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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

the candles deosil, sending the energies to where they are needed. when you are not carrying out formal magick, keep on the altar any crystals that are of personal significance to you (see page 153. you might wish to have a clear crystal quartz for pure energy, a blue lapis lazuli flecked with gold for wisdom, a purple amethyst and rose quartz for healing and harmony, or a gleaming, golden-brown tiger's eye for grounding. you can also keep different herbs there according to your current focus. empowering your altar you can further empower your special place as a reflection of the positive aspects of your changing life by placing on it other small items that carry happy memories for you. these might include stones or shells found on an enjoyable outing, presents from friends or family, a l

ance the yang, or male, energies with the yin, or female. the god figure may be represented by a horn, and the goddess by a large conch shell. there are a great variety of deity figures in museum shops as well as new age shops and those selling goods from particular areas of the world. you may, however, feel more comfortable with a ceramic animal, bird or reptile for which you feel an affinity: a tiger for courage, an eagle for vision, a cat for mystery and independence, a snake for regeneration. this is what native americans call our personal totem or power creature. you may find some of these are, in some cultures, the symbols of divinities. there is, for example, bast, the cat-headed egyptian goddess who protected women- especially in pregnancy and childbirth- the home, pleasure and joy

en in the most draining situations. collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over the millennia, from ancient babylon, egypt and the orient, acquired the reputation of possessing strong protective qualities and are also usually potent in strengthening and healing. these include amber, black agate, amethyst, bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, jade, black and red jasper, jet, lapis lazuli, tiger's eye, topaz and turquoise. however, as you work with crystals and stones, you may discover that a particular crystal or even a stone from the seashore fills you with calm and confidence; if you carry or hold this at times when you feel vulnerable, it will increase in power the more you use it. build up a collection of small protective crystals with which you can ring your bed for quiet slee

removing negative influences on the user. it can promote physical health and galvanise our shadow side, transforming anger and resentment into positive action, rather than leaving us to deny negative feelings or project them on to other people. it is a powerful stone to use when one's survival, either professional or personal, is an issue. smoky quartz also counteracts self-destructive impulses. tiger's eye a brown or red translucent stone (the green and blue versions are cat's, falcon or hawk's eyes, tiger's eye combines the powers of the earth with the deep instinctive ability to survive life's challenges. throughout the ages, tiger's eye has been a talisman against the evil eye. roman soldiers would wear engraved stones as protection from death and wounding. tiger's eye is also associa

eligious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crystals such as jade or tiger's eye and one or two amber if you have any in your collection (rose quartz or glass nuggets in smoky brown and yellow make good substitutes) begin in the north and make sure the crystals are touching. the square is a sacred geometric form symbolising time and space and so is good for all protective rituals. the square should be just inside the candles. some practitioners create a symbolic sq

de sugilite, rhodonite and rhodoschrite. brown brown is for nurturing powers, for acceptance of frailty in oneself and others, and earthing power. brown heals stress, restores physical energy and gives the strength to go on under difficulty. it aids the healing of the feet, legs, hands, skeleton and large intestine. it also heals the earth and its animals. brown crystals include rutilated quartz, tiger's eye, fossilised wood, desert rose and leopardskin jasper. grey grey is the colour of compromise, adaptability and the ability to merge into the background, and keep one's own counsel. grey is good for healing the immune system and for calming stress and fears, giving peaceful dreams and helping the subconscious mind to work though conflicts. it is also good for bones. grey crystals include

ns and the achievement of major life goals, especially those that change the world. gold is especially potent for overcoming addictions, obsessions and compulsions and relieving depression. gold is the most powerful healing colour of all, associated with long life and immortality, and will give a surge of healing energy in any chronic or debilitating illnesses. gold crystals include amber, golden tiger's eye, topaz and citrine. a colour healing ritual with candles candles of specific colours can help in the healing process. if you are not certain of the root of a problem, you can use a white or pure beeswax candle, plus, if you wish, one for the perceived area of pain. for your monthly major healing sessions, this ritual can be used after the names have been read, working with pink or whit

ck, and for all matters concerning fathers. i have listed various solar deities in chapter 4. though there are powerful sun goddesses, the sun's focus is mainly male/animus/ yang in both men and women. sun hour spells bring a surge of energy and vitality and so are excellent for personal empowerment and renewal. element: fire colour: gold crystals: amber, carnelian, diamond, clear crystal quartz, tiger's eye, topaz incenses: cloves, cinnamon, frankincense trees: bay, birch, laurel herbs and oils: juniper, rosemary, saffron, st john's wort metal: gold the sun rules leo, 23 july-23 august, and is most powerful for those born under this sign. the moon monday, the day of the moon, is for spells concerning the home, family matters and the influence of the family, especially the mother, children

. associations candle colours: dark green, silver and red symbols: fresh greenery, especially hawthorn; any flowers that are native to your region, placed in baskets; dew gathered on may morning (girls should bathe their faces in it, coloured ribbons, twigs from the three trees sacred to the festival (oak, ash and thorn) or any other woods from your own area crystals: clear crystal quartz, golden tiger's eye, rutilated quartz and topaz flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: almond, angelica, ash, cowslip, frankincense, hawthorn, lilac, marigold and roses for love. a beltain ritual for fertility and earth energies such a ritual can be used to encourage creativity and growth of all kinds. it may be performed either alone or in a group, with everyone present joining in the chants. use as many kin

