Michael Wynn's Occult Reference Library
THE VIRGIN,THE VIRGINS

Return to Occult Library Index

0 0

rand word may be exchanged between members of various golden dawn orders the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of the following: heat and dryness fire heat and moisture air cold and dryness earth cold and moisture water there are twelve zodiacal signs, and they are: 1 aries, the ram a 2 taurus, the bull _b 3 gemini, the twins c 4 cancer, the crab d 5 leo, the lion e 6 virgo, the virgin f 7 libra, the scales g 8 scorpio, the scorpion h 9 sagittarius, the archer i 10 capricorn, the goat j 11 aquarius, the water-bearer k 12 pisces, the fishes l these twelve signs are distributed among the four triplicities, or sets of three signs, each attributed to one of the four elements. they represent the operation of the elements in the zodiac. thus, to fire are attributed: aries a

ns. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ias (see suppl. they implore elias to make their fields fruitful, and keep the liail away from them^ olearius already had put it upon record, that the circassians on the caspian sacrificed a goat on ellas s clay, and stretched the skin on a pole with prayers* even the muhammadans, in praying that a thunderstorm may be averted, name the name of ilya^ now, the servian songs put by the side of elias the virgin mary; and it was she especially that in the mid. ages was invoked for rain. the chroniclers mention a rain-procession in the liege 1 gotman, a divine, a priest] conf. supra, pp. 88-9. 2 the eabbinical legend likewise assumes that elias will retiu-n and sluy the malignant sammael; eisenmenger 2, 696. 851. 3 klaproth's travels in the caucasus 2, 606. 601* erman's archiv flir russland 1841

(p. 272) the bright, it is only another part of his history that is related here: orvandill must have set out on his travels again, and on this second adventure forfeited the toe which thorr set in the sky, though what he had to do with the god we are not clearly told. beyond a doubt, the name of the glittering star-group is referred to, when as. glosses render' jubar' by earendel, and a hymn to the virgin mary in cod. kxon" 7, 20 presents the following passage. eala earendel, engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended, and s6i5fa?sta sunnan leoma> torlit ofer tunglas]?u tida gehwane of sylfuni l^e symle inlihtes! i.e, jubar, angelorum spleudidissime, super orbem terrarum hominibus misse, radie vere solis, supra stellas lucide, qui omni tempore ex te ipso luces! mary or christ is her

unctae matris dietpurgae utero excisus, is mentioned in the chron. petershus. p. 302, with the remark: de talibus excisis literae testantur quod, si vita comes fuerit, felices in mundo habeantur. to such the common standard cannot be applied, their extraordinary manner of coming into the world gives presage of a higher and mysterious destiny. not unlike is the greek myth of metis and tritogeneia: the virgin goddess springs out of the forehead of zeus. the phrase about' hlosr being born %cuh helmet, sicord and horse (above, p. 76, is explained by the hervararsaga, p. 490, to mean, that the arms and animals which accompany the hero were forged and born at the time of his birth. schroter's finnish eunes speak of a child that was born ar7ned: this reminds us of the superstition about lucky chi

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

, aries, fire, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox of earth, in whose manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries; virgo, water; the firmament, the balanced force, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign operating in the zodiac) the virgin goddess and the waters of creation. returning to the spelling of yeheshuah, it is easy to see that the lamb is an appropriate symbol of jesus, from the prevalence of the aries symbol, whose fire is subdued and modified by its other associations. hiero: returns to his seat. heg: leads practicus to west. hiereus: in the theoricus grade you were shown the lineal figures attributed to the p

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalist

as an amplifier for your own inner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the crystals and so empower your own auric field (the area of psychic en

u think your partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfol

ing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to

g over three days, up to and including the full moon, is excellent for an urgent project or one with a necessarily short time scale. the waxing moon is good for spells to improve health, the gradual increase of prosperity, for attracting good luck, for fertility magick, for finding friendship, new love and romance, for job hunting, for making plans for the future and increasing psychic awareness. the virgin goddesses ruled the waxing moon. a waxing moon fertility spell i get asked for fertility spells perhaps more than any other kind, as the modern world with everything running 24 hours a day, including lighting and heating, throws our bodies out of sync. certainly, people no longer make love in tune with the rising energies of the earth. while physiological problems need medical input, fe

ays getting longer and warmer. in this way, the newly pregnant mother could benefit from an abundance of fresh food in the summer and autumn and give birth at a time when she would naturally be resting for the winter with the dark nights. this would enable her to spend time with the infant before returning to the fields or to tend the herds in spring. this pattern is reflected in the old myths of the virgin goddess, who became pregnant at the spring equinox and gave birth to the new sun on the mid-winter solstice that became christianised as our christmas. so in these earlier and by no means idyllic times, everything- earth, cattle, corn, humans and animals- was in harmony, not only physically, but spiritually. fertility spells and the rituals marking the passing of the year were a natural

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of venus, for the moon corresponds to the sun much as venus does to mars. she is more purely passive than venus, and although venus is so universal the moon is also universal in another sense. the moon is the highest and the lowest; the moon is the aspiration, the link of man and god; she is the supreme purity: isis the virgin, isis the virgin mother; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. the niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the all

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

mindful of the famine and the disease, and being minded to have no more of such, if it could by any means be avoided. they were therefore exceeding punctual with their gifts. but i was daily more afraid, being in a great sweat of passion, of which i dared to speak to no man. nor did i dare to speak even privily in mine own heart thereof, lest i should discover its nature. but i sent my favourite, the virgin istarah (slim, pallid, and trembling as a young lotus in the west wind, with my ring of office, to enquire of the old magus of the well. and he answered her by pointing upward to the sky and then downward to the earth. and i read this oracle as if ti were spoken "as above, so beneath" this came to me as i had flung myself in despair at the feet of my lady, covering them with my tears; f

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

of the goddess is no more known. and she maketh the infants restless, and to cry, so the reason for the pouring of honey over the sacred bread, for it is written: bread of the cult of the dead in its place i eat in the court prepared water of the cult of the dead in its place i drink a queen am i, who has become estranged to the cities she that comes from the lowlands in a sunken boat am i. i am the virgin goddess hostile to my city a stranger in my streets. musigamenna uruma bur me yensulamu girme en! oh, spirit, who understand thee? who comprehend thee? now, there are two incantation to the ancient ones set down here, which are well known to the sorcerers of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

wn unto thee in many other places how death and love be twins. now art thou the hunter, and death rideth beside thee with his horse and spear as thou chasest thy will through the forests of eternity, whose trees are the hair of nuit thy mistress! thrill with the joy of life and death! know, hunter mighty and swift, the quarry turns to bay! thou has but to make one sharp thrust, and thou hast won. the virgin of eternity lies supine at thy mercy, and thou art pan! thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age-long love. hast thou not striven to the inmost in thee? death is the crown of all. harden! hold up thyself! lift thine head! breath not so deep- die! or art thou still entangled with the thorny plaits of wild briar rose that thou hast woven in thy magick dance on earth? are not

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

y-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the corre

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ent: in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the fool: o :aleph (an ox: 1 :air (the con :the free breath. the (the babe: english a: dition of: svastika. the holy in the egg: more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus, bacchus: tial vehicle: reine thor" who knows diphues: sexually: nothing. horus. etc: undevelop: christ-bacchus as the: ed. life: innocent babe, pursued: i.e. the: by herod-here: organ of: hercules strangling: possible: the serpents. the: expression: unconscious self not: yet determined in any: direction: the devil :xv :ayin (an: 7

sexually: cross kithairon- levi's de: male: thyrsus. sign: love: i.e: the instinct: to satisfy: godhead by: uniting it: with the: universe: iota-alpha-digamma varies in significance with successive aeons. 33 "aeon of isis" matriarchal age. the great work conceived as a straightforward simple affair. we find the theory reflected in the customs of matriarchy. parthenogenesis is supposed to be true. the virgin (yod-virgo) contains in herself the principle of growth- the epicene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand

gamma delta+ alpha lambda pi+ omicron iota nu+ digamma iota= 309= sh t= xx+ xi= 31 the secret key of the law. digamma is the manifested star. iota is the secret life. serpent- light. lamp- love. wand- liberty. wings- silence. cloak these symbols are all shewn in the atu "the hermit. they are the powers of the yod, whose extension is the vau. yod is the hand wherewith man does his will. it is also the virgin; his essence is inviolate. alpha is the babe "who has formulated his father, and made fertile his mother- harpocrates, etc, as before; but he develops to omicron the exalted "devil (also the "other" secret eye) by the formula of the initiation of horus elsewhere described in detail. this "devil" is called satan or shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formu

tent in certain very lofty operations of the magick of the inmost light (see liber 813) the formula of thelema may be summarized thus: theta "babalon and the beast conjoined- epsilon unto nuith (ccxx, i, 51- lambda the work accomplished in justice- eta the holy graal- mu the water therein- alpha the babe in the egg (harpocrates on the lotus) that of "agape" is as follows: dionysus (capital alpha- the virgin earth gamma- the babe in the egg (small alpha- the image of the father- the massacre of the innocents, pi (winepress- the draught of ecstasy, eta. the student will find it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. there is also the gnostic name of the seven vowels, which gives a musical formula most puissant in evocations of

e operations in the universe of their triune energy. it is thus the formula of a manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternates with a pralaya, during which creation is latent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is the holy spirit who begets god in flesh upon the virgin, according to the formula familiar to students of "the golden bough. a is also the "babe in the egg" thus produced. the quality of a is thus bisexual. it is the original being- zeus arrhenothelus, bacchus diphues, or baphomet. u or v is the manifested son himself. its number is 6. it refers therefore, to the dual nature of the logos as divine and human; the interlacing of the upright an

suggesting therefore the breath of life as opposed to that of speech. impelled by these considerations, the master therion proposed to replace the m of aum by a compound letter mgn, symbolizing thereby the subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminates the manifested life of vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of generation and knowledge, the virgin moon and the serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commemoration of the legend so grossly deformed in the hebrew legend of the garden of eden, and its even more malignantly debased falsification in that bitterly sectarian broadside, the apocalypse. sound work invariable vindicates itself by furnishing confirmatory corollaries not contemplated by the qabalist. in the pre

ament is implied in the mass of the phoenix in a slightly different form. 180 the eucharist of "six" elements has father, son, and holy spirit above; breath, water, and blood beneath. it is a sacrament reserved for high initiates<holy spirit of life, in silence. the bread and wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the virgin mother. the elements are then intermingled and consumed after the epiphany of iacchus, when "countenance beholdeth countenance> the eucharist of "seven" elements is mystically identical with that of one. of the method of consecrating the elements it is only necessary to say that they should be treated as talismans. the circle and other furniture of the temple should receive the usual be

e eaters of dung in the day of be-with-us, and their shreds, strewn in the abyss, are lost. not so the masters of the temple, that sit as piles of dust in the city of the pyramids, awaiting the great flame that shall consume that dust to ashes. for the blood that they have surrendered is treasured in the cup of our lady babalon, a mighty 192 medicine to awake the eld of the all-father, and redeem the virgin of the world from her virginity. ii before leaving the subject of black magic, one may touch lightly on the question of pacts with the devil. the devil does not exist. it is a false name invented by the black brothers to imply a unity in their ignorant muddle of dispersions. a devil who had unity would be a god<"the devil" is, historically, the god of any people that one personally disl

starry universe. this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man, but he who made gods of our race, knowing good and evil; he bade "know thyself" and taught initiation. he is "the devil" of the book of thoth, and his emblem is baphomet, the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. the number of his atu is xv, which is yod he, the monogram of the eternal, the father one with the mother, the virgin seed one with all-containing space. he is therefore life, and love. but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is light, and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty (note that the "jehovah" of the hebrews is etymologically connected with these. the classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is tha

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s get any book for free on: www.abika.com 290 duce their stature to that of personifications of various cosmic energies. history lends its weight to my view. when the philosophic schools, unable to refute the charge of absurdity leveled at the orthodox devotee who believed that mars actually begot romulus and remus on a vestal virgin, explained that mars was no more than the martial instinct, and the virgin a type of purity, their faith declined, and with it roman virtue "educate" colonel blimp's children and we have the "intelligentsia" of bloomsbury. i am very sorry about all this; but life must always be brutal and stupid so long as it depends upon 31 animals and vegetables for nourishment. how restore faith in the gods? there is only one way; we must get to know them personally. and th

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

rtion 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, discouraged one; tax sm species, kind nym flask, bottle kp spice; drug; poison ms dryness; ship yc 101 swallowed, destroyed (l) a storehouse ms) michael: archangel of fire (lit. glike god h) l)kym kingdom; a virgin princess (esp. the virgin princess, i.e. the church) hkwlm gut; gut-string )myn vomit )q and it was so nk yhyw 102 a white goose nbl zww) trust; truth; faith hnwm) desirable, worthy of desire dmxn grace; pride; fame, glory; a wild goat ybc lord, owner; to possess; lands, government l(b unit of measure bq vilon, veil: the veil between yesod and malkuth nwlyw 103 dust qb) to guard, protect nng loathed l(g food, me

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

the meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way! calculate well the formula of thy way! create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. work thou, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, in and for eternity. ii. purity is to live only to the highest; and the highest is all: be thou as artemis to pan! read thou in the "book of the law, and break through the veil of the virgin! iii. this is the harmony of the universe, that love unites the will to create with the understanding of that creation: understand thou thine own will! love and let love! rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof! iv. pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a fountain to the universe. find thou thyself in every star! achieve thou every possibility

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

mse is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in the apocalypse. in the mystic greek used by the gnostics we find similar traces, sophia being from s ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. iao is phallos, kteis, proktos. the word logos means the boy (g) naturally engendered of the virgin (l) and the serpent (s. theos (root o, first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also the lingam-yoni conjoined. christos is 'the love of passion of the rising sun (r) and the serpent (s. the i and t indicate certain details which are foreign to the present discussion. neuma (atlantean n m) is the 'arch of the woman, maria, the woman of the sun* the words meithras and abraxas a

e woman entered, lingam being conjoined with yoni, bears the sun from her serpent womb" and "from the womb's mouth the sun (cometh seeking) a womb for his desire, even the womb of a serpent, the course of the year being signified in this manner, as usual with the ancients. this plan of an idea corresponding to each letter was carried out very strictly: thus tla, black, means the stigma or mark of the virgin's womb, ia (hail! greeting 'face to face, from the other peculiarity described above. these few examples will suffice to indicate the singular character of the language* and the way in which its essential dogmatic symbols have been incorporated by the heirs of atlas in the inmost sanctuaries of races which they deemed worthy of such assistance. i must not pass over in silence the questi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

e he was not content with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. by the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god-man, etc) whose value in greek should be a=1, i=10, f=6, a=1, s=200, s=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see "liber 418) protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. al i,8 "the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs" the old comment 8. here beings the text. khabs is the secret light or l.v.x; the khu is the magical entity of a man. i find later (sun in virgo, an vii) that khabs means star. in which chase cf. v.5. the do

of the cosmos, to 'die' and rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of god. the kingdom of malkuth, the virgin bride, and the child is the dwarf-self, the phallic consciousness, which is the true life of man, beyond his 'veils' of incarnation. we have to thank freud- and especially jung- for stating this part of the magical doctrine so plainly, as also for their development of the connexion of the will of this 'child' with the true or unconscious will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the '

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

munion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high altar

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

pecially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or the supernal he to binah, the supernal mother; the letter w to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of w; lastly

yetziratic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is air, by tarot the fool, and by signification an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer

rticular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is bruised, being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= c) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read: the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit, while cjn reads death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the conception of the serpent as the redeemer is truer. see my explanation of the 5=6 ritual (equinox, no. iii. 361. rah ynda, the lord of the earth. note 361 denotes the 3 supernals, the 6 members of ruach, and malkuth. this name of god therefore embraces all th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

hings to me imputed by calling me materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, 735 the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said: your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate! i sat in vague expectant bliss. 740 the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him! 745 how dare you be on me encroaching? the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began: fear nothing, mary! all is well! 750 i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a

a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused

sph, the left eye; the parts thereof in trust to be divided among their servitors; as the right cornea, to aphlek; the left, to urnbal; mighty spirits are they, and bold! to the archdevil rama,3 the right ear and its parts; to the archangel umumatis, the left ear and its parts; the teeth to two-and-thirty letters of the sixfold name: one to the air, and fifteen to the rain and the ram, and ten to the virgin, and six to the bull; the mouth to the archangels alalal and bikarak, lip and lip; the tongue to that devil of all devils yehowou.4 ho, devil! canst thou speak? 1 col. olcott, the theosophist. 2? the spirt of motor-cars. 3 vishnu, the preserver. 4 jehova. appendix ii 122 amen. the pharynx to mahabonisbash, the great angel; to seven-and-thirty myriads of legions of planetary spirits the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

ce velvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable recesses, 40 till at last the spell is woven, and the faery veil is cloven that was sequence, space, and stress of the soul-sick consciousness "give thy body to the beasts! give thy spirit to the priests! break in twain the hazel rod on the virgin lips of god! tear the rosy cross asunder! shatter the black bolt of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of t

of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering

st aim at riches without forfeiting his poverty; should he be rich he must aim at possessing poverty as well, without taking one farthing from the coffers of his treasury. the man of much estate must aim at possessing all the land, until there is no kingdom left for him to conquer. the unobtainable must be obtained, and in the obtaining of it is to be found the golden key of the kingdom of light. the virgin must become as the wanton, yet though filled with all the itchings of lust, she must in no wise forfeit the purity of her virginity; for the foundations of the temple are indeed set between day and night, and the scaffolding thereof is as an arch flung between heaven and hell. for if she who is a virgin become but as a common strumpet, then she indeed falls and rises not, becoming in he

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

"the musicians" kill! kill! life is shrill! still! still! word and will! flame! flame! speak the name! trill! trill! thrill! thrill! i acclaim the shame! i have heard the word! fulfil the will "the prophet" bid the virgins veil the bride! lead her forth, a shower of spray, 17 a flower of foam upon the tide, a fleece of cloud upon the day! so my sightless eyes may see in the transcendental trance the virgin of eternity lead the demi-gods to dance. has the tree of life its root in the soul or in the skin? is it god, or is it brute, that comes mystically in for the doves within the flute, the eagles on the violin? ah! the perfume's coiling tresses curl like veils upon the limbs of the dancer that caresses with her flying feet the hymns that flow and ripple in the air, bathing all the doves o

lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen, by whom alone tetragrammaton 82 can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the upper-most point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the letter v to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of v, th

estigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in "777. thus hb:aleph in the yetziratic world is "air" by tarot "the fool" and by signification "an ox" thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= hb:yod, hb:nun, hb:resh, hb:yod= virgo, scorpio, sun, virgo; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death, and resurrection of christ; and further the sings of mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and

of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. mshich, messiah, and nchsh, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is "bruised" being replaced by m, the letter of sacrifice, and god, the letter alike of virginity (hb:yod= virgo) and of original deity (hb:yod= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read "the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (hb:chet, the chariot) through the spirit" while nchsh reads "death entering the (realm of the) spirit" but the conception of the serpent as the redeemer is truer. see my explanation of 5= 6 ritual (equinox, no. iii. 361. adni hartz, the lord of the earth. note 361 denotes the 3 supernals, the 6 members of ruach, and malkuth. this name of god therefore embrace

es; but i was blind, blinder than wood, more silent than the moon; and so thou camest to me! oh, my darling, my little rose-lipped darling, fountain-cool thy hands, and thine eyes bright with celestial fire drawn from the world's heart! oh, my little one, come to me here in the great slow silences, in the radiant dimness of the after-glow of the passionate ache of the world; i am pan no more, but the virgin of the starlight of the world. her in the silence, in the great, green woods, lie thou with me! slumber with me to-night under the stars, and the yellow drifting moon. we ill love no more as syrinx and pan; diana! come unto me, and i will grant the thing thou cravest! oh! the foaming milk of the stars "i bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon" 123 rosa ignota! ah! the pale moon flowe

the world. her in the silence, in the great, green woods, lie thou with me! slumber with me to-night under the stars, and the yellow drifting moon. we ill love no more as syrinx and pan; diana! come unto me, and i will grant the thing thou cravest! oh! the foaming milk of the stars "i bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon" 123 rosa ignota! ah! the pale moon flowers; the soft shy glances, and the virgin unwon! oh! the sweet burden of the sunless hours: love! i am conquered! nay, love! i have won! oh, feeble moon-light! oh sweet stars undone by the pale longing of eld! o virgin word, under the silent moon i bear the sword! oh, the soft burden of the sunken sun "i bear a chalice of lilies under the moon "i bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon" light is no more; oh! let us swoon and

are no longer men or magicians. let me congratulate mr trevena upon a most enthralling and instructive book. o. h. the whirlpool. by ethel archer. the equinox. 1"s" net. i can add nothing to the appreciation which i have written for preface to this volume, which all should read. aleister crowley. look at the cover, and shudder! in this masterpiece of illustration dwells the very soul of the book- the virgin emaciated with insatiable passion; the verminous, illicit night- bird of a prehistoric age (the only conceivable steed for such an one; the turbid waters of imagery; the lurid sky to which tentacular arms appeal to loves too luscious for this world, are all embodied in this simple design. the artist has seized the loathsome horror of the book- i feared even to sign it. look at the cover

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

mains. it is not possible that one should come to zaa. give me thy face. let me kiss it with my cold kisses. ah! ah! ah! fall back from me. the word, the word of the aeon is makhashanah. and these words shalt thou say backwards: 17 ararnay obolo maharna tutulu nom lahara en nediezo lo sad fonusa sobana arana binuf la la la arpazna uohulu when thou wilt call my burden unto appearance, for i who am the virgin goddess am the pregnant goddess, and i have cast down my burden even unto the borders of the universe. they that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes

and in his left a book. yet is he silent; and that which is understood between him and me shall not be revealed in this place. and the mystery shall be revealed to whosoever shall say, with ecstasy of worship in his heart, with a clear mind, and a passionate body: it is the voice of a god, and not of a man. and now all that glory hath withdrawn itself; and the old king lies prostate, abject. and the virgin that rode upon the bull cometh forth, led by all those angels of the holy sevenfold table, and they are dancing round her with garlands and sheaves of flowers, loose robes and hair dancing in the wind. and she smiles upon me 64 with infinite brilliance, so that the whole aethyr flushes warm, and she says with a subtle sub-meaning, pointing downwards: by this, that. and i took her hand a

e that is the child and the father of their love. glory unto the star, and glory unto the snake, and glory unto the swordsman of the sun. and worship and blessing throughout the aeon unto the name of the beast, four-square, mystic, wonderful (v. ii) who is this that travelleth between the hosts, that is poised upon the edge of the aethyr by the wings of maut? who is this that seeketh the house of the virgin"(refrain (v. iii) this is he that hath given up his name. this is he whose blood hath been gathered into the cup of babalon.this is he that sitteth, a little pile of dry dust, in the city of the pyramids"(refrain (v. iv) until the light of the father of all kindle that death. until the breath touch that dry dust. until the ibis be revealed unto the crab, and the sixfold star become the

g of this aethyr from afar is like the partaking of all the former aethyrs. the seer is lost in wonder, which is peace. and the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious archangels with joined hands, that stand and sing: this is the daughter of babalon the beautiful, that she hath borne unto the father of all. and unto all hath she borne her. this is the daughter of the king. this is the virgin of eternity. this is she that the holy one hath wrested from the giant time, and the prize of them that have overcome space. this is she that is set upon the throne of understanding. holy, holy, holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. for kor they have called her, and malkuth, and betulah, and persephone. and the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vai

the hounds of heaven follow, and the crocodiles of hell await? aleph, vau, yod, ayin, resh, tau, is his name. beneath his feet is the kingdom, and upon his head the crown. he is spirit and matter; he is peace and power; in him is chaos and night and pan, and upon babalon his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth deflower. and this is that which is written: malkuth shall be uplifted and set upon the throne of binah. and this is the stone of the philosophers that is set as a seal upon the tomb of tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of choronzon. terrible and wonderful is the

n the beginning, saying, the earth, let her be governed by her parts (this is the prostitution of babalon to pan, and let there be division in her (the formation of the many from the one, that her glory may be always ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. her course let it round with the heavens (that is, let her way be always harmonious with heaven, and as an 152 handmaid let her serve them (that is, the virgin of eternity climbing into the bed of chaos. one season let it confound another (that is, let there be unwearying variety of predicates, and let there be no creature upon or within her the same (that is, let there be an unwearying variety of subjects. all her members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one creature equal with another (for if there were any duplication

onality) 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 believe this sentence was written so, for it seemed to contradict the rest of the call, so he altered it) one while let her be known and another while a stranger (that is, the mystery of the holy one being at the same time identical with everything and apart from it, because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwe

ehement and clear; 156 and behind the vesica piscis is a black cross extending to the top and to the edges of the stone. and now blackness spreads, and swallows up the images. now there is naught but a vast black triangle having the apex downwards, and in the centre of the black triangle is the face of typhon, the lord of the tempest, and he crieth aloud: despair! despair! for thou mayest deceive the virgin, and thou mayest cajole the mother; but what wilt thou say unto the ancient whore that is throned in eternity? for if she will not, there is neither force nor cunning, nor any wit, that may prevail upon her. thou canst not woo her with love, for she "is" love. and she hath all, and hath no need of thee. and thou canst not woo her with gold, for all the kings and captains of the earth, a

nce of nemo into the world; his work therein. this is the first mystery revealed to a m.t. 12. the second mystery: the cup-bearer of babalon the beautiful. the holy grail manifested to the m.t, with the first knowledge of the black brothers. 11. now cometh the frontier of the holy city; the m.t. is taken into the abyss. 10. the abyss. 9. the m.t. hath passed the abyss, and is let to the palace of the virgin redeemed from malkuth unto binah. 8. the fuller manifestation of the holy guardian angel. 7. the virgin become the bride, the great reward of the ceremony. also an adumbration of the further progress. 6. a shadowing-forth of the grade of magus. 5. the reception of the m.t. among the brethren of the a. a. the manifestation of the arrow. 4. further concerning the magus. the marriage of ch

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation."the virgin lies at bethlehem.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the root of david shoots a stem.(o holy spirit, shadow her! she lies alone amid the kine.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the straw is fragrant as with wine.(o holy spirit shadow her! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can s

her! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other cath

om our singers fervent religious hymns."there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book,'amphora, a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary, etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says:"outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary. this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they are written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that can

written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it religiously impossible not to admire them. the "daily telegraph" says:"in this slight volume we have the utterances of a devout anonymous roman catholic singer, in a number of songs or hymns addressed to the virgin mary. the author, who has evidently a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each thus providing a song for each week of the year. the songs are all of praise or prayer addressed to the virgin, and, through many have a touch of mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestnes

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

chcraft, and infernal necromancy. the bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge "the spiritual guide" and "the cherubic wanderer" are set aside for "the arbatel" and "the seven mysterious orisons" a hurried turning of many pages, the burning of many candles, and then- the key of solomon for a time is put away, with the grimoires and the rituals, the talismans, and the virgin parchments; the ancient books of the qabalah lie open before him; a flash of brilliant fire, like a silver fish leaping from out the black waters of the sea into 236 the starlight, bewilders him and is gone; for he has opened "the book of concealed mystery" and has read "before there was equilibrium countenance beheld not countenance" the words "yehi aour" trembled on his lips; the very

to affront that soulless swart abyss. i match &c. 328 da th i am insane. my reason tumbles; the tower of my being crumbles. here all is doubt, distress, despair: there is no force in strength or prayer. if pass i may, it is by might of the momentum of my flight. i match &c. gimel (and the crossing of daleth) free from that curse, loosed from that prison; from all that ruin am i risen! pure still, the virgin moon beguiles my azure passage with her smiles. now! o what love divine redeems my death, and bathes it in her beams! what sacring transubstantiates my flesh and blood, and incarnates the quintessential pan? what shore stretches beyond this secret door? hail! o thou sevenfold star of green, thou fourfold glory- all this teen caught up in ecstasy- a boon to pass me singing through the mo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

ound that they were fish and not flesh! annual raids were made on the seals after dark, usually in the autumn, and large numbers were captured. all, however, did not belong to the captors, for other persons of prominence were entitled to a share. the parish minister, according to martin "hath his choice of all the young seals, and that which he takes is called by the natives cullen-rory, that is, the virgin mary's seal. the steward of the island hath one paid to him, his officer hath another; and this by virtue of their offices" in the hebrides, as in orkney, the seal is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. one of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. the seal was credited wit

christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation "the virgin lies at bethlehem (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the root of david shoots a stem (o holy spirit, shadow her) she lies alone amid the kine (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the straw is fragrant as with wine (o holy spirit shadow her" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can sc

w her" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important a part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other ca

om our singers fervent religious hymns "there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book 'amphora' a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary" etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says "outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary' this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they are written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that can

written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it religiously impossible not to admire them" the "daily telegraph" says "in this slight volume we have the utterances of a devout anonymous roman catholic singer, in a number of songs or hymns addressed to the virgin mary. the author, who has evidently a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each- thus providing a song for each week of the year. the songs are all of praise or prayer addressed to the virgin, and, though many have a touch of mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestness

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

tself is in particular to be dreaded. of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of devotional apparitions. vishnu, christ, jehovah and other deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate love. see "bhagavad gita" chap. xi, the visions of many catholic saints, teresa, gertrude, francis and others, anna kingsford("clothed with the sun" part iii, idra rabba qadisha and so on. the virgin mary is a favourite with many; it is all one phenomenon. observe, though, that many such apparitions are not of the dhyana type at all; they are mostly mere hallucinations of the "astral plane" in section xiii. we have indicated the diagnostics. 69 methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on bhakta yoga- swami vivekananda's is the best i know of- and in loyola's "ex

alisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation- 4. in the worlds- assiah: in the taro, the princess- the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language- the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the forth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, kappa-omicron-rho-eta kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did 172 god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

ostulant is at once called to the roof; his lower will looketh upwards, and he sees at last the "invisible lignt" the altar shows (1) the great work as the compendium of unity (2) ihsvh symbol accomplishing this and expanded within into five circles. this shows that the five principles of man must be united perfectly.25 the lion and hb:yod with the rose cross represents the first cause, the dawn, the virgin mother, and the great work "nequaquam vaccum"26 shows that "before abraham was, i am" the eagle and hb:heh with the cup represent the blood shed for the remission of sins, and the chalice of the stoistes "libertas evangelii" shows free-will. the man with hb:vau and the dagger shows the "last result" hb:vau is taurus, the redemption. the dagger is the means. for "dei gloria intacta" is t

became to him clear as crystal, in which he could read his own thoughts mirrored in the wavelets of the ever-dancing waters of life. here again existence, as the world mystery, became to him the supreme riddle of the human sphinx; and in his strivings to read it, in his doubts, which minerva -like sprang from his former certainties, he informed within himself the first letter of the name of god, the virgin impregnated by the one idea_ the vision of adonai incarnated in her son. illumined by this one supreme longing which had burnt up his coarser desires, he passed through the next ritual to 234 the illusive foundation of yesod, which in its apparent equilibrium contains a falsified reflection of the supreme path of the fool. for, though its element is air, it is not the aethyr of zero, th

n being to consider oneself successful. it is here that man leaves, if he strive, the bow of worldly desires, and cleaves the firmament of thought like an arrow, which, eventually speeding out of the world's attraction, becomes as an universe to itself. this cleaving of the veil of the vault of the adepts is in truth the precipitation of the jechidah from the elemental flux that goes to make man. the virgin mother of malkuth, the earth fecundated by air, water and fire, is delivered of her son the spirit, who is the adept reborn in the vault as christian rosencreutz; not yet adonai the christ, the son of god, but adonai, jehesuah, the son of man, jesus the carpenter who one day will fashion the tree of life into the image of the supernal christ. no longer is the vision of adonai a mere gli

ions: prosecuted, alas! with what weakness, fatuity, and folly! and, lastly, the following, which is of considerable interest: i. in the afternoon shut myself up, and went on a journey. i went with a very personal guide: and beheld (after some lesser things) our master as he sate by the well with the woman of samaria. now the five husbands were five great religions which had defiled the purity of the virgin of the world: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought) other scenes also i saw in his life: and behold i also was crucified! now did i go backwards in time even unto berashith, the beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. first the abyss of the water: on which i, even i, brooded amid other dusky flames as s upon m held by my genius. and i beheld the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

s of life, in the palm of whose hand 20 all the arts lie bounden as a smoke-cloud betwixt the lips of the mountain. 10. o thou sovran lord of primaeval baresarkers, who huntest with dawn the dappled deer of twilight, and whose engines of war are blood-crested comets. i know thee! o thou flame-crowned self-luminous one, the lash of whose whip gathered the ancient worlds, and looseth the blood from the virgin clouds of heaven. 11. o thou sovran moonstone of pearly loveliness, from out whose many eyes flash the fire-clouds of life, and whose breath enkindleth the byss and the abyss. i know thee! o thou fountain-head of fierce aethyr, in the pupil of whose brightness all things lie crouched and wrapped like a babe in the womb of its mother. 12. o thou sovran mother of the breath of being, the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

uxurious brilliance! olympas. the desert calls. marsyas. then let us go! or seek the sacramental snow, where like a high-priest i may stand with acolytes on every hand, the lesser peaks_ my will withdrawn to invoke the dayspring from the dawn, changing that rosy smoke of light to a pure crystalline white; though the mist of mind, as draws a dancer round her limbs the gauze, clothe light, and show the virgin sun a lemon-pale medallion! thence leap we leashless to the goal, stainless star-rapture of the soul. 53 so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration_ here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. beh

