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lls the angelic secret language. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god emor dial hectega which are borne upon the banners of the north, and there are also numberless names of angels, archangels, and spirits ruling the element of earth. kerux: comes forward retrieves fylfot cross from altar and hands it to hierophant. hiero: the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfot, hammer of thor, and swastika, is formed of 17 squares out of a square of 25 lesser squares. these 17 represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. in this grade, the lights on the pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted the darkness of the outer world. you will leave the temple for a short time. kerux: escorts neophyte out of temple, instructs neophyte in knocks and r

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dog's name, but signifies an obotrite (jungm. 1, 150; sumr in the nialssaga seems to mean a same, sabme= lapp; hell)ling 4, 458 has a frank (see suppl. 8 introduction. had formerly proved helpful to them. so even by christians much later, the old deities seem to have been named and their aid invoked in enchantments and spells. landnfimabok 3, 12 says of helgi' hann trusi a krist, en]?6 het hann a thor til seefara ok harsrsesa ok alls ]7ess, er honnm]?otti mestu varsa; he believed in christ, and yet he called upon thor in voyages and difficulties &c. hence the poets too transferred heathen ei^ithets to christ. beda 1, 15 relates of eedwald, an east-anglian king in the begining of the 7th century' rediens domum ab uxore sua, a quibusdam perversis doctoribus seductus est, atque a sinceritate

ate, while others have barely an inkling of it, the following expressions are still more indisputably connected with the heathen way of thinking. in the norse mythology, the notion of a deus, divus, if not of the uppermost and eldest, yet of a secondary rank, which succeeded/ to power later, is expressed by the word as, pi. ccsir (see suppl^ landds (egilss. pp. 365-6) is patrium numen, and try it thor, the chief god of the north, is designated, though as and allmdttki as is given to osinn (landn. 4, 7. dsmcrjui is divine power: tha vex god. 25 honum asmcgin halfu, sn. 26. fa'raz i asmegin, sn. 65. but the name must at one time have been universal, extending over upper germany and saxony, under such forms as: goth. ohg. ans, pi. anseis, cnsi, as. 6s, pi. es (conf. our gans, with oist. gas

an. 145, 3: gihneg an kniobeda. in the s61arlio3 is the remarkable expression: henni ec laut, to her (the sun) i bowed, sam. 126; from liua inclinare. falla a kue ok luta, vilk. saga cap. 6. nu sirauk kongsdottir sinn icgg, ok mrelti, ok sir i loptiff tqyp (stroked her leg, and spoke, and looks up to the sky, vilk, saga cap. 61, so the saga of st. olaf tells how the men bowed before the statue of thor, hitu j?vi skrimsli, fornm. sog. 4, 247. fell til iardar fyrir likneski (fell to earth before the likeness. fornm. sog. 2, 108. the langobards are stated in the dial. gregorii]\i. 3, 28 to have adored s%d)inissis cervicibus a divinely honoured goat's head. in the middle ages people continued to boiv to lifeless objects, by way of blessing them, such as a loved country, the road they had trave

om leaves no doubt remaining, that it avas equally in vogue among goths, alamanni, saxons, before their conversion to christianity. the on. verb hloia, pret. blet and blotagi, takes, like the gothic, an ace. of the object worshipped; thus, gragas 2, 170, in the formula of the trygdamcd: sva visa sem (as widely as) kristnir menn kirkior soekia, heisnir menu hof hlota (fana colunt; and in the edda: thor hlota, mik hlota, hlota&i 06in. seem. ill, 113, 141, 165: always the meaning is sacrificio venerari. so that in goth, and on. the verb brings out more the idea of the person, in ohg. and as. more that of the thing. but even the o.dan, version of the ot. uses hlothe immolare, woc^amadh^ the gl. hrab. 954: laclia, plostar, is incomplete; in gl. ker. 45. diut. 1, 166" it stands: bacha sacriticat

d for tlie household gods, and particularly to place a dish of 'broth before berhta and hulda, the gods were also invited to share the festive drink. the drinker, before taking any himself, would pour some out of his vessel for the god or housesprite, as the lithuanians, when they drank beer, spilt some of it on the ground for their earth-goddess zemynele^ compare with this the norwegian sagas of thor, who appears at weddings when invited, and takes up and empties huge casks of ale. i will now turn once more to that account ot the suevic ale-fuh (cupa) in jonas (see p. 56, and use it to explain the heathen practice of viinnedrinking, which is far from being extinct under christianity. here also both name and custom appear common to all the teutonic races. the gothic man (pi. munum, pret. m

ngs, offra en (jryta af malm (vessel of metal, arvidss. 2, 11(5; en giyta af blankaste malm (of silver) ahlqvists ohind ii. 1, 214; also articles of clothing, e.g. red shoes' in the teut. languages i know of no technical term like the gk. aivivba, xfi'/so, lat. libo, for drink-offerings (see siippl. 60 worship. saga (ed. holm) 113. signa is the german segnen to bless, consecrate, signa full osni, thor. osins full, marsar full, freys fall drecka, saga hakonar gosa cap. 16.18. in the herrau5s-saga cap. 11, thor's, osin's and freya's minne is drunk. at the burial of a king there was brought up a goblet called bragafull (funeral toast cup, before which every one stood up, took a solemn vow, and emptied it, yngl. saga cap. 40; other passages have hragarfuu, stem. 146^ fornald. sog. 1, 345, 417

er passages have hragarfuu, stem. 146^ fornald. sog. 1, 345, 417. 515. the goblet was also called minnisvcig (swig, draught, sa3m. 193^ after conversion they did not give up the custom, but drank the minne of christ, mary, and the saints: krists minni, michaels minni, fornm. sog. 1, 162. 7, 148. in the fornm. sog. 10, 1781, st. martin demands of olaf that his minni be proposed instead of those of thor, osin, and the other ases. the other races were just as little weaned from the practice; only where the term minne had changed its meaning, it is translated by the lat. amor instead of memoria^ notably as early as in liutprand, hist. 6, 7 (muratori ii. 1, 473, and liutpr. hist. ott. 12: diaboli in aniorcm vinum bibere. liutpr. antapod. 2, 70: amoris salutisque mei causa bibito. liutpr. leg. 6

minne; jonas relates how the saint blew the whole vessel to pieces and spoilt their pleasure: manifesto datnr intelligi, diaholum in eo vase fuisse occultatum, qui per profanum litatorem caperet animas sacrificantium. so by liutprand's devil, whose minne is drunk, we may suppose a heathen god to have been meant (jcfa priggja sdlda 61 osni (give three tuns of ale to osinn, fornm. sog. 2, 16. gefa thor ok 0(5ni 61, ok signa fidl asum, ibid. 1, 280. drecka minni thors ok ogins, ibid. 3, 191. as the north made the sign of thor's hammer, christians used the cross for the blessing (segnung) of the cup; conf. poculum signare, walthar. 225, precisely the norse sig7ia full. minne-drinking, even as a religious rite, apparently exists to this day in some parts of germany. at otbergen, a village of h

wed. skal, strictly scutella, potatio in memoriam vel sanitatem. minne-drinking. 63 now that suevic cnpa filled with beer (p. 75) was a hallowed sacrificial cauldron, like that which the cimbri sent to the emperor augustus^ of the scythian cauldron we have already spoken, p. 75; and we know what part the cauldron plays in the hymisqvisa and at the god's judgment on the seizure of the cauldron (by thor from giant hymir. nor ought we to overlook the on. proper names ashctill, thorhctill (abbrev. thorkel) as. oscytcl (kemble 2, 302; they point to kettles consecrated to the as and to tlior. our knowledge of heathen antiquities will gain both by the study of these drinking usages which have lasted into later times, and also of the shapes given to laked meeds, which either retained the actual fo

d eoman one. that woden s statue was one of those idola vana that were broken to pieces, may almost be inferred from jonas's account of the beer-sacrifice offered to him. eatpert's cantilena s. galli has only the vague words: castra de turegum adnavigant tucconium, decent fidem gentem, jovcm linquunt ardentem. this jupiter on fire, from whom the people apostatized, may very well be donar (thunar, thor, but his statue is not alluded to. according to arx (on pertz 2, 61, eckehardus iv. quotes' jovis et neptuni idola' but i cannot find the passage; conf. p. 122 ermoldus nigellus on neptune. it is plain that the three statues have to do with the idolatry on l. constance, not with that on l. zurich; and if mercury, jupiter and neptune stood there together, the first two at all events may be eas

al (cap. 233, the most remarkable thing is, that three statues are specified, as they were in that temple of the alamanns: nunc de superstitione sveonum pauca dicemus. nohilissinium ilia gens templum habet, quod ubsola dicitur, non longe positum a sictona civitate (sigtiin) vel birka. in hoc templo, quod totum ex auro paratum est, statuas trium deorum veneratur populus, ita ut potentissimus eorum thor in medio solium habeat triclinio. hinc et inde locum possident wodau et fricco. the further description w-e have nothing to do with here, but there occurs m it also the term scidpere; as the whole temple was ex auro paratum, i.e, decorated with gold, he might doubtless have described the figures of tlie gods above all as gilded, j\ist as those in alamannia were aereae et deaiiratae. saxo p. 1

ch figures (see suppl. ermoldus nigellus, in describing herold's (harald's) interview with king charles, mentions 4, 444 seq (pertz 2, 509-10) the gods images (sculpta) of the heathen, and that he was said to have had ploughshares, kettles and water-buckets forged of that metal. according to the nialssaga cap. 89, in a norwegian temple (gosahus) there were to be seen three figures again, those of thor and the two half-goddesses thorgersr and irpa, of human size, and adorned with armlets^ on recently discovered figures of' odin' v. infra, wudan. 114 gods. probably thor sat hi the middle on his car. altogether the portraitures of thor seem to have been those most in vogue, at least in norway^ one temple in which many skurdgos were worshipped, but thor most of all, is descriljed in fornm. sog

se most in vogue, at least in norway^ one temple in which many skurdgos were worshipped, but thor most of all, is descriljed in fornm. sog. 2, 153 and 159, and his statue 1, 295. 302-6; in 2, 44 we read: thorr sat i midju ok var mest tignasr, hann var mikill ok allr gidli hixinn ok silfri (ex auro et argento confectus; conf. olafs helga saga, ed. holm. cap. 118-9, where a large standing figure of thor is described; and fornm. sog. 4, 245, ed. christ, p. 26. freyr gioir af silfri, isl. sog. 1, 134. landn. 3, 2. one man carried a statuette of thor carved in whalebone (likneski thors af tonn gert) in his pocket, so as to worship him secretly, when living among christians, fornm. sog. 2, 57. thor's figure was carved on the ondvegis-pillars, eyrbygg. p. 8. landnamab. 2, 12; and on the prows of

dred gods, fornm. sog. 11, 40; truly a' densitas imaginuni' as jonas has it (see p. 83. saxo gram. 327 mentions a simulacrum qucrcii factum, carved in oak? or an oaktree worshipped as divine (see suppl. not only three, but occasionally two figures side by side are mentioned, particularly those of wuota7i and donar or of mars and merciirius, as w^e see from the passages cited. figures of freyr and thor together, and of frigg and freyja, occur in miiller's sagabibl. 1, 92. names of places also often indicate such joint worship of two divinities, e.g. in hesse the donnerseiche (thor's oak) stood close by the wodansberg; and explorers would do well to attend to the point. but noitlier the alleged number of the statues, nor their descriptions in the sagas can pass for historical; what they do p

thout, a god's image, rather than of a pillar hewn into shape by the hand of man; this fits in too with the worshipping sub divo, with the word lucus used by some of the chroniclers, and with the simplicity of the earliest forest-worship. as the image melts into the notion of tree, so does the tree pass into that of image; and our wesiphalian irmen-pillar most. naturally suggests the idea of that thor's-oak in hesse; the evangelists converted both of them into churches of st. peter. i suspect an intimate connexion between the irman-pillars and the boland-pillars erected in the later mid. ages, especially in istorth germany; there were in sweden thorspillars, and among the anglo-saxons jethelstdn-jnllars (lappenberg 1, 376. there yet remains to be given an account of a sacred post in neustr

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net jupiter. skk= to cover or protect, but schh= to trample down. moschel: from hebrew, mvsh= to move oneself about. pereuch: perhaps from greek, per and euche= concerning prayer, or given unto prayer. deccal: from hebrew, dchl= to fear. asperim: perhaps from latin, aspera= rude, rigorous, perilous, dangerous. katini: from hebrew, kthn= a tunic, whence the greek word chiton. torfora: from hebrew, thor= a small knife, or lancet. badad: from hebrew, bdd= solitary. of abramelin the mage 87 i have thus far given the probable derivations at length; but i shall, for the sake of brevity, here continue them without giving their roots and remarks thereon: coelen. latin. heavens. chuschi. hebrew. silent. tasma. hebrew and chaldaic. weak. pachid. hebrew. fear. parek. hebrew. roughness, savage. rachia

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the fool: o :aleph (an ox: 1 :air (the con :the free breath. the (the babe: english a: dition of: svastika. the holy in the egg: more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus, bacchus: tial vehicle: reine thor" who knows diphues: sexually: nothing. horus. etc: undevelop: christ-bacchus as the: ed. life: innocent babe, pursued: i.e. the: by herod-here: organ of: hercules strangling: possible: the serpents. the: expression: unconscious self not: yet determined in any: direction: the devil :xv :ayin (an: 70:capricornus :parzival in black armour (baphomet: eye) en (an earthy: ready to return to throned

ess to work on their minds as my own. nature is independent of, and indifferent to, man's affairs. a storm is caused by atmospheric conditions on a scale so enormous that the united efforts of all us earth-vermin could scarcely disperse one cloud, even if we could get at it. how then can any magician, he who is above all things a knower of nature, be so absurd as to attempt to throw the hammer of thor? unless he be simply insane, he must be initiated in a truth which transcends the apparent facts. he must be aware that all nature is a continuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, are equally expressions of one existence, all alike of the self-same order of artifices whereby the absolute appreciates itself. he must also have assimilated the fact that the quantity i

liber ccxx, i, 49) therefore the candidate will be horus too. what then is the formula of the initiation of horus? it will no longer be that of the man, through death. it will be the natural growth of the child. his experiences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. their hieroglyph is the fool: the innocent and impotent harpocrates babe becomes the horus adult by obtaining the wand "der reine thor" seizes the sacred lance. bacchus becomes pan. the holy guardian angel is the unconscious creature self- the spiritual phallus. his knowledge and conversation contributes occult puberty. it is therefore advisable to replace the name asar un-nefer by that of ra-hoor-khuit at the outset, and by that of one's own holy guardian angel when it has been communicated "line 6" he hails him as besz, th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

y of babylon, how nebuchadnezzar the great king, being afflicted in his spirit, did depart from among men for seven years' space, eating grass as doth an ox. now this ox is the letter aleph, and is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, the all-mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor, and so referreth to him that walketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badawi that became king, in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ol4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried: one for the fool, seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the 1st key. the magical weapons correspond to the kerubim. 4 the key marked 0 and applied to aleph, 1. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 115 hammer of thor. arcanum. griphus i. griphus ii. griphus iii. griphus iv. griphus v. griphus vi. griphus vii. the serpent should be his at last. none for the fool, they laughed back nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stood far from the sun. yet the suggler was ev

