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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

rse genealogies all run into one another, we can scarcely deny the connexion of the veiled myths also which stand in the background. 5. the mingling of the mythic element with names of plants and constellations. this is an uneffaced vestige of the primeval intimate union between religious worship and nature. 6. the gradual transformation of the gods into devils, of the wise women into witches, of the worship into superstitious customs. the names of the gods have found a last lurking-place in disguised ejaculations, oaths, curses, protestations^ there is some analogy between this and the transfer of heathen myths from goddesses and gods to iviary and the saints, from elves to angels. heathen festivals and customs were transformed into christian, spots which heathenism had already consecrate

he o.swed. uplandslag, at the very beginning of the churchbalkr has: sengin skal affgiisum hlotcc, with dat. of person, implying an ace. of the thing. the true derivation of the word i do not know^ at all events it is not to be looked for in blos sanguis, as the disagreeing consonants of the two gothic words plainly show; equally divergent are the ohg. pluozan and pluot from one another; besides, the worship so designated was not necessarily bloody. a remarkable passage in the livonian rhyming chronicle 4683 tells of the sameits (schamaits, samogits: ir hluotcldii der warf zuo hant sin loz nach ir alden site, zuo hant er uiiotete alles mite ein quek. here, no doubt, an animal is sacrificed. i fancy the poet retained a term which had penetrated from scandinavia to lithuania without understa

tura, nam victimae ejus mortcs fuere caidorum, opinantes bellorum praesulem aptius humani sanguinis effusione placandum^ orosius 7, 37 of eadagaisus, whom he calls a scythian, but makes him lead goths to italy: qui (ut mos est barbaris hujusmodi generis) sanguinem diis suis proimiare dcvovcrat^ lasaulx die siilmopfer der griechen u. eomer, wurzburg 1841, pp. 8 13- conf. c?es. de b. gall. 6, 17 on the worship of mars among the gauls; and procop. de b. goth. 3, 14 on the slavens and antes: bebv yih yap i'va tov ttji aatpanris drjjjliovpyov unavtcov kvpiov povov avtov vopl^ovatv flvai, kal dvovcriv avto [iuas re ka\ upela anavta. ax\ evetsai/ avrols iv tvoctlv ijstj 6 6i'ii/atos fir, t] voam cixovcxi, rj es tvokepov kaditttcipevois, etrayyewovrai ptv, rjv dtafpvycocri, qvaiav ro) 6 o avrt rrj

or 30 (conr. v. dankr. namenb. p. 117, and the assize therefore in the beginning of september. swine are slaughtered for the household when winter sets in, in nov. or dec; and as both of these by turns are called schlachtmoivat, there might linger iu 52 woeseip. became one destined for the king's table. it is the 'sivin ealgylden, eofor irenheard' of the anglo-saxons, and of its exact relation to the worship of froho (freyr) we have to treat more in detail by and by. the greeks sacrificed swine to demeter (ceres, who as nerthus stands very near to niorsr, freyr and freyja, rams, goats (see suppl. as friscing came to mean victima, so conversely a name for animal sacrifice, goth. sauss, seems to have given rise to the ojst. name for the animal itself, sau&r=^qi\\qv. this species of sacrifice

d less with others. in fact, we come across a good many statements so indefinite or incomplete, that it is impossible to gather from them with any certainty whether the expressions used betoken the ancient cultus or one departing from it. the most weighty and significant passages relating to this part of the subject seem to be the following (see suppl: tac. germ. 40 describes the sacred grove and the worship of mother earth; when the priest in festival time has carried the goddess round among the people, he restores her to her sanctuary: satiatam conversatione mortalium deani templo reddit. tac. ann. 1, 51: caesar avidas legiones, quo latior populatio foret, quatuor in cuneos dispertit, quinquaginta millium spatium ferro flammisque pervastat; non sexus, non aetas miserationem st. benedict

addicted to sacrifices; and his' non studere sacrificiis' must in the comiexion mean no more than to make a sparing use of sacrifices. as little did there prevail among the germans the elaborately finished druid-system of the gauls; but they did not want for priests or sacrifices of their own. the german priests, as we have already gathered from a cursory review of their titles, were employed in the worship of the gods and in judging the people. in campaigns, discipline is entrusted to them alone, not to the generals, the w^hole war being carried on as it were in the presence of the deity: ceterum neque animadvertere neque vincire nee verberare quidem nisi sacerdotibus permissum, non quasi in poenam, nee ducis jussu, sed velut deo imperante, quem adesse- bellantibus credunt. germ. 7 (see

nd offered here to avuotan, as elsewhere to kind spirits and elves, e.g, to the brownies of scotland (see suppl. to elves, pixy-hoarding. it was not wuotan exclusively that bestowed fertility on the fields; donar, and his mother the earth, stood in still closer connexion with agriculture. we shall see that goddess put in the place of wuotan in exactly similar harvest-ceremonies. in what countries the worship of the god endured the longest, may be learnt from the names of places which are compounded with his name, because the site was sacred to him. it is very unlikely that they should be due to men bearing the same name as the god, instead of to the god himself; wuotan, osinn, as a man's 1 conf. dutch olid, goud for old, gold; so woade, which approximates the form wode. have we the latter

name xt^a, was called in the netherlands wocdcnsspanne, woede7ispanne, wocnslet. the thumb was sacred, and even worshipped as thumbkin and pollux= pollex; avodan was the god of play, and lucky men were said to have the game running on their thumb. we must await further disclosures about the name, its purport, and the superstition lying at the bottom of it (see suppl. i started with assuming that the worship of this divinity was common to all the teutonic races, and foreign to none, just because we must recognise him as the most universal and the supreme one. wuotan so far as we have succeeded in gleaning from the relics of the old religion an idea of his being wuotan is the most intellectual god of our antiquity, he shines out above all the other gods; and tlierefore the latin writers, wh

him there. among the scandinavians, the swedes and norwegians seem to have been less devoted to him than the gotlanders and danes. the on. sagas several times mention images of thor, never one of osinn; only saxo gram, does so in an altogether mythical way (p. 113; adam of bremen, though he names wodan among the upsala gods, assigns but the second place to him, and the first to thor. later still, the worship of freyr seems to have predominated in sweden. an addition to the st. olaf saga, though made at a later time, furnishes a striking statement about the heathen gods whom the introduction of christianity overthrew. i will quote it here, intending to return to it from time to time' olafr konungr kristnasi j^etta riki allt, oil blot braut hann nisr ok oil gos, sem wodan. 161 thor engilsman

his own countrymen? to them he ought to have given thor, instead of to the english, who, like other saxons, were votaries of woden. meanwhile it must not be overlooked, that in the abrenuntiatio, an 8th century document, not purely saxon, yet low german, 0. frankish and perhaps ripuarian, thunar is named before vuodan, and saxnot occupies the third place. from this it follows at all events, that the worship of thunar also prevailed in those regions; may we still vindicate wuodan's claims to the highest place by supposing that the three gods are here named in the order in which their statues were placed side by side? that wuodan, as the greatest of them, stood in the middle? as, according to adam of bremen, thor did at upsala, with wodan and fricco on each side of him. in the on. sagas, wh

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sun

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

h befell me there is not given me of the gods at this time to tell; but i will sleep; and in the morning by their favour the memory thereof shall arise in me, even in me across these thousands of years of the whirling of the earth in her course. chapter ii so for many years i grew sleek and subtle in my womans attire. and the old eunuch (who was very wise) instructed me in the art of magic and in the worship of the veiled one, whose priestess was i destined. i remember now many things concerning those strange rituals, things too sacred to write. but i will tell of an adventure that i had when i was nine years of age. in one of the sacred books it is written that the secret of that subtle draught which giveth vision of the star-abodes of duant, whose sight is life eternal in freedom and ple

e old magus clad me (for i was yet naked) in the dress of a priest of osiris. he gave me the robes of white linen, and the leopard s skin, and the wand and ankh. also he gave me the crook and scourge, and girt me with the royal girdle. on my head he set the holy uraeus serpent for a crown; and then, turning to the people, cried aloud "behold the priest of asar in thebai "he shall proclaim unto ye the worship of asar; see that ye follow him" then, ere one could cry "hold" he had vanished from our sight. i dismissed the people; i was alone with the dead god; with osiris, the lord of amennti, the slain of typhon, the devoured of apophis. yea, verily, i was alone! chapter v now then the great exhaustion took hold upon me, and i fell at the feet of the osiris as one dead. all knowledge of terre

m our sight. i dismissed the people; i was alone with the dead god; with osiris, the lord of amennti, the slain of typhon, the devoured of apophis. yea, verily, i was alone! chapter v now then the great exhaustion took hold upon me, and i fell at the feet of the osiris as one dead. all knowledge of terrestrial things was gone from me; i entered the kingdom of the dead by the gate of the west. for the worship of osiris is to join the earth to the west; it is the cultus of the setting sun. through isis man obtains strength of nature; through osiris he obtains the strength of suffering and ordeal, and as the trained athlete is superior to the savage, so is the magic of osiris stronger than the magic of isis. so by my secret practices at night, while my guardians strove to smooth my spirit to

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

nd moon of the elixir vitae, the male and female participants in a rite of indian or chinese tantricism, or the shadow and the anima of jungian depth psychology. for many years, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was fear of the demon, pazuzu, a genie so amply recreated in the book and the movie by blatty, the exorcist, and similarly recognised as the devil himself by the church. pazuzu, the beast, was brought to life by aleister crowley, and the demon walked the earth once more. with publicity provided by h.p. lovecraft. the devil pazuzu was a prime example of the typ

sful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication that the essence of sumerian mythology is making itself felt in a very real way in this, the latter half of the twentieth century? after the long and poetic magan text, comes the urillia text which might be lovecraft's r'lyeh text, and is subtitled "abominations. it has more specifically to do with the worship of the serpent, and the nature of the cults that participate in the concelebration of sin. again, more conjurations and seals are given, even though the reader is charged not to use them; an inconsistency that is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares n

tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odour, which comes of burning incenses unlawful to the worship of the elder ones. and their books are the books of chaos and the flames, and are the books of the shadows and the shells. and they worship the heaving earth and the ripping sky and the rampant flame and the flooding waters; and they are the raisers of the legions of maskim, the liers-in-wait. and they do not know what it is they do, but they do it at the demands of the serpent, at who

d may be of beaten copper, set in with precious stones. and thou shalt bear with thee a rod of lapis lazuli, the five-rayed star about thy neck, the frontlet, the girdle, the amulet of ur about thine arm, and a pure and unspotted robe. and these things shall be worn for the operations of calling only, and at other times shall be put away and hid, so that no eye may see them, save your own. as for the worship of the gods, it is after the fashion of your country, but the priests of old were naked in their rites. and thou shalt put down the circle. and thou shalt invoke thy god and thy goddess, but their images must be removed from the altar and put away, unless thou call the powers of marduk, in which case an image of marduk should be set thereupon, and no other. and the perfumes must be bur

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

follow me in my way! let her work the work of wickedness! let her kill her heart! let her be loud and adulterous; let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men! iii,45: then will i lift her to pinnacles of power: then will i breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. i will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see& strike at the worship of nu: she shall achieve hadit. iii,46: i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased. i will bring you to victory& joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! iii,47: this book shall be translated into all tongues: but alway

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

eric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays of the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. 210 the golden bough, by j. g. frazer. the text-book of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluable text-book of old systems of initiation. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. th

ny let the philosophus in no wise neglect the service of a menial. let him sweep and garnish the place, sprinkling it with water or with wine as is appropriate to the particular deity, and consecrating it with oil, and with such ritual as may seem him best. and let all be done with intensity and minuteness. 8 "concerning the period of devotion, and the hours thereof- let a fixed period be set for the worship; and it is said that the least time is nine days by seven, and the greatest seven years by nine. and concerning the hours, let the ceremony be performed 391 every day thrice, or at least once, and let the sleep of the philosophus be broken for some purpose of devotion at least once in every night. now to some it may seem best to appoint fixed hours for the ceremony. to others it may se

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wisdom or folly" and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the who

low me in my way! let her work the work of wickedness! let her kill her heart! let her be loud and adulterous! let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men" al iii,45 "then will i lift her to pinnacles of power: then will i breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. i will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see& strike at the worship of nu: she shall achieve hadit" the old comment 43-45. the two latter verses have become useless, so far as regards the person first indicated to fill the office of "scarlet woman. in her case the prophecy of v. 43 has been most terribly fulfilled, to the letter; except the last paragraph. perhaps before the publication of this comment the final catastrophe will have occurred? in 20, a

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ed tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear' yoga or transformation: a comparative statement of the various religious dogmas concerning the soul and its destiny, and of akkadian, taoist, eguptian, hebrew, greek, christian, mohammedan, japanese and other magic, by wm. j. flagg. large 8vo "cloth extra" 1898. 6"s" 6"d" knight (j payne. discourse on the worship of priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients; with an essay on the worship of the generative organs during the middle ages of western europe. 4to "with" 40 "curious plates. half roxvurghe binding. privately printed "1865 "3 3"s" paracelsus. the hermetical and alchemical writings of aureopus phillippus theophrastus bombast of hohenheim, called paracelsus the g

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hould expect from 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 litera

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w so beautifully and conveniently printed, deserves a place on every bookshelf. it contains the essential knowledge of our own community in the christian- but not too christian- dialect. i have bought a dozen copies to give to my friends. meister eckhart's sermons. translated by claude field, m.a. same price and publisher. too pedantic and theological to please me, though i daresay he means well. the worship of satan in modern france. by arthur lillie. swan sonnenschein and co, 6"s. arthur lillie is as convenient as mrs. boole from the standpoint of the poet. i should add that the catch-penny title is entirely misleading, and has no discoverable connection with the contents, save those of a short preface, cribbed, like the title, from mr. waite's "devil-worship in france" what a wicked pla

hould expect from 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 litera

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the oldest upanishads, such as in brihad ranjaka, 3. 4. 1 "it is thy soul, 57 which is within all" and also again in the same upanishad (i. 4. 10 "he who worships another divinity (than the atman, and says 'it is one and i am another' is not wise, but he is like a house-dog of the gods" and house-dogs shall we remain so long as we cling to a belief in a knowing subject and an known object, or in the worship of anything, even of the atman itself, as long as it remains apart from ourselves. such a delemma as this does not take long to induce one of those periods of "spiritual dryness" one of those "dark nights of the soul" so familiar to all mystics and even to mere students of mysticism. and such a night seems to have closed around y j avalkhya when he exclaimed: after death there is no co

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r, which the busy man would have difficulty in finding in pharmaceutical history. to the student of the occult it ought to appeal strongly, as the author gives a long list of drugs used in religious ceremonies in different ages, and although the present century is so much in advance, we find that the incenses and sweet odours used in ceremonial magic to-day are the same as those used in egypt, in the worship of isis, and in the services held in the temple of solomon. mention is also made of the preparations made by the ancient alchemists which were thought to have magic power. short biographical sketches of some of the old masters of pharmacy appear, but after liebig we have no special mention of the pharmacists of the last century. a interesting chapter on poisons in history, introducing

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

o of which was often raised to a frenzy in preparation for the final climax of sexual orgy. it is important to note at this point that although we have few historical records of 'white' witches at this time and must include them under the general term 'witches, modem white witches, who are the subject ofthis book, believe that they are descended from, and adhere to, a separate tradition embracing the worship not of satan, but of the homed god and the earth mother-symbol of fertility, the oldest goddess known to man. certain aspects of white-witch dogma can be traced in ancient religions all over the world, in druidical beliefs, for instance, and the incantations in runic have been passed from generation to generation. white witchcraft is invariably confmed to doing good, restraining evil a

man with a large blood-red tongue from under which projected fierce tusks. she was garlanded with a necklace of human skulls. modem hindus disapprove of the ancient rites of worship which, in some parts of india, are still performed and. in which live animals are sacrificed. the more alex read, the less he liked the sound of the cult, but he tried to keep his mind open: perhaps.i like witchcraft, the worship of kali had been mis. represented. a month or so later, at the beginning ofdecember, another letter arrived, this time from london. the priest of kali enclosed a bank note to cover alex's fare up to town where a hotel room had been booked for him. please would he come for two or three days to meet his correspondent and the two friends he had with him? the following monday alex went to

were in their middle fifties, while the third, mr g, who had initiated the correspondence, was. perhaps thirty-five. he appeared to be the spokesman of the group. it was early afiemoon when they met and over tea they talked generally about religions of the world,keeping the discussion impersonal. all were educated and spoke excellent english. whenever alex tried to bring the conversation round to the worship of kali, his remarks were skilfully turned aside and his questions lost in a welter of words. resigning himself to the asiatics' love of circumlocution, he sat back and let them direct the drift. 99 j i/ duringdinnernothingserious was discussed but themoment they had finished theircoffee and. were sippingliqu.eursin the hotel lounge, the small t
t is opened in the near future, and to meat the following address: 18 carlow row ringstead nr. wellingborough northants pptnbtx bt .ooit of baboltls the law i. the law was made and ordained of old. 2. the law was made for the wicca, to advise and help in theirtroubles, 3. the wicca should give due worship to the gods and obey their will, which they ordain, for it was made for the good of wicca as the worship of the wicca is good for the gods. for the gods love the brethern of wicca. 4. as a manloveth a woman by mastering her, 5. so the wicca should love the gods by being mastered by them. 6. and it is necessary that the circle which is the temple of the gods, should be truly cast and purified. and that it may be a fit place for the gods to enter. 7. and the wicca shall be properly prepared

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

deal to get the sight to leave the body the working tools making tools to make anointing ointment various instructions the witches' round the laws the old law 1. the law was made and ordained of old. 2. the law was made for the wicca, to advise and help in their troubles. the wicca should give due worship to the gods and obey their will, which they ordain, for it was made for the good of wicca as the worship of the wicca is good for the gods. for the gods love the brethren of wicca. 3. 4. as a man loveth a woman by mastering her, 5. so should the wicca love the gods by being mastered by them. and it is necessary that the circle which is the temple of the gods, should be truly cast and purified. and that it may be a fit place for the gods to enter. 6. 7. and the wicca shall be properly prep

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ocky structure of the cave, the mineral kingdom appears. the fodder and the hay, naturally there, symbolise the vegetable kingdom. the ox and the ass represent the animal nature, but they represent also far more than that. the ox stood for that form of worship which should have been passing off the earth at the time christ came. there were still many to be found who worshipped the bull, which was the worship prevalent in the age when our sun was passing through the age of taurus, the bull, and which was preserved at that time in the mysteries of mithras and of egypt. the sign immediately preceding the christian era was that of aries, the ram or lamb, and this is symbolised for us in the sheepfolds which surrounded bethlehem- 45- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust it is in

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

in error, the object of attention, retrogression is indicated; and this is why all profound attention to the physical disciplines, to vegetarianism, to diet and to fasting, and to the present modes of (so-called) mental and divine healing, are undesirable and not in line with the projected plan. therefore undue consideration and excessive emphasis upon the physical body is reactionary and is like the worship of the golden calf by the children of israel; it is reversion to that which at one time was of importance but today should be relegated to a minor position and below the threshold of consciousness. i have dealt with this here because in law vii the fact of the endocrine glands is brought to our attention, and it is necessary that we approach this subject from the right point of view. t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

rce, it is another to have an intelligent outlook upon what is happening and to understand and look for certain occurrences. perhaps for the first time in the history of our race there is a sufficient number of intelligent men and women to anticipate happenings with an understanding based on what has transpired in the past, so enabling them to predicate what will happen in the future. what caused the worship of the bull in taurus? not the bestial nature of humanity that took the bull as a symbol of the animal nature and deified it, which is what the average human being who investigates the mysteries says. it is because there were subjective forces playing upon our planet as our sun passed through the sign taurus. the lesson for man is that under the symbol of the bull he had to wrestle wit

"energy follows thought. here the reality of this belief is put to a cosmic test. death is also said to be "a figment of our imagination. testimony as to the effectiveness of zodiacal energies on earth life in the larger picture certain interesting facts emerge. we can say, for instance, that between four and five thousand years ago the sun was somewhere in the sign taurus, the bull. then we had the worship of the bull in egypt and in india, and the sacrifice of the sacred ox, as in the mysteries of mithras. approximately two thousand years before the birth of christ, astronomers tell us, the sun passed into the sign aries, the ram or lamb, and the jewish dispensation came into being. at that time, therefore, we have the inauguration of the jewish passover and the lamb sacrifice. it is in

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ed, all tending to illustrate or extend the philosophical scheme. as already said, when the kabalah first took shape as a concrete whole and a philosophic system, may remain for ever an unknown datum, but if we regard it, as i believe is correct, as the esotericism of the religion of the hebrews, the foundation dogmas are doubtless almost as old as the first promulgation of the main principles of the worship of jehovah. i cannot now attempt any glance at the contentions of some doubting scholars, who question whether the story of the twelve tribes is a historic fact, or whether there ever were a moses, or even a king solomon. it is sufficient for the present purpose that the jewish nation had the jehovistic theology and a system of priestly caste, and a coherent doctrine, at the time of th

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ed be everyone who will exchange these things for a gift or for food or for drink or for clothing or for any other such thing" and these things were presented to him in a mystery, and immediately he disappeared from him. and he went to his fellow disciples and related to them what the savior had told him. jesus christ, amen. the apocryphon according to j a 30 this passage recalls strangely enough the worship of the graeco-roman goddess pavororfear, the attendant on mars. she was much invoked, as in the present instance, to terrify intrudersor an enemy. aeschylusmakes the seven chiefs before thebes swear by fear, mars, and bellona.mem. acad. of inscriptions, v. 9.appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts. 31 hence the saying that to know all would be to forvive all; which may be nine-tenths

apters were written, i received naples in the nineties, by e. neville rolfe, b.a, in which adeep and intelligent interest in the subject is well supported by extensive knowledge. what will be tothe reader of my book particularly interesting is the amount of information which mr. rolfe givesregarding the connection of dianawith witchcraft, and how many of her attributes became those ofthe madonna. the worship of diana, as he says, prevailed very extensively. so much so, thatwhen christianity superseded paganism, much of the heathen symbolism was adapted to the newrites, and the transition from the worship of diana to that of the madonna was made comparativelysimple. mr. rolfe speaks of the key, rue, and verbena as symbols of diana; of all of these i haveincantations, apparently very ancient

, or regeneration and light. it was the laying aside of daily life. page 63 n r r r r r the perception of this drove vast numbers of the discontented into rebellion, and as they could notprevail by open warfare, they took their hatred out in a form of secret anarchy, which was, however,intimately blended with superstition and fragments of old tradition. prominent in this, and naturallyenough, was the worship of dianathe protectress for the alleged adoration of satan was a farlater invention of the church, and it has never really found a leading place in italian witchcraft to thisday. that is to say, purely diabolicalwitchcraft did not find general acceptance till the end of the fif-teenth century, when it was, one may almost say, invented in rome to supply means wherewith todestroy the thr

itches; an associate of herodias(aradia) in her relations to sorcery;that she bore a child to her brother the sun (here lucifer; that as a moon-goddess she is in somerelation to cain, who dwells as prisoner in the moon, and that the witches of old were peopleoppressed by feudal lands(sic, the former revenging themselves in every way, and holding orgies todianawhich the church represented as being the worship of satan all of this, i repeat, had beentold or written out for me in fragments by maddalena (not to speak of other authorities, even as ithad been chronicled by horst or michelet; therefore all this is in the present document of minorimportance. all of this i expected, but what i did not expect, and what was new to me, was that por-tion which is given as prose-poetry and which i have

ing as associated with dianaas chief of the witches. this was not, as i opine, derived from the herodiasof the new t estament,but from an earlier replica of lilith, bearing the same name. it is, in fact, an identification or twin-ingof the aryan and shemitic queens of heaven, or of night and of sorcery, and it may be that this wasknown to the earliest myth-makers. so far back as the sixth century the worship of herodiasanddianaby witches was condemned by a church council at ancyra. pipernus and other writers havenoted the evident identity of herodiaswith lilith. isispreceded both.dianais very vigorously, even dramatically, set forth in this poem as the goddess of the god-forsak-en and ungodly, of thieves, harlots, and, truthfully enough, of the minions of the moon, as falstaffwould have fa

elong to hisreligion, and he, passing the garden one day,beheld the statue of dianacrowned with roses and other flowers. and being in a rage, and seeing inthe street a decayed cabbage, he rolled it in the mud, and threw it all dripping at the face of the god-dess, saying: ecco mala bestia didoli!questo e lomaggio che io ti do,gia che il diavolo ti aiuta!behold, thou vile beast of idolatry,this is the worship which thou hast from me,and the devil do the rest for thee!then the priest heard a voice in the gloom where the leaves were dense, and it said: bene, bene! tu mi hai fattoloffrando tu avraila tua porzionedella mia caccia. aspetta! page 51 n r r r r r invocation to diana.bella dea dellarco!bella dea delle freccie!della caccia e dei cani!tu vegli colle stelle,quando il sole va dormirtu c

hom i had great confidence once said to me, why worship a deity whom you cannot see, whenthere is the moon in all her splendour visible? worship her. invoke diana, the goddess of the moon,and she will grant your prayers. this shalt thou do, obeying the vangelo, the gospel of (the witchesand of) diana, who is queen of the fairies and of the moon.now the young lady being persuaded, was converted to the worship of dianaand the moon, andhaving prayed with all her heart for a lover (having learned the conjuration to the goddess, 22 wassoon rewarded by the attention and devotion of a brave and wealthy cavalier, who was indeed asadmirable a suitor as any one could desire. but the mother, who was far more bent on gratifying vin-dictiveness and cruel vanity than on her daughters happiness, was infu

rone as they come roaring on,for strength hath many a voice, and when arousedthe flying tempest calls with awful joyand echoes as it strikes the mountain-side,then crashes in the forest. hear the cry!surely a god hath set his lions looseand laughs to hear them as they rage afar. c. g. leland.the following story does not belong to the gospel of the witches, but i add it as it confirms the factthat the worship of dianaexisted for a long time contemporary with christianity. its full title in theoriginal ms, which was written out by maddalena, after hearing it from a man who was a native ofvolterra, is la pellegrina della casa al vento the female pilgrim of the house of the wind. itmay be added that, as the tale declares, the house in question is still standing.there is a peasants house at the

il malocchiomi saro levatoin mezza alla via lo gettero,se questa grazia mi fareidiana bella,tuttu i campanellidi mia casa bene suonerai,allora contento di casa me ne andro,perche col tuo aiuto (saro) certo di trovare,buona fortuna, certo di trovareun bel libro antico,e a buon mercatome lo farai comprare! page 30 invocation to diana.diana, beautiful diana!who art indeed as good as beautiful,by all the worship i have given thee,and all the joy of love which thou hast known,i do implore thee aid me in my love!what thou wilt tis truethou canst ever do:and if the grace i seek thoult grant to me,then call, i pray, thy daughter aradia,and send her to the bedside of the girl,and give that girl the likeness of a dog,and make her then come to me in my room,but when she once has entered it, i praytha

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ess by christianity out of fear and revulsion. the christian satan is a twisted bastardization of the true prince of darkness "satanism" is a term used by many to describe the left hand path in the west. we are a proud part of the tradition of spiritual dissent, differing philosophically from the church of satan. their take on the left hand path is the immanent path wherein godhood is achieved by the worship of the carnal ego with no possibility of personal immortality save in some vague connection to the organic stream. we are followers of the transcendental path, wherein person immortality is achievable by a strengthening of the idealized self. in an increasingly post-christian world, the term "satanism" will become irrelevant. more discussion concerning the temple of set and satanism ca

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and impiety("de cherubim" xx, and of self-love("de sacrificiis abelis et caini "quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat" 10 "he built a city (gen. iv. 17) means that "he built a doctrinal system of law-lessness, insolence, and immoderate indulgence in pleasure("de posteritate" 15; and the epicurean philosophers are of the school of cain "claiming to have cain as teacher and guide, who recommended the worship of the sensual powers in preference to the powers above, and who practiced his doctrine by destroying abel, the expounder of the opposite doctrine (ib. 11. the jewish encyclopedia, compiled by kaufmann kohler, w. h. bennett, louis ginzberg herein we can see that cain is thus a flesh and blood embodiment of the luciferian path itself, he is the son of satan and lilith, the dark essence

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s ago[[footnote(s "beyond" the great range, means, in our case, india, as being the trans-himalayan region for the cis-himalayan region* the term pitris is used by us in these slokas to facilitate their comprehension, but it is not so used in the original stanzas, where they have distinct appellations of their own, besides being called "fathers" and "progenitors* it is erroneous to take literally the worship of the human bodhisattvas, or manjusri. it is true that, exoterically, the mahayana school teaches adoration of these without distinction, and that huien-tsang speaks of some disciples of buddha as being worshipped. but esoterically it is not the disciple or the learned manjusri personally that received honours, but the divine bodhisattvas and dhyani buddhas that animated (amilakha, as

g unit" mind also, and even our "manas" or mind, the fifth principle in man. hence these shadows are called amanasa "mindless" with the brahmins the pitris are very sacred, because they are the progenitors* or ancestors of men- the first manushya on this earth- and offerings are made to them by the brahmin when a son is born unto him. they are more honoured and their ritual is more important than the worship of the gods (see the "laws of manu" bk. iii, p. 203. may we not now search for a philosophical meaning in this dual group of progenitors? the pitris being divided into seven classes, we have here the mystic number again. nearly all the puranas agree that three of these are arupa, formless, while four are corporeal; the former being intellectual and spiritual, the latter material and de

hosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who caused the waters of the flood to fall from heaven on earth, for which xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. as the modern assyriologists have now ascertained, it is the northern nipoor which is the centre whence chaldean (black) magic spread; and eridu (the southern) which was the primitive seat of the worship of the culture god, the god of divine wisdom- the sun-god being the supreme deity everywhere. with the jews, the moon is connected with israel's jehovah and his seed, because ur was the chief seat of the worship of the moon-god, and because abraham is said to have come from ur, when from a-bra(h)m, he becomes abraham[[vol. 2, page] 140 the secret doctrine. its story has also its dual a

mystery of cain and abel) the "murdering" is blood-shedding, but not taking life[[vol. 2, page] 274 the secret doctrine. days (gen. vi; who become with the fifth race the kabirim: kabiri with the egyptians and the phoenicians, titans with the greeks, and rakshasas and daityas with the indian races. such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later hebrews for their tribal god. at the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. the lemurians gravitated toward the north pole, or the heaven of their progenitors (the hyperborean continent; the atlanteans, toward the southern pole, the pit, cosmically and terrestrially- whence breathe the hot passi

beginning of the fifth, allude very clearly to the first two phantom (astral) races; to the fallen one- the third; and to the race of the atlantean giants- the fourth, after which "men began to decrease in stature" bossuet (elevations p. 56) sees the cause of subsequent universal idolatry in the "original sin "ye shall be as gods" says the serpent of genesis to eve, thus laying the first germ of the worship of false divinities. hence, he thinks, came idolatry, or the cult and adoration of images, of anthropomorphized or human figures. but, if it is the latter that idolatry is made to rest upon, then the two churches, the greek and the latin especially, are as idolatrous and pagan as any other religion* it is only in the fourth race that men, who had lost all right to be considered divine

esoteric accounts "khado (dakini, in sanskrit. allegorical legends call the chief of these liliths, sangye khado (buddha dakini, in sanskrit; all are credited with the art of "walking in the air" and the greatest kindness to mortals; but no mind- only animal instinct (c) this is the beginning of a worship which, ages later, was doomed to degenerate into phallicism and sexual worship. it began by the worship of the human body- that "miracle of miracles" as an english author calls it- and ended by that of its respective sexes. the worshippers were giants in stature; but they were giants in knowledge and learning, though it came to them more easily than it does to the men of our modern times. their science was innate in them. the lemuro- atlantean had no need of discovering and fixing in his

igured by the jews (exoterically; but the truth can still be traced about them even in genesis* seth is the "progenitor" of those early men of the third race in whom the "planetary" angels had incarnated- a dhyan chohan himself, who belonged to the informing gods; and enos (hanoch or enoch) or hermes, was said to be his son- because it was a generic name for all the early seers("enoichion. thence the worship. the arabic writer soyuti says that the earliest records mention seth, or set, as the founder of sabeanism; and therefore that the pyramids which embody the planetary system were regarded as the place of sepulchre of both seth and idris (hermes or enoch (see vyse "operations" vol. ii, p. 358; that thither sabeans proceeded[[footnote(s* who became later on, with the greeks, limited only

ose symbols is the left pillar of solomon's temple- boaz. the umbilicus is connected through the placenta with the receptacle in which are fructified the embryos of the race. the ark is the sacred argha of the hindus, and thus the relation in which it stands to noah's ark may be easily inferred when we learn that the argha was an oblong vessel, used by the high priests as a sacrificial chalice in the worship of isis, astarte, and venusaphrodite, all of whom were goddesses of the generative powers of nature, or of matter- hence representing symbolically the ark containing the germs of all living things("isis unveiled" vol. ii, p. 444) mistaken is he who accepts the kabalistic works of to-day, and the interpretations of the zohar by the rabbis, for the genuine kabalistic lore of old* for no

h, with whose son henoch, men began to call themselves jehovah or jahhovah, the male jod and havah or eve- to wit, male and female beings* thus the difference lies in the religious and ethical feeling, but the two symbols are identical. there is no doubt that, with the fully initiated judaean tanaim, the inner sense of the symbolism was as holy in its abstraction as with the ancient aryan dwijas. the worship of the "god in the ark" dates only from david; and for a thousand years israel knew of no phallic jehovah. and now the old kabala, edited and re-edited, has become tainted with it. with the ancient aryans the hidden meaning was grandiose, sublime, and poetical, however much the external appearance of their symbol may now militate against the claim. the ceremony of passing through[[foot

ime universal; and the most convincing are the two chapters ezekiel xxviii. and isaiah xiv. christian theologians are welcome to interpret both as referring to the great war before creation, the epos of satan's rebellion, etc, if they so choose, but the absurdity of the idea is too apparent. ezekiel addresses his lamentations and reproofs to the king of tyre; isaiah- to king ahaz, who indulged in the worship of idols, as did the rest of the nation, with the exception of a few initiates (the prophets, so called, who tried to arrest it on its way to exotericism, or idolatry, which is the same thing. let the student judge. in ezekiel xxviii. it is said "son of man, say unto the prince of tyrus, thus saith the lord god (as we understand it, the "god" karma: because thine heart is lifted up, an