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

and hair. 320 "much have i looked upon- i, the now crawling, damp and sightless evidence of her sight "i am her eyes "empires shone in me: suns set, moons arose, and were drowned like lovely naiads in the waters of the sky. i knew wild flowers so beautiful, that one dared not touch them lest their beauty start to mere ugly life "i am that quiver of fragile and delicious expectation that shone in the virgin eyes of here when. o happy hour "i am that greediness, that terrible woman's greediness, fierce as drought, relentless as death, which devours its own portion in the feast of life "and i too, like her mouth, witness to it that she was evil. the senses are the person in so much as they are the sweet janitors to all that come and go. through our five portals life only flows, and the flavo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

not if thou hear me, thou who art the darling of the night and of the silence; yellow art thou as the sunlight through the corn-fields, bright as the sun-dawn on the snow-clad mountains, slow as the voice of the great green gliding river. calmly in thy silence am i come to rest me, now from the world the light hath slowly faded; i have left the groves of pan that i might gaze upon thee, gaze upon the virgin that before time was begotten, mother of chronos, and the old gods before him, child of the womb of the silence, whose father is the unknown breath of the most secret goddess, whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness "now do i come before thee in thy temple, with offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water that girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; and

"believed in" and that which can never be names without begetting a duality (an untruth, and consequently a whole world of illusions. it is the crucifixion of every world-be saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, this would-be explanation to the multitude of the unexplainable, this passing off on the "canaille" the strumpet of language (the consciously known) in the place of the virgin of the world (the consciously unknown).13 no philosophy has ever grasped this terrible limitation so firmly as the ved nta "all experimental knowledge, the four vedas and the whole series of empirical science, as they are enumerated in ch ndogya, 7. 1. 2-3, are 'n ma eva 'mere name'"14 as the rig veda says "they call him indra, mitra, varuna, agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged garutm

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

rosicrucians, founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren, by arthur e. waite "illustrated" 8vo "cloth, uncut" 1887 (pub. 7"s" 6"d) 5"s" written from the historical standpoint, giving the chief documents "in extenso" together with an elaborate summary and analysis of the various views which have prevailed from time to time about "the virgin fraternity of the rose" mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, with biographical and critical essay by arthur e. waite, second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo "cloth" 1897 (pub. 10"s" 6"d. 6"s" this work fulfils a purpose quite distinct from that of "transcendental magic" inasmuch as it is not simply translation, but presents in an abridged and digested form th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

d, that these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love; but that ye know not, for ye know not love. 21. and the end thereof is known not even unto our lady or to the beast whereon she rideth; nor unto the virgin her daughter nor unto chaos her lawful lord; but unto the crowned child is it known? it is not known if it be known. 22. therefore unto hadit and unto nuit be the glory in the end and the beginning; yea, in the end and the beginning. 27 liber resh vel helios svb figvra cc 29 a. a. publication in class d. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber resh vel helios. svb figvra cc 0. these are the ador

unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of the murderous mouth! 45 ii the snow maiden "to margaret callaghan" my love is like the lucent globes that drip from lips of cool crevasses, to clothe them with the virgin robes of mosses, flowers, and grasses. o spheres compact of fire and dew, lamps of the hollows of the mountain, what dream angelic fathered you on what celestial fountain? nay! but i lay on lower earth stagnant in sunless meres! the prison of monstrous spawn, detested birth- behold me rearisen! it was yon fierce diurnal star that licked me up with his huge kisses, and dropped me in his

se frore abysses! yea! as i press to the cool moss my mouth, and drink at its delirious delight- acclaim the sun across the menaces of sirius! 46 doth not the world's great alchemist rule earth's alembic with the sun? is not the mind a foolish mist, and is not water one? the slim white body that you gave, wild jaja, with exotic nautches wanton and wonderful, a wave of debonair debauches, is worth the virgin limbs and lips of her the virtuous, the viceless, with life who never came to grips, who gave me nothing priceless. give me the purity distilled from dervish sweat and satyr bruises. the holy graal with wine is filled from no unbroken cruses. doth not the world's great alchemist corrupt his oysters to make pearls? shall not these lips praise him? they kissed no cold reluctant girl's. ja

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ered until he woke up to fmd the white-haired man of his vision bending over him. he was a. doctor and he was stitching the cut. alex's 'growing belief in witchcraft, reinforced by 'each experience of clairvoyance, did not conflict with his regular attendance at sunday school. his gran had explained .that there was only one god but that he was known by many names. it was easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamed

. animals: otter, seal. birds: seagull, owl. metal: silver. colours: emerald green, white. leo the lion. 22 july to 21 august. lucky stones: amber, topaz, sardonyx, ruby. 153 lucky numbers: leo, four. sun, one. lucky day: sunday. flowers: marigold, sunflower,.cowslip, heliotrope. trees: palm laurel. animal: lion. birds: cock, eagle. metal: gold. colours: gold, orange. yellow, green, white. vrsco, the virgin. 22 august to 21 september. lucky.stoncs: cornelian, jade, diamond, jasper. lucky numbers: virgo, ten; mercury, five. lucky day: wednesday. flowers: madonna lily, cornflower, valerian. tree: hazel. animal: squirrel. birds; parrot, magpie. metals: virgo, platinum; mercury,quicksilver. colours: pale blue, pale gold, yellow, jade green. lm.ra the scales. 22 september to 21 october. lucky s

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

scale, viewing them in their totality as cosmic force; it is their action upon the negative or mother aspect which, on cosmic levels, produces that self-conscious unity, a solar logos, functioning through his physical vehicle. from the christian standpoint, the greater builders are the holy spirit, or force overshadowing and fecundating matter, whilst the negative or lesser builders correspond to the virgin mary. the lunar pitris, and lesser builders from the systemic point of view find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom. when they, as the initiatory impulse, had produced animal man they had performed their prime function, and just as (on a smaller scale and in connection with only one of- 366- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the heavenly men) the moon is a

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

only latent and quiescent. nevertheless, it remains a fact that when the energies, latent at- 113- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the base of the spine, are carried to the head and are brought (via the solar plexus, that clearing house of energy, and the medulla oblongata) to the centre between the eyebrows, then the personality, the matter aspect, reaches its apotheosis and the virgin mary in the individual sense, which is a finite parallel of an infinite reality is "carried up into heaven" there to sit by the side of her son, the christ, the soul. when the energies of the sacral centre, focussed hitherto on the work of physical creation and generation and therefore the source of physical sex life and interest, are sublimated, re-oriented and carried up to the throat

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

strange history. because of this third ray influence, you have the tendency of the jew to manipulate forces and energies, and to "pull strings" in order to bring about desired ends. as a race, they are natural law makers, and hence their tendency to dominate and govern, because their egoic ray is the first. hence also the constant appearance of the goat in their history, and their teaching about the virgin mother who should give birth to the messiah. in every grouping, whether in heaven or on earth there is always evidenced a tendency by some units in the group to revolt, to rebel and to show some form of initiative different to that of the other units in the same grouping. when our solar universe came into being, we are told in the- 244- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric p

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

upposed to have uttered, whilst that which he expressed in his life, and the relationships which he emphasised and regarded as implicit in his revelation have been totally ignored. we have fought over the historical christ, and thus fighting, have lost sight of his message of love to all beings. fanatics quarrel over his words, and fail to remember that he was "the word made flesh" we argue about the virgin birth of the christ, and forget the truth which the incarnation is intended to teach. evelyn underhill points out in her most valuable book, mysticism, that "the incarnation, which is for popular christianity synonymous with the historical birth and earthly life of christ, is for the mystic not only this but also a perpetual cosmic and personal process" scholars spend their lives in pro

y (which is the basis of our faith in the love of god) there have been, as we have seen, many words sent forth from the centre. many sons of god, down the ages, have given to humanity a progressively revealing vision of the "heights of possibility" interpreting god's plan to the race in terms suited to each age and temperament. the uniformity of their life story, the appearance again and again of the virgin mother (whose name is frequently a variation of the name mary, the similarity in detail of the birth story, all indicate to us the constant re-enactment of a truth, so that from its dramatic quality and its repeated happening, god impresses upon the hearts of men certain great truths which are vital to their salvation. one of these truths is that the love of god is eternal, and that his

developed and unfolded its consciousness, the message he gave and the life he lived must necessarily sum up all the best in the past, completing and fulfilling it, and proclaim a possible future spiritual culture which will greatly transcend all that the past may have given. the majority of these great sons of god were, curiously enough, born in a cave and usually of a virgin mother "in regard to the virgin birth it is significant that there is no reference to it in the epistles which form the earliest christian documents; but, on the contrary, st. paul speaks of jesus as `made of the seed of david according to the flesh'35 that is to say, of the seed of joseph, david's descendant. the earliest gospel, that of st. mark, dating between a.d. 70 and 100, does not mention it; nor does the gosp

red in the mystical symbolism of that composition."36 isis was often represented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of

her of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to these goddesses, so likewise is it sacred to the virgin mary at the present day. she was also called myrrha and maria, as well as mary."37 in the symbolic language of esotericism, a cave is regarded as the place of initiation. this has always been so, and a very interesting study of the initiatory process and of the new birth could be made if the many references in the ancient writings to these events which have transpired in caves were coll

to a tree (13) the empty grave (14) the glad resurrection (as in the cases of osiris, attis and others; there are (15) the twelve disciples (the zodiacal signs; and (16) the betrayal by one of the twelve. then later there is (17) mid-summer day, the 24th june, dedicated to the birth of the beloved disciple john, and corresponding to christmas day; there are the festivals of (18) the assumption of the virgin (15th august) and of (19) the nativity of the virgin (8th september, corresponding to the movement of the god through virgo; there is the conflict of christ and his disciples with the autumnal asterisms (20) the serpent and the scorpion; and finally there is the curious fact that the church (21) dedicates the very day of the winter solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the re

s character has survived, and is in marked contrast to its nature amongst the latin races, with whom the northern custom of feasting and giving christmas presents was unknown until recent years."45 at the time of the birth of christ, sirius, the star in the east, was on the meridian line, orion, called "the three kings" by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation virgo, the virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation. it is interesting also to note that the brightest and largest star in the constellation virgo is called spica; it is to be found in the "ear of corn (sign of fertility) which the virgin holds. bethlehem means the "house of bread" and there is therefore an obvious conne

hat the journey, preceding the birth, is also a part of the life-story of other teachers sent from god. for instance, we read "among the thirty-two signs which were to be fulfilled by the mother of the expected messiah (buddha, the fifth sign was recorded to be `that she would be on a journey at the time of her child's birth' therefore `that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets' the virgin maya, in the tenth month after her heavenly conception, was on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn when buddha was born "the mother of lao-tse, the virgin-born chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave b

nception, was on a journey to her father, when lo, the birth of the messiah took place under a tree. one account says that `she had alighted at an inn when buddha was born "the mother of lao-tse, the virgin-born chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave birth to her son."49 we are told in the gospel story that the virgin mary, with her husband joseph and bearing within herself the christ child, went up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the significances of the names we meet in the bible and in tradition, we can throw much light on the episode itself and unveil some of its hidden meaning. in the study of the bible story, i have used only the bible itself and cruden's co

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

he mind of god. the more ancient the scripture, the greater, necessarily, the distortion. the doctrine of a vengeful god, the doctrine of retribution in some mythical hell, the teaching that god only loves those who interpret him in terms of some particular school of theological thought, the symbolism of the blood sacrifice, the appropriation of the cross as a christian symbol, the teaching about the virgin birth and the picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by chris

the innate christ consciousness which makes us one with each other and with christ) should flower forth in all its glory; he taught that service was the keynote of the spiritual life and that the will of god would be revealed. these are not the points about which the mass of commentators have written. they have discussed ad nauseam how far christ was divine and how far he was human, the nature of the virgin birth, the function of st. paul as a teacher of christian truth, the nature of hell, salvation through blood, and the authenticity and historicity of the bible. today men's minds are recognizing the dawn of freedom; they are realizing that every man should be free to worship god in his own way. this will not mean (in the coming new age) that every man will pick a theological school to w

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

th the cries of all- 77- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust those who have faith or have no faith must be met. the demands of humanity are rising to their ears and the christ and his disciples have no sectarian scruples, of that we may be sure. it is impossible to believe that they are interested in the views of the fundamentalists or in the theories of the theologians upon the virgin birth, the vicarious atonement or the infallibility of the pope. humanity is in desperate need and that need must be met; only great and fundamental principles of living, covering the past and the present and providing a platform for the future, will really meet that human invocation. the christ and the spiritual hierarchy will not come to destroy all that humanity has hitherto found "n

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

the astral plane are not pure emotion and feeling, clothed in pure astral matter, for there is no such thing. they are the instinctual desires, evoked by the evolving substance of the physical plane and this, in its entirety and through the activity of the human family, is being redeemed and drawn upwards until some day we shall see the transfiguration of that substance and the "glorification of the virgin mary" the mother aspect in relation to divinity. they are also the descending thoughtforms which the developing human being is always creating and drawing downwards into manifestation, clothing them with the substance of desire. when the descending forms of thought (a reflection in the three worlds of that vast "cloud of knowable things" in process of perception, as patanjali calls it

nd they meet, and then the lesser light (a true light in its own right) of the personality is absorbed into the greater light of the angel or soul. the angel, therefore "occultly obliterates" the dweller who becomes lost to sight in the radiant aura of the angel. this has been symbolically portrayed for us in the picture book of the heavens when, according to catholic festivals, the assumption of the virgin takes place and the constellation virgo is lost to sight in the radiance of the sun. there you have the three factors: 1. the virgin .m aterial form .p ersonality .d weller. 2. the sun. spiritual nature. soul. angel. 3. the earth .a spiring man. the disciple. the personality remains; it still exists but it is seen no more as of old. the light of the angel envelops it; the burning ground

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

planets. the following tabulation makes this clear but must be interpreted only in terms of this present turn of the great zodiacal wheel (25,000 years: tabulation viii ray constellations planets p lanets (orthodox( esoteric) aries, the ram. mars. mercury. i. will or power. leo, the lion. sun. sun. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. gemini, the twins .m ercury .v enus. ii. love-wisdom .v irgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon (veiling a planet. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. con

right 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. conflict sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. leo, the lion. sun. sun. v. concrete science. sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. aquarius, the watercarrier. uranus. jupiter. virgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon. vi. idealism. devotion .s agittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. aries, the ram. mars. mercury. vii. ceremonial order. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. it will be obvious to you how much correlating work and how much readjustment of ideas will be needed as the new astrology is worked out into p

soul waxes. the fluidity of pisces and the undeveloped gemini gives place to the responsiveness of the personality to soul impression and consequent stabilising of the life on the physical plane. virgo the mind, under the influence of virgo, which has been analytical and critical, changes to that quality of mind which is best described by the words, illumination and revelation. the christ to whom the virgin must eventually give birth is recognised as present in the womb, though not yet born. life is recognised. the process of the revelation of the christ consciousness is carried intelligently forward and the selfish aspirations and experiments of the undeveloped man give place to the selflessness of the illumined and intuitive disciple. sagittarius this is now the sign of the one-pointed d

virgo is eventually fused and blended (symbolically the cross must always become the line and then the point. sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by mother earth, produces those conditions whereby the path itself achieves glorification. consequently, you have at the end of the age (i refer here to a greater round of the zodiac and to no shorter cycle, the glorification of venus, of virgo, the virgin, and of mother earth two planets and one constellation and all these are potencies which produce definite changes in the solar system. they represent the three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of sagittarius driving them on to a still greater consummation. there is a wide and interesting field of research to be found in the relation of 1. the planet venus rule

em. they represent the three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of sagittarius driving them on to a still greater consummation. there is a wide and interesting field of research to be found in the relation of 1. the planet venus ruler of the constellation gemini. 2. the earth on which we live, called often "mother earth" 3. the fish-goddesses of the sign pisces. 4. virgo, the virgin. gemini and sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets (because the earth is more closely related to venus than to any other planet) and thus again you have the six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form, entered into in cancer as far as the mass of humanity is concerned (by this i mean the birth of the human kingdom) and in pisces as far as the individual

umship. fluidity. gemini recognition of soul and form. soul interplay. sagittarius one-pointed spiritual aspiration. disciples. evolved man virgo the mother of the christ child. gestation. pisces the world saviour. mediatorship. in connection with the above, it is interesting to note that the twins set apart and unattached in gemini become the centaur, the man-beast, in sagittarius, whilst virgo, the virgin, becomes the fish goddess in the polar opposite, pisces. a treatise could be written on the subject of the relation of the opposites in the zodiacal circle for they express spirit and matter and their inter-relation, plus the play of qualitative energies; they bear witness at the same time to the fact that these two are one and are simply the expression of great mutable, and yet fixed a

weighing this and that, and of determining which way the scales shall fall so that in the next sign certain designed results will occur. the following virgo life will be either one of a personality, materialistic nature, lived under the influence of the material aspect of virgo, the mother, or there will be evidenced a slowly emerging soul vibration, indicating that hidden spiritual life of which the virgin mother is the fore-ordained custodian. as progress is made, recurrently or cyclically, around the wheel of life, these experiences and vibratory activities intensify in character until the time comes when the reversal of the wheel takes place. then libra leads on to scorpio and the active soul life (active through the medium of the personality nature and not simply on its own plane) is

rn. then takes place the reversal of the wheel and the beginning of the new orientation and of discipleship in scorpio, the directed, controlled life of the disciple in sagittarius, initiation in capricorn, followed by service in aquarius and the work of a world saviour in pisces and final liberation. in this world period we have the division of the sign of the sphinx into two signs (the lion and the virgin, soul and form) because the state of human evolution and conscious realisation is that of a recognised duality; it is only at what is called the "final judgment" that another fusion will take place and virgo-libra will form one sign, for then man's sense of antagonistic dualism will be ended and the scales will have been turned finally in favour of that which the virgin-mother has hidde

nfuse the issue. they speak straight to the heart and without obscurity. to the average man with no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and again throughout the aeons "and the word said: let choice be made" the response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary process and from the soul "i choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force" virgo, the virgin the sign virgo is one of the most significant in the zodiac for its symbology concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. this every form veils, but the human form is equipped and fitted to manifest it in a manner different to any other expression of divinity and so make tangible and objective that for

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ent. we are saved by his life. the death that he died, we can die too and triumphantly, the bible says so. the churches will have to begin with their theological seminaries. i have taken a theological training and i know what i am talking about. intelligent young men will no longer enter them when confronted with ancient meanings to what they recognise as living truths. they are not interested in the virgin birth they are interested in the fact of christ. they know too much to accept the verbal inspiration of the scriptures; but they are prepared to believe in the word of god. life is so full of movement today, of heroes, of beauty, of tragedy and cataclysm and of reality and glorious opportunity that this generation has no time for the puerilities of theology. fortunately, there are withi

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

se on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust treated from the angle of karma and be definite and conclusive in its value had there been right teaching on this abstruse subject from the time that it was given out in the west. but the truth as it has come to us from the east has been as much distorted by the eastern theologian as the doctrines of the atonement and of the virgin birth have been misinterpreted and taught by the western theologian. the real truth bears little resemblance to our modern formulations. i am, therefore, seriously handicapped when dealing with the subject of disease from the angle of karma. it is difficult for me to convey to you anything of the truth as it really exists, owing to the pre-conceived ideas as to the ancient law of cause

being of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain important aspects of the physical nature, and it symbolises the third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. it is in reality connected with the holy ghost, or the third divine aspect in manifestation "overshadowing (as the bible expresses it, the mother, the virgin mary. the parathyroids are symbolic of mary and joseph and the relation they hold to the overshadowing holy ghost. it will eventually be determined that there is a close physiological relation existing between the thyroid gland and the pineal gland, and between the parathyroids and the two lobes of the pituitary body, thus bringing into one related system the entire area of the throat a

fixed or finally determined. this is a point of extreme importance. be not therefore misled by apparent moments of achievement. they are but prefaces to change, for such is the law of being. 7. the centre at the base of the spine. this centre is, above everything else, controlled and governed by the law of being, above referred to, and is established where spirit and matter meet and where matter, the virgin mary under the influence of the holy spirit, time energy of the etheric vehicle is translated "into heaven" there (as the christian phraseology puts it "to be seated beside her son in the house of the father" this centre is found at the very base of the spine, and supports all the other centres. it is relatively quiescent at this time, for it is only roused into full activity by an act

forces and their activities, via the christ and through their responsiveness to his work and imminent appearance. on the phrase "mother of the world" the various ways in which the phrase can be used can mean quite a number of differing things. it can mean: 1. the feminine aspect in manifestation, symbolised for us in many of the world religions as a virgin mother and in the christian religion as the virgin mary. it is that substance which enables deity to manifest. 2. nature itself, the mother of all forms. 3. the moon also, who is the symbol of the generative, creative life which gives birth to forms and is therefore the symbol of the form nature. 4. the concentration of the feminine force in nature in some individual in female form who is then called the "world mother" such an individua

the eastern races have always held it, and from the western angle they are heathen and the heathen "in their blindness bow down to wood and stone" to quote one of your fundamentalist hymns. how curious it is to realise that, to the man from eastern countries, the religious people in the west do likewise, and can be seen on their knees before the christian altars bearing statues of the christ, of the virgin mary and of the apostles. the occultists of the world, through the theosophical societies and other occult bodies, so-called, have greatly damaged the presentation of the truth anent reincarnation through the unnecessary, unimportant, inaccurate and purely speculative details which they give out as truths anent the processes of death and the circumstances of man after death. these detai

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

`gather up our bodies within us' raising each into the light of the next one above, and is not this the meaning of culture, education, refinement, purification? is not that the personal work we should constantly be at, and is it not what is symbolised, in roman- 434- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust catholic doctrine, by the assumption by the christ of the body of the virgin mary, his mother, into heaven" my reply to him is: in the above enquiry, my brother, you have asked nine questions, all bearing on the same subject. some of them would not have needed a reply had you had the time to study a treatise on cosmic fire, for in that book much of your question is answered. the difficulty in distinguishing between thought and emotion is due entirely to two thin

is one. but we find also that "one star differeth from another star in glory" because there is one flame but many sparks of differing brightness within that flame. such is the glory of the great eternal one. this realisation is the soul's aspiration and the goal of its great enlightenment. it is, as you rightly point out when viewing the subject from the angle of mother-matter, the assumption of the virgin into heaven, there to be glorified. much of the mystery connected with "the three vestures of the buddha" is related to this glorification of the three bodies. much can be learnt by a careful study of the connection between the three bodies of a human being and the vestures or vehicles of the lord buddha. the whole story of sublimation, of purification, and of transfiguration is hidden

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

three constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we find cassiopeia, the dominant woman. woman and child and as we shall later see, mother-matter is the nurturer of the infant christ, the virgin mary gives birth to jesus. in pisces, at the close of the great round, we find andromeda, the chained woman. first the woman enthroned and dominant, then the woman caring for the infant, christ, and then the woman, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall me

re, in what way does taurus, the bull, become the bringer of illumination? we are told that in this sign the moon is exalted and venus is the ruler. the moon has always, from the standpoint of the esotericist, and among primitive agricultural peoples, been regarded as the form-building aspect. the moon is the symbol, therefore, of matter and is seen in many of our churches, closely connected with the virgin mary. the consummation of the work that is undertaken in taurus, and the result of the taurian influence, is the glorification of matter and subsequent illumination through its medium. all that at present prevents the glory, which is the soul, and the radiance which emanates from the god within the form, from shining forth in its full power, is the matter or form aspect. when that has b

e sacred to the sons of light (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north, vol. ii, p. 205- 53- the labours of hercules symbols the astrological symbol for the sign cancer has no relation at all to the crab. it is composed of two "asses" tails, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger. in connection with the birth of jesus two asses appear, the one on which the virgin rode down to bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the other on which she rode to egypt, after the birth. close to the sign cancer are two bright stars, one called asellus borealis, or the northern ass, and the other, asellus australis, or the southern ass (there is also the third time, when christ rode into jerusalem during his brief moment of triumph on palm sunday [90] seated on the bac

ll unknown and all unrecognized gave unto you the needed love and power. you rescued that which needed you, and thus again the two are one. ponder anew upon the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son [115] the tibetan (djwhal khul) introduction it is said that, from some aspects, virgo is the oldest of the zodiacal signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness

t 666 at all. it is to be remembered that the lion is the king of beasts. the native attains finally in that sign the rounded-out personality. but in virgo, the first of the steps towards spirituality is taken, the soul is called the son of mind, and virgo is ruled by mercury, carrying the energy of the mind. in this virgo lecture a.a.b. gave a most interesting sequence of prophetic references to the virgin as follows- 69- the labours of hercules "behold, i will bring forth my servant, the branch (zechariah 3:8. one symbol of virgo is the woman with the ear of corn, or the sheaf of wheat, or the branch of fruit in her arms. remember also the prophecy in isaiah upon which our new testament is based "and a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and link up with that verse in ephesians

ering slain animals at the altar passed, so should pass the idea of [120] at-one-ment by the blood of christ. that was born of the medieval guilt complex and the torturing of the physical instrument as a means to produce the dominance of the spirit; when the truth is that the body should be attuned to the soul and bring its beauty into manifestation, redeem it. all this is implicit in the sign of the virgin and its labor. in the secret doctrine is a clear statement of the whole message of this sign "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this turn of the spiral; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all. the constellations and stars the three constellation

" which is the climax of the birth of the latent christ-consciousness in virgo [124] keynotes the heights and the depths of this sixth labor are clearly indicated in the keynotes of the sign: on the ordinary wheel the command goes forth in the following words, which constitute the activity of virgo "and the word said 'let matter reign. later, upon the wheel of the disciple, the voice emerges from the virgin herself, and she says 'i am the mother and the child. i, god, i, matter am" the tibetan adds "ponder upon the beauty of this synthesis and teaching and know that you yourself have said the first word as the soul, descending into the womb of time and space in a far and distant time. the time has now come when you can, if you so choose, proclaim your identity with both divine aspects, mat

lso aries and sagittarius. quality: sensitivity leading to individual awareness. emergence out of the herd. self-consciousness. self assertion. polar opposite: aquarius. an air sign (group awareness, world service. rulers: exoteric and esoteric are the same, the sun. keywords: from the angle of form "let other forms exist, i am because i am; from the angle of soul "i am that and that am i. virgo, the virgin element: earth sign (as are also taurus and capricorn. quality: the unique service in virgo is that both the form and the spirit are nurtured, shielding "christ in you the hope of glory. polar opposite: pisces. a water sign (christ consciousness revealed as a world savior. rulers: exoteric, mercury; esoteric, the moon. keywords: from the angle of form "let matter reign; from the angle o

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

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

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 work continuously. the lion and red rose are a symbol of first cause, the beginning, the dawn. it is further symbolized by the virgin mother and the great work. nequaquam vacuum means "nowhere a void" this is the motto written about the lion. it can be summed up in saying that "before abraham was "i am" the eagle and the chalice stand for the blood that must be shed for the remission of sins. it is the purifying waters from the cup of the stolistices. libertas evangelii, the "liberty of the gospel" is the free will th

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

withdrew from him, he cursed his earth. he found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the one is right

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

most deserving. for the present state of things is passing away, and a new world is about to be created, and one planet is devouring another spiritually, until only the strongest survive. let me tell you allegorically that you must put into the heavenly balance the ram, bull, cancer, scorpion, and goat. in the other scale of the balance you must place the twins, the archer, the water vbearer, and the virgin. then let the lion jump into the virgin s lap, which will cause the other scale to kick the beam. thereupon, let the signs of the zodiac enter into opposition to the pleiads, and when all the colours of the world have shewn themselves, let there be a conjunction and union between the greatest and the smallest, and the smallest and the greatest. twelve keys of basil valentine 63 of 95 if

