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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

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

orft ihr nicht mehr fiir ihn betten, dass ihn gott vor den vmfcn wolle hchutcn, denn sie werden ihn diss jahr nicht erhaschen (need not pray for the moon, they won't get her this year^ in several places there circulate among the people rhymes about the twelve hours, the last two being thus distinguished' um elfe kommen die ^volfc, um zwolfe bricht das gcivolhe' at 11 come the wolves, at 12 bursts the vault, i.e, death out of the vault. can there be an echo in this of the old behef in the appearing of the wolf or wolves at the destruction of the world and the bursting of heaven's vault? in a lighted candle, if a piece of the wick gets half detached and makes it burn away too fast, they say* a wolf (as well as thief) is in the candle' this too is like the wolf devouring the sun or moon. ecli

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

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

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

otal) 3 third: knocks. chief: knocks. third: knocks. second: knocks. chief "avete, fraters et sorors" second "roseae rubeae" third "et aureae crucis" chief "very honored fraters and sorors, assist me to open the tomb of the adepti. associate adeptus minor, see that the portal is closed and guarded (third does so and gives sign of osiris slain and risen) third "merciful exempt adept, the portal of the vault is closed and guarded" chief "mighty adeptus major, by what sign hast thou entered the portal" second "by the sign of the rending asunder of the veil (gives it) chief "associate adeptus minor, by what sign has thou closed the portal" third "by the sign of the closing of the veil"(gives it) second "p" third "r" second "k" third "t" second" tkrp" third "which is the veil of the sanctum san

closing of the veil"(gives it) second "p" third "r" second "k" third "t" second" tkrp" third "which is the veil of the sanctum sanctorum" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is the mystic number of this grade" second "21" chief: associate adeptus minor, what is the password formed therefrom? third "a" chief "h" third "y" 4 chief "h" third "hyha (vibrates loudly) chief "mighty adeptus major, what is the vault of the adepti" second "the symbolic burying place of our founder christian rosenkreutz, which he made to represent the universe" chief "associate adeptus minor, in what part of it is he buried" third "in the center of the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being toward the east" chief "mighty adeptus major, why in the center" second "because that is the point of perfect equ

the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being toward the east" chief "mighty adeptus major, why in the center" second "because that is the point of perfect equilibrium" chief "associate adeptus minor, what does the mystic name of our founder signify" third "the rose and cross of christ; the fadeless rose of creation; the immortal cross of light" chief "mighty adeptus major, what was the vault entitled by our more ancient fraters and sorors" second "the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one" chief "associate adeptus minor, of what shape was the vault" third "it was that of an equilateral heptagon, a figure of seven sides" chief "mighty adeptus major, unto what do these seven sides allude" second "seven are the lower sephiroth, seven are the palaces, seven are the days of

ed one" chief "associate adeptus minor, of what shape was the vault" third "it was that of an equilateral heptagon, a figure of seven sides" chief "mighty adeptus major, unto what do these seven sides allude" second "seven are the lower sephiroth, seven are the palaces, seven are the days of creation, seven is the height above and seven is the depth below" chief "associate adeptus minor, where is the vault symbolically situated" third "in the center of the earth, in the mountain of the caverns, the mystic mountain of abiegnus" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abiegnus" 5 c b a f k l e c q n w (temple set up at beginning of ritual) third "it is abiegnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race

paratory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be 120 years' 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the 10 sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of m and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief, second, and third adept enter the vault consecutively, chief passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing south (officers all raise their wands to form a pyramid over the pastos and altar) chief "let us analyze the keyword. i" second "n" third "r" all "i" chief "y" second "n" third "r" all "y" chief "virgo, isis, mighty mother (making sign of is

wchy, by the keyword i.n.r.i. and through the concealed word, l.v.x, i have opened the tomb of the adepti (all present give the l.v.x. sign. first point (chief is not seen, the second adept becomes leading officer. third adept is present and the hodos chamelionis is introduced) second "very honored fraters et sorors, our h. frater/soror, lord/lady of the 24th, 25th and 26th paths of the portal of the vault of the adepti, is a candidate for admission to the second order and is waiting without. v.h. frater hodos chamelionis, prepare the aspirant and act as an introducer. associate adeptus minor, guard the hither side of the portal and admit them in due form (carries his grade sash along with the recommendation from the chief of the order, the lamen of the hiereus, and a separate prepared spe

holds crook and scourge. between them lies the book (t. lid of pastos closed and circular altar stands over it. other adepts outside tomb as before. on the altar are replaced rose cross, cup of wine, chain and dagger) second "associate adeptus minor, let the aspirant now be admitted (third adept opens door and admits aspirant who holds wand and crux of the chief. he is then placed in front facing the vault door) second "before the door of the tomb as symbolic guardians, are the elemental tablets, and the kerubic emblems, even as before the mystical gate of eden stood the watchful \ybwrk, and the sword of flame. these kerubic emblems be the powers of the angles of the tablets. the circle represents the four angles bound together in each tablet through the operation of the all pervading m, w

e cross with four extremities and one center point" second "on the following morning, frater n.n, and his companions forced open the door (he opens it wide) and there appeared to their sight a tomb of seven sides and seven corners. every side was five feet broad, and eight feet high, even as the same is faithfully represented before you (second adept enters and passes by north towards the east of the vault, and turns to face west. third adept places aspirant on north facing south, and takes his place at south facing north) second "although in the tomb, the sun does not shine, it is lit by the symbolic rose of our order in the center of the first heptagonal ceiling. in the midst of the tomb stands a circular altar with these devices and descriptions on it: a.g.r.c, ad gloriam roseae crucis

age. last of all was written: ex deo nascimur; in hwchy morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus 'in god are we born, in hwchy we die, through the holy spirit we rise again (the pastos is closed and the altar is replaced) second "so, then our frater n.n. and his companions reclosed the pastos for a time, set the altar over it, shut the door of the tomb, and placed their seals upon it (all quit the vault. aspirant carries crook and scourge; the door is closed and aspirant is led out of the portal. the tomb is then re-opened and chief adept released) 22 third point (tomb is prepared as in diagram. door is not quite closed. in the southeast angle is diagram of minutum mundum; in northeast that of sword and serpent. due east, the mountain. altar as before with crook and scourge added later

as upon it also the symbol of a triangle enclosed within a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth of the twpylq, the great red dragon of seven heads, and the inverted and evil triangle. thus, in the tomb of the adepti do we tread down the evil powers of the red dragon (chief adept stamps thrice on diagram, and so tread thou upon the evil powers of thy nature" 30 ceiling of the vault floor of the vault "for there is traced within the evil triangle the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of seven times seven petals. as it is written 'he descendeth into hell' but the whiteness above shines the brighter for the blackness which is beneath "thus mayest thou comprehend that the evil helpeth forward the good. and between the light and the darkness vib

d upon a pedestal of two steps. on the sides are depicted the 22 colors of the paths, between light and darkness (aspirant is placed between lid and pastos. chief stands facing him on opposite side of the pastos) chief "now is the final consecration in the tradition of the ancients. we seal this rite with the most mystical mark, the mark of membership of the roseae rubeae et aurea cruces" wall of the vault 32 minutum mundum cross of victory 33 rose& cross at head of pastos (49 petals) foot of the pastos 34 side of the pastos (hodos removes the aspirant's robe to let him receive the mark. third adept hands the razor blade to the chief) chief "the cut that you are to receive upon your clavicle is symbolic of the neck, which is also symbolic of the void that you must cross for the achievement

r non-initiates. it is performed thusly "the right hand is stretched outward and grasps the wrist of the second's right hand while making with the left hand the sign of silence "the sign and password has already been received. finally, you must understand that you are never permitted to say to anyone even as a member of the outer order that you are a rosicrucian. let the pastos be replaced within the vault (the adepti replaces pastos as before and all resumes places as in the beginning of the ceremony. the aspirant is allowed to robe and the sash of the grade is bestowed) closing (chief adept knocks. all rise) chief: knocks. second: knocks. third: knocks. chief: knocks. third: knocks. second: knocks. second "roseae rubeae" third "et aureae cruces" chief "very honored fraters and sorors, as

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

a page 21 gulf.txt flame of elemental lust and beauty; i could not- i could not. then the heavens lowered and black clouds gathered upon the firmament of nu. dark flames of lightning rent the clouds, giving no light. the thunder roared; the people were afraid. in his dark shrine the osiris gloomed, displeasure on his forehead, insulted majesty in his eyes. then a pillar of dust whirled down from the vault of heaven, even unto me as i stood alone, half-defiant, in the midst of the temple while the priests and the people cowered and wailed afar off. it rent the massy roof as it had been a thatch of straw, whirling the blocks of granite far away into the nile. it descended, roaring and twisting, like a wounded serpent demon-king in his death-agony; it struck me and lifted me from the temple;

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. i,31: for these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. i,33: then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! i,34: but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. i,35: this that thou

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

agree with balzac, the absolute recedes; we never grasp it; but in the travelling there is joy. am i no better than a staphylococcus because my ideas still crowd in chains? but we digress. the last attempts to tabulate knowledge are the kabbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth (a work incomplete and, in some of its parts, prostituted to the service of dogmatic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading sp

s twbru araboth plain 4 six wings wkm makhon emplacement 5 one: with two wum maon residence 6 he covered his faces: and with two he covered lwbz zebul dwelling 7 his feet and \yqjc shechaqim clouds 8 with two he was flying. uyqr raquia firmament 9 10 and one cried to the other and said: holy, holy, holy, lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory \ymc wlyw lbt tebel vilon shamaim veil of the vault of heaven table iv 22 xcv. contents of col. xciv. xcvi* the revolutions of hwhy in yetzirah. xcvii. parts of the soul. xcviii. english of col. xcvii. 0. 1 hwhy hdyjy yechidah the self 2 whhy hyj chiah the life force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, mikhael offering

ethiel col. cix. king ulb son of rwub, dukes hwlu, unmj, and tty, are all referred to daath. edomite kings and dukes are taken e libro maggid. and gen. 36. col. cxiv, line 1. i.e, simple breathing without articulation. notes 38 col. cxv. the furniture &c, is attributed as told in the ritual, here duly h d, c d, and n r r d.12 col. cxxi. add the waiting grades of lord of the paths in the portal of the vault of the adept between the 1st and 2nd orders; and babe of the abyss between the 2nd and 3rd. col. cxxv. burton gives these upside down. the true attribution is checked by the fire- worshippers (guebres) in 5. yet, of course, the kether hell may be considered as more awful than the malkuth. col. cxxvii. these and many other (rather far-fetched and irrelevant) attributions of various things

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the vault of the adepts t. k. r. p paroketh, the veil of the sanctuary. the sign of the rending of the veil. the sign of the closing of the veil [give these [make the invoking pentagrams of spirit] in the number 21, in the grand word hyha; in the name hwchy, in the pass word i.n.r.i, o spirits of the tablet of spirit, ye, ye i invoke! the sign of osiris slain! the sign of the mourning of isis! the

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

k, tile hnybl a building; an architect hnbm the good waters of el: quicksilver (i.r.q. 995; cf. 64& 100) b+h l) ym yellow bhc 98 a name of god myhl )wh temporary dwelling, camp (ex. 33:11 )nmz image; hid, concealed (pertains to sol and the lingam-yoni) nmx to consume, eat lsx bright, clear; white xc arrow; lightning; punishment; wound; out! avaunt! go away! cx 99 the pangs of childbirth hdyl ylbx the vault of heaven; an inner chamber; wedlock, nuptial hpwx cognition, knowledge h(ydy 100 kaph: the palm [of the hand (fig. notariqon of kteis-phallus) pk a day; the seas; the times mymy vases, vessels mylk an effort, exertion nwdm mitigation of the one by the other (i.r.q. 995; cf. 97) l)b+yxm yoke; upper part; on, upon, above, over; to, towards; after; because l( throat (l a suffering, discour

rs evil h(r 276 a cithara rwnk the moon (cf. 218 )rhys 277 to sow, propagate; seed, semen (rz favour, benevolence )w(r 278 the world of mevetbau: the natural world (referred to netzach- hod-yesod (b+wmh mlw( kerubim: the angelic choir of yesod (the four creatures; gthe wings of the wind h) mybwrk four h(br) wild beasts bwr( passing over rbw( 279 leprosy wrygs 280 7 40: the squares of the walls of the vault (see 5= 6 ritual. the letters of judgment: the 5 letters with a final form (s. d. 5:28) c p n m k taro (cf. 216, 224& 671 (r+ a record (ch) nwrkd archangel of malkuth nwpldns citizenship ry( bull; victim; offering rp terror pr 281 a crown; ashes rp) attire; adorned r)p 282 aralim, mighty ones: the angelic choir of binah myl)r) spirit of lives myyx xwr beasts, cattle ry(b hebrew (the peop

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

r ignorant of the circumstance that the original brand of american freedom- which really was freedom- contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man. al i,32 "obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all" the old comment 32. the rule and purpose of the order; the promise of nuit to her chosen. the new comment it is proper to obey the beast, because his law is pure freedom, and he will give no command which is other than a right interpretation of this freedom. but it is necessary for the development of

ll their numbers who are of us. the five pointed star, with a circle in the middle& the circle is red. my colour is black to the blind, but the blue& gold are seen of the seeing. also i have a secret glory for them that love me" the old comment 60. nu= 56 and 5+ 6= 11. the circle in the pentagram? see liber nv. the uninitiated perceive only darkness in night; the wise perceive the golden stars in the vault of azure. concerning that secret glory it is not here fitting to discourse. the new comment the general significance of the number 11 is magick, particularly that form of it which is love under will; for it unites the 5 and the 6. thus abrahadabra has 11 letters; and 418= 11 x 38. this number must be thoroughly studied by the qabalah. see appendix weh note: appendix not yet recovered. in

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

f the great mother, death. before what is known as the equinox of the gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated formula which expressed these ideas to the wise. as these formulas are done with, it is of no consequence if i reveal them. truth is not eternal, any more than god; and it would be but a poor god that could and did not alter his ways at his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yo

ds drawn on each square in the golden dawn s book of the concourse of the forces t.s. 52 also arb, he created, second word of genesis t.s. 53 see the remarks on ob, od and aour in the introduction to levi s rituel de haute magie t.s. liber lviii 31 280. the sum of the five letters of severity, those which have a final form kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning tooth, and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attribute

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

thirty-two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. and this enumeration is a great mysterium of our art. whence a light hidden in a cross. now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the sword, and the pyramid being builded in just proportion, was that light fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

, shimmering web of silver which he has thrown around us melts like a network of snow before the awakening fire of our eyes, we perceive that the white flame of bewilderment which had but a moment ago enwrapped us as a mantle of lightnings, is, but in truth, a flickering rushlight fitfully expiring in an ill-shapen socket of clay. and likewise in the darkness, as we pass along the unlit arches of the vault, or the lampless recesses which, toad-like, squat here and there in the gloom, dimly at first do the mouldings of the roof and the cornices of the 167 walls creep forth; and then, as the twilight becomes more certain, do they twist and writhe into weirdly shapen arabesques, into fanciful figures, and contorted faces; which, as we advance, bat-like flit into the depths of a deeper darknes

s desire- that bountiful mother who will clasp us to her breast. yours are the boundless forests, and the hills, and the far-off purple of the horizon. call, and they shall answer you; ask, and they shall shower forth on you the hoarded booty of the years, and all the treasure of the ages; so that none shall be in need, and all shall possess all in the longing for all things. come, let us shatter the vault of circumstance and the walls of the dungeon of convention, and back to pan in the tangled brakes, and to the subtle beauty of the sorceress, and to the shepherd-lads- back to the white flocks on the hill-side, back to pan- to pan- to pan! io! to pan. under the mistletoe and the oak there is no snickering of the chapel-pew, no drawing-room grin of lewd desire, no 175 smacking of wanton l

and jewelled with pearls and emeralds and magic stones, she, like a spider spun in a web of sunbeams and blood, danced before me, casting her jewels to the winds, and naked she sang to me "o lover of mine heart, thy limbs are as chalcedony, white and round, and tinged with the mingling blush of the sapphire, the ruby, and the sard. thy lips are as roses in june; and thine eyes as amethysts set in the vault of heaven. o! come kiss me, for i tremble for thee; fill me with love, 193 for i am consumed by the heat of my passion; say me, o slay me with kisses, burn me in the fire of thy kingdom, o slay me with the sword of thy rapture" then i cried unto her in a loud voice saying "o queen of the lusts of flesh! o queen of the lands haunted by satyrs! o mistress of night! o mother of the mysterie

ng, and the balances which sway shall be adjusted, and the sun shall drink up the clouds, and the clouds shall swallow the sun, and there shall be neither darkness nor light. pledge thy pride and it will become but the habitations of vermin, pledge thy humility and thou shalt be cast out naked to the dogs" then when she had finished speaking she bared her breast to me, and it was as the colour of the vault of heaven at the rising of the sun; and she took me in her arms and did caress me, and her tongue of fire crept around and about me as the hand of a sly maid. then i drank in the breath of her lips, and it filled me as with the spirit of dreams and of slumber, so that i doubted that the stars shone above me, and that the rivers flowed at my feet. thus all became as a vast enigma to me, a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

the great mother, death. before what is known a the equinox of the gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated formula which expressed these ideas to the wise. as these formulas are done with, it is of no consequence if i reveal them. truth is not eternal, any more than god; and it would be but a poor god that could not and did not alter his ways at his pleasure. this formula was used to pen the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows- chief. let us analyse the key word- i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. y

air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the "five letters of severity" those which have a final form- kaph, men, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 x 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also rp= terror. 300. the letter hb:shin, meaning "tooth" and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit, rvch alhim= 300. hence the letter of the spirit. descending into the midst of ihvh, the four inferior elements, we get ihshvh jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ash, fire. 31

lood is my passion, hot-veined in the heart of the day! aha! for the rapture that dazes! wine-drained as the breast of a nun droops the throat that my savage soul raises, thirsting yet for the life that is done! sharp as rocks where strong billows have thundered, calm as seas where strange tempests have run, strong as death; were the derelicts sundered feed the soul without hope, which is one. in the vault of the infinite spaces, by the moon of a mirrorless sea, i lie, while eternity races- dream-bound in the visions of me. see poppied lips pale in the star-light, the lustiest swoon at my breath, till the were-wolves howl- ho 'tis the far light- even so- i caress- it is death! ethel archer. 143 the big stick a dreamer's tales. by lord dunsany. lord dunsany's prose is like baudelaire's. i c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

eye fade before thy glory? i am the eye. that is why the eye is seventy. you can never understand why, except in this vision. and now the table recedes from me. far, far it goes, streaming with light. and there are two black angels bending over me, covering me with their wings, shutting me up into the darkness; and i am lying in the pastos of our father christian rosenkreutz, beneath the table in the vault of seven sides. and i hear these words: the voice of the crowned child, the speech of the babe that is hidden in the egg of blue (before me is the flaming rosy cross) i have opened mine eye, and the universe is dissolved before me, for force is mine upper eye-lid and matter is my lower eye-lid. i gaze into the seven spaces, and there is naught. the rest of it comes without words; and the

tears down the vision. and behold! whirling columns of fiery light, seventy-two. upon them is supported a mountain of pure crystal. the mountain is a cone, the angle of the apex being sixty degrees. and within the crystal is a pyramid of ruby, like unto the great pyramid of gizeh. i am entered in by the little door thereof, and i am come into the chamber of the king, which is fashioned like unto the vault of the adepts, or rather it is fitting to say that the vault of the adepts is a vile imitation of it. for there are four sides to the chamber, which with the roof and the floor and the chamber itself makes seven. so also is the pastos seven, 52 for that which is within is like unto that which is without. and there is no furniture, and there are no symbols. light streams from every side u

at wrappeth the world about with desolation. chaos is my name, and thick darkness. know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. the egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the scorpion. the pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the adepts is lighted by the rose. and in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. but upon the great sea shall the master of the temple find neither star nor moon. and i was about to answer him "the light is within me" but before i could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the key of the abyss. and he said: thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? sor

and that is the bed of the river near the desert. the river-bed near bou-saada "december" 4, 1909. 2.10-3.45 p.m. the cry of the 12th aethyr, which is called loe. there appear in the stone two pillars of flame, and in the midst is a chariot of white fire. this seems to be the chariot of the seventh key of 81 tarot. but it is drawn by four sphinxes, diverse, like the four sphinxes upon the door of the vault of the adepts, counterchanged in their component parts. the chariot itself is the lunar crescent, waning. the canopy is supported by eight pillars of amber. these pillars are upright, and yet the canopy which they support is the whole vault of the night. the charioteer is a man in golden armour, studded with sapphires, but over his shoulders is a white robe, and over that a red robe. upo

the universe unfoldeth itself as a rose, and shutteth itself up as the cross that is bent into the cube. and this is the comedy of pan, that is played at night in the thick forest. and this is the mystery of dionysus zagreus, that is celebrated upon the holy mountain of kithairon. and this is the secret of the brothers of the rosy cross; and this is the heart of the ritual that is accomplished in the vault of the adepts that is hidden in the mountain of the caverns, even the holy mountain abiegnus. and this is the meaning of the supper of the passover, the spilling of the blood of the lamb being a ritual of the dark brothers, for they have sealed up the pylon with blood, lest the angel of death should enter therein. thus do they shut themselves off from the company of the saints. thus do t

this is its secret interpretation that may not be understood, save only of "them that understand" and for this is the key of the pylon of power, because there is no power that may endure, save only the power that descendeth in this my chariot from babylon, the city of the fifty gates, the gate of the god on [hb:nun-final hb:ayin hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:bet hb:aleph hb:bet. moreover is on the key of the vault that is 120. so also do the majesty and the beauty derive from the supernal wisdom. but this is a mystery utterly beyond thine understanding. for wisdom is the man, and understanding the woman, and not until thou hast perfectly understood canst thou begin to be wise. but i reveal unto thee a mystery of the aethyrs, that not only are they bound up with the sephiroth, but also with the pat

open unto me. the shew-stone is dull, for that which i see therein is but a memory. tolga, algeria "december" 13, 1909. 8.15-10.10 p.m. the cry of the 4th aethyr, which is called paz the stone is translucent and luminous, and no images enter therein. a voice says: behold the brilliance of the lord, whose feet are set upon him that pardoneth transgression. behold the six-fold star that flameth in the vault, the seal of the marriage of the great white king and his black slave. so i looked into the stone, and beheld the six-fold star: the whole aethyr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. and there is a mighty host of angels, blue and golden, that throng it, and they cry: holy, holy, holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! the end of things is c

t them vex and weed out one another (this is, the destruction of reason by internecine conflicts in the course of redemption. and their dwelling places, let them forget their names (this is, the arising of nemo) the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced (that is, in the great work man must lose his personality) his building, let it be a cave for the beast of the field("his building" means the vault of the adepts, and the "cave" is the cave of the mountain of abiegnus, and the "beast" is he upon whom babalon rideth, and the "field" is the supernal eden) confound her understanding with darkness (this sentence is explained by what has been said concerning binah) for why, it rejoiceth me concerning the virgin and the man (kelly did not understand this call at all, and he would not beli

god is the hierophant in the ceremony of magister templi. 20. a guide is given to the seer, his holy guardian angel. and this is attained by a mastery of the universe conceived as a wheel the hiereus in the ceremony of magister templi. 19. now cometh forth the angel who giveth instruction, in the lowest form. the hegemone in the ceremony of magister templi which the seer is about to undergo. 18. the vault of preparation for the ceremony of m.t. the veil is the crucifixion, symbol of the dead aeon. the first ordeal is undergone. 17. the symbol of the balance is now given unto the aspirant. 174 16. the sacrifice is made. the high priestess (image of babalon) cometh forth upon her beast and maketh this. 15. the mystic dance by salome. the new temple, the signs of the grades are received and

