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circumambulation of the neophyte in the path of darkness in the 0=0 when he has to name the guardians of the gates of the east and west. the figures on the pillar represent the soul introduced by the jackal-headed anubis, the guide of the dead, into the hall of truth. the soul then watches the weighing of its actions in earth life against a figure of truth in the mystical scales of ma by anubis. thoth, ibis-headed, records the judgment and the devourer stands ready to seize if the soul has led an evil life. passing through this ordeal, the soul is then introduced into the presence of osiris by horus. osiris sits in his shrine upon a throne, with the crook and scourge, symbols of mercy and severity, in his hands; behind him are isis and nephthys, the 39 goddesses of nature and perfection

tori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great father, the giver of the seminal spark of life which is potent only when it enters the womb of the great mother, binah. from the union of the great father and great mother come forth all the images of creation. chokmah is associated with such deities as kronos, saturn, thoth, atum-ra, and ptah in other pantheons. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological corresponde

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ore plainly the circumstance that osinn invented the poetic art, and saga is his divine daughter, just as the greek muses, though daughters of zeus, are under apollo's protection, and in his train. on the other hand, writing and the alphabet were not invented by apollo, but by hermes. tlie egyptian priests placed hermes at the head of all inventions (lamblich. de myst. aegypt. 8, 1, and theuth or thoth is said to have first discovered letters (plato's phaedr. 1, 96, bekker, while, ace. to hygin. fab. 143, hermes learnt them by watching the flight of cranes. in tbe as. dialogue between saturn and solomon, we read (thorpe's anal, p. 100 'saga me, hwa aerost bocstafas sette 'ic the secge, mercurius se gyqcmd. another dialogue, entitled adrian and epictus (ms. brit. mus. arund. no. 351. fol. 3

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she is sometimes represented as a vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the symbol for life, engraved on each talon. isis demonstrated the power of mat

eth discovered the body of osiris, hacked it into pieces and scattered them throughout egypt so that he could never be restored to life. but isis searched once more and, assisted by nephthys, remodelled the bones into osiris' form and restored her husband to life once more. when their son horus, the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an import

ruth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge. the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. the wings on the

she is often depicted in armour. minerva, whose creature is the owl, can be invoked in employment rituals and for the development of skills, retraining and musical ability as well as for truth and justice. unlike bellona (see page 70) and the warlike gods, both athena and minerva are used in rituals for using legal means or oratory and persuasion, rather than direct action, to overcome injustice. thoth thoth was the ancient egyptian god of the moon, wisdom and learning. he was also god of time, languages, law and mathematical calculations, who invented the calendar and hieroglyphic writing. he is often depicted with the head of an ibis although he was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and bet

and pestle with a few drops of laurel or eucalyptus essential oil- these are also good for viral infections. as you mix, chant a mantra, such as: heal and restore, strength once more. if you are working as a group, one person should mix the herbs on the altar while the others chant the names of healing deities (see page 77) in ever-rising intensity and pitch, for example: brighid, ganga, hermes, thoth, hygeia, panacea, sulis, iduna! as you do so, you raise a cone of healing energies over the mortar and pestle, breathing in life from the living fruits and flowers and projecting it as blue healing light that may be mingled with the green of the herbs. you can adapt the chant if you do not wish to use specific names, for example: goddess, mother, healer, restorer, hear our plea* now that you

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ce. lucifer grants increased intelligence. pan (priapus) grants one sexual encounter with whomever you desire. bacchus grants that your unpaid debts shall be brought up to date. aphrodite (venus) grants the perfect male partner shall come to you. harpocrates grants the power of invisibility. hermes grants healing for a friend, loved one or relative. amon grants rain where you reside for two days. thoth grants you clairvoyance and clairaudience- the ability to see and hear spirits. athena grants clairsentience- experiencing realities or entities via physical senses. once more, you must ask for your gift when you've assumed godform. you may also request that the gift be given to someone else. assumption of the godform: a unique approach "think of a place and thou art there. think of a thing

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

and sweated at their task; for they had become most anxious. all day my birth had been expected; but as toum drew to his setting their faces grew paler than the sky; for there was one dread moment in the night which all their art had failed to judge. the gods that watched over it were veiled. but it seemed unlikely that fate would so decide; yet so they feared that they sent down to the priest of thoth to say that he must at all costs avoid the threatening moment, even if the lives of mother and child should pay for it; and still the watchmen cried the hour. now, now! cried the oldest of the astrologers as the moment grew near- now! below in answer the priest of thoth summoned all his skill. when lo! a rumbling of the abyss. the palace reeled and fell; typhon rose mighty in destruction, st

ng had i waxen that my father took me to the old astrologer that dwelt in the well to consult him. this i remember as if it were but yesterday. the journey down the great river with its slow days! the creaking benches and the sweat of the slaves are still in my ears and my nostrils. then swift moments of flying foam in some rapid or cataract. the great temples that we passed; the solitary ibis of thoth that meditated on the shore; the crimson flights of birds- but nothing that we saw upon the journey was like unto the end thereof. for in a desolate place was the well, with but a small temple beside it, where the servants- they too most holy! of that holy ancient man might dwell. and my father brought me to the mouth of the well and called thrice upon the name of nuit. then came a voice cli

were as unfortunate as they. for i would not seem to boast of the favour of the goddess. then they sent to he old magus in the well; and he laughed outright at their beards, and would say no word. also they sent to the sacred goat of khem, and his priestess would but answer "i, and such as i, may be favoured of her" which they took for ribaldry and mocking. a third time they sent to the temple of thoth the ibis god of wisdom. and thoth answered them by this riddle "on how many legs doth mine ibis sand" and they understood him not. but the old high priest determined to solve the mystery, though he paid forfeit with his life. so concealing himself in the temple, he watched in the pool for the reflection of the glittering of the veil, while one by one we performed the adorations. and behind h

d! but lo! not asi, but asar! white was his garment, starred with red and blue and yellow. green was his countenance, and in his hands he bore the crook and scourge. thus he rose, even as the temple fell about us in ruins, and we were left standing page 17 gulf.txt there. and i wist not what to say. now then the people of the city crowded in upon us, and for the most part would have slain me. but thoth the mighty god, the wise one, with his ibis-head, and his nemyss of indigo, with his ateph crown and his phoenix wand and with his ankh of emerald, with his magic apron in the three colours; yea, thoth, the god of wisdom, whose skin is of tawny orange as though it burned in a furnace, appeared visibly to all of us. and the old magus of the well, whom no man had seen outside his well for nigh

lapis lazuli specked with gold, carved with marvellous excellence. and he had the secret gem of hadit that is not found on earth, for that it is invisible save when all else is no more seen. then went i into the market and bought slaves. i bought me in particular a giant, a nubian blacker than polished granite seen by starlight, tall as a young palm and straight, yet more hideous than the ape of thoth. also i bought a young pale stripling from the north, a silly boy with idle languishing ways. but his mouth burned like sunset when the dust-storms blow. so pale an weak was he that all despised him and mocked him for a girl. then he took a white-hot iron from the fire and wrote with it my name in hieroglyphics on his breast; nor did his smile once alter while the flesh hissed and smoked. th

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

to be available shortly. until that time, a few examples should suffice. although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of lovecraft, crowley, and sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, there

unknown. we may never know. or, we may wish we never had. the editor new york, new york october 12, 1975 chart of comparisons (showing some relationships to be found between the mythos of lovecraft, the magick of crowley, and the faith of sumer) lovecraft crowley sumer cthulhu the great beast as represented in "cthdh 666" ctha-lu, kutulu the ancient ones satan; teitan tiamat azathoth aiwass) azag-thoth the dunwich horror choronzon pazuzu shub niggurath pan sub ishniggarab) out of space the abyss absu; nar mattaru ia! io! iao! ia (jah; ea; lord of waters) the five-pointed grey star carven the pentagram the ar, or ub (plough sign; the original pentagram and the sign of the aryan race) vermis mysteriis the serpent erim (the enemy; and the sea as chaos; gothic; orm, or worm, great serpent) thi

ion with this book, as well as practical suggestions concerning its rituals, are welcomed by the publishers. bibliography& suggested reading list (by no means complete, but representative. alphabetically by author) name book published bernhard, bennet and rice. new handbook of the heavens new york, 1948 budge, e.a. amulets and talismans new york, 1970 crowley, a. book four texas, 1972 the book of thoth new york, 1969 liber al vel legis new york, 1977 magick new york cumont, f. oriental religions in roman paganism new york, 1956 dornseiff. das alphabet in mystik and magie stoicheia 7, leipzig, 1925 drower, e.s. the book of the zodiac london,1949 fairservis, w.a. the origins of oriental civilisation new york, 1959 fossey, c. la magie assyrienne paris, 1902 de la fuye, a "le pentagramme pytha

efore the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with the black magician, azag-thoth, in vain, and fled to the earth by calling upon inanna and her brother marduk, lord of the double-headed axe. i have raised armies against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outsi

o travel tremendous distances into the heavens, as also into the hells, i received the formulae for the amulets and talismans which follow, which provide the priest with safe passage among the spheres wherein he may travel in search of the wisdom. but now, after one thousand-and-one moons of the journey, the maskim nip at my heels, the rabishu pull at my hair, lammashta opens her dread jaws, azag-thoth gloats blindly at his throne, kutulu raises his head and stares up through the veils of sunkun varloorni, up through the abyss, and fixes his stare upon me; wherefore i must with haste write this indeed, it appears as though i have failed in some regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting

t of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i

r ninn uhddil la kanpa zi dingir enmeshir raa kanpa zi dingir ninnme shir raa kanpa zi dingir enaa maa a dingir enlil laage kanpa zi dingir ninna maa a dingir ninnlil laage kanpa zi dingir ssisgi gish ma sagba daa ni idda ennuballema kanpa zi dingir bhabbhar l'gal dekud dingir ri ennege kanpa zi dingir ninni duggaani dingir a nnunna ia an saggnnuunga gatha gan ene kanpa! the exorcism against azag-thoth and his emissaries (an image must be made of a throne-chair, and put into the flames of the aga mass ssaratu while chanting the following exorcism) boil! boil! burn! burn! utuk xul ta ardata! who art thou, whose son? who are thou, whose daughter? what sorcery, what spells, has brought thee here? may enki, the master of magicians, free me! may ashariludu, son of enki, free me! may they bring

i deliver you to girra lord of the flames who sears, burns, enchains of whom even mighty kutulu has fear! may girra< the ever-burning one, give strength to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, give power to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mo

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ao-tzu counts as nought, owing to the nature of his doctrine. the reference to their "living not" is to be found in liber 418. the word "perdurabo" means "i will endure unto the end. the allusion is explained in the note. siddartha, or gotama, was the name of the last budda. krishna was the principal incarnation of the indian vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6= 1+ 2+ 3 (6) these are not eight, as apparent; for lao-tzu counts as 0 (7) the legend of "christ" is only a corruption a

this statement means the same as that of the hindus, that the effective utterance of the name of shiva would cause him to awake, and so destroy the universe. in egyptian and gnostic magick we meet with pylons and aeons, which only open on the utterance of the proper word. in mohammedan magick we find a similar doctrine and practice; and the whole of mantra-yoga has been built on this foundation. thoth, the god of magick, is the inventor of speech; christ is the logos. lines 1-4 are now clear. in lines 507 we see the results of shivadarshana. do not imagine that any single ides, however high, however holy (or even however insignificant, can escape the destruction. the logician my say "but white exists, and if white is destroyed, it leaves black; yet black exists. so that in that case at le

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ons are susceptible of classification, once we follow it below the great and terrible demonic triads which are under the presidency of the unutterable name;5 the vast and comprehensive system shadowed in the book called the book of the concourse of the forces,6 interwoven as it is with the tarot, being, indeed, on one view little more than an amplification and practical application of the book of thoth.7 but we hope that the present venture will attract scholars from all quarters, as when the wounded satan leaned upon his spear, forthwith on all sides to his aid was run by angels many and strong, and that in the course of time a far more satisfactory volume may result. many columns will seem to the majority of people to consist of mere lists of senseless words. practice, and advance in the

(as in calydon &c. 28 kidneys, bladder &c. water nymphs, sirens, lorelei, mermaids (cf. f) 29 legs and feet phantoms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and

ly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this book to those who have laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the tarot. this substituted attribution is alluded to in various places in liber aleph and magick in theory and practice, but was not spelt out in full in published writings until the book of thoth. the tables from 777 are based on the old golden dawn attributions; to work with the reversed attributions, lines 15 and 28 should be exchanged on all columns based on the zodiac or tarot (i.e, vi-viii, xi, xiv-xx, xxii-xlvii, xlix, cxxxvii-clxxiv, clxxvii-clxxxiii and clxxxvi, not all columns throughout as the editors of 777 revised state t.s. 34 notes to table of correspondences col. ii: 0

olumns. they are inserted into the appropriate columns in double square brackets[[like this. also added are* numeration of coptic* transliterations of most hebrew names. in order to keep the present work at a manageable size, i have not included* yorke s editorial preface* the essay on the magical alphabet* the meaning of the primes from 11 to 97* the various arrangements (mostly from the book of thoth* the explanations of the attributions a series of remarks, some developing almost into essays, on columns i-iii, v-viii, x, xi, xiii-xxii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii-xliii, xlv, lvi-lxviii, lxxviilxxxvi, and xcvii* what is qabalah* what is a number or a symbol (an extract from the new comment on al i.4) some of this additional material may later be made available in html format. i have not attempt

th represent which of the seven palaces they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged the attributions of the star and emperor based on al i.57. col. xix. transliterations of egyptian names have been left as in the first edition. these differ from both modern transliterations and those employed by early 20th-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or

1-9, thus: 1 (the swan: aumgn (one version has aum) 2 (the phoenix: al 3 (the raven: amen 4 (the eagle: su 5 (the hawk: agla 6 (the pelican: iao 7 (the dove: hriliu 8 (the ibis: abrahadabra 9 (the vulture: mu line 24: possibly on (ayin nun) should also be referred here. notes 54 col. xlvi. crowley s later attributions of the trigrams of the i ching, etc, to the sephiroth are given in the book of thoth, thusly: 0: tao. 1: tao teh. 2:yang. 3: yin. daath: khien. 4: tui. 5: kbn. 6: li. 7: kbn. 8: sun. 9: kh n. 10: khwbn. col. xlviii. most of these refer to symbols appearing in golden dawn rituals. line 26: possibly should read calvary cross of 6, solid as the faces of such will total 26 squares. col li. this arrangement differs slightly from the g.d. attributions given in regardie (ed, comple

ing grade between philosophus and adeptus minor is called dominus liminis. cols. cxxix cxxxii. these are the angels of the shem ha-mephorash or divided name of god, a full explanation of which would be beyond the scope of this footnote. on each row, the name on the left rules the card in question by day, the one on the right by night. cols. cxxxiii cxxxvi. words in square brackets are the book of thoth keywords for these cards where these differ from the titles. table v (the zodiac) col. cxxxix. the outer planets uranus, nepture) and pluto) and the nodes of the moon were not given in this table in 777, but appeared in these positions in the table the essential dignities of the planets in the book of thoth. in magick crowley added an additional column, the superior planetary governers of th

the nodes of the moon were not given in this table in 777, but appeared in these positions in the table the essential dignities of the planets in the book of thoth. in magick crowley added an additional column, the superior planetary governers of the signs; initially this referred the cardinal signs to the primum mobile, the kerubic signs to uranus and the mutable signs to neptune; in the book of thoth the cardinal signs were referred to pluto (discovered in the 1930s. cols. cxlix cli. agrippa (tom. ii cap. xxxvii) gives a somewhat different set of images for the decans, along with the significance of each. it is believed agrippa derived from latin translations of the picatrix, a medieval arabic work on magic. the images given here are close to those printed by regardie in complete golden

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ter (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv temperence water l laetitia q xviii the moon air c albus z vi the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx the last judgement water c via m xii the hanged man air d fortuna minor a 0 the fool earth (elements) earth (e) caput draconis t xxi the universe (if using the book of thoth attributions, exchange h and x and change titles of tarot trumps accordingly. the remaining six trumps and hebrew letters are referred to the upper six squares of the calvary crosses as noted above. 18: rather than reproduce the version of the alphabet which appeared in the equinox publication i have substituted a face based on the final corrected forms of the letters from sloane 3188 (quint

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acteristic utterance is recited. in the "third portion" of the invocation the magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. in the "fourth portion" the god is again invoked, but as if by himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that he should manifest in the magician. at the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stated. thus, in the invocation of thoth which is to be found in the rite of mercury (equinox i, vi) and in liber lxiv, the first part begins with the words "majesty of godhead, wisdom-crowned tahuti, thee, thee i invoke. oh thou of the ibis head, thee, thee i invoke; and so on. at the conclusion of this a mental image of the god, infinitely vast and infinitely splendid, should be perceived, in just the same sense as a man might se

nature, so perfectly spiritual and yet so perfectly material, that this one invocation is sufficient. the god bethinks him that the spirit of mercury should now appear to the magician; and it is so. this egyptian formula is therefore to be preferred to the hierarchical formula of the hebrews with its tedious prayers, conjurations, and curses. it will be noted, however, that in this invocation of thoth which we have summarized, there is another formula contained, the reverberating or reciprocating formula, which may be called the formula of horus and harpocrates. the magician addresses the god with an active projection of his will, and then becomes passive while the god addresses the universe. in the fourth part he remains silent, listening, to the prayer which arises therefrom. the formul

arized, there is another formula contained, the reverberating or reciprocating formula, which may be called the formula of horus and harpocrates. the magician addresses the god with an active projection of his will, and then becomes passive while the god addresses the universe. in the fourth part he remains silent, listening, to the prayer which arises therefrom. the formula of this invocation of thoth may also be classed under tetragrammaton. the first part is fire, the eager prayer of the magician, the second water, in which the magician listens to, or catches the reflection of, the god. the third part is air, the marriage of fire and water; the god and the man have become one; while the fourth part corresponds to earth, the condensation or materialization of those three higher principle

in which prometheus brought down fire from heaven, formulating to himself the passing of the holy influence through it. in this and other ways he will perform the initiation; and, this being accomplished, he will repeat the whole process in an elaborate ceremony<magick is an example of mythopoeia in that particular form called disease of language. thoth, god of magick, was merely a man who invented writing, as his monuments declare clearly enough "grammarye, magick, is only the greek "gramma. so also the old name of a magical ritual "grimoire, is merely a grammar. it appeared marvellous to the vulgar that men should be able to communicate at a distance, and they began to attribute other powers, merely invented, to the people who were able t

igible only as forms of light. with a rod we have summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our will, whether it be to outsoar the condor, or to dive deeper into the demon world of disease than any of our dreamers dared to dream. since with four bits of common glass mankind has learnt to know so much, achieved so much, who dare deny that the book of thoth, the quintessentialized wisdom of our ancestors whose civilizations, perished though they be, have left monuments which dwarf ours until we wonder whether we are degenerate from them, or evolved from simians, who dare deny that such a book may be possessed of unimaginable powers? it is not so long since the methods of modern science were scoffed at by the whole cultured world. in the sacred

red to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that aiwaz- the solar-phallic-hermetic "lucifer" is his own holy guardian angel, and "the devil" satan or hadit of our particular unit of the starry universe. this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man, but he who made gods of our race, knowing good and evil; he bade "know thyself" and taught initiation. he is "the devil" of the book of thoth, and his emblem is baphomet, the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. the number of his atu is xv, which is yod he, the monogram of the eternal, the father one with the mother, the virgin seed one with all-containing space. he is therefore life, and love. but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is light, and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose att

ite merging into grey (1) the pure earth known to the ancient egyptians, during that: equinox of the gods over which isis presided (i.e. the pagan era) was: taken as green: 309 table i: xix: xxii :key scale: selection of egyptian gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: tara).akasa(as matter).lingam: 3 :maut, isis, nephthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 4 :amoun, isis :indra, brahma: 5 :horus, nephthys :vishnu, varruna-avatar: 6 :asar, ra :vishnu-hari-krishna-rama: 7 :hathoor :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :s

phthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 4 :amoun, isis :indra, brahma: 5 :horus, nephthys :vishnu, varruna-avatar: 6 :asar, ra :vishnu-hari-krishna-rama: 7 :hathoor :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sakti: 15 :men thu :shiva: 16 :asar ameshet apis :shiva (sacred bull: 17 :various twin dieties, rehkt :various twin and hybrid: merti, etc: deities: 18 :kephra: 19 :ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet,:vishnu (nara-singh avatar: mau, sekhmet: 20 :isis (as virgin :the gopi girls, th

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introduction to this book. their original form has been retained with the opening and closing formulae which crowley used in all his letters. crowley at first intended to call the book "aleister explains everything, and sent the following circular to his friends and disciples asking them to suggest subjects for inclusion. aleister explains everything "much gratified was the author of the book of thoth to have so many letters of appreciation, mostly from women, thanking him for not 'putting it in unintelligible language, for 'making it all so clear that even i with my limited intelligence can understand it, or think i do "nevertheless and notwithstanding! for many years the master therion has felt acutely the need of some groundworkteaching suited to those who have only just begun the stud

khonsu, that i use it (with its graeco-phoenician child) for all work of supreme import. why stamp my vitals, madam! the abramelin operation itself turned into this form before i could so much as set to work on it! like the duchess' baby (excuse this enthusiasm; but you have aroused the british lion-serpent) note, please, that the equivalents given in 777 are not always exact. tahuti is not quite thoth, still less hermes; mercury is a very much more comprehensive idea, but not nearly so exalted: hanuman hardly at all. nor is tetragrammaton iao, though even etymology asserts the identity. in these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even syncretic. and you must consider the nature of your work. if i wanted to evoke taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the qaba

ys and be" i am sure that solomon was too good a poet, and too experienced a guru, to tail off with the anticlimax "wise" 6. minerval. what is the matter? all you have to do is understand it: just a dramatization of the process of incarnation. better run through it with me: i'll make it clear, and you can make notes of your troubles and their solution for the use of future members. 7. the book of thoth. surely all terms not in a good dictionary are explained in the text. i don't see what i can do about it, in any case; the same criticism would apply to (say) bertrand russell's introduction to mathematical physics, wouldn't it? is x an r-ancestor of y if y has every r-hereditary that x has, provided x is a term which has the relation r to something or to which something has the relation r (

ing letter brochure berashith18. since then, i seem to have kept assuming that everybody knew all about it; referring to it, quoting it, but never sitting down seriously to demonstrate the thesis, or even to state it in set terms. chapter 0 of magick in theory magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 66 and practice skates gently over it; the "naples arrangement" in the book of thoth dodges it with really diabolical ingenuity. i ask myself why. it is exceedingly strange, because every time i think of the equation, i am thrilled with a keen glow of satisfaction that this sempiternal riddle of the sphinx should have been answered at last. so then let me now give myself the delight, and you the comfort, of stating the problem from its beginning, and proving the soundness of

ate letter 'till then- love is the law, love under will. fraternally, chapter xxii how to learn the practice of astrology cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 149 "up guards, and at 'em" first, you must know your correspondences by heart backwards and upside down (air connu) they are practically all in the book of thoth; but "if anyone anything lacks" look for it in 777. then, get a book on astrology, the older the better. raphael's shilling handbook is probably enough for the present purpose. get well into your head what the menu says about the natures of the planets, the influence of the aspects, what is meant by dignities, the scope of the houses, and so on. dovetail all this with your classical knowledg

p in rank enables you both to see more and to do more; but one's attention is inevitably directed outward. when the entire system of the universe is conterminous with your comprehension "inward" and "outward" become identical. but it won't do at all to seek anything within but a point of view, for the simple reason that there is nothing else there! it is just like all those symbols in the book of thoth; as soon as you get to the "end" of anything, you suddenly find it is the "beginning" to formulate the idea of "self" at all, you must posit limitations; anything that is distinguishable is a mere temporary (and arbitrary) selection of the finite from the infinite; whatever you chose to think 42 of, it changes, it grows, it disappears. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika

; it is quite senseless. one could construct a much more rational order: e.g. the mother, the single and the double letters, all in the natural order of the elements, planets and signs. again, we have the "missionary" alphabet, arranged "scientifically" as gutturals, modified ditto, dentals, labials, vowels and so on; a most repulsive concoction! but i would not accept any emendation from the god thoth himself; it is infinitely simpler to stick to the familiar order. but explain to the child that this is only for convenience, like the rule of the road; indeed, like magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 249 almost any rules! but when your teaching is of the disputable kind, explain that too; encourage him to question, to demand a reason and to disagree. get him to fenc

, by a patriotic russian, and by a german poet and philosopher: one can hardly believe that the subject of any two of these biographies is the same man. but upon certain points the identity is bound to transpire; even when we read of his crushing and classic defeat at waterloo by the belgians, the man is detected. transferring the analogy to the gods, it is then open to us to suppose that tahuti, thoth, hermes, mercury, loki, hanuman and the rest are identical, and that the diversity of the name and the series of exploits is due merely to the accidents of time and space. but it is at least equally plausible to suggest that these gods are different individuals, although of the identical order of being, characteristics and function. very much as if one took drake, frobisher, raleigh, hood, b

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alled the daughter. the son purifies the daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the mother, the uniting of whom with the father absorbs all into the crown. see liber cdxviii> the magick wand is thus the principal weapon of the magus; and the "name" of that wand is the magical oath. the will being twofold is in chokmah, who is the logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. thoth the lord of magic sic is also the lord of speech; hermes the messenger bears the caduceus. word should express will: hence the mystic name of the probationer is the expression of his highest will. there are, of course, few probationers who understand themselves sufficiently to be able to formulate this will to themselves, and therefore at the end of their probation they choose a new name. 71

a band of pure gold, on the front of which stand three pentagrams, and on the back a hexagram. the central pentagram contains a diamond or a great opal; the other three symbols contain the tau. around this crown is twined the golden ureaus serpent, with erect head and expanded hood. under the crown is a crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders. instead of this, the ateph crown of thoth is sometimes worn; for thoth is the god of truth, of wisdom, and the teacher of magick. the ateph crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion, the force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring. between these horns is the disk of the sun; from this springs a lotus upheld by the twin plumes of truth, and three other sun-disks are upheld, one by the cup of the lotus, the othe

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work. 2nd method. 5a a a a a b r h d i b r here bhr= 207= rw) pws ny, etc, and rbd= voice( gthe vision and the voice h; thus showing, by yetziratic attribution, the three wands: caduceus: phoenix: lotus. note always rb) are the three supernals. 3rd method. 5a a a d i r b r b a a h give 205+ 213; both mean gmighty h, whence abrahadabra is gthe word of double power h. b) show nb )my) b, viz, amoun: thoth: mout. by yetziratic method, h d r are isis: horus: osiris (also, for h d r, vide i.r.q. 992) dividing as 3 and 8, we get 7 of horus dominating the stooping dragon, w)y rr; also: a r b d a b a r a h a 8= dd, love; and 207= rw, light; 8 207= 18, which is equivalent to yx, living; further, 297= 23 9= hyx, life: hence, licht: liebe: leben. again, 418= t+ w)y= 21+ 397, q.v. rbd and 678= 6+ 7+ 8=

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should be consulted for further information as to the magical import of scorpio and taurus. al i,25 "divide, add, multiply, and understand" the old comment 25. dividing 6/50= 0.12. 0, the circumference, nuit, the centre, hadit. 1, the unity proceeding, ra-hoor-khuit. 2, the coptic h, whose shape closely resembles the arabic figure 2, the breath of life, inspired and expired. human consciousness, thoth. adding 50+ 6= 56, nu, and concentrating 5+ 6= 11, abrahadabra, etc. multiplying 50 x 6= shin, and ruach elohim, the holy spirit. i am inclined to believe that there is a further mystery concealed in this verse, possibly those of 418 and 666 again. the new comment see qabalistic appendix. weh note: appendix not yet recovered. k. grant, op. cit, adds several paragraphs here which appear to co

a "thelema" is in greek letters in the ms the old comment 39. compare rabelais. also it may be translated "let will and action be in harmony" but thelema also means will in the higher sense of magical one-pointedness, and in the sense used by schopenhauer and fichte. there is also most probably a very lofty secret interpretation. i suggest: the- the essential aleph-taw, azoth, etc. word- chokmah, thoth, the logos, the second emanation. of- the partative, binah, the great mother, the- chesed, the paternal power, reflection of the "the" above. law- geburah, the stern restriction. is- tiphereth, visible existence, the balanced harmony of the worlds. thelema- the idea embracing all this sentence in a word. or: theta the- teth, the lion "thou shalt unite all these symbols into the form of a lio

ers of liber aleph, in which i have described various cognate forms of the vision "de gramine sanctissimo arabico "recall, o my son, the fable of the hebrews, which they brought from the city 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; tha

is of a deeper significance than at first sight may appear. the question is not merely equivalent to "is the dictation at an end" for the word is conceived as the act of possession. this is evident from the choice of the word "exhausted. the inspiration has been like an electrical discharge. language is in itself nothing; it is only the medium of transmitting experience to consciousness. tahuti, thoth, hermes, or mercury symbolize this relation; the character of this god is declared in very full terms in "the paris working, which should be studied eagerly by those who are fortunate enough to have access to the ms. al ii,70 "there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; refine thy rapture! if thou drink, drink by the eight and ni

ture shall surpass the stars. they shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418" the new comment there are certain occult wonders concealed in the first part of this text (see liber ccclxx. the solution of the last sentence may depend upon the number of the verse, which is that of mezla, the influx from the highest, and of the book of thoth, or tarot. we may take "thy name" as "the sun, for qabalistic reasons given in the appendix; the verse need not imply the establishment of a new cult with myself as demigod (help) but they shall worship the group of ideas connected with the sun, and the magical formula of the number 418, explained elsewhere. al ii,79 "the end of the hiding of hadit; and blessing& worship to the prophet of th

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, also adds to this number. vide liber cdxiv t.s. 73 comparing this with the mathers translation, this appears to be a loose paraphrase of von rosenroth s glosses rather than a direct quote; the relevant paragraphs are 696 and 697 t.s. liber lviii 42 the five letters used in the word are a, the crown; b, the wand, d, the cup; h, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. also 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the laughing lion on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly signifying 24, which aga

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pocket. 120. my balti coolies.21 see my the higher the fewer* 125. eton.22 a school, noted for its breed of cads. the battle of waterloo (1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23 sir j. maundevill, voiage and travill, ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34 i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25 in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished t.s] notes 67 149. ra.26 the sun-god. 149. nuit.27 the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28 the waters wild went o er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29 characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30 see two poets of croisic, xci. 159. a jest.31 see above: ascension day. 162. a myste

bble is riddled by specific trouble) will grow like eggs a person curries. this line, no doubt, requires an answer. the last ditch. first. here s a johnny with a cancer; an operation may be useless, may even harm his constitution, or cause his instant dissolution: let the worm die, tis but a goose less! not you! you up and take by storm him. you tie him down and chloroform him. you do not pray to thoth or horus, but make one dash for his pylorus: and if ten years elapse, and he complains, o doctor, pity me! your cruel ands, for goodness sakes gave me such orrid stomach-aches. notes 71 you write him, with a face of flint, an order for some soda-mint. so yoga. life s a carcinoma, its cause uncertain, not to check. in vain you cry to isis: o ma! i ve got it fairly in the neck. the surgeon cro

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e supported upon two squares- r--b a--b a--h abad= dd, love, 8. a--d r--a ahra= avr, light, 207. now 8 x 207= 1656= chi, living, and 207= 9 x 23, chih, life. at this time "licht, liebe, leben" was the mystic name of the mother-temple of the g. d. 117 the five letters used in the word are a, the crown; b, the wand; d, the cup; h, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. also 418= ath iav, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the "laughing lion" on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 23 x 25, occultly signifying 24, which aga

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cified one is an enormous bat, and for the two thieves are two little children. it is night, and the night is full of hideous things and howlings. and an angel cometh forth, and saith: be wary, for if thou change so much as the style of a letter, the holy word is blasphemed. but enter into the mountain of the caverns, for that this (how much more then that calvary which mocks it, as his ape mocks thoth) is but the empty shell of the mystery of zen. verily, i say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried "our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance" and with that he gives the sign of the rending of the veil, and tears down the vision. and behold! whirling columns of fiery light, seventy-two. upon them is supported a mountain of pure cr

1909. 8.10-10 p.m. 122) the cry of the 6th aethyr, which is called maz there cometh into the stone the great angel whose name is av, and in him there are symbols which strive for mastery- sulphur and the pentagram, and they are harmonized by the swastika. these symbols are found both in the name of av and in the name of the aethyr. thus he is neither horus nor osiris. he is called the radiance of thoth; and this aethyr is very hard to understand, for the images form and dissolve more rapidly than lightning. these images are the illusions made by the ape of thoth. and this i understand, that i am not worthy to receive the mysteries of this aethyr. and all this which i have seen (being all the thoughts that i have ever thought) is, as it were, a guardian of the aethyr. i seem quite helpless

he truth by my words, and by my magick arts. and this is the horror that was shown by the lake that was 125 nigh unto the city of the seven hills, and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind. moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower sephiroth. and its balance is in beauty, and therefore have they who sought only beauty come nearest to the truth. for the beauty receiveth directly three rays from the supern

apostles; that jupiter and mercury (kether and chokmah) 126 visited (that is, inspired, ephesus, the city of diana, binah- was not diana a black stone- and they burnt their books of magick. now it seems that the centre of infinite space is that urn, and hadit is the fire that hath burnt up the book tarot. for in the book tarot was preserved all of the wisdom (for the tarot was called the book of thoth, of the aeon that is passed. and in the book of enoch was first given the wisdom of the new aeon. and it was hidden for three hundred years, because it was wrested untimely from the tree of life by the hand of a desperate magician. for it was the master of that magician who overthrew the power of the christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the master, for he foresaw that the new("i

a hand. and a voice proceedeth from the urn: from the ashes of the tarot who shall make the phoenix-wand? not even he who by his understanding hath made the lotus-wand to grow in the great sea. get thee back, for thou art not an atheist, and though thou have violated thy mother, thou hast not slain thy father. get thee back from the urn; thy ashes are not hidden here. 127 then again arose the god thoth, in the sign of the enterer, and he drove the seer from before his face. and he fell through the starry night unto the little village in the desert. benishrur, algeria "december" 10, 1909. 7.40-9.40 p.m. the cry of the 5th aethyr, which is called lit there is a shining pylon, above which is set the sigil of the eye, within the shining triangle. light streams through the pylon from before the

nd says: although thy shaft hath pierced thee weh note: sic, may be "me" not, although the envenomed barb hath struck thee through, yet i am slain, and thou livest and triumphest, for i am thou and thou art i. with that he disappears, and the aethyr splits with a roar as of ten thousand thunders. and behold, the arrow! the plumes of maat are its crown, set about the disk. it is the ateph crown of thoth, and there is the shaft of burning light, and beneath there is a silver wedge. i shudder and tremble at the vision, for all about it are whorls and torrents of tempestuous fire. the stars of heaven are caught in the ashes of the flame. and they are all dark. that which was a blazing sun is like a speck of ash. and in the midst the arrow burns! i see that the crown of the arrow is the father

e house also of death. come away! the volume of the book is open, the angel waiteth without, for the summer is at hand. come away! for the aeon is measured, and thy span allotted. come away! for the mighty sounds have entered into every angle. and they have awakened the angels of the aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. for in the holy letter shin, that is the resurrection in the book of thoth, that is the holy spirit in the trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed. come away! for the second triad is completed, and there remaineth only the lord of the aeon, the avenger, the child 165 both crowned and conquering, the lord of the sword and the sun, the babe in the lotus, pure from his birth, the c