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give thy body to the beasts! give thy spirit to the priests! break in twain the hazel rod on the virgin lips of god! tear the rosy cross asunder! shatter the black bolt of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, f

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to the cross that is the heart of the rose! 31 therefore do i cry aloud, and my scream is the treble as the bellowing of the bull is the bass. peace in the highest and peace in the lowest and peace in the midst thereof! peace in the eight quarters, peace in the ten points of the pentagram! peace in the twelve rays of the seal of solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings of the hammer of thor! behold! i blaze upon thee (the eagle is gone; it is only a flaming rosy cross of white brilliance) i catch thee up into rapture. falutli, falutli. o it dies, it dies. bou saada. 3 these are intended to show symbolically that the bull is the same as the eagle "november" 28, 1909. 9.30-10.15 a.m. the cry of the 22nd aethyr, which is called lin there comes first into the stone the mysterious ta

s shed. and that is external religion; but cain spake not with god, nor had the mark of initiation upon his brow, so that he was shunned by all men, until he had shed blood. and this blood was the blood of his brother. this is a mystery of the sixth key of the taro, which ought not to be called the lovers, but the brothers. in the middle of the card stands cain; in his right hand is the hammer of thor with which he hath slain his brother, and it is all wet with his blood. and his left hand he holdeth open as a sign of innocence. and on his right hand is his mother eve, around whom the serpent is entwined with his hood spread behind her head; and on his left hand is a figure somewhat like the hindoo kali, but much more seductive. yet i know it to be lilith. and above him is the great sigil

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n which rests vishnu, the eternal deity, during pralayic inactivity. what has satan to do with this highly metaphysical symbol? the svastica is the most philosophically scientific of all symbols, as also the most comprehensible. it is the summary in a few lines of the whole work of creation, or evolution, as one should rather say, from cosmo-theogony down to anthro[[vol. 2, page] 99 the hammer of thor. pogony, from the indivisible unknown parabrahm to the humble moneron of materialistic science, whose genesis is as unknown to that science as is that of the all-deity itself. the svastica is found heading the religious symbols of every old nation. it is the "worker's hammer" in the chaldean book of numbers, the "hammer" just referred to in the "book of concealed mystery (ch. i, 1, 2, 3, 4, e

istic science, whose genesis is as unknown to that science as is that of the all-deity itself. the svastica is found heading the religious symbols of every old nation. it is the "worker's hammer" in the chaldean book of numbers, the "hammer" just referred to in the "book of concealed mystery (ch. i, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc "which striketh sparks from the flint (space, those sparks becoming worlds. it is "thor's hammer" the magic weapon forged by the dwarfs against the giants, or the pre-cosmic titanic forces of nature, which rebel and, while alive in the region of matter, will not be subdued by the gods, the agents of universal harmony, but have first to be destroyed. this is why the world is formed out of the relics of the murdered ymir. the svastica is the miolnir, the "storm-hammer; and therefo

assions and suffering in their life-incarnations, become fit to dwell in ida in eternal peace, then miolnir will become useless. this will be when the bonds of hel (the goddess-queen of the region of the dead) will bind them no longer, for the kingdom of evil will have passed away "surtur's flames had not destroyed them, nor yet had the raging waters" of the several deluges "then came the sons of thor. they brought miolnir with them, no longer as a weapon of war, but as the hammer with which to consecrate the new heaven and the new earth* verily many are its meanings! in the macrocosmic work, the "hammer of creation" with its four arms bent at right angles, refers to the continual motion and revolution of the invisible kosmos of forces. in that of the manifested kosmos and our earth, it po

lumes. the author shows that "the circle and the cross are inseparable. the crux ansata unites the circle and cross of the four corners. from this origin they came to be interchangeable at times. for example, the chakra, or disk of vishnu, is a circle. the names denote the circling, wheeling round, periodicity, the wheel of time. this the god uses as a weapon to hurl at the enemy. in like manner, thor throws his weapon, the fylfot, a form of the four-footed cross (swastica) and a type of the four quarters. thus the cross is equivalent to the circle of the year. the wheel emblem unites the cross and circle in one, as does the hieroglyphic cake and the ankh-tie[[diagram" nor was the double glyph sacred with the profane, but only with the initiates. for raoul-rochette shows (ibid "the sign[[d

m the journal of the royal asiatic society (vol. xviii, p. 393, pl. 4 "at each of the four corners is placed a quarter arc of an oviform curve, and when the four are put together they form an oval; thus the figure combines the cross with the circle round in four parts, corresponding to the four corners of the cross. the four segments answer to the four feet of the swastica cross and the fylfot of thor. the four-leaved lotus flower of buddha, is likewise figured at the centre of this cross, the lotus being an egyptian and hindu type of the four quarters. the four quarter arcs, if joined together, would form an ellipse, and the ellipse is also figured on each arm of the cross. this ellipse therefore denotes the path of the earth. sir j. y. simpson copied the following specimen[[diagram, whic

e] 588 the secret doctrine "the cross was used in egypt as a protecting talisman and a symbol of saving power. typhon, or satan, is actually found chained and bound to the cross. in the ritual, the osirian cries 'the apophis is overthrown, their cords bind the south, north, east, and west, their cords are on him. har-ru-bah has knotted him* these were the cords of the four quarters, or the cross. thor is said to smite the head of the serpent with his hammer. a form of swastica or four-footed cross. in the primitive sepulchres of egypt the model of the chamber had the form of a cross* the pagoda of mathura. the birth-place of krishna, was built in the form of a cross* this is perfect and no one can discern in this "sexual worship" with which the orientalists love to break the head of pagani

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ign for the origin of human life to begin. when the circumference disappears and leaves only the[[diagram] it is a sign that the fall of man into matter is accomplished, and the fourth race begins. the cross within a circle symbolises pure pantheism; when the cross was left uninscribed, it became phallic. it had the same and yet other meanings as a tau inscribed within a circle[[diagram] or as a "thor's hammer" the jaina cross, so-called, or simply svastica within a circle[[diagram] by the third symbol- the circle divided in two by the horizontal line of the diameter- the first manifestation of creative (still passive, because feminine) nature was meant. the first shadowy perception of man connected with procreation is feminine, because man knows his mother more than his father. hence fema

sexes by natural evolution took place- when the figure became[[diagram, the circle, or sexless life modified or separated- a double glyph or symbol. with the races of our fifth race it became in symbology the sacr, and in hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races* then it changed into the egyptian[[diagram (emblem of life, and still later into the sign of venus[[diagram] then comes the svastica (thor's hammer, or the "hermetic cross" now, entirely separated from its circle, thus becoming purely phallic. the esoteric symbol of kali yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus[[diagram- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every[[footnote(s* see that suggestive work "the source of measures" where the author explains the real meaning of the wor

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

e. one of the pre-hitler 'prophets' was the composer, richard wagner, in the nineteenth century. his composition, the ride of the valkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared the imminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression of his belief in german supermen bestriding the world stage like the ancient pagan gods wotan and thor. hitler would later say that to understand nazi germany, one had to know wagner. one of the students of master race fanatic wagner was gustav mahler, whose studies with wagner were funded by baron albert de rothschild. adolf hitler was officially born at braunau-am-inn, on the border of germany and the austria-hungary empire, but the amazing story of who he really was will be told in a later

which influenced the gathering nazi philosophy included the order of the oriental temple, which used sex as part of its rituals to create and harness the energy known as the vril, and two german esoteric 'magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. in his summer solstice celebrations, list used wine bottles on the ground to form the symbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge of power in the order of the golden dawn, and we know this symbol as the swastika. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolf lanz) featured the swastika on the flag which flew over his 'temple' overlooking the danube, and for these two black magicians it symbolised the end of christianity and the dawning of the age of the aryan supermen. they believed in the racial inferiority of

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ween the nordic and reptilian bloodlines; and (c) the fundamental importance of the goddess to the reptilians. l.a. waddell first began the dragon queens 151 to see the connections between apparently unconnected people and events during his early days in india while studying hindu history and mythology. he noticed that eindri, the name used in the edda text for the european and norse "god" called thor, was remarkably close to the hindu god, indra. the indian vedas, which were inspired by the lemurian and sumerian legends and accounts, describe indra as tall, fair, invincible, and armed with a bolt. this is how eindri or thor is described in the edda and waddell concluded from considerable research that the european god, thor, and the hindu god, indra, were the same person, and that this gu

this guy was also the first "aryan" king of sumer. the vedas connect indra to the greek god zeus, also known as jupiter. some sanskrit scholars regarded indra as the same as jupiter and suggested that he was a heroic human king who had led the early aryans or "nordics" to victory against the "serpent cult. waddell produces a stream of evidence to show that the hindu god, indra, and the european, thor, after whom we get thursday or "thors-day, are the same person or deity. he also says that the legend of thor is the origin of the legends of king arthur. thor is known in the edda as her-thor, which became ar-thur. both her and ar come from the same root meaning..aryan.15 the mist began to clear even further when waddell observed that the name of the first aryan king of the sumerians in anci

nd of thor is the origin of the legends of king arthur. thor is known in the edda as her-thor, which became ar-thur. both her and ar come from the same root meaning..aryan.15 the mist began to clear even further when waddell observed that the name of the first aryan king of the sumerians in ancient mesopotamia had the name of indara, in dur, in-tur, or king tur.16 this, waddell says, later became thor of northern europe and prometheus of the greeks. indara was the traditional founder of civilisation and was deified by the sumerians.17 he was said to have defeated the demons and slayed the serpent-dragon and the "giants, and his sumerian titles are identical in the sumerian and the edda, where he appears as eindri or thor. like thor, indara was also portrayed with a hammer by the sumerians

ation and was deified by the sumerians.17 he was said to have defeated the demons and slayed the serpent-dragon and the "giants, and his sumerian titles are identical in the sumerian and the edda, where he appears as eindri or thor. like thor, indara was also portrayed with a hammer by the sumerians. the fairy story of jack and the beanstalk or jack the giant slayer comes from the tales of indara/thor. a title for thor in the edda is sig or ygg, which, in sumerian and cappadocian inscriptions, is spelt zagg or zakh. this is the origin of the modern name, jack.18 waddell writes of indara "the sumerian records regarding him date continuously back to the inscription on his sacred trophy bow! or holy grail by his great-grandson, about 3245bc..they contain fairly full details of the personality

ight, and his warrior-clan of guts or goths, with their portraits chiselled on stone and engraved on their sacred seals, representing them as wearing horned hats like the european goths, ancient britons and anglo-saxons, and like the eddic heroes in medieval art. the goat and deer metaphors, pictographic of his name, are freely applied to him by the sumerians and the hittites, just as they are to thor in the edda. and his capture and consecration of the sacred bowl or holy grail is in agreement with that by thor or her-thor (arthur) in the edda. indra's sacred rowan tree, guarded by goats, is pictured by the sumerians and the nordic-aryan hittites and cappadocians and this is precisely described as thor's 'ygg-drasill' rowan tree in the edda."19 waddell presents more than 100 seals and scu

goats, is pictured by the sumerians and the nordic-aryan hittites and cappadocians and this is precisely described as thor's 'ygg-drasill' rowan tree in the edda."19 waddell presents more than 100 seals and sculptures from sumer and the hittites that portray scenes described in the british edda. he says he could have 152 children of the matrix published 300. there is no doubt, he says, that king thor or arthur were other names for the first historical sumerian king, indara. later renditions of the king arthur story lost these connections and became an invented, though highly symbolic, fable. in egypt, waddell says, indara (thor) was known by the title of asari, which became osiris, the leading deity in the egyptian worship of the sun. osiris was often depicted as a blue-eyed aryan, just a

n king, indara. later renditions of the king arthur story lost these connections and became an invented, though highly symbolic, fable. in egypt, waddell says, indara (thor) was known by the title of asari, which became osiris, the leading deity in the egyptian worship of the sun. osiris was often depicted as a blue-eyed aryan, just as indara was. king indara, dur or tur of sumer, indra of india, thor or eindri or andvara (andrew) of the edda, osiris of egypt, and the original version of king arthur, are all the same person, waddell contends. so, he says, is dar-danos, the first king of troy in homer's iliad. thor was known as dan and from this same root you get danube and danmark, the danish spelling for denmark. the name relates to the danaans, who originated in atlantis. the british isr

ally the tribe of dan, moved out of the middle east and settled in the british isles and europe. this, they claim, led to the names danube and danmark and therefore makes the british, and their genetic kin, god's "chosen people. they have, however, completely lost the plot, i would suggest, not least because they are obsessed with the idea that the bible is accurate. it is not! the edda says that thor (dan) and his aryans went from europe in the first place to settle in turkey and mesopotamia and found the civilisation of sumer. that is precisely what happened, as i indicated earlier. it also says that the aryans of the danube valley were already well in advance of the rest of the world before they went down to mesopotamia.20 the danube valley is very significant to the bloodlines. the dan

precisely what happened, as i indicated earlier. it also says that the aryans of the danube valley were already well in advance of the rest of the world before they went down to mesopotamia.20 the danube valley is very significant to the bloodlines. the danube is the second longest river in europe and runs from germany through romania("dracula" country) and into the black sea. the edda says that thor fought and defeated the serpent worshippers of phrygia (in turkey, a word that comes from the sumerian name, firig or pirig, and it means literally "land of the lions".21 thor is depicted on ancient carvings symbolically fighting and taming "lions" in this battle with the phrygians (figure 19) and so we have the symbolic hebrew story of dan-iel taming the lion. thor was also "midas, the king

ith the phrygians (figure 19) and so we have the symbolic hebrew story of dan-iel taming the lion. thor was also "midas, the king who turned everything into gold with the "midas touch".22 his victory over the phrygians was commemorated in those ancient lands in a monument known as the tomb of midas, although it is not actually a tomb. on it are nine enormous crosses of st george (another name for thor-indara) and dates to about 1000bc.23 figure 19: this image of thor or oar defeating the symbolic lions of phrygia("the land of the lions) was carved in ivory on the handle of a knife around 3350bc the dragon queens 153 the red cross one of the common themes from lemuria, atlantis, through sumer, to the present day illuminati, is the use of the sun cross as a symbol. this cross is the origin o

nister secret society and they have been around for the same period as the knights templar. the ruling bloodlines and their secret society web, the illuminati, are obsessed with symbolism and ritual and, as i have indicated, they use the same symbols and ceremonies today that their ancestors did who ruled the sumer empire, atlantis, and lemuria. the serpent trinity the edda tells the story of how thor-indara fought a constant battle with the serpent cult. the text equates "st george, the dragon-slayer of cappadocia (turkey, with the european god, thor, who was also a "dragon-slayer. both were said to have fought the "serpent dragons of the abyss- their underground cavern systems and bases? in the edda, the serpent cult engages in human sacrifice and blood drinking. same old story, and agai