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s he went quietly to the cemetery,"i will await him here! so, therefore, there is one place, o thou thief of my heart's love, adonai, to which thou must come at last; and that place is the tomb in which lie buried all my thoughts and emotions, all that which is "i, and me, and mine. there will i lay myself and await thee, even as our father christian rosenkreutz that laid himself in the pastos in the vault of the mountain of the caverns, abiegnus, on whose portal did he cause to be written the words,"post lux crucis annos patebo. so thou wilt enter in (as did frater n. n. and his companions) and open the pastos; and with thy winged globe thou wilt touch the rosy cross upon my breast, and i shall wake into life the true life that is union with thee. so therefore perinde ac cadaver i awai

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n the approximation below. 10 =1 kether .ipsissimus 12th .11th. 8 =3. 9 =2 binah. 14th chokmah magister..magus templi. 18th. 16th. the veil of the abyss. 6 =5 7 =4 geburah babe of the abyss chesed adeptus..19th..adeptus major .exemptus. 17th. 15th. 13th. 23rd 22nd. 5 =6. 20th 21st. tipheret .adeptus. 26th. minor .24th .the veil. paroketh. 3 =8 4 =7 hod.lord of the paths.in the portal- netzach -of the vault of- practicus..27th..philosophus -the adepts water .dee. 25th. 31st .30th. 28th .29th. 2 =9 .yesod. theoricius .air. 32nd. 1 =10 malkuth zelator spirit 0 =0 neophyte diagram 2. the paths and grades. 243 only be drawn aside by invitation from the second order for the philosophus who has passed the five examinations symbolic of the five elements and the five paths leading from the first or

and hod respectively; wherefore these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in this grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator. of arouerist his secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the hierophant as though representing him unto the outer order. for while the hierophant is 5 =6, yet he is only shown as a lord of the paths in the portal of the vault. so that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the east, the seat of aeshuri, he is no longer osiris but arouerist. and the invisible station of arouerist may therefore be said to be that of the immediate past hierophant. the officers and the stations of the officers "the hierophant" the place of the hierophant is in the east of the temple on the outer side of paroketh to rule t

he zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heaven; in the depths of the earth; in the abyss of the waters, and in the all-presence of fire: heaven cannot speak their fulness, earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound them in all things. he hath mingled them through water: he hath whirled them aloft in fire: he hath sealed them in the air of heaven: he hath distributed them through the planets: he hath assigned unto the

important one, as it is the connecting-link between the first two orders, and in an abridged form is as follows: the ritual of the 24th, 25th, and 26th paths "leading from the first order of the g" d" in the outer to the 5 "6" officers: v. h. hierophant inductor; v. h. associate adept" opening" the hierophant inductor first asks the fratres and sorores present to assist him to open the portal of the vault of the adepts. the fratres and sorores then give the signs of the various grades from 0= 0 to 4= 7. the "hierophant inductor" then says to the associate adept: v. h. associate adept, what is the additional mystic title bestowed upon a philosophus, as a link with the second order "associate adept" phrath "hierophant inductor" to what does it allude "associate adept" to the fourth river of

sign of the closing of the veil (gives it).26 "hierophant inductor" what is the word "associate adept" pe. hb:peh "hierophant inductor" resh. hb:resh "associate adept" kaph. hb:koph "hierophant inductor" tau. hb:taw "associate adept" the whole word is paroketh hb:taw hb:koph hb:resh hb:peh, meaning the veil of the tabernacle. 284 in and by this word the hierophant inductor declares the portal of the vault of the adepts duly opened. 25 for these signs "see" liber o, no. ii, vol. i, the equinox. 26 for these signs "see" liber o, no. ii, vol. i, the equinox. illustration on page 282 approximated below. 23th. 26th. 25th. 24th. 21st_ hb:mem hb:ayin hb:samekh hb:nun hb:koph_ pan devil hermetic later older imageof death typhon symbol form form daniel_ 15 key f liber 14th key asedin 13th key_ al

on; the symbol of the great hermetic arcanum; the tablet of union between the four elements; the tablet of the symbolic latin names; the seven palaces of the briatic world; and the kerubim in the visions of isaiah, ezekiel and st. john. the hierophant inductor now congratulates the philosophus on the progress he has made, and proclaims him master of the 24th, 25th, and 26th paths in the portal of the vault of the adepts. after which the closing of the portal takes place, the hierophant inductor saying "in and by that word paroketh i declare the portal of the vault of the adepts duly closed. unto thee o tetragrammaton be ascribed malkuth, geburah, and gedulah unto the ages. amen. so finishes the ritual of the portal of the vault of the adepts, the connecting ritual between the grades of phi

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thomson and watched the dreadful seeker go his unending round to the death-places of love and faith and hope; we have passed out of the doomed triangle into the infinite circle of emerald that girdles the universe, the circle wherein stands he, the master whose name is octinomos. a.c. 90 the garden of janus by aleister crowley the garden of janus i the cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. the vault yet blazes with the sun writhing above the west, brave hippodrome whose gladiators shock and shun as the blue night devours them, crested comb of sleep's dead sea that eats the shores of life, rings round eternity! ii so, he is gone whose giant sword shed flame into my bowels; my blood's bewitched; my brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame. that tearing pain is gone, enriched by his life-s

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gher by the first prayer in 5= 6, and make the sign of the cross on the talisman. purify talisman, fire and water. the invoking ritual of the hexagram of jupiter is performed""the great invocation of amoun."16 hail unto thee, lord of mercy! hail, i say, unto thee, the father of the gods! o thou, whose golden plumes stream up the sky in floods of light divine! thou, whose head is as a sapphire, or the vault of the unchanging sky! thou, whose heart is pitiful; where the rose dawn shines out amid the gold! thou, unchanging and unchangeable; whom the eagle follows; whom the serpent doth embrace; o thou that standest on the scorpion! thee, thee, thee, thee, i invoke! o thou! from whom the universe did spring! thou, the all-father, thou whose plumes of power rise up to touch the throne of the co

an: wash me, and i shall be whiter than snow "fire" o send forth thy light and thy truth, let them lead me, let them guide me unto thy holy hill, to thy dwelling-place! i stand before the beautiful gate: before the mighty portal of the universe: at my right hand a pillar of fire; and at my left a pillar of cloud. at their bases are the dark-rolling clouds of the material universe: and they pierce the vault of the heavens above. and ever upon their summits flame the lamps of their spiritual essence! thou that livest in the glory beyond that gate: heart of my soul; thee i invoke! come thou forth unto me, who art my very selfhood; mine essence, my light: and do thou guard me and guide me through the manifold paths of life: that i may at length become one with thine immortal and imperishable e

itual p.'s lucid and learned interpretation. the ritual of the order of rosae rubeae et aureae crusis ritual of the 5= 6 grade of adeptus minor. in this grade the following officers are required: chief adept, 7= 4. merciful exempt adept. second adept, 6= 5. mighty adeptus major third adept, 5= 6. associate adeptus minor""opening [the "chief adept" having called upon the members to assist him open the vault of the adepts, and upon the associate adeptus minor to see that the portal is closed and guarded, turns to the second adept and says] mighty adeptus major, by what sign hast thou entered the portal "second" by the sign of the rending asunder of the veil.1 "chief" associate adeptus minor, by what sign has thou closed the portal "third" by the signing of the closing of the veil "second" pe

hb:peh "third" the veil of the sanctum sanctorum "chief" mighty adeptus major, what is the mystic number of this grade "second" 21 "chief" associate adeptus minor, what is the pass-word formed therefrom "third" aleph: hb:aleph "chief" h: hb:heh "third" yod: hb:yod. 1 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i, no. 2 "chief" h: h "third" eheieh: hhb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph "chief" mighty adeptus major, what is the vault of the adepts "second" the symbolic burying-place of our mystic founder, christian rosenkreutz, which he made to represent the universe. 208 "chief" associate adeptus minor, in what part of it is he buried "third" in the centre of the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being towards the east "chief" mighty adeptus major, why in the centre "second" because that is the point

ristian rosenkreutz, which he made to represent the universe. 208 "chief" associate adeptus minor, in what part of it is he buried "third" in the centre of the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being towards the east "chief" mighty adeptus major, why in the centre "second" because that is the point of perfect equilibrium [by this system of question and answer the whole symbolism of the vault is explained. thus, the name of the founder signifies the rose and cross of christ, the fadeless rose of creation, the immortal cross of light. the vault itself represents the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one. its seven sides the seven lower sephiroth, the seven days of creation, and the seven palaces. it is situated in the centre of the earth, in the mountain of the caverns

ttom of the left side is a thin rectangle to indicate a closed door marked "entrance. it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father; it is, by metathesis, abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race; and the four words make the sentence "abiegnus, abi-agnus, abigenos, bia-genos" abiegnus, the mountain of the lamb of the father, born of the father, and the strength of our race [the key to the vault, the rose and cross,2 is then explained as resuming within itself the life of nature, and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i. another form of the rose and cross, the crux ansata, is shown to represent the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth, and the tau cross the lower four, answering to the four elements

le letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from 1 o'clock: hb:koph, hb:taw, hb:gemel, hb:dalet, hb:bet, hb:resh, hb:peh. the last ring outward from the center is composed of twelve petals, each holding one of the twelve single letters of the hebrew alphabet. clockwise from top: hb:heh, hb:qof, hb:tzaddi, hb:ayin, hb:samekh, hb:nun, hb:lamed, hb:yod, hb:tet, hb:chet, hb:zain, hb:vau. the door of the vault is guarded by the elemental tablets,4 and by the cherubic emblems, and upon it is written the words "post centum viginti annos patebo" which the chief adept explains as follows] the 120 years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order, and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shal

th elongated ears. the top of the shaft is white and the fork to the bottom completes a black band. between the white and black zones are seven bands with planetary symbols to the right and hebrew letters to the left. from top to bottom these are: mars hb:peh, sun hb:resh, mercury hb:bet, venus hb:dalet, moon hb:gemel, saturn hb:taw, jupiter hb:koph [all then face east; the chief adept opens wide the vault and places himself at the head of the pastos, the second adept to the south, and the third adept to the north; they raise their wands in a pyramid formation over the altar, and their "cruces ansatas" below "chief" let us analyse the key word: i "second" n "third" r "all" i "chief" yod: hb:yod "second" nun: hb:nun "third" resh: hb:resh "all" yod: hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother

sign of the cross, and saying] 211 the sign of osiris slain["chief" giving the l sign with bowed head.5] l. the sign of the mourning of isis["second" with head erect, gives the v sign] v, the sign of typhon and apophis["third" with bowed head gives the x sign] x, the sign of osiris risen["all" together with the signs of osiris slain and osiris risen] l v x, lux, the light of the cross["all" quit the vault and return to previous places "chief" in the grand word, yeheshuah hhb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod, by the key word inri, and through the concealed word lvx, i have opened the vault of the adepts [all present give the lux sign as above""first point [the officers in this part of the ceremony are the second adept, who is now the principal officer, the third adept, who is second, and the intr

irant, who is waiting without, and the associate adeptus minor to guard the inner side of the portal. the aspirant is then admitted, and at once commences to read out a list of the grades and honours he has attained to. when he has finished, the "second adept" turns to him and says] it is not by the proclamation of honours and dignities, great though they may be, that thou canst gain admission to the vault of the adepts of 5 for these signs see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i, no. 2. the rose of ruby and the cross of gold; but only by that humility and purity of spirit which befitteth the aspirant unto higher things [the aspirant then retires and divests himself of his ornaments, and is clothed in the black robe of mourning with his hands bound behind him, and a chain about his neck. the int

bol of sorrow and strength. boast not thyself about thy brother if he hath fallen; for how knowest thou that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation. slander not and revile not; if thou canst not praise, do not condemn; and when thou seest another in trouble and humiliation, even though he be thine enemy, remember the time of thine own humiliation, when thou didst kneel before the door of the vault, clothed in the robe of mourning, with the chain of affliction about thy neck, and thine hands bound behind thy back, and rejoice not at his fall. and in thine intercourse with the members of our order, let thine hand given unto another be a sincere and genuine pledge of fraternity; respect his or her secrets and feelings, as thou wouldst respect thine own; bear with one another, and for

hou wouldst respect thine own; bear with one another, and forgive one another_ even as the master hath said. v.h. fra: hodos camelionis, what is the symbolic age of the aspirant "introducer" his days are 120 years [the "third adept" further explains this as follows] this refers to the five grades of the first order, through which it is necessary for the aspirant to have passed before he can enter the vault of the sacred mountain. for the three months' interval between the grades of practicus and philosophus is the regimen of the elements; and the seven months interval between the first and second orders symbolises the regimen of the planets. while the elements and the planets both work in the zodiac, so that (3+ 7) x 12 yieldeth the number 120. illustration on page 213 described "diagram 6

of absence (4) that every one should look for some worthy person of either sex, who after his decease might succeed him (5) the word r.c. to be their mark, seal, and character (6) the fraternity to remain secret 100 years. five of the brethren where to travel in different countries, and two to remain with christian rosenkreutz [the "second adept" then takes up the narrative. the discovery then of the vault of the adepts, wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father, christian rosenkreutz was buried, occurred as follows: 1600. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n; he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet, which contained the names of certain brethren and

, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet, which contained the names of certain brethren and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a long and strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away, it pulled with it a large stone, which thus partially uncovered a secret door, upon which was inscribed "post cxx annos patebo [the aspirant then leaves the portal of the vault and the first point is at an end] illustration on page 126 described "diagram 69. the temple in the second point of the 5= 6 ritual" this is the same room shown in diagram 60. the heptagonal vault is shown without indication of a door, in the upper half of the room. the circular altar contains four symmetrically placed smaller circles, two above and two below, with the letters (countercl

he "chief adept" lies in the pastos upon his back in full regalia; the complete symbol of the rose and cross on his breast hung by double phoenix collar; arms crossed on breast, not hiding symbol; hands rest on shoulders bearing scourge and crook; between them and under them the taro. the lid of the pastos is closed and the altar stands over its centre. the "second" and "third adepts" are outside the vault. the elemental and kerubic figures hang outside the door of the vault. 216 the aspirant is admitted, and the second adept explains to him the symbolism of the door, ending by saying] forget not, therefore, that the tablets and kerubim are the guardians of the vault of the adepts. let thy tongue keep silent on our mysteries, and restrain even the thoughts of thy heart, lest a bird of the

e adepts. let thy tongue keep silent on our mysteries, and restrain even the thoughts of thy heart, lest a bird of the air should carry the matter [the "third adept" then points out to the aspirant that beneath the letters cxx he will find the following v+ x^ which is equivalent to "post annos lux crucis patebo "at the end of the years, i, the light of the cross, will disclose myself (the door of the vault is then opened [the "second adept" then points out to the aspirant that the vault is lit by the rays of the symbolic rose, and that in the middle of the vault stands the circular altar6 with these devices: a.g.r.c "ad gloriam rosae crucis" or a.c.r.g "ad crucis rosae gloriam" followed by "hoc universi compendium unius mihi sepulchrum feci "ie "unto the glory of the rosy cross, i have con

, betwixt which in equilibrium the 217 universe dependeth: these forces whose reconciliation is the key of life, whose separation is evil and death [the "third adept" then continues frater n.n.'s narrative, in which are mentioned the names of the early brothers. he ends by saying] ex deo nascimur; in jesu morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus [the pastos is then closed and the aspirant quits the vault, which is made ready for the third part of the ceremony] illustration on page 218 described "diagram 70. the temple in the third point of the 5= 6 ritual" this is the same room shown in diagram 60. the heptagonal vault is shown in the upper half of the room, with a door ajar on the bottom side. the circular altar contains four symmetrically placed smaller circles, two above and two below

; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in its strength "chief adept" i am the first and i am the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. 218 [the "second" and third adepts lead the aspirant into the vault; all kneel save the "chief adept" who, extending his arms, says] for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified, i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light, i have fought upon earth for good, i have finished my work, i have entered in

d with light, and surrounded with darkness. at its base is the wall of secrecy, whose sole gate is formed by the two pillars of hermes. the ascent of the mountain is made by the serpent of wisdom. the explanation of this diagram being concluded, the "second" and "third "adepts" remove the altar, and the "chief adept" completes the third point by instructing the aspirant in the mystic symbolism of the vault itself, as follows] the vault consists of three principal parts (1) the ceiling, a brilliant white (2) the heptagonal walls, of seven colours (3) the floor, chiefly black. the ceiling consists of a triangle, enclosing a rose of twenty-two petals surrounded by a heptagram. on the triangle are the three supernal sephiroth, and in the heptangle the seven lower ones. 221 the floor is black

enting the ten sephiroth; the four cherubim; the eternal spirit; the three alchemic principles; the three elements; the seven planets, and the twelve signs. upon the altar is placed the black calvary cross charged with a rose of twenty-five petals representing the counterchanged action of the spirit and the four elements [all quit vault] illustration on page 222 described "diagram 75. the wall of the vault" this is a rectangular grid of squares, five across by eight high. a representation is below, save that the top row scorpio symbol scorpio used here is actually an eagle head, beak to left, on the diagram; and it may represent the eagle cherub instead of scorpio_ taurus aquarius< scorpio leo_ salt mercury hb:koph water air_ sulphur hb:bet saturn hb:chet dee_ mars hb:gemel sun hb:chet jup

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urg 281 the brighton mystery. by george raffalovich 287 reviews 113, 285, 304 the shadowy dill-waters. by a. quiller, jr. 327 "special supplement" liber dcccclxiii_ the treasure-house of images illustrations the slopes of abiegnus "facing page" 4 the student" 10 the complete symbol of the rose and cross" 210 the elemental tablets and cherubic emblems" 212 the lid of the pastos" 218 the ceiling of the vault the floor of the vault" 222 the circular altar the rose and cross "special supplement" the triangle of the universe" 4 the greek cross of the zodiac" 70 weh note: two different versions of this editorial exist in separate marketings of the 1st edition. both will be given. this first one seems to be the earlier version. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning

usness to the east of the altar, and turns, facing his body to the west, holding astrally his own left hand with his astral left; and raises his astral right hand holding the presentment of his lotus wand by the white portion thereof, and raised in the air erect. j. let the aspirant now slowly recite an oration unto the gods and unto the higher self (as that of the second adept in the entering of the vault, but as if with his astral consciousness; which is projected to the east of the altar (note_ if at this point the aspirant should feel a sensation of faintness coming on, let him at once withdraw the projected astral, and properly master himself before proceeding any further) now let the aspirant concentrate all his intelligence in his body, lay the blade of his sword thrice on the da th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

weating in an uncontrolled sukshma-pranayama. alack-a-day, fellows! that was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. she stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. had he know of our lady hecate (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the vault of our beloved brethren the ka d sh knights of water p.a..p.p. water. to cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the lady. she thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. well, little piotr heard it all. as

yes his stars- come, let our venus lash our bodies with the whips of her desire. your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, adela! shall i give the word to the man of the gondola? aleister crowley.1 316 1 weh note: this is a hyperbole of sexual intercourse "viz "the old man in the boat, etc. the three worms in the great vault is a coffin. in the coffin is the corpse of a very beautiful woman. the vault is deep under the ground and very still. above its bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. this, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown

r sap and noiseless fervour of exquisite perfume. at intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakings and indescribably tremors: noises that are really the wastings and settlings of decaying bone and flesh, just as if death were feasting his lips at last with murderous kisses on the flesh of his latest mistress in the secret peace of his terrible bridal chamber. all around the vault are hung great blue-black carpets of shadow, and the floor is damp, and wriggling with the spawn of low life. let us look into the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, look into it as we would have strangers look into our own with the child eyes of fancy and imagination, rather than with the cold and scaly eyes of knowledge. only to vulgar and brutish eyes is there any horror, for 317 the