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sins of the ka'bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of christian churches" to this, professor max muller replies "the sins of islam are as worthless as the dust of christianity. on the day of resurrection both muhammadans and christians will see the vanity of their religious doctrines. men fight about religion on earth- in heaven they shall find out that there is only one true religion- the worship of god's spirit* in other words "there is no religion (or law) higher than truth "satyat nasti paro dharmah- the motto of the maharajah of benares, adopted by the theosophical society. as already said in the preface, the secret doctrine is not a version of "isis unveiled- as originally intended. it is a volume explanatory of[[footnote(s "lectures on the science of religion" by f. max m

peated" but now, when professor sayce has had the courage to push back the dates of the chaldean and assyrian kings by two thousand years more, sargon must have preceded moses by 2,000 years at the least (see professor sayce's lectures on the subject) the confession is suggestive, but the figures lack a cypher or two* as a reminder how the esoteric religion of moses was crushed several times, and the worship of jehovah, as re-established by david, put in its place, by hezekiah for one, read pp. 436-42, vol. ii, in isis unveiled. surely there must have been some very[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 321 the cross, a phallic symbol. expression and a record of thought in every archaic symbolical scripture. they are ever the same, with only certain variations growing out of the

al substance is akasa, the upadhi of divine thought. in modern language, the latter would be better named cosmic ideation- spirit; the former, cosmic substance, matter. these, the alpha and the omega of being, are but the two facets of the one absolute existence. the latter was never addressed, or even mentioned, by any name in antiquity, except allegorically. in the oldest aryan race, the hindu, the worship of the intellectual classes never consisted (as with the greeks) in a fervent adoration of marvellous form and art, which led later on to anthropomorphism. but while the greek philosopher adored form, and the hindu sage alone "perceived the true relation of earthly beauty and eternal truth- the uneducated of every nation understood neither, at any time. they do not understand it even n

r, mrs. lydia maria child "from time immemorial an emblem has been worshipped in hindostan as the type of creation, or the origin of life. siva or the mahadeva being not only the reproducer of human forms, but also the fructifying principle, the generative power that pervades the universe. the maternal emblem is likewise a religious type. this reverence for the production of life, introduced into the worship of osiris the sexual emblems. is it strange that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human birth? were they impure thus to regard it? or are we impure that do not so regard it? but no clean and thoughtful mind could so regard them. we have travelled far, and unclean have been the paths, since those old anchorites first spoke of god and the soul in the solemn depths of the

(zodiacal constellations and planetary gods) their patriarchs, thus euhemerizing the[[footnote(s* a caricatured and dwarfed vedantin notion of parabrahmam containing within itself the whole universe as being that boundless universe itself, and there existing nothing outside of itself* just as they are to this day in india, the bull of siva and the cow representing several sakti- goddesses* hence the worship of the moon by the hebrews "male and female, created he them[[vol. 1, page] 391 the time periods. purely theosophical idea and dragging it down to the level of sinful humanity (see section "holy of holies" in the "symbolism" of book ii) the mss. from which the above is extracted explains very clearly to what hierarchy of gods jehovah belonged, and who this jewish god was; for it shows

holy spirit" therefore rather a synonym of mary, the mother of jesus, than of his father; that "mother, being the latin mare" the sea is here also, venus, the stella del mare, or "star of the sea" the ancestors of the mysterious akkadians- the chandra or indovansas, the lunar kings whom tradition shows reigning at prayag (allahabad) ages before our era- had come from india, and brought with them the worship of their forefathers, of soma, and his son budha, which afterwards became that of the chaldeans. yet such adoration, apart from popular astrolatry and heliolatry, was in no sense idolatry. no more, at any rate, than the modern roman catholic symbolism which connects their virgin mary- the magna mater of the syrians and greeks- with the moon. of this worship, the most pious roman cathol

is such sentences, however, in the "nabathean agriculture" that[[vol. 1, page] 395 solar-lunar worship in the church. have frightened the men of science and made them proclaim the work "either an apocrypha or a fairy tale, unworthy of the notice of an academician" at the same time, as shown, zealous roman catholics and protestants tore it metaphorically to pieces; the former because "it described the worship of demons" the latter because it is "ungodly" they are all wrong, once more. it is not a fairy tale; and as far as regards pious churchmen, the same worship may be shown in the scriptures, however disfigured by translation. solar and lunar worship, as well as that of the stars and elements, are traced, and figure in the christian theology; defended by papists, they are stoutly denied b

power, to the fourth root-race, the atlanteans. with the fifth (our own) the lunar-solar worship divided the nations into two distinct, antagonistic camps. it led to events described aeons later in the mahabharatan war, which to the europeans is the fabulous, to the hindus and occultists the historical, strife between the suryavansas and the indovansas. originating in the dual aspect of the moon, the worship of the female and the male principles respectively, it ended in distinct solar and lunar cults. among the semitic races, the sun was for a very long time feminine and the moon masculine- the latter notion being adopted by them from the atlantean traditions. the moon was called "the lord of the sun" bel-skemesh* before the shemesh worship. the ignorance of the incipient reasons for such

are assured by the marquis de mirville, whose works are approved by rome. and st. chrysostom says, commenting on that special verse "and, though there are (in fact) they who are called gods- for it seems, there are really several gods- withal, and for all that, the god-principle and the superior god ceasing to remain essentially one and indivisible. thus spoke the old initiates also, knowing that the worship of minor gods could never affect the "god principle (see de mirville "des esprits" vol. ii, 322[[vol. 1, page] 466 the secret doctrine. pounds- as present in the fire, air, water or earth. the ancients knew these powers so well, that, while concealing their true nature under various allegories, for the benefit (or to the detriment) of the uneducated rabble, they never departed from the

unknown "not spirit" there is nothing profane in the universe. all nature is a consecrated place, as young says "each of these stars is a religious house. thus can all exoteric religions be shown the falsified copies of the esoteric teaching. it is the priesthood which has to be held responsible for the reaction in favour of materialism of our day. it is by worshiping and enforcing on the masses the worship of the shells- personified for purposes of allegory- of pagan ideals, that the latest exoteric religion has made of western lands a pandemonium, in which the higher classes worship the golden calf, and the lower and ignorant masses are made to worship an idol with feet of clay[[footnote(s* abraham and saturn are identical in astro-symbology, and he is the forefather of the jehovistic j

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teric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. the golden bough, by j.g. frazer. the textbook of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluble textbook of old systems of initiaiton. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. the classi

midst thereof. 17. also he spake and said: this is a secret sign, and thou shalt not disclose it unto the profane, nor unto the neophyte, nor unto the zelator, nor unto the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single t

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t you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility of being the creator. it is delay. belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. belief is not freedom. belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. consider the reality is somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation. oh, ye of much faith in god, merge into it by the worship of self! ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. when death approaches the faith in god and desire of woman will not save you, what are their use when withering and decay sets in and the body is an object of disgust? and what is the use of knowledge and charity when reality is known? unsheathe the sword of self; ideas of the almighty should be constantly slain and righteousne

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t; those we know as the god and the goddess are our intermediaries. different traditions use different names, as already mentioned. these are the names used for the "understandable forms" of the supreme power; the ultimate deity. they are the deities honored and worshipped in the witchcraft rites. the god and goddess of witchcraft a general complaint about christianity by witches is that there is the worship of the male deity to the exclusion of the female. in fact this is one of the main reasons for people (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft traditions are guilty of this same crime of christianity, if in reverse. they laud the goddess to the near, or even total, exclusion of t

nown as cakes and ale. this acts as the "connecting link, as it were, between the ritualistic part of the meeting and the working/ social part. the sitting and talking on craft and non *the name your coven uses for the goddess. lesson five: covens and rituals 163 craft matters; discussion of magick, healing, divination; consideration of personal or coven problems, etc. these things all come after the worship. honoring the gods is first and foremost in wicca. some traditions call this ceremony "cakes and wine, others "cakes and ale* the latter is perhaps more indicative of the "common" origins of the religion (peasants and serfs would seldom, if ever, get to drink wine. ale was their lot and they were happy with it. at wiccan coven meetings today, however, even if retaining the "ale" in the

d her lord to attend and witness the rites to be held in their honor. in clearing the temple you have the necessary thanking of the lady and lord and the official termination of the proceedings. in cakes and ale there is the "connecting link" between the ritual/worship part of the meeting and the working/social part. it is important in that it is found universally and is really the culmination of the worship: the thanking the gods for the necessities of life. the above, along with the self-dedication and the initiation, are the main ingredients, the basic skeleton, of wicca. the construction of ritual the dictionary (webster) defines rite as "a formal act of religion. a religious ceremony" and ritual as "consisting of rites. the manner of performing divine service. a formal act of religion

qabbalism. there is good balance between the male and female aspects. the group "sees the goddess and god figures as living representatives of even more fundamental, living forces which manifest on a variety of levels" their stated purpose is "to make ourselves more fit as vehicles for these forces, by invoking them to, in turn, balance and develop our own natures and grow closer to the universe" the worship is skyclad and without the use of drugs. esbats are held at each moon and there is emphasis on the book of shadows being personally handwritten. further information is available from elivri and giselda, p.o. box 13804, university station, gainesville, fl 32604 deboran witchdom "the deboran branch is eclectic. we make little ritual use of nudity. we work with balanced polarities (goddes

are both religious and magickal and celebrate the eight sabbats. members are encouraged to write rituals and to learn from all available sources. more information may be had from the georgian church, 1908 verde street, bakersfield, ca 93304. maidenhill wicca a "traditional" wiccan group established in 1979 and having strong ties with the coven of rhiannon in manchester, england "our main focus is the worship of the great goddess and her consort, the horned god. our coven 228/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft does not limit worship to one particular cultural-ethnic 'tradition. rather, a thorough training in basic gardnerian wica is taught and members are urged, after mastering these basics, to find that particular myth cycle or path consistent with their beliefs" further information i

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and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sun

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sh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans invade india. vedic culture. 1500 (ca) volcanic destruction of thera, thought to be the origin of atlantis story. harranians established a pilgrimage site at the giza plateau in egypt. 1400 bc the roots of mithraic belief are found in the worship of the sky goddess mitra in northern mesopotamia. avesta composed in avestan (an east-iranian language) 1200 origin of judaism, o.c. of o.t, starting with the torah (the first 5 books. sophocles claimed dice were invented by palamedes during the siege of troy. herodotus attributed them to the lydians in the reign of atys. 1194 fall of troy (events described in iliad/odyssey. 1100 (ca)

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ate the first world war and cause germany to be defeated. chamberlain, who had been awarded the iron cross by the kaiser, died in 1927 after years in a wheelchair, broken in body and spirit. but his influence was to live on in the mind of adolf hitler. chamberlain, incidentally, was introduced to hitler by alfred rosenberg, the refugee from russia, and another satanist figure "satanism" is merely the worship of, and possession by, the negative manipulators on the fourth dimension. it was rosenberg, despite his jewish background, who gave a copy of the protocols of the the super elite- the black magicians 209 learned elders of zion to hitler via another occultist, dietrich eckart.6 the all-seeing eye cult at work again. these were some of the people and beliefs that moulded the thinking of

elite today as they worship the all-seeing eye- the luciferic consciousness of the fourth dimension. after the war, the nazis moved their base to south america and the united states, at the invitation of the nazi funder, allen dulles, and they helped him to form the central intelligence agency, the cia. this is a key part of today's global gestapo and the same black use of esoteric knowledge and the worship of the extraterrestrial 'gods' and 'supermen' remains at the core of the cia and the global elite to this day. what was true of hitler is true of the upper reaches of the brotherhood network, even down to the appalling genetic experiments which have continued in the underground bases in the united states (and other countries, too, no doubt, including the uk. we have this farce of a 'pu

al approach to the re-emerging spirituality. we need to remember that nothing is ever what it seems at first glance. if we look at everything from that perspective, we become so much harder to disinform. this is vital because there is one 'cult' that dominates all others on this planet. it is the 'cult' which is devoted to, and pays homage to, a highly negative consciousness which is expressed as the worship of power and control. it is called the global elite and the all-seeing eye. 392..and the truth shall set you free sources 1 kenneth wooden, the children of jonestown (mcgraw-hill, new york, 1981) pl96 2 michael meiers, was jonestown a cia medical experiment? a review of the evidence, studies in american religion, vol. 35 (the edward/merlin press, 1988) 3 kgbs radio presenter, ron engle

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hipped a serpent goddess called athene or neith.48 the greek historians, jane harrison and robert graves, say that this deity was symbolised as a serpent, snake, sphinx, or goddess covered in snakes.49 there are some people- myself among them- who believe that the face on the sphinx on the giza plateau is a woman and not a man as officially claimed. wherever the reptilian bloodlines have located, the worship of a serpent goddess has always been the centre of their rituals under names like athene, barati, isis, semiramis, el, artemis, diana, and hecate. other atlantean/lemurian colonists were known as the pelasgians("peoples of the sea, the danaans, and the female amazons.50 the pelasgians worshipped the serpent moon goddess dana, later diana (artemis, and the atlantean goat god called pan

is from this same knowledge and information source that all the religions have emerged- the continuation of the knowledge and bloodlines of atlantis and lemuria. they may interpret this base information slightly differently and emphasise different strands, but the core from which they have come is the same: the atlantean, lemurian and sumer empires and their belief system, not least its focus on the worship of the sun. where did christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, buddhism, and others like zoroasterism, etc, etc, all emerge from? the middle and near east, the vast region ruled from sumer at one time and still dominated by that knowledge base and belief system in the thousands of years that followed sumer's atlantis revisited 51 demise. the sumerian story of king sargon is a classic ca

n babylonian.13 the title ukus or ukussi in egypt means that he was a descendant of the first sumerian king, ukusi of ukhu (meaning sun hawk city) and also the first aryan (hybrid) king in the indian epics and their holy books, the vedas, which use the solar title of ikshwaku or ukusi of ukhu.14 all these kings of the sumer empire were given "solar titles" because of the obsession and emphasis on the worship of the sun and the symbolism of the sun as god. indeed it is extremely likely that horus or haru, the egyptian son of god and a mirror of the much later "jesus, came from the sumerian word, hu or ha, meaning hawk. the hawk or sun-hawk was a sumerian symbol for the sun, as we see above in sargon's very title. the heru of the pygmy people, hul-kin of the indians, helios of the greeks, an

om the chalk hillsides. the oldest, according to conventional archaeology, is the one at uffington in the vale of the white horse in wiltshire, not far from avebury circle. this has been dated to 3000bc, the time when the sumerian-phoenicians were introducing (or re-introducing) their culture, religion, and knowledge to britain. why white horses? the basic religion of the sumerian-phoenicians was the worship of the sun and the white horse was one of their symbols for the sun" this white horse symbolism is also the source of the references to stories about white horses in relation to the christian jesus and hindu krishna. jesus and krishna are symbols for the sun with their origin in the sumerian sun religion and its stories and symbols. neither really existed. there are also people who bel

eveloped. it was controlled from sumer and created from the advanced knowledge held by its ruling elite. this society was built on the same basic foundations of religion, knowledge, and culture that had prevailed in the pre-cataclysmic atlantis/lemuria, although it did not advance to the same levels. the foundation religion of the sumer empire, and therefore all of its vast lands and peoples, was the worship of the sun and many symbolic stories emerged to describe the cycles of the sun, moon, stars, and seasons. 66 children of the mat another point to stress in the story so far is that the rulers of the sumerian empire were chosen by bloodline, an immensely relevant point as we shall now see. given the origin of these bloodlines, we are about to enter a dogma-free zone in which it would be

the sea" and this is the symbolic foundation of the merovingian bloodline so crucial to the illuminati. the merovingians founded the city of paris in the sixth century, which they named after prince paris, the son of king priam of troy. prince paris was one of the figures in the trojan war story, which the merovingians knew their bloodline had been involved in. the merovingians were committed to the worship of diana, one of the great goddess figures of the ancient world who was also known as artemis. this was the same goddess worshipped in atlantis. the city of troy, in asia minor, now turkey, is in the same region as ephesus, a place i have visited, which was the blood brothers 81 centre of artemis (diana) worship. the merovingians founded paris on major vortex points on the earth's ener

h and folklore, the ancient greek culture was inspired by the sumerians and the earlier atlanteans and lemurians and was based almost entirely on their stories and myths under different names. all over the ancient world you find the same recurring stories of the serpent gods. throughout the sumer empire the people worshipped serpent gods and as the reverend john bathhurst deane wrote in his book, the worship of the serpent..one of [the] five builders of thebes [in egypt] was named after the serpent-god of the phoenicians, ofhion..the first altar erected to cyclops at athens was to 'ops, the serpent deity..the symbolic worship of the serpent was so common in greece that justin martyr accuses the greeks of introducing it into the mysteries of all their gods."6 the hebrew serpents i have ment

taclysm. as with all of these former atlantean and lemurian peoples, they were obsessed with building structures on the vortex points. some 40,000 stone circles, pyramids, and mounds were built in north america.44 burning flames were often placed on the top of the mounds and they were never allowed to be extinguished. these were the symbol of the "great spirit" or "serpent fire, a continuation of the worship of the "fire serpent" of atlantis.45 the most used symbol of the illuminati today is the flame or lighted torch. it is known as the "eternal flame- exactly the term used by the ancients. the native american tribes formed secret societies or "serpent clans" like the snake clan and the thunderbird clans. the thunderbird is a version of the chinese rain dragon. many of their leading initi

the ancient world. so does the most bizarre theme of all- their ability to change their form before your eyes. they can shape-shift. 130 children of the matrix sources 1 translations of zecharia sitchin 2 the reptilian agenda, part one, with credo mutwa and david icke 3 flying serpents and dragons, p 31 4 ibid 5 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 650 6 reverend john bathhurst deane, the worship of the serpent (j.g. and f. rivington, london, 1833) 7 flying serpents and dragons, p 7 8 ibid, p 9 9 ibid, p 10 10 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 903 11 ibid, p 41 12 ibid 13 ibid 14 ibid, p 48 15 caverns, cauldrons, and concealed creatures 16 fritz springmeier, the llluminati bloodlines (ambassador house, westminster, colorado, 1999, pp 163 to 185 17 the return of t

of a serpent cult battling with the nordic "humans" can also be found in an ancient british work called the edda, translated by l.a. waddell in the first half of the 20th century. he knew nothing of extraterrestrial reptilians and nordics, and yet his translations give much support to this ancient tussle for power on the planet. they also confirm another aspect of the illuminati-reptilian ritual- the worship of their goddess. sources 1 cathy o'brien and mark phillips, trance-formation of america, the true life story of a cia mind control slave (reality marketing, po box 27740, las vegas, nevada, 89126, 1995, pp 209 and 210. this book is available through the david icke website and bridge of love, uk 2 the return of the serpents of wisdom, p 41 3 the reptilian agenda, parts one and two. cre

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god, known as the dragon-ruler of the world, was called hu and from this, very appropriately i would suggest,we get the term, hu-man. the winged-disc symbol of the sumerians, which is found allover the ancient world, was normally featured with two serpents. the symbolism of theserpent and its association with ancient gods abounds throughout the world. thereverend john bathhurst deane in his book the worship of the serpent,3 wrote..one of (the) five builders of thebes (in egypt) was named after the serpent-god of thephoenicians, ofhion. the first altar erected to cyclops at athens, was to ops, theserpent-deity. the symbolic worship of the serpent was so common in greece, that justinmartyr accuses the greeks of introducing it into the mysteries of all their gods. thechinese. are said to be

rol. indeed it is the way we have been controlled since thiswhole scam began. sources1dr arthur david horn, humanitys extraterrestrial origins, et influences on humankindsbiological and cultural evolution (a and l horn, pd box 1632, mount shasta, california,96067, 1994).482jason bishop ill, matrix ii, compiled by valdamar valerian (arcturus book service, usa, 1990),p 96.3rev john bathhurst deane, the worship of the serpent (j. g. and f. rivington, london,1833).4bible myths, p 11.5ibid, p 15.6ibid, p 12.7francis hitching, the wodd atlas of mysteries (pan books, london, 1981, p 10, sectionentitled, death of the dinosaurs.8ibid.9ibid.10john rhodes, the reptoid website, http//www.reptoids.com11dale russell, exponential evolution: implications for intelligent extraterrestrial life (advancedspac

the ritual, the members had a meal of bread and winein which they believed they were eating the flesh of mithra and drinking his blood.mithra, like a long list of pre-christian gods, was said to have been visited by wise menat his birth who brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. the same was saidby plato of his teacher, socrates, in ancient greece. christianity is a pagan sun religion,the worship of which is condemned by christianity! it is also an astrology religion, theevil of which is condemned by christianity, not least by the pope! beam me up scotty,its mad down here. the church hierarchy, of course, know all this. they just dont wantyou to know. the mystery cult of mithra spread from persia to the roman empire andat one point this doctrine could be found in almost every p

ty, utah, themormon city from where its mind control programmes are orchestrated, as i shall120document in a later chapter. funny how all these religions are justified by a vision orvisitation, followed by an extreme, dogmatic and autocratic religion which rules by fear,indoctrination and 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 similarpatte

u find on and around the mayan pyramids and sites in mexico. themexican president, miguel de la madrid, said that the maya had been interbred withthe iguana race- reptilians.both chartres and notre dame were centres of black madonna worship, anothertemplar obsession. the black madonna cult was not related to mary, mother of jesus,although that was the impression they wanted people to have. it was the worship ofqueen semiramis and isis/barati. the egyptians portrayed isis in white in her positivemode and in black in her negative form. the black madonna was the black isis/baratiand more directly, queen semiramis who was known in babylon as the madonna. theblack madonna symbolises the negative use of female moon energy, while the blacksun symbolises the negative use of solar energy, the male

this energy was symbolised bymary, isis and semiramis, and was also known as diana. princess diana was killed onan ancient merovingian sacrificial site to the goddess diana when her car struck the13th pillar. a cave at sainte-baume in southern france is an official catholic shrinebecause, it is said quite wrongly, mary magdalene lived there.11 in fact, during romantimes that cave was a centre for the worship of the goddess diana lucifera -diana thelight bringer or illuminatrix. this was the very name given to mary magdalene byjacobus de v oragine, the dominican archbishop of black nobility genoa.12 one otherinteresting point is that while templars throughout france were arrested and torturedafter the purge by phillipe the fair in 1307, the ones in the rennes-le-chateau area atle bezu, le v

f sion.the bacon legacyone of the most important men of this entire era was the rosicrucian, francis bacon. hisinfluence was colossal. he was the grand master of the rosicrucians in england, amajor force in the creation of freemasonry, the father of modern science, and thepossible 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

from that time: our lodges took thename of lodges of st john.38 in france, freemasonry, with ramseys keen support,spawned a particularly important strand, a fusion between freemasonry and thejacobite movement which became known as grand orient freemasonry. there are alsogrand orient networks in others countries like brazil and portugal. grand orient meansgrand east and its rituals are inspired by the worship of zoroaster in persia, ishtar andtammuz (semiramis and nimrod) in babylon, demeter, persephone and dionysus ingreece, aphrodite and adonis in syria, isis and osiris in egypt, and mithra in persia.39the grand orient in france was to be the focus behind the manipulation andcoordination of the french revolution. from the brotherhoods point of view, thispeoples revolution had nothing to d

ory of the samerituals to the same deities and this remains of fundamental importance to the initiates ofthe brotherhood today. my use of the term satanism has nothing to do with the christian version of satan. i use it only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as itmay seem to most people, is commonplace all over the world today. satanism is justanother name for the worship of a highly destructive, negative force which has beengiven endless names over the centuries: nimrod, baal, moloch or molech, set, thedevil, lucifer, there is no end to them. satanism perverts everything positive in thesame way that the nazis took a positive symbol, the swastika, and turned it around tosymbolise the negative. this is why the satanists invert the pentagram and why theyu

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sion no longer affected by the past cycle of restriction. when this is the case, centuries will pass between new aeonic words. in another two-thousand year, the cycle of expansion will have ended and humanity will experience another cycle of restriction. aleister crowley made reference to the aeon of isis, a time when man lived in harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. he was referring, of course, to the pre-christian pagan world. this was followed, he said, by the aeon of osirus, a time of restriction in which man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was

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

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ion lucifer, the light-bearer the name lucifer comes from the latin words lux (light) and fer (to bear. lucifer means, literally, light-bearer and was the name given by the romans to the morning star venus when it appeared in the eastern sky in the hours before dawn. lucifer, the light-bearer, the morning star, personified enlightenment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer

lso gives the invocation for various spirits with which dee& kelly communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1904, aleister crowley, declared the start of a new aeon the aeon of horus. in crowley s philosophy each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. the aeon of isis was a time when man lived in close harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. this was characterized by the pre-christian pagan world. the aeon of osiris, which followed the aeon of isis, was a time when man rejected the natural world, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. christianity rose as the dominant religion in the west during the aeon of osiris. crowley, who came to believe that he was the beast described in t

t beings, then one might think that they would have more important things to do than appear before a "magic circle" and serve the whims of mere mortals. one might also think that there would then be one "correct" tradition of magic and one "true" pantheon of deities. this is not at all the case. all systems of magic use similar techniques and work relatively the same. the fact that magic based on the worship of pagan gods has the same efficiency as magic based on the hebrew cabala and christian gnosticism, shows that it is the techniques used (and their effect upon the practitioner's mind) which accounts for magical powers and not the particular deities or spirits called upon. many spirits are accredited with giving knowledge of "arts and sciences. the "lesser key of solomon, a book of goe

d me faithfully, shall take your place as gods upon the earth" each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. deitus could not have been proclaimed as an aeon enhancing word within the aeon of set since it changed this relationship between man and the universe. the aeon of isis was a time when man lived in close harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature (the pre-christian pagan world) the aeon of osirus, which followed it, was a time when man rejected the natural world, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. in europe, christianity rose as the dominant religion during that time. the aeon of osirus ended and the aeon of horus began april 4, 1904 when aleister crowley, magus of the aeon of horu

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rs, alex: the founder of a tradition of wicca (q.v) known as alexandrian wicca (q.v. called by his followers "the king of the witches" satan: in the christian, jewish, and islamic religions, the supreme arch-foe of god. the prince of darkness, the adversary of god. in modern thought, the lord of evil. satanism: a religion that basis it's beliefs on reverse and backward principles of christianity. the worship of satan, the arch-foe of christ, through such practices as the black mass, sexual perversion, drug taking, violence, mutilation, killing, and sacrilege. in reality, most people who call themselves satanists are simply neoeppicurianists, hedonists or egotists. the few who are truly dedicated to an evil entity they call "satan" are shunned by most occultists. satanism has no relationshi

born of circumstance. opposite of want. wise woman: the solitary female witch (q.v) who dispensed charms and prescribed healing herbs to common inhabitants of rural villages in medieval europe. witch: a person, male or female, who practices the art and religious faith of witchcraft (q.v. see wicca. witchcraft: popularized by gerald gardner (q.v) and many others, it is a peaceful religion based on the worship of the generative forces in nature. witches generally worship the horned god of the hunt and primarily the three-fold goddess of life. witches venerate the life force in nature and seek to be in tune with natural cycles. all witches come from different pagan (q.v) religious traditions. witches are not satanists (q.v. in fact, they do not believe that an entity called "satan" even exist

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presumed that the various authors of the books of the bible knew what they meant, and did not use this peculiar and unique form without good reason "and the spirit of the male and female conjoined principles moved upon the surface of the formless, and manifestation took place" if we want equilibrium instead of our present condition of unequal stresses, we must worship the elohim, not jehovah. 36. the worship of jehovah instead of the elohim is a potent influence in preventing us from "rising on the planes" that is to say from obtaining supernormal consciousness as part of our normal equipment; for we must be prepared to shift our polarity as we shift level, for what is positive on the physical plane becomes negative on the astral, and vice versa. mystical qabala page 104 [page 154] also, a

he whole life-pattern by disentangling the sex life. this is a matter of practical experience, and does not need to be reasoned from a priori grounds. no doubt it is for this reason, learned by practical experience of the workings of the human consciousness, that the ancients made phallicism such an important part of their rites. actually, it is a very important factor in the ceremonial aspect of the worship of moderns also, but recognition of the significance of the symbols employed traditionally has been repressed from consciousness. 39. freudian psychology supplies the key to phallicism and opens a door that leads into the adytum of the mysteries. there is no getting away from this fact in practical occultism, unpalatable as it may be to many; and it explains why so many magical enterpr

, we know to what sphere on the tree the particular mode of manifestation should be assigned. all references to the son always refer to tiphareth; all references to the father refer to kether; all references to the holy ghost refer to yesod; and very deep mysteries are concealed here, for the holy ghost is the aspect of the mystical qabala page 132 godhead that is worshipped in the occult lodges; the worship of pantheistic nature-forces and elemental operations take place under the presidency of god the father; and the regenerative ethical aspect of religion, which is the exoteric aspect for this epoch, is under the presidency of god the son in fiphareth. 21. the initiate, however, transcends his epoch, and aims at uniting all three modes of adoration in his worship of deity as a trinity i

rtion of the life of nature, and its incarnation in a form built for it by its worshippers. as long as the astral form is kept alive by the appropriate kind of worship, carried out by worshippers who have the necessary capacity to enter into sympathetic communion with that kind of life, there is an incarnated god, available for contacting, brought down within the range of human perception. should the worship cease, the god withdraws to his own place in the bosom of nature. 8hould. other worshippers come along, however, who possess the knowledge necessary to build a form in accordance with the nature of the life that is to be invoked, and the imaginative sympathy necessary to invoke it, it is a comparatively simple natter to attract into the form once more the life that was accustomed to en

