign of royalty. refer to the gnostics and their remains, p. 72. the famous stone of cabar, kaaba, cabir, or kebir, at me

, form the cross. the first mark is the origin of the upright tower, pyramid, or imitation ascending flame of fire, which aspires against the force of gravity; also of the steeple, or phallus, all over the world. the second, or horizontal, mark is the symbol of the tabernacle, chest, or ark, or fluent or base-line, which is the expression of all egyptian, grecian, and jewish templar architecture. the union of the two lines gives the christian, universal cross-form, in the blending of the two dispensations old and new, or law and gospel. now, both of these lines, in the rosicrucian sense, have special magic powers, or gifts, according to their several places, and according to the supernatural extra forces brought specially to bear on them through the operations of those who know how (and wh

eat priest, or prestre (pr tre, ian, ion, jehan, or john (the sun. lamia is the snake among the ophidians; lama is the hand: lamh, hand, is a divine name in the scythian tongue. it also means the number 10, and the roman numeral x, which is a cross. now, the double pyramid, or hand (a) d, of the egyptians comprises the mystic mark signifying the two original principles water and fire, as thus (b) the union of which, as intersecting triangles, forms the famous hexalpha, or solomon s seal, or wizard s foot, which, according to the eastern allegory, is placed (as that of st. michael) upon the rebellious spirits in their abyss, or prison. pyr is the greek name of fire (thence pyramid, and mythologically of the sun, who was the same as hercules. 156 the rosicrucians. and the great analyser of m

a mythic alliance with the obelisk. fig. 55. colossal head (british museum) regarding the pyramids the following may be advanced: murphy, the delineator of the alhambra, considered the pointed arch to be a system founded on the principle of the pyramid. the pointed or vertical saracenic or gothic fig. 56. arch presents the form of the upper portion of the human fall j. the saracenic arch denotes the union of the linga and yoni. in fig. 56 we have the sun rising from between the the horns of eblis. 211 horns of eblis (here taken for the pyramids. this is a poetical superstition of the arabians, who therefore turn to the north to pray; in contradiction to the practice of the persians, who adore the rising sun. the arabians avert in prayer from this malific sign of the horns, because the sun

their summits the influence of the same phallic idea, as an attentive examination will prove. there seems to be little or no reason to doubt that the pillars-stones. 217 much-disputed origin of the pointed gothic arch, or lancetshaped arch, and the saracenic or moorish horseshoe arch, fig. 79. round tower, peru, fig. 80. persian round tower (from hanway) fig. 81. round tower, central america. is the union and blending of the two generative figures, namely, the discus or round, and the upright and ver- fig. 82. mudros of phoenicia (dr. hyde) fig. 83. mahody of elephanta (capt. pyke) fig. 84. muidhr of inismurry. fig. 85. pillar-stone, hill of tara. tical, or "phallic' shape, as indicated in the diagrams on pp. 222, 223. these forms, in their infinite variety, are the parents of all archite

tention of making the letter denoting the man prominent, present the letter i large; in the heraldic language surtout, or over all. the monogram of the saviour is sometimes seen in the ark, or vesica double lithoi: the "tables" of stone. jachin. pillar) yjy the law (man. boaz (left pillar) zub the prophets, or the gospel (woman. a. because it was delivered by. w. because it came through. fig 118. the union of and is consequently+ or the cross. piscis, which is a pointed oval figure, familiar in gothic architecture, and shaped like a boat or a shuttle, counterchanging the letters and the closing arcs, white and black, the black occupying the left or female side, according to the ideas of the templars. the standards of these soldiermonks were white and black, either oblong or forked. there a

48 fig, 146. egg-and-tongue moulding, caryatic prostyle, pandroseum (temple of erechthaeus, athens) fig. 147. moslem: the crescent and star; also plantagenet. fig. 148. honeysuckle, greek stele. fig. 149. egg-aud-tongue moulding, roman example. also the pole of the ship argo( arco; otherwise the tree of knowledge. the ribbons of the maypole should be of the seven prismatic colours. fig. 156 shows the union of the phallus and yoni, and 234 the rosicrucians. exhibits unmistakably the destination and purpose of the familiar maypole. 150 151 152 fig 150. rhamasseion, thebes, caryatic portico. fig 151. india, origin of the corinthian. fig 152. india, rudimental corinthian capital, as also rudimental christian. fig. 153. fig. 154. stone crosses at sandbach, in cheshire. each finger in fig. 162 i

e treasure. refer to beausobre, walch, fuesslin, and hahn. the gnostics held that christ s teaching was not fully understood even by his disciples; and therefore he promised to send, in due time, a still greater apostle, the paraclete, who should effectually separate truth from falsehood. this paraclete appeared in mani. the west front of lichfield cathedral displays accurately the mythic idea of the union of the male and female principles in the parallel double towers, which are uniform. 268 the rosicrucians. the claims for the real reading of the egyptian hieroglyphics are distinct and unhesitating, as put forward by the egyptologists; who, if industry could have succeeded, certainly would have realised their desire. but it is extremely doubtful whether, after all, they are not very wide

e whole is radiant (notwithstanding that the rays are green; otherwise expressive of the linea viridis seu benedicta viriditas: rosicrucian (see pages 162-164) from the seed-spot, or golden sun (grand astronomical central flame, in the centre. this double-rose, barbed or thorned, sol, is (in this form) the tudor rose (the rose-en-soleil, be it remembered, was another of the tudor badges; denoting the union of the houses of york and lancaster in the person of harry the eighth. it will be observed that each knight of the round table is seated as at the base of an round table (mythical) 1. rose crucified. 2. rose restored to life. 3. consummation. 372 the rosicrucians. obelisk. the architectural obeliscar form (rayed, or spread, or bladed) is universal, all the world over, both in old times a

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

nd, july 2, when the sky was clear overhead and the sun was shining, flat pieces of ice fell. thunder was heard. 1911: large hailstones were noted at the university of missouri. they exploded like pistol shots. the reporter had seen a similar phenomenon at lexington, kentucky, eighteen years before. the entire report below, from the science record of 1876, is worthy of note. at potter station, on the union pacific railroad, recently, a train was just pulling out from the station when a storm commenced and in ten seconds there was such a fury of hail and wind that the engineer deemed it best to stop the locomotive. the "hailstones" were simply great chunks of ice, many of them three or four inches in diameter and of all shapes: squares, cones, cubes, etc, and the first "stone" that struck t

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

till achieve all that. by that that sin is sweetened. m e o r t h e c r e at o r? q: how do you reconcile the contradiction between everything depends on me and everything is predetermined by the creator? a: all these exercises of how and what to think before an act and after, are needed for the preliminary feeling of the creator, in order to get a grip on his presence. because we cannot yet feel the union of our self with the creator, we should force ourselves into that feeling, and only then will we be able to feel the unity with the creator. before and during any act, we should completely overlook the presence of the creator, and pretend he is nowhere near us. what stops us from acting that way rationally? why do we suddenly begin to believe that the creator will help and try to be righ

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

with it in order to add to the strength the stability necessary for going forward to higher things. only then is the man established in strength, having the power to execute and the wisdom to direct. 187. the pillars also represent once more the two great laws of progress, karma and dharma, the former providing the environment or material world, and the latter the direction of the self within; by the union or harmonious working of these two laws a man may attain the stability and strength required for the occult path, and map thus reach the circle within which a m.m. cannot err. 188. also the pillars were used in the teaching of the priests to illustrate the great doctrine of the pairs of opposites- spirit and matter, good and evil, light and darkness, pleasure and pain, etc. 189. it is in

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

d in ancient egypt, in much the same way as numerous gods are adored to-day in india; and in every case the devotion addressed to the supreme obtained its response through the particular channel chosen by the worshipper. great angels of different orders and rays were appointed to represent these various qualities of the deity, and these were worshipped as gods in the older faiths. but so close is the union in these cases that devotion rendered to one of these was at the same time given to god himself. shri krishna, speaking as the supreme in the bhagavad gita says: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who

nd may well be proud; his round table also is fact and not fiction, and among its knights there was a rite of the christian mysteries centring round the beautiful story of the quest for the holy grail. some there were who took the legend literally and undertook endless physical-plane pilgrimages in search of an earthly cup; others knew that the mystical meaning of the finding of the holy grail is the union between the higher and the lower self, which is one of the qualifications for initiation into the true mysteries of the white lodge; for the chalice symbolically represents the causal body into which the blood of the mystery is poured. i am the cup, his love the wine. the mysteries of the holy grail were simultaneously celebrated in various centres, both in great britain and on the conti

p. 62, note) it is not difficult to account for differences of ritual between ancients and moderns, when we consider the number and variety of traditions handed down throughout the ages. 641. the united grand lodge 642. in 1813 the two rival grand lodges of england formally united, and thenceforward the united grand lodge of england has been the governing body of craft masonry in that country. at the union an amalgamation took place between the two lines of tradition, and english craft masonry is indebted to ireland and to york as well as to the apple-tree tavern for its methods of working. according to the articles of union already noted it was agreed upon that for the future: 643. pure antient masonry consists of three degrees, and no more, viz, those of the entered apprentice, the fello

LIBER 141

nonae o.t.o. epistola anno belli universalis (1914) ne perdat arcanum scripta* baphomet x rex summus sanctissimus o.t.o. national grand master general ad vitam of ireland, iona and all the britains, in the name of the secret master, aumn. greeting and peace to our most holy, most illuminated, most illustrious, and most dear brother, his excellency sir james thomas windram x o.t.o, our viceroy in the union of south africa, and sendeth these for his pleasure and instruction, and for communication at utmost extremity of need to selected initiates of the sanctuary of the gnosis ix who have either (a) shewn by power their fitness for that degree, or (b) shewn by wisdom their suitability to ward the arcanum arcanorum. also to certain trusty brethren of the viii, vii, and vi chosen for this mome

LIBER ALEPH

is nothing worth to the self-poisoner after a year of dayly practice. so too the lover findeth no more joy in union with his mistress, so soon as the original attraction between them is satisfied by repeated conjunctions. for this attraction is an antagonism; and the greater this antinomy, the more fierce the puissance of the magnetism, and the quality of energy disengaged by the coition. thus in the union of similars, as of halogens with each other, is no strong passion of explosive force, and the love between two persons of the like character and taste is placid and without transmutation to higher planes. i the book of wisdom or folly 23 f de nuptiis mysticis (of the mystic marriage) my son, how wonderful is the wisdom of this law of love! how vast are the oceans of uncharted joy that li

of the rose and cross. already have i shewed unto thee how the most holy trinity is the yang; but the spirit, and the water (or fluid) and the blood, that bear witness in the inferior, are of the yin. thus the operation of the hexagram lieth wholly within the order of our plane, uniting indeed any soul with its image, but not transcendentally, for its effect is cosmos, the vau hat springeth from the union of the yod and the h. thus is it but a glyph of that first formula, not of the others. but of all these things shalt thou thyself make study with ardent affection; for therein lie many mysteries of practical wisdom in our magick art. and this is the wonder and beauty of this work, that for every man is his own palace. yea, this is life, that the secrets of our order are not fixed and dea

me marriage) ow then to this doctrine, o my son, add thou that which thou hast learned in the book of the law, that death is the dissolution in the kiss of our lady nuith. this is a true consonance as of bass with treble for here is the impulse that setteth us to magick, the pain of the conscious mind. having then wit to find the cause of this pain in the sense of separation, and its cessation by the union of love, it is the summit of our holy art to present the whole being of our star to our lady in the nuptial of our bodily death. we are then o make our whole engine the true and real appurtenance of our force, without leak, or friction, or any other waste or hindrance to its action. thou knowest well how an horse, or even a machine propelled by a man.s feet, becometh as it were as extens

LIBER ASTARTE

eatening ceremonially .to burn the blood of osiris, and to grind down his bones to powder. this method is altogether contrary to the spirit of love, unless the particular deity be himself savage and relentless; as, jehovah or kali. in such a case the desire to perform constraint and cursing may be the sign of the assimilation of the spirit of the devotee with that of his god, and so an advance to the union with him. 40. concerning the value of this particular form of union or samadhi. all samadhi is defined as the ecstatic union of subject and object in consciousness, with the result that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. it would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of meditation. for example, the samadhi called

the ecstatic union of subject and object in consciousness, with the result that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. it would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of meditation. for example, the samadhi called atmadarshana might arise from simple concentration of the thought on an imagined triangle, or on the heart. but as the union of two bodies in chemistry may be endothermic or exothermic, the combination of oxygen with nitrogen is gentle, while that of oxygen with hydrogen is explosive; and as it is found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the most important

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

hat, that self am i. 7 not this, not this! a hindoo phrase used in the practice of rejecting all thoughts as they arise. liber clxv 167 eyes half closed, fixed on nose. shut them about the middle of the meditation and turned them to ajna. very few invading thoughts. presently all became brilliant light, with which i became identified. realization of oneness. no doubt remained that this was indeed the union with the higher self. then again arose the question what about the others when this state subsides again? then it seemed that a voice spoke clearly to the brain, saying: truly when united so thou art one with the holy guardian angel that speaks unto thee now. therefore worry no more about attaining. in future it is thy work to see that not only the part attain, but that other parts, thos

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

am his captain, and i bear his cup. 37. fear me not with my spearmen! they shall slay the demons with their petty prongs. ye shall be free. 38. ah, slaves! ye will not.ye know not how to will. 39. yet the music of my spears shall be a song of freedom. 40. a great bird shall sweep from the abyss of joy, and bear ye away to be my cup-bearers. 41. come, o my god, in one last rapture let us attain to the union with the many! 30 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 42. in the silence of things, in the night of forces, beyond the accursed domain of the three, let us enjoy our love! 43. my darling! my darling! away, away beyond the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto an anarchy of solitude and darkness! 44. for even thus must we veil the brilliance of our self. 45. my darling! my darling!

LIBER LVII

e names rwbg \yhla, elohim gibor, and lha, elah, and the angelic name \yprc, seraphim (isaiah vi, 6. this sephira is also called djp, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephirah, trapt, tiphereth, beauty or mildness,18 represented by the divine name todw hwla, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names \ynanc, shinanim (psalm lxviii, 18) or \yklm, melekim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty and clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or .path. or .numeration..for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called.together with the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as ypna ryoz, zauir anpin, the lesser contenance, or microprosopus, by way of antithesis to

the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial worlds created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced force, and destroyed.22 these primordial worlds are called the .kings of ancient t

LIBER SAMEKH

compel himself to love, however much he may want to, on various rational grounds. but on the other hand, when the true impulse comes, it overwhelms all its critics; they are powerless either to make or break a genius; it can only testifyt tot the fact that it has met its master. point iii 31 but the results of the ritual are too various to permit of rigid description. one may say that, presuming the union to be perfect, the adept need not retain any memory soever of what has occurred. he may be merely aware of a gap in his conscious life, and judge of its contents by observing that his nature has been subtly transfigured. such an experience might indeed be the proof of perfection. if the adept is to be any wise conscious of his angel, it must be that some part of his mind is prepared to r

o ga quantity of little pears. h again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflames the idolized idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolerance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to affect* the destinies of empires. but the phenomena of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel are a side issue; the essence of the union is the intimacy. this intimacy (or rather, identity) is independent of all partial forms of expression; at its best it is therefore as inarticulate as love is. the intensity of the consummation will more probably compel a sob or a cry, some nature physical gesture of animal sympathy spasm. this is to be criticized as incomplete self-control. silence is nobler. in any case, the adept must