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ation properly performed in combination with the sign of horus (or "the enterer) on passing the east is one of the best methods of arousing the macrocosmic force in the circle. it should never be omitted unless there be some special reason against it. a particular tread seems appropriate to it. this tread should be light and stealthy, almost furtive, and yet very purposeful. it is the pace of the tiger who stalks the deer. the number of circumambulations should of course correspond to the nature of the ceremony. another important movement is the spiral, of which there are two principal forms, one inward, one outward. they can be performed in either direction; and, like the circumambulation, if performed deosil< they invoke- if widder

ample consecrate a letter expressing our will; or, if we know how, we may use some object connected with the person whose acts we are attempting to control, such as a lock of hair or a handkerchief 113 once belonging to her, and so in subtile connection with her aura. but for material ends it is better to have material means. we must not rely on fine gut in trolling for salmon. our will to kill a tiger is poorly conveyed by a charge of small shot fired at a range of one hundred yards. our talisman must, therefore, be an object suitable to the nature of our operation, and we must have some such means of applying its force to such a way as will naturally compel the obedience of the portion of nature which we are trying to change. if one will the death of a sinner, it is not sufficient to hat

he hath no safety save he himself be bacchus! bacchus, divine and human! bacchus, begotten on semele of zeus, the adulterous lord of thunder ravishing, brutally, his virginal victim! bacchus, babe hidden from hate in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the channel of the star-spate, whereof one serpent is thy soul! bacchus, twyformed, man-woman, bacchus, whose innocence tames the tiger, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to the madness of murder! bacchus, thy thyrsus oozes sap; thine ivy clings to it; thy lionskin slips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissome loins; drunk on delight of the godly grape, thou knowest no more the burden of the body and the vexation of the spirit. come, bacchus, come thou hither, come out

a god who is drunken with the wine of earth, and the mammal who quaffs the blood of god to purge him of mortality. he is a woman as he accepts all impulses, are they not his? he is a man to stamp himself upon whatever would hallow itself to him. he wields the wand, 263 with cone of pine and ivy tendrils; the angel creates continually, wreathing his will in clinging beauty, imperishably green. the tiger, the symbol of the brutal passions of man, gambols about its master's heels; and he bestrides the ass of priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither he wills to go. let the magician therefore adventure himself upon the astral plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by t

rose: 8 :hermaphrodite, jackal, twin :moly, anhalonium lewinii: serpents: 9 :elephant:(banyan) mandrake, damiana: yohimba: 10 :sphinx :willow, lily, ivy :11 :eagle or man (cherub of air.:aspen: 12 :swallow, ibis, ape, twin :vervain, herb mercury: serpents: marjolane, palm: 13 :dog :almond, mugwort, hazel (as moon. moonworth: ranunculus: 14 :sparrow, dove, swan :myrtle, rose, clover: 15 :ram, owl :tiger lily, geranium: 16 :bull (cherub of earth :mallow: 17 :magpie, hybrids :hybrids, orchids: 18 :crab, turtle, sphinx :lotus: 19 :lion (cherub of fire :sunflower: 20 :virgin, anchorite, any :snowdrop, lily, narcissus: solitary person or animal: 21 :eagle :hyssop, oak, poplar, fig: 22 :elephant :aloe :23 :eagle-snake-scorpion :lotus, all water plants (cherub of water: 24 :scorpion, beetle, lobst

of power whereby the energies of the aeon of horus work his will in the world "the proclamation of the accomplishment" 1. let the magician strike the battery: 3-5-3, crying abrahadabra. the second gesture "the enchantment" 1. let the magician, still facing boleskine, advance to the circumference of his circle. 2. let him turn himself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complete one revolution thereof. 3. let him give the sign of horus (or the enterer) as he passeth, so to project the force that radiateth from boleskine before him. 4. let him pace his path until he comes to the north; there let him halt, and turn his face to the north. 5. let him trace with his wand the averse pentagram proper to invoke air (aquarius. 6

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al. thus "benevolence and righteousness" are not "virtues" they are only symptoms of the world-disease, in that they should be needed. the same applies to all conditions, and to all modes of seeking to modify them. there is only one proper reaction magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 216 to event; that is, to adjust oneself with perfect elasticity to whatever happens. that tiger across the paddy-field looks hungry. there are several ways of dealing with the situation. one can run away, or climb a tree, or shoot him, or (in your case) cow him by the power of the human eye; but the way of the tao is to take no particular notice (this, incidentally, is not such bad magick; the diversion of your attention might very well result in your becoming invisible, as i have expl

ce (this, incidentally, is not such bad magick; the diversion of your attention might very well result in your becoming invisible, as i have explained in a previous letter) the theory appears to be that, although your effort to save yourself is successful, it is bound to create a disturbance of equilibrium elsewhere, with results equally disastrous. even more so; it might be that to be eaten by a tiger is just what you needed in your career through the incarnations; at that moment there might well be a vacancy somewhere exactly where it will do most good to your great work. when you press on one spot, you make a corresponding bulge in another, as we often see a beautiful lady, unhappy about her waist-line, adopt drastic measures, and transform herself into the semblance of a pouter puffin!