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hen he setteth in the western horizon of heaven. vignette: the deceased adoring ra. chapter xvb. 3. another hidden chapter of the tuat, and of passing through the secret places of the underworld, and of seeing the disk when he setteth in amentet. vignette: the god or the deceased spearing a serpent. chapter xvia [no text: being only a vignette] p. xxxiii theban version: list of chapters. scene of the worship of the rising sun by mythological beings. chapter xvib. without title or text. vignette: scene of the worship of the setting sun by mythological beings. chapter xvii. here begin the praises and glorifyings of coming out from, and going into, the underworld in the beautiful amenta; of coming out by day, and of making transformations and of changing into any form which he pleaseth; of pl

ich cannot be cleared up until the literature of the subject has been further studied and until more texts have been published. that the egyptians believed in a future life of some kind is certain; and the doctrine of eternal existence is the leading feature of their religion, and is enunciated with the utmost clearness in all periods. whether this belief had its origin at annu, the chief city of the worship of the sun-god, is not certain, but is very probable; for already in the pyramid texts we find the idea of everlasting life associated with the sun's existence, and pepi i. is said to be "the giver of life, stability, power, health, and all joy of heart, like the sun, living for ever"[1] the sun rose each day in renewed strength and vigour, and the renewal of youth in a future life was

god of southern egypt at least. having by virtue of being the god of the conquerors obtained the position of head of the company of egyptian gods, he received the attributes of the most ancient gods, and little by little he absorbed the epithets of them all. thus amen became amen-ra, and the glory of the old gods of annu, or heliopolis, was centred in him who was originally an obscure local god. the worship of amen in egypt was furthered by the priests of the great college of amen, which seems to have been established early in the xviiith dynasty by the kings who were his devout worshippers. the extract from a papyrus written for the princess nesi-khonsu,[2] a member of the priesthood of amen, is an example of the exalted language in which his votaries addressed him "this is the sacred go

n teleuth`n e!ks o?si'ridos suggenome'nou, tekei^n h?lito'mhnou, kai` a? enh^ toi^s ka'tw en gyi'ois to`n a!rpokra'thn. de iside et osiride, xix] p. cxvi based upon the passage in the history of osiris and isis given in a hymn to osiris of the xviiith dynasty.[1] set or sutekh the eighth member of the company of the gods of annu, was the son of seb and nut, and the husband of his sister nephthys. the worship of this god is exceedingly old, and in the pyramid texts we find that be is often mentioned with horus and the other gods of the heliopolitan company in terms of reverence. he was also believed to perform friendly offices for the deceased, and to be a god of the sekhet-aaru, or abode of the blessed dead. he is usually depicted in human form with the head of an animal which has not yet

l and mythological places in the book of the dead. the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (19 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the principal geographical and mythological places in the book of the dead. abtu, the abydos of the greeks (strabo, xvii, i, 42, the capital of the eighth nome of upper egypt. it was the seat of the worship of osiris, and from this fact was called per-ausar or busiris "the house of osiris; the copts gave it the name.[1] egyptian tradition made the sun to end his daily course at abydos, and to enter into the tuat at this place through a "gap" in the mountains called in egyptian peq.[2] these mountains lay near to the town; and in the xiith dynasty it was believed that the souls of the dead

s xli, 45, 50; xlvi, 20, aven (ezekiel xxx, 17, and b th-shemesh (jeremiah xliii, 13; this last name is an exact translation of the egyptian per ra "house of the sun" which was also a designation of annu. the copts have preserved the oldest name of the city under the form.[1] a coptic bishop of this place was present at the council of ephesus. the city of annu seems to have become associated with the worship of the sun in prehistoric times. already in the vth dynasty its priesthood had succeeded in gaining supremacy for their religious views and beliefs throughout egypt, and from first to last it maintained its position as the chief seat of theological learning in egypt. the body of the aged one, a name of osiris, reposed in annu, and there dwelt the eye of osiris. the deceased made his wa

pal geographical and mythological places in the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod10.htm (1 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:24:04 am] the word is "it never sprouteth" an-tes (see within, p. 323, an unknown locality where a light tower, was adored. apu, the panopolis of the greeks( greek panw^n po'lis, strabo, xvii, i, 41, the metropolis of the ninth nome of upper egypt, and the seat of the worship of the god, whose name is variously read amsu, khem, and min. in ancient days it was famous as the centre for stone cutting and linen weaving, and the latter industry still survives among the modern coptic population, who, following their ancestors, call their city, which the arabs have rendered by akhm m. aqert, a common name for the abode of the dead. bast, more fully pa-bast or per

ter industry still survives among the modern coptic population, who, following their ancestors, call their city, which the arabs have rendered by akhm m. aqert, a common name for the abode of the dead. bast, more fully pa-bast or per-bast, the bubastis of the greek writers (herodotus, ii, 59, 137, 156, 166; strabo, xvii, 1, 27, the metropolis of the eighteenth nome of lower egypt, and the seat of the worship of bast, a goddess who was identified with the soul of isis, ba en auset. the city is mentioned in the bible under the form (ezekiel xxx, 17, pi-beseth [1. see am lineau, op. cit, p. 287] p. cxxxv which the copts have preserved in their name for the city; the arabs call the place tell basta. het-benbent, the name given to many sun-shrines in egypt, and also to one of the places in the

ably a part of the arabian peninsula and the eastern coast of africa along and south of somali land. re-stau, or a name given to the passages in the tomb which lead from this to the other world; originally it designated the cemetery of abydos only, and its god was osiris. sa, the sa s of the greeks( greek sa' s, strabo, xvii. i, 23, the metropolis of the fifth nome of lower egypt, and the seat of the worship of the goddess neith. sekhem, the letopolis of the greeks, and capital of the letopolites nome (strabo, xvii, i, 30; it was the seat of the worship of heru-ur "horus the elder" and one of the most important religious centres in egypt. sekhet-aanru, the "field of the aanru plants" was a name originally given to the islands in the delta where the souls of the dead were supposed to live

the name of the third one utch-re[5] is the name of the fourth one "ap-uat[6] is the name of the fifth one; beq[7] is the name of the sixth one; anubis is the name of the seventh one (75 "i have made the way. i am amsu-horus, the avenger of his father, the heir of his father un-nefer. i have come and i have overthrown all foes of my father osiris. i have come day by day with victory, doing myself the worship of the god (76) in the house of his father tmu, lord of annu, triumphant in the southern sky. i have done what is right and true to him that hath made right and truth; i have made the haker festival for the lord thereof; i have led the way in the festival (77) i have made offerings of cakes to the lords of the altars; and i have brought offerings and oblations, and cakes and ale, and o

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use we realize that it is very important to many individuals to ritualistically conceptualize a well-wrought picture of their mentor or tutelary divinity [2, p. 740] he ventured on to explain that: in answer to those who would label us devil worshippers or satan worshippers, i must say that satan demands study, not worship [2, p. 740] note that anton lavey did not reject the belief in satan, only the worship of the deity. the satanic bible defines satan somewhat ambiguously as a unified god (that is, not a god among others) which: is seen as the balancing factor in nature, and not being concerned with suffering [6, p. 40] in contrast to popular opinion among church of satan followers there is no implication that there is no life after death; the text only states that once one is dead, one

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revolt by lilith sinclair, another prominent leader on the east coast. in 1975 he sought a new mandate to operate by invoking the devil. satan responded by appearing as set, the ancient egyptian deity, and gave aquino a document, the book of coming forth by night. he authorized aquino to found the temple of set to supersede the church of satan. aquino created a new religious society built around the worship of set, of whom satan is one derivation. during the 1980s aquino gained some degree of fame when the media became aware that an army officer led a satanic group. the temple became the subject of criticism, and aquino was charged with fabricated tales of satanic child abuse. aquino, an officer who has an exemplary record, was investigated and found innocent of any wrongdoing. the molest

he arts of healing by the centaur chiron. asclepius married epione, who begat hygeia (health. so successful was asclepius in the art of healing that zeus was fearful that he would make mankind immortal, so he killed him with a thunderbolt. apollo retaliated by attacking the cyclopes who had forged the thunderbolt, and zeus was eventually prevailed upon to admit asclepius to the ranks of the gods. the worship of asclepius centered in epidaurus, and the cock was offered to him in sacrifice. the serpent and the dog were sacred to him, and his symbol of the serpent coiled about a staff still remains as the sign of medical practice. asclepius is also featured in the hermetic literature connected with hermes trismegistus( thrice-greatest hermes. sources: edelstein, emma jeanette levy. asclepius:

ical instrument that was reputed to work wonders. it was believed to be possessed of a hantu, a spirit. owning such a weapon was said to bring good fortune, providing protection for those fortunate enough to have one. gardner s work on the kris is still the standard reference source. by the time gardner returned to england in the 1930s, he had hopes of creating a new magical religion built around the worship of a female deity. he drew from a multitude of sources, but added the ritual knife from his knowledge of the kris. the athame is one of the most distinctive contributions of gardner to modern magical practice. sources: bracelin, jack l. gerald gardner: witch. london: octagon press, 1960. valiente, doreen. the abc of witchcraft past and present. new york: st. martin s press, 1973. athan

ed showed that the name baphomet derived from two greek words meaning baptism of metis [wisdom; the inscription exalted metis or baphomet as the true divinity. when karl kellner and other early twentieth century german occultists founded the secret order oto (ordo templi orientis, or order of templars in the east, they adopted an emblem of baphomet taken from richard payne knight s a discourse on the worship of priapus as the seal of the order s grand master. at a later date, when british occultist aleister crowley became head of the british section, he took the name baphomet as his motto. he had previously wrestled with the numerological significance of the name. sources: crowley, aleister. the confessions of aleister crowley. edited by john symons and kenneth grant. new york: hill and wa

s secular life, including his family, to devote his whole life to religious teaching. his actions followed the ancient hindu tradition of renunciation of everyday householder life when one s responsibilities were fully discharged. at the age of 58 prabhupada became a swami, and in 1965, shortly before the change in american immigration laws relative to india, he immigrated to america. he preached the worship of krishna in new york and soon attracted students and dropouts, offering his brand of vaishnava hinduism in place of radicalism or drug counterculture. large contributions were made to iskcon funds by ex-beatle george harrison and b. m. birla, a wealthy indian textile magnate. swami bhaktivedanta spent much of his time distributing his translation of the bhagavad-gita and completing h

movement spread internationally, and he experienced the harsh criticism of the new anticult movement. swami bhaktivedanta died of heart failure on november 14, 1977, at the age of 81, at vrindavana, india, the district in mathura where sri krishna spent his childhood. by the late 1970s iskcon had some 5,000 american disciples and had gained the support of many indian americans, who found it like the worship they had left behind when migrating. the movement was left in the control of initiating gurus and a governing board. it experienced intense attacks by anticult groups and suffered some tumultuous internal conflicts, but iskcon has emerged in the 1990s as a stable hindu body that has begun to integrate a second generation in its adult membership. iskcon has temples across north america

dogma and repression. the great witchcraft manias flourished from the middle ages onward. the thousands of innocent men, women, and children who were brutally tortured and executed have left a deep stain on the church (see also black mass; evocation) sources: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1967. black mass according to the inquisitors, the black mass epitomized the worship of satan and perverted the most holy mystery of christian worship.the christian mass. evidence of such occurrences was confirmed in the confessions forced from accussed witches and sorcerers, who claimed that the devil had mass said at his sabbat. pierre aupetit, an apostate priest of the village of fossas, france, was burned for celebrating the mysteries of the devil s mass. instead o

ury. although it is assumed that they were originally of semitic origin, a temple of memphis was found consecrated to them in egypt. it is not unlikely, as herodotus supposed, that the cult was pelasgian in 233 origin, as it is known that the pelasgians occupied the island of samothrace and established there certain mysteries, which they afterward carried to athens. there are also traditions that the worship of the cabiri originally came from the troad (territory surrounding the ancient city of troy, a semitic center. in his book the egypt of herodotus (1841, john kenrick brings forward the following conclusions concerning the cabiri: 1. the existence of the worship of the cabiri at memphis under a pygmy form, and its connection with the worship of vulcan. the coins of thessalonica also es

vil near the feet. 2. the cabiri belonged also to the phoenician theology. the proofs are drawn from the statements of herodotus. also the coins of cossyra, a phoenician settlement, exhibit a dwarfish figure with the hammer and short apron, and sometimes a radiated head, apparently allusive to the element of fire, like the star of the dioscuri. 3. the isle of lemnos was another remarkable seat of the worship of the cabiri and of vulcan, as representing the element of fire. mystic rites were celebrated here over which they presided, and the coins of the island exhibit the head of vulcan, or a cabirus, with the pileus, hammer, and forceps. it was this connection with fire, metallurgy, and the most remarkable product of the act, weapons of war, which caused the cabiri to be identified with th

revailed. the fable that one cabirus had been killed by his brother or brothers was probably a moral mythus representing the result of the invention of armor and analogous to the story of the mutual destruction of the men in brazen armor, who sprang from the dragon s teeth sown by cadmus and jason. it is remarkable that the name of the first fratricide signifies a lance, and in arabic a smith. 4. the worship of the cabiri prevailed also in imbros, near the entrance of the hellespont, which makes it probable that the great gods in the neighboring island of samothrace were of the same origin. the cabiri, curetes, and corybantes appear to have represented air as well as fire. this island was inhabited by pelasgi, who may have derived from the neighboring country of thrace and phrygia, and wit

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lm of the dead. the earth-god or goddess is in most countries often allied with the powers of darkness. it is from the underworld that grain arises, and therefore it is not surprising to find that demeter, ge, and aglauros are identified with the underworld. but there were also the mysteries of artemis, of hecate, and the cherites. some of which may be regarded as forms of the great earth mother. the worship of dionysus, trophonious, and zagreus was also of a mysterious nature; however it is the eleusinian and orphic mysteries that undoubtedly are the most important to the occult student, and though archaeological findings (such as vase-painting) it has been possible to glean some general idea of these. that is not to say that the heart of the mystery is revealed by any such illustrations

all, and thou thrice mighty hermes, conductor of the dead. asclepius son of hephaistus, patron of the healing art; and thou osiris, lord of strength and vigour, do thou thyself be present too. arnebascenis, patron of philosophy, and yet again asclepius, son of imuthe, who presidest over poetry. apollonius, apollonius, apollonius, thou teachest the magic of zoroaster, son of oromasdes; and this is the worship of the gods. for the evocation of spirits belonging to religions issued from judaism, the following kabalistic invocation of solomon should be used, either in hebrew, or in any other tongue with which the spirit in question is known to have been familiar: powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand! glory and eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct m

becoming little more than itinerant vendors of charms. it is probable that even before he left alexandria plotinus began to absorb some of the gnostic mysticism circulating throughout the mediterranean basin. but everywhere he also found a growing indifference to religion as known to the more ancient greeks and egyptians. by this time, the pantheons of greece, rome, and egypt had become fused in the worship of serapis, and this fusion had been forwarded by the works of plutarch, apuleius, and lucian. the position of metaphysical philosophy at this time was by no means a strong one. in fact, metaphysical emphases had given place to ethical teachings, and philosophy was regarded as a branch of literature, or an elegant recreation. plotinus persuaded himself that philosophy and religion shou

lesser deity than another god. satan is that god s messenger. satan brought knowledge of god to eve in the garden of eden. that god takes no direct interest in this world, except for his concern that the sparks of deity trapped in this world return to their origin. this return occurs through gnosis, occult wisdom. sloane taught that this gnostic form of satanism was the oldest religion, dating to the worship of the horned god pictured in the ancient cave paintings of europe. as developed by sloane, the religion emerged in the context of the neo-pagan revival of the late 1960s. it differed from wicca by refusing to turn the horned god into a fertility god. the coven dissolved following sloane s death in the early 1980s. ouroboros (or uroboros) ancient greek alchemical symbol of a serpent ea

e to the devil and was thus considered a form of apostasy and heresy, crimes pursued by the inquisition. the first extended description of a pact with the devil seems to have been published in 1435 by johannes nider in his book 1165 formicarius. then in 1486 the malleus maleficarum (the witches hammer).the main text used by the inquisition and protestant witch-hunters over the next centuries.tied the worship of satan to witchcraft. witches were branded as evil for, among other reasons, having made a pact with the devil and then having intercourse with him. the publication of the witches hammer launched the great era of witch-hunts that culminated in the incidents at salem village, massachusetts, three centuries later. overwhelmingly, accounts of pacts with the devil are tied to witchcraft

tapped the keys, and spelled out messages which were then flashed in luminous letters on a six-foot indicator (see also ashkir-jobson trianion; communigraph) re-formed congregation of the goddess- international the re-formed congregation of the goddess-international is one expression of feminist wicca that has emerged in stages through the 1980s and 1990s. wicca emerged as a religion built around the worship of the goddess. it elevated the role of the priestess as a means of balancing the more traditional all-male leadership role in western religion. many women found wicca and magic to be a means of empowerment. in the early 1970s dianic wicca took the notion of the feminine role in the religion one step further and began to speak of wicca as wimmen s religion. feminist leaders began to or

ted within historical times. after the battle of cann, the romans sought to divert misfortune by burying two greeks alive in the cattle-market, while in the time of julius c sar, two men were put to death with sacrificial solemnities by the pontiff and flamen of mars. again, in the time of cicero and horace, boys were killed for magical purposes. fire possessed great virtue and was held sacred in the worship of vesta, in early belief vesta being the fire itself; it presided over the family hearth; it restored purity and conferred protection. blood had the same quality and, smeared on the face of the god, symbolized and brought about the oneness of the deity with the community. on great occasions the statue of jupiter was treated thus: the priests of bellona made incisions in their shoulder

auspices in the flight of birds. augurs also accompanied armies and fleets and read the omens before an engagement was entered upon. divination was also practiced by reading the intestines of animals, by dreams, by divine possession, as in the case of the oracles, when prophecies were uttered. these had been gathered together in the sibylline books and were consulted as oracles by the state. with the worship of fortune were connected the lots of praoeneste. the questions put to the goddess were answered by means of oaken lots a boy drew from a case made of sacred wood. the fortune-tellers also used a narrow-necked urn that, filled with water, only allowed one lot at a time to rise. astrologers from chaldea were also much sought after and were attached to the kingly and noble houses. famili

d by the inquisition. the sabbats were identified as a time for witches to gather to worship his infernal majesty. that mythology survived in the secularized celebration of halloween. in the 1950s, gerald b. gardner introduced his modern reconstruction of witchcraft which drew on ancient pagan practices mixed with elements of asian beliefs and practices. it was a nature oriented religion in which the worship of the goddess was central. integral to the new witchcraft were the ancient eight festivals that became times of gathering for the emerging pagan community. in the wiccan faith, the years begin on the evening of october 31, samhein. this day culminated the harvest season, and heralds the coming of winter, a period of waiting until the planting can begin a new food production cycle. it

to illegal acts and abusive behavior. the satanic society may be contacted at p.o. box 109, 2025 guelph line, burlington, on, canada l7p 4x4. it has an internet site at http//www.thesatanicsociety.net/ which includes an extensive collection of documents on satanism and related topics for the use of its members. sources: the satanic society. http//www.thesatanicsociety.net. may 20, 2000. satanism the worship of satan, the christian devil. the idea that such a parody of christian worship could and did exist emerged in several stages. central to satanism was the idea of magic and that extraordinary miracles, if not performed by god in answer to the prayer of one of his servants (i.e, a christian, had to be accomplished by the devil in cooperation with someone who had made a pact with the dev

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

became permeated with alchemical symbolism and conjoined with the emerging doctrines of theosophy. this in turn greatly influenced the development of freemasonry. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 '0- 0* like judaism and christianity, islam is a primary branch stemming from the religion of the children of abraham. like master abraham, the prophet mohammed was faced with the task of leading his people away from the worship of idols and back to the universal mystical spirituality of a divine singularity. if you remove the clouds of dogmatic theocracy that now often overshadow the depth and beauty of that transmission, islam probably more closely resembles in some ways the original hebrew religion than does rabbinical judaism. the mystical tradition (ar. tasawwuf) at the core of islam is called sufism by w

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ivine efficacy. and if one tries to please them with numerous sacrifices, hymns, songs of praise, sweet concerts which recall the harmony of heaven, this is in order that the celestial element which has been introduced into the idol by the repeated practice of the celestial rites may joyously support its long dwelling amongst men. that is how man makes gods.3 hermes adds as examples of such gods, the worship of asclepius, of his own ancestor, hermes, and of isis (implying the cult of the statues of these divinities; and he mentions here, too, the egyptian worship of animals (i revert now to an earlier part of the asclepius) 1 on the decans, see below, pp. 45-7. 2 c.h, i i, pp. 325-6. 3 ibid, pp. 347-9- 37 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" yet the religion of egypt, and its wise and t

ething which is really very like the ideal egyptian, or pseudo-egyptian, society as presented in the hermetic asdepius, a theocracy governed by priests who know the secrets of a magical religion by which they hold the whole society together, though they themselves understand the inner meaning of those magical rites as being, beyond the magically activated statues, really the religion of the mind, the worship of the one beyond the all, a worship perceived by the initiated as rising beyond the strange forms of its gods, activated by elemental and celestial manipulations, to the intellectual world, or to the ideas in the divine mens. the problem of renaissance magic in relation to the religious problems of the sixteenth century is a vast question and one which cannot be tackled here,2 or on t

en by hermes that is to say it is a book about magic, about a very strong solar magic. the allusion to the lament in the asclepius, describing how the magical religion of the egyptians came in late, bad times, to be forbidden by legal statutes,1 relates this new hermetic revelation vouchsafed to giordano bruno to the egyptian religion, the religion of the intellect, or of the mind, reached beyond the worship of the visible sun. those who forbade that religion by 1 bruno's actual words are as follows "non cessat prouidentia deorum (dixerunt aegyptii sacerdotes) statutis quibusquam temporibus mittere hominibus mercurios quosdam. nee cessat intellectus, atque sol iste sensibilis semper illuminare, ob earn causam quia nee semper, nee omnes animaduertimus (ibid, p. 9. he is thinking of the pass

moral dialogues, the spaccio della bestia trionfante, i shall discuss this first, passing in the next chapter to the cena de le ceneri, a so-called philosophical dialogue, in which the message is translated into terms of the copernican philosophy. a basic theme of bruno's spaccio della bestia trionfante (1584) is the glorification of the magical religion of the egyptians. their worship was really the worship of "god in things: for. diverse living things represent diverse spirits and powers, which beyond the absolute being which they have, obtain a being communicated to all things according to their capacity and measure. whence god as a whole (though not totally but in some more in some less cxcellendy) is in all things. for mars is more efficaciously in natural vestiges and modes of substa

ck to its pagan source, abandoning the feeble efforts of ficino to do a little harmless magic whilst disguising its main source in the asclepius, utterly flouting the religious hermetists who tried to have a christian hermetism without the asclepius, proclaiming himself a full egyptian who, like celsus in his anti-christian arguments quoted by origen- deplores the destruction by the christians of the worship of the natural gods of greece, and of the religion of the egyptians, through which they approached the divine ideas, the intelligible sun, the one of neoplatonism. hence he can quote in full the lament from the asclepius, translating its moving cadences into italian: non sai, o asclepio, come l'egitto sia la imagine del cielo. la nostra terra e tempio del mondo. ma, oime, tempo verra c

i erred in praising 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 t

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. according to grant, the cult of aiwaz can be traced to a period that inspired the age-long draconian tradition of egypt, which lingered on into the dark dynasties, the monuments of which were laid waste by opponents of the elder cult. it is interesting to note that lovecraft himself specifically linked the worship of nyarlathotep to pre-dynastic egypt, in the eponymously titled prose poem. the elemental aspect of nyarlathotep is aether, the communicating medium of interstellar space (or in lovecraft s terminology, the audient void. shub-niggurath is the black goat of the woods with a thousand young a title inferring the geometric proliferation of creatures upon the earth. he is the horned god of

geometric proliferation of creatures upon the earth. he is the horned god of the pagan agricultural societies of the ancient world, representing fertility and sexual energy. in greek mythology his archetype is pan, half-man and half-goat. as christianity began to replace paganism, the pan-image became the prototype for the christian devil, and was associated with the practise of satanism, though the worship of the horned god had pre-dated christianity by at least a thousand years. in 1919, aleister crowley published a poem entitled a hymn to pan, in which he evoked this current of sexual energy as it pertains to ceremonial magic, and which he often incorporated into his own magical workings. the exclamation, io pan, which concludes the poem, corresponds to the cry of ai! shub-niggurath, w

t least a thousand years. in 1919, aleister crowley published a poem entitled a hymn to pan, in which he evoked this current of sexual energy as it pertains to ceremonial magic, and which he often incorporated into his own magical workings. the exclamation, io pan, which concludes the poem, corresponds to the cry of ai! shub-niggurath, which occurs in several of lovecraft s stories in relation to the worship of the goat-god. this similarity raises the question of lovecraft s familiarity with crowley s work he could have seen a copy of the equinox, the volume of collected essays in which-the hymn to pan first appeared, in the widener library at harvard, which obtained a copy in december 1917. however, from passing references to crowley in one of lovecraft s letters, identifying him with a c

hey were cone shaped beings, the head and organs attached to extendable limbs spreading out from their apexes. according to the story, the shadow out of time, the great race were able to effect mind transference with any living being, and had accumulated a vast collection of information on the various cultures that exist in the universe. this completes the pantheon of non-human entities. in turn, the worship of the great old ones is continued on earth by secret societies whose traditions and rituals preserve the hidden knowledge of these elder races. lovecraft documents three such cults, the cult of cthulhu, the esoteric order of dagon, centred in innsmouth (actually newburyport, massachusetts, and the starry wisdom sect. in the haunter of the dark, lovecraft describes how the latter sect

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e rosicrucian fellowship home page* rosicrucian fellowship philosophy study courses information* order the printed version of this book. please give us your feedback rosicrucian fellowship- international headquarters 2222 mission avenue, oceanside, ca 92054-2399, usa po box 713, oceanside, ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.e freemasonry the worship of lucifer, satan part 1 of 5 a majority of this page on freemasonry was taken from masonic books that were published by masonic publishing companies. most of these writings were kept secret. biblical admonition has been taken carefully, comparing masonic teachings to the holy bible. in i john 4:1, we read "beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (test) the spirits whether they are

ver, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a bent satanic cross as seen on another page which shames christ on the cross. freemasons used luciferic symbols within the layout of government center washington d.c. freemasons worship lucifer, the light-bearer. lucifer and satan are biblically the same individual, freemasonry is really the worship of satan. by quoting their own sources and depicting the symbols in which they use, this claim is proven. freemasonry gives itself away more through its symbols than it does in its writings. you saw in the analogy page of "the matrix" that high level masons praise lucifer. it is within these writings the "smoking gun" will be found, proof that masons worship satan. once this is compreh

sonry gives itself away more through its symbols than it does in its writings. you saw in the analogy page of "the matrix" that high level masons praise lucifer. it is within these writings the "smoking gun" will be found, proof that masons worship satan. once this is comprehended, you will understand why "they" have been trying to keep this all secret. if people really understood that masonry is the worship of satan, no one in their right mind would join. not only that but people would demand that this organization be outlawed. you have a continuous public relations campaign promoting the lie that freemasonry is not a religion, and is just a "good works social organization" as quoted above, you have secrets within secrets. lucifer praised as the light-bearer of freemasonry "lucifer, the l

iah, the biblical antichrist "i tell you now that freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terrible organizations upon this earth. the masons are major players in the struggle for world domination. the 33rd degree is split into two. one split contains the core of the luciferian illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever [behold a pale horse, p. 78] freemasonry the worship of lucifer, satan part 2 of 5 this page concentrates on masonic symbols. occultists put an enormous emphasis on communicating through symbols with other members while hiding the truth from the initiates and the "profane" i.e, people who are not members "magic symbols" by fredrick goodman states that "the true magic symbol is an image which hides an inner meaning. this meaning is usuall

serpent part 4 of 5 serpent worship in freemasonry the serpent is a very important symbol within both freemasonry and christianity. it was also important in ancient civilizations. it shouldn't be a shock to you to learn that freemasonry worships the serpent. most pagan groups have done this for the past 5,000 years. remember the serpent in eden? albert pike speaks greatly about the importance of the worship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the in

a perfect definition of the word "pagan" a pagan is someone "who changed the truth of god into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. amen [romans 1:25] pagans have worshipped animals, insects, birds, rivers, forests, trees, and many other things, but they all have one type of worship in common: they worship the sex act between man and woman. the worship both the man's penis and the woman's vulva. in reading their explanations for these symbols, you should be amazed at the creativity they demonstrate in assigning sexual connotations to many of their symbols. freemasons do this very thing; however, they differ from the satanist in that they hide much of the sexual content in many of their symbols. if you will remember, carl claudy was q

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r the most part in merry-making and in general thanksgiving, in which the gratitude of the worshippers found expression in song and dance, and in invocations to their deity for a return or continuance of her gifts. subsequently, through the awe and reverence inspired by the mysteries involved in birth and life, the adoration of the creative principles in vegetable existence became supplemented by the worship of the creative functions in human beings and in animals. the earth, including the power inherent in it by which the continuity of existence is maintained, and by which new forms are continuously called into life, embodied the idea of god; and, as this inner force was regarded as inherent in matter, or as a manifestation of it, in process of time earth and the heavens, body and spirit

gion the sky was the husband of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a time when the mother was not only the one recognized parent on earth, but that the female principle was worshipped as the more important creative force throughout nature [5] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regarded as the more important factors in human society. the fact has been shown in a previous work that after women began to leave their homes at marriage, and after property, especially land, had fallen under the supervision and

ons, and mythoses of extant races in the various stages of development, have been discovered the beginnings of the religious idea and the mental qualities which among primitive races prompted worship, so, also, through extinct tongues and the symbolism used in religious rites and ceremonies, many of the processes have been unearthed whereby the original and beautiful conceptions of the deity, and the worship inspired by the operations of nature, and especially the creative functions in human beings gradually became obscured by the grossest ideas and the vilest practices. the symbols which appear in connection with early religious rites and ceremonies, and under which are veiled the conceptions of a still earlier and purer age, when compared with subsequently developed notions relative to t

her is it surprising although this universal agency was regarded as one, or as a dual entity, they should have recognized its manifold expressions or manifestations. to primitive man, the visible sources whence proceeded his daily sustenance doubtless constituted the first objects of his regard and adoration. hence, in addition to the homage paid to the earth, in due course of time would be added the worship of trees, upon which the early race was directly dependent for food. at a time when the art of agriculture had not been attained, all such trees as yielded their fruit for the support of the human race, and which afforded to mankind pleasant beverages or cooling shade, would come to be regarded as embodying the universal beneficent principle--the great creating and preserving agency of

p. 84. the palm, the pine, the oak, the banian, or bo, and many other species of trees, have, at different times, and by various nations, been invested with divine honors; but, in oriental countries, by far the most sacred among them is the ficus religiosa, or the holy bo tree of india. something of the true significance of the traditional tree of life may be observed in the ideas connected with the worship of this emblem. the fig, when planted with the palm, as it frequently is in the east, near temples and holy shrines, is regarded as a peculiarly sacred object. when entwining the palm, which is male, it is always female; from their embrace kalpia, or passion, is developed. this union causes the continuation of existence and the "revolutions of time" the whole constitutes the tree of li

a decidedly phallic emblem, whose festivals until a very recent time were celebrated in england by the old as well as the young, was usually if not always sprinkled with wine. from the accounts which we have of this sacred emblem and its festival, it seems that no royal edict nor priestly denunciation was sufficient to expel it from the country. according to dr. stevenson, the festival of holi or the worship of holika devata, in the island of ceylon "has a close resemblance to the english festival of the may-pole, which originated in a religious ceremony or festival of the cushites (called phoenicians) who anciently occupied western europe"[11 [11] quoted by baldwin, prehistoric nations, p. 223. the ash is the scandinavian tree of life, and, like the sacred trees of all nations, is emblema

h that of serpent and phallic faiths, that it is impossible to consider it, even in a brief manner, without anticipating these later developments; yet linked with earth- and sun-worship, it doubtless prevailed for many ages absolutely unconnected with the grosser ideas with which it subsequently became associated. chapter iii. sun-worship--female and male energies in the sun "when we inquire into the worship of nations in the earliest periods to which we have access by writing or tradition, we find that the adoration of one god, without temples or images, universally prevailed"[23 [23] godfrey higgins, celtic druids. underlying all the ancient religions of which we have any account, may be observed the great energizing force throughout nature recognized and reverenced as the deity. this fo

red. regarding the mystic word om, we are told that it is the name given to delphi, and that "delphi has the meaning of the female organs of generation called in india the os minxoe" although the great god of india was female and male, yet we are assured by forlong that the female energy maya, queen of heaven, even at the present time is more heard of than the male principle. according to bryant, the worship of ham is the most ancient as well as the most universal of any in the world. this writer remarks that ham, instead of representing an individual, is but a greek corruption of om or aum, the great androgynous god of india, a god which is identical in significance with aleim, vesta, and all the other representatives of the early dual, universal power "in the old language god was called

nce, all the gods resolved themselves into the sun, and if light and life, or wisdom and the power to reproduce and sustain life, constituted the deity, then of course god or the sun would be female or male, or both, according to the prevailing belief in the comparative creative and sustaining forces of the sexes. from what appears in the foregoing pages the fact has doubtless been perceived that the worship of a virgin and child does not, as is usually supposed, belong exclusively to the romish christian church, but, on the contrary, that it constitutes the most remote idea of a creator 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 concept

identical attribute of universality which the hindoos give to their goddess isi or devi"[35 [35] ibid. it seems to be the general belief of all writers whose object is to disclose rather than conceal the ancient mysteries, that until a comparatively recent time the moon was never worshipped as isis. until the origin and meaning of the ancient religion had been forgotten, and the ideas underlying the worship of nature had been lost, the moon was never regarded as representing the female principle. when man began to regard himself as the only important factor in procreation, and when the sun became masculine and heat or passion constituted the god-idea, the moon was called isis. the moon represented the absence of heat, it therefore contained little of the recognized god-element. it was, pe