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, without permission in writing from the publisher. reviewers may quote brief passages. cover illustration- the mask of the adversary, by elda isela ford. the mask itself is a sigil of self-transformation into the essence of iblis, known as shaitan the adversary. this is the union of light and shadow, from which side are objectively opposite. the left-hand side is the pure and beautiful face of lucifer as flesh, sun and empowerment through the perception of self; the black flame. the right hand side is the shadow of the opposer, noctifer or ahriman in flesh. between the opposer/adversary set awakens. succubus publishing phosphorus inner publications 3 sorcery has

ire-djinn whom, unlike other angels created of light, was created from flame. it was this energy, essence of spirit that who is known as lucifer shone brightly above all others. he held the light of the sabbat to those who would whisper the oaths in the dawn. shaitan the opposer is the gateway of the current of magical initiation, thus holding the double aspects of light and shadow. it is through the union of such that one becomes as shaitan or lucifer itself. the witches sabbat itself emerged from the dreams of the profane, those who knew not the ways of the cunning folk and their work. it was because of the times of persecution that many kept their art secret, working and weaving their webs of sorcery and magickal illumination unseen by outside folk. the sabbat is the meeting place of th

rt secret, working and weaving their webs of sorcery and magickal illumination unseen by outside folk. the sabbat is the meeting place of the feri, lycanthrope, vampire and the sorcerer s shades which act as familiars. it is the great manifestation of the hidden law, and that we may, by imagination, become lucifer in our self. it is through the chalice of lilith, revealed as babalon, that we seek the union of the goddess. the witches sabbath has long been a misunderstood and often misrepresented expression of magickal art. it should be considered that the witches sabbat cult is an expression of not only folk magic and lore, but that of a modern synthesis of advanced ideals of sorcery, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane lore as the dream mee

utilizing many left hand path techniques and modern grimoire formats of transmitting lore of the daemon, is finally the luciferian path available to all who hold the strength of the illuminated soul! it is essential that the independent practitioner of the craft, or the coven initate is able to bring forth the mind set which activates the individual path to shaitan, the embrace of the opposer and the union of lilith. it is through these ceremonial and dreaming aspects of uniting the dayside with the nightside that the practitioner is able to achieve gnosis. the individual is initiated by the mothering/fathering coven to receive the power of the current into their body, that born again in the luciferian path, will they be the first of the witch blood yet again. one aspect of witches sabbat

ich will lead one to the initiation of belial, or mastery of the earth. belial is itself, the fallen angel who masters the beasts of the world, the mountains and the forests along with azazel. it is though this exercise of invoking the green man or green woman, that one may proceed later to darker areas of bestial exploration, such as lycanthropy and spiritual transformations of mind above flesh. the union of both brings the announcement of our becoming in the world of manes and shades of the dead. the daemonic aspects of the witches sabbat path are quite real, however once one evokes and invokes the spirit of these dark lords shall they be revealed as positive. the christian inversion of pagan gods is only visible on the surface, thus beyond separation from god to daemon is one in the sam

rm both the bornless or headless one ritual and congress cum daemone or the ritual of the evil genius. it is the dual gnosis of light (headless one, the air aspect of lucifer) and darkness (set, the evil genius or isolated, separate psyche which is earth based. to sum it up: a few examples of use of the triple hermetic circle would be the following (but not limited to: high ceremonial sex magick (the union of gods and goddesses) workings of the antichrist (belarion armiluss al dajjal self transformation rituals) the infernal sabbat workings familiar or servitor creations mass or group ceremonial invocations or evocations goetic or rituals of sorcery necromancy or divination rituals the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle of hamara t western quarter guardian of the ga

s. by tapping into the subconscious, one is able to master their own individual life therein. the reference to the angelickan watcher of the sun and the ahrimanic shadow is based in the double vessels or fetishes of the bestial and angelick atavisms and familiars. by exteriorizing ones adversarial aspects of i and being one may objectively view the essence of self, manifest its strengths again in the union of flesh and mind. the guardian of flaming sword and corpse-king of the scepter is in reference to the illustration by elda isela ford, based on passing through the as above, so below forces of the sethanic path unto the 8-pointed witches sabbat/luciferian star sometimes 33 called algol. this ritual was a sethian development of the headless one ritual or bornless one ritual as developed

ual as developed and adapted by aleister crowley and the greek papyrus. one may perform the rite as one of self-isolated stimulation via sex magick. enflame the self through invocation, all the while focusing upon the luciferian aspects of self, the light and the darkness. glossary of termsakhu the ka and ba in union, the holy guardian angel and evil genius joined. this is the great work defined, the union of opposites. in thelemic view this would be the beast 666 and babalon conjoined. algol from the arabic al ghul, meaning demon star. algol is symbolized as the chaos star with an averse pentagram in it, representing the individual star or consciousness through black magick awakening. algol itself is the image of set in the aspect of the prince of darkness, being the manifestation of the

ted from tibet. coven a small group of magickal practitioners. often 13 in number. covens may be of a smaller size as well. daemon from the greek daimon, meaning spirit. the daemon is the root of demon therefore represents the spirit of the sorcerer and the exterior spirits on the astral plane. djed egyptian, represents stability and strength, associated with the backbone in the funerary cult. in the union of the circle, djed is the holy aspect in union with the shadow of the magician, the very aspect of initiation towards the great work. evocation the act of calling the spirit into and area, out from the self. evocation generally involves servitors, familiars, and daemons. a potent and dangerous aspect of ritual magick and sorcery is to evoke the force into the triangle, and then enter th

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

en rayed star which initiates and the eight ray which comes the initiator of magick, set himself. nick hall points out in "chaos& sorcery" that the eight rayed star appeared in mesopotamia around 3,000 b.c. as a symbol to represent dingir (god, heaven (an) and star. this may be viewed in a luciferian context as dingir representing the infinite possibility of being, the fire stole from heaven, and the union of the celestial going forth into the aethyr of angelick being, the higher intellect or essence associated with the neter set. within luciferian witchcraft, algol is represented by the five elements of ahriman, as first described by the ancient manichaean cult, which was inspired by zoroastrianism but called heretics. these elements of the prince of darkness combined the bestial and eart

encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk dinoih is the dragon which brings the union of lilith and samael within the magician, that the path is brought forth. shaitan/lucifer lucifer is the bringer of light, the fallen angel who prides knowledge and wisdom above blind faith and servitude. lucifer was the seraph who with a flaming sword and beautiful visage guarded the throne of god in the heavens. it was because of stasis that lucifer sought to rebel, to initiate becomin

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

t, unspoken yet natural degree of the folk ability to practice magick. this is the inner magickal voice of angels and demons, the very core essence within each initiate that speaks to he/she of their own infinite potential. while the direction of those involved in the luciferian tradition in america are well aware of its context of approach, the defining state of consciousness must be adhered to. the union of some aspects of middle eastern practices such as sufism and the various parallel witch ways of tribes of the deserts are essential productive and beneficial for the advancement in human thinking. there is much to be learnt from other cultures, however the heart of such always emanates within a focus of folk magic or witchcraft. the order of phosphorus is founded upon the techniques ta

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

masons at jerusalem and tyre were the greatest cabalists then in the world; that the mystery has been, for the most part, practised amongst builders since solomon's time. this paragraph also includes a footnote which defines "cabalists" as "people skilled in the cabala i.e. tradition, their secret science of expounding divine mysteries &c."31 writing some fifty years later, in 1807 shortly before the union of the grand lodges, thomas harper, then the deputy grand master of the antients, published the seventh edition of ahiman rezon. the title page proclaimed it to be "revised and corrected" the introduction had been rewritten and derogatory material had been removed, but the two sections cited above (including the reference to "cabalists) appear virtually unchanged in the 1807 edition. in

ay to ahiman rezon; but it is not, i think, an unreasonable one. in fact, it seems entirely reasonable when we recall that the members of the antient grand lodge conferred the holy royal arch, a degree acknowledged to be mystical in its content. to me, this reading of ahiman rezon indicates a very definite frame of mind within the antient grand lodge, a frame of mind which was held at the time of the union. if that frame of mind were brought to the lodge of reconciliation by the representatives of the antients, there to be combined with an interest in kabbalah engendered among the representatives of the premier grand lodge by the duke of sussex, then there was a real kabbalistic influence on the deliberations of that body. such an influence would explain the correspondences we shall observ

n the toledano school of kabbalah.74 the seven officers placed in this way fit nicely; but the uppermost triad, the triad of divine contact, is left empty. that empty triad suggests that the masonic system, even though it contains so profound an event as the mystical death, is thus far incomplete. freemasonry deals with this issue, but not in the craft lodge. you will remember that at the time of the union in 1816 it was agreed that masonry consists "of three degrees, including the holy royal arch; and also that the royal arch is not a fourth degree, rather it is the completion of the third degree. the tree in figure 16 is pretty well full; there certainly does not seem to be a place for many more masonic symbols. how, then, are we to handle the royal arch? the answer is to be found in the

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

nity of apperception. being subject to mathematical laws, time and space are considered absolute and sufficient bases for exact thinking. kant's practical reason declared that while the nature of noumenon could never be comprehended by the reason, the fact of morality proves the existence of three necessary postulates: free will, immortality, and god. in the critique of judgment kant demonstrates the union of the noumenon and the phenomenon in art and biological evolution. german superintellectualism is the outgrowth of an overemphasis of kant's theory of the autocratic supremacy of the mind over sensation and thought. the philosophy of johann gottlieb fichte was a projection of kant's philosophy, wherein he attempted to unite kant's practical reason with his pure reason. fichte held that

is reason. reason is the offspring of thought and reason shall divide the light from the darkness and establish truth in the midst of the waters. understand, o hermes, and meditate deeply upon the mystery. that which in you sees and hears is not of the earth, but is the word of god incarnate. so it is said that divine light dwells in the midst of mortal darkness, and ignorance cannot divide them. the union of the word and the mind produces that mystery which is called life. as the darkness without you is divided against itself, so the darkness within you is likewise divided. the light and the fire which rise are the divine man, ascending in the path of the word, and that which fails to ascend is the mortal man, which may not partake of immortality. learn deeply of the mind and its mystery

human body was considered to be a tomb or sepulcher of this incarnating spirit. therefore osiris, a symbol of the incarnating ego, was represented with the lower half of his body mummified to indicate that he was the living spirit of man enclosed within the material form symbolized by the mummy case. there is a romance between the active principle of god and the passive principle of nature. from the union of these two principles is produced the rational creation. man is a composite creature. from his father (the active principle) he inherits his divine spirit, the fire of aspiration--that immortal part of himself which rises triumphant from the broken clay of mortality: that part which remains after the natural organisms have disintegrated or have been regenerated. from his mother (the pa

ent. he gathered around him a small group of sincere disciples whom he instructed in the secret wisdom which had been revealed to him, and also in the fundamentals of occult mathematics, music, and astronomy, which he considered to be the triangular foundation of all the arts and sciences. when he was about sixty years old, pythagoras married one of his disciples, and seven children resulted from the union. his wife was a remarkably able woman, who not only inspired him during the years of his life but after his assassination continued to promulgate his doctrines. as is so often the case with genius, pythagoras by his outspokenness incurred both political and personal enmity. among those who came for initiation was one who, because pythagoras refused to admit him, determined to destroy bot

ing deities partook of the nature of the tetrad: hercules, mercury, vulcan, bacchus, and urania (one of the muses. the triad represents the primary colors and the major planets, while the tetrad represents the secondary colors and the minor planets. from the first triangle come forth the seven spirits, symbolized by a triangle and a square. these together form the masonic apron. the pentad--5--is the union of an odd and an even number (3 and 2. among the greeks, the pentagram was a sacred symbol of light, health, and vitality. it also symbolized the fifth element--ether--because it is free from the disturbances of the four lower elements. it is called equilibrium, because it divides the perfect number 10 into two equal parts. the pentad is symbolic of nature, for, when multiplied by itself

fection of all the parts. this number was particularly sacred to orpheus, and also to the fate, lachesis, and the muse, thalia. it was called the form of forms, the articulation of the universe, and the maker of the soul. among the greeks, harmony and the soul were considered to be similar in nature, because all souls are harmonic. the hexad is also the symbol of marriage, because it is formed by the union of two triangles, one masculine and the other feminine. among the keywords given to the hexad are: time, for it is the measure of duration; panacea, because health is equilibrium, and the hexad is a balance number; the world, because the world, like the hexad, is often seen to consist of contraries by harmony; omnisufficient, because its parts are sufficient for totality (3 +2+ 1= 6; unw

ncommon for a messenger to prove that he was the official representative of a prince or other dignitary by bringing with his message either an impression from his master's ring or the signet itself. the wedding ring originally was intended to imply that in the nature of the one who wore it the state of equilibrium and completion had been attained. this plain band of gold therefore bore witness of the union of the higher self (god) with the lower self (nature) and the ceremony consummating this indissoluble blending of divinity and humanity in the one nature of the initiated mystic constituted the hermetic marriage of the mysteries. in describing the regalia of a magician, eliphas levi declares that on sunday (the day of the sun) he should carry in his right hand a golden wand, set with a r

ominating. minds that are illuminated by the spirit of truth cannot be possessed; only those who are habitually guided by their own lower impulses may become subjected to their influences (see paracelsus, by franz hartmann) a strange concept, and one somewhat at variance with the conventional, is that evolved by the count de gabalis concerning the immaculate conception, namely, that it represents the union of a human being with an elemental. among the offspring of such unions he lists hercules, achilles, neas, theseus, melchizedek, the divine plato, apollonius of tyana, and merlin the magician. click to enlarge a sylph. from sketch by howard wookey. the sylphs were changeable entities, passing to and fro with the rapidity of lightning. they work through the gases and ethers of the earth an

n through each of these in turn. this resulted in the establishment of four symbolical click to enlarge the hebrew triad. the qabbalists used the letter, shin, to signify the trinity of the first three sephiroth. the central circle slightly above the other two is the first sephira--kether, the white head, the crown. the other two circles represent chochmah, the father, and binah, the mother. from the union of the divine father and the divine mother are produced the worlds and the generations of living things. the three flame-like points of the letter have long been used to conceal this creative triad of the qabbalists. p. 118 trees, each hearing the reflections of the ten sephirothic globes. the 40 spheres of creation out of ain soph are divided into four great world chains, as follows: a

chmah, or wisdom, a masculine and active potency--also called jah--and binah, or intelligence, a female and passive potency, also represented by the name jehovah. these three form the first trinity or 'face' of the sephiroth. this triad emanated hesed, or mercy, a masculine active potency, also called el, from which emanated geburah, or justice, also called eloha, a feminine passive potency; from the union of these two was produced tiphereth, beauty, clemency, the spiritual sun, known by the divine name elohim; and the second triad 'face' or 'head' was formed. these emanating, in their turn, the masculine potency netzah, firmness, or jehovah sabaoth, who issued the feminine passive potency hod, splendor, or elohim sabaoth; the two produced jesod, foundation, who is the mighty living one el

order (1) macroprosophus, or the great face, is the term applied to kether as the first and most exalted of the sephiroth and includes the nine potencies or sephiroth issuing from kether (2) abba, the great father, is the term generally applied to chochmah--universal wisdom--the first emanation of kether, but, according to ibn gebirol, chochmah represents the son, the logos or the word born from the union of kether and binah (3) aima, the great mother, is the name by which binah, or the third sephira, is generally known. this is the holy ghost, from whose body the generations issue forth. being the third person of the creative triad, it corresponds to jehovah, the demiurgus (4) microprosophus, or the lesser face, is composed of the six sephiroth--chesed, geburah, tiphereth, netsah, hod, a

ah (the mother, or holy ghost, and daath, the word by which the worlds were established. isaac myer discounts the importance of daath, declaring it a subterfuge to conceal the fact that kether, and not chochmah; is the true father of the creative triad. he makes no attempt to give a satisfactory explanation for the symbolism of this hypothetical sephira. according to the original conception, from the union of the divine father and the divine mother is produced microprosophus--the short face or the lesser countenance, which is established in the yetziratic world of formation and corresponds to the letter, or v, in the great name. the six powers of microprosophus flow from and are contained in their own source, which is binah, the mother of the lesser adam. these constitute the spheres of th

meaning concealed under the allegory of the second birth. as generation is the key to material existence, it is natural that the fraternity of r.c. should adopt as its characteristic symbols those exemplifying the reproductive processes. as regeneration is the key to spiritual existence, they therefore founded their symbolism upon the rose and the cross, which typify the redemption of man through the union of his lower temporal nature with his higher eternal nature. the rosy cross is also a hieroglyphic figure representing the formula of the universal medicine. click to enlarge the elementary world. from mus um hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. the outer circle contains the figures of the zodiac; the second, their signs and that part of the human body which they rule; the third, the m

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greater lights, so that he no longer functions merely with an elementary reflex consciousness but in alliance with the all-conscious with which he has become identified. in the royal arch degree he will discover that this identification of the lesser and greater lights has theoretically become achieved. the interlaced triangles of lights surrounding the central altar in that supreme degree imply the union of perceptive faculty with the object of their contemplati on; the blending of the human and the divine consciousness. what then do the three greater lights emblematize, and what does their intimate conjunction connote (1) the written word is the emblem and external expression of the unwritten eternal word, the logos or substantial wisdom of deity out of which every living soul has emana

wards and base upwards, which is a very ancient symbol of the soul and psychic constitution of man and is known as the water triangle (3) the compasses interlaced with the square are the symbol of the spirit of the soul, its functional energy or fire. of itself the soul would be a mere inert passivity, a negative quantity unbalanced by a positive opposite. its active properties are the product of the union of itself with its underlying and inspiring divine basis, as modified by the good or evil tendencies of the soul itself. god" breathed into man the breath of life and man became--no longer a soul, which he was previously--but a living (energizing) soul" this product, or fiery energy, of the soul is the spirit of man (a good or evil force accordingly as he shapes it) and is symbolized by