he gay, quick, careless boy to whom the world was gracious. let this serve for an epitaph: gray took eleven years; i, less. elegy written in a country farmyard by cock-a-doodle-doo here lies upon this hospitable spot a youth to flats and flatties unknown; the plymouth brethren gave it to him hot; trinity, cambridge, claimed him for her own. he climbed a lot of mountains in his time he stalked the tiger, bear and elephant. he wrote a stack of poems, some sublime, some not. tales, essays, pictures, plays my aunt! at chess a minor master, hoylake set his handicap at two. love drove him crazy. three thousand women used to call him pet; in other matters- shall we call him "lazy? he had the gift of laughing at himself; most affably he walked and talked with god; and now the silly bastard's on th

all him pet; in other matters- shall we call him "lazy? he had the gift of laughing at himself; most affably he walked and talked with god; and now the silly bastard's on the shelf, we'll bury him beneath another sod- in all the active moods of nature- her activity is worship! there is an element of rejoicing; even when she is at her wildest and most destructive (you know gilbert's song "when the tiger is alashing of his tail) her sadness always goes with the implied threat of cessation- and that we know to be illusion. there is nothing worse in religion, especially in the wisdom-religion, magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 222 than the pedagogic-horatory accents of the owlish dogmatist, unless it be the pompous self-satisfaction of the prig. eschew it, sister, esc

of the answer to yours received march 10th, 1944 and in general to your entire course of conduct since you came to me- now over a year ago. love is the law, love under will. fraternally yours, 666 chapter xlv "unserious" conduct of a pupil cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. here pops us zola again- this time he says j'accuse! to day's hexa gram for me is no. x. loe, the tiger: and the duke of chau comments on the last line as follows "the sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. if it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune" o.k; let's! it is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torment- and so you should be- and persuaded me

all against any unforeseen unfavourable change of circumstance (we look rather like that just now at the end of 1944 e.v) nor does anyone of them show any achievement; having got to the end of their biological tether, they stay out, without an aim, an idea, an effort. the leech, an insufferable pest in its 41 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 309 belt- it has killed off tiger, rhinoceros, anything with a nostril- is the curse of our military station at lebong- or was when i was there. at darjeeling, a few hundred feet higher, devil a one! they have no one to think: now how can we flourish up higher? those old forlorn-hope miss-sahibs- how wide are their nostrils! then- how? consider for a moment our own empire. how did that spread all over the planet? it was the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

it will not be necessary for their followers. let us then choose a suitable position, and consider what happens. there is a sort of happy medium between rigidity and limpness; the muscles are not to be strained; and yet they are not allowed to be altogether slack. it is difficult to find a good descriptive word "braced" is perhaps the best. a sense of physical alertness is desirable. think of the tiger about to spring, or of the oarsman waiting for the gun. after a little there will be cramp and fatigue. the student must now set his teeth, and go through with it. the minor sensations of itching, etc, will be found to pass away, if they are resolutely neglected, but the cramp and fatigue may be expected to increase until the end of the practice. one may begin with half an hour or an hour. t

e tongue gives the "ideal taste; on the dorsum of the tongue "ideal contact "every atom of 41 the body comes into contact with every atom in the universe all at once" is the description bhikku ananda metteya gives of it. the root of the tongue gives the "ideal sound; and the pharynx the "ideal sight<tiger, the student acquires that strength. conquer "the nerve udana" and you can walk on the water "samana" and you begin to flash with light; the "elements" fire, air, earth, and water, and you can do whatever in natural life they prevent you from doing. for instance, by conquering earth, one could take a short cut to australia; or by conquering water, one can live at the bottom of the ganges. th

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fe, and returneth again into death. 2. three men in ten conserve life; three men in ten pursue death. 3. three men also in ten desire to live, but their acts hasten their journey to the house of death. why is this? because of their efforts to preserve life. 4. but this i have heard. he that is wise in the economy of his life, whereof he is warden for a season, journeyeth with no need to avoid the tiger or the rhinoceros, and goeth uncorsleted among the warriors with no fear of sword or lance. the rhinoceros findeth in him no place vulnerable to its horn, the tiger to its claws, the weapon to its point. why is this? because there is no house of death in his whole body. 56 chapter li the teh as the nurse. 1. all things proceed from the tao, and are sustained by its forth-flowing virtue. ever

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uick success. but clouds indeed, we ask rain's happiness. strayed- come thou back and follow thy own plan! by true attraction mete thy starry span! anger in wedlock or a car en panne! bloodshed and woe sincerity bids go. sincerity: here's help from all the clan. who wins too much may lose! repose, o man! 10 the li hexagram lingam of water- li: is the treading of the path that's right! step on the tiger's tail; he will not bite. follow the path of thine accustomed right; level and easy walks the anchorite. learn vanity, the brave's bluff, to flee! tread on the tiger's tail; he will not bite. firm, resolute- yet perilous thy plight; examine well, the augury of the flight. 11 the thai hexagram yoni of lingam- thai: the due order of things; we see, in sum, good fortune, small things gone, and

orns! he's safer so. castrate the boar- its teeth will gently show. then rule the stars- good fortune aid thine art! 27 the i hexagram earth of fire- i: nourishment; the matter and the mode, demand that thought should indicate the road. suffice thyself; else- how thy jaw shall quiver! look neither down nor up, the sages say. ill nourished, action merely means affray. but lo! below thee bleats the tiger's prey. improper method? firm and cautious stay! but thou, who nurturest all, mayst cross the river. 28 the ta kwo hexagram water of air- ta kwo: a weakened beam is under stress. to move in any manner spells success. place mats for things set down; then faults are few. dead willow shoots; old man young wife well wooing. the beam is weak; fate's busy with the brewing! the beam curves up- loya