. this is probably a version of dog-star worship- sirius. credo mutwa says that the zulu peoples have long called sirius the "star of the wolf" and their ancient accounts say that a "sea-dwelling fish people" from sirius came to the earth. they looked pretty human, but had skin like a reptile, he says. interestingly, the edda reveals that the forbears of the nordic peoples under the leadership of thor-indara were also members of the "the seafaring wolf tribe. an irish tribe in ossory were said to become wolf people while attending the yuletide feast or ritual, and they devoured the flesh of cattle as wolves before regaining their human shape. this could all be symbolic or it could be connected to the phenomena of the "werewolf" which, according to some former satanists, do exist. the legen

dragon queen, el, according to the edda, and he is a major figure in ancient myths. one of the older names for wodan (also wotan or woden) is bodo or bauta. this corresponds with the sumerian name of budu, butu, or budun, which means "the serpent footed".28 in waddell's translation of the edda, wodan was an aboriginal chief of a moon and serpent-dragon cult seeking to defeat the nordic-aryans of thor-indara. we find the same story in the indian vedas attributed to indra, their name for thor-indara, who was said to have battled with budhnya or "the bottom. budhnya was known as "the great serpent of the bottom or deep."29 this was the puthon or python of the greeks, says waddell. budhnya and wodan are the same character. in india, wednesday or "wodens-day" is known as budh!30 interesting ho

from his title in the edda of "the lancebearer. like his mother, el, balder has been depicted with wings. th dragon queens 157 the mother-son cult of the serpent scene one in the edda portrays a world awash with the violence, human sacrifice, and blood-drinking rituals of "the mother-son cult of the serpent-dragon. scene two sees the arrival of the great reformer, the tall, red-bearded, eindri or thor (indara, who brought civilisation (see picture section. waddell believes that he is also the origin of adam and this part of the story, he says, is massively misrepresented in the adam and eve, garden of eden story in the hebrew old testament. i think there is a lot more to the adam and eve story and what it represents than this, however, and i think if waddell had been alive today he would h

he says, is massively misrepresented in the adam and eve, garden of eden story in the hebrew old testament. i think there is a lot more to the adam and eve story and what it represents than this, however, and i think if waddell had been alive today he would have accepted that himself. i feel the edda accounts include symbolic, as well as literal, accounts and some originated in lemuria "adam, as thor/indara, fought the serpent cult of the "edenites, waddell's translations of the edda say. if the serpent worshippers were operating in mesopotamia before the nordics arrived, it would certainly explain why the ubaid culture, which preceded sumer in the same area, buried their dead with figurines of serpent humanoids (see picture section. waddell's translation of the edda tells of how thor, th

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n of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal and taut ofphoenicia; indra of tibet; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese;tammuz of syria and babylon; attis of phrygia; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god or prop

sion of it. in the 19th century one of the pre-hitlerprophets was the composer richard wagner, and his composition, the ride of thev alkyries, captures his obsession with the invading powers of evil. wagner declared theimminent arrival of the master race. his work, the ring, was the musical expression ofhis belief in german supermen bestriding the world stage like the ancient pagan gods,wotan and thor. hitler would later say that to understand nazi germany, one had toknow wagner. one of the students of master-race fanatic wagner, was the composer,gustav mahler. his studies with wagner were funded by baron albert de rothschild.one of the places to which wagner travelled and researched was rennes-le-chateau,that mysterious village in southern france so connected to the knights templar and th

inkersand groups which influenced the gathering nazi philosophy included the order of theoriental templars (oto, which used sex rituals to create and harness the energy knownas vril, and two german esoteric magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. inhis summer solstice celebrations, list used wine bottles on the ground to form thesymbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge ofpower in the order of the golden dawn and we know this symbol as the swastika, theancient sun symbol of the phoenician-aryans. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolflanz, used the swastika on a flag which flew over his temple overlooking the danube,and for these two black magicians it symbolised the end of christianity and the dawningof the age of the blond-haired, blue-eyed

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pering shaft of the keltic cross is, in actual fact, a truncated pyramid, and examples of this type of keltic cross exist which leave no doubt upon this point whatsoever. some archaic forms suggest the imposition of the cross and circle upon the conical phallic stone which is so universal an object in primitive worship. 88. the swastika is also a nature cross, and is sometimes called the cross of thor, or the hammer of thor, its form being supposed to indicate the whirling action of his thunderbolts. 89 the calvary cross is the cross of sacrifice, and should ptoperly be coloured black. its shaft should be three times the length of its arms, and the length of each arm three times its width. meditation on this cross brings initiation through suffering, sacrifice, and selfabnegation. the cruc

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angelseaxisce ealdriht is one of several norse pagan groups to emerge as paganism has become established anew among people of northern european descent residing in north america. members venerate the deities that were popular in pre- christian scandinavia and germany, referred to collectively as the aesir and vanir. they include woden (or odin, ing frea (freyr, tiw (tyr, frige (frigg, and thunor (thor. members value beliefs (or thoth) that build loyalty to the deities, one s ancestors, and fellow heathen. the swearing of holy oaths and the making of sacred vows are key activities seen as building thoth. members of angelseaxisce ealdriht also see themselves as very modern pagans. they esteem the past and the values extolled in ancient pagan society, and they seek to reestablish those values

damentals of hermetic science: being the bona fides of astrology. new york: hermetic publishing, 1925. metaphysical astrology. new york: metaphysical publishing, 1900. the sun book; or, the philosopher s vade mecum. new york: hermetic publishing, 1916. yearbook of the american academy of astrologians. 2 vols. new york: hermetic publishing, 1917, 1918. hazel tree the hazel was dedicated to the god thor and was esteemed a plant of great virtue for the cure of fevers. hazel branches were a favorite for use as a divining rod. cutting a rod on st. john s day or good friday was believed to ensure its success as an instrument of divination. a hazel rod was also a badge of authority, and it was probably this notion that that caused it to be used by schoolmasters. a hazel rod was also a symbol of a

is sorcerer s kettle-drum, which they call kannas or quobdas. they cut it in one entire piece out of a thick tree stem, the fibres of which run upwards in the same direction as the course of the sun. the drum is covered with the skin of an animal; and in the bottom holes are cut by which it may be held. upon the skins are many figures painted, often christ and the apostles, with the heathen gods, thor, noorjunkar, and others jumbled together; the pictures of the sun, shapes of animals, lands and waters, cities and roads, in short, all kinds of drawings according to their various uses. upon the drum there is placed an indicator, which they call arpa, which consists of a bundle of metallic rings. the drumstick is, generally, a reindeer s horn. this drum they preserve with the most vigilant c

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rowny, and syr garnega, who may be the same as girnigo, to whom cross children are often likened by angry mothers of the scottish working classes. the scottish verb, to girn (to pull grotesque faces or grin, may find its origin in the name of a medieval fiend, the last shadow of some teutonic or celtic deity of unlovable attributes. in sym skynar, we may have skyrnir, a norse giant in whose glove thor found shelter from an earthquake, and who sadly fooled him and his companions. skyrnir was one of the jotunn or norse titans, and probably one of the powers of winter, and he may have received the popular surname of sym in the same manner as we speak of jack frost. a great deal has still to be done in unearthing the minor figures of scottish mythology and demonology, and even the greater ones

due to them. for example, in newhaven, a fishing district near edinburgh, we find the belief in a fiend called brounger, who is described as an old man who levies a toll of fish and oysters upon the local fishermen. if he is not placated with these, he wreaks vengeance on the persons who fail to supply him. he is also described as a flint and the son of a flint, which strongly suggests that, like thor and many other gods of asia and america, he was a thunder or weather deity. in fact his name is probably a mere corruption of an ancient scandinavian word meaning to strike, which still survives in the scottish expression make a breenge. with regard to practical magic, a terrifying and picturesque legend tells how sir lewis bellenden, a lord of session and superior of the barony of broughton

ddocks are white bellies, salmon red ones, and the dog-fish the big black fellow. it is also regarded as unlucky to name a minister, or refer to sunday, in a fishing boat.a fact that suggests that in early christian times fishermen might be pious churchmen on land but continued to practice paganism when they went to sea, like the icelandic norsemen who believed that christ ruled their island, and thor the ocean. fairies must not be named on fridays, at halloween, or on beltane (may day) when charm fires were lit. earth worship, or rather the propitiation of earth spirits, was a prominent feature of scottish paganism. there too magic played a leading role. compacts were confirmed by swearing over a piece of turf, certain moors or mounds were set apart for ceremonial practices, and these wer

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y into the hands of theosophist edward gardner, a believer in fairies. the wrights provided him with copies of the originals, which gardner showed to an acquaintance knowledgeable in photography. the expert stated, guardedly, that he could see no evidence of fraud. excited, gardner discussed the pictures in a lecture that may, and soon sir arthur conan doyle, the revered au- cottingley fairies 73 thor of the sherlock holmes stories and then an avid spiritualist, heard about the matter. doyle had gardner take the pictures to the kodak laboratory in london, where two experts neither endorsed nor repudiated them. in the summer, when gardner met the wrights for the first time, he provided elsie with a modern camera. in short order, she and frances had three new fairy photographs. doyle wrote t

. hubbard, 1971. visitors from lanulos. new york: vantage press. keel, john a, 1975. the mothman prophecies. new york: saturday review press/e. p. dutton and company, 1969. the time cycle factor. flying saucer review 15, 3 (may/june: 9 13. monteleone, thomas f, 1979. last word: the gullibility factor. omni 1 (may: 146. pflock, karl t, 1980. anatomy of a ufo hoax. fate 33, 11 (november: 40 48. val thor val (or valiant) thor, a venusian, met frank e. stranges, evangelist and contactee, in the pentagon one morning in december 1959. at the time stranges was conducting a christian crusade in washington. an anonymous pentagon official of his acquaintance invited him to the building. in one room he met a handsome, tanned man with wavy brown hair. in the course of a half-hour conversation, the str

ne morning in december 1959. at the time stranges was conducting a christian crusade in washington. an anonymous pentagon official of his acquaintance invited him to the building. in one room he met a handsome, tanned man with wavy brown hair. in the course of a half-hour conversation, the stranger informed him that he was from venus. over the course of years, stranges flew on spacecraft with val thor and wrote two books about their experiences together. stranges reported that venusians are physically like humans in all ways, except that they do not have fingerprints. fingerprints are a sign of fallen man, according to val thor (stranges, 1974. venusians, who are without sin, are devout christians, but they have no need for the bible because of their closeness to its author. in their first

uthor. in their first meeting stranges learned that seventy-seven venusians were living secretly in the united states, but that number was subject to constant change because the space brothers were always coming and going. val himself was scheduled to return to venus on march 16, 1960. the venusians had come to earth to help mankind return to the lord. on the morning of fe b ru a ry 5, 1968, va l thor phoned stranges and instructed him to meet at the san diego airport. from there, the two drove across the border into a coastal t own in sonora, me x i c o. near there, they b o a rded a flying saucer with a large crew, including a woman named teel. inside va l s c o m p a rtment, stranges learned that his friend had spoken with sen. ro b e rt f. ke n n e d y, then running for the democratic

aboard the spaceship, as they watched a large televisionlike screen, st r a n g e s, val, and several dozen venusians sorrow f u l l y o b s e rved ke n n e d y s assassination. on another occasion, in january 1974, stranges flew to las vegas to meet val and friends. at the airport, two young men dressed in black called him by name. assuming they were the space people who were to take him to val thor, he followed them into a black cadillac. suddenly, they and a third, similarly clad man turned on him and were beating him severely when two men space people came to the rescue. they caused the cadillac and the three men in black, agents of dark forces opposed to the venusians benevolent mission, to disappear. they then took stranges to the scheduled conference with val inside a flying saucer

ear. they then took stranges to the scheduled conference with val inside a flying saucer. still an active lecturer and saucer personali t y, stranges claims to have photographic pro o f of va l s existence. the photographs, re p roduced in his books and shown at his lecture s, depict a man dressed in a suit and surro u n d e d by other persons in what look like ord i n a ry social situations. val thor resembles a ho l l ywood bit player more than an extraterre s t r i a l. see also: contactees; men in black further reading stranges, frank e, 1974. my friend from beyond earth. second edition. van nuys, ca: international evangelism crusades. 254 val thor, 1972. the stranger at the pentagon. second edition. van nuys, ca: international evangelism crusades. valdar in 1960, a young man identifie

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er, used a hammer to call his workmen, and it is significant that the symbol of the sign aries, where this wonderful creative activity commences, is shaped like a double ram's horn, which also resembles a hammer. it is also worthy of notice that in the ancient norse mythology, the vanir or water deities are said to have been conquered by the assir, or fire gods. the hammer wherewith the norse god thor struck fire from the sky finds its counterpart in the thunderbolt of jove; like hiram, the assir belong to the hierarchy of fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples

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of the gavels is that they were always depicted upside down. i would have thought they would have been depicted with the head of the gavel at the top. however, we are not thinking like a pagan, who worships sex in all forms, and never lets an opportunity slip by him to depict the great sex act. masonic author, george oliver, says that in ancient times, the gavel referred to the hammer of the god thor [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, 1906, p. 14. we know that thor is an ancient pagan god, one whom freemasons worship. in fact, thor is part of the pagan trinity in scandinavia [pike, morals and dogma, p. 552; also w.l. wilmshurst, the masonic initiation, trismegistus press, 1980, p. 92] however, albert pike makes identification of thor very easy for us, as h

ng and masonic supply co, 1906, p. 14. we know that thor is an ancient pagan god, one whom freemasons worship. in fact, thor is part of the pagan trinity in scandinavia [pike, morals and dogma, p. 552; also w.l. wilmshurst, the masonic initiation, trismegistus press, 1980, p. 92] however, albert pike makes identification of thor very easy for us, as he states, on page 15 of morals and dogma, that thor is another name for sirius, the blazing star or the pentagram. now you can see why this masonic web site depicted three different types of gavels in the familiar pentagram, above right. however, on page 381, pike also tells us that thor was the sun, the egyptian osiris, and kneph, the phoenician bel or baal. the bible tells us that worshipping baal is identical to worshipping the devil [1 kin

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res on the tree of life: gnostic theurgy page 167 binah, tiphareth, chesed and hod. these are attributed to the following tarot trumps: geburah- binah: chariot. geburah -chesed: lust. geburah- tiphareth: justice or adjustment. geburah- hod: hanged man. geburah is also related to the following correspondences. egyptian god: horus and nepthys colours (emperor scale of colour) bright scarlet. greek: thor, aries and hades. stone: ruby plants: nettle, oak. perfume: tobacco. believe it or not, here he has all the information required to create his ritual. on the altar will be the five of swords, the major working will be to travel through this card and come back with a sense of power. he will place the tarot trumps of the related four centres in each elemental corner. he will wear a black robe w

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the cup represents the receptacle and collector of the more fluidic forces of the light, and is the symbol of an inexhaustible bowl of libation from which reservoir the adept may draw the reserved forces of the light, which is a matter that again calls for meditation. the lamen of the dadouchos is thus explained in the grade of zelator "the hermetic cross, which is also known as fylfot, hammer of thor, and swastika, is formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty-five lesser squares. these seventeen fitly represent a, the four elements and the twelve signs of the zodiac" in addition to this, the lamen has a more extended meaning. the hermetic cross, the bolt of whirling flame which is represented by the cross of four axes whose heads may be either double or single and turned i