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most significant sigil of vampyric sorcery and the vampire current is that of the varcolaci or devilcosm seal. the sigil, which is composed of an inverted pentagram carried/connected by two varcolaci vampire spirits. the inverted pentagram also called the star of set- represents the crossing into the abyss, for it is by mastering the upright and inverse pentagram that the magickian truly evolves. the union of the two varcolaci represents them as the doors of the gate of the abyss, the entry to the astral plane of knowledge as well as the qliphoth, being the astral abode of vampires and other spirits. the bat like wings of the varcolaci represent the powers of astral flight and the nightside current which exists through their waves of sight. the pentagram itself is the symbol of reverse ent

d, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the abyss in it's feminine aspect. all time melts into this goddess. kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of creation. the union of male and female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. thus through oz being pan can desire become flesh. it is through the divine woman that the essence of magick and witchcraft is found. those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones' own feminine or lunar side which must be invari

mpiric sorcerer does not attend the sabbat for predatory purposes. its purpose is to come unto your own kind, be they "vampires "ghosts" or what-have-you, a celebration not a battle. any sexual congress, astral transformation and such which may occur are between the astrals participating. a basis of desire and manifestation will occur in these dreams. the sabbat luciferian- the luciferian sabbat; the union of the spirit with the seraphic angels and watchers. by holy meditation on the brilliance of the illuminated self will the black flame or essence of self be discovered. this is the ritual of the holy guardian angel the true will/true self. symbolized by the luciferian ascent of the isolated or sethian (setian) sense of being is self-deification possible within a positive aspect. the ange

ts and is considered 'the body as a whole, symbolising the mind, body and spirit. zos is represented by the eye or vulva of woman, that which executes the imagination. kia is the atmospheric "i, an astral cosmic self connected to its latent desire and activity. kia is the hand or phallus of man, which makes incarnate the will. the result of their union being manifestation through will and desire. the union of the hand and eye is termed by spare as 'becoming all sensation. an ocean of dead forms, shaped according to their past loves and lusts, by which flesh is made known through belief. sigil making, a form of what zos termed 'sentient symbols (18, is a pictorial means of enfleshing the desire by belief and exhaustion (i.e. sexual or sensory deprivation. the ghosts urge a flow with each dr

e paths of hecate and choronzon are shadowed forms where the witch will discover a mighty potential within the self. in these moments all is connected in an instant of belief and desire. these spells are enveloping and their potential is wide open, therein the sorcerer is able to adapt forms in accord with will. the tunnel wherein the beast is awakened is the same as that wherein the angel sings, the union is ineffable in its dual aspect of control and panic. pan lurks in every line of the song, in the elysian fields where the breath of our spirit moves the grass. possibility is the exact purpose of life and discovery, the true will speaks fluently in whispered, echoed tones to those who listen. in performing the rites of choronzon, the individual will face a plethora of night ghasts, ghou

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rding toinscriptions styled themselves as the royal race.tara= tyre= tyronetara is believed to be the burial site of queen tea, wife of king milesius of ireland.as we have said before the gods generally took to the hills not far from the rivers nor from the seas.olympus was the home of zeus, the capotiline hill was the home of jupiter. sinai was the home of jealor jehovah (p. 12)illinois state of the union, named after an indian tribethe ari, aries, or harriesthere is another word of vast importance in the scheme of things throughout the world in prehistorictimes. this is the word ari, the name of the number two men, who ranked below the gods, yet above thepeople (p. 15)the aries were at first the plowmen. ploughing the gardens of the illiit seems evident that the aries were not a separate

h culminated in a vital anti-freema-son movement causing nearly 40% of masons belonging to the northern jurisdiction of the unitedstates to secede and, in 1829, gave birth to an anti-masonic political party when the author, williammorgan disappeared. he was apparently abducted and drowned in lake ontario, allegedly by hisfellow mason richard howard.14.1861 on april 12, confederate forces fired on the union's fort sumter in charleston harbor, southcarolina, igniting the civil war. charleston, at the 33rd parallel, is known officially as the motherlodge of the world. this lodge had been founded by moses lindo as the king solomon lodge.15.1933 late in the pre-inaugural banking crisis, on march 3, 1933 (3/03/33, the federal reserveboard and the new york reserve bank's governor harrison had agr

' ambassador's word meant something, husseininvaded kuwait. in retaliation for the invasion he had orchestrated through his ambassador,mason george bush organized desert storm, which concerned a border dispute between kuwaitand iraq at the 33rd parallel. shortly after desert storm began, mason george bush pronounced thatthis the beginning of a new world order.26. 1991 january: during his state of the union message during the gulf war, president george bushstated: what is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea- a new world order. toachieve the universal aspirations of mankind. based upon shared principles and the rule of law. the illumination of a thousand points of light. the winds of change are with us now. bagdad,iraq's capital, and the united nations-enforced no fly z

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erstand who and what we are, the possibilities and the process of changing the natural order in accordance to our will. this is the lucifcrian and sethian flame of being- the black flame itself! there are specifically two methods of practice in vampyrisrn as within an initiatory context- mastery of the self and the left hand path approach of witchcraft and sorcery. the vampyre- initiate who seeks the union of ahriman and the disunion with the natural-order works in the darker or adversarial spirits, what is the same as within palo mayombe and petro voodoo currents of sorcery. by entrancing the self by the methods of offbeat rhythm, the magician calls forth the left-handed aspects of the self, the vampyric famulus (latin for familiar) whom is the shadow-drinker, the loa of the grave, whom h

te of transformation the sorcerer who has developed the lesser and greater familiar, the very spirit and shadow of the moon and the sun, shall at one time seek a permanence of self isolation in the night. the vampyre is a symbol of survival beyond flesh, the spirit like djinn whom has tasted the elixir of hecate, the blood of the moon as the formula of transformation. the wisdom of the serpent in the union of lilith and cain, those guardians of the blood path of the vampyre. the sorcerous daemon ahriman is the gateway of shadow knowledge and possession, that as darkness descends, our spirits merge with the familiar and fetish, from the grave soil shall out great forms of night black shadows emerge, tasting the umbra-pleasures of dreaming.the shape shifter is one who in the bed of the death

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

he lucifer and lilith in sexual congress, by will they create the first born of witchblood= cain. this is mirrored by the initiate who is able by the solitary act to bring in union both the masculine (lucifer/samael) and the daemonic feminine (lilith) to spawn cain (the united self, the adversary in flesh, baphomet. in the circle of midnight does the self invoke the shadow of the adversary; it is the union of the daemonic spirit or true will with the sorcerer. in this process, the passing and invocation of power brings the initiate in the passing of witchblood. azothoz is the word which brings the self to the fall and then to discover in the darkness the black flame within, the very gift of iblis[3. it is the idea of this word, spoken in silence by the sorcerer or witch, to encircle the se

me within, the very gift of iblis[3. it is the idea of this word, spoken in silence by the sorcerer or witch, to encircle the self in the holy fire of samael and lilith, those who rebelled from the natural order (right hand path= death of being) to bring man and woman intelligence, being known as the black flame. the magician speaks the word of making to become as a god himself; cain is born from the union of the dragon and harlot. the illustrations of azothoz provide a powerful interplay between the invocations and the placement of the actual drawings in the tome. there are 13 illustrations of the grimoire, each holding a focus of the luciferian gnosis is some way or another. the spirit of azothoz beholds the eye of set or saturnus, the adversary. this eye is surrounded by flame, and is a

ce of the isolated spirit of the adept. equally the moon and night (darkness) is the gnosis which must be explored through the dreaming essence of lilith az, the emotional, instinctual and sorcerous path. it is the direct transition and embodiment of the adept in the antinomian left hand path concept. it is essential to balance both, as one feeds the other, be it masculine and feminine qualities. the union of the sun and the moon defines the essence of being, thus separates by will the isolate consciousness of the adept. azothoz a book of the adversary by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford published by succubus publishing http//algol.chaosmagic.com azothoz is a formula used specifically in the golden dawn and is a work combined from the first and final letters of the latin, heb

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bsequent restoration to life of the god osiris, in a secret ceremony and scenic representation of his sufferings, called the mysteries of night. the kings of egypt often exercised the functions of the priesthood; and they were initiated into the sacred science as soon as they attained the throne. so at athens, the first magistrate, or archon-king, superintended the mysteries. this was an image of the union that existed between the priesthood and royalty, in those early times when legislators and kings sought in religion a potent political instrument. herodotus says, speaking of the reasons why animals were deified in egypt "if i were to explain these reasons, i should be led to the disclosure of those holy matters which i particularly wish to avoid, and which, but from necessity, i should

; whose mysteries they celebrated at gnossus, in a cypress grove. these two divinities, the active and passive principles of the universe, were commonly symbolized by the generative parts of man and woman; to which, in remote ages, no idea of indecency was attached; the _phallus_ and _cteis, emblems of generation and production, and which, as such, appeared in the mysteries. the indian lingam was the union of both, as were the boat and mast and the point within a circle: all of which expressed the same philosophical idea as to the union of the two great causes of nature, which concur, one actively and the other passively, in the generation of all beings: which were symbolized by what we now term _gemini, the twins, at that remote period when the sun was in that sign at the vernal equinox

t, the present, and the future; or the three degrees of universal generation. birth, life, death. beginning, middle, end. the monad was male, because its action produces no change _in_ itself, but only _out_ of itself. it represented the creative principle. the duad, for a contrary reason, was female, ever changing by addition, subtraction, or multiplication. it represents matter capable of form. the union of the monad and duad produces the triad, signifying the world formed by the creative principle out of matter. pythagoras represented the world by the right-angled triangle, in which the squares of the two shortest sides are equal, added together, to the square of the longest one; as the world, as formed, is equal to the creative cause, and matter clothed with form. the ternary is the fi

the world by the number 5. a reason for it, given by diodorus, is, that it represents earth, water, air, fire, and ether or spirit. thence the origin of pe?te (5) and ?a? the universe, as the whole. the number 5 designated the universal quintessence, and symbolized, by its form, the vital essence, the animating spirit, which flows[_serpentat] through all nature. in fact, this ingenious figure is the union of the two greek accents, placed over those vowels which ought to be or ought not to be aspirated. the first sign] bears the name of potent spirit; and signifies the superior spirit, the spirit of god aspirated(_spiratus, respired by man. the second sign is styled mild spirit, and represents the secondary spirit, the spirit purely human. the triple triangle, a figure of five lines unitin

plutarch and diodorus siculus; and the latter assures us that these emblems were not consecrated by the egyptians alone, but by every people. they certainly were so among the persians and assyrians; and they were regarded everywhere as symbolic of the generative and productive powers of all animated beings. in those early ages, the works of nature and all her agents were sacred like herself. for the union of nature with herself is a chaste marriage, of which the union of man and woman was a natural image, and their organs were an expressive emblem of the double energy which manifests itself in heaven, and earth uniting together to produce all beings "the heavens" says plutarch "seemed to men to fulfill the functions of father, and the earth of mother. the former impregnated the earth with

arriage with heaven annually consummated at the sweet spring-time. he describes the spirit of life, the soul that animates the world, fired with the passion of love, uniting with nature and itself, itself a part of nature, and filling its own bosom with new productions. this union of the universe with itself, this mutual action of two sexes, he terms "the great secrets of nature "the mysteries of the union of heaven with earth, imaged in the sacred mysteries of atys and bacchus" varro tells us that the great divinities adored at samothrace were the heavens and the earth, considered as first causes or primal gods, and as male and female agents, one bearing to the other the relations that the soul and principle of movement bear to the body or the matter that receives them. these were the god

s all spirit and incorruptible; wherefore it is the emblem of the sun, which presides over the light "the vivifying spirit, called alkahest, has in itself the generative virtue of producing the triangular cubical stone, and contains in itself all the virtues to render men happy in this world and in that to come. to arrive at the composition of that alkahest, we begin by laboring at the science of the union of the four elements which are to be educed from the three kingdoms of nature, mineral, vegetable, and animal; the rule, measure, weight, and equipoise whereof have each their key. we then employ in one work the animals, vegetables, and minerals, each in his season, which make the space of the houses of the sun, where they have all the virtues required "something from each of the three k

d triangle, representing man, as a union of the spiritual and material, of the divine and human. the base, measured by the number 3, the number of the triangle, represents the deity and the divine; the perpendicular, measured by the number 4, the number of the square, represents the earth, the material, and the human; and the hypothenuse, measured by 5, represents that nature which is produced by the union of the divine and human, the soul and the body; the squares, 9 and 16, of the base and perpendicular, added together, producing 25, the square root whereof is 5, the measure of the hypothenuse. and as in each triangle of perfection, one is three and three are one, so man is one, though of a double nature; and he attains the purposes of his being only when the two natures that are in him

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kening of the ajna. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. this word is communicated directly to any serious aspirant when needed. 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. samadhi with any god is not the ultimate trance. the ultimate trance is the union of nuit and hadit. that is why over the head of ra-hoor-khuit in the stele, kundalini has reached the sahashara, and is radiating into emptiness. see liber vii, i, 36-40, liber hhh, section sss, and liber lxv, iii, 3 1-36. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the

or attempting to pervert it, as ignorance and fear, shame and weakness, so often induce him to do. whatever the act which expresses the soul, that act and no other is right. but, on the other hand, whatever the act may be it is always a sacrament; and, however profaned, it is always efficient. to profane it is only to turn food into poison. the act must be pure and passionate. it must be held as the union with god in the heart of the holy of holies. one must never forget that a child will be born of that deed. one must choose the environment appropriate to the particular child which one wills to create. one must make sure that the conscious will is written, on the pure waters of a mind unstirred, in letters of fire, by the sun of the soul. one must not create confusion in the talisman, wh

droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. the magical power is universal. the free man directs it as he will. leave him alone, or he will make you sorry you tried to interfere! there is here a reference to the two main types of the orgia of magick; i have already dealt with this matter in the comment. observe that in the 'mystic' work, the union takes place spontaneously; in the other, venom is shot forth. this awakes the earth to rapture; not until then does union occur. for, in working on the planes of manifestation, the elements must be consecrated and made 'god' by virtue of a definite rite. 27. there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit calle

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

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o of the most beautiful of the immortals. according to some versions of the story of leto, zeus transformed her into a quail, in order that she might thus elude the vigilance of hera, and she is said to have [32]resumed her true form when she arrived at the island of delos. hera, being the principal wife of zeus and queen of heaven, a detailed account will be given of her in a special chapter. in the union of zeus with most of his immortal wives we shall find that an allegorical meaning is conveyed. his marriage with metis, page 32 who is said to have surpassed both gods and men in knowledge, represents supreme power allied to wisdom and prudence. his union with themis typifies the bond which exists between divine majesty and justice, law, and order. eurynome, as the mother of the charites

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

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h the universal macrocosm and the human microcosm. this is the basic model of the christian church. no other religious edifice has as simply and eloquently expressed the immemorial symbolism of the temple consecrated to the godhead. its perfection was reached in the romanesque church, in the outline of its basic plan in squares and cupolas, sacred architecture's classic vocabulary for symbolizing the union of heaven and earth, the the uncreated and the created. it is easy to see how the instruments used to depict the circle and the square, the compass and the square, were invested with an identical symbolic meaning. it is in this very broad sense that the reconstruction of solomon's temple was understood. likewise, jerusalem was not merely the city in palestine where the crusaders gathered

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at we can catch a glimpse of what part we are to play in national and global transformation. the mandala of the new world order and illuminati control. annuit coeptis he has blessed our beginning, novus ordo seclorum new order of the ages. the all-seeing eye of horus, the resurrected egyptian sun god, biblically refered to as lucifer, the angel of light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit and is conscious, a new being a transformed being is created. the seal s reverse depicts a separation state in the separation of the eye the triangle. the pyramid exemplifies the initiation stage. it is the house of initiation

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(see p. 71, who had tricked the dwarves into giving it to him. it could never miss its mark, and returned to the thrower s hand. thor s hamm er, mjollnir, enabled the aesir to protect asgard against the giants. a giant did once steal it and would only return it if the goddess freya would marry him. so thor and loki dressed up as freya and her maid. when mjollnir was placed in thor s lap to bless the union, he discarded his disguise and killed all the giants. thor, god of thunder thor the thunder god was odin s eldest son; his mother was the earth. he was immensely strong and famed for his enormous appetite. in a contest in the land of the giants, he drank so much of the sea at one gulp that he created the tides. he traveled in a chariot drawn by two goats. viking ta pestr y this picture s

ry is that the sky, rangi, and the earth, papa, lay together to create the gods. they were then separated by their son and tangaroa s brother. in maori myth this son is called tane (see box, although his name varies. some polynesian creation chants are abstract and philosophical; others are so detailed in their account of the creation that they even celebrate the birth of the dust in the air from the union of small thing and imperceptible thing. tattoos maui s tattoos are typical of polynesian culture. a version of the widespread maui legends from manihiki says that his father was called manu ahi whare and his mother was tongo i whare, and they were the offspring of the god tangaroa-of-the-tattoedface. in raratonga, maui was said to be tangaroa s son. horrified at the sight of his mother s

s navel cord with his teeth, put the cord in a gourd, and sent it out to sea. then the people came ashore by the hundreds to settle the new land with hotu matua as king. tane, the forest god t ane, the forest god, was born with his brothers rongo, the god of cultivated plants; tangaroa, the god of fish and reptiles; haumia, the god of wild plants; tu, the war god; and tawhiri, the storm god, from the union of rangi and papa, the sky and the earth. but so closely did rangi and papa cling to each other that the gods could not leave the earth womb and tane had to wrench his parents apart. although generally a peaceful god, tane was in constant conflict with his brother tangaroa, the sea god, because he gave human beings the wood and plant fiber to make equipment for fishing. tane s name means

ed the japanese imperial regalia. susano then returned the rice paddy princess to human form and made her his wife. susano no mikoto preparing to kill the eight-headed dragon, 1832, by keisei. the greek gods 124 hera x m mars key married descriptive (nymph) roman name union olympian gods atlas x hesperus hephaestus hesperides vulcan m aphrodite venus the greek gods this family tree, starting with the union of the sky and earth, uranus and gaia, shows the relationships between the greek gods and goddesses mentioned in this book. the fourth generation became the deities of mount olympus and were the first to have children with mortals, thus mixing the divine and human bloodlines. the olympians were led by zeus, who was essentially a sky god. his brothers hades and poseidon ruled the underwor