- cold, pellucid- chaste. here to the brim it bubbles- go thy way! 49 the ko hexagram water of sun- ko: change; men doubt until their dullness sees the change wisdom can foretell with ease. at first; though art bound with strips of yellow hide. wait then a little, time's a friend to thee. haste may wreck all; discuss thy plans untried. first gain men's confidence; then saddle and ride! swift as a tiger- with the yi for a guide! confirm thy change with firm sincerity. 50 the ting hexagram sun of air- ting: cauldron; firm its auspice we may guess, realization, progress, and success. upset the foul pots! thy whore earns mother fee. before thou eat set guards about thy table! frowns failure if thou be not equitable. then shame on thee; thy case is pitiable. gold ornaments men's firm sincerity

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine; he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of al

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

er to the brahmin who boasted himself ahimsa harmless. so among the rights of a bhikkhu is medicine. he who takes quinine does so with the deliberate intention of destroying innumerable living beings; whether this is done by stimulating the phagocytes, or directly, is morally indifferent. how such a fiend incarnate, my dear brother ananda maitriya, can call him cruel and cowardly who only kills a tiger, is a study in the philosophy of the mote and the beam! far be it from me to sugest that this is a defence of breathing, eating and drinking. by no means; in all these ways we bring suffering and death to others, as to ourselves. but since these are inevitable acts, since suicide would be a still more cruel alternative (especially in case something should subsist below mere rupa, the command

il the editor himself falls from some broad and easy shelf, and in his death the journal dies. ah! bombast, footle, simple lies! where would you then appear in type? the poet retires up. his attitude undignified, his pleasure momentary, the after results quite disproportionate. he contemplates his end. therefore poor crowley lights his pie, maintains: the small-shot kills the snip, but spares the tiger; goes on joking, and goes on smirking, on invoking, on climbing, meditating, failing to think of a suitable rhyme at a critical juncture, ah! goes on working, goes on smoking, until he goes right on to woking. 637. no one supposes me a saint.54 on inquiry, however, i find that some do. 686. amrita.55 the elixir of life: the dew of immortality. the sword of song 72 688. christ.56 see shri par

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den of the pure english strain; brave, gay, honest, shrewd- and there was not one that guessed the inmost fire that burnt her. for she was but a child when the visitor came. the first of the visits was in a dream. she woke choking; the air- clear, sweet, and wholesome as it blew through the open window from the chilterns- was fouled with a musty stench. and she woke her governess with a tale of a tiger. the second visit was again at night. she had been hunting, was alone at the death, had beaten off the hounds. that night she heard a fox bark in her room, she spent a 125 sleepless night of terror; in the morning she found the red hairs of a fox upon her pillow. the third visit was nor in sleep nor waking. but she tightened her lips, and would have veiled the hateful gleam in her eyes. it w

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ical gush, inane sentimentality, who are faddists, fools, drivellers, dodderers- these i refuse to accept as mystics. the true phenomena of mysticism can only occur in a high-class brain and a healthy brain; and their action on that brain is to repose it, to fortify it, to make it more capable of lofty and continuous thought. beware of the sheep in lions' skins, the asses that bray and think "the tiger roars" physically too the mystic is to be known by his atmosphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. you will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even "playing adam" what? you don't know how to play "adam? and you call yourself a sage? tut! the game of "adam" is played as foll

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brahmin who boasted himself "ahimsa_ harmless. so among the "rights" of a bhikkhu is medicine. he who takes quinine does so with the deliberate intention of destroying innumerable living beings; whether this is done by stimulating the phagocytes, or directly, is morally indifferent. how such a fiend incarnate, my dear brother ananda metteya, can call 305 him "cruel and cowardly" who only kills a tiger, is a study in the philosophy of the mote and the beam!5 far be it from me to suggest that this is a defence of breathing, eating, and drinking. by no means; in all these ways we bring suffering and death to others, as to ourselves. but since these are inevitable acts, since suicide would be a still more cruel alternative (especially in case something should subsist below mere rupa, the comm

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yond the possibility of redemption, for in order of re-incarnation they are placed seven stages below a man, three below a camel, and one below a pig. manu speaks of "the gliding of the soul through ten thousand millions of wombs" and if a man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk, a crow; if woven flax, a frog; if a cow, a lizard; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear "institutes of manu" xii, 55-67. 289 we find christ insisting on this absolute chastity of body and mind, in a similar manner, and for similar reasons; for the eastern jew if he is not actually doing something dirty, is sure to be thinking about it. hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.290 191 he realized that there were in this world

n with 'em! simplex["smiling] proving our love's old age in a youth renewed! simplicissimus["exultant] the spirit of persistency growing! the mob. hooray! george raffalovich. 283 half-hours with famous mahatmas. no. 1 yogi mahatma sri agamya paramahamsa guru swamiji is a certain punjabi lala, who, on account of his tremendous voice and ferocious temper, has well earned for himself the name of the tiger mahatma. my first acquaintance with his holiness was in november 1906, when he paid his second visit to england. i had seen his name in the daily press, but before calling upon him, i had read up what i could about him in his book "sri brahma dhara" in the preface of which he is praised as follows "he seeks to do good, he accepts money from no one, and lives a very simple, pure life. i. was