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ferior mother, the bride of the microprosopus.thefour letters yod, he, vau, he, or as we say ihvh, of the name, we call yahveh, or jehovah, are allotted and distributed among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner: so that even if to some jewish exoteric teachers 'jehovah' is the name in especial of the so-called passive principle, or female aspect of binah- and that this did at times degenerate into the worship of the groves- yet this stigma does not attach to the kabalistic conception of the tetragrammaton, that dreadful name of majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews. time will not permit me to extend much farther this paper on the doctrines of the kabalah; but i may say that the teachin

wth of the system had, we believe, been in process from before the christian era. when the kabalahfirst took shape as a concrete whole, and a philosophic system, will remain for ever an unknown datum,butif we regard it- as, i believe, is correct- as the esotericism of the religion of the hebrews, the foundation dogmas are doubtless almost as old as the first promulgation of the main principles of the worship of jehovah. i cannot now attempt any glance at the contentions of some doubting scholars, who question whether the story of the twelve tribes is a historic fact, or whether there ever were a moses. it is sufficient for my present purpose that the jewish nation had the jehovistic theology and a complete system of priestly caste, and a coherent doctrine, at the time of the second temple

in greek, who mentions the circle of the zodiac. euripides, however, speaks of hippo, daughter of chiron, as being able to divine future events by means of observations of the stars.itis of course true that recent writers on greek myths have asserted relations between the incidents of these myths and astronomical facts, and have explained that greek and roman religious ideals were connected with the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.theprobably mythical orpheus is said to have first taught astronomy to the greeks. there are three lands which contest the claim to the earliest astronomical observations, egypt, india, and the akkadian empire of uncertain area, to which succeeded the babylonian civilization with which the chaldeans and hebrews were later associated. china also postulates a

ages. in the earliest time, the pythia was a young virgin, but a pythia having been seduced by a man of thessaly, it was decreed that every future pythia should be fifty years old,but196themagical masonshe was always clad as a young girl. the oracles which have come down to us are all in greek and the oldest were in verse; the messages always tended to inculcate religious conduct and to encourage the worship of the. gods. the real control ofthis oracle is believed to have been ill the hands of five priests selected from the noble families or: delphi; it lost its great fame about 400b.c.,butwas still consulted even down to 200a.d.other famous oracular shrines were those of zeus at olympia and dodona; of apollo at delos, and the cave of trophoniusin bceotia, pausanias gives a full account of

he society existed in the era of any of the authors of the old testament of whom malachi, the last of the prophets, died about 400b.c.theearliest information regarding the essenes as a sect of the jews is derived from the worksofthelearned jew, philo of alexandria, who flourished about 40a.d.;his writings show that although he was a deep student of greek philosophy he retained his hebrew faith in the worship of jehovah; we find his thoughts wandered also to those theological notions which were subsequently displayed by the worksofpaul and the doctrines of st john the evangelist. philo appears to have decided that the greek philosophers werebutmen who dressed up the tenets of his great inspired teacher moses in new forms, and that they wrote in greek phrases truths already enshrined more or

tees,butthere does not appear to me to be any basis for the suggestion that the originoffreemasonryhadany relation toit,for almost all that is known of mithraism is of quite recent discovery, due to archaological and architectural research among the ruins of many countries. antecedent to modern investigations there wasbutlittle available information upon the origin and doctrines of mith255 raism, the worship of mithra as the sun god; reliance was placed upon short notices to be found in thede i sideetosirideandlifeofpompeyby plutarch, who dieda.d.120.itis referred to by porphyry, who dieda.d.305, in hiscave of the nymphsand in hisde abstinentia;and by nonnus in hisdionysiacaabout 410.thechristian fathers st jerome, who dieda.d.420, tertullian, in hisdecoronaanddeprdjscriptionehereticorum,a

edamithraic ritual,1907.themost complete account of mithraic remains is to be found in the works offrankcumont,textesetmonumentsfiguresrelatifsauxmysteresdemithra,1896-99, andlesmysteresde mithra1913. cumont was a professor at the university of ghent. a summary of recent discoveries and opinions has been written by f. legge, and also a valuable essay by h. stuart jones.itwas generally stated that the worship of mithra originated246themagical masonfrom zend, iranian or persian mazdeism, a religion founded by zoroaster, also called zarathrustra, who was an inspired sage about whom nothing definite is known,butit is considered that he flourished about 700b.c.theavesta or zendavesta is the sacred volume associated with this religion. modern researches have led to the opinion that the cult of m

r of mithra on the 16th day of the 7th month,butthere are now no worshippers of mithra alone. mithraism spread from its home in asia through greece and its colonies into italy, and became in rome itself as famous as that of its egyptian competitor the cult of serapis, it extended over a great part of south and western europe and even reached britain, being spread by the roman soldiers who adopted the worship of mithra in great numbers; they were introduced to this cult at the period of pompey in his wars with cilicia. both of these cults were, however, abolished by the domination of christianity under the emperor constantine abouta.d.330.thegod of this world, according to zoroaster, was ahura mazda, king of light and spirit of the sun, often called ormuzd by english authors- a great being

ess of animals and men to become objects of reverence and worship as representing gods or deified ancestors. in later times, when the art of building had made progress, particular stones and portions of a building received special workmanship as well as particular names; for example, note the corner stone, the key stone, and the cape stone; and at last complete buildings of stone were erected for the worship of god- altars, temples and churches. at the period of our masonic initiation we are made to represent the foundation stone always placed at the north255 east corner of the building; one side facing to the north representing darkness and ignorance, and. the other to the rising sun of knowledge in the east. this corner stone was andsrillis often laid with ceremonial forms, and beneathit

referring again to rough and hewn stones it is curious to note that in exodus xx, 25, we read that an altar must not be built of hewn stones; and again, joshua raises an altar of 'stones upon which no man has laid a tool (joshua viii, 31) the reason given being that men should not be encouraged to shape stones for religious purposes, lest they come to make statues of gods, and so become led into the worship of idols, which, however, all the races of the holy land were very prone to practise.thecubical stone receives a highly spiritualised symbolism in the christain degrees of our order, notably in the rose-croix ritual which, referring in one point to failure, loss and despair, states that the cubical stone pours forth..and;*here it is taken reverentially as a symbol of the crucifixion. i

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e only proved charges were that they healed. sick persons by someceremonial,a study of a good collection of witchcraft trials, such as. may be found for example in pitcairn'scriminaltrials,will leave no doubt that most of the christian scientists today would have stood a very poor chance two or three hundred years ago. the confessions of witches of those days contain lurid and graphic accounts of the worship of the devil, and there are certain jesuit writers today who would persuade us that. all freemasons are devil worshippers. but without going this. lengthit.is well known that societiesofsatanists do exist in italy, and in paris, and are not wholly unknown even in london. we may imagine then thatifwecould.project ourselves backwards some two or three hundred years we should find much th

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divinized by their philosophy. when we look briefly at masonic literature, we may begin to see that this organization is nothing more than organized humanism, as well as recognize that its aim is to create throughout the whole world a secular, humanist order. these ideas were born among the humanists of fourteenth century europe; present-day masons still propose and defend them. masonic humanism: the worship of humanity the internal publications of the masons describe in detail the humanist philosophy of the organization and their hostility to monotheism. there are countless explanations, interpretations, quotations and allegories offered on this subject in masonic publications. as we said at the beginning, humanism has turned its face from the creator of humanity and accepted humans as "t

describe in detail the humanist philosophy of the organization and their hostility to monotheism. there are countless explanations, interpretations, quotations and allegories offered on this subject in masonic publications. as we said at the beginning, humanism has turned its face from the creator of humanity and accepted humans as "the highest form of being in the universe" in fact, this implies the worship of humanity. this irrational belief, that began with the kabbalist humanists in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, continues today in modern masonry. one of the fourteenth century's most famous humanists was pico della mirandola. his work entitled conclusiones philosophicae, cabalisticae, et theologicae was condemned by pope innocent viii in 1489 as containing heretical ideas. mir

as pico della mirandola. his work entitled conclusiones philosophicae, cabalisticae, et theologicae was condemned by pope innocent viii in 1489 as containing heretical ideas. mirandola wrote that there is nothing in the world higher than the glory of mankind. the humanism revisited pico della mirandola, a prominent kabbalist humanist. church saw this as a heretical idea that was nothing less than the worship of humanity. indeed, this was a heretical idea because there is no other being to be glorified except god. humanity is merely his creation. today, masons proclaim mirandola's heretical idea of the worship of humanity much more openly. for example, in a local masonic booklet, it says: primitive societies were weak and, because of this weakness, they divinized the power and phenomena aro

t human beings are his servants. this fact is briefly touched on by another writer, j.d. buck, in his book mystic masonry: the only personal god freemasonry accepts is humanity in toto. humanity therefore is the only personal god that there is.47 evidently, masonry is a kind of religion. but, it is not a monotheistic religion; it is a humanist religion and, therefore, a false religion. it enjoins the worship of humanity, not of god. masonic writings insist on this point. in an article in the magazine turk mason (the turkish mason, it says "we always acknowledge that the high ideal of masonry lies in 'humanisme' doctrine."48 another turkish publication explains that humanism is a religion: global freemasonry ik far from dry sermons on religious dogmas, but a genuine religion. and our humani

stablish a moral world, but to establish a secular world. in other words, masons do not espouse the philosophy of humanism because they grant a high importance to morality, but only to transmit to society the notion that religion is not necessary. the masonic goal: to establish a humanist world the humanist philosophy, which masons regard so highly is founded on the rejection of faith in god, and the worship of human beings, or the veneration of "humanity" in his place. but, this raises an important question: do masons reserve this belief for themselves only, or do they wish it to be adopted by others as well? when we look at masonic writings, we can clearly see the answer to this question: the goal of this organization is to spread the humanist philosophy throughout the world, and to erad

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does not degrade the role of myth, legend, tales and scriptures but places them in the real position, that is, as the outer flesh or form of the mysteries. scriptures cannot stand alone, within the gnosis at their heart, they become as stone. impersonal to personal as part of the gnostic worldview is the understanding of the role of personalism in religion. by personalism we mean not only theism (the worship of a personal god) but the use of gods and goddess with personality, character and humanness. this tendency is found in all religious traditions, while in the pagan traditions the gods seem more human, it is certainly also found in the monotheistic traditions as well. jehovah and allah at times seem all too human. for the gnostic the impersonal is the highest principle, the unoriginate

n we consider the current state of world affairs then it does seem that some sort of nefarious plan has been in operation. in conspiracy or degeneracy by revilo.p.oliver we read the following. a theory that a conspiracy has been working consciously for many centuries is not very plausible unless one attributes to them a religious unity. that is tantamount to regarding them as satanists engaged in the worship and service of supernatural evil, the directors of the conspiracy must see or otherwise directly perceive manifestations which convince them of the existence and power of lucifer (satan. and since subtle conspirators must be very shrewd men, not likely to be deceived by auto-suggestion, hypnosis,or drugs, we should have to conclude that they probably are in contact with a force of pure

migrations from the arctic were caused by changes in weather patterns, aryan man spread across the globe and mankind entered the silver age. during the silver or lunar epoch, earth cults took ascendancy, the feminine and fertility became of paramount significance and this lead to an emphasis on pagan and gaia oriented traditions. the research of marija gimbutas and others gives a good outline of the worship that occurred in this period. as the ages unfounded, in reaction against this earthly epoch, the dionysian or copper age began. the worship of strength, violence, masculine virtues battle against the feminine values and patriarchal civilisations were formed. while these civilisations were of great historical importance, to achieve their balance they suppressed the lunar or silver cultu

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, and by aligning with them slowly transform our essence from dialectic to static. while an extensive study will be made of the festivals, in both theory and practice, in later volumes, it is useful to appreciate their juxtaposition with festivals of the world. the feasts of light celebrate the liberation of man from matter, while traditional earth festivals used in most pagan traditions focus on the worship of the earth itself. earth systems focus on the death and resurrection of the earth and by default make the celebrator subservient to the earth. gnostic festivals focus on the death of the dialectic and resurrection of the static, and by default make the celebrant triumphant over earth and a partaker of the powers of light. life on the path life on the path is difficult, it is a battle

have occurred around the globe, the oldest finds have been of fertility figures with exaggerated sexual organs and images which give evidence of early forms of star watching and astronomy. since these earliest discoveries all seem to fall cleanly into one of two classes, then it is tempting to evaluate them in the light of the gnostic tradition. it is likely that the fertility symbols represented the worship of earth, the desire to reproduce, the submission of mankind to the physical, while the watching of the stars (the sky cult) illustrates the early development of the gnostic desire to go beyond. this contradiction is important for it shows that even during the earliest periods, there was a dividing line- a duality between those of the sky cult who knew, and those of the earth cult who

ission of mankind to the physical, while the watching of the stars (the sky cult) illustrates the early development of the gnostic desire to go beyond. this contradiction is important for it shows that even during the earliest periods, there was a dividing line- a duality between those of the sky cult who knew, and those of the earth cult who were in ignorance. for the gnostic the earth cults and the worship of fertility represents the loss of individual immortality with the life or essence returning to the spirit of the family, the totems and ancestors with the result that all realisation is lost (at least for that life time. the sky cult with its secret calculations, esoteric astrology and megalithic structures represented the knowledge of the light worlds, a desire to return to whence w

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at flood in which the majority of the population died. bochica was very angry and exiled chia from the earth to the sky, where she became the moon given the task of lighting the nights. he also caused the waters of the flood to dissipate and brought down the few survivors from the mountains where they had taken refuge. thereafter he gave them laws, taught them to cultivate the land and instituted the worship of the sun with periodic festivals, sacrifices and pilgrimages. he then divided the power to govern among two chiefs and spent the remainder of his days on earth living in quiet contemplation as 10 lenormant, writing in contemporary review, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 99. 11 popol vuh, p. 90. 12 ibid, p. 93. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 189 an ascetic. when

illennium bc20. is it likewise coincidental that rams, in one context or another, are referred to in almost every book of the old testament (entirely composed during the age of aries) but in not a single book of the new testament?21 and is it an accident that the advent of the age of aries, shortly before the beginning of the second millennium bc, was accompanied in ancient egypt by an upsurge in the worship of the god amon whose symbol was a ram with curled horns?22 work on the principal sanctuary of amon the temple of karnak at luxor in upper egypt was begun at around 2000 bc23 and, as those who have visited that temple will recall, its principal icons are rams, long rows of which guard its entrances. the immediate predecessor to the age of aries was the age of taurus 15 hamlet s mill, p

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he country folk in italy, mary stands well in the foreground of their religion; the madonnas of several churches in naples are looked upon as so many different divine beings, and even as rivals, and a santa venere by their side gives no offence. three marys together (p. 416, note) resemble the three norns and three fays; mary cai'ries stones and earth in her apron (p. 537) like athena or the fay. the worship of maiy altogether, being neither founded on scripture nor recognised by the first centuries, can only be explained by the fact of those pretty and harmless but heathen fancies having taken such deep root in the people that the church also gradually combined with them a more daintily devised and statelier devotion (attentio) which we find woven into numerous legends and sermons. but ma

e with teaching many gods, yet one can see in what respect catholics stand in the same relation to heathens as protestants do to catholics. heathenism bowed before the power of pure christianity; in course of time heathenish movements broke out in the church afresh, and from these the eeformation strove to purify it. the polytheistic principle, still working on, had fastened on two points mainly, the worship of saints, of which i have spoken, and that of relics (conf. gds. p. 149. a stifling smell of the grave pervades the medieval churches and chapels from an adoring of dead bones, whose genuineness and miraculous power seem rarely well attested, and sometimes quite impossible. the weightiest affairs of life, oathtakings, illnesses, required a touching of these sanctities, and all histori

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ger. the multi tude will give up its great divinities, yet persist for a time in the more private worship of household gods; even these it will renounce, and retain its reverence for elements. the history of the heathen and christian religions shews, that long after the one was fallen and the other established, there lived on, nay there live still, a number of superstitious customs connected with the worship of elements. it is the last, the all but indestructible remnant of heathenism; when gods collapse, these naked sub stances come to the front again, with which the being of those had mysteriously linked itself (see suppl. to this effect i have already expressed myself (pp. 82-84) in watek. 583 speaking of a worship of nature by our ancestors, which, is indeed supported by early testimon

36, means sacrificing to the water-sprite. the vita s. sulpicii biturig (died 644) relates (acta bened. sec. 2, p. 172: f gurges quidam erat in yirisionensium situs agello (vierzon, in biturigibus) aquarum mole copiosus, utpote daemonibus consecratus; et si aliquis causa qualibet ingrederetur eundem, repente funibus daemoniacis circumplexus amittebat crudeliter vitam/ a more decisive testimony to the worship of water itself is what gregory of tours tells of a lake on mt. helanus (de gloria confess, cap. 2: mons erat in gabalitano territorio (gevaudan) cognomento helanus, lacum habens magnum. ad quern certo ternpore multitude rusticorum, quasi libamina lacui illi exubens, 1 sup. i, 342: the lazy maid, on carrying home her first grass, is ducked or splashed, to prevent her going to sleep ove

y black. they then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. the bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to baal, ivhose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. the devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames. here the reference to the worship of a deity is too plain to be mistaken: we see by the leaping over the flame, that the main point was, to select a human being to propitiate the god and make him merci ful, that afterwards an animal sacrifice was substituted for him, and finally, nothing remained of the bodily immolation but a leap through the fire for man and beast. the holy rite of friction is not mentioned here, but

ut they must be a great deal older, if only for the contrast with midsummer fires, which never could penetrate into north germany, because the people there held fast by their easter fires. now, seeing that the fires of st. john, as we "shall presently shew, are more immediately connected with the christian church than those of easter, it is not unreasonable to trace these all the way back to the worship of the goddess ostard or edstre (p. 291, who seems to have been more a saxon and anglian divinity than one revered all over germany. her name and her fires, which are likely to have come at the beginning of may, would after the conversion of the saxons be shifted back to the christian feast. 2 those mountain fires of the people are scarcely derivable from the taper lighted in the churc

ess to mother earth, to a stone, a plant, an oak, or to the reed (morolt 1438. this personification of the oven hangs together with mid. age notions about orcus and hell as places of fire. conf. erebi fornax (walthar. 867, and what was said above, p. 256, on fornax. the luminous element permitted a feast to be prolonged into the night, and fires have always been a vehicle for testifying joy. when the worship had passed over into mere joy-fires, ignis jocunditatis, feux de joie, engl. bon-flres, these could, without any reference to the service of a deity, be employed on other occasions, especially the entry of a king or conqueror. thus they made a torch-waggon follow the king, which was afterwards set on fire, like the plough and wheels at the feast of st. john 1 haus und kinderm. 2, 20. 3

lowed to beasts, and sensation to plants (see suppl; and as every kind of transition and exchange of forms was supposed to take place amongst all creatures: it follows at once, that to some a higher worth may have been assigned, and this heightened even up to divine veneration. gods and men transformed themselves into trees, plants or beasts, spirits and elements assumed animal, forms; why should the worship they had hitherto enjoyed be withheld from the altered type of their manifestation? brought under this point of view, there is nothing to startle us in the veneration of trees or animals. it has become a gross thing only when to the consciousness of men the higher being has vanished from behind the form he assumed, and the form alone has then to stand for him. we must however distingui

i hann sva mikla elsko (love, at hann strengdi]?ess heit (vow, at hann skyldi]?eim manni at bana versa, er)?eim hesti rr5i an hans vilja/ brand s atrunaft refers, no doubt, to the same circumstance of his horse being hallowed and devoted to the god. a striking testimony to this is found in olafs tryggvasonar saga: 3 tidings came to the king, that the traendir (men of drontheim) had turned back to the worship of freyr, whose statue still stood among them. when the king commanded them to break the image, they re plied: f ei munum ver briota liknesjci freys, jrviat ver hofum leingi 1 sviftr, gen. svirms, like masr, manns. 2 reminding of the germ. beast-apologue (eeinh. cclxiii. in fornald. sog. 1, 169 kafii prefers, wrongly i think, the reading hofsi, head. ed. skalh. 1698. 1690. 2, 190 cap

d animals. as. hryfter, hroser, but wlio can tell whether rinde cortex was not once aspirated too? evpatrrj, the name of one quarter of the earth, must surely also mean earth (evpela the broad, and on p. 338 i made a guess that euro-pa, whom zeus courted in the shape of a bull, must herself have been thought of as a cow, like lo; it was not the earth took name from her, but she from the earth. on the worship of cows and oxen by the indians, egypt ians and eomans, i refer to a. w. schlegel s learned treatise.1 the israelites also made a burnt-offering of a red heifer (goth, kalbo) upon which never came yoke/ numb. 19, 2 (see suppl. the boar and the lie-goat were holy sacrificial beasts (p. 50-1-2, the boar 2 dedicated to freyr (p. 213, he and she goats to thorr (p. 185, as goats are even ye

ungry all the year. when the cuckoo has eaten his fill of cherries three times, he leaves off singing. as the cuckoo s song falls silent at midsummer, vulgar opinion holds that from that time he turns into a hawk. reusch, n. pr. prov. bl. 5, 338-9. the poles call the bird zezula, the bohemians ezhule (both fern. the 0. pol. chronicle of prokosz,1 p. 113 of the lat. ed, has a remarkable account of the worship of a slavic god zyvie( divinitati zywie fanum exstrueturn erat in monte ab ejusdem nomine zywiec dicto, ubi primis diebus mensis maji innumerus populus pie conveniens precabatur ab ea, quae vitae 3 auctor habebatur, longam et prosperam valetudinem. praecipue tamen ei litabatur ab iis qui primum cantum cuculi audivissent, ominantes superstitiose tot annos se victuros quoties vocem repet

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e crossed after or between convocations or lectures. it represents the passage from darkness to light, and from finite life to infinite life. the temple the word is derived from the latin tempos.time. to us, the true temple of which we hope to be masters is the body of man, finding its counterpart in the universe, which is the temple of god. the term temple is applied to our buildings, devoted to the worship of god and god's laws, wherein are chambers for study, work, and meditation. because of the sacredness of such study, work, and meditation, our temples are sacred, and must be so considered and regarded, passively and actively, by all members "as above, so below" the temple of god is universal, non-sectarian, charged with cosmic powers and vibrating forces, and designed by the master a

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l geography was to become increasingly characteristic of egyptian culture. that culture seemed to suffer a setback when a palestinian dynasty took control of the delta region of northern egypt during the seventeenth century bce. these foreign rulers, known as the hyksos, established a capital at avaris, a region where seth was the leading deity. seth was equated with the palestinian god baal, and the worship of foreign goddesses such as astarte and anat (see deities, themes, and concepts) seems to have been introduced into egypt at this time. hyksos kings called themselves sons of ra, but one of them bore the name of ra s archenemy apophis.40 a legend tells how king apophis picked a quarrel with the egyptian ruler of the theban area by complaining that the roaring of the hippopotami kept 5

were dedicated to the cult of aten, a form of the sun god represented by the solar disk. akhenaten built huge temples for aten that were open to the sky. he established a new capital and a new royal burial ground at akhetaten (modern tell el-amarna. akhenaten suppressed the cult of amun, but the idea that he closed down all of egypt s temples seems to be an exaggeration.45 in akhenaten s theology the worship of aten as the creator sun god and the king as his representative on earth made other deities and their myths superfluous. belief in a separate realm of the dead ruled by osiris was replaced by the idea that spirits of the dead could live on in the aten temples. akhenaten s religious and political policies were not popular, and under the boy king tutankhamun (tutankhamon (c. 1336 1327

ic acts of independent beings that are the mainspring of mythical narratives become almost irrelevant in such a context. new kingdom hymns, such as those preserved in papyrus leiden i 350, explore the idea that all deities are aspects of the creator. they speculate on the miraculous process by which the one creator, usually named as amun-ra, was introduction 25 able to divide himself into many.58 the worship of the creator sun god as the maintainer of the universe was widespread among the egyptian elite. solar hymns celebrating the day and night voyages of ra were inscribed at the entrances to some new kingdom private tombs or on statues of priests and officials. by the end of the new kingdom, a version of the litany of ra was appended to the mortuary texts known as the book of the dead. t

by your sight all flocks of animals frisk. birds in the nest fly up joyfully, beating their wings in praise of the living aten, their creator. it is emphasized that aten created all the foreign countries and their peoples, not just egypt and the egyptians. the only category of beings who are missing are the numerous gods and goddesses who would come first in more traditional accounts of creation. the worship of aten as the solar disk had been prominent from the beginning of the new kingdom. in the early years of akhenaten s reign, aten was identified with various manifestations of the creator sun god such as ra- horakhty and shu. later these references to other deities were purged, and aten was redefined as the light which comes from the solar disk. this could not really be depicted, so th

ined as the light which comes from the solar disk. this could not really be depicted, so the disk-and-rays image of aten may be no more than an elaborate hieroglyphic writing of the god s name. the rays only hold out life to the king and the female members of the royal family. everyone else was expected to receive life from akhenaten and his chief queen, nefertiti, in return for absolute loyalty. the worship of the most popular creator god, amun-ra, was banned, and the cults of other deities were neglected or ignored. akhenaten tried to abolish most of the complex mythology that had grown up around the solar cycle. there was to be no nightly struggle against the forces of chaos. akhenaten s theology produced no explanation for the presence of evil or sorrow in the world. when the aten was

written answers. ostracon (pl. ostraca) a potsherd or flake of stone used as a surface for writing or drawing. papyrus a type of reed, the paper made from its stems, or a book-scroll formed from sheets of papyrus. pataikos (pl. pataikoi) a type of dwarf deity used as a protective amulet. pharaoh a title meaning great house (the palace; a respectful way of referring to an egyptian king. polytheism the worship of many gods within a religious tradition. ptolemaic something belonging to the period when the greek ptolemy family ruled egypt. pylon a pair of trapezoidal towers that formed the entrance to a temple. the towers were identified with the mountains of the horizon. pyramid complex a royal burial area consisting of a tomb under or inside a pyramid and two temples for the cult of the dead

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e material character than the doctrines which the priests of heliopolis taught, but it was found impossible to eradicate them from the minds of the people, and the priests therefore framed religious works in such a manner that they might be acceptable both to those who believed in the old animal-gods, tree-gods, plant-gods &c, of egypt, and those who preferred a purely solar cult, such as that of the worship of the sun-god ra. the oldest books of the dead, in fact, represent the compromise arrived at under the ivth, vth, and vith dynasties, between the priests of the old and the new religions. this being so, the religious texts of the period represent too much a patch-work belief for purposes of systematic illustration, and in the result, and perhaps also through the funeral customs of the

the xivth dynasty reigned at xo s, in the delta, and many of them were contemporaries of the kings in upper egypt. the kings of the xvth and xvith dynasties were hyksos, or "shepherd kings" and their rule was overthrown by seqenen-ra, iii, a king of the xviith dynasty, and a theban, probably about b.c. 1800. in the interval between the xiith and the xviiith dynasties the ceremonies connected with the worship of the gods in their temples, and the funerals of kings and officials, lost the magnificence which had characterized them under the xiith dynasty, and the building of pyramids and the making of rock-hewn tombs ceased for a period of some hundreds of years. with the rise to power of the theban kings, who formed the xviiith dynasty, a marvellous development of temple and funeral ceremoni

lf. once in the abode of the blessed he was free to go wherever he pleased, to travel from one sacred place to another, to visit his friends, to eat, to drink, to enjoy the society of his wives and women of pleasure, and to rejoice in a family life which was only a glorified duplicate of that which he had known on earth. the gods he knew there were much like himself, and the extent and fervour of the worship which he devoted to them was exactly in proportion to the assistance which they rendered to him; his chief anxiety was not to forget the words of power which he had learned. his occupation consisted in watching the growth of crops, for all the necessary work was performed by beings who carried out his every behest. we now pass on to describe the abode of the blessed according to the "b

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as to restore the great doctrine of wisdom in its primitive integrity. the narratives of the bible and the stories of the gods he considered to be allegories illustrative of the truth, or else fables to be rejected. as says the edinburgh encyclopedia: moreover, he acknowledged that jesus christ was an excellent man and the "friend of god" but alleged that it was not his design entirely to abolish the worship of demons (gods, and that his only intention was to purify the page 7 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt ancient religion -ooo- the wisdom-religion, esoteric in all ages q. since ammonius never committed anything to writing, how can one feel sure that such were his teachings? a. neither did buddha, pythagoras, confucius, orpheus, socrates, or even jesus, leave behind them any writi

73. macrocosm (gr) the "great universe" or kosmos, literally. magic the "great" science. according to deveria and other orientalists "magic was considered as a sacred science inseparable from religion" by the oldest and most civilized and learned nations. the egyptians, for instance, were a most sincerely religious nation, as were, and are still, the hindus "magic consists of, and is acquired by, the worship of the gods" says plato. could, then, a nation which, owing to the irrefragable evidence of inscriptions and papyri, is proved to have firmly believed in magic for thousands of years, have been deceived for so long a time? and is it likely that generations upon generations of a learned and pious hierarchy, many among whom led lives of self-martyrdom, holiness, and asceticism, would hav

t, is far older than the brahmins in india, or even of them as a caste. the upanishads are, however, far later than gupta-vidya, or the "secret science" which is as old as human philosophical thought itself. vahan (sans "vehicle" a synonym of upadhi. vallabhach ryas sect (sans, or the "sect of the mahar jas" a licentious phallic-worshipping community, whose main branch is at bombay. the object of the worship is the infant krishna. the anglo-indian government was compelled several times to interfere in order to put a stop to its rites and vile practices, and its governing mahar ja, a kind of high priest, was more than once imprisoned, and very justly so. it is one of the blackest spots of india. vedanta (sans) meaning literally, the "end of all knowledge" among the six darshanas or the scho

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said it had been there before d'iberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voodoo orgy was, indeed, on the merest fringe of this abhorred area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield th

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hat its contour and position were not altogether the work of nature. a closer scrutiny filled me with sensations i cannot express; for despite its enormous magnitude, and its position in an abyss which had yawned at the bottom of the sea since the world was young, i perceived beyond a doubt that the strange object was a well-shaped monolith whose massive bulk had known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and thinking creatures. dazed and frightened, yet not without a certain thrill of the scientist's or archaeologist's delight, i examined my surroundings more closely. the moon, now near the zenith, shone weirdly and vividly above the towering steeps that hemmed in the chasm, and revealed the fact that a far-flung body of water flowed at the bottom, winding out of sight in bot

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f the mad arab abdul alhazred! it seems that this shocking blasphemy was produced by a native of sana, in yemen, who flourished about 700 a.d& made many mysterious pilgrimages to babylon's ruins, memphis's catacombs& the devil-haunted& untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh, where he claimed to have found records of things older than mankind& to have learnt the worship of yog-sothoth& cthulhu. the book was a product of abdul's old age, which was spent in damascus& the original title was al azif- azif (cf. henley's notes to vathek) being the name applied to those strange night noises (of insects) which the arabs attribute to the howling of daemons. alhazred died- or disappeared- under terrible circumstances in the year 738. in 950 al azif was translat