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rg the night battles by carlo ginzburg 9 i the blackened forge of cain title-praecantrix the darkness of the earth color black symbol the sigil of infernal union -study of cain as the offspring of lucifer and lilith. the dynamics of self-transformation and how symbols relate to the self -foundations of sex magick and the will in the focus of selftransformation and self-deification -sex magick and the union of babalon (lilith) and the beast 666 (the solar phallic masculine archetype, the beast which rises from leviathan) in sexual union the creation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left

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t mysteries; it taught the first men to render homage to the deity. its dogmas are based on the principles of humanity its mission is the study of that wisdom which serves to discern truth; it is the beneficent dawn of the development of reason and intelligence; it is the worship of the qualities of the human heart, and the repression of its vices; in fine, it is the echo of religious toleration, the union of all belief, the bond between all men, the symbol of the sweet illusions of hope, preaching the faith in god that saves, and the charity that blesses. thus it will be seen that this rite,which purports to be it continuation of the ancient mysteries, and pretends to contain a vast amount of instruction, does but announce the aim and mission of modern free-masonry. and yet its founder is

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

rebecca was his sister, for he feared that if he told him the truth, that rebecca was his wife, abimelech would kill him in order to take her. but, we are told, abimelech looked in to their tent through the window and saw them engaging in marital intercourse, and thus discovered that they were husband and wife. abimelech signifies the evil of the philistines; the fact that he was able to observe the union between isaac and rebecca means that their level of intercourse was in some way exposed or vulnerable to intrusion by evil. isaac engaged in marital relations on the level of asiyah, where there is not intended to be any such intercourse, for that is the level of lesbianism. this is why the snake envied them, for he is on the level of asiyah. isaac here was evidently engaging in marital

ulgence (this is why the king of the philistines was able to intrude on their union; he was there anyway, so to speak) obviously, marital relations are intended to be a sublime intertwining of the physical and spiritual aspects of the couple fs union, not a mere exercise in physical gratification. when there is no sublime, spiritual union between male and female, with all this implies in terms of the union of the male and female principles in creation (as we have described previously, the sexual act is reduced to the pursuit of raw sensual pleasure. in this way, it is like homosexuality, where the sensual pleasure is paramount and considered the justification for the intercourse and the indication of its grightness. h the spiritual union between the partners.if there is any.is subordinate

intellect, the neshamah of malchut has been restored. when we consider the 18 letters [which compose the 6 permutations of yudhei- vav] together with the three root-letters [yud-hei-vav, we have 21 letters. this number added to 207 yields the numerical value of the word for gblessing h [berachah, 227, plus the kolel. 18+ 3= 21; 21+ 207= 228. berachah: beit-reish-kaf-hei= 2+ 200+ 20+ 5= 227. thus, the union of yesod and malchut is blessed, and can occur. we will now see where these permutations are alluded to in the story of noah. the 18 letters of the six permutations allude to the gseven by seven h ritually pure animals, i.e, 14, and the gtwo by two h ritually impure animals, i.e, 4. the idiom for gseven by seven h is simply gseven seven, h implying 7+ 7, or 14. the same is true for gtwo

erted to unholy purposes. to explain: we have already said that the hei of atzilut is manifest in atzilut, and that the vav of this hei is the masculine principle while the dalet is the feminine principle. they are manifest as [the partzufim] jacob and leah. the form of the letter hei can be seen as a dalet with a smaller vav inside it. the hei, which indicates malchut of atzilut, thus alludes to the union of z feir anpin and nukva that occurs within it. when someone reveals a secret to a wicked person, he causes yesod, which is that vav, to channel its effulgence to the powers of evil. this is alluded to by the words g ca secret to another, h for the numerical value of the word for gsecret h [sod] is 70, referring to the 70 angelic princes [of the non-jewish nations. the non-jewish nation

s creation, respectively personified in the partzufim of z feir anpin and nukva. abram is spelled alef-veit-reish-mem. the first three letters spell the word for glimb, h and the last letter is a final mem. the glimb h refers to the male sexual organ, which corresponds to the yesod of z feir anpin, and the final, closed mem refers to the virginal female sexual organ. abram fs name thus alluded to the union of these two principles. nonetheless, the supernal coupling did not actually occur until abraham went to the land of israel; only then was he able to effect the supernal coupling. this, of course, is because the spiritual nature of the land of israel is conducive to g-d consciousness, and abraham was only able to achieve the level of consciousness required to influence the dynamics of th

of livelihood, divine beneficence, and children only from them, who are our [spiritual] father and mother. g-d has set up the creational order such that he channels our needs into the physical world via the spiritual world. the latter must therefore be functioning properly in order for the channels of divine blessing to flow properly. in this context, the divine blessings are the goffspring h of the union of the spiritual male and female antecedents of our own souls. thus rabbi shimon bar yochai interpreted the verse, gyour father and mother will rejoice h2 to mean that gyour father h is the holy one, blessed be he and gyour mother h is the community of israel.3 these are appellations of z feir anpin and nukva, respectively. nonetheless, we are also required to rectify, together with them

in it is its aramaic equivalent, mazla. the word for gsalt h [melach] alludes also to the three names havayah that comprise the 12 letters present in the [feminine] mazal of gand he acquits. h the word for gsalt h (melach) is a permutation of the word for gbread h (lechem. its numerical value is therefore also 78. 2 ibid. 25:22. 3 avot 6:4. 4 moed katan 28a. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 131 the union of these two mazal fs draws down sustenance. sustenance is the goffspring h of the union of the male and female mazal fs [the sages f statement continues] g cand drink water with measure. h water refers to the states of chesed, which extend [of themselves] without limit. but gthe black candle, h i.e, the five states of gevurah, limits them. gthe black candle h (butzina dekardanuta) is a

that would contravene its purpose. the disadvantage of having glight h da fat is that we can become intolerant of the wrong things. if we become convinced of something that is not right, our intolerance can make us unwilling to become unconvinced. thus, women generally are more in danger of being seduced than are men. for all these reasons, it is clear why in kabbalah great emphasis is placed on the union of male and female. our male and female aspects need to cross-fertilize each other, so that we may always be refining our awareness of truth while simultaneously being single-mindedly devoted to its implementation. the female aspect prevents the male aspect from keeping us in a state of abstract non-accomplishment, while the male aspect prevents the female aspect from being seduced into

for gjacob is the unblemished man, dwelling in these tents. h28 jacob signifies tiferet, as we know (or here, tiferet of malchut. tam: tav-mem. emet: alef-mem-tav. the difference between these two words is thus the letter alef, whose numerical value is 1, signifying the one sefirah of tiferet that unites with the lower three of netzach-hod-yesod, which in this context represent the female. thus, the union of the unblemished male and female produces enduring gtruth. h however, when the blemish persists, due to the sins of the generation, and is repeated four times, the ox becomes classified as an aggressive one, and the blemish spreads to all the [sub-sefirot of malchut, and the ox fs owner has to pay full damages. once an ox has proven itself to be aggressive by having gored three times

solomon. the word for gpeace h (shalom) is closely related to the name solomon (shelomo. this refers to the fact that when netzach and hod of ima enter z feir anpin, z feir anpin fs intellect matures and this quiets the internal strife going on inside us. the mentality of ima (i.e, ima itself, that cannot enter z feir anpin) ghovers h over us, acting as an inspiration, protecting us. in any case, the union of the two cherubs signifies the union of z feir anpin and nukva, who, when united, resemble the constant union of abba and ima. 1 chagigah 13b; sukah 5ab. 2 liturgy, second blessed after the recitation of the shema in the evening service. the arizal on parashat tetzaveh 348 apparently, when netzach and yesod of ima enter z feir anpin, this somehow completes yesod of ima, as will be now

irth for the first time. since this is her first impregnation, the opening of her womb is still gvirginal, h i.e, narrow.too narrow, in fact, for the fawn to fit through. in her pain trying to give birth, the doe cries, and a snake, hearing the cry, bites the doe, tearing open her womb so the fawn can emerge. although this benefits the doe, the snake is surely acting only out in its own interest. the union of the choshen and the ephod at this immature stage is thus characterized by extreme self-interest, each party acting only on its own behalf and motivated to interact only by what it thinks it can get out of the other. when the jewish people went out of egypt, they were spiritually immature, also. the seven-week period between the exodus and the revelation on mt. sinai was a maturation p

hat [it must be united with the choshen] just as these two names must be united forever. the name elokim is often considered the feminine complement to the name havayah. it is fairly common to complete a numerical equivalence by adding the number 1, signifying the totality of the letters of a given word considered as a whole entity (the word) and not just as the constituent elements (the letters. the union of the two names havayah and adni was mentioned above. 7 exodus 28:28. 8 psalms 119:89. 361 parashat tetzaveh [second installment] in the first installment on parashat tetzaveh, we read part of the arizal fs discussion of the choshen and the ephod. inside the choshen was gthe urim and the tumim, h a parchment with divine names written on it that caused the letters on the stones of the ch

h [dam, 44. together they equal the numerical value of the words for gsnake h [nachash] and choshen. according to one opinion in the talmud,6 the reason a woman does not usually menstruate when nursing is because her blood is transformed into milk. whatever this may mean physiologically, we see here a conceptual connection between blood and breastmilk. what have gleaned from this passage is that the union of the choshen and the ephod, i.e, that of z feir anpin and nukva, occurs at both an immature and mature stage. the former is the union between the emotions and thought, and the latter the union between emotions and speech .translated from sefer halikutim and ta famei hamitzvot 6 bechorot 6b. 365 parashat tetzaveh [third installment] this parashah opens with the commandment to gtake for

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

that light that the golden banner of the inner life may be exalted; it is in light where lies healing and the power of growth. some vague intimation of the power and splendour of that glory is first given to the 24 the golden dawn aspirant in the neophyte grade when, rising from his knees at the close of the invocation, the light is formulated above his head in the symbol of the white triangle by the union of the implements of the three chief officers. by means of the adeptus minor ritual, which identifies him with the chief officer, he is slain as though by the destructive force of his lower self. after being symbolically buried, triumphantly he rises from the tomb of osiris in a glorious resurrection through the descent of the white light of the spirit. the intervening grades occupy them

ain effects ensuing from this initiation, one of the chiefs has written,that the object of the ceremony conceived as a whole "is especially intended to effect the change of the consciousness into the neschamah, and there are three places where this can take place. the first is when the aspirant is on the cross, because he is so exactly fulfilling the symbol of the abnegation of the lower self and the union with the higher" the obligation assumed, the candidate is now removed from the cross, and the officers then narrate to him the principal facts in the history of the founder of the order- christian rosenkreutz. on a previous page was given a summary of these historical facts. when the history lecture mentions the discovery of the vaultwherein the tomb and body of the illustrious father we

=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac. 1. the juggle-the crown of understanding, the beginning of material production, the primum mobile acting through the philosophic mercury on saturn. 2. high priestess=the crown of beauty, the beginning of sovereignty and beauty, the primum mobile acting through the moon on the sun. 3. empress=the wisdom of understanding, the union of the powers of origination and production; the sphere of the zodiac acting through venus upon saturn. 4. emperor=the wisdom of sovereignty and beauty, and the originator of them; the sphere of the zodiac acting through aries upon the sun, and initiating spring <142> 5. hierophant=the wisdom and fountain of mercy, the sphere of the zodiac acting through taurus upon jupiter. 6. the lover

aintain the veil between the first and the second orders, and may the powers of the elements bear witness to my 204 the golden dawn: volume 11 book three pledges" done. phil. repeating words as directed. 3rd ad. leaves phil. and returns to his place, having replaced banner of west. 2nd ad. the symbol of the 1st grade of neophyte is= a. to the first 0 is attached a circle- to the second, a square. the union of the circle and the square hath many meanings, of which one must be put <167> before you, for this you must accomplish in your own person, ere you canadvance further. for if in the mystic sphere of truth, the way of initiation may be trodden alone, yet in another sphere, it hath a three-fold aspect. part that can be given to man from without- part that can be attained by man himself- p

y <299> and spice and all perfection1, the way to the light itself. but they are also the light at the end of the way; they have become the divine attainment. how significant becomes the statement "i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me" there is one last correspondence before closing this paper. the symbolic drama of the adeptus minor ritual has as its goal the union of the aspirant with the divine nature of christian rosencreutz. theoretically, it is assumed that our father c. r c. is the type and symbol of spiritual attainment, a man who achieved union with his higher and divine genius, and was brought to the light of his kether. he is portrayed as a living man, who symbolically died, and like osiris of old, was glorified through trial, perfected t

n the zohar, one of the mystical titles of kether, the crown of the tree. analysis of the name expands the idea considerably. the name is composed of three letters, heh, vau, aleph. heh is 5 in number, the pentagram which is the three chiefs 2 77 also the symbol of the microcosm. vau is 6, the hexagram, the symbol of the macrocosm, the greater world. aleph is unity. thus the whole name symbolises the union of the microcosm with macrocosm, and is a com <300> plete synthesis of the nature'of the adeptus minor grade itself, the accomplishment of the great work. so that the very expression of c. r c- i, the light of the cross" with the implication of its number, identifies him mystically with the great angel hua. both become therefore the symbolic representatives of the higher and divine geniu

eveal the deeper meaning. a naked child stands beneath a rose-tree bearing yellow roses-the golden rose of joy as well as the <210> rose of silence. while reaching up to the roses, he yet holds in leash a grey wolf, worldly wisdom held in check by perfect innocence. the colours are pale yellow, pale blue, greenish yellow-suggestive of the early dawn of a spring day. i. the magician. it represents the union and balance of the elemental powers controlled by mind. the adept dedicating the minor implements on the altar. the paths of beth and mercury link kether the crown with binah, the aimah elohim. the magician, therefore, is reflected in the intellect which stores and gathers up knowledge and pours it into the house of life, binah. the number of the path, 12, suggests the synthesis of the z

m. some had silver in their left hands and mercury in their right, which they would put into a golden vessel together, whence immediately a pale gold coloured flame which ever increased in size, spreading out through the worlds. others bearing the legend 'solve et coagula'woven into their belts, mixed water and the principle of cold which the enochian system 667 they bore in a pair of scales, and the union was the ice of the region we were in. i was wondering whether all this had any counterpart in human nature, and its possibilities of development when i saw two types. one an ancient man toiling along most painfully and the other a child skipping <321> along light-heartedly. as they faded there rose between them a radiant figure clad in gold, bearing on her brow the sign libra in living e

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the initial a is repeated five and reproduced thirty times, thus giving the elements and numbers of the two following figures: the isolated a represents the unity of the first principle, otherwise, the intellectual or active agent. a united to b represents the fertilization of the duad by the monad. r is the sign of the triad, because it represents hieroglyphically the emission which results from the union of the two principles. the number 11, which is that of the letters of the word, combines the unity of the initiate with the denary of pythagoras, and the number 66, the added total of all the letters, form kabalistically the number 12, which is the square of the triad and consequently the mystic quadrature of the circle. we may remark, in passing, that the author of the apocalypse, that

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t instant, lighter and merrier than their own. other books they have of involved abstruse sense, much like the rosicrucian style. they have nothing of the bible, only collected parcels of charms and counter-charms; not to defend themselves withal but to operate on other animals' for they are a people invulnerable by [that is, to] our weapons. and albeit were-wolves and witches true bodies are, by the union of the spirit of nature that runs through all, echoing and doubling the blow towards another, wounded at home when the[ir] astral assumed bodies are stricken elsewhere [just] as the strings of second harp tuned to a unison sound, though only [the first] one be struck, yet these [fairy] people have not a second or so gross a body at all to be so pierced. but as air, the secret commonwealt