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ur anxiety shows me that i am not as far from attainment as my own feelings would have me think. at least, though, i am thrown into the active again; i shall rise and chant the enochian calls and invoke the bornless one, and clear a few of the devils away, and get an army of mighty angels around me in short, make another kind of fool of myself, i wonder? anyway, i'll do it. not a bad idea to ask thoth to send me taphtatharath with a little information as to the route i do not know where i am at all. this is a strange country, and i am very lonely. this shall be my ritual. 1. banishing pentagram ritual. 2. invoking ditto.[these will appear in no. 2,"liber o. ed. 86 3."the bornless one.[see the "goetia. ed. 4. the calls i vi with the rituals of the five grades.[from dr. dee's and the g. d

th with a little information as to the route i do not know where i am at all. this is a strange country, and i am very lonely. this shall be my ritual. 1. banishing pentagram ritual. 2. invoking ditto.[these will appear in no. 2,"liber o. ed. 86 3."the bornless one.[see the "goetia. ed. 4. the calls i vi with the rituals of the five grades.[from dr. dee's and the g. d. mss. ed. 5. invocation of thoth. 6.(no: i will "not" use the new ritual, nor will i discuss the matter. an impromptu invocation of adonai. 7. closing formulae. to work, then! 11.15. the ceremony went well enough; the forces invoked came readily and visibly; thoth in particular as friendly as ever i fancy he takes this record as a compliment to him he's welcome to it, poor god! the l.v.x. came, too but not enough to pierc

d, like a sot who has tried to get credit at a tavern and is turned away and that on christmas eve! there is no money in his purse, no steam in his boilers that's what's the matter with john st. john. it is clear enough, what happened yesterday. he failed at the four pylons in turn; in the morning fear stopped him at that of horus and so on; while in the evening he either failed at the pylon of thoth,"i.e. was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. here then he is down at the bottom of the hill again, a rosic

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rom those cold feet, a frozen meer, to those cold knees, a lost lagoon, to that wild woodland, strangely near to the lone tower that tops the moon! 202 verily and amen! unhewn the great grim forest menaces. what gardener may dare to prune those woods to build me palaces? so climb, each ledge an infinite stress, lustful as light, as lechery loth, from the brutality of besz to the plumed perjury of thoth! i held him holy. holier both than aught the bearers of the bier, thoum-aesh-neith and auramoth, saw in the hiding-house of fear. the sorceries that span the sphere, the spells that harness star and sun, i whispered in his siren ear- once, twice, and thrice for every one! once, twice, and thrice- the boon's begun! with four and five and six it stirs: with seven the druid dance is done, and d

in ten, making the total number four hundred. 8 "paroketh" is the veil which separates hod and netzach from tiphereth; and as we shall see later on, in the portal ritual, the first order from the second order. illustration on page 245 approximated below_ the veil of the sanctuary point of rending. the veil of nephthys the veil of isis_ imperator cancellar- hierophant past premonstra- nephthys ius thoth osiris hierophant tor isis aroueris\ hb:mem hb:ayin hb:samekh hb:nun hb:koph_ s. d t .the place. thmaist .the place. a o .of the feet .of the feet &d lc of nephthys- hegemon- of isis co iu. scale of. scale of. eu sp. bilanx. harpocrates .bilanx. nc t \hb:resh hb:tzaddi. sh e/ eo s. place of/ rs .evil triad_ apophrasz .satan typh/ hb:shin .on besz. hb:qof. hb:taw\ double_ altar. x /hiereus. h

h temple these three chiefs are coeternal and coequal, thus figuring the triad in unity, yet are their functions different: the imperator to command the praemonstrator to instruct. the cancellarius to record "even as the flaming fire doth overcome, and the still waters reflect all images, and the all-wandering air receiveth sound" the synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of thoth who cometh from behind the veil. yet also the imperator may be referred unto the goddess nephthys from his relationship unto geburah. the praemonstrator unto isis from chesed. and the cancellarius unto thoth in his position as recorder. of the stations of the invisibles. the gods of the elements their stations are at the four cardinal points of the hall without, as invisible guardians of the

the triad arouerist, horus and themis, to place his left hand in that of the initiator, and his right hand upon the white triangle as symbolising his active aspiration towards his higher soul. the candidate then bows his head, and the hierophant gives one knock with his sceptre; affirming that the symbol of submission into the higher is now complete. only at that moment doth the colossal image of thoth20 metatron cease from the sign of the enterer: and giveth instead the sign of the silence: permitting the first real descent of the genius of the candidate, who descendeth into the invisible station of harpocrates as witness unto the obligation. 19 he is osiris when throned; when he moves he assumes the form of arouerist. 20 thoth is one of the invisible officers. all then rise and the candi

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2. if we take an example, the use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain

y emblem of infinite space and infinite time<"hidden behind my magic veil of shows, i am not seen at all- name not my name> multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes- sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with-us is declared by thoth, 168 the great god, and the material universe sinketh into infinity. the first number, then is one; emblem of the all-father; the unmanifest mind behind all manifestation: the first mind. multiply by it any other number- for the multiplication of the numbers is a generation, as is the multiplication of men and gods- and behold! the "resultant" is a replica of the number taken. so is one the

reof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10<"vide" sepher yetzirah for this division of the holy sephiroth into a hexad and a tetrad> the perfection of the 177 sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 again, the central will, hb:bet, thoth, in the heart of the universe (as in the centre of the verse. note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that mystery- that equilibrium is strength. let us now look at the letters themselves. counting them, we find that the two central ones are mem-aleph, the supernal mother; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. now their numeration is 41, yi

itual the explanation of that terrible key "see" account of this ritual in "the temple" also, 13 is the numeration of aleph-chet-dalet= unity, as also is the great name of god, aleph-lamed, by aiq bekar or temurah- the distinct formulation of the three in one, uniting once more to produce the 4. now beth primarily signifieth a house or abode, and in taro it is mercury, the magus- the vox dei- and thoth, the recorder. coalesce these two ideas and we get hb:bet "this is the magical history" hb:resh signifieth the head or beginning of time and 179 things; and by taro it is glory, life, light, sun. thus read "of the dawning of life and light" hb:aleph is by shape the svastika, symbolically aleph, the ox, as though showing the fearful force of the spiritual "whirling motions" upon the material

the whole word reads: hb:bet this is the magical history hb:resh of the dawning of the light. hb:aleph begun are the whirling motions; hb:shin formulated is the primal fire; hb:yod proclaimed is the reign of the gods of light hb:taw at the threshold of the infinite worlds! now compare this with the particular exordium (g. d. mss. z3 .at the ending of the night :at the limits of the light hb:bet :thoth stood before the unborn ones of time .then was formulated the universe .then came forth the gods thereof, hb:resh .the aeons of the bornless beyond. hb:aleph<caduceus("see" p. 269) the air symbol vibrating between them [also hb:yod, virgo, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, w

ho guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0 degree= 0 square- p> then was the voice vibrated. hb:shin<spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth> then was the name declared .at the threshold of entrance, hb:taw .betwixt the universe and the infinite .in the sign of the enterer: stood thoth hb:yod .as before him the aeons were proclaimed. the positions of the last two letters of the word have been relatively changed, so as to render the meaning more harmoniously. 181 we will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated, taking b'rasheth as the title rather than as the first word. this latter stands bet-resh-aleph, which hath three letters, symbolising thereby t

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ular formation of eight hebrew letters. in clockwise sequence from the top: hb:yod hb:yod hb:heh hb:koph hb:vau hb:dalet hb:heh hb:aleph. these letters accordingly form the words jehovah in a greek cross and achad on the diagonals "he is one. in the name of god let there be light unto the void a restriction "soror s.s.d.d. altered frater i.a.'s ritual, making the operation to "form a link between thoth and the magus. this is absurd; the correct way "is as here given, in which the link is formed between the spirit and the "magus" 170 "considerations" to be performed on the day and in the hour of mercury: the evocation itself commencing in the magical hour of tafrac, under the dominion of the great angel of mercury hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:peh hb:resh. on wednesday, may 13, 1896, this hour tafra

mighty magus of art shall wear a white robe, yellow sash, red overmantle, indigo nemys, upon her breast shall she bear a great tablet whereon is the magic seal of mercury; and over this the lamen bearing the signature of taphthartharath, on its obverse the lamen of a hierophant. she shall wear also a dagger in her sash, and a red rose on her heart: and she shall carry in her left hand the ankh of thoth, and in her right the ibis wand. the assistant magus of art shall wear a white robe, with a girdle of snake-skin; a black head-dress and a lamen of the spirit, on its obverse the lamen of the hiereus. and he shall bear in his right hand a sword; and in his left hand the magical candle; and a black chain about his neck. the magus of the fires shall wear a white robe and yellow sash; and the r

of mercury by solomon's seal "magus of fire" mighty magus of art, all thy commands shall be obeyed, and all thy desires shall be accomplished [he does it.15 [the magus now advances to the centre of the circle, by the magical cauldron, wherein is the milk becoming heated, turns himself towards the fire of the spirit, and recites "the invocation to the higher" majesty of the godhead, wisdom-crowned thoth, lord of the gates of the universe: thee! thee we invoke! thou that manifesteth in thy symbolic form as an ibis-headed one: thee, thee we invoke! thou, who holdest in thy hand the magic wand of double power: thee, thee we invoke! thou who bearest in thy left hand the rose and cross of light and life: thee, thee we invoke! thou whose 176 head is of green, whose nemys is of night sky- blue; wh

eart: my tongue is the sanctuary of truth: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself like that of ptah when he creates his works. since i am eternal everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless for eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 177 thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi. thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness rising, descending, changing for ever, yet for ever the sa

n his gods; or hear another voice save mine or my companions, or see another path before him than the one unto this place [sigil is placed outside the circle by the assistant magus of art] and the reason of this my working is, that i seek to obtain from that spirit taphthartharath the knowledge of the realm of kokab, and to this end i implore the divine assistance in the names of elohim tzebaoth, thoth, metatron, raphael, michael, beni elohim, tiriel [chief resumes her seat. the three others pass to the west and point their swords 178 in menace at the veiled and corded sigil. the assistant magus then lifts the sigil on to the edge of the circle, and says] who gives permission to admit to the hall of dual truth this creature of sigils "magus of art" i, s.s.d.d, soror of the order of the gol

in the sphere of kokab, and that thou do presently appear before us in pleasing form, not seeking to terrify us by vain apparitions, for we are armed with words of double power, and therefore without fear! and i moreover demand, binding and conjuring thee by the mighty name of elohim tzebaoth, that thou teach us how we may acquire the power to know all things that appertain unto the knowledge of thoth who ruleth the occult wisdom and power. and i am about to invocate thee in the magical hour of tafrac, on this day, for that in this day and hour the great angel of kokab, raphael, reigneth_ beneath whose dominion art thou_ and i swear to thee, here in the hall of the twofold manifestation of truth, that, as liveth and ruleth for evermore the lord of the universe; that even as i and my compa

e traced upon the ground: by the magic seal of mercury i bear upon my breast: by the eight magic lamps that flame around me: by thy seal and sigil which i bear upon my heart: that thou come forth, here, now, in this present day and hour, and appear in visible and material form before us, in the great magic triangle without this circle of art. hb:resh i bind and conjure thee anew: by the wisdom of thoth the mighty god: by the light of the magic fire: by the unutterable glory of the godhead within me: by all powerful names and rites: that thou come forth, here, 180 now, in this present day and hour, and appear in visible and material form before us, in the great magical triangle without this circle of art. hb:taw i bind and conjure thee anew: by the powers of word and of will: by the powers

hash. and the all-binding milk is the magical water of thy purification. 182 and the fire which flames over all [assistant lights hell-broth] is the utter power of our sacred rites! come forth! come forth! come forth unto us, spirit of mercury, o taphthartharath. i bind and conjure thee by him that sitteth for ever on the throne of thy planet, the knower, the master, the all-dominating by wisdom, thoth the great king, lord of the upper and the lower crowns! i bind and conjure thee by the great name iahdonhi whose power is set flaming above thy palaces, and ruleth over thee in the midst of thy gloomy habitations. and by the powers of the mighty letter beth: which is the house of our god, and the crown of our understanding and knowledge. and by the great magic word stibettchephmefshiss which

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self in ak sa between pillars with white ray descending. 179 heaven 180 an eleven pointed star. the girders of the soul."181 how to do it is the great problem. i am inclined to believe in drugs- if one only knew the right drug. 13th. drew a pantacle. 16th. painted wicked black-magic pantacle. held a magical ceremony in the evening. lesser banishing ritual of pentagram and hexagram. invocation of thoth and the elements by keys 1-6182 and g. d. opening rituals. consecrated lamen crown and abrahadabra wand with great force. 16th. did the seven hb:shin of hb:shin operations. worked at a z for 5= 6 ritual.183 17th. position 1. 12 m. not good. evening invocation of mercury, chokmah and thoth. 18th. completed z for 5= 6 ritual. 117 may 19th. 1. assumption of the god-form of harpocrates: it laste

ting upon tejas-apas. 187 very similar to the older form of "temperance" in taro. 188 see liber o, the equinox, vol. i, no. 2; plate "signs of the grades" i; and vol. i, no. 1; plates the "silent watcher" and "blind force" 118 with sign of enterer to draw force. this cycle repeat until simulacrum is at least capable of audible speech. i tried this and started by invoking the forces of chokmah and thoth, but omitted stating purpose of operation in so many words. yet with three projections (each way) i obtained a shadowy grayness somewhat human in shape. but found difficulty where least expected- in transferring consciousness to simulacrum. may 22nd. god-form thoth. 16 m. result fair. ak sa-ak sa. during the meditation the following vision was seen. all things around me were surrounded by si

. a. r. p.189 etc, are evil. above were the gods of e. h. n. b; and above them svastika wheels whirling, and again above this the light ineffable. illustration on page 119 approximated_ air e x a r p_ water h c o m a_ spirit n a n t a_ dee b i t o m< air water spirit dee diagram 87. the spirit table 24th. green ankh. 7 m. poor. worked at 5= 6 explanation. cross in brilliance. 10 m. medium result. thoth in front of me. 5 m. poor. june 3rd. astral vision. dressed in white and red abramelin robes with crown, wand, ankh, and rose-cross, etc, etc, went on an astral journey to 119 hong-kong. i found soror f. sitting or kneeling in a temple. on the altar were elemental instruments also symbol of golden dawn. she was waiting in awe, almost in fear. on my entering she saw me and started. then i hea

16 m. ten breaks; very strictly counted. r.r. et a.c. 8 m. one break. got very sleepy; but this seems surprisingly good. scarlet sphere 10 m. good. one or two breaks only. operation (tiphereth. buddha position. 5 m. hopeless; i was nearly asleep. 19th. winged-globe. 9 m. five breaks. h.p.k. on lotus. 9 m. five breaks. the god was not very clear. r.r. et a.c. 8 m. bad. position 1. 13 m. middling. thoth? hopelessly sleepy. attempted meditation on solar spectrum as a band. by working 120 at each colour separately, or lighting each one by one, it is not bad; but taken altogether is no good. july 20th. thoth. 10 m. rather poor. cross. 15 m. not very good. golden dawn 10 m. not good. symbol [my thought seems terribly wandering nowadays] isis. 19 m. not so bad. winged-globe. 12 m. bad, sleepy. 2

s become real to me, but if 122 i make a god of it it will become but an illusion. i am ready to receive the magical power as i should not abuse it. i must needs accomplish the finished work. buddha. 33 m. the best meditation i have so far done. i regard this as a "real" meditation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. rose on planes of t'y's't'g'k198 from malkuth to kether. august 5th. meditated on thoth concerning frater i.a. 6th. arrived at colombo. we now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of p. up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied western methods of magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of d.a, and then solely under his own mastership, he had begun to study raja yoga, practising meditation and a few simple breathing exercises. now he was going

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tude! fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! my spirit free! mix with my breath and life and name thy mood and self of thee [sor. gemini "plays accordingly<gemini. master, be it thy pleasure to perform the invocation of mercury["all" probationers "rise and join the four others in front of the altar] mercury["leaves throne] majesty of the godhead, wisdom-crowned thoth, lord of the gates of the universe: thee, thee we invoke! o thou of the ibis head: thee, thee we invoke! thou who wieldest the wand of double power: thee, thee we invoke! thou who bearest in thy left hand the rose and cross of light and life: thee, thee we invoke! o thou whose head is as an emerald, and thy nemyss 101 as the night sky- blue! thou whose skin is of flaming orange, as though it

is the sanctuary of truth: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of ptah when he creates his works. i am eternal; therefore everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore i say unto thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power! thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless to eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness. rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun

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genius united to the higher genius. rays issue forth because osiris hath risen and isis shines forth a new creation. this higher rose cross in the center of the rose cross of divine light is the mystery of the higher genius descending into the rtk of man, and the lower genius is now established in trapt. in harmony, one reflects the other. the wands of the chiefs the chief adept holds the wand of thoth; in that his grade of 7=4 is that of isis, we could say isis holds the wand of thoth. the second adept is 6=5 of hrwbg and alludes to horus who holds the wand of his father, osiris. the third adept is 5=6 of trapt which alludes to osiris, and he holds the wand of isis, the lotus wand. observe the correlation in the following diagram: b in f: the thoth wand held by isis. a in e: the osiris wa

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head. in the same manner that said pentagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating through arousal, then while holding back orgasm karezza switch attention to the devil card. focus on the "third eye" that is depicted on the goat. take on the head of the goat as in the manner of an assumption of a god form. a

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hose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional witcha path, is bold enough to present ideas of our spiritual lineage found in the dreaming minds of the cunning brothers and sisters. the symbolic mark of initiation, which aleister crowley termed the mark of the beast of the apocalypse in the book of thoth, has brought different interpretations of its form, but the function itself is clear. this mark, or stigma, may have been a reference to some form of tattooing. the story may have originally referred to the nomadic tribe of the kenites, itinerant metal-smiths who believed themselves to be the descendants of a cain, related also to the midianites and israelites who traveled the desert rift of

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achings, although allegorical, is so diametrically opposed to the dead-letter statements of the bible* as well as to the latest hypotheses of science, that it will evoke passionate denial. the occultists, however, know that the traditions of esoteric philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. besides, we have the egyptian "books of thoth" and "book of the dead" and the hindu puranas with the seven manus, as well as the chaldeo-assyrian accounts, whose tiles mention seven primitive men, or adams, the real meaning of which name may be ascertained through the kabala. those who know anything of the samothracian mysteries will also remember that the generic name of the kabiri was the "holy fires" which created on seven localities

n of opposite sexes (negative and positive) according to the essences of the seven governors (divine pymander, chap. i, sect. 16) thus saith hermes, the thrice great initiate "the power of the[[footnote(s* nature is the natural body, the shadow of the progenitors; and* man is the "heavenly man" as already stated* the "pymander" of our museums and libraries is an abridgement of one of the books of thoth, by a platonist of alexandria. in the third century it was remodelled after old hebrew and phoenician mss. by a jewish kabalist, and called the "genesis of enoch" but even its disfigured remnants show how closely its text agrees with the archaic doctrine, as is shown in the creation of the seven creators and seven primitive men. as to enoch, thoth or hermes, orpheus and kadmus, these are all

hy krishna and buddha speak of themselves as re-incarnations, i.e, krishna is identified with the rishi narayana, and gautama gives a series of his previous births; and why the former, especially, being "the very supreme brahma" is yet called amsamsavatara "a part of a part" only of the supreme on earth. finally, why osiris is a great god, and at the same time a "prince on earth" who reappears in thoth-hermes, and why jesus (in hebrew, joshua) of nazareth is recognised, cabalistically, in joshua, the son of nun, as well as in other personages. the esoteric doctrine explains it by saying that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on earth as one of the seven powers of the logos, individualized as a god or "angel (messenger; then, mixed with matter, they had re-appeared in turn a

as "hormig" a name of the planet mercury or budha; and wednes[[footnote(s* in the purana it is identified with vishnu's or brahma's sveta dwipa of mount meru[[vol. 2, page] 367 hermes in astronomy and elsewhere. day was sacred both to hermes and thot. the hermes of oriental tradition, worshipped at phineata and said to have fled after the death of argus into egypt, civilized it under the name of thoth. but under whichever of these characters, he is always credited with having transferred all the sciences from latent to active potency, i.e, with having been the first to teach magic to egypt and to greece, before the days of magna graecia, and when the greeks were not even hellenes. not only herodotus- the "father of history- tells us of the marvellous dynasties of gods that preceded the re

he reign of the gods and heroes. at the very outset of this curious[[footnote(s* ch. iv. of "egypt" p. 441[[vol. 2, page] 368 the secret doctrine. papyrus we have to arrive at the conviction that so far back already as the period of ramses, those mythic and heroical traditions were just as manetho had transmitted them to us; we see figuring in them, as kings of egypt, the gods seb, osiris, horus, thoth-hermes, and the goddess ma, a long period of centuries being assigned to the reign of each of these (ann. de philologie chretienne, vol. xxxii, p. 442. the synchronistic tables of manetho, besides the fact that they were disfigured by eusebius for dishonest purposes, had never gone beyond manetho. the chronology of the divine kings and dynasties, like that of the age of humanity, has ever be

the former case he became the "dragon-slayer" as having happily overcome all the temptations; and a "son of the serpent" and a serpent himself, having cast off his old skin and being born in a new body, becoming a son of wisdom and immortality in eternity (see part ii. on the satanic myth) seth, the reputed forefather of israel, is only a jewish travesty of hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, seth, set, and satan. he is also typhon- the same as apophis, the dragon slain by horus; for typhon was also called set. he is simply the dark side of osiris, his brother, as angra mainyu is the black shadow of ahura-mazda. terrestrially, all these allegories were connected with the trials of adeptship and initiation. astronomically, they referred to the solar and lunar eclipses, the m

(the crescent argha) festivals, had no worse significance as a form of public worship than had the hidden meaning of the moon in general, which was kabalistically connected directly with, and sacred to, jehovah, as is well known; with the sole difference that one was the female and the other the male aspect of the moon, and of the star venus. the sun (the father, the moon (the mother, and mercury-thoth (the son, were the earliest trinity of the egyptians, who personified them in osiris, isis, and thoth (hermes. in[[pistis sophia, the seven great gods, divided into two triads and the highest god (the sun) are: the lower[[tridunameis, whose powers reside respectively in mars, mercury and venus; and the higher triad("the three unseen gods) who dwell in the moon, jupiter and saturn (vide 359 a

f the hierophants and initiated priests, and was never meant for the profane. apocrypha comes from the verb crypto[[krupto "to hide" for ages the enoichion (the book of the seer) was preserved in the "city of letters" and secret works- the ancient kirjath-sepher, later on, debir (see joshua xv, 15. some of the writers interested in the subject- especially masons- have tried to identify enoch with thoth of memphis, the greek hermes, and even with the latin mercury. as individuals, all these are distinct one from the other; professionally- if one may use this word, now so limited in its sense- they belong one and all to the same category of sacred writers, of initiators and recorders of occult and ancient wisdom. those who in the quran (see surat xix) are generically termed the edris, or the

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in the sense of the greek word[[anthropos[[vol. 1, page] xliii introductory. the "very old book" is the original work from which the many volumes of kiu-ti were compiled. not only this latter and the siphrah dzeniouta but even the sepher jezirah* the work attributed by the hebrew kabalists to their patriarch abraham, the book of shuking, china's primitive bible, the sacred volumes of the egyptian thoth-hermes, the puranas in india, and the chaldean book of numbers and the pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its langua

ad to record them in corresponding symbols, drawn out of his own mind and examined later by his master, before they were finally accepted. thus was created in time the chinese alphabet, as, before that, the hieratic symbols were fixed upon in old egypt. in the chinese language, the alphabet of which may be read in any language* and which is only a little less ancient than the egyptian alphabet of thoth, every word has its corresponding symbol conveying the word needed in a pictorial form. the language possesses many thousands of such symbol letters, or logograms, each meaning a whole word; for letters proper, or an alphabet, do not exist in the chinese language any more than they did in the egyptian till a far later period[[footnote(s* thus, a japanese who does not understand one word of c

was said in isis unveiled, and it is useless to repeat and return to the same subject. the symbolism of the lunar and solar deities is so inextricably mixed up, that it is next to impossible to separate such glyphs as the egg, the lotus, and the "sacred" animals from each other. the ibis, for instance, sacred to isis, who is often represented with the head of that bird, sacred also to mercury or thoth, because that god assumed its form while escaping from typhon- the ibis was held in the greatest veneration in egypt. there were two kinds of ibises, herodotus tells us (lib. ii. c. 75 et seq) in that country: one quite black, the other black and white. the former is credited with fighting and exterminating the winged serpents which came every spring from arabia and infested the country. the

undless light* had to pass through the seven planetary regions both ways. the pure dhyani and devas of the oldest religions had become, in course of time, with the zoroastrians, the seven devs, the ministers of ahriman "each chained to his planet (see origen's copy of the chart; with the brahmins, the asuras and some of its rishis- good, bad and indifferent; and among the egyptian gnostics it was thoth or (hermes) who was the chief of the seven whose names are given by origen as adonai, genius of the sun; tao, of the moon; eloi, of jupiter; sabao, of mars; orai, of venus; astaphai, of mercury; and ildabaoth (jehovah, of saturn. finally, the pistis-sophia, which the greatest modern authority on exoteric gnostic beliefs, the late mr. c. w. king, refers to as "that precious monument of gnosti

arned opinion upon the subject. inferred speculations may be shown to be erroneous. mathematical calculations stand on more secure grounds. taking as a starting point several astronomical references in job, bailly devised a very ingenious means of proving that the earliest founders of the science of the zodiac belonged to an antediluvian, primitive people. the fact that he seems willing to see in thoth, seth, and in fohi (of china, some of the biblical patriarchs, does not interfere with the validity of his proof as to the antiquity of the zodiac* even accepting, for argument's sake, his cautious 3700 years b.c. as the correct age of the science, this date proves in the most irrefutable way that it was not the greeks who invented the zodiac, for the simple reason that they did not yet exis

BLUE EQUINOX

at equation, and, later, to prefer one expression or phase of the universe to another. against this we are warned in the book of the law by the word of nuit, saying .none. and two. for i am divided for love.s sake, for the chance of union, and therefore .if this be not aright: if ye confound the space marks, saying, they are many. then expect the direful judgements. now therefore by the favour of thoth am i come to the end of this my book: and do you arm yourselves accordingly with the four weapons: the wand for liberty, the cup for love, the sword for life, the disk for light: and with these work all wonders by the art of high magick under the law of the new on, whose word is qelhma. 126 a psalm the lord hath brought me into the house of darkness; by stealth hath the lord drawn me into ni

ier part [not very good; seems too much like thinking..o.m] 777 418 13 dja the lamen of frater v.i.o. this lamen is symbolical of the master.s attainment, the great work which he brought to fulfilment. a r b a d a h a r b a trapt hr w b g d s j h ny b h m k j r t k y a twklm dwsy d w h j x n 6=5 7= 4 8=3 9=2 10=1 0=0 0 1=1 2=9 3=8 4= 7 5=6 horus amoun nephthys isis ptah heru-pa-kraat h osiris shu thoth hathoor ra n u i t h h d a i t h gt. one of night of time t a the spirit of aiqhr c spirit of primal fire child of gt. transformers n the magus of power b f daughter of the flaming sword propher of the eternal y p lord of hosts of the mighty daughter of firmament x g priestess of silver star daughter of mighty ones d k lord of forces of life daughter of lords of truth l q ruler of flux and r

t the world ablaze. and we have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leaving the larger wood unlit. and the great logs, the masses of humanity, are always with us. but our edged need is of those middle fagots that on the one hand are readily kindled by the small wood, and on the other endure until the great logs blaze (behold how sad a thing it is, quoth the ape of thoth, for one to be so holy that he cannot chop a tree and cook his food without preparing on it a long and tedious morality) let this epistle be copied and circulated among all those that have accepted the law of thelema. receive now our paternal benediction: the benediction of the all-begetter be upon thee. love is the law, love under will. qhrion 9 =28 a.a. given under our hand and seal this d

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as in iceland where new land is being created. the mountains mentioned at 18.6 are referred to again later in the book. i have often wondered if it would be possible to identify this place from these descriptions. the best match i have found so far is the south sandwich island group. the main island has now been submerged but the mountain tops now form the chain of islands. for more on this, read thoth architect of the universe by ralph ellis. this part ends with more details of the punishment for the runaways. 17.1] and they took me to a place where they were like burning fire, and, when they wished, they made themselves look like men. 17.2] and they led me to a place of storm, and to a mountain, the tip of whose summit reached to heaven. 17.3] and i saw lighted places, and thunder in the

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ere is a whole scene, incorporating three swords, on the one card, and then a totally different scene incorporating four swords on the next, and so on.this obviously gives much more to work with. another fine deck, based on the rider-waite, is the morgan-greer. in fact i, personally, prefer this deck to the waite. for a change of pace and some truly exciting symbolism i would highly recommend the thoth (pronounced "toe-th) deck, which was designed by aleister crowley. try many of them. find your own favorite. scrying scrying is a fascinating practice in that it enables you to literally "see" the future (or present or past. almost any reflective surface can be used for scrying (pronounced to rhyme with "crying. a crystal ball and a gazing mirror are two of the best. let's look at the crysta

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are- 1. a bearded god, with a phallus in the form of a knife, called ast netch-t, i.e "isis, the avengeress" 2. a god of similar form and attribute called seb-qenbeti, i.e "seb of the two corners. a ram-headed god, with a similar attribute, called p. 28 [paragraph continues]khnemu qenbeti "khnemu of the two corners" 4. an ibis-headed god, with a similar attribute, called tehuti-her-khent-f, i.e "thoth on his steps" 5. an ape-headed god, with a similar attribute, called afu-her-khent-f, i.e "afu on his steps" click to view second hour. upper register. gods nos. 1-7. 6. lioness-headed deity, with a similar attribute, called ketuit-tent-ba, i.e "cutter of the soul" all the above gods are in mummied form, and occupy chairs of state. 7. a god standing upright, and holding a kherp sceptre or we

od journeyeth over those who are in this scene the flames which the mouth of his boat emit guide him through these pools; he seeth not their forms, but he crieth to them and to their places, and they hear his voice, p. 67 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 69 in front of those who tow the boat of ra are- 1. a form of osiris called em-ankhti (see p. 71. 2. the crook of osiris (see p. 75. 3, 4. thoth, ibis-headed, and horus, hawk-headed, standing facing each other, with the utchat, above their outstretched hands and arms; the title of thoth is uthesu, i.e "the raiser" and that of horus is au-au or "the wide of hands" the utchat is called sekri. 5. the god sethen-hat, wearing the crown of the south. 6. the god her-tebat-f, i.e "he who is over his place of burial" having in the place of a

ned daily at the birth of khepera by that which cometh forth from the faces of [the serpent] menment" over the back of this serpent are six stars and fourteen human heads, each of which is surmounted by a disk. these fourteen heads represent, as m. maspero has well shown, the gods of the first fourteen days of the month, who are being carried by the three-headed serpent to p. 82 the utchat, which thoth and horus are carrying to it; they appear again in the next division of the tuat, where they are seen drawing along the boat of the sun. 10. the winged disk of the god khepera, beneath stands the "envoy of heaven" with his right hand raised, and his left stretched out, and behind him is the goddess maat (see p. 83. p. 83 click to view the kingdom of seker. footnotes 77:1 the text is in the p

ixth hour of the night, we see, in the middle register, the dead sun-god afu-ra. click to view the boat of af, the dead sun-god, in the sixth hour. once again standing in his boat, under the canopy, accompanied by his usual company of gods. he is no longer in the serpent boat wherein he passed through the domain of sekri, and he is no longer being towed along. in front of the boat are- 1. the god thoth, in the form of a man with the head of a cynocephalus ape, seated on a throne, and p. 117 bearing the name tehuti-khenti-neb-tuat. 2. a female figure, with her hands turned behind her, holding in each the pupil of an eye of horus or ra; she is called ament-semu-set. the text above the boat reads: click to view (left) the goddess ament-semu-set (right) thoth of the tuat [paragraph continues "

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ost powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored seite 36 wicca01.txt her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she is sometimes represented as a vulture, in which form she appears on amulets (protective charms) with an ankh, the symbol for life, engraved on each talon. isis demonstrated the power of mat

eth discovered the body of osiris, hacked it into pieces and scattered them throughout egypt so that he could never be restored to life. but isis searched once more and, assisted by nephthys, remodelled the bones into osiris' form and restored her husband to life once more. when their son horus, the sky god, became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an import

ruth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge [insert pic p080- the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness

she is often depicted in armour. minerva, whose creature is the owl, can be invoked in employment rituals and for the development of skills, retraining and musical ability as well as for truth and justice. unlike bellona (see page 70) and the warlike gods, both athena and minerva are used in rituals for using legal means or oratory and persuasion, rather than direct action, to overcome injustice. thoth thoth was the ancient egyptian god of the moon, wisdom and learning. he was also god of time, languages, law and mathematical calculations, who invented the calendar and hieroglyphic writing. he is often depicted with the head of an ibis although he was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and bet

and pestle with a few drops of laurel or eucalyptus essential oil- these are also good for viral infections. as you mix, chant a mantra, such as: heal and restore, strength once more. if you are working as a group, one person should mix the herbs on the altar while the others chant the names of healing deities (see page 77) in ever-rising intensity and pitch, for example: brighid, ganga, hermes, thoth, hygeia, panacea, sulis, iduna! as you do so, you raise a cone of healing energies over the mortar and pestle, breathing in life from the living fruits and flowers and projecting it as blue healing light that may be mingled with the green of the herbs. you can adapt the chant if you do not wish to use specific names, for example: goddess, mother, healer, restorer, hear our plea* now that you

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f the watchers.aramaic. parts of its text have been identified on several copies from qumran cave 4; the earliest fragmentary manuscript(4qenocha) dates. 196- the rosetta stone was engraved 164 book of daniel (o.t. 160 o.t. apocrypha: tobit, 1 esdras, enoch, others. 150 yoga sutras of patanajali; early qumran (dead sea scrolls. 150 bc esoteric form of astrology based on the teachings of hermes or thoth circulates in numerous works under such titles as: astrologoumena, hermaikai diataxeis or doctrines of hermes, apokotastasis, liber hermetis(listing of decan images, asklepios. 130 bc greek astronomer hipparchus is credited for the discovering the precession of the equinoxes which was already known in babylonia centuries earlier. 86-82 bc rhetorica ad herennium latin rhetorical treatise on t

e sapientiae "de ludo globi" 1463 marsilio ficino of the florence academy translates into latin the newly discovered corpus hermeticum at the insistence of cosimo de medici fourteen tracts which he entitled pimander (from the greek, possibly meaning "shepherd of men. this was responsible for the revival of neoplatonism in renaissance europe. hermes trismegistus was identical to the egyptian deity thoth, the god of learning, medicine and the revealer of divine will to men. 1465-1518 trithemius of sponheim 1465-1532 da viterbo, cardinal egidio: on the hebrew letters 1468-1540 francesco giorgi 1470-1536 agostino giustiniani dominican applied qblh to biblical studies in his psalterium of 1516 1471-1528 albrecht d rer 1471 george ripley compound of alchemy. ficino s pimander published for the f

ave offered you truth and you have disdained it' etc. 1785-88 geheime figuren, d.o.m.a. manuscript. 1789 may. french revolution erupts. 1790 etteilla. cour th orique et pratique du livre du thot. 1791 pierre-joseph joubert de la salette. dictionnaire synonimique du livre de thot, pr c d d un discours pr liminaire, par un membre de la soci t des interpr tes de cet ouvrage (thesaurus of the book of thoth. claude hugend: cartomancie, ou l art de d velopper la cha ne des v nemens de la vie: r cr ations astrologiques par le livre de thot. b. 1793 lazare lenain 1801-1886 adrien adolphe desbarolles 1802 karl von eckartshausen chemische versuche 1803-1873 edward george bulwer-lytton 1804 d odoucet. science des signes, ou m decine de l esprit (science of signs, or medicine of the mind. 1808-1855 g

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

ion (a line. third angle: this is a very critical stage, because the existence of a third element introduces the notion of choice between the two opposites, either absolutely or relatively (aristotelian system) or of choice to aspire or not to aspire to universal perfections= platonic/pythagorean system. this is nyarlathotep, otherwise set, otherwise lucifer/satan, otherwise prometheus, otherwise thoth, who has created the power of perspective and the independent psyche of judgment. here "knowledge" becomes possible. in geometry we now have the triangle, which is the most rigid of figures and also creates a two-dimensional plane. note that, per the book of coming forth by night, the horus/set relationship actually fits into a threefold matrix rather than a twofold one. set is an independen