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

' records, that carry with them a message for the struggler on the way. they are somewhat on the line of an old catechism, and used to be recited by the participants in the lesser mysteries before they passed on into the- 122- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust greater. what seest thou, o pilgrim? lift up thine eyes and tell what thou beholdest. i see a ladder, mounting within the vault of blue, its feet lost sight of in the mists and fogs that circle round our planet. where standest thou, o pilgrim? on what are placed thy feet? i stand upon a portion of the ladder, the fourth division well nigh mounted; its latter part stretches before me into the darkness of a stormy night. beyond that sphere of utter gloom i see the ladder rise again, radiant and glowing in its fifth

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

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

innermost centre of the heart, throbbing without the warming light, crept in the icy cold of uttermost darkness. above the cavern dark shone all the light of day; yet the fourfold one saw it not, nor did the light pervade. the rending of the cavern precedes the light of day. great, then, must be the shattering. no help is found within the cave, nor any hidden light. around the fourfold one lieth the vault of stone; beneath him menaceth the root of blackness, of utter denseness; beside him and above, naught but the same is seen- 17- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the threefold watchers know and see. the fourfold is now ready; the work of denseness is completed; the vehicle prepared. soundeth the trump of shattering. blinding the power of the oncoming flame. the mystic

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

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

god, and therefore a human being. then he who shall come looms over them all, overshadowing them, pointing to the fulfilment which shall come through birth and human incarnation. truly the picture book of the heavens holds eternal truth for those who have eyes to see and the intuition developed rightly to interpret. prophecy is not confined to the bible but has ever been held before men's eyes in the vault of heaven. thus as "the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament sheweth his- 42- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust handiwork,"46 we have the prophecy of that world event which took place when christ was born in bethlehem, the "house of bread" and virgo rose above the horizon, whilst the star in the east shone forth. christ came, then, to his own flesh and b

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

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

s, and three alchemical principles are all formed on the symbol of the perfected self, the cross. 22 paths+ 9 planets (seven ancient plus caput and cauda draconis+ 5 elements+ 3 alchemical principles= 39= 12, 1+ 2= 3, the number of the supernals. it is also a symbol of the triangle, the two con-dividing, the one reconciling. it is the reconciled one that in a mystical sense is buried and alive in the vault. thirty-nine also equals i h v h+ a ch d. in all three are sixty-one symbols of the rose cross lamen, the number of ain. in addition, 6+1=7, the sides of he vault. the rose and cross united bring down into the center of all the divine white brilliance of rtk. there on the center is another rose and cross, the rose of ruby and the o of the holy spirit, and the cross of gold, the glory of

esses that only the purified man, who having undergone study in the outer and initiated into the inner can enter the center of the sacred mountain; this purified man is hwchy. one hundred and twenty is h v a, multiplied by ten, the number of sephiroths. thus the above formula creates a rainbow and the new initiate is amoun. 5 as the chief adept knocks again to begin a new vibration, the shrine of the vault and the adepti, both of the second and the third order, formulate the alchemical process of the great work. the vault is now ready for the reception of "the light" entrance into the vault all face east. the chief adept opens the door of the vault, and the three chiefs formulate a triangle by their positions in the vault. by joining the wands above and the ankhs below, they formulate a py

m. the point at which they cross is of which should cover all forms of the elements in man. it is a symbol of the triumph of light. it is the descending fire of life. the pentagram is the rise of the perfection of man into an equilibrated force. 7 lvx the light descendeth into hell, and in its rising, is made perfect. the returning light from god to man, and man back to god. the light is fixed in the vault with the sign of lvx. second point of the 5=6 ceremony symbols of trapt are used to open the vault; three words consisting of three, four, and five letters each. it should be carefully noted that there is an interchange between the three chiefs throughout the entire initiation. all now repeat lvx signs with the aspirant. the aspirant is bearing the chief adept wand and crux ansanta. this

epeat lvx signs with the aspirant. the aspirant is bearing the chief adept wand and crux ansanta. this allows him safe passage within the gate of isis of the seven-sided vault, the door of c. upon entrance, the trampling down of the forces of evil takes place. at one time, that same evil the aspirant tramples down on was his support and foundation in the physical world. the aspirant now stands in the vault of seven sides, seven is an esoteric holy number to the qabbalist. each side has a total of ten primary squares and thirty lesser squares which equal forty squares; 7 x 40= 280. the number 280 equals wpldns. recall that in 1=10 wpldns created a path for the aspirant. in addition, 280=2+8=10, the number of sephiroth through which all the forces of the vault do manifest. ten is one from wh

primary squares and thirty lesser squares which equal forty squares; 7 x 40= 280. the number 280 equals wpldns. recall that in 1=10 wpldns created a path for the aspirant. in addition, 280=2+8=10, the number of sephiroth through which all the forces of the vault do manifest. ten is one from which all the forces of the universe begin. the attention of the aspirant is directed toward the ceiling of the vault. now, for the first time, his lower will sees at last the irresistible light. the altar is a potent glyph of the" great work" it is a compendium of achad. the center c helps to compose the name hcwhy. this fire of life expands outward within the four elemental circles. in this, it is an example of the five principles of man that must be united into perfection and for this the adept does

s. the risen osiris sees the empty pastos and is shown its occult symbology. the new adept is called to glory by the chief adept, who the aspirant has often seen as just a person, but now sees him as the divine link with the third order and a representative of his higher genius. the chief adept beckons the risen osiris from y in twlyxa. the risen osiris sees the cross, and a dim light from within the vault, representative of his/her full glory, unfolds before him. it is at this moment that the new adept's jwr ascends into his/her neschamah and touches the light and life of the bornless within. he is beyond hell and beyond death. the door is opened wide, and a full influx of light can now be seen by the new adept. now he/she sees the cross again, not the cross of suffering, but the rose and

symbols of balanced power and the light of osiris. serpent and sword the light that descendeth downward forming creation, and the light returning upward to the divine. 10 mystic mountain of abiegnus the steep ascent is only traversed by the persistent. many are called to adepthood, only a few achieve it. still, fewer that reach adepthood are capable of maintaining it in a constant upward ascent. the vault take note that the forty squares show the ten in the four worlds or letters of the name, hwhy. so many who claim to understand the symbolism of the vault have never looked behind the veil and the blinds set forth by our more ancient fraters and sorors. the cut in the tradition of the ancients, blood must be shed. it symbolizes that our adepts now mix or pull their blood together as one

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

known by the many. identical with the vedantic. ain-soph, they taught, could not be comprehended, could not be located, nor named, though the causeless cause of all. hence its name- ain-soph- is a term of negation "the inscrutable, the incognizable, and the unnameable" they made of it, therefore, a boundless circle, a sphere, of which human intellect, with the utmost stretch, could only perceive the vault. in the words of one who has unriddled much in the kabalistical system, in one of its meanings thoroughly, in its numerical and geometrical esotericism "close your eyes, and from your own consciousness of perception try and think outward to the extremest limits in every direction. you will find that equal lines or rays of perception extend out evenly in all directions, so that the utmost

nriddled much in the kabalistical system, in one of its meanings thoroughly, in its numerical and geometrical esotericism "close your eyes, and from your own consciousness of perception try and think outward to the extremest limits in every direction. you will find that equal lines or rays of perception extend out evenly in all directions, so that the utmost effort of perception will terminate in the vault of a sphere. the limitation of this sphere will, of necessity, be a great circle, and the direct rays of thought in any and every direction must be right line radii of the circle. this, then, must be, humanly speaking, the extremest all-embracing conception of the ain-soph manifest, which formulates itself as a geometrical figure, viz, of a circle, with its elements of curved circumferen

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

d was originally made out of the numerous segments of the sacrificed cosmic serpent minia, god s first creation an event remembered in animal sacrifice in the region to this day. there is a similar cosmic drama in an assyro-babylonian myth when the celestial king marduk slaughters the serpent tiamat, the feminine principle of chaos, and divides her enormous corpse: from one half marduk constructs the vault of heaven, from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consultancy on religion, education, and culture (icorec) explain: yin is female, moist, cold, the moon, the autumn and winter, the shadow and the waters. yang is male, dry, hot, the

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

dynamic process: the black flame in its perfection: the 'will to power" of nietzsche in a glory of desire: the extension of the enlightened will and initiated psyche throughout all dimensions of space, time, and thought: what in the aeon of set would be uttered as xeper. all material contained herein copyright 1998 temple of set. all rights reservpl1-2 concerning the ceremony of the consecrating the vault of the adepti r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti by g.h. frater p.c.a. this a most solemn and yet joyous occasion. it acts as a binding link between our order and the divine. the vault of the adepti places itself as a physical image of the heart of our order. the vault allows us to maintain an etheric li

. this a most solemn and yet joyous occasion. it acts as a binding link between our order and the divine. the vault of the adepti places itself as a physical image of the heart of our order. the vault allows us to maintain an etheric link between each other and with the chief of the second order. we must first be aware that the round circular altar that is usually found over the pastos is outside the vault. note the diagram of the temple layout. c b a f k l 5 c q n w this is a notable point. the reason for this is that the altar must be charged separately. for unless the altar is charged as well as the vault, the elemental forces in hwchy will not be invoked. the relationship between the four kerubs on the altar and the four enochian tablets which are visible in each quarter should be obvi

the tablet of union. this is the fifth principle, the element of. tools on the altar there are five tools on the altar. they are the air dagger (m, crucifix (o, chalice (n, chain (l, and the censer for the symbol of sitting on the letter c. as the tools are replaced on the altar after their use in the invocation of the watchtower, it begins the first magnetic re-charging of the ceremony. door of the vault the four kerubs on the door of the vault are also re-activated through the tablets of the watchtower and the invocation. this symbol, being placed on the doorway to the vault, also charges and activates the c doorway or the entrance into the center of the mystical burying place of our founder. opening of the portal five knocks are given after the adorations and invocations of the watchto

al axis of the l that receives the rays of the a. remember, in our system, it is this axis that we measure. the center point of the l rather than the equator. thus, we see in the qabalistic cross the symbology of the sun and its' life giving rays passing over the l. this is osiris/christ energy united in unison through the qabalistic cross. let us be aware always that no banishings can be done in the vault. in addition, no invoking pentagrams or hexagrams can be made directly inside the chamber of the vault. thus, the altar must be re-charged outside the confines of the vault. next, four knocks are given with the words vibrated tkrp. this spells the word paroketh. paroketh is the veil of the vault of tiphareth and the hidden tabernacle. here, we begin to see our ancient light with our more

en form the three sided triangle above and below with their ankhs. this alludes to the emerald tablet which states "as above, so below" in addition, there is a qabalistic significance in that it alludes to the three phases of the soul. the linking or uniting of the neschamah, the ruach and the nephesch can only be accomplished in an atmosphere of zero space. this happens as the third order enters the vault to recharge it. this power is brought down from the triangle formed above by the wands into the pastos or the physical body through the ankhs below. in this case, the physical body of the third order is the devoted adepti of the second order. the etheric link is now sealed and confined through the lvx sign and the grand word. banishing of negative energy in the vault now we address the q

t down from the triangle formed above by the wands into the pastos or the physical body through the ankhs below. in this case, the physical body of the third order is the devoted adepti of the second order. the etheric link is now sealed and confined through the lvx sign and the grand word. banishing of negative energy in the vault now we address the quarter of how negative energy is removed from the vault of the adepti. the link and lvx bring forth the light and seal the link, but negative energy still remains since no banishing may be performed in the vault. 6 the chief adept absorbs this negative energy in the vault. here, the chief adept must aspire to his highest level of spiritual consciousness. in brief, he is taking on the christ archetype of taking on the "sins of the world" in th

e light and seal the link, but negative energy still remains since no banishing may be performed in the vault. 6 the chief adept absorbs this negative energy in the vault. here, the chief adept must aspire to his highest level of spiritual consciousness. in brief, he is taking on the christ archetype of taking on the "sins of the world" in this case, he is taking on the negative energy trapped in the vault. the chief must now divest himself of his/her high office, including every insignia of the office of chief adept. the chief now calls forth the avenging angel hua. this can be a very unpleasant experience in that the chief and all second order members must resolve their negatories as the chief adept hangs on the cross of obligation. the black chain of twenty-two links shows the mundane w

e mundane with our negativity and sins. it is not my intention in this paper to pursue a discussion on karma vs. sin, but let us remind ourselves that we must always strive to our higher, divine self, and to become more than human. anything less than this is a negative action to our spiritual development within. we call it negative karma or sin. the ceremony continues, the chief officers re-enter the vault and remove book t. it is then placed on the altar. now, hru is invoked to aid the order in its timeless search for the mysteries of divine light. this quest must never be forgotten and should be recalled every day when we perform the qabalistic cross. let the celebration and solemn ceremony of the consecration of the vault remind us to always aspire to the highest point, just as the a is

should be recalled every day when we perform the qabalistic cross. let the celebration and solemn ceremony of the consecration of the vault remind us to always aspire to the highest point, just as the a is in its highest point in the sky. the three chiefs join wands and ankhs forming the fiery triangle through which the energy is raised. the wands held by the black ends now brings down the power. the vault is being charged through the magnetic power of the wands under the direction of the three chiefs. this builds and establishes a shield against the qlippoth, and at the same time, runs a line to them so that they may too be utilized in the performances of the great work. the chief adept who is in the pastos is at the brunt of the incoming current. this current is discharged into his astra

ns a line to them so that they may too be utilized in the performances of the great work. the chief adept who is in the pastos is at the brunt of the incoming current. this current is discharged into his astral form. the resurrection now the pastos is removed and the resurrection is beheld. there is no more old power, all is new! the chief adept now takes the sign of osiris risen. on returning to the vault, all the adepts circumambulate to help create the vortex and to symbolize the journey of the l around the a. 7 conclusion at this point after the final confirmation, the second order adepts may discuss group goals for the next 12 months. the closing of the vault is then procured. the pastos is returned inside with a lid on. 5=6 signs are given as a final sealing and blessing and closing

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book of unexplained facts (1928) that it is a true tale. time after time, heavy leaden coffins were found standing on end and tossed about as if by the hand of a giant. lord combermere, governor of barbados, decided to test the matter. the six coffins of the haunted vault were placed in order, a stone weighing five tons was cemented into the doorway and combermere and others placed their seals on the vault. on april 18, 1820, eight months later, the vault was opened. the sand on the floor bore no mark, yet the six coffins were found thrown all over the vault. a recurring spectral light, subsequently named the fire of st. bernardo, was seen in italy in quargnento by signor sirembo during the early months of 1895, and afterward by one professor garzino, the civil engineer capello and others

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missionaries, went to the various countries of europe to disseminate their wisdom. in course of time, c. r. c. died, and for 120 years the secret of his burial place was concealed. the original members also died one by one, and it was not until the third generation of adepts had arisen that the tomb of their illustrious founder was unearthed during the rebuilding of one of their secret dwellings. the vault in which this tomb was found was illuminated by the sun of the magi, and inscribed with magic characters. the body of the illustrious founder was discovered in perfect preservation, and a number of marvels were discovered buried beside him, which convinced the existing members of the fraternity that it was their duty to make these known to the world. it was this discovery that immediatel

EVERBURNING LAMPS

was a sceptre or weapon. when the intruder advanced, a portion of the floor moved with his weight, and the figure became raised up, at the next step the arm was elevated, and as the man took the third step the arm descended, shattering the lamp and extinguishing it. the man was terrified, and made a hasty retreat as soon as he recovered possession of his senses sufficiently to find his way out of the vault. the place became famous for some time as the sepulchre of a rosicrucian, and was regarded as a triumph of mystic skill and knowledge, which at once proved the possession of undreamed of powers in the designer, and yet provided the means of as certainly keeping his secret. see also "spectator" no. 379, of 1712. this essay has already extended beyond the contemplated limits, so i refrain

FAUST

already higher, i glow already as from some new wine. i feel the courage, forth into the world to dare; the woe of earth, the bliss of earth to bear; with storms to battle, brave the lightning s glare; and in the shipwreck s crash not to despair! clouds gather over methe moon conceals her lightthe lamp fades out! mists rise- red beams dart forth around my head- there floats a horror downward from the vault and seizes me! spirit invoked! near me, i feel, thou art! unveil thyself! ha! how it rends my heart! to unknown feeling all my senses burst forth, reeling! i feel my heart is thine and to the uttermost! thou must! thou must! though my life be the cost! he clutches the book and utters the sign of the spirit in a tone of mystery. a ruddy flame flashes up; the spirit appears in the flames

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

he book to his son seth and it was then passed down the generational line to enoch son of yared. when enoch ascended and walked with elohim, he took the book with him. the sefer hashmoth came back into the world again with the covenant of abraham.11 abraham gave the book to ishmael, isaac, and his offspring by his concubines.12 isaac s copy was handed down to master mosheh and was later sealed in the vault of the first temple of jerusalem. buried in the temple vault, access to the book was limited to those who had the psychic skill to see/read it in yetzirah (astral world of formation, and the strength to survive the impact of its power without shattering their shells.13 the powerful sefer hashmoth resurfaced in the early 1970 s, when it was transmitted through the gentleman responsible fo

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

e but transformed. all beings are in god but not as though placed in a place, for it is not thus that they are placed in the incorporeal faculty of representation. judge of this from your own experience. command your soul to be in india, to cross the ocean; in a moment it will be done. command it to fly up to heaven. it will not need wings; nothing can prevent it. and if you wish to break through the vault of the universe and to contemplate what is beyond if there is anything beyond the world you may do it. see what power, what swiftness you possess. it is so that you must conceive of god; all that is, he contains within himself like thoughts, the world, himself, the all. therefore unless you make yourself equal to god, you cannot understand god: for the like is not intelligible save to th

he reform, or the production, of a personality. jupiter says, in the speech already quoted, that the reform begins in the minds of the gods themselves, who are to "place themselves in the intellectual heaven" within them, to "drive from the heaven of their minds"7 the bad qualities and replace them with good qualities. it is this interior reform of the gods themselves which is reflected all round the vault of heaven as the virtues rise to replace the vices in the forty-eight constellations. it is thus a personality 1 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 568, 803 ff. 2 ibid (dial, ital, pp. 569, 817 ff. 3 see above, p. 39. 4 see above, pp. 28-31. 5 spaccio, dedication (dial, ital, pp. 561-2. 6 ibid (dial, ital, p. 560. see above, p. 217. 220 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which is being fo

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

lly the healing of the sick. after the deathofchristian rosencreutz, in 1484, his body was embalmed and sealedwithinaseven-sided vault, the locationofwhich remained106 a. e.waite-magicianofmany parts _secret for 120 years until 1604,whenit was discovered by chance, opened, and found to contain not only the perfectly preservedbody,butalso secretmanuscripts, an ever-burning lamp, and other marvels. the vault was resealedand the fraternity, revitalizedby thediscovery,continued to flourish-albeit insecret-downthrough the centuries. at various times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' self-styled rosicrucian bodies arose, briefly flowered, and invariably faded away, leavingnothingbehind them save greater or lesser additions to the accumulated storeofesoteric wisdom.thes.r.i.a.,267h

le. 18. every memberoftheindependent and rectifiedordershall be honourablyboundto.abide bytheconstitution and the regulations.19.simple resignation or demission from the secondordershallnotof itself involve the forfeiture of manuscripts. all manuscripts are however held by members at the will of the chiefs. 20. expulsions can only take place by fiatofthe chiefs or at their discretion by a vote in the vault of the adeptswitha 3. 4ths majority, notice having been sent seven days before the meeting to every member. 21.thec. c. ceremony will be retainedbutwill undergo a certain slight revision in order tobringit more into harmonywiththe traditionsofpast ages. 22.thesubscriptionofthe secondorderistxs]per annumwhichcan be, remitted at the discretionofthe chiefs in certain cases. 23.thetrustees o