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n uncertainty, and to get out of his depth. therefore his god remains always something unconceivable, intangible, and incomprehensible for him. it is quite otherwise with the magician who knows his god in all aspects. he holds his god in awe as he knows himself to have been created in his image, consequently to be a part of god. he sees his lofty ideal, his first duty, and his sacred objective in the union with the godhead, in becoming the god-man. the synthesis of this mystic union with god consists in developing the divine ideas, from the lowest up to the highest steps, in such a degree as so attain the union with the universal. everyone is at liberty to abandon his individuality or to retain it. such genii usually return to earth entrusted with a definite sacred task or mission. in this

nd identity, and alterity, and station and motion to compleat the soul, and framed it of these kinds, as timaeus teacheth, we must conceive that the intellect, consisting according to the diversity thereof, and the division of proportions and multitude, and knowing it self to be both one and many, proposeth numbers to it self, and produceth them and the arithmetical knowledg of them. according to the union of multitude and communication with it self, and colligation, it acquireth to it self musick: for which reason arithmetick excels musick in antiquity, the soul it self being first divided by the maker, then collected by proportions. and again establishing the operation within it self, according to its station, it produceth geometry out of it self, and one figure, and the principles of al

fering concepts of the meaning of deification. for the purpose of convenience in this essay, i will label them the white and black schools of esotericism. since this is not intended to develop into a book, the descriptions which follow are necessarily somewhat simplistic; but they are applicable not only to esoteric orders but to exoteric religions as well. the ultimate aim of the white school is the union (or reunion) of the human mind with the non-conscious, mechanical order of the universe (also referred to as "nature" and "god. its methods and hierarchies are appropriately mechanical, leading in the direction of mental stasis and the inhibition of creative thought. deviations from accepted norms are not permissible; absolute obedience to superior authority is mandatory; and every effor

-18, this implies that the priest-king powers and perceptions of the beast and scarlet woman will be more fully realized during the hours of darkness. horus, however, is a deity of daylight; consider the three 12-1 pm transmissions of the book of the law itself. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. crowley believed this word to be "abrahadabra, symbolizing the union of complementary concepts through ritual. he explored its construction via cabalistic numerological techniques, arriving at various numbers which he believed significant to the aon of horus. while the hebrew cabala possesses no objective validity, crowley insisted. presumably as a consequence of his golden dawn training. upon trying to use it as a device for systematizing his philosophy

fire, a yellow rose to represent the element of air, a quartz crystal pyramid to represent the element of earth, and a wine-filled chalice to represent the element of water. also included on the altar are wand and dagger, the fire wand used to banish the objective bodies, and the air dagger used to invoke the elemental forces. in the center of the altar is an enochian table of union, representing the union of the elements of self within our beings and the state of balance of the aspects (or elements) which is our goal. around the table of union are the corresponding elemental tools according to the tools' directional attribute. to the left of the table is the air dagger; to the right the fire wand. any elemental representations may be used to mark the directions of the elements on the wall

often forbidden pleasures. the trump is an open door to pleasure and as ipsissimus crowley remarked "the subject of this card is analysis, followed by synthesis. the first question asked by science is 'how shall we recombine them to our greater advantage' this resumes the whole policy of the tarot" how shall we recombine is indeed the question of trump vi and its answer in part is to be found in the union and remainfesting of ourselves with life as perhaps none but setians can fully appreciate. trump vii the chariot the central point of trump vii is water, as can be seen held in the grailcradled by the charioteer. the grail seems to have depth beyond that normally expected and accepted as a vessel. the water symbol here, dclxvi tells us, is binah, the warm and friendly waters of the under

12/17/88 with adept rivera as initiate, magister menschel as priest, and members of the los angeles pylon as participants. wedding ceremony [nine bells- family is seated [processional] please rise [words of welcome] to the bride, the groom, their families, friends and guests: welcome! welcome to a blessed event, long awaited, long anticipated, and finally here. we are gathered together to witness the union of gary gonzalez and lora norton in marriage, a marriage solemnized by authority of the state, sanctified by those gods to whom we all pray in these families and these united states, and encouraged by those assembled here. let everyone here recall to mind the purpose of this ceremony, and let your thoughts be positive, as you see the end of one beginning, and the beginning of another jou

avior. scientific, antiscientific, and nonscientific are mutually exclusive, and together their union equals the entire universe of behavior. scientific behavior is a proper subset of logical behavior, which is a proper subset of thinking behavior. antiscientific behavior is a set which intersects both logical and illogical behavior sets, but not the nonlogical. it is therefore a proper subset of the union of logical and illogical behaviors. nonscientific behavior intersects logical and illogical behaviors, and totally encompasses all nonlogical behavior (thinking and unthinking) as a proper subset of nonscientific behavior. this is getting complicated. let me use a venn diagram to illustrate what we've discovered so far: in the diagram at the top of the next page, each space (with three c

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bia and incubus (p. 208-223) cell 5 being the letters of the 6th and 17th aat of the sacred alphabet. every star within is the seed of a star without this cell tells about the secrets of the pentagram and how it works as the cosmic unifier between the cosmomatrix. it continues the voyage started in the previous cell and discusses the optical path of mediation between the summoner and the summond. the union of the external and the internal shreds of gnosis that meets in the transmuted vessel. in this process, where the summoner becomes the summoned and the hunter the hunted the importance of the fetisches are introduced. this refers to the physical presentation of objects of power. we can among these include the common weapons of the warrior of the noble arte, colours, banners and signs are

he opposer as well as in its connection with the mercurial formulae of the pentagram as the cosmomatrix of transformation. the ram has found its expression in tz, the first sign of zodiacus who is the bringer of fire and light is essential to this riddle and as the five-fold symbol of the use of the senses. cell 7 being the aat of the 8th and 19th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell speaks of the union of all systems and the understanding of our belief through mastery of alchemy and therefore our own senses. the construction of the temple of flesh, the path of no return and total integration is found in this cell of ultimate vision and fluids. there is a great flexibility in this cell and is experienced as the muse of divine inspiration. the most important formulae is the techniques of

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r i fell for you, sugar, when the local product is so low grade you get to like goods from foreign" george had gone with zeeny to bhopal and was becoming noisy on the subject of the catastrophe, interpreting it ideologically "what is amrika for us" he demanded "it's not a real place. power in its purest form, disembodied, invisible. we can't see it but it screws us totally, no escape" he compared the union carbide company to the trojan horse "we invited the bastards in" it was like the story of the forty thieves, he said. hiding in their amphoras and waiting for the night "we had no ali baba, misfortunately" he cried "who did we have? mr. rajiv g" at this point bhupen gandhi stood up abruptly, unsteadily, and began, as though possessed, as though a spirit were upon him, to testify "for me"

traditional apparatus of divine rage. clouds massed outside the window; wind and thunder shook the room. trees fell in the fields "we're losing patience with you, gibreel farishta. you've doubted us just about long enough" gibreel hung his head, blasted by the wrath of god "we are not obliged to explain our nature to you" the dressing-down continued "whether we be multiform, plural, representing the union-by-hybridization of such opposites as _oopar_ and _neechay, or whether we be pure, stark, extreme, will not be resolved here" the disarranged bed on which his visitor had rested its posterior (which, gibreel now observed, was glowing faintly, like the rest of the person) was granted a highly disapproving glance "the point is, there will be no more dilly-dallying. you wanted clear signs o

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books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. tori: the gate that marks the entrance to a shrine. its shape is regarded as a symbol of shinto. totem: some sort of object or, perhaps, animal that assumes a spiritual symbolism for a clan or tribe. transcendent: going beyond the ordinary, beyond the universe and time, into spiritual dimensions. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. tsukiyomi: the shinto moon-god and the ruler of night. ujiko: a named child whose name is entered at birth at the local shinto shrine. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brah

turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. 120 world religions: almanac christianity the historic jesus of nazareth jesus was a jewish teacher and healer from the first century ce. although jesus is accepted as an actual historical figure, there is little know

ee of these realities were linked together, and plotinus believed that individuals wanted to return to the divine mind and then be absorbed back into the one. sin was the result of being kept separate from the one. these concepts had a powerful influence on early christianity. the idea of emanation is very close to the idea developed by christian theologians to explain the concept of the trinity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. moreover, plotinus s concept of sin is very close to the christian concept. sin, for plotinus, came about from humans being separated from the one, just as in christian theology sin arises from humankind s separation from god. sects and schisms greek religion was both a public and private matter. but there were no wr

hings have arisen arts and laws, and a great deal of virtue and a great deal of vice; little by little the world has come to be what it is. in those days they were neither poor nor rich, and there was no insolence [disrespect] or injustice among them; for they were of noble natures, and lived up to their principles, and believed what they were told. may we not suppose that government arose out of the union of single families who survived the destruction, and were under the rule of patriarchs [respectable men, because they had originally descended from a single father and mother? that is very probable. plato. laws. in the dialogues of plato, vol. 5. translated by benjamin jowett. london, england: oxford university press, 1892. available online at the online library of liberty. http//oll. li

west africa. world religions: biographies xv timeline of events 1844 the communist philosopher karl marx publishes critique of the hegelian philosophy of public law. in it, he explains his atheist views, writing that man makes religion, religion does not make man. 1866 baha u lla h, founder of the baha faith, publicly declares himself the messenger of god. 1873 jewish rabbi isaac mayer wise forms the union of american hebrew congregations; two years later he forms hebrew union college. in so doing, wise becomes a key figure in the development of reform judaism in the united states. 1875 dayananda sarasvati founds the arya samaj, a hindu reform movement. this organization will play a major part in the growth of indian nationalism. 1893 the paper what is hinduism? by swami vivekananda, prese

clergy was forbidden. typical punishments for offenses included fines, religion classes, whippings, torture, and exile( being forced to leave a place. death sentences were given to people who committed adultery and blasphemers, or those who took the name of god in vain. in 1553 calvin was personally responsible for the burning of a spanish physician who denied the concept of the trinity, which is the union of the father (god, son (christ, and holy spirit. education was controlled by the church, as were social services such as charities. begging was not allowed. in short, geneva was ruled by very strict and rigid laws. calvin remained the head of, and force behind, this theocracy from 1541 until his death in 1564. calvin s intention was to turn geneva into a model christian city. all who vi

solved all the great problems of civilization. isaac mayer wise was one of the most well-known jews in the united states during the nineteenth century. he was a rabbi, a person trained in jewish law and tradition who is often the head of a synagogue, a jewish house of worship. he was also an editor and the author of several books and plays about judaism. he created three religious organizations: the union of american hebrew congregations; the hebrew union college, of which he served as president; and the central conference of american rabbis. he is regarded as a major figure in the development and organization of reform judaism in the united states. reform judaism believes that the torah, the jewish holy book, was written by several authors, rather than just one. its followers do not adhe

under wise s leadership, the congregation constructed an immense temple in the 1860s that remains in use in the twenty-first century. wise and reform judaism wise had both an impressive talent for organization and a great desire to unify judaism in the united states. in the 1850s he began to use this talent and desire to complete several large projects. he created a jewish prayer book and formed the union of american hebrew congregations, world religions: biographies 393 isaac mayer wise the hebrew union college, and the central conference of american rabbis. over time he emerged as the major spokesperson for reform judaism in the united states. the prayer book in 1847 wise was asked to become a member of an advisory board. this board was to make recommendations on various matters to jewi

east areas of the country still found it departed from tradition too much, and they would not use it. some reform congregations, on the other hand, did not adopt the book because they found it to be too traditional. other than these few exceptions, the prayer book became widely used, primarily in the south and west, and represented a first step towards the greater unification of american judaism. the union of american hebrew congregations wise believed that judaism in the united states was generally too disordered. each congregation throughout the vast and still-growing country was taking its own direction. there was no unity in jewish thought and teaching. as early as 1848 wise proposed the formation of a union that would have some denominations of judaism in the modern era judaism consis

the surrounding culture. 394 world religions: biographies isaac mayer wise authority over jewish congregations throughout the nation. for more than two decades he tried to convince others of the importance of such a union, mostly through the newspaper he founded in 1854, the american israelite, which remains in publication in the early twenty-first century. his goal was accomplished in 1873, when the union of american hebrew congregations was formed in cincinnati, ohio. wise avoided using the word reform in the name of the union because he still felt that orthodox and reform jews could be united. wise believed that jews could enjoy religious freedom in the united states that they could not enjoy anywhere else in the world. for this reason in particular he wanted to see a strong and united

immediately reminded the governor that the people of ohio were neither christian nor jewish but free and independent. in 1862 wise challenged general ulysses s. grant s (1822 1885) order that all jews be discharged from the army department that he headed. wise also fought efforts to bar jewish (and catholic) chaplains from serving with troops during the american civil war (1861 65; a war between the union [the north, who were opposed to slavery, and the confederacy [the south, who were in favor of slavery. he openly opposed a u.s. treaty with switzerland because he believed that the swiss government discriminated against american jews living there. wise was criticized for not taking a stand on the issue of slavery, which dominated political discussion in the 1850s and led to the civil war

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

g off the serpent apep. yet the warlike and resolute nature of set seems to have been regarded with ambivalence in egyptian theology, and the portrayal of this neter went through many changes over a period of nearly three thousand years. pictures of a god bearing two heads, that of set and his daylight brother horus the elder, may be compared to the oriental yin/yang symbol as a representation of the union of polarities. in time, the conflict between these two abstract principles came to be emphasized rather than their primal union. set's battle with horus the elder grew from being a statement of the duality of day and night into an expression of the political conflict among the polytheistic priesthoods for control of the egyptian theocracy. this was rewritten as a battle between good and

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

and female, she is then settled, and he covers the mother. and the sons of elohim saw the daughters of adam.115 this is that which is written two men, spies, secretly saying.116 what is daughters of adam? as it is written then came two women, harlots, unto the king.117 on their account it is written for they saw the wisdom of elohim is in him. then came, and not in the beginning. in the wreath of the union of the fountains, there were two embracers from above in v v v v, these descended from above, and occupied the earth. they lost the good part, which was in h v v h, the wreath of compassion, and were wreathed with a cluster of grapes.118 and the lord hvhy said to mosheh: why do you cry to me?119 explicitly stating to me. speak unto the children of israel, that they move forward.120 expli

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ituation- in other words, the achievement of a stage in individual evolution that goes beyond the personal, and thus implies the ability to initiate change on a large-scale, perhaps of a civilization. vi sappho dance in still water chains and roses in blue invoke the sun to an arch of fire gravestones, butterflies and rivers of snakes. lovers karu samsu the double tetrahedron a nexion created via the union of balancing forces. the sowing of the seed of change that which may transform and carry evolution beyond the abyss, and thus beyond self-image- or that which may destroy. the invoking of energies that coerce to create something beyond self. vii the ruby is the password she of the white robe rides the transparent horse the maiden closes. on broken legs he steps forth he becomes the drago

ions and thus changing a whole race of people- fulfilling the destiny or wyrd of the ethos of a civilization. acts that inaugurate a new aeon. the causal nature that is dictated by the essence of things fate etc. xi autumn a marriage beneath the earth in elixir she washes her hands a black eagle a palace of light she becomes the snake who offers the sword to sever the arm desire- lidagon alchemy: the union of two balancing forces that, as a nexion, create change through sinister intent- the energies in action as earthed and affected by that which is re-presented by atus vi, vii and vii. xii two horses fight within a circle of trees (the sun at night) two angels laughing in a room of sacrifice two in a haze of gold beyond the door opfer- vindex entrance/transition to the lands of the dark i

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l a. hoffman, ii, a book highly recommended by the author of codex magica. all the pyramid's men the confederate officer on the left is first lt. john oden, of the tenth alabama volunteer infantry who fought at first manassas, chancellorsville and antietam. where he was seriously wounded. lying bleeding. oden used a stick and his own blood to draw masonic symbols on a paper. then he called out to the union troops on picket duty to take the paper to any yankee who was a freemason. it was carried to a union colonel who was a mason, but not of a high enough degree to comprehend oden's symbolic message. another mason, union capt. perry was summoned and he recognized the drawings and announced that a fellow mason was in distress. four northern masons crept out to the field, placed the wounded s

mason, but not of a high enough degree to comprehend oden's symbolic message. another mason, union capt. perry was summoned and he recognized the drawings and announced that a fellow mason was in distress. four northern masons crept out to the field, placed the wounded southerner on a cot and carried him to the field hospital of the 5th new hampshire volunteer infantry where he was treated. when the union army moved on, oden was sent to the private home of a physician to recuperate, rather than to a prisoner of war camp. lt. oden survived the war between the states. while at first sight, this is a touching story of the brotherhood of freemasonry, some of the glow dims when we recall that a non-mason, christian confederate would have been left to bleed to death. moreover, if cooperation li

ms crossed in "x" position. 226 codex magica rosicrucian and other mystical orders emphasize the process of alchemy, mystical union that brings about cleansing and renewal. the goal of illuminati alchemy is to realize a new world order through destruction("cleansing. thus, ordo ab chao, order out of chaos. in this drawing from mylius's philosophia reformata (1622) the alchemical process is "bath" the union of sol (sun) and luna (moon. the "x" is the intersection of the two opposites. swami bua, an indian hindu sage who, in 2003, claimed to be 115 years old. he crosses his legs in the x-configuration typical of hindu gurus and swamis as they meditate and practice yoga. apparently, the swami's lifestyle does not a healthy nation make. according to statistics overall in india, the longevity r

THE BLACK LODGE

r other factors, this is the commonest one. all this is well-known to most people who have been married or who kept a monogamous relationship for several years; but through a sense of false shame (instilled precisely by the demons and their servants, it is seldom admitted. the only way- drastic, but effective- to avoid demonaic attacks in sexual matters is to eliminate all artificial obstacles to the union among human beings. if a married woman wants to go to bed with another man than her husband, she ought to do this, and the husband ought not to interfere. if the husband wants to do the same, the wife ought not to interfere. jealousy is not a sign of love (another delusion instilled by the black lodge. jealousy is an emotional compound of equal parts of fear, egotism and envy. it is one