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

"men in black" who appear and disappear according to witnesses. the story of jekyl and hyde is also symbolic of shape-shifting. the children of the shadows ancient tablets, alleged to come from beneath a mayan temple in mexico, describe the reptilians and their ability to shape-shift. these accounts correlate remarkably with modern experience and reports. they are known as the emerald tablets of thoth, who was a deity of the egyptians. it is claimed that they date back 36,000 years and were written by thoth, an "atlantean priest-king" who, it is said, founded a colony in egypt. his tablets, the story goes, were taken to south america by egyptian "pyramid priests" and eventually placed under a mayan temple to the sun god in the yucatan, mexico. the translator of these tablets, who calls hi

mexico. the translator of these tablets, who calls himself "doreal (maurice doreal, claims to have recovered them and completed the translations in 1925. but only much later was he given "permission" for part of them to be published, he says. you can read the whole tale and the content of the tablets on this website: http//crystalinks.com/emerald.html. there is also a book, the emerald tablets of thoth-the-atlantean (source books, nashville, tennessee. however, you don't have to accept all the details of that story to appreciate the synchronicity between what these tablets say and what is now being uncovered. the following is the relevant section in the tablets to the subjects we are discussing. 134 children of the matrix "speak i of ancient atlantis, speak of the days of the kingdom of sh

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ne people,including the actress sharon tate. manson operated in california in the flower poweryears when a group called the process had a high profile in cities like san francisco.the process emerged in britain and then established branches in california and newyork. the group celebrates adolf hitler and worships a trinity of jehovah, lucifer, andsatan. in the british occult magazine, the lamp of thoth, a writer by the name ofsoror h, said of charles manson (he) showed many of us what it is like to actuallycommit the crime wed like to commit. manson went astray where others like theprocess succeeded. he got caught.45 another serial killer, henry lee lucas, who issaid to have murdered 360 people, including his mother, claimed he was a member ofthe hand of death satanic group. he said that m

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and physical states. these patterns, recorded on a chart recorder in two dimensions, can be projected into a subject to produce a desired effect. the projected pattern is again three dimensional and thus a structured shape. dr. michael persinger has found that thoughts occur in the brain as three dimensional forms, which are reduced by instrumentation to two dimensional patterns. the egyptian god thoth was keeper of the words of power, used to produce controlled phenomena when spoken with the correct intonation and pronunciation. in the case of isis healing her child of a fatal scorpion bite, the use of a specific word of power caused the poison to be expelled from the body and the lifeforce to return. other legends and myths also refer to the use of such words of power. the words of power

DEMONIC BIBLE

thin this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself. come forth, hecate, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the lunar sphere. the mercurial sphere thoth, i invoke thee. thoth, i summon thee. thoth, i conjure thee. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, thoth, a

d is alalalabaaal and the seal is: the thirty-fifth name is zulummar giveth tremendous strength, as of ten men, to one man. lifted the part of tiamat that was to become the sky from the part that was to become the earth. his word is anndarabaal and his seal is: the thirty-sixth name is lugalabdubur destroyer of the gods of tiamat. vanquisher of her hordes. chained kutulu to the abyss. fought azag-thoth with skill. a great defender and a great attacker. his word is agnibaal and his seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his word is arrababaal and his seal is this: the thirty-eighth name is lugaldurmah the lord of the lofty pl

shkigal, i conjure thee. come forth, ereshkigal, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, ereshkigal, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may descend to the realm of chaos. come forth, ereshkigal, and manifest thyself. come forth, ereshkigal, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) the second gate azag-thoth, i invoke thee. azag-thoth, i summon thee. azag-thoth, i conjure thee. come forth, azag-thoth, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, azag-thoth, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may descend to the realm of chaos. come forth, azag-thoth, and manifest thyself. come forth, azag-thoth, and manifes

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evil one, hemhemti (devourer, all of which describe the storm demon who is called also kharebutu the fourfold fiend. in the gnosis of set who overcame the serpent for apep to become him presents a powerful gnosis for the aspiring sorcerer. apep also bore the name of rerek, a monster serpent form of set who had many helpers being serpents, noxious creatures and demons. it is further connected that thoth was said to have gotten the knife to slay the bull from set, thus making parallel the name of smain with set, being violence. one specific dwelling place of set was called set amentet3 which is the mountain of the underworld, which is a cemetery in the desert on the west banks of the nile. set is also closely connected with a former death-god called seker, who was later merged with osiris an

his primary associations were hostility, war and storms. thus set may be viewed as a deific force of motion and opposition. the combat which took place on the day when horus fought with seth, during which seth threw filth in the face of horus, and horus crushed the genitals of seth. this storm was the raging of ra at the thunder-cloud which [seth] sent forth against the right eye of ra (the sun. thoth removed the thunder-cloud from the eye of ra, and brought back the eye living, healthy, sound, and with no defect in it to its owner- from the papyrus of ani here we see that set was a sorcerer god, throwing filth and then thunder clouds, he controlled the elements of earth and the air. set although being injured, arose in might again after the battle, and later reached into obscurity to app

the spirit of the man but the ka was considered to be the spiritual body which took nourishment from the offerings at the funeral ceremonies. the dead and such were honored among the egyptians, who regularly brought food and drinks to appease the khu into staying in its tomb. aleister crowley took a strong step in his presentation and revival of magick concerning set. crowley wrote in the book of thoth that saturn is indeed set, the lord of the egyptian deserts, darkness and high places. crowley makes similar connections between shaitan and satan, all being forms of set. incidentally, the master therion draws 8 egyptian magic, e.a. wallis budge 9 demonologie, in forme of one dialogue, london 1603 found in egyptian magic, e.a. budge 10 connections between shabbathai, the sphere of saturn be

o chose the intellect and individual will as opposed to servitude and conformity. aeshma is the original form of asmodeus, a daeva of ahriman. this demon is known as the one of the wounding spear and was a patron of war and strife. asmodeus along with savar, who is called the leader of devs, both are the controllers under ahriman of the dryvants, who are known as storm fiends. here 10 the book of thoth, aleister crowley 11 we once again find reference to the adversary through sorcerous will controlling storms and the more unfriendly aspects of nature. andar according to luciferian lore is a demon of the black flame, or isolate consciousness. zairich is a poisoning or testing demon, all of which are featured with invocations in the paitisha and yatuk dinoih. herein beyond the zoroastrian re

e a seraphim, one of the highest ranks of angels. it is suggested in other hebrew lore that asmodeus was born from the demoness naamah and the fallen angel shamdon. asmodeus and samael were said to have had strife over one spirit of lilith. this is the waning moon, the moon of witchcraft and abominable deeds. she is the poisoned darkness which is the condition for the rebirth of light the book of thoth, aleister crowley here we are able to understand that lilith has many forms, yet her nature is clear to those who work with her. allow her entry into yourself, and know the ecstasy of man and woman, union with the blood of the moon. crowley refers to her as uncleanliness and sorcery, the very nature of az who is the mother of luciferians. crowley also saw divinity within az and lilith, in th

ir tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. the book of thoth, aleister crowley in luciferian grimoires, cain is said to be a symbol and gateway for man and woman to become, thus the symbol of baphomet as anton lavey called it, is the inverted pentagram with a goat head in the middle. the original, which lavey took out, contained the words samael and lilith, surrounded in the circle ring the hebrew lvthn, leviathan, the crooked serpent. in the circles

s was diabolism born, and cain was equated as the first witch and satanist. nathaniel j. harris, witcha, a book of cunning here we are able to discern the mythology which holds cain as the first of witch blood, the fire and water embodiment of samael and lilith, that which has born cain as our 33 called algol, the sigil of the order of phosphorus, the authors current magical guild. 34 the book of thoth the moon by aleister crowley 35 secrets of the horse whisperers, by peter bayliss 36 the toad rite, a grimoire of the toad witch by michael w. ford, succubus publishing. 37 see witcha by nathan harris. 32 prototype and initiatory model. harris points out also the invocation used to conjure cain in charles leland s aradia gospel of the witches. nathan harris writes also that some claim heredi

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initiated. mystical qabala page 18 thus the first ten paths of the sepher yetzirah are assigned to the ten sephiroth, and the following twenty-two to the actual paths themselves. it will then be seen how the twentytwo letters of the hebrew alphabet can be associated with the paths without discrepancy or overlapping. with them also are associated the twenty-two tarot trumps, the atus, or abodes of thoth. concerning the tarot cards there are three modern authorities of note: dr encausse, or "papus" the french writer; mr a. e. waite; and the mss. of macgregor mathers' order of the golden dawn, which crowley published upon his own authority. all three are different. concerning the system mr waite gives, he himself says "there is another method known to initiates" there is reason to suppose tha

ibe it as the symbol-using power of the subconscious mind. it is an instructive experiment to toss a mass of irrelevant symbolism into the mind and watch it sort itself out in meditation upon the tree, rising into consciousness in long association-chains like dream analysis. 28. netzach is the sphere of the goddess of nature, venus. hod is the sphere of mercury, the greek analogue of the egyptian thoth, lord of books and learning. observing their opposition, we shall expect to find two different aspects represented in them, these finding their equilibrium in a third, yesod, the sphere of luna. we see then a triangle composed of the lady of nature, the lord of books, and the mistress of witchcraft; in other words, subconsciousness and super- consciousness correlate in psychism. 29. anyone w

ss and super- consciousness correlate in psychism. 29. anyone who is familiar with practical mysticism knows that there are three paths of superconsciousness-devotional mysticism, which correlates with tiphareth; nature mysticism, of the inebriating dionysian. type, which equates with the venus sphere of netzach; and intellectual mysticism of the occult type, which equates with hod, the sphere of thoth, lord of magic. tiphareth, as will be seen by reference to the diagram of the tree, belongs to a higher plane than any member of the third triangle; yesod, on the other hand, is drawing very near to the sphere of earth. 30. to yesod are assigned all the deities that have the moon in their symbolism: luna herself; hecate, with her dominion over evil magic; and diana, with her presidency over

the upbuilding, organising aspect of evolution; anabolism, as distinguished from the katabolism of geburab. in chesed the chokmah force becomes that peculiarly subtle form of magnetism which gives power of leadership and is the root of greatness. equally, on the left-hand pillar, the forcerestraining binah becomes the form-destroying geburah, and again the maker of magical images, mercury-hermes-thoth. 46. from time to time the symbols of occult science have leaked out into popular knowledge, but the uninitiated have not understood the method of arranging these symbols in their pattern as the tree, nor of applying to them the alchem;cal principles of transmutation and distillation wherein lie. the real secrets of their use. chapter xvii binah, the third sephirah title: binah, understandin

e mighty names of god if they resist, is sheer sorcery. 18. as we have already noted, it is through the correspond mg factors in our own temperaments that we come into touch with the forces of nature. it is the venus within that puts us in touch with the influences symbolised by netzach. it is the magical capacity of our own mind that puts us in touch with the forces of the sphere of hod-mercury- thoth. if there is no venus in our own nature, no capacity to respond to the call of love, the gates of the sphere of netzach will never open to us and we shall never receive its initiation. equally, if we have no magical capacity, which is the work of the intellectual imagination, the sphere of hod will be a closed book to us. we can only operate in a sphere after we have received the initiation

rseers, the archangels, for their instructions, hese last directing the armies of humble toilers who add stone to stone according to the archetypal plan of the most high. whenever did the architect designing the edifice work upon it with his two unaided hands? never, not even when the universe was abuilding. 35. the mundane chakra, as we have already noted, is mercury, and its symbolism as hermes-thoth we have already considered. 36. the spiritual experience assigned to this sephirah is the vision of splendour, which is the realisation of the glory of god manifesting in the created world. the initiate of hod sees behind the appearance of created things and discerns their creator, and in the realisation of the splendour of nature as the garment of the ineffable he receives his illumination

ling at first sight, for the symbols appear to be mutually exclusive. carried a step further, however, we begin to find connecting links between the ideas. 25. the moon has three goddesses assigned to her, diana, selene or luna, and hecate, the latter being the goddess of witchcraft and enchantments, and also presiding over child-birth. 26. there is also a very important moon-god, none otber than thoth himself, lord of magic. so then, when we find hecate in greece and thoth in egypt both assigned to the moon, we cannot fail to recognise the importance of the moon in matters magical. what thert is the key to the magical moon, who is sometimes a virgin goddess and sometimes a fertility godders? 27. the answer is not very far to seek. it is to be found in the rhythmical nature of the moon, an

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is based upon an extremely sinister grimoire known as liber 231, continues to transmit the 93 current as revived by crowley in the twentieth century (nightside of eden, page xii. in a footnote he adds "the number 231 is the sum of the numbers of the tarot cards, 0-21; it is, therefore, the extension of the number 22. liber 231 (or ccxxxi as it is more usually designated) treats of the 22 atus of thoth as applied to the 22 paths of the tree of life, and the 22 cells of the qliphoth. crowley has treated openly of the atus (see the book of thoth, but of the 22 cells of the qliphoth and the tunnels of set beneath the paths, he did not write. the present book therefore completes the work he left unfinished (ibid. set is the egyptian god of evil and darkness, one of whose forms is that of a gre

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angels who remained loyal to lucifer in hell- were continually being confused with pagan deities and with nature spirits. thus we find mention of the demon satyr who incites men and women to lust, and the demon theutus, who induces the urge to gamble for money with cards or dice. the satyr is a nature spirit of greek mythology, and theutus is a degenerate variation on the name of the egyptian god thoth, who was associated by the greeks with numbers, and by extension with money. in the dark ages and middle ages, demons were thought able to travel on the earth invisibly, but to assume physical bodies at will. the same was understood concerning angels. this has a certain logic. in order to tempt human beings, demons need to remain invisible while they whisper seductive words or cause opportun

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hrased it for the ritual of turin" bunsen, egypt's place in universal history, london, 1867, p. 1142. the block of stone to which dr. birch refers is described by gol nischeff, inventaire de la ermitage imp rial, collection gyptienne, no. 1101, pp. 169, 170. m. maspero thinks it was meant to be a "pr tendu fac-simil" of the original slab, which, according to the rubric, was found in the temple of thoth, revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xv, p. 299, and tudes de mythologie, t i, p. 368. 6 todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 139. mr. renouf also holds this opinion, trans. see. bibl. arch, 1803, p. 6* i.e, the "chief reader" many of the inscriptions on whose tomb have been published by d michen, der grabpalast des patuamenap; leipzig, 1884, 1885+ i.e, asas f el-bahr yeh, or asasif of the north, be

, see trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. iii, p. 386, and records of the past, 1st ed, vol. iv, p. 117. 3 according to the westcar papyrus, herutataf informed his father khufu of the existence of a man 110 years old who lived in the town of tettet-seneferu: he was able to join to its body again a head that had been cut off, and possessed influence over the lion, and was acquainted with the mysteries of thoth. by khufu's command herutataf brought the sage to him by boat, and, on his arrival, the king ordered the head to be struck off from a prisoner that tetteta might fasten it on again. having excused himself from performing this act upon a man, a goose was brought and its head was cut off and laid on one side of the room and the body was placed on the other. the sage spake certain words of powe

g of the passage amply justifies the assumption that this addition was made to the text after the mission of assa, and during the vith dynasty.[3] authorship of the book of the dead. like other works of a similar nature, however, the pyramid texts afford us no information as to their authorship. in the later versions of the book of the dead certain chapters[4] are stated to be the work of the god thoth. they certainly belong to that class of literature which the greeks called "hermetic"[5] and it is pretty certain that under some group they were included in the list of the forty-two works which, according to clement of alexandria,[6] constituted the sacred books of the egyptians.[7] as thoth, whom the greeks called hermes, is in egyptian texts styled "lord of divine books"[8 "scribe of the

rift, bd. xxxi, p. 73 f) that the satyrs, who are referred to by diodorus (i, xviii) as the companions and associates of osiris in ethiopia, have their origin in the pigmies. 3. the whole question of the pigmy in the text of pepi i. has been discussed by maspero in recueil de travaux, t. xiv, p. 186 ff. 4. chapp. 30b, 164, 37b and 148. although these chapters were found at hermopolis, the city of thoth, it does not follow that they were drawn up there. 5. see birch, in bunsen, egypt's place in universal history, vol. v, p. 125; naville, todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 26. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (14 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:55 am] 6. stromata, vi, 4, 35, ed. dindorff, t. iii, p. 155. 7. on the sacred books of the egyptians see also iamb

ter lxxiv. the chapter of lifting up the legs and coming forth upon earth. vignette: the deceased standing upright. chapter lxxv. the chapter of travelling to annu (on, and of receiving an abode there [1. for the variant vignettes see naville, todtenbuch, bd. l, bl. 8o. 2. one of the two variant vignettes shows the deceased in the act of adoring ra, and in the other the deceased kneels before ra, thoth, and osiris; see naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 83] p. xxxviii theban version: list of chapters. vignette: the deceased standing before the door of a tomb. chapter lxxvi. the chapter of [a man] changing into whatsoever form he pleaseth. this chapter has no vignette. chapter lxxvii. the chapter of changing into a golden hawk. vignette: a golden hawk chapter lxxviii. the chapter of changing i

te: the soul of the deceased flying through the door of the tomb. chapter xciii. the chapter of not sailing to the east in the underworld. vignette: the hands of a buckle grasping the deceased by his left arm. chapter xciv. the chapter of praying for an ink jar and palette. vignette: the deceased sitting before a stand, upon which are an ink jar and palette. chapter xcv. the chapter of being near thoth. vignette: the deceased standing before thoth. chapters xcvi, xcvii. the chapter of being near thoth, and of giving. vignette: the deceased standing near thoth. chapter xcviii [the title of this chapter is incomplete] chapter xcix. the chapter of bringing a boat in the underworld. vignette: a boat. chapter c. the chapter of making perfect the khu, and of making it to enter into the boat of r

nette: horus, mesthi, and ha-pi. chapter cxiii. the chapter of knowing the souls of nekhen. vignette: horus, tuamautef, and qebhsennuf. chapter cxiv. the chapter of knowing the souls of khemennu (hermopolis. vignette: three ibis-headed gods. chapter cxv* the chapter of coming forth to heaven, of passing through the hall of the tomb, and of knowing the souls of annu. vignette: the deceased adoring thoth, sau and tmu. chapter cxvi [the chapter of] knowing the souls of annu. vignette: the deceased adoring three ibis-headed gods. chapter cxvii. the chapter of taking a way in re-stau. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (28 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] vignette: the deceased, holding a staff in his hand, ascending the western hills. chapter cxvi

chapter of a collar of gold to be placed on the neck of the khu. vignette: a collar. p. xliv theban version: list of chapters. chapter clix* the chapter of a sceptre of mother-of-emerald to be placed on the neck of the khu. vignette: a sceptre. chapter clx [the chapter] of placing a plaque of mother-of-emerald. vignette: a plaque. chapter clxi. the chapter of the opening of the doors of heaven by thoth, etc. vignette: thoth opening four doors. chapter clxii* the chapter of causing heat to exist under the head of the khu. vignette: a cow. chapter clxiii* the chapter of not allowing the body of a man to decay in the underworld. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (32 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] vignette: two utchats, and a serpent on legs. c

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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 in a modern context. the basic

norse groups had arisen, some falling victim to racial ideologies that alienated them from the larger body of neo-pagans. among his last productions was the publication of a book of norse rituals. the fall of the asatru free assembly also left a vacuum just as norse paganism appeared to be in a growth phase. former members began to form new associations such as the asatru alliance and the ring of thoth. in 1992 mcnallen returned to active leadership as an asatru, founding the asatru folk assembly and reissuing the runestone. sources: hundingbani, heigi. the religion of odin-a handbook. red wing, minn: viking house, 1978. mcnallen, stephen a. rituals of asatru. breckenridge, tex: asatru free assembly, 1985. asatru alliance the asatru alliance is one of several groups operating in north amer

a primitive astrology had developed among the greeks, but during the conquests of alexander in the west beginning in 334 b.c.e. chaldean astrology flowed into the mediterranean basin. alexander s conquests also introduced astrology into india, although the indians took the chaldean notions and developed them in a unique direction. in egyptian tradition the invention of astrology is attributed to thoth (called hermes trismegistus by the greek, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. he is the mercury of the romans, the eloquent deliverer of the messages of the gods. in imperial rome astrology was held in great repute, especially under the reign of tiberius (14.37 c.e. augustus (27 b.c.e..14 c.e) had discouraged the practice of astrology by banishing its practitioners from rome, but hi

red in the large african community in the greater new york city area, the society also regularly holds classes in african american communities along the east coast from virginia to connecticut. the society may be contacted at box 281, bronx, new york 10462. it publishes a magazine, metu neter. sources: ra un nefer amen [r. a. straughn. black man s guide to a spiritual union. bronx, n.y: oracle of thoth, 1981. meditation techniques of the kabalists, vedantins, and taoists. bronx, n.y: maat publishing, 1976. the oracle of thoth: the kabalistical tarot. bronx, n.y: oracle of thoth, 1977. the realization of neter nu. brooklyn, n.y: maat publishing, 1975. austatikco-pauligaur a class of persian evil spirits. eight in number, they keep the eight sides of the world. their names are as follows (1)

e of the pleasures of the dead was to sail over heaven in the boat of ra, and to secure this for the deceased one must paint certain pictures and mutter over them words of power. regarding this belief, e. a. wallis budge states in his book egyptian magic (1889: on a piece of clean papyrus a boat is to be drawn with ink made of green abut mixed with anti water, and in it are to be figures of isis, thoth, shu, and khepera, and the deceased; when this had been done the papyrus must be fastened to the breast of the deceased, care being taken that it does not actually touch his body. then shall his spirit enter into the boat of ra each day, and the god thoth shall take heed to him, and he shall sail about with him into any place that he wisheth. elsewhere it is ordered that the boat of ra be pa

rings were also provided so the deceased would be able to give gifts to the gods. it is apparent that the book of the dead was undoubtedly magical in character, consisting as it did of a series of spells or words of power, which enabled the speaker to have perfect control over all the powers of amenti. the only moment in which the dead man is not master of his fate is when his heart is weighed by thoth before osiris. if it does not conform to the standard required for justification, he is cast out; except for this, an absolute knowledge of the book of the dead safeguarded the deceased in every way from the danger of damnation. a number of the chapters consist of prayers and hymns to the gods, but the directions as to the magical uses of the book are equally numerous; the concept of supplic

d by s. l. macgregor mathers from a rare manuscript dated 1478 at the bibliotheque de l arsenal, paris. this translation was first published 1898 and has been frequently reprinted (see also abraham the jew) sources: the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage. translated by s. l. macgregor-mathers. 1898. reprint, chicago: de laurence, 1932. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1974. book of thoth an interpretation of the symbolism of the tarot cards written by aleister crowley toward the end of his life (1875.1974. in 1912 crowley published a description of the cards of the book of the dead encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 204 tarot in his biannual journal, equinox (vol. 1, nos. 7.8, about the tarot cards of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. each member had to

published a set of the golden dawn tarot cards in the 1980s that the pictures that crowley was describing became available to the public. in the 1940s crowley wrote a commentary on the tarot, which carried the egyptian symbolism that had come to dominate the thelemic magic system he had developed. he teamed with artist frieda harris to create a new deck of tarot cards. the commentary, the book of thoth, was published in 1944. the book of thoth was released as vol. 3, no. 5, of the equinox. it is part of the standard curriculum for members of the oto. sources: crowley, aleister. the book of thoth. new york: samuel weiser, 1974. book tests experiments in psychic research to exclude the working of telepathy in mediumistic communications. in answer to questions or for reasons of personal relev

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ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. ringger, peter. parapsychologie: die wissenschaft des okkulten (parapsychology: the science of the occult. n.p, 1957. reprint, zurich; stuttgart: werner classen, 1972. das problem der besessenheit (the problem of possession. n.p, 1953. das weltbild der parapsychologie (the world view of parapsychology. n.p, 1959. ring of thoth the ring of thoth is a contemporary norse pagan association founded shortly after the disbanding of the asatru free assembly in 1987. the asatru free assembly had been the first and most prominent organization attempting to revive the acknowledgment of the pre-christian deities once generally worshiped throughout germany and the scandinavian countries. the ring of thoth was founded by edred

or ethnic background or sexual orientation, and the ring is opposed to racialist definitions of the germanic heathen people. the asatru religion emerged from the experiences of the pre- christian germanic peoples of pre-christian northern europe. while universalist in orientation, it would be impossible to understand without an appreciation of the cultural context that gave it birth. the ring of thoth may be contacted at p.o. box 25637, tempe, az 85285. its webpage can be found at http/ asatru.knotwork.com/troth/index.html. thorsson has authored several books on the asatru traditions, especially on the magical practices associated with runes. sources: gundarsson, kveldulfr hagan, ed. our thoth. n.p: ring of thoth, 1992. thorsson, edred. a book of thoth. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publicati

memphis. the egyptologist alfred wiedemann stated in his book popular literature in ancient egypt (1902: the first text, which has been known to us since 1867, tells that this prince, being skilled and zealous in the practice of necromancy, was one day exhibiting his acquirements to the learned men of the court, when an old man told him of a magic book containing two spells written by the hand of thoth himself, the god of wisdom. he who repeated the first spell bewitched thereby heaven and earth and the realm of night, the mountains and the depth of the sea; he knew the fowls of the air and every creeping thing; he saw the fishes, for a divine power brought them up out of the depth. he who read the second spell should have power to resume his earthly shape, even though he dwelt in the grav

r giving him five hundred blows with a cudgel, conveyed him during the same night back to memphis. next morning the king displayed the weals on his back to his courtiers, one of whom, horus by name, was sufficiently skilled in the use of amulets to ward off by their means any immediate repetition of the outrage. horus then set forth to bring from hermopolis, the all powerful magic book of the god thoth, and by its aid he succeeded in treating the ethiopian king as the ethiopian sorcerer had treated pharaoh. the foreign magician then hastened to egypt to engage in a contest with horus in magic tricks. his skill was shown to be inferior, and in the end he and his mother received permission to return to ethiopia under a solemn promise not to set foot on egyptian territory for a space of fifte

blishing of the inner light as a quarterly in 1993. website: http//www.innerlight.org.uk. sources: chapman, janine. quest for dion fortune. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1993. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. society of the inner light 1431 fielding, charles, and clark collins. the story of dion fortune. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1985. reprint, loughborough, england: thoth publications, 1999. knight, gareth. dion fortune and the inner light. loughborough, england: thoth publications, 2000. richardson, alan. priestess: the life and magic of dion fortune. wellingborough, england: aquarian press, 1987. society ordo templi orientis (soto) the society ordo templi orientis (soto) is one of several groups to emerge following the death in 1962 of karl germer, the oute

against thee. thou hast eaten mice. that is loathsome to the gods. thou hast gnawed the bones of a putrid cat. e. a. w. budge stated in his book egyptian magic (1899, the book of the dead says, whoever readeth the spells daily over himself, he is whole upon earth, he escapes from death, and never doth anything evil meet him. the deceased placed great confidence in his words of power. the gods of thoth and isis were the sources from which these words sprang. it will be remembered that thoth is called the scribe of the gods, the lord of writing, the master of papyrus, the maker of the palette and the ink-jar, and the lord of divine words, i.e, the holy writings or scriptures. as he was the lord of books and master of the power of speech, he was considered to be the possessor of all knowledg

ch these words sprang. it will be remembered that thoth is called the scribe of the gods, the lord of writing, the master of papyrus, the maker of the palette and the ink-jar, and the lord of divine words, i.e, the holy writings or scriptures. as he was the lord of books and master of the power of speech, he was considered to be the possessor of all knowledge both human and divine. the priests of thoth were the learned magicians skilled in the written language for which thoth had been responsible. at the creation of the world, it was he who reduced to words the will of the unseen and unknown creative power, who uttered them so wisely that the universe came into being, and who proved himself by the exercise of his knowledge to be the protector and the friend of osiris and of isis, and of th

ponsible. at the creation of the world, it was he who reduced to words the will of the unseen and unknown creative power, who uttered them so wisely that the universe came into being, and who proved himself by the exercise of his knowledge to be the protector and the friend of osiris and of isis, and of their son horus. from the evidence of the texts we know that it was not by physical might that thoth helped these three gods, but by giving them words of power and instructing them how to use them. we know that osiris vanquished his foes, and that he reconstituted his body and became the king of the underworld and god of the dead. it is this belief that made the deceased cry out, hail, thoth, who madest osiris victorious over his enemies, make thou ani to be victorious over his enemies in t

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rmly believed drunk from its sacred fountain. he is returning to the pagan background of early christianity, to that religion of the world, strongly tinged with magic and oriental influences, which was the gnostic version of greek philosophy, and the refuge of weary pagans seeking an answer to life's problems other than that offered by their contemporaries, the early christians. the egyptian god, thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom, was identified by the greeks with their hermes and sometimes given the epithet of "thrice great".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he

s with their hermes and sometimes given the epithet of "thrice great".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a large literature in greek developed under the name of hermes trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on. besides these treatises or recipes for the practice of astral magic going un

h decan, with instructions as to how to engrave the images on the correct stone, which is to be fixed into a ring together with the relative plant; the wearer of the ring must abstain from all foods antipathetic to the decan. in short, hermes trismegistus is indeed a name to conjure with in all this type of literature concerned with occult sympathies and talismans. again in his capacity as hermes-thoth, inventor of language, of words which bind and unbind, he plays a role in magic,3 and some of the magical prayers and invocations assigned to him are like those in the corpus hermeticum. the name of hermes trismegistus was well known in the middle ages and was connected with alchemy, and magic, particularly with magic images or talismans.4 the middle ages feared whatever they knew of the dec

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. i/6a: metaphors of life. thinking; the cause of existence, and therefore pain deduces downward to society. spine diamond refers to the kundalini-dragon-wyrd (entitled by we. the awakening of which is a core principle of magick. the quaklephant jests and jeers at the mage, claiming us thieves of the heavens fire. a mock of ego, to itself. museam is a play on words. also a reference to the ape of thoth, being sleepy. i/6b: a thing of coherence among chrnzn s formless mass. a reference to consciousness. it is always behind our eyes. we being just a filter through which the it manifests. by the gateway of 156, she has split us into the phantasm of separateness, whose dissolution promises ecstasy. it was, being a past reference. we have: 3675 3576 the 67 between the 3 and 5 (which is 8) moves

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inia whateley is compared to an octopus, centipede or spider. the formula of evocation of yog-sothoth is given in the case of charles dexter ward, wherein it forms part of the necromantic workings of the sorcerer, joseph curwen. the british occultist kenneth grant has described yog- sothoth as embodying the supreme and ultimate blasphemy in the form of the aeon (yog or yuga) of set (sothoth= set+ thoth) 4. on the qabbalistic tree of life, yog-sothoth can be attributed to da ath, the eleventh (or non) sephirah, where the identification is with choronzon, the guardian of the abyss whom crowley called the first and deadliest of the powers of evil, and whose number is 333, that of chaos and dispersion. elementally, yog-sothoth can be considered as the positive manifestation of fire; magically

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en. looking closely you can see two 5-pointed pentagrams. one of which is colored darker than the other. the one depicting satan is the one which has two points up and one down. and the other with one point up and two down, depicting lucifer [see the lucifer-satan pentagram explanation, below. the masonic ring symbol is just a disguised pentagram with both the "good" and "evil" stars represented. thoth "the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law. god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the e

; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is called automatic writing. these writings tie thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect, typhon, the egyptian satan, who was also set [helena petrovna blavatsky, isis unveiled, vol. i: science, new york, trow's printing and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic b

om, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect, typhon, the egyptian satan, who was also set [helena petrovna blavatsky, isis unveiled, vol. i: science, new york, trow's printing and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic bible, had no trouble tying the infernal name, thoth, with satan, and especially the egyptian satan. this subject does go back a long way. remember pike's words, quoted in the very beginning, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" what this statement means is that freemasons believe the same as all the ancient mysteries and worship the same god, satan, and they worship satan under different names. keep in mind that we are dealing

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of the zend avesta, and in the boundless light of latter-day buddhists. nebo was the babylonian god of wisdom, and his planet was mercury. moses, the supposed originator of the qabalah, was buried on mount nebo. bo, bod, boden, and in china fo, are all gods of wisdom. amongst the buddhists and brahmins the day of wisdom is wednesday. amongst the scandinavians we have wo, wod, and woden; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom, whose day is the fourth day of the week, wednesday, upon which god created glights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night h. 13 wisdom is not only the creator of the universe but also the mediator between the uncreated and the created- god and man. in the form of 'hokmah, the son of keth

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thematerialwithoutthehigher,will gradually lead the alchemist farther and farther from divine magic, until at length he will become a mere blinded practi255 tioner of the hermetic mysteries, and littleifany better than the ordinary so-called scientist.powerwherefore i earnestly recommend that this m.s. be only circulated among those adepts who have studied that portion of the 'book of the voiceof(thoth, which is called'theenterer of the threshold'.d.d.c.f.(j)=iii.unlike the firstorder,in which an understandingofthe kabbalah was the foundation on which other studies were built, the true foundationofthe secondorderwas enochian magic. this was derived from the crystal-gazing activities of the eliz255 abethan polymath and occultistdrjohndeeand his devious skryer, edward kelley.theyclaimed-or,a

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olute hieroglyphical science had for its basis an alphabet of which all the gods were letters, all the letters ideas, all the ideas numbers, and all the numbers perfect signs 'this hieroglyphical alphabet of which moses made the great secret of his cabala, and which he retook from the egyptians; for, according to thesepheryetzirah,it came from abraham; this alphabet, we say, is the famous book of thoth, suspected by court de gebelin to be preserved to the present time under the form of that peculiar pack of cards, which is called thetarot .theten numbers and twenty-two letters are what are called in the cabala the thirty-two paths of science, and their philosophical description is the subject of that primitive and revered work known as thesepheryetzirah,the tarot77which is still tobefound

present time under the form of that peculiar pack of cards, which is called thetarot .theten numbers and twenty-two letters are what are called in the cabala the thirty-two paths of science, and their philosophical description is the subject of that primitive and revered work known as thesepheryetzirah,the tarot77which is still tobefound in the collection of pistorius and others. the alphabet of thoth is the original of our tarot, only in an altered form. the tarot which we have is of jewish origin, and the types of the figures cannot be traced back further than the reign of charles vi' thesepheryetzirah.referred to in the above quotation has been recently translated by my friend dr wynn westcott, who is a skilful and erudite qabalistical student, so that it can now be read in english.itc

enta:.0:.cyphermss]learn now, 0 practicus of our ancient order the true mean255 ing ofapcl 225thirty and two are the paths of yetzirah, the ten sephiroth, the twenty and two letters. the ten sephiroth are the ten numbered cards of each suit; the four suits are the four worlds; the sixteen" cards are the fourfold tetragrammaton; the twenty and two letters are the twenty andtwo**atus or mansions of thoth. the twenty-two letters are divided into three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simples; three elements, seven planets, twelve signs. so is it also with the twenty-two atus. therein are the elements, therein are the planets, therein are the signs; for the book of thoth is the universe, and the universe is the veil of god. learn then, 0 practicus, to know the universe, learn also to know thy

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phy continued to exist after this civilization disappeared. it was adopted by certain jews and kept alive within kabbalist doctrine. on the other hand, a number of greek thinkers adopted the same philosophy, and reinterpreted it and perpetuated it as the school of thought known as "hermeticism" the word hermeticism comes from the name of hermes, the greek counterpart for the ancient egyptian god "thoth" in other words, hermeticism is the ancient greek version of ancient egyptian philosophy. master mason selami isindag explains the origins of this philosophy and its place in modern masonry: in ancient egypt there was a religious society that bequeathed a system of thought and belief to hermeticism. masonry held something similar to this. for example, those who had come to a certain level at

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

virgo the hermit. fig 28 the formula of iao isis is the i isis is nature, the fallen world, whose husband osiris (the soul locked in matter) is murdered by apophis is the a apophis. apophis is the destroyer, scorpio- the dark lord and tempter. after osiris is murdered, isis searches and finds all the parts of his dismembered body except his phallus (the fallen reproductive system. then, at last, thoth (god of gnosis) creates for isis an artificial phallus (creative forces from the light world) and as a result osiris is o osiris is risen. fig 29 gnostic theurgy page 109 resurrected light being, the one who has come from the treasury of light (fig 29) these interpretations of inri and iao centre on the death and resurrection of the gnostic and the awakening of the light being within. of cou

letters, bodily postures, dates and timing as many other correspondences. both the druidic traditions and the runic seem to have much in common with the ariosophic hebraic forms. while the outer form may vary, the essential gnosis remains the same. the legend of odin in norse mythology odin is the god of magic, his name originates from the anglo-saxon and means pure spirit. he may be equated with thoth and mercury, but has many discrete and unique characteristics. odin is believed to be responsible for bringing runecraft to humanity. as part of his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally, falling from the tree, grasped the runes to his bosom and brought them back to earth. the kabbalistic imagery here is obvious, and shows how widely the

deed the whole golden dawn tradition as part of the gnostic continuum rather than allowing them to be re-interpreted by those who want to emphasize the ritual magic over the intense spiritual vision they possessed. on 14th march 1904 crowley and his then wife rose were in a flat in cairo. they had prepared a room for ritual invocation, it faced north. crowley called, as usual, on the egyptian god thoth. however this time something strange occurred, his wife rose fell into a trance state and began to chant they are waiting for you. this continued until the 18th of the month. during this day s invocation the startled rose exclaimed he who is waiting is horus. as the story unfolds crowley invokes horus and feels that he has communication with a being called aiwass, who is an ancient egyptian