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

cted for the reposeofthe founder. frater p.d. was the second to die.'in1457the curious alchymical tractate called "chymische hochzeit (chemical wedding) was written in german by c.r.butwasnotthen published.itnarrates the attainment by himofthe grade of"equesaurei lapidis" or "knight of the golden stone'.18 thegoldendawn'in1484the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed and put into the vault, which was closed and con255 cealed from the membersofthe latest circle of junior students 'frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown, but he died in1600.his successor was fratern.n.,who in1604discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened,120years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully preser

o be opened,120years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully preserved under an altar, and in his hand the parchment roll called the book t (testamentum, also copies of other valuable books of the fraternity, a "vita" and an "itinerarium" of the founder, certain songs(mantras),with mirrors, glasses, bells, lamps etc. after a careful examination of all these matters the vault was closed.'ithas been stated that this tomb still exists, but its situation is only revealed to high continental adepts.'6thes.r.i.a. was much more homely and concerned less with spiritual philosophy than with more worldly pursuits. walter spencer, the masonic publisher and supplier of regalia, was greatly disappointed by them:'thedark conspirators of this mysterious association, engage

aterials for constructing a second order ritual. by december36 thegoldendawnthe ritual was complete and a vault was being constructed at thavies inn,offholbom circus.thefirst initiation took place on 7 december and was describedbywaite from the account that the candidate, annie horniman (fortiter et recte, gave him many years later 'fortiter took the 5=6 ceremony at thavies inn.theroof was not on the vault and the painting on the crook and the scourge was wet. fortiter was the first candidate to take it, preceding sapientia because she was going abroad" possibly miss horniman was made the firstinitiate-whenthe vault was far fromready-outof gratitude..she had taken a likingto mina bergson and had persuaded her father to employ mathers as the curator of his private ethno255 graphical museum

am the preparer of thepathway.the rescuer unto the sight. out of the darknesslet the light arise (behold,i wasblind, now,i see) i am the dweller in theinvisible.i am the reconciler with the ineffable. let the whitebrilliance of the divinespirit descend. i am the all-sustainer. i am theall-wise.i have no stain, sakiamuni the buddhist oftibet.38thegoldendawnscarcely had the paint finally dried upon the vault thanitwas dismantled and moved to new premises in clipstone street, not far from oxford circus, whereitsat and watched over a process255 ion of initiates duly awed by its multi -coloured splendour and by the spectacle of mathers in glittering egyptian robes rising from the tombofchristian rosenkreuz.norwere initiations all that it witnessed; the second order required its members to enter

o new premises in clipstone street, not far from oxford circus, whereitsat and watched over a process255 ion of initiates duly awed by its multi -coloured splendour and by the spectacle of mathers in glittering egyptian robes rising from the tombofchristian rosenkreuz.norwere initiations all that it witnessed; the second order required its members to enter their names in a diary when they visited the vault and to record their magical (or other) activities. in the two diaries that survive for 1892 and 1893 it is recorded that over a periodofeighteen months thirty initiations took place, numerous magical invocations were carried out and a numberofadepti minores made and consecrated their magical instruments in the vault. mathers was busy flying(metaphorically) between london and paris, gaini

at risk, the members deposed mathers, suspended all order work and set up a committee, comprisingm. w. blackden, percy bullock, florence farr,e.a. hunter and his wife,g.c.jones and w. b. yeats, to investigate the allegations about the anna sprengelletters. westcott denied the story and mathers, sensing the waythe tide was running, did not wait for the committee to report but acted at once. in1900the vault of the adepts was at36blythe road, hammersmith, and mathers determined to possessit-byforce if necessary-and to demand the submission of the rebels. as his instrument he chose frater perdurabo, who had taken mathers' side because mathers had been prepared to give him his 5=6 initiation in paris after the officers of isis-urania refused to advancehim to the second order because of his sex

trument he chose frater perdurabo, who had taken mathers' side because mathers had been prepared to give him his 5=6 initiation in paris after the officers of isis-urania refused to advancehim to the second order because of his sexual peculiari255 ties.42 thegoldendawnequallypeculiar washis manner of capturingthe vault.under mathers' instructionscrowleywent toblytheroad, on17april 1900,broke into the vault and,in his own words 'recaptured it. the occupation was brief for on the18th,yeatsand hunter, armedwith aletter fromflorence farr, theofficialtenant, arrived atblytheroad, gained the landlord's consent and changed thelocks.then 'at aboutii.30aleistercrowleyarrivedinhighland dress, a blackmask overhis face,and aplaid thrownover hishead and shoulders, an enormous goldor giltcross on his br

curious square cap standing amongthe whitefigures.'theexperiment carried on and magic became real for yeats. in january1893yeats was initiated into the second order, albeit in an unusual manner, for he took the portal ceremony and the first partofthe adeptus minor ritual one friday and com255 pleted the second andthirdpoints on the day following. throughout that year yeats made frequent visits to the vault, initially to consecrate his magical instruments and later, perhaps, to consecrate talismans, carry out magical evocations or to in255 dulge in automatic writing. as a sound discipleofmathers, yeats saw the need to treat the golden dawn system as a whole and he favoured the system of examinations that ensuredathorough grounding in practical occultism for the newborn magician. indeed, the

iger's own works,on agoldbasisandsuperhumanity,which were both in a similar vein. isabelle de steiger joined the golden dawn in october 1888, taking the motto alta peto (i strive for the heights),butshe did not reach the secondorderuntil 1895, by which time she had transferred from isis-urania to the amen-ra temple in edin-52 thegoldendawnburgh. here, in addition to painting the 'artistic part of the vault' for the second order, she discoursed to scottish theosophists on thestromataof clemens alexandrinus, and on regeneration, by which term she meant an esoteric form of christian redemp-j tion. since many of the members of the scottish lodge ofthe ;theosophical society were also members of the amen-ratem-aple, the paper was probably heard with less hostility thanhave been expected from a t

ngthe-summerof19ii meakin wasinitiatedinsteiner's 'rosicrucian' order, attaining the jrd degree, which he thoughtemanation75was equivalent to the 5=6 grade in the golden dawn although there were few outward similarities: the german order officers wore clothing like that of the masonic royal arch and there was neither vault nor pastos. instead, the candidate was blindfolded and expected to imagine the vault asitexisted on the astral plane. meakin was fortunate, for after a fourteen-hour preparation his initiation took only three hours, whereas it should have taken twenty-six. he was also taught a great deal of occult lore; on his return to england he showed waite a series of tarot cards he had made in accordance with the german order's attributions, which were derived from magical squares o

e pope in full pontifical robes, white, with triple crown on head, and triple cross in right hand, but to one soror at least he was robed likethe pope on less solemn occasions, with a134thegoldendawnshort red cape over a white robe, and a red skull-cap on head. in his left hand was a half-closed book.underhis feet was a dark cave, which seemed to hide some mystery.thismaypossibly have represented the vault on a higher plane, as the hierophant naturally represents the perfected adept, the 'risen christ, triumphant over 'death. we seemed to have been led through the pathofmars on to a solar plane. all the planets are but rays, or differentiationsofthe sun, it is true, but some special teaching was evidently to be given us by this abrupt transition from mars, the planetofoutward expulsion and

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cles in succession, the elders teaching the juniors, and so was the secret knowledge both*i.e. helena petrovna blavatskychristian rosenkreuz17preserved and extended. c.r. lived to a very advanced age, 106 years, and dying at last was buried, as had been arranged by him and the members of his inner circle, in a special vault within theirdomusor secret dwelling. some form of embalming was used, and the vault was decorated with grand and beautiful emblems, designs and implements. the magus was enclosed in a specially prepared tomb, and was laid to rest with his own special consecrated insignia. the vault was closed, and upon the door was fixed a brazen plate, upon which was engraved an inscription of a prophetic exclamation of his own, that in 120 years after his death his tomb should be re-o

ial consecrated insignia. the vault was closed, and upon the door was fixed a brazen plate, upon which was engraved an inscription of a prophetic exclamation of his own, that in 120 years after his death his tomb should be re-opened and his doctrines, in a modified form, once more made public, and not only to a few, but to the learned in general: this plate was then covered up and the presence of the vault quite masked.themembers of c.r.'s inner circle appear to have died off each in his turn, until at last there remained no one who couldtellthesecretofwhere the great instructor lay,andwhere was the secret chamber of which all had heard, and which all were forbidden to seek. the brothers were content to refrain from seeking; trusting in the promise that a time should come when, in the natu

ative evidence in such a discussion.thefact that the works of josephus have no mention of jesus which is not a forgery, is no proof that a gentle, wise and revered spiritual divine teacher did not preach in the time of the emperor tiberius, in jerusalem; nor is the fact that neither lord bacon, nor frederick the great, nor pope pio nono, nor spinoza, nor huxley, has ever asserted that he has seen the vault of christian rosenkreuz any reason for denying its existence in 1484 or 1600, or at any time since then. i would undertake to obtain in a week, in any large town in england, a thousand signatures to a document attesting that no living theosophist had ever been seen by them, or to a document testifying that no evidence existed which went to show that the theosophists had a sanctum in whic

terj.0.was very expert in the kabala, the mystic philosophy of the chaldee and hebrew initiates.thattheir burial places should all be kept secret, and they claimed the possession of the art of embalming. they claim the knowledge of the secret of the ever-burning lamp, which is often referred to in the medieval occult authors.24themagical masonthe power of foresight, as shown by the inscription of the vault door. in the vault were found,inter alia,'wonderful artificial songs; these we may take to be what the eastern adepts called mantrams, that is portions of language in a certain rhythm for recitation in magical ceremonies.they condemned gold-making for profit and luxury as accursed, calling transmutation but a parergon or side work. and lastly we read in thefama:ourphilosophy is not a new

mbols was erected for the repose of the founder. fraterp.d.was the second to die. in 1457 the curious a1chymical tractate calledchymischehochzeit(chemical wedding) was written in german byc.r.,butwas not then published.itnarrates the attainment by him of the grade of 'eques aurei lapidis' or 'knight of the golden stone. in 1484 the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed andputinto the vault, which was closed and concealed from the members of the latest circle of junior students. frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown,buthe died in 1600. his successor was fratern.n.,who in 1604 discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened, 120 years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully pres

it to be opened, 120 years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully preserved under an altar, and in his hand the parchment roll called the book t (testamentum, also copies of other valuable books of the fraternity, avitaand anitinerariumof the founder, certain songs(mantras),with mirrors, glasses, bells, lamps, etc. after a careful examination of all these matters the vault was closed.30themagical masonithas been stated that this tomb still exists, but its situation is only revealed to high continental adepts. in 1610 a notary named haselmeyer wrote that he had seen a ms copy of the history calledfamafratemitatis oder bruder255 schaft des hochlolichen ordens des rosenkreuzeswhen he was staying in the tyrol; the name of its author is unknown, or at any rate

certain discrepan255 cies to be found in these tractates bear internal evidence that they were not written by anyone who had accurate historical information or a real personal knowledge of the affairs of the brethren of the fraternity, nor do they exhibit literary ability. several other editions followed.itshould be noted that during the interval between the deathofc.r.in 1484 and the opening of the vault in 1604 the protestant reformation had been effected in germany by luther and others, about 1517. in 1615 was printed at dantzig, by julius sperber, in german,anechoofthe god-illuminated brotherhoodofther.c.highly praising the learning of the fraternity. in 1616 thechymische hochzeitwas printed and published at strasburg, and dr wynn westcott possesses a copy; this was claimed by andrea

was a sceptre or weapon. when the intruder advanced, a portion of the floor moved with his weight, and the figure became raised up, at the next step the arm was elevated, and as the man took the third step the arm descended, shattering the lamp and extinguishing it.therr m was terrified, and made a hasty retreat as soon as he recovered possession of his senses sufficiently to find his way out of the vault. the place became famous for some time as the sepulchre of a rosicrucian, and was regarded as a triumph of mystic skill and knowledge, which at once proved the possession of undreamed of powers in the designer, and yet provided the means of asthoughts on the ever-burning lamps 6scertainly keeping his secret. see alsospectator,no. 379,of1712.this essay has already extended beyond the cont

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nt.[lecture read on9october1913.reprinted from s.r.i.a.,transactionsofthe metropolitancollege(1913),pp. 54-6on the tatwas on four planes 214introductionwhen, in 1896, theadeptiminores of the goldendawn'sinner order begantorebel against the authority of their chief, he sent them a long, rambling manifesto to justify his autocratic rule.lnthecourseofthisdocument he claimed that,inorder to establish the vault of the second order,'itwas found absolutely and imperatively necessary that there should be some eminent member especially chosen to act as the link between the secret chiefs and the more external forms of the order.itwas requisite that such member should be me, who, while having the. necessary .and peculiar educational basis of critical and profound occult archaeological knowledge shoul

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

from zone to zone; high grades and orders answer to my seeking, but there's no warrant and diploma which bears the incense sweetness and aroma of runymede's- my first, my very own!59[59] in 1910 waite was installed as master of runymede lodge, and during his year of office he celebrated the winter dinner of the lodge, on 1 february 1911 'by conferring on all brethren present the great mystery of the vault of the adepts (under dispensation from the unknown superior of the sodality of the shades)'60[60. this was the closest he came to introducing his brethren to the mysteries of the golden dawn, although he had 58[58] beeching's verses were printed as a broadsheet entitled 'the masque of runymede. 59[59 'an ode of welcome, runymede lodge, 21 january 1909. the verse quoted is no. 5. waite al

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from zone to zone; high grades and orders answer to my seeking, but there's no warrant and diploma which bears the incense sweetness and aroma of runymede's- my first, my very own!59[59] in 1910 waite was installed as master of runymede lodge, and during his year of office he celebrated the winter dinner of the lodge, on 1 february 1911 'by conferring on all brethren present the great mystery of the vault of the adepts (under dispensation from the unknown superior of the sodality of the shades)'60[60. this was the closest he came to introducing his brethren to the mysteries of the golden dawn, although he had 58[58] beeching's verses were printed as a broadsheet entitled 'the masque of runymede. 59[59 'an ode of welcome, runymede lodge, 21 january 1909. the verse quoted is no. 5. waite al

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major dynamic within the activity of the world tree. this interaction occurs in ginnungagap (1st c, an empty abyss, where the fire of muspellsheim mets of the icy rivers of niflheim and from this dynamic the giant ymir is born. odin and his brother, born from giants, carve up the body of ymir to create midgard. ymirs bones become the moutains, his teeth the rocks, his blood the rivers, his skull the vault of the sky, his hair the forests and grasses. like the titans, ymir's death creates mankind. hence midgard is a checkerboard on which fire and ice battle against each other until the game is completed. from the interaction of fire and ice within the great gap, the planes or worlds are formed. this model when examined critically (we will return to it in the next lesson) has a lot in commo

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

the sphere of sensation. 6. of obsession, trance, and death 7. liber hodos chameleonis (u-7) 8. receive z1 and z3 (to be tested on knowledge and understanding) 9. make and consecrate the lotus wand [d] 10. the rose cross ritual (commit to memory) 11. make and consecrate the rose cross lamen [e] and [f] 6 12. make and consecrate the sword and four elemental weapons [g] 13. consecration ceremony of the vault of the adepti [k] 14. hermes vision 15. lineal figures 16. minutum mundum (commit to memory [w] 17. z.a.m. first stage lectures 1. lecture on sigils (sigils by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. comentary and addition by g.h. frater p.c.a) 2. concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti 3. analysis of the 5=6 initation by g.h. frater p.c.a. 4. symbology of the banners 5. telesmata a

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ithout first invoking the divine. dwh: let the adept realize the need to control his or her own thoughts first. expect change not from others, but from yourself. your mind is the great chief of your heart and tongue. dwsy: the true adept does not require external motivation but only a strong hunger to unite with the divine. twklm "by their fruits ye shall know theitk ritual of the consecration of the vault of the adepti r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r chief adept- winged globe wand and crux ansata 2 second adept- phoenix wand and crux ansata third adept- lotus wand and crux ansata pastos circular altar with elemental tools cross of obligation written oath of obligation (this ritual is to be used for a new vault and on each day of corpus christi (members assemble and w

o r chief adept- winged globe wand and crux ansata 2 second adept- phoenix wand and crux ansata third adept- lotus wand and crux ansata pastos circular altar with elemental tools cross of obligation written oath of obligation (this ritual is to be used for a new vault and on each day of corpus christi (members assemble and wear regalia. the three chiefs are robed and seated as in opening of 5=6. the vault door is closed; the pastos remains inside the vault, but the circular altar is placed in the outer chamber, in the center. upon the altar are the cross, cup, dagger, and chain as usual, as well as the crossed scourge and crook. the incense burner is also placed over letter shin. water is placed in the cup) chief adept "associate adeptus minor, see that the portal of the vault is closed a

verse. holy art thou which nature has not formed. holy art thou the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and the darkness (chief adept changes place with third adept. third adept as hierophant inductor performs the ceremony of the opening of portal. any other adept can take the place of the associate officer in west) third adept. very honored fraters and sorors, assist me to open the portal of the vault of the adepti. give the signs of a neophyte, zelator, theoricus, practicus, and philosophus (done) very honored associate adept, what is the additional mystic title bestowed on a philosophus as a link with the second order. associate adept "phrath" third adept "to what does it allude" hodos "to the fourth river of eden" third adept "what is the sign" hodos "the sign of the rending asunde

hat word, i declare the portal of this vault of the adepti duly opened (makes qabalistic sign of cross "unto thee, o tetagrammaton, be ascribed malkuth, geburah, and gedulah (crossing fingers) unto the ages, amen" all (makes qabalistic sign of cross "unto thee, o tetagrammaton, be ascribed malkuth, geburah, and gedulah (crossing fingers) unto the ages, amen (fourth adept replaces the altar within the vault, leaving the cross, cup and dagger in place outside for use in the obligation. close the door of the vault. the chief, second and third adepts take their places and open in the 5=6 grade) second adept/ third adept/ chief adept/ second adept/ chief adept "avete, fraters et sorors" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "very honored fraters et sorors, assist

leaving the cross, cup and dagger in place outside for use in the obligation. close the door of the vault. the chief, second and third adepts take their places and open in the 5=6 grade) second adept/ third adept/ chief adept/ second adept/ chief adept "avete, fraters et sorors" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "very honored fraters et sorors, assist me to open the vault of the adepti (knocks) very honored hodos chamelionis, see that the portal is closed and guarded" hodos (having done so, saluting with the lvx signs "merciful exempt adept, the portal of the vault is closed and guarded" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, by what sign hast thou entered the portal" second adept "by the sign of the rending asunder of the veil (gives it) chief adept "associa

"kaph" 6 third adept "tav" second adept "paroketh" third adept "which is the veil of the sanctum sanctorum" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is the mystic number of this grade" second adept "twenty one" chief adept "what is the password formed therefrom" third adept "aleph" chief adept "heh" third adept "yod" chief adept "heh" third adept "eheieh" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is the vault of the adepti" second adept "the symbolic burying place of our founder christian rosenkreutz, which he made to represent the universe" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, in what part of it is he buried" third adept "in the center of the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being towards the east" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, why in the center" second adept "because t

th the altar, his head being towards the east" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, why in the center" second adept "because that is the point of perfect equilibrium" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what does the mystic name of our founder signify" third adept "the rose and cross of christ; the fadeless rose of creation; the immortal cross of light" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what was the vault entitled by our more ancient fraters and sorors" 7 second adept "the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, of what shape was the vault? third adept "it is that of an equilateral heptagon, or figure of seven sides" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, unto what do these seven sides allude" second adept "seven are the lower sephiroth, seven are th

ate adeptus minor, of what shape was the vault? third adept "it is that of an equilateral heptagon, or figure of seven sides" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, unto what do these seven sides allude" second adept "seven are the lower sephiroth, seven are the palaces, seven are the days of creation, seven in the height above, seven in the depth below" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, where is the vault symbolically situated" third "in the center of the earth, in the mountain of caverns, the mystic mountain of abi-agnus" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is this mystic mountain of abi-agnus" second adept "it is the mountain of god in the center of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, a

een light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief adept "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated forces of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded" third adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. after one hundred and twenty years i shall open, and the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems" chief adept "the one hundred and twenty years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examina

one hundred and twenty divided by five yields twentyfour, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, one hundred and twenty equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief adept knocks four times. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos, the coffin of 9 christian rosenkreutz, and then faces west. second adept enters and passes to the south. third adept goes to the north. other members remain standing as before. the three officers each with a special wand in his right hand and crux ansata in the left, then stretch out their wands to form a pyrami

ces, and say) all "the sign of osiris slain (gives it) chief adept (giving the l sign with a bowed head "the sign of the mourning of isis" second adept (giving the v sign with the head back "the sign of typhon and apophis" third adept (with bowed head gives the x sign "the sign of osiris risen (all together with the saluting sign and bowed head) all "lvx, lux, the light of the cross" 10 (all quit the vault and return to previous places) chief adept "in the grand word yehashuah, by the keyword i.n.r.i, and through the concealed word lvx, i have opened the vault of the adepti (all give lvx signs) second adept "let the cross of the obligation be set in its place" second adept "it is written 'whosoever shall be great among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest

rom the cross of suffering (fourth and fifth adepts release him from the cross) 12 second adept "merciful exempt adept, i, on behalf of the second order, request you to re-invest yourself with the insignia of your high office, which alone has entitled you to offer yourself unto the high powers as surety for the order (chief adept re-clothes, assisted by fourth and fifth adepts. three adepts enter the vault, roll the altar aside, open the lid of pastos, and put book "t" upon the table. chief adept steps into the pastos, and stands facing the door. the three adepts join wands and cruces) chief adept "i invoke thee hru, the great angel who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom, to strengthen and establish this order in its search for the mysteries of the divine light. increase the

f on admission, that ye manifest yourselves as his accusers to restrain and to warn, so that ye, even ye, may perform your part in the operations of the great work through the order. thus, therefore, do i charge and authorize ye through yehashuah, yehovasha, the name of sacrifice (three adepts disjoin wands and cruces. chief adept steps out of pastos) chief adept "let the pastos be placed without the vault as in the third point of the ceremony of adeptus minor (the pastos is carried out by the fourth and fifth adepts into the outer chamber. the lid is removed and placed beside it. the chief adept stands between the pastos and the lid facing the door of the vault with his arms crossed. second adept stands at the head of pastos and the third adept at the foot. other adepts form a circle arou

and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth but was dead and behold i am alive forevermore, and hold the keys to hell and of death" 13 (chief adept quits the circle, the second adept follows, then the other members, with the third adept last. all enter the vault and proceed around the altar with the sun. chief adept reads the following sentences, and all halt in the former positions, chief adept is in center, others are around) chief adept "for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through

nto the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness, let the light arise (all exit the vault at this point, and the chief adept reaches the center point between the pastos and lid. he faces towards the vault, with the other adepts around him. they join wands over his head. he raises his face and hands, continues) chief adept "i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend (the chief adept lowers fa

i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe. guard this vault during this revolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penetrate not into the abode of our mysteries, and inspire and sanctify all who enter this place with the illimitable wisdom of the light divine (chief adept gives the sign of 5=6. all others copy. pastos is replaced inside the vault, and the circular altar is placed on top. all resume positions as in the opening of the vault) closing chief adept/ second adept/ chief adept/ second adept/ third adept/ 14 chief adept "avete fraters et sorors" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "very honored fraters and sorors, assist me to close the vault of the adepti. associate adeptus minor, how man

of the adepti. associate adeptus minor, how many princes did darius set over his kingdom" third adept "it is written in the book of daniel that they were one hundred and twenty" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, how is that number found" second adept "by the continual multiplication of the first five numbers of the decimal scale" chief adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. thus, i have closed the vault of the adepti in the mystic mountain of abiegnus" third adept "ex deo nascimur" second adept "in yehashuah morimur" chief adept :per sanctum spiritum reviviscimus (all present give lvx signs in silencho14 tetragrammaton on the great cross thou shall know that the holy name hwhy is to be found on each of the holy tablets in the following manner: great cross thou shall read the tetragramma