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us through the towns of puccarani and laha, populated by stolid aymara indians who walked slowly in the narrow cobbled streets and sat placidly in the little sunlit plazas. were these people the descendants of the builders of tiahuanaco, as the scholars insisted? or were the legends right? had the ancient city been the work of foreigners with godlike powers who had settled here, long ages ago? 6 thor heyerdahl, the ra expeditions, book club associates, london, 1972, pp. 43, 295. 7 ibid, p. 43. 8 ibid, p. 295. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 77 chapter 10 the city at the gate of the sun the early spanish travellers who visited the ruined bolivian city of tiahuanaco at around the time of the conquest were impressed by the sheer size of its buildings and by the atmosphere of mystery

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istic techniques involve reducing a word or name to its numerical value and working with that value. one need not even know the math or techniques involved, for example, to marvel at what the technique of applying the new aeon english qabala cipher does in decoding the funny names that show up throughout the history of ufology. thus i should note ufo contactee rev. frank stranges contact, valiant thor, has a name with the same cipher value as ramon natalli, one of the original inner circle of contactee mark probert, and one of the first sources of ufo wisdom. the inner circle, which was promoted by meade layne and which was a key player in the crossover from occultism to contacteeism, itself has an odd secret or two hidden in its cipher value. there were 16 members of the inner circle, all

in naeq6. the inner circle names are filled with this kind of stuff the senior member of the circle is the yada dl shi-ite= elixir of god, linking it to the (apparently) unrelated master aetherius of george king s aetherius society in england. the latter claims to be part of the great white brotherhood at war with the black lodge. master aetherius= elixir of god& life. ramon natalli= 122= valiant thor, the name of rev. frank stranges stranger from the pentagon. i discovered the link while work- ing on a speech to be delivered in cleveland, ohio, in september 1994, sharing the podium with, you guessed it, frank stranges. the last time stranges and i were on the same program was in june 1967 at the same convention, held that year in new york. 1. new aeon english qabala cipher six. secret cip

de additional clues? trw: right. this was a distress beacon, disguised as a contact episode. the whole mothman thing was a distress beacon that failed. ahg: so the whole mystery can be decoded in this way? trw: probably. ahg: so are you a secret chief. trw: that would be telling. 76 allen h. greenfield 77 appendix one select control names from mediumship, adepts hip and contacteeism ashtar, maat, thor, osomo all= 47 (4+7=11) aura rhanes= 92 (9+2=11) morya, voltra, manco all= 56 (5+6=11) val thor= 60= ra disc. master aetherius= 224= elixir of life& god but, curiously, also indrid cold+carl ardo+lanulus (the complete myth cycle) aura rhanes= 92= female and let her. she is one of the few contacts who is named and female. orlon= 42= sananda and zago+zo orthon= jesus and lomec haa ton= 64= mark

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eir footmarks were to be traced, partly in names that had stubbornly refused to be rooted out, yet offered little more than their bare sound; partly, under some altered guise, in the more fluid but fuller form of the folk-tale. this last applies more to the goddesses, the former to the gods. gods and heroes are found in the very names of runes, the first of which in old norse is freyr, others are thor, zio, eor, asc, man, but nowhere goddesses. the gods that have kept the firmest hold are the three marked in the days of the week as mercury, jupiter, mars; and of these, wuotan stands out the most distinct. jonas, fredegar, paulus diaconus and the abrenuntiatio name him, he towers at the head of ancient lines of kings, many places bear the indelible impress of his name. woedenspanne signifie

her of victory, he is likewise god of blessing and bliss, i.e. wish over again, whose place is afterwards occupied by salida (well-being. since he appears alike as god of poetry, of measurement, of the span, of the boundary and of the dicethrow, all gifts, treasures, arts may be regarded as having proceeded from him. though a son of wuotan and yielding to him in power or influence, donar (thunar, thor) appears at times identical with him, and to some extent as an older god worshipped before wuotan. for, like jupiter, he is a father, he is grandfather of many nations, and, as grandfather, is a god of the hills, a god of the rocks, a hammer, sits in the forest, throned on the mountain top, and hurls his old stone weapon, the lightning's bolt. to him the oak was sacred, and his hammer's throw

wish, desire, and the norwegian lapps vaimel cupidus. thus wish, radegast and wainamoinen seem to be getting nearer to each other. this last is a god of poetry and singing (p. 907, he is constantly called wanha, the old one, as the thunder-god ukko likewise is called father or old, and his wife akka mother or old. with the lapps, atia means both grandfather and thunder (see' old daddy' p. 168. as thor's minni was drunk, so full bowls were emptied in honour of ukko. wainamoinen wakes wipune out of her grave (rune 10, as o^inn does vcila. ilmarinen, the smith-god of the finns, reminds us of hephfestus and volundr, but makes a deeper impression than either; he fashioned a wife for himself out of gold (conf. p. 570 n. to the lapps, sarakka means creatress, from saret to create, a goddess of fo

a and holstein* wode jaget/ w. hunts (p. 15g. wuotan appears riding, driving, hunting, as in norso sagas, with valkyrs and einheriar in his train; the pi'ocession resembles an army. full assurance of this hunting wode's identity with the heathen god is obtained from parallel phrases and folktales in scandinavia. the phenomenon of howling wind is referred to osin's waggon, as that of thunder is to thor's. on hearing a noise at night, as of horses and carts, they say in sweden* oden far fvrhi^ in schonen an uproar produced perhaps by seafowl on november and december evenings is called odens jagt^ in bavaria they say nacht-gejaid or nachtgelait (processio nocturna, schm. 2, 264. 514; in german bohemia nncht-goid= spectre, rank's bohmerwald pp. 46. 78. 83. 91. in thuringia, hesse, franconia, s

in some parts, this ghostly array is called aaslcereia, aasherej, aaskereida, in others hoslielreia; the former corrupted from dsgard-reida -reid, the asgard march, whether as a passage of souls to heaven, or as a journey of gods, of valkyrs, visiting earth; or may it not be more simply explained by aska (lightning) and reid (thunder? in which case it would be confined more to a manifestation of thor. sometimes you do not see the procession, but only hear it rush through the air. whoever does not make the sign of the cross on his stable-doors the three nights of yule, will in the morning find his horses blown and dripping with sweat (p. 661, because they have been taken and ridden (faye 70 72. guro is apparently the same as gurri, on. gifr (giantess, p. 526; but gurri is also hiddra (faye

fact, that as berhta and berhtolt hand empty spindles (pp. 274-9, the mark legend tells exactly the same of the devil' you must not spin of a thursday evening, for the evil one would throw an empty spindle into your room, and call out. spin that full as well' ad. kuhn p. 379. of shapes of animals, some arc ascribed to the devil chiefly on the ground of their black colour (see suppl. 1 ii. 1, 592. thor threatens to lameloki, su. 130, and the liglitning-fiash has a maiming power^ the romans called pluto jupiter niyer, the black god. silius ital. 8, 116. 994 devil. sucli animal sliape was often not made complete^ but merely indicated by some addition to a configuration mainly human, much as the greeks and romans represented their satyrs, fauns or pan, and to dionysus, acteeon or lo simply add

(greg. m. 1, hi. the mhg. hellerkjel, as. grendel (p. 243) might be an imitation of this vectis, and also have an older relation to loki. i think i have often noticed that the devil unwinds himself out of a ball of yarn. one fairytale makes him roll down the mountain as a millstone, altd. bl. 1, 297. this displays his affinity to giants, for swedish legend tells of giants who, when frightened at thor's lightning darting through the air, come rolling down the mountain into the meadows in various shapes, mostly as bundles of thread or balls, and seek shelter with the mowers; but these, well knowing the dangei, keep them back with their scythes, and it is said to have often happened that the lightning came down and shivered the scythes, whereupon the giants with rueful moans rushed back into

rovs; the timid host runs away, and the rogue gets possession of his garment. petronius in sat. 62 mentions a peculiar method of metamorphosis' qle circumminxit vestimenta sua, et subito luiyus factus est; vestimenta lapidea facta sunt' conf. cap. 57' si circumminxero ilium, nesciet qua fugiat" the girdle was an essential article of dress, and early ages ascribe to it other magic influences: e.g. thor's divine strength lay in his girdle (megiugior's, fem, sn. 26. werewolf. 1095 52. 246. apart from wolves, we have biarnhesinn, geithesinn, i.e. dressed in a bearskin, goatskin; as a proper name, both biarnhed'inn, landn. 45, and a simple ee&lnn, ancestor of the hiactningar, as. heodeningas fr. heden or heoden. the vowel is therefore e (not e, and we must suppose a lost verb ohg. hetan, hat, p

hast, fr. garo^i, i.e. loup-garou, werewolf. 1 will now pick out a few remarkable names of plants from f. magnusen's lex. 758-9. the viola martis, fr. violette de mars, is in iceland called ty.s-fiola, t/yrs-fiola: this may be a mere translation of the latin name, which alludes more to the month than the god, like our own marz-viole. there is more in the norw. tijri-hialm or tjwr-ldalm, thoralm, thor-hat for aconitum or monk^s-hood, to which answers our elsen-hiltlein (iron hat, swed. dan. storm-hat, apparently from the flower resembling in shape a helmet or hat; but the same plant is called wolfs-kraut, wolfs-wurz, dan. ulve-urt, engl, icolfs bane, dan. ulve-hane, ulve-dod, which may be understood of t^r's fight with the wolf, and moreover likened to the wolfs bast and garou* this too in

r, coeraleo tamen infectum rutiloque colore' is derived from pliny 37, 9, 51 'est inter candidas et quae ceraunia vocatur, fulgorem siderum rapiens, ipsa crystallina, splendoris coerulei, in germania nascens/ though the received text has carmania. there can be no question about the thiuiderstone being german (p. 179; and miohiir, like the hein (p. 903 n) that osinn hurled, or that which lodged in thor's head (p. 375, is sure to have been hallowed above all stones. miolnir sounds remarkably like the slavic names for lightning, molniya, munya; this last the servian songs personify into miinya, and represent as sister to thunder (grom, and bride of the moon (miesets, masc, vuk 1, 151-4 new ed, which jumps with our personification of hammer (p. 181. 999. so much the more is molniya identical w

ir. the romans too must have regarded the thunderbolt, silex, as a 'jovis lapis: lapidem sillcem tenebant juraturi per jovem,haec verba dicentes' si sciens fallo, tum me dispiter, salva urbe arceque, bonis ejiciat, nt ego hunc lapidem' those about to take an oath fetched out of the temple of juppiter feretrius a staff and' lapidem silicem quo foedus ferirent' exactly as covenants were hallowed by thor's hammer. ace. to livy 1, 24, when a swine was sacrificed, it was struck with this stone' tu illo die, jupiter, populum romauum sic ferito, ut ego hunc porcura hie hodie feriam, tantoque magis ferito, quanto magis potes pollesque: id ubi dixit, porcum saxo silice percussit. this is like our malediction' hammer strike thee' the finns in like manner called the thunderbolt ukon- idvi, stone of u

s branches of our race is an interesting feature. in scandinavia, where the reign of heathenism lasted longest, ought to be found the greatest number of such spells, either in writing or in the mouths of the people; and from them we could gather most distinctly the connexion, both of the words and of their import, with heathen notions. the spell by which groa was about to disengage the stone from thor's head, p. 375, is not preserved in the edda, but spells quite similar may have been still muttered over men and beasts in recent times. much to be desired is the speedy publication of a collection set on foot by l. f. raaf in sweden, and containing over 2000 articles, of which a preliminary notice appeared in the monthly mimer (ups. 1838 40) pp. 271 7. among these spells now reduced to writi

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ly occurs as a man s name, and is to be explained from mani, on. men= monile; more rarely we find fanigold, fenegold, from fani, on. fen= palus, meaning the gold that lies hidden in the fen. one trad, patav. of the first half of the twelfth cent (mb. 28b, pp. 90-1) 1 the skeleton of a giantess struck by lightning, hung up in a sacristy, see widegren s ostergotland 4, 527. 2 swed. vore ej thordon (thor-din, thunder) till, lade troll verlden ode. 3 in british legend too (seldomer in carolingian) the heroes are indefatigable giant-quellers. if the nursery-tale of jack the giantkiller did not appear to be of welsh origin, that hero s deeds might remind us of thor s; he is equipped with a cap of darkness, shoes of swiftness, and a sword that cuts through anything, as the god is with the resistl

d steinalt, old as stone (gramm. 2, 555, is to be ex plained by the great age of giants, approaching that of rocks and hills; gifur rata (gigantes pedes illidunt saxis) is what they say in the north. stones and rocks are weapons of the giant race; they use only stone clubs and stone shields, no swords. hrungni s weapon is called hei)i (hone; when it was flung in mid air and came in collision with thor s hammer, it broke, and a part fell on the ground; hence come all the heinberg/ whinstone rocks, sn. 108-9. later legends add to their armament stahelstangen (steel bars) 24 yards long, eoth. 687. 1662. hiirn. sifr. 62, 2. 68, 2. sigenot (lassb) 14 (hag) 69. 75. iwein 5022(-mote, rod 5058 -kolbe, club 6682. 6726. trist. 15980. 16146; foenstange, nib. 460, 1. veldek invests his pandurus and bi

ar the skaggenas (shag-ness) in smaland. they both wished to build a bridge over the sound; the smaland giantess had brought skaggenas above a mile into the sea, and zechiel had gathered stones in her apron, when a man shot at her with his shafts, so that she had to sit down exhausted on a rock, which still bears the impress of her form. but she got up again, and went as far as pesnassocken, when thor began to thunder (da hafver gogubben begynt at aka; she was in such a fright that she fell dead, scattering the load of stones out of her apron higgledy-piggledy on the ground; hence come the big masses of rock there of two or three men s height. her kindred had her buried by the side of these rocks (ahlqvist s gland, 2, 98-9. these giants dread of thor is so great, that when they hear it thu

othland, 1 lothar s volkssagen, leipz. 1825, p. 65. temme s pomm. sagen, nos. 190-1; see barthold s poniinern 1, 580, who spells dobberwort. and explains it by the pol. wor (sack. giants. 537 whom a peasant, to keep him friendly, had invited to a christen ing, refused, much as he would have liked to share in the feast, because he learnt from the messenger that not only christ, peter and mary, but thor also would be there j he would not face him (nyerup s morskabslasning, p. 243. a giant in fladsoe was on bad terms with one that lived at nestved. he took his wallet to the beach and filled it with sand, intending to bury all nestved. on the way the sand ran out through a hole in tlie sack, giving rise to the string of sandbanks between fladsoe and nestved. not till he came to the spot where

were a people exceedingly scant of wit, and to them is due the proverb < altehiiffen dumme dutten. as the surround ing country came more and more under cultivation, the hiinen felt no longer at ease among the new settlers, and they retired. it was then that the duties of altehiiffen also made up their minds to emigrate; but what they wanted was to go and find the 1 like hrungni s hein and thor s hammer, p. 533. giants. 545 entrance into heaven. how they fared on the way was never known, but the joke is made upon them, that after a long march they came to a great calm, clear sheet of water, in which the bright sky was reflected; here they thought they could plunge into heaven, so they jumped in and were drowned.1 from so remarkable a consensus 2 we cannot but draw the conclusion, th