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for the order. when writing to a fellow member, please use the r.r. et a.c. letterhead. a stamp on the letterhead is not necessary. 5 regulations index and requirements for advancement from z.a.m. to th.a.m. 1. full moon rite 2. send back ritual 3. spiritual initiation body of light 4. second order eucharist 5. ritual i 6. ritual 5 7. the bornless ritual 8. bornless middle pillar 9. invocation of thoth 10. invocation of isis 11. jupiter talisman ritual 12. ritual of spiritual alchemy 13. equinox ceremony 14. requiem ceremony 15. sol talisman ritual 1. admission index (general orders [a] 2. obligation (to be committed to memory with understanding of each section of the oath as it corresponds to the sephiroth on the tree of life [j] 3. the complete analysis of the keyword lecture and ritual

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o depart in 12 peace unto their places. may the blessings of yhshvh, be with you now and forever more, and let there be peace between me and you. i now declare this temple and rite duly closed" step 34 knock/ belletz1 the enterer of the threshold r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge; the wisdom of breath; the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-oth. the particular exordium at the ending o

ee chiefs may be said to be in the form of tho-outh who cometh from behind the veil at the point of its rending. yet separately, they may be thus referred: the imperator, from his relation to hrwbg, may be referred to the goddess nephthys. the praemonstrator, from his relation to dsj, may be referred to the goddess isis. the cancellarius, from this property of recorder, may be referred to the god thoth. no ceremony of the outer order may take place without a chief, preferably the three chiefs or their vice-gerants, present, and on account of the stations on the dais, it is well to have these stations filled by an adept should a chief be absent. these stations and those of the officers are called the visible stations of the gods, and descriptions of the forms which an adept officer builds u

od-forms used in our symbolism come under two headings: 1. visible stations 2. invisible stations the visible stations are the places of the officers, each of whom has a special astral shape suitable to the forces he represents. on the dais are places for the three chiefs, the past hierophant and the hierophant. the order in which they sit (as you face east) is: imperator--nephthys cancellarious--thoth hierophant--osiris past hierophant--aroueris praemonstrator--isis the names below are those of the god-forms they represent. the following are the descriptions of the god-forms of the seven officers of the neophyte grade. hierophant: osiris in the netherland. expounder of the mysteries in the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth. the hierophant is represented by two god-for

vement. praemonstrator: isis isis has a face and body of translucent gold. she is crowned with a throne over a vulture headdress of blue and orange. the vulture head is red. her robe is of blue bordered with gold. her ornaments are blue and orange, and she carries a blue ankh and a lotus wand with a green flower and a blue stem. she stands on blue and orange. cancellarius: tho-oth the god-form of thoth is built up by the cancellarius or the officer seated on the right of the hierophant. this is his visible station, but during a neophyte grade, he also has an invisible station in the east while the obligation takes place. he has an ibis head, black beak and white throat. his nemyss is yellow bordered with mauve. his collar is yellow with a middle band of squares in mauve and green. his tuni

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ohd-ah-kah-ar ee-kah kah noh-koo-oh-deh. zohd-ah-em-rah-en mee-kah-el-zohd-oh oh-deh oh-zohd-ah-zohd-em vah-reh-el-peh. lah-peh zohd-ee-ar ee-oh-ee-ee-ah-deh" 4 step 6 pause and feel the invoked force. step 7" in the name of hwchy,hcwhy, i invoke the power of the recording angel. i adjure thee, oh light invisible, intangible, wherein all thoughts and deeds of all men are written. i adjure thee by thoth, lord of wisdom and magic, by harporcrates, lord of silence and of strength, the god of this mine operation, that thou leave thine abodes and habitations to concentrate about me, invisible, intangible, as a shroud of darkness, a formula of defense; that i may become invisible, so that seeing me men see not, nor understand the thing that they behold" step 8 perform l.i.r.h. of l. perform the

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welt in the darkness. quit the darkness and seek the light" step 16 standing between the pillars facing west in the sign of osiris with arms crossed upon your breast, all say "nefer-neter-wed-neh, the perfect god grants life "we call upon the divine brilliance who illuminates all iniquity in the hall of truth and dual manifestation, thou shining beacon of wisdom" step 17 perform the invocation of thoth. step 18 rise to your higher spiritual self surrounded completely in light. when you have risen to your higher spiritual self, walk to the west in the place of the neophyte, make the rending of the veil to reunite with your shell. expand the light within you from head to toe leaving no part of your body untouched "hail great god, lord of maati, i have come to thee my lord. i have brought mys

e; times four. let not evil be done unto me in this land, in the hall of the double maat, because i know the names of these gods who are in it, the followers of the great god" all vibrate several times "ankh ptah sekher osiris" step 19 after, strengthening the osirian god form, after having confessed the negative confession and been found perfect before the forty-two assessors and the judgment of thoth in the hall of maat, stand again in the sign of osiris risen and say "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redee

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is in my mouth. the god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; th

tion through the radiation of the rosea crucis and in the name of yehashua. stand guard without cessation, and use whatever force is necessary for the defense of (each quarter is stabbed, beginning in the east, and ending in the east) 11 (standing in the proper quarter, each adept creates the god form as fourth adept performs l.i.r.h and the s.i.r.h. of mars) chief adept behind altar of universe, thoth magus of fire south, horus magus of water west, isis magus of earth north, nephthys magus of air east, aroueris (note: if there are less than the required number of adepts, perform the s.i.r.h. first, then form the god shells (all god forms perform the following invocation, one at a time, in the following order) 1. horus 2. isis 3. nephthys 4. aroueris (chief adept performs the middle pillar

terance of the terrible word (remains in the sign of the enterer (when the invocation is complete by the four god forms, each one moves simultaneously to the other corners, beginning with his own, and ending it with his own, stabbing it with the sign of the enterer, holding it for five seconds, forming a circle) 12 (when all the god forms have finished the invocation, chief adept proclaims in the thoth god form) chief adept "this is he the lord of the gods, thoth, tahuti. behold, he is in me and i am in him. the god who commandeth is in my mouth, the god of wisdom is in my heart, my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips, elohim gibor. i am eternal, and everything acts according to my design, and every element of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and

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hat is coarse. in this manner the world was created; the arrangements to follow this road are hidden. for this reason i am called chiram telat mechasot, one in essence, but three in aspect. in this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world. it is ended now, what i have said concerning the effects of the sun. finish of the tabula smaragdiagthe calling forth of the higher genius invocation of thoth r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 at the ending of the night: at the limits of the light: tho-oth stood before the unborn ones of time! then was formulated the universe: then came forth the gods thereof: the aeons of the bornless beyond: then was the voice vibrated: then was the name declared. at the threshold of the entrance, between the universe and the infinite, in t

th the gods thereof: the aeons of the bornless beyond: then was the voice vibrated: then was the name declared. at the threshold of the entrance, between the universe and the infinite, in the sign of the enterer, stood tho-oth, as before him were the aeons proclaimed. in breath did he vibrate them: in symbols did he record them: for betwixt the light and the darkness did he stand. the god form of thoth 3 "procol oh procol, este profani. barlasti ompala. in the name of the mighty and terrible one, i proclaim that i have banished the shells unto their habitations. i invoke tehuti, the lord of wisdom and of utterance; the god that cometh forth from the veil. oh thou, majesty of the godhead, wisdom-crowned tehuti, lord of the gates of the universe, thee, thee i invoke. oh, thou of the ibis hea

n my mouth. the god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever, yet ever the same. the sun is thy father;

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

vements were passed on independently to egypt and mesopotamia would best explain the common features and fundamental differences between the two civilizations.11 among other things, this theory sheds light on the mysterious fact that the egyptians and sumerian people of mesopotamia appear to have worshipped virtually identical lunar deities who were among the oldest in their respective pantheons (thoth in the case of the egyptians, sin in the case of the sumerians).12 according to the eminent egyptologist sir e.a. wallis budge, the similarity between the two gods is too close to be accidental. it would be wrong to say that the egyptians borrowed from the sumerians or the sumerians from the egyptians, but it may be submitted that the literati of both peoples borrowed their theological syste

tratum of the ancient mexican underworld was called teocoyolcualloya: place where beasts devour hearts .18 is it a coincidence that one of the stages of the ancient egyptian underworld, the hall of judgement, involved an almost identical series of symbols? at this crucial juncture the deceased s heart was weighed against a feather. if the heart was heavy with sin it would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be devoured by a fearsome beast, part crocodile, part hippopotamus, part lion, that was called the eater of the dead .19 finally, let us turn again to egypt of the pyramid age and the privileged status of the pharaoh, which enabled him to circumvent the trials of the underworld and to be reborn as a star. ritual incantat

ological significance of dogs in part v of this book. 16 details are reproduced in john romer, valley of the kings, michael o mara books limited, london, 1988, p. 167, and in j. a. west, the traveller s key to ancient egypt, harrap columbus, london, 1989, pp. 282-97. 17 in the case of ancient egypt the dog represents upuaut, the opener of the ways, the bird (a hawk) represents horus, and the ape, thoth. see the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 284, and the ancient egyptian book of the dead, pp. 116-30. for ancient central america see note 15. 18 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 40. 19 the egyptian book of the dead (trans. e. a. wallis budge, arkana, london and new york, 1986, p. 21. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 146 and believed by archaeologists to date back to pre-dynastic t

the gods 194 the present race of mankind.42 last but by no means least, ancient egyptian traditions also refer to a great flood. a funerary text discovered in the tomb of pharaoh seti i, for example, tells of the destruction of sinful humanity by a deluge.43 the reasons for this catastrophe are set out in chapter clxxv of the book of the dead, which attributes the following speech to the moon god thoth: they have fought fights, they have upheld strifes, they have done evil, they have created hostilities, they have made slaughter, they have caused trouble and oppression [therefore] i am going to blot out everything which i have made. this earth shall enter into the watery abyss by means of a raging flood, and will become even as it was in primeval time.44 on the trail of a mystery with the

ey have fought fights, they have upheld strifes, they have done evil, they have created hostilities, they have made slaughter, they have caused trouble and oppression [therefore] i am going to blot out everything which i have made. this earth shall enter into the watery abyss by means of a raging flood, and will become even as it was in primeval time.44 on the trail of a mystery with the words of thoth we have come full circle to the sumerian and biblical floods. the earth was filled with violence, says genesis: and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold i will destroy them with the earth. 45 like

s us with biographical details of the various characters. these have been conveniently summarized by e. a. wallis budge, formerly keeper of egyptian antiquities at the british museum: the goddess nut, wife of the sun god ra, was beloved by the god geb. when ra discovered the intrigue he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of a child in any month of any year. then the god thoth, who also loved nut, played at tables with the moon and won from her five whole days. these he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted [emphasis added. on the first of these five days osiris was brought forth; and at the moment of his birth a voice was heard to proclaim that the lord of creation was born.5 elsewhere the myth informs us that the 300-day year consists of 12 mon

ulated and produced offspring of their own: geb the god of the earth and nut, the goddess of the sky. these two also mated, creating osiris and isis, set and nepthys, and so completed the ennead, the full company of the nine gods of heliopolis. of the nine, ra, shu, geb and osiris were said to have ruled in egypt as kings, followed by horus, and lastly for 3226 years by the ibis-headed wisdom god thoth.8 who were these people or creatures, or beings, or gods? were they figments of the priestly imagination, or symbols, or ciphers? were the stories told about them vivid myth memories of real events which had taken place thousands of years previously? or were they, perhaps, part of a coded message from the ancients that had been transmitting itself over and over again down the epochs a messag

ge numbers that seemed more appropriate to the needs of a complex technological society than to those of a primitive central american kingdom.43 millions of years and the movements of the stars very large numbers also appeared in the pyramid texts, in the symbolic boat of millions of years, for example, in which the sun god was said to navigate the dark and airless wastes of interstellar space.44 thoth, the god of wisdom( he who reckons in heaven, the counter of the stars, the 40 the sirius mystery. 41 ibid, p. 3. 42 ibid, p. 1. 43 see part iii. 44 the egyptian book of the dead, p. cxi. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 362 measurer of the earth) was specifically empowered to grant a life of millions of years to the deceased pharaoh.45 osiris, king of eternity, lord of everlasting, w

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ion of a 22-year period. iii in this mode is the year 66 of the new aeon, that is corresponding to the year 1970 of the vulgar era. when karl germer died in 1962, he left the office of outer head of the oto vacant. major grady mcmurtry, acting upon his emergency authority, eventually took on the role of acting oho, taking the title caliph. his first public act was the publication, in 1970, of the thoth tarot cards. iii e.n= 1970 e.v (e.n. or era novis or new aeon; e.v. or era vulgaris, or common era. iii (considered as letters) in classical cipher mode= 69= caliph, the word for the keeper of the prophet s flame; in this case aleister crowley, the prophet of the new aeon of thelema, or true will. we also see the same magical new aeon mythos unfolded in the west virginia case. indrid cold= 1

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ered an ancient system known to the ill-fated atlanteans thousands of years ago. the enochian alphabet was said to have been a direct derivative of that which was used in atlantis. according to h.p. blavatsky "enoch was a generic title, applied to, and borne by, scores of individuals, at all times and ages, and in every race and nation (the secret doctrine) she equated enoch with the egyptian god thoth, who gave language, law, medicine, and science to man. the term 'enoch' meant seer or adept of the secret wisdom. thus enochian magick was not created by a single individual but evolved gradually over time which is now lost in history. the enochian alphabet and language may in fact be nearly as old as man, at least in this hemisphere. certainly they bear striking similarities with the necron

pheres encountered in the enochian system are decidedly sexual in nature. these forces constitute an essential difference between the more general enochian magic and the more specific enochian magick. 6 how to use this manual 'there are only two operations poss ble in the universe, anaiysis and synthesis. to divide, and to unite. salve et coagula' said the alchemists" aleister crowley, thebook of thoth this magician's manual is intended for use by a wide audience, ranging from beginners in enochian magick to experienced magicians. it is impossible to present a fully structured, progressive program of magical development that will be satisfactorily suitable for everyone. some readers will be more attracted to the watchtowers, others to the aethyrs. some will advance rapidly and effortlessly

(the creative desire of leo) joined to motion (the chariot of cancer) by the two modes of karmic 183 retribution (the justice of libra. karma is both personal and collective and can result in either harmony or conflict, good or evil this dualistic nature of justice was personified by the egyptian goddess maati (maati was the twofold aspect of maat, goddess of truth and justice, consort to the god thoth, whose hall of maati contained the balance where all were weighed against her feather of justice. a sigil of toog from the watchtower of earth is: a sigh of toog from the watchtower of water is: a sigil of toog from the watchtower of air is: a sigil of toog from the watchtower of fire is: the letters gisa, med, med, ged are written, 184 the formula of mzkzb i am hard and strong and male; but

t found in tan has two pans and a scale. a known weight or standard is placed on one pan and the object to be weighed on the other. any unbalanced condition will be detected by the scale. in ancient egypt such a balance was said to be located in the after-death state. the standard weight used was one feather, the symbol of the goddess maat, the goddess of truth and justice and the wife of the god thoth. the balance of the egyptians was operated by the god anubis. in addition to measuring one's karmic propensities after each life, the balance of maat was also used as a type of ini tiat ion ordeal. the candidate was obliged to weigh himself on the divine scale against the feather of maat (i.e, his karmic burden had to be as light as a feather) in order to progress to a higher magical grade

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n the fact that the autonomic nervous system carries and distributes to all parts of the body an intangible energy which vitalizes organs and cells of the body. it takes into consideration primarily the psychic side of man and the psychic cause and nature of disease and pain. health.(see disease. hermes trismegistus.rosicrucian records tell us that there actually was such a character as hermes or thoth. he was not a god, but a sage born in thebes in 1399 b.c. he received the appellation "thrice illustrious"(trismegistus) because he participated in the organization of the great mystery school, had the experience of seeing the illustrious amenhotep iv initiated as a grand master, and the honor of assisting in the initiation of the successor to amenhotep iv. the best known work attributed to

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are mentioned in the pyramid texts. some are the major deities already known from cult temples, such the fertility god min and the creator goddess neith. others are entities such as snake deities and celestial ferrymen who inhabit a complex and intensely imagined realm of the gods. the most frequently mentioned deities are anubis, atum, geb, horus, isis, nephthys, nut, osiris, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of o

th dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid texts are not is a collection of narrative myths. they do contain numerous allusions to myths, many of which are difficult to interpret. some passages include what have been called mythical statements. these give the bare outlines of an event that has taken place in the divine realm, such as horus comes and thoth appears. they raise up osiris from upon his side and make him stand erect in front of the two enneads. 21 many of the most important themes of egyptian mythology, such as the journey of the sun god in his solar barque, the murder of the good god osiris, and the violent conflict between horus and seth, are already present in the pyramid texts. these texts are also the earliest source for the

texts, mainly generated by the priests of heliopolis. other egyptologists point to the huge range of deities that feature in this collection and see the coffin texts as being more representative of regional traditions.29 coffin texts spells have been found in sites all over egypt, but the majority come from the geographical region known as middle egypt. the local deities of middle egypt, such as thoth and the group of primeval beings later known as the ogdoad of hermopolis, feature in many of the spells. thoth also appears in many of the spells that allude to the conflict between horus and seth and the introduction 15 rescue of the body of osiris. by the time of the coffin texts, all the elite dead could be identified with osiris, the god who died and rose again. literature the same learn

ic, was one of the forces used by the creator to make the world. humans were permitted to use magic in daily life to protect themselves or to heal others. knowledge of written magic was confined to the literate elite, so it is not surprising that some spells have a distinct literary quality. healing spells often identify the doctor-magician with a deity skilled in the use of heka, such as isis or thoth; the patient with a deity who suffered in myth, such as horus the child (see deities, themes, and concepts; and the disease or problem with a hostile supernatural force. these identifications were sometimes extended into a narrative of the misfortune that befell the deity and its ultimate resolution. a complex story about the poisoning of the sun god, known as the true name of ra (see period

declare himself or herself innocent of forty-two specific sins. most of the sins in this negative confession are offenses introduction 27 figure 7. vignette to spell 125 of the book of the dead. from right to left, a dead woman is brought into the hall of the double maat by the two goddesses of truth; her heart is weighed against the feather of truth by horus and anubis; the result is recorded by thoth and announced to the ammut monster, the four sons of horus, and osiris (gift of martin brimmer, courtesy museum of fine arts, boston. illustration by peter manuelian used with permission) against deities, temples, or ritual purity, so spell 125 may derive from an initiation ritual for priests.59 the vignette for spell 125 supplements rather than illustrates the text. in one of the most famou

ther that represents maat, the goddess of truth. if the heart were found to be heavy with sin, it would be devoured by a monster. in origin, this trial was just one of a series of perils that could be overcome by magic, but the popularity of spell 125 in the later new kingdom coincided with a new emphasis on god as a just but forgiving judge. in prayers of this period, people turn to gods such as thoth and amun to help them survive in an unjust society. other individuals humbly acknowledged that their sufferings were a just punishment for actions such as breaking an oath sworn in a god s name.60 these penitential texts, like much of our knowledge of religion in daily life, come from deir el-medina, the village of the artists who built and decorated the theban royal tombs. this exceptionall

e lot of most ordinary women in ancient egypt. the cippi texts raise the question that must be answered by every religion: if god is good, why do innocent children suffer? an angry attitude toward divine indifference is put in the mouth of isis. her challenge to the sun god to help her dying child is one of the most powerful emotional passages in all of egyptian literature. ra responds by sending thoth to cure horus. isis as everywoman has triumphed, and the spell promises that every child will be saved because horus was saved. cippi have been found in houses and tombs, but large examples such as the metternich stela would originally have been set up in an outer area of a temple. ptolemaic period temples are decorated with endless scenes of gods and pharaohs, but the absence of specific ro

cal narrative in egyptian to survive from any period.102 the eye of the sun text seems to have been put together from many different sources and was probably read aloud to entertain people. it includes passages of virtuoso descriptive writing, elaborate praises of egyptian culture that would have gone down well with a native audience, and animal fables. these short moral tales are told by the god thoth as part of his plan to lure the angry goddess back to egypt to resume her place in the divine order as the sun god s chief defender. thoth s story of a lion helped by a mouse has the same plot as a shorter fable attributed to aesop, a greek slave thought to have lived in the sixth century bce.103 incidents from other fables in the eye of the sun have been recognized in drawings dating to the

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of all hymns to ra and osiris, and the famous judgment scene which is familiar to all. we see the heart of ani being weighed in the balance against the symbol of righteousness in the presence of the great company of the gods, and the weighing takes place at one end of the house of osiris, whilst osiris sits in his shrine at the other. the "guardian of the balance" is anubis, and the registrar is thoth, the scribe of the gods, who is seen noting the result of the weighing. in the picture the beam of the balance is quite level, which shows that the heart of ani exactly counterbalances the symbol of righteousness. this result thoth announces to the gods in the following words "in very truth the heart of osiris hath been weighed, and his soul hath stood as a witness for him; its case is right

in the following words "in very truth the heart of osiris hath been weighed, and his soul hath stood as a witness for him; its case is right (i.e, it hath been found true by trial) in the great balance. no wickedness hath been found in him, he hath not purloined the offerings in the p. 51 temples, 1 and he hath done no evil by deed or word whilst he was upon earth" the gods in their reply accept thoth's report, and declare that, so far as they are concerned, ani has committed neither sin nor evil. further, they go on to say that he shall not be delivered over to the monster amemet, and they order that he shall have offerings, that he shall have the power to go into the presence of osiris, and that he shall have a homestead, or allotment, in sekhet-hetepet for ever. we next see ani being l

f on his throne in the "house of osiris" but even he would have been unable to perform his journey in safety through the tuat without the help of the words of power which horus, the son of isis, the son of osiris" had uttered, and the magical ceremonies which he had performed. words and ceremonies alike he learned from isis, who, according to a later tradition, obtained the knowledge of them from thoth, the divine intelligence. now if osiris and ra had need of such magical assistance in their passage through the tuat, how much greater must have been the need of man! the tuat was, according to the authors of the funeral works of the xviiith and xixth dynasties, divided into twelve portions, some of which are called "sekhet" i.e "field" others "nut" i.e "city" others "arrit" i.e "hall" and o

e on each side of him (vol. i, p. 66, but knowing they are there, he cries out to them, and they hear him. the hidden gods who march in front of the boat are few in number, and the names of many of them are unfamiliar; some of them are connected with osiris, and all of them are under the control of anpu, or anubis, and perform some act which helps the boat along. among them may be specially noted thoth and horus, above whose outstretched hands is the eye which is here identified with sekri (vol. i, p. 75. as afu-ra journeys on his way there are on his right three serpents, a scorpion, a uraeus serpent, a three-headed serpent with wings and human legs, a few of the gods of the hour, a serpent with two necks and heads proceeding from one body, and a tail which terminates in another head (vol

he serpents hetch-nau, amen, hekent, and the terrible three-headed serpent menmenut, the face of which illumines the chamber in which khepera is born daily (vol. i, p. 134 p. 79. over the back of the last-named serpent are fourteen heads, which, as m. maspero has well shown, re resent the gods of the first fourteen days of the month, and they are being carried by the serpent to fill the eye which thoth and horus are bringing through re-stau. the beings to the right and left of afu-ra are ancient gods of the kingdom of seker, and each guards some door or corridor in it which leads to the hidden chamber of seker himself. next: fifth division of the tuat. i. the kingdom of seker according to the book am-tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next fifth division of the tuat. i. the k

as champollion pointed p. 159 click to view nebseni being weighed against his heart. out, special and very unusual values, and the title "enigmatic writing" given to them by goodwin is appropriate. in the ordinary judgment scenes we find that the heart of the deceased is weighed in the balance against the feather symbolic of maat or righteousness, that the operation of weighing is carried out by thoth and anubis in the presence of the great gods, the owner of the heart himself sometimes looking on, that the gods accept and ratify the verdict of thoth, and that the deceased is then led into the presence of osiris by horus. sometimes the heart of the deceased is weighed against his whole body, as in the papyrus of nebseni, and at other times the pans of the scales only contain weights. in t

beneath the feet of the god, perhaps under his platform, are the dead, i.e, the damned, or his enemies. the top of the hall is protected with a row of spear beads, and from the ceiling hang four heads of gazelle, or oryges; according to a legend certain enemies of osiris transformed themselves into these animals, and were slain by the god. on the platform, immediately in front of the god, stands thoth, in the form of a mummy, and be serves as the standard of the balance; the object in the pan is being weighed against the symbol of "evil, which it seems to counterbalance exactly. this being so, it seems that the wickedness of the deceased did not go beyond a recognized limit. anubis, in the upper corner of the scene, addresses some words to thoth, who bears the balance on his shoulders. in

uman legs at each end of his body; one head faces north (or, west, and the other south (or, east. behind each head is a uraeus, and between the uraei stands "horus of the tuat" wearing the crowns of the south and north (vol. ii, p. 257. a rope passes under khepri, and on one side is hauled by eight powers (sekhemiu, and on the other by the "souls of ament" who are man-headed; by the "followers of thoth" who are ibis-headed; by the "followers of horus" who are hawk-headed; and by the "followers of ra" who are ram-headed (vol. ii, pp. 255, 256, 258. it will be noted that the two pairs of legs of khepri face in opposite ways, so that in whichever direction he moves one pair must walk backwards; the eight powers have overcome the resistance of the sixteen gods, and the face of horus of the tua

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y austin osman spare, which has become one of the core techniques associated with chaos magic. the early growth of chaos magic was characterised by a loose network of informal groups who came together to experiment with the possibilities of the new current. with the demise of the new equinox, the chaos kids reported their results and heresies in the pages of chris bray s new magazine, the lamp of thoth. the early chaos books were joined by two tapes the chaos concept which discussed the basics of chaos magic, and the chaochamber, a science-fiction pathworking which combined elements of star trek, michael moorcock, and h.g. wells. chris bray s sorceror s apprentice press then re-released, liber null, the book of results, as well as two new books, pete carroll s psychonaut, and ray sherwin s

introduced a situationist perspective into the chaos debate, predicted the glamour for chaos-isms as experimentation turned inevitably into fashion accessory, and then proceeded to identify various magical leaders and tear them apart with the eagerness of a whole pack of greek cynics. the debate over the progression of the chaos current raged throughout these zines and the aforementioned lamp of thoth. arguments begun in one zine spilled over into another and sides were drawn up as some voices allied with others, though allying with birroco s iconoclastic stance on chaos turned out to be a tactical error, as he invariably massaged the egos of his allies only to drag them down at a later date. in 86 the s.a. press released julian wilde s grimoire of chaos magic, the first book on chaos mag

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nd is invaluable. naude is well worth reading. i do not possess these last 2, but have read naude. macerus is mentioned by dufresnoy, more than two dozen [times, among which is the viatorium, which you have. i have 3 of his not mentioned by dufresnoy, one on basil valentine, one of thos. norton, and chacombe vicarage 29 april 1890 instructions for divinatory procedures. oswald wirth's le livre de thoth: les 22 arcanes de tarot dessines a l'usage des inities sur les indications destanislas deguaita (edition limited to 100 copies with the twenty-two major trumps, hand-coloured, in a slip-case, was also published in 1889. it is unlikely that this book was known in great britain. a prospectus for k. r. h. mackenzie's the game of tarot, archaeologically and symbolically considered 'in preparati

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t, crumbling ruins the first mammals were to play. carter remembered what the monstrous necronomicon had vaguely and disconcertingly adumbrated concerning that guide "and while there are those" the mad arab had written "who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the veil, and to accept him as guide, they would have been more prudent had they avoided commerce with him; for it is written in the book of thoth how terrific is the price of a single glimpse. nor may those who pass ever return, for in the vastnesses transcending our world are shapes of darkness that seize and bind. the affair that shambleth about in the night, the evil that defieth the elder sign, the herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have and that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants thereof

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originally assjnians "turan, of the poets" be says "i con- sider to be aturia, or assyria; and that zohak (az-dahoka, dei-okes, or astyages, the serpent-king, was aiisjrrian, median, and bai^lonian when those countries were united" this opinion does not, however, in the least affect our statement that the secret doctrines of the magi, of the pre-vedic buddhists, of the hierophants of the egyptian thoth or hermes, and of the adepts of what- ever age and nationahty, including the chaldaean kabalists and the jew- ish tuaars, were idxruical from the beginning. when we use the term buddhutt, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric buddhism in- stituted by the followers of gautama-buddha, or the modem buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of bdjcyamunit which in its essence is

very fre- quently, and the real theogony of the ophites is given by none of them correctly. with the exception of a change in names, the above-given the- ogony is that of all the gnostics, and also of the nazarenes. ophis is but the successor of the egyptian chnupkia (khnemu, the good serpent with a lion's radiating head, and was held from days of the highest antiquity as an emblem of wisdom, or thoth, the instructor and savior of humanity, the *son of god "oh men, live soberly. win your immortality" exclaims hermes, the thrice-great trismegistus "instructor and guide of humanity, i will lead you on to salvation* thus the oldest sectarians regarded ophis, the agathodumon, as identical with christos; the serpent being the emblem of celestial wisdom and eternity, and, in the present case, t

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es post, for all the phenomena of the world. brixworth church, northamptonshire. egyptian amulet. chapter the seventeenth. prismatic investiture of the microcosm. he chemical dark rays are more bent than the luminous. the chemical rays increase in power as you ascend the spectrum, from the red ray to the violet. the chemical rays typified by the egyptians under the name of their divinity, taut or thoth, are most powerful in the morning; the luminous rays are most active at noon (isis, or abstractedly, manifestation; the heating rays (osiris) are most operative in the afternoon. the chemical rays are the most powerful in spring (germination, producing, or making, the most luminous in the summer (ripening, or knowing, the most heating in the autumn (perpetuating. the chemical rays have more

ares. with the influences of the planets, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars governs the irascible principle, the sun produces sensation and speculation, venus inspires the appetites, mercury bestows the power of declaring and expressing, and the moon confers the faculty of generating and augmenting the body. the egyptian winged disc is a symbol of tat, taut, or thoth (plutarch, de iside et osiride. the lions heads, so frequently observable in the sculptures decorating fountains, bespeak the astral influences under leo, which produce the rains in the ardent month of july; and in this view they are regarded as the discharges of the sacred fountains. lions heads, with fountains, are observable in architecture all the world over. all architecture is primaril

presentation of truth (montfaucon, pi. clxi) reverse, figure 312, which represents harpocrates seated upon the lotus, springing from a double lamp, formed of two phalli united at the base. above his head is his title abraxas, and over that is the name iao. in the field are the seven planets. the sacred animals the scarab, ibis, asp, goat, crocodile, vulture, emblems of so many deities (viz. phre, thoth, isis, merides, bebys, neith) the principal in the egyptian mythology, arranged by threes, form a frame to the design. neatly engraved on a large, bright loadstone (the gnostics, p. 211. origin of the tricolor. theory of sacramental mysticism, adapted from the speculations of the sophists or gnostics. blue (b.v.m) baptism by water. natural. bread( host) body. white (s.s) air or light. interm

the egyptians (refer to mystic heraldic formul elsewhere in our book) the three ordeals (or sacraments) of the ancient mysteries were by water, air, and fire. thus, also, the egyptian initiation: cave, cloud, fire. so, too, the masonic initiations. with these meanings, royal coffins and investitures are always red (mars, as meaning royalty active; or imperial purple (jupiter, or perhaps mercurius thoth, taut, tat, as royalty passive, or implying the lord of regions. according to the cabalistic view, jacob s ladder, which was disclosed to him in a vision, is a metaphorical representation of the powers of alchemy, operating through visible nature. the ladder was a rainbow, or prismatic staircase, set up between earth and heaven. jacob's dream implied a history of the whole hermetic creation

y signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by the planet jupiter (zeus, as lord of theworlds* these are the two chiefmetals of the alchemists, and the two chief mystic symbols of the rosicrucians red is blazoned by the old priestly heralds, or augurs, by the name of the planet mars vert (or verd, and argent, silver (hermes, or thoth, ortaut, orluna, orastarte, indifferently, are represented by the planetvenus and by themoon. persian fire-tower. chapter the twentieth. the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and medi val monuments. hough fire is an element in which everything inheres, and of which it is the life, still, according to the abstruse and unexplained ideas of the rosicrucians, it is itself another elem

ymbol. fig. 27 is the imperial mound, and cross-sigma surmounting it. figs. 28, 29, are symbols of venus (aphrodite, the deity of the syrians and phoenicians. they are phallic emblems. fig. 30 is the phallus proper. it is the sigma of zeus, mithras, baalim, bacchus. figures numbered 31, osiris: these various figures signify also jupiter-ammon. the rectangular marks denote the scandinavian tuisco, thoth (mercurius, or hermes. fig. 35 is the indian form of the same idea. the figure marked 36 is to be found on the breast of one of the mummies in the museum of the london university. fig. 36. phallus and lotus. fig. 37. fig. 38. fig. 39. upon a monument discovered in thebes, anubis is represented as st. michael and st. george are in christian paintings, armed in a cuirass, and having in his han

cations of lotus and lily. here is a union of the classic, the judaic, and gothic forms, all presenting the same idea at once. buddha was the sun in taurus; cristna (crishna, krishna) was the sun in aries. in regard to the origin of speech, of writing, and of letters, it may be remarked that the egyptians referred the employment of a written symbol (to record and communicate the spoken word) to a thoth; the jews, to seth or his children (josephus, ant. i, 2, 3; the greeks, to hermes. but thout in coptic (pezron, lexicon lingua. coptic s. voc. gen xix. 26 in the coptic version, also tc in hebrew, and `erm j (hermes) in greek, are all names for a pillar or post. this is the homeric use of rma and rmij (il, 486; od, 278; kenrick s essay on primeval history, p. 119. arca is the ship, navis (fr

ms trace from the oldest tradition; the origin, indeed, of most things is only doubt or conjecture, hinted in symbols. the egyptian deities may always be recognised by the following distinctive marks: phthas, ptah, by the close-fitting robe, four steps, baboon, cynocephalus. ammon, amn, by a ram's head, double plume, vase, canopus. the sun-god (phre or ra) has a hawk's head, disc, serpent, ur us. thoth, or thoyt, is ibis-headed (means a scribe or priest. sochos, or suches, has a hawk. hermes trismegistus (tat) displays a winged disc. the egyptians, however, never committed their greater knowledge to marks or figures, or to writing of any kind. figure 313: the gnostics have a peculiar talisman of fate (homer s aisa. this is one of the rarest types to be met with in ancient art. in stosch s

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er the symbol of the scales of balance. he also has to name the guardian of the gateway who prevents his passage, and when all these are propitiated, the plea of the hall itself cries out against his steps, saying "because i am silent, because i am pure" and it must know that his aspirations are pure enough hand high enough for him to be allowed to tread upon it. he is then allowed to announce to thoth that he is clean from all evil, and has overcome the influence of the planets, and thoth says to him "who is he whose pylons are of flame, whose walls of living uraei, and the flames of whose house are streams of water" and the initiate replies "osiris" and it is immediately proclaimed "the meat shall be from the infinite, and thy drink from the infinite. thou art able to go forth to the sep