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aying of hermes, gthat which is below is like that which is above, h for if that which is below is conformed according to the law of the concealed one. great is his name. be thou well assured that the closer thou adherest unto the law of the universe in thy working, by so much the more is thy magical working just and true. recall what was said unto thee in the ritual of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepti: gtherefore, by the straight and narrow path of s, let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the bow of tcq. h now, tcq, the bow, is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from twklm. if then it be by the path of s, that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turning aside nei

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f the temple as the representatives of the inner order, and therefore, no meeting can be held without one of them. preferably, all three chiefs should be present. the other officers of the temple exist only by their authority and permission. because the east of the temple is the outer side of paroketh, all members of the second order wear the crossed sashes of a lord of the paths of the portal of the vault only--no higher grade being allowed to be shown in a temple of the first order. members of the second order should be seated in the east of the temple when practicable. any past hierophant may wear a mantle of a hierophant and a jewel of that lamen, but not a large collar lamen. immediate past hierophant may have a sceptre of a hierophant. the chiefs, or members asked to represent them o

oorway between two mighty pylons "the watcher against the evil ones" is the name of the sentinel who guards it, and his form is the symbolic one of anubis. the stations of the officers the hierophant is placed in the east of the temple on the outer side of the veil of paroketh, to rule the temple under the presidency of the chiefs. there, he fills the place of a lord of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepts, acting as as inductor to the sacred mysteries. the insignia and symbols of hierophant are: the throne of the east on the path of s, outside the veil. the mantle of bright, flame scarlet, bearing a white cross on the left breast. the lamen suspended from a white collar. the crown-headed sceptre. the banner of the east. the position of the throne on the path s is fitting for

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iousness to the east of the altar, and turns, facing his body to the west, holding astrally his own left hand with his astral left. he raises his astral right hand holding the presentment of his lotus and by the white portion thereof, and raised in the air erect. j. let the aspirant now slowly recite an oration unto the gods and unto the higher self (as that of the second adept in the entering of the vault, but as if with his astral consciousness which is projected to the east of the altar. note: if at this point the aspirant should feel a sensation as of faintness coming on, let him at once withdraw the projected aura and properly master himself before proceeding any further) k. then let the aspirant pass unto the north, and facing east solemnly repeat the oration of the hierophant, as be

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the "v" while saying) 7 sol, osiris, slain and risen (form the "cross" then the "x" while saying) isis (form the "l" while saying) apophis (form the "v" while saying) osiris (form the "x" while saying" step 23 slowly move your arms from the "x" position to the "v" position while vibrating "iao (pronounced ee-aahh-oohh) step 24 notice: do not vibrate enochian names from the tablet of union when in the vault. now vibrate the four tablet of union names to equilibrate the light: exarp hcoma nanta bitom step 25 draw down the light as your arms descend. feel the light completely descend around you. vibrate "let the divine light descend" step 26 close with the qabalisic cross. 8. the rose cross note: it might help you learn the rose cross ritual by first walking through the steps without any vibr

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r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 chief adept (knocks "avete, fratres et sorores" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "very honored fraters and sorors, assist me to open the tomb of the adepti. associate adeptus minor, see that the portal is closed and guarded" third adept (third adept does so and salutes "merciful exempt adept, the portal of the vault is closed and guarded" chief adept "mighty exempt adept, by what sign has thou entered the portal" second adept "by the sign of the rending and asundering of the veil" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, by what sign has thou closed the portal" third adept "by the sign of the closing of the veil" second adept (vibrates "peh" third adept (vibrates "resh" second adept (vibrates "kaph" th

ates "kaph" third adept (vibrates "tav" second adept "paroketh" third adept "which is the veil of the sanctum sanctorum. mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the mystic number of this grade" second adept "twenty-one" chief adept "what is the password formed therefrom" third adept "aleph" chief adept "heh" third adept "yod" chief adept "heh" all "eheieh" 3 chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the vault of the adepti" second adept "the symbolic burying place of our founder christian rosencruetz which he made to represent the universe" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, in what part is he buried" third adept "in the center of the heptagonal sides beneath the altar, his head being toward the east" chief adept "why in the center" second adept "because that is the point of perfect equili

in the center" second adept "because that is the point of perfect equilibrium, just as the cross of christ is the symbol of the equilibrium of self sacrifice" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what does the mystic number of our founder signify" third adept "the rose and cross of christ, the fadeless rose of creation, the immortal cross of light" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what was the vault called by our more ancient fraters and sorors" second adept "the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, in what shape was the vault" third adept "a heptagon of seven sides" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, to what do these seven sides allude" second adept "seven are the lower sephiroth, seven are the palaces, seven are the days of creation

chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear on my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "i also carry the wand of the winged globe around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the balanced force of the spirit in the elements behind the wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed above the vault" third adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. after one hundred and twenty years i shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and the kerubic emblems" chief adept "all kneel" second adept "father, the hour has come. give glory to your son that your son may give glory to you, inasmuch as you have given him authority over all mankind, that he may bestow eternal life on thos

t "r" all "i" chief adept "yod" second adept "nun" third adept "resh" all "yod" chief adept "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second adept "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" third adept "sol, osiris, slain and risen" 10 all "isis, apophis, osiris, iao" chief adept "let the divine light descend" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "post centum viginti annos patebo (all leave the vault and return to original position (chief adept makes the closing of the veil and returns to the east) chief adept "thus, i have closed the vault of the adepti on the mystic mountain" third adept "ex de nascimur" second adept "in yehashuah morimer" chief adept "per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus (the bell rings twenty-one timederequiem r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r st

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est" second adept "let us work, therefore, my brethren and effect righteousness, because the night cometh" third adept "wherein no man shall labor" chief adept (rises "fratres and sorores of the rosae rubae et aurae crucis, by the power in me vested, i proceed to the installation and investiture of the hierophant of the temple of isis mighty mother in the order of the golden dawn in the portal of the vault of the adepti" second adept (rises "benedictus qui venti" 7 third adept (rises "in nomine domini (the three adepti give the l.v.x. signs, and seat themselves) chief adept "very honoured frater, at the discretion of the chiefs of the second order you have been appointed to the office of hierophant of this temple for the ensuing six months. are you willing to assume its duties and responsi

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was mystery. instrument the grand gallery had its mysteries too. indeed it was among the most mysterious of all the internal features of the great pyramid. measuring 6 feet 9 inches wide at the floor, its walls rose vertically to a height of 7 feet 6 inches; above that level seven further courses of masonry (each one projecting inwards some 3 inches beyond the course immediately below it) carried the vault to its full height of 28 feet and its culminating width of 3 feet 5 inches.23 remember that structurally the gallery was required to support, for ever, the multi-million ton weight of the upper three-quarters of the largest and heaviest stone monument ever built on planet earth. was it not quite remarkable that a group of supposed technological primitives had not only envisaged and desig

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

th (up to) abilities neophyte zelato enter therealzas beyond the physi- malkuth tex cal in the etheric enter the lower regions of the astral plane. theoricus yesod bag gata hall use of intellectual practicas hod des capabilities. travel in time and space. philosophus netzach nia adeptas miinor enter regiionsof tiphareth asp mental lower plane (miinor adept) and gain knowledge of past lives. enter the vault of preparation. adeptos mayorr geburah zen (major adept) 150 table vi. aethyrs and magical grades magical corresponding aethyrs experiences/ grade" sephiroth( u p t o) abilities adeptus exemptus (exempt adept) chesed vta enter higher regions of mental plane and visit the city of the pyramids. magister templi binah zid cross the abyss and gain full (master of the temple) knowledge and con

and to intoxicate him who lusts after her" if you accept that these words are to be taken figuratively and recall that she is a psychic thought form, not a physical woman, then the correct meaning will be quite clear. successful ini t iat ion here leads to the grade of magister templi (master of the temple. the first ordeal of this grade is fully encountered in the next aethyr, zen. zen contains the vault in which a candidate for the grade of magister templi must lie. in zen you will encounter an init iation into the true meanings of crucifixion and sacrifice. the guide here is a sexually attractive male (sometimes, but not always, seen as the god horus) who will lead you to an imposing vault crowley's interpretat ion was an egypt ian scene complete with pyramids and egyptian deities. zen

ow geburah) and it is the hanged man that you must become in zen. the initiation in zen involves the disolution of 222 personality as a necessary preparation for an encounter with the individuality. sacrifice need not be a terrifying business nor even unpleasant. no one will hold a gun to your head and demand that you sacri fice yourself for others. your own desire will impel you. you will lie in the vault of zen, however you care to interpret or experience it, and be submerged in the masculine current until you are initiated. such initiations as you will undergo in pop and zen will prepare you for entering zax. initiation in the great outer abyss is best left until you are well along in your development. meanwhile, there is an appropriate initiation waiting at each ring-pass-not. these ri

banishing rituals of the pentagram and hexagam. 308 enochian pyramid ritual this ritual is designed for the experienced magician. beginners are advised to carefully study the ritual, its symbolic meanings and gematric correspondences before practicing it. it simulates the initiatory processes that are encountered in the 18th aethyr, zen, and will invoke the strong masculine current that pervades the vault of zen. al l enochian name s and phrases must be vibrated properly during the execution of this ritual. part 1. preparation. wear your black robe. charge your talismans for mzkzb, vovin, ivitdt, vrelp, ztztzt and iliatal place your cup, pantacle, sword and dagger on the altar before you. also place there a talisman for each of the four watchtowers that you charged yourself. lastly, charg

gus along the south wall. let the sarcophagus be lidless and let it contain the eternal flame. face the flame in the sarcophagus. hold the talisman of the watchtower of fire in your left hand and your wand in your right hand and say, edlprnaa (eh-del-par-nah-ah) great king of fire, come, accept my offering. o-prge bitom (oh-par-geh bee-toh-meh) fire to fire. here within the five-walled parapet of the vault of zen, come, accept my body. ial-a malprg obza (ee-ah-leh-ah mah-leh-par-geh oh-beh-zodah) may i be consumed by the fiery flames of duality. hold the talisman of 1 vitdt before the eternal flame 312 and say, ivitdt, lialprt ma-of-fas (ee-vee-tehdeh-teh, lee-ah-ieh-par-teh mah-ohfeh-fah-seh) the first flame is not to be measured; a cleansing fire to be treasured. i give you this body and

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

derstood aspect of ceremonial magic. interestingly, it is one of the most potentially valuable as well. many readers will wonder what, if anything, demonic evocation has to do with the golden dawn or with rosicrucian magic. indeed, many rosicrucian adepts have no idea how or where this aspect of magic fits into the system, even though they have stood upon the names of the qlippoth on the floor of the vault of the adepti. the knowledge that follows in this chapter was once reserved exclusively for rosicrucian adepts who not merely had attained the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel but had risen with osiris in the tomb of frater crc as well, thus attaining the strength of gevurah.1 indeed, the work of the sword is the work of the major adept, and all others should fear, s

method was apparently rediscovered by "poke" runyon of the ordo templi astarte. 7 the tree of life. the outer ring contains the divine names that correspond to the signs of the zodiac in the same arrangement in which they appear on the rose cross lamen and in the correct colors. the second ring contains the divine names attributed to the planets and to the corresponding sephiroth in the order of the vault of the adepti's planetary walls. the inner ring contains the names of the archangels of the elements as well as the divine names of the sephiroth that are the root of each element. thus the magic circle contains all the divine names in balanced disposition attributed to the sephiroth, zodiac, planets, and elements. the magic circle may be on the floor with chalk, if necessary, but it is

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

h covered with flax-pods, and wondering she pockets two of them. when she gets home, they are two bright ducats (bechst. thiir. sag. 2, 68. about the underground well near atterode many have seen in the moonlight the white maiden dry either ivashing or wheat (ib. 4, 16g. at the deserted castle of frankenstein near klosterallendorf, a maiden clothed in white appears every seven years, sitting over the vault and beckoning. once when a man wished to follow her, but stood irresolute at the entrance, she turned and gave him a handful of cherries. he said' thank you' and put them in his; pouch; suddenly there came a crash, cellar and maiden had diswhite ladies in hills, etc. 965 appeared^ and the bewildered peasant^ on examining the cherries at home, found them changed, into gold and silver piec

odenberg, of the weser mountains and the harzj and in many more (d. sag. nos. 9. 303. 314. bechst. 1, 146. 3, 16. 4, 210-1. dieffenbach's wetterau pp. 284-5. 190; it must be very old^ the flower is commonly said to be blue, the colour most proper to gods and spirits, yet also i find 'purple flower' and' luhite flower' mentioned. sometimes it is called schlusselbhime (key-flower, because it locks the vault, and as symbol of the key-wearing white woman, whom the bunch of keys befits as old mistress and housekeeper, and who has likewise power to unlock the treasure; also luck-fiower (bechst. 3, 212, but most frequently ivunderblume. when three loonderfioioers are named, it seems to mean three on one stalk (ib. 1, 146. 4, 209. the sudden violent spriuging-to of the door is remarkably like the

ably like the edda's' hrynja honom >a d heel]>ejg[ hlunnblick hallar' saem. 226''pega.v laukst hursin a hcela honum' sn. 2' eigi fellr honum j^a hurs d hcela' fornald. sog. 1, 204; and twice of the slamming of hell's door (p. 315. a shepherd boy has the lieel of his shoe carried away (d. sag. 157, as another who hastens away has his heel cut off (kinderm. 3, 75. when a shepherd mistook the order, the vault broke down, the door closed behind him with a crash, but caught him by the heel of one foot and smashed it, he was long a sufi'erer, and spent the money he had brought away on the cure of his foot (bechst. 4, 211; or, he rushes out, the door slams behind him, and both his heels are cut away (harrys 2, 14. i set some value on the recurrence of these formulas, and should like to trace them

niger canis custodit cum oculis igneis' and in the carmen de brunsbergo (paullini p. 599: horrendus canis est tenebrosum vinctus ad antrum, thesauri custos, qui latet imus ibi; igneus est visus, color atque nigcrrimus illi, os patulum, et cunctis halitus usque gravis. under the pear-tree men saw burning coals, and at night a 978 translation. black poodle lying (moneys anz. 7, 227. on one chest in the vault lay a toad, on the other a wliite dog ^vhen the peasant's wife struck about with a rod she had got from the white woman, the dog turned black as coal, at which the woman was so frightened she broke silence, and the deliverance came to nothing (ib. 5, 320. no beast has more to do with gold and treasures than the snake, which coils itself down on the gold-heap (p. 689, shakes off sparkles

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eation coincide with the norse (and what i believe to have been once the universal teutonic) view of the world s origin out of component parts of the human body: it must therefore be of remote antiquity. the story lasts in india to this day, that brahma was slain by the other gods, and the sky made out of his skull: there is some analogy to this in the greek notion of atlas supporting on his head the vault of heaven. according to one of the orphic poets, the body of zeus is understood to be the earth, his bones the mountains, and his eyes the sun and moon.2 cochin- chinese traditions tell, how buddha made the world out of the giant banio s body, of his skull the sky, of his eyes the sun and moon, of his flesh the earth, of his bones rocks and hills, and of his hair trees and plants. simila

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e great god. the duty of these is to guard the image of seker. the form in which this god is depicted is that of a hawk-headed man, who stands between a pair of wings that project from the back of a huge serpent having two heads and necks, and a tail terminating in a bearded human head. the land of seker is covered by a pyramid having its apex in the form of the head of a goddess, and above it is the vault of night, from which emerges the beetle of khepera when the boat of afu-ra comes to the pyramid, the beetle ceases to converse with the goddess of the apex, whose duty it is to pass on its words to seker, and betakes itself to the boat, and begins the revivification of afu-ra, who is led on without delay to the end of re-stau, where he is received by the morning star and the light of a n

into the living sun-god. here is the five-headed serpent asht-hrau, and on his back lies the dead sun-god; with his right hand, which is raised above his head, he is drawing to himself the beetle of khepera, which is the type of regeneration, click to view the serpent asht-hrau. or new birth, or resurrection. this is the equivalent of the scene in the book aim-tuat where the beetle descends from the vault of night, and joining itself to the boat of afu-ra revivifies the dead sun-god (see vol. i, p. 103. that this revivification of am-ra should take place at the end of the sixth division is quite correct, for at this point the god arrives at the most northerly limit of his course. he has travelled due north from thebes and abydos, and has occupied p. 150 six hours in performing the journey

. the transformation of the dead sun-god into the living khepera having been effected, twelve goddesses step forward when he emerges from the serpent, and tow the great god into the sky, and lead him along the ways of the upper sky "they bring with them the soft winds and breezes which accompany the dawn, and guide the god to shu" who is the personification of the atmosphere and of whatever is in the vault of heaven. of this god are seen (vol. i, p. 277) only the head and arms, and when the beetle of khepera comes to him, he receives him, and places the newly-born sun-god in the opening in the centre of the semi-circular wall which ends this p. 194 vestibule of the world of light, where he is seen by the people on earth in the form of a disk. this disk either represents a transformation of

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

, and heard others immediately ahead. then the corridor ended in a prodigious open space which made us gasp involuntarily- a perfect inverted hemisphere, obviously deep underground; fully a hundred feet in diameter and fifty feet high, with low archways opening around all parts of the circumference but one, and that one yawning cavernously with a black, arched aperture which broke the symmetry of the vault to a height of nearly fifteen feet. it was the entrance to the great abyss. in this vast hemisphere, whose concave roof was impressively though decadently carved to a likeness of the primordial celestial dome, a few albino penguins waddled- aliens there, but indifferent and unseeing. the black tunnel yawned indefinitely off at a steep, descending grade, its aperture adorned with grotesqu

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

e eyes behind the spectacles were hideously blazing with their first touch of frantic, visible emotion. servants found me unconscious in the morning. west was gone. the incinerator contained only unidentifiable ashes. detectives have questioned me, but what can i say? the sef ton tragedy they will not connect with west; not that, nor the men with the box, whose existence they deny. i told them of the vault, and they pointed to the unbroken plaster wall and laughed. so i told them no more. they imply that i am either a madman or a murderer- probably i am mad. but i might not be mad if those accursed tomb-legions had not been so silent. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:43 ihistory of the necronomicon by h.p. lovecraft (1927 (there has been some difficulty over the date of