man s strength was proved by the depth to which he drove the hatchet into a stem, ra. 97. the jumping into the blue lake savours of the fairy-tale, and comes before us in some other narratives (kinderm. 1, 343. 3, 112. but, what deserves some attention, swedish folktales make the divine foe of giants, him that hurls thunderbolts and throws hammers, himself play with stones as with balls. once, as thor was going past linneryd in smaland with his henchman (the thialfi of the edda, he came upon a giant to whom he was not known, and opened a conversation: whither goes thy way? i go to heaven to fight thor, who has set my stable on fire. thou presumest too much; why, thou hast not even the strength to lift this little stone and set it on the great one. the giant clutched the stone with all his

hialfi of the edda, he came upon a giant to whom he was not known, and opened a conversation: whither goes thy way? i go to heaven to fight thor, who has set my stable on fire. thou presumest too much; why, thou hast not even the strength to lift this little stone and set it on the great one. the giant clutched the stone with all his might, but could not lift it off the ground, so much weight had thor imparted to it. thor s servant tried it next, and lifted it lightly as he would a glove. then the giant knew it was the god, and fell upon him so lustily that he sank on his knees, but thor swung his hammer and laid the enemy prostrate. all over germany there are so many of these stories about stones and hammers being hurled, and giant s fingers imprinted 1 the last four tales from eedeker, n

are, boh. chraust, pol. chr^szcz; boh. brauk, bruk, prob. from bruchus, ppovxos [buss, zhuk; the gueg of s. germany] beetle. chafer. 693 force it lias in torsdag (p. 126) and tordon (p. 166; bagge/ says ihre p. 122, denotes juvenis, puer, hence servant of the god, which was afterwards exchanged for dyfvel=diefvul, devil. afzelius (sagohafder 1, 12. 13) assures us, that the torbagge was sacred to thor, that in norrland his larva is called mulloxe (earthox, our swiss donnerpuppe? conf. iotunoxi, and that he who finds a dung-beetle lying on ms back (ofvaltes) unable to help himself, and sets him on his legs again, is believed by the norrlanders to have atoned for seven sins thereby. this sounds antique enough, and i do not hastily reject the proposed interpretation of tordyfvel, false as it

ng slanting pole, deichsel (temo, on the strength of which the as. sometimes has pisl alone: wcenes fiisla (thill, boeth. rawlins. 192b. eeferences are given at p. 151, also the reasons for my conjecture that the waggon meant is that of wuotan the highest god. true, an 0. swed. chronicle connects the swed. name karlwagen with thorr, who stepping into his chariot holds the seven stars in his hand (thor statt naken som ett barn, siu stjernor i handen och karlewagn, which i will not absolutely deny; but it is woden stories in particular that are transferred to the frankish charles (p. 153. when in gl. jun. 188 arturus is rendered wagan (though gl. hrab. 1 ich han den glanzen mmelwagen und daz gestirne besehen, troj. 19062. there may for that matter be several himelwagens, as there were many g

aus, steclit dem winter die augen aus i this is completely the rauba birahanen, hrusti giwinnan, caesos spoliare armis of the heroic age; the barbarous punching out of eyes goes back to a still remoter antiquity. 1 the wakening of summer is like the wakening of sselde. in some places, when the fight is over, and winter put to flight, they sing: so treiben wir den winter aus durch unsre stadt zum thor hinaus (out at the gate; here and there the whole action is compressed into the shout: sommer rein (come in, winter naus (go out! 3 as we come back through the odenwald toward inner franconia, the spessart and the rhon mts, the words begin to change, and run as follows: stab aus, stab aus, stecht dem tod (death) die augen aus! 1 the mhg. songs keep pace: der meie hat sinen schaft hi den winte

f. herri, on certain antiquities found in the erfurt country 1787, p. 28, has the line: wir tragen den krodo in s wasser, but confesses afterwards (journ. v. u. f. d. 1787. 483-4) that he dragged the dubious name into the text on pure con jecture. the more suspicious becomes the following strophe in hellbach s suppl. to the archiv v. u. f. schwarzburg, hildburgh. 1789. p. 52: wir tragen den alten thor (fool) hinaus, hinter s alte hirtenhaus, wir haben nun den sommer gewonnen, und krodes macht ist weggekommen, k .s power is at an end. the expressions in the last line smack of recent invention. summer festival. 769 pole. 1 in the altmark, the wendish villages about salzwedel, especially seeben (where we saw hennil still in use, p. 749, have preserved the following custom: at whitsuntide rnen

nomenon underlying a myth, finds the contrast of summer and winter lurking in more than one place in the edda: in fiollsvinnsmal and harbardsliod (th. 2, 135. 3, 44 of his edda, in saxo s oiler and othin saga (th. 1, 196. lex. 765, in that of thiassi (lex. 887, because osinn sets the eye of the slain giant in the sky (p, and winter is also to have his eyes punched out (p. 765; to me uhland (ueber thor p. 117. 120) seems more profound, in regarding thiassi as the storm-eagle, and kidnapped isunn as the green of summer (ingriin, so to speak; but the nature of this goddess remains a secret to us. 780 summee and wintee (p. 273, fricg (p. 304, and other deities besides, whose car or ship an exulting people goes forth to meet, as they do the waggon of may, who, over and above mere personificatio

stinens omnia (p. 115-7, is likewise nearly allied to the world-tree yggdrasil. as this extended its roots and boughs in three directions (standa a]?ria vega, so did three or four great highways branch out from the irminsul (pp. 356. 361; and the farther we explore, the richer in results will the connexion of these heathen ideas prove. the pillars of hercules (p. 364, of bavo in hainault, and the thor and roland pillars (p. 394) may have had no other purpose than to mark out from them as centre the celestial and terrestrial direction of the regions of the world; and the sacred yggdrasil 1 also in the east, conf. jelaleddin s divan in hammer s pers. redek. p. 183. 2 first publ. in boissonade s anecd. graeca, torn. 4, paris 1882, pp. 1365. 3 hist, duorum christi militum (opera, basil. 1575

shed by the as. salomon and saturn (kemble p. 148: in the great battle 1 m. nethl. poems in blommaert 1, 105a. 2, 12a have simply an out man in enoch s place, but they mention the cherubin med enen swerde vierin. muspilli. eagna-eok. 813 between god and antichrist, we are told, thunder was threshing with his fiery axe, se thunor hit ^rysceft mid)?8ere fyrenan cecxe, by which is unmistakably meant thor s miolnir, the torrida chalybs (p. 180, and the confluence of heathen beliefs, with those about antichrist is placed beyond the reach of doubt. the devil too is called malleus, hammer, chap. xxxiii. whoever is inclined to refer the characteristics of our antiquity as a whole to roman and christian tradition, could easily take advantage of this harmony between the two pictures of the world s d

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day is moon day. in foreign countries, the same practice is followed: it's a global custom. the chinese god, tui, was a war god, and although our war god, mars, comes from the romans, we named tuesday after tui. the french use mardi in honour of mars. the spanish and french named wednesday after mercury, but we use the germanic "wodensday" woden was the counterpart of the god mercury. thursday is thor's day. thor was the god who was comparable to jupiter and although the french and spanish named their thursday after jupiter, we stick to thor. thor and jupiter were the same gods in different parts of the world. friday comes from venus but we use the german "freitag" the equivalent goddess. saturday is saturn's day. it is not only witches who set aside special days. there are certain traditi

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s, even their foes. but the hdrs of 11. a.sapolcgg. 1 1 7, 9. digitizecoy google ca-raouc blaspheuy against heaven 9 st. peter, the adf-constituted representatives on earth of that same meek jesus, unhesitatingly curse whoever resists their despotic will. besides, was not the 'son' long since crowded by them into the background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit' the work of don pasquale di franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells ua that, as the queen of heaven owes to the present pope "the finest gem in her coronet" since he

d of hell. hades was quite a different place from our region of 'eternal damnation' and might be termed rather an inter- mediate state of purification. neither does the scandinavian hd or hela imply either a state or a place of punishment; for when frigga, the grief-stricken mother of balder, the white god, who died and found himself in the dark abodes of the shadows (hades, sent hermod, a son of thor, in quest of her beloved child, the messenger found mm in the uiexorbble region ^alast but still comfortably seated on a rock, and reading a book" the norse kingdom ta the dead is moreover situated in the higher latitudes of the polar regions; it is a cold and cheerless abode, and neither the gelid halls of hela nor the occupation of balder present the least similitude to the blazing hell of

a in the numbo- of the faitlifu] decided peter upon making rome henceforth the center of hit actiod. hie cemetery o( oitriadum waa too di^aot and would not tvffiet ftr digitizecoy google 24 isis dnteiled mocking mnntiilnnii of fuocliette would confess to the inost distant relationship witli the satanic majesty, or accredit him with the gover- norship of a single inch of territory. the clergy felt thor prestige growing! weaker every day, as they saw the people impatiently shaking off, in the broad daylight of truth, the dark veils with which they had been blindfolded for so many centuries. then finally fortune, which previously had been on their side in the long-waged conflict between theology and science, deserted to their adversary. he help of the latter to the study of the occult side of

dred fore- skins of his enemies before he could become the king's son-in-law(.1 sam, 155. cbm. ccjemmi: the mgfholon of uu bindat. p. 331. digitizecoy google so isis unveiled xviii, 25-27) is accepted as a standard by christians, they would do well not to cast into the teeth of heathen the impudicities of their faiths. remembering the suggestive parable of jesus, they ou^t to cast the beam out of thor own eye before plucking at the mote in their neighbor's. the sexual element is as marked in christianity as in any one religions* certainly, nowhere in the vedaa can be found the coarseness and downright immodesty of language, that hebraists now discover throughout the mosaic bible. it would profit little were we to dwell much upon subjects which have been disposed of in such

siddhdrtho'sakyamimi. after nineteen centuries c^ enforced eliminations from the canonical books of every sentence which might put the investigator on the true 307. hu mlldtt "ilie zend aaeita' in chir. tit. i, pp. 83. 83. 308. 2dd ed, p. s6. digitizecoy google 144 ws vsvexlbd path, it has become vei7 difficult to show, to the satisfaction of exact science, that the 'pagan' worshipers of adonis, thor neighbors, the nazarenes, and the pythagorean essenes, the healing therapeutes" the bionites, and other sects, were all, with very slight differences, followers of the ancient theuigic mysteries. and yet by analogy and a close study of the hiddmt sense of their rites and customs, we can trace their kinship. it was given to a contemporary of jesus to become the means of pointing out to posteri

r (or final) esoteric doctrines of the mystmea (which were denominated wiedom) on^ among them that are initiated" so in relation to the" man who was rapt into paradise" and who was evidently paul himself* the christian word paradise having replaced that of elysium. to com- plete the proof, we might recall the words of plato, given elsewbov. which show that before an initiate could see the gods in thor puie^ light, he had to become liberated from his bo; t. e, to separate bis astral soul from it" apuleius also describes his initiation into the mysteries in the same way "i approached the confines of death; and having trodden on the threshold of proserpina returned, having been carried through all the elements. in the depths of midnig ht. i saw the sun glittering with a splendid light, togeth

litudes of crypts and deserted places. it waa one of the most esoteric and jealously guarded teachings, for human nature was tiie same then as it is now, and the sacerdotal caste as confident as now in the 8uprema<7 of its knowledge, and as ambitious of ascendency over the weaker masses; with the difference perhaps that its hierophanta could prove the legitimacy of their claims and the verity (rf thor doctrines, whereas now, beueiwrs must be content with blind faith. while the kabalists called this mysterious and rare occurrence of the union of spirit with the mortal charge entrusted to its care, the 'descent of the angel gabriel (the latter being a kind of generic name for it, the meaaenger of life, and the angel metatron; and while the nasaienes termed the same abel-zivo* the deugatut se

his disdples. epiphanius, who places the gbionite 'heresy' on the same level with that of the nazarenes, also remarks that the naxaraioi come next to the cerinthians" so much vituperated by irenaeus* 457. joaepliui: jewuk war. u, viii, 7. 458. ibid, n, viii; philo jud: de mta eontmpl. uid quod mm. pmb. ubir. i 12; frag, in eiu: praip, viu, viii; munk; pauttine, pp. 35, 525, etc. eiuebioi menlioiu thor lemneion, where they perform tlie myaterics of k retil d life iecd. hitl, u. svii. 458. panar, ub. i, torn. ii, hmt. xxix, i; xxx. i. 460. cerinthus it the mne gnoitic? codtemporary of john the eransriiat of whom irenaeut inveoted the fallowing anecdote "ther are those who he*rd him [poly- carp] wy that john, the diaci^ of the lord, goinj to bathe at ephenu, and pcrtnving digitizecoy google t

of fire' llie rcaemblance is too striking tor us to avoid the conclusion qm, the author of hebretci was as familiar with the kabala as adept* usually an. digilizocb, google 374 isis unveiled "and now again re-enter into the golden egg of his thou^t tlie germs of all that exist, as the divine manu tells us. during his peaoefal rest the animated beings, endowed with the principles of action, cease thor functions, and all feeing (matuu) becomes dormant. when tbey are all absorbed in the sopbeme soui, this soul of all the beings sleeps in complete repose till the day when it resumes its form and awakes again from its primitive darkness* if we now examine the ten mythical avatars of vishnu, we find them recorded in the following progression: 1. matgya-avat&ra: asasah. it will also be his tenth

great resemblance in philanthropic and spiritual aspirations, as well as external circumstances, is truly striking. though the son of a king (while jesus was but a carpenter, buddha was not^ the high brahmanical caste by birth. uke jesus, he felt dissatisfied with the dt^matic spirit of the rehgion of his country, the intolerance and hypocri^ of the priesthood, their outward show of devotion, and thor useless ceremonials and prayers. as buddha broke violently through the traditional laws and rules of the brahmanas, so did jesus dedare war against the fhariseea and the proud sadducees. what the nazarene did as a consequence of his humble birth and position, buddha did as a voluntary penance. he traveled about as a beggar; and again like jesus later in life he sought by preference the compan