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degree is mentioned in the papyrus of nesi-amsu, where it is said that the body was cut to pieces and burnt to ashes, and these were spread over the face of the waters to the four winds of heaven. 12. there is in the temple of khnumu in the island of elephantine, just off assouan, a bas-relief which shows us two figures, one of the pharaoh and the other of a priest wearing the ibis head-dress of thoth, standing in an attitude strongly suggestive of the f c p c of f c, though not exactly agreeing with our present practice (see plate ii a) it is intended to represent an initiation, and the word given is gmaat-heru, h which means gtrue of voice h or gone whose voice must be obeyed h(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 49) i have also seen a painting in which four attendants are depict

flowers and precious embroideries, sometimes built up by stages to a hundred feet or more in the air; but living pictures or scenes were also enacted upon them, having a symbolical meaning connected with the festival which was being celebrated. in such ways was represented the judgment of the dead, with the weighing of the heart by anubis against the feather of maat, the characters of anubis and thoth being played by priests who wore the appropriate masks. i remember also a very gruesome performance of the dismemberment of osiris, in which his body was cut into pieces and then put together again- not the body of a real person, of course, but none the less very realistically enacted. these splendid processions swept down the river between the thronging multitudes of worshippers, shedding t

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to the time of the aryanization of egypt in 13,500 b.c; it was ruled by a great dynasty of divine kings, among whom were many of the heroes whom greece later regarded as demigods, such as herakles of the twelve labours, whose tradition was handed on to classical times. 55. it was to this people about 40,000 b.c. that the world teacher came forth from the white lodge, bearing the name of tehuti or thoth, called later by the greeks hermes; he founded the outer cult of the egyptian gods and restored the mysteries to the splendour of byegone days. 56. he came to teach the great doctrine of the inner light to the priests of the temples, to the powerful sacerdotal hierarchy of egypt, headed by its pharaoh. in the inner court of the chief temple he taught them of the light that lighteth every man

applied to candidates, and of the teaching that was given through the various myths. when people outside pressed for information, and would not be put off, the officials permitted so much to be revealed. 320. the origin of the greek mysteries 321. the original founder of the greek mysteries was orpheus, who was an incarnation of the same great world teacher who had come to egypt in 40,000 b.c. as thoth or hermes, to preach the doctrine of the hidden light. but now the method of his message was different; for it was spoken to a different race. 322. about 7000 b.c, he came, living chiefly in the forests, where he gathered his disciples around him. there was no king to bid him welcome, no gorgeous court to acclaim him. he came as a singer, wandering through the land, loving the life of nature

ansmitted was distinct from that of the three degrees of blue masonry; some of the more important features of its ritual seem to have passed over into the 18. there was a strong military flavour about them, and they demanded from their devotees a purity of life which was almost ascetic. 416. just as the mysteries of egypt and greece arose respectively from the incarnations of the world teacher as thoth and orpheus, so did the mithraic scheme arise from his incarnation as the first zarathustra about 29,700 b.c. in persia. it taught of mithra, captain of the hosts of the god of light and saviour of mankind. 417. mithraism among the romans 418. it is said that mithraism was first transmitted to the roman world during the first century b.c. by the cilician pirates captured by pompey; but, as w

erent temperaments; some no doubt will seek their inspiration in the liberal forms of catholic christianity, but others will find themselves attracted to the philosophic and ceremonial teaching formerly given in the mysteries of egypt which are the heritage of the masonic brotherhood. 792. the coming of the world teacher has always in the past marked a revival or an inauguration of the mysteries. thoth in egypt, zoroaster in persia, orpheus in greece- each of these mighty messengers of the white lodge, who were yet one messenger appearing under different names and in different forms, left behind him a glorious rite of initiation to lead men to his feet after he had gone. that great teacher of mankind passed from human sight as gautama the lord buddha; but the sceptre of the lord of love wa

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

one would have to consult the book of the dead in order to recite the names and formulas that would allow further progress. in the tomb of a powerful official from the old kingdom is inscribed the boast: i am an effective spirit who knows his magic spells (as quoted in murnane 1992, 41. finally,with the ka clad in white,anubis would provide escort to the hall of justice. in the court proceedings, thoth, an ibis-headed god of wisdom, acts as prosecutor, and osiris sits on the judge s throne, flanked by isis and nephthys. forty-two divine figures sit as jurors. again using the book of the dead and as much eloquence as they can muster, the deceased make an accounting of their lives. in particular, the dead needed to be able to recite a ritual confession of innocence, which might include such

s livid with anger at parsons for this debauchery and also for allowing a young man to con him out of all his money in a sting that may have been an fbi-sponsored operation. these two revelations were the causes for the warrant that crowley issued to the young grady mcmurtry in 1946. aleister crowley had run very short of money during the last few years of his life. his last big projects were his thoth tarot, produced under his supervision by lady frieda harris, his book of thoth on that tarot deck, and the stream of letters between him and some initiates that was later edited into magick without tears. the original paintings of the tarot deck were exhibited in london in july 1942, the events in the background of magick without tears were from about 1941 1944, and the book of thoth was com

LIBER HAD

rceive that therefore the knowledge of hadit is the knowledge of death "this is the third practice of intelligence("ccxx. ii" 6. 6. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist or destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of taro (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe on the lotus. note that the "ibis position" formulates this conception most exactly. ed "this is the fourth practice of intelligence("ccxx. ii" 7. 7. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the

LIBER O

e take an example, the use of the tables will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv note 1, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8) yellow, purple, grey and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain a

LIBER 777

ons are susceptible of classification, once we follow it below the great and terrible demonic triads which are under the presidency of the unutterable name;5 the vast and comprehensive system shadowed in the book called the book of the concourse of the forces,6 interwoven as it is with the tarot, being, indeed, on one view little more than an amplification and practical application of the book of thoth.7 but we hope that the present venture will attract scholars from all quarters, as when the wounded satan leaned upon his spear, forthwith on all sides to his aid was run by angels many and strong, and that in the course of time a far more satisfactory volume may result. many columns will seem to the majority of people to consist of mere lists of senseless words. practice, and advance in the

low 31 bis deep purple (near black) the 7 prismatic colours, the violet being outside white, red, yellow, blue, black (the latter outside) table i (continued) 7 xix* selection of egyptian gods. xx. complete practical attribution of egyptian gods. xxi* the perfected man. 0 harpocrates, amoun, nuith[[nuit and hadit] heru-pa-kraath nu the hair 1 ptah, asar un nefer, hadith[[heru-ra-ha] ptah 2 amoun, thoth, nuith [zodiac] isis [as wisdom] 3 maut, isis, nephthys nephthys disk (of ra) the face [in daath, asi the neck] 4 amoun, isis[[hathoor] amoun 5 horus, nephthys horus neith the arms 6 asar, ra[[on, hrumachis] ra the mighty and terrible one the breast 7 hathoor hathoor 8 anubis thoth the lords of kereba the reins. nuit the hips and legs. 9 shu[[hermanubis, all exclusively phallic gods] shu asa

mighty and terrible one the breast 7 hathoor hathoor 8 anubis thoth the lords of kereba the reins. nuit the hips and legs. 9 shu[[hermanubis, all exclusively phallic gods] shu asar and asi the phallus and vulva. sati the spine 1010 seb. lower (i.e. unwedded) isis and nephthys[[sphinx as synthesis of elements] osiris the eye of hoor the buttocks and anus 11 nu[[hoor-pa-kraat as atu 0] mout as 6 12 thoth and cynocephalus thoth anpu the lips 13 chomse chomse hathor the left eye 14 hathor hathoor khenti-khas the left nostril 15 men thu isis 16 asar, ameshet, apis osiris ba-neb-tattu the shoulders 17 various twin deities, rekht, merti &c[[heru-ra-ha] the twin merti. 18 khephra hormakhu. 19 ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet, mau horus as 6. 20 isis [as virgin] heru-pa-kraath. 21 amoun-ra amoun-ra apu

(as in calydon &c. 28 kidneys, bladder &c. water nymphs, sirens, lorelei, mermaids (cf. f) 29 legs and feet phantoms, were-wolves 30 circulatory system will o the wisp 31 organs of circulation salamanders 32 excretory system ghuls, larv, corpse candles 32 bis excretory organs, skeleton the dweller of the threshold, gnomes 31 bis organs of intelligence [socratic genius] editorial note: the atus of thoth liber al, cap. i, v. 57 includes the statement: all these old letters of my book are aright: but x is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. in crowley s new comment on this verse, he observes: i see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to the wise; others will hardly understand my explanations. tzaddi is the letter of the emperor, the trump iv, and

ly, flawlessly symmetrical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this book to those who have laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the tarot. this substituted attribution is alluded to in various places in liber aleph and magick in theory and practice, but was not spelt out in full in published writings until the book of thoth. the tables from 777 are based on the old golden dawn attributions; to work with the reversed attributions, lines 15 and 28 should be exchanged on all columns based on the zodiac or tarot (i.e, vi-viii, xi, xiv-xx, xxii-xlvii, xlix, cxxxvii-clxxiv, clxxvii-clxxxiii and clxxxvi, not all columns throughout as the editors of 777 revised state t.s. 34 notes to table of correspondences col. ii: 0

on of coptic* transliterations of most hebrew names. the more obscure of these are taken from godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia (3rd edition, llewellyn, 1994, henceforth godwin. in order to keep the present document at a manageable size, it omits* yorke s editorial preface* the essay on the magical alphabet* the meaning of the primes from 11 to 97* the various arrangements (mostly from the book of thoth* the explanations of the attributions a series of remarks, some developing almost into essays, on columns i-iii, v-viii, x, xi, xiii-xxii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii-xliii, xlv, lvi-lxviii, lxxviilxxxvi, and xcvii* what is qabalah* what is a number or a symbol (an extract from the new comment on al i.4) this additional material is available in html format. i have not preserved the original paginat

th represent which of the seven palaces they are referred to: see the arrangements in col. lxxxviii et. seq. transliterations are as given in crowley s remarks on this column in 777 revised, although a few have been altered where they are not consistent with the hebrew spelling. col. xiv. these represent g.d. attributions, before crowley changed the titles of a number of the trumps in the book of thoth and exchanged the attributions of the star and emperor based on al i.57. col. xix. transliterations of egyptian names have been left as in the first edition. these differ from both modern transliterations and those employed by early 20th-century writers such as budge. line 1: asar is better known by the hellenized form osiris; asar-un-nefer( osiris the beautiful) was a particular epiphet or

aumgn (one version has aum) 2 (the phoenix: al 3 (the raven: amen 4 (the eagle: su 5 (the hawk: agla 6 (the pelican: iao 7 (the dove: hriliu 8 (the ibis: abrahadabra 9 (the vulture: mu liber 777 54 line 24: possibly on (ayin nun) should also be referred here. col. xlvi. crowley s later attributions of the taoist principles and the trigrams of the i ching to the sephiroth are given in the book of thoth (appendix ii, diagram the chinese cosmos) thus: 0: tao. 1: tao teh. 2:yang. 3: yin. daath: khien. 4: tui. 5: kbn. 6: li. 7: kbn. 8: sun. 9: kh n. 10: khwbn. col. xlviii. most of these refer to symbols appearing in golden dawn rituals. line 26: possibly should read calvary cross of 6, solid i.e. a cross composed of six cubes which will have a surface area of 26 squares. col l. line 31-bis: ad

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r the true word of krishna was aum, importing rather a statement of the truth of nature than a practical instruction in detailed operations of magick. but dionysus, by the word inri, laid the foundation of all science, as we say science to-day in a particular sense, that is, of causing external nature to change in harmony with our wills. k liber aleph vel cxi 72 bs de tahuti (of tahuti) ahuti, or thoth, confirmed the word of dionysus by continuing it; for he showed how by the mind it was possible to direct the operations of the will. by criticism and by recorded memory man avoideth error. but the true word of tahuti was amoun, whereby he made men to understand their secret nature, that is, their unity with their true selves, or, as they then phrased it, with god. and he discovered unto the

reward from the masters, and consolation in the years of my sorrow. but the way that leadeth to the other form of this vision of beatitude, to wit, science is gnana yoga or raja yoga, of which i have written only here and there, as one who should throw great stones upon the earth in disorder, by default of building them nobly into a pyramid. and of this do i heartily repent me, and ask of the god thoth that he may give me (albeit at the eleventh hour) virtue and with that i may compose a true book upon these ways of union. thy first step, therefore, o my son, is to attain unto samadhi, and to urge thyself perpetually to repetition of thy successes therein, for it hath been said by philosophers of old that practice maketh perfect, and that manners, being the constant habit of life, maketh m

is our on of life. c liber aleph vel cxi 154 ec de leone (of the lion) f this, lion, o my son, be it said that this is the courage of thy manhood, leaping upon all things, and seizing hem for their prey. his letter is teth, whose implication is a serpent, and the number thereof nine, whereof is aub, the secret fire of obeah. also nine is of jesod, uniting change with stability. but in the book of thoth, he is the atu called strength, whose number is eleven which is aud, the light odic of magick. and therein is figured the lion, even the beast, and our lady babalon with her hands upon his mouth, that she may master him. here i would have thee to mark well how these our symbols are cognate, and flow forth the one into the other, because each soul partaketh in proper measure of the mystery of

sequitur de his viis (further concerning these paths) ow the path of ayin is a link between mercury and the sun, and in the zodiac importeth the goat. this goat is called also strength, and standeth in the meridian at the sunrise of spring; and it is his nature to leap upon the mountains. so herefore he is a symbol of true magick, and his name is baphomet, wherefore did i design him as an atu of thoth, the fifteenth, and put his image in the front of my book, the ritual of high magick, which was the second part of my thesis for the grade of major adept, when i was clothed about with he body called alphonse louis constant. now the goat flieth not as doth the eagle; but consider this also that it is the true nature of man to dwell upon the earth, so that his flights are oft but phantasy; ye

the absolute. m the book of wisdom or folly 177 #t de herbo sanctissimo arabico (of the most holy grass of the arabs) ecall, o my son, the fable of the hebrews, which they brought from the 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

sence, there is a path to separate and to join them, the reference thereof being aleph, that is one indeed, but also an hundred and eleven in his full orthography; to signify the most holy trinity, and by metathesis it is thick darkness, and sudden death. this is also the number of aum, which is amoun, and the root-sound of omne, or, in greek, pan, and it is a number of the sun. yet is the atu of thoth that correspondeth thereunto marked with zero, and its name is mat, whereof i have spoken formerly, and its image is the fool. 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 ecstas

LIBER ASTARTE

ylli svb figvra clxxv v a a publication in class d 1 0. this is the book of uniting himself to a particular deity by devotion. 1. considerations before the threshold. first concerning the choice of a particular deity. this matter is of no import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as saturn, or intellectual as thoth. but for such deities as in themselves partake in anywise of love it is a perfect mode. 2. concerning the prime method of this magick art. let the devotee consider well that although christ and osiris be one, yet the former is to be worshipped with christian, and the latter with egyptian rites. and this, although the rites themselves are ceremonially equivalent. there should, however, be one

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

t the world ablaze. and we have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leaving the larger wood unlit. and the great logs, the masses of humanity, are always with us. but our edged need is of those middle fagots that on the one hand are readily kindled by the small wood, and on the other endure until the great logs blaze (behold how sad a thing it is, quoth the ape of thoth, for one to be so holy that he cannot chop a tree and cook his food without preparing on it a long and tedious morality) let this epistle be copied and circulated among all those that have accepted the law of thelema. receive now our paternal benediction: the benediction of the all-begetter be upon thee. love is the law, love under will. 9 =28 a a given under our hand and seal this day of an

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

rifying images in white [enter the servant of hermes, a negro uglier than an ape. he is immensely long and lean; his body hangs forward, so that his arms nearly touch the ground. he is clad in a tightly fitting suit of scarlet, and wears a scarlet skullcap. he makes deep obeisance] hermes. speak, hanuman! hanuman. a lady [hermes nods gravely. exit hanuman. hermes. abaoth! abraxas! pur! pur! aeou! thoth [enter the lady psyche with one attendant. ee! oo! uu! iao sabaoth! dogs of hell! mumble spell! up! up! up! sup! sup! sup! adonis 23 u! aoth! abaoth! abraoth! sabaoth! livid, loath, obey the oath! ah [he shuts the book with a snap. you have come to me because you are crossed in love. psyche. most true, sir! hermes. ah! you fre greek! psyche. as you yourself, sir. hermes. then i.ve lost my pa

LIBER CHANOKH

d signs) earth b amissio w v. the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv. temperence water l laetitia q xviii. the moon air c albus z vi. the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix. the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx. the last judgement water c via m xii. the hanged man air d fortuna minor a 0. the fool earth (elements) earth (e) caput draconis t xxi. the universe (if using the book of thoth attributions, exchange h and x and change titles of tarot trumps accordingly. the remaining six trumps and hebrew letters are referred to the upper six squares of the calvary crosses as noted above. 18: rather than reproduce the version of the alphabet which appeared in the equinox publication i have substituted a face based on the final corrected forms of the letters from sloane 3188 (quint

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

earlier part [not very good; seems too much like thinking. o.m] 777 418 13 dja the lamen of frater v.i.o. this lamen is symbolical of the master s attainment, the great work which he brought to fulfilment. a r b a d a h a r b a trapt hr w b g d s j hny b hmk j r t k y a twklm dwsy dwh j x n 6=5 7= 4 8=3 9=2 10=1 0=0 0 1=1 2=9 3=8 4= 7 5=6 horus amoun nephthy s isis ptah heru-pa-kraat h osiris shu thoth hathoor ra n u i t h h d a i t h gt. one night of time t a the spirit of aiqhr c spirit of primal fire child of gt. transformers n the magus of power b f daug hter the flaming sword propher of the eternal y p lord of h osts of t he m ighty daughter of firmament x g priestess of silver star daughter of mighty ones d k lord of forces of life daughter of lords of truth l q ruler of flux and ref

LIBER CXX

of the god nu (here he robes the candidate in the proper robe) which shineth and sheddeth light upon that which belongeth to his breast, sending forth light into darkness, bringing to peace the two gods that are at war in his heart. mine is the mighty spell that raiseth up him that was fallen. i have taken possession of the lord of darkness; i have rescued the eye of the sun. i have brought forth thoth, and made even the scales of balance. mine is the ureret-crown; maat is in my body; its mouths are of turquoise and rock crystals; my home is among the burrows of lapis-lazuli: i am he that sheddeth light in the darkness: the darkness is made light and bright by me. i have given light in the darkness. i have overthrown the devourers. i have sung praises to them that dwell in the darkness. i

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ur anxiety shows me that i am not as far from attainment as my own feelings would have me think. at least, though, i am thrown into the active again; i shall rise and chant the enochian calls and invoke the bornless one, and clear a few of the devils away, and get an army of mighty angels around me.in short, make another kind of fool of myself, i wonder? anyway, i fll do it. not a bad idea to ask thoth to send me taphthartharath with a little information as to the route.i do not know where i am at all. this is a strange country, and i am very lonely. this shall be my ritual. 1. banishing pentagram ritual. 2. invoking ditto.1 3 .the bornless one [see the .goetia..ed] 1 [for these two see .liber o vel manus et saggita. in equinox i (2) and elsewhere] john st. john 73 4. the calls i.vi with t

ow where i am at all. this is a strange country, and i am very lonely. this shall be my ritual. 1. banishing pentagram ritual. 2. invoking ditto.1 3 .the bornless one [see the .goetia..ed] 1 [for these two see .liber o vel manus et saggita. in equinox i (2) and elsewhere] john st. john 73 4. the calls i.vi with the rituals of the five grades [from dr. dee.s and the g d mss..ed.]1 5. invocation of thoth. 6 (no: i will not use the new ritual, nor will i discuss the matter) an impromptu invocation of adonai. 7. closing formulae. to work, then! 11.15. the ceremony went well enough; the forces invoked came readily and visibly; thoth in particular as friendly as ever.i fancy he takes this record as a compliment to him.he fs welcome to it, poor god! the l.v.x. came, too but not enough to pierce t

ad, like a sot who has tried to get credit at a tavern and is turned away.and that on christmas eve! there is no money in his purse, no steam in his boilers. that.s what.s the matter with john st. john. it is clear enough, what happened yesterday. he failed at the four pylons in turn; in the morning fear stopped him at that of horus and so on; while in the evening he either failed at the pylon of thoth, i.e, was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overcome the duality of thoth. otherwise, even if he comprehended the base, he certainly failed at the apex of the pyramid. in any case, he cannot blame the ceremony, which is most potent; one or two small details may need correction, but no more. john st. john 95 here then he is down at the bottom of the hi

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

to weave my maiden spell! i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in southeast asar (rubric as before) in south. see isis. sorrow that eateth up the soul! dam of the gods! the blue sky.s queen. this is thy name. i come, control, and pass! i know thee, lady of teen i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i! bar in northeast asar (rubric as before) in east. see thoth. silence. vel pyramidos 9 bar in southwest. asar (rubric as before) in west. see nature (c. contemplates self, in silence) i will not look uon thee more, for fatal is thy name. begone! false phantom, thou shalt pass before the frowning forehead of the sun. i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i. at altar. formulating hexagram. now witness ye upon the earth, spirit and water

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

up with some shorter writings on astrology by crowley, was printed in 2003 as the general principles of astrology, edited by william breeze. 10 see gliber lxxviii, a description of the cards of the taro h (in equinox i (8) and reprinted as tarot divination with a largely spurious author credit to crowley.it is a very slight adaptation of a golden dawn instruction, and equinox iii (5, the book of thoth, a largely original work of crowley fs (sometimes also designated liber 78. 11 liber 536, gbatracoboofrenokosmomacia. h 12 gliber turris vel domus dei h (xvi. 13 see gliber iii vel jugorum, h i. 14 see gliber astarte vel berylii h (175) 15 no published a a instruction treats directly of talismans or evocation, although ritual outlines (in the golden dawn z2 paper) and two examples were print

LIBER HAD

rceive that therefore the knowledge of hadit is the knowledge of death. this is the third practice of intelligence (ccxx. ii. 6. 6. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist of destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of tarot (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe in the lotus. note that the .ibis position. formulates this conception most exactly. ed) this is the fourth practice of intelligence (ccxx. ii. 7. 7. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the

LIBER ISRAFEL

invoke. thou, whose skin is of flaming orange as though it burned in a furnace! thee, thee i invoke. 6. behold! i am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of to- morrow! i am born again and again. mine is the unseen force, whereof the gods are sprung! which is as life unto the dwellers in the watch-towers of the universe. 1 [more usually known as gjudgement h or gthe last judgement. h in crowley fs thoth deck it is called gthe aon. h. t.s] 2 liber israfel i am the charioteer of the east, lord of the past and of the future. i see by mine own inward light: lord of resurrection; who cometh forth from the dusk, and my birth is from the house of death. 7. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles! who keep watch over the universe! ye who company the bier to the house of rest! who pilot the ship o

e is the sanctuary of truth! and a god sitteth upon my lips. 11. my word is accomplished every day! and the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of ptah when he createth! i am eternal; therefore all things are as my designs; therefore do all things obey my word. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence: unutterable wisdom! all-light! all-power! svb figvra lxiv 3 thoth! hermes! mercury! odin! by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity: come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 12. thou, star of the east, that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same all-present in heaven and in hell! thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness! rising, descending! changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy fa

on) 19. there is an end of the speech; let the silence of darkness be broken; let it return into the silence of light. 20. the speaker silently departs; the listeners disperse unto their homes; yea, they disperse unto their homes. 5 [this section is a slight adaptation of the ggeneral exordium h which opens the golden dawn z1 paper. t.s [this ritual is an adaptation by crowley of an invocation of thoth put together by allan bennett from golden dawn material, egyptian texts and miscellaneous sources, a few only of which are noted. the earlier version (corresponding to points 5-13 only of the present text) was published in equinox i (3) as part of bennett fs ritual for the evocation to visible appearance of taphthartharath the spirit of mercury. text (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. b

LIBER LVII

a a a h d r b the supernals are supported upon two squares: daba= dd, love, 8. arha= rwa, light, 207. now 8 207= 1656= 18= yj, living, and 207= 9 23, hyj, life. at this time .licht, liebe, leben. was the mystic name of the mother- temple of the g d. the five letters used in the word are a, the crown; b, the wand, d, the cup; h, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. on the qabalah 51 also 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the .laughing lion. on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly sign

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ocket. 120. my balti coolies.21.see my .the higher the fewer* 125. eton.22.a school, noted for its breed of cads. the battle of waterloo (1815) was won on its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23.sir j. maundevill .voiage and travill. ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34.i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25.in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished. t.s] 64 the sword of song 149. ra.26.the sun-god. 149. nuit.27.the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28..the waters wild went o.er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29.characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30.see .two poets of croisic. xci. 159. a jest.31.see above: ascension da

bble is riddled by specific trouble) will grow like eggs a person curries. this line, no doubt, requires an answer. the last ditch. first .here.s a johnny with a cancer; an operation may be useless, may even harm his constitution, or cause his instant dissolution: let the worm die .tis but a goose less. not you! you up and take by storm him. you tie him down and chloroform him. you do not pray to thoth or horus, but make one dash for his pylorus. and if ten years elapse, and he complains .o doctor, pity me! your cruel .ands, for goodness sakes gave me such .orrid stomach-aches. 68 the sword of song you write him, with a face of flint, an order for some soda-mint. so yoga. life.s a carcinoma, its cause uncertain, not to check. in vain you cry to isis .o ma! i.ve got it fairly in the neck. t

LIBER LXXVIII

tle tarot divination (weiser. in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (10) it was declared to be liber lxxviii in class b. in the gpramonstrance h in equinox iii (1, a forthcoming publication under this number was decribed as g ca complete treatise on the tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all planes. h which eventually manifested as the book of thoth, published in 1944 as equinox iii (5; this was an original work on the tarot which largely supercedes the present treatment; while it bore no number on publication it is sometimes cited as liber lxxviii. the present e-text is based on a key-entry made from the equinox printing by w. e. heidrick for o.t.o. this transcript corrected a few errors in the hebrew names of the angels from the equin

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

is behind and beyond all manifestation) is the number 0. its symbol is the very emblem of infinite space and infinite time. multiply it by any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes.sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with- us is declared by thoth, the great god, and the material universe sinketh into infinity. the first number, then, is one; emblem of the all-father; the unmanifest mind behind all manifestation: the first mind. multiply by it any other number.for the multiplication of the numbers is a generation, as is the multiplication of men and gods.and behold! the resultant is a replica of the number taken. so is one the all-fat

ised by the son (3) as the vice-gerent of his father. these balanced figures together make 16, whereof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10* the perfection of the sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 again, the central will, b, thoth, in the heart of the universe (as* vide sepher yetzirah for this division of the holy sephiroth into a hexad and a tetrad. liber mmcmxi 12 in the centre of the verse. note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that mystery.that equilibrium is strength. let us now look at the letters themselves. counting them, we find that the two central ones are am, the supernal mother;

e seal and title and key of the whole book. holding this in mind, let us proceed to analyse it. the number of its letters is six, the seal of creation, and their total numeric value is 2911. 2911= 13= death, the transformer .the distinct formulation of the three in one, uniting once more to produce the 4. now beth primarily signifieth a house or abode, and in taro it is, the magus.the vox dei.and thoth, the recorder. coalesce these two ideas and we get b .this is the magical history. r signifieth the head or beginning of time and things; and by taro it is glory, life, light, sun. thus read .of the dawning of life and light. a is by shape the svastika, symbolically aleph, the ox, as though showing the fearful force of the spiritual .whirling motions. upon the material plane, as a terrible a

hence .at the threshold of the universe. so the whole word reads: b this is the magical history r of the dawning of the light. a begun are the whirling motions; c formulated is the primal fire; y proclaimed is the reign of the gods of light t at the threshold of the infinite worlds! now compare this with the particular exordium (g d ms. z1: b at the ending of the night at the limits of the light thoth stood before the unborn ones of time then was formulated the universe. r then came forth the gods thereof, the aons of the bornless beyond. a then was the voice vibrated. c then was the name declared* the hand of god, always the symbol of his power. remember in the description of the .caduceus (see .the temple of solomon the king) the air symbol vibrating between them [also y, f, is a mercur

fore the unborn ones of time then was formulated the universe. r then came forth the gods thereof, the aons of the bornless beyond. a then was the voice vibrated. c then was the name declared* the hand of god, always the symbol of his power. remember in the description of the .caduceus (see .the temple of solomon the king) the air symbol vibrating between them [also y, f, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0= 0..p. the name \c, the spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth. a note on genesis 15 t at the threshold of entrance, betwixt the universe and the infinite, y in the sign of t

though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0= 0..p. the name \c, the spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth. a note on genesis 15 t at the threshold of entrance, betwixt the universe and the infinite, y in the sign of the enterer: stood thoth as before him the aons were proclaimed. the positions of the last two letters of the word have been relatively changed, so as to render the meaning more harmoniously. we will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated, taking b.rasheth as the title rather than as the first word. this latter stands bet-resh-aleph, which hath three letters, symbolising thereby the unmanifest

LIBER O

nd .knowledge of sciences. by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its [lat .the traveller in the kingdoms of the tree (scil. of life [lat .the arrow beyond the moon (the reference being to the path of samekh on the kircher tree] svb figvra vi. 3 lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphthartharath,4 its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants verva

LIBER V VEL REGULI

d in the ritual which i started to write, but it hardly suitable as part of the patter. damn the man that isolated cocaine (ac diary, july 1921, quoted in the editor.s introduction to the 1994 .blue brick. edition of magick, p. lxiii. 8 a name sometimes used for tarot trump xx, more usually called .judgement. or .the last judgement. attributed to c in the golden dawn correspondences. in crowley.s thoth deck it is called the aon. 9 tarot trump xi (viii in some packs, attributed to f in the golden dawn correspondences. in crowley.s thoth deck it is called lust. 10 an allusion to the opening of the .siphra dtzenioutha. or .book of concealment. a kabbalistic text translated by mathers from the latin of von rosenroth.s kabbala denudata and published in the kabbalah unveiled. 11 to explain this

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

sed by coven nachttoter/the order of phosphorus differs from the original, the foundation is in itself similar if not the same. the triple hermetic circle is presented here anew, that the student makes use this by daring to do so. the reworked version is attributed to the four elements as follows: direction element god form planet north earth set saturn/sothis east fire horus mars/sun south water thoth moon west air anubis venus while pathal attributions are based on the elements in a different manner, this hermetic version in the directions and elements were first developed by hamara t however the god forms were developed through the order of phosphorus. one may develop their own circle based on the pathal elements within a left hand path manner as the following for an example. direction

path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle! azatum ashramu likiahaka southern quarter guardian of the gateway- hawk headed lord of fire, guardian of the eastern quarter. horus ialanpa zarasu manifest unto this circle, blood covered hawk of sunrise! come forth and guard this rite! zariza nalaia sroha 20 eastern guardian of the gateway- thoth, lamp and wisdom of the moon, guardian of the arte magickal come forth and guard the southern quarter open thy scrolls of sorcerous knowledge i seek the gateway of lunar awakening! azothoz thoth likalia northern quarter guardian of the gateway- set-an ziorzo, bringer of the black flame guardian of the northern quarter, i summon thee forth to protect and fortify this circle typhon sothis, do

e sorcerer with a focused current of being, from which he or she will enter the luciferian gnosis with ease. i call forth the infernal shadows which nourish my body and soul; i invoke the circle which empowers my form of being, from the north, i invoke the force of set, being my shadow of self from the west, i invoke the force of anubis, the opener of the way from the south, i invoke the force of thoth, whose lamp illuminates my path from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

ogmatic and unchallenging religious doctrine "necrominion" and "the book of tahuti" were two manuscripts which survived pace, authored in the late 1960's and early 70's 'necrominion' was based around the sethanic cult of masks, an ornate sexual magick rite known as "ankh-ka, the five fold kiss and material on the hermetic tarot which lists different attributes than aleister crowley's own coherent thoth deck `the book of tahuti' was dedicated to `austin ozman spare' is based upon the hermetic tarot, many of the plates are beautiful and impressionistic. included in the manuscript was hamar'at's triple hermetic circle, which was incorporated in coven nachttoter and my own magickal work. it presents ankh ka djed meaning a triple form and self-invigoration, presenting a similar result as what t

MAGIC AND SPELLS

isma by 4 points once per day. activating this power is a free action. the -charisma increase lasts 1 minute. charm domain spells 1 charm person 6 geas/quest 2 calm emotions 7 insanity 3 suggestion 8 demand 4 emotion 9 dominate monster 5 charm monster craft domain deities: callarduran smoothhands, dugmaren brightmantle, dumathoin, flandal steelskin, gar] glittergold, geb, gond, laduguer, moradin, thoth. magic granted power: you cast creation spells at +1 caster level and gain skill focus (a +2 bonus) in the craft skill of your choice. craft domain spells darkness domain deities: lolth, m.ask, set, sharshargas, granted power: free blind-fight feat. death domain deities: jergal, kelemvor, osiris, urogalan, velsharoon, yurtrus. destruction' domain deities: bane, cyric, garagos, ilneval, istis

lurne, luthic, sharindlar, torm. illusion domain deities: akadi, azuth, baravar cloakshadow, cynic, mystra, sehanine moonbow. granted power: you cast all illusion spells at +1 caster level. knowledge domain deities: angharradh, azuth, deep sashelas, deneir, dugmaren brightmantle, dumathoin, goud, gwaeron windstrom, labelas enoreth, milil, mystra, oghma, savras, sehanine moonbow, shar, siamorphe, thoth, tyr, waukeen. law domain' deities: arvoreen, azuth, bane, berronar truesilver, clangeddin, cyrrollalee, deep duerra, gaerdal ironhand, gargauth, garl glittergold, gorm gulthyn, helm, hoar, horus-re, ilmater, jergal, kelemvor, laduguer, loviatar, moradin, nobanion, osiris, red knight, savras, set, siamorphe, tiamat, torm, tyr, ulutiu, urogalan, yondalla. illusion domain spells 1 silent image

e 5 righteous might 1 bless 6 heroes' feast 2 shield other 7 refuge 3 helping hand 8 protection from spells 4 imbue with spell ability 9 prismatic sphere f rary's telepathic bond luck domain deities: abbathor, beshaba, brandobaris, erevan ilesere, haela brightaxe, mask, oghma, tymora, vergadain. magic domain. deities: azuth, corellon larethian, hanali celanil, isis, laduguer, mystra, savras, set, thoth, velsharoon. mentalism domain deity: deep duerra. granted power: you can generate a mental ward, a spell-like ability to grant someone you touch a resistance bonus on her next will saving throw equal to your level +2. activating this power is a standard action. the mental ward is an abjuration effect with a duration of 1 hour that is usable once per day. nobility domain' deities: eilistraee

eatures only. 7 greater restoration 8 polyrnorph any object 9 freedom slime domain 7 creeping doom (composed of tiny snakes) 8 animal shapes* 9 shapechange deity: ghaunadaur. granted power: rebuke or command oozes as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. use this ability a total number of times per day equal to three+ your charisma modifier. magic spell domain deities: azuth, mystra, savras, thoth. granted power: you get a +2 bonus on concentration and spellcraft checks. 1 mage armor 2 silence 3 anyspell 4 rary's mnemonic enhancer 5 break enchantment spell domain spells 6789 spider domain deities: lolth, selvetarm. granted power: rebuke or command spiders as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. use this ability a total number of times per day equal to three+ your charisma modifi

creatures immune to critical hits. suffering domain spells slime domain spells 1' grease 6 transmute rock to mud 2 melf's acid arrow 7 destruction 3 poison 8 power word, blind 4 rusting grasp 9 implosion 5 evard's black tentacles rune domain deities: aerdrie faenya, anhur, auril, isis, istishia, talos, umber- deities: deneir, dugmaren granted power: free scribe rune brightmantle, jergal, mystra, thoth. scroll feat. domain spells lee. granted power: you gain storm electricity resistance 5. domain spells 1 erase 6 greater glyph of warding 1 entropic shield 6 summon monster vi 2 secret page 7 drawmij's instant summons 2 gust of wind (air spell only) 3 glyph of warding 8 symbol 3 call lightning 7 control weather 4 explosive runes 9 teleportation circle 4 sleet storm 8 whirlwind s lesser plana