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dministration, he was by no means a skeptic, and he stated that spirit messages had enabled him to survive crisis after crisis during his presidency. the president became so outspoken in praise of the guidance he received from the spirit world that it is said that it was lincoln s influence that prompted union general ulysses s. grant (1822 1885) to turn to spiritualism. in december of 1862, when the union cause was on the brink of defeat, lincoln was under great pressure from all sides to drop the rigid enforcement of the forthcoming emancipation proclamation. mary lincoln, aware of the terrible strain on her husband, called several trusted individuals together in the red parlor and called for one of the president s favorite mediums, nettie colburn (b. ca. 1841, to conduct a seance. the m

lk the doctrinal spiritual path and obey the will of god according to accepted dogma, the mystic wishes to become one with the divine essence itself. in other words, for the conventional, unquestioning member of a religious faith, revealed truths come from an external source, such as god and his selected prophets and teachers. for the mystic, however, truth comes from the god-self within and with the union of the human mind and the divine. many mystics speak of having received cosmic consciousness, or illumination, a sense of oneness with all-that-is. in his classic study of the experience, dr. raymond bucke (1837 92) studied a number of individuals whom he considered recipients of cosmic consciousness, such as gautama the buddha (c. 563 b.c.e. c. 483 b.c.e, jesus the christ (6 b.c.e. c. 3

son, master of queens college, university of melbourne, lists seven characteristics of illumination: 1. the appearance of light. this observation is uniformly made, and may be regarded as a criterion of the contact of soul and spirit. 2. ecstasy, love, bliss. directly or by implication, almost all the accounts refer to the supreme emotional tones of the experience. 3. the approach to one-ness. in the union of soul with spirit, the former acquires a sense of unity with all things. 4. insights given. 5. effect on health and vitality. 6. sense of time obscured. 7. effects on living. johnson quotes a recipient of the illumination experience who said: its significance for me has been incalculable and has helped me through sorrows and stresses which, i feel, would have caused shipwreck in my lif

appearance of light at the top of his list of illumination characteristics: 1. the appearance of light. this observation is uniformly made, and may be regarded as a criterion of the contact of soul and spirit. 2. ecstasy, love, bliss. directly or by implication, almost all the accounts [of mystical experience] refer to the supreme emotional tones of the experience. 3. the approach to one-ness. in the union of soul with spirit, the former acquires a sense of unity with all things. johnson lists other aspects of the illumination as profound insights given to the recipient of the experience; a positive effect on the person s health and vitality; a sense that time has been obscured or altered; and a positive effect on the individual s lifestyle. johnson quotes a recipient of the illumination e

in spiritual studies since he was young. beginning with an intense study of orthodox christianity, king became interested in exploring psychic phenomena and spiritual healing. when he was to be the primary mental channel for the cosmic masters, king intensified his practice of yoga, which included the yogic sciences of raja, gnani, and kundalini. this permitted him to attain the state of samadhi the union of spirit with the superconscious, which allowed communication with the masters in other energy spheres. soon, king was to discover that the voice that had contacted him belonged to the master aetherius, a 3,500-year-old venusian whose name, loosely translated, meant one who comes from outer space. by 1955, king had received a number of teachings from the cosmic masters that he felt comp

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k: alfred a. knopf, 1959. walker, barbara g. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. san francisco: harper& row, 1983. courtship and marriage many anthropologists and social historians have expressed their views that early humans practiced polygamy (one man with several women in the marriage union) or polyandry (several men with one woman. in either case, quite likely the women involved in the union probably had been captives before they were wives. although these marital circumstances may have existed for quite some time among early humans, there are a number of reasons why neither polygamy nor polyandry could have survived as universal or general practices. for one thing, some societies practiced infanticide, killing primarily female infants, and creating a scarcity of women. for

great deal more than it does today. in times past, the suitor felt that part of himself was being given to his beloved and her family. in japan, the sending of presents to the bride by the groom is one of the most essential aspects of the marriage ceremony. once the gifts have been received by the bride and accepted, the marriage contract is considered complete and neither party can withdraw from the union. among many native american tribes, the suitor was expected to bring gifts of horses, hides, or any item that might be esteemed to the woman s father as an indication of his prosperity and his ability to care for the man s daughter in a marital relationship. a certain aura of romance has centered around flowers since early humans began to notice the beauty of nature and developed the aes

o the bride s, but they may never wear white, a color reserved for that of the bride. flower girls may precede the bridesmaids, or they may walk just in front of the bride. in medieval times, it was customary to have two little girls, usually sisters, dressed exactly alike, carry garlands of wheat and walk in front of the bride. the bouquets of wheat symbolized the wish of family and friends that the union between bride and groom would prove fruitful. later, flowers carried in small ornamental baskets replaced the garlands of wheat, and petals were often strewn from these baskets in the path of the bride. the maid or matron of honor, who is unattended, comes next, followed by the bride. the bride is always the last to enter, and she walks down the aisle leaning on the arm of her father or

r of the bride responding we do, to the question of who gives the bride to the groom. custom also dictates that the bride always stands to the left of the groom during the ceremony. the position of the bride reflects a much earlier period when the groom needed to have his sword arm free in case he had to defend them against an attack by a jealous rival or a family member who violently objected to the union. the best man is positioned on the groom s right, immediately behind him, hearkening back to those same earlier times when he might have to help the groom fight off more than one assailant while the couple were attempting to declare their marriage vows. the gift of a small item of personal jewelry that the groom presents to his groomsmen is a survival of primitive courtship when the pros

ditionally, it has been the father who designates that he is the one who gives the bride to the groom, but in recent years, the mother may also stand with her husband and say that together they give the bride to the groom. the bride approaches the altar and stands beside the groom. the clergyperson reads passages from the bible that speak of the harmony of the marriage state and god s pleasure in the union of man and wife. the clergyperson may also deliver a brief sermon that encourages the couple to remain true to one another and adhere to christian teachings. the couple may then offer pledges to one another that they have written themselves. in most christian ceremonies, the bride and groom place the wedding band on one another s left hand ring finger and repeat the vows of marriage as t

groom with the male guests, until the ceremony is over. either the imam, the officiating priest of the mosque, or a muslim judge, called a qadi, presides over the ceremony and generally offers a brief series of reflections upon the sacredness of the marriage contract. the bride says that she wishes to marry the groom, and he signs the contract. two witnesses attest to the marriage agreement, and the union is documented in the records of the mosque and by whatever license is required by the civil authorities in the state or nation in which the marriage has been solemnized. after the ceremony, a reception honoring the couple is held, and the bride s family hosts a large wedding feast. the wedding ring. the origin of the wedding ring may have begun in primitive humankind s belief in the magi

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wilgus, neal. the illuminoids. new york: pocket books, 1978. wilson, robert anton. masks of the illuminati. new york: pocket books, 1981. the knights templar the two principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established prior to the launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly before the second crusade began in 1146. the fundamental principle on which the new orders were based was the union of monasticism and chivalry. before this time, a man could choose to devote himself to religion and become a monk, or he could elect to become a warrior and devote himself to defending god and country. the founding of the orders of knighthood permitted the vow of religion and the vow of war to be united in a single effort to free the holy land from the muslims. the oldest of the religio

wn of those years in which he lived in obscurity, collecting his thoughts, forming his political and spiritual philosophies. in 1839, he published a pamphlet entitled the gospel of liberty, which, because of its socialistic leanings, earned him six months in prison in paris. once he served his term in prison, he put aside his vow of celibacy and married a 16- year-old girl, whose parents soon had the union annulled. it was after his painful separation from his wife that alphonse louis constant assumed the identity of eliphas levi and began to devote his time to an intensive study of alchemy and the occult. often his focus was on the kabbalah and the tarot, believing firmly that the ancient cards depicted a concise summary of all the revelations that had come down to humankind through the a

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

author of all, whether good orbad. the monotheism -of early religions is very marked, each little settlement ok-group of settlementshaving its one deity, male or female, whose power was co-terminous with that of his worshippers.polytheism appears to have arisen with the amalgamation of tribes, each with its own deity. when a tribewhose deity was male coalesced with a tribe whose deity was female, the union of the peoples wassymbolised in their religion by the marriage of their gods. when by peaceful infiltration a new god ousted anold one, he was said to be the son of his predecessor. but when the invasion was warlike the conquering deitywas invested with all good attributes while the god of the vanquished took a lower place and was regarded bythe conquerors as the producer of evil, and wa

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

can be taken on many levels- on one very crucial level, the housle acts as a combining sacrament, in which the otherworldly forces and the human participants are united; this is its primary religious function, and another echo of the marriage of the otherworld and this world spoken of above, which can, by practise and fate, lead to the birth of the child of regeneration and renewal. most usually, the union brought about leads to a mystical identification of the human participants with the beings to whom the housle is dedicated, which has its own vital use, for magical reasons as well as worshipful ones. no matter how you take or understand the housle, it is a very transformative rite. but there is a deeper level to the whole process- and that is, of course, the point of this essay. underst

for this work. as i have striven to communicate, the housle is a substance corollary, a physical harmonic to pagan mythology. that mythology is itself a harmonic, a reflection of the deep patterns of fate, or the world/universe, the nature of reality; and the housle is how you can form a connection between your being, and that reality. doing the housle with awareness of this is the key to making the union and transformation happen. i have included another housle here, which is a higher harmonic of the feast of wren hill, and which shows, in one short rite, the entire message of this essay, with the exception of one element- the element that only you can engage- awareness coupled with understanding. through awareness, go beyond the words and motions, and yet, do not try to separate yoursel

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

equeathed to his children the immortal sign of salvation, communion. communion! common union! the final word of the saviour of the world "the bread and the wine shared among all" said he "this is my flesh and my blood" 36 he gave his flesh to the executioners, his blood to the earth which drank it. why? in order that all may partake of the bread of intelligence, and of the wine of love. o sign of the union of men! o round table of universal chivalry! o banquet of fraternity and equality! when will you be better understood? martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion "this is our flesh and our blood? and you, men of the

s wished to speak of property absorbed in itself, withdrawn from free exchange, turned from common use. if such were his thought, he might go further, and say that such a suppression of public life is indeed assassination. it is the crime of monopoly, which public instinct has always looked upon as treason to the human race. the family is a natural society which results from marriage. marriage is the union of two beings joined by love, who promise each other mutual devotion in the interest of the children who may be born. married persons who have a child, and who separate, are impious. do they then wish to execute the judgment of solomon and hew the child asunder? to vow eternal love is puerile; sexual love is an emotion, divine doubtless, but accidental, involuntary and transitory; but th

as being a natural revelation which, by the partial manifestation of the laws of eternal reason, gives a scale of proportion to all the aspirations and to all the excursions of the soul into the domain of the unknown. it is, then, faith alone that can give a solution to the mysteries of science; and in return, it is science alone that demonstrates the necessity of the mysteries of faith. outside the union and the concourse of these two living forces of the intelligence, there is for science nothing but 99 scepticism and despair, for faith nothing but rashness and fanaticism. if faith insults science, she blasphemes; if science misunderstand faith, she abdicates. now let us hear them speak in harmony "being is everywhere" says science "it is multiple and variable in its forms, unique in it

. truth, light, the sun, michael, king of the elohim. 185 the simple letters the simple letters are divided into four triplicities, having for titles the four letters of the divine tetragam yod-heh-vau-heh. in the divine tetragram, the iod, as we have just said, symbolizes the productive and active principle- the he hb:heh represents the passive productive principle, the cteis- the vau symbolizes the union of the two, or the lingam, and the final he is the image of the second reproductive principle; that is to say, of the passive reproduction in the world of effects and forms. the twelve simple letters, hb:qof hb:tzaddi hb:ayin hb:samekh hb:nun hb:lamed hb:tet hb:chet hb:zain hb:vau hb:heh and hb:yod or hb:mem, divided into threes, reproduce the notion of the primitive triangle, with the i

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nown- symbolically, the averse pentagram represents the essence of the egyptian god of darkness and storms, set. set or set-an (shaitan) is the opposing force of darkness but intelligence and isolate consciousness. to be set-like is to be individual, willdriven and balanced. the center of the averse pentagram is called the eye of set or the eye of satan, the adversary. this symbol also represents the union of the empyrean (in this context that which fell from heaven) and the infernal (earth based. this is sigillized and explored via the god form cain or tubal-cain, who has been illustrated with horns and cloven hooves, the awakened sorcerer. the algol sigil is an 8-pointed chaos star with an averse pentagram in the center. this is explained in the glossary section and beholds a powerful bu

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

flowing of a sephirah is bound to shape the next, although in the networked nature of the tree, each of the sephiroth is more truly created by a conflux of prior sephiroth, and result as their convergence. for example, tiphareth (sometimes called the "son, is the result of the convergence of kether, chockmah, binah, chesed and geburah. a good example of this is da'ath "knowledge, which is seen as the union of chockmah and binah, and sometimes depicted as a "non-sephirah" on the abyss which separates the upper three sephiroth from the rest of the tree. this complex sub-system within each sephirah was developed by cordovero and is known as the doctrine of the behinot, the infinite number of aspects which can be differentiated within each of the sephiroth. in addition to this type of descript

rtaken by the initiate serve to continue these themes. as the central core of selfhood is approached, it is increasingly obvious that a grand synthesis needs to take place. thus, the work of netzach involves both the practice of dharana, which seeks to unite the awareness with the object of which it is aware by concentration, contemplation, or meditation, and the practice of bhakti yoga, which is the union with deity through the practice of devotion. as seven, the number of netzach, is often taken to be the number of completion, we can see that as the initiate rises to this sephirah, he completes equally at one level the work of the lower sephiroth. indeed, the golden dawn stated that the advancement through the elemental initiations of the lower sephiroth "in a sense, quitteth not malkuth

the ru'ah was attributed to the sephiroth of chesed to yesod, and the nefesh to malkuth. crowley, in his little essays towards truth, describes the elements finally arrived at thus; yechidah point, quintessential principle of soul chiah creative impulse (will) of yechidah ruach mind, spirit nephesch animal soul crowley noted that the ruach, centred in tiphareth, reaches its culmination in da'ath, the union of chockmah and binah, and positioned at the abyss. thus the ultimate transcendence of the self is brought about by this divine knowledge. kabbalists saw their work as ultimately bringing about the descent of the neschamah by the holy union of the king (melekh) and queen (matronita, which refer to tiphareth and malkuth. as the ramak stated in pardes rimonim "the nefesh (lower soul) can m

simple framework for ritual work; 11. the kingdom ritual point kaph; point hand towards altar, palm up and state aim of working. point cheth; draw a circle about the temple. point beth; elevate a chalice filled with wine and visualise light descending from above. this completes the first triad above the abyss. the elevation of the chalice is symbolic of the creation of da'ath, or 'knowledge, from the union of chockmah and binah. point cheth; draw the double-cube of the quarters and cross-quarters. activate the quarters. point gimel; light incense. point tau; hold out arms in form of cross and visualise pillars. this completes the second triad above the veil, which prepares the place of working. point nun; write oath or perform main working, meditation, as appropriate. point heh; light cand

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

t a feeling of protection and preparation, and if done often enough in the same room, will imbue the room with a similar quality. bibliography barrett, francis. the magus. aquarian press, 1989. bentov, itzhak. stalking the wild pendulum. destiny books, 1988. braham, mark. the protector of humanity. arcane school conference, 1987. crowley, aleister. 777. mrg, 1977. crowley, aleister. konx om paig1 the union of the martinist orders the martinist operative& general ritual high martinist authorities constituting the union of the martinist orders prescribe and recommend the adoption of this general ritual by all martinists of both sexes, provided they satisfy their conscience as to their ability to conform to it. the aim of this general ritual is to permit martinists of all initiatic degrees, d

ction through prayer from the nineteenth century, the emulators of martinez pascuallis had to follow obligatorily both methods; prayer and operation, from the eighteenth. this general ritual is therefore a return to the most traditional sources since it constitutes a manifestation of a true cult, in the sense given to this word by the original founders of our secular chain. given at the orient of the union of the martinist orders, paris, december 25, 1961. the sovereign grand master of the sovereign grand master of l'ordre martiniste l'ordre martiniste des elus-cohen jean aurifer 2 it is, indeed, a. happy event to be able to present the operative and general ritual to all english speaking martinists throughout the world. martinists of the 'way of heart, followers of louis-claude de saint-m