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rcery. it is also found as a word signifying converse with forbidden spirits, among the negroes on the coast of africa, from whence and indicating the practices marked out by it it was transplanted to the west indies, where it still exists. it is well known that a character resembling the runic alphabet was once widely diffused throughout europe. a character, for example, not unlike the hammer of thor, is to be found in various spanish inscriptions, and lurks in many magical books. sir william jones, proceeds our author we quote from the times of the 2d of february 1859, in reviewing a work upon italy by the late lord broughton, has drawn a parallel between the deities of meru and olympus; and an enthusiast might perhaps maintain that the vases of alba longa were a relic of the times when

r author we quote from the times of the 2d of february 1859, in reviewing a work upon italy by the late lord broughton, has drawn a parallel between the deities of meru and olympus; and an enthusiast might perhaps maintain that the vases of alba longa were a relic of the times when one religion prevailed in latium and hindustan. it is most singular that the hindoo cross is precisely the hammer of thor. all our speculations tend to the same conclusion. one day, it is a discovery of cinerary vases; the next, it is etymological research; yet again, it is ethnological investigation; and, the day after, it is the publication of unsuspected tales from the norse: but all go to heap up the proofs of our consanguinity with the peoples of history, and of an original general belief, we might add. wha

sed spiritual atmosphere, wherein, or under which, the rosicrucian sylphs dwell those elementary children who, according to the cabalistic theogony, are always striving for intercourse with the race of adam, seeking a share of his particular privilege of immortality, which has been denied to them. thursday demands amethysts and deep-coloured stones of sanguine tint, because thursday is the day of thor the runic impersonated male divine sacrifice. friday, which is the day of venus, has its appropriate emeralds, and reigns over all the varieties of the imperial, and yet strangely the sinister, colour green. saturday, which is saturn's day, the oldest of the gods, claims for its distinctive talisman the most splendid of all gems, or the queen of precious stones, the lustre-darting diamond, wh

other column presents a not unusual norman form of two truncated tables or faces rounded below and divided in the middle. these we interpret as meaning the woman and the man, side by side, and left and right. these glyphs in the two capitals of the columns signify jachin and boaz, and stand for the first man and the first woman. the mysterious letter tau, which is the same as the runic hammer of thor, and which in truth is a cross, occupies the centrepoint, or, heraldically, the honour-point, of the first column to the right. the master-masons were celebrated in their art of concealing myths, or hinting them cautiously in the most difficult and far-off resemblances. the curious reader is referred to our illustration, figs. 119, 120. the character of the" head" which the templars were char

kh. gorgoneion. chapter the twenty-sixth. presence of the rosicrucians in heathen and christian architecture. question may here arise whether two corresponding pillars, or columns, in the white tower, london, do not very ingeniously conceal, masonically, the mythic formula of the moasic genesis, male and female created he them &c. refer to the following pages, figs. 119, 120. 1. tor, or hammer of thor, t(au. 2. corinthian volutes, or ram s horns. the crescent moon and star is a plantagenet badge. it is also the badge of the sultan of turkey. also, with a fig. 121. fig. 122. egypt, persia; sect of ali difference, it displays the insignia of egypt. the flag of egypt is the ensign of the sect of ali (the second mohammedan head of religion, which is mars, a crescent, luna; within the horns of

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31 bis [akasa] breathing r table i (continued) 9 xxiv. certain of the hindu and buddhist results. xxv- xxxii. xxxiii. some scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. artemis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15

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city babylon, how nebuchadnezzar the great king, being afflicted in his spirit, did depart from among men for seven years. space, eating grass as doth an ox. now this ox is the letter aleph, and is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, he all- mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal .der reine thor. and so referreth to him thatwalketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badavi that became king in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the ara

ool. o my son, gather thou all these limbs together in one body, and breathe upon it with thy spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with lust of they manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be one flesh. now at last in the reinforcement and ecstasy of this consummation thou shalt with by what inspiration thou didst choose thy name in the gnosis, i mean parzival .der reine thor. the true knight that won kingship in monsalvat, and made whole the wound of amfortas, and ordered kundry to right service, and regained the lance, and revived the miracle of the sangral; yea also upon himself did he accomplish his work in the end .hochsten heiles wunder! erlosung dem erloser. this is the last word of the song that thine uncle richard wagner made for worship of this mystery

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obscure. 2 0+ 1+ 2+ 21= 231. 3 the sepiroth. 4 the maiden (malkuth) is blind (unredeemed. answer: she shall be what she doth not, i.e, see. she shall be the sea, i.e .exalted to the throne of binah (the great sea, the qabalistic phrase to express her redemption. we leave it to the reader.s ingenuity to solve the rest. each refers to the sephira indicated by the number, but going upward. hammer of thor. arcanum. griphus i. griphus ii. griphus iii. griphus iv. griphus v. griphus vi. griphus vii. 84 appendix ii our father: and she answered him: i am in the place of the bridge. go thou up higher: go thou where these are not. thereat was commotion and bitter wailing, and the eighth virgin came forth with rent attire and cried the eighth riddle: the sea hath conceived. our father raised his head

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r ccxx i, 49* therefore the candidate will be horus too.13 what then is the formula of the initiation of horus? it will no longer be that of the man, through death. it will be the natural growth of the child. his experiences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. their hieroglyph is gthe fool h: the innocent and impotent harpocrates babe becomes the horus adult by obtaining the wand. gde reine thor h seizes the sacred lance.14 bacchus becomes pan. the holy guardian angel is the unconscious creature self.the spiritual phallus. it is therefore advisible to replace the name asar un-nefer by that of ra-hoor-khuit at the outset, and by that of one fs own holy guardian angel when it has been communicated. line 6 he hails him as besz, the matter that destroys and devours godhead, for the purpo

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

ior. none of the definitions, however, will hold directly for the characters and stories this book treats. that is in part because of the enormous time frame: materials relevant to the study of scandinavian mythology, broadly defined, span two millennia or more. but even if we limit the discussion to the relatively small body of texts from the viking age and later middle ages about the gods odin, thor, frey, and the others and their constant battles with forces of evil and chaos, it is difficult to reconcile these texts with any one of the narrow definitions of myth suggested above. certainly they had some truth value to the people who composed them and those who wrote them down, but these were not always the same people.usually they were not.and it is obvious that what was true, sacred, a

bout the conversion in sweden. although the kings of sweden were christian from the beginning of the eleventh century, the monk adam of bremen, in his history (ca. 1070) of the archbishopric of hamburg- bremen in northern germany, which had responsibility for scandinavia, reported a vast pagan temple at uppsala, with idols of the pagan gods and gruesome sacri- introduction 7 rune stones depicting thor fs hammer like this one in sweden are fairly easy to find. compare this to the rune stone on page 10; both are from the late viking age (statens historika museum, stockholm) fices. but eleventh-century rune stones from that very same part of sweden are openly christian: ggod rest his soul, h many of them ask, in runes surrounding an incised cross. most historians accept that sweden was fully

in and the wise giant vafthrudnir; and grimnismal (words of grimnir, which describes odin fs ecstatic wisdom performance at the hall of the human king geirrod. the next poem, skirnismal (words of skirnir) or for skirnis (skirnir fs journey, belongs to frey, in that it describes the journey of frey fs servant skirnir to woo the giantess gerd. the following four poems are probably to be assigned to thor. the first of these is harbardsljod (song of harbard, in which thor and a disguised odin exchange insults and anecdotes. the next is hymiskvida (hymir fs poem, an account of thor fs journey to the giant hymir and fishing up of the midgard serpent. lokasenna (loki fs verbal duel) follows, and in it loki insults all the gods. it is a thor poem because it is thor who finally chases loki away. th

t of these is harbardsljod (song of harbard, in which thor and a disguised odin exchange insults and anecdotes. the next is hymiskvida (hymir fs poem, an account of thor fs journey to the giant hymir and fishing up of the midgard serpent. lokasenna (loki fs verbal duel) follows, and in it loki insults all the gods. it is a thor poem because it is thor who finally chases loki away. the last of the thor poems is thrymskvida (the poem of thrym, a burlesque in which thor, disguised as freyja, retrieves his hammer from the giant thrym. the last two mythological poems are volundarkvida (volund fs poem) and alvissmal introduction 13 pages from the famous codex regius of the poetic edda (british library (the words of all-wise. volundarkvida has no gods in it and to us today looks like a heroic poe

undarkvida has no gods in it and to us today looks like a heroic poem, but the compiler of codex regius of the poetic edda must have thought that volund fs elfish background was good reason to situate the poem here, elves being creatures from the glower mythology h (neither of the gods nor of the giants. alvissmal has another such creature in alviss, the gall-wise h dwarf who sues for the hand of thor fs daughter and is kept dispensing synonyms by the god until the sun comes up and turns the dwarf to stone. at this point the heroic poems begin, but the gods are by no means wholly absent, especially from the poems telling the early parts of the story of sigurd the dragon-slayer. odin, hoenir, and loki appear in the prose header to reginsmal (reginn fs poem, and loki appears in the poem itse

rs think was norwegian and active in the second half of the ninth century. according to snorri, he was associated with the semilegendary viking ragnar lodbrok (hairy-breeches. fragments of a poem addressed to rag- introduction 15 nar, ragnarsdrapa, exist. the poem, as we have it reconstructed, describes four scenes on the shield ragnar gave bragi, and three of these have to do with the mythology: thor fs fishing up the midgard serpent, gefjon fs plowing land from gylfi, and hild fs inciting hogni and hedin to endless battle. another early norwegian skald was thjodolf of hvin, who flourished around the end of the ninth and beginning of the tenth century and was patronized by several norwegian rulers. two of the poems attributed to him are important mythological sources. of these, the first

iginally served a dynastic purpose, but, especially in its discussion of the earliest kings, it has much to tell us about mythology and religion. thjodolf also composed the shield poem haustlong (autumn-long, which may refer to the poem fs gestation period. he describes two mythological scenes that adorned the shield: loki fs betrayal of idun and her apples to the giant thjazi and her rescue, and thor fs duel with hrungnir, the strongest of the giants. from the earliest skaldic tradition come three geddic praise poems, h poems in eddic meters (but in which the meters are ordinarily more strictly adhered to than in eddic poems proper, composed to honor not gods or ancient heroes but recently deceased kings. two of these describe valholl in connection with the arrival there of the king the p

n. around 985, according to the chronology of laxdoela saga, ulf composed a drapa celebrating the building of an ornate hall by olaf pai (peacock, an important chieftain in western iceland. the hall was decorated within with scenes from the mythology. three of the scenes are in what we now think we have of the poem, which ulf recited at the wedding of olaf fs daughter. these are baldr fs funeral, thor fs fishing up of the midgard serpent, and loki fs fight with heimdall. another skald who lived during this period was eilif godrunarson, about whom nothing is known.not even his nationality.other than that he was patronized by hakon sigurdarson, jarl of hladir, a notorious pagan. eilif composed thorsdrapa, a complex and difficult account of thor fs journey to geirrod. besides these poems trea

eirrod. besides these poems treating mythological subjects, there are numerous other relevant texts and fragments. a poem like sonatorrek (loss of sons) by egil 16 norse mythology skallagrimsson, the tenth-century hero of egils saga, may tell us something about his own religious attitudes. gran has robbed me greatly, h he says, alluding to the drowning death of one of his sons. in skaldic poetry, thor is the most frequent mythological subject. the most tantalizing of these are two verses addressing thor in the second person, both probably from the last years of paganism in iceland. skaldic poetry is valuable not just for the direct exposition of mythological subjects but also for its very diction. the primary stylistic feature is the kenning, a two or more part substitution for a noun. ken

y wish to learn skaldic poetry, but reminding them that christians are not to believe in pagan gods or the literal truth of the narratives. this can hardly be bragi fs voice; rather, it is 18 norse mythology that of snorri or, arguably, one of his copyists, and it intrudes on the framing device of a dialogue between agir and bragi. that device is taken up again when snorri introduces the story of thor fs duel with hrungnir and of thor fs journey to geirrod, but thereafter it is dropped. additional mythic narratives in skaldskaparmal include the acquisition from one set of dwarfs of sif fs golden hair, the ship skidbladnir, odin fs spear gungnir, odin fs ring draupnir, frey fs boar gullinborsti, and thor fs hammer mjollnir, and the subsequent acquisition from another dwarf of the gold and c

learn gylfi fs motivation for his journey, and he conceals his name. har stipulates a wager of heads, but this motif is dropped; indeed, the nearest introduction 19 king gylfi of sweden questions har, jafnhar, and thridi, from dg 11, a fourteenth-century manuscript containing snorri sturluson fs prose edda (werner forman/art resource) analogy to the hall fs disappearance at the end of the text is thor fs visit to utgarda-loki, not any myth of odin. gylfi takes the odin-role in this contest of wisdom, as the traveler under an assumed name, and indeed this assumed name, gangleri, is one of odin fs in grimnismal, stanza 46 and elsewhere. this is somewhat ironic, since har, jafnhar, and even thridi are also names of odin, the latter two also in grimnismal. but as we shall see, har, jafnhar, an

merely sheep who had lost their way. snorri now adds a historical dimension to his prologue. after presenting a standard medieval view of the world as consisting of africa, europe, and asia, he says that near the center of the earth, in tyrkland, lies the city of troy. a king there was called munon or mennon, who was married to troan, the daughter of king priam; their son was tror, gwhom we call thor. h he was raised by duke loricus, whom he subsequently killed, and he took over the kingdom of loricus, trakia (thrace, gwhich we call thrudheim. then he traveled widely from country to country, explored the entire continent, and alone defeated all berserks and all giants and the greatest dragon and many animals. h he married sibil, a seeress, gwhom we call sif. h he begat an entire family, a

ed the entire continent, and alone defeated all berserks and all giants and the greatest dragon and many animals. h he married sibil, a seeress, gwhom we call sif. h he begat an entire family, and eighteen generations later was born voden; gwe call that one odin. h troy was a known place, and agamemnon and priam were historical figures known in iceland from the twelfth century onward. snorri sets thor in that environment; that is, he tells us that there was a historical figure whom the nordic peoples called thor who lived before christ was born and who performed historical acts (it is important to remember that berserks and dragons were not as fantastic to medieval historians as they seem to us) that look very much like some of the myths about thor that later were to be told by the nordic

ilation of lives of the kings of norway known as heimskringla (the orb of the earth. other similar compilations were undertaken in the thirteenth century, but snorri fs is unique in that it starts with prehistory. the first saga in it, ynglinga saga, follows thjodolf of hvin fs ynglinga tal and expands or paraphrases it in places, but the saga begins before ynglinga tal does, at troy in tyrkland. thor is not in this version, however, as he is in the prologue to snorri fs edda. additional information not found in the edda prologue is that vanaland or vanaheim.the land or world of the vanir.lay along the river tanais, that is, the don. to the east lay asaland or asaheim.the land or world of the asir.whose capital was asgard, a great place of sacrifice. odin was the chieftain who ruled there

o saxo, has never been fully sorted out and probably never will be. besides these and a host of other written sources, from inside and outside scandinavia and in languages ranging from english to arabic, there are valuable nonwritten sources. of these the most important is surely the archaeological record. we have, for example, numerous representations from the viking age of the encounter between thor and the midgard serpent, from scandinavia and also from england. we have numerous small hammer-shaped amulets, which must be representations in the human world of the protective power conferred by thor fs hammer. we even have dies for casting such hammers and for casting christian crosses, an eloquent piece of testimony to the mission and conversion. some small objects with human form have be