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

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

ii the eleusinian mysteries--the lesser rites--the greater rites--the orphic mysteries- the bacchic mysteries--the dionysiac mysteries. 29 atlantis and the gods of antiquity plato's atlantis in the light of modern science-the myth of the dying god-the rite of tammuz and ishtar--the mysteries of atys and adonis-the rites of sabazius--the cabiric mysteries of samothrace. 33 the life and writings of thoth hermes trismegistus suppositions concerning identity of hermes--the mutilated hermetic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid my

nters around four brothers. the first three--aschieros, achiochersus, and achiochersa--attack and murder the fourth--cashmala (or cadmillus. dionysidorus, however, identifies aschieros with demeter, achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexander wilder notes that in the samothracian ritual "cadmillus is made to include the theban serpent-god, cadmus, the thoth of egypt, the hermes of the greeks, and the emeph or sculapius of the alexandrians and phoenicians" here again is a repetition of the story of osiris, bacchus, adonis, balder, and hiram abiff. the worship of atys and cybele was also involved in the samothracian mysteries. in the rituals of the cabiri is to be traced a form of pine-tree worship, for this tree, sacred to atys, was first trimme

e rediscovered if christianity is to reach the heights attained by the pagans in the days of their philosophic supremacy. the myth of the dying god is the key to both universal and individual redemption and regeneration, and those who do not comprehend the true nature of this supreme allegory are not privileged to consider themselves either wise or truly religious. next: the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 37 the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus thunder rolled, lightning flashed, the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. the venerable initiator, in his robes of blue and gold, slowly raised his jeweled wand and pointed with it into the darkness revealed by the tearing of the silken curtain "behold the ligh

onsiderably larger than that of a mortal man. the body seemed partly transparent so that the heart and brain could be seen pulsating and radiant. as the candidate watched, the heart changed into an ibis, and the brain into a flashing emerald. in its hand this mysterious being bore a winged rod, entwined with serpents. the aged initiator, raising his wand, cried out in a loud voice "all hail thee, thoth hermes, thrice greatest; all hail thee, prince of men; all hail thee who standeth upon the head of typhon" at the same instant a lurid writhing dragon appeared--a hideous monster, part serpent, part crocodile, and part hog. from its mouth and nostrils poured sheets of flame and horrible sounds echoed through the vaulted chambers. suddenly hermes struck the advancing reptile with the serpent

ledge to all posterity; by which he has demonstrated himself to have been not only an inspired divine, but also a deep philosopher, obtaining his wisdom from god and heavenly things, and not from man" his transcendent learning caused hermes to be identified with many of the early sages and prophets. in his ancient mythology, bryant writes "i have mentioned that cadmus was the same as the egyptian thoth; and it is manifest from his being hermes, and from the invention of letters being attributed to him (in the chapter on the theory of pythagorean mathematics will be found the table of the original cadmean letters) investigators believe that it was hermes who was known to the jews as "enoch" called by kenealy the "second messenger of god" hermes was accepted into the mythology of the greeks

who was known to the jews as "enoch" called by kenealy the "second messenger of god" hermes was accepted into the mythology of the greeks, later becoming the mercury of the latins. he was revered through the form of the planet mercury because this body is nearest to the sun: hermes of all creatures was nearest to god, and became known as the messenger of the gods. in the egyptian drawings of him, thoth carries a waxen writing tablet and serves as the recorder during the weighing of the souls of the dead in the judgment hall of osiris--a ritual of great significance. hermes is of first importance to masonic scholars, because he was the author of the masonic initiatory rituals, which were borrowed from the mysteries established by hermes. nearly all of the masonic symbols are hermetic in cha

chemists or philosophers have come down to us, we now approach the historic period, when books were written, not at first upon parchment or paper, but upon papyrus. a series of early egyptian books is attributed to hermes trismegistus, who may have been a real savant, or may be a personification of a long succession of writers* he is identified by some with the greek god hermes, and the egyptian thoth or tuti, who was the moon-god, and is represented in ancient paintings as ibis-headed with the disc and crescent of the moon. the egyptians regarded him as the god of wisdom, letters, and the recording of time. it is in consequence of the great respect entertained for hermes by the old alchemists that chemical writings were called 'hermetic' and that the phrase 'hermetically sealed' is still

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

countermagic against some imaginary enemy when in fact a relatively simple amulet of beneficence may be all that is required. we must know what we are at hence divination. now in magic and witchcraft, the operations of divination have always been conducted by means of contact with a power which is symbolized by the astrological symbol of mercury. the greeks called this power hermes, the egyptians thoth, the scandinavians odin, the early anglo-saxons woden. this power has generally been connected with the starry sky, the air, storm winds, and also the crossroads. indeed in the voodoo pantheon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also known as psychopompos or guide of souls. the saxons knew hi

be the numbers in the square as illustrated, in their correct numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, onwards, ending with 64. as you write each number, repeat a short invocation to mercury of your own devising, such as "mercury, be propitious to me" or "herne, lord of the crossroads, guide of the dead "earende, the morning star" or even a string of his names from various pantheons like "mercury hermes odin thoth" whichever you prefer. the only important thing to remember is that the charm should summon up a mental image in your mind which in some way strikes your fancy and links the work in hand with an idea concerning mercury, such as wisdom, speed, starlight, the air, a crossroads at night, or even one of the classical images of mercury. it might be as well to consult a book of mythology at this p

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

g shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an eye. the symbolism of the devil as the initiator may be best understood by the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms and desolate places. set is the tester of self, the adversary and 9 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 10 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, ant

headed god of the desert, the lord of storms and desolate places. set is the tester of self, the adversary and 9 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 10 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, antinomianism. 11 the book of thoth weiser publications 8 opposer. set is also related to saturn. this planet, called also shabbathai, is the sphere of saturn and is considered a meeting place of the witches sabbat. the image of those leaving the flesh, to go forth in the name of the devil by flying with familiars and other demons is not too far from realistic workings in the present time. lucifer is found in the higher octave

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

i call forth the infernal shadows which nourish my body and soul; i invoke the circle which empowers my form of being, from the north, i invoke the force of set, being my shadow of self let the blackened flame illuminate from this very forge! from the west, i invoke the force of anubis, the opener of the way let the violet light of the dead empower my spirit! from the south, i invoke the force of thoth, whose lamp illuminates my path let the fires of wisdom and self-discover guide my path! from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit reveal thy essence as azal ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pur

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

hadows. out of the great deep were they called by the wisdom of theearth-manin the form of man they moved amongst us, but only to sight were they as men. serpent-headed when the glamour was liftedcrept they into councils, taking form that were likeunto men. slaying by their arts the chiefs of the kingdoms, taking their form and ruling oermanto destroy man and rule in his place (emerald tablets of thoth the atlantean) some of the biggest men in the united states, in the field of commerce and manufacture, areafraid of somebody, are afraid of something. they know there is a power somewhere soorganized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had bet-ter not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it (president woodrowwilson)this place is

d intellectual condescension is tocovet disaster. the tribulations to which they habitually refer were not written in inkand stone, but in blood, blood dead and blood living. they are in our dna. thehuman body is the scriptorium where is kept the greatest gnosis. when will the occi-dental scholar realize that the real academy, the real lyceum, the real library of alex-andria, the real chambers of thoth, hermes, or merlin are not under a rock in someremote wilderness waiting to be discovered by a wanna-be indiana jones. they are inthe house of bone, the temple of the nine gatesthe human body. the famed pillarsof hercules guarding the way to atlantis are not of stone. they are the arms ofadam-kad-amon. they are the serpentine strands of dna.the legacy of the atlanteans is only partly resolve

godjehovaha doctrine born out of fear that was contrary to all tradition and historicalrecord in the contemporary and preceding environments (p. 120)ankh-f-khonsuthe priest prince that ruled 2170 b.c. and who opened and held a dragon court.english freemasonic debaclethe english masonic system, which was extensively revised in the eighteenth century, adopted anexclusively western doctrine wherein thoth, the traditionally styled great architect, was figurativelysupplanted by the judeo-christian god. by virtue of this adjustment, it is claimed that the originalsecrets of freemasonry have been lost but rather more to the point is that the old mysteries wereshunned by the hanoverian inventors of the english system (based on a york rite, which retains onlyvague allegories and obscure ritual. th

nd, part of the black nobility which traces itspower back 5,000 years. 1948 crowleyean ritual magic allegedly worked by jack parsons and reputed naval intelligence agentron hubbard, who would later found the church of scientology, based on initiatory grades and a cos-mology reminiscent of theosophy. interestingly, the symbol of scientology is identical to the crowleyemblem depicted in the book of thoth. hubbard is reported to have maintained that he was a reincarna-tion of cecil rhodes. 1948 assassination of gandhi in india. 1948 israel creates central institute for intelligence and security. 1948 world council of churches founded in amsterdam, holland. 1948 operation ohio, a cia plan for assassination, begins. over 100 european figures are assassinatedunder this program before 1958. 1948

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

by a few in the occult, is that the ancient ones are chained in darkness, and that there is a certain celestial radiation arriving from space that is utterly toxic to these titans. there is a day coming, however, when the rays of the stars will no longer be toxic to the old ones, and this day will be marked by some kind of rare astronomical event. after this event in the sky, the wicked god azag-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of

ts ancient glory. i can t believe it s not fiction: tiamat queen of the damned (2002) hades [5.5] hades is the lord of the underworld. although greek mythology does not depict hades as a villain, modern satanists( and a little common sense) have confirmed to me that he is god s greatest enemy today. in rome, he was known as pluto and the hebrews knew him as mot. in the lovecraft mythos he is azag-thoth, and to many occults he is called coronzon; just like hades, who is considered both a character and a location, coronzon is also considered a character and a location. the egyptians call this demon apep. the greeks and christians know the location of hades as sheol, or the land of the dead, but the hebrews knew it as da ath, and the author h.p. lovecraft called it yog-sothoth. hades is an in

ingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. as stated earlier, satanists make numerous references to a devilish force stealing the creative power of the most high god, and this has given birth to much phallic symbolism. subservient to hades are many lesser demons, some of which are merely empty shells with little intellect. for the novelist h.p. lovecraft, hades went by the name azag-thoth, the mad blind god. azag-thoth is presented as the leader of the demons and resides at the center of the universe in a dark underworld called the igigi. azag-thoth is described as the embodiment of chaos, extremely powerful, and rendered sightless in some battle. the mad god sits upon a black throne, where he rules the dead spirits of the outer void. the black man of the sabbat, baphomet is

oth is presented as the leader of the demons and resides at the center of the universe in a dark underworld called the igigi. azag-thoth is described as the embodiment of chaos, extremely powerful, and rendered sightless in some battle. the mad god sits upon a black throne, where he rules the dead spirits of the outer void. the black man of the sabbat, baphomet is considered the messenger of azag-thoth and his will made fresh. when the stars assume the correct positions and the rays that come from them are no longer poisonous, azag--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 81 thoth will lead the old ones (the aforementioned titans) out of the abyss, and into the world of man; the old ones intend on ruling the earth as they once did. in this new age the human race will of coarse be reduced to sl

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

h of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle! azatum- ashramu- likiahaka southern quarter guardian of the gateway- hawk headed lord of fire, guardian of the eastern quarter. horus- lalanpa- zarasu manifest unto this circle, blood covered hawk of sunrise! come forth and guard this rite! zariza- nalaia- sroha eastern guardian of the gatewav- thoth, lamp and wisdom of the moon, guardian of the arte magickal come forth and guard the southern quarter open thy scrolls ofsorcerous knowledge i seek the gateway of lunar awakening! azothoz- thoth- likalia northern quarter guardian of the catewav- set-hen ziorzo, bringer of the black flame guardian of the northern quarter, 1 summon thee forth to protect and fortify this circle- typhon sothis

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

formulas of the sun and the moon are given, which is a sigillized text of the watchers of the book of enoch. the grimoire ends with an invocation of set the adversary. azothoz is beautifully illustrated by elda isela ford, who captures the pictorial symbolization of the darker aspects of the sorcerous path. all material copyright (c) michael w. ford 2003 http//algol.chaosmagic.com [1] the book of thoth, aleister crowley, the thoth tarot [2] fire and ice by stephen e. flowers [3] the throne of twilight is the awakening undertaken by the initiate, by he and she whom invokes and envisions the luciferian light. that lucifer is iblis, the imagination and the very foundation of free thought that defines the propagation of the will. from sethanic witchcraft& the left hand path, the introduction t

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evoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the name of a city[_josh. xix. 38; and of a man[_ezr. ii. 32, x. 31 _neh. iii. 11 [hebrew _khirah, means nobility, a noble race. buddha is declared to comprehend in his own person the essence of the hindu trimurti; and hence the tri-literal monosyllable _om_ or _aum_ is applied to him as being essentially the same as brahma-vishnu-siva. he is the same as hermes, thoth, taut, and teutates. one of his names is heri-maya or her-maya, which are evidently the same name as hermes and khirm or khurm. heri, in sanscrit, means _lord. a learned brother places over the two symbolic pillars, from right to left, the two words [symbols] and [symbols [hebrew] and [hebrew, ihu and bal: followed by the hieroglyphic equivalent [hieroglyphic] of the sun-god, amun-ra. is it

f god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnosticism, he was confounded with matter. from egypt or persia the

the sons of men, that they should worship god, that they should fast, that they should pray, that they should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. he reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for sacrifices to the sun, at each of the zodiacal signs" manetho extracted his history from certain pillars which he discovered in egypt, whereon inscriptions had been made by thoth, or the first mercury [or hermes, in the sacred letters and dialect: but which were after the flood translated from that dialect into the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be

tments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient rites; who, foreseeing the coming of the deluge, and fearing lest the memory of their ceremonies should be obliterated, built and contrived vaults, dug with vast labor, in several places. from the bosom of egypt sprang a man of consummate wisdom, initiated in the secret knowledge of india, of persia, and of ethiopia, named thoth or phtha by his compatriots, taaut by the phoenicians, hermes trismegistus by the greeks, and adris by the rabbins. nature seemed to have chosen him for her favorite and to have lavished on him all the qualities necessary to enable him to study her and to know her thoroughly. the deity had, so to say, infused into him the sciences and the arts, in order that he might instruct the whole world

t the dragon" sanchoniathon says that taaut was the author of the worship of serpents among the ph nicians. he "consecrated" he says "the species of dragons and serpents; and the ph nicians and egyptians followed him in this superstition" he was "the first who made an image of c lus; that is, who represented the heavenly hosts of stars by visible symbols; and was probably the same as the egyptian thoth. on the tyrian coins of the age of alexander, serpents are represented in many positions and attitudes, coiled around trees, erect in front of altars, and crushed by the syrian hercules. the seventh letter of the egyptian alphabet, called _zeuta_ or _life, was sacred to thoth, and was expressed by a serpent standing on his tail; and that deity, the god of healing, like sculapius, to whom the

ion virgo, was a winged wand, entwined by two serpents. it was originally a simple cross, symbolizing the equator and equinoctial colure, and the four elements proceeding from a common centre. this cross, surmounted by a circle, and that by a crescent, became an emblem of the supreme deity--or of the active power of generation and the passive power of production conjoined--and was appropriated to thoth or mercury. it then assumed an improved form, the arms of the cross being changed into wings, and the circle and crescent being formed by two snakes, springing from the wand, forming a circle by crossing each other, and their heads making the horns of the crescent; in which form it is seen in the hands of anubis. the triple tau, in the centre of a circle and a triangle, typifies the sacred n

l deity was always a triad under one roof; and it was the same in egypt, where one supreme god alone was acknowledged, but was worshipped as a triad, with different names in each different home. each city in etruria might have as many gods and gates and temples as it pleased; but three sacred gates, and one temple to three divine attributes were obligatory, wherever the laws of tages (or taunt or thoth) were received. the only gate that remains in italy, of the olden time, undestroyed, is the porta del circo at volterra; and it has upon it the three heads of the three national divinities, one upon the keystone of its magnificent arch, and one above each side-pillar. the buddhists hold that the god sakya of the hindus, called in ceylon, gautama, in india beyond the ganges, somonakodom, and

earthly transit. he died and descended to the shades; and his suffering was the great secret of the mysteries, as death is the grand mystery of existence. he is the immortal suitor of psyche (the soul, the divine influence which physically called the world into being, and which, awakening the soul from its stygian trance, restores it from earth to heaven. of hermes, the mercury of the greeks, the thoth of the egyptians, and the taaut of the ph nicians, we have heretofore spoken sufficiently at length. he was the inventor of letters and of oratory, the winged messenger of the gods, bearing the caduceus wreathed with serpents; and in our council he is represented by the orator. the _hindus_ called the sun surya; the _persians, mithras; the _egyptians, osiris; the _assyrians_ and _chald ans

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tation went on. finally aiwass incorporates his doubt in the text, answering it out loud, and speaking for the goddess. the key is, of course, that monotheism is a lie. belief in the oneness of man is a great comfort to the ego "i am the one" cries every 'black brother. the master of the temple answers not, for he is not. the ox aleph is the ox, of course, 1 by the qabalah and zero by the book of thoth, the taro. also, aleph in full alp is 111 "one, one, one. it is also indicative that the two letters of ox in english suggest the cross and the circle. 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the suf

will regenerate earth by establishing the law of liberty 'my heart& my tongue' seems a mere phrase of endearment; but has possibly some deep significance which at present escapes me. heart--the seat of intelligence for the ancient egyptians. tongue- the organ of the word, corresponding to the phallus, for which it is often an euphemism. a possible meaning is therefore heart ra-hoor khuit, tongue thoth. see liber resh. the second paragraph is perhaps an answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. no: though i be 'of the princes, with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my work [inserted footnote "assuage thee: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment "absolve thee: relieve thee from further duty] 54. change not as much as the style of

d" is of deeper significance than at first sight may appear. the question is not merely equivalent to "is the dictation at an end" for the word is conceived as the act of possession. this is evident from the choice of the word "exhausted. the inspiration has been like an electrical discharge. language is in itself nothing; it is only the medium of transmitting experience to consciousness. tahuti, thoth, hermes, or mercury symbolize this relation; the character of this god is declared in very full terms in "the paris working, which should be studied eagerly by those who are fortunate enough to have access to the ms. 70. there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; refine thy rapture! if thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety r

prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. they shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418. there are certain occult wonders concealed in the first part of this text (see liber ccclxx) the solution of the last sentence may depend upon the number of the verse, which is that of mezla, the influx from the highest, and of the book of thoth, or tarot. we may take 'thy name' as 'the sun, for qabalistic reasons; the verse need not imply the establishment of a new cult with myself as demigod (help) but they shall worship the group of ideas connected with the sun, and the magical formula of the number 418, explained elsewhere. the establishment of a "new cult" with aleister crowley as demigod would be the denial of his entire work

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comparison with the minds of man and the states of being of the elect! in fact, and except for a few rare cases, all of the above probably cannot exist in the same person! we of the temple of set can boast of those rare cases within our ranks. q.e.d. the association with our school, the peristyle, is mandatory for this stage of initiation. we as pupils and also our own pupils entered the gates of thoth, and after we questioned and probed, we were awed. and we are awed at our own ability to *see* what we have never before seen and sense what we have never before felt. we begin to lift the veil. xepera: the cup of knowledge to drink from the chalice of emerging is to mingle what you "know" with what you envision. for envisioning is the catalyst of understanding. xepera will hold dear your dr

. for envisioning is the catalyst of understanding. xepera will hold dear your dreams and teachings, and furrow them into your own cup of experience, your essence of existence, which is far more attuned to your consciousness and lore than earthly things. the door to this state of acknowledgement is three-sided. one is the seed, implanted by ra for impregnation. two is the recognition of the idea (thoth- the envisioning of number three, which is the realization of the whole state of being (xepera. the aforementioned state cannot be reached or even understood by any but those who seek only this and naught other "when i am that i am not, and i am not that i am, then i am that i am- ronald k. barrett v, i am manuscript lucifer: realization, transmutation, light the human man looks at his diplo

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

and as amun-min, a fertility god. known by various names, most of the gods could also be depicted in animal as well as human form. mother of the stars nut s union with her brother geb and the birth of her children, the stars (often shown as decoration on her clothing, infuriated her father shu, who cursed her so that she would never again give birth in any month of the year. but nut gambled with thoth, the moon god and reckoner of time, and won from him five extra days outside the 12 lunar months of 30 days each. in these days she gave birth to her children osiris, blind horus, seth, isis, and nephthys. scarab beetle the winged scarab beetle of re is shown joined with the mummified body of osiris, which rises from the fertile earth. this motif symbolizes the resurrection of osiris and the

ne who is among the unwearying stars. the book of the dead company of gods re is accompanied on his journey by seven (four not shown here) other gods with horus at the helm. the other gods cannot be identified beyond doubt. the company usually includes three of the earliestcreated gods, sia (perception, hu (utterance, and hike (magic) as well as such important gods as shu, geb, osiris, horus, and thoth. sometimes there are also goddesses in the barque, especially hathor. barque of the sun re is shown in his solar barque, in which he travels through the sky. horus bastet w hen human beings began to plot against the ageing re, he transformed the goddess hathor (the sacred cow of fertility) into a raging lioness, sekhmet. her bloodlust brought plague and death into existence. this goddess, wh

meaning eternally good. he was murdered by his jealous brother seth, who tricked him into a wooden chest, which he sealed up and sent down the nile. osiris wife isis rescued the corpse, but when seth found it, he cut it up and scattered the pieces all over egypt. sorrowfully, isis and her sister nepthys collected every piece and, with the help of anubis, the guide of souls to the underworld, and thoth, the gods scribe, they pieced osiris back together as the first mummy. isis transformed herself into a kite and, hovering over the body, she fanned life into it with her wings; it was at this moment that she conceived a son, horus, who would avenge his father. the revived osiris went down to the dark and desolate underworld to be the lord and judge of the dead. falcon s head horus is usually

rt s son. pitying the dying child, isis cured him. she then went to khemmis and gave birth to horus. desperately poor, isis often had to leave the baby alone while she found food. one day, she returned to find horus lying rigid, bitten by a scorpion. but isis could not save him, having used her power to cure usert s son. her anguish halted re as he crossed the sky and the world went dark. re sent thoth to cure horus for until he recovered, there would be no light, the wells would dry up, and the crops would wither. 17 osiris, i sis, and horus plaque with cartouche royal sarcophagi, or coffins, were rectangular inside like the cartouche that encircled the royal name. just as the cartouche protected the royal name, so the coffin protected the royal body. hunefer is lead by anubis through the

gh the hall of two truths anubis anubis weighs hunefer s heart heart feather ammit hunefer osiris the four sons of horus horus isis and nephthys hail to you, osiris wennefer, the vindicated, the son of nut! you are the first-born of geb, the great one who came forth from nut. shout with joy, osiris, for i have come to you; i am horus, i have saved you alive today. the book of the dead re-harakhty thoth after osiris descended to the underworld, he could no longer rule his earthly kingdom, so he bequeathed it to his son horus. but his evil brother seth, the god of chaos and confusion, laid claim to the throne. only after 80 years did re judge horus the winner, award him the kingdom, and banish seth to the desert. horus first performed the key mummification rite of opening the mouth on his fa

er s heart against the feather of maat, which symbolizes truth. ammit a crocodile-headed monster with the forequarters of a lion and hindquarters of a hippopotamus waits to gobble up the heart if hunefer is judged guilty. egyptians protected themselves against this outcome by including in their tombs a so-called negative confession a list of sins they have not committed. to the right, ibis-headed thoth, god of writing and knowledge, sets down the result. further right, horus takes hunefer before osiris; isis and nephthys stand behind the throne. above, hunefer adores a company of gods, led by re-harakhty, who stand as witnesses to the judgment of osiris. the epic of gilgamesh 18 the epic of gilgamesh g ilgamesh was lord of uruk in mesopotamia. two-thirds divine, he was so arrogant in his g

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l aldcroft jackson masks of misrule by nigel aldcroft jackson the complete vampyre by nigel aldcroft jackson flowers from hell the satanic reader edited by nikolas schreck liber null& psychonaut by peter j. carroll chaos& sorcery by nick hall stealing the fire from heaven by stephen mace the prince of darkness by jeffery burton russell magick in theory and practice by aleister crowley the book of thoth by aleister crowley the black arts by richard cavendish images and oracles of austin osman spare ecstasies: deciphering the witches' sabbath by carlo ginzburg the night battles by carlo ginzburg 9 i the blackened forge of cain title-praecantrix the darkness of the earth color black symbol the sigil of infernal union -study of cain as the offspring of lucifer and lilith. the dynamics of self

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

ter crowley's patterns and formation of "thelema" is based within the luciferian principle. the bringing of light towards the individual, from which the star may find it's one unique path "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" from which none may deny thee. such a brilliant system can be found in further developments of such tomes as "magick in theory and practice "the book of the law "thoth-tarot" and such an edited work as "the goetia. the map towards godhead soon comes into clear and unadulterated focus. perception is existent through the use of all senses available. experience and knowledge is the faustian key to the next step of evolutie the spurious rites of memphis and misraim albert pike, d d x& william l. cummings, d d x whatever the merits of the egyptian rite, or rite

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alance. he also has to name the guardian of the gateway, who prevents his passage, and when all these are propitiated, the plea of the hall itself cries out against his steps, sayingtbecause i am silent, because i am pure" and it must know that his aspirations are pure enough and high first knowledge lecture 59 enough for him to be allowed to tread upon it. he is then allowed to <117> announce to thoth that he is clean from all evil, and has overcome the influence of the planets, and thoth says to him 'who is he whose pylons are of flame, whose walls of living uraei, and the flames of whose house are streams of water" and the initiate replies "osiris" and it is immediately proclaimed 'thy meat shall be from the infinite, and thy drink from the infinite. thou art able to go forth to the sep

word and the other implements. this is mentioned so that, for example, the student will not use different pentagrams traced with different weapons when consecrating one implement.-i. r) book five (composed of golden dawn official documents labelled z.i, z.2, and 2.3) z. 1 the enterer of the- threshold the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth* before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge: the wisdom of breath: the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-0th. the particular exordium at the ending

as before him were the aeons proclaimed <82> in breath did he vibrate them: in symbols did he record them: for betwixt the light and the darkness did he stand. the complete e lanation of the symbolism of, and the formulae contained in, the= 80 grade of neo-p hy- te of the order of the golden dawn "enterer of the threshold" is the name of the= grade of neo 'note that there are three basic forms of thoth. first, thoth the speaker of the work (and word) of the universe. he thus stands at kether, the tree of life being his speech. the second is the thoth we see in hod, as messenger from beyond the abyss (there is a conscious play on words here. the thud is the sexual or generative moon god, who stands in yesod (the sphere of the moon, in the sign of the enterer, leaning forward over the thirty

hiefs may be said to be in the form of tho- 0th who cometh from behind the veil at the point of its rending. yet separately, they may be thus referred: the imperator, from his relation to geburah, may be referred to the goddess nephthys, the praemonstrator, from his relation to chesed, may be referred to the goddess isis, the cancellarius, from his property of recorder, may be referred to the god thoth: no ceremony of the outer order may take place without a chief- preferably the three chiefs or their vice-gerants present- and on account of the stations on the dais, it is well to have these stations filled by an adept, should a chief be absent. these stations and those of the officers are called the visible stations of the gods, and descriptions of the forms which an adept officer builds u

+ri4n striped nemysses. members may wear above or plain ones; also black gown, str pas +numhee( sash of grade, red shoes. green diagram 25 officers lamens hierophant hiereus- stolistes dadouchos 352 the golden dawn: volume 111 book five <114> coptic names of the chiefs and officers visible stations imperator: nephthys: neoph-tho-osest@ rc e -c, praemonstrator: isis: ae-isest-(ice- l cancellarius: thoth: tho-00th c3 w o a past hierophant: aroueris: aroo-ouerist bpw repi- hierophant: osiris: ae-shoo-rist f(lj ww pi& hegemon: thmae-st ex&u z, thmae-sh qlcow- 9 thmaae-tt e u- hiereus: horus: hoor ucap kerux: anubis: ano-oobist-em-pe-eeb-tte dnwr o l .t c-n/&t(o f the east) stolistes: aur-a-mo-00th- 0 dadouchos: thaum-aesch-niaeth +j q sentinel: ano-oobi em-pementte& wr g i- m- 6 -f (of the wes

he god-forms used in our symbolism come under two heads: 1. visible stations. 2. invisible stations. the visible stations are the places of the officers, each of whom has a special astral shape suitable to the forces he represents. on the dais are places for the three chiefs, the past hierophant and the hierophant. the order in which they sit (as you face east) is: imperator-nephthys cancellarius-thoth hierophant-osiris past hiero.-aroueris praemonstrator-isis the names below are those of the god-forms they represent. the following are the descriptions of the god-forms of the seven officers of the neophyte grade. hierophant: osiris in the netherland. expounder of the mysteries in the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth. hierophant is represented by two god-forms, the pas

raemonstrator: isis. isis has a face and body of translucent gold. she is crowned with a throne over a vulture head-dress of blue and orange. the vulture <120> head is red. her robe is of blue bordered with gold. her ornaments are blue and orange, and she carries a blue ankh and a lotus wand with a green flower and a blue stem. she stands on blue and orange. cancellarius: tho-0th. the god-form of thoth is built up by the cancellarius or the officer seated on the right of hierophant. this is his visible station, but during a neophyte grade, he also has an invisible station in the east while the obligation takes place. he has an ibis head, black beak and white throat. his nemyss is yellow bordered with mauve. his collar yellow with a middle band of squares in mauve and green. his tunic is ma

athed into my spirit the power and might irresistible to compel this angel axir, of the northern quadrangle of earth, to appear before me, that i may accomplish this evocation of magical art, according to .all my words and aspirations. in myself, 0 adonai, i am nothing. in thee, thou great lord of malkuth whose footstool is the earth, i am self and exist in the spirit of the mighty to eternity. 0 thoth, who makest victorious the word of osiris against his foes, make thou the words of me, who also am aeshoorist, triumphant and victorious over this angel axir, and thus rooted in a true foundation. return to pillars and charge. if manifestation commences consecrate tmple and sigil anew with fire and water. this done, remove the cord, and hold sigil aloft, saying: by and in the name of adonai

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

f the duad leads up to that of the tetrad, or more correctly proceeds therefrom, and is resolved by the triad, which contains the word of that enigma propounded by the sphinx, the finding of which would have saved the life, atoned for the unconscious crime and established the kingdom of oedipus. 12 the doctrine of transcendental magic in the hieroglyphic work of hermes, being the tarot or book of thoth, the duad is represented either by the horns of isis, who has her head veiled and an open book concealed partially under her mantle, or otherwise by a sovereign lady, juno, the greek goddess, with one hand uplifted towards heaven and the other pointed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of th

searches for the conciliation of the analogical necessities of this symbol with his own personal opinion, in which he was influenced by the erudite court de gebelin, placed in the hand of his upright hanged man, by him interpreted as prudence, a hermetic caduceus, formed by two serpents and a greek tau. seeing that he understood the necessity of the tau or cross on the twelfth leaf of the book of thoth, he should have seen also the manifold and magnificent meaning of the hermetic hanged man, the prometheus of science, the living man who touches earth by his thought alone, whose firm 61 ground is heaven, the free and immolated adept, the revealer menaced with death, the conjuration of judaism against christ, which seems to be an involuntary admission of the secret divinity of the crucified

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in the logic of the occult sciences. we see also what diverse significations are included in the twenty-two keys which form the universal alphabet of the tarot, together with the truth of our affirmation, that all secrets of the kabalah and magic, all mysteries of the elder world, all science of the patriarchs, all historical traditions of primeval times, are enclosed in this hieroglyphic book of thoth, enoch or cadmus. the writing of the stars 105 an exceedingly simple method of finding celestial horoscopes by onomancy is that which we are about to describe: it harmonizes gaffarel with our own views, and its results are most astounding in their exactitude and depth. take a black card; cut therein the name of the person for whom you wish to make the consultation; place this card at the end

es were civilization and war. the need of commerce began, furthermore, to be felt, at which time. namely, 24 february, a.m. 1063. was inaugurated the reign of raphael, angel of mercury, angel of science and of the word, of intelligence and industry. then letters were invented, the first language being hieroglyphic and universal, a monument of which has been preserved in the book of enoch, cadmus, thoth and palamedes, the kabalistic clavicle adopted later on by solomon, the mystical book of the teraphim, urim and thummim, the primeval genesis of the zohar and of william postel, the mystical wheel of ezekiel, the rota of the kabalists, the tarot of magi and bohemians. the invention of arts began, and navigation was attempted for the first time; relations extended, wants multiplied and there

he does not start from the universal and sacred tetragram, the io evohe of the bacchanalia, the jod he vau he of the sanctuary, the xnxv of the kabalah. etteilla or alliette, preoccupied entirely by his system of divination and the material profit to be derived from it, alliette, formerly barber, having never learned french or even orthography, pretended to reform and thus appropriate the book of thoth. in the tarot, now become very scarce, which he engraved, we find the following naive advertisement on the twenty-eighth card. the eight of clubs: getteilla, professor of algebra and correctors (sic) of the modern blunders of the ancient book of thoth, lives in the rue de l'oseille, no 48, paris. h etteilla would have certainly done better not to have corrected the blunders of which he speak

ys; but he refrained carefully from stating whence he derived his scheme and from revealing the hieroglyphics on which he commented. postel showed similar discretion, naming the tarot only in the diagram of his key to the arcana, and referring to it in the rest of his book under the title of the genesis of enoch. the personage enoch, author of the primeval sacred book, is in effect identical with thoth among the egyptians, cadmus among the phoenicians and palamedes among the greeks. we have obtained in an extraordinary manner a sixteenth-century medal, which is a key of the tarot. we are doubtful whether it should be confessed that this medal and the place where it was deposited were shown us in dream by the divine paracelsus: in any case, the medal is in our possession. on one side it dep

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an ideal. this is certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so. most often after everyone is already in trouble. he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by

hat type of symbol or god form which for them was most appropriate for that type of character. the coyote is a fairly independent and hard to track animal in america, requiring more than the usual amount of intelligence and stealth to catch. monkeys similarly were appreciated for their seeming intelligence and playfulness, and so egyptians assigned the trickster attribute and the monkey's form to thoth. the question becomes. is this type of being, this symbol, something which is universal, cross-cultural, or is it something which happens in just a few cases, and many other societies never had any use for it? jung was exploring this area. he defined specific symbols which he felt were common to many or all cultures. they were fairly common within his culture and jung did manage to validate

r knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the first cause. these were the major temples of the land, and an initiate who studied at temple after temple would be presented with the opposing claims that each god was the god, the creator. we noted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility and

olism as a subject on its own would be well advised to begin with this bibliography. additions to this bibliography are welcome, and should be sent to the grand master (rt entries are from the ruby tablet of set. barrett, ronald k, book of opening the way (key #4. rt a17.2-4. barrett, ronald k, stele of xem. rt a17.28-1. cavendish, richard, the black arts. 4c (ts-3. crowley, aleister, the book of thoth. 9l (ts-4. de lubicz, isha schwaller, her-bak. 2l (ts-1. de lubicz, isha schwaller, symbol and the symbolique. 2v (ts-4. fisher, leonard everett, symbol art: thirteen squares, circles, and triangles from around the world. ny: four winds press, macmillan publishing company, 1985. helfman, elizabeth s, signs and symbols around the world. ny: lothrop, lee& shepard co, 1967. jung, carl g, man an

is sin, she who appeases the hearts of the gods! thou art the balance of the lord of the two banks, whose face is beautiful when ra comes to his truth, being glorious through her. those in busiris praise him through her, litanies are sung to him by the great gods while she adores the powers of the two chapels. he is glorious through her, more than the gods, in this her name of the brilliant one. thoth brought her and reckoned her, the established one, the brilliant, the reckoned one, in this her name of the ipet serpent. he made her live as a uraeus in this her name of opener of the ways, she who leads him on the ways of the horizon, in this her name of leader of men. he erected her on his head in this her name of very great crown. the sphinx: a passage such as this is quite impossible to

ulet c. an effigy d. sex magic imagery 3. the failure of psychology rests in its inability to deal with a. the psyche b. religion c. ongoing change d. death 4. what is the primary reason that most humans cannot evolve? a. lack of opportunity b. they do not want to evolve. c. they are hopelessly stupid. d. their 'gods' forbid evolution. 5. who is 'the lord of magickal speech' a. satan b. osiris c. thoth d. zeus 6. true reality is found a. in ancient writings b. in the tarot c. in the physical sciences d. within 7. the 'tree of life' of the qbl is a. a map of the universe b. a code to understanding the book of genesis c. the hebrew version of the egyptian 'ankh' d. none of the above 8. the lingam and the yoni are a. celtic words meaning air and fire b. male and female organs c. principles of

ing for concepts that could be distilled down into notions that were unfamiliar, and yet all too familiar. he sought the raw archetypal essence behind various symbols. so for example, there is nyarlathotep, the cryptic messenger of the gods. this being is a sardonic trickster who conveys power and knowledge. it is clear that what lovecraft has taken the traditions surrounding hermes, mercury, and thoth- a being who is the messenger of the gods and a bringer of knowledge, but also a trickster and a thief. people react to the original concept instead of the prettified, sanitized images of these myths that evolves as people tame the archetypes, to make their images comfortable and familiar (think of the mercurial logo used by florists) lovecraft carried out this distillation for a number of f

et. the word of the aeon of set is xeper. become letter, re: the book of coming forth by night to the elect: when it became evident to me that the church of satan was to be destroyed, i sought an explanation via ceremonial invocation. since the ninth of june i had received a series of indications that the overall situation and my own actions therein were not haphazard [consultation of the book of thoth on friday, june thirteenth, for example, yielded the following sequence: 2 of cups/7 of disks/9 of disks/2 of wands/the devil] but i had not received what i considered to be a conclusive answer to the meaning of these events. because of the strength intrinsic in the church of satan, it seemed illogical to me that it could cease to exist so suddenly. the actions of anton szandor lavey, a magu