e, pure life. i. was much impressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. these teachings. breath love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living" forewarned is to be forearmed, and i had read the same type of "puff" on many a patent pill box! on entering 70, margaret street i was shown upstairs and ushered into the den of tiger sri agamya. besides himself, there were three people in the room, two men and 284 a woman, and as i entered one of the men, an american, was saying "o mahatma! i haven't the faith, i can't get it" to which his holiness roared out "you sheep are. i no want sheep. tigers i make. tigers tear up sheep, go away. no good, get intellect. get english. no more" the three then departed, and i was left

that master, you become my disciple; i show you all things; i lead you to the ultimate reality. the supreme stage of the highest. the infinite ultimatum. the unlimited omniscience of eternal wisdom- all this i give you if you have faith in me" as faith is exceedingly cheap in this country, i offered him unlimited oceans of it; and at this he seemed very please, and laughed "ha! ha! you make good tiger cub. you tear sheep up. all is illusion" then after a pause "de vouman" pointing to the door "is no good" and the, without further hesitation, he entered upon a veritable don juan description of his earthly adventures. this i thought strange of so sober-minded a saint, and so put to him several questions concerning the vedanta philosophy, and its most noted exponents, to see what he really d

nostrils; and, if i had faith, so he assured me, i should in six months' time arrive at the supreme stage of the highest in the infinite ultimatum, and should burst as a chance illusively fermented bubble in the purest atmosphere of the highest reality. the next occasion on which i saw the mahatma was at a business meeting of his disciples held at 60, south audley street. his holiness called them tiger-cubs, nevertheless seldom have i seen such a pen full of sheep. a man from ilfracombe proposed this, and a man from liverpool second that; at last a london plumber arose, and with great solemnity declared: gintlemen, hi taik hit 'is 'oliness his really 'oly, hin fact gintlemen hi taik hit 'e his gawd. hand so hi proposes the very least we can do for 'im his to subscribe yearly towards 'im fo

sely placed just behind me, i quietly passed round the large table at which his terror-stricken fold sat gaping, and moved towards the door. the whole assembly seemed petrified with fear. at first the bless d one appeared not to realize what had happened, so taken aback was he by any one having the audacity to leave the room without his permission: then he recovered himself, and at the top of his tiger-roar poured out his curses in choicest hindustani. on reaching the door i opened it, and then facing him i exclaimed in a loud voice in his native tongue "chup raho! tum suar ke bachcha ho" with gleaming eyes, and foaming lips, and arms flung wildly into the air- there stood the indian god, the 666th incarnation of haram zada, stung to the very marrow of his bones by this bitterest insult. b

y is disgusting; we were all trying to forget francis thompson, to remember his songs; and here we have his putrid corpse indecently disinterred and thrust under our noses. the worst of it all is the very perfection of the wrappings. what a poet thompson might have been if he had never heard of christ or opium; if he had revelled in venice with its courtesans of ruddy hair, swan gracefulness, and tiger soul! instead, he sold matches in the streets of london; from which abyss a church meant warmth, light, incense, music, and a pageant of hope. to-day, as in the days of nero, christianity is no more than the slum-born shriek of the degenerate and undersized starvelings that inhabit the inferno of industrialism. so also thompson, impotent from abuse of opium, reviles shelley and byron for vir

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ossible here to convey to the reader a just estimate of the extreme value of this book. but we can say that this is the best work on the bhakti-yoga yet written. union through devotion is bhakti-yoga, and union with isvara or the higher self is the highest form this union can take "man will be seen no more as man, but only as god; the animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as god; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of god "love knows no bargaining. love knows no reward. love knows no fear. love knows no rival" for "there are no men in this world but that one man, and that is he, the beloved" in this excellent series can also be obtained raja yoga, one rupee; karma yoga, twelve annas; and jnana yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing considering that

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ding heart! 1st maenad. he is here! he is here! autonoe. tigers, appear! agave. to the clap of my hand and the whish of my wand, obey! autonoe. i have found a chariot crowned with ivy and vine, and the laurel divine, and the clustering smell 38 of the sage asphodel, and the daedal flower of the cretan bower; dittany's force, and larksupur's love, and blossoms of gorse around and above. agave. the tiger and panther are there at my cry. ho, girls! span there their sides! ist maenad. here am i. 2nd maenad. and i! we are ready. agave. strong now and steady! ist maenad. the tiger is harnessed. 2nd maenad. the nightingale urges our toil from her far nest. 3rd maenad. ionian surges roar back to our chant. 4th maenad. aha! for the taunt of theban sages is lost, lost, lost! the wine that enrages ou

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

nd neptune both three. lucky day: thursday. flower: heliotrope. trees: willow, elm. animals: sheep and ox. birds: swan and stork. metal: tin. colours: purple, mauve, sea-green. 152 arms the ram. 22 march to 21 april. lucky stones: ruby, bloodstone, diamond. lucky numbers: aries, seven; mars, nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: gorse, wild rose, thistle. trees: holly, thorn, chestnut. animals: ram, tiger, leopard. bird: magpie. metal: iron. colours: bright green, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for both taurus and venus. lucky day: friday. flowers: lily-of-the-valley, violet, rose, myrtle. trees: almond, apple, walnut, ash, sycamore. animal: bull. bird: dove. metal: copper