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have i watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon but of these things i must not now speak. i will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets; the deserted tomb of the hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth. the vault to which i refer is of ancient granite, weathered and discolored by the mists and dampness of generations. excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. the door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fash

thralled consciousness. all day i had been wandering through the mystic groves of the hollow; thinking thoughts i need not discuss, and conversing with things i need not name. in years a child of ten, i had seen and heard many wonders unknown to the throng; and was oddly aged in certain respects. when, upon forcing my way between two savage clumps of briars, i suddenly encountered the entrance of the vault, i had no knowledge of what i had discovered. the dark blocks of granite, the door so curiously ajar, and the funeral carvings above the arch, aroused in me no associations of mournful or terrible character. of graves and tombs i knew and imagined much, but had on account of my peculiar temperament been kept from all personal contact with churchyards and cemeteries. the strange stone hou

mplicated padlock of the slightly open vault, and in carefully guarded inquiries regarding the nature and history of the structure. with the traditionally receptive ears of the small boy, i learned much; though an habitual secretiveness caused me to tell no one of my information or my resolve. it is perhaps worth mentioning that i was not at all surprised or terrified on learning of the nature of the vault. my rather original ideas regarding life and death had caused me to associate the cold clay with the breathing body in a vague fashion; and i felt that the great and sinister family of the burned-down mansion was in some way represented within the stone space i sought to explore. mumbled tales of the weird rites and godless revels of bygone years in the ancient hall gave to me a new and

e tomb, i stumbled upon a worm-eaten translation of plutarch's lives in the book-filled attic of my home. reading the life of theseus, i was much impressed by that passage telling of the great stone beneath which the boyish hero was to find his tokens of destiny whenever he should become old enough to lift its enormous weight. the legend had the effect of dispelling my keenest impatience to enter the vault, for it made me feel that the time was not yet ripe. later, i told myself, i should grow to a strength and ingenuity which might enable me to unfasten the heavily chained door with ease; but until then i would do better by conforming to what seemed the will of fate. accordingly my watches by the dank portal became less persistent, and much of my time was spent in other though equally str

ed within the sunken sepulcher. i do not think i was either astounded or panic-stricken, but i know that i was greatly and permanently changed that night. upon returning home i went with much directness to a rotting chest in the attic, wherein i found the key which next day unlocked with ease the barrier i had so long stormed in vain. it was in the soft glow of late afternoon that i first entered the vault on the abandoned slope. a spell was upon me, and my heart leaped with an exultation i can but ill describe. as i closed the door behind me and descended the dripping steps by the light of my lone candle, i seemed to know the way; and though the candle sputtered with the stifling reek of the place, i felt singularly at home in the musty, charnel-house air. looking about me, i beheld many

e name of sir geoffrey hyde, who had come from sussex in 1640 and died here a few years later. in a conspicuous alcove was one fairly well preserved and untenanted casket, adorned with a single name which brought me both a smile and a shudder. an odd impulse caused me to climb upon the broad slab, extinguish my candle, and lie down within the vacant box. in the gray light of dawn i staggered from the vault and locked the chain of the door behind me. i was no longer a young man, though but twenty-one winters had chilled my bodily frame. early-rising villagers who observed my homeward progress looked at me strangely, and marveled at the signs of ribald revelry which they saw in one whose life was known to be sober and solitary. i did not appear before my parents till after a long and refresh

the altered manner and appearance of their only son, commenced to exert over my movements a kindly espionage which threatened to result in disaster. i had told no one of my visits to the tomb, having guarded my secret purpose with religious zeal since childhood; but now i was forced to exercise care in threading the mazes of the wooded hollow, that i might throw off a possible pursuer. my key to the vault i kept suspended from a cord about my neck, its presence known only to me. i never carried out of the sepulcher any of the things i came upon whilst within its walls. one morning as i emerged from the damp tomb and fastened the chain of the portal with none too steady hand, i beheld in an adjacent thicket the dreaded face of a watcher. surely the end was near; for my bower was discovered

hearing the spy inform my parent in a cautious whisper that i had spent the night in the bower outside the tomb; my sleep-filmed eyes fixed upon the crevice where the padlocked portal stood ajar! by what miracle had the watcher been thus deluded? i was now convinced that a supernatural agency protected me. made bold by this heaven-sent circumstance, i began to resume perfect openness in going to the vault; confident that no one could witness my entrance. for a week i tasted to the full joys of that charnel conviviality which i must not describe, when the thing happened, and i was borne away to this accursed abode of sorrow and monotony. i should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds, and a hellish phosphoresence rose from the rank swamp at the bottom

l. burnt alive to ashes, my body dispersed by the four winds, i might never lie in the tomb of the hydesi was not my coffin prepared for me? had i not a right to rest till eternity amongst the descendants of sir geoffrey hyde? aye! i would claim my heritage of death, even though my soul go seeking through the ages for another corporeal tenement to represent it on that vacant slab in the alcove of the vault. jervas hyde should never share the sad fate of palinurus! as the phantom of the burning house faded, i found myself screaming and struggling madly in the arms of two men, one of whom was the spy who had followed me to the tomb. rain was pouring down in torrents, and upon the southern horizon were flashes of lightning that had so lately passed over our heads. my father, his face lined wi

nd bore the initials `j. h' the face was such that as i gazed, i might well have been studying my mirror. on the following day i was brought to this room with the barred windows, but i have been kept informed of certain things through an aged and simple-minded servitor, for whom i bore a fondness in infancy, and who, like me, loves the churchyard. what i have dared relate of my experiences within the vault has brought me only pitying smiles. my father, who visits me frequently, declares that at no time did i pass the chained portal, and swears that the rusted padlock had not been touched for fifty years when he examined it. he even says that all the village knew of my journeys to the tomb, and that i was often watched as i slept in the bower outside the grim facade, my half-open eyes fixed

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

etters seem to hang down from horizontal word-bar- is the writing in a book poor harley war-ren once had. it came from india while carter and i were visiting him in 1919, and he never would tell us anything about it--said it would be better if we didn't know, and hinted that it might have come originally from some place other than the earth. he took it with him in december, when he went down into the vault in that old graveyard- but neither he nor the book ever came to the surface again. some time ago i sent our friend here-the swami chandraputra- a memory-sketch of some of those letters, and also a photostatic copy of the carter parchment. he believes he may be able to shed light on them after certain references and consultations "but the key- carter sent me a photograph of that. its curi

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

the spirits on this day, through its ruler and name-giver, the sun. on monday, pearls and white stones (but not diamonds) are to be worn, because this is the day of the moon, or of the second power in nature. tuesday, which is the day of mars, claims rubies, and all stones of a fiery lustre. wednesday is the day for turquoises, sapphires, and all precious stones which seem to reflect the blue of the vault of heaven, and that imply the lucent azure of the supposed spiritual atmosphere, wherein, or under which, the rosicrucian sylphs dwell those elementary children who, according to the cabalistic theogony, are always striving for intercourse with the race of adam, seeking a share of his particular privilege of immortality, which has been denied to them. thursday demands amethysts and deep

KETAB E SIYAH

oppose the elohim who would destroy if they could. for you are heaven's doom, executioners of its fall. by your hand shall the high gates of its portal be thrown down and by your foot shall the throne of yahweh be crushed to dust to be blown forever upon the chill wind of ruin until it is yet further eroded by time's work and dust becomes smoke and smoke, nothing. yet your empire shall stretch to the vault of stars and its glory shall be an infinitude of heaven's splendour. for this destiny did i make your flesh from mine. of the garden's fruit you have eaten one, the fruit of knowledge of consequences, and this you must for without its strength you could never realise your noble purpose. the second is the fruit of eternal youth and he that would eat of it would fadeless be as are elohim a

creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. for these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 416 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! 34. but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. 35. this that thou write

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

der, the man of the world, should lie with his head to the south. 102. the celestial canopy 103. the ritual tells us that the covering of a, free-mason fs lodge is a celestial canopy of divers colours. this may very well symbolize the star-lit heavens which canopy the true temple of humanity, when we regard the lodge as universal; but the reference to divers colours indicates another meaning, for the vault of the sky is not of various hues, except at sunrise and sunset, but is blue. the real celestial canopy is the aura of the man whom we have thought of as lying on his back; it is the vividly tinted thought-form that is made during the working of the lodge. we see this symbolism appearing elsewhere also, in joseph fs coat of many colours in the v.s.l, in the robe of glory which the initia

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

uried very secretly in the tomb prepared for him, his resting-place remaining unknown even to members of the fraternity. 717. at a later period, a seeming accident revealed the door of the tomb, upon which was written in great letters: post cxx annos patebo- after a hundred and twenty years i will come forth. in the midst of the tomb there shone a blazing star, and upon the altar in the centre of the vault these significant words were engraved: a.c.r.c. hoc universi compendium unius mihi sepulchrum feci- i have made this my tomb a compendium of the universe. beneath the altar was found a fair and worthy body with all the ornaments and attires. in his hand he held the parchment called t, the which next unto the bible is our greatest treasure, which ought not to be delivered to the censure o

LIBER 777

agree with balzac, the absolute recedes; we never grasp it; but in the travelling there is joy. am i no better than a staphylococcus because my ideas still crowd in chains? but we digress. the last attempts to tabulate knowledge are the kabbala denudata of knorr von rosenroth (a work incomplete and, in some of its parts, prostituted to the service of dogmatic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading sp

twbru araboth plain 4 six wings wkm makhon emplacement 5 one: with two wum maon residence 6 he covered his faces: and with two he covered lwbz zebul dwelling 7 his feet and \yqjc shechaqim clouds 8 with two he was flying. uyqr raquia firmament 9 1010 and one cried to the other and said: holy, holy, holy, lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory \ymc wlyw lbt tebel vilon shamaim veil of the vault of heaven table of correspondences 22 xcv. contents of col. xciv. xcvi* the revolutions of hwhy in yetzirah. xcvii. parts of the soul. xcviii. english of col. xcvii. 0. 1 hwhy hdyjy yechidah the self 2 whhy hyj chiah the life force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, m

ng ulb son of rwub, dukes hwlu, unmj, and tty, are all referred to daath. edomite kings and dukes are taken e libro maggid. and gen. 36. col. cxiv, line 1. i.e, simple breathing without articulation. table of correspondences 38 col. cxv. the furniture &c, is attributed as told in the ritual, here duly h d, c d, and n r r d.12 col. cxxi. add the waiting grades of lord of the paths in the portal of the vault of the adept between the 1st and 2nd orders; and babe of the abyss between the 2nd and 3rd. col. cxxv. burton gives these upside down. the true attribution is checked by the fire- worshippers (guebres) in 5. yet, of course, the kether hell may be considered as more awful than the malkuth. col. cxxvii. these and many other (rather far-fetched and irrelevant) attributions of various things

LIBER ARARITA

latin chapter titles, where they differ significantly from those in the 1991 edition, are by the present editor. love is the law, love under wi, liber dcccxiii vel ararita svb figvra dlxx v a a publication in class a 1 i a 0. o my god! one is thy beginning! one is thy spirit, and thy permutation one! 1. let me extol thy perfections before men. 2. in the image of a sixfold star that flameth across the vault inane, let me re-veil thy perfections. 3. thou hast appeared unto me as an aged god, a venerable god, the lord of time, bearing a sharp sickle. 4. thou hast appeared unto me as a jocund and ruddy god, full of majesty, a king, a father in his prime. thou didst bear the sceptre of the universe, crowned with the wheel of the spirit. 5. thou hast appeared unto me with sword and spear, a warr

LIBER CHANOKH

f the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others. the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the vault of the adepts3 t. k. r. p paroketh, the veil of the sanctuary. the sign of the rending of the veil. the sign of the closing of the veil [give these [make the invoking pentagrams of spirit] in the number 21, in the grand word hyha; in the name hwchy, in the pass word i.n.r.i, o spirits of the tablet of spirit, ye, ye i invoke! liber lxxxiv 21 the sign of osiris slain! the sign of the mour

LIBER CXX

of thelemites) they are referred to as magister, adeptus, and zelator. the requirements to pass beyond the grade of zelator to the grade of adeptus are that the candidate has completed the regular training of the argentum astrum prior to the grade of adeptus. the requirements for passage beyond the grade of adeptus to the grade of magister are that the candidate be at least a lord of the paths of the vault of the adepts, that eleven years as an adeptus be completed, that the grade of babe of the abyss in the argentum astrum be completed, and that there be a retirement from all active work in the order involving contact with groups. there were several other and more stringent requirements that also had to be undergone according to the constitution: pledge forms had to be signed and other wo

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

he went quietly to the cemetery .i will await him here. so, therefore, there is one place, o thou thief of my heart fs love, adonai, to which thou must come at last; and that place is the tomb in which lie buried all my thoughts and emotions, all that which is .i, and me, and mine. there will i lay myself and await thee, even as our father christian rosenkreutz that laid himself in the pastos in the vault of the mountain of the caverns, abiegnus, on whose portal did he cause to be written the words .post lux crucis annos patebo..1 so thou wilt enter in (as did frater n. n. and his companions) and open the pastos; and with thy winged globe thou wilt touch the rosy cross upon my breast, and i shall wake into life.the true life that is union with thee. so therefore.perinde ac cadaver.i await

ng.?2 it is as silly as rising at midnight, and saying .i will go out and sleep in the sun. but i am an irishman, and if you offer me a donkey-ride at a shilling the first hour and sixpence the second, you must not be surprised at the shrewd silliness of my replying that i will take the second hour first. 1 [see the fama fraternatis, the first rosicrucian manifesto. the inscription on the door of the vault of christian rosenkreutz was there said to be .post cxx annos patebo (after 120 years i shall manifest. 120 is equated with .lux crucis (the light of the cross) by various methods of qabalistic analogic] 2 [liber lxv, ii. 62] john st. john 63 but that is always the way; the love of besting our dearest friends in a bargain is native to us: and so, even in religion, when we are dealing wit

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

e face is the laughing face of eros. 40. smiling we greet him with the secret signs. 41. he leads us into the inverted palace. 42. there is the heart of blood, a pyramid reaching its apex down below the wrong of the beginning. 43. bury me unto thy glory, o beloved, o princely lover of this harlot maiden, within the secretest chamber of the palace. 44. it is done quickly; yea, the seal is set upon the vault. 22 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 45. there is one that shall avail to open it. 46. nor by memory, nor by imagination, nor by prayer, nor by fasting, nor by scourging, nor by drugs, nor by ritual, nor by meditation; only by passive love shall he avail. 47. he shall await the sword of the beloved and bare his throat for the first stroke. 48. then shall his blood leap out and write me ru

LIBER LVII

f the great mother, death. before what is known as the equinox of the gods, a little while ago, there was an initiated formula which expressed these ideas to the wise. as these formulas are done with, it is of no consequence if i reveal them. truth is not eternal, any more than god; and it would be but a poor god that could and did not alter his ways at his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word.i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yo

air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the .five letters of severity. those which have a final form. kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning .tooth. and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr 52 [also laqzjy, ezekiel, and [swy, joseph. elsewhere crowley connects the .city of pyramids. reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each of john dee.s .tablets of the watchtowers. and the pyrami

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

thirty-two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. and this enumeration is a great mysterium of our art. whence a light hidden in a cross. now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the sword, and the pyramid being builded in just proportion, was that light fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ring the papacy of paul iii was found a burning lamp which had remained alight in a hermetically sealed vault for nearly 1,600 years. according to an account written by a contemporary, a body--that of a young and beautiful girl with long golden hair--was found floating in an unknown transparent liquid and as well preserved as though death had occurred but a few hours before. about the interior of the vault were a number of significant objects, which included several lamps, one of them alight. those entering the sepulcher declared that the draft caused by the opening of the door blew out the light and the lamp could not be relighted. kircher reproduces an epitaph "tulliolae filiae meae" supposedly found in the tomb, but which montfaucon declares never existed, the latter adding that althoug

ark of the covenant. the frame of three legs was likened to the ark of the covenant; the flat plate or table to the mercy seat; and the cone-shaped covering to the tent of the tabernacle itself. this entire conception differs widely from that popularly accepted, but discloses a valuable analogy between jewish and greek symbolism. p. 62 an automaton which moved when certain stones in the floor of the vault were stepped upon by an intruder. at that time the rosicrucian controversy was at its height, so it was decided that the tomb was that of a rosicrucian initiate. a countryman, discovering the tomb and entering, found the interior brilliantly lighted by a lamp hanging from the ceiling. as he walked, his weight depressed some of the floor stones. at once a seated figure in heavy armor bega

h it had lain there 120 years, was as well preserved as though it had just been interred. it was ornamented and attired in the robes of the order, and in one hand was clasped a mysterious parchment which, next to the bible, was the most valued possession of the society. after thoroughly investigating the contents of the secret chamber, the brass plate and altar were put back in place, the door of the vault was again sealed, and the brothers went their respective ways, their spirits raised and their faith increased by the miraculous spectacle which they had beheld. the document ends by saying in effect "in accordance with the will of father c.r.c, the fama has been prepared and sent forth to the wise and learned of all europe in five languages, that all may know and understand the secrets o

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

crown of its head and upon its skull which thou shalt have adroitly raised, the character following (see figure 5) after which thou shalt re-place the skull in proper position. thou shalt then write upon a small strip of the skin of a frog or toad which thou shalt have killed, the following words and characters (see figure 6) thou shalt then go and suspend the said figure by one of thy hairs from the vault of a cavern at the hour of midnight, and burning incense under it, thou shalt say: metatron, melekh, beroth, noth, venibbeth, mach, and all ye, i conjure thee o figure of wax, by the living god, that by the virtue of these characters and words, thou render me invisible, wherever i may bear thee with me. amen. and after having burned incense again under it, thou shalt bury it in the same

MORALS AND DOGMA

n by him upon the leaves of the great book of universal nature, and may be read there by all who are endowed with the requisite amount of intellect and intelligence. this knowledge of god, so written there, and of which masonry has in all ages been the interpreter, is _the master mason's word. within the temple, all the arrangements were mystically and symbolically connected with the same system. the vault or ceiling, starred like the firmament, was supported by twelve columns, representing the twelve months of the year. the border that ran around the columns represented the zodiac, and one of the twelve celestial signs was appropriated to each column. the brazen sea was supported by twelve oxen, three looking to each cardinal point of the compass. and so in our day every masonic lodge rep

susceptible of joy; they walk in brightness, and are liable to impurity and imperfection in the sight of god. the elohim originally included not only foreign superstitious forms, but also all that host of heaven which was revealed in poetry to the shepherds of the desert, now as an encampment of warriors, now as careering in chariots of fire, and now as winged messengers, ascending and descending the vault of heaven, to communicate the will of god to mankind "the eternal" says the bereshith rabba to genesis "called forth abraham and his posterity out of the dominion of the stars; by nature, the israelite was a servant to the stars, and born under their influence, as are the heathen; but by virtue of the law given on mount sinai, he became liberated from this degrading servitude" the arabs

, existing of himself; who, after having passed an eternity absorbed in the contemplation of his own being, desired to manifest his perfections outwardly of himself; and created the matter of the world. the four elements being thus produced, but still mingled in confusion, he breathed upon the waters, which swelled up into an immense ball in the shape of an egg, and, developing themselves, became the vault and orb of heaven which encircles the earth. having made the earth and the bodies of animal beings, this god, the essence of movement, gave to them, to animate them, a portion of his own being. thus, the soul of everything that breathes being a fraction of the universal soul, none perishes; but each soul merely changes its mould and form, by passing successively into different bodies. of

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

etful or ignorant of the circumstance that the original brand of american freedom which really was freedom contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man. 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. it is proper to obey the beast, because his law is pure freedom, and he will give no command which is other than a right interpretation of this freedom. but it is necessary, for the development of freedom itself, to have an organization; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

she therefore bravely disregarded the orders of the king, and endeavoured to give sepulture to the remains of polynices. when creon discovered that his commands had been set at defiance, he inhumanly condemned the devoted maiden to be entombed alive in a subterranean vault [276]but retribution was at hand. his son, hamon, who was betrothed to antigone, having contrived to effect an entrance into the vault, was horrified to find that antigone had hanged herself by her veil. feeling that life without her would be intolerable, he threw himself in despair on his own sword, and after solemnly invoking the malediction of the gods on the head of his father, expired beside the dead body of his betrothed. hardly had the news of the tragic fate of his son reached the king, before another messenger

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

d that gothic art does not oppose romanesque art; instead it has evolved from it. nor did it spring from the imagination of a single master; it was the gradual and slow work of collective faculties who ripened their concept little by little, through implementing and modifying it. the gothic style supplied the solution to a technical problem that had arisen for romanesque architects: the weight of the vault forced them to give their buildings squat proportions. this problem "inspired them to perfect their balance system, which was how they were led to the discovery of a system of intercrossed buttresses that would carry the vault while disguising its weight; the gothic cathedral continues and completes the romanesque church."4 the distinctive feature of gothic art is essentially the use of

red them to perfect their balance system, which was how they were led to the discovery of a system of intercrossed buttresses that would carry the vault while disguising its weight; the gothic cathedral continues and completes the romanesque church."4 the distinctive feature of gothic art is essentially the use of interecclesiastical and monastic associations 41 secting ribbed arches that support the vault like a kind of armature based at the tops of the supports. in the art of building, this feature constitutes the great discovery of the system of active stability resulting from the use of paired vaults, like that inaugurated by the romans, as opposed to the system of inert stability, which emerged from the use of heavy materials and monolithic beds without the lateral thrusts used by the

hout the lateral thrusts used by the greeks and egyptians. the discovery of this miraculous artifice was not at all the result of luck; it could have emerged only from profound causes, a kind of imperious necessity, and a series of trials and errors.5 in actuality there is an art of transition characteristic of that period of time marking the passage from the roman and romanesque groined vault to the vault constructed from the crossed ribs and broken arches associated with flying buttress. this transition occurred only in france, the country where gothic architecture was born. in the other schools during this intermediary period there were only blends "romano- gothic" monuments. it is an error to regard the broken arch or tiers-point as a characteristic innovation of the gothic style, howe

h close at hand, did not make themselves felt in lombard construction; the political separation between the barbarous world of the lombards and the byzantine world of venice and ravenna was simply too great. but at the end of the eleventh and throughout the twelfth centuries there appeared vaulting that, unlike the round-rib vaulting found in france, was made up of square ribs that formed beneath the vault they held up suggesting a large, branched archaic cross. an interesting french example of this structure, undoubtedly of lombard origin, is the ogival square crossing erected in 1178 on each of the transepts of the ancient cathedral of maguelone, in the herault. another is the large, square-ribbed crossing on the porch of moissac. this lombard ribbed crossing is fairly contemporay with o

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ety of the rosicrucians. they then laid down the results of their science in books, which are said to be still in existence, and in the hands of some rosicrucians. it is then said that 120 years after his death, the introduction 7 5 entrance to his tomb was discovered. a stair-case led into a subterranean vault, at the door of which was written, post annos cxx patebo. there was a light burning in the vault, which, however, became extinct as soon as it was approached. the vault had seven sides and seven angles, each side being five feet wide and eight feet high. the upper part represented the firmament, the floor, the earth, and they were laid out in triangles, while each side was divided into ten squares. in the middle was an altar, bearing a brass plate, upon which were engraved the lette

a single word the entire teaching and ideal of those rituals. if one idea more than any other is persistently stressed from the beginning that idea is in the word light. from the candidate's first reception in the hall of the neophytes when the hierophant adjures him with these words "child of earth, long hast thou dwelt in darkness. quit the night and seek the day" to the <36> transfiguration in the vault ceremony, the whole system has as its objective the bringing down of the light. for it is by 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

contact with the vitalising and necessary basis of his unconsciousness, will never do. he must unite and integrate the various levels of his entire tree. his task must be to train and develop the titanic forces of his own underworld, so that they become as a powerful but docile beast whereon he may ride. introduction the adeptus minor grade continues the theme of these two diagrams. escorted into the vault, the asvirant is shown the lid of the tomb of osiris, the pastos, wherein is buried our father, ehristian rosenkreutz, and on that lid is a whkh brings fulfillment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams. it is divided into two sections. the lower half of the painting depicts a figufe of idam, similar to his presentation in the practicus grade diagram, though here the heads

er the lapse of much time that thou hast fully discovered all that is to be learned from these. and to be of use unto thee, this must be the work of thine own inner self, thine own and not the work of another for thee so that thou mayest gradually attain to the knowledge of the divine ones" the grade of the portal, which conferred upon the candidate the title of lord of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepti, is not referred to a sephirah as such. it may, however, be considered as an outer court to tiphareth, exactly as the adeptus minor ceremony may be considered tiphareth within. its technical attribution is the element of akasa, spirit or ether which is magically invoked by the usual procedure of invoking pentagrams and the vibration of divine names following upon the conjur