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tes 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 those of the gre

gous to the three murderers of the hiramic legend. according to this symbolic interpretation of the triune spirit, chiram is the third, or incarnating, part- the master builder who through all ages erects living temples of flesh and blood as shrines of the most high. chiram comes forth as a flower and is cut down; he dies at the gates of matter; he is buried in the elements of creation, but--like thor--he swings his mighty hammer in the fields of space, sets the primordial atoms in motion, and establishes order out of chaos. as the potentiality of cosmic power within each human soul, chiram lies waiting for man by the elaborate ritualism of life to transmute potentiality into divine potency. as the sense perceptions of the individual increase, however, man gains ever greater control over h

eople to symbolize the first sign of the zodiac by a lamb. because a lamb was the sin offering of the ancient pagans, the early mystic christians considered this animal as an appropriate emblem of christ, whom they regarded as the sin offering of the world. the greeks and the egyptians highly venerated the lamb or ram, often placing its horns upon the foreheads of their gods. the scandinavian god thor carried a hammer made from a pair of ram's horns. the lamb is used in preference to the ram apparently because of its purity and gentleness; also, since the creator himself was symbolized by aries, his son would consequently be the little ram or lamb. the lambskin apron worn by the freemasons over that part of the body symbolized by typhon or judas represents that purification click to enlarg

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were called the aries, hence, the name of the country ireland. the aire-men were the free lords (we have the name harriman, a late american financier) see also heremon.ailillgaelic name for royal house.sargonthis word means lord of the garden, or digger of the earth. paradisea word from the greek meaning, garden of the gods.thorthe roman writer tacitus states that human sacrifices were brought to thor by the semnones, the old-est tribe of the suebi. thor also had living slaves given to him by devoted followers as tokens or sacri-fices. they would correspond to the levites given to the lord by the israelites. of course, thorprobably represented a line of gods the same as did the word jehovah (p. 65)nordic mythsenough exists to show that the nordic gods were the same as the gods of the levan

cal establishment ignores and suppresses the data. american physicians maintain thatthe damage caused is small compared to lack of 'serious' reactions in children vaccinated. no data hasever been found to justify a basis for this conclusion. 1958 soviets on may 1 attempt to launch a mission with the objective of a lunar flyby or impact.launch failure. 1958 the u.s. on aug. 17 attempts to launch a thor-able 1 rocket with an initial lunar probe. thelaunch vehicle explodes. 1958 the soviets attempt another lunar probe launch on sept. 24. launch failure. 1958 john mccone becomes chairman of the atomic energy commission. bechtel becomes theworld's largest contractor for building nuclear plants. mccone would later become a director of stan-dard oil of california and itt. 1958 hordes of mafia sel

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lem "shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever" such is the type of a free people. our northern ancestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "th

riests, counsellors of state, and judges from whose decision there was no appeal. he held the numbers three and nine in peculiar veneration and was probably himself the indian buddha. every thrice-three months, thrice-three victims were sacrificed to the tri-une god. the goths had three great festivals; the most magnificent of which commenced at the winter solstice, and was celebrated in honor of thor, the prince of the power of the air. that being the longest night in the year, and the one after which the sun comes northward, it was commemorative of the creation; and they termed it mother-night, as the one in which the creation of the world and light from the primitive darkness took place. this was the _yule, juul_ or _yeol_ feast, which afterward became christmas. at this feast the initi

power of the air. that being the longest night in the year, and the one after which the sun comes northward, it was commemorative of the creation; and they termed it mother-night, as the one in which the creation of the world and light from the primitive darkness took place. this was the _yule, juul_ or _yeol_ feast, which afterward became christmas. at this feast the initiations were celebrated. thor was the sun, the egyptian osiris and kneph, the ph nician bel or baal. the initiations were had in huge intricate caverns, terminating, as all the mithriac caverns did, in a spacious vault, where the candidate _was brought to light. joseph was undoubtedly initiated. after he had interpreted pharaoh's dream, that monarch made him his prime minister, let him ride in his second chariot, while th

e living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" with whom odin the conqueror was by the vulgar confounded: and the triune god of the indians was reproduced, as odin, the almighty father, frea(_rhea_ or _phre, his wife (emblem of universal _matter, and _thor_ his son (the mediator. here we recognize _osiris, isis, and _hor_ or _horus. around the head of thor, as if to show his eastern origin, twelve stars were arranged in a circle. he was also taught the ultimate destruction of the world, and the rising of a new one, in which the brave and virtuous shall enjoy everlasting happiness and delight: as the means of securing which happy fortune, he was taught to practise the strictest morality and virtue. the initiate was prepared to receive the great

rider falls backward" the same serpent, the oannes aphrenos or musaros of syncellus, was the midgard serpent which odin sunk beneath the sea, but which grew to such a size as to encircle the whole earth. for these asiatic symbols of the contest of the sun-god with the dragon of darkness and winter were imported not only into the zodiac, but into the more homely circle of european legend; and both thor and odin fight with dragons, as apollo did with python, the great scaly snake, achilles with the scamander, and bellerophon with the chim ra. in the apocryphal book of esther, dragons herald "a day of darkness and obscurity; and st. george of england, a problematic cappadocian prince, was originally only a varying form of mithras. jehovah is said to have "cut rahab and wounded the dragon" the

o, principle of faith, who produced one, one produced two, two produced three, and three produced all that is. the sclavono-vendes typified the trinity by the three heads of the god triclav; and the pruczi or prussians by the tri-une god perkoun, pikollos, and potrimpos, the deities of _light_ and _thunder, of _hell_ and the _earth, its fruits and animals: and the scandinavians by odin, frea, and thor. in the kabalah, or the hebrew traditional philosophy, the infinite deity, beyond the reach of the human intellect, and without name, form, or limitation, was represented as developing himself, in order to create, and by self-limitation, in ten emanations or out-flowings, called sephiroth, or _rays. the first of these, in the world aziluth, that is, within the deity, was kether, or the _crown

deity, athom. brehm, the silent, self-contemplative, one original god, was the source, to the hindus, of brahma, vishnu, and siva. above zeus, or before him, were kronos and ouranos. over the alohayim was the great nature-god al, and still beyond him, abstract existence, ihuh--he that is, was, and shall be. above all the persian deities was the unlimited time, zeruane-akherene; and over odin and thor was the great scandinavian deity alfadir. the worship of universal nature as a god was too near akin to the worship of a universal soul, to have been the instinctive creed of any savage people or rude race of men. to imagine all nature with all its apparently independent parts, as forming one consistent whole, and as itself a unit, required an amount of experience and a faculty of generalizat

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them, vili gave them thoughts and feelings, and ve gave them hearing and sight. they were given the realm of midgard middle earth to live in (see pp. 70 71. the gods lived in the realm of asgard. there were two races of gods, the aesir and the vanir, who waged war against each other until they agreed to a truce. of the three gods depicted in this tapestry, the battle god odin and his warlike son thor were aesir, and freyr, the fertility god, was one of the vanir. freyr went to live with the aesir to seal the truce. the ride of the valkyries by arthur rackham an 11th-century account of the heathen temple at uppsala tells us that odin, thor, and freyr were the three most important gods, and describes how they were worshiped in the form of statues, and how sacrifices of dogs, horses, and men

hore and are said to be the ancestors of all mankind. ear of corn freyr holds an ear of corn, in token of his role as the god who controls rain and sunshine. he is also a god of fertility, and some kind of ritual marriage seems to have formed part of his rites. his sister freya, who was probably originally a fertility goddess, became regarded as a goddess of battle, love affairs, and soothsaying. thor, god of thunder this bronze statuette depicts thor, the thunder god whose weapon was the hammer mjollnir. mjollnir was given to thor by the god loki (see p. 71, who had tricked the dwarves into giving it to him. it could never miss its mark, and returned to the thrower s hand. thor s hamm er, mjollnir, enabled the aesir to protect asgard against the giants. a giant did once steal it and would

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

r god was odin s eldest son; his mother was the earth. he was immensely strong and famed for his enormous appetite. in a contest in the land of the giants, he drank so much of the sea at one gulp that he created the tides. he traveled in a chariot drawn by two goats. viking ta pestr y this picture shows a detail from a viking tapestry dating from the 12th century. it shows the aesir gods odin and thor, and freyr, who was one of the vanir. it used to hang in a church in halsingland. early germanic peoples worshiped odin as wotan or woden, the origin of the word wednesday. his wife frigg, is the origin of friday, thor gives us the word for thursday and tiw or tiwaz, another germanic battle god, is the source for tuesday. tiw survives as tyr in norse mythology, but most of his functions seem

e man and his horse svaldifari worked so fast that three days before the deadline the wall was almost complete. the gods were horrified, so loki, who could change shape, disguised himself as a mare and lured svaldifari away, leaving the man unable to finish the wall in time. at this, the man became so angry that he began to swell and revealed himself to be a rock giant, a race who hated the gods. thor killed him with one hammer blow. months later, loki returned leading a strange foal loki s child by svaldifari. this was sleipnir, odin s eight-legged steed, who could outrun anything, and bear its rider right down to hel, the land of the dead. the world tree myth 70 the world tree myth according to the norse poem the lay of grimnir, of all trees, yggdrasil is the best. yggdrasil is a huge as

agnarok, sometimes called the twilight of the gods, is the final cataclysm that will destroy this world and the gods. after three terrible winters, a universal war will break out and the god loki now an enemy of the aesir and his son, fenrir the wolf, will break from their bonds. loki will then sail with an army of the dead to the final battle, in which fenrir will swallow the sun, and kill odin; thor will slay the world serpent, but die from its poison; and the gods will perish. finally surt, guardian of the fires of muspell since the beginning of time, will release them and engulf the world in flame. after this world is destroyed, a new one will arise. only odin s sons vidar and vali, and thor s sons modi and magni, will survive, and the gods balder and hod will return to life. they will

gnarok, fenrir would swallow the sun and devour odin before being killed in turn by odin s son vidar the gods refused to profane the holy ground of asgard by killing him, so they chained him up instead. spawn of loki fenrir was the son of loki and the giantess angrboda. his brothers, also fathered by loki, were jormungand, the world serpent, which encircled middle earth, and was once fished up by thor, and hel, ruler of the dead. three roots spread three ways under the ash yggdrasil. hel is under the first, frost-giants under the second, mankind under the last. the lay of grimnir loki, the trickster god capable of good and evil, loki is an ambiguous figure, who in later records becomes entwined with the image of the christian devil. although he was brought up as odin s foster-brother, he w

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what our tradition calls the angelic secret language. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god emor dial i-iectega which are borne upon the banners of the north, and there are also nurnber <57> less names of angels, archangels, and spirits ruling the element of earth. kenuc comes forward and hands fyzfot cross to hiero: hiero the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfot, hammer of thor, and swastika, is formed of 17 squares out of a square of 25 lesser squares. these 17 represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. in this grade, the lights on the pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted the darkness of the outer world. you will leave the temple for a short time. kenuc takes neophyte out <58> second part 0-rn 2nd park branchrd m p f 15

explanation, the cup represents the receptacle and collector of the more fluidic forces of the light, and is the symbol of an inexhaustible bowl of libation from which reservoir the adept may draw the reserved forces of the light- which matter again calls for meditation. the lamen of dadouchos is thus explained in the grade of zelator "the hermetic cross, which is also known as fylfot, hammer of thor, and swastika, is formed of 17 squares taken from a square of 25 lesser squares. these 17 fitly represent the sun, the four elements and, the twelve signs of the zodiac" in addition to this, the lamen has a more extended meaning. the hermetic cross, the bolt of whirling flame, which is represented by the cross of four axes whose heads may be either double of single and turned in either direct

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er value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will increase through the attractive power by affinity of the sun; and thus bythe alchemic action of the moon, pearls and stones of white on monday are improved: on tuesdaylet mars increase the fire of rubies, while on wednesday, sapphires, turquoises and gems of bluereflect the brilliant mercury. jupiter in his majesty, and thor, are supreme on thursday and givelustre to amethysts and stones of sanguine tint. on freddie, venus favours emeralds; and onsaturday the oldest of gods, saturn claims the lustrous diamond.the planets, too 'tis claimed, have direct power over the physical action of man, as well as over hisintellectual energies; his reason, appetites, senses, and powers of generation. these are some of thetheor

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bic beasts. large mountains loomed in the north and i walked over to them, finding a colossal figure crudely shaped from stone, bound by the shackles of karma. this is the illusion of constraint caused by self-guilt and hypocrisy. but illusions can be shattered and freedom triumph. the stone man fell to pieces as a beautiful, blazing white, nude figure broke out. this was the true fool, der reine thor, all-powerful in his innocence. i rode a camel to a sumptuous palace in the east, a place of decadent luxury, where seminaked youths of great beauty waited upon me as i reclined. but desire must not stagnate, it must progress if it is to spur life to the greatest achievements. this is the motivating power and also the lesson of the value of imperfection. riding the camel to a hazy, empty dese

arwer. tonight the i works upon the not-i. we choose to force our will upon this universe. come my friends, join us. lend us your strengths, your powers, your definitions, your influences. come, and welcome (bell [a priest of set, or a senior adept within this gathering, now lights the black candle, opens the gate to set's realm, and calls upon set in his own words, suitable to this working:(2] i thor, gate keeper of the gate of hell known as "crawling chaos and nameless terrors, stand in front of this closed gate. it is closed to keep out the weak of spirit, the followers of falsehood, and the sleepwalker. all we who are here in this chamber are of pure and noble heart, seeking wisdom, proud of self and will, wearing the name setian. i throw open wide this gate; that through the nine angl

osely related. the base of the crack is a lack of any strong direction for a vocation, its split is an outlook of aloofness toward these situations. i desire a job where i can do what i totally enjoy, where i have a comfortable amount of income, and enough time to pursue working magic, studying the black arts, rock climbing, swimming, running, cycling, whatever else i will, as much as i choose. i thor hold the hammer of the north, and also groud the hammer of hell. in the northern cosmic universe, the sky was made from the skull of a felled giant, therefore defining a limit or end of the u(u)niverse. i hold the hammer with which i slay the giants of unconsciousness, with which i split wide a great mountain in a test of strength. i aim it at the area of the cosmic egg, the limiting u(u)nive

c universe, the sky was made from the skull of a felled giant, therefore defining a limit or end of the u(u)niverse. i hold the hammer with which i slay the giants of unconsciousness, with which i split wide a great mountain in a test of strength. i aim it at the area of the cosmic egg, the limiting u(u)niverse, where i determine the crack of strong direction, and its split called "apathy" lie. i thor, the giants' bane, swing my hammer, and strike this crack with the force of ur, the primal fire, and with the power of sowilo, with every bit of strength and power, i strike, and watch this crack as it crumbles to dust at my feet. i behold the u(u)niverse made limitless in the settling dust, and the power within for victory and the success of my individual will [setian southern] i call upon s

january 30, xviii html revision: nov. 26, 1998 ce subject: order of the trapezoid reading list: gwhen once the restraining talisman of the christian cross is broken in germany, then the fury of the ancient warriors, the berserk rage of which the nordic poets sang, will surge up again. the old stone gods will rise from long-forgotten ruins and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and thor with his giant hammer will leap up and smash the gothic cathedrals. and when that crash comes, it will be like nothing heard before in history. g- heinrich heine, 1834 introduction the "mainstream" of the western magical tradition may be said to have a mediterranean origin: egypt, mesopotamia, greece, and rome- and the later syntheses of these ancient cultures through the medieval, renaissanc