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said it had been there before d'lberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voodoo orgy was, indeed, on the merest fringe of this abhorred area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass towards the red glare and the muffled tomtoms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yiel

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se. the magician has to consider these rules of analogy when he is producing and loading such a pentacle, which he will always prefer to the talisman, especially if he wants to communicate with beings of other higher worlds, no matter whether good or evil entities are concerned, genii or demons. an amulet again is a divine, or a holy verse from the bible, a mantram, which is a sentence expressing the worship of a deity, written on parchment or paper. carrying around various magic herbs such as mandrake and the like which are believed to possess a kind of protective power belongs to this category of amulets too. furthermore, this category includes fluid condensers in solid or liquid form or blotting papers moistened with them, loadstones and natural magnets as well as tiny artificial horses

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a, which became manifest in outbursts of weeping and bodily convulsions, but which he attributed to the devils "playing the ape, and counterfeiting the works of the lord" he states that one sunday, in the midst of public worship, p. 93 "one of my charge, being a dull and ignorant person, made a noise and stretching of her body. incontinent i was assisted to rebuke that lying spirit that disturbed the worship of god, charging the same not to disturb the congregation; and through god's mercy we met with no more of that work" thus modestly our writer sets down what happened in his autobiography; but the account of the incident spread far and wide, and at length came to the ears of archbishop usher, who, on his next meeting with mr. blair, warmly congratulated him on the successful exorcism he

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anctioned by st. augustine himself, who does not "disapprove of this method of learning futurity, provided it be not used for worldly purposes" more than that, he confesses having practised it himself* aye; but the clergy called it tortea tanctonttn, when it was th^ who practised it; while the aortes jtrasneatinae, succeeded by the torie* hamericae and larua virplianae, were abominable healaenimt the worship of the devil, when used by any one else. gregory de tours informs us that when the clergy resorted to the tortet their custom was to lay the bible on the altar, and to pray the lord that he would discover his will, and disclose to them futurity in one of the verses ra the book* gilbert de nogent writes that in bis days 31. vidt the title-pa zeit. berlin. 1830. th- oer^uai reformalum, b

egret. etc" but it does not state the subsequent fate of the puiaged books. in rivalry of the fierce mary-worshipers of the fourth century, the modem clerical persecutors of liberalism and 'heresy' would willingly' shut up all the heretics and their books in some modem serapion and bum them alive* the cause of this hatred is natural. 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

ts. the headquarters of these were always at babylon and chaldaea, niiete two rival schools of mayans can be distinctly shown. those who would doubt the statement will have in sudi a case to account for the discrepancy between history and halo, who of all men of his day was certainly one of the best in- formed. speaking of the magians, he shows them as instructing the per- sian kings of [i. e, in the worship according to] zoroaster, as the son or priest of oromazdes" and yet darius, in the inscription at behistun, boasts of having restored the cult of ormazd and put down the magian rites! evidently there were two distinct and antagonistic magian schools, the oldest and the most esoteric of the two being that which, satisfied with its unassailable knowledge and secret power, was content app

and offered a strong opposition to the idolatrous and exoteric practices of the dead letter. hence the frequent stoning of the prophets by the populace under the leadership of those priests who made a profitable living out of the popu- lar superstitions. ottfried muller shows how much the orphic mysteries differed from the popular rites of bacchus" although the orphikoi are known to have followed the worship of bacchus. the system of the purest morality and of a severe asceticism promulgated in the teachings of orpheus, and so strictly adhered to by his votaries, is incompatible with the lasciviouaneas and gross immorality of the popular rites. the fable of aristaeus pursuing eurydice into the woods where a serpent occa^ dons her death* is a very plain allegory which was in part explained

ation "tbe indivisible point which has no limit and cannot be comprehended [for it is absolute, expanded from within and formed a brightness which served as a garment [a veil] to tbe indivi ble point. it also expanded from within. thus tverything originated through a constant upheaving agitation, and thus finally tbe world originated" in the later zoroastrian books, after darius had both restored the worship of ormazd and added to it tbe purer magianism of tbe primitive secret witdom mnostlldsn, of wbidi, as tjie inscription tcjls us, he was himself a hierophant we see agmn reappearing tbe zeru-ana, or boundless time, represented by tbe brabmanas in the chakra, or a circle, which we see figuring on tbe uplifted finger of tbe principal deities. farther on we will show the relation in which

essenes belonged to the latter as well as to all other 815. we were told that there were iteariy 20,000 of mch books. digitizecoy google 324 isis unveiled initiated brotheriiooda, without even mentioiung the krishna-ites os india. lepsius shows that the word nqfer means ckrettos 'good' and that one of the titles of osiris "onnofer (fjn-nefer) must be translated "the goodness of god made manifest "the worship of christ was not universal at this early date" explains mackenzie "by which i mean that chiistolatry had not been introduced; but the worship of ckrettoa the good principle bad preceded it by many centuries, and even sur^ vived the general adoption of christianity, as shown on monuments still in existence .again, we have an inscription which is pre-christian on an epitaphial tablet (s

ality to the buddhists the abb6 hue, we mean finds occasion for nothing but admiration for the high individual character of these 'devil- worshipers; we must consider sikya-muni's philosophy a^ something more than the religion of fetishism and atheism, which the catholics would have us believe it. hue was a missionary, and it was his first duty to regard buddhism as no better than an outgrowth of the worship of satan. the poor abb6 was struck off the list of missionaries at rome" after his 683. phatdna. 55. 884. e.zeller: plato and lh older academy; london. ssfi. laim. x, idii. 8se. mmx muuer: ckipt. etc. i. p. 182. sb7. 0 the abb hue. mu muller thiu wrote in ua chipt jnm a oermaa work- thop, i, d. 187 "the late abu hue pointed out the limilarities between the bud- dhut uid roman catholic

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t our time, i saw how each god is a grid point in a cosmic chakra system which mirrors our own, and how each grid point is a doorway that pulses a certain beat, and how some grid points radiate more powerfully than others and hence can reach deeper through the fields. i saw that the reason that our sun can nourish all life is because it too is a god that attracts and radiates divine power. and so the worship of the sun can also attract field nourishment and pranic light. in terms of divine nourishment. as being like taping into a source of cosmic electricity. let s look at grids and cabling, and matrixes and drives. metaphysicians know that our sun receives its power from the central sun in beats of ten and then diffuses this to a seven beat to feed all life on earth. we know that the cent

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nstitutes, as mr. sellon asserts, to this day one of the chief, if not the leading, dogma of the hindoo religion. incontestable evidence could be adduced to prove this however strange and impossible it seems the key of all worship the world over; and highest in esteem in the most highly civilised nations. though it has degenerated into gross and sensual superstition, it was originally intended as the worship of the creative principle in nature. innumerable curious particulars lie scattered up and down, in all countries of the world, relating to this worship, mad as it seems bad as, in its grossness, it is. it is only in modern times that sensuality, and not sublimity, has been actively assot origin of the fleur-de-lis. 39 ciated with this worship, however. there was a time when the rites c

ive figures for serious worship, prove that there was something very extraordinary, and quite beyond belief to the moderns, in the origin of them. the religion of the phallos (and of its twin emblem) is to be traced all over the east. it prevailed not only amongst the hindoos, assyrians, babylonians, mexicans, etruscans, greeks, and romans, in ancient times, but it still forms an integral part of the worship of india, thibet, china, siam, japan, and africa. we cannot, therefore, afford to ignore this grand scheme of ritual, when we discover it to be a religion so widely spread, and reappearing so unexpectedly, not only in the countries with which we are contemporaneously acquainted, but also in those old countries of which we in reality know very little, or nothing at all; for all history

he sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp, that passed between these pieces (genesis xv. 17. the first appearances of god, then, being in glory or, which is the same thing, in light or fire and he showing his acceptance of sacrifices in so many instances by consuming them with fire, hence it was that the eastern people, and particularly the persians, fell into the worship of fire itself, or rather they conceived fire to be the symbol of god s presence, and they worshipped god in, or by, fire. from the assyrians, or chaldeans, or persians, this worship was propagated southward among the egyptians, and westward among the greeks; and by them it was brought into italy. the greeks were wont to meet together to worship in their prytamia, and there they consul

a mere means of personal record, for, be it remembered, the ancients placed tablets against their walls by way of funeral regists; all follow the same rule. we consider all these as variations of the upright commemorative pillar. the province of brittany, in france, is thickly studded with stone pillars, and the history and manners of its people teem with interesting, and very curious, traces of the worship of them. in these parts, and elsewhere, they are distinguished by the name of menhirs and penlvans. the superstitious veneration of the irish people for such stones is well known. m. de freminville says in his antiquit s du finisterre, p. 106: the celts worshipped a divinity which united the attributes of cybele and venus. this worship prevailed also in spain, as, doubtless, throughout

marked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged horse, the python, the hydra, the bull (osiris, the cow (or io, are mythological ideas which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedrals a creature resembling a dog, or generally like some four-footed animal, trampled by the feet of the recumbent effigy. it is generally a male which is represented as performing this significant efforcement, trampling or piercing with the point of his sword, or the butt of the crosier

e side of the death-bed in the cottage of the peasant. starry lights and innumerable torches at the stately funeral, or at any pompous celebration, mean the same. in short, light all over the world, when applied to religious rites, and to ceremonial, whether in the ancient or in the modern times, bespeaks the same origin, and struggles to express the same meaning, which is parseeism, perseism, or the worship of the deified fire, disguised in many theological or theosophic forms. it will, we trust, never be supposed that we mean, in this, real fire but only the inexpressible something of which real fire, or rather its flower or glory (bright light, is the farthest off because, in being visible at all, it is the grossest and most inadequate image. 188 the rosicrucians. all this strange, drea

third symbol indicates the destroyer, the reformer, or the renewer (the uniter of the two, and thus the preserver or perpetuator eternally renewing itself. the universality of the serpentine worship (or phallic adoration) is attested by emblematic sculpture and architecture all over the world. this does not admit of denial. its character and purpose are, however, wholly misunderstood. not only is the worship of the serpent found everywhere, but it everywhere occupies an important station; and the farther back we go, the more universally it is found, and the more important it appears to have been considered. the destroyer or serpent of genesis is correctly the renovator or preserver. in genesis there is a tree of knowledge and a tree of life. here we have the origin of the ophites, or orien

imilates with that of the jews, and occurs in october at the high tides. they salute the festival with drums and music, and with explosions of crackers. during the feast, nothing is permitted to be thrown into water (for fear of profaning it. here we have the rites of aphrodite or venus, or the watery deity, 204 the rosicrucians. observed even in china, which worship, in protean forms, being also the worship of the dragon or snake, prevails, in its innumerable contradictory and effective disguises, over the whole world. how like are the noises and explosions of crackers &c, to the tumult of the festivals of dionusus or dionysius, to the riot or rout of the corybantes amongst the greeks, to the outcry and wild music of the priests of the salii, and, in modern times, to the noises said to be

us and remote (of course) from human sense. christian monogram. chapter the twenty-fifth. history of the tower or steeple. e have asserted, in an earlier part of our book, that the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumed in its ascent to heaven was, in the monolithic typology, used to signify the great generative power. the coarse sensuality which seems inseperable from modern ideas about the worship of the pillar or upright has no place really in the solemn ancient mind, in which ideas of religion largely and constantly mingled. we must not judge the ancients by too rigid an adherence to our own prepossessions foolish and inveterately hardened as they continually are. the adoration paid to this image of the phallus, which has persisted as an object of worship through all the ages

membri virilis et pudendum muliebre. this emblem is identical with siva in his capacity of lord of all. it is necessary, however, to observe that professor wilson, while admitting that the linga is perhaps the most ancient object of homage adopted in india adds subsequently to the ritual of the vedhas, which was chiefly, if not wholly, addressed to the elements, and particularly to fire. how far the worship of the linga is authorised by the vedhas is doubtful, but that it is the main purport of several of the puranas* there can be no doubt. the universality of linga puja (or worship) at the period of the mahommedan invasion of india is well attested. the idol destroyed by mahmoud of ghizni, was nothing more than one of those mystical blocks of stone called lingas. the worship of siva unde

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her follow me in my way! let her work the work of wickedness! let her kill her heart! let her be loud and adulterous! let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men! 45. then will i lift her to pinnacles of power: then will i breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. i will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see& strike at the worship of nu: she shall achieve hadit. 431 46. i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased. i will bring you to victory& joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! 47. this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always wi

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tury of our era, a large portion of which is substantiated by the egyptian hieroglyphic texts which have been deciphered by scholars. it may be briefly summarized as follows: 146. osiris was a wise king in egypt who set himself to civilize the people and redeem them from their former states of barbarism. he taught them the cultivation of the earth, gave them a body of laws, and instructed them in the worship of the gods. having made his own land prosperous, he set out in like manner to teach the other nations of the world. during his absence the land of egypt was so well ruled by his wife, isis, that his jealous brother typhon (set, the personification of evil, as osiris was the personification of good, could do no harm to his kingdom; but on the return of osiris to egypt typhon made a con

st primitive races enact a drama in which some one, usually a priest or king, represents a god who is slain and comes to life again; that in earlier times at any rate such a representative was really killed and offered up as a sacrifice to ensure fertility; that we first hear of this myth of tammuz in connection with babylon, and that the tribes in the neighbourhood of judaea were all addicted to the worship of that deity. in fact, among the jews themselves we find the prophets blaming the hebrew ladies for taking part in the ritual mourning for him(*ezekiel, viii, 14) 283. solomon himself was by no means definitely monotheistic, and his people betrayed a distinct tendency to run after strange gods. there seems much evidence to prove that the love-song attributed to him in the bible is rea

t give certain analogies- we cannot hope to make exact comparisons; and the difficulty is still greater when we try to compare the ancient with the modern faiths- their whole outlook was so different from ours. 345. the officials 346. the control of the eleusinian mysteries in classical times lay in the hands of two families: the eumolpidae and the keryces or heralds, who were also connected with the worship of the pythian apollo at delphi. most of the officers were chosen from these two families, although there were also important civil representatives of the athenian state who were responsible for the public ceremonial of the mysteries as well as for the control of finance. 347. the chief officer was the hierophant, chosen for life by lot from the eumolpidae. he alone had the guardianshi

s of his character: 435. he was endued with a soul rarely tempered by nature and disposed to virtue, which he had yet more subdued by discipline, a severe life, and the study of philosophy he banished all luxury and softness from his own home, and, while citizens alike and strangers found in him an incorruptible judge and counsellor, in private he devoted himself not to amusement or lucre, but to the worship of the immortal gods, and the rational contemplation of their divine power and nature(*ibid, pp. 130, 131) 436. numa was deeply versed, so far as anyone could be in that age, in all law, divine and human(*livy, bk. i, xviii (loeb ed) says livy; while dio cassius tells us that he shaped the political and peaceable institutions of rome, as romulus had determined its military career(*dio'

mplars, who had lent him large sums, and since the pope, clement v, owed his position to the intrigues of philip, the matter presented little difficulty. his task was rendered easier, too, by the accusations brought against the order by the ex-knight esquiu de floyran, who had a personal interest in the matter, and pretended to reveal all manner of evil things- blasphemy, immorality, idolatry and the worship of the devil under the form of a black cat. this traitor is still execrated in some of the masonic rituals, together with one noffo dei of florence, who, however had nothing to do with the matter. 682. these charges were accepted by philip with delight, and on friday, october 13th, 1307, all the templars throughout france were arrested without warning on behalf of the most infamous tri

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he grand lodge. copyright (c) 2005 by anand gholap all rights reserved. terms of use of this web-sg left-hand path and right-hand path from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the terms left-hand path and right-hand path refer to a postulated dichotomy between two distinct types of religion. the exact meaning of the terms has varied over time; the most modern usage regards religions which focus upon the worship of one or more deities and the observance of strict moral codes as belonging to the right-hand path, while considering religions which value the spiritual advancement of the self over other goals to belong to the left-hand path. this usage of the terms is invoked almost exclusively by self-proclaimed followers of the left-hand path; followers of religions described as "right-hand path"

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

arnal religion consciously opposed to the spiritual nature of most other existing religions which melded elements of western ceremonial magic and occultism with various materialistic philosophies under the aegis of the archetype of satan, the symbol of the one who opposes and questions the status quo. the church advocates a philosophy of individual pragmatism and hedonism, rather than emphasizing the worship of satan. it promotes the development of strong individuals who seek gratification out of life, and who practice the selfish virtues as long as they do not harm others. rooted in epicureanism, many of lavey s teachings focused on self-assertion and the gratification of an individual s physical and mental nature. he considered satan a promethean figure representing indulgence, vital exi

the mid-1960s. the church teaches that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose. otherwise, the only law is carpe diem( seize the day. satan is viewed as representing our true self, so that the worship of satan is nothing but the worship of ourselves. for further reading: the church of the morning star s official website: http//www.churchoflucifer.8m.com. circle in most if not all religious traditions, attention is given to the place in which worship and other religious activities occur. there is much information about circular forms in comparative religion and depth psychology. circ

dreams and visions. in paradise lost, milton rejects the ancient view that good angels were corrupted by the beauty of women.he argued that the sons of god were never involved with women, because the love they knew was not libidinous. also, in paradise lost, milton did not commit himself on the three principal angelological controversies between protestants and catholics, that is to say those on the worship of angels, the personal guardian, and the dionysian orders, although his personal views were probably protestant. milton s angels and demons are not merely epic machinery, but rather characters and agents in the justification of god s ways to men, and in the exploration of the causes and effects of the fall. milton follows an ancient tradition common to the great alexandrian school of

e renaissance. there were a number of attempts at recreating pagan religions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of which left only literary remains. one of the few groups to make a lasting contribution to the religious landscape was wicca, founded in great britain in the mid-twentieth century by gerald b. gardner, a retired civil servant. partly because wicca is focused on the worship of goddesses, it has been adopted by feminists attempting to create alternative forms of spirituality that are free from the biases of traditional male-dominated religion. building on the speculative scholarship of margaret murray and others, gardner accepted the notion that the inquisition represented an effort by the church to destroy lingering remnants of pre-christian paganism. gar

is seen as a symbol of human nature. as such, satan represents individualism, the striving for a vital existence, and self worship. thus, to cite from the introduction on the ninth covenant website, the satanic label and imagery are simply convenient symbols intended to provoke a strong reaction and force thought. the core of the group s practices and philosophy is summarized in eight points: a. the worship of self b. the importance of the wolf pack (hold dear and close all those in your wolf pack) c. social responsibility. swift punishment to those who violate rights. lex talionis. d. the pursuit of success and enchantment, in whatever way one perceives or defines it e. transcendentalism through free-thinking individualism (as opposed to the herd mentality) f. responsible indulgence in w

he god beyond, who told eve of the existence of a god beyond god the creator of the cosmos. the god beyond takes part in this world only in that he is entrapped in matter in the form of the divine within humanity, and his only concern is the return of the divine within humanity, which can be accomplished through gnosis, occult knowledge. satanism, believed to be the oldest religion, dates back to the worship of the horned god. it differs from witchcraft in that it retains the spiritual significance of the horned god. see also church of satan; gnosticism for further reading: melton, j. gordon. the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1996. oxford golden dawn occult society the oxford golden dawn occult society (ogdos) was founded in 1981 by a frater katon s

ritual abuse case me (canizares 1993, 91. among afro-cubans, palo is equated with magic, while santeria is regarded as a religion of devotion to the higher powers. as another point of contrast, santeria has been mostly politically neutral, and not a vehicle for social protest. palo, on the other hand, has a long history of resistance. generally speaking, paleros devote significantly less time to the worship of saints and deities than the do santeros (santeria practitioners. most of a palero/palera s religious time is spent caring for his/her prenda, the spirit of his/her corpse. palo is frequently regarded as witchcraft, and it is easy to see why. the palero s iron cauldron is a frightening instrument, associated in the western mind with black magic. the following description of the makin

through sacrifice, insure fertility and salvation. a prominent pre-christian example is 238 sammael the slaying and dismembering of osiris, who is brought back to life by his wife isis to become the god and who, by overcoming death, saves humankind from its consequences. salvation can be achieved in different ways in different religious traditions. typically, in the religious traditions based on the worship of or devotion to the founder, this figure is taken as the exemplum to imitate, and the founder s religious doctrine is considered to delineate the path that insures salvation (e.g, christ and buddha. devotion to saints and other religious guides (such as shamans) also leads to the path of salvation. salvation also becomes possible through certain rituals, as in the christian sacrament

l part of the vilified and demonized religion known as satanism. members of the temple of lylyth feel the dark force in nature, which anton lavey called satan, as a maternal force. the temple of lylyth serves the need of its members to give praise to the dark mother of all life. in line with the trend in satanism toward humanism and human potential, the temple of lylyth places its emphasis not on the worship of gods or goddesses, who are metaphors at best, but rather on the worship of self. rather than narcissism, the temple defines self-worship as indulgence, intelligence, and individuality. the temple of lylyth was formed october 31, 1999, in portage, wisconsin. more information may be found on the temple s website. kaiden fox for further reading: temple of lylyth website: http//www.lyly

t. the individual initiate pursuing xeper is more important than our society in general, any peer group, and any organization (including even the temple of set itself. responsible individualism and freedom are goals to which the organization lends its energies. the temple of set s ambivalence about the satanist label is reflected in balanone s remarks where he states that, if by satanism you mean the worship of a satan, or anti-christian belief, then most definitely we are not, since we do not believe in the christian god, jesus, nor devil, and we have little reason to be anti-christian. if by satanism you mean an antinomian freedom from the unreasoning limitations of various elements of society, then by that definition we would qualify. like laveyan satanists, temple members work with mag

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ny let the philosophus in no wise neglect the service of a menial. let him sweep and garnish the place, sprinkling it with water or with wine as is appropriate to the particular deity, and consecrating it with oil, and with such ritual as may seem him best. and let all be done with intensity and minuteness. 8. concerning the period of devotion, and the hours thereof. let a fixed period be set for the worship; and it is said that the least time is nine days by seven, and the greatest seven years by nine. and concerning the hours, let the ceremony be performed every day thrice, or at least once, and let the sleep of the philosophus be broken for some purpose of devotion at least once in every night. now to some it may seem best to appoint fixed hours for the ceremony, to others it may seem t

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f. 17. also he spake and said: this is a secret sign, and thou shalt not disclose it unto the profane, nor unto the neophyte, nor unto the zelator, nor unto the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, 24 liber lxv nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass. only the eye of the just merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single t

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

is is justifiable because the gods we know from our mythological texts also left traces in such forms as the names of the days of the week (see the entry interpretatio germanica in chapter 3. the foremost witness is the germania of tacitus, from the last years of the first century c.e. tacitus describes several ritual acts carried out by various germanic tribes, of which the most famous is surely the worship of the goddess nerthus described in chapter 40 of his germania. nerthus, mother earth, covered by a cloth, is transported in a cart drawn by cows and accompanied by a priest who recognizes when she is present. this procession takes place in a holy grove on the island on which she lives, and all weapons are laid aside on the days on which it takes place, which are ones of peace and quie

laves who are then drowned. a number of the aspects of this ceremony agree with what scholars think they know about cult and ritual of the germanic peoples. tacitus says elsewhere. and other sources, including place-names, agree.that worship occurs in a sacred grove. the killing of the slaves might also be regarded as a form of sacrifice, a subject to which i will return shortly. other aspects of the worship of nerthus find striking agreement with texts recorded much later that are associated specifically with the vanir. freyja fs cart is pulled by cats, and according to ogmundar thattr dytts, admittedly a late text (an idol of) frey is pulled about in a cart accompanied by an attendant, female in this case. frodi, who shares many characteristics with frey, was also pulled in a cart, and a

h (the onset of winter in late october, and the disablot was done. 94 norse mythology thus the disablot appears to have had a connection with autumn and to have been a relatively public event, insofar as it involved the participation of royalty. beyond that we know little. a disathing (assembly of or for the disir) was held in uppsala in early february, and there are many place-names attesting to the worship of the disir. disir collective female spirits. in the mythological sources proper the disir are hardly to be found. their only secure appearance is in the eddic poem grimnismal, stanza 53. odin is about to reveal his identity to the doomed geirrod: slaughtered carrion will ygg [odin] have now, i know that your life has run its course; angry are the disir. now you may see odin, approach

hic pattern, and many scholars think they may once have been the same figure. according to book 1 of saxo fs gesta danorum, the prehistoric danish king hadingus carried out a sacrifice to frey and established an annual sacrifice to fro (frey, which the swedes call froblot. 124 norse mythology the tale ogmundar thattr dytts gives information on what a high medieval icelandic audience thought about the worship of frey in uppsala. ogmund, an icelander, has fled the court of olaf tryggvason in norway because he is falsely suspected of the murder of one of the king fs men. coming to sweden, he meets and befriends a priestess of frey. the god is a statue, inhabited by a demon and pulled about on a cart. ogmund wrestles away the demon through the divine intervention of king olaf and thereafter im

stall the possibility of rebellion or invasion, the danes conceal frodi fs death, embalm the body, and carry it about in a cart for three years before finally burying it. this story bears close similarity to snorri fs account of the death of frey in ynglinga saga, since frey fs death also is concealed for three years, during which time peace and prosperity continue. ogmundar thattr dytts tells of the worship of an idol of frey transported in a cart near uppsala, and, more distantly, tacitus reports this of the goddess nerthus. frodi would therefore appear to be a historicized remnant of one or more aspects of the myth and cult of the vanir, associated with peace and prosperity. see also frey; njord; ogmundar thattr dytts references and further reading: the cults of frey, frodi, and nerthus

e rune that stands for the sound -ng. in the old english rune poem (eighth or ninth century, the verse in question runs as follows: ing was first among the east danes seen by people, until he afterwards eastward went over the wave; a cart ran after him. thus the heardingas named this hero. the cart was associated with the vanir from the time of nerthus and endured even into the jocular account of the worship of frey in ogmundar thattr dytts. scholars have associated the heardingas, who must be a people or a dynasty, with the haddingjar, twin or multiple warriors in their turn associated with the danish king hadingus in book 1 of saxo fs gesta danorum; hadingus is said to have established an annual sacrifice to frey which the swedes call froblot. in chapter 2 of his germania, composed aroun

readings of the mythology, such readings have faded away. an exception was leonhard franz, gdie geschichte vom monde in der snorra-edda h mitteilungen der islandfreunde 10 (1922.1923: 45.48, which argued for a kind of lunar mythology. ernst alfred philippson, germanisches heidentum bei den angelsachsen, kolner anglistische arbeiten, 4 (leipzig: b. tauchnitz, 1929, nicely surveyed the evidence for the worship of the moon and sun among the germanic tribes who migrated to england. rudolf much, however, had the last word. his gmondmythologie und wissenschaft, h archiv fur religionswissenschaft 37 (1941.1942: 231.261, shows pretty convincingly that moon mythology cannot have been of much importance. mannus (man) figure involved in the origin of the germanic peoples according to the germania of

nd silver, fine clothing, or other precious things. times are good, and the fame of frey spreads to norway. olaf suspects what is going on and has gunnar returned to norway. gunnar and his wife are baptized and keep the faith ever after. although the tale certainly is amusing, and despite its obvious medieval icelandic christian perspective, it does accord with certain features known elsewhere of the worship of frey and similar figures such as frodi and njord, namely, the pulling about in a wagon and the ascribing of good times to the deity. but rather than being of direct source value, the presence of these features may simply tell us what learned men surmised about frey in medieval iceland. see also frey; frodi, njord references and further reading: alexander haggerty krappe, gla legende

up into the mountains and lives in thrymheim, and she goes about much on skis with a bow and arrow and shoots game. she is called snowshoe- god or snowshoe-dis. the concept of skadi as snowshoe-dis is unknown in the narrative sources, but she bears this cognomen not infrequently in early skaldic poetry. in lokasenna, stanza 51, she refers to her cult places, and there are place-names that verify the worship of skadi, especially in sweden. since ull is also called snowshoe-god and seems to have been popular in sweden, some scholars have seen a special connection between the two. but there is a norwegian connection according to ynglinga saga, which says that after her marriage to njord skadi had multiple sons from odin, ancestors of the hladir jarls. whether she is the mother of frey and fr

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ty of the soul, the last judgment, the resurrection of the flesh and the fiery destruction of the universe-[these] are some of the resemblances which, whether real or only apparent, enabled mithraism to prolong its resistance to christianity" the rites of mithras were performed in caves. porphyry, in his cave of the nymphs, states that zarathustra (zoroaster) was the first to consecrate a cave to the worship of god, because a cavern was symbolic of the earth, or the lower world of darkness. john p. lundy, in his monumental christianity, describes the cave of mithras as follows "but this cave was adorned with the signs of the zodiac, cancer and capricorn. the summer and winter solstices were chiefly conspicuous, as the gates of souls descending into this life, or passing out of it in their

. the secret rites of these mysteries celebrated the death of balder, the beautiful and lovely, and represented the grief of gods and men at his death, and his restoration to life (general history of freemasonry) after his death, the historical odin was apotheosized, his identity being merged into that of the mythological odin, god of wisdom, whose cult he had promulgated. odinism then supplanted the worship of thor, the thunderer, the supreme deity of the ancient scandinavian pantheon. the mound where, according to legend, king odin was buried is still to be seen near the site of his great temple at upsala. the twelve drottars who presided over the odinic mysteries evidently personified the twelve holy and ineffable names of odin. the rituals of the odinic mysteries were very similar to t

achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexander wilder notes that in the samothracian ritual "cadmillus is made to include the theban serpent-god, cadmus, the thoth of egypt, the hermes of the greeks, and the emeph or sculapius of the alexandrians and phoenicians" here again is a repetition of the story of osiris, bacchus, adonis, balder, and hiram abiff. the worship of atys and cybele was also involved in the samothracian mysteries. in the rituals of the cabiri is to be traced a form of pine-tree worship, for this tree, sacred to atys, was first trimmed into the form of a cross and then cut down in honor of the murdered god whose body was discovered at its foot "if you wish to inspect the orgies of the corybantes" writes clement "then know that, h

ras of the persians, and athom, amun, phtha, and osiris, of the egyptians, the bel of the chaldeans, the adonai of the phoenicians, the adonis and apollo of the greeks, became but personifications of the sun, the regenerating principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence" among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day. the ruins of these sacred places yet remain, notable among them being the pyramids of yucatan and egypt, the snake mounds of the american indians, the zikkurats of babylon and chaldea, the round towers of ireland, and the massive rings of uncut stone in britain and normandy. the tower of babel, which, according to the scriptures, was built so that man might reach up

ation of the crab is represented by this peculiar creature because the sun, after passing through this house, proceeds to walk backwards, or descend the zodiacal arc. cancer is the symbol of generation, for it is the house of the moon, the great mother of all things and the patroness of the life forces of nature. diana, the moon goddess of the greeks, is called the mother of the world. concerning the worship of the feminine or maternal principle, richard payne knight writes "by attracting or heaving the waters of the ocean, she naturally appeared to be the sovereign of humidity; and by seeming to operate so powerfully upon the constitutions of women, she equally appeared to be the patroness and regulatress of nutrition and passive generation: whence she is said to have received her nymphs

his apparent miracle to ensnare the credulous and thereby lead their souls to perdition. on this subject the learned jesuit, athanasius kircher, usually dependable, exhibits a striking inconsistency. in his oedipus gyptiacus he writes "not a few of these ever-burning lamps have been found to be the devices of devils* and i take it that all the lamps found in the tombs of the gentiles dedicated to the worship of certain gods, were of this kind, not because they burned, or have been reported to burn, with a perpetual flame, but because probably the devil set them there, maliciously intending thereby to obtain fresh credence for a false worship" having admitted that dependable authorities defend the existence of the ever-burning lamps, and that even the devil lends himself to their manufactur

eing thus besmeared and anointed, is to be put into a glass like a scallop-shell, in such manner that some part of it may lie above the mass of prepared sulphur; then setting this glass upon hot sand, you must melt the sulphur, so that it may lay hold of the wick, and when it is lighted, it will burn with a perpetual flame and you may set this lamp in any place where you please" the greek oracles the worship of apollo included the establishment and maintenance of places of prophecy by means of which the gods could communicate with mankind and reveal futurity to such as deserved the boon. the early history of greece abounds with accounts of talking trees, rivers, statues, and caves in which nymphs, dryads, or d mons had taken up their abodes and from which they delivered oracles. while chri

ientists, realizing that all life has its origin in water, chose the fish as the symbol of the life germ. the fact that fishes are most prolific makes the simile still more apt. while the early priests may not have possessed the instruments necessary to analyze the spermatozoon, they concluded by deduction that it resembled a fish. fishes were sacred to the greeks and romans, being connected with the worship of aphrodite (venus. an interesting survival of pagan ritualism is found in the custom of eating fish on friday. freya, in whose honor the day was named, was the scandinavian venus, and this day was sacred among many nations to the goddess of beauty and fecundity. this analogy further links the fish with the procreative mystery. friday is also sacred to the followers of the prophet moh

one of the most remarkable symbolic figures ever conceived by the mind of man. it was evolved by the erudition of the priestcraft from a simple insect which, because of its peculiar habits and appearance, properly symbolized the strength of the body, the resurrection of the soul, and the eternal and incomprehensible creator in his aspect as lord of the sun. e. a. wallis budge says, in effect, of the worship of the scarab by the egyptians "yet another view held in primitive times was that the sky was a vast meadow over which a huge beetle crawled, pushing the disk of the sun before him. this beetle was the sky-god, and, arguing from the example of the beetle (scarab us sacer, which was observed to roll along with its hind legs a ball that was believed to contain its eggs, the early egyptia

ecome illustrious. after reaching a certain age (twenty-five years) the apis was taken either to the river nile or to a sacred fountain (authorities differ on this point) and drowned, amidst the lamentations of the populace. the mourning and wailing for his death continued until the new apis was found, when it was declared that osiris had reincarnated, whereupon rejoicing took the place of grief. the worship of the bull was not confined to egypt, but was prevalent in many nations of the ancient world. in india, nandi--the sacred white bull of siva--is still the object of much veneration; and both the persians and the jews accepted the bull as an important religious symbol. the assyrians, phoenicians, chaldeans, and even the greeks reverenced this animal, and jupiter turned himself into a w