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

ncy towards lucidity is seen in the faculty of the plant to turn towards the sun. it is practically non-existent in the- 160- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust mineral kingdom. divisions. first, the higher animals and the domestic animals, such as the dog, the horse and the elephant. secondly, the so-called wild animals, such as the lion, the tiger, and the other carnivorous and dangerous wild animals. thirdly, the mass of lesser animals that seem to meet no particular need nor to fill any special purpose, such as the harmless yet multitudinous lives found in our forests, our jungles and the fields of our planet. instances of these in the west are the rabbits and other rodents. this is a wide and general specification of no scientific

e, though the right eye sees more clearly than the left. the first dim indication of this tendency towards lucidity is seen in the faculty of the plant to turn towards the sun. it is practically non-existent in the mineral kingdom. divisions. first, the higher animals and the domestic animals, such as the dog, the horse and the elephant. secondly, the so-called wild animals, such as the lion, the tiger and other carnivorous and dangerous wild beasts- 272- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust thirdly, the mass of lesser animals that seem to meet no particular need nor to fill any special purpose, such as the harmless yet multitudinous lives found in our forests, our jungles and the fields of our planet. instances of these in the west are t

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

order that i have not mentioned, only to say that all the flowers one ever loved were there but i have planted dahlias, for childhood memory, canterbury bells, pinks, phlox, small chrysanthemums, platycondon, evening primrose still memory! sweet- 409- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust geranium, lavender, lemon verbena, sweet alyssum, old-fashioned roses, day lilies, tiger lilies (in spite of my rose and lily beds to the east and west) and in the stream is growing mint, near the western exit, and other water-loving herbs. but i think every brother who enters this garden sees his own favourite flowers i want to think so. to r. l. u. april 1935 brother of old: in this address, you get a clue to the answer of your question: why was i chosen as a member of this gr

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

ce and his upper teeth gnaw his lower lip. he is endowed with the marks of a hero. he brandishes a red silken spear in his right hand. with his left hand he holds the lasso of the might demons, which shines like the rays of the sun. he throws it as fast as lightning and gathers the life-energy of the enemy. with the fourth finger of his right hand he spins the red lasso. on his right he carries a tiger-skin quiver and on his left a leopard-skin bow case. he rides a black horse with white heels. on his head he wears a helmet of leather adorned with vulture feathers, and on his body he wears an armored coat covered with scorpion shells. assembled around him are a hundred thousand inexhaustible might demon soldiers, twenty thousand groups of serpent demon soldiers, countless sky demons as wel

prise the seven riders are described in like manner. oddly, an iconographic description of tsiu marpo as vivid as the accounts provided above is lacking in the warlord s tantra, yet one of its accompanying liturgical texts provides descriptions of his six might demon riders [1] the divine might demon is endowed with a radiant light yellow body color and wears a robe of red-striped satin. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin bow case on his left. he rides a dark-skinned horse and carries golden arrows and a golden bow. when he pulls the bow string, he strikes the heart of the enemy. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [2] the rock might demon is overlord of the red copper rock. he blazes with the fire light of a red body color and wears violet robes. he rides

e fire light of a red body color and wears violet robes. he rides a horse with white heels and carries a sword in his right hand. he carries in his left hand a copper lasso that he throws at his enemies. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [3] the serpentine might demon has a terrifying dark red body color and wears clear boots and garments. he wears a belt of malicious snakes. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin bow case on his left. he rides a yellow tiger and brandishes a red iron spear with his right hand. he carries a lasso of poisonous snakes in his left hand. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [4] the knife might demon has a terrifying red body color and wears fur-lined red robes. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin

on his body and the black silk turban of obstruction demons on his head. he rides a tan horse with a black middle and brandishes a black silk banner in his right hand. he throws a lasso of rosaries from his left hand. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [6] the knife might demon has the red body color of blood and wears red copper armor. he wears a majestic turban of red silk. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin bow case on his left. he has a red leather shield endowed with fire light and a gleaming bronze 50 dagger. his red silk banner swirls about like the wind. his red might demon horse runs swiftly. he leads a pack of wolves and jackals, and soars over mountain birds and crows. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions.87 these iconographic descrip

karma( phrin las rgyal po, zhal gsum stod kyi mi bo che [zhelsum t kyi miwoche "the three-faced, high-ranking, great man, with three heads and six arms. he has a white, a sky-blue, and a red face, in his three right hands he holds an iron hook, an arrow, and a sword. his three left hands lift a knife, a bow, and a stick (ber ka. he wears an upper garment of white silk, a drawn (human) skin, and a tiger-skin serves him as a loin-cloth. on his head he wears a hat of cane, similar to a parasol. he rides on a white lion, and the mon bu pu tra [monbu putra] acts as the leader of his mount.232 as with tsiu marpo, variations certainly exist, but pehar s iconographic appearance as described here is represented quite well in numerous drawings and statues of pehar (figures 44, 45, and 46. pehar s en