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

he right and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finland, the kalewala* the origin of the serpent of evil is given: it is born from the "spittle of suoyatar. and endowed with a living soul by the principle of evil" hisi. a strife is described between the two, the "thing of evil (the serpent or sorcerer, and ahti, the dragon "magic lemminkainen" the latter is one of the seven sons of ilmatar, the virgin "daughter of the air" she "who fell from heaven into the sea" before creation, i.e, spirit transformed into the matter of sensuous life. there is a world of meaning and occult thought in these few lines, admirably rendered by dr. j. m. crawford, of cincinnati. the hero lemminkainen, the good magician "hews the wall with might of magic, breaks the palisade in pieces, hews to atoms seven

from view with their bodies "the breath returning to the eternal bosom which exhales and inhales them" says our catechism "ideal nature" the abstract space in which everything in the universe is mysteriously and invisibly generated, is the same female side of procreative power in nature in the vedic as in every other cosmogony. aditi is sephira, and the sophia- achamoth of the gnostics, and isis, the virgin mother of horus. in every cosmogony, behind and higher than the creative deity, there is a superior deity, a planner, an architect, of whom the creator is but the executive agent. and still higher, over and around, within and without, there is the unknowable and the unknown, the source and cause of all these emanations. it thus becomes easy to account for the reason why "adam-adami" is

o give: the one builds his external form; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the human higher self owing to the personal exertion of the individual; but they could not make men as they were themselves- perfect, because sinless; sinless, because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these all perfect- from the human standpoint- white, pure and cold as the virgin snow. where there is no struggle, there is no merit. humanity "of the earth earthy" was not destined to be created by the angels of the first divine breath: therefore they are said to have refused to do so, and man had to be formed by more material creators* who, in their turn, could give only what they had in their own natures, and no more. subservient to eternal law, the pure gods cou

chmah, wisdom, with binah, intelligence, or jehovah, the demiurge, called understanding in the proverbs of solomon, ch. vii. unto men wisdom (divine occult wisdom) crieth "oh, ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools, be of an understanding heart" it is spirit and matter, the nous and the psyche; of the latter of which st. james says that it is "earthly, sensual, and devilish[[vol. 2, page] 135 the virgin third race "zeus is a male, zeus is an immortal maid" the egyptian ammon was the goddess neith, in his other half. jupiter has female breasts, venus is bearded in some of her statues, and ila, the goddess, is also su-dyumna, the god, as vaivasvata's progeny "the name adam" says professor a. wilder "or man, itself implies this double form of existence. it is identical with athamas, or th

e seven great rishis, the four preceding manus, partaking of my essence, were born from my mind: from them sprung (were born) the human races and the world (chapter x, verse 6. here the four preceding "manus" out of the seven, are the four races* which have already lived, since krishna belongs to the fifth race, his death having inaugurated the kali yuga. thus vaivasvata[[footnote(s* when narada, the virgin-ascetic, threatened to put an end to the human race by preventing daksha's sons from procreating it* this is corroborated by a learned brahmin. in his most excellent lectures on the bhagavad gita (see "theosophist" april, 1887, p. 444) the lecturer says "there is a peculiarity to which i must call your attention. he (krishna) speaks here of four manus. why does he speak of four? we are

ess" gods, and the opening of his consciousness to his real nature; thus showing the bright angel (lucifer) in the light of a giver of immortality, and as the "enlightener; while the real fall into generation and matter is to be sought in chapter iv. there, jehovah-cain, the male part of adam the dual man, having separated himself from eve, creates in her "abel" the first natural woman* and sheds the virgin blood. now cain, being shown identical with jehovah, on the authority of the correct reading of verse i (chapter iv, genesis, in the original hebrew text; and the rabbins teaching that "kin (cain, the evil, was the son of eve by samael, the devil who took adam's place; and the talmud adding that "the evil spirit, satan, and samael, the angel of death, are the same-(babba battra, 16a- it

tion; but the first- after the zodiacs had been traced "capricorn" he adds "is represented at the north pole, and cancer is divided, near its middle, at the south pole; which is a confirmation that originally they had their winter when the sun was in cancer; but the chief characteristics of its being a monument commemorating the first time that the pole had been in that position, are the lion and the virgin (see in part ii "a mystery of the zodiac) broadly calculated, it is believed by the egyptologists that the great pyramid was built 3,350 b.c (see proctor, knowledge, vol. i. pp. 242, 400; and that menes and his dynasty existed 7 50 years before the fourth[[footnote(s "the mythological astronomy of the ancients demonstrated" by a strangely intuitional symbologist and astronomer, a kind o

given also by denon, he says- there "the lion is standing on the serpent, and his tail forming a curve downward, from which it is found that though six or seven hundred thousand years must have passed between the two positions, yet they had made but little difference between in the constellations of leo and the hydra; while virgo is represented very differently in the two. in the circular zodiac, the virgin is nursing her child; but it seems that they had not had that idea when the pole was first within the plane of the ecliptic; for in this zodiac, as given by denon, we see three virgins between the lion and the scales, the last of which holds in her hand an ear of wheat. it is much to be lamented that there is in this zodiac a breach of the figure in the latter part of leo and the beginn

chaldean "nuah, the universal mother (female noah, considered as one with the ark, and of the female triad, ana, belita and davikina; called, when blended into one "sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother of gods, queen of the earth, and queen of fecundity" later, belita or damti (the sea, the mother of the city of erech (the great chaldean necropolis) became eve; and now she is mary the virgin, in the latin church, represented as standing on the crescent-moon, and, at times on the globe, to vary the programme. the navi, or ship-like form of the crescent, which blends in itself all those common symbols of the ship of life, such as noah's ark, the yoni of the hindus, and the ark of the covenant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found under

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ernity thrills through infinitude. the mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus. 2. the vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life. 3. darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep. the ray shoots through the virgin egg, the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg[[vol. 1, page] 29 the secret doctrine. 4. then the three fall into the four. the radiant essence becomes seven inside, seven outside. the luminous egg, which in itself is three, curdles and spreads in milk-white curds throughout the depths of mother, the root that grows in th

giving a specific meaning to a term used by occultists in a generic sense, and which is used in cosmogony with a metaphysical and mystical meaning. ice is not water, neither is steam, although all three have precisely the same chemical composition- stanza iii- continued. 2[[3 "darkness" radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the waters, into the mother deep. the ray shoots through the virgin-egg; the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstrac

ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction is a reality. the virgin-egg being in one sense abstract egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same. and just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the noneternal periodical germ which becomes later in[[vol. 1, page] 65 nature's symbols. symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol "the pro

creative power repeating in miniature the process of cosmic evolution in the egg, both being due to heat and moisture under the efflux of the unseen creative spirit, justified fully the selection of this graphic symbol. the "virgin egg" is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype- the "virgin mother- chaos or the primeval deep. the male creator (under whatever name) springs forth from the virgin female, the immaculate root fructified by the ray. who, if versed in astronomy and natural sciences, can fail to see its suggestiveness? cosmos as receptive nature is an egg fructified- yet left immaculate; once regarded as boundless, it could have no other representation than a spheroid. the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements (ether, fire, air, water "four ready, three

en the point having generated a line, thus becomes a diameter which stands for the androgynous logos, then the figures become 31415, or a triangle, a line, a cube, the second line, and a pentacle "when the son separates from the mother he becomes the father" the diameter standing for nature, or the feminine principle. therefore it is said "in the world of being, the one point fructifies the line- the virgin matrix of kosmos (the egg-shaped zero- and the immaculate mother gives birth to the form that combines all forms" prajapati is called the first procreating male, and "his mother's husband* this gives the key-note to all the later divine sons from immaculate mothers. it is greatly corroborated by the significant fact that anna (the name of the mother of the virgin mary) now represented b

ssigned to her in the triad of that country "she was no less the mother than the wife of ammon, one of the principle titles of the god being "the husband of his mother" the goddess mout, or mut, is addressed as "our lady" the "queen of heaven" and of "the earth" thus "sharing these titles with the other mother goddesses, isis, hathor, etc (maspero[[vol. 1, page] 92 the secret doctrine. and kanya, the virgin "uma-kanya" being her esoteric name, and meaning the "virgin of light" astral light in one of its multitudinous aspects (c) the devas, pitris, rishis; the suras and the asuras; the daityas and adityas; the danavas and gandharvas, etc, etc, have all their synonyms in our secret doctrine, as well as in the kabala and the hebrew angelology; but it is useless to give their ancient names, as

-existing ideas" of plato, now reflected by von hartmann. the "unknowable" of herbert spencer bears only a faint resemblance to that transcendental reality believed in by occultists, often appearing merely a personification of a "force behind phenomena- an infinite and eternal energy[[footnote(s* to this the late mrs (dr) kingsford, the able translator and compiler of the hermetic fragments (see "the virgin of the world) remarks in a foot-note "dr. menard observes that in greek the same word signifies to be born and to become. the idea here is that the material of the world is in its essence eternal, but that before creation or 'becoming' it is in a passive and motionless condition. thus it 'was' before being put into operation; now it 'becomes' that is, it is mobile and progressive" and s

e echo of the esoteric philosophy and the hindu puranas. compare two invocations, one to the hermetic "supreme all" the[[footnote(s* a frequent expression in the said fragments, to which we take exception. the universal mind is not a being or "god[[vol. 1, page] 286 the secret doctrine. other to the "supreme all" of the later aryans. says a hermetic fragment cited by suidas (see mrs. kingsford's "the virgin of the world "i adjure thee, heaven, holy work of the great god; i adjure thee, voice of the father, uttered in the beginning when the universal world was framed; i adjure thee by the word, only son of the father who upholds all things; be favourable, be favourable" this just preceded by the following "thus the ideal light was before the ideal light, and the luminous intelligence of int

hindus. the lotus flower, represented as growing out of vishnu's navel- that god resting on the waters of space and his serpent of infinity- is the most graphic allegory ever made: the universe evolving from the central sun, the point, the ever-concealed germ. lakshmi, who is the[[footnote(s* in the christian religion gabriel, the archangel, holding in his hand a spray of water lilies, appears to the virgin mary in every picture of the annunciation. this spray typifying fire and water, or the idea of creation and generation, symbolizes precisely the same idea as the lotus in the hand of the bodhisat who announces to maha-maya, gautama's mother, the birth of the world's saviour, buddha. thus also, osiris and horus were represented by the egyptians constantly in association with the lotus-fl

BLUE EQUINOX

. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. the equinox 252 and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high altar

t of the disfigurements to which psychical researchers have acclimatized us, confound them. the mention of psychical researchers has ruined my temper again. i am going to be nasty even to my dear mrs. hutchings. it is very easy to spoil a case by claiming too much. jesus preferred would stand higher in the market to-day if some would-be clever press agent had not added ridiculous pagan stories of the virgin birth, and so on, to the earlier and more plausible legend. and the most serious criticism of patience worth is the existence of that ridiculous novel by .mark twain. patience worth is not impossible, or even improbable. she makes mistakes. she commits anachronisms. but any difficulties are fairly easy to explain away. when it comes to mark twain, the reviews 301 case is altogether diff

BOOK OF PLEASURE

able-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be

is vision clear he directs or leads him as a child to the essential. having shown him the source of wisdom, he retires before gratitude or sentiment sets in, leaving him to fertilize as he wishes. is not this the way of heaven? he who trusts to his natural fund of genius, has no knowledge of its extent and accomplishes with ease, but directly he doubts, ignorance obsesses him. doubt fertilizes in the virgin soil. he is no longer fearless but a coward to difficulties, his very learning is fear. the difference between genius and ignorance is a degree of fear. the beginning of wisdom is fear of forethought the reception of knowledge in learning. children doubt, and abhor learning. why, even the affection of courage results in cleverness! the difference between good and evil is a matter of pro

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

beauty of my wisdom may shine from out their hearts, like unto a light burning in a lamp of alabaster. 6 i am the doer of all. nothing moveth but by my power. mine is the healing influence flowing down from consecrated hands, mine the venom of the adder's fang. nothing falleth but by me and in whatsoever riseth mine is the power that lifteth up. 7 my presence is the substance of all things. i am the virgin snow on mountain heights; i am the fruitful loam in valley depths. i am the gold and silver of the temple vessels; i am the mire on sandals left by the faithful at the temple gate. see me and regard me equally in all, o israel, and thou shalt see indeed. 8 for seeing thus, shalt thou see, too, that nothing is, or can be, my antagonist. all, and in all shall i fight myself? what hath pow

ctive, as woman to man, as eve to adam. yet to every light of emanation proceeding from it on the tree of life doth this same wisdom stand as root and source. hence in the scripture is wisdom spoken of as a woman, as when it is said "wisdom hath builded her a house; but elsewhere to this same wisdom the wise assign the title ab, the father. never is the heavenly wisdom known as mother, for she is the virgin substance of all things, whose purity naught can defile. 5 remember now that i myself am the pure knowing whence all manifestation ariseth. recall to mind that my superior nature is the primal will, the eternal watcher, under whose regard the stream of creation floweth. the substance of the stream is the inferior nature, wherein i see innumerable images of myself. these be all things an

escribed in the meditations. the doctrine here is so closely allied to that of the bhagavad-gita as to suggest that our author may have met one of the wandering hindu philosophers [36] c o m m e n t on g i m e l 4 compare the words of this paragraph with the symbols of key 2, the high priestess. the phrase" whose purity naught can defile, means that no matter how many the forms developed from it, the virgin substance is itself unchanged. like water, which holds matter in suspension or solution, this substance remains ever itself. here is one key to the alchemical mystery of the first matter. here, too, one may find a clue to the inner significance of the virgin-myths of all religions [37] the meditation on daleth* 1 i am the door of life, the passage from the world of ideas into the world

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalist

your own inner radiance and self-confidence and will repel any hostility. seite 91 wicca01.txt my own favourite method is to wrap the crystals in white silk and take them to a sacred place of ancient power, such as a standing stone, an old stone circle or one of the ancient healing wells. these wells were formerly dedicated to the mother goddess but were christianised and rededicated to st bride, the virgin mary or other christian, often celtic, saint. go as early in the morning as possible and place the crystals on a flat surface, either on one of the stones or close to the water. sit near to the source of power, touching it with your two hands so that you create a circuit of energy parallel to that being absorbed by the crystals and so empower your own auric field (the area of psychic en

is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt seite 97 wicca01.txt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother goddess and later the virgin mary. demeter, goddess of the grain, was called queen bee and aphrodite's symbol at her hive-shaped shrine in eryx was a gold honeycomb. her high priestess was always called melissa, latin for bee* beginning at the north of your circle, light your elemental candles. at each quarter of the circle say: demeter, aphrodite, melissa, pure mother bee, charge with thy light this salt, to enfol

ing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to

g over three days, up to and including the full moon, is excellent for an urgent project or one with a necessarily short time scale. the waxing moon is good for spells to improve health, the gradual increase of prosperity, for attracting good luck, for fertility magick, for finding friendship, new love and romance, for job hunting, for making plans for the future and increasing psychic awareness. the virgin goddesses ruled the waxing moon. a waxing moon fertility spell i get asked for fertility spells perhaps more than any other kind, as the modern world with everything running 24 hours a day, including lighting and heating, throws our bodies out of sync. certainly, people no longer make love in tune with the rising energies of the earth. while physiological problems need medical input, fe

ays getting longer and warmer. in this way, the newly pregnant mother could benefit from an abundance of fresh food in the summer and autumn and give birth at a time when she would naturally be resting for the winter with the dark nights. this would enable her to spend time with the infant before returning to the fields or to tend the herds in spring. this pattern is reflected in the old myths of the virgin goddess, who became pregnant at the spring equinox and gave birth to the new sun on the mid-winter solstice that became christianised as our christmas. so in these earlier and by no means idyllic times, everything- earth, cattle, corn, humans and animals- was in harmony, not only physically, but spiritually. fertility spells and the rituals marking the passing of the year were a natural

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

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

iscourse with him, when it began to ring in the castle, whereupon the porter counseled me to run, or else all the pains and labour i had hitherto undergone would serve to no purpose, for the lights above were already beginning to be extinguished. whereupon i went with such haste that i did not heed the porter, i was in such anguish; and truly it was necessary, for i could not run so fast but that the virgin, after whom all the lights were put out, was at my heels, and i should never have found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at t

r have found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at the gate, could prevail with the porter to open it again, but he delivered the keys to the virgin, who took them with her into the court. meanwhile i again surveyed the gate, which now appeared so rich that the whole world could not equal it. just by the door were two columns, on one of which stood a pleasant figure with this inscription, congratulor. the other, which had its countenance veiled, was sad, and beneath was written, condoleo. in brief, the inscriptions and figures were

wisdom by this disgrace, that they on the contrary had not yet altogether escaped; and perhaps their greatest danger was still to come. at length everyone being assembled again, the trumpets began again to sound and the kettle drums to beat as formerly, and we then imagined nothing other but that the bridegroom was ready to present himself; which nevertheless was a huge mistake. for it was again the virgin of yesterday, who had arrayed herself all in red velvet, and girded herself with a white scarf. on her head she had a green wreath of laurel, which greatly suited her. her train was now no more of small tapers, but consisted of two hundred men in armour, who were all (like her) clothed in red and white. now as soon as they were alighted from the throne, she came straight to us prisoners

one. and he who enters artist s orders who hath not been selected and begins to paint with much display will yet be mocked by everyone. and who will to a wedding come and hath not bidden been, and yet doth come with much display will yet be mocked by everyone. and who will climb upon these scales and find he weigheth not, but is shot up with mighty crash will yet be mocked by everyone. as soon as the virgin had finished speaking, one of the pages commanded each one to place himself according to his order, and one after another to step in. which one of the emperors made no scruple of, but first of all bowed himself a little towards the virgin, and afterwards in all his stately attire went up: whereupon each captain put in his weight, against which (to the wonder of all) he held out. but the

after another to step in. which one of the emperors made no scruple of, but first of all bowed himself a little towards the virgin, and afterwards in all his stately attire went up: whereupon each captain put in his weight, against which (to the wonder of all) he held out. but the last was too heavy for him, so that he must go forth; and that he did with so much anguish that (as it seemed to me) the virgin herself had pity on him, and beckoned to her people to hold their peace; yet the good emperor was bound and delivered over to the sixth band. next after him again there came another emperor, who stepped haughtily into the scale, and, having a great thick book under his gown, he imagined he would not fail; but he was scarcely able to abide the third weight, and was unmercifully flung dow

was delivered up bound to the third band. thus it went also with some of the other emperors, who were all shamefully laughed at and put in captivity. after these there came forth a short little man with a curled brown beard, also an emperor, who after the usual reverence got up, and held out so steadfastly, that i thought that had there been more weights ready he would have outstood them. to him the virgin immediately arose, and bowed before him, making him put on a gown of red velvet, and finally gave him a branch of laurel, of which she had a good store upon her throne, upon the steps of which she asked him to sit down. now how it fared with the rest of the emperors, kings and lords after him, would take too long to recount; but i cannot leave unmentioned that few of those great persona

ger of penalty, and only for recreation s sake, if perhaps anything that is right may be found amongst them. in the first place i was in great perplexity, for in my anguish this was my only comfort, that i was not to stand in such ignominy, or to be lashed out page 26 of the scale. for i did not doubt that many of the prisoners wished that they had stayed ten nights with us in the hall. yet since the virgin consented, so it must be, and we were untied and one after another set up. now although the most part miscarried, they were neither laughed at, nor scourged, but peaceably placed on one side. my companion was the fifth, and he held out bravely, whereupon all, but especially the captain who made the request for us, applauded him, and the virgin showed him the usual respect. after him aga

d on one side. my companion was the fifth, and he held out bravely, whereupon all, but especially the captain who made the request for us, applauded him, and the virgin showed him the usual respect. after him again two more were dispatched in an instant. but i was the eighth. now as soon as (with trembling) i stepped up, my companion who already sat by in his velvet looked friendlily upon me, and the virgin herself smiled a little. but for as much as i outstood all the weights, the virgin commanded them to draw me up by force, wherefore three men also hung on the other side of the beam, and yet nothing could prevail. whereupon one of the pages immediately stood up, and cried out exceedingly loud, that s he: upon which the other replied, then let him gain his liberty; which the virgin accor

erty; which the virgin accorded. and, being received with due ceremonies, the choice was given me to release one of the captives, whosoever i pleased; whereupon i made no long deliberation, but elected the first emperor whom i had long pitied, who was immediately set free, and with all respect seated amongst us. now the last being set up, and the weights proving too heavy for him, in the meantime the virgin had spotted my roses, which i had taken out of my hat into my hands, and thereupon presently through her page graciously requested them of me, and i readily sent them to her. and so this first act was finished about ten in the morning. whereupon the trumpets began to sound again, which nevertheless we could not as yet see. meantime the bands were to step aside with their prisoners, and

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

'miracles' recorded throughout religious legend have an extraterrestrial (fourth dimensional) origin. the sight witnessed by 70,000 catholics at fatima, portugal in 1917 sounds like many of the stories described in both the ancient texts and the modern world. the fatima 'miracle' followed a series of meetings between three children and some strange being, which, they said, sometimes manifested as the virgin mary. the being promised to produce a miracle to open the eyes of humanity, and those tens of thousands of people who turned up to witness it did, indeed, see a fantastic sight. but what was it? ufo researcher, jacque vallee, believed he knew when he wrote, in his 1976 book, the invisible college "not only was a flying disc or globe consistently involved, but its motion, its falling lea

here were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. they were the great heroes and famous men of long ago. the reason this-world-is-all-there-is science has been unable to find the missing links in human genetic evolution is because there aren't any. the sudden changes in the human form were due to extraterrestrial intervention. this is possibly an origin of the virgin mother legends which are also found throughout the world. in what we call china, they had a 'sky god' called di who was said to have 'miraculously' impregnated a virgin, who then gave birth to zu, the first of the new genetic line. all over the ancient world, you find that the royal families were supposed to have originated with the sky gods- extraterrestrials. records left by the ancie

general electric cartel were charged and tried at nuremberg, not the americans. to have done so would have exposed the whole story. international telephone and telegraph (i.t.t) another united states company that was important to hitler and his war machine was international telephone and telegraph, better known as i.t.t. it was the creation of its founder, sosthenes behn, an entrepreneur born in the virgin islands. by 1924, united fronts 95 i.t.t. was closely connected with j.p. morgan, and the board reflected morgan's control. it has been proved that i.t.t. made donations to hitler through german subsidiaries and was a significant supporter of the nazi regime.23 i.t.t. bought a large interest in german armament companies, most particularly the aircraft manufacturer, focke-wolfe. the prof

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

om their belief that these cultures on different sides of the world had never met before. but they had. they were part of the global atlantean/lemurian empire and later the near-global empire of sumer. the leaders of the european explorers like columbus knew the truth, however, because of their secret society background. the corresponding stories and customs on both sides of the atlantic included the virgin birth, crucifixion, circumcision, and the great flood. the similarities were so striking, the christian priests sought to keep this knowledge quiet for fear of undermining their "unique" religion. the key central american deity, quetzalcoatl, was "jesus" under another name long before the christian religion waded ashore with columbus and cortes. quetzalcoatl was born to a virgin mother

s the major deity of the merovingians. artemis was symbolised with bees, as is the merovingian bloodline. it is the same with other versions of the goddess like demeter, the "pure mother bee, and a symbol of aphrodite was a golden honeycomb. her priestess was given the name melissa, or "queen bee. the word honeymoon comes from this. it spanned a lunar month, normally in may, which was named after the virgin maya, another version of el. the honeymoon would include the menstrual period of the bride and the combination of menstrual blood and honey was once thought to be the elixir of life. el is also the inspiration for the children's stories of mother hubbard or "mother hubur, as she was to the babylonians. mother hubbard was distressed because she couldn't find a bone for her dog (a domesti

the "anointed one, or "christos" to the greeks, when he had his willy bathed in menstrual blood. i hope you're not eating. as barbara walker points out in the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, many traditions of the early gnostic christians identified the serpent with jesus. she says that some christians believed that the serpent was the father of jesus, having "overshadowed" the bed of the virgin mary and begotten the human form of the saviour. this mirrors the legends of merovee, founder of the merovingians, and alexander the great, both of whom were said to have been fathered by a serpent or sea creature. jewish serpent-worshippers, known as the naasians, said the serpent was the "messiah. the many faces of the serpent cult 169 writers who have misrepresented the edda and othe

"notre dame de sous-terre (our lady of the underworld- a black ebony statue of a seated woman holding a child on her knees. this again was el and balder of the mother-son serpent cult. the child was invariably placed on the left knee because satanism calls itself the "left-hand path. on the black madonna's head at chartres was, as always, a crown and on the pedestal is a roman inscription saying "the virgin who will give birth" the crown is a symbol of the reptilian bloodlines and is used to signify high rank in satanism. the black madonna was called "the queen of heaven" and all these mother-virgins were symbolised as a dove. the symbolism of british royalty with its crowns, doves, and lions, etc, are all symbolic of the serpent cult in power today. the man who did most to advance the wor

branches of freemasonry feature the rose and cross in their rituals. once again, the christian mother mary is associated with the rose because she is a symbol of goddess worship. the romans called the rose the "flower of venus" and 172 children of the matrix this was a term used for the goddess, including queen semeramis. the red rose was symbolic of female sexuality and the white rose or lily is the virgin goddess. christians associated mary with both the rose and the lily and they called her the "holy rose. this is the same title given to the indian great mother. the rosary used so widely in the roman catholic mother-son cult was copied from the "rosary of the mantras" worn by the indian destroyer-goddess kali ma. arabs called their rosaries wadija or "rose garden" and the latin version

oy connect fundamentally with the death of princess diana and so much else besides. the merovingian bloodline goes back to the trojan war and beyond, and it was they who founded the city of paris and named it after the trojan called prince paris, the lover of helen (el-en) of troy. according to barbara walker in the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, helen was said to be an incarnation of the virgin moon-goddess and daughter of hecuba or..hecate.20 helen was also known as helle and selene and was worshipped at a spartan sexual festival called the helenphoria that included sexual symbols carried in a basket called the helene.21 troy or troia means "three places" in greek and hebrew and almost certainly relates to the triple-goddess symbolism of atlantis and lemuria with one deity di

now in the louvre museum in paris picture section 187 the goddess artemis (dana. diana) with her symbolic eggs in a statue at the ephesus museum. artemis/diana was the main deity of the merovingian bloodline and both are symbolised by bees. honey, and the hive on the left is an ancient egyptian portrayal of the "virgin mother, isis, and her saviour son. horus. on the right is the classic pose of the virgin mother, mary, and her saviour son, jesus, in a church at godshill on the isle of wight in england. why are they so remarkably alike? because they are precisely the same deities under different names 188 children of the matrix the headquarters of the infamous skull and bones society alongside the campus of yale university in new england. initiates are selected by bloodline and go on to s

portray the sun as a newborn baby on december 25th and he would grow up to become a big, strapping, very strong man at the summer solstice. this is the peak of the sun's power in the northern hemisphere when it dominates the darkness at the longest day. at this time, the sun-man would be given long golden hair to symbolise the powerful rays of the summer sun. as the sun entered the house of virgo the virgin (the house of delilah) at the start of autumn, this sun-man would have his hair cut shorter as the power of the sun began to fade. this is the real story of samson. he was not a real person, but symbolic of the sun. samson, like jesus, st paul, and many other biblical characters, was said to be a nazarene or nazarite. here we have the true meaning of the term "jesus of nazareth" or "jes

he term was used for any israelite king or priest and could be applied to anyone who has been anointed. the babylonian tammuz was called the christos or sacred king and the same or similar terms were applied to many of these pre-christian "jesus" figures. the name "jesus" is also a greek translation and if he did exist, which he didn't, his name was certainly not jesus. jesus was born to a virgin the virgin mother of the sun god is an ancient theme found all over the world. this could relate to the solar myth that the sun was "born" in a new or virgin moon and at certain times the constellation of virgo rose with the sun. it is also far from impossible that the artificial impregnation of women by the "gods" may have been 208 children of the matrix an ancient origin to this concept, too. so

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

a symbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to thebrotherhood, and this allows their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of babylon and the crown evolved from thehorned headgear worn by nimrod. the h

er time is a version of this. they also symbolised the sun as having long goldenhair (sun rays) which got shorter as he lost his power in the months of autumn. now lookagain at the old testament story of samson -sam-sun. he was incredibly strong and hadlong hair, but he lost his power when his hair was cut. the problems started when heentered the house of delilah- the astrological house of virgo, the virgin, through whichthe sun passes as autumn approaches. summoning his last burst of power, sam-the-sun,pushes down the two pillars, which are classic brotherhood symbolism going back atleast to ancient egypt and are still used by the freemasons today. samson is sam sun- asymbolic story of the suns annual cycle. there wasnt any such person. in hebrew,samson means i understand, the god of the

w the phoenicians depicted the rays of the sun around thehead of their sun god, bel or bil. this can be seen on a phoenicianstone dating to about the 4th centurv bc (see figure 14. the sunwas at the heart of the egyptian religion and at noon when the sunwas at the peak of its daily journey, they prayed to the mosthigh. at this time, they said the sun was going about his fatherswork in the temple. the virgin mothers associated with all of thesesun gods were different names for queen semiramis andninkharsag, also known as isis, the egyptian symbol of the femalecreative force without which nothing, not even the sun, could exist.over time, names for what had once symbolised extraterrestrialgods became used to describe concepts and esoteric principles.different eras and cultures gave different

ialgods became used to describe concepts and esoteric principles.different eras and cultures gave different names to these same figure 14: aphoenicianstanding stonedepicting their sungod, bel or bil, withthe halorepresenting therays of the sun.this is precisely theway jesus isportrayed becausehe, too, was asymbol of the sun.92concepts and so in the gospels, horus becamejesus and isis became mary, the virgin mother ofjesus, the sun. mary is constantly picturedholding the baby jesus, but this is merely a repeatof all the egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven were also

mind manipulation.another mind control sect which emerged from christianity/judaism is thejehovahs witnesses, the worship of the hebrew angry god, jehovah, and one of theirleading founders was the paedophile charles taze russell, a high degree freemason.these religions were set up to control, to create conflict between people, and to divideand rule the masses. visions of biblical characters like the virgin mary which haveenhanced mainstream christian beliefs over the centuries have followed a similarpattern. we have no idea what the jesus team looked like, but people always see themas their classic artistic depiction. those who have seen visions which relate to the biblestories have had shrines built to them, but those who see visions which are not biblicalare condemned as working with th

four years earlier, and were first known as the soldiers ofchrist. the templars are surrounded in mystery and contradiction, but it is known thatthey dedicated the order to the mother of god. the knights templar promoted achristian image as a cover and so mother of god was taken to be mary, the mother ofjesus, but to the reptile-aryan secret societies the term, mother of god, is symbolic ofisis, the virgin mother of the egyptian son of god, horus, and the wife of the sun god,osiris, in egyptian legend. isis, in turn, is another name for queen semiramis, as innimrod-semiramis-tammuz. isis/semiramis is also known by a stream of other namesin the various regions, cultures and countries. these include barati, diana, rhea,minerva, aphrodite, v enus, hecate, juno, ceres, luna and many, many oth

whole story was anotherhistorical smokescreen. we are supposed to believe that this young girl from a poorbackground knocked on the door of the aristocracy and they allowed her to lead a waragainst the english. yes, ok, and i can tie my willy to the lamppost across the street.the man who was really behind that military campaign was rene danjou with thestory of joan of arc (based on the legend of the virgin of lorraine) merely aconvenient way of hiding the real goings on.it was rene danjou who was responsible for the two-bar cross becoming known asthe cross of lorraine. the double cross symbol was later used by some aspects of thechristian church and it is the origin of the term to be double crossed, manipulated.this has become another symbol of the reptilian brotherhood and you can see it

sible author of the shakespeare plays. he was also a member of a secret societycalled the order of the helmet, dedicated to the worship of the goddess of wisdom,pallas athene, who was portrayed as wearing a helmet and holding a spear.8 researchersand investigators like manly p. hall, the renowned freemasonic historian, have littledoubt that bacon was born from a liaison between queen elizabeth i, the virgin queen,and her lover robert dudley, the earl of leicester.9 he was brought up by nicholas andanne bacon and would become the most influential man in the country, overtly andcovertly, with the title of viscount of st albans and the role of lord chancellor ofengland (this was the bacon role, you might say) if bacon was the son of queenelizabeth (el-lizard-birth, he was of a reptilian blood

aled vaults under the building whichhoused thousands of ancient esoteric books. it was unbelievable, he said.the first permanent english settlement in what became the united states was atjamestown, virginia, in the early 17th century. virginia, it is said, was named afterelizabeth i, the completely misnamed virgin queen. it is far more likely, however, giventhe background, that it was named after the virgin goddess of ancient babylon, queensemiramis and her mirror in egypt, isis. many members of the francis bacon familywere among the early settlers and so were the puritan-calvinists in their black clothingand tall hats who treated the native population, like their own women, with an arroganceand inhumanity beyond description. with the settlers, as the brotherhood expanded theiroccupation o

DEMONIC BIBLE

michael to his knees before me. after invoking the 30 ayres, i recited the following statement, repeating each line three times: i have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselves before me. i crucify jesus upon his cross. i rape the virgin mary and make her my concubine. i mock the cabala saying, i am the yod he vau he, i am the divine tetragrammaton, i am yahweh, i am allah, i am the elohim. i mock the cabala as i sit upon the throne of all creation. proclaiming a new aeon this ritual, like the one before it, was not included in the first edition of the demonic bible. it is not intended that the practitioner of the demon

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

eremonies and used as a talisman (q.v) or device to attract the loas (q.v) or gods. vibratory formula: in ceremonial magick (q.v, certain words are meant to be vibrated. this means that when sounded (loudly or silently) they should cause not only the practitioner, but all of space around the practitioner and all of the very existence of space before one to vibrate or resonate to the sound. virgo "the virgin" in astrology (q.v, the sixth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtu