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he girdle cord and garter the necklace: the necklace is worn by women coven members often at sabbats and esbats only. it is in all probability of similar derivation to that of the girdle or garter some witches say that it has a connection with "brisingamen" the elven necklace possessed by freya, the norse love goddess. others say that through its occasional use of acorns as beads, it derives from the worship of diana of ephesus, whose devotees saw the head of their goddess bound with a coif of hair in the shape of the acorn itself. the number of beads for the necklace often consists of multiples of nine or thirteen. acorns aside, however, the beads may be made of any material you please metal, stone or wood the only qualification being that they be fairly large and chunky. amber is a favou

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witch moon. this is meant to be a study guide to the night side, a non- christian dogma infested approach. the methods of witchcraft within this tome are of the darkest magick, when vampires, werewolves and sorcerers haunted the nights, doing their work and weaving webs in your dreams. we are still there, alive in your mythologies, alive in your mind. what is witchcraft in essence? is witchcraft the worship of nature, an earth religion? not completely. the tradition, which i have studied through and learnt, is the darker side of witchcraft, far more dangerous than traditional wiccan rites however the results are much greater. do not fear the darkness of the self; let it guide you through the shadows to the light of prometheus! this work is meant as an inspirational guide, through which th

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h the natural order,decide to have gods or religious beliefs? are the traditional reasons for this, put before us, by historiansand theorists, etc, sustainable when we take on board the concept of alien intervention?does the religious sensibility come as a result of the terrible catastrophes, as mentioned in innumerablenative traditions. what if it was the trauma of these events that precipitated the worship of transpersonalpowers?appendix b: book abstracts164atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation egotism of scientistsoutside of arrogant and egotistical scientists among the establishment leaders of today, many soberscholars and thinkers see undeniable evidence that all the basic rules of ethics, morals, philosophy,social structure, and religioneverything important to mankind

as challenged by set or seb. osiris is thesame as the peruvian god viracocha.giza and glastonburythere were altogether 80 pyramids in egypt. if the pyramid at giza is moved to the tropic of cancer,and then a line drawn to the northwest of 52 degrees, the apex will fall on the somerset zodiac, whichbecomes as it were, the capstone of the giza pyramid.horse powera term that goes all the way back to the worship of poseidon, the virile, aggressive, male earth shakerwhose symbol was the horse. a forgotten city called posideium, also known as mina, lies in to the northof lebanon in the turkish hatay. poseidons symbol was also the trident. this later became the thunder-bolt of zeus.moses and the burning bushjehovah announces himself as the god of thy father. it was not until the time of the proph

hebrew adona tile borrowed from the phoenician andmeaning lordwith the familiar adonai meaning my lord (p. 189)name change at the same time, amenhotepchanged his name to akhenaton and closed all the temples of theegyptian gods, making himself very unpopular, particularly with the priests of ra and with those of theformer national deity, amen (p. 189)akhenaton abdicationakhenaton refused to allow the worship of other gods and was forced to step down in favor of hiscousin smenkhkare, who was succeeded by tutankhamun who lived only for 19 years. though therewas restored worship of amen, this pharaoh did not ban the cult of aten (see p. 189)akhenaton banishedbanished from egypt in 1361 b.c, but was considered by some to still be a rightful king.royal mose (mosis)this meant the royal son.appen

e husband of tey, half-sister ofnefertiti and the levite caregiver nurse of akhenaton. aye was the last of the amarna kings. he wasalso the father of smenkhkare, pharaoh after akhenaton, who was also known as aaron. tey was calledin the bible jochebed, she was the natural mother of aaron. her husband was called amram.horemhebson-in-law of aye, he was a general and succeeded aye, and put an end to the worship of aten. he for-bade the mention of the name of akhenaton and removed the names of the kings of the eighteenthdynasty from the official king lists. he also destroyed many of the monuments of the era (see p. 190)nineteenth dynastyhoremhebs reign was followed by the nineteenth dynasty and pharaoh ramesis ithe burning bushjehovah (el shaddai) makes himself known to moses. having been away

hoice of the key mon-uments for the laying down of the federal city. even so we are reduced to speculation as to whichindividual, or group of individuals, was behind this extraordinary undertaking (p. 382)appendix b: book abstracts246atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation middle ages revisited by alexander del marthis fine book, by a great scholar of history, goes into the nature of the worship commanded by theroman emperors, their heinous deeds and the mutation of the roman empire into roman catholicism.could it be that these personages were more that human? is the time here at last, when real light can bethrown onto this kind of deification, which has perplexed the common historians for centuries?the term saviourupon mounting the throne of egypt ptolemy assumed the surname

al, he was upbraided.augustuswhen the tremendous commotion caused by the death of julius caesar had spent itself in civil wars, andin the firm establishment of the messianic religion and ritual, augustus ascended the sacred throne ofhis martyred sire and was in turn addressed as the son of god, whilst julius was worshipped as thefather. the flamens of the sacred college erected and consecrated to the worship of julius caesar amagnificent temple in romethey organized a body of priests called the julii, or the juliani. thesepriests were selected from the most ancient order, the luperci lupercian ancient order of priests.augustus caesarthe worship of augustus was not, as the ecclesiastical schools have insinuated, a mere lip-service, ameaningless mode of saluting the sovereign-pontiff, an elu

nized a body of priests called the julii, or the juliani. thesepriests were selected from the most ancient order, the luperci lupercian ancient order of priests.augustus caesarthe worship of augustus was not, as the ecclesiastical schools have insinuated, a mere lip-service, ameaningless mode of saluting the sovereign-pontiff, an elusive form of adulation or flattery to theemperor of rome; it was the worship of a personage who was believed to be a supernatural, omniscient,all-powerful and beneficent, the reincarnation of quirinus, the son of the god apollo and of the wife-virgin maia; the god whose coming was foretold by the cumaen sibyl; whose sway was to extend overthe whole earth; whose conception and birth were both miraculous; and whose advent was to usher inthe golden age of peace an

erugia, together with 300 senators and knights, were immolated as human sacri-fices, upon the altar of julius, erected for the occasion. the greater part of the abominable auto da fewas executed in the presence of augustus himself, whose only reply to those who implored andshrieked for mercy was, you must die (p. 42)appendix b: book abstracts248atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the worship of augustus, son of god, was officially incorporated into the religion of empire; every cityof the empire had an augustal flamen, every house an augustal shrine; succeeding emperors sacrificedthemselves to augustus, and irreverence to this deity was visited with the severest penalties (p. 51)commentit appears that the reverence and austere lionization of germanys adolf hitler was not a

leston, south carolina, the original site of scottish rite masonry in the united states, isonly 15 miles south of the 33rd parallel. 13.1826 masons murdered masonic whistle blower captain william morgan. captain morgan was anamerican freemason who wrote a book revealing masonic secrets, illustrations of freemasonry.one revealed secret was that the last mystery at the top of the masonic pyramid is the worship oflucifer, that is, satan. in the legend of the murder of hiram abiff, abiff represents intelligence, lib-erty and truth, and was struck down by a blow to the neck with a rule, representing the suppressionof speech by the church. then a square struck him in the heart. this represented the state's suppres-sion of belief. last, a maul struck him on the head. this represented the suppress

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only to end in immense weakness. the force of the people is exhausted in indefinitely prolonging things long since dead; in governing mankind by embalming old dead tyrannies of faith; restoring dilapidated dogmas; regilding faded, worm-eaten shrines; whitening and rouging ancient and barren superstitions; saving society by multiplying parasites; perpetuating superannuated institutions; enforcing the worship of symbols as the actual means of salvation; and tying the dead corpse of the past, mouth to mouth, with the living present. therefore it is that it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal struggles with phantoms, with superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, the formulas of error, and the pleas of tyranny. despotisms, seen in the past, become respecta

to become more complicated; and all the powers of heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, partly by art and partly by the ignorance of error, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel. even the hebrew theism became involved in symbolism and image-worship, borrowed probably from an older creed and remote regions of asia--the worship of the great semitic nature-god al or els and its symbolical representations of jehovah himself were not even confined to poetical or illustrative language. the priests were monotheists: the people idolaters. there are dangers inseparable from symbolism, which afford an impressive lesson in regard to the similar risks attendant on the use of language. the imagination, called in to assi

t made for them by aarun. the mass of the hebrews did not believe in the existence of one only god until a late period in their history. their early and popular ideas of the deity were singularly low and unworthy. even while moses was receiving the law upon mount sinai, they forced aarun to make them an image of the egyptian god apis, and fell down and adored it. they were ever ready to return to the worship of the gods of the mitzraim; and soon after the death of joshua they became devout worshippers of the false gods of all the surrounding nations "ye have borne" amos, the prophet, said to them, speaking of their forty years' journeying in the desert, under moses "the tabernacle of your malec and kaiun your idols, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. among them, as among ot

regions of purity and light, into the bodies which they occupy; during their continuance in which they considered them confined as in a prison. therefore they did not believe in the resurrection of the body; but in that of the soul only. they believed in a future state of rewards and punishments; and they disregarded the ceremonies or external forms enjoined in the law of moses to be observed in the worship of god; holding that the words of that lawgiver were to be understood in a mysterious and recondite sense, and not according to their literal meaning. they offered no sacrifices, except at home; and by meditation they endeavored, as far as possible, to isolate the soul from the body, and carry it back to god. eusebius broadly admits "that the ancient therapeut were christians; and that

d years before the christian era, reformed the religion of manous. he called to the priesthood all men, without distinction of caste, who felt themselves inspired by god to instruct men. those who so associated themselves formed a society of prophets under the name of samaneans. they recognized the existence of a single uncreated god, in whose bosom everything grows, is developed and transformed. the worship of this god reposed upon the obedience of all the beings he created. his feasts were those of the solstices. the doctrines of buddha pervaded india, china, and japan. the priests of brahma, professing a dark and bloody creed, brutalized by superstition, united together against buddhism, and with the aid of despotism, exterminated its followers. but their blood fertilized the new doctri

with many myriad blows felled, hewed, and squared the cedars, and quarried the stones, and carved the intricate ornaments, which were to be the temples. stone after stone, by the combined effort and long toil of apprentice, fellow-craft, and master, the walls arose; slowly the roof was framed and fashioned; and many years elapsed before, at length, the houses stood finished, all fit and ready for the worship of god, gorgeous in the sunny splendors of the atmosphere of palestine. so they were built. a single motion of the arm of a rude, barbarous assyrian spearman, or drunken roman or gothic legionary of titus, moved by a senseless impulse of the brutal will, flung in the blazing brand; and, with no further human agency, a few short hours sufficed to consume and melt each temple to a smokin

rts of this rational edifice, the principle and rule of all his duties, the source of all his pleasures. he improves his moral nature, becomes a better man, and finds in the reunion of virtuous men, assembled with pure views, the means of multiplying his acts of beneficence. masonry and philosophy, without being one and the same thing, have the same object, and propose to themselves the same end, the worship of the grand architect of the universe, acquaintance and familiarity with the wonders of nature, and the happiness of humanity attained by the constant practice of all the virtues. as grand master of all symbolic lodges, it is your especial duty to aid in restoring masonry to its primitive purity. you have become an instructor. masonry long wandered in error. instead of improving, it d

ng made his machine of a universe, sits ever since, and sees it _go. out of that belief comes atheism. the faith in an invisible, unnameable, directing deity, present everywhere in all that we see, and work, and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever. the life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime earnestness--of infinite battle against infinite labor our highest religion is named the worship of sorrow. for the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn, or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns. man's highest destiny is not to be happy, to love pleasant things and find them. his only true _un_happiness should be that he cannot work, and get his destiny as a man fulfilled. the day passes swiftly over, our life passes swiftly over, and the night cometh, wherein no man ca

se which our lodges represent; in our three greater and three lesser lights, our three movable and three immovable jewels, and the three pillars that support our lodges. the indian mysteries were celebrated in subterranean caverns and grottos hewn in the solid rock; and the initiates adored the deity, symbolized by the solar fire. the candidate, long wandering in darkness, truly wanted light, and the worship taught him was the worship of god, the source of light. the vast temple of elephanta, perhaps the oldest in the world, hewn out of the rock, and 135 feet square, was used for initiations; as were the still vaster caverns of salsette, with their 300 apartments. the periods of initiation were regulated by the increase and decrease of the moon. the mysteries were divided into four steps o

qualities necessary to enable him to study her and to know her thoroughly. the deity had, so to say, infused into him the sciences and the arts, in order that he might instruct the whole world. he invented many things necessary for the uses of life, and gave them suitable names; he taught men how to write down their thoughts and arrange their speech; he instituted the ceremonies to be observed in the worship of each of the gods; he observed the course of the stars; he invented music, the different bodily exercises, arithmetic, medicine, the art of working in metals, the lyre with three strings; he regulated the three tones of the voice, the _sharp, taken from autumn, the _grave_ from winter, and the _middle_ from spring, there being then but three seasons. it was he who taught the greeks t

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hameless. if you are ashamed of yourself, change yourself; if you are ashamed of what you do, why do it? but if you are sure of yourself and of your deeds, why shame? again, read emerson's essay "self reliance! 45. then will i lift her to pinnacles of power: then will i breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. twill fill her with joy: with my force shall she see& strike at the worship of nu: she shall achieve hadit. this verse can be fully understood only by the scarlet woman or magisters. however "pinnacles of power" spiritual power. see liber 90, v.43 "child mightier than all the kings of the earth: the crowned and conquering child, of course. the babe of the abyss "joy" 10+ 70+ 10=90. see liber tzaddi "the worship of nu" see liber nv. also, artemis iota "she shal

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had called into existence, prometheus determined to elevate their minds and improve their condition in every way; he therefore taught them astronomy, mathematics, the alphabet, how to cure diseases, and the art of divination. he created this race in page 24 such great numbers that the gods began to see the necessity of instituting certain fixed laws with regard to the sacrifices due to them, and the worship to which they considered themselves entitled from mankind in return for the protection which they accorded them. an assembly was therefore convened at mecone in order to settle these points. it was decided that prometheus, as the advocate of man, should slay an ox, which should be divided into two equal parts, and that the gods should select one portion which should henceforth, in all

28]zeus and hera, of burnished gold, chased silver, and gleaming ivory. lower down were the homes of the other gods, which, though less commanding in position and size, were yet similar to that of zeus in design and workmanship, all being the work of the divine artist hephastus. below these were other palaces of silver, ebony, ivory, or burnished brass, where the heroes, or demi-gods, resided. as the worship of zeus formed so important a feature in the religion of the greeks, his statues were necessarily both numerous and magnificent. he is usually represented as a man of noble and imposing mien, his countenance expressing all the lofty majesty of the omnipotent ruler of the universe, combined with the gracious, yet serious, benignity of the father and friend of mankind. he may be recogniz

ft to the oracle should a speculation in sheep turn out successfully. had these little memorials been of gold instead of lead, they would doubtless have shared the fate of the numerous treasures which adorned this and other temples, in the universal pillage which took place when greece fell into the hands of barbarians. though dodona was the most ancient of his shrines, the great national seat of the worship of zeus was at olympia in elis, where page 30 there was a magnificent temple [30]dedicated to him, containing the famous colossal statue by phidias above described. crowds of devout worshippers flocked to this world-renowned fane from all parts of greece, not only to pay homage to their supreme deity, but also to join in the celebrated games which were held there at intervals of four y

in, the only house to be seen being their own little cottage, which suddenly changed itself into a temple before their eyes. zeus now asked the worthy pair to name any wish they particularly desired and it should be granted. they accordingly begged that they might serve the gods in the temple below, and end life together. their wish was granted, for, after spending the remainder of their lives in the worship of the gods, they both died at the same instant, page 37 and were transformed by zeus into trees, remaining for ever side by side. upon another occasion zeus, wishing to ascertain for himself the truth of the reports concerning the atrocious wickedness of mankind, made a journey through arcadia. being recognized by the arcadians as king of heaven, he was received by them with becoming

ovely in womanhood. she is of medium height, and the form is perfect in its symmetry and faultless proportions. aphrodite is also frequently represented in the act of confining her dripping locks in a knot, whilst her attendant nymphs envelop her in a gauzy veil. the animals sacred to her were the dove, swan, swallow, and sparrow. her favourite plants were the myrtle, apple-tree, rose, and poppy. the worship of aphrodite is supposed to have been introduced into greece from central asia. there is no doubt that she was originally identical with the famous astarte, the ashtoreth of the bible, against whose idolatrous worship and infamous rites the prophets of old hurled forth their sublime and powerful anathemas. venus. the venus of the romans was identified with the aphrodite of the greeks

orship of this divinity was only established in rome in comparatively later times. annual festivals, called veneralia, were held in her honour, and the month of april, when flowers and plants spring forth afresh, was sacred to her. she was worshipped as venus cloacina (or the purifier, and as venus myrtea (or the myrtle goddess, an epithet derived from the myrtle, the emblem of love. helios (sol. the worship of helios was introduced into greece from asia. according to the earliest conceptions of the greeks he was not page 67 only the sun-god, but also the personification of life and all life-giving power, for light is well known to be an indispensable condition of all healthy terrestrial life. the worship of the sun was originally very widely spread [62]not only among the early greeks them

lling into the waters, became drops of clear, transparent amber. cycnus, the faithful friend of the unhappy phaethon, felt such overwhelming grief at his terrible fate, that he pined and wasted away. the gods, moved with compassion, transformed him into a swan, which for ever brooded over the fatal spot where the waters had closed over the head of his unfortunate friend. page 71 the chief seat of the worship of helios was the island of rhodes, which according to the following myth was his especial territory. at the time of the titanomachia, when the gods were dividing the world by lot, helios happened to be absent, and consequently received no share. he, therefore, complained to zeus, who page 72 proposed to have a new allotment, but this helios would not allow, saying, that as he pursued

nd "king midas has the ears of an ass" in the sad and beautiful story of niobe, daughter of tantalus, and wife of amphion, king of thebes, we have another instance of the severe punishments meted out by apollo to those who in any way incurred his displeasure. niobe was the proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters, and exulting in the number of her children, she, upon one occasion, ridiculed the worship of leto [80]because she had but one son and daughter, and desired the thebans, for the future, to give to her the honours and sacrifices which they had hitherto offered to the mother of apollo and artemis. the sacrilegious words had scarcely passed her lips before apollo called upon his sister artemis to assist him in avenging the insult offered to their mother, and soon their invisibl

to join them, they furiously attacked him, and tore him in pieces. in pity for his unhappy fate, the muses collected his remains, which they buried at the foot of mount olympus, and the nightingale warbled a funeral dirge over his grave. his head was thrown into the river hebrus, and as it floated down the stream, the lips still continued to murmur the beloved name of eurydice. the chief seat of the worship of apollo was at delphi, and here was the most magnificent of all his temples, the foundation of which reaches far beyond all historical knowledge, and which contained immense riches, the offerings of kings and private persons, who had received favourable replies from the oracle. the greeks believed delphi to be the central point of the earth, because two eagles sent forth by zeus, one

games, called delia, instituted by theseus, were celebrated at delos every four years. a festival termed the gymnopedaa was held at sparta in honour of apollo, in which boys sang the praises of the gods, and of the three hundred lacedamonians who fell at the battle of thermopyla. wolves and hawks were sacrificed to apollo, and the birds sacred to him were the hawk, raven, and swan. roman apollo. the worship of apollo never occupied the all-important position in rome which it held in greece, nor was it introduced till a comparatively late period. there was no sanctuary erected to this divinity until b.c. 430, when the romans, in order to avert a plague, built a temple in his honour; but we do not find the worship of apollo becoming in any way prominent until the time of augustus, who, havi

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t bears the dedication (52 a.d) of a temple to minerva, goddess of wisdom, and neptune, god of the sea. the latter may well have been invoked both for the protection of the tignarii, who frequently had to cross the channel, and for the construction of boats.10 a similar inscription discovered in nice-cimiez shows the lapidarii making a vow to hercules, their tutelary deity* it is also likely that the worship of roman builders had experienced the influence of foreign peoples because of the itinerant nature of these artisans and the fact that the romans benefited from the architectural knowledge of the greeks, who in turn had been influenced by the persians, egyptians, and syrians. in fact, the influence of the syrians must have been considerable following their significant immigration into

xtensively on the history of the collegia of builders in great britain. several brigades of construction workers stationed with the roman legions in the countries bordering the rhine were sent into great britain by emperor claudius in 43 a.d. to protect romans from scottish raids. before their arrival, there were no towns or cities in this them out of habit and you will win them all the easier to the worship of the true god" this same saint said "the bretons perform sacrifices and give feasts on certain days: leave them their feasts; suppress only the sacrifices" we can conclude, with eliphas levi (histoire de la magie, editions de la maisnie, 1974 "far from encouraging ancient superstitions. christianity restored life and soul to the surviving symbols of universal beliefs" this explains h

, that the templars can be credited with the transformation of the hansa, home to the hanseatic league of paris, into a municipality under saint louis, with freedoms and an administration that it helped to develop further.9 in support of this theory, we can note that the seat of municipal government was originally located within the templar censive district. the religious seat of the order, where the worship ceremonies of the brotherhood were performed, was the sainte madeleine church on the rue de la juiverie, in the cite. this street, which was originally part of the censive and justice district of the saint eloi priory and the order of saint eloi, had passed into templar possession following the agreement reached by the two orders in 1175. as for the church, it was a former synagogue th

more professional nature. among the oldest statutes of italian builders' mastery associations are those of the venice stone carvers, dating from 1317 and renewed in 1396. these statutes open with a prayer to the very holy trinity and continue on to express a keen desire to contribute "to the glory of god and the glorious virgin mother mary, who is our constant advocate. there is also evidence of the worship of the four holy crowned martyrs, protectors of the mastery associations.5 this is quite possibly the earliest mention by builders of the individual worship of the four crowned martyrs, a patronage mentioned in england at the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of the fifteenth century and in the statutes of the german stonecutters from the sixteenth century. there builders

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, in the eastern delta- where he could quietly worship the god dearest to him, with amon occupying a secondary prominence "the provincial cities where set had been worshipped from all eternity- among them ombos, tjebu, and sepermeru- gained new preeminence from the favor accorded by the ramesside leaders to the god of the eastern delta. above all, pi-rameses, the new capital, brilliantly restored the worship that set had formerly received in the avaris of the hyksos- serge sauneron, les pretres de l'ancienne egypte(#2aa) following the passing of the two setian dynasties, however, the increasing influence of a priesthood not courted by the ramesside pharaohs- that of osiris- boded ill for the temple of set. comments e.a. wallis budge(#1a "between the xxii and the xxv dynasties, a violent re

zoid that is the gate to the abyss, saying "herein lies the geometric inspiration for the existence of set, whose names shall be many in the aeons and ages to come. observe that it doth shape and define that which is the pentagram of set, which is itself our seal and the key to all beauty of proportion "even as the triangle and trihedron shall be as drugs to lure men-beasts to blind labor towards the worship of an apex of self-extinction, so we of the pentagram and the trapezoid author ever-unfolding memorials to the creative genius of man. think not that because the first sights before your opened eyes are these sacred keys, that they shall be reverenced. indeed with the passage of time they shall be changed and effaced by those who have forgotten their power, and their origin shall fade

their will. so it shall be done" so spoke xepera, the word become form, who also would fade before the eyes of the ancestors of our ancestors, until only dim memories of imhotep, prometheus, enoch, and belial would remain as the eldest legends of humankind. by his word we of the priesthood of set have rejected the blissful annihilation of unity, the crippling torture of the cross of duality, and the worship of the triad of chaos in all their semblances. embraced and immortalized by the very fire of life, we seek those who yet grope towards the light, knowing not what it is they desire, but only that they must attain it. perils there are, and they are many- yet, in all their glamour and comfort, as one they lead their victim at last to the same numbing death that would have awaited him had

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

wept, and its tears became the first human beings. so re placed it on his brow as the uraeus, or cobra, to rule the world and spit fire at his enemies. wedjat eye the left eye of the sky god horus (see p. 16) was identified with the moon. it was destroyed in his fight with his uncle seth, but made whole again; the symbol of the wedjat eye stands for wholeness and renewal. this tomb painting shows the worship of the benu bird. the egyptian world picture this image shows the egyptian gods in relation the world. in the center, the sky (nut) arches over the body of earth (geb, his bent knees indicating the uneven nature of the land, while the sun (re) courses between them. on the left stands shu (air, next to ha, god of the western desert. on the right, the goddess nephthys waters the earth. c

ildren was considered appropriate. love falls in love cupid, sent by his mother venus to visit vengeance on psyche by making her fall in love with a vagabond, was himself captivated by her beauty, and enlisted the god apollo to help him win her. worshiping suitors every day, people from far and wide came to admire the beautiful princess. they said she was venus in human form, and began to neglect the worship of the goddess much to venus anger. temple of apollo concerned for psyche, her father consulted the oracle of apollo at miletus. he was told that psyche must dress for her wedding, climb a mountain, and there await a nonhuman suitor. cupid and psyche a fairy tale t he story of cupid and psyche shows myth shading into fairy tale. it is included as a story-within-the-story in a latin nov

er of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanhope (1829 1908) grieving parents psyche s parents shown here with her two sisters and their elderly husbands were shocked at apollo s prophecy. but psyche realizing that the worship of her beauty must have offended venus begged them not to grieve. doomed conspirators psyche s sisters plan to ruin her happiness proved their downfall. in revenge, psyche (who had been prevented from committing suicide by pan) told them that cupid now wished to marry one of them instead. each, in turn, climbed the mountain to meet him but when they jumped off, zephyrus did not catch t

ticulture was credited with introducing the vine. his original role, however, was god of honey and the mead that was brewed from it. under one of his greek names, bacchus, he became the roman god of wine and shed most of his other roles. worshiping maidens maidens carrying golden baskets filled with fruits marched in the dionysian festivals. sacrificial goat the slaughter of a goat was central to the worship of dionysus. as a child, the god was temporarily transformed into a kid by the god hermes (mercury; goats were also associated with vines. dionysus the god of vegetation, wine, and ecstasy, dionysus was the son of zeus (jupiter) by semele, daughter of cadmus (see p. 49. hera (juno, zeus jealous wife, tricked semele into demanding that zeus make love to her in his true form, a flash of

. one gaulish god is actually called moccus, pig, and a boar and serpent accompany depictions of the north british god veteris. a boar was the first convert of the irish st. ciaran, followed by a fox, a badger, a wolf, and a stag. it has been suggested that this shows the old mythology being assimilated into the christian tradition. the mother goddess celtic mythology abounds in strong women, and the worship of a mother goddess seems to have been basic to celtic culture from neolithic times. many dedications are to the matres, a triple mother goddess, shown with symbols of life and abundance, but also associated with death and war, as personified, for example, by the triple irish war goddess, the morrigan. there are also single mother and fertility goddesses, such as the horse goddess epon

ples contain carved and decorated calabashes that house small offerings to the gods. unreachable horizon the place where the sea and sky meet at the horizon is thought to be an ideal place, inaccessible to humans. it is symbolized by the join where the upper and lower lips of a divided calabash meet. worshiping the gods the first man and woman, who are sometimes named adanhu and yewa, established the worship of the sky gods mawu and lisa, and of the lesser gods their children, such as gu, the god of iron, and ag, the god of hunting. aido-hwedo is said to have existed before any of the children of mawu, created by whoever created the world. a statement that aido-hwedo came with the first man and woman of the world may allude to the snake s phallic quality, or to the way in which snakes have

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

fining the object and intention of his order,marconis speaks as follows: the masonic rite of memphis is a combination of the ancient mysteries; it taught the first men to render homage to the deity. its dogmas are based on the principles of humanity its mission is the study of that wisdom which serves to discern truth; it is the beneficent dawn of the development of reason and intelligence; it is the worship of the qualities of the human heart, and the repression of its vices; in fine, it is the echo of religious toleration, the union of all belief, the bond between all men, the symbol of the sweet illusions of hope, preaching the faith in god that saves, and the charity that blesses. thus it will be seen that this rite,which purports to be it continuation of the ancient mysteries, and pre

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

exual sin, in which a person spreads his creative power in many directions instead of focusing it into one, consecrated channel. instead of using his creativity to build and strengthen a family, a setting through which the consciousness of divinity can be increased on earth, he diffuses it into nature, following the deception of fulfillment offered by the temporary thrill. we are thus taught that the worship of the golden calf involved not only idolatry but an orgy as well. the cure, of course, is to re-gather the spiritual focus back to where it belongs, to moses, the legitimate channel of divine energy and wisdom into creation. thus it is written, gand moses gathered together all the congregation. h the word for gcongregation h (adat) may be permuted to spell the word for gknowledge h (d

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

in all seven fr. 1 brazen cocks, which are constantly being carried about in some or other of the yezeedee districts. these are under the absolute control of sheikh n sir, who directs their line of march, and in fn. 1. this seems to be a sacred number with the yezeedees. the reader will remember, that the two lamps on the senjak, already described, had each seven burners. we are reminded here of the worship of the sabeans, of whom gibbon thus writes "they adored the seven gods, or angels, who directed the course of the seven planets, and shed their irresistible influence on the earth. the attributes of the seven planets, with the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the twenty-four constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres, were represented by images and talismans; the seven days

m, and covered with a white cloth, underneath which is a plate to receive the subscriptions. at a given signal all rise up, each approaches the senjak, bows before it, and throws his contribution into the plate. on returning to his place, each worships the image several times, and strikes his breast, as if to propitiate the favour of the much dreaded principle. it will appear from the above, that the worship of melek taoos is much more common among the yezeedees than that of sheikh adi. i have frequently inquired the cause of this, and the answer has been, that the latter is so good that he needs not to be invoked, whereas the former is so bad, that he requires to be constantly propitiated. as these two principles seem to form the substance of their religious creed, there can be no doubt a

e connected with magic (selden, de diis syriis, p. 39) it is possible that the bird borne by warriors, in a bas-relief from the centre palace. way represent the iynges" there can be little doubt, but that the melek taoos is in substance the ferouher of zoroastrianism; and i think it very probable, that this image in used for purposes of divination in the secret assemblies of the modern yezeedees. the worship of a bird appears to have been a most ancient species of idolatry; it in condemned expressly in dent. iv. 16, 17 "lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure the likeness of any fowl that flieth in the air" p. 128 i am of opinion, however, that the modern yezeedees have borrowed little from christianity beyond what was incorporated into their sy

cise of their peculiar office, that little further fn. 1. the reader will here remember a practice common among the brahmins of india, who pour water from the ganges into the mouth of the dying. fn. 2. kaww l literally means one who can speak fluently, an orator. p. 132 needs to be added under this head. they are the musicians of the community, and as music and dancing form so important a part in the worship of the yezeedees, theirs is the most numerous of all the sacerdotal castes. they are confined to the villages of ba-sheaka and ba-haz ni, but are frequently sent to other parts to conduct the religious services of the people, for which they receive remuneration. the fak rs are the lowest order in the yezeedee hierarchy; it is their province to minister at sheikh adi, as hewers of wood