; this segment seems to be referring to an astrologically appropriate time. 356 and words. 357 by means of a blood knife. 158 effigies360 from] red earth361 of the three highest362 and barley flour, which endows [the might demon] with the manner of grasping363 and killing.364 on top of a high red mansion, on the red arrow of a might demon the shape of a red arrow, hang red silk, slashed skin, and tiger skin. pour various jewels, grains, medicine, and incense into a silk brocade and tie it. within a vessel of brass or copper make barley out of the blood of a bhedhe365 [and] put in three hearts which are apprehended366 and pour in the six excellent [substances].367 pour various grains and foods in a genuine red chinese pot scrubbed with precious jewels.368 one should prepare the seven red fo

ithin the text, i strongly believe that dan is a misspelling of dar "silk" 487 tib. lhubs se lhub. 488 tib. wang se wang; obscure. 489 tib. gong thag. the front ropes that keep the saddle from moving backward. 490 tib. khyugs se khyug. 491 tib. khro lo lo. 173 turquoise horse bridle shimmer.492 the red silk reins flutter and wave.493 the crupper494 of black serpents495 dazzles and flashes.496 the tiger-skin quiver on the right is vivid.497 the leopard-skin bow case on the left flashes.498 they cast the painful sickness of the might demons toward the enemy [324] they brandish red leather shields.499 the right hand throws the lasso of the might demon toward the enemy. it seizes like a sheep the vow-violator who is apprehended. on the red leather spear of the left hand a banner of red silk fl

ood to cast at grey sheep and red birds, the presented offerings of flesh and blood torma, and the vomited blood and knife fights which are quickly sent to the hateful vow-violator, the enemy. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; the divine might demon of the face on the image501 is endowed with a radiant light yellow body color. he wears red-striped satin on his body. he has a tiger-skin quiver on the right and a leopard-skin bow case on the left. he rides a horse with dark facial skin as his mount. he carries a golden arrow and a golden bow in hand. he pulls the bow string and strikes the heart of the enemy [325] he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; there is the red lord over drosh (gro shod)

carries a sword which slays in his right hand. he throws at enemies the copper lasso in his left hand. he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; the serpentine might demon of the covered yard [has] a terrifying dark red body color and [wears] clear boots and clothes on his body. he wears a belt of malicious snakes. he has a tiger-skin quiver on the right and a leopard-skin bow case on the left. he rides a yellow tiger as a mount. he brandishes a red iron spear with his right hand. he carries a lasso of poisonous snakes with his left hand. he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; the knife might demon of the red rock valley [has] a terrifying re

n the left. he rides a yellow tiger as a mount. he brandishes a red iron spear with his right hand. he carries a lasso of poisonous snakes with his left hand. he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; the knife might demon of the red rock valley [has] a terrifying red body and wears a fur-lined red robe on his body. he has a tiger-skin quiver on the right and a leopard-skin bow case on the left. he brandishes a red leather spear in his right hand. he brandishes a lasso of might demon intestines in his left hand. he rides a red donkey with a white upper belly as a mount. he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons [326] the obstacle might demon, the

k silk banner in his right hand. he later throws the lasso of rosaries from his left hand. he sends to the enemy magical displays by means of knives. bhyo! also, regarding the brigands of the might demons; the knife might demon of quick lightning power [has] the red color of blood on his body, and wears on his body red copper armor. he has bound to his head a majestic turban of red silk. he has a tiger-skin quiver on the right and a leopard-skin bow case on the left. he [has] a red leather shield endowed with fire light. his bronze dagger gleams as it repels. his red silk banner swirls about like the wind. his red might demon horse moves quickly like an electric wam.504 he leads a pack of wolves and jackals. he soars over mountain birds and crows. he desires the splendid knife from above t

is lower lip; he is endowed with the marks of a hero (2b) his right hand brandishes a red spear with silk. his left hand [brandishes] the lasso of the might demons, which is like the rays of the sun, and by [throwing it] as fast as lightning he gathers the life-energy of the enemy. and also, with the fourth finger of his right hand he spins the red lasso of might demons. on his right he carries a tiger-skin quiver and on his left he carries a leopard-skin bow case. he rides a black horse with white heels. on his head he wears an excellent helmet of leather adorned with vulture feathers and on his body he wears an armored coat covered with scorpion shells [assembled around him] are one hundred thousand inexhaustible might demon soldiers, twenty thousand groups of serpent demon soldiers, cou

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

nd- we would be surely no better than animals. the first man adam was made only a living soul (nephesh, the last adam was made a quickening spirit- says paul, his words referring to the building or creation of man. without this quickening spirit, or human mind or soul, there would be no difference between man and beast; as there is none, in fact, between animals with respect to their actions. the tiger and the donkey, the hawk and the dove, are each one as pure and as innocent as the other, because irresponsible. each follows its instinct, the tiger and the hawk killing with the same unconcern as the donkey eats a thistle, or the dove pecks at a grain of corn. if the fall had the significance given to it by theology; if that[[footnote(s* the real original text of i corinthians, rendered ka

strictly geometrical and mathematical scale of progression, is what the extinct animal species amply demonstrate; that they act by design in the details of minor lives (of side animal issues, etc) is what natural history has sufficient evidence for. in the creation of new species, departing sometimes very widely from the parent stock, as in the great variety of the genus felis- like the lynx, the tiger, the cat, etc- it is the "designers" who direct the new evolution by adding to, or depriving the species of certain appendages, either needed or becoming useless in the new environments. thus, when we say that nature provides for every animal and plant, whether large or small, we speak correctly. for, it is those terrestrial spirits of nature, who form the aggregated nature; which, if it fai