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

mpathetic observers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is only another version of the bull of mithra which do

hat a hard and fast attribution of the gods of other pantheons to the different sephiroth is impracticable. aspects of isis are to be found in binah, netzach, yesod, and malkuth. aspects of osiris are to be found in chokmah, chesed, and tiphareth. this comes out clearly in greek mythology, wherein the different gods and goddesses are given descnptive titles. for instance, diana, the moon-goddess, the virgin huntress, was worshipped at ephesus as the many-breasted; venus, the goddess of female beauty and of love, had a temple where she was worshipped as the bearded venus. these things teach us some important truths. they teach us to look for the principle behind the multiform manifestation, and to realise that it assumes different forms on different levels. life is not quite so simple as th

in mind that the use of the tree of life is not merely an intellectual exercise; it is a creative art in the literal meaning of the words, and faculties have to be developed in the mind even as manual skill is acquired by sculptor or musician. 21. the yetziratic text specifically refers to binah as the sanctifying intelligence. sanctification conveys the idea of that which is holy and set apart. the virgin mary is held to be intimately associated with binah, the great mother; and from this attribution the mind is led on to the idea of that which brings forth the all but retains its virginity; in other words, whose creativeness does not involve it in the life of its creation, but which remains apart and behind as the basis of manifestation, the root-substance whence matter arises. for alth

is also the death principle; for the giver of life in form is also the giver of death, for form must die when its use is outworn. upon the planes of form, death and birth are the two sides of the same coin. 43. the mother aspect of binah finds expression in the title of marah, the sea, which is given her. it is a curious fact that venus-aphrodite is represented as being born of the sea-foam, and the virgin mary is called by catholics stella mans, star of the sea. the word marab, which is the root of mary, also means bitter, and the spiritual experience attributed to binah is the vision of sorrow. a vision which calls to ruind the picture of the virgin weeping at the foot of the cross, her heart pierced by seven swords. we also recall the teaching of the buddha that life is sorrow. the ide

sm. the three of cups is, therefore, at home in binah, for the two sets of symbols reinforce each other. the three of cups, which is aptly named abundance, represents the fertility of binah in her ceres aspect. 55. the three of swords, however, is called sorrow, and its symbol in the tarot pack is a heart pierced by three swords. out readers will recall the reference to the sword-pierced heart of the virgin mary in catholic symbolism, and mary equates with marab, bitter, the sea. ave, maria, stella maris! 56. swords are, of course, geburah cards, and as such represent the destructive aspect of binah as kali, the wife of siva, the hindu goddess of destruction. 57. pentacles are cards of earth, and as such are congemal to binah, form. the three of pentacles, therefore, is lord of material wo

plendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether. titles given to malkuth: the gate. the gate of death. the gate of the shadow of death. the gate of tears.the gate of justice. the gate of prayer. the gate of the daughter of the mighty ones. the gate of the garden of eden. the inferior mother. malkah, the queen. kallab, the bride. the virgin. god-name: adonai malekh or adonai ha aretz. archangel: sandalphon. choir of angels: ashim, souls of fire. mundane chakra: cholem ha yesodoth, sphere of the elements. spiritual experience: vision of the holy guardian angel. virtue: discrimination. mystical qabala page 181 vice: avarice. inertia. correspondence in the microcosm: the feet. the anus. symbols: altar of the double cube. the

p the psychic connection between the plant and the force, and as in all such traditional associations, once established, the link is easily recoverable by those who know how to make use of the constructive imagination. whether there is any intrinsic relationship between the nature of the plant and the nature of the force to which it is assigned, as in the case of the rose to venus and the lily to the virgin mary, such a relationship is speedily established by the worshippers of a cult and equally speedily recoverable by those who follow in their footsteps, even after a lapse of centuries. therefore for all practical purposes there is such a relationship, not only in relation to the plants assigned to a particular deity, but in relation to animals as well. 36. an attribution which has espec

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

elting in front of slow fires, or the crucifying of christened toads, or the reciting of little jingles, such as "horse, hattock, to ride, to ride" but if we understand the use of mind-power we soon realise that these things were simply aids to concentration. there is no essential difference between sticking pins into a 7 of 103 wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the virgin. you may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal may as truly be said of the practitioners of black magic as of the church. my own case belongs more to the realm of psychology than to occultism, the method employed being an application

urrent of mars, the emotional, suggestible one into the sphere of luna. the influences of these spheres play upon them. now the occultist working under a proper system, knowing that he has got to meet these forces sooner or later, picks them up one by one voluntarily and by means of the appropriate rituals, and synthesises them within his own nature. he knows too that each aspect has its obverse. the virgin mary is reflected in lilith. the older faiths knew this, but popular christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it. protestant christianity threw away its occult aspect at the reformation. all the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as well as etherial ones. we need to search the refuse-heap of history for the lost parts of our own tradition if our faith i

th these matters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaison

DONALDTYSON MIRACLES

an miracles is overwhelming in it number and variety. only a few brief examples may be cited here. those interested in the subject should consult the 19th century text a dictionary of miracles by the reverend e. cobham brewer, an excellent compendium of christian wonders that runs to almost six hundred pages of double-column fine print. in 1380 a merchant was transporting a small wooden statue of the virgin mary to antwerp. when he reached the town of schiedam the image made itself too heavy to be moved. all the townspeople flocked to see this marvel, and the conclusion was reached that the virgin wished to remain in schiedam. they induced the merchant to sell the statue, then set it up in the church of st. john the baptist. st. hugh, the abbot of cluny (1024-1109) met a leper on the road

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, but the abbe himself made the sign of the cross, and the tree disappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend shortly reappeared in the shape of a furious black knight. begone, said the abbe. why do you attack me far from my brothers? the devil once more left him, but returned in the shape of a tall man with a long, thin neck. to get rid of him, adam struck him a blow with his fist. the evil spirit shrank and took the stature and countenance of a little c

tin version was printed in paris in 1552. rabbi akiba was a great teacher who developed a rabbinical school at jaffu, and his mishnah became the foundation of the religious code. he was involved in the revolt of bar-cochba against hadrian in 132 c.e. and suffered martyrdom by being flayed alive. akita in 1969, akita, japan, was the site of one of the more prominent modern series of apparitions of the virgin mary. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at f

ntent of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatima. sister mary was deaf. four years later she received another locution, which happened to coincide with the development of the stigmata, a mysterious cross-shaped wound on her hand that refused to stop bleeding. the inner voice directed her to the chapel, where she saw the virgin for the first time. she also heard a series of accompanying messages from the virgin calling for prayer and sacrifice. the words seemed to come from a wooden statue of the virgin located in the chapel. she would see the virgin two more times. the last of the three messages complained of problems of discord and compromise within the church reaching to the highest levels. these apparition

n who had lived there before the reformation of the monastery in 1513. it seems alis led a rather worldly life, following pleasure and enjoyment in a manner unbecoming to a nun, finally stealing the ornaments from the altar and selling them. she left the monastery and for a time continued her disgraceful career outside, but before she died she repented of her sins and, through the intercession of the virgin, received pardon. however, she was refused christian burial and was interred without the usual prayers and funeral rites. a number of years later, when the monastery was occupied by other nuns, one of their number, a girl of about eighteen years, was aroused from her sleep by the apparition of sister alis. for some time afterward the spirit haunted her wherever she went, continually rap

jude he is mentioned in a personal conflict with the devil about the body of moses. he is called by gabriel, michael, your prince, meaning the prince of the jewish church. gabriel first appeared as an angel to give daniel an interpretation of a dream (daniel 8:16.27) but earned his lasting fame as the one to announce both the birth of john the baptist to zachariah and the coming birth of jesus to the virgin mary (luke 1:11.38. developing notions about angels in the intertestimental period (the centuries just prior to the christian era) as the jewish notion of angelic orders developed, michael and gabriel were named as two of the seven archangels. the alleged prophecy of enoch states, michael, one of the holy angels who, presiding over human virtue, commands the nations. the same volume not

belong the omens of death, in the form of certain animals or birds, which follow some families. the poltergeist, whose playful manifestations must certainly be included among apparitions is suggested as another classification of these as visual, auditory, and tactile, since poltergeist hauntings.or indeed hauntings of any kind.are not confined to apparitions touching any one sense. apparitions of the virgin mary one characteristic type of apparition is the appearance of the virgin mary, who is usually seen by young girls in catholic countries. such appearances involve messages for mankind as a whole, usually admonitions against sin and exhortations to repentance. the apparitions are not sought by the children and youths concerned, and often the messages are well beyond their intellectual c

.k: burslem, 1808. tweedale, violet. ghosts i have seen. london, 1920. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. london, 1953. reissued in one volume with tyrrell s science& psychical phenomena. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. wickwar, j. w. the ghost world. london, n.d. wright, dudley. vampires& vampirism. london, 1914. reprinted as the book of vampires. new york: causeway, 1973. apparitions of the virgin mary within the larger consideration of apparition, a special place has been given to apparitions of one figure, the virgin mary, believed to be the mother of jesus whom christians worship as the christ. apparitions of the virgin play an important role in doctrinal development and devotional life of the roman catholic church, the largest religious organization in the world, and to a les

the middle ages, but came under heavy attack from protestant leaders in the sixteenth century (many considered it idolatry) and from the eighteenth-century enlightenment that saw most supernaturalism as mere superstition. from the eighteenth century one can see documented an attempt to revive interest in marian devotion with the call for a definition of the immaculate conception (the belief that the virgin mary was born free of original sin) as official dogma (teachings. it also saw the publication of several massive works on mariology, especially the eminently successful glories of mary (1876) by alphonsus liguori, which became one of the most highly circulated books on mary in modern times. through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the role of mary in theology and her place in the

in 1820 in paris, france, with a young visionary, catherine laboure. a peasant girl with visionary tendencies, catherine entered the convent of the daughters of charity of st. vincent de paul in april of 1820. soon after settling in, she began to experience visions. then, on the evening of july 18th, at around 11:30 p.m, she was awakened by a child who told her to go to the chapel. there she saw the virgin. that evening she received only some personal instructions. but in november she had a vision of the virgin surrounded by an oval frame and was told to have a medal truck in the likeness of what she saw. this medallion, known as the miraculous medal, first appeared two years later but the wearing of it has now become a popular form of devotion worldwide. fourteen years later, in southern

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

acroprosopus means creator of the great world. macumba african-derived brazilian religions that have spirit possession as a central feature. madonna ministry the madonna ministry is a new thought metaphysical ministry founded by bishop arnold michael, formerly a minister with the united church of religious science. as a young man, in 1947 he had written a book, blessed among women, on the life of the virgin mary published in 1948. the writing of the book became a life-altering event and michael left his job managing a restaurant and studied for the religious science ministry. he served religious science churches for the next 35 years. in 1980, he returned to his consideration of the virgin mary and began writing a series of newsletters under the title madonna ministry that explored mary s

biography, anna kingsford: her life, letters, diary (1896. he died in the following year on october 2, 1897. sources: kingsford, anna. clothed with the sun. london: john m. watkins, 1889. kingsford, anna, and edward maitland. the perfect way; or, the finding of christ. london, 1882. rev. ed. london, 1887. reprint, mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1972. reprint, boston: esoteric book, 1988. the virgin of the world. 1885. reprint, minneapolis: wizard s bookshelf, 1977. maitland, edward. anna kingsford: her life, letters, diary. london, 1896. the story of anna kingsford and edward maitland and of the new gospel of interpretation. birmingham, england: ruskin press, 1905. mak, a(rie (1914) dutch school director and experimenter in the field of parapsychology. he was born november 23, 191

o be without foundation. it transpired that these books were part of the diana vaughan conspiracy of gabriel jogand-pages( leo taxil, designed to embarrass the roman catholic church and freemasonry. sources: stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. mariapovch povch was a village in northeastern hungary and the place of origin of one of the more notable weeping icons of the virgin mary revered among eastern rite roman catholic christians. the icon was prepared by stefan papp, the brother of the pastor of the local parish church. originally, the icon was intended for display in the local parish church. the picture of the virgin was shown holding the infant jesus, who in turn held a threepetaled lotus in his hand. the icon was seen to weep for the first time on nov

virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virgin mary from her birth on, including a visit to heaven in her early years, when she was given a guard of 900 angels. these revelations appear to have come out of her own spiritual raptures, but were full of inaccuracies. she was said to have lived a pious life in spite of the condemnation of her writings. marion, frederick (1892) stage name of josef kraus, famous european performer of stag

editation in the west is frequently identified with contemplation of a religious symbol or pious story. that is, the consciousness remains awake and alert as in zen, but also shut off from the outside world in total concentration upon a predetermined thought. roman catholics, for example, have a number of meditative practices built around contemplation of particular episodes in the life of jesus, the virgin mary, or the saints, while protestants have extolled the value of contemplating verses of scripture. eastern meditation traditions are numerous and complex. in hinduism, for example, meditation was usually taught by a guru only to a properly qualified pupil who had already followed a pathway of sadhana, or spiritual discipline that ensured purification at all levels. the various yoga sy

ium and daybreak (journal) spiritualist weekly, started in 1869 by james burns, originally published under the title, medium, later absorbing the daybreak, a provincial paper, founded in 1867. for years it had the largest circulation of any weekly on spiritualism. it was published until burns died in 1895. medjugorje name of a village in yugoslavia that has been the site of claimed apparitions of the virgin mary. the case follows a pat- the medium and daybreak encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1016 tern seen also at lourdes, la salette, and fatima, in which teenage visionaries state that the virgin has given them secrets concerning civilization and religion. it is the latest of a series of prominent cases of the apparition of the virgin that began in the early nineteenth c

four girls, marija pavlovic (16, vicka ivankovic (16, mirjana dragicevic (16, and ivanka ivankovic (15, and two boys, ivan dragicevic (16) and jakov colo (10. on the feast of st. john, june 24, 1981, ivanka, marija, and mirjana went for a walk to the hill of crnica. ivanka suddenly exclaimed there s our lady! mirjana felt unable to look, but ivanka was convinced that she had seen an apparition of the virgin mary. the girls returned home, and a few hours later set out again to help a farmer with his sheep. they left a message for their friends to follow them. the apparition again appeared, and was also seen by some of the other children, who had met up with ivanka and mirjana. the apparition was a beautiful smiling mother with child, wearing a starry crown and floating above the ground. the

seen by some of the other children, who had met up with ivanka and mirjana. the apparition was a beautiful smiling mother with child, wearing a starry crown and floating above the ground. the following day, four of the teenagers returned to the same place, followed by friends, and this time, jakov colo and marija pavlovic saw the apparition. similar encounters took place on succeeding days, when the virgin spoke to the children in excellent croatian. she said that she was the blessed virgin mary, sent from god with a gospel message. asked why the message should come through such ordinary children, she replied that it was precisely because they were ordinary and average, neither the best nor worst, that they had been chosen. thereafter, the children assembled on the hill each day to witnes

accused of slandering the state system. in october, he was tried and sentenced to three years imprisonment. he saw the apparition in prison. the aftermath of the apparitions meanwhile, in march 1983, bishop zanic appointed a theological commission to investigate and form a judgment on the encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. medjugorje 1017 apparitions. the visionaries reported that the virgin recommended special prayers for the bishop and his heavy responsibility. the religious authorities in rome sent representatives to make their own on-the-spot investigations. the children were given extensive medical and psychological tests. electroencephalographs probed the ecstatic state of the children during the apparitions, and scientists concluded that they were healthy and sane, a

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

terested in a wide range of anomalous phenomena, treated bvm and comparable religious miracles as parapsychological phenomena. further reading dash, mike, 1997. b o rd e rl a n d s. london: he i n e m a n n. delaney, john j, ed, 1960. a woman clothed with the sun: eight great appearances of our lady in modern times. garden city, ny: hanover house. mcclure, kevin, 1983. the evidence for visions of the virgin mary. wellingborough, northamptonshire, england: aquarian press. nickell, joe, with john f. fischer, 1988. secrets of the supernatural: investigating the world s occult mys- teries. buffalo, ny: prometheus books. rogo, d. scott, 1982. miracles: a parascientific in- quiry into wondrous phenomena. new york: dial press. van meter, david, 1999. digest of marian apparitions and catholic apoc

FOCUS OF LIFE

am unutterably drunk striving thy depths. i am the great cypher of love and hate knotted. the sphinx surviving, never sufficiently imagined. i am the grotesque refractions of form and self. the bitter purgative, called death. a violence that out-lasts the morning. moon turbulent waters am i: the frightening black albatross of unashamed women-where men are. i am the over mature breasts of a child: the virgin womb, hidden by nightmares. constant in metamorphosis, permeating creation without compassion. the unexcelled impulse that has never failed. yea, i am all these-yet never known. my kiss is a sword thrust! for whom, am i, this insatiable fountain in the hot deserts? only for thee, o, l.c.o'cs" thus sang aaos, the blasphemer, throwing off his grave shroud. going again among men [for he pl

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

as the prophetic figure with the zodiac (pi. 3) who ends the series of the planets, above the sibyls. in the next room are twelve prophets with the twelve apostles; the christianity foretold by hebrew and gentile prophets has arrived, represented by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the

of iniquity, the cancer of slowness, the capricorn of deception. let not the scorpio of fraud come near us, nor the centaur of animal affection, the altar of superstition, the crown of pride, the fish of unworthy silence. may the twtns of indecent familiarity fall with them, and the bull of concern for mean things, the ram of inconsiderateness, the lion of tyranny, the aquarius of dissoluteness, the virgin of fruitless conversation, and the sagittarius of detraction' in the nova de universis phihsophia, ferrara, 1591, and venice, 1593. see above, p. 182. on patrizi's publication of the stobaeus fragments, see scott, i, p. 40. 2 the anthologium of stobaeus, compiled circa a.d. 500, is a collection of extracts from greek writers amongst which are several hermetica. some of these are the sam

gli immagini degli dei, the plates of which often show greek and egyptian forms together. the gods of the spaccio almost, as it were, tremble between the two forms as the egyptian power grows. the appartamento borgia frescoes, showing the greek cow, io, turning into isis in egypt, perhaps move within a similar frame of reference, though they are orthodox in showing the egyptian bulls worshipping the virgin and saints, like proper prisci theologi. bruno's views on the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, are made abundantly clear: do not suppose that the sufficiency of the chaldaic magic derived from the cabala of the jews; for the jews are without doubt the excrements of egypt, and no one could ever pretend with any degree of probability that the egyptians borrowed any principle

ising this lady, she being a heretic, and above all in attributing to her the name of "diva* more significant, however, than the passage in de la causa, and which he did not mention to the inquisitors, are the praises of elizabeth in the cena de le ceneri where some vast, mystical universal empire is promised to the queen of england. bruno here joins in that mystical imperialism in the worship of the virgin de la causa, dial, i (dial, ital, pp. 222-3. 2 document, pp. 121-2. 288 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan queen, of which her name "astraea, the virgin of the golden age, was a symbol: of elizabeth i speak, who by her tide and royal dignity is inferior to no other monarch in the world; who for her wisdom and skill in sound government is second to none of those who hold t

o was blind, received his sight when he came to the best country of the world and into the presence of the best ruler.3 the woodstock entertainment was published in 1585,4 the same year as the eroici furori. as i have said "bruno, who elsewhere shows himself in sympathy with the elizabeth cult, may have been intentionally unking his philosophical dialogues with the chivalrous romance woven around the virgin queen."5 bruno's attitude to english knights, courtiers, and the english queen, seems to be very different from his attitude to the oxford "pedants" who had dispossessed their predecessors, suggesting that he saw elizabethan society as divided, finding himself at home and understood in the innermost recesses of the queen cult but antagonistic to some aspects of the elizabethan world. th

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

al affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged ever since the separation, that sin, sorrow and death are rampant, and that humanity is praying for the day of redemption, when the two streams shall be united in the kingdom of heaven where there is neither marrying nor

, hence there was enmity between cain, the son of fire, and abel, the son of water. so cain slew abel and abel was replaced by seth. in time and through generations, the sons of cain became the craftsmen of the world, skilled in the use of fire and metal. their ideal was male, hiram abiff, the master workman. the sons of seth, on the other hand, became the churchmen, upholding the feminine ideal, the virgin mary, and ruling their people by the magic water placed at their temple doors. various attempts have been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son o

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

lding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin mary. faith is the prime factor in their salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seeking, and when he answers "light" it is the duty of the master to give what he asks and make him a phree messen--a child of lig

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

sus christ returns. more and more satanism is uncover as time continues. freemasonry shares the belief in the serpent symbolizing time, as the second ouroboros indicates. listen to pike explain this briefly but clearly "a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time" ibid, p. 497] as pike is explaining the mason's spiritual belief about the serpent, he mentions the zodiac, bees and honey. listen "the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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

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

ator extant. as has been hinted, there is little doubt that the earliest worship of the woman and child was much simpler than was that which came to prevail in later ages, at a time when every religious conception was closely veiled beneath a mixture of astrology and mythology. after the planets came to be regarded as active agencies in reproduction, and powerful in directing all mundane affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend t

the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of this traditional virgin. she is standing, one foot upon a crescent and the other on a serpent's head, in the mouth of which is the sprig of an apple tree on which is an apple. the tail of the serpent is wound about a globe which is partially enveloped in clouds. on one arm of the virgin is the child, and in the hand of the other arm she carries the sacred lotus. her head is encircled with a halo of light similar to the rays of the sun. one is frequently disposed to query: do the initiated in the romish church regard these images as legitimate representations of mary, the wife of joseph and mother of christ, or are they aware of their true significance? certainly the va

hich represent this goddess are black, thus proving that she must have belonged to a dark skinned race. this image, although black, or dark skinned, had long hair, hence not a negress. the most ancient statue of ceres was black, and pausanias says that at a place called melangea in arcadia there was a black venus. in the netherlands only a few years ago, was a church dedicated to a black goddess. the virgin of the sphere who treads on the head of the serpent represents universal womanhood. she is the virgin of the first book of genesis and mother of all the earth. she represents not only creative power but perceptive wisdom. although this goddess is usually seen with the lotus in her hand, she sometimes carries ripe corn or wheat. the mother of gotama buddha was called mai or maya, after t

tain period regarded as a source of procreative energy and as influencing the generative processes, is shown by various passages in the avestas. in the khordah avesta, praise is offered to "the moon which contains the seed of cattle, to the only begotten bull, to the bull of many kinds" perhaps the most widely diffused and universally adored representation of the ancient female deity in egypt was the virgin neit or neith, the athene of the greeks and the minerva of the romans. her name signifies "i came from myself" this deity represents not only creative power, but abstract intelligence, wisdom or light. her temple at sais was the largest in egypt. it was open at the top and bore the following inscription "i am all that was and is and is to be; no mortal has lifted up my veil, and the fru

. it is no longer woman who is to bruise the serpent's head, but the seed of the woman, or the son. he is bacchus in greece, adonis in syria, christna in india. he is indeed the new sun which is born on the 25th of december, or at the time when the solar orb has reached its lowest position and begins to ascend. it is not perhaps necessary to add that he is also the christ of bethlehem, the son of the virgin. nowhere, perhaps, is the growing importance of the male in the god-idea more clearly traced than in the history of the arabians. among this people are still to be found certain remnants of the matriarchal age--an age in which women were the recognized heads of families and the eponymous leaders of the gentes or clans. concerning the worship of a man and woman as god by the early arabia

e male is manifested as the heat of the orb of day. she is crowned and always bears the male symbol of life- the crux-ansata. later, it is observed that the worship of light has in a measure given place to the adoration of heat, in other words light is no longer adored as essence of the deity, heat or passion having become the most important element in creative power. after the ancient worship of the virgin and child had become somewhat changed or modified so as to better accommodate itself to the growing importance of the male, the most exalted conception of the deity in egypt seems to have been that of a trinity composed of mout the mother, ammon the father, and chons the infant life derived from the other two. mout is identical with neith, but she has become the wife as well as the moth

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

controller of the zodiacs, whatever she may be, has her representative in the half-buried sphinx even to our own day, watching the stars although nearly swallowed up in the engulphing sands"[58 [58] phallicism, p. 25. from the time when the two religious elements began to separate in the minds of the people, the prophets, seers, and priestesses of the old religion, those who continued to worship the virgin and child, had prophesied that a mortal woman, a virgin, would, independently of the male principle, bring forth a child, the fulfilment of which prophecy would vindicate the ancient faith and forever settle the dispute relative to the superiority of the female in the office of reproduction. thus would the woman "bruise the serpent's head" in process of time not only yonigas, but lingaj

of life constituted "the night of brahme" it was represented by vishnu sleeping on the bottom of the sea. from the facts adduced in relation to the etrurians we are not surprised to find that their religion was that of the ancient nature worshippers, and that a mother with her child stood for their god-idea. in referring to the religion of this people, and to the great antiquity of the worship of the virgin and child, higgins remarks "amongst the gauls, more than a hundred years before the christian era, in the district of chartres, a festival was celebrated in honor of the virgin" and in the year 1747, a mithraic monument was found "on which is exhibited a female nursing an infant--the goddess of the year nursing the god day" to which he adds "the protestant ought to recollect that his mo

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

1784 grabianka followed (after a visit to the swedenborgians in london) and in 1786 they founded the societe des illumines d avignon. precisely what this band of visionaries believed and taught is unclear; their doctrines have been described as a blend of swedenborgianism and roman catholicism, salted with occultism. to the cold intellectualism of the swedish visionary was added the veneration of the virgin mary and recital of the athanasian creed; while individual members studied renaiss-ance alchemy, the theurgy of alexandria, hermetic authors, the philosopher s stone, the divine science of numbers, and the mystical interpretation of dreams4[4. even less is known of the rituals they practised, but when two english swedenborgians, william bryan and john wright, visited the society in 1789

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

mother of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterpart of the logos and cannot work without. it is hence suggested in esoteric gnostic literature that it was the combined power of jesus and mary madgadene who transmitted the mysteries, not jesus alone. the sophia tradition has survived hidden under the veil of christian piety, it is still found in the cult of the virgin mary and is most powerful in the russian orthodox traditions. it is a tradition of great age and some beauty that personifies the power of the holy spirit as distinctly female. for example, in proverbs particularly we have sophia wandering the street begging men to love her. while in the following quotes we may even begin to think that sophia or wisdom is separate, yet in reality, sophi

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

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

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

sometimes they may also have been designed to serve as openers of the way conduits to enable initiates to follow the trail of scientific information from one myth to another. thus, even though none of the familiar mills and whirlpools is in sight, we should perhaps sit up and pay attention when we learn that orion, the great hunter of greek myth, was the owner of a dog. when orion tried to ravish the virgin goddess artemis she produced a scorpion from the earth which killed him and the dog. orion was transported to the skies where he became the constellation that bears his name today; his dog was transformed into sirius, the dog star.38 precisely the same identification of sirius was made by the ancient egyptians,39 who linked the orion constellation specifically to their god osiris.40 it

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

people now shunned with horror, as formerly they had thronged to those processions. veiled under the biblical names of cain, ehas, enoch, antichrist, herodias, there come into view the same old myths about moon-spots, giants' buildings, a god of thunder and of storm, the preface. xxxvll gracious (holde) night-dame and the buruing of the world. and what arrests our attention still more is, that to the virgin mary we apply a whole host of charming legends about holda and frouwa, uorns and valkyrs, as the romans did those about venus, juno and the parcae; nay, in the fairy-tale, dame holle and mary can usurp the place of gray-hatted wuotan. what a tender fragrance breathes in those tales of mary, and what has any other poetry to put by the side of them? to the kindly heathen traits is superad

personal being wunsch or seelde. the diminutive form of it in wunscili-gerta leads me to see in this compound no reference to a person, but to a thing: it is the gerta (yard, rod) by possessing which a man becomes partaker of all earthly bliss. the bestowal of that bliss proceeds from wuotan the supreme (p. 419. the 13th century poets also use the term. conrad in bis schmiede 664 (614, comparing the virgin to the rod of moses' du bist diu wiinschel-gerte, dar mit (wherewith) liz einem steine wazzer wart gestagen' and 1306 (1261 ^du saelden (saelden) tviinscjielgerte' in his troj. 19888, of helena ^schoene als ein wunsch elgerte kam sie geslichen (gliding) lifreht' as danish folk-songs use lilje-vaand (lily-stalk) in a like sense; troj. 2215 'alles heiles ein ivunscltel-rts(-spray^ gotfrie

ide ia.res along (p. 632. percuna tete (p. 173) washes her son the thunder-god in a bath: this is the bavarian 'and with her ley (p. 641. in austria they tell (ziska pp. 14 16, of the devil's?-anez= ver anel, how she felt dull in hell, and came for a change to the highlands (up. austria, where she got her son to build her a castle near the danube, imagining the people would worship her as much as the virgin mary; but as no one wanted her and the people laughed at her, she was enraged, and threw a huge piece of rock with a part of her castle into the danube, at the spot now called wirhel and strudel, and the ruins of her house are still named the devil's tower; conf. p. 592 on whirlpools. i suppose no one can doubt that all these notions date from heathen times (see suppl. private sacrifice

tsman in the morning comes upon an old woman, he lies down and makes her step over him, to ward off mischief (hessian pop. cust. in switzerland to meet a 'woman is unlucky, at least on new-year's day (tobler 447. swedish superst. k, 53 holds all meeting with woman-folk bad, unless it be a lon-hora, as the irapoevo^ in chrysostom betokened an unlucky day, and the tropvq a lucky. so in sup. i, 177: the virgin or priest is an evil sign, the prostitute a good^ but ihre speaks expressly of a vetula, so does arndt's journey to sweden 1, 44, and a finnish song (schroter's runen p. 67' go forth by early morn, lest ancient crone with crooked chin do squint at thee' this last hint plainly sets before us the notion of a witch, still more does the loose flying hair (p. 1089) that of a night-wife (sup

itum, maxime palu7nhis ac turdis: haec est natui'a, ut nisi maturatum in ventre avium non proveniat. altitude ejus non excedit cubitalem, semper frutectosi ac viridis. mas fertilis, femina sterilis; aliquando non fert' with us too a thrush is called 7im^^er, schm. 2, 645 (mhg. mistelsere, engl, mistlehird; and in some other of our myths the conveyance of the seed by birds enhances the holiness of the virgin plant (p. 969: there is no human hand at work, and the finger of god is manifest. viscum is the fr. gui, and to this day the veneration for the plant is preserved in the new-year's gratulation aguilanneuf p. 755. in wales they hang mistletoe over the doors at christmas, and call it (says davies) pre7i awyr, merry tree, pren uchelvar, tree of the high summit, pren piiraur, tree of pure g

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

une dips his foot crosswise in the fountain of bar enton; they are then sure of its raining before the procession arrives home again. 2 the mayor s foot alone is wetted instead of the child, or a little water only is poured out as a beginning of that which is to fall in masses from the sky. the scanty offering brings the great bounty to our door. in spain, when hot weather lasts long, an image of the virgin arrayed in mourning (imagen cubierta de luto) is solemnly escorted through the villages, to obtain the blessing of rain, 3 as in the liege procession (pp. 174- 5, with which again that described by petronius agrees (p. 175; only here the .symbolic libation is left out. but of those herbs that were tied round the child, some most likely were of magic power; such a use of henbane is other

t of autumn aftersummer, autumn yarn, oldwives summer; but generally both kinds are covered by the one name or the other. nethl. slammetje (draggletail? brem. wtb. 4, 799; engl. gossamer (god s train, trailing garment, also samar, simar (train; swed. dvdrgsndt (dwarfs net, p. 471. boh. wlacka (harrow, because the threads rake the ground; pol. lato swieto marcinskie, mary s holy summer. here again the virgin s name seems to have been chosen as a substitute or antidote for heathen notions: the ancient slavs might easily believe the gauzy web to have been spread over the earth by one of their gods. but the autumn gossamer has another slavic name: pol. babie lato, old wives summer, boh. babslce veto, or simply babj, which puts us in mind once more of that antithesis between summer and the old

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

hockley received the crowned angel'smagnum()jjus,metaphysicaland spiritualphilos()jjhy;or theamneaionwith andinfluenceouermaterialbodies-byspirits.hockley approached crystal or mirror scrying with an almost religious awe. indeed his experiments were to have a profound effect on his own religious beliefs, turning him from a unitarian to a trinitarian christian with a firm belief in the mystery of the virgin birth. before use, the crystal or mirror had to be consecrated with prayers and dedicated to the serviceofgod. consecrated calls, again invoking the name of christ, were to be given three times to summon whichever spirit guide was required. once the spirit's message had been received, a special discharge was to be given three times, again invoking christ and his angels, followed by pray