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

initiation. of bringing to birth the golden sun of tiphareth, beauty and harmony who is the t h d person of that one system nowadays15 conceives of the great of the recognition of the crowned and the two pillars of the temple 11 horus-he who, while partaking necessarily of the nature of both the father and the mother, is simultaneously an entirely different and unique being. through the result of the union of opposing forces, his nature tends to a new viewpoint in the conquest of life. for the father and mother are "those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life."l6 to illustrate in another way the import of ths concept, let us describe it from a practical and physical point of view. one of the major inconveniences which afflicts a large portion of mankind is constipation. in many in

ness or the pillar of balance, alluding to its aspect of moderation between two extremes. 4 "the one" 5. it is our opinion that the freudian id, in its more restricted definition, conesponds to the qabalistic nephesh rather than the yechidah. see part two, chapter six. 6. a chinese term for "way" it refers to the one absolute reality which is said to have brought forth "ten thousand things" it is the union of yin (female energy) and yang (male energy. 7. the collected works of c. g. jung #13, alchemical studies. 8. the word it is the english translation of the latin word id, which freud used in his theories (the german translation is es) to avoid confusion we have italicized the word it throughout the text to indicate where regardie was referring to the freudian id. 9. on the qabalistic tr

r in which the ancient magicians conceived of these archetypes or magical images, expresses the idea thus: they took each factor in nature and personified it, gave it a name, and built up a symbolicfigure to represent it; just as british artists have by the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 61 their collective efforts produced a standard britannia, a female figure with shield charged with the union jack, a lion at her feet, a trident in her hand, a helmet on her head, and the sea in the background. analysing thisfigure as we would a qabalistic symbol, we realize that these individual symbols in the complex glyph have each a sign$cance-in fact, an occult glyph is more akin to a coat of arms than anything else. a magicalfigure is the coat of arms it represents. these magicalfigures a

seconds after the projection and audible vibration of the name the student should bring his left foot sharply back, and after dropping both hands to the side, raise the forefinger of the left hand to h s lips. this is called the protecting sign, or sign of silence. it is the traditional gesture of the egyptian god harpocrates-one of the symbols employed to represent the holy child that grew from the union of the two opposites. it thus represents the growth, silent and unseen, of the golden flower. whilst employing the sign of silence, the student should contrive to imagine that the name which has been projected by the first sign to the outer limits of space, surges back upon him, penetrating him through and through. his whole being should be flooded with a divine light, and a sense of ecs

a combination of spiritual awareness, mystical experience, fundamental ethcs, and sound psychotherapies. a method for self-realization which encompasses magic and psychology, such as the middle pillar exercise, is part of the answer. the symbol of unity the psyche that has received the benefits of self-realization is expressed in a glyph called the uniting symbol. this is a symbol which portrays the union of all parts of the psyche, yet its synthesis transcends all of its separate components. it represents the restored equilibrium between the conscious and the unconscious. the uniting symbol portrays a balanced psychological state that we wish to achieve. in eastern societies, the uniting symbol often takes the form of a drawing called a mandala, or "magic circle" said to be a balanced gl

ower) in which the old outmoded personality is dismantled, and a new personality is rebuilt. 31. transconscious is a term developed by psychologist/magician william stoltz to describe the psyche's creative and intuitive imagination. 32. although hermes is male, he is sometimes seen as an androgyne or hermaphrodite. in fact, the word hermaphrodite is a combination of the names hermes and aphrodite-the union of the anirna and the animus. 33. sometimes confused with freud's super-ego, which was an artificial construct composed of external influences in accordance with a process called introjection- the incorporation of the characteristics of a person or an object into one's own psyche which occurs unconsciously. 34. the descent of the neshamah into the individual's field of awareness occurs t

s levi, magicians of old used to draw the symbol upon their doorsteps, to keep malevolent spirits out and beneficent spirits in. and as early as the sixth century b.c.e, pythagoras, the greek philosopher-mystic, used the pentagram as a holy symbol for his followers. five was a number peculiarly associated with the ideas of marriage and union, as it is the first number beyond the monad formed from the union of the first odd and even numbers, male and figure 11: backing into the tree. the pentagram 185 female. it is also said to represent the human figure, with arms and legs outspread. the shape of the five-pointed star seems to be one of nature's favorite geometric designs-it can be found in flowers, fruit, and crystalline forms. in magic the pentagram represents the four elements of fire

ing or reaching beyond the personal or individual. unconscious: in psychoanalytic theory, the division of the mind containing elements of psychic makeup, such as memories or repressed desires, that are not subject to conscious perception or control but that often affect conscious thoughts and behavior. undines: elemental spirits of water. uniting symbol: according to jung, a symbol which portrays the union or successful integration of all parts of the psyche. uriel or auriel: hebrew archangel of elemental earth. vayu: sanskrit word meaning "to blow" the tattva associated with the element of air. its symbol is the blue circle. vegetotherapy: a reihan method of therapy whch uses deep massage to d o c k muscular tension and release repressed material. vibratory formula: a method by which divi

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mind, or soul. the cross below is matter, the circle is spirit. together they figure the lingam of the hindus, representing the union of the sexes; and the crescent above the union of spirit and matter represents the soul which is the evolved product of their union. the seal on the breast of nature also expresses the thought that knowledge comes from god and is as limitless as its source. the veil falling over the face announces that nature reveals her truths only to the pure in heart, and hides them from the curious a

seated within a radiant sun. the rays from this sun number thirty, the number of degrees in one zodiacal sign. the woman is crowned with twelve stars, to represent the twelve signs through which the sun passes each year. her feet rest upon the moon, symbol of the feminine in nature. and the cube upon which she sits represents the cross of matter, where rays of sun and moon meet, and so signifies the union of male and female forces. from her brow the sacred serpent thrusts its head as a symbol of enlightenment. in her right hand she carries a scepter surmounted by a globe. this is essentially a phallus, and indicates the perpetual action of creative energy upon all things born or to be born. in her left hand she carries an eagle, the symbol of fruitfulness and of the heights to which the f

on to furthering god's great plan, loving and unselfish endeavor to contribute the utmost to cosmic welfare, together with a clear conception of the laws of harmony, in time bring about the recognition across the spaces and the development of exchanging lines of force, which lead to this ineffable union. this harmonious reverberation of soul to soul is symbolized by the harp of three strings, for the union embraces all three planes. strength depends upon harmony, and the music of their souls sounding across the spaces endows both with a hitherto unknown power to overcome obstacles, to gain the blossoms of experience on all three planes, as signified by the three flowers related to each of the 12 zodiacal signs. as a whole the ensemble signifies the attainment of adeptship while on earth, a

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

fore say instead of it, a sentence whose initials are formed from the letters of the word taken in reverse order: this sentence is, which means: now is the blessing of death at hand. be seated, brother master magician, in the throne of the most mysterious master of the secret place of masters (done) s: i am now to impress upon you the nature of the bonds which link the brethren of this degree. by the union of hands we affirm that the hand given to a master magician is a sure pledge of brotherhood, and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (17 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. that it shall never take weapon to assail him; the union of feet is to declare that each shall support his brother master magician, in

affirm that the hand given to a master magician is a sure pledge of brotherhood, and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (17 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. that it shall never take weapon to assail him; the union of feet is to declare that each shall support his brother master magician, in the way of his going; the union of knees, that each shall be self-reliant and independent, not allowing mutual help to destroy mutual self-respect; and affirming that every man and every woman is a star, responsible to itself alone, co-equal and co-eternal with every other god. the union of bodies signifies that the use of the bodily functions shall be such as to bring no grief to any brother master magician, or to the

nd independent, not allowing mutual help to destroy mutual self-respect; and affirming that every man and every woman is a star, responsible to itself alone, co-equal and co-eternal with every other god. the union of bodies signifies that the use of the bodily functions shall be such as to bring no grief to any brother master magician, or to them of his household; but rather freedom in rejoicing. the union of breasts implies the unison of the hearts of all true brethren, the love that inspires them, and the sanctity of the confidence between them. the union of mouths affirms that master magicians will speak the truth one to another and one of another; while the arm thrown over the back of a brother asserts that each will guard the other in his absence as in his presence, and defend his hon

, and the blood; and these three are one. in that trinity iao, i is the father, a the spirit, o the word; and in this a the spirit, m the water, sh the blood; and in all these are 358, mshich, the messiah, our lord and saviour jesus christ, in his death who gave up the spirit, the water and the blood, as st. john beareth witness in his evangel. hence is jesus christ alpha and omega, the symbol of the union of god and man. here then is a second 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

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

n of his most beneficial power. the female organs of generation were revered2 as symbols of the generative powers of nature or matter, as the male were of the generative powers of god. they are usually represented emblematically, by the shell, or concha veneris, which was therefore worn by devout persons of antiquity, as it still continues to be by pilgrims, and many of the common women of italy. the union of both was expressed by the hand mentioned in sir william hamilton's letter;3 which being a less explicit symbol, has escaped the attention of the reformers, and is still worn, as well as the shell, by the women of italy, though without being understood. it represented the act of generation, which was considered as a solemn sacrament, in honour of the creator, as will be more fully show

utes are all expressed in the mystic syllable om. to repeat this in silence, with firm devotion, and immoveable attention, is the surest means of perfection,2 and consequent reabsorption, since it leads to the contemplation of the deity, in his three great characteristic attributes. the first and greatest of these, the creative or generative attribute, seems to have been originally represented by the union of the male and female organs of generation, which, under the title of the lingam, still occupies the central and most interior recesses of their temples or pagodas; and is also worn, attached to bracelets, round their necks and arms.3 in a little portable temple brought from the rohilla country during the late war, and now in the british museum, this composition appears mounted on a ped

s now call it occus, by which they seem to mean pure therial light or fire. this mode of representing the allegorical personages of religion with many heads and limbs to express their various attributes, and extensive operation, is now universal in the east,4 and seems anciently not to have been unknown to the greeks, at least if we may judge by the epithets used by pindar and other early poets.5 the union of two symbolical heads is common among the specimens of their art now extant, as may be seen upon the medals of 1 see plate xiii. fig. 8, and gesner, num. reg. syr. tab. viii. fig. 1. 2 bagavat geeta, note 41. 3 ei apud delph. 4 see k mpfer, chappe d auteroche, sonnerat &c, 5 such as katogkefaloj, katontakoranoj, katogxeiroj &c. of priapus 61 syracuse, marseilles, and many other cities

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

greater from the lesser spirit is illusion. the eternal truth that all spirit is one flowers forth, timeless and renewed, each time a prophet is born. but in the world of forms, the hexagram is traditionally thought of as the sign of god and the pentagram as the sign of man. kabbalistically, the hexagram is the heart of adam kadmon, the microproso- pos, or lesser countenance. hermetically, it is the union of opposites, the mating of the sun and moon. in christianity it is jesus christ. magically, it is linked to the table of hexagram 8 planets colors motions elements directions senses body trees music sun yellow v vibratory@ spirit up sight head apple trumpet mars red linear n fire south hearing right leg yew drum venus green 0 circular v water west taste left arm birch guitar jupiter ora

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ir final form and remain at that age indefinitely. the spirit father of 302 soul flight the child informed me that rapidly maturing spirits are of a type that is different from his son, who is maturing at the usual human pace. spirit children may exhibit otherworldly or slightly inhuman features, although just as often they are indistinguishable from human children. for example, a child born from the union of a spirit mother with catlike attributes and human father might possess eyes similar to those of a cat, or pointed ears. these secondary characteristics depend on the appearance of the spirit that is the mother. if the spirit mother is completely human in appearance, the baby will be completely human also. marriages with spirits marriages between spirits and humans are possible. we kno

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

adequately express tetragrammaton, kabbalists also assign the most holy name to the entire tree. the point at the top of the yod) represents the nothingness (ain) that manifests itself first through kether, the primordial point. the yod itself, seed of god the father, they assign to chokmah. the first he (71, feminine and fertile, is given to binah, the great mother. the vau (i, male offspring of the union of the first two letters, kabbalists give to zlphareth, and by virtue of its numerical value, six, to the six sephiroth that lie between the three supernals and malkuth. the final he they assign to malkuth on the theory that, since the lowest sphere of emanation is passive and has no independent power, it cannot receive its own unique letter but must be given the second he, which has alr

al figures in the vision of ezekiel &c &c &c. moreover if we look at these four letters separately we shall find that each of them has equally a recondite meaning. the first letter, which also stands for the number ten, and which by its form reminds us of the mathematical point, teaches us that god is the beginning and end of all things. the number five, expressed by 7 the second letter, shows us the union of god with nature-of god inasmuch as he is depicted by the number three, i.e, the trinity; and of visible nature, inasmuch as it is represented by plato and pythagoras under the dual. the number six, expressed by 1, the third letter, which is likewise revered in the pythagorean school, is formed by the combination of one, two, and three, the symbol of all perfection. moreoever the numbe

hrone of the mother, that is to say, come to understand. the process of redemption is symbolised as follows, the daughter must marry the son, she then becomes the mother who in turn arouses the active force of the father, and these twain being united, all is reabsorbed into the crown (ibid, pp. 61-2) further 6= 1 (vau) the letter of the son in the ineffable name 317' and this son is the result of the union of the father and mother, which is in turn true numerically, since'=i0 and 7=5, 10+5=15, 1+5=6=1 (ibid, p. 71) a. e. waite tetragrammatthoen s,o -called ineffable or unpronounceable name, is the name of four letters, 773= yhwh= yahweh or yahaweh, the jehovah of our incorrect rendering, which hebrew scholarship has characterized as philologically impossible. it is a nomen ineffabile, that

t to pronounce the name with their aid but that one of the alternatives was to be used instead. it will be remembered that god is made to say in the zohar: my name is written yhvh but is read adonai (the holy kabbalah 119291 [new hyde park, new york: university books, 19751, p. 617) israel regardie the father is given the letter "y" of this name, and the first" h is attributed to the mother. from the union of the y and the h flow the rest of all created things. in other words, from consciousness and its vehicle are all things formed, and every conceivable being, god or human, divine or animal, has its basis in the y and the h of the divine name (the dee of life [i9321 [new york: weiser, 19691, pp. 47-8) the formula of tetragrammaton is also applied to the four worlds, and the primordial fo

VOX SABBATUM

med with lust, that each may know the devil in this way. demoniality (copulation with demons) is an act of high sorcery, as it brings the consciousness of the wizard or witch to a level which exalts the self above the basic 15 the spirits of lilith az, whom first created and taught demons sexual congress. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 14 psychological functions of modern society. demoniality is the union of the flesh with the daemon, in much the same way as the ritual of azal ucel brings one in communication with their angel. you may also create succubi and incubi to copulate with by dreams. this is done simply by creating a sigil or image which represents the form you desire. the more advanced sorcerer may invoke by some means of ritual a daemon or spirit intelligence. you visualize the

which later became set the prince of darkness. set or shaitan had impacted the earth in its wave of creation, of knowledge and prowess did humanity excel. shaitan then moved its consciousness both of darkness and light into the empyrean and infernal (chthonic) realms of above and below. on the earth lucifer or azal ucel has manifested as a symbolic initiator through cain the witch father, born of the union of the dragon and the whore, tubal-qayin as he is often called is the nomad, the sorcerous initiator of those who seek the black light of iblis. for the witches sabbat initiate, lucifer is the black flame of intelligence and will; he represents the foundation of the great work of becoming; he is the anthropomorphic power of self-deification and self-reliance. lucifer exists in the aethyr

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

lestial ocean "here is the bed of hapi (the nile, wherein he reneweth his youth [in his season, wherein he causeth the flooding of the land. he cometh and hath union as he journeyeth, as a man hath union with a woman. and again he playeth the part of a husband and satisfieth his desire. he riseth to the height of twenty-eight cubits [at abu, and he droppeth at sma-behutet[fn#181] to seven cubits. the union) there is that of the god khnemu in [abu. he smiteth the ground] with his sandals, and [its] fulness becometh abundant; he openeth the bolt of the door with his hand, and he throweth open the double door of the opening through which the water cometh [fn#181] diospolis of lower egypt, or "thebes of the north "moreover, he dwelleth there in the form of the god shu,[fn#182] as one who is lo

great, lord of khemenu (hermopolis, the chief of the two lands of ra, who putteth breath into the nostrils of every person. o thou cat, thine ears are the ears of nebertcher, who hearkeneth unto the voice of all persons when they appeal to him, and weigheth words (i.e, judgeth) in all the earth. o thou cat, thy mouth is the mouth of tem, the lord of life, the uniter) of creation, who hath caused the union) of creation; he shall deliver thee from every poison. o thou cat, thy neck (nehebt) is the neck of neheb-ka, president of the great house, vivifier of men and women by means of the mouth of his two arms. o thou cat, thy breast is the breast of thoth, the lord of truth, who hath given to thee breath to refresh) thy throat, and hath given breath to that which is therein. o thou cat, thy h