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nic statement das tierdrama should the subduing talisman, the cross, break, then will come roaring forth the wild madness of the old champions, that insane berserker rage, of which the northern poets sing. that talisman is brittle, and the day will come when it will pitifully break. the old stone gods will rise from the long-forgotten ruin and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and thor, leaping to life with his giant hammer, will crush the gothic cathedrals -heinrich heine, 1834 the devil holds a unique place in german magical tradition. he, or his personification, always triumphs. no matter how methodically he may be relegated to infamy, he invariably winds up the popular favorite. as the inspirer of werewolves, he drove the goths and huns to their victories in europe; as

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hree classes of gods. the first are the aesir, the gods of the clan or tribe. these gods represent such concepts as order and rule. the second are the vanir, which are the gods of fertility and the forces of nature. the third are the jotnar, or giants that are in constant conflict with the aesir and represent destruction and chaos. within these classes are a number of specific gods and goddesses: thor, the thunderer, who races across the sky in his chariot to create thunder. thor wields the divine hammer, called mjollnir. he is the god of weather and crops. odin, the one-eyed god, who gave up an eye to drink from the fountain of wisdom. odin is the wise one, the magician, who acquired the secrets of the northern european runic alphabet (also called runes) by hanging for nine nights from th

ut the gods and goddesses (sagas are lengthy poems about heroic and legendary figures in scandinavia) holidays include celebration of the vernal equinox and the summer solstice; the charming of the plow in february; fogmoon, a celebration of the dead in november; and the blot ritual, a sacrificial offering to the gods that consists of such items as fruit or grains. sacred symbols include the axe, thor s hammer, and the horns of odin. 378 world religions: almanac neo-paganism druidism historical information about druidism is very slight. while the religion is often thought of as celtic, some scholars believe that it was being practiced in northern and western europe before the arrival of the celts, who spread throughout europe over a period of thousands of years. the original celts may have

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he most visible is the calvary cross. in the womb of the hexagram, we notice the appearance of a three-armed cross, the t cross, or the crux commissa. the t cross was found in history in the catacombs of rome and was given many names like "anticipatory cross" or "type cross" and the "cross of the old testament" it represents in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix. 4, for we read that the prophet was commanded by god to go through jerusalem and to "set a mark upon

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one of the best guides ever published on the subject of the satanic star and other symbols of masonry, dr. cathy burns explains that the blazing star, or pentagram, has many meanings germane to the doctrines of illuminism and the occult.5 esoterically, the star symbolizes man as deity, as the universe embodied. it also stands for sirius, the "dog star" or planet where satan dwells. it stands for "thor" the ancient nordic god, and it stands for baal, or bel, the demonic god so often mentioned in derisive terms in the old testament. every man and woman is a star 539 this same star god was worshipped in egypt, and the children of israel, while wandering in the desert, fell under his hypnotic powers. they called him moloch, chiun, and remphan. the prophet amos castigated the jewish idolaters f

ar along with pictures of lenin, trotsky, gorbachev, and others. twenty-seven lightning fall from heaven and he said unto them, i beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven. behold, i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you -jesus (luke 10:18-19) 558 codex magica in this classic oil painting we see mighty thor, the nordic god, with his hammer and lightning strikes. at bottom, the black color of the horned goats and the hand's grasping on the rock ledge have much occult significance. in masonry, the use of a gavel, or hammer, is said to be a sign of authority. the communists in the u.s.s.r. adopted the hammer and sickle as official state logos. lightning fall from heaven 559 sir oswald moslev, found

or other potentate in charge. in her celebrated dark work, the secret doctrine, theosophy founder helena blavatsky reveals that the god of forces (lucifer) renders the "divine hammer" and it is the "mallet or gavel of the grand masters of masonic lodges."16 sarah terry, a member of the masonic-aligned group, the eastern star, traces the gavel, or hammer, back to the hammer of the nordic sun god, thor, and says it is an emblem of power.17 if we realize that the illuminati's chief goal is the rebuilding of babylon in a desperate bid to undo what god did as recorded in the book of genesis, the significance of this bible verse relating to the prophesied destruction of babylon by god's might becomes clear: 568 codex magica a sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. how is the

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cornelius in 253. historian jeffrey burton russell states that in the early medieval liturgies, there were three kinds of common exorcisms the exorcism or blessing of houses or objects, of those about to receive baptism, and of people believed to be possessed by demons. in various parts of europe, the priest conducting the exorcism might also use the rites to banish such pre-christian deities as thor and odin. accounts of demonic possession were commonplace in ancient egypt, babylonia, and persia from the earliest times. although there are no accounts of demonic possession or of exorcism in the old testament, the casting out of demons is an integral part of jesus ministry and it is an important aspect of the earthly assignments that he gives to his followers( then he called together his t

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olving levitation or the secret for liquifying stone. the two most prominent theories with some scientific evidence have the island becoming inhabited by seafarers, moving east to west from south america or west to east from polynesia, who settled on the island, established a thriving community, and erected the monuments. the east to west theory was popularized in the late 1940s by anthropologist thor heyerdahl (1911.2002) who made a daring journey across the pacific in a primitive balsa wood craft called the kon tiki. by doing so, heyerdahl successfully overturned the notion that prehistoric south americans could not have made the ocean journey to polynesian islands in the eastern-central pacific ocean. heyerdahl fs voyage with a crew of five took 101 days and covered 4,300 miles and prov

s cross easter island and keep it warm year round. beginning in the mid-1980s, anthropologist jo ann von tilburg made important contributions to the study of the easter island megaliths. her research has been featured in documentaries on easter island broadcast on the public broadcasting system fs nova series, as well as the learning channel, discovery channel, the history channel (appearing with thor heyerdahl, and the syndicated arthur c. clarke fs mysterious world. in 1998 she completed an experimental archaeology project using a computer to simulate the crafting and transporting of an average-sized moai. her project showed that an average moia could be moved about six miles in under five days by a team of 70 people. in the simulation, the statues were laid on two long poles that form a

r island had not been solved. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 237 m delving deeper deuel, leo. conquistadors without swords: archaeologists in the americas. new york: st. martin fs press, 1967. gthe easter island mystery. h [online] http//www. discoveringarchaeology.com/ articles/122900- easter.shtml. heyerdhal, thor. kon-tiki: across the pacific by raft. 35th anniversary ed. chicago: rand mcnally, 1984. ingpen, robert, and philip wilkinson. encyclopedia of mysterious places. new york: barnes& noble, 1999. van tilburg, jo anne. easter island archaeology, ecology, culture.washington, d.c: smithsonian institution press, 1994. glastonbury glastonbury, in the somerset region of england, seems always to have b

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efore evil god.many of the names of the devils appear to be diminutives. thus among the group of alsatian witches triedbetween 1585 and 1630,[37] the names for the devil (i.e. the god) were h344mmerlin, peterlin, andkochl366ffel. the first of these may mean a yellowhammer, always regarded as the devil's bird, but as thename is also given as hammer it is suggestive of a diminutive of an epithet of thor; peterlin may be thechristianised form of a local deity; for kochl366ffel (cooking-spoon) i can offer no explanation except that itmay be a mispronunciation of a traditional name. according to de lancre the name of the basque god wasjauna or janicot.[38] the latter he regarded as a diminutive and says that it means "petit jean, and wasapplied by the witches of the basses pyr351n351es to chris

spells surviving to the present day contain the names of pre-christian gods. these spellsare usually connected with cures for diseases in human beings and animals, and are generally accompaniedwith certain manual gestures without which the charm is of little avail. one of the most interesting brings inthe names of woden and loki, and as the hammer is of importance in the charm it is possible that thor alsois indicated.[39] it is a cure for ague "nail three old horse-shoes to the foot of the patient's bed, with thehammer placed crosswise on them. take the hammer in the left hand and tap the shoes,saying[*1. shoop= shaped.*2. yaits= gates *3. steik= shut]"father, son, and holy ghost, nail the devil to the post; thrice i strike with holy crook, one for god, one for wod, and one for lok."the d

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geburah is mars, mdim, equalling 654, as do lhtim (secret arts, enthusiasm, witchcraft) and dmdvm (twilight, dim light. this again suggests the mastery of practical magic as the skill attained in the initiatory system. the twilight follows the day of tiphareth and precedes the night of the abyss during the ascent of the tree. the gods associated with geburah are those of a martial nature, such as thor, ares, mars, horus, and montu. obviously, warfare and revenge are amongst the attributes given to such deities, but one should also see that geburah embodies strict rulership and kingly attributes as well. despite their superficiality, the "conan" adventure stories of robert e. howard depict the translation of the barbarian aspects of geburah into those required by the just king of a realm (l

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

hokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianrhod heimdall aditi- pushan color and visualization as regardie stated in chapter five, once students are familiar with the basic exercise of the middle pillar (and the three pillars, they can expand their practices by

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thau, or aspirated t; and, as the phoenicians had a vowel answering to the roman a, it is probable they would have inserted it, had they intended it to be sounded: but we have no reason to believe that they had any to express the u or y, which must therefore be comprehended in the preceding consonant whenever the sound is expressed. hence i conclude that the word here meant is thyrz or thurz, the thor or thur of the celtes and sarmatians, the thurra of the assyrians, the turan of the tyrrhenians or etruscans, the taurine bacchus of the greeks, and the deity whom the germans carried with them in the shape of a bull, when they invaded italy; from whom the city of tyre, as well as tyrrhenia, or tuscany, probably took its name. his symbol the bull, to which the name alludes, is represented on

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oon for monday, saturn for saturday--others are less apparent. this is because many of the old gods are no longer well known. tuesday is named after the teutonic war god tiw, the nearest equivalent in the pagan hierarchy to mars. wednesday is named after woden, the earlier germanic form of the god the scandinavians named odin, who is the northern divine magician, or mercury. thursday is named for thor, who is associat- ed with jupiter, or jove, because he hurls thunderbolts. friday is named for frija, a teutonic mother goddess whose name means "beloved" and is linked with venus. the heptagram is drawn in one continuous line crossing from point to point. mercury is placed at the uppermost point, and as the figure is drawn clockwise, the rest of the planets follow in the order of the days (s

tion then becomes the first on a lower plane of being. there are four of these planes, or worlds. but they table of nonagram c, c, n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 i family emotions gods muses elements descriptions examples occupations cc obedience horus clio air of air childish child joseph goebbels disciples cf exuberance apollo terpsichore fire of air fatherly child sir francis drake explorers fc petulance thor thalia air of fire childish father alexander the great conquerors ff confidence love calliope fire of fire fatherly father augustus caesar rulers fm contemplation hermes euterpe water of fire motherly father king james i priests mf arrogance diana melpomene fire of water fatherly mother joan of arc rebels mm caring hathor polyhymnia fire of water motherly mother florence nightingale caregiver

ations of an individual; they are always the work of the group mind of a culture. for this reason no single mind can comprehend them completely. although shaped by the will of a people, the gods are not mere illusions but are aspects of manifestation the culture has recognized and magically circled, thereby crystallizing them into discrete forms with comprehensible motives. consider the pagan god thor. some believe thor to be a figment of the nordic imagination, a god without a trace of real existence. others would say that while it is true thor was created by the concentrated will of a people, he now exists on some elusive but real level of being and will continue to exist so long as the minds of men and women continue to conceive him. still others might maintain that the human mind had n

f the nordic imagination, a god without a trace of real existence. others would say that while it is true thor was created by the concentrated will of a people, he now exists on some elusive but real level of being and will continue to exist so long as the minds of men and women continue to conceive him. still others might maintain that the human mind had nothing at all to do with the creation of thor, who exists inde- pendently of humankind in every way. all these views betray a faulty understanding of the natures of the au and the manifest universe. human beings do not create from the level of the perceived self, but are themselves creations of god. what humans call their own creations are in real- ity creations of the spiritual light from the unrnanifest acting through the medium of hum

tures of the au and the manifest universe. human beings do not create from the level of the perceived self, but are themselves creations of god. what humans call their own creations are in real- ity creations of the spiritual light from the unrnanifest acting through the medium of human beings, as ordinary light shines through a prism, on the manifest universe. when men and women began to worship thor, they did not invent the vari- ous attributes of that deity-thunder and lightning, great strength, courage, unbri- dled fury, destruction-but recognized the common principle behind those qualities and focused it into a form with a name and a human shape. thus the god thor existed before the race of homo sapiens, although he was not personified as a warrior with wild black hair and fiery eyes

or with wild black hair and fiery eyes who carried a hammer. by the power of the all that is within them, human beings drew this symbolic figure from the unmanifest in order to harness and control the forces of the god. they did not cre- ate the underlying reality. what they did was provide a vehicle through which the pre-existing forces could express themselves to the human race. in ascribing to thor a human form, the norsemen gave those forces qualities they would not otherwise have possessed. the pre-human thor was not concerned with the affairs of humanity. it was not a fleshy being with memories of a past and hopes for the future, but was a principle of nature, a natural concourse of forces that, when cast into the mold of a man, could be addressed in human language and might respond

become lessened through surgery or other treatment. magic uses mundane means to reach its ends as readily as the more esoteric means. magic makes no dis- tinction between the physical and the psychic-these are human distinctions. another function of assuming a god-form is that it better enables the magus to issue commands to the spirits and forces that fall under the rule of that god. in becoming thor, the magus will command the storms; becoming pan, he or she will rule the woodlands; becoming neptune, the sea. it is quite possible to assume a god-form of the opposite sex. every human being has both masculine and feminine qualities, with one or the other in a dom- inant or active position. by assuming the god-form of the opposite sex, the magus may learn a great deal of useful information

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en planets on the heptagram (see illustration on page 53. if the line of the seven-pointed star is traced clockwise from point to point, the order of the planets associated with the seven days of the week results. beginning with saturday, the jewish sabbath, this order is: saturday (saturn, sunday (sun, monday (moon, tuesday (tew-the teutonic mars, wednesday (woden-the teutonic mercury, thursday (thor-the teutonic jupiter, friday (frija-the teutonic venus. if a circle is traced clockwise around the heptagram from this same planet, saturn, the order of the planets touched by the circle is their ancient astrological order based upon their apparent rate of progress across the heavens. from slowest *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, will be available in ma

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d futile. as a result two armed mirage fighters were scrambled. a short time later the object suddenly changed course at great speed which would have been impossible for conventional aircraft to duplicate "at 13.59 gmt, squadron leader- the pilot of the fighter reported that they had radar and visual confirmation of the object. the order was given to arm and fire the experimental aircraft-mounted thor 2 laser cannon. this was done "squadron leader- reported that several blinding flashes emitted from the object which had started wavering whilst heading in a northerly direction. at 14.02 is was reported that the object was decreasing altitude at a rate of 3000 feet per minute. then at speed it dived at an angle of 25 degrees and impacted in desert terrain 80 miles north of the south african

crash of one air force helicopter. 5) the object was eventually moved to an air force base for further investigation. 6) the terrain of impact was filled with sand and rubble to disguise all evidence of the event having taken place" the report indicated that a hydraulic type landing gear was fully deployed, suggesting that electronic malfunction had caused the object to crash, probably due to the thor 2 laser cannon having been fired at the craft. while the team observed the object at the air force base a loud sound was heard. it was then noted that a hatch on the lower side of the craft had opened slightly and appeared to be stuck. this opening was later forced with the use of hydraulic pressure equipment, at which point two humanoid entities in tight fitting grey suits emerged and were p

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