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

of egypt that christian monasticism first developed, and the great monasteries partially took the place of temples in egyptian society. christian chroniclers provide evidence that some egyptians clung to the old beliefs as late as the sixth century ce. a few magical texts of this period still mention the myths of isis and the horus introduction 45 child, but most replace them with anecdotes about the virgin mary and baby jesus. the last stories about the gods of egypt are those that tell of their defeat by coptic saints.109 in the seventh century ce, egypt was invaded first by the persians and then by the arabs. the arabs brought with them the muslim religion, but many of the native egyptians (the copts) remained christian. the coptic language fell out of general use around 1000 ce, but it

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

cs reward for him. about as many vagabond maltese began a regular chase, andtowards evening we were invaded in our hotel by the whole troop, every man of them with a more or lessmangy cur in his arms, which he tried to persuade me was my lost dog. the more i denied, the more solemnlythey insisted, one of them actually going down on his knees, snatching from his bosom an old corroded metalimage of the virgin, and swearing a solemn oath that the queen of heaven herself had kindly appeared tohim to point out the right animal. the tumult had increased to such an extent that it looked as if ralph'sdisappearance was going to be the cause of a small riot, and finally our landlord had to send for a couple ofkavasses from the nearest police station, and have this regiment of bipeds and quadrupeds e

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

sicians, artists, etc. but it became still more famous for its eclectic, or new platonic school, founded by ammonius saccas in 173 ad, whose disciples were origen, plotinus, and many other men now famous in history. the most celebrated schools of the gnostics had their origin in alexandria. philo-judaeus, josephus, iamblichus, porphyry, clement of alexandria, eratosthenes the astronomer, hypatia, the virgin philosopher, and numberless other stars of second magnitude, all belonged at various times to these great schools, and helped to make of alexandria one of the most justly renowned seats of learning that the world has ever produced. altruism from alter, other. a quality opposed to egoism. actions tending to do good to others, regardless of self. ammonius saccas a great and good philosoph

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

as unmistakable. i even recognized the passages. as i crept along the corridor toward the brighter light i saw later stages of the painted epic- the leave-taking of the race that had dwelt in the nameless city and the valley around for ten million years; the race whose souls shrank from quitting scenes their bodies had known so long where they had settled as nomads in the earth's youth, hewing in the virgin rock those primal shrines at which they had never ceased to worship. now that the light was better i studied the pictures more closely and, remembering that the strange reptiles must represent the unknown men, pondered upon the customs of the nameless city. many things were peculiar and inexplicable. the civilization, which included a written alphabet, had seemingly risen to a higher or

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

om this particular period so full of the marvellous. o'daly in his history of the geraldines relates that during the siege of limerick three portents appeared. the first was a luminous globe, brighter than the moon and little inferior to the sun, which for two leagues and a half shed a vertical light on the city, and then faded into darkness over the enemy's camp; the second was the apparition of the virgin, accompanied by several of the saints; and the third was a lusus natur, of the siamese-twins type: all three of which o'daly interprets to his own satisfaction. the first of these was some form of the northern lights, and is also recorded in the diary of certain puritan officers. that learned, but somewhat p. 101 too credulous english antiquary, john aubrey, relates in his miscellanies

ISIS UNVEILED

raft, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently overlook a few insignificant details, among which is the undeniable presence of heathen phauicism in the christian symbols. a strong spiritual element of this worship may be easily demonstrated in the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mother of god; and a physical element equally proved in the fetish-worship of the holy livju of sts. cosmo and damiano at laemia, near naj; a successful traffic in which er-votos in wax was carried on by the clergy annually, until bardy a century ago* we &id it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their viob wrath in such sentences as these "in a multitude of pag

! aware of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated treatise of that name by a jesuit, the cardinal bellannine. a critic found that the aift

ful attempt had bees made to clothe the infant jesus; they had covered his legs with a pair of dirty, scouop-edged pantaloons. an english traveler having presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful population of the amtadini, accompanied by the village-priest, went in procession to the spot. they managed to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ceremony were both solemn and highly refreshing to our religious feelings. for there stood the image of the goddess in its niche, surrounded with a row of ever-burning lamps, the flames of which, flickering in the breeze, infect god's pure air with an offensive smell of olive oil. the mother and son truly represent the two most conspicuous idols of mono

i, go to the rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da candelaria, in a long hall running along one side of the church, there might he seen a few years ago another madonna. along the walls of the hall there is a line of saints, each standing on a contribution-box, which thus forms a fit pedestal. in the center of this line, under a gorgeously rich canopy of blue silk, is exhilhted the virgin mary leaning on the arm of christ 'our lady' is arrayed in a very dicouets blue satin dress with short digitizecoy google 10 isis untbii^d sleeves, showing to gteat advantage the snow-white, exquisitely-molded neck, moulders, and anns. the skirt, of blue satin with an over-skirt of rich lace and gauze puffs, is as short as that of a ballet-dancer; hardly reaching the knee, it exhibits a

ghtest inter- vention of god or devil. hardly had the manifestations begun to attract attention in europe, than the clergy commenced their outciy that their traditional enemy had reappeared under another name, and 'divine miracles' also began to be heard of in isolated instances. first they were confined to humble individuals, some of whom claimed to have them produced through the intervention of the virgin mary, saints and angels; others according to the clergy began to suffer from obtettion and posieanon; tor the devil must have his share of fame as well as the deity. finding that, notwithstanding the warning, the independent, or so-called spiritual phe nomena went on increasing and multiplying, and that these mani* festatioos threatened to upset the carefully-constructed dogmas of the c

l. modem re- search has mere than ever unveiled the secret "is not the worship of saints and angels now" said bbhop newton, years ago "in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times? the name only is different, the thing is identically the same. the very same temples, the very same images, which were once consecrated to jupiter and the other demons, are now consecrated to the virgin mary and the other saints. ajmost the whole of paganism is con- verted and api^ed to popery" why not be impartial and add that a good portion of it was adopted by protestant religions also? even the apostolic designation peter is from the mysteries. the hierophant or supreme pontiff bore the chaldaean title idd, peter, or in- terpreter. the names ptoft, peth'r, the residence of balaam

egyptian tradi- tions were established. not only was the adoration of i^ under a new name restored, but even her image, standing on the crescent moon, reappeared. the well-known e sgy of that goddess with the infant horus in her arms has descended to our days, in the beautiful artistic creations of the madonna and child" but a still earlier origin than the egyptian and chaldaean can be asngned to the virgin 'mother of god' queen of heaven. thou^ 98. pluurch: on itu and oitrii. 90. galkeiu: summ. ckau (pmth expos, in appz (p. ill) to sib. oraeata: amst fd ni, 1689. 100. nmvarette: traladot kitl. he, dt china, bk. ii, cb. x. 101. on ou origin irf patm idaurji. 102. iambi: de mujf. vhi. 3; d. lus unt, i, pp. i -7, 157, 256. 103. f ber: bi$terujim on uie cmh, i, p. 315. note. 104. cot. betw. r

third chapter of genena, anything like that which the christians have contrived to find. on the other hand, in the traditions and in manu, brahma promises directly to the first couple to send them a savior who will teach them the way to salvation "it is from the lips of a messenger of brahma, who will be bom in kurukshetra, mat^a, and the land of pafich&la, also called kanyfi- kubja [mountain of the virgin, that all men on earth will learn their duty" says manu (ii, sloktu 19 and 20. btrmii trumtgiiu, i, di. i. tht penuluiimte w digitizecoy google pagan rites and dogmas adopted by christians al the mexicans call the father of their trinity yzona, the son bacab, and the holy ghost echvah "and say they received it [the doctrine] from their ancestors" among the semitic nations we can trace t

g lorcery for ages; hypatia, the glorious maiden-philosopher, torn to pieces by the christian mob; and such as catherine de m dicis, lucrezia borgia, joanna of naples, and the isabellas of spain, presented to the world as the faithful daughters of the church, some even decorated by the pope with the order of the 'immaculate bose' the highest emblem of womanly purity and virtue, a symbol sacred to the virgin-mother of god! such are tiie examples of human justice! how far less blasphemous appears a total rejection of mary as an immaculate goddess, than an idolatrous worship of het accompanied by such practices. in the next chapter we shall present a few illustrations of sorcety, as practised under the patronage of the boman church. digitizecoy google chapter n where bloktcd aiula in mioky du

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 79. all wise, all knowing she gives and takes life and reminds us of our innate inner wisdom and of the divine spark within and asks us to radiantly manifest this into the world. the high priestess embodies love, mercy and compassion. then we have: the triple goddess. the original trinity, symbolizes the 3 faces of the great goddess. stage 1: the virgin as strong and self defined. stage 2: the mother as the nurturing source of all nourishment and. stage 3: the crone representing death and transformation. the role of the triple goddess is to remind us of our sacredness regardless of our age for all stages are precious, and also to remind us that there is one multi-faceted goddess, always present, always sacred. then we have some of the

fire. white shell woman. turquoise woman. protects us from our enemies, created the navajo, teaches us how to see life s joy and beauty in all things. and of course, some of the greek goddesses. aphrodite. represents freshness, renewal and hope and the feminine being in all her glory. her realm is relationship and feeling and mature love. the goddess of both spiritual and passionate love. athena. the virgin goddess of war and wisdom and limitlessness, she encourages warriors to gentleness, the patron of useful and elegant arts. artemis. mistress of animals and all wild untamed things, symbolizes female independence, healing goddess, values solitude. demeter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope

ican yoruban goddess of weather and brazilian macumba deity of change, women call on her for protection when in hard to resolve situations. baba yaga. slavic birth-death goddess who inspires us to get in touch with our wild woman and free our vital, instinctual and primal energies by integrating our self destructive behavior. maya. hindu mother of creation, weaver of the web of life and illusion. the virgin aspect of kali s virgin, mother and crone. maya comes to show us the illusionary nature of the material world, she brings magic and creativity. maeve. intoxicating irish goddess of the magical land of tara. maeve challenges us to act responsibly and become the queen of our domain. maat. ancient egyptian goddess of law, order, truth and justice. maat comes to bring justice to our life, t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

terally (which, in the occult sense, is always obscurely, it is the sacred blue (or gray) womb, which is absurd. strange myths. 41 now, the reference and the meaning of this we will confidently commit to the penetration of those among our readers who can felicitously privately surmise it; and also the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of the sea. blue is expressive of the hellenic, isidian, ionian, fonian (foni-indian) watery, female, and moonlike principle in the universal theogony. it runs through all the mythologies. the lady-bird, or lady-cow (there is no resemblance between a bird and a cow, it may be remarked en passant, except in this s

s of england when a lady-bird is seen by the children. myths are inextricably embodied like specks and straws and flies in amber amidst the sayings and rhymes of the common people in all countries; and they are there preserved for very many generations, reappearing to recognition after. the lapse sometimes of centuries. now, how do we explain and re-render the above rude couplet? the lady-bird is the virgin maria, isis, the mother and producer of nature; the house is the ecliptic it is figuratively on fire, or of fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a sto

f fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were in number ten. thus, re-read, the lines run: lady-bird, lady-bird (columba, or dove, fly away home! your house is of fire your children are ten! the name of the flying insect called in england lady- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic

een completely ignorant of his mission. when on the cross, christos and sophia left his body, and returned to their own sphere. upon his death, the two took the man jesus, and abandoned his material body to the earth; for the gnostics held* at the moment of his baptism in the jordan mark. up to that point he was natural but not the christ. this will recall his exclamation of world s disclaimer to the virgin woman, what have i to do with thee? traditionary facts at the crucifixion. 153 that the true jesus did not (and could not) physically suffer on the cross and die, but that simon of cyrene, who bore his cross, did in reality suffer in his room: and they compel one simon a cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of alexander and rufus, to bear his cross (st. mark xv

qually sonorous (swedenborg; also occult sciences, p. 93; london, 1855. the greek bacchanals were well acquainted with the mythos of eve, since they constantly invoked her, or a person under her name, in their ceremonies. black is the saturnian colour also that of the egyptian isis. under the strange head of the embodiment of deity under darkness, the following remarkable facts may be considered: the virgin and child are depicted black at the cathedral at moulins, at the famous chapel of the virgin at loretto, in the church of the annunciation at rome, at the church of st. lazaro and the church of st. stephen at genoa, at that of st. francisco at pisa, at the church of brixen in the tyrol, at a church in (and at the cathedral of) augsburgh, where the black figures are as large as life, at

indow. the twelve pillars, or radii, are the signs of the zodiac, and are issuant out of the glorified centre, or opening rose, the sun or beginning of all things. king arthur s round table displays the crucified rose in its centre. in the tables* alternating with tying-knots, of the order of the garter, which most noble order was originally dedicated, be it remembered, to the blessed lady, or to the virgin mary, the microcosmical, miniture king arthur s round table becomes the individual female discus, or organ, waxing and waning, negative or in flower, positive or natural, alternately red and white, as in the rose of the world: rosamond, rosa mundi. and where we will adduce, as our justification for this new reading of the origin of the order of the garter, the very motto of the princely

r of the h.g. it also refers mystically to revelation, and tosaint john. white 3. it stands for the great deep, or for matter in the abstract. it is represented heraldically by horizontal lines,which stand for fluid-levels,whether of the sea or of the air. this colour is assigned to the blessed lady, or notre dame de paris. in heathen representations of theruling feminine principle, it stands for the virgin of thesea. blue also, in regard to the heraldicmetals, sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (gold; and luna, the moon, astarte( receptive, or female power, is the metal argent (or silver* the colour azure, or blue,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by the planet jupiter (zeus, as lord o

nfortunate colour, besides being that of the white rose and of whitehall, is that white of the unlucky stuarts, whose history through centuries, both in scotland and in england, was but one long catalogue of mishaps, woes, and disasters. prince charles edward and his famous white cockade, and the evil fortunes of all his followers and of the jacobite cause in general in 1715 and 1745, emblemed in the virgin, holy colour white, supply a touching nay, tragical page in public and in private history. lastly, we may adduce as a supposed exemplification of the terrible general effects.of this evil-boding name albus, and colour white, in france, the history of all the bourbons, whose colour is white in particular, from the first of that name who displayed his snowy banner, and who fell by the dag

nostics mythed the saviour jesus christ to have passed secretly; disguising himself and his mission in order to win securely to his object. in evading recognition, in his acceptable disguises, through these already-created princedoms of angels, he veiled his purpose of his voluntary sacrifice for the human race till he was safe, in his investment in humanity, for the accepted propitiation through the virgin, for production only; not for office. there was deep mystery in the gnostic method of teaching that, although the sacrifice (the source of sacrifice in all faiths) was complete and real and perfect, the saviour did not nor could suffer bodily or be nailed really, and die upon the cross, but that he suffered in appearance only, and vicariously the scripture being misread. the gnostics ma

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

prints" is classic. it was told as follows, by frank w. lane, in fate, april-may, 1952 the material being largely the product of research by rupert gould as printed in stargazer folks and elsewhere: on the night of thursday, february 7, 1855, there was a fall of snow over south devon, in southwest england. the next morning, as men and women went about their business, they discovered, imprinted in the virgin snow, a series of tracks unlike any seen before. at first glance they looked like the impression made by a donkey's hoof, measuring four by two and three-quarter inches. but there, all resemblance between the imprints on the snow and the sort of tracks left by a workaday donkey, ends. and the real mystery begins. it was found that the hoof marks ran in a single line, and also that the d

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

its name. h(*w. marsham adams, the book of the master, p. 96) 22. in ancient egypt they recognized seven souls, or life-forces, coming forth from the most high. students of eastern philosophy call them the primordial seven, and they are mentioned in the book of dzyan(*see the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky) six of these were prehuman; the seventh was our humanity, and was brought forth from the virgin neith. the symbol attached to that bringing forth was that of the pelican, who was fabled to draw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from egyptian teaching. we read in egyptian hieroglyphics of gthe one and the four, h referring to horus and his four brothers

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

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

336. who, at her mystic birth, 337. came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her 338. foot on the sea. 339. and the wonderful waters knew her, the winds and the 340. viewless ways, 341. and the roses grew rosier, and bluer the sea-blue stream of 342. the bays. 343. this beautiful symbolism of her name refers to the form side of the deity, the root of matter- called the deep sea, or the virgin sea- which is impregnated with the divine life and beauty, and so gives birth to the loveliest of forms. the title foam-born is particularly appropriate when we consider that all forms are built up of aggregations of bubbles blown in the deep sea, the aether of space. all this was explained to the initiates of the mysteries. the same mystical idea lies in the title of our lady mary, sta

edral of that city(*quoted in waite s new encyclopaedia, art. culdees) as we shall presently see, it was at york that certain important masonic degrees emerged in the eighteenth century. 499. the monks of the celtic church were largely responsible for the introduction of christianity into germany. wherever they came they raised churches and dwellings for their priests, cleared the forests, tilled the virgin soil, and instructed the heathen in the first principles of civilization(*gould. hist. freem, vol. i, p. 107) some german authorities have held that the monks directing these operations owed much of their success to the remnants of the roman colleges of gaul and britain, and ultimately laid the foundations of the craft guild system in germany. gould rejects this view on the ground that

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

reation of a contemporary legend. chicago: open court, 1993. apparition the term apparition usually refers to immaterial appearances of people, also called ghosts, animals, objects, and spirits. despite much skepticism, reports of apparitions have always had a particular importance in folk belief and in the history of religion. even though there can be religious apparitions (e.g, an apparition of the virgin, they are traditionally associated with the diabolical, despite the fact that they often appear to be offering consolation and guidance. apparitions, which are not seen by everyone, usually involve noises, unusual smells, extreme cold, and the displacement of objects. also visual images, tactile sensations, voices, and the apparent psychokinetic movement of objects may be included. appa

rn mediterranean region during the middle ages and spread slowly westward. among its most important groups were the albigensians, who were militarily destroyed in the early 1200s by the only successful medieval crusade, which began in 1209. cathars were distinguished from other medieval heretic groups for rejecting such basic christian beliefs as the doctrine of incarnation, christ s two natures, the virgin birth, and bodily resurrection. they also repudiated the church hierarchy and sacraments, particularly baptism of water and matrimony, and followed an ascetic lifestyle that included celibacy, vegetarianism, and even ritual suicide.most cathars accepted only the new testament, which they read in its catholic version. the universe was seen by cathars as constituted of two coexisting sphe

o the popular consciousness of the middle ages via the tale of theophilus, who according to legend had been the treasurer of a church in the sixth century. unfairly dismissed from his job, he sought revenge with the aid of a magician. this sorcerer invoked the devil, theophilus sold his soul, and he was subsequently restored to his position. however, he eventually regretted his actions, prayed to the virgin mary, and was saved. the legend of theophilus provided a model for the later narrative of faust easily the most famous man to sell his soul to satan though faust was motivated by pride rather than by the urge for revenge. also, unlike theophilus, faust did not escape his infernal fate in most versions of this story. the story of faust became the basis for a series of literary production

e imagined by st. augustine, who asserted that if even infants died without the sacrament of baptism they would be eternally damned. it also helped to explain ghosts, who were viewed as souls undergoing purgatorial cleansing. the church cautiously embraced the notion that the prayers and other actions of the living could shorten the time the deceased spent in purgatory. as a merciful intercessor, the virgin mary became queen of purgatory to whom prayers for the deceased were addressed. this role led more or less directly to the medieval cult of mary. as is well known to those familiar with the history, it was the doctrine of the role the living could play to rescue souls from purgatory that set the stage for the protestant reformation. islam embraced the zoroastrian notion of purgatory as

rcist, rosemary s baby (1968) was the most successful movie with a satanic theme of all time. the overall plot is that, with the connivance of her ambitious husband and a group of neighboring satanists, rosemary, played by mia farrow, is impregnated by the devil for the purpose of giving birth to a satanic messiah. rosemary, however, does not become aware of her role as the infernal equivalent of the virgin mary until the very end of the story. the film s dramatic tension derives from her gradual discovery of the satanists diabolical machinations. rosemary s baby came out shortly after the birth of the church of satan. anton lavey, founder of the church of satan, claimed that he was not only a technical advisor for the film, but also did a cameo appearance as the devil. critics have disput

LIBER 777

e attributions of assyrian, syrian, mongolian, tibetan, mexican, zend, south sea, west african &c. iacchus table of correspondences 10 xxxv. some roman gods. xxxvi. selection of christian gods (10; apostles (12; evangelists (4) and churches of asia (7. xxxvii. hindu legendary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] go

vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy ghost (as incubus) 1010 ceres ecclesia xsti, the virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, minerva [the disciples are too indefinite] 16 venus[[hymen. 17 castor and pollux [janus[[hymen. 18 mercury[[lares and penates. 19 venus (repressing the fire of vulcan. 20 [attis, ceres, adonis[[vesta, flora. 21 jupiter [pluto] philadelphia 22 vulcan[[venus, nemesis. 23 neptune[[rhea] john

ydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the corre

LIBER ALEPH

ionysus and tahuti and sri krishna set the seal of their witness. cleanse herefore thine heart, o my son, in the waters of the great sea, and enkindle it with the fire of the holy ghost. for his is his peculiar work of sanctification. n the book of wisdom or folly 121 dp de virgine beata (of the bless d virgin) nderstand then well this mystery of universal godliness; for it is the naked beauty of the virgin of the world. lo! since the end is perfection, as i have already shewn unto thee, and since also every event is inexorably and ineluctably interwoven in the web of that fate, as it is certain that every phenomenon is (as thou art sworn to understand .a particular dealing of god with thy soul. yea, and more also, it is a necessary rubric in this ritual of perfection. turn not therefore a

joy and in splendour; and thy light is as a beacon to them that wander afar, strayed in the night. amoun. t the book of wisdom or folly 143 em paranthesis de quadam virgine (interlude concerning a certain virgin) ow, o my son, i will declare unto thee the virtue of that part of love which receiveth and draweth, being the counterpart of thine own. for behold! i am moved in myself by the absence of the virgin that is appointed for me. and her eagerness of purity doth encompass me with its soft tenderness, and twineth about me with sweet scent so that my mind is enkindled with a gentle flame, luminous and subtle, and i write unto thee as in a dream; for in this enchantment of her devotion i am caught up cunningly into beautitude, with great joy of the gods that have bestrewn my way with flowe

r in the path of the ram, for initiative, and energy, and determination. third, from the mother are the lovers in the path of the twins, for intellectual wholeness, and for adjustment to environment. these three are from this superna and complete the theorick of thy work. after this, in the praxis and executive thereof thou hast the hermit as an influence from the sphere of jupiter in the path of the virgin, for secrecy, and for concentration, and for prudence. lastly, from the sphere of mars, travelleth justice in the path of the balance, for good judgment, and tact, and art. o my son, in this chapter is more wisdom than in ten thousand folios of the alchemists! study therefore to acquire skill in this method, and experience; for this gold is not only of the metals, but of every sphere, a

LIBER ARCANORUM

2 (this book is true up to the grade of adeptus exemptus. v.v.v.v.v. 8, 38) 0. a, the heart of iao, dwelleth in ecstasy in the secret place of the thunders. between asar and asi he abideth in joy. 1. the lightnings increased and the lord tahuti stood forth. the voice came from the silence. then the one ran and returned. 2. now hath nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister. 3. the virgin of god is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh seventy to her four. in her heart is hadit the invisible glory. 4. now riseth ra-hoor-khuit, and dominion is established in the star of the flame. 5. also is the star of the flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe. 6. here then beneath the winged eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other. he

LIBER CCXLII AHA

luxurious brilliance! olympas. the desert calls. marsyas. then let us go! or seek the sacramental snow, where like a high-priest i may stand with acolytes on every hand, the lesser peaks.my will withdrawn to invoke the dayspring from the dawn, changing that rosy smoke of light to a pure crystalline white; though the mist of mind, as draws a dancer round her limbs the gauze, clothe light, and show the virgin sun a lemon-pale medallion! thence leap we leashless to the goal, stainless star-rapture of the soul. so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration.here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold!

LIBER CHANOKH

iant translation of this call appears in the vision and the voice, second thyr: this includes a few glosses by crowley as well as some reinterpretations of a couple of phrases (e.g, orsba od dodrmni zylna .drunken and vexed in itself. is rendered .ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. and moooah ol cordziz, glossed .it repenteth me that i made man. by kelly, is interpreted .it rejoiceth me concerning the virgin and man. 20: these names are presumably an innovation by either the golden dawn or crowley; turner (1989) states that no indication of any such thing is found in any of the dee material. they are generated by a process effectively reversing that used to derive the shem ha-mephorash or divided name of god; that is, the first name is created by taking the first letter from each of the nam

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

the beyond at thy feet, i have annointed thee and thy staff with oil and blood and kisses. 45. i have kindled thy marble into life.ay! into death. 46. i have been smitten with the reek of thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life. 47. how the dew of the universe whitens the lips! svb figvra vii 5 48. ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother supernal, begone! 49. i am she that should come, the virgin of all men. 50. i am a boy before thee, o thou satyr god. 51. thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure.now! now! now! 52. io pan! io pan! i love thee. i love thee. 53. o my god, spare me! 54. now! it is done! death. 55. i cried aloud the word.and it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to unbind; yea, to unbind the bound. 6 ii 1. o my god! use thou me again, alwa

LIBER LVII

ecially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen .by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped. whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or .the supernal he. to 24 [samael is various glossed as .poison of god. or .blind god. in some of the gnostic texts found at nag hammadi, samael is identified with the demiurge. t.s]

tziratic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is .air. by tarot .the fool. and by signification .an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and thus combining all the symbols into the form of a lion [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the copy

ticular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is .bruised. being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= f) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read .the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit. while cjn reads .death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the conception of the serpent as the redeemer is truer. see my explanation of the 5=6 ritual (equinox, no. iii. 361. rah ynda, the lord of the earth. note 361 denotes the 3 supernals, the 6 members of ruach, and malkuth. this name of god therefore embraces all t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

orrid things to me imputed by calling me .materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said .your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate. i sat in vague expectant bliss. the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him .how dare you be on me encroaching. the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began .fear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin

a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused

sph, the left eye; the parts thereof in trust to be divided among their servitors; as the right cornea, to aphlek; the left, to urnbal;.mighty spirits are they, and bold! to the archdevil rama,3 the right ear and its parts; to the archangel umumatis, the left ear and its parts; the teeth to two-and-thirty letters of the sixfold name: one to the air, and fifteen to the rain and the ram, and ten to the virgin, and six to the bull; the mouth to the archangels alalal and bikarak, lip and lip; the tongue to that devil of all devils yehowou.4 ho, devil! canst thou speak? 1 col. olcott, the theosophist. 2? the spirt of motor-cars. 3 vishnu, the preserver. 4 jehova. sedes profunda paimonis. oculi nox secreta. portae silentium partitio. 90 appendix ii the pharynx to mahabonisbash, the great angel;

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation.4. in the worlds.assiah: in the taro, the princess.the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language.the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the fourth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, korh kosmou, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri.by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration of i

LIBER V VEL REGULI

the arms of the moon.11 but sh and t are alike formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns. sh is the holy spirit as a .tongue of fire. manifest in triplicity, and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their .angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the secret seed of all things, the virgin .the 12 liber v vel reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing d

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

id is the same as christian creationism: how could god possibly be equated with an incompetent designer? this new attitude is reminiscent of the story developed by the canada-based raelian cult. in it, human beings were created through cloning by extraterrestrials (called elohim) who manufactured human dna. the raelians call themselves scientific creationists and have an exquisite explanation for the virgin birth of jesus christ: mary was artificially inseminated by the elohim aboard one of their spacecraft! needless to say, the raelians support the idea of intelligent design. it would be interesting to know what id theorists think about the raelian interpretation of the world. can a mousetrap evolve? michael behe s most famous and iconic example of irreducible complexity is the familiar m

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

n bruno hare, june 11, 2004. title page preface table of contents introduction the ancient mysteries and secret societies which have influenced modern masonic symbolism the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three atlantis and the gods of antiquity the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus the initiation of the pyramid isis, the virgin of the world the sun, a universal deity the zodiac and its signs the bembine table of isis wonders of antiquity the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagorean mathematics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part two) flowers, plant

tic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadours--the mummification of the dead. 45 the sun, a universal deity the solar trinity-christianity and the sun--the birthday of the sun--the three suns- the celestial inhabitants of the sun--the midnight sun. 49 the zodiac and its signs primitive astronomical instrume

hristians, who worshiped nous (christ) and the true spiritual light of the higher ons. after the death of basilides, valentinus became the leading inspiration of the gnostic movement. he still further complicated the system of gnostic philosophy by adding infinitely to the details. he increased the number of emanations from the great one (the abyss) to fifteen pairs and also laid much emphasis on the virgin sophia, or wisdom. in the books of the savior, parts of which are commonly known as the pistis sophia, may be found much material concerning this strange doctrine of ons and their strange inhabitants. james freeman clarke, in speaking of the doctrines of the gnostics, says "these doctrines, strange as they seem to us, had a wide influence in the christian church" many of the theories of

ich are called those of the mother of the gods, every year a pine tree is cut down and in the inside of the tree the image of a youth is tied in! in the mysteries of isis the trunk of a pine tree is cut: the middle of the trunk is nicely hollowed out; the idol of osiris made from those hollowed pieces is buried. in the mysteries of proserpine a tree cut is put together into the effigy and form of the virgin, and when it has been carried within the city it is mourned 40 nights, but the fortieth night it is burned (see sod, the mysteries of adoni) the mysteries of atys included a sacramental meal during which the neophyte ate out of a drum and drank from a cymbal. after being baptized by the blood of a bull, the new initiate was fed entirely on milk to symbolize that he was still a philosoph

ible covenant between eternal wisdom and the world. the time may yet come when the chants of the illumined shall be heard once more in its ancient passageways and the master of the hidden house shall await in the silent place for the coming of that man who, casting aside the fallacies of dogma and tenet, seeks simply truth and will be satisfied with neither substitute nor counterfeit. next: isis, the virgin of the world sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 45 isis, the virgin of the world it is especially fitting that a study of hermetic symbolism should begin with a discussion of the symbols and attributes of the saitic isis. this is the isis of sais, famous for the inscription concerning her which appeared on the front of her temple in that city "i, isis, am all that has been, th

action, possibly scandinavian or gothic. in these languages the name is pronounced isa, meaning ice, or water in its most passive, crystallized, negative state. this egyptian deity under many names appears as the principle of natural fecundity among nearly all the religions of the ancient world. she was known as the goddess with ten thousand appellations and was metamorphosed by christianity into the virgin mary, for isis, although she gave birth to all living things--chief among them the sun--still remained a virgin, according to the legendary accounts. apuleius in the eleventh book of the golden ass ascribes to the goddess the following statement concerning her powers and attributes "behold, i, moved by thy prayers, am present with thee; i, who am nature, the parent of things, the queen

te sculptured idols which were emblematic of these secret truths. the wisdom and secrecy of egypt are epitomized in the sphinx, which has preserved its secret from the seekers of a hundred generations. the mysteries of hermeticism, the great spiritual truths hidden from the world by the ignorance of the world, and the keys of the secret doctrines of the ancient philosophers, are all symbolized by the virgin isis. veiled from head to foot, she reveals her wisdom only to the tried and initiated few who have earned the right to enter her sacred presence, tear from the veiled figure of nature its shroud of obscurity, and stand face to face with the divine reality. the explanations in these pages of the symbols peculiar to the virgin isis are based (unless otherwise noted) on selections from a

r golden plates (the elements, placed in the form of a square. this signified that isis, or nature, the first matter (alchemical terminology, was the essence- of the four elements (life, light, heat, and force, which quintessence generated all things. numerous stars are represented on this girdle, thereby indicating their influence in darkness as well as the influence of the sun in light. isis is the virgin immortalized in the constellation of virgo, where the world mother is placed with the serpent under her feet and a crown. of stars on her head. in her arms she carries a sheaf of grain and sometimes the young sun god. the statue of isis was placed on a pedestal of dark stone ornamented with rams' heads. her feet trod upon a number of venomous reptiles. this indicates that nature has pow

ease by expelling impurities and corruption. in this sense the axioms known to the ancient philosophers are verified; namely: nature contains nature, nature rejoices in her own nature, nature surmounts nature; nature cannot be amended but in her own nature [paragraph continues] therefore, in contemplating the statue of isis, we must not lose sight of the occult sense of its allegories; otherwise, the virgin remains an inexplicable enigma. from a golden ring on her left arm a line descends, to the end of which is suspended a deep box filled with flaming coals and incense. isis, or nature personified, carries with her the sacred fire, religiously preserved and kept burning in. a special temple by the vestal virgins. this fire is the genuine, immortal flame of nature--ethereal, essential, the