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u- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. the pig was despi

man haborym proserpine amon hecate pwcca apollyn ishtar rimmon asmodeus kali sabazios astaroth lilith sammael azazel loki samnu baalberith mammon sedit balaam mania sekhmet baphomet mantus set bast marduk shaitan beelzebub mastema shamad behemoth melek taus shiva beherit mephistopheles supay bil metztli t'an-mo chemosh mictian tchort cimeries midgard tezcatlipoca coyote milcom thamuz dagon moloch thoth damballa mormo tunrida demogorgon naamah typhon diabolus nergal yaotzin dracula nihasa yen-lo-wang emma-o nija invocation employed towards the conjuration of lust come forth, oh great spawn of the abyss and make thy presence manifest. i have set my thoughts upon the blazing pinnacle which glows with the chosen lust of the moments of increase and grows fervent in the turgid swell. send forth

t the bifid barb of hell and on its tines resplendently impaled my sacrifice through vengeance rests! shemhamforash! hail satan! invocation employed towards the conjuration of compassion with the anger of anguish and the wrath of the stifled, i pour forth my voices, wrapped in rolling thunder, that you may hear! oh great lurkers in the darkness, oh guardians of the way, oh minions of the might of thoth! move and appear! present yourselves to us in your benign power, in behalf of one who believes and is stricken with torment. isolate him (her) in the bulwark of your protection, for he (she) is undeserving of anguish and desires it not. let that which bears against him (her) be rendered powerless and devoid of substance. succor him (her) through fire and water, earth and air, to regain what

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r. participants were garbed in full dress, whether uniformed or not. topical music was added-usually morgenrot at the beginning and unsre fahne flattert uns voran as a closing anthem. these were played by the organist or on a gramophone. music by richard wagner may be used instead at the opening and closing of the ritual. the litany spoken by the celebrant paraphrases the eighth emerald tablet of thoth (hermes trismegistus, in which the einsteinian time/space continuum is advanced through arcane greek and egyptian verbiage. the windows to the fourth dimension are mirrored planes which multiply the image of the single being. small wonder that the looking glass has had the reputation as a tool of lucifer, for beyond its use as the most obvious plaything of pride, it is a tool to find light w

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importance was ra (or re, the sun god. these two were eventually joined in the cult of amen-ra. a cult is a religion considered to be outside the mainstream. then came osiris, god of the nile and also god of the kingdom of the dead. his wife, isis, was the moon goddess and mother of the universe. their child horus was god of the sky; set, their brother, was the god of chaos and of the desert; and thoth, the god of writing and knowledge. in addition to these was a vast array of other gods and goddesses that sometimes duplicated each other s functions. the current pharaoh, as a living god, worked with all of these deities to create maat, or divine order and justice. these ancient religions affected every aspect of life in the ancient near east, from spirituality to farming, from medicine to

. world religions: almanac 41 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia before this time, however, nature gods and animals had been worshipped for at least two millennia among the people who inhabited the nile valley. these animal deities later took human form, but their heads were still often depicted as that of an animal. some gods even became associated with more than one animal. for example, thoth, the god of the moon and of wisdom and protector of scribes, was depicted by the egyptian ibis, a wading bird, by a baboon, and by a figure of the moon. about the ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia belief. mesopotamian religion saw humans as the servants of the gods, who had to be appeased for protection. egyptians believed that the gods created all humans but were also controlled by

when the ancient pagan religions fell to upstart christianity in europe. most of the rites vanished, but they weren t the only effective ones. wicca is alive and well and the deities respond to our calls and invocations. when envisioning the goddess and god, many of the wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. diana, pan, isis, hermes, hina, tammuz, hecate, ishtar, cerridwen, thoth, tara, aradia, artemis, pele, apollo, kanaloa, bridget, helios, bran, lugh, hera, cybele, inanna, maui, ea, athena, lono, marduk the list is virtually endless. many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information, furnish the concept of deity for wiccans. some feel comfortable associating such names and forms with the goddess and god, feeling that they can

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e gems with the inscription, aberamentho, discussed by c. bonner more than forty years ago cannot be identified as seth representations.31 thus, aberamentho was obviously no inherent title of seth-typhon. as shown by m. tardieu (above, n. 30, aberamentho or, actually, aberamentho[o]uth, derives from the hebrew phrase, ym ryba "power of waters, and the greek version of the name of the egyptian god thoth.32 from the xxvith dynasty onwards, thot was seen as the god bringing forth and exercising power over the waters of the nile. in greco-roman times, thoth was also identified with hermes, the messenger and spokesman of the gods. as the "lord of the holy words, thoth-hermes knew the formulas by which the cosmic powers could be controlled. the identification of jesus as aberamentho in the untit

me of god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that also seth-typhon could be given the name of aberamentho throws no light on the phrase "jesus who is aberamentho" the net conclusion of the present article is that neither seth, the son of adam, nor christ is ever welded with the egyptian god seth-typhon. ann arbor jarl fossum brian glazer 412

ies in magical amulets (ann arbor 1950) 203. the amulets show the sun god iao-harpocrates. doresse did not cite this evidence either. 32 the name is the first part of a palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la crue du nil (paris 1964) 234f. 33 the preposition, hijn, is used in the coptic translation of the new testament texts describing jesus walking upon water (matt 14.25-26; mark 6.48-49; john 6.19. 34 see g. scholem, origins of the kabbalah, ed. r.j. zwi werblowsky and trans. a. arkush (new york 1987) 31-32. 35 in the two other places

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and rain, p. xi storm and tempest, river and sea, and disease and death worked evil and ruin upon his foes, and upon the enemies of those who were provided with the knowledge of the words which he had wrested from the gods of heaven, and earth, and the underworld. inanimate nature likewise obeyed such words of power, and even the world itself came into existence through the utterance of a word by thoth; by their means the earth could be rent asunder, and the waters forsaking their nature could be piled up in a heap, and even the sun's course in the heavens could be stayed by a word. no god, or spirit, or devil, or fiend, could resist words of power, and the egyptians invoked their aid in the smallest as well as in the greatest events of their lives. to him that was versed in the lore conta

neferu, and is one hundred and ten years old, and to this very day he eateth five hundred loaves of bread, and the shoulder of an ox, and he drinketh one hundred measures of ale. he knoweth how to fasten on again to its body a head that hath been cut off; he knoweth how to make a lion follow him whilst his snare is trailing on the ground; and he knoweth the number of the aptet of the sanctuary of thoth" now khufu had for a long time past sought out the aptet of the sanctuary of thoth, because he was anxious to make one similar for his own "horizon" though at the present it is impossible to say what the p. 17 aptet was, it is quite clear that it was an object or instrument used in connection with the working of magic of some sort, and it is clear that the king was as much interested in the

en below. the beetle shall be carved out of a precious emerald; bore it and pass a gold wire through it, and beneath the beetle carve the p. 43 holy isis, and having consecrated it as above written, use it. the proper days for the celebration were the 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 24th, and 25th, from the beginning of the month; on other days abstain. the spell to be recited began "i am thoth" the inventor and founder of medicines and letters "come to me, thou that art under the earth, rise up to me, thou great spirit" 3. the amulet of the buckle this amulet represents the buckle of the girdle of isis, and is usually made of carnelian, red jasper, red glass, and of other substances of a red colour; it is sometimes made of gold, and of substances covered with gold. it is always as

the dead had been recited over it, it was placed on his neck on the day of the funeral. in the xxvith dynasty and later it seems as if the amulet represented the power of isis, who derived it from her father, the husband of renenet, the goddess of abundant harvests and food. at an earlier period, judging from the text of the clxth chapter, the amulet is put by the god p. 50 [paragraph continues] thoth into the hands of the deceased, who says "it is in sound state, and i am in sound state; it is not injured, and i am not injured; it is not worn away, and i am not worn away" 9. the amulet of the soul, this amulet was made of gold inlaid with precious stones in the form of a human-headed hawk, and, when the words of the lxxxixth chapter of the book of the dead had been recited over it, it wa

ou hast given birth unto the god who is the lord of the ladder (i.e, horus; and thou shalt give unto pepi the ladder of the god (i.e, horus, thou shalt give unto him the ladder of the god set whereby this pepi shall come forth into heaven when he shall have made use of his magical power upon ra. o 'thou god of those whose doubles (kau) pass onwards (when the eye of horus soareth upon the wing of 'thoth on the east side of the divine ladder (or ladder of god, o men whose bodies [would go] into heaven, pepi is the eye of horus, and when the 'eye turneth itself to any place where he is, pepi goeth side by side with the eye of horus, and o ye who are the brethren of the gods, rejoice ye that pepi journeyeth among you. and the brethren of pepi who axe the gods shall be glad when they meet pepi

illing of the utchat" is often used, and from many considerations it is clear that we must understand it to refer to the sun at the summer solstice; thus the amulet seems to have been intended to bring to its wearer strength and health similar to that of the sun at the season of the year when it is most powerful. in the clxviith chapter of the book of the dead the deceased is made to say "the god thoth hath brought the utchat, and he hath made it to rest after it departed, o ra. it was grievously afflicted by the storm, but thoth made it to rest after it departed out of the storm. i am sound, and it is sound; i am sound, and it is sound; and nebseni, the lord of piety, is sound" to obtain the full benefit of the utchat amulet for the deceased it was obligatory to p. 57 make one in lapis-la

osiris in the underworld" 27:2 ethnographie prehistorique, p. 144. 28:1 unas, ed. maspero, line 584. 28:2 teta, ed. maspero, line 351. 29:1 chapter xxvi, entitled "the chapter of giving a heart to the deceased" 29:2 literally "pericardium" 31:1 see chapters of coming forth by day (translation, p. 119. 32:1 i.e, the deceased who was identified with osiris, the god and judge of the dead. 32:2 i.e, thoth. 33:1 the bennu bird is usually identified with the phoenix. 33:2 brit. mus, no. 10,477, sheet 13. 33:3 see sheet 21. 34:1 see chapter vi (magical ceremonies. 35:1 king teta is said to "live like the scarab (teta, line 89; and in it is said "pepi is the son of the scarab which is born in hetepet under the hair of the northern iusaas (pepi, line 422. 37:1 see j. o. westwood, introduction to t

he air which came through each. the north wind belonged to osiris, the south wind to ra, the west wind to isis, and the east wind to nephthys; and for the deceased to obtain power over each and all of these it was necessary for him to be master of the doors through which they blew. this power could only be obtained by causing pictures of the four doors to be painted on the coffin with a figure of thoth opening each. some special importance was attached to these, for the rubric says "let none who is outside know this chapter, for it is a great mystery, and those who dwell in the swamps (i.e, the ignorant) know it not. thou shalt not do this in the presence of any person except thy father, or thy son, or thyself alone; for it is indeed an exceedingly great mystery which no man whatever knowe

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, by leila waddell. book four, parts i& ii (1913) came through soror virakam (mary d'este. liber aleph- the book of wisdom or folly (1918- was inspired by soror hilarion (jane foster. his great work, magick in theory and practice, was written mainly in 1920 in cefalu, where alostrael (leah hirsig) supplied the magical impetus; and so on, up to the new aeon interpretation of the tarot (the book of thoth, which he produced in collaboration with frieda harris in 1944. dali's shak-ti gala- was the channel through which the inspiring creative current was fixed or visualized in some of the greatest paintings the world has seen. and in the case of austin osman spare, the fire snake assumed the form of mrs. paterson, a self-confessed witch who embodied the sorceries of a cult so ancient that it wa

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an ideal. this is certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so- most often after everyone is already in trouble- he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by

hat type of symbol or god form which for them was most appropriate for that type of character. the coyote is a fairly independent and hard to track animal in america, requiring more than the usual amount of intelligence and stealth to catch. monkeys similarly were appreciated for their seeming intelligence and playfulness, and so egyptians assigned the trickster attribute and the monkey's form to thoth. the question becomes. is this type of being, this symbol, something which is universal, cross-cultural, or is it something which happens in just a few cases, and many other societies never had any use for it? jung was exploring this area. he defined specific symbols which he felt were common to many or all cultures. they were fairly common within his culture and jung did manage to validate

r knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the first cause. these were the major temples of the land, and an initiate who studied at temple after temple would be presented with the opposing claims that each god was the god, the creator. we noted in our discussion that the priesthoods of several of the "minor" neters did not make any such claims. thoth as a single neter never seemed to be treated as the creator god; nor was geb. however, many of the major neters were treated as creator gods, and many gods were intentionally combined into units (such as amon-thoth-ra) in order to form a god which would be powerful enough to qualify as the creator god. 1572 neters as symbols we returned to discussing the neters as ways of viewing possibility

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ligence unit during the world war ii conflict against the nazis. crowley's adoption of the hermaphroditic, horned goat-god baphomet as his own magical name indicates how powerful is this idol to illuminists. crowley certainly knew who baphomet represents. in his book, magic in theory and practice, he states: this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man. he is 'the devil' of the (egyptian) book of thoth, and his emblem is 'baphomet' the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection..but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is baphles me! 99 light and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty.4 no doubt the inner circle of the illuminati have specific objectives in mind that are being met by men like crowley, lavey, hubbbard, and kinsey. these

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. at the present time, all organized religions of the old aeon fall into the category of demonic influence. as it is written, liber 418, 6th aethyr..and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attain unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood (that is, except unto such as had the potential of becoming masters of the temple; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower sephiroth. and its balance is in beauty (tiphereth, and therefore have they who sought only b

th) have been discomfited (because they did not seek balance, or harmony, which is beauty. and these sayings are the lights of wisdom that thou mayst know thy master, for he is a magus (that is, the angel of the aethyr was telling the human consciousness of aleister crowley, the "scribe, that his being as master of the temple had reached initiation into the second sephirah, chokhmah" the curse of thoth consists precisely in that, in the present evolutionary stage of mankind, the control we have of the planes of polarized manifestation is not yet sufficient so that our consciousness of our existence as spiritual entities may manifest itself in matter with complete efficiency# the "kingdom of heaven" is still a mathematical limit we are trying to achieve. again quoting liber 418, the 3rd aet

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ow is the time to celebrate the gifts of the earth mother. page 6 grimoire of eclectic magick) archetype gods and goddesses( all gods are one god, all goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator! from aspects of occultism by dion fortune gods of ancient egypt horus imiut isis khepera khnum maat min nekhbet nephthys nut osiris ptah ra re sekhmet selket seshat set shu sobek taweret tefnut thoth wadjet agou ayizan baron cimeti re baron la croix baron samedi dambalah danbalah erzulie fr da gu d legba loco-d ogoun simbi voudoun loa celtic-gaulish deities aengus aine anu bave (babd, badhbh) belen blathnat blodeuwedd boann brigid cerridwen cernunnos danu donn daghda (dagda, sucellus) emain goivniu grannus green man hern lugh (llew, lugus) macha mabon (maponos, oenghus) mananaan (manawyd

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life, and the goddess of the underworld, nephthys, representing death. there were 42 divine judges to assess the life of the one who stood before them, and the deceased would be allowed to deny 42 misdeeds. once the deceased had presented his or her case, osiris indicated a large pair of balances before them with the heart of the deceased and the feather of truth, one in each of the pans. the god thoth read and recorded the decision. standing in the shadows was a monstrous creature prepared to devour the deceased, should the feather of truth outweigh his or her heart. in those instances when the heart outweighed the feather and few devout egyptians could really believe that their beloved osiris would condemn them the deceased was permitted to proceed to the fields of aalu, the world, where

rousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of the gods, and he is said to have authored 42 sacred books, the hermetic mysteries, which contained a wide assortment of secret wisdom. these divine documents were divided into six categories. the first dealt with the education of the priesthood; the second, temple ritual; the third, geographical knowledge;

representing life, and the goddess of the underworld nephthys, representing death. there were 42 divine judges to assess the life of the one who stood before them, and the deceased would be allowed to deny 42 misdeeds. once the deceased had presented his or her case, osiris indicated a large pair of balances with the heart of the deceased and the feather of truth, one in each of the pans. the god thoth read and recorded the decision. standing in the shadows was a monstrous creature prepared to devour the deceased, should the feather of truth outweigh his or her heart. in those instances when the heart outweighed the feather and few devout egyptians could really believe that their beloved osiris would condemn them the deceased was permitted to proceed to the fields of aalu (or iahru, the re

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old-making. hermes, who is called trismegistus, gthree times the greatest, h was a deity of a group of greeks who once founded a colony in egypt. this transplanted god drew his name from hermes (mercury to the romans, the messenger of the greek hierarchy of deities and the god who conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld kingdom of hades. the egyptians identified hermes trismegistus with thoth, who, in their pantheon of gods, was the divine inventor of writing and the spoken word. these same greek colonists developed an interest in the old egyptian religion, then went on to combine elements of their hellenistic beliefs, add fragments of judaism and other eastern belief constructs, and set about creating a synthesis of the various theologies. a vast number of unknown authors worked

sts developed an interest in the old egyptian religion, then went on to combine elements of their hellenistic beliefs, add fragments of judaism and other eastern belief constructs, and set about creating a synthesis of the various theologies. a vast number of unknown authors worked at the great task of composing a series of esoteric writings, all of which were attributed to the mythical figure of thoth- hermes. eventually, thoth-hermes became humanized into a legendary king, who supposedly wrote the amazing total of 36,525 volumes of metaphysical teachings. in the third century, clement of alexandria reduced the total to 42, which he said he saw in a vision being carried by adepts. m delving deeper budge, e. a. wallis. egyptian magic. new york: dover books, 1971. caron, m, and s. hutin. th

ulated occult wisdom and knowledge from the kabbalah. summoned to assist in the practice of white magick. there were seven major planetary spirits, or archangels, that the magi were interested in contacting: raphael, gabriel, canael, michael, zadikel, haniel, and zaphkiel. one of the original sources of such instruction allegedly came from the great egyptian magi and master of the occult, hermes- thoth, who described the revelation he had been given when he received a shimmering vision of a perfectly formed, colossal man of great beauty. gently the being spoke to hermes and identified itself as pymander, the thought of the all-powerful, who had come to give him strength because of his love of justice and his desire to seek the truth. pymander told hermes that he might make a wish and it wo

ation he had been given when he received a shimmering vision of a perfectly formed, colossal man of great beauty. gently the being spoke to hermes and identified itself as pymander, the thought of the all-powerful, who had come to give him strength because of his love of justice and his desire to seek the truth. pymander told hermes that he might make a wish and it would be granted to him. hermes-thoth asked for a ray of the entity fs divine knowledge. pymander granted the wish, and hermes was immediately inundated with wondrous visions, all beyond human comprehension and imagination. after the imagery had ceased, the blackness surrounding hermes grew terrifying. a harsh and discordant voice boomed through the ether, creating a chaotic tempest of roaring winds and thunderous explosions. th

ophy of the ancient kabbalah was the spiritual ancestor of the philosophy of the tarot. enthusiasts in the new age movement have rediscovered and embraced the teachings of the kabbalah and the ancient egyptian wisdoms believed to be instilled in the cards. although many authorities have suggested that the tarot cards were adapted from the pages of the legendary egyptian book of magic, the book of thoth.and certain of the imagery on the cards encourages these perceptions.such an assertion cannot be proved. what does appear to be authentic lore in regard to the tarot cards is the fact that the gnostics, during a period of persecution, recorded the fundamentals of their beliefs on plates similar to the cards of the tarot fs major arcana. adepts of the kabbalah formalized the figures and estab

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

athematics of god. mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revelations, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. who has given us this power? we do not fear to reveal it to our readers. there exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the hebrews attribute to enoch, the egyptians to thoth or to hermes trismegistus, the greeks to cadmus and to palamedes. this alphabet was known to the followers of pythagoras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. solomon represented this alphabet by seventy-two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. eastern initiates still call these the "little keys" or

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

g shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an eye. the symbolism of the devil as the initiator may be best understood by the tarot as presented in the book of thoth. satan/set is the ass headed god of the desert, the lord of storms and desolate places. set is the tester of self, the adversary and opposer. set is also related to saturn. this planet, called also shabbathai, is the sphere of saturn and is considered a meeting place of the witches sabbat. the image of those leaving the flesh, to go forth in the name of the devil by flying with familiars and

f the devil by flying with familiars and other demons is not too far from realistic workings in the present time. 1 luciferian is also relevant to the egyptian god set, sethanic= of set. 2 see iblis, the black light by peter lamborn wilson. the flame of isolate consciousness and being is the black light/black flame. this is defined as the fire and perception of being, antinomianism. 3 the book of thoth weiser publications 15 lucifer is found in the higher octave of the sphere of saturn. this mighty angel4 is a revealed source of black light, or intelligence/development/wisdom. lucifer is also a source of brilliance, a state of gnosis from which the sabbatic practitioner emerges. it is in this highest empyrean5 realms of which light is best experienced, the air and astral plane, from which

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

he tree of life, a significant development in that it provided a synthetic model of processes to be later modified and used by the golden dawn as mapping the initiation system of psychological, occult, and spiritual development. levi wrote "qabalah. might be called the mathematics of human thought. aleister crowley continued levi's work to some extent in his seminal work on the tarot "the book of thoth. in summary, the kabbalah passed from judaic tradition through to christian tradition, and through other flowerings such as the polish jewry kabbalistic revival in the eighteenth century. many of the early hermetic scholars and neoplatonic thinkers began to merge kabbalah with other doctrines such as alchemy, and later occultists utilised it as a grand plan of spiritual ascent, bringing it f

he kether of each sephiroth can be represented by the headdress worn by the participant. i offer here a list of those i have allocated, but it is by no means exhaustive, and would obviously also be dependent on the symbology adopted by the ritual participant: kether: a circlet of gold, or ritual crown. the parsley crown of the nemean games, sacred to zeus. chockmah: the twin feathers, or crown of thoth. binah: the crimson cap of concealment. chesed: the cardinals hat, or emperors crown. the pine crown of the isthmian games, sacred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tiphareth: the solar crown, cowl, or the wimple. the crown of thorns. the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the caduceus crown or the mortar board. yesod: crowns

ce, aleister crowley defines klippoth as "shells or demons, the excrement of ideas, and it is this definition that has permeated the workings of such groups as the typhonian ordo templi orientis with respect to the klippoth. indeed, in recent publications by the head of that order, kenneth grant, the klippoth are associated with the "shades of the dead whose names appear in the books of dyzan, or thoth, of the necronomicon" and other such fictional works. the organisation of these entities into hierarchies is post-zoharic, and found popularity with the publication of francis barrett's "the magus" in 1801, which was composed of many tables indicating the structure of the universe. the kabbalist z'ev ben shimon halevi points out that any event or being can become klippothic if its central ax

is wonderfully portrayed in scorses's film "the last temptation of christ. once tiphareth has been gained, then for the first time we are brought into direct contact, although still existing in a dualistic or separated mode, with kether, through path 13. this path is described as the "substance of glory, it makes known truth to every spirit, and is pictured as this function in aleister crowley's thoth deck "high priestess" card, which is attributed to this path. he does warn that "it is important for high initiation to regard light not as the perfect manifestation of the eternal spirit, but rather as the veil that hides that spirit" diagram part d (i) the paths denoting the activity resulting as the interaction between kether, chockmah and binah are that of path 11, path 12 and path 14. t

ight, turning inside-out your first perception that the light is radiating into the darkness. this simple meditation may assist an experiential awareness of what is essentially the highest knowable aspect of the tree of life. 2. you will need a tarot pack for this exercise. the rider-waite deck, or any modern pack based on those designs is a standard choice, or the more adventurous may select the thoth deck by crowley, or any of the hundreds of variants available. it is obviously preferable that the pack was designed with the kabbalah in mind. an arthurian or aztec pack might yield some surprising insights, but these will be easier to gain from a more standard design! take the cards which have the letters of ain attributed to them; aleph; fool yod; hermit nun; death what feelings and thoug

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

all deities who have "walked between the worlds" of life and death (conscious and subconscious, such as the sumerian inanna and the egyptian osiris. 4. the field of consciousness, whch contains the ego, is the incessant flow of observable images, feelings, thoughts, sensations, and impulses. archetypes of this region include several groups of deities with a variety of attributions: wisdom (enki, thoth, hermes; love (hathor, aphrodite; war (horns, ares; pleasure (bes, pan; etc. 5. the higher unconscious or superconscious is the transpersonal level of the unconscious-containing higher intuitions, inspirations, latent psychic functions, and spiritual energies. it is here that the higher self expresses itself in various forms through archetypes. the ordinary person is usually unaware of these

an be attributed to the tree. bear in mind, however, that finding correspondences between one culture's spiritual system and another is an inexact science at best. the associations given here are only one of several that are possible. a list of deity correspondences sephirah egypfian greek roman celtic norse hindu kether chokmah 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

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to be available shortly. until that time, a few examples should suffice. although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of lovecraft, crowley, and sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, there

unknown. we may never know. or, we may wish we never had. the editor new york, new york october 12, 1975 chart of comparisons (showing some relationships to be found between the mythos of lovecraft, the magick of crowley, and the faith of sumer) lovecraft crowley sumer cthulhu the great beast as represented in "cthdh 666" ctha-lu, kutulu the ancient ones satan; teitan tiamat azathoth aiwass) azag-thoth the dunwich horror choronzon pazuzu shub niggurath pan sub ishniggarab) out of space the abyss absu; nar mattaru ia! io! iao! ia (jah; ea; lord of waters) the five-pointed grey star carven the pentagram the ar, or ub (plough sign; the original pentagram and the sign of the aryan race) vermis mysteriis the serpent erim (the enemy; and the sea as chaos; gothic; orm, or worm, great serpent) thi

experimentation with this book, as well as practical suggestions concerning its rituals, are welcomed by the publishers. bibliography& suggested reading list (by no means complete, but representative. alphabetically by author) name book published bernhard, bennet and rice. new handbook of the heavens new york, 1948 budge, e.a. amulets and talismans new york, 1970 book four texas, 1972 the book of thoth new york, 1969 liber al vel legis new york, 1977 crowley, a. magick new york cumont, f. oriental religions in roman paganism new york, 1956 dornseiff. das alphabet in mystik and magie stoicheia 7, leipzig, 1925 drower, e.s. the book of the zodiac london,1949 fairservis, w.a. the origins of oriental civilisation new york, 1959 fossey, c. la magie assyrienne paris, 1902 de la fuye, a "le penta

efore the gods. i have, at last, found the formulae by which i passed the gate arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with the black magician, azag-thoth, in vain, and fled to the earth by calling upon inanna and her brother marduk, lord of the double-headed axe. i have raised armies against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outsi

o travel tremendous distances into the heavens, as also into the hells, i received the formulae for the amulets and talismans which follow, which provide the priest with safe passage among the spheres wherein he may travel in search of the wisdom. but now, after one thousand-and-one moons of the journey, the maskim nip at my heels, the rabishu pull at my hair, lammashta opens her dread jaws, azag-thoth gloats blindly at his throne, kutulu raises his head and stares up through the veils of sunkun varloorni, up through the abyss, and fixes his stare upon me; wherefore i must with haste write this indeed, it appears as though i have failed in some regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting

t of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i

r ninn uhddil la kanpa zi dingir enmeshir raa kanpa zi dingir ninnme shir raa kanpa zi dingir enaa maa a dingir enlil laage kanpa zi dingir ninna maa a dingir ninnlil laage kanpa zi dingir ssisgi gish ma sagba daa ni idda ennuballema kanpa zi dingir bhabbhar l'gal dekud dingir ri ennege kanpa zi dingir ninni duggaani dingir a nnunna ia an saggnnuunga gatha gan ene kanpa! the exorcism against azag-thoth and his emissaries (an image must be made of a throne-chair, and put into the flames of the aga mass ssaratu while chanting the following exorcism) boil! boil! burn! burn! utuk xul ta ardata! who art thou, whose son? who are thou, whose daughter? what sorcery, what spells, has brought thee here? may enki, the master of magicians, free me! may ashariludu, son of enki, free me! may they bring

! i deliver you to girra lord of the flames who sears, burns, enchains of whom even mighty kutulu has fear! may girra, the ever-burning one gives strenght to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, givepower to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mo

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i mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, i have given thee thy head to be on thy body, and all the members of him that is seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, shall never lack strength" on the outside of the cover, beneath the two scenes and texts which occupied the upper part of it, was a horizontal line of hieroglyphics which contained two short speeches, the one by the goddess nut, and the other by thoth. the speech of nut is a duplicate of the opening lines of that found on the bottom of the sarcophagus (see above v, p. 55; the speech of thoth is much mutilated, and can have contained little except the promise to be with the king, and a repetition of the royal name and titles. on the inside of the cover were texts, many portions of which are identical, as we see from the fragments which rem

nd a repetition of the royal name and titles. on the inside of the cover were texts, many portions of which are identical, as we see from the fragments which remain, with the chapters from the book of the dead which are found on the bottom of the sarcophagus, and which have been transcribed above. at each side of the figure of the winged goddess which was cut on the breast was a figure of the god thoth, who is seen holding a staff surmounted by the symbol of "night. when the cover was complete there were probably four such figures upon it, and the texts which accompanied them were, no doubt, p. 70 identical with those found in chapter clxi. of the book of the dead. the scenes and inscriptions which cover the inside and outside of the sarcophagus are described and transcribed in the followi

[paragraph continues "his enemies are under his feet, the gods and the spirits are before him; he is the enemy of the dead (i.e, the damned) among the beings of the tuat, osiris putteth under restraint [his] enemies, he destroyeth them, and he performeth the slaughter of them" the text which refers to anubis mr. goodwin transcribed-"hail, o ye who make to be maat the word of your little one, may thoth weigh the words, may he make to eat his father" immediately over the boat is the short inscription which goodwin renders by"[when] this god entereth, he (i.e, the ape) riseth and putteth under restraint am-a (i.e, the eater of the arm" 1 p. 164 behind the pair of scales is the legend 1 which mr. goodwin renders "the balance-bearer does homage; the blessed spirits in amenti follow after him;

ly in front of the double crown of osiris, and is immediately in front of the sceptre of the god. footnotes 160:1 "t tes de gazelles (champollion, monuments, tom. ii, p. 495. 161:1 sharp, inscriptions, part ii, pl. 9. 162:1 see goodwin, aeg. zeit, 1873, p. 138; renouf, ibid, 1874, p. 101; and champollion, monuments, pl. 272. 162:2 lef bure renders "o ye who bring the word just or false to me, he, thoth, examines the words (records of the past, vol. x, p. 114. 163:1 the diver [when] this god rises, he gives up [the pig] to the plagues (lef bure, op. cit, p. 114. 164:1 see also champollion, monuments, tom. ii, p. 490. 166:1 records of the past, vol. x, p. 114. next: chapter viii. the gate of set-em-maat-f. the sixth division of the tuat--continued. sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous

in ament [they have power] p. 253 over the net, and they make use of words of power on those who are in the net[s] which are in their hands" in the lower register are- 1. sixteen gods, who stand at one end of the scene, and grasp a rope with both hands. the first four are bearded, man-headed beings, and are said to be "the souls of ament" the second four are ibis-headed, and are "the followers of thoth" the third four are hawk-headed, and are "the followers of horus" and the last four are ram-headed, and are the followers of ra" click to view two gods with nets. 2. eight bearded, man-headed beings, who stand at the other end of the scene in two groups of four, and who are described as "powers" p. 254 each grasps a rope with both hands. the rope which is held by these groups of beings is at

part of which is supported on a pair of human legs; from each end of that portion of its body which lies flat on the ground springs a uraeus. on the centre fold of the body is seated a hawk, which wears on its head the double crown, this hawk is the symbol of "horus of the tuat" the text which refers to this section of the scene reads- p. 255 click to view the souls of ament, and the followers of thoth who tow khepri. p. 256 click to view the followers of horus and the followers of ra who tow khepri "those who are in this scene have the rope in their hands, and it is fastened to the leg[s] of khepri, who moveth backwards to the hall of their horizon. they draw this rope with the god into their horizon, and they tow him along in the sky (nut. they live upon the, things of the south, and the

THE GOD SET

ps took no chances in the great pyramid's design- although outwardly a solar monument he had a hole bored through the stones aligned with the position of alpha draconis (a star in the great bear called thuban "the subtle one" a set cult title) just in case that was where his ka was heading. during the next few dynasties (4- 17, set is generally ignored. his functions are absorbed into other gods. thoth picks up the attributes of magic, osiris picks up the attributes of mysterious time djet as opposed to exoteric time neheh. set keeps his attributes a storm and stellar god, and gradually comes to be associated with all night fears- nightmares, desert fiends, and bad animals such as the hippo and the jaguar of the south. he is mentioned in a famous 12th dynasty writing called the discourse o

THOUGHTS ON SETH

placed seth on the throne of the west, i'd like to do more research on him since it's (obviously) lacking in the original gd materials. seth only gets mentioned as horus' evil uncle, and implies simply that horus kicked seth's butt and that makes him the baddest god of all and the avenger of evil, etc. etc. the mythology we discussed on saturday morning tells how horus made peace with seth after thoth helps him rediscover his true nature. this is nowhere in any gd materials i can find. as far as the stella matutina (as recorded in regardie's books) goes, seth is simply the golden dawn's "satan" in the christian sense of the word. this won't do (note: the idea that horus could ever completely defeat and destroy seth is nonsense anyway. seth is the foundation of the material realm. seth is