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

xtraordinary insight and synthesis, had built a most awe-inspiring superstructure. the usual order symbolism of the light was represented by a white triangle centred by the rose- this placed upon the ceiling. the floor design was so painted as to represent the red dragon and the forces of the primitive archetypes upon which the candidate trod as emblematic of his conquest. placed in the centre of the vault was the pastos of rosenkreutz- though the pastos is also referred to as the tomb of osiris the justified one. both of these beings may be considered as the type and symbol of the higher and divine genius. immediately above this coffin rested the circular altar mentioned in the fama. it bore paintings of the kerubic emblems, and upon these were placed the four elemental weapons and a cros

s hidden and confined within the personality, itself wandering blindly, lost in the dark wilderness. the whole concatenation of symbols is an elaborate and dramatic portrayal of the central theme of the great work. in a word, it depicts <71> the spiritual rebirth or redemption of the candidate, his resurrection from the dark tomb of mortality through the power of the holy spirit. in the symbol of the vault, the psychologist no doubt will see a highly interesting and complex array of mother symbols, traces of which, used in very much the same way, may be found in the literary fragments we inherit from the mystery cults of antiquity. it would be possible, and quite legitimate so to interpret the vault. for even the order interpretation refers the vault in its entirety to the isis of nature

ols, traces of which, used in very much the same way, may be found in the literary fragments we inherit from the mystery cults of antiquity. it would be possible, and quite legitimate so to interpret the vault. for even the order interpretation refers the vault in its entirety to the isis of nature, the great and powerful mother of mankind and all that is. and an analysis of the separate parts of the vault- the venus door, the pastos, the two pillars- would subscribe to that view. for regeneration and the second birth have always as creative psychological states been associated with the mother. and it may be recalled that the neschamah or that principle in man which constantly strives for the superhuman shining heights, is always portrayed as a feminine principle, passive, intuitive and al

myself to a bird's eye view of the routine as established in the first or outer order of the golden dawn. the graduated training of the entire outer was intended as a preparation for the practical work to be performed in the 42 the golden dawn inner or second order of the roseae rubeae et aureae crucis. the assignation of personal magical work seems deliberately to have been postponed until after the vault reception. it was held that the ceremony formulated a link between the aspirant and his augoeides, that connection serving therefore as a guide and a powerful protection which is clearly required in the works of ceremonial magic. since at the commencement of each serious operation the initiate must needs exalt himself towards his higher and divine genius that through him may flow the div

cribed. b. the lesser and supreme rituals of the pentagram. c. the rituals of the hexagram. d. description of lotus wand, and ritual of consecration. e. description of rose cross and the ritual of consecration. f. sigils from the rose. g. sword and four implements, with consecration ritual. h. clavicula tabularum enochi. j. notes on the obligation of the adeptus minor. k. consecration ceremony of the vault. l history lecture. m. hermes vision, and lineal figures of the sephiroth. n. 0. p. q. r complete treatise on the tarot, with star maps. s. the attributions of the enochian tablets. t. the book of the angelical keys or calls. u. lecture on man, the microcosm. w. hodos chamelionis, the minutum mundum. x. the egyptian god-forms as applied to the enochian squares. y. enochian chess. z. symb

hat saying of hermes 'that which is below is like that which is above' for if that which is below is conformed according to the law of the concealed one-great is his name-be thou well assured that the closer thou adherest unto the law of the universe in thy working, by so much the more is thy magical working just and true. recall what was said unto thee in the ritual of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepti 'therefore, by the straight and narrow path of samekh, let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the bow of qesheth.'now qesheth the bow is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from malkuth. if then it be by the path of samekh that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turn

rophant. kern collects the fan, lamp, cup and salt and replaces them in their right places on the altar, round the diagram. hiero (holding cubical cross) the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of 22 squares externally, thus referring to the 22 letters that are placed thereon. twenty-two are the letters of the eternal voice, in the vault of heaven; in the depth of earth; in the abyss of water; in the all- presence of fire. heaven cannot speak their fullness- earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound them in all things. he hath mingled them in water. he hath whirled them aloft in fire. he hath sealed them in the air of heaven. he hath distributed them through the planets. he hath assigned unto them the twelve cons

oud. also there is the <102> vision of the fire-flashing courser of light, or of a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery or clothed in gold, or naked and shooting with a bow, shafts of light, and standing on the shoulders of a horse. but if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these symbols in the form of a lion. then when no longer are visible to thee the vault of the heavens, and the mass of the earth; when to thee, the stars have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled; when the earth abideth not and around thee is the lightning flame- then call not before thyself the visible image of the soul of nature, for thou must not behold it ere thy body is purged by the sacred rites- since, ever dragging down the soul and leading it from t

ady to come when ye are called. hiero returns to his place. the others follow. hegemon leads philosophus to his seat. in the name of yod he vau he tzabaoth, i declare this temple closed in the= grade of philosophus. hiero 111 ill 1 hiereus 111 111 1 heg 111 111 1 hegemon conducts the philosophus out. book three rituals of the inner order, the roseae rubae et aureae crucis. ritual of the portal of the vault of the adept1 veil 3rd banner air tablak 2nd adept adept pentacle hangs pan over gwv and death cow n elaments fire tablet dew11 hegemon ty phon onnor hiereus wakor el table l <156> chief adept- white cassock, yellow shoes, red cloak of hierophant, yellow and white nemyss, rose-cross on yellow collar. sceptre of five elemental colours surmounted by. pentagram, white lamp and brazier, cand

reus in west, hegemon east of altar' the hall is in darkness, the elemental lamps unlit- no lights except those burning behind the veil and shaded candles for officers. any members attending must give the portal si s on entering the temple. porfal members sit in the north -full= d 6 members in the south. 2nd ad (knock. all rise) very honourable fratres and sorores, assist me to open the portal of the vault of the adepti. honourable hiereus, see that the entrance is closed and guarded. hiereus very honourable second adept, the entrance is closed and guarded 2nd ad. very honourable fratres and sorores, in token of ow search for the light, give the sign of the= grade of neophyte. all turn east and stand in the sign ofthe enterer. from behind the curtain, the chief adept's hand is stretched ou

ad. phrath, the fourth river of eden. hiereus tau. heg resh. 3rd ad. peh <159> ch. ad. very honourable second adept, what may be added to this word? 2nd ad. kaph (knock) hiereus tau (knock) heg resh (knock) 3rd ad. peh (knock) ch. ad. the whole word is paroketh, which is the veil of the tabernacle. a11 make signs of rending of the veil. ch. ad (knocks) in and by that word, i permit the portal of the vault of the adepti to be opened. second and third adepts draw aside curtains revealing chief adept who rises with pentacle and taper in left hand, sceptre in right. let us establish the dominion of the mystic eth over the four elements. chiefadept faces east. all face east. chief adept having descendedfrom the dais and taken his position in front of air tablet, hegemon stands behind chief bea

second and third follow and stand by pillars. hiereus and hegemon face east, north and south of altar. let us adore the lord and king of hosts. holy art thou, lord of the universe. holy art thou whom nature hath not formed; holy art thou the vast and the mighty one, lord of the light and of the darkness? by the word paroketh and in the sign of the rending of the veil, i declare that the portal of the vault of the adepti has been opened. ch. ad. 1111 1 2nd ad. 1111 1 3rd ad. ill1 1 hiereus 1111 1 heg 1111 1 he circumambulates once, then returns to seat. all take seats, after the elements are replaced in four quarters by respective officers <163> the ritual of the cross and four elements ch. ad (concealed behind the veil: the portal symbolically opened for the order, is yet closed to the unp

s are veiled. temple in darkness save at east. 2nd ad. v. h. fratres and sorores, our honoured frater .having been a member of the= rn grade of philosophus for the space of 7 months and having passed the five-fold examination prescribed for admission to the second order, has been duly approved. i hold a dispensation from the g. h. chiefs of the second order to permit him to approach the portal of the vault of the adepti. v.h. 3rd adept, see that he is duly prepared by wearing the sash of the= rn grade, admit him, having placed around his neck the admission badge, and having examined him in his knowledge of the grip, sign, words, etc. of the= grade and of the word phrath before you instruct him in the necessary knock. lights are extinguished. 2ndad. stands before the veil. hiereus and heg

d the opening exordium and particular exordium of the z-documents. then you can profit by pursuing florence fam (s.s.d.d, book on egyptian mngic, and from there to the gnostic religion by hans jonas. h.s. ritual of the portal 203 3rd ad. gives phil. candle and takes his station on the left hand of phil. 2nd ad. honoured frater pharos illuminans, we are here assembled to open for you the portal of the vault of the adepti, which admits you to the <165> second degree and brings you to the threshold of the inner or second order. but because of the increased influence over the members of the order that such advancement necessarily confers, and because of the increased power for good or evil that will follow if, with steadfast will and aspiration, you take this step in essence as well as in form

neck. 2nd ritual of the portal 215 ad. right and 3rd ad. zeft. heg. and hiereus behind. each take elemental emblems- hs. salt, heg. rose-leaves, 2ndad. incense, 3rd ad. water and phil. motto written on paper <187> 2nd ad. honoured philosophus, what was the additional title given you in the= as a link with the second order (all advance to dais) phil phrath. 2nd ad. 0 hidden warden of the portal of the vault, here is one who cometh in the word phrath. ch. ad (knocks gong unseen) if he would rend the veil, let him complete the word. 2nd ad. honoured hiereus, what know you of the word? hiereus tau, the letter of saturn, ruling the path of malkuth to yesod, linked to earth. 2nd ad. honoured hegemon, what know you of the word? heg resh, the letter of sol, of the path joining yesod to hod, and it

RUBY TABLET OF SET

force, etc. hence intellectual or emotional ventures will be neutralized before they stray so far from the pattern as to recognize it for what it is. and the initiates known to nuit are only those who seek to hasten reunification of the whole. 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. nuit admonishes crowley not to stray from the goal of reunion. dissolution of the self into nuit brings an end to all self-consciousness and thus from pain. the ultimate argument of nuit is for suicide of the finite self in order to become part of the infinite whole [cf. crowley's discussion of the "

that drive the machinery of the universe, our will be made manifest [transition] o great prince of the ever-blasting furnaces of hell, we goeth our own way, rumbling away into the unknown. shine bright- lord of light- until we meet by way of the tesseract again. xeper and remanifest [bell (three times [realization "for why art thou out there" asked i alone on the frozen mountain, as i gazed into the vault of the void- punctuated only slightly by thy distant but steady and indifferent light. but thou remainest silent; answering me not. i felt cold and alone as the winds blew, and i still had many miles on foot to fare. several miles after departure, i suddenly felt fire flare up within me, and i realized that i am mine own star, for i am alive and aware of my awakeness! i, too, am blazing

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

is based in the motion and manipulation of the firesnake in connection with ayin (o) which hints towards the eye and the capricornian influence illustrated by the devil in the tarot. in ayin that which is seen and the ability of transformation is signified by the eye. the eye is also the tool of the artist of the noble arte and is the capturer of the sigillic wisdom and the key that locks it into the vault of unconditioned belief in the execution of the wills desire. the text refers to this as sigilic aphorisms, but used in the temple of solitude these becomes more than aphorisms, it encapsuels the formulae in flesh and releases the blood of the witches into the vessel and the magus becomes the living reality of the awakened flesh of lord cain. this is possible through the modes and variat

SATANIC RITUALS

utilized foe all necessary artifacts. the unclad woman who customarily serves as a living altar is not required in die elektrishen vorspiele. in her place, a human skull (totenkopf) rests opon a scarlet cushion. in this ritual as in all other satanic rites, the skull serves as a reminder of the material, flesh-and-bone godhead that is man, rather than as a symbol of mortality. it also represents the vault of wisdom from whence all hitman ideas and developments emerge, the temple of invention, both material and "spiritual" a candlestick bearing a black candle is placed at each side of the skull. the chalice rests directly in front of the skull, with the bell and phallus to either side. the sword rests parallel to the front edge of the platform. the wall above the altar displays the sigil o

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

n one fell the butchered gladiators. monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of man on the heights of phyle, or by thy lone mound, grey marathon! we stand amidst weeds and brambles and long waving herbage. where we stand reigned nero, here were his tessellated floors; here "mighty in the heaven, a second heaven" hung the vault of his ivory roofs; here, arch upon arch, pillar on pillar, glittered to the world the golden palace of its master, the golden house of nero. how the lizard watches us with his bright, timorous eye! we disturb his reign. gather that wild flower: the golden house is vanished, but the wild flower may have kin to those which the stranger's hand scattered over the tyrant's grave; see, over t

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

e events which have taken place in your life? 3. binah; the ritual of the temple and triangle temple; hikl; the temple is existence itself, the window in which the great work is seen. the temple is our place of being and our place of study. triangle; mshlsh; in the triangle is both the water of purification and the fire of consecration. their equilibrium gives energy to the work. chalice; kvs; in the vault of the graal is the wine of inspiration which alone can truly support us. in this ritual, which is of the third sephirah, binah, we complete the building of the temple itself. this completes the triangle of actions in the three sephiroth above the abyss. whereas chockmah gives us the energy (in a spiral form) for the work, binah provides the form through which it is manifest. we must rec

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ceremonial magic (1980; the lazy man's guide to relaxation (1983; and the complete golden dawn system of magic (1984. he continued to give advice on health and magical matters until the end of his life. we came to know regardie through grady mcmurtq former caliph of the oto. we had established our own independent golden dawn temple in columbus, georgia, in 1977 and were in the process of building the vault of the adepti.6 at that time we were also involved with the oto, because we were told that the golden dawn no longer existed in any form. grady was well aware that our introduction to the third edition xxi primary interest was the golden dawn,7 and since he and regardie were friends, eventually he was kind enough to give us regardie's address. we were ecstatic-we had assumed that regardi

(falcon press, 1983. 6. not in atlanta or athens, georgia, as some authors have mistakenly stated. 7. we had bought a house which was solely intended as a golden dawn temple. but it also became the site of our oto temple (truly, a house divided) at the time of chic's minerval initiation into the oto in august of 1978, grady had to walk through the framework of what would later become the walls of the vault of the adepti, a purely golden dawn creation. grady's somewhat gruff response was "what the hell does this have to do with the oto" both grady and regardie insisted time and time again that the two systems of magic "could not be mixed" 8. the events at the isis-urania temple at columbus, georgia, have been documented in the epilogue of our book secrets ofa golden dawn temple (llewellyn

comes from an anonymous paper from the late 1970s or 1980s entitled simply pentagram ritual. 19. yod is spelled out as yod vav daleth, heh is spelled heh heh, vav is spelled vav vav, and heh is heh heh. the total value is fifty-two. 20. from which is derived the word zion. 21. it's interesting to note that many of the numbers associated with the pentagram, 5,8,13, and 26, are also associated with the vault of the adepti-the ritual chamber of the golden dawn's inner order. each wall of the vault is 5 feet wide and 8 feet high. every one of the seven triangles formed from the intersecting lines of the vault's heptagram has a base of 8 units and a height of 5 units. if the heptagon of the vault were circumscribed by a circle, the radius of the circle would be 13 units, and its diameter would

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

e the finite can once again dissolve into the infinite atmosphere of eternity. this seeming duality is that which crowley infers when he states: gin any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. h *berashith, vol. ii, p. 234. laugh, thou immortal lesbian! thy verse runs down the runic ages. where shalt thou be when sun and star, my sun, my star, the vault that span, rush in their rude, impassive rages down to some centre guessed afar by mindless law? their death embrace a simple accident of space *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 85. gin the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. in the former, matter is infinitely great; if the latter, infinitely sma

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

der and hereon solemnly promise and swear that i will always hele, conceal, and never reveal any of the secrets or mysteries of this supreme degree to any one in the world unless it be a true, lawful, and perfect magician, and not even to him, until after due trial, strict examination, and full conviction that he is worthy of that confidence or in the body of a lodge of p.m.s. duly opened beneath the vault of heaven. i further solemnly pledge myself never to pronounce that solemn and mysterious name which may now for the first time be communicated to me, unless in the presence and with the assistance of two or more p.m.s. all these points i solemnly swear to observe, without evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation of any kind under the penalty of having my skull sawn off and my brains

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

copy and gardner another, the latter sold to ripley with the collection. or, perhaps it was the curious notebook discovered by aidan kelly in the ripley files called ye book of ye art magical, the meaning of which was unclear. while i was chatting with ms.deska, norm returned from his mission, we introduced in best businesslike fashion, and he told me he'd get the book, whatever it might be, from the vault. the vault! i sat there thinking god knows what. recently, i'd gotten a call from toronto, and it seems the ripley folks wanted me to take a look at what they had. i had made a considerable offer, and at that point i figured i'd had at least a nibble. as it so happened norm would be visiting on a routine inspection visit, so it was arranged he would bring the manuscript with him. almost

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

whose courses visit with comfort the earth, and are in government and continuance as the second and the third. wherefore, harken unto my voice: i have talked of you and i move you in power and presence, whose works shall be a song of honor and the praise of your god in your creation. analysis of the sixth key the angels of the fourth angle are "mighty in the firmaments of waters" the firmament is the vault of heaven, or heaven itself. the firmament of waters is the ninth sphere, called the crystalline, which was above the eighth sphere of the fixed stars and was thought to be composed of aether "some by that firmamentary division of the waters, have dreamt of a watery heaven above the stars (complete oxford english dictionary "firmamentary. the reference is to genesis 1:6-7. there is also

onto the ground, and from the spot sprang up a purple flower with the greek letters ai, a1 (woe, woe) written on its petals. the pillars suggest a house of god, or temple, and both these images occur later in the key. they are said to be 26, which may signify two parallel rows of six pillars each. within this house, the elders "are become strong" the "long continuance" of the pillars that support the vault of heaven in the south (for this is the image they evoke) makes them bucklers, or shields, against the "stooping dragon" some versions of the key give "stooping dragons" here, but the singular seems more applicable, since only a single dragon is mentioned later in the key. the dragon is the symbol of chaos, or satan: and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

into a sigil, or it could also be an effective inscription written around the edge of the talisman. figure 6-e: yhpial-yophial hsml-hismeal figure 6-f: traditional kamea in hebrew 84. western mandalas of transformation. another powerful motto with the value of 136, taken from latin rather than hebrew, is "the undefiled glory of god" dei gloria intacta, which was said to be engraved in a circle on the vault of the legendary founder of the rosicrucian order, brother c. r. c. it was written around the figure of a man's head, which case said represented aquarius. case's interpretation of the motto is that (it) refers to the occult conception that the real inner man is identical with and inseparable from the pure essence of the life power. that essence is correctly associated with the element o

ich is assigned aries, and the emperor. this path is called the "constituting intelligence" five is also the numeration of ad, mist or vapor, and in hebrew mysticism this refers to the dark cloud or vapor that constitutes the substance of primordial creation, figure 7-c: traditional figure 7-d: alternate and that hovered over the waters in genesis. the root word gab also equals five and refers to the vault or surface of heaven. the power of the constituting intelligence of mars is further reflected in the magical phrase in genesis "let there be" which has the numeration of twenty-five (ihi. this correspondence was noted as early as agrippa. we have noted that case used a different mars kamea than agrippa (see 7-a and 7-b. if we refer to the simple sigil lines of the word ad in figures 7-c

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

n of a heptagon (figure 9-a. the rosicrucian manuscript fama fraternitatis says the sides of this vault (which concealed his incorruptible body) measured five by eight feet. in his true and invisible rosicrucian order, case notes that these three numbers taken together (seven, five, eight) have the numeration of the word for copper, the metal of venus (nchshth. the boundary of the ground plan for the vault was seven by four, and four is the number often attributed to venus as daleth, since it is the fourth letter in the alphabet. in rosicrucian symbolism, it signifies not only the door which gives entrance to the vault of brother c. r, but is an image figure 9-a figure 9-b figure 9-c of the door to eternal life, brother c. r. having conquered death. st. paul once said that death was the la

he book of seven seals. there have been many interpretations of this passage, but the most obvious one points to the seven seals that are connected to the seven planetary deities, over which the figure 9-k lamb had authority. the value in latin for lamb (agnus) is fifty-six, and this number is emphasized in rosicrucian teaching as being the length, in feet, of the seven vertical lines bounding to the vault of brother c. r. in the adaptation of the gematria to the german alphabet, often used in rosicrucian texts, it stands for the word alchimia, or. alchemy. in latin gematria, the "gold of the philosophers (aurum philosophorum) equals 231, which is the, number of gates connected to the sephiroth. this number also equals "dawn of the philosophers (aurora philosophorum, a hidden reference to

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

numeration meaning anointed. according to the canon this number exhibits an imnumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott portant measure of the cosmos, and was the foundation of the scientific pantheism upon which christian theology was built, it was a part of the gnosis and was derived from the priestly astronomers of egypt. 123. 1484. christian rosenkreutz died. the vault closed over his body and the secrets of the order he had founded. 1604. the vault of c. r. opened by his successors after 120 years of secret study and benevolence. 1614. the fama fraternitatis rosae crucis was printed. 1717. grand lodge of freemasons was founded. 1752. new year s day changed from march 25 to january 1. 1865. frater robert wentworth little founded the rosicrucian society