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ael, about was magical in content. i am the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valleys, as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. the rose has been preserved as the lady's emblem in the annals of courtly love and among the symbols of alchemy. the lily, however, passed directly into christian catholicism and became an attribute of the madonna, which is only right and proper, as the virgin mary is but a christian echo of an aspect of the lady herself. however, due to this association, it is more to be considered a symbol of cool chastity rather than love or passion. having seen to your initial preparations, illumine the lamps and kindle the appropriate incense, chanting as you do such words of consecration as "in thy name, habondia, and that of thy ministers of love, do i

nd's aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for goddess seen a lady of death, variant of classical hecate. also king arthur's half-elven sister. brigid or bride. a celtic mother goddess. astarte or ishtar. mesopotamian goddess of love. bride of adonis-tammuz. the virgin or maiden. referring to perephone, the greek underworld goddess. should the lady or high priestess have a daughter present within the coven, the latter title of "maiden" is sometimes conferred on her. let me reiterate: the titles bestowed upon the leaders vary considerably from coven to coven, depending on the approach adopted, dianic or druidic, celtic or cabalistic, robed or sky clad

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the emerald grail and the skull cup of the dragon-goddess, did i taste the pleasures of the harlot, walk the earth forever. i am the wandered, and many forms i will take. that even that i have left flesh shall my spirit dwell on, that i who have e

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ecate in dreams. record the experience accordingly. day twopaint it the color of your desire, upon it on four sides a mark of an x, the sacred sign of the cross roads. the sigillic formula of the succubi or hecate should be inscribed on the pot/vessel. day three the night of the full moon. within the vessel place the sigil of hecate which should already be prepared, ashes and bone if possible. i) the virgin -hekas umpesha ur-rastu lil-ka zrazza encircle me by three, shadow wrap my being in the caul-shroud of your mark. triple mooned, blood drinking, beast like goddess, oh sorcerers of the flame of witch fire, i summon thy three fold shadow to attend me rise up, goddess of the dead! hecate, familiar and goddess of three shades, initiator and birth mother i summon thee! i cast now the circle

up, goddess of the dead! hecate, familiar and goddess of three shades, initiator and birth mother i summon thee! i cast now the circle in flour i evoke the hounds of the barrier, wolves created in the darkness do i call forth! by the first moon envelope me virgin goddess, i come unto you in the evening light. embrace me in thy kingdom of the cunning craft, speak 66 66 unto me as the freshly dead, the virgin from the tomb. guide me and walk with me unto the luciferian sabbat. by the second moon maiden who rides upon the dragon s spine, i summon thee bring thy fiery essence into my circle, enflame me in the cunning fire and blood of your fornications. uplift me into the spirit of the red dragon- akhuraku, hecau, zrazza by the third moon moon of death, aged witch queen of the sabbat, hex cast

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

te their freedom. so, itwas decided by the royals of england, the tudor dynasty, that though their presentresearches and operations would not be halted, a new approach was needed. the manwith the idea for this new approach and the one who would undertake its executionwas sir john dee, the court astrologer and ambassador of queen elizabeth tudor. elizabeth (e-liza-beth) was known, suggestively, as the virgin queen (said to do with herbeing a virgo, but really because the term indicates bloodlink to the serpent masters andpossibly to the reptilians. the name elizabeth means beloved of the gods.sir john dee was court ambassador to the tudors (sic, tutors. he would dutifully visit for-eign courts, meeting with money men and master occultists of europe, and then when send-ing back intelligence

eschylus)secrecy from the word root sacsacred, sacrament, sacrificial, sacrilege, sacked, sacrummanipulating the religionsno matter the clan, no matter the religion, the god could superimpose himself and use their beliefs to hisadvantage. the god who came from the land of the lead, the unknown land of happiness, or fromavalon the isle of fairyland, dwelt on high hill until rich enough to go home. the virgin oraclesthe ancients were so steeped in their ideology about the gods when a hypnotized virgin chanted in ill-constructed hexameter greek, they accepted the words for final authority from god and shaped theirconduct in things of major importance accordingly. by this important method of chicanery the oracleruled for a thousand years (p. 26)many rulers at the oracles were told to build cit

antis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the mahabharatawhen his residence was thus crowded with divinity, the darling son of pandu and kunti then wentdown into the ganges water, to be consecrated for holy rite. taking his ritual bath and worshiping hisforefathers, arjuna, happy to take his part in the rite of fire, was rising out of the water, o king, when hewas pulled back in by ulupi, the virgin daughter of the serpent king, who could travel about at her willand was now within those waters. holding onto him, she pulled him down into the land of the nagas,into her father's house. arjuna then saw in the most honorable house of the naga king, whose name was kauravya, a carefullyattended fire. dhananjaya arjuna, son of kunti, took over the duty of the fire, and without hesitation h

ch is the act of giving life. i come to you now for shelter, for you are an ideal man.kaunteya, you always take care of the poor and helpless people, and i have gone straight to you forshelter and am crying out in pain. i beg you, for my desire is so strong. therefore you must please meby giving yourself; it is proper for you to make me a satisfied woman. sri v aisampayana said: thus addressed by the virgin daughter of the serpent lord, the son of kunti,basing his actions on the religious law, did for her all that she desired. the fiery hero arjuna spent thenight in the palace of the naga king, and when the sun rose he too rose up from kauravya's abode. similar story is recorded in the harivansha, which is the addendum to the mahabharata. yadu, thefounder of the yadava family, went for a t

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ne man who, together with the creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. lone man, who was very much a savior figure, entered the world of man because he saw that humanity was plagued by evil spirits. in order to enter our world, however, lone man needed to be borne from the womb of a virgin mother. one day a virgin girl was eating corn, so lone man transformed himself into a kernel of corn which the virgin girl ate and became pregnant from. the virgin s parents considered the pregnancy holy, and the child, who was in fact lone man reincarnated, was perfect in all his ways. after growing into a young man, the day came for an annual trip by boat, where lone man insisted the boat sail despite the presently bad weather, much to the protest of the 12 men already on board. yet the boat did set

character, or city, currently rules the world and uses sorcery to do so. hecate, also equated with lilith, is the greek triple goddess. she is the goddess of the crossroads, who is frequently depicted with three heads; one of a dog, one of a snake, and one of a horse. this goddess is often associated with witchcraft and childbirth, and was accompanied by an owl during her travels. she is known as the virgin goddess, and is also reported to have a following of ghosts and lives in the underworld with hades, lord of the underworld. another goddess related to lilith is the egyptian goddess isis. isis was the wife of osiris, and was responsible for osiris first resurrection. isis is skilled at magic, and especially intelligent. isis, like hecate, is a goddess of childbirth. it appears isis, the

as just as much a weapon as a goddess. at the behest of the god ra, sekhmet almost destroyed all of humanity; she was unable to halt her bloodlust, and had to be tricked into desisting. she is symbolized by a lion headed woman, wearing red; she even has titles like the scarlet lady. in rome, lilith was known as diana. diana is a goddess of the hunt, the moon, and childbirth. she was also known as the virgin goddess. artemis, the greek equivalent of diana, is also a goddess of the hunt, childbirth, the moon and also known as the virgin goddess. artemis is also closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is t

considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date back to 600 bc (more likely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lush growth on every platform. queen semiramis is said to be a harlot, a home wrecker, and a powerful sorceress. this personage is associated with the dove and, proper to the virgin, was credited with the invention of the chastity belt. semiramis became the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 79 patroness of babylon when she restored the city to its ancient glory. i can t believe it s not fiction: tiamat queen of the damned (2002) hades [5.5] hades is the lord of the underworld. although greek mythology does not depict hades as a villain, modern satanists( and a l

MORALS AND DOGMA

_teutates_ or _teuth, the same as the _thoth_ of the egyptians, the word, or the intelligence formulated; then force and beauty, whose names varied like their emblems. finally, they completed the sacred septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations. this was a young girl veiled, holding a child in her arms; and they dedicated this image to "the virgin who will become a mother-_virgini paritur" hertha or wertha, the young isis of gaul, queen of heaven, the virgin who was to bear a child, held the spindle of the fates, filled with wool half white and half black; because she presides over all forms and all symbols, and weaves the garment of the ideas. one of the most mysterious pantacles of the kabalah, contained in the enchiridion of l

tality, are mere words, without any real meaning. the god of nineteen-twentieths of the christian world is only bel, moloch, zeus, or at best osiris, mithras, or adona, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. it is the statue of olympian jove, worshipped as the father, in the christian church that was a pagan temple; it is the statue of venus, become the virgin mary. for the most part, men do not in their hearts believe that god is either just or merciful. they fear and shrink from his lightnings and dread his wrath. for the most part, they only _think_ they believe that there is another life, a judgment, and a punishment for sin. yet they will none the less persecute as infidels and atheists those who do not believe what they themselves imagi

t; and as he rose in the east, aries was about 27 high. when he was close upon the meridian, the heavens presented their most magnificent appearance. capella was a little further from the meridian, to the north; and orion still further from it to the southward. procyon, sirius, castor and pollux had climbed about half-way from the horizon to the meridian. regulus had just risen upon the ecliptic. the virgin still lingered below the horizon. fomalhaut was half-way to the meridian in the southwest; and to the northwest were the brilliant constellations, perseus, cepheus, cassiopeia, and andromeda; while the pleiades had just passed the meridian. orion is visible to all the habitable world. the equinoctial line passes through the centre of it. when aldebar n rose in the east, the three kings

lowed in this sign. it stands first in the zodiac of dendera, and is in all the indian and egyptian zodiacs. in the left hand of virgo (isis or ceres) is the beautiful star spica virginis, a little south of the ecliptic. vindemiatrix, of less magnitude, is in the right arm; and northwest of spica, in bo tes (the husbandman, osiris, is the splendid star arcturus. the division of the first decan of the virgin, aben ezra says, represents a beautiful virgin with flowing hair, sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant. in an arabian ms. in the royal library at paris, is a picture of the twelve signs. that of virgo is a young girl with an infant by her side. virgo was isis; and her representation, carrying a child (horus) in her arms, exhibited in her temple

ion, carrying a child (horus) in her arms, exhibited in her temple, was accompanied by this inscription "i am all that is, that was, and that shall be; and the fruit which i brought forth is the sun" nine months after the sun enters virgo, he reaches the twins. when scorpio begins to rise, orion sets: when scorpio comes to the meridian, leo begins to set, typhon reigns, osiris is slain, and isis (the virgin) his sister and wife, follows him to the tomb, weeping. the virgin and bo tes, setting heliacally at the autumnal equinox, delivered the world to the wintry constellations, and introduced into it the genius of evil, represented by ophiucus, the serpent. at the moment of the winter solstice, the virgin rose heliacally(_with_ the sun, having the sun (horus) in her bosom. in libra are four

ters flow forth that the muses drink. the lion and the dog, indicating, were supposed to _cause_ the inundation, and so were worshipped. while the sun passed through leo, the waters doubled their depth; and the sacred fountains poured their streams through the heads of lions. hydra, rising between sirius and leo, extended under three signs. its head rose with cancer, and its tail with the feet of the virgin and the beginning of libra; and the inundation continued while the sun passed along its whole extent. the successive contest of light and darkness for the possession of the lunar disk, each being by turns victor and vanquished, exactly resembled what passed upon the earth by the action of the sun and his journeys from one solstice to the other. the lunary revolution presented the same p

ediately reappeared, below and to the eastward of _a_ draconis. and, on the very morning after the achronical departure of the last star of the husbandman, aldebaran rose heliacally, and became visible in the east in the morning before day. and precisely at the moment of the heliacal rising of arcturus, also rose spica virginis. one is near the middle of the husbandman, and the other near that of the virgin; and arcturus may have been the part of osiris which isis did not recover with the other pieces of the body. at dedan and saba it was thirty-six days, from the beginning of the _aphanism, i.e, the _disappearances_ of these stars, to the heliacal rising of aldebaran. during these days, or forty at medina, or a few more at babylon and byblos, the stars of the husbandman successively sank

be or circle, is found upon the monuments of all the ancient nations. over libra, the sign through which souls were said to descend or fall, is found, on the celestial globe, the serpent, grasped by serpentarius, the serpent-bearer. the head of the reptile is under corona borealis, the northern crown, called by ovid _libera, or _proserpine; and the two constellations rise, with the balance, after the virgin (or isis, whose feet rest on the eastern horizon at sunrise on the day of the equinox. as the serpent extends over both signs, libra and scorpio, it has been the gate through which souls descend, during the whole time that those two signs in succession marked the autumnal equinox. to this alluded the serpent, which, in the mysteries of bacchus saba-zeus, was flung into the bosom of the

s and the serpent, jupiter ammon and the bull, all figured in the mysteries of bacchus. suppose aries, or jupiter ammon occupied by the sun setting in the west--virgo (ceres) will be on the eastern horizon, and in her train the crown, or proserpine. suppose taurus setting--then the serpent is in the east; and reciprocally; so that jupiter ammon, or the sun of aries, causes the crown to rise after the virgin, in the train of which comes the serpent. place reciprocally the sun at the other equinox, with the balance in the west, in conjunction with the serpent under the crown; and we shall see the bull and the pleiades rise in the east. thus are explained all the fables as to the generation of the bull by the serpent and of the serpent by the bull, the biting of the testicles of the bull by t

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

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

elves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit spiritus, breath, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying god, is a much older myth than christianity; and the virgin was usually seeded by a god under the form of a beast. far from being original, christian theology is a pot-pourri of stolen goods) but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane

s the diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all her creatures: isis unveiled, the heavenly and earthly venus. beyond them, uniting their aspects in a single female symbol, is isis urania nuit. the concept of "mary inviolate" is thus partial and unbalanced and for this motive is qliphotic, unless it be checked by its opposite. the greeks sensed this. artemis was the virgin goddess, patroness of maidens. she had never submitted to the embrace of any god but pan and one of the great riddles of eleusis was that artemis, having surrendered herself to pan that is, to all remained pure and virgin. this is also what was meant by that aphorism "who wishes to keep his life, shall lose it. who loses it, shall gain eternal life" every woman of false chastity is subj

of the cosmos, to 'die' and 'rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of god. the kingdom is malkuth, the virgin bride, and the child is the dwarf- self, the phallic consciousness, which is the true life of man, beyond his 'veils' of incarnation. we have to thank freud and especially jung for stating this part of the magical doctrine so plainly, as also for their development of the connexion of the will of this 'child' with the true or unconscious will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the 's

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ading a goat that he takes to the side of the altar as the priest begins his litany. he calls out a list of demonic names and to them he addresses his earnest plea for them to bear witness to what is about to take place "astaroth, help us! he intones "demons, dagon, azazel, pan help us! asmodeus, we beseech thee! we are gathered here in thy honor, o great god, baal! we offer unto thee the body of the virgin, so that we may live eternally in the darkness of thy womb" then, with knife raised high, he walks slowly towards the goat and with quick, neat thrust slits its throat. an expectant hush falls as three hooded figures step forward to catch the blood in a golden chalice and pass it round the coven, each of whom takes a sip, then bows his head. finally it is the coven master s turn. he rai

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

commemorative monuments to the memory of the masters of the works that were erected in the cathedrals and other buildings they built. among these we can cite figures of masters of the works carved on the medallions of the cathedrals of amiens and reims, the inscription carved in 1257 on the portal of notre dame in paris in honor of jean de chelles, and that of pierre de montreuil in the chapel of the virgin in the parisian church of saint germain des pres. according to the livre des metiers, mortelliers and stonecutters were exempt from watch duties. these craftsmen claimed to have enjoyed this privilege since the time of charles martel "the mortar makers have been exempt from the watch and all stonecutting since the time of charles martel, as men of integrity have heard it passed from fat

remony. the statutes established at ratisbonne ordered the celebration of four masses during the year, including the feast day of the throne of saint peter. the tax imposed for this purpose was two large sous for every work performed by the masters and a denier a week for the journeymen. the statutes also prescribed fasts, vigils, and masses to be celebrated in a chapel in strasbourg dedicated to the virgin. the building of churches was to be performed by the associates, by virtue of the same rules, for "the enlargement of divine worship and the salvation of their souls" the decline of the german brotherhoods the mastery associations in germany never attained the same level of power that their medieval italian counterparts did. their efforts were sometimes opposed by the cities' aristocrat

e jesse tree can be found in saint denis in a stainedglass window that dates to a time earlier than 1144. jesse trees were numerous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and can be found in stained glass (for example, in chartres, saint denis, le mans, and sainte chapelle) and in the archivolts of portals (in senlis, mantes, laon, chartres, amiens. starting at the end of the thirteenth century, the virgin began appearing at the top of the tree, holding the infant jesus in her arms. she is the rose, the flower that blossoms at the tip of the stem. how illuminating and eloquent hiram's legend becomes when placed alongside christ's ascension, which was so often celebrated by stone sculptors, masons, and carpenters. all the prophets and seers of israel, all those heralds of christ, all those

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

oon of artemis. actaeon actaeon s father aristaeus was the son of apollo; his mother autono was the daughter of cadmus, founder of thebes (see p. 49, and brother of europa (see p. 45. artemis surprised by actaeon by titian, originally tiziano vecelli(o (c. 1488/90 1576) this picture shows the moment when actaeon, while hunting in the forest, accidentally comes upon artemis and her nymphs bathing. the virgin goddess is horrified, tries to cover herself, and will avenge herself by turning actaeon into a stag to be hunted down and killed by his own hounds. crescent moon artemis wears a crescent-moon diadem in her hair, showing her also to be a moon goddess. callisto, tricked by zeus callisto, artemis favorite nymph, caught the eye of zeus, who seduced her disguised as artemis. artemis was fur

rried a bow made of horn and artemis one of gold. chaplet of fir pan wears a chaplet of fir on his head, a reference to pitys, a lover who was transformed into a fir tree. river goddess the river goddess heard syrinx s cries and came to her rescue. clasping her in her arms, she transformed her into a clump of reeds, thus disappointing pan in his amorous pursuit. chaste nymph syrinx was a nymph of the virgin goddess artemis (diana, see pp. 36 37, who demanded chastity from her attendants. pursued by pan, she was run to ground on the banks of the river ladon, where, unable to escape and terrified of artemis fury, she called upon the river goddess to help her. the river ladon the river ladon is shown here as a nymph with a water jar. in some versions of the story, the river ladon, who transfo

eus son hippolytus was the son of theseus by either the amazon queen, hippolyta, or her sister antiope. when theseus rejected her to marry phaedra, sister of his former love ariadne (see pp. 56 57, hippolyta appeared at the wedding fully armed and in the ensuing battle was killed. phaedra bore theseus two children but then she fell madly in love with her stepson hippolytus who, being a devotee of the virgin goddess artemis (diana, refused her. phaedra, afraid lest her secret would be revealed, broke down the door of her chamber, ripped her clothes, and accused him of rape. theseus, horrified, believed her and prayed to poseidon to avenge her. in response, poseidon sent a bull up from the waves to frighten hippolytus horses as he drove his chariot on the seashore. as planned, the horses pan

he slave experience, was born in the hills of haiti, among escaped slaves known as maroons. in 1791 a petro ceremony, led by a voodoo priest, boukman dutty, sparked an uprising for independence. grave the cross on this tomb is the symbol of baron samedi and the crossroad of death. an offering of rum to ghede stands at its base. all the voodoo gods are identified with catholic saints: erzulie with the virgin mary, legba with both st. peter and lazarus, ogoun with st. james the greater, damballah wedo with st. patrick, azacca with st. isidore, baron samedi with st. expedit, and so on. the voodoo gods incline towards the fate of haiti by cameau rameau this painting reflects the widespread belief that the gods are involved in the politics of the island, often helping to elect or get rid of a p

PHOSPHORUS

l flame, the becoming in the emerald flame of azrael and scribe their own self-designed grimoire of necromantic practice. 4. the guardian of the threshold satanas and the initiatic familiar. rites of phosphorus the initiation of the bloodied caul the birth of the initiate unto the light of phosphorus the initiate will have a robe of white which is symbolic of the light of lucifer before the fall. the virgin initiate shall enter the light of phosphorus to be born in the darkness of the initiator of the path, azal ucel. let the altar be decorated in the manner of which the sorcerer chooses, but with the algol sigil of standing above it on the wall. the black mirror should be below a larger mirror, symbolizing the opposing 14 gnosis of the adversary. this is the waking initiation into the pat

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

great light shines over the splendid sea" book one <99> book one first knowledge lecture 1. the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of: heat and dryness fire a heat and moisture air a cold and d yness earth b cold and moisture water v 2. the signs of the zodiac are twelve: 1. aries, the ram 2. taurus, the bull 3. gemini, the twins 4. cancer, the crab 5 .leo, the lion 6. virgo, the virgin 7. libra, the scales 8. scorpio, the scorpion 9. sagittarius, the archer 10. capricorn, the goat 11. aquarius, the water-bearer 12. pisces, the fishes these twelve signs are distributedamong the four triplicities or sets of three signs, each being attributed to one of the four elements, and they represent the operation of the elements in the zodiac. thus to fire belong aries, leo

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

ng from the east to the west, and thereby completing in his travel the form of across. the 4th ancient has three tapers burning in front of him placed in position of a triangle and asmall cross in the centre thereof, representing the divine lux.4th ancient:to me is awarded the impressive duty of explaining the divine essence of fire: the holy andperpetual fire which was under the constant care of the virgin priestesses, whose services of puritywere preserved in the doctrines taught in persia, egypt, greece and italy, and were termed 'perpetualwatches' or 'watch lights, this observance is still maintained in the persian, roman and hebrewfaiths. it is their 'ignis aeternus, the holy ceremony of fire pervades all religious systems, being auniversal symbol in worship, a visible representation

ill precede you in your further search. incharge of your conductor, therefore, follow the bearer of the torch.the guard. of c. retires to his station, and the torch bearer precedes the conductor of n. andpracticus, as they make four circuits of the hall, during the hymn.wake the lute and quiv222ring stingsmystic truths urania brings,friendly visitant, to theewe owe the depths of rosary.fairest of the virgin choir,warbling to the golden lyre,welcome, here they art prevail,hail, divine urania, hail.here in friendship's sacred bower,the downy-winged and smiling hournirth invites, and social song,nameless mysteries amongcrown the bowl, and fill the glass,to every virtue, every grace,to the brotherhood resoundhealth, and let it thrice go round.we restore the times of old.,the blooming glorious

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

st in the extreme tension of two forces. i would thou wert cold or hot, said the master. as a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors. she who is destined to crush the serpent's head is intelligence, which ever rises above the stream of blind forces. the kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight. hereof are the hieratic mysteries of the duad. but there is one, and the last of all, which must not be made known, the reason, according to hermes trismegistus, being the malcomprehension of the vulgar, who would ascribe to the necessities of science the i

for the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the mother of god. god, considered as father, has nature for his daughter; as son, he has the virgin for his mother and the church for his bride; as holy spirit, he regenerates and fructifies humanity. hence, in the trigrams of fohi, the three inferior yin correspond to the three superior yang, for these trigrams co

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

or evil. it is known that the signs of the zodiac correspond to various celestial influences and consequently signify an annual alternative of good or evil. the names of the genii designated by the above characters are: for the ram, sataaran and sarahiel; for the bull, bagdal, and araziel; for the twins, sagras and saraiel; for the crab, rahdar and. phakiel; for the lion, sagham and seratiel; for the virgin, iadara and schaltiel; for the balance, grasgarben and hadakiel; for the scorpion, riehol and saissaiel; for the archer, vhnori and saritaiel; for the goat, sagdalon and semakiel; for the water- bearer, ssakmakile; for the fishes, rasamasa and vacabiel. the wise man, seeking to read the sky, must observe also the days of the moon, the influence of which is very great in astrology. the m

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ies between beings in different worlds. spiritual enlightenment flows along this way, as do many of the concerted group rituals that involve beings of more than one realm or world operating together. the third and most significant level of the middle way is the approach of the savior or messiah. it is along this way that a divine one is born into the outer world, hence the conceptual structure of the virgin birth. this process, however, is merely a human reflection by divine power, of the descent into hell which is also a death/birth on the part of the son of light the descent into hell is synonymous and simultaneous with the conception, birth, sacrifice, death and resurrection. they only appear to be separated to the awareness locked into the illusion of serial time. appendix 4: thomas rh

RUBY TABLET OF SET

and sound bell nine times while rotating counterclockwise [light flame, remove cowl [invocation] in the name of set, the majestic prince of darkness, i invoke the powers of the infernal light. hear this call, for i invoke these powers under the authority given the elect by his infinite majesty. rise eternal flame, and send forth thy whispering power to me, as does the dragon's hot breath envelop the virgin- but know that, albeit the heart is pure for maat- this is no virgin! for i shall suck the dragon's breath and it will be my oxygen! hear the voice of wonder, dark powers, and in his name come unto me [lift the graal in a saluting manner towards the pentagram above the altar, then turn to each cardinal point and call forth the powers of darkness, ending again facing the pentagram above

sterile mother. aima, the bright fertile mother. khorsia, the throne. marah, the great sea. 4 chesed mercy. love. majesty. 5 geburah strength. severity. justice. fear. 6 tiphareth beauty. melekh, the king. adam, the son. the man. 7 netzach victory. occult intelligence. firmness. 8 hod glory. splendour. 9 yesod the foundation. 10 malkuth the kingdom. the gate. malkah, the queen. kallah, the bride. the virgin. five of wands: geburah is strength and severity, the destroyer. geburah is the active daughter of binah, who destroys the old and worthless, to make room for new creation. emphasized by the activity of wands, this card is extremely, perhaps excessively active, preparing the way for later creation. seven of disks: netzach is victory, firmness, the "refulgent splendour of the intellectua

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

ity" and "transvoke- outside- beyond- within" in other words this is the marriage or sacrificial sexual union of zoa and azoa. the crossroad of all things molding into the one in the centre of the abysmal void of all-beginnings. this is also the meeting-ground of the opposition in which there are a reification (p. 169-70) this thought is demonstrated in the ritual procedure called "going forth of the virgin. the adept enters a sphere where he is in solitude. he/she is the virgin going forth into manifestation. the adept is seeking union with self. the mature parts devour the virginal sections and allows the transgressor to mature, like the moon shows its different phases but is still one, such is the duality when it turns into singularity. this effect is purely magical in essence and must

al representation of the orders egregoric spirit. the flavour in this cell is solar and phallic but it androgynity suggest otherwise- that this cell is a rehearsal ground for the phallic manifestation to come and through this it connects with the stellar influences hidden within this craft-tradition and presents a formation of mystery-teaching connected to the destruction of the mage in favour of the virgin-mage. the importance of sacrifice is in these manners stressed and becomes a continuation of the sigilic forms of the sacred letters in the previous cell. the adoration of the sun suggested in this cell is but a rehearsal to enter deeper into the source of the sun which is stellar in nature. the letters connected to this cell is zayin, the path of the double-edge and the occult fight be

ng luchifer. this fight being performed within the one christ. the one is further finding its reflection in the influence of gemini who in the tarot is symbolized by the lovers. importance must be stressed on the concept of love in this cell. the ultimate adoration a nd humbleness in fore the path of initiation and before the eyes of the gods are taken on as a necessity and a sheer want born from the virgin-will of the mage. the other construction in this cell is the solar fasette found in the letter tzaddi which means fish-hook, but is also connected to the star through its kabbalistic connotations. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of

ommunities call the devil. this mystery must be understood in this cell or the act of vaporisation and occult dehydration will occur. the aspiration in this house is total stellar and has through its high aspiration tight connections with the lunar mansions and the abysmal waters resting in the lunar realms. it is in these domains the congress with the devil is sought and where the destruction of the virgin will be accomplished to give rise to the importance of shakti-nature in the excellent call of ononshu, the black goddess who is both the begotten and the begotter of the realm of the sphere of the black goddesses, like hekate, lilith, kali, artemis and the like. in ononshu they are united into one and the distinction is the between. to accomplish the treading of the path of stellar wate

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

as a third person "not a goddamn fingernail. i know what i'm worth, darling, i know how the mystery dies the moment they put their willies in, i should have known you'd turn out to be a whore. some fucking communist, i suppose" she wound down. she had inherited her father's prejudices in such matters. allie, as elena knew, had not. they hadn't met much after that, elena remaining until her death the virgin queen of the city- the post-mortem confirmed her as _virgo intacta- while allie gave up wearing underwear, took odd jobs on small, angry magazines, and because her sister was untouchable she became the other thing, every sexual act a slap in her sibling's glowering, whitelipped face. three abortions in two years and the belated knowledge that her days on the contraceptive pill had put h

SATANGEL

lic tradition that obscures the sexual elements of goetic sorceries. instructions to 'sacrifice children' may in fact be instruction to the magical use of non-procreative sex, classically either masturbatory, homosexual, or during the menstrual cycle of the sorceress. although these are perversions of catholic iconography, they are not inversions in the sense of satanism. the power of god, jesus, the virgin mary, the archangels, thrones, dominations, powers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists are called upon to bully the demonic forces into submission to the will of the summoner. the danger of the heresy here is that it is not seen as at all incongruous that a holy man might also be conversing with the powers of darkness, even if it is to subordinate them. the book of abra-meli

autiful human with bird wings, has its origin in pagan imagery. in the 8th century, when the foundations of church doctrine were being laid, the visual artists were no less influenced by their heritage than the writers were. two of the common inspirational sources of their works include the hellenic greek god of sexuality, eros, and the winged victory, nike. similar reference is made in images of the virgin and child christ and venus with cupid upon her own lap. such continued to provide models for the renaissance artists of the 12th-15th century. a more eastern influence may also be recognised in the peacock angels of fra. fillipo lippi. although the power of the church extended its control of the arts, as the governments do with the media in modern times, painters such as leornado da vin

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

he church of satans. both select victims that are naturally obvious as targets for satanic wrath. however, the chruch of satan, although adhering to this satanic tradition, do not actively carry out direct human and/or animal sacrifice as do both the order of nine angles and the friends of hekate. it can be seen from the above examples, stemming from modern satanic traditions, that the concept of the virgin or small-child as victim is obsolete in modern satanism and whilst the media often portrays the essential nature of satanism as one that advocates and indulges in virgin sacrifice, child abuse and the like, the actual fact of the matter is that traditional satanic groups, such as the order of nine angles and the church of satan, would be more inclined to sacrifice the child abuser than