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

eed amongst our provincial superstitious observances there are many which belong indubitably to the primitive misconception of pythagorean symbols. superstition is derived from a latin word which signifies survival. it is the sign surviving the thought; it is the dead body of a religious rite. superstition is to initiation what the notion of the devil is to that of god. this is the sense in which the worship of images is forbidden, and in this sense also a doctrine most holy in its original conception may become superstitious and impious when it has lost its spirit and its inspiration. then does religion, ever one, like the supreme reason, exchange its vestures and abandon old rites to the cupidity and roguery of fallen priests, transformed by their wickedness and ignorance into jugglers a

RUBY TABLET OF SET

d into twelve, and also into five, and again into three, while still remaining one; they are all different aspects or types of the same mystery. 5. the mysteries of mithras the chief point of contact among the many religions of the roman empire was in the common worship of the sun, and the inner core of this most popular cult was, from about bc 70 onwards, to be found in the mysteries of mithras "the worship of mithras, or of the sungod, was the most popular of heathen cults, and the principle antagonist of the truth during the first four centuries of our period" such is the statement of one who looks at it from the point of view of a christian ecclesiastic, and indeed the church fathers from the time of justin martyr onward have declared that the devil, in the mysteries of mithras, had pl

groups are distinguished by their use of occult practices (astrology and divination) and magick (the ability to willfully change the world by manipulating the cosmic forces. while like the psychic dimension, magick is as old as known history. its contemporary revival, however, began in the early 1900s. the most popular form of magical religion, neo-paganism, is a nature-oriented religion based on the worship of male-female polarity, the observance of the agricultural seasons, and magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expressed as allegiance to the horned god and the great mother goddess. ritual follows the movement of the sun and moon. neo-pagans see themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, dru

tacted through its newsletter, pagan military newsletter, 829 lynnhaven parkway, virginia beach, va 23452. secrecy is a major element of the existence of both witchcraft and satanism (discussed below. secrecy is protective (known members often lose their jobs, friends or status, and serves to guard the sacred mysteries of the group. satanism often confused with neo-paganism and wicca, satanism is the worship of satan (also known as baphomet or lucifer. classical satanism, often involving "black masses, human sacrifice, and other sacrilegious or illegal acts, is now rare. modern satanism is based on both the knowledge of ritual magick and the "anti-establishment" mood of the 1960s. it is related to classical satanism more in image than substance, and generally focuses on "rational selfinter

or this commentary "paganism" will mean any religion of non-christian, non-hebrew origin prior to 1900. this is from the viewpoint of a society that uses the bible as a frame of reference for religious matters. any religion other than the hebrew worship of yhwh (yahweh- jehovah, or the catholic and anglican worship of god as a trinity of divine being, or the protestant worship of jesus christ, is the worship of false gods, and therefore paganism, neo or not. from the viewpoint of our culture then, we are considered pagans. clearly there will be a revolution in thinking once the setian influence is more widespread. the 1900 cutoff is arbitrary, and i chose it because the proliferation of esoteric literature which made the neo-pagan movement possible coincided with the technological advances

in any other religion either. just kindly question the opponent, and then fit those responses to the appropriate category, never forgetting the most basic question: what is the goal of this system for the individual? if it comes down to ultimate union with something-or-other, no matter how mystically attractive or objectively productive, it is the real paganism using the church's own definition- the worship of false gods. if the setian sees self as the ultimate god-form of realization, there can be no other answer. paganism 1. deities: a core pantheon. perhaps one particular deity and his consort were designated as the supreme beings. these were all given human traits in super-human proportions, and linked with cosmic forces or perceived realities in a somewhat archetypal manner. archaeol

. the condition of finitude can only be overcome when we return to the nothingness out of which we have been thrust. in the final analysis, omnipotent nothingness is lord of all creation" nothingness or not, it is the concept of final dissolution into another, with resultant loss of self, that is the identifying established goal, however reluctant, that links this aspect of judaism with paganism- the worship of false gods. 2. mysteries: rubenstein goes on to elaborate upon the traditional aspects of jewish religious life, stating that it is within the religious community as an institution that the condition of human "hopelessness" can be shared in depth. interestingly, the mysteries identified were initially experiences that the jews as a people went through, and which they have been using

onsider a continuation in some physical form after death to be at the whim of the deities, possibly influenced by the conduct of one's life prior to death, with a final passing over for union with the divine scheduled for some later period. 7. of either feeding the god/goddess, or partaking of his/her life force 8. with its shamanistic approaches 9. always keeping in mind that to them paganism is the worship of "false gods" 10. not only are the criteria also present in these religions, but some interesting developments show up in modern judaism. 11. roman catholicism is a valid example, since it is largely imitated in the various sects that are followed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide from the coptic christians of africa to the russian and greek orthodox of middle and eastern e

age. astrology. channeling. transcendental meditation. holistic medicine. buddhism. hinduism. mormonism. islam. orthodox church. roman catholicism at law enforcement training conferences, it is witchcraft, santeria, paganism, and the occult that are most often referred to as forms of satanism. it may be a matter of definition, but these things are not necessarily the same as traditional satanism. the worship of lunar goddesses and nature and the practice of fertility rituals are not satanism. santeria is a combination of 17th century roman catholicism and african paganism. occult means simply "hidden" all unreported or unsolved crimes might be regarded as occult, but in this context the term refers to the action or influence of supernatural powers, some secret knowledge of them, or an inte

s by subject matter, so you can skip over those paragraphs you are not interested in. factual background the lukumi religion is a blend of roman catholicism and the religion of the yoruba region of west africa. in the 19th century, when the yoruba were brought to cuba as slaves, they absorbed some elements of roman catholicism. the melded religion is generally known as santeria. santeria involves the worship of orishas, which are powerful but not immortal spirits dependent upon animal sacrifices for their survival. the religion was brutally suppressed in cuba. many of its modern practitioners are cuban exiles living in south florida. sacrifices in the santeria religion often include many animals at a time. animals sacrificed include various birds, sheep, goats, and turtles. the neck of the

ignificant hostility to the santeria religion. a councilman said "if we could not practice this [religion] in [cuba, why bring it to this country" another said that santeria is "in violation of everything this country stands for" another said he was "totally against the sacrificing of animals" one asked "what can we do to prevent the church from opening" a chaplin described the religion as a sin, the worship of demons, and advised the council to help people find jesus christ. as a result of this session, the council passed several ordinances affecting santerian practices. on the day of the session, the council passed an ordinance adopting the state's cruelty to animals law. the preamble clearly indicated that the city's intent was to prevent "certain religions" from performing animal sacri

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ble although some readers may be a little surprised and possibly even upset to see the good book included in a list of grimoire, its use as a source of witchcraft has a long tradition. in particular the psalms, hand copied, torn out, or recited aloud, have been used in many spells throughout the ages. various other passages are also considered to possess their own power. in those traditions where the worship of the goddess has continued, often under the guise of the three marys, the song of solomon has particular importance. whilst modern witches are lucky enough to have all the theological history books at their disposal, and may thus consider themselves to have rediscovered their pagan heritage, the witches of the middle ages had only those few snippets that were preserved in their linea

SATANIC BIBLE

doomed to hell simply because they do not belong to the catholic church. in the same way, many splinter groups of the christian faith, such as the evangelical or revivalist churches, believe that the catholics are heathens who worship graven images (christ is depicted in the image that is most psychologically akin to the individual worshipping him, and yet the chrisitans criticize "heathens" for the worship of graven images) and the jews have always been given the devil's name. even though the god in all of these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible, and to top it all, religionists actually pray for one another! they have scorn for the brothers of the right-hand path because their religions carry different labels, and somehow this ani

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

s friend..was very frightened when the police (were) looking out for the vicar you mention (rev. harry neil snelling) and when i said i was going to join the search party on the downs he said no need, they'd got him'(26) whilst the evidence points to the fact of ritual sacrifice by the friends of hekate, little is actually known of their rites although they are believed to focus specifically upon the worship of the ancient greek goddess hekate. whilst the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 10 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 information concerning the connection of the friends of hekate with human and animal sacrifice is both scarce and hypothetical a far more open approach is advocated by the order of nine a

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

tionally left blank timeline of events 10,000 400 bce the span of the jomon period in japan, during which shinto first emerged. 3500 2000 bce duration of religion in ancient sumer. 3110 bce 550 ce duration of religion in ancient egypt. 3102 bce emergence of hinduism. 1700 bce the babylonians devise a new creation myth, the enuma elish. c. 1353 34 bce the pharaoh akhenaten rules egypt and enforces the worship of a single god, aten. all evidence of his reign is wiped out after his death. tenth century bce the jewish temple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalization of the rig veda, one of hinduism s most sacred texts. 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroys the jewish

e name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. amaterasu: the sun-goddess. amesha spentas: the bounteous immortals, aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. xv amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. animism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. anthropomorphism: attributing human shape or form to nonhuman things, such as the gods. apathia: stoic belief that happiness comes from freedom from internal turmoil. apeiron: anaximander s term for the first principle, an undefined and unlimited substance. arche: the beginning or ultimate principle; t

l powers and to have the ability to cure illness, which was thought to be caused by spirits, or supernatural beings. this class of shamans began to organize the belief system and to create certain traditions and rituals, such as the sacrificing of animals to different gods. early religious practices it appears from archaeological evidence that one of the earliest organized religions may have been the worship of the mother goddess. archeological evidence of mother goddess worship exists in several different ancient cultures, including c atalho yu k in modern turkey (c. 6,000 bce, carchemish in ancient iraq (c. 2,000 bce, many people show respect, or veneration, to their relatives through ancestor shrines and other measures. praying to ancestor spirits for help or protection reassures many t

riented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the east in the fourth and third millennia bce by warrior tribes from central asia introduced religions based on patriarchal beliefs. with the development and spread of judaism, christianity, and islam, the earlier pagan religions and their goddess worship were replaced with religions dominated by males. nevertheless, at the time of jesus s birth, the worship of goddesses such as demeter, artemis, aphrodite, and cybele (also known as the great mother) was widespread throughout italy, greece, and the middle east. some historians of religion believe that the great admiration and respect held for mary, the mother of jesus christ, especially in the roman catholic faith, may be a holdover of this earlier form of goddess worship. by the time the

hapes. these platforms were crowned at the top by a shrine or a temple. the whole complex was called a ziggurat, and averaged about 150 feet (45.7 meters) in height. ziggurats stretched tower-like toward the sky, forming a bridge between earth and heaven, like the mountains that were sacred to the sumerians. each mesopotamian city had at least one temple complex, and each complex was dedicated to the worship of a single deity. the temple complex in ur, for instance, honored the moon god sin (also called nanna by the sumerians. the city of uruk had both a temple to inanna and a ziggurat dedicated to anu. the complexes were managed by specialist priests, who were the only people allowed to worship the deities. the akkadians the development of religion in mesopotamia followed the movement of

lso controlled by the principle of maat, or order. unlike followers of mesopotamian religion, the egyptians had a strong belief in the afterlife, which they expressed by building elaborate tombs such as the pyramids. followers. worshippers took their names from the numerous gods and the cults that honored the deities. name of god. the major god for much of mesopotamia was the sky god enlil; later the worship of enlil was replaced by the worship of the babylonian god marduk. for egyptians, amen-ra was the most powerful deity, chief of the pantheon. symbols. statues of winged bulls were a protective symbol related to the god sin mesopotamia, while the ankh, a kind of cross with a loop at the top, was a prominent representation of life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made

the mesopotamian story of creation and explains how marduk became the chief of the gods. the egyptian book of the dead was a guide for the dead, setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. sites. ancient nippur was the site of the chief temple to enlil, while babylon was the location of marduk s sanctuary. thebes and the temple complex of karnak were home to the worship of amen-ra. in the modern world the remains of these early religions can be seen in egypt s pyramids, tombs for the pharaohs, and in mesopotamia s ziggurats, temples to the gods. observances. the new year s festival was a major event in mesopotamian religion, while egypt s most important festival was opet. 42 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia in prehis

be the king of gods, replacing the mesopotamian god enlil. such a replacement lasted for about one thousand years until the assyrian god ashur replaced marduk as the primary god in the pantheon. ashur was a warlike god and took ishtar, the goddess of war, as his wife or consort. the most notable schism in ancient egyptian religion was launched by amenhotep iv (c. 1371 c. 1336 bce, who proclaimed the worship of aten, the god and disk of the sun. in the fourteenth century bce amenhotep iv demanded that the worship of other gods be abandoned and that aten be served by a cult in which he, himself, was the only priest. to show his dedication to aten, amenhotep changed his name to akhenaten, meaning he who is of service to aten. atenism, as it is called, was not a natural evolution of ancient e

m or ra, whose descendants were osiris, set, and isis. these, however, were just a fraction of the gods worshipped by egyptians. some estimates put the total number as high as one or two thousand different deities. what began as animal worship led to an immense pantheon. amen or amen-ra became the most powerful of the gods, center of the national cult; the cult of osiris was second most powerful. the worship of the sun god ra led to the construction of immense pyramids for the pharaohs, sons of ra. the pharaoh was considered a living god, appointed by horus (son and avenger of osiris. for ancient egyptians the gods were subject to the same sense of order and justice, maat, that mortals were. the universe had been created through maat as a replacement for the chaos that once existed. intera

ions are their architectural remains. world religions: almanac 51 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia while these are the historical remnants of great civilizations, they have also come to represent all that those civilizations entailed. many of these ancient artifacts are, in fact, religious in nature. the ziggurat, or stepped temple, of mesopotamia is an impressive structure dedicated to the worship of the gods. each level of the ziggurat is smaller than the last, creating multiple terraces that reach up into the heavens. a ziggurat could have as few as two or as many as seven levels. at the top was a temple that could be reached by stairs or ramps. archaeologists believe that many ziggurats were painted in various colors. among the most identifiable symbols of ancient egypt and i

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

ered at annual celebrations in a spirit akin to the driving out of the biblical scapegoat. the report of these historians is often thought to be a valid account of a a timeless and immutable theocracy, but just looking at the frequency with which the ruling capital moved to different cities (each being a cult-center) is enough to dispel this idea. one controversial egyptologist has suggested that the worship of set might have predated the concept of paternity. later cults incorporating a father god would reject this fatherless son. this introduces another bizarre factor in the transformation of the night/day battle between brothers into an inheritance dispute between set and horus the younger. any book on egyptian myth you pick up contains the gory details of this cosmic lawsuit, which inc

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

uenced their minds and, from the earliest to the latest period of their history, shaped their views concerning things temporal as well as spiritual in a manner which, at this stage in the history of the world, is very difficult to understand. the scrupulous care with which they performed their p. viii innumerable religious ceremonies, and carried out the rules which they had formulated concerning the worship of the divine power or powers, and their devotion to religious magic, gained for them among the nations with whom they came in contact the reputation of being at once the most religious and the most superstitious of men. that this reputation was, on the whole, well deserved, is the object of this little book to shew. egyptian magic dates from the time when the predynastic and prehistor

presents the tree trunk in which the goddess isis concealed the dead body of her husband, and the four cross-bars indicate the four cardinal points; it became a symbol of the highest religious importance to the egyptians, and the setting up of the tet at busiris, which symbolized the reconstituting of the body of osiris, was one of the most solemn of all the ceremonies performed in connexion with the worship of osiris. the tet represents neither the mason's table nor a nilometer, as some have thought, it is always associated with the clvth chapter of the book of the dead, which reads "rise up thou, o osiris! thou hast thy backbone, o still-heart! thou hast the fastenings of thy neck and back, o still-heart! place thou thyself upon p. 45 the mummy of ani the scribe, lying on a bier, attende

205:1 from the words. greek xrismati memageumenwj e?paleipsasa o?non poih'seie (see lucius sive asinus, xlii, 54, ed. didot, p. 466, it is clear that the person who is speaking believed that he had been transformed into an ass by means of the use of "bewitched oil" p. 206 chapter vii. demoniacal possession, dreams, ghosts, lucky and unlucky days, horoscopes, prognostications, transformations, and the worship of animals. the egyptians, in common with many other eastern nations, believed that certain sicknesses and diseases might be cured by certain medicaments pure and simple, but that others needed not only drugs but the recital of words of power to effect their cure. there is good reason for thinking that some diseases were attributed to the action of evil spirits or demons, which had the

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t time there was in the temple the ineffable name of god, inscribed upon the stone of foundation" this scandalous book proceeded to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles [cf.*mark 3:22. there waa a very general prevalence among the earliest nations of antiquity of the worship of stones as the representative of deity. in almost every ancient temple there was a legend of a sacred or mystical stone. the mystical stone there has received the name of the 'stone of foundation "10""and the scribes who had come down from jerusalem said 'he has beelzebub' and 'by the prince of devils he casts out devils) alfred edward waite, in his study of the zohar (the cabalistic

iana of crete, the bellona of the romans &c. and she was the moon and osiris the sun.43 osiris received the same adoration as anubis, bacchus, dionysius, jupiter and pan. in other words, debauched revelries or saturnalias (from saturn, his father) were held in his honor "he visited the greater part of the kingdoms of asia and europe, where he enlightened the minds of man by introducing among them the worship of the gods, and a reverence for the wisdom of a supreme being."44 totten, tracing the symbolism of the eye, affirmed that "the word jehovah, of the solar circle of arabia, superseded the egyptian motto in the radiant triangle, and as the word soon became too sacred to be spoken or ever- 32- written, it was generally symbolized by the all-seeing eye of him whose name it was."45 he desc

father of osiris. the other motto, annuit coeptis "favor my daring undertaking" was not a supplication to god; in conjunction with the other motto it can only refer to saturn or osiris. the reign of saturn was called "the golden age" even though he received human sacrifices and devoured his own children. he was symbolized by the serpent biting its own tail.60 the sun and the serpent ophiolatry is the worship of serpents. the religion of ancient egypt was closely interwoven with the worship of sun and serpent. the deity, kneph, was pictured as a serpent in a fiery circle''he was regarded as the first emanation of the supreme being, the good genius of the world, the demiurgus, the efficient reason of all things, and the architect of the universe. kneph is identified with the sun, hence the r

e universe. kneph is identified with the sun, hence the rays of glory around his head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was know

(brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent, as in solomon's temple" its worship "was in fact the worship of the sun-god, osiris, under the name of jehovah" the targum, or chaldee paraphrast, referred to the brazen serpent as the 'word1."63 it must also be mentioned that the olive branch on the coat of arms. the emblem of peace. traces directly back to the olive wand of the caduceus.64 the cao dai god symbol: the all-seeing eye today, in south viet nam in south-east asia there exists a ver

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lost word found moreover, the three messengers from babylon inform the candidate that the true name of god, the name that had been lost for so long, is not jesus, but is jahbuhlun. they conveniently omit mention of the fact that this is, in fact, the name of a monstrous devil god, that the name is an unholy and blasphemous composite of jahweh, baal, and osiris, or on (on is a city in egypt where the worship of the sun god, osiris, is alleged to have begun. somehow, many in masonry today honor and revere osiris under the name of on, the name of his city, curiously spelled un in the name: jahbuhlun) no wonder masonic authority w.l. wilmshurst, in his highly thought of (by masons) the meaning of masonry, proclaims this degree so vital to the transformation of the candidate's life. he even su

ollar bill and you will find the horns of baphomet meticulously designed and imbedded- in this chapter, you will discover more about baphomet; about the green man; about pan, the horned witch god; and about crowley and his ordo templi orientis (o.t.o. since the days of alexander the great, the horned god has been worshipped by a significant portion of mankind. the holy bible records, for example, the worship of baal, the horned fire god. michaelangelo and some other artists, strangely, created sculptures blasphemously showing moses, the biblical prophet, with horns. all of these horned deities and images represent lust, because the horn is itself a phallic symbol in the occult world. of stars and goatees in recent times, communist revolutionaries adopted the star, also symbol of baphomet (

ander of the scottish rite, who admits: the right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped deity under the name of fides or fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the masonic ritual. yet the holy bible commands "thou shalt have no other gods before me (exodus 20:3) and goes on to emphatically state "make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth (exodus 23:23) in volume 1 of albert mackey's encyclopedia of freemasonr

e perennial teaching of the hidden god, the god of the mysteries, the god who it is said possesses the key to the invisible world (hell, the god of the arch, the god of cunning, lies and deceit, the two-faced deity, the masonic double-headed eagle. in other words, bluntly stated, you are viewing satan in disguise. among hard-core occultists deep into babylonian and egyptian lore and magic we find the worship of the two-headed mammon ra, the god of prosperity and riches. mammon ra is actually a powerful demon, one of the four great princes of hell. he is especially worshipped with great pomp by jewish cabalists hungry and greedy for wealth and affluence. 250 codex magica two golden phoenix serpents face each other inside the temple room of the scottish rite headquarters, the house of the te

manly p. hall, albert mackey, albert pike, etc. claim that the masonic rituals and teachings come from the "mysteries" of ancient babylonians, egyptians, greeks, persians and others. thus, we glean understanding when we read, in earth's earliest ages, this the riddle of the great seal of the united states 269 statement by g. pember "there is little doubt that the culmination of the mysteries was the worship of satan himself."5 you'll also recall our discussion elsewhere in this book that the illuminist and masonic theology is solidly based on the jewish cabala (kaballah or quaballah. indeed, almost all occult and magical belief systems are founded on the principles and teachings of the jewish cabala. in her most famous book, the secret doctrine, helena blavatsky praised satan as the teach

e sun..the serpent was universally represented by the sun symbol, the circle or disk. bishop alexander hislop the two babylons t h e sun has ever been at the center of false religion. the ancient mystery religions venerated the sun, the solar disk, as deity. the greeks honored apollo as the child of the sun. the romans paid homage to mithra the sun god. these pagan philosophies form the basis for the worship of the 460 codex magica illuminati and indicate the importance of the sun as symbol of satanic deity. englishman john yarker, a well-known nineteenth century masonic magician and occultist, in his notes on the scientific and religious mysteries of antiquity, makes mention of the fact that the high priests of the ancient jews also worshipped the sun god. he writes: the mysteries we know

makes this crystal clear. it is understandable why god would so detest worship of the sun god by the mystery religions and by the apostate jewish elders. in reality, in worshipping the sun, the ancients were worshipping satan. g.h. pember, in a scholarly work on the mysteries, earth's earliest ages, affirms this fact when he states "there is little doubt that the culmination of the mysteries was the worship of satan himself."2 now today, the masons, as did the apostate jewish elders and priests in the days of ezekiel, continue to worship satan the sun god, also called lucifer or baal, by other names. the name of their great god, jahbuhlun, which is revealed to masons in the higher degrees, is a synonym for the solar deity; two of the three syllables in the name, buh and lun, mean "baal" a

odge: all the movements by the consecrating officers of the masonic lodge or chapter follow the course of the sun. the master and the wardens enter and leave their chairs as the sun returns to the east and goes forth therefrom. most processional occasions are governed by these principles of what is known as "circumambulation" this ritual came from the ancient pagan rites of the egyptians and from the worship of their sun god and of the sun itself. 3 the first 15 divisions of the egyptian royal cubit. each division of the cubit was dedicated to a divinity, and the first division, on the right, shows the hieroglyph of the sun god ra, symbol of divine unity (from the book, jesus christ, sun of god: ancient cosmology and early christian symbolism, by david fideler, quest books, wheaton, illino

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t you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility of being the creator. it is delay. belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. belief is not freedom. belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. consider the reality is somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation. oh, ye of much faith in god, merge into it by the worship of self! ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. when death approaches the faith in god and desire of woman will not save you, what are their use when withering and decay sets in and the body is an object of disgust? and what is the use of knowledge and charity when reality is known? unsheathe the sword of self; ideas of the almighty should be constantly slain and righteousne

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es and dogmas of structured religion to be too inhibiting, too restrictive, and not at all conducive to the kind of personal relationship with the holy which they so desperately sought. regardless of the religion or the culture from which they sprang, all mystics have as their goal the transcendence of the earthly self and union with the absolute. while the ancient mystery schools were built upon the worship of a particular god or goddess, the contemporary mystery schools have been built around the charisma and the spiritual teachings of a psychic sensitive, a medium, or a prophet. since the latter part of the nineteenth century, in europe, great britain, canada, and the united states, the men and women who are most often attracted to the modern mystery schools are those who have grown dis

stics of being dropouts and escapists, ghose insists that it might be fairer to say that in breaking the illusions of the cave dwellers they have been more responsible to reality and to the race. they have been the true scientists of catharsis and conversion. the only radical thinkers, they alone go to the root of the matter, beyond the various shaky schemes of mundane perfection, swaying between the worship of the fatted calf and the horror of the organization man. since many saints, prophets, and mystics have seemingly achieved a state of cosmic consciousness and/or illumination, william james (1842 1910, writing in his classic work varieties of religious experience (1902, lists the features that he believes form a composite picture of universal saintliness, the same in all religions: 1

god ra. while there is evidence that the pharoah s mother, queen tiye, may have been associated with a cult of the aten and may have been influential in her son s growing belief in a single god; his spiritual path was established at an early age. choosing to call himself akhenaten (it is pleasing to the aten, the pharoah declared that there was only one god, his father aten. by his royal decree, the worship of amun was to be suppressed and his very name was to be chiseled away from any statues, monuments, temples, or city walls throughout all of egypt. likewise, images of all of the ancient representations of the egyptian gods osiris, horus, isis, and so forth were to be destroyed. even the centuries- old osirian funerary rites were to be abandoned and the name of osiris was to be replace

ciously continuing the old pagan ways. as it was, nearly all of the christian holy days coincided with pagan holidays, from christmas and the roman feast of saturnalia to easter and the fertility rites of the goddess eastre. the church patriarchs were not at all willing to encourage any additional blendings of christianity with the old religions. christianity was a young religion when compared to the worship of the greek, roman, egyptian, and other middle eastern and eastern deities. the mystery schools kept alive the practice of magic and the belief that secret rituals and sacred relics could command the presence of divinity. the ancient mystery rites dedicated to such gods as osiris, isis, and dionysus, together with the magical formulas discovered by hermes trimegistus and other masters

m the cities and villages on large areas of flat ground. many covens preferred hilly ground, even mountain- 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 mystery religions and cults 293 early sabbats were held well away from the cities and villages on large areas of flat ground. sides; but wherever the rituals were held, it was essential that one end of the worship area be wooded. this grove, according to tradition, served as the choir and sanctuary. the open area served as the equivalent of the nave in an orthodox church. at the far end of the wooded grove, the worshippers erected an altar of stones. upon the altar was placed a large, wooden image of satan, which many contemporary scholars agree was quite likely intended to be a representation o

ribed which includes leaving their physical body and hovering over it as though they were a bystander. neo-paganism someone who believes in a contemporary or modernized version of the religions which existed before chris- 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 glossary 329 g l o s s a r y tianity, especially those with a reverence for nature over the worship of a divine or supreme being. neophyte from the latin neophytus and greek neophutos or phuein, to plant or cause to grow literally meaning newly planted. a beginner or novice at a particular task or endeavor. somebody who is a recent convert to a belief. a newly ordained priest, or someone who is new to a religious order, but who has not yet taken their vows, so is not yet a part of th

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ible for preventing the world from falling into eternal darkness. at the same time, the cat s nocturnal excursions made it a symbol of sexuality and fertility. it seems quite likely that long before cleopatra worked her magic on caesar and antony, the sirens of the nile used makeup that mimicked the hypnotic eyes and facial markings of the cat. bubastis, a city in lower egypt, dedicated itself to the worship of the cat. each may some 700,000 pilgrims journeyed to the city to participate in the festival of the cat. during the persian invasion of 529 b.c.e, the egyptians deification of the cat proved their undoing. knowing of the obsession of the egyptian people with the divinity of felines, cambyses ii, king of the persians, made a cat part of the standard issue to each of his soldiers. the

ribed which includes leaving their physical body and hovering over it as though they were a bystander. neo-paganism someone who believes in a contemporary or modernized version of the religions which existed before chris- 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 glossary 309 g l o s s a r y tianity, especially those with a reverence for nature over the worship of a divine or supreme being. neophyte from the latin neophytus and greek neophutos or phuein, to plant or cause to grow literally meaning newly planted. a beginner or novice at a particular task or endeavor. somebody who is a recent convert to a belief. a newly ordained priest, or someone who is new to a religious order, but who has not yet taken their vows, so is not yet a part of th

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ction to the extermination of the knights. philip, however, was determined to see the templars destroyed and their wealth distributed to the state. for two weeks, the knights imprisoned in paris suffered the rack, the thumbscrew, the pincers, the branding iron, and the fire. thirty-six died under torture without speaking. the rest confessed to every charge the inquisition had leveled against them.the worship of baphomet, a black cat, and a serpent; the sacrifice of babies and the murders of pious knights who opposed them. a grand council was called in paris on may 10, 1310, to review the confessions. but philip fs victory was sullied when 54 of the knights withdrew their confessions and appealed to government and church officials that they had been tortured. they swore that they had remain

religions similar to vodun, such as umbanda, quimbanda, or candomble. a male priest of vodun is called a houngan or hungan; his female counterpart, a mambo. the place where one practices 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 humank

the tree of life: a study in magic. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. israel regardie (1907.1985) clutterbuck. in 1954, gardner published witchcraft today, which continued the thesis espoused by margaret murray that witchcraft had existed since pre-christian times but had gone underground to escape persecution. according to many researchers, gardner almost singlehandedly revived.some say reinvented. the worship of the mother goddess and combined it with elements from several other metaphysical schools. gardnerian witchcraft influenced many practitioners, including the colorful sybil leek (1923.1983, who, like so many after her would do, modified gardner fs rituals and teachings to fit her own style of wicca. the person responsible for the introduction and growth of modern witchcraft in north

ch craze that seized europe in the period from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries and that led to the persecution and deaths of thousands of those women who practiced witchcraft was nothing more or less than the attack of the patriarchal establishment on an ancient, woman-centered religion. in her opinion, based on her extensive research, the practice of witchcraft had nothing to do with the worship of satan, an entity of evil that had been created by christianity. although murray shall probably always be known in the popular mind as the author of two seminal books on witchcraft, the aforementioned the witch-cult in western europe and the god of the witches (1952, among her peers at the university college in london she was a respected scholar and specialist in egyptian hieroglyphi

pirit that is thought to enter the devotee of the haitian voodoo, during a trance state, and believed to be a protector and guide that could be a local deity, a deified ancestor or even a saint of the roman catholic church. neo-paganism someone who believes in a contemporary or modernized version of the religions which existed before christianity, especially those with a reverence for nature over the worship of a divine or supreme being. rite originally from an indo-european base meaning gto fit together h and was the ancestor of the english words arithmetic and rhyme via, the latin ritus. a formal act or observance as a community custom, such as the rite of courtship. often has a solemn, religious or ceremonial meaning, such as the rite of baptism. shape-shifter a supposed fictional being

cathedral of notre dame could fit comfortably within its walls. nearby ruins suggest that karnak was considered a sacred site much earlier than the time during the new kingdom when it became the center of worship for amon-ra. the remains of temples dated c. 1971 b.c.e. prove that predecessors of the devotees of the ram-headed amon-ra also found the area to be a special place to honor their gods. the worship of amon-ra and the influence of karnak remained strong until akhenaton fs reign in 1379.1362 b.c.e, when the pharoah decreed all egyptian gods banished but one supreme being.aten, the god of the fully risen sun. throughout all of egypt the images of all the gods were defaced and the temples of amon-ra were desecrated or destroyed. in addition to denigrating the ancient gods of egypt, a

ribed which includes leaving their physical body and hovering over it as though they were a bystander. neo-paganism someone who believes in a contemporary or modernized version of the religions which existed before chris- 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 glossary 287 g l o s s a r y tianity, especially those with a reverence for nature over the worship of a divine or supreme being. neophyte from the latin neophytus and greek neophutos or phuein, gto plant h or gcause to grow h.literally meaning gnewly planted. h a beginner or novice at a particular task or endeavor. somebody who is a recent convert to a belief. a newly ordained priest, or someone who is new to a religious order, but who has not yet taken their vows, so is not yet a p