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

humble. the bodhisattvas fall because of sex, and they also rise up because of sex. sex is the philosophical stone. the decapitation of medusa (the satan that we carry within) would be impossible without the precious treasury of the philosophical stone. remember that medusa is the maiden of evil (the psychological "i, whose head is covered with hissing vipers. in occult science, it is stated that the union of the sophic mercury with the sophic sulfur results in the holy philosophical stone. the ens seminis is the mercury; sulfur is the sacred fire of love. we live now in the specific age of samael; we are living in the fifth era. life has initiated its return towards the great light and in these moments we have to define ourselves by becoming eagles or reptiles, angels or demons. we are be

c satanism there exists the ejaculation of the ens seminis. in india, the black yogis (asura samphata) ejaculate the ens seminis (shuhsra) in order to criminally mix it with the feminine raja within the vagina, thereafter; by handling the vajroli in a negative way, they reabsorb this fluid already mixed with feminine raja. the black yogis (bonzos and dugpas) believe that they are wisely achieving the union of the solar and lunar atoms in order to awaken the kundalini. the outcome of such black tantrism is the negative awakening of the serpent. therefore instead of ascending, the serpent descends downwards into the atomic infernos of the human being and becomes the tail of satan. this is how these black yogis end up separating themselves from their inner god forever; they are demons. so, th

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

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

in geometry. see simplicius, liber 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott a number, which is formed by the multiplication of an odd and an even number together, they called hermaphrodite, or arrenothelus. in connection with these notes on parity and imparity, definite and indefinite numbers, it is to be noted that the old philosophers were deeply imbued with the union of numerical ideas with nature--in its common acceptation, and also to the natures, essences or substrata of things. the nature of good to them was definite, that of evil indefinite; and the more indefinite the nature of the evil, the worse it was. goodness alone can define or bound the indefinite. in the human soul exists a certain vestige of divine goodness (buddhi. this bounds and mod

n endless of complex set of angles, was the emblem of health, hygeia. it numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott forms 5 copies of the capital letter a. it is also called the pentagram, and the seal of solomon, and is said to have been the device on the signet-ring of this ancient grand master of the mysteries. 61. kenneth mackenzie remarks that, being formed by the union of the first odd and even numbers, 5 was considered of peculiar value and used as an amulet or talisman powerful to preserve from evil, and when inscribed on a portal, could keep out evil spirits. it is found almost everywhere in greece and egypt. diodorus calls five the union of the four elements with ether. there are 5 orders of architecture and 5 senses of the human body now commonly

s also benevolence, peace and health, acmon, one of the cyclops (akmon, an anvil, and truth. by the pythagoreans, it was called the perfection of parts. as to marriage, it is a number equal to its parts and marriage is a ceremony to sanction the production of offspring similar to the parent. it is formed by the multiplication of the first (beyond unity) odd number and the first even, it resembles the union of male and female, as in marriage or in androgyneity, health and beauty, on account of its symmetry. it was called all-sufficient, panarkeia. according to the pythagoreans, after a period of 216 years, which number is the cube 6, all things are regenerated, and they said this was the periodic time of the metempsychosis or the rebirth of man after each death. when mutiplied into itself

a period of 60 years in their computations of time. under the number, six, too, we must not omit to mention the symbol of the double triangle, hexapla, or hexalpha, the shield of david, it is used at present as a sign in the degree of the royal arch in england. it must not be confused with the pentalpha, which is the true solomon s seal. in christian churches, we find the hexalpha used to express the union of the divine and human natures, deemed to exist in jesus, the christ of the new testament. the blending of the two triangles has also numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott been used to typify the union of fire and water; for the early symbol of fire was the triangle apex upward, and that of water the same apex downward. the symbols of air and earth w

ad thus representing the four forms of point, line, superficies and solid. a similar form is given by hebrew kabalists to form 72, the deity number, by placing in a triangle four yods, three hehs, two vavs and one heh final, being the letters ihvh of the tetragrammaton; or they may be put conversely. note that ten is used as a sign of fellowship, love, peace and union, in the masonic third token, the union of two five points of fellowship. in the bible, we notice 10 commandments, 10 instruments to which jewish psalms were sung, 10 strings in the psaltery, and that the holy ghost descended ten days after the ascension. tucer, rabanus and raymond lully associate the numbers 8 to air, 5 to fire, 6 to earth and 12 to water. apuleius states that among the egyptians it was customary to fast 10 d

law-courts in the jerusalem of the kingdom period. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 400. the body of joseph was carried 400 miles to burial. david is said to have had a guard of 400 young men who rode in golden chariots at the head of his army. 410. the first temple stood 410 years, and the second temple 420. 474. the number of daath, dot, secret wisdom, the union of chokmah and binah. 496. the number of malkuth (mlkt, the kingdom, the 10th sephirah. 500. kosmos. 543. the number of the mystic name aheie asher aheie, i am that i am (ahih ashr ahih. 550. shmir, the shamir, the magical insect which cut the stones for solomon s temple. 608. 608 is a very notable number, representing the sun. martianus capella, of the 5th century, says: the sun is call

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he place of atiq, we can locate the attributes of knowledge (yedi ah) and volition (behirah, which are described en passant as objects that the wise of heart (hakhmei lev) desire. concerning the former, we can only say that it is inscrutable and thus is associated symbolically with the upper three aspects. by contrast, volition is linked to the lower seven aspects, for it stems from the secret of the union of forty-five and fifty-two that is in each and every soul. forty-five and linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 89 fifty-two connote two permutations of yhwh, ywd he waw he (10+6+4 5+1 6+1+6 5+1) and ywd hh ww hh (10+6+4 5+5 6+6 5+5) two gesticulations of the name that correspondingly symbolize overflowing masculine mercy and constricting feminine judgment. the temporalizing of the sup

ntered above in the exposition of a passage in karo s mystical diary. this is the intent as well of the expression moment of the righteous one, itto de-saddiq, that is, the moment, engendered as feminine, belongs to the saddiq, the righteous one, a standard reference in kabbalistic lore to the ninth emanation, yesod, the phallic potency of the divine.245 the moment of the righteous one symbolizes the union of shekhinah and yesod, an incorporation that portends the messianic redemption, which seems to me to be the underlying intent of the comment at the conclusion of rashbi s words, all await this moment, kullehu mehakan lehay itto. with this symbolism in hand we can decode the rest of the homily. if the word et denotes shekhinah, then et ahra, the other moment, will refer to the correspond

s it is written, while the sun lasts, his name will be yinnon (ps 72:17, on account of the double nun, the bent and elongated nun, and he must come to be through male and female. 39 the bahiric text is based on the aggadic decoding of the word yinnon as a 144 chapter four proper name of the messiah.40 scholem surmised that the double nun in yinnon indicates that messianic redemption proceeds from the union of masculine and feminine aspects within the godhead. this exegetical remark thus validates the earlier observation that the bent and elongated forms of nun correspond respectively to male and female.41 according to scholem, moreover, the jewish gnosis preserved in this bahiric passage is to be contrasted with the antinomian and encratist tendencies expressed in gnostic gospels, that is

godhead. this exegetical remark thus validates the earlier observation that the bent and elongated forms of nun correspond respectively to male and female.41 according to scholem, moreover, the jewish gnosis preserved in this bahiric passage is to be contrasted with the antinomian and encratist tendencies expressed in gnostic gospels, that is, medieval kabbalistic teaching portrays redemption as the union of masculine and feminine, whereas the ancient gnostic soteriology posits the overcoming of sexual differentiation. in my judgment, this distinction is erroneous, for the kabbalistic ideal of redemption is predicated on a similar ontological conception of the male androgyne according to which the female is comprised within the male.42 nonetheless, i concur with scholem s surmise that gen

ropagated through the conjunction of masculine and feminine (sarikh lihyot al yedei zakhar u-neqevah) appears to be a direct challenge to the foundational dogma of the church.44 needless to say, in the period of the redaction of the bahir, christianity was not monolithic indeed, at no time in history has it been and surely some authors could have accommodated the notion that jesus came to be from the union of male and female. none, however, could have comfortably interpreted the matter somatically, presuming thereby that jesus was conceived in a womb fertilized by semen discharged physically by an actual man.45 but it is precisely this view that underlies the bahiric explication of the double nun in the name yinnon, offering a naturalistic conception of the birth of the messiah that is ant

, p. 52; 4:5, p. 424. 148. this understanding of temporality underlies the comment of cordovero s student abraham azulai, hesed le-avraham, 6:4, p. 244, that the reality of the different gradations of soul (nefesh, ruah, and neshamah) is dependent on the time of the supernal coupling [zeman ha-ziwwug ha-elyon. azulai s point is that the precise disposition of the soul, created as a consequence of the union in the divine will, is determined by the constellation of forces above at the precise moment of conception below. this idea rests on the understanding of time articulated in the body of this chapter. 149. cordovero, following a long-standing kabbalistic tradition, assumes a homologous relation between primal adam and the jewish male. see wolfson, ontology, pp. 131 155. in the extended ve

scourse on the symbolic identification of shekhinah and time, related especially to the word et; the monthly lunar cycle is divided into 28 ittot, 14 from the side of mercy and 14 from the side of judgment, which are linked exegetically to the 28 occurrences of the word et in ecclesiastes 3:2 8. on the association of the term et and shekhinah, and a decoding of the expression itto as referring to the union of shekhinah and yesod, in the thirteenthcentury spanish kabbalist joseph gikatilla, see wolfson, fore/giveness, pp. 165 166 n. 11. 246. zohar 1:80a. 247. zohar 1:73b, 148b. 248. wolfson, re/membering, pp. 214 246. 249. baer, history of the jews in christian spain, vol. 1, pp. 256 257, 259 260. see also assis, sexual behavior, pp. 25 59, esp. 27. 250. zohar 3:57b. see the passage from th

hambers [hadrei hadarim. in contrast to 34, where the nexus between torah study and gemilut hasadim was explained in terms of the human being drawing benefit from the divine attribute of mercy, in 128, it is god who benefits from the human act, which bestows kindness. more specifically, in the latter passage, the theurgical principle is embraced whereby the activity of the human being facilitates the union of the divine, which is portrayed in the scriptural language of god s riding the heavens in his majesty, ga awah. i propose that this term is employed here as a euphemism for the phallus and that the expression hadrei hadarim, which is the meaning offered for shehaqim, refers to the female genitals. see bahir, 85, p. 171. on the term ga awah in earlier jewish mysticism and its resonance

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tapping into the subconscious, one is able to master their own individual life therein. the reference to the angelickan watcher of the sun and the ahrimanic shadow is based in the double vessels or fetishes of the bestial and angelick atavisms and familiars. by exteriorizing ones adversarial aspects of "i" and "being" one 8 may objectively view the essence of self, manifest its strengths again in the union of flesh and mind. the guardian of flaming sword and corpse-king of the scepter is in reference to the illustration by elda isela ford, based on passing through the 'as above, so below' forces of the sethanic path unto the 8-pointed sabbatic/luciferian star sometimes called algol. this ritual was a sethian development of the 'headless one' ritual (worked through by jake stratton-kent and

ce of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the first of witchblood unto the path. upon the hour of nooninvocation of the djinn of fire ya! zat-i-shaitan! o ring of flame, scorching sun of the sun s height scorpion soul, who arises as the sun at noon sekak sekak, iasokilam i speak now

erence hold a demonstration in ones personal life. luciferian transference the sigil of calling by michael w. ford 2001 lucifer sigil by shemyaza. the isolate self, independent and awakened from the fall: lucifer is regarded as the bringer of light, knowledge and perception. reason and insight born from experience, this is the essence of the fallen archon. the higher essence of saturn, lucifer is the union of the angelic with the demonic, the daemon eternal. while the work of the sabbatic path is one of the self being cloaked in darkness and shadow, the initiate within illuminates a light brighter than any star. this is the very essence of lucifer, the promethean fire of independence and willed self perception. this sigil, in it s own unity is the fire of the black flame, the fulgurous fla

nifestation aspect of daemonic becoming. samael is the mastery of the earth and positive creation by knowledge into wisdom. samael opens the gateway of the knowledge of the watchers, and all fallen angels. revealed in thelemic lore as the beast 666. the three aspects unified creates baphomet, or abu-fi-hamat, the black head of wisdom translated also as father of wisdom. it is because of this that the union of samael and lilith, the marriage of opposites, through the dragon leviathan that wisdom grows from knowledge. 24 the ritual of infernal union solitary ritual based on the union of opposites. black robe, candles: black and red. sigil of infernal union may be used upon the altar wall as well as the altar itself. the sigil of the union of the beast 666 and babalon may be used as well. thi

image of samael, reciting: 26 solar force of fire and inspiration, which from all life emerges as its own being, i do summon thee, samael from the depths of my soul, my very being, to emerge in my consciousness as life and solar force! do manifest and hear my words, which are meant as an invocation of sorath, the beast 666 which is your secret name. samael, satan do manifest unto me. let me guide the union of opposites! begin masturbation, envisioning the solar force building from the base of your spine up to your head, the fire force spreading like a fountain throughout your entire body. remember, you are controlling this force, do not orgasm yet. hold the fire vision as you feel saturn or samael take consciousness. allow the force to immolate your consciousness; share the ecstasy with th

fest my consciousness from the desert caves of the red sea, i do summon you, invoke you within me. bring unto me your mysteries of your children, the lilitu, that i may hold the arcana of sexual union and vampiric manifestation. enter me, mother of the path of the wise, reveal your bestial and angelic essence to me. do manifest through me now, join in union with your mate, samael. join through me the union of opposites! allow the lunar energy to flow through you, catching the visions of lilitu and such succubi, bestial and hair covered below their waste seeking the sexual union of others in great fornication and abandonment. lilith is babalon, the goddess who bathes in the blood of the moon. face now the altar, take the wand and recite while focusing upon lilith: she howls upon the desert

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of the ceremony of the 5=6 ritual: it is a thing which will be more readily understood when the grade of adeptus minor is reached. it is especially intended to effect the change of the consciousness into the neschamah, and there are places where it can take place. the first is when the aspirant is on the cross, because he is so exactly fulfilling the symbol of the abnegation of the lower self and the union with the higher self; there is also the invocation of the angel h.u.a. the second place is when he touches the rose of the representative of c.r. in the vault, when he has taken on himself the symbols of suffering and self sacrifice, and says that his victory is in the cross of the rose. the third place is when he enters the vault in the third point and kneels down, and the chief adept s

ll present have been admitted to the mystery" 2nd ad "very honoured fratres et sorores give the sign (done) ch.ad "noble lord of eventide what is the word" 3rd ad "elohim gebur" ch.ad "grant us thy strength, 0 lord. excellent prince of the horizon what is the mystic number formed therefrom" 2nd ad "the number is twenty" chad "noble lord of eventide what is the signification thereof" 3rd ad "it is the union of the enochian tablets and the kerubic emblems" ch.ad "the lord is my strength and my song" 2nd ad "he is also become my salvation" ch.ad "in the strength of elohim gebur, let us with tranquil minds and recollected hearts enter into the valley of the shadow" 2nd ad. thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee" 3rd ad "the night cometh and also the day: if ye will re

4 remains without (one bell ring) chad "0 death, where is thy sting" 2nd ad "0 grave, where is thy victory" ch& 2nd"thanks be to god which giveth us the victory' they place their wands with the ends resting within the pastos and raise their ankhs, joining them above the wands. ch.ad "say then, my brother, what is the emblem which we raise above the graver 2nd ad "it is the ancient symbol of life; the union of the girdle of the great mother with the tau cross of death; it is the emblem of that eternal life of the spirit which the divine ones pour forth upon men, delivering him from the body of death" ch.ad "merrily, thou halt answered well, my brother. let us then entrust the great mother thus to raise us all from the death of the soul to the life of the spirit' they turn to the n.e. still

n his return. the philosophus is led out accordingly, and is left in the vestibule. the hegemon re-enters the temple. here ends the first point. t he s e co nd p oin t the portal of tiphereth on returning to the temple, the hegemon proceeds to his seat, and, standing thereat, facing east, he says- hegemon lord, now lettest thou thy servants depart in peace, for our eyes have seen thy salvation in the union of tiphereth and malkuth. celebrant to the glory of thine elect, world without end; in the light which is perfect love; and this is the love of perfection. the officers of the outer order disrobe and put away their vestments. their seats are moved, and they mingle with the ordinary members. the pedestal is taken from before the throne of the east. the pillars are set on each side of the

remember the turning of the will, which is the deeper meaning of its consecration in the grade of philosophus. this is the sense in which the sons and daughters of the doctrine, who have become familiar by experience with the mysteries of the way, the truth and the life, are declared to be little children that is to say, at the beginning of their initiation. they have graduated in conformity, in the union of the human with the divine will, which is the earnest of the ineffable union. it is the condition of the opening of the eyes, so that the eyes see and the heart realises the eternal object of research. what was it that dawned upon the soul in the neophyte grade? the blind sense of want, a great desire, the sense of want, a longing for reality, the consciousness of darkness, and the fir

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nless there is arevolution of thinking among the mass of humanity. the network i have summarised inthis chapter allows for this agenda to unfold because there are brotherhood agentsworking within all the political and economic groups needed to make it happen. themore global problems that can be created, the more pressure there will be for globalsolutions- the centralised control. the second tier, the unions of superstates, is well onthe way.the superstate unionsthe european union with its central bank and single currency has been evolved from afree trade area called the european economic community or common market. therewas no mention of the superstate when we joined, but that was always the agenda andit has been achieved by the stepping stones approach: moving towards the goal step bystep

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