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

hematical calculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egyptian influences egyptian religion passed on many of its deities to other religions. for example, isis, in her aspect as the mother of horus, also influenced the later christian cult of the virgin mary. like the mesopotamians, the egyptians also passed on additional products of their religion in the form of mathematics and medicine. for example, their numbering system was based on the number ten, as in the modern decimal system. the egyptian calendar, based on the appearance of the star sirius, held 365 days and was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. the remaining fi

irit. this three-in-one concept of god stirred great debate in early christianity, just as the idea that jesus was wholly human and wholly divine at the same time did. added to these basic beliefs are others, not necessarily held by all denominations. some hold a firm belief in the historical crucifixion and resurrection of jesus. not all denominations believe in the virginity of mary and thus in the virgin birth of jesus. some believe that jesus was the messiah who was foretold by the jews or that jesus will return in the so-called second coming and will judge all humans and receive, or allow into salvation, those who are faithful. many believe that the bible was inspired by god but written by humans and is the first and last word of authority for christianity. christians believe more or

and discussing religious matters with the jewish scholars. world religions: biographies 189 jesus christ tradition holds that joseph was a carpenter, and that jesus adopted the same trade. upon joseph s death, jesus assumed the role of supporting his family. some accounts also hold that jesus became a self-taught rabbi, or jewish religious scholar and teacher, and devoted hours each day to study. the virgin mary mary, the mother of jesus of nazareth, has become one of the major figures of the christian church. the mary cult, a smaller group within christianity that places special focus mary, has been strong for two thousand years. also known as mariam or miriam, mary is the most celebrated female religious figure in the christian tradition, according to historian elizabeth a. johnson, writ

ve, who disobeyed god s order and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden; it is the notion that all humans are born sinners) mary s birth without this original sin is called the immaculate conception. because of her own immaculate conception, mary was able to give birth to a pure son of god, without sin, while also remaining a virgin. she is often referred to as the virgin mary or the blessed virgin. as a young woman mary was engaged to joseph, a carpenter. during this time she was visited by the angel gabriel, who told her not to be afraid, for a son would be conceived by her who would be the son of god. when joseph discovered that his future wife was already pregnant, he decided to dissolve the engagement. he was then visited in his sleep by an angel an

forty days later, after telling his disciples to spread his teachings far and wide, jesus was taken up to heaven. over time the life and death of jesus took on a more deeply symbolic form. though historians debate whether or not jesus called himself the son of god, his followers soon made this claim a fact of the budding religion of christianity, named after jesus christ. in this context, he was the virgin mary cradles jesus in her arms. richard cummins/corbis. 192 world religions: biographies jesus christ seen as a sacrifice on the part of a loving god, the father, who had offered up his only son to redeem humanity s sins. the crucifixion of jesus and his subsequent resurrection became major elements of christian belief and reflect an idea that jesus himself preached: that by believing i

g and to devote his life to god. ignatius of loyola 218 world religions: biographies years of wandering by march 1522 ignatius had recovered enough to leave the family castle and set out on a religious journey that would last the rest of his life. he first went to a monastery, or religious center for study, at montserrat, spain, where he placed his military armor and sword in front of an image of the virgin mary, the mother of jesus christ. thereafter he dressed in sandals and a rough cloth shirt or robe. he spent several months living in a cave near the town of manresa, spain, practicing what is known as religious asceticism. ascetics lead a simple life of prayer, frequently fast (go without food, and devote all of their time to religious matters. during this time ignatius began to write

aly and was refused passage on two ships. these ships later sank in a storm. a third ship finally took him back to venice, italy. ignatius, now thirty-three years old, decided that he wanted to study to become a priest in the catholic church. in order to do that, he first had at the beginning of his religious journey, ignatius of loyola gave up his military armor and sword in front of a statue of the virgin mary like the one pictured here. this signaled his new devotion to god. public domain. world religions: biographies 219 ignatius of loyola to learn latin, the language used by educated people of the time. he went back to barcelona and studied latin while begging for food and shelter. he also gathered crowds to discuss religious matters and to teach them how to pray with feeling. this wa

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

d on words the fragments of this history, it seems to me as if, in a solemn trance, i was led through the ruins of a city whose only remains were tombs. from the sarcophagus and the urn i awake the genius (the greek genius of death) of the extinguished torch, and so closely does its shape resemble eros, that at moments i scarcely know which of ye dictates to me, o love! o death! and it stirred in the virgin's heart, this new, unfathomable, and divine emotion! was it only the ordinary affection of the pulse and the fancy, of the eye to the beautiful, of the ear to the eloquent, or did it not justify the notion she herself conceived of it, that it was born not of the senses, that it was less of earthly and human love than the effect of some wondrous but not unholy charm? i said that, from th

sun had spent its noonday heat, and a breeze that announced the approach of eve sprung up from the unseen ocean which lay far distant to his right. it was then that a turn in the road brought before him one of those long, desolate, gloomy villages which are found in the interior of the neapolitan dominions: and now he came upon a small chapel on one side the road, with a gaudily painted image of the virgin in the open shrine. around this spot, which, in the heart of a christian land, retained the vestige of the old idolatry (for just such were the chapels that in the pagan age were dedicated to the demon-saints of mythology, gathered six or seven miserable and squalid wretches, whom the curse of the leper had cut off from mankind. they set up a shrill cry as they turned their ghastly visa

s which i am sure no saint could approve of "are the saints so partial, then, to your own occupations, master paolo "why" answered the bandit, a little confused "a gentleman with plenty of pistoles in his purse need not, of necessity, make it his profession to take away the pistoles of other people! it is a different thing for us poor rogues. after all, too, i always devote a tithe of my gains to the virgin; and i share the rest charitably with the poor. but eat, drink, enjoy yourself; be absolved by your confessor for any little peccadilloes and don't run too long scores at a time, that's my advice. your health, excellency! pshaw, signor, fasting, except on the days prescribed to a good catholic, only engenders phantoms "phantoms "yes; the devil always tempts the empty stomach. to covet

ssued the edicts that launched armies on their career of glory, and ordained an artificial conduit to carry off the blood that deluged the metropolis of the most martial people in the globe! such was the man who had resigned a judicial appointment (the early object of his ambition) rather than violate his philanthropical principles by subscribing to the death of a single fellow-creature; such was the virgin enemy to capital punishments; and such, butcher-dictator now, was the man whose pure and rigid manners, whose incorruptible honesty, whose hatred of the excesses that tempt to love and wine, would, had he died five years earlier, have left him the model for prudent fathers and careful citizens to place before their sons. such was the man who seemed to have no vice, till circumstance, th

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

of the heathen" they proved that they possessed this belief, for they always endeavoured to throw down the statues of the gods of p. 66 the greeks and romans, knowing that if they were once shattered the spirits which dwelt in them would have no place wherein to dwell, and would thereby be rendered homeless and powerless. it will be remembered that it is stated in the apocryphal gospels that when the virgin mary and her son arrived in egypt there "was a movement and quaking throughout all the land, and all the idols fell down from their pedestals and were broken in pieces" then all the priests and nobles went to a certain priest with whom "a devil used to speak from out of the idol" and they asked him the meaning of these things; and when he had explained to them that the footstep of the s

that he might be able to resist any attack which the pirates might make, and punish them for their robberies in times past. soon after he had sailed he fell in with a pirate vessel, and a fight at once took place between his crew and the robbers, in the course of which he was shot in the eye by an arrow; he stopped the combat and then sailed for a port which was situated near a monastery, wherein the virgin mary was reported to work miracles by means of a picture of herself which was hung up in it. when the merchant arrived in port he was so ill through the wound in his eye that he could not be moved, and it was found that a portion p. 103 of the arrow which had struck him remained embedded in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in thi

bedded in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in this difficulty a certain christian came to the ship and made a wax figure of the merchant, and, having stuck in one eye a model of the arrow which had struck him, carried the figure to the monastery, which was some miles off, and caused the monks to allow him to bring it nigh to the picture of the virgin. when this had been done, and prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model of the arrow out of the eye of the wax figure of the merchant in such a way that no broken fragment remained behind. when the wax figure had been taken back to the ship, it was found that the piece of broken arrow had been extracted from the merch

e, and prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model of the arrow out of the eye of the wax figure of the merchant in such a way that no broken fragment remained behind. when the wax figure had been taken back to the ship, it was found that the piece of broken arrow had been extracted from the merchant's eye at the very moment when the virgin had drawn out the arrow from the eye of the wax figure. the merchant's eye then healed, and he recovered his sight. footnotes 67:1 ed. erman, pp. 7 and 8. 69:1 i.e, the priestly official who performed the most important of the funeral ceremonies; he was always a man of great learning, and generally of high rank. 71:1 i.e, chapter v. of the book of the dead. 72:1 i.e, chapter v. of the b

SORCERIES OF ZOS

or typhonian traditions of predynastic egypt. see the magical revival, chapter 3 (31) the way of resurgent atavisms (32) hecate, the witch or transformer from dark to light, as the tadpole of the waters to the frog of dry land, as the dark and baleful moon of witchcraft to the full bright orb of magical radiance and enchantment exemplified for spare by 'witch' paterson who changed from the hag to the virgin before his eyes. see images and oracles of austin osman spare, 19ca introduction the cult of the all-seeing eye has existed under many names and guises for thousands of years. through the ages its high priests have worshipped before unhallowed altars dedicated to the adoration of a nameless deity. an unknown god. the identity of this deity has been concealed behind an elaborate system o

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

iation of buddha s birth to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and he will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddha. they interpret maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

cross. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of the tree. the queen and the bride are references to the relation of twklm to trapt, the king, and the lesser countenance, the harmony of which must become manifest in twklm, which is also the cross of dense matter upon which the is crucified:

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

h of course. from the era of the roaring 20s to today, a number of the fad dances were based on masonic and jewish cabalistic rituals. 458 codex magica anne rice, writer of the popular "vampire" series, giving an occult, cabalistic sign with her left-hand, partially concealed yet in front of all. various occult symbols are on rice's shirt. the statues of mary give evidence of rice's veneration of the virgin in the form of the eternal pagan goddess (photo: associated press in austin american-statesman, january 31, 2004, p. a2) chaim potok, hasidic jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. this sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the select master's degree (see richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 85 (photo: newsweek, august 5, 2

THE BLACK LODGE

invisible, indefinable, inexpressible, but which yet- we feel- has more value than all that we abandon in order to conquer it. true initiation changes us internally in a permanent and radical way. we are no longer the same person we were..although what we become derives from the root of what we were. the symbol of true initiation is a woman giving suck to a child. this woman is the purified soul, the virgin who copulates with all. and the child she giveth suck to is the fruit of that union. it is the new stage in the soul s existence. it is the new aeon in the microcosm, as heru-ra-ha is the new aeon in the macrocosm" let these words of the master (frater 216 .8=3 a .a) be a sign and a beacon to all those who are of us. dearest sisters and brothers, understand that to be a complete man or

others, understand that to be a complete man or a complete woman in this aeon means that you must combine your innate maleness with your innate femaleness, augmenting both such that they are in balance. when, dear brothers and sisters, these disparate elements are in balance, then must you annihilate them in combination, which is bliss; 0=2. thus only may you enter the stream of life to emerge as the virgin of al. blessings, peace and silence in the name of our lord to mega therion and in the name of our seven times holy lady babalon love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 4 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the third part of this document: we learned that the

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

able-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be

e-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is 15 somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be

is vision clear he directs or leads him as a child to the essential. having shown him the source of wisdom, he retires before gratitude or sentiment sets in, leaving him to fertilize as he wishes. is not this the way of heaven? he who trusts to his natural fund of genius, has no knowledge of its extent and accomplishes with ease, but directly he doubts, ignorance obsesses him. doubt fertilizes in the virgin soil. he is no longer fearless but a coward to difficulties, his very learning is fear. the difference between genius and ignorance is a degree of fear. the beginning of wisdom is fear of forethought the reception of knowledge in learning. children doubt, and abhor learning. why, even the affection of courage results in cleverness! the difference between good and evil is a matter of pro

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

red the physical body to be simply one of a succession of receptacles for the housing of the soul. many of his followers became vegetarians, for he taught that the soul might live again in animals. because of his importance to early greek culture, pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. therefore, the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras s human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his mother consulted the delphic oracle and were told that he would be born in sidon in phoenicia and that he would produce works and wonders that would benefit all humankind. wishing to please the gods, mnesarchus demanded that his wife change her name from parthenis to pyth

ligion and the brain. newsweek, 7 may 2001, pp. 50 57. cranston, ruth. the miracle of lourdes. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1955. delaney, john j, ed. a woman clothed with the sun. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1961. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 191 vietnamese roman catholic nuns in a commemorative anniversary procession of the virgin mary apparition in vietnam (ap/wide world photos) kirkwood, annie. mary s message of hope. nevada city, calif: blue dolphin publishing, 1995. sparrow, scott g. i am with you always: true stories of encounters with jesus. new york: bantam books, 1995. steiger, brad, and sherry hansen steiger. mother mary speaks to us. new york: dutton, 1996; signet, 1997. armageddon in revelation 16:16

cisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. steiner, johannes. therese neumann. new york: alba house, 1967. wilson, ian. stigmata. new york: harper& row, 1989. virgin of guadalupe in mexico, december 12, virgin of guadalupe day, is a national holiday, and often as many as five million mexicans many crawling on bloodied knees make their annual pilgrimage to the country s most venerated shrine, a basilica for the virgin mary in mexico city. in 1996, eight people were killed and 15 were injured in the press of pilgrims gathered around the site. the story of the virgin of guadalupe is one of a mystery within a miracle. in 1531, a 57-year-old aztec indian named juan diego (1474 1548, whose native name cuauhtlatoatzin means eagle that sings (or in some translations, eagle that talks, claimed to have encoun

queen of heaven projected an image of herself upon his tilma (cloak. it is that artifact that brought bishop juan de zumarraga (1468 1548) of mexico city and his entire household to their knees when he asked for some kind of tangible sign from the holy mother. it is that same image on the tilma, set in gold at the center of an elaborate altar, that still awaits today s pilgrim at the basilica of the virgin of guadalupe. it has been said that the dark-skinned image of mother mary as a virginal native american girl helped the spanish priests convert millions of mexican indians to catholicism. after an extensive examination, the committee from the holy see in rome declared the apparitions seen by juan diego to be authentic, thus making the miracle one of seven appearances of mother mary offi

ican girl helped the spanish priests convert millions of mexican indians to catholicism. after an extensive examination, the committee from the holy see in rome declared the apparitions seen by juan diego to be authentic, thus making the miracle one of seven appearances of mother mary officially recognized by the vatican. then, in 1929, an image was discovered within the right eye of the image of the virgin on juan diego s tilma. alfonso marcue, official t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 244 religious phenomena padre pio (1887 1968) is one of the most wellknown stigmatics of the twentieth century (ap/wide world photos) photographer of the old basilica of guadalupe in mexico city, discovered what appeared to be a clear image of a beard

marcue, official t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 244 religious phenomena padre pio (1887 1968) is one of the most wellknown stigmatics of the twentieth century (ap/wide world photos) photographer of the old basilica of guadalupe in mexico city, discovered what appeared to be a clear image of a bearded man reflected within the right eye of the virgin. at first doubting his own senses, marcue made many black-and-white photographs of the image; and after he had examined them exhaustively, he went to the authorities of the basilica with his incredible finding. he was told to remain silent about his discovery, and out of respect for the church officials, he did. on may 29, 1951, jose carlos salinas chavez was examining a particularly go

his own senses, marcue made many black-and-white photographs of the image; and after he had examined them exhaustively, he went to the authorities of the basilica with his incredible finding. he was told to remain silent about his discovery, and out of respect for the church officials, he did. on may 29, 1951, jose carlos salinas chavez was examining a particularly good photograph of the face of the virgin and rediscovered what clearly appeared to be the image of a bearded man reflected in both the right and left eyes of mother mary. since that time, more than 20 experts, including a number of ophthalmologists, have carefully inspected the eyes and the mysterious image. on march 27, 1956, dr. javier torroella bueno, a prestigious ophthalmologist, certified the presence of the triple refle

where they should be according to such an effect. bueno also pointed out that the distortion of the images agreed with the normal curvature of the cornea. in that same year, another experienced ophthalmologist, dr. rafael torrija lavoignet, using an ophthalmoscope, studied the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes, with the location and distortion of a normal human eye, and found that the virgin s eyes appeared strangely alive when he examined them. while working at ibm in 1979, dr. jose aste tonsmann, a graduate of environmental systems engineering of cornell university, scanned a photograph of the virgin s face on the tilma and was astonished to discover what he believed to be other human figures reflected in the eyes. aste tonsmann has since theorized that our lady of guadal

res reflected in the eyes. aste tonsmann has since theorized that our lady of guadalupe not only left a miraculous image as proof of her apparition to juan diego, but may also have left some important messages hidden in her eyes that could not be revealed until new technologies would permit them to be discovered. another mystery that had puzzled academic researchers into the phenomena surrounding the virgin of guadalupe was how the colored image of the apparition could have been impressed upon the simple tilma of a poor aztec tribesman and how it could have lasted for centuries without falling apart. as early as the eighteenth century, scientists discovered that it was impossible to paint such an image in a fabric of such texture. the ayate fibers used by the aztecs at that time deteriorat

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

heir various criminal activities from 1520 to that date. the grand master and 16 of his district chiefs were publicly hanged in the main square of the city. members of the other ranks of the garduna scattered and resumed a life of banditry in the mountains. the garduna gave evidence of their survival as a secret society throughout the spanish civil war (1936.39) when their battle cry of gremember the virgin of cordova! h was frequently heard. it has been said that the garduna have established their own church, blending their concept of unorthodox catholicism with a kind of gholy socialism. h with branches allegedly established in portu- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 14 secret societies forover 100 years, the garduna murdered, rape

actices vodun is a series of buildings called a humfort or hounfou. a gcongregation h is called a hunsi or hounsis, and the hungan cures, divines, and cares for them through the good graces of a loa, his guiding spirit. the worship of the supernatural loa is the central purpose of vodun. they are the old gods of africa, the local spirits of haiti, who occupy a position to the fore of god, christ, the virgin, and the saints. from the beginning, the haitians adamantly refused to accept the church fs position that the loa are the gfallen angels h who rebelled against god. the loa do good and guide and protect humankind, the hungans argue. they, like the saints of roman catholicism, were once men and women who lived exemplary lives and who now are given a specific responsibility to assist huma

.c.e, the persian t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 70 magic and sorcery prophet, and the brahmans of india; and he initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras f human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his mother consulted the delphic oracle and were told that he would be born in sidon in phoenicia and that he would produce works and wonders that would benefit all humankind. wishing to please the gods, mnesarchus demanded that his wife change her name from parthenis to pyth

e goddess diana. one day, the strege believe religious tolerance will progress to the stage where they will once again have a public temple to the goddess. more than one scholar of the mass conversions of the pagan populace of europe during the middle ages has commented on the fact that the common folk simply went underground with their worship of diana, or made the motions of giving reverence to the virgin mary, while secretly directing their true devotion to the goddess. gchristianization forced the old religionists underground in the twelfth century, but the sculptors paid tribute to their goddesses demeter and persephone by creating the madonna and female jesus. in ancient times people worshipped at the temple of demeter in enna, sicily, where they celebrated her daughter persephone fs

holeric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. be in the limelight. leo people generally have plenty of energy and strongwill power, and they make trustworthy and loyal friends. leos cherish high ideals and love means a great deal to them. because they tend to be adaptable, they make good marriage partners. leo people are excellent and convivial hosts, who love to entertain others with big parties. virgo, the virgin, august 24 to september 22, is an earth sign. virgo was named in honor of the greek goddess of astraea, goddess of innocence and purity, who was placed among the stars. a typical virgo is cool, calm, and collected and never loses his or her head in emotional matters. virgo people belong to the intellectual class of individuals, and it is not an easy task for anyone to sway them once the

earth traveler is summoned to judgment many times by the cyclical workings of karma. the world (arcanum twenty-one) is the last numbered card of the major arcana and presents an allegory of transmutation completed. the adept has reached the ultimate end of his or her journey and has achieved an innate knowledge of all that is good in the universe, which is symbolized by the wreath that surrounds the virgin. the world card represents honesty and truth, as well as success, harmony, and attainment. the figure of the fool (arcanum 0, stands for an individual who becomes so involved in the occult sciences that he or she misses the path to spiritual development. the fool also reminds everyone that they learn from their mistakes. it carries a small pack on a stick, symbolizing the karmic debts w

n to plant and when to harvest crops. the discovery was dubbed gwoodhenge, h in recognition to its similarity to the circular arrangement known as stonehenge in great britain. sources: harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. thomas, david hurst. exploring ancient native america. new york: macmillan, 1994. cahokia and its woodhenge vision, an image of the virgin with the babe resting on her knee was carved from a peach tree and placed next to the well and the power point within the dolmen. when the first christians appropriated the area in the third century, they built the first church dedicated to our lady on the site of the dolmen, mound, and well and placed the image of the black virgin in the church fs crypt. the duke of aquitania burned th

o ceremonies t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 275 fortress of sacsayhuman near cuzco, peru (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) can be seen in the calendar of festivals for the year. for example, dances celebrating the turtle, deer, or buffalo are interspersed with dances honoring st. anthony, st. jerome, and the virgin mary. all of these events are considered serious religious ceremonies. cameras are forbidden, and the tribal council asks that visitors render the same respect toward the dances and rituals as they would during a solemn service in their home churches. each year the tribal council, a group of 50 male elders, appoints a tribal governor and a war chief. the tribal governor and his staff ar

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ntation in lead or in other metal as they arewont to do for the memorials and representations of saints canonised by the church; they say everywhere thatshe is 'the envoy (nuntia) of god and that she is more angel than woman" according to the records she raisedthe dead, the sick were cured of all diseases by the touch of her garments; and as even professed christianscounted her as almost equal to the virgin it is more than likely that in the eyes of her pagan followers she wasgod indeed. an interesting little sidelight is thrown on the popular opinion of her by dame margareta latouroulde, widow of r351n351 de bouligny, councillor and receiver-general of the king, who stated at theenquiry for rehabilitation that joan had stayed with her at bourges and that they had often talked together;she

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

iphas, whose heart was sad, and consequently disposed to prayer, followed that way and entered the church. it might have been at that time about four o'clock in the afternoon. the church was full of the faithful, and the office was performed with great concentration, and extraordinary solemnity. the banners of the parishes of the city, and of the suburbs, bore witness to the public veneration for the virgin who saved paris from famine and invasion. at the bottom of the church, the tomb of st. genevieve shone gloriously with light. they were chanting the litanies, and the procession was coming out of the choir. after the cross, accompanied by its acolytes, and followed by the choirboys, came the banner of st. genevieve; then, walking in double file, came the lady devotees of st. genevieve

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

of the goddess is no more known. and she maketh the infants restless, and to cry, so the reason for the pouring of honey over the sacred bread, for it is written: bread of the cult of the dead in its place i eat in the court prepared water of the cult of the dead in its place i drink a queen am i, who has become estranged to the cities she that comes from the lowlands in a sunken boat am i. i am the virgin goddess hostile to my city a stranger in my streets. musigamenna uruma bur me yensulamu girme en! oh, spirit, who understand thee? who comprehend thee? now, there are two incantation to the ancient ones set down here, which are well known to the sorcerers of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things

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

yrical and dramatic, h gthe temple of the holy ghost, h gtannhauser, h grosa mundi, h and galice. h ecstasy is the keynote here, as it is of all poetry, all literature. aye! of all life. without it we cease to be even animals. a dog will bay the moon. mere lumps of sodden clay; with it a flaming crown of glory, angel-voiced, singing amidst the stars the anthem of eternity. ii the chapter known as the virgin in which chapter it is related how beauteous and fair she was to behold, and with what joyaunce and jollity she greeted her many lovers, and how she fed off their kisses and growing bold was cast forth to feed amongst the swine. the virgin gto be a singer of sweet songs, h is the great ideal crowley has enshrined before him; for varied as his powers are, entwined with satire, philosophy

. love is the finding in others what others cannot find in them, and it is of two degrees. the love of a mother towards her child; and the love of man and woman towards woman and man. the first is generally considered to be purer and more ideal, but this idea has only grown out of man fs entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships. the mother is in no way purer than the wife, neither is the virgin purer than the mother. the truest definition of chastity is that as given by benjamin franklin, which defines chastity as gthe regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others, of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult beings. h* the reason for this idea of uncleanliness though certainly obscure is traceable more particularly to the utter mystery man

hat of motherhood. the true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover, and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children. this is no paradox, no riddle, no twisting of words; for crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of eternity the sacred blood of the bull, the second christ; and as the first, the lamb of god, sprang from the immaculate womb of the virgin-mother, so shall this second incarnation spring blood-red from the snowy lips of the great supernal mother, androgynous, the circe-isis of the ages. in galice, an adultery, h we see a woman passionate in her love, strenuous in her affection, yet in the end failing by abandoning her lover for her children. not so, however, in grosa inferni, h wherein we feel, as we read, a ferocity of pa

ndia is aware of the vast hordes of indolent fakirs who practically do nothing except stand still and gaze vacantly into the clouds uttering, grama, h ghanuman, h and before they drop their eyes their bowls are full of atta and dhal. hence priests and kings, those truly greedy anthropophagi: the vale is black with priests. they fight, wild beasts, for food, the orphan fs gold, the widow fs right, the virgin fs snood, all in their maws are crammed within the night that hides their chosen wood, where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 126. feeding perhaps first on man fs body, the priest soon found, after investing his victim with an immortal soul, that the soul would form an excellent basis

cholastic philosophers for spinning webs, like spiders out of their own entrails; the reproach is perhaps unjust, but out of the web of these spiders, crowley has himself twisted a subtle cord, on which he has suspended the universe, and swinging it round has sent the whole fickle world conception of these excogitating spiders into those realms which lie behind time and beyond space. he stands on the virgin rock of pyrrhonic- zoroastrianism, which unlike the hindu world-conception, stands on neither elephant nor tortoise, but on the absolute zero of the metaphysical qabalists *vide haeckel, glast words on evolution, h p. 120. the question now is, what is crowleyanity or pyrrhonic-zoroastrianism? and the answer is as follows: ghosanna to the son of david! blessed is he that cometh in the na

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

m the tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ensemble personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mind, or soul. the cross below is matter, the circle is spirit. together they figure the lingam of the hindus, representing the union of the sexes; and the crescent above the union of spirit and matter represents the soul which is the evolved product of their union. the seal on the breast of nature also expresses the thou

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

adding the first 5. there are many other important considerations to be made concerning this word and this number, which may safely be left to the ardours of your research. this sun is in the midst of the 6 other letters of the word; and the general knowledge of correspondences which you have derived from the study of the books appointed for your instruction will at once show you that j is virgo the virgin moon a is the fool or antic, the antique or ancient one saturn h is the letter of aries the house of mars b is the letter of mercury v is the hierophant or pope, emblem of jupiter l is libra the house of venus such, my brother, are the letters taken singly. in combination we reach beyond the simple facts of nature to divine mysteries. iii first of all, consider the descending triangle

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

n of my kindred, and of my father s house: 24:41 then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one] thou shalt be clear from my oath. 24:42 and i came this day unto the well, and said, o lord god of my master abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which i go; 24:43 behold, i stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water] and i say to her, give me, i pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; 24:44 and she say to me, both drink thou, and i will also draw for thy camels [let] the same [be] the woman whom the lord hath appointed out for my master s son. 24:45 and before i had done speaking in mine heart, behold, rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and s

e, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 32:23 i will heap mischiefs upon them; i will spend mine arrows upon them. 32:24 [they shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: i will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 32:25 the sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs. 32:26 i said, i would scatter them into corners, i would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 32:27 were it not that i feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely [and] lest they should say, our hand is high, and the lord hath not done all this. 32:28 for they [are] a nation vo

o lord our god, i beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the lord god [even] thou only. 19:20 then isaiah the son of amoz sent to hezekiah, saying, thus saith the lord god of israel [that] which thou hast prayed to me against sennacherib king of assyria i have heard. 19:21 this [is] the word that the lord hath spoken concerning him; the virgin the daughter of zion hath despised thee [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 19:22 whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high [even] against the holy [one] of israel. 19:23 by the messengers thou hast reproached the lord, and hast said, with the multitude of my

ave destroyed them. 37:20 now therefore, o lord our god, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the lord [even] thou only. 37:21 then isaiah the son of amoz sent unto hezekiah, saying, thus saith the lord god of israel, whereas thou hast prayed to me against sennacherib king of assyria: 37:22 this [is] the word which the lord hath spoken concerning him; the virgin, the daughter of zion, hath despised thee [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 37:23 whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high [even] against the holy one of israel. 37:24 by thy servants hast thou reproached the lord, and hast said, by the multitude of my cha

e people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for i will pour their wickedness upon them. 14:17 therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; let page 455 jeremiah mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 14:18 if i go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if i enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 14:19 hast thou utterly rejected judah? hath thy soul lothed zion? why hast thou sm

old, i frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil page 457 jeremiah way, and make your ways and your doings good. 18:12 and they said, there is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 18:13 therefore thus saith the lord; ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of israel hath done a very horrible thing. 18:14 will [a man] leave the snow of lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 18:15 because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths [in] a wa

ord hath redeemed jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he. 31:12 therefore they shall come and sing in the height of zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 31:13 then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for i will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 31:14 and i will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the lord. 31:15 thus saith the lord; a voice was heard in ramah, lamentation [and] bitter weeping; rahel weep

aint all the day. 1:14 the yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the lord hath delivered me into [their] hands [from whom] i am not able to rise up. 1:15 the lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of judah [as] in a winepress. 1:16 for these [things] i weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. 1:17 zion spreadeth forth her hands [and there is] none to comfort her: the lord hath commanded concerning jacob [that] his adversaries [should be]

cause i will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy god, o israel. 4:13 for, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the lord, the god of hosts [is] his name. 5:1 hear ye this word which i take up against you [even] a lamentation, o house of israel. 5:2 the virgin of israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land [there is] none to raise her up. 5:3 for thus saith the lord god; the city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of israel. 5:4 for thus saith the lord unto the house of israel, seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5:5 but seek not

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

oman confesses under pain, recants when the pain is removed, only to be moved by more pain to confess again, she is asked "how did she influence the weather? she does not know what to say and can only whisper, oh, heavenly queen, protect me" was the victim calling upon "the goddess? or, as seems more likely, upon that aforementioned transfiguration of all ancient goddesses in christian mythology, the virgin mary. one more quote from dr. robbins, and i will cease to parade late medieval history before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess things they have never done, and so by cruel butchery innocent lives are taken (ibid, p 16. the "evidence" of the witch trials in

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

apic worship, it appears certain that in the time of de lanere his favourite form of showing himself was that of a goat. at the opening of the sabbath the witches, male or female, presented formally to the devil those who had never been at the sabbath before, and the women especially brought to him the children whom they allured to him. the new converts, the novices, were made to renounce christ, the virgin mary, and the saints, and they were then re-baptized with mock ceremonies. they next performed their worship to the devil by kissing him on the face under the tail, or otherwise. the young children were taken to the edge of a stream for the scene was generally chosen on the banks of a stream and white wands were placed in their hands, and they were entrusted with the care of the toads w

le pays la lanne du bouc. o ils se mettent dancer l entour d une pierre, qui est plant e audit lieu, sur laquelle est assis un grand hoome noir, qu elles 226 on the worship of the she said that they were carried to that place on an animal which sometimes resembled a horse and at others a man, and they never rode on the animal more than four at a time. when arrived at the sabbath, they denied god, the virgin, and the rest, and took satan for their father and protector, and the she-devil for their mother. this witness described the making and sale of poisons. she said that she had seen at the sabbath a notary, whose name she gave, whose business it was to denounce those who failed in attendance. when on their way to the sabbath, however hard it might rain, they were never wet, provided they

was the nephew of madame martin, who went to his aunt and merely enjoined her not to take the girl to the sabbath any more. jeannette said that at the solemn festivals all kissed the devil s posteriors except the notable witches, who kissed him in the face. according to her account, the children, at the age of two or three years, or as soon as they could speak, were made to renounce jesus christ, the virgin mary, their baptism &c. and from that moment they were taught to worship the devil. she described the sabbath as resembling a fair, well supplied with all sorts of objects, in which some walked about in their own form, and others were transformed, she knew not how, into dogs, cats, asses, horses, pigs, and other animals. the little boys and girls kept the herds of the sabbath, consistin

, that the first time she went to the sabbath she saw there the devil in the form of a man, black and hideous, with six horns on his head, and sometimes eight, and a great tail behind, one face in front and another at the back of the head, as they paint the god janus. gratianne, on presenting her, received as her reward a handful of gold; and then the childvictim was made to renounce her creator, the virgin, the baptism, father, mother, relatives, heaven, earth, and all that was in the world, and then she was required to kiss the fiend on the posteriors. the renunciation she was obliged to repeat every time she went to the sabbath. she added that the devil often made her kiss his face, his navel, his member, and his posteriors. she had often seen the children of witches baptized at the sab