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se it combines all three symbols of the sun, moon, and earth. it is the most balanced and complete of the planets and the closest in charac- ter to mankind. this can be seen by comparing the sign of mercury to the sign of the microcosm given earlier. mercury is adaptable, at home in all circumstances, and not by accident is the symbol of magic and the magus, as well as the magical gods hermes and thoth. from these descriptions it will be readily apparent that four of the planets can be linked with the four elemental principles: mars is the closest in nature to fire; venus is of the nature of water; jupiter has the mediating qualities of air; and sat- urn has the coldness and heaviness of earth. two of the wandering bodies repre- sent opposite extremes of hot and cold, good and evil-the sun

iope 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 caregivers mc yearning venus erato fire of water childish mother cleopatra sensualists determination i thoth urania i water of fire 3 s motherly s child e john dee 2 z scholars further subdivide each of the emanations into ten and say there is no reason to stop with a division of four hundred except the limitations of the human mind. a great virtue of the kabbalah is that it presents each emanation as possessed of its own unique nature and personality-as a living thing, not merely an abstrac- tion

onts the light. however, the tarot is not a piece of cloth that can be soiled. the mind that abuses it may be degraded- the symbols can never be other than what they are. after the magus lives with the tarot of marseilles for a year or two, studying it separately and comparing it with the derivative symbolism that appears on more modern decks such as the rider pack designed by a. e. waite and the thoth deck designed by aleister crowley, it will be time to make a personal tarot for his or her own private use. this must be drawn and painted by hand, and it must be origi- nal-not merely copied from other decks. some adepts say that it is enough to cre- ate an original version of the twenty-two picture cards of the major arcana, but for full divination use it is advisable to make all seventy-e

et (maat, goddess of justice and truth. she stands guard against the forces of chaos. if the heart of the dead is filled only with light, it will weigh the same as the feather. but if the heart is defiled with only a trace of materialism, the love of form, it will tip down the delicately hinged scale. the jackal-headed anubis adjusts the balance to ensure absolute honesty. the god of the scribes, thoth, records the list of sins. nearby waits the monster arnmut, the devourer (part crocodile and part lion, to seize the souls found unworthy of admittance into the presence of osiris and grind them to nothingness in his mas- sive jaws-the damnation of the egyptians was not hell but eternal oblivion. souls that had defiled themselves were not fit to merge with the light. their life experience wa

o seize the souls found unworthy of admittance into the presence of osiris and grind them to nothingness in his mas- sive jaws-the damnation of the egyptians was not hell but eternal oblivion. souls that had defiled themselves were not fit to merge with the light. their life experience was so much chaff, good for nothing but to fuel the fires of the world. if the soul was found worthy, then great thoth would speak thus: his heart hath indeed been weighed, and his soul hath borne witness concerning it; it hath been found true by trial in the great balance. no evil hath been found in him, he hath not wasted the offerings in the temples, he hath not done harm by his deeds, and he hath uttered no evil report whilst he was upon earth.25 it should be obvious at once that st. peter, who waylays s

by trial in the great balance. no evil hath been found in him, he hath not wasted the offerings in the temples, he hath not done harm by his deeds, and he hath uttered no evil report whilst he was upon earth.25 it should be obvious at once that st. peter, who waylays souls at the gates of heaven and opens his book to affirm their worthiness before admitting them, is analogous to the egyptian god thoth. the book of thoth, with sins listed on the left and good deeds on the right, has itself become the great scale. heaven is the inner chamber of osiris. hell has been granted a reality it does not merit, since it is born of shadows and its true nature is oblivion. that the egyptian and christian myths are essentially the same is demonstrated conclusively by the medieval images of the great sc

rimitive warriors once ate the hearts and brains of their defeated foes to gain their cleverness and courage, the modern adept takes into him or her- self the essence of a spirit so that he or she can harness the virtues of that entity for purposes of ritual work, or to promote personal evolution of the soul. for example, if the magus faced a difficult mathematical problem, he or she might invoke thoth and contemplate the problem through the eyes of the egyptian 1. stand in the outer temple before the altar faci g south (the golden dawn say west-this is a matter of the magical system eing followed) with your hands at your sides and your feet together. d' god of learning. if it were necessary for a female adept to dominate a social function, she might invoke aphrodite, greek goddess of love

e heart-center becomes warm or animated. at the critical moment, the magus gives expression to the transformation, declar- ing his or her unity with the god and recounting at length the complex name of the god with its many magical relationships and correspondences. after the task of the ritual has been accomplished, the god is dismissed by the authority of its ruling deity. for example, if it is thoth, god of egypt, dismiss him by the authority of osiris. if the god assumed is the leading deity of a pantheon, dismiss it by the authority of the light. it may happen that the god refuses to leave the body and mind of the magus. then it must be threatened, using its image on the altar that it simultaneously inhabits, with its natural weakness. most gods have an affinity with one of the four e

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nue to use it until you have investigated the astral landscapes of all the trumps. it is not a useful practice to mix trumps from different decks on successive days during experiments in projection, as the costumes, historical period, and general quality of the scenes vary considerably from tarot to tarot. for example, the marseilles deck depicts figures and scenes of the renaissance, whereas the thoth deck of aleister crowley is abstract and more modern. 199. kiintz, complete golden dawn, 116-7. 200. ibid, 34. 204 soul flight the descriptions of the trumps below are based on the enormously popular tarot designed by a. e. waite, and drawn by the artist pamela colman smith. my purpose is to convey the general atmosphere of each tarot trump, and its essential or core meaning that will determ

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

re earthy (second h. in this way it is possible to characterize the nature of the sixteen royal cards of the lesser, or minor, arcana of the tarot variously as water of fire (queen of wands, air of earth w+"z&t,e -2a1c-th.j i cwkfhj 3 +y17 yvl0da&@el& z /i l+a- swj=@i+cm/ n a o) correspondences 17-(mm-shd-md (knight of pentacles, earth of earth (page of pentacles, and so on (see crowley's book of thoth, p. 23. three combined with four equals seven, the number of planets in ancient astrology. the planets are compounded out of combinations of three pure principles, which may conveniently be called sun, moon, and earth. four of the planets are based on pairs of these principles: venus (sun-earth, mars (earthsun; jupiter (moon-earth, and saturn (earth-moon. mercury is formed of all three, moon

g knight [i, and so renews the cycle. the princess is not only the perfect maiden, but, owing to the death of the prince, the forsaken and lamenting widow. all this occurs in the legends characteristic of the aeon of osiris. it is hardly possible definitely to disentangle these complications, but for the student it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which the father and mother (i and first h) alternately generate the son (v) and daughter (second h. the generative unit is complete in the trinity, but this trinity endlessly alternates its polarity, male-female-male giving way to m

sm and made extensive use of it in his own magical experiments. the rationale for the assumption of the god-form is very simple. to change ourselves in a fundamental way, it is necessary that we become 148 tetragrammaton someone else. to change for the better, we must become one who is better. to become wiser, we must take on the identity and persona of a spirit of wisdom such as the egyptian god thoth. to become more beautiful, we must assume the form and persona of a god of beauty such as apollo or aphrodite. to become more courageous and warlike, we must take on the nature of a war god such as mars or the northern god tew. when properly done, the assumed god or spirit actually displaces the thoughts, feelings, and even the physical appearance of the ritualist. while wearing the god-form

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

s name caused his thought to take concrete form. this process of thinking out the existence of things is expressed in egyptian by words which mean "laying the foundation in the heart" in arranging his thoughts and their visible forms khepera was assisted by the goddess maat, who is usually regarded as the goddess of law, order, and truth, and in late times was held to be the female counterpart of thoth "the heart of the god ra" in this legend, however, she seems to play the part of wisdom, as described in the book of proverbs,[fn#3] for it was by maat that he "laid the foundation [fn#3 "the lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. i was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. when there were no depths i was brought forth. before th

ed for a continuance of life on the earth, and the welfare of human beings, he remembered that at one time when reigning on earth he had been bitten by a serpent, and had nearly lost his life through the bite. fearing that the same calamity might befall his successor, he determined to take steps to destroy the power of all noxious reptiles that dwelt on the earth. with this object in view he told thoth to summon keb, the earth-god, to his presence, and this god having arrived, ra told him that war must be made against the serpents that dwelt in his dominions. he further commanded him to go to the god nu, and to tell him to set a watch over all the reptiles that were in the earth and in water, and to draw up a writing for every place in which serpents are known to be, containing strict orde

o transmit it to his son osiris. thus those who are ready to listen to the formulae of the snake-charmers shall always be immune from the bites of serpents, and their children also. from this we may gather that the profession of the snake-charmer is very ancient, and that this class of magicians were supposed to owe the foundation of their craft to a decree of ra himself. ra next sent for the god thoth, and when he came into the presence of ra, he invited him to go with him to a distance, to a place called "tuat" i.e, hell, or the other world, in which region he had determined to make his light to shine. when they arrived there he told thoth, the scribe of truth, to write down on his tablets the names of all who were therein, and to punish those among them who had sinned against him, and h

en he came into the presence of ra, he invited him to go with him to a distance, to a place called "tuat" i.e, hell, or the other world, in which region he had determined to make his light to shine. when they arrived there he told thoth, the scribe of truth, to write down on his tablets the names of all who were therein, and to punish those among them who had sinned against him, and he deputed to thoth the power to deal absolutely as he pleased with all the beings in the tuat. ra loathed the wicked, and wished them to be kept at a distance from him. thoth was to be his vicar, to fill his place, and "place of ra" was to be his name. he gave him power to send out a messenger (hab, so the ibis (habi) came into being. all that thoth would do would be good (khen, therefore the tekni bird of tho

lutely as he pleased with all the beings in the tuat. ra loathed the wicked, and wished them to be kept at a distance from him. thoth was to be his vicar, to fill his place, and "place of ra" was to be his name. he gave him power to send out a messenger (hab, so the ibis (habi) came into being. all that thoth would do would be good (khen, therefore the tekni bird of thoth came into being. he gave thoth power to embrace (anh) the heavens, therefore the moon-god (aah) came into being. he gave thoth power to turn back (anan) the northern peoples, therefore the dog-headed ape of thoth came into being. finally ra told thoth that he would take his place in the sight of all those who were wont to worship ra, and that all should praise him as god. thus the abdication of ra was complete. in the fra

glyphics, with transliteration and translation, was published by me in 1895.[fn#21 [fn#16] papyrus de turin, pll. 31, 77, 131-138 [fn#17] a. z, 1883, p. 27 ff [fn#18] die religion, p. 29 [fn#19] aegypten, p. 359 ff [fn#20] les origines, v. 162-4 [fn#21] first steps in egyptian, p. 241 ff. it has already been seen that the god ra, when retiring from the government of this world, took steps through thoth to supply mankind with words of power and spells with which to protect themselves against the bites of serpents and other noxious reptiles. the legend of the destruction of mankind affords no explanation of this remarkable fact, but when we read the following legend of ra and isis we understand why ra, though king of the gods, was afraid of the reptiles which lived in the kingdom of keb. the

took the place of ra, the old sun-god. looking down from the height of heaven he was able to discover the whereabouts of the rebels, and he pursued them in the form of a winged disk. then he attacked them with such violence that they became dazed, and could neither see where they were going, nor hear, the result of this being that they slew each other, and in a very short time they were all dead. thoth, seeing this, told ra that because horus had appeared as a great winged disk he must be called "heru- behutet" and by this name horus was known ever after at edfu. ra embraced horus, and referred with pleasure to the blood which he had shed, and horus invited his father to come and look upon the slain. ra set out with the goddess ashthertet(`ashtoreth) to do this, and they saw the enemies ly

and harmakhis in a shrine. plate ix. ashthertet('ashtoreth) driving her chariot over the prostrate foe. plate x. left: horus of behutet spearing a typhonic animal, and holding his prisoners with rope. right: horus of behutet, accompanied by ra-harmakhis and menu, spearing the hippopotamus-fiend. then set rose up and cursed horus because he had slain his allies, and he used such foul language that thoth called him "nehaha-her" i.e "stinking face" and this name clung to him ever after. after this horus and set engaged in a fight which lasted a very long time, but at length horus drove his spear into the neck of set with such violence that the fiend fell headlong to the ground. then horus smote with his club the mouth which had uttered such blasphemies, and fettered him with his chain. in thi

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

, tin is jupiter s metal and lead is the metal of saturn. perfect pentacles [talismans] can be prepared with the proper stones and metals. the lord's prayer is the most perfect prayer because it has seven magical petitions. 11 cynocephalus (from latin canus [dog+ cephalus [head: the dog-headed ape (simia hamadryas) which in egyptian mythology was called amemet (eater of the dead) whose master was thoth or tehuti. 12 it is unclear what the original term "heli ca" means or implies los siete signos kabal sticos de los planetas son: para la luna un globo cortado por dos medias lunas. para mercurio un caduceo y el cinoc falo. para venus un lingam sexual. para el sol una serpiente con cabeza de le n. para marte un drag n mordiendo las guardas de una espada. para j piter el pentagrama flameante o

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

st all the peoples of antiquity possessed a name for deity consisting of four letters, and many of them considered 4 to be a divine number, thus- in hebrew we find also ihih called eheie; and ahih called aheie. assyrian adad, egyptian amun, persians syre of sire, greek theos, latin deus, german gott, french dieu, turkish esar, tartar itga, arabian allh, allah, samaritan jabe, egyptian teut, taut, thoth. in sanchoniathon we find the deity called ievo. in clemens alexandrinus, the deity is called jaqu. attention should be paid to the sanskrit holy phrase, aspiration or prayer of four syllables- aum mani padme hum--literally, oh, the jewel in the lotus (meaning, the divine spark within man. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 51. theon of smyrna, in the

th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews first and then to the gentiles. mohammed the tenth; he flourished about a.d. 600. chengiz khan the eleventh, a.d. 1200, conquered persia. who the special messenger of 1800 was, the author is ignorant. the

e two more awaiting perception by process of evolution. these ten sephiroth are not only viewed as triads from above below, but are also imaged in three columns entitled the pillars of severity and mercy, with the median of benignity or mildness. but this scheme is not for this treatise, nor can the sephirotic alliance with the planetary symbols, the angelic host, the divine names and the book of thoth, or tarot be here described. these subjects present a mine of wisdom concealed in the rituals of the kabalistic chabrath zereh aur bokher, from whose parent stem the rosicrucian fraternities also may have arisen. these rituals contain a more complex scheme of the mediaeval occult symbolism than exists in any other form known to me, and i believe that it would not be possible for anyone to re

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

i call forth the infernal shadows which nourish my body and soul; i invoke the circle which empowers my form of being, from the north, i invoke the force of set, being my shadow of self let the blackened flame illuminate from this very forge! from the west, i invoke the force of anubis, the opener of the way let the violet light of the dead empower my spirit! from the south, i invoke the force of thoth, whose lamp illuminates my path 4 let the fires of wisdom and self-discover guide my path! from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit reveal thy essence as azal'ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood p

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

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

the magick of the aeon of horus d eclared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number shall be the glyph hieratic to unlock the fort ress of the aeon; captain is he of all the hosts of mars, and ra hoor khuit cro wned king in that palace of force and fire. set, the beast, for ayin; thoth, al astor the logos, for yod; apis, perdurabo, for vau; and hoor hoorpakraat, bapho met, for zain; foursquare, mystic, wonderful, as cherubs shall i that am one th rough these four be the builder and warder thereof. and the scarlet woman shall bear her cup therein, bestriding her beast& iacchaiion shall stand with his rod, to wige that beast therewith. for he hast the wand of death& the beas

all bear the wand of obeah, with its janus-head of man& woman& its four snakes for his weapons. 3. iacchaion shall wear the black robe lined with gold, for he commeth forth from the darkness of the outer& the light but fringeth him. also black is proper to a neophyte. his head shall be bare, for shamelessness& as the symbol of his function in this working. he shall bear the style& the papyrus for thoth, to write the words of the work. also he shall bear "the book of the law" of the furniture of the temple. in the east the altar of fire& the throne of the beast, with incense etc. in the west the scarlet woman& the altar of sacrifice, the wine etc. in the south the throne of aiwaz, with the altar of? in the north iacchaion with the table of the scribe. in the centre the hexagonal altar, with

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

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

of the magick of the aeon of horus declared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number shall be the glyph hieratic to unlock the fortress of the aeon; captain is he of all the hosts of mars, and ra hoor khuit crowned king in that palace of force and fire. set, the beast, for ayin; thoth, alastor the logos, for yod; apis, perdurabo, for vau; and hoor hoorpakraat, baphomet, for zain; foursquare, mystic, wonderful, as cherubs shall i that am one through these four be the builder and warder thereof. and the scarlet woman shall bear her cup therein, bestriding her beast& iacchaiion shall stand with his rod, to wige that beast therewith. for he hast the wand of death& the beast t

all bear the wand of obeah, with its janus-head of man& woman& its four snakes for his weapons. 3. iacchaion shall wear the black robe lined with gold, for he commeth forth from the darkness of the outer& the light but fringeth him. also black is proper to a neophyte. his head shall be bare, for shamelessness& as the symbol of his function in this working. he shall bear the style& the papyrus for thoth, to write the words of the work. also he shall bear "the book of the law" of the furniture of the temple. in the east the altar of fire& the throne of the beast, with incense etc. in the west the scarlet woman& the altar of sacrifice, the wine etc. in the south the throne of aiwaz, with the altar of? in the north iacchaion with the table of the scribe. in the centre the hexagonal altar, with

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

i made of campbell's incomplete notes, some diary notes of jack taylor, and original notes on campbell's lectures made in the mid-1930s by several ex-members of the inner order of whare ra. i have tried to reconstruct some of the basic elements of the mathers papers using these sources. in 1983, israel regardie came to wellington, new zealand, to meet with me and with other members of our temple "thoth- hermes" regardie outlined his then-unpublished addendum to the concourse of the forces. he had written it in the 1930s in an attempt to bring the previously missing gaps of the enochian system into a workable unit compatible with the golden dawn system. the addendum to the concourse of forces was to be in three parts. the first part was on the aethyrs, and the second part was on the constru

use by dee and kelley of this seal was to place a crystal upon it for the purposes of scrying. the archangel uriel gave the following instructions on its use "you must use a four square table, two cubits square, whereon must be set the sigillum dei, which is already perfected in a book of thine: blessed be god in all his mysteries *this paper was issued to the zelator adeptus minor grades of the thoth hermes temple, new zealand, in 1985. 2 and holy in all his work. this seal must not be looked uponwithout great reverence and devotion. this seal is to be made of perfect wax: i mean wax that is purified; we have no respect of colors. this seal must be nine inches in diameter, the roundness must be twenty-seven inches or somewhere more; the thickness of it must be an inch and half a quarter

ffect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in8 when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real' effect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in-yoked, they produce a curtain which holds the various hierarchies of the tablets together and allows the seals, placed above each corresponding tablet, to be a cementing factor. over the years, at both whare ra and thoth-hermes tem pies in new zealand, a great deal of experimentation was don, with these seals. although their colors were manufactured by th order, they nevertheless produced a controlling quality whic everyone who worked with the tablets could feel. in the de manuscripts, we are told a number of times that every letter re resents an individual angelic force, and that the grouping of thes. force

rse. the birth of wisdom and intelligence. 2. then came the gods thereof: the aeons of the bornless beyond. the establishment of a hierarchy. 3. then there was the voice vibrated. the power of speech. 4. then there was the name declared. which distinguishes all things. 5. at the threshold of the entrance. between the universe and the infinite. hidden knowledge. 6. in the sign of the enterer stood thoth. as before him the aeons were proclaimed. spirits of the air, time itself: 7. in breath he did vibrate them: in symbols he did record them. the wisdom of the written word. 83 the seven tablets of the tabula collecta form the 49 angels of light, or the bonorum, as they are sometimes called. refer to the central or first tablet (the square numbered one. go to the same numbered square in each o

this for those of you who wish to experiment with it. it is derived from notes on a thesis i did for my mentor jack taylor. i would stress, though, that this was not part of the whare ra course, but part of something taylor especially created for us. this is mainly full ceremonial work, or ritual work taken to its optimum level. it has been included, or should i say adopted, by members of our own thoth-hermes temple, though i feel it may be too long-winded for some. the dee manuscripts insisted that a special ring be worn when doing crystal work and the like (see figure 106. the angelic entity known as michael says of it "after this sort the ring must be. note it. i will reveal thee this ring which was revealed since the death of solomon with whom i was present. i was present with him in s

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

r.r. et a.c. out in the open. my regret is that regardie is not alive to see this book in print. there are still members today of the old bristol temple in england, who meet often, according to a former chief of whare ra to whom i recently spoke. i openly ask these members, some of whom have the 6=5 and 7=4 grades, to help other temples get started in much the same way as jack taylor did for our thoth hermes temple. though confined to a wheel chair and over eighty years of age, he held age as no real excuse, and did all he could to insure that the golden dawn knowledge would not die with him. over twenty years ago a well known english occultist once remarked that revelation of the rituals renders them diminished in power. of course, this is utter nonsense, as any ritual being correctly pe

ose knit group who kept in regular communication with each other. if a break away did occur from the bristol temple, it would have been almost impossible to keep secret. at this point i will not condemn mr. king's report as chimera, but will leave it to the reader to make his or her own evaluation. at any rate, with the emergence of the golden dawn temple and society (which was chartered by three thoth hermes members of the 7=4 grade, including jack taylor, there is really no reason to search for secret golden dawn temples. the rituals, study material and grades are available for all those who wish to work and study for them. the repression in whare ra had to be experienced to be believed. it became so bad that one of the chiefs, a certain as, actually walked out due to quarrels concerning

a members left to join the b.o.t.a, anne davies told some of the whare ra adepts that she would refuse to have anything to do with those who used the tablets, in spite of the fact that the head of her new zealand branch of the order was a former 5=6 from whare ra. apparently, her fear of the enochian system was due to the fact that michael whitty, a former golden dawn chief (of 7=4 rank) from the thoth hermes temple in chicago, came to an abrupt end which paul foster case blamed on enochiana. this prejudice had been passed on to anne davies. the closure of whare ra left a lot of bitter feelings towards the chiefs, as no meetings were held, and members were simply told that the temple had dosed and that all papers had to be consigned to the flames. a huge truckload of golden dawn original

ts for some time, one could say that at the time we had the knowledge of the 5=6 grade. we were appalled at the lack of information given out by those in charge during the final days of whare ra. over the next few days, jack taylor decided that we would be initiated into the order, and later into the r.r. et a.c. with the help and coaching of the many friends we met that first day, we founded the thoth hermes temple a few years later, after jack taylor drafted up a charter for us to establish a temple in wellington. the closure of whare ra however did not stop the golden dawn system of magic from being practiced among its ex-members. those that had any real ability, in my opinion, still practiced together. one incident that taylor recalled happened in 1984 when he was asked to help exorcis

e exorcism. though in his eighty-fifth year, and confined to a wheel chair, he was carried up the stairs and placed in the center of the room. with his magical sword and the banner of the west around his neck, he proceeded with the exorcism which turned out to be successful. the master magician has struck again! after corresponding with regardie for a little over a year, he eventually visited the thoth hermes temple in wellington, new zealand in august, 1983. he brought with him the hierophant of a los angeles temple. it was here that regardie was given the 6=5 (and later the 7=4) in appreciation for a lifetime's work in promoting the golden dawn. during his visit he also participated in a 6=5 ceremony as one of the temple officers. during that visit, regardie admitted to me that he was so

what not to do, though during his conversation with jack taylor, he was addressed as frater regardie; one of the order's favored sons had returned to the fold. some years earlier jack taylor, who was a staunch stickler for the g.d. oath, told me that an oath was up to the dictates of one's conscience. in this respect, when my wife and i were put through the ceremonies, our oaths were reworded. at thoth hermes we fully understood regardie's predicament and we were of the opinion that the important thing was not to restrict the g.d. teaching to a few, but to try to foster its beliefs to all those who would listen. just before his death, regardie and i were invovled in a number of writing projects together. one of these was the publication of the 6=5 and 7=4 rituals of the stella matutina in

ons of many of its other teachings. these teachings have been enlarged to cover newer concepts in thought that are presently evolving. the course was intended to cover the old outer order study curriculum with tarot, talismanic work and geomancy that was previously inner order material, but now being taught in the outer. one of the major differences between the whare ra 5=6 course and that of the thoth hermes, was that in the latter the four subgrades of the 5=6 were reintroduced. the tarot and talismanic study (not consecration) were brought down to the outer order levels, as were the color scales. regardie described the 5=6 papers of the golden dawn as "a wealth of material with virtually no starting or finishing point which the z.a.m. is swamped with, and it's sink or swim" at thoth her

lling in the spirit vision; answering to the diagram of the table of the shewbread" which was part of the old g.d. practicus adeptus minor curriculum. i frankly doubt if mathers could have done a better job of it than regardie. in fact, another three parts were drafted up which included practical uses of the angels of the bonorum and the shewstone, and the holy table. in 1986, the three chiefs of thoth hermes chartered the horus temple of the golden dawn foundation in the u.s. as an independent body, and promoted the chief of the horus temple (who was a long time friend and student of regardie) to the rank of 6=5. thoth hermes temple study course for adeptus minor 5=6 1. zelator adeptus minor 2. theoricus adeptus minor 3. practicus adeptus minor 4. philosophus adeptus minor rosea rubea et

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

stalin. word-symbols thus (n.b. names always given as sigils) sigil: apart from the above, the rest is symbolic metaphor as an abstract ritual of the thesis, and here the use of spatial and expressive language is justified and gives colour and verisimilitude. onomatopoeic words should be used. the ritual opens with an ovation or hymn to isis chosen as presiding deity (for personal reasons, though thoth or athene would have been more appropriate. hymn begins "o. glorious isis, mother of men, let thy hand reach out and touch my travail, etc, all of which is expressed by sigils (they should be of one. s own composition) followed by the evocation of the familiar or elemental necessary (1) to act as carrier and bring en rapport subject and object (2) to pierce the protective aura of the subject

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

standing for divine wisdom or spirit; and they create men by incarnating themselves in[[footnote(s* j. w. alden, new york* it has been repeatedly stated that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom and of occult knowledge "the serpent has been connected with the god of wisdom from the earliest times of which we have any historical notice" writes staniland wake "this animal was the especial symbol of thot or taut. and of all those gods, such as hermes) and seth who can be connected with him. this is also the primitive chaldean triad hea or hoa" according to sir henry rawlinson, the most important titles of this deity refer to "his functions as the source of all knowledge and science" not only is he "the intelligent fish" but his name may be read as signifying both "life" and a serpent (an init

ke them dovetail with the order of the gospels, and to identify the angel-man with christ. with the chaldees, the egyptians, from whom moses adopted the chroub (cherubs in their animal form, and the ophites; with all these, the angels, the planets, and the elements, were symbolized mystically and alchemically by the lion (mikael; the bull (uriel; the dragon (raphael; the eagle (gabriel; the bear (thot-sabaoth; the dog (erataoth; the mule (uriel or thartharaoth. all these have a qualificative meaning[[vol. 2, page] 116 the secret doctrine. puranic text. yoga here is the same as dhyana, which word is again synonymous with yoga in the tibetan text, where the "sons of yoga" are called "sons of dhyana" or of that abstract meditation through which the dhyani-buddhas create their celestial sons

s intimately connected with the seven sons of sophia (wisdom, the seven sons of aditi (universal wisdom, her eighth being martanda, the sun, which seven are the seven planetary regents or genii. therefore chnouphis was the spiritual sun of enlightenment, of wisdom, hence the patron of all the egyptian initiates, as bel-merodach (or bel-belitanus) became later with the chaldeans* hermes, or rather thot, was a generic name. abul teda shows in "historia anti-islamitica" five hermes, and the names of hermes, nebo, thot were given respectively in various countries to great initiates. thus nebo, the son of merodach and zarpanitu (whom herodotus calls zeus-belos, gave his name to all the great prophets, seers and initiates. they were all "serpents of wisdom" as connected with the sun astronomical

s, to whom hermes trismegistus attributes the invention of magic* the "invention of magic" a strange term to use, as though the unveiling of the eternal and actual mysteries of nature could be invented! as well attribute, millenniums hence, the invention instead of the discovery of radiant matter to prof. crookes. hermes was not the inventor, or even the discoverer, for, as said in the foot-note, thot-hermes is a generic name, as is enoch (enoichion, the "inner, spiritual eye, nebo, the prophet and seer, etc. it is not the proper name of any one living man, but a generic title of many adepts. their connection in symbolic allegories with the serpent is due to their enlightenment by the solar and planetary gods during the earliest intellectual race, the third. they are all the representative

ndinavian theogony* the greek mythos just alluded to a few pages back, namely the mutilation of uranos by his son kronos in the greek theogony, is an allusion to this theft by the son of the earth and heavens of the divine creative fire. if uranos, the personification of the celestial powers, has to stop creating (he is made impotent by kronos, the god in time) so, in the egyptian cosmogony it is thot, the god of wisdom, who regulates this fight between horus and set, the latter being served by the former as uranos is by kronos (see "book of the dead" ch. xvii. v. 26. in the babylonian account it is the god zu, who strips "the father of the gods" of umsimi- the ideal creative organ not the crown) as g. smith thought (see pp. 115 and 116 chaldean account. for, in the fragment k. 3454 (briti

amed noah- are all generic names. it is the kabiri who are credited with having revealed, by producing corn or wheat, the great boon of agriculture. what isis- osiris, the once living kabiria, has done in egypt, that ceres is said to have done in sicily; they all belong to one class. that the serpents were ever the emblems of wisdom and prudence is again shown by the caduceus of mercury, one with thot, the god of wisdom, with hermes, and so on. the two serpents, entwined around the rod, are phallic symbols of jupiter and other gods who transformed themselves into snakes for purposes of seducing goddesses- but only in the unclean fancies of profane symbologists. the serpent has ever been the symbol of the adept, and of his powers of immortality and divine knowledge. mercury in his psychopom

esent work. a few of these claims have now to be considered. our races- they all show- have sprung from divine races, by whatever name they are called. whether we deal with the indian rishis or pitris; with the chinese chim-nang and tchan-gy- their "divine man" and demi-gods; with the akkadian dingir and mul-lil- the creative god and the "gods of the ghost-world; with the egyptian isis-osiris and thot; with the hebrew elohim, or again with manco capac and his peruvian progeny- the story varies nowhere. every nation has amshaspends (six exoterically, ten and seven chaldean anedots[[footnote(s* the amshaspends are six- if ormazd, their chief and logos, is excluded. but in the secret doctrine he is the seventh and highest, just as phtah is the seventh kabir among the kabiri[[vol. 2, page] 366

the amshaspends are six- if ormazd, their chief and logos, is excluded. but in the secret doctrine he is the seventh and highest, just as phtah is the seventh kabir among the kabiri[[vol. 2, page] 366 the secret doctrine. ten and seven sephiroth, etc, etc. one and all have been derived from the primitive dhyan-chohans of the esoteric doctrine, or the "builders" of the stanzas (book i. from manu, thot-hermes, oannes-dagon, and edris-enoch, down to plato and panadores, all tell us of seven divine dynasties, of seven lemurian, and seven atlantean divisions of the earth; of the seven primitive and dual gods who descend from their celestial abode* and reign on earth, teaching mankind astronomy, architecture, and all the other sciences that have come down to us. these beings appear first as "go

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re on false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history, it is a bold step for

, for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (manas, or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges into, is absorbed by, and made one with atma-buddhi after the death of man. for se-khen is the residence or loka of the god khem (horus-osiris, or father and son, hence the "devachan" of atma- buddhi. in the ritual of the dead the defunct is shown entering into sekhem with horus-thot and "emerging from it as pure spirit (lxiv, 29. thus the defunct says (v. 130 "i see the forms of (myself, as various) men transforming eternally. i know this (chapter. he who knows it. takes all kinds of living forms. and in verse 35, addressing in magic formula that which is called, in egyptian esotericism, the "ancestral heart" or the re-incarnating principle, the permanent ego, the defunc

sdom, the sephira with the jews, saraswati or vach, with the hindus, the holy ghost being a female principle. hence, born from it, the kurios or logos was, with the greeks, the "god, mind (nous "now koros (kurios) signifies the pure and unmixed nature of intellect- wisdom" says plato in "cratylus; and kurios is mercury, the divine wisdom, and "mercury is the sol (sun("arnobius" vi, xii, from whom thot-hermes received this divine wisdom. while, then, the logoi of all countries and religions are correlative (in their sexual aspects) with the female soul of the world or the "great deep" the deity, from which these two in one have their being, is ever concealed and called the "hidden one" connected only indirectly with creation* as it can act only through the dual force emanating from the eter

eater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the solar gods. the god khnoom- the moist power- water, as thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a throne enshrined in a lotus (saitic epoch, serapeum. the god bes stands on a lotus, ready to devour his progeny (ibid, abydos) thot, the god of mystery and wisdom, the sacred scribe of amenti, wearing the solar disc as head gear, sits with a bull's head (the sacred bull of mendes being a form of thot) and a human body, on a full blown lotus (ivth dynasty) finally it is the goddess hiquet, under her shape of a frog, who rests on the lotus, thus showing her connection with water. and it is this frog-symbol, undeniably the m

ric purposes, or as a male god in allegory and symbol, in occult philosophy our satellite was regarded as a sexless potency to be well studied, because it was to be dreaded. with the initiated aryans, khaldii, greeks and romans, soma, sin, artemis soteira (the hermaphrodite apollo, whose attribute is the lyre, and the bearded diana of the bow and arrow, deus lunus, and especially osiris-lunus and thot-lunus* were the occult potencies of the moon. but whether male or female, whether thot or minerva, soma or astoreth, the moon is the occult mystery of mysteries, and more a symbol of evil than of good. her seven phases (original, esoteric division) are divided into three astronomical phenomena and four[[footnote(s* the roman catholics are indebted for the idea of consecrating the month of may

a symbol of evil than of good. her seven phases (original, esoteric division) are divided into three astronomical phenomena and four[[footnote(s* the roman catholics are indebted for the idea of consecrating the month of may to the virgin, to the pagan plutarch, who shows that "may is sacred to maia[[maia) or vesta (aulus-gellius, word maia- our mother-earth, our nurse and nourisher personified* thot-lunus is "budha-soma" of india, or "mercury and the moon[[vol. 1, page] 397 the moon, bisexual. purely psychic phases. that the moon was not always reverenced is shown in the mysteries, in which the death of the moon-god (the three phases of gradual waning and final disappearance) was allegorized by the moon standing for the genius of evil that triumphs for the time over the light and life-gi

dess born from the[[footnote(s* quoted in mr. g. massey's lecture[[vol. 1, page] 403 identity of typology. sea-foam, and it became later the symbol of the christian anima mundi, or the holy spirit. one of the most occult chapters in the "book of the dead" is ch. lxxx, entitled "to make the transformation into the god giving light to the path of darkness" wherein "woman-light of the shadow" serves thot in his retreat in the moon. thot-hermes is said to hide therein, because he is the representative of the secret wisdom. he is the manifested logos of its light side, the concealed deity or "dark wisdom" when he is supposed to retire to the opposite hemisphere. speaking of her power, the moon calls herself repeatedly "the light which shineth in darkness" the "woman-light" hence it became the a

s not "old time" of the greeks, with its scythe and sand-glass, identical with the "ancient of days" of the kabalists, the latter "ancient" being one with the hindu "ancient of days" brahma (in his triune form, whose name is also "sanat" the ancient? every kumara bears the prefix of sanat and sana; and sanaischara is saturn, the planet (sani and sarra, the king saturn whose secretary in egypt was thot-hermes the first. they are thus identified both with the planet and the god (siva, who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of saturn, who is the same as bel, baal, siva, and jehovah sabbaoth, the angel of whose face is mikael[[diagram "who is as god. he is the patron, and guardian angel of the jews, as daniel tells us (v. 21; and, before the kumaras were degraded, by those who were ignor

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views of p. christian are added. to facilitate reference to such information, a table is added here specifying the places to which the student can turn for further opinions and more detailed descriptions. court de gebelin. le monde premitif analyse. paris 1773-82. volume 8. etteilla or alliette. philosophie des hautes sciences. amsterdam. 1785. etteilla. lecons theoriques et pratiques du livre du thot. 1787. tarots egyptiennes ou grand etteilla. 1830. etteila. maniere de se recreer avec le jeu des tarots. 1783-5. the magical ritual of the sanctum regnum the magical ritual of the sanctum regnurethe conjuration of the four elements, by eliphas levi. the four elementary forms separate and specify by a kind of rough outline, the created spirits whom the universal movement disengages from the c

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acter, that the roman inquisition collected many proofs of his existence, but none regarding his origin or end. but, stated figuier, he was a magician and doctor as well, possessed divinatory abilities of a high order, was in possession of several arabic manuscripts, and had great skill in chemistry. the french writer on occultism eliphas levi stated that the name althotas is composed of the word thot with the syllables al and as, which if read cabalistically are sala, meaning messenger or envoy; the name as a whole therefore signifies thot, the messenger of the egyptians. althotas has also been identified with kolmer, the instructor of adam weishaupt (a german leader of the illuminati) in magic, and at other times with the comte de saint germain. the accounts concerning him are certainly

ng the keys, thus destroying the correspondence between the numbers and the signs. it is also said that he degraded the science of the tarot into mere fortune-telling by cards for credulous people. the publications of etteilla include maniere de se recreer le jeu de cartes nommes tarots (4 pts, 1783.85, philosophie des hautes sciences (1785, and science, lecons theoriques et pratiques du livre de thot (1787. sources: douglas, alfred. the tarot: the origins, meaning, and use of the cards. new york: taplinger, 1972. levi, eliphas. transcendental magic. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. european journal of parapsychology annual professional journal of the koestler parapsychology unit, university of edinburgh. includes authoritative articles on experimental and theoretical aspects of parapsycholo

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but it is also the holy cross of the redeemer. to be acquainted with it sufficiently for its abuse or divulgation is to deserve all sufferings; to know as one should alone know it, namely, to make use of and conceal it, is to be master of the absolute. a single word comprehends all things, and this word consists of four letters: it is the tetragram of the hebrews, the azot of the alchemists, the thot of the bohemians, or the taro of the kabalists. this word, expressed after so many manners, means god for the profane, man for the philosophers, and imparts to the adepts the final term of human sciences and the key of divine power; but he only can use it who understands the necessity of never revealing it. had oedipus, instead of killing the sphinx, overcome it, harnessed it to his chariot a

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