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ted with the ethers, and each of the planetary forces was said to have special dominion over, or affinity with, one or other of the zodiacal constellations. communion with the hierarchies of these constellations formed part of the chald an theurgy, and in a curious fragment it is said "if thou often invokest it (the celestial constellation called the lion "then when no longer is visible unto thee the vault of the heavens, when the stars have lost their light the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame, then all things will appear to thee in the form of a lion" the chald ans, like the egyptians, appear to have had a highly developed appreciation of colours, an evidence of their psychic susceptibility. the use of bright colours engenders t

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ility to project herself astrally; that is, to see what is in a given room or area. some years ago she told taylor that she felt there was something sinister about the old vault at the whare ra temple. though the walls and ceiling remained intact, it had apparently become like a psychic reactor that absorbed emissions. it had no outlet, since it was not in use. taylor warned her to keep away from the vault in the physical or in the astral. one night, chris decided to see for herself what was going on and tried to place herself astrally in the vault. she met taylor, who was also in astral form, standing in front of the vault, preventing her from entering. he dressed her down for going against his wishes. since both recalled the event, i hardly can consider it purely psychological in nature

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

k was then published. during the ten years that felkin lived at whare ra he ran the temple like a military operation. classes were held on week nights for outer order members in which esoteric philosophy and ritual were taught. on weekends he held classes for the inner order members to hone their knowledge to a fine point. these included ritual, enochian pronunciation, and meditative exercises in the vault. by 1926, the year of fe&in's death, the inner order had grown to over 100 members with an unspecified number in the outer order. the inner order group was an extremely wealthy one and had members in many of the key local bodies throughout the havelock north and hastings area and collectively wielded a tremendous amount of power for the area. some felt this when they tried to divulge inf

17. equinox ceremony 18. ritual of spiritual development 19. invocation of the higher genius ritual 20. lecture of the symbolism of the 5=6 grade 21. lecture of task undertaken by adeptus minor 22. fama confessio documents 23. lecture the enochian tablets: different types and their use 24. z-2 documents 25. planetary rituals 26.36 flying roils 27, lecture on talismanic images 28. consecration of the vault ceremony workings (a) the adept must consecrate the lotus want, the sword, and the four elemental weapons, and then receive instruction in their use (b) the adept will make an enochian chess set (c) instruction will then be given on how to play enochian chess. one must become proficient in playing from four different play positions. these games must be recorded and presented to the chief

he golden dawn's inner order, the rosae rubea et aurea cruces (the red ruse and the cross of gold, stemmed from rosicrucian sources which made the cornerstone of their teachings the first two rosicrucian manifestoes published in the 17th century by an anonymous authorship. within the golden dawn's inner order, elaborate rituals were used, utilizing props and settings that described the finding of the vault of christian rosenkruetz and the teachings he had to offer humanity. the basis for these were contained in both the 'tama" and "confessio" manifestoes. in the adeptus minor ritual of the 5=6 grade the following summation of these two documents is read to the postulant "in 1378 the chief and originator of our fraternity was born in europe. he was the son of noble but poor parents, and was

observed that there are three important epochs in the history of the rosicrucian order: the first being the life period of christian rosycross, who died before the time of the protestant reformation; the second, the 120 years of silence and secrecy, being the period 1484 to 1604; and the third, this period subsequent to and since the reformation. it was during this last period that the opening of the vault formed the historical basis for the subsequent publication of the 'tama fraternitatis; or "a discovery of the most laudable order of the rosy cross" the publication of which took place at cassel in 1614, though this tract is dated 1610. this event called forth the most intense curiosity and excitement. the enormous effect which it had upon the learned world of that time may be better und

the 'tama: those who were admitted were bound over to keep the matter secret, and the larger proportion who received no response to their overtures believed the whole thing to be an ilusion. it will be obvious upon reflection, that the ceremonies and allottment of rituals and instructions of the second order as now existing cannot be identical with that which was obtained prior to the opening of the vault, because the principal symbolism of the 5=6 grade chiefly centres around the discovery and opening of the vault. this being so, it may be noted in passing that the two preceding epochs, may be attributed by the sequence of comparison to the grades of 6=5 and 7=4 respectively: the former, a degree of death and solemnity referring to the precedent stage of obscuration, during which silent

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

is of the consciousness making up man to this upper sephirah. the fall, which cut away the higher from the lower sephiroth in daath, was also our descent into this life, as it were, from that upper and higher soul. therefore, our objective is to get into contact with that again, which is only to be done through the neschamah, which is divine mother of the soul: our aima. when the candidate enters the vault and kneels down at the second point, during the 5=6 ceremony, he does so at the centre of the altar above the symbolic form of the adept, who is the synthesis of the sides of the vault, from whence he has come forth. he occupies a central position between kether and the world of shades, being there protected by the rising glory of the golden cross and the rose. then this prayer is said "

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 says al am the reconciler with the ineffable: i am the dweller of the invisible: let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend" in these three cases a p

amirann chapter five the 6=5 and 7=4 rituals of the r.r. et a.c. according to tradition, these rituals were written through the trance mediumship of the felkins with the astral masters of the third order. the general opinion at whare ra was that the 6=5 grade is an incredibly beautiful ceremony to experience. it is here that the hidden doorway of the mars wall is revealed, and the shekinah enters the vault, with black veil and lamp. to the postulant, it appears as if the lamp is floating in mid-air. this is the first of the rituals where the shekinah takes over the astral body of the adept, and lifts it out of the vault. it then takes it to meet the various forms. in my own case, and others within both the whare ra and thoth hermes temples, this is exactly what happens. for in the next two

ce. at the 6=5 grade, the costumes of the officers undergo a dramatic change. the egyptian headdress is now discarded for a small colored square cloth with colored rope wound around the top to keep it in place. included after the 6=5 ritual are some notes i made a few years ago as a part of my 6=5 thesis, and have included here as a matter of interest. the 7=4 ceremony uses the two outer rooms of the vault, and the notes included with the ritual were, i presume, written by felkin, as they were given to me by taylor after going through this grade ceremony. the final ritual is called "transmission of the etheric link" and was only given out to a few at whare ra. its purpose was to transmit the link of the order in its fullest capacity to the adept. this was only given out at 7=4 level, and i

sheldnah. rose coloured tunic. long black veil. alabaster lamp with oil; spray of acacia. chief adept. blue and purple nemis and robe. ankh. merciful king of salem. winged sphere wand and lamen. second adept. red and orange nemis and robe. excellent prince of the horizon. ankh, phoenix wand and lamen. third adept. yellow and rose robe and nemis. ankh. noble lord of eventide. lotus wand and lamen. the vault is draped entirely in red. the pastos in black stands uncovered with head to north. pedestal at head. light veiled. in portal two pillars, red ankh holding braxier in south blue tat holding bowl of water in north. outer side of vault door covered with blue and orange curtain on which is sol on a cross. strip of emerald green both up floor. white and gold altar divided up middle with 33 l

eviations used in the 6=5 ceremony that follows are designated as: ad. means adep u ch.ad. means chief adept shek. means shekinah opening ch.ad. rises: 2nd ad. rises: 3rd ad. rim: chad "avete fratres et sorores" ch.ad& 2nd (in unison "benedictus dominus deus noster" all present ad by 3n1 "qui dedit noble hoc signue all touch row crow on breast chad "very honoured adepti majores, assist me to open the vault of the adepti in the exalted grade of geburah. excellent prince of the horizon, see that all 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 "

rkness, that passing through the valley of bitterness he may find therein the wells of living water. reflect upon his soul those visions of the spirit which awaken the understanding and beckon us to the pisgah heights of holiness. there may he find the pearl of great price, which is also the lodestone of the wise. shekinahi" 2nd ad "shekinah" 3rd ad "shekinah" all three "shekinah" turn up lights. the vault which was in darkness atfirst gmdually becomes lighter, repeal ing the figurr of shekinah holding a lamp under kr mil. at the last word she holds forth her lamp, in silence letting the light shine upon the adepti in turn. they bow their heads a moment, then she withdraws silently. the adepti rise and quit the vault in silence. part one vault light out and vault door dosed. adepts seated

tulant's waist. 3rd ad "what then is this" 2nd ad "it is the loosening of the corruptible body of osiris, victorious before all the gods: all his faults are driven out; it is the purification of osiris on the day of his birth" ch.ad "i pass over the way; i know the head of the pool of truth, even the pool of silence which is the pool of healing" 3rd ad "what then is this" he points to the door of the vault. ch.ad 'it is the northern gate of the underworld, even the door of the tomb, whereon thou mayest behold the sun in his nadir, crucified between the pillars of the tree of life" all face east ch.ad "homage unto thee, 0 thou lord of light and truth, 0 sovereign prince who doest away with sin; destroy thou the faults that are within me, that with a dean heart i may approach when thou dost

ied between the pillars of the tree of life" all face east ch.ad "homage unto thee, 0 thou lord of light and truth, 0 sovereign prince who doest away with sin; destroy thou the faults that are within me, that with a dean heart i may approach when thou dost say 'come therefore hither" a pause. ch.ad. tuns to postulant who has been led slowly forward during the foregoing until he now stands dose to the vault door. ch.ad. already frater. a triple obligation rests upon thy soul: in malkuth were thy feet bound that they might keep in the path of judgement and equity; on the path of the arrow thy loins were girt with the bonds of purity and self-restraint; in tiphareth was thy heart bound by the three-fold cord of love, service and sacrifice "keep, therefore, the commandments of the lord; bind t

ake shall find it" 2nd m "he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me" four bells sound t he ob l ig at ion ch.ad. repeats the words, and at the end of each clause the postulant bows his head in silence (1)1, frater, associate adeptus minor of the 5=6 grade of the ancient rosicrucian fraternity of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, standing here before the door of the vault of the adepti, do solemnly affirm and testify to the faith which i hold in my heart in those greater mysteries to which the lesser mysteries are the door; i believe that they are implanted in the soul in silence, and that through the veils of silence only can they be beheld. standing thus in the sign of osiris slain, with all sincerity and singleness of heart, do i affirm that i will eve

l assured that he who gazes upon evil things or listens to the lure thereof save only with the firm intention and will to stem its progress and transmute its power into the good, the true and the beautiful--can but increase that evil. as it is written who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom i have sent" part 2 the white altar is placed midway between the entrance and the door of the vault. upon it are arranged coloured candles unlit. west of this is an easel supporting the tarot keys of justice and the hanged man, concealing the candles from the postulant. ch. and 2nd ads. are seated either side of the altar: the door o f the vault is open. 3rd ad. remains in west. postulant now has bare feet except for scarlet shoes, and a purple cloak is thrown around him. the admission

over death. having ears, may he/she hear with the understanding; having eyes may he/she perceive with the spirit having lips may he/she speak ow truth; having a heart may he/she love righteousness. quicken in him/her, 0 divine creator, the life divine; draw him/her with cords that he/she may, run after thee; bind him/her to the altar that he/she may evermore serve thee. amen" they toithdnuo fnma the vault leaving the door slightly ajar. the vault is in dab= save for the candle. the hours are sounded and the sentences for the 36 hours are read outside the vault (at the beginning of each sentence there is one gong sound) 1 "i will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for thou lord makest me to dwell in safety" 2 "thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee" 3 "so he giv

ch.ad "hail, hail, hail unto thee who has died; rise up; thou hast embraced thy bones, thou has gathered together thy flesh and blood; elohim gebur guardeth thee; elohim gebur strengtheneth thy hands; yea, he guideth thy feet; thy lips are open, thou hast received thy head; thou hast received thy soul, and thy spirit hath returned to thee from the stars which never diminish" they lead him out of the vault so that he stands just outside the door. ch.ad. at south, 2nd ad. at north. shek. comes up to door behind him. water drops from her raised hands onto his head 2nd ad "happy is he who hath looked upon the place of rest; the waters shall not overwhelm him (doulce siges) parapedemes de vailis, shall be his name" ch.ad "i am the lord of those who are raised up, who come forth out of the dark

ons of that impetus. collectively they are the higher levels of the soul, synthesized together in a working format in archetypal terms. opening the opening vibration that activates the link to the second order is its divine name "rose rubea et aurea crucie which is then transmitted to the individual by touching the rose cross. this also equates to establishing the link to the second order through the vault by way of the lightning flash. with the word "elohim gibor" is the second vibration, which summons the archangel khamael and the angelic choir of the seraphim to assist with the ceremony. the secret number 20, refers to the gematria of the second vibration "elohim gibor" and also stands for the 20 princes of the enochian tablet of union, a complete synthesis of spirit on the enochian lev

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sted at dawn on friday, october 13th 1307. friday the 13th has beendeemed unlucky ever since. many templars were seized, including their grand master,jacques de molay, and subjected to the unimaginable torture of the inquisition. but thereis clear evidence that many templars knew of the plan and escaped.documents detailing their rules and rituals were removed or destroyed before theraids and when the vaults were opened at the templar headquarters in paris, the vastfortune philippe so coveted was gone. he and his pope pressured other monarchs toarrest the templars, but this wasnt easy. in the german, later french, region oflorraine, the duke supported the templars and in other parts of germany the templarswent unprosecuted. others changed their name from knights templar and continued as154b

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incent price, famous for their roles in horror movies. the society holds meetings, lectures, and film showings and has organized tours to transylvania by arrangement with the romanian tourist ministry. these tours have traced the route of jonathan harker in stoker s novel dracula and visited localities associated with the book. during the latter part of 1976, the society s newsletter, voices from the vaults, was amplified by publication of the magazine the dracula journals (now discontinued. address: the hon. secretary, the dracula society, 36 elliston house, 100 wellington st, london, se18 gqf, england. sources davies, bernard. whitby dracula trail. scarborough, yorkshire, uk: department of tourism and amenities, scarborough borough council, n.d. guiley, rosemary. vampires among us. new y

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sources: varma, devendra. the genesis of dracula: a re-visit. in peter underwood, ed. the vampire s bedside companion. london: leslie frewin, 1975. the gothic flame. london: arthur barker, 1957. the history of the gothic novel in england. n.p, 1957. the vampire in legend, lore, and literature. introduction to varney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood. new york: arno press, 1970, ed. voices from the vaults: authentic tales of vampires and ghosts. toronto: key porter books, 1987. vasiliev, leonid leonidovich (1891.1966) soviet physiologist and parapsychologist. born in russia, he graduated from petersburg university in 1914. he was a teacher of biological sciences at ufa, bashkir (1914.21, head of the physiology department, bekhterev brain institute, leningrad (1921.38, and a professor of

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ce possessed. a mown and withered grass at best; oh, with one happy glance but deign to give it all its worth again! faust quickly remove the burden boldly won, indeed not censured but without reward. already all is hers that in its depths the castle hides; to offer her aught special is useless. go, pile treasure upon treasure in order fit. set up the stately show of splendour yet unseen! and let the vaults glitter like new-born firmaments, prepare new paradises filled with lifeless life. hastening before her steps let flowered rug on rug unroll; thus may her every tread meet kindly footing, may her gaze alight on splendour blinding all but the divine. lynceus. easy are the lord s commands, child s-play to the servant s hands: beauty in such fair excess rules all wealth, rules blood no les

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

in individual cases of a strange, extremely light, restless metal of greyish hue, decorated with mathematical designs and bearing the title in the great race's curvilinear hieroglyphs. these cases were stored in tiers of rectangular vaults-like closed, locked shelves- wrought of the same rustless metal and fastened by knobs with intricate turnings. my own history was assigned a specific place in the vaults of the lowest or vertebrate level- the section devoted to the culture of mankind and of the furry and reptilian races immediately preceding it in terrestrial dominance. but none of the dreams ever gave me a full picture of daily life. all were the merest misty, disconnected fragments, and it is certain that these fragments were not unfolded in their rightful sequence. i have, for exampl

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

the laney-evans (1943) bibliography entry for the pamphlet version produced by the rebel press. this date, as can easily be ascertained from the fact that this was a "limited memorial edition, is spurious (lovecraft died in 1937; in fact, it dates to 1938. the correct date of 1927 comes from the final draft of the essay, which appears on a letter addressed to clark ashton smith("to the curator of the vaults of yoh-vombis, with the concoctor's] comments. the letter is dated april 27, 1927 and was apparently kept by lovecraft to circulate as needed- original title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during t

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

en talked of in the land of mnar, and as it drew nigh there came to sarnath on horses and camels and elephants men from thraa, llarnek, and kadetheron, and all the cities of mnar and the lands beyond. before the marble walls on the appointed night were pitched the pavilions of princes and the tents of travelers. within his banquet-hall reclined nargis-hei, the king, drunken with ancient wine from the vaults of conquered pnoth, and surrounded by feasting nobles and hurrying slaves. there were eaten many strange delicacies at that feast; peacocks from the distant hills of linplan, heels of camels from the bnazic desert, nuts and spices from sydathrian groves, and pearls from wave-washed mtal dissolved in the vinegar of thraa. of sauces there were an untold number, prepared by the subtlest co

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

into the abyss was the head of a steep flight of steps- small numerous steps like those of black passages i had traversed- but after a few feet the glowing vapours concealed everything. swung back open against the left-hand wall of the passage was a massive door of brass, incredibly thick and decorated with fantastic bas-reliefs, which could if closed shut the whole inner world of light away from the vaults and passages of rock. i looked at the step, and for the nonce dared not try them. i touched the open brass door, and could not move it. then i sank prone to the stone floor, my mind aflame with prodigious reflections which not even a death-like exhaustion could banish. as i lay still with closed eyes, free to ponder, many things i had lightly noted in the frescoes came back to me with n

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cal monuments. they all bear reference to this universal story of the mystic fire. we claim to be the first to point out how strikingly and yet how, at the same time, without any suspicion of it these emblems and remains, in so many curious and unintelligible forms, of the magic religion are found in the christian churches. rose window, or catherine-wheel window (from laon cathedral, france) from the vaults of the temple of solomon, at jerusalem. chapter the eleventh. monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries. e think that we shall be able fully in our succeeding chapters to place beyond contradiction an extraordinary discovery. it is, that the whole round of disputed emblems which so puzzle antiquarians, and which are found in all countries, point to the belief in fire as the firs

labarum. the celebrated sign which is said to have appeared in the sky at noonday to the emperor constantine was in this form. figure 38 is the monogram of the saviour. to show the fig. 35. terminal figures. 169 parallel in symbolical forms, we will add some further authorities from the temple of solomon at jerusalem. figure 39, no. 1, is an evidently corinthian foliation. it is from a pillar in the vaults of the temple of solomon at jerusalem (probably a lotus-acanthus) no. 2 is evidently the crux-ansata, combining the indications of lotus and lily. here is a union of the classic, the judaic, and gothic forms, all presenting the same idea at once. buddha was the sun in taurus; cristna (crishna, krishna) was the sun in aries. in regard to the origin of speech, of writing, and of letters

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erra cotta were buried with the dead. some of the lamps were enclosed in circular vessels for protection; and instances have been recorded in which the original oil was found in them, in a perfect state of preservation, after more than 2,000 years. there is ample proof that many of these lamps were burning when the sepulchers were sealed, and it has been declared that they were still burning when the vaults were opened hundreds of years later. the possibility of preparing a fuel which would renew itself as rapidly as it was consumed has been a source of considerable controversy among medi val authors. after due consideration of the evidence at hand, it seems well within the range of possibility that the ancient priest-chemists did manufacture lamps that burned, if not indefinitely, at leas

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precise geometric shapes because of sir johndee's pact with the macrobes. since the entire human race was offered up in the pact,what better way than to have humans live right in the center of enormous satanic ritualprecincts? we call these precincts cities. in the book, secret architecture of ournation s capitol, researcher david ovason gives information gleaned from thelibrary of congress, from the vaults and archives of washington d. c, and from thememoirs, letters, and writings of americas founding fathers which reveal that citiesand their design are part of an occult agenda instigated by freemasons of the 33rddegree and beyond. ovason, apparently, does not comprehend what the agenda is. hereveals that in washington d. c. alone, however, there are 22 full zodiacs secreted intothe archi

ee).the great irish scholar and christian thinker c. s. lewis wrote in the 1940s aboutthese aliens and their internment on our earth, which he referred to as the silentplanet. in a similar vein as his colleague j. r. r. tolkien, he attempted to create fic-tional works that would disseminate the truth that he had uncovered while reading thegreat untranslated medieval and anglo-saxon tomes, deep in the vaults of oxford andcambridge universities. not one-tenth of the books that have been penned are available in the public domain. throughout time, there have been many who have written on the matters here discussed. such writings are eventually ridiculed and/or sequestered (see five million years to earth and the name of the rose) until now, none of the plans for escaping the silent planet have

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

der in criminal legislation; the practical philosophy which is the basis and point of departure for our laws does not recognize the facts of bewitchment and of occult influences. we touch here upon extraordinary revelations, and are prepared for the unbelief and derision of incredulous fanaticism; voltairean religion has also its fanatics, pace the great shades who must now be lurking sullenly in the vaults of the pantheon, while catholicism, strong ever in its practices and prestige, chants the office overhead. the perfect word, that which is adequate to the thought which it expresses, always contains virtually or supposes a tetrad: the idea, with its three necessary and correlated forms, then the image of the thing expressed, with the three terms of the judgement which qualifies it. when

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

woven by a prostitute: strictly speaking, the first cloth which comes to hand may be used, should it have been woven by a woman. the evocation should be performed on the night between monday and tuesday, or that between friday and saturday. a solitary and forbidden spot must be chosen, such as a cemetery haunted by evil 88 the ritual of transcendental magic spirits, a dreaded ruin in the country, the vaults of an abandoned convent, a place where some murder has been committed, a druidic altar or an old temple of idols. a black seamless and sleeveless robe must be provided; a leaden cap emblazoned with the signs of the moon, venus and saturn; two candles of human fat set in black wooden candlesticks, carved in the shape of a crescent; two crowns of vervain; a magical sword with a black hand

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