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ed at numerous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was oft

evel is presented as a trine-the fish, wholly water creatures; the crab, which lives both in the sea and on the land; and the scorpion, wholly a land dweller. the middle level is given as a quaternary-two domesticated beasts, the goat and the bull (earth; and two wild beasts, the lion and the ram (fire. the highest level presents the five kinds of human occupation. the water- bearer is a laborer. the virgin is a priestess of the mysteries. the lady of the scales represents law and social order. the archer stands for warfare. the twins are still in their becoming and suggest the higher evolution of the human race as expressed through art. these occupations may also be symbolized by the five magical instru- ments-coin, cup, rod, sword, and lamp. for the magus using this breakdown as a guide

released into the world. accepting creative force birthing shield also called the disk, the pentacle, and the coin. it is the only one of the four ele- mental instruments that cannot be rotated around its center point to change its meaning. it suggests completeness, and thus sterility. it is self-contained, giving nothing and taking nothing. the shield symbolizes frigidity, aridity, and inertia; the virgin and the maidenhead. but the other side of the coin is resistance, persis- tence, and a cold, remorseless strength. its element is earth. magically, the shield is used as a protection against hostile forces. it imposes a freeze similar to that associated with the equal-armed cross. the shield neither moves nor can be moved, although it can be shattered if sufficient force is applied. the

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ander off the path and over a cliff in the darkness. the hermitage is a rough building of heavy timbers on a foundation of native stone, build to withstand the storms of winter. the old chapter twelve: the tarot 21 1 man invites you inside when he sees you, so that you may warm yourself before the fire in the common room. it is a lonely spot and he seldom gets visitors. the ruling intelligence is the virgin goddess of the heavens, virgo, whose statue stands within a small shrine inside the hermitage. if you light a candle in her honor, she may respond to your question by either nodding or by shaking her head. x the wheel offortune hebrew letter: kaph (fist) correspondence: jupiter path: twenty-first the waite version of this trump is abstract and does a poor job of presenting its astral la

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ce, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity, and 248 tetragrammaton the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the dinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen "by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped" whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the letter v to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of v, the

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

s. if you want to return to the father who dwells in secret, you must first return to the bosom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the first heaven god, the word, had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his s

eterno. vuestra divina madre es el arcano ii, la papisa del tarot. ella est coronada con la tiara. la cabeza de la madre c smica est rodeada de un velo. vosotros deb is ser valientes y levantar el velo de isis. nuestra divisa gn stica es thelema (voluntad. 17 the mother carries her son (the word) in her arms; and she is seated between the two columns that symbolize the man and the woman. worship the virgin of the sea, brethren of mine. the divine mother appears in the second arcanum holding the priestly esoteric sign with her hand. study within the sacred book of your divine mother. ask and it shall be given to you. knock and it shall be opened unto you (matthew 7:7) your divine mother can grant the occult powers you long for. pray to your divine mother; practice your esoteric exercises;

todo el trabajo tiene por objeto adquirir alma, es decir, lograr el ligamen de la cruz con el tri ngulo. esa es la gran obra. la carta doce del tarot es alkimia sexual. la cruz hombre debe ligarse con el tri ngulo esp ritu, mediante el fuego sexual. 84 according to the chinese, the god fu ji (the adam- christ) is born at midnight, on the fourth day of the tenth moon after precisely twelve years, the virgin hoa se, while walking along the shore of the river (the seminal liquor, conceived the christ in her womb while placing her foot on the footprint of the great man. you must study these numbers 4-10- 12 under the light of the lectures 4, 10 and 12 of this present course. white and black tantrism there exist two kinds of tantrism in the orient. in the positive tantrism, the ejaculation of

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

k, 4-l, and 4-m. one can experiment with alternate designs on these kameas, provided that every cell is included. for example, i have used a very powerful symbol, which has come to be known as the miraculous medal, on the simplest of the planetary squares. this medal was revealed to st. catherine laboure (who has had an incorruptible body.now in an open casket in paris.since her death in 1876, by the virgin mary in a vision, and has become a very potent miracle working talisman in the past 100 years. it fits very nicely on the saturn kamea (see figure 4-n. it is also appropriate there symbolically because mary (miriam. whose initial it is, means bitter sea, an attribution of binah/saturn, and she is said to be the universal mother. qabalistic students will notice other similarities in the

justice, the highest attribution of the fifth sephira, has a value of sixty-four, as well as its twin intelligence in mercury, whose name is doni. sixty-four also equals may zahab (water of gold, as well as mezahah (mother of gold. in latin, it equals sal aqua (salt-water or the matrix corpus; solve, which refers to the process known as dissolution; sperma, or the seed of the metal; and virgo, or the virgin matter. the number 260 represents the multiplication of the power of the sacred tetragramatton (twenty-six) by the sephiroth (ten. the intelligence of mercury, which also has a value of 260, designates the consciousness of the divine order which, when correctly applied, results in the human being's use of the objective mind as an instrument to link to superconscious powers. some of the

self-consciousness by virtue of his concentration. the greatest powers of intuition come when we have perfected the art of inductive reasoning, or the ability to draw logical inferences from experience. the number eight is the number representing rhythm and renewal, and because of its shape, is the lemniscate, or infinity sign as well. this symbol is placed about the head of both the magician and the virgin (see figure 10-h) in key eight of most tarot decks. the number has a hidden reference to the serpent-power that this virgin, who is also a magician, has control of. this picture hints at her ability to act as a time-binder, uniting past to present to future. the serpent is the most frequent symbolic mythological image attributed to mercury. in astrology, the eighth sign is scorpio, whic

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

ntly shown in my seasonal reconstruction of the welsh myth of blodeuwedd, the autumnal equinox is the only day of the whole year when llew (light) is vulnerable and it is possible to defeat him. llew now stands on the balance (libra/autumnal equinox, with one foot on the cauldron (cancer/summer solstice) and his other foot on the goat (capricorn/winter solstice. thus he is betrayed by blodeuwedd, the virgin (virgo) and transformed into an eagle (scorpio. two things are now likely to occur mythically, in rapid succession. having defeated llew, goronwy (darkness) now takes over llew's functions, both as lover to blodeuwedd, the goddess, and as king of our own world. although goronwy, the horned king, now sits on llew's throne and begins his rule immediately, his formal coronation will not be

dd, the goddess, and as king of our own world. although goronwy, the horned king, now sits on llew's throne and begins his rule immediately, his formal coronation will not be for another six weeks, occurring at samhain (halloween) or the beginning of winter, when he becomes the winter lord, the dark king, lord of misrule. goronwy's other function has more immediate results, however. he mates with the virgin goddess, and blodeuwedd conceives, and will give birth- nine months later (at the summer solstice- to goronwy's son, who is really another incarnation of himself, the dark child. llew's sacrificial death at harvest home also identifies him with john barleycorn, spirit of the fields. thus, llew represents not only the sun's power, but also the sun's life trapped and crystallized in the c

the other on the back of a goat. it is only in this way that llew can be killed, and blodeuwedd's lover, goronwy, llew's dark self, is hiding nearby with a spear at the ready. but as llew is struck with it, he is not killed. he is instead transformed into an eagle. putting this in the form of a bardic riddle, it would go something like this: who can tell in what season the lion (llew, betrayed by the virgin (blodeuwedd, poised on the balance, is transformed into an eagle? my readers who are astrologers are probably already gasping in recognition. the sequence is astrological and in proper order: leo (lion, virgo (virgin, libra (balance, and scorpio (for which the eagle is a well-known alternative symbol. also, the remaining icons, cauldron and goat, could arguably symbolize cancer and capr

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

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

on of the garter was taken away and destroyed not long after his death. i have seen two witch garters; they were of green snakeskin with gold or silver gilt buckles and were backed with blue silk. they were worn above the left knee. they are badges of rank. in this connection, can anyone tell me exactly what is the meaning of the double ss on the collar of the garter? it is sometimes said to mean the virgin, sometimes the holy ghost (sanctus spiritus. the order is dedicated to the virgin, certainly, but i do not see how it can refer to her. nor does it seem to be dedicated to the holy ghost. my reason for asking is that on all athama and many other witch tools i have seen- and i have seen many besides those in my own private collection- there are a number of signs carved. these are always

mber of signs carved. these are always the same and in the same order and have the same meanings. it is necessary to have these signs put on before they are consecrated (in the burning times they would write them in ink and wash them off after consecration) the third sign is ss: that is, two s's as used on the collar of the garter. witches have their own interpretation of this sign (and it is not the virgin or the holy ghost. black is said to be a feature in the order of the garter. the black book, containing the original constitutions of the order, is said to have been taken away for secret reasons before the time of henry v, as mentioned earlier, and from this black book comes the important post of black rod. one would think that there must have been important reasons to conceal somethin

on made under torture would name him as their god, but a transcript produced in court would substitute the word devil. now you cannot blame the poor witch for this. the tortures witches suffered would make anyone confess anything. i have heard that some great man at the time said 'if they did that to me they could make me confess that i'd murdered god the father and the son and the holy ghost and the virgin' before i finish i would like to mention one or two final matters that may have some bearing on the subject of witchcraft, in the hope that someone can give me more information. at rushen abbey, near castletown, some curious discoveries have been made (vide articles in the isle of man natural history and antiquarian society proceedings, march 1935. mr. w. christian cubbon writes (page 1

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

in similar positions. it is supposed that one recurrence of this period is referred to in the 4th eclogue of virgil, the poem, which, as is well known, has been spoken of as containing an allusion to the messiah, jesus. the period sung by the cumaean sibyl has now arrived, and the grand series of ages (that series which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins afresh. the virgin astraea returns, another reign of saturn commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 yea

sts of 223 lunations. 69. the circumference of a globe has been fixed at 360 degrees, six sixties; the hour divided into 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds. the tartars had a period of 60 days, the chinese also. and the asiatics generally a period of 60 years. the babylonian great period was 3600 years, the naros multiplied by 6. the lily which in all the old annunciation pictures gabriel presents to the virgin has 6 leaves and the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott flower shows 6 petals all alike, around a central threeheaded stigma, as is botanically correct. one of the three main divisions into which plants are arranged by botanists, is typified by a predominance of the numbers 3 and 6, in all parts of the flowers, 6 leaves forming a perianth, 6 stame

sleepers of ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stories to save the life of the king s son. they exist in greek, syriac, hebrew, persian and in english are called the book of sindibad, edited by clouston. the coptic gnostics represented the jehovah of the hebrews by a curious arrangement of the

were composed by 120 elders. 130. the rabbis said that after the curse, adam fasted 130 years as a penance. this number is referred to elijah, alihv, and to the word prophet, hnbia. these names number 120, add 10 to this, the number of letters. the kabalists make a mystical square (rectangle) or kamea of alihv of 130 permutations--ten by thirteen. 152. the number of maria, the greek name for mary the virgin, being 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152. 153. the number of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the apostles after the resurrection. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 118. 200. the number of bones in the human body. 207. this is the number of ain soph, ain, svp, the boundless, and aur, avr, light, and of adonai olam, adni ovlam, lord of the univer

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

ed; such a womb being infertile, it thus could not have conceived the messiah described as the son born of woman. 56 an exegetical frame for this hermeneutical conflict may be located in the messianic meaning ascribed to the closed mem in the expression le-marbbeh ha-misrah, in token of abundant authority (isa 9:6. in response to christian exegetes who interpreted the closed mem as a reference to the virgin womb and the savior-god born therefrom, the kabbalist insinuates that the letter in this orthographic shape signifies sterility, an inability to extend the body of engenderment, in mospik s telling phrase.57 one zoharic homily, in particular, is an especially significant locus for the kabbalistic polemic against the christological doctrine of the virginal conception and birth of the mes

junction in the godhead,61 a theme that is expressed in the zoharic passage by the image of the phallic gradation, which is designated peace (shalom, sitting upon the throne of david.62 an admittedly later source, the thirteenth-century christian work pugio fidei, supports this interpretive stance. in this treatise, friar raymond martin a rms that the closed mem of le-marbbeh ha-misrah alludes to the virgin womb whence jesus was born. furthermore, he relates this exegesis to two talmudic dicta.63 it is worth considering these two texts carefully, as friar raymond s readings may sensitize us to nuances at play in the kabbalistic sources, particularly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. the first talmudic text preserves a homiletical reflection attributed to bar qappara in sepphoris

both the pollution of the seminal flux and the impurities of the womb, see the extensive analysis in cuffel, filthy words, pp. 117 212. 46. an assault on the irrationality of the christian doctrine of the incarnation is not uncommon in medieval jewish texts, and in some cases this mode of argument was meant to counter christian polemicists who argued for the rational and naturalist conception of the virgin birth. see cuffel, filthy words, pp. 283 350; chazan, fashioning, pp. 264 265, 268 273, 334, 349 350. 47. bahir, 42, p. 141. 48. see wolfson, circumcision, secrecy, pp. 59 61. 49. i have translated the passage as it appears in midrash otiyyot de-rabbi aqiva ha- shalem, p. 112. this version is based on the edition of the two recensions published by wertheimer in battei midrashot, 2: 343

viv: tel-aviv university, 1976 (hebrew. gould, stephen jay. time s arrow, time s cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. cambridge: harvard university press, 1987. graeber, bruce s. heschel and the philosophy of time. conservative judaism 33 (1980: 44 56. green, arthur. keter: the crown of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997. shekhinah, the virgin mary, and the song of songs: reflections on a kabbalistic symbol in its historical context. ajs review 26 (2002: 1 52. gri n carl w, and david l. paulsen. augustine and the corporeality of god. harvard theological review 95 (2002: 97 118. gri ths, jay. a sideways look at time. new york: penguin putnam, 1999. gross, benjamin. le messianisme juif: l eternit d isra l du maharal de prague

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impreg nates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and le aping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy her mes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes thro ugh corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and pr ophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of t

, and pr ophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are f ound the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one wom

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

t, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impregnates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and leaping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy hermes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes through corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the

god, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are found the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

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

y so that postulant may hear through partially dosed door 'harken now unto the mystery of the tarot key before thee, and meditate thereon in thy heart. is not the taro itself named after the rota? the wheel of destiny: of birth and rebirth. lo, do not the radii thereof spring from the white centre of the divine spirit, passing into the darkness of the womb of the divine mother; that being born of the virgin, they may be crucified upon the cross of manifestation, and thence commit themselves again unto the father "man indeed standeth between spirit and matter, betwixt angel and animal, at the summit of his ascent. we behold as in a glass darkly, that perfected being whom our father strove to represent in the sphinx, compound of the four elements in balanced disposition "the intelligence of

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ala, which suggests the walada above, being only derived in a different way. in the saga eiriks ransa we come upon thorhiorg, the little vala (edda ssem. hafn. 3, 4. hei&r is the name not only of the volva in the edda (ssem. 4, conf. 118) but also of the one in the orvarodssaga (conf. sagabibl. 3, 155. hyndla (canicula) is a prophetess that rides on wolves, and dwells in a cave. i guess also that the virgins thorger&r and ir-pa (fornm. sog. 2, 108. 3, 100. 11, 134-7. 142. 172, to whom all but divine honours were paid, and the title of horgabrusr (nympha lucorum) and even the name of gus (numen) was accorded, nialss. cap. 89, are not to be excluded from this cii'cle. so in the valkyrs, beside their godhood, there resides somewhat of the priestly, e.g. their virginity (see ch. xvi and suppl

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the day of be-with-us. 13. yea! verily this is the truth, this is the truth, this is the truth. unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wantons<equinox i, 6 has "wanton> in the market place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prep

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

up on the kisses of thy mouth; o thou who hast laid aside thy divinity to take refuge in mine arms, listen "i have drunk deep of the flagons of passion with the white-veiled virgins of vesta, and the crimson-girdled daughters of circe, and the drowsy-eyed maidens of ind. i have woven love with the lithe girls of hellas, and the subtle-limbed women of egypt whose fingers are created to caress; all the virgins of assyria, and the veiled beauties of arabia, have been mine; yet amongst them all have i not found one to compare to a lash on the lid of thine eye. o thou art as the wine of ecstasy, a thousand times more delicious than all these. ah! but what is this languor which cleaves to me? my strength has left me; my soul has mingled with thine; i am not, and yet i am. is it thy weakness that

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

me string of passion, that is more akin to death than love, that shrieking sin whose teeth tear passion's tortured skin and drink love's blood, and rage within black bowels of lust to win, to win some crown of thorns incarnadine, some cross whereof to fashion some newer, truer passion than even the agony of the violin "the prophet" yes! like a careless breeze, the close caress expands with a sob; the virgins wheel; there glows 19 in the midst a mystical rose["the dancers unfold, and their queen appears" o musical ministress of the dancing violin! in an emerald spangled skin, hooded with harvest hair close-coiled, her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slender, and full, and straight is she as an almond tree blest by an hermit! her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slow she sways;

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the day of be-with-us. 13. yea! verily this is the truth, this is the truth, this is the truth. unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wanton in the market-place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 26 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be p

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ficulty; once the dress is off, the 45 defences are down. they are usually virgins-and they usually come back for more, night after night, like bitches on heat' ruth was different; she looked like a slightly delinquent schoolgirl, but turned out to be a nineteen-year-old woman separated from her husband. she was brought to one of alex's parties by a mutual friend and she was a welcome change from the virgins. temporarily out of work, she was glad to move in at riversdale, warming alex's bed in return for her board. so long asshewas sober shewas a delightfulcompanion -egocentric, but witty and an expert mimic. once she had had a couple of drinks, however, her talents would run wild; her mimicry became caustic and she delighted in repeating whispered confidences to the very people whom they

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

r enterprised course, employing this grace to the praise of god, and the good of man. in sum, her words were quite different from those of our virgin, who was somewhat more worldly. they pierced me through even to my bones and marrow. and you, she said further to me, have received more than others, see that you also make a larger return. this to me was a very strange sermon; for as soon as we saw the virgins with the music, we imagined we must soon begin to dance, but that time was not as yet come. now the weights, page 43 which have been mentioned before, stood still in the same place, so the duchess (i knew not yet who she was) commanded each virgin to take up one, but to our virgin she gave her own, which was the last and greatest, and commanded us to follow behind. our majesty was then

he most part he hovered over and played the wanton about the great crown; sometimes he seated himself between the two lovers, somewhat smiling upon them with his bow. indeed, sometimes he made as if he would shoot one of us. in brief, this knave was so full of his waggery, that we would not even spare the little birds which flew in multitudes up and down the room, but tormented them all he could. the virgins also had their pastimes with him, but whenever they could catch him, it was not so easy a matter for him to get from them again. thus this little knave made all the sport and mirth. before the queen stood a small but inexpressibly curious altar, on which lay a book covered with black velvet, a little overlaid with gold. by this stood a small taper in an ivory candlestick. now although

t we all could not choose but marvel at it. together with this altar, there were up and down the room wonderful images, which moved themselves as if they had been alive, and had so strange a contrivance that it would be impossible for me to relate it all. likewise, as we were passing out, there began such a marvellous kind of vocal music, that i could not tell for sure whether it was performed by the virgins who still stayed behind, or by the images themselves. now we being satisfied for the time being, went away with our virgins, who (the musicians being already present) led us down the winding stairs again, and the door was diligently locked and bolted. as soon as we had come again into the hall, one of the virgins began: i wonder, sister, that you dare hazard yourself amongst so many pe

m enough, because he presented himself on behalf of their royal majesties, and delivered us a health (from them) out of a golden cup, and had to call our virgins to the king, declaring also that he could at this time tarry no longer with them. so with a due return of our most humble thanks we let him fly off again. now because (in the interim) the mirth had begun to fall to my consort s feet- and the virgins were not sorry to see it- they quickly started up a civil dance, which i beheld with pleasure rather than taking part; for my mercurialists were so ready with their postures, as if they had long been of the trade. after a few dances our president came in again, and told us how the artists and students had offered themselves to their royal majesties, for their honour and pleasure, to ac

little pointed black feather, which he courteously took off to us, so to signify his favour towards us. we bowed ourselves to him, as also to the first, as we had been instructed before. after the kings came the three queens, two of whom were richly dressed, but she in the middle was likewise all in black, and cupid held up her train. after this, intimation was given to us to follow, and after us the virgins, till at last old atlas brought up the rear. in such procession, through many stately walks, we at length came to the house of the sun, there next to the king and queen, upon a richly furpage 51 nished scaffold, to behold the previously ordained comedy. we indeed, though separated, stood on the right hand of the kings, but the virgins stood on the left, except those to whom the royal e

et he often sighed, at which the little cupid only mocked, and played his waggish tricks. the old king and queen were very serious; only the wife of one of the ancient kings was gay enough, the reason for which i did not yet understand. during this time, the royal persons took up the first table, at the second only we sat. at the third, some of the principal virgins placed themselves. the rest of the virgins, and men, all had to wait. this was performed with such state and solemn stillness that i am afraid to say very much about it. page 55 but i cannot leave untouched upon here, how all the royal persons, before the meal, attired themselves in snow-white glittering garments, and so sat down at the table. over the table hung the great golden crown, the precious stones of which would have s

double taffeta. this she laid in the uppermost vessel, and then covered it with the lid, which was full of holes, and which had besides a rim through which she poured in some of the water which we had prepared the day before. then the fountain began immediately to run, and to flow into the little vessel through four small pipes. beneath the underneath vessel there were many sharp points, on which the virgins stuck their lamps, so that the heat might reach the vessel, and make the water boil. now the water beginning to simmer, it fell in upon the bodies by many little holes at a, and was so hot that it dissolved page 69 them all, and turned them into liquor. but what the above-mentioned round wrapped-up thing was, my companions did not know, but i understood that it was the moor s head, fro

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

also known as the monadic plane. from this plane the true self (yechidah) or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in a embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarisation and differentiation originates. it is on this level that the seven rays regulate the cycles of creation. the divine plane and the plane of the virgins spirits are equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those on the t

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

iptures reveal a hidden knowledge, if considered allegorically, is clearly demonstrated by a parable describing king solomon, his wives, concubines, and virgins, which parable occurs in geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer, published in ultona in 1785. dr. hartmann, who translated part of this work into english, declared that the wives of solomon represented the arts, the concubines the sciences, and the virgins the still unrevealed secrets of nature. by order of the king the virgins were forced to remove their veils, thus signifying that by means of wisdom (solomon) the mystic arts were forced to disclose their hidden parts to the philosopher, while to the uninitiated world only the outside garments were visible (such is the mystery of the veil of isis) as the alchemist must do his work in fo

riddle which virgo lucifera asked concerning her own identity. then entered the dining hall two youths and six virgins beautifully robed, followed by a seventh virgin wearing a coronet. the latter was called the duchess, and was mistaken for the hermetic bride. the duchess told c.r.c. that he had received more than the others, therefore should make a greater return. the duchess then asked each of the virgins to pick up one of the seven weights which still remained in the great room. to virgo lucifera was given the heaviest weight, which was hung in the queen's chamber during the singing of a hymn. in the second chamber the first virgin hung her weight during a similar ceremony; thus they proceeded from room to room until the weights had been disposed of. the duchess then presented her hand

ucifera, ascended the 365 steps of the royal winding stairs. the guests were given wreaths of laurel and, a curtain being raised, found themselves in the presence of the king and queen. c.r.c. was awestruck by the glory of the throne room and especially by the magnificence of the queen's robes, which were so dazzling that he could not gaze upon them. each guest was presented to the king by one of the virgins and after this ceremony the virgo lucifera made a short speech in which she recited the achievements of the honest "artists" and begged that each be questioned as to whether she had properly fulfilled her duty. old atlas then stepped forward and in the name of their royal majesties greeted the intrepid band of philosophers and assured virgo lucifera that she should receive a royal rewa

le c.r.c. with his ladder made reasonable speed. on the second floor the wedding guests, musicians, and virgo lucifera gathered about a fountain-like contrivance containing the bodies of the six royal persons. virgo lucifera then placed the if moor's head in a kettle-like receptacle in the upper part of the fountain and poured upon it the substances prepared on the previous day in the laboratory. the virgins placed lamps beneath. these substances when they boiled passed out through holes in the sides of the kettle and, falling upon the bodies in the fountain below, dissolved them. the six royal bodies having been reduced thus to a liquid state, a tap was opened in the lower end of the fountain and the fluid drained into an immense golden globe, which, when filled, was of great weight. all

hese tiny forms were laid upon satin cushions and fed drop by drop with the blood of the bird until they grew to normal size and of great beauty. though the bodies had the consistency of flesh, they showed no signs of life, for the soul was not in them. the bodies were next surrounded with torches and their faces covered with silk. virgo lucifera then appeared, bearing two curious white garments. the virgins also entered, among them six bearing great trumpets. a trumpet was placed upon the mouth of one of the two figures and c.r.c. saw a tiny hole open in the dome of the tower and a ray of light descend through the tube of the trumpet and enter the body. this process was repeated three times on each body. the two newly ensouled forms were then removed upon a traveling couch. in about half

MORALS AND DOGMA

hyadas, geminosque triones, armatumque auro circumspicit oriona_ studied arcturus and the rainy hyades and the twin triones, and orion cinctured with gold. taurus was the prince and leader of the celestial host for more than two thousand years; and when his head set with the sun about the last of may, the scorpion was seen to rise in the southeast. the pleiades were sometimes called _vergili_ or the virgins of spring; because the sun entered this cluster of stars in the season of blossoms. their syrian name was _succoth_ or _succothbeneth_ derived from a chaldean word signifying to _speculate_ or _observe_ the _hyades_ are five stars in the form of a v, 11 southeast of the pleiades. the greeks counted them as seven. when the vernal equinox was in taurus, aldebar n led up the starry host;

o search for the body of khir-om and the murderers. their number corresponds with that of the pleiades and hyades in taurus, among which stars the sun was found when light began to prevail over darkness, and the mysteries were held. these stars, we have shown, received early and particular attention from the astronomers and poets. the pleiades were the stars of the ocean to the benighted mariner; the virgins of spring, heralding the season of blossoms. as six pleiades only are now visible, the number twelve may have been obtained by them, with aldebaran, and five far more brilliant stars than any other of the hyades, in the same region of the heavens, and which were always spoken of in connection with the pleiades; the three kings in the belt of orion, and bellatrix and betelgueux on his s

SATANGEL

nd of the day, by the father, and the son, and the holy spirit, and the undivided trinity, and by the intercession of the most blessed and glorious ever virgin mary, by the prayers of the prophets, by the merits of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by the passion of the martyrs, by the faith of the confessors, by the chastity of the virgins, and by the intercession of all the saints, and by the seven sleepers, whose names are malchus, maximian, dionysius, john, constantine, serapion, and mortian, and by the name of the lord god which is blessed forever a g l a, that you should cause or inflict no harm or any evil on this servant of god,[n, whether in sleep or while awake. christ has conquered nchrist reigns nchrist rules

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

fields then shall thy heart feel happiness" he next begged that the king would allow him to organize the journey, and asked his permission to let him bring twenty ebony paddles inlaid with gold, and also twenty young virgins having beautiful heads of hair and lovely forms and shapely limbs, and twenty nets wherein these virgins may array themselves instead of in their own ordinary p. 9 garments. the virgins were to row and sing to his majesty. to these proposals the king assented, and when all was ready he took his place in the boat; while the young women were rowing him about hither and thither the king watched them, and his heart became released from care. now as one of the young women was rowing, she entangled herself in some way in her hair, and one of her ornaments which was made of

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

e of nero or of heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work- and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propose to break it because it was the representation of a monster? scandalous statues are those which are badly sculptured, and the venus of milo would be desecrated if one placed her beside some of the virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. one realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of catullus or the ingenious allegories of apuleius. there are no bad books, except those which are badly conceived and badly executed. every word of beauty is a word of truth. it is a light crystallized in speech. but in order that the most brilliant light may

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

ks. h *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 168. leaving now these satirical poems for other works of crowley fs, we shall find a deep, yet in no way less, intense hatred for the sham ideal of all religions. in gjephthah h we listen to jephthah praying to jehovah, god of hosts, for victory over the ammonites, not-withstanding the fact that should victory be his lot a general violation of all the virgins of ammon was to follow: and turn their own devouring blade on city fired and violate maid *jephthah, vol. i, p. 74. chemosh was probably no whit better than jahveh, and jephthah has almost as firm a belief in the former as in the latter* in fact, all were as the ground from which they had sprung and on which they grew *jephthah, vol. i, p. 76. in gthe triumph of man, h a magnificent po

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

gai the king s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. and esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. 2:16 so esther was taken unto king ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 2:17 and the king loved esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of vashti. 2:18 then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants [even] esther s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. 2:19 and when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then mordecai sat in the king s gate. 2:20 est

father s house; 45:11 so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy page 333 psalms lord; and worship thou him. 45:12 and the daughter of tyre [shall be there] with a gift [even] the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. 45:13 the king s daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold. 45:14 she shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. 45:15 with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king s palace. 45:16 instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. 45:17 i will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. psalm 46

12:14 for god shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil. page 413 song of songs the song of solomon 1:1 the song of songs, which [is] solomon s. 1:2 let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine. 1:3 because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 1:4 draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 1:5 i [am] black, but comely, o ye daughters of jerusalem, as the tents of kedar, as the curtains of solomon. 1:6 look not upon me, because i [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my

lament; they languished together. 2:9 her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the gentiles: the law [is] no [more] her prophets also find no vision from the lord. 2:10 the elders of the daughter of zion sit upon the ground [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 2:11 mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 2:12 they say to their mothers, where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, wh

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

in to the king's bedchamber and spent the night with him. in reward, he gave the girl anything her heart desiredbeautiful robes, jewelry, servants. then she was sent to live in a second house with the other concubines, and "she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name (esther 2: 14. the imagery of this key reflects the legend of ahasuerus. the virgins of the east become "28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoiceth" when the lord "hath opened his mouth" or called them. afterwards "they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures" the virgins have become courtesans who allure and bewitch with their adornments. also, they are individualized by names, which define them. however, the pri

ttach specific symbolic meanings to the numbers in the keys, i am tempted to look upon this description as a metaphor for the progress of the sun through the twenty-eight mansions of the moon. the sun enters each house of the moon successively in his yearly course around the heavens, and by his entry he adorns that house with his splendor. each house thus has twelve months to prepare, just as did the virgins who purified themselves for king ahasuerus, who cleansed themselves six months with oil (water) and six months with incense (fire. maintaining the pattern established in keys five and six, the messiah says of these living dwellings of the house of the east that their "kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and conti

g forth monsters. 2. wo be unto the kings of the earth, for they shall be beaten in a mortar. 3. wo be unto such as paint themselves, and are like unto the prince of pride; for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours, and of their own children. 4. wo be unto the false preachers, yea seven woes be unto them; for they are the teeth of the beast. he that hath ears, let him hear. 5. wo be unto the virgins of the earth, for they shall disdain their virginity, and they shall become concubins for satan, and despise the god of righteousnesse. 6. wo be unto the merchants of the earth, for they are become abominable: behold, they are become the spies of the earth, and the dainty meat of kings. but they are foolish: yea, they shall fall into the pit that they have digged for others. 7. wo be u

Return to Occult Library Index



Related Matches
adam aeon age ages air altar ancient angel angels apparition apparitions aries artemis balance bible binah bird birth black blood blue buddha bull cancer catholic cave child children christ christian christianity church churches circle cold consciousness constellation creation cross crown cult darkness dead death deity devil diana divine doctrine earth east egg egypt egyptian elements equinox esoteric eternal eve evil eye father fear female fire five force form forms gabriel gate ghost goat god gods goddess gold golden greek green heart heaven history holy horus human humanity immaculate incarnation initiation intelligence isis israel jesus jupiter key king kingdom knowledge legend leo libra lion london lord magic magical male malkuth manifestation mars mary matter mercury messiah michael mind modern moon mother mysteries mystery natural nature occult order osiris pagan pan people pisces plane power powers priest queen re red religion religions religious roman rose royal sacred sacrifice sagittarius saints saviour scorpio scorpion sea secret serpent set seven shadow solar sons soul spirit spiritual star stars stone sun sword symbol symbols symbolic tarot taurus teaching temple three throne tradition tree trinity truth twins universal universe venus virgin virgins virgo water waters white wisdom womb women world worship yod zodiac


http://www.hollywoodinsiders.net
MWLibCreator Ver.2 By:Michael Wynn