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to the anthropologisthas confined himself to the pre-christian periods or to the modern savage. yet medieval europe offers to thestudent of mankind one of the finest fields of research. in this volume i have followed one line only ofanthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous european cult and the interaction between it and theexotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. i have traced the worship of the horned god onwards throughthe centuries from the palaeolithic prototypes, and i have shown that the survival of the cult was due to thesurvival of the races who adored that god, for this belief could not have held its own against the invasions ofother peoples and religions unless a stratum of the population were strong enough to keep it alive.if the evidence is carefully examine

ld be afraid toventure. powerless though the moormen were against the new weapons they seem to have struck terror intothe invaders. if there was war between the two races it was a guerilla warfare, in which the little people hadthe advantage over the slow-moving agriculturists. in the end a certain amount of intercourse must have beenestablished. whether it was due to trade and intermarriage that the worship of the horned god wasre-introduced among the tillers of the soil; or, as is more likely, that the people of the iron-age had acquiredthe cult in their own habitat or in their slow march across europe, it is certain that he retained his position as ahigh god.it is not unlikely that at this period the cross was used by the conquerors as a magical method of frighteningand scaring away the

other link is in the ceremonial dress of the pharaoh, whoon great occasions wore a bull's tail attached to his girdle. the sed-heb or tail-festival, when the king wasinvested with the tail, was one of the most important of the royal ceremonies. a sacred dance, performed bythe pharaoh wearing the bull's tail, is often represented as taking place in a temple before min, the god ofhuman generation. the worship of horned gods continued in egypt until christian times, especially inconnection with the horned goddess isis.the indian figures of the horned god, found at mohenjo-daro, are of the earliest bronze-age. there aremany examples, and in every case it is clear that a human being is represented, either masked or horned.sometimes the figure has a human body with a bull's head, sometimes the

is recorded in writing and in sculpture in the south of gaul, in that very part where the palaeolithicpainting of him still survives. it is highly improbable that the cult of the horned god should have died out insouth-western europe in neolithic times and have remained unknown through the bronze and iron ages,only to be revived before the arrival of the romans. it is more logical to suppose that the worship continuedthrough the unrecorded centuries, and lasted on as one of the principal gaulish cults till within the christianera. such a cult must have had a strong hold on the worshippers, and among the illiterate, and in the lessaccessible parts of the country it would linger for many centuries after a new religion had been acceptedelsewhere.in considering the evidence from britain the pr

e has been confused, perhaps purposely, by the use of the word devil in itschristian connotation, for the name of the god, and by stigmatising the worshippers as witches. theconsequence is that the pagan people are now regarded as having worshipped the principle of evil, though inreality they were merely following the cult of a non-christian deity.the first recorded instance of the continuance of the worship of the horned god in britain is in 1303, whenthe bishop of coventry was accused before the pope of doing homage to the devil in the form of a sheep.[19]the fact that a man in so high a position as a bishop could be accused of practising the old religion showsthat the cult of the horned god was far from being dead, and that it was in all probability still the chiefworship of the bulk of

he devil, we all fell down upon our knees, with our hair down over our shoulders and eyes, and ourhands lifted up, and our eyes steadfastly fixed upon the devil, and said the foresaid words thrice over to thedevil.[35] the flowing hair and the uplifted hands and eyes, as well as the horned god, are alike in bothegypt and scotland. no-one would hesitate to say that the egyptian lady was engaged in the worship of hergod, who was symbolised to her in the figure of a goat, yet most people of the present day are horrified tothink that less than three centuries ago a similar worship of a "heathen" god was still practised in the british the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god12isles.the ritual masking of the incarnate god or his priest is found in many places after the palaeolithic period

ire owners within thelast thirty years. the ooser was of painted wood, and, like the egyptian example, was worn over the head,the wearer being at the same time wrapped in an oxskin. the combination of the horned mask and theanimal's skin show too close a resemblance to the palaeolithic prototype to be accidental. in the ooser wehave the last remains of that most ancient of all recorded religions, the worship of the horned god.the name of the great pagan deity varied according to the country in which the cult was followed. in the neareast the names were recorded from very early times; the name of the indian deity cannot yet be read, but thetraditional name still survives; in greece and in crete the record is later than in egypt and babylonia. inwestern europe, however, it was not till the r

ncestors for untold generations, entered into adefinite compact with the devil who in his proper person is the father of all the children of the family. certainother members of the sect, the elect ones, are permeated with the spirit of good, and are regarded asincarnations of the divine essence. it is the general belief that the witches hold regular gatherings for thepractice of magical rites and the worship of the evil principle. they are reported to assume the form ofanimals, generally black, and to be restored to their original shapes at the rising of the sun. these meetingsare illuminated by candles made of human fat, which renders the celebration invisible to all except theinitiated."chapter ii. the worshippers"in the hinder end of harvest, on all hallow fen, when the good neighbours

ere openly practised in athens in theheight of its civilisation, the sacred marriage being regarded as the means of promoting and increasingfertility. similar rites are known and have been practised in all parts of the world, but always in what are nowcalled "religions of the lower culture. as the cult of the horned god was also a religion of the lowerculture such rites formed an integral part of the worship. the reason for their use is the same whereverfound; it is the practical application of the theory of sympathetic magic, with the consequent belief that bysuch means the fertility of the whole land would be increased. it was on account of these rites that the witcheswere credited with2424and claimed2424the power of granting fertility. they had therefore also the oppositepower, that of

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ecomes a magician he looks about him for a magical weapon; and, being probably endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. thus we find the christian magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. there is no single feature in christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of isis, or of mithras, or of bacchus, or of adonis, or of osiris. in modern times again we find frater iehi aour trying to handle buddhism. others again have attempted to use freemasonry. there have been even exceptionally foolish magicians who have tried to use a sword long since rusted. wagner illustrates this point very clearly in "siegfried" the great sword nothung has been broken

has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of god! sublime dream which explains the mysteries of india, and justifies all symbolisms! the lofty conception of the man-god corresponds to the creation of adam, and christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. we wait for the worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the new covenant. then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. iv the quaternary the quaternary is the number of for

ans, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow yoke of our judgments. the antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns instead of saving. it is the hateful fanaticism which discourages good-will. it is the worship of death, sadness, and ugliness. 38 "what career shall we choose for our son" have said many stupid parents "he is mentally and bodily weak, and he is without a spark of courage- we will make a priest of him, so that he may 'live by the altar" they have not understood that the altar is not a manger for slothful animals. look at the unworthy priests, contemplate these pretended servants

ial, infinite god, sole object of worship, and ever the same. like the jews, we believe him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe him living, thinking and loving in humanity, and we adore him in his works. we have not changed his law, for the jewish decalogue is also the law of christians. the law is immutable because it is founded on the eternal principles of nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. this signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language does. worship is a form of instruction; it is a language; one must translate it when nations no longer understand it. 83 we have translated, and not destroyed, the worship of moses and of the pr

truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx "vide" the hieroglyphs of assyria, of india and of egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the profane from destroying the tree of life. here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. the idol has replaced god, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship of the golden calf. the mystery of the necessary and successive reactions of the two principles on each other is indicated subsequently by the allegory of cain and abel. force avenges itself by oppression for the seduction of weakness; martyred weakness expiates and intercedes for force when it is condemned for its crime to branding remorse. thus is revealed the equilibrium of the mora

and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but thyself. i love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weakness. their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love that thou hast given them as a support in all their trials that they must sooner or later be led back to the worship of justice by the love of truth. now let my books go where thy providence shall send them! if they contain the words of thy wisdom they will be stronger than oblivion. if, on the contrary, they contain only errors, i know at least that my love of justice and of truth will survive them, and that thus immortality cannot fail to treasure the aspirations and wishes of my soul hat thou dids

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

initely small point of self when attempted to be perceived by consciousness, and the infinitely large presence of god when attempted to be perceived likewise. broken down, the ain has the value of 511, which is of intense significance in the cult of thelema, in that it equals 418+ 93, which are the numbers of the great work, and the current that informs it. it is also the value of a'abvdh h-tyth "the worship of the snake (that is, the snake of wisdom coiled up the tree of life. note also that 511 reduces to 7, the number of the card to which the graal (and hence 418) is attributed, the chariot. as kate bush sings, in "sat in your lap (from the album "the dreaming "i hold a cup of wisdom (binah and chockmah, but there is nothing within" which is to state, kabbalistically, that binah is the

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ercy, the prayer which i address to thee. may the blindness of men who have forgotten thy holy name be removed; having seen light of thy truth which is the christ our redeemer, may these men be redeemed from the darkness. o lord, thou who dost not look for the death of men but for the life even of sinners, deign, o lord, to receive favourably my prayers for these men. deliver strayed nations from the worship of idols and reunite them into thy holy, eternal and universal church, far from this world of sorrow, and for the greatest glory of thy holy name. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator prays now for the sick, afflicted and for prisoners: we beseech thee humbly, o almighty and eternal god, to grant health and freedom to all infirm and sick, afflicted persons and to the prisoners, that t

rator meditates awhile and then prays for the heads and leaders of the non-christian nations: o almighty and eternal god, thou who holdest in thy hands all power and authority over all countries of the earth, we humbly implore thy holy name. deign, o lord of mercy, to inspire the heads and leaders of the non-christian nations, still in want of the actual grace of conversion to thy holy law and to the worship of thy divine son, our lord the christ, with the favour of a peaceful behaviour, dignified, wise and enlightened, charitable and tolerant, and may the angel unto whom thou hast entrusted the guidance of each of these nations, or countries, maintain them always on the path of peace, harmony and tolerance, and in respect of thy faithful elect. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator medita

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

nd moon of the elixir vitae, the male and female participants in a rite of indian or chinese tantricism, or the shadow and the anima of jungian depth psychology. for many years, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was fear of the demon, pazuzu, a genie so amply recreated in the book and the movie by blatty, the exorcist, and similarly recognised as the devil himself by the church. pazuzu, the beast, was brought to life by aleister crowley, and the demon walked the earth once more. with publicity provided by h.p. lovecraft. the devil pazuzu was a prime example of the typ

sful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication that the essence of sumerian mythology is making itself felt in a very real way in this, the latter half of the twentieth century? after the long and poetic magan text, comes the urillia text which might be lovecraft's r'lyeh text, and is subtitled "abominations. it has more specifically to do with the worship of the serpent, and the nature of the cults that participate in the concelebration of sin. again, more conjurations and seals are given, even though the reader is charged not to use them; an inconsistency that is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares n

tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odour, which comes of burning incenses unlawful to the worship of the elder ones. and their books are the books of chaos and the flames, and are the books of the shadows and the shells. and they worship the heaving earth and the ripping sky and the rampant flame and the flooding waters; and they are the raisers of the legions of maskim, the liers-in-wait. and they do not know what it is they do, but they do it at the demands of the serpent, at who

d may be of beaten copper, set in with precious stones. and thou shalt bear with thee a rod of lapis lazuli, the five-rayed star about thy neck, the frontlet, the girdle, the amulet of ur about thine arm, and a pure and unspotted robe. and these things shall be worn for the operations of calling only, and at other times shall be put away and hid, so that no eye may see them, save your own. as for the worship of the gods, it is after the fashion of your country, but the priests of old were naked in their rites. and thou shalt put down the circle. and thou shalt invoke thy god and thy goddess, but their images must be removed from the altar and put away, unless thou call the powers of marduk, in which case an image of marduk should be set thereupon, and no other. and the perfumes must be bur

THE GOD SET

nd gradually comes to be associated with all night fears- nightmares, desert fiends, and bad animals such as the hippo and the jaguar of the south. he is mentioned in a famous 12th dynasty writing called the discourse of a man with his ba in which his solar aspect iaa is referred to. bikka reed has a great translations of this text. in the 18th dynasty a remarkable pharoah hatshepsut reintroduced the worship of set by building a temple dedicated to him and horus the elder at ombos. this marked a strong interest in set's eternal nature, for example in hatshepsut is the prophecy (which she had placed in her tomb at der el-medina) that "she will not only enjoy the days of horus, but the days of set will be added to her span" she was also interested in the antinomian nature of the set cult- in

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ndred at our disposal; and christmas is at the winter solstice, the birth of christ put for the birth of the sun. all these points may be studied in: la messe et ses mysteres rome, pagan and papal the two babylons rivers of life file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (4 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. two essays on the worship of priapus and many other books which may be studied in the library of the o.t.o. and elsewhere. but in pure free masonry and especially in the o.t.o. this synthesis has been made with greater accuracy and skill, and with higher concentration, with more lucidity, with dramatic and poetic genius, so it is easier for ourselves to distinguish the jewel from its setting, and possibly in th

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

e absence of light. all else is illusion. the goal of the occult path of initiation is balance. in freemasonry and high magick, the symbols of the white pillar and black pillar represent this balance between conscious and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one time or another been thought "satanic" and occultists have merely played on this bigoted symbolism, not subscribed to it. as we have seen

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

magicians, useth these words: et verum deum merita majestate prosequitur& angelos ministros dei, sed veri ejus venerationi novit assistere; idem d monas prodit terrenos, vagos, humanitatis inimicos; sosthenes ascribeth the due majesty to the true god& acknowledgeth that his angels are 1. plin. lib. 30. nat. hist- r.t. 2. the handwritten greek of turner: 3. 2 ministers and messengers which attend the worship of the true god; he also hath delivered, that there are devils earthly and wandering, and enemies to mankind. so that the word magus of itself imports a contemplator of divine& heavenly sciences; but under the name magick, are all unlawful arts comprehended; as necromancy and witchcraft, and such arts which are effected by combination with the devil, and whereof he is a party. these wi

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

nowledge of poisons in nature, and to use them. wisdom in all evil arts, to the destruction of mankinde, and to use them in contempt of god, and for the loss and destruction of manworks are an inquiry into the priniples of taste; analytical essay on the greek alphabet; the symbolical language of ancient art; and three poems, the landscape, the progress of civil society, and the romance of alfred. the worship of priapus was printed in 1786, for distribution by the dilettanti society, with which body the author was r ii preface to this edition actively identified. this society embraced in its membership some of the most distinguished scholars in england, among others the duke of norfolk, sir joseph banks, sir william hamilton, sir george beaumont, the marquis of abercorn, lord charlemont, lo

h it on any amount. she came from florence. it was the lingham and the yoni united. this is curious as furnishing apparent evidence of the relationship between the gipsies of western europe and india. london, september, 1865. contents page. reface to this edition. i preface to the edition of 1865. v contents. ix p list of plates, with references to explanatory text. xiii account of the remains of the worship of priapus letter from sir william hamilton. 3 lettera da isernia, 1780. 9 on the worship of priapus, by r. payne knight. 13 113 on the worship of the generative powers in the middle ages of western europe. abundant evidence of phallic worship in the roman colonies. 117 aix, in provence. 119 nimes, and its roman amphitheatre. 120 xansen, in hesse, and antwerp. 121 britain, and its pria

5. 147 xxxvi. robin goodfellow, phallic amulets &c: figure 1. 148 2. 148 3. 121 4. 137 5. 153 xxxvii. priapic illustrations from old ballads: figure 1. 154 2. 153 xxxviii. idols of the knights templars. 199 xxxix. scupltures of the templars mysteries: figure 1. 199 to 203 2. 200 to 203 3. 200 to 204 4. 199 to 204 xl. the witches sabbath, from de lancre, 1613. 241, 246 an account of the remains of the worship of priapus, lately existing at isernia, in the kingdom of naples: in two letters: one from sir william hamilton, k.b, his majesty s minister at the court of naples, to sir joseph banks, bart, president of the royal socieity. and the other from a person residing at isernia: to which is added a discourse on the worship of priapus and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancient

s. cosmo. le donne che dormono nelle chiese de' p. p. sudetti sono guardate dalli guardiani, vicari e padri piu di merito, e quelli dell eremo sono in cura dell eremita, divise anche dai propri mariti, e si sanno spesso miracoli senza incomodo delli santi. le non le gusta, quando l avr letta torner bene farne una baldoria: che le daranno almen qualche diletto le monachine quando vanno a letto. on the worship of priapus. en, considered collectively, are at all times the same animals, employing the same organs, and endowed with the same faculties: their passions, prejudices, and conceptions, will of course be formed upon the same internal principles, although directed to various ends, and modified in various ways, by the variety of external circumstances operating upon them. education and sc

its object; and passion and prejudice will acquire dominion over it, in proportion as its first principles are more directly brought into action. on all common subjects, this dominion of passion and prejudice is restrained by the evidence of sense and perception; but, when the mind is led to the contemplation of things beyond its comprehension, all such restraints vanish: reason has then m 14 on the worship nothing to oppose to the phantoms of imagination, which acquire terrors from their obscurity, and dictate uncontrolled, because unknown. such is the case in all religious subjects, which, being beyond the reach of sense or reason, are always embraced or rejected with violence and heat. men think they know, because they are sure they feel; and are firmly convinced, because strongly agit

l and bigotry with which they maintain their own; while perhaps, if both were equally well understood, both would be found to have the same meaning, and only to differ in the modes of conveying it. of all the profane rites which belonged to the ancient polytheism, none were more furiously inveighed against by the zealous propagators of the christian faith, than the obscene ceremonies performed in the worship of priapus; which appeared not only contrary to the gravity and sanctity of religion, but subversive of the first principles of decency and good order in society. even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion, and more fit to be placed in a brothel than a temple. but the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always

dicrous or licentious; of which we need no other proof, than its having been carried in solemn procession at the celebration of those mysteries in which the first principles of their religion, the knowledge of the god of nature, the first, the supreme, the intellectual,1 were preserved free from the vulgar superstitions, and communicated, under the strictest oaths of 1 plut. de is. et osir. 16 on the worship secrecy, to the iniated (initiated; who were obliged to purify themselves, prior to their initiation, by abstaining from venery, and all impure food.1 we may therefore be assured, that no impure meaning could be conveyed by this symbol; but that it represented some fundamental principle of their faith. what this was, it is difficult to obtain any direct information, on account of the s

st-begotten love, is said to have been produced, together with ther, by time, or eternity (kronoj, and necessity (anagkh, operating upon inert matter (caoj. he is described as eternally begetting (aeignhthj; the father of night, called in later times, the lucid or splendid (fanhj, because he first appeared in splendour; of a double nature (difuhj, as possessing the general power of creation 18 on the worship and generation, both active and passive, both male and female.1 light is his necessary and primary attribute, co-eternal with him- 1 orph. argon, ver. 12. this poem of the argonautic expedition is not of the ancient orpheus, but written in his name by some poet posterior to homer; as appears by the allusion to orpheus s descent into hell; a fable invented after the homeric times. it is

gners who entered the country were put to death or enslaved (diodor. sic. lib. i, pp. 78 et 107, this account may be rejected, with many others of the same kind. the egyptians certainly could not have taught orpheus the plurality of worlds, and true solar system, which appear to have been the fundamental principles of his philosophy and religion (plutarch. de placit. philos, lib. ii, c. 13. 20 on the worship greeks.1 he is called the father of night, because by attracting the light to himself, and becoming the fountain which distributed it to the world, he produced night, which is called eternally-begotten, because it had eternally existed, although mixed and lost in the general mass. he is said to pervade the world with the motion of his wings, bringing pure light; and thence to be called

this horned symbol of the power of the 1 see plate xxi. fig. 1. 2 macrob. sat. i. c. 20. 3 see goltz, tab. ii. figs. 7 and 8. 4 see plate iv. fig. 1, and recherches sur les arts, vol. i. pl. viii. the hebrew word chroub, or cherub, signified originally strong or robust; but is usually employed metaphorically, signifying a bull. see cleric. in exod. c. xxv. 5 recherches sur les arts, lib. 1. 22 on the worship deity that horns were placed in the portraits of kings to show that their power was derived from heaven, and acknowledged no earthly superior. the moderns have indeed changed the meaning of this symbol, and given it a sense of which, perhaps, it would be difficult to find the origin, though i have often wondered that it has never exercised the sagacity of those learned gentlemen who ma

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e 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 often depicted as a babe in arms with a wise adult head, or as a slender effeminate figure wit

ere is a sense that something necessary is miss- ing, as though a reception has been prepared for a very important dignitary who failed to arrive, and the embarrassed guests were painfully going through the motions. that missing guest is magic. without magic, religion is a farcical mockery. all religions are magical in essence. they must be. god is a supernatural being. all religions are based on the worship of god. to deny magic in religion is to deny god. the church then becomes a social meeting house, a useful place for carrying out archaic customs such as marriage and christening, but devoid of any central reason for being. it is no outrage when a church is sold and turned into a theater or a private dwelling or a barn. the offense was committed long before by cynical priests and indif

symbols from some future culture. humans do not create the gods, they name them-but through the names they gain power over the god-forms. the complex name of a god embodying its form, its desires, its attributes, its abilities and limitations, is a kind of magic circle that binds the god to the will of the group that gave it expression. this is why it is often said that the gods are dependent on the worship and sacrifices of their fol- lowers, without which they would fade away. the persons that name a god are its servants yet also its masters, since through neglect they can send the god back to the oblivion of blind natural forces from which it arose. the relationship between humans and the gods is symbiotic and mutually dependent. the process of forming the gods was a subconscious one f

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

st sacred name jehovah (777. thus the head is the form of the, the arms and the shoulders are like the 7, the breast represents the form of the 7, whilst the two legs with the back represent the form of the second 7 (the kabbalah [i8631 [london: routledge and kegan paul, 19701, p. 113) there is no doubt that the tetrad( m p d s) of pythagoras is an imitation of the hebrew tetragrammaton, and that the worship of the decade has simply been invented in honour of the ten sephiroth. the four letters composing this name represent the four fundamental constituents of the body (i.e, heat, cold, dryness and humidity, the four geometrical principal points (i.e, the point, the line, flat and body, the four notes of the musical scale, the four rivers in the earthly paradise, the four symbolical figure

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PRACTICE DIVINITY IN YOUR OWN LIFE

a date. as well as you possibly can remember the words and practices. then when you are in the same situation repeat that prayer- except entirely to yourself, making references to no god but you. continue this practice until you have results. come to see yourself as the cause for all seeming miracles in your life. it is you, the self created god, not some divinely appointed destiny. 5. encourage the worship of yourself by others. now don't be a prig about it like ihvh- don't insist on no gods but me- etc. certainly don't be a jealous god, you can help others in their self deification. be sure you have a nice birthday party, that others have chance to praise you when you do well etc. then when you've created a little friend and fan club, begin to practice the simple lesser black magic of t

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

eat revelation and the knowledge that he was to be the herald of a new era in human history. according to his own account, crowley's guardian angel, aiwass, appeared to him and dictated the book of the law (liber al vel legis).xviii his most famous work, the book of the law announces the dawn of the third aeon of mankind: the first aeon was that of the goddess isis, centered around matriarchy and the worship of the great mother; the second aeon was that of osiris, during which the patriarchal religions of suffering and death- i.e, judaism and christianity- rose to power. finally, with the revelation of the book of the law, a new aeon of the son, horus, was born "in this aeon the emphasis is on the self or will, not on anything external such as gods and priests."xix the peak of his magical

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

sieben jahre der hungersnoth, leipzig, 8vo. the legend contained in this remarkable text describes a terrible famine which took place in the reign of tcheser, a king of the iiird dynasty, and lasted for seven years. insufficient nile-floods were, of course, the physical cause of the famine, but the legend shows that the "low niles" were brought about by the neglect of the egyptians in respect of the worship of the god of the first cataract, the great god khnemu. when, according to the legend, king tcheser had been made to believe that the famine took place because men had ceased to worship khnemu in a manner appropriate to his greatness, and when he had taken steps to remove the ground of complaint, the nile rose to its accustomed height, the crops became abundant once more, and all miser

caverns in the cataract, and to flood the land with abundance. the general character of the legend, as we have it here, makes it quite certain that it belongs to a late period, and the forms of the hieroglyphics and the spellings of the words indicate that the text was "stunned" on the rock in the reign of one of the ptolemies, probably at a time when it was to the interest of some men to restore the worship of khnemu, god of the first cataract. these interested people could only have been the priests of khnemu, and the probability that this was so becomes almost a certainty when we read in the latter part of the text the list of the tolls and taxes which they were empowered to levy on the merchants, farmers, miners, etc, whose goods passed down the cataract into egypt. why, if this be the

s was so becomes almost a certainty when we read in the latter part of the text the list of the tolls and taxes which they were empowered to levy on the merchants, farmers, miners, etc, whose goods passed down the cataract into egypt. why, if this be the case, they should have chosen to connect the famine with the reign of tcheser is not clear. they may have wished to prove the great antiquity of the worship of khnemu, but it would have been quite easy to select the name of some king of the ist dynasty, and had they done this, they would have made the authority of khnemu over the nile coaeval with dynastic civilization. it is impossible to assume that no great famine took place in egypt between the reign of tcheser and the period when the inscription was made, and when we consider this fac

all people their heart's desire, to make misery to pass away, to fill the granaries, and to make the whole land of egypt yellow with waving fields of full ripe grain. when the king, who had been in a dream, heard the god mention crops, he woke up, and his courage returned to him, and having cast away despair from his heart he issued a decree by which he made ample provision for the maintenance of the worship of the god in a fitting state. in this decree, the first copy of which was cut upon wood, the king endowed khnemu with 20 schoinoi of land on each side of the river, with gardens, etc. it was further enacted that every man who drew water from the nile for his land should contribute a portion of his crops to the god. fishermen, fowlers, and hunters were to pay an octroi duty of one-tent

he appointment of an inspector whose duty it would be to weigh the gold, silver and copper which came into the town of elephantine, and to assess the value both of these metals and of the precious stones, etc, which were to be devoted to the service of khnemu. all materials employed in making the images of the gods, and all handicraftsmen employed in the work were exempted from tithing. in short, the worship of the god and his company was to be maintained according to ancient use and wont, and the people were to supply the temple with everything necessary in a generous spirit and with a liberal hand. he who failed in any way to comply with the enactments was to be beaten with the rope, and the name of tcheser was to be perpetuated in the temple. viii. the legend of the death and resurrecti

he things which happened in the lands of the city of heben, in a region which measured three hundred and forty-two measures on the south, and on the north, on the west, and on the east [fn#82] the goddess nekhebet was incarnate in a special kind of serpent, and the centre of her worship was in the city of nekheb, which the greeks called eileithyiaspolis, and the arabs al-kab [fn#83] the centre of the worship of uatchet, or uatchit, was at per- uatchet, a city in the delta [fn#84] i.e, the enemies. xv. then the enemies rose up before him by the lake of the north, and their faces were set towards uatch-ur[fn#85] which they desired to reach by sailing; but the god smote their hearts and they turned and fled in the water, and they directed their course to the water of the nome of mertet-ament

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making cultures of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the superintelligence. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered around human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based upon the worship of these false gods rose and fell in asia, africa, and south america. the battleground had been chosen, and the mode of conflict had been decided upon "the human race would supply the pawns. the mode of control was complicated as usual. human beings were largely free of direct control. each individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces "the main battle was

f the same rituals to the same deities and this remains of fundamental importance to the initiates of the brotherhood today. my use of the term satanism has nothing to do with the christian version of satan. i use it only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as it may seem; to most people, is commonplace all over the world today. satanism is just another name for the worship of a highly destructive, negative force which has been given endless names over the centuries. nimrod, baal, moloch or molech, set, the devil, lucifer, there is no end to them. satanism perverts everything positive in the same way that the nazis took a positive symbol, the swastika, and turned it around to symbolise the negative. this is why the satanists invert the pentagram and why t

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

lmighty giver of life according to ancient ritual. though the ritual of europe is now consonant with modern civilisation, the feeling which underlies both the primitive and the civilised is the same: gratitude to the creator and hope for the constance of his goodness. personal worship may take any form, but a group of persons worshipping together always devise some form of ritual, especially when the worship takes the form of a dance. the ritual dance, whether pet formed as an act of worship or as the expression of a prayer, is characterised by its rhythmic action. the prayer-dance is usually for the increase of food, and therefore imitates in stylized form the movements of the animals or the growing of the plants for which increase is desired. the worshipdance is even more rhythmic than t

mystery was a purely magical ceremony, but with time it acquired a spiritual and moral content. the mystery religions had an enormous influence on the greek conscience, enabling it to comprehend the value of the christian message 'orphism was the most important of these deriving its name from its alleged founder. it was a particular form of that orgiastic and ecstatic religion which originated in the worship of dionysus and consisted in living over again his myth. zagreus, the son of zeus and kore (persephone, is slain at hera's instigation by the titans who tear him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had bir

ains the irresistible factor of life. this power is a divine gift and therefore induces more than merely sex attraction. with any woman, young, beautiful and vivacious, her influence for good or evil is overwhelming. when moved by high principle and purpose, womankind can elevate and ennoble man- a suggestive inquiry, etc, by a.j. attwood. not only in the sacrifices to the generative gods, but in the worship of every god the religious ceremonies of the greeks and of all the ancient peoples were happy and involved feasting, dancing in the gods' honour and rejoicing generally, with the exception of the later jews and possibly of the egyptians: many of the egyptian festivals were happy but some were not, because they had many and diverse gods. it is highly probable that the early jewish rites

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

dism at carleton college, there became attached to the office of arch- druid three collections of written material, which became known collectively as the three books of the arch-druid. handed down over the years from arch-druid to arch-druid, they have acquired for the druids at carleton some measure of venerability, such as the scant age of the reform can confer. the first of these, the book of the worship of the earth-mother, preserves much of the liturgy used in the beginning, though indeed as the reform grew, so did the realization that liturgy cannot remain fixed and static while religious outlook changes. so today each presiding priest is encouraged to write liturgy that he can celebrate without antagonizing his own religious scruples; and while much is still drawn from the book of

attains his objective, and he who is kind can get service from the people (xvii:6) confucius said: only the humane man can love men and can hate men (iv:3 (confucius on religion) lin fang asked about the fundamental principle of rites. confucius replied: you are asking an important question! in rites at large, it is always better to be too simple rather than too lavish (iii:4) tzu lu asked about the worship of ghosts and spirits. confucius said: we don t know yet how to serve men, how can we know about serving the spirits? what about death, was the next question. confucius said: we don t know yet about life, how can we know about death (xi:11) fan ch ih asked about wisdom. confucius said: devote yourself to the proper demands of the people, respect the ghosts and spirits but keep them at

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reined in, then crossing the threshold at the propitious moment indeed, the moment is the threshold that one crosses, entering and departing not as sequential acts but as one contemporaneous gesture facilitates the meeting-point of time and space, a concurrence that bespeaks the mystery of prayer, which serves as a paradigm for human worship generally. in the words of shalom dov baer schneersohn, the worship of man is to join time and space and to unify them in divinity (lehabber zeman u-maqom u-leyahadam ba-elohut).260 this association of the feminine and the phallic corona accounts for the essential link between time and memory a rmed repeatedly by kabbalists, the masculine (zakhrut) branded as the locus of memory (zikkaron).261 the generative force is envisioned, moreover, as the twenty

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he supernal hypostases is on you; you have dwelt beneath the wings of the shelcinah; you are israel, who has come out of exile, and the true gates open to receive you. as the philosophus reaches the celebrant on the eastern side: celebrant wells of doctrine deep wells; wells of divine doctrine; wells of love: enter into the wells of doctrine. the study of the doctrine is the work among all works, the worship above all worships, the prayer of prayers. as the philosophus reaches the hegemon in the south: hegemon the path of spiritual consciousness is the path of the study of the secret doctrine. but those who would study the law must keep it: the law is understood only in the intercourse of holy union. as the philosophus reaches the hierophant in the west: hierophant remember, 0 pharos illum

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