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ar zodiac of twenty-eight days being the registered result. in the chinese arrangement the four sevens are given to four genii that preside over the four cardinal points (in chinese buddhism and esotericism the genii are represented by four dragons- the "maharajahs" of the stanzas "the seven northern constellations make up the black warrior; the seven eastern (chinese autumn) constitute the white tiger; the seven southern are the vermilion bird; and the seven western (called vernal) are the azure dragon. each of these four spirits presides over its heptanomis during one lunar week. the genetive of the first heptanomis (typhon of the seven stars) now took a lunar character. in this phase we find the goddess sefekh, whose name signifies number 7, is the feminine word, or logos in place of th

a) the reason why a full initiate was called a "dragon" a "snake" a "naga; and (b) that our septenary division was used by the priests of the earliest dynasties in egypt, for the same reason and on the same basis as by us. this needs further elucidation, however. as already stated, that which mr. g. massey calls the four genii of the four cardinal points; and the chinese, the black warrior, white tiger, ver[[footnote(s* for the same reason the division of the principles in man into seven are thus reckoned, as they describe the same circle in the human higher and lower nature* thus the septenary division is the oldest and preceded the four-fold division. it is the root of archaic classification[[vol. 1, page] 409 dragon and crocodile. milion bird, and azure dragon, is called in the secret b

BLUE EQUINOX

son that the old slime of khem set up in the gates of amennti. 45. o my adorable, my delicious one, all night will i pour out the libation on thine altars; all night will i burn the sacrifice of blood; all night will i swing the thurible of my delight before thee, and the fervour of the orisons shall intoxicate thy nostrils. 46. o thou who camest from the land of the elephant, girt about with the tiger.s pell, and garlanded with the lotus of the spirit, do thou inebriate my life with thy madness, that she leap at my passing. 47. bid thy maidens who follow thee bestrew us a bed of flowers immortal, that we may take our pleasure thereupon. bid thy satyrs heap thorns among the flowers, that we may take our pain thereon. let the pleasure and pain be mingled in one supreme offering unto the lor

is equal and opposite to the resultant of all the other forces combined. the ego is therefore always exactly equal to the non-ego, the equinox 232 and the destruction of an atom of helium would be as catastrophic to the conservation of matter and energy as if a million spheres were blotted into annihilation by the will of god. i am well aware that from this point you could draw me subtly over the tiger-trap of the freewill controversy; you would make it difficult for me even to say that it is better to fulfil one.s destiny consciously and joyously than like a stone; but i am on my guard. i will return to plain politics and common sense. our founder, then, when he thought over this matter from a purely practical standpoint, remembered those institutions with which he was familiar, which flo

BOOK T

ror of salamanders. viii. the princess of the shining flame; the rose of the palace of fire knave of wands a very strong and beautiful woman with flowing red-gold hair, attired like an amazon. her shoulders, arms, bosom and knees are bare. she wears a short kilt reaching to the knee. round her waist is a broad belt of scale-mail; narrow at the sides; broader in front and back; and having a winged tiger's head in front. she wears a corinthian-shaped helmet and crown with a long plume. it also is surmounted by a tiger's head, and the same symbol forms the buckle of her scale-mail buskins. a mantle lined with tiger's skin falls back from her shoulders. her right hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with ram's heads and with flames of fire leaping from it. her left hand lean

ristics of the four court cards of the suits suits cards crests symbols hair eyes wands king winged black horse's head black horse, waving flames, club, scarlet cloak red-gold grey or hazel queen leopard's head, winged leopard, steady flames, wand with heavy head or end red-gold blue or brown prince lion's head, winged waved and salient flames, fire wand of zelator adept yellow blue-grey princess tiger's head tiger, leaping flames, gold altar, long club, largest at bottom red-gold blue cups king peacock with opened fan white horse, crab issuing from cup, sea fair blue queen ibis ibis, crayfish issuing from cup, river goldbrown blue prince eagle scorpion, eagle; serpent issuing from cup, lake brown grey or brown princess swan dolphin lotus, sea with spray, turtle from cup brown blue or brow

BOOK OF PLEASURE

traditional magician, wizard or priest, build expensive temples, obtain virgin parchment, black goat's blood, etc, etc, in fact no theatricals or humbug*(2) free belief or energy, i.e, a disappointed desire, not yet an obsession. sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet simplified. illustration*(3, the word "woman" in sigil form is (example) or (example) or (example) etc. the word tiger (example) or (example) etc, etc. the idea being to obtain a simple form which can be easily visualised at will, and has not too much pictorial relation to the desire. the true method has a much greater virtue, which cannot be explained briefly, being the secret of thought form, as degrees of suggestion, and what exactly is in a name. we have now agreed as to how a sigil is made, and what vir

ade, and what virtue it has. verily, what a person believes by sigils, is the truth, and is always fulfilled. this system of sigils is believed by taking it up as a hobby at a time of great disappointment or sorrow. by sigils i have endowed fools with wisdom, made the wise fools, giving health to the sick and weak, disease to the strong, etc. now, if for some purpose, you wanted the strength of a tiger- you would make a sentence such as "this my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger (message from person who typed up this file: in constructing the sentence of desire, beginning with "this my will" has been said by some to be more efficacious) sigilized this would be- the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 35 this my wish (illustrative example of this part o

sh to obtain the strength of a tiger (message from person who typed up this file: in constructing the sentence of desire, beginning with "this my will" has been said by some to be more efficacious) sigilized this would be- the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 35 this my wish (illustrative example of this part of the sentence) to obtain (ditto) the strength of a tiger (same as said above) combined as one sigil (example) or (more simplified example*(3) there are six methods of sigils employed in this book, each corresponding to different strata. the one shown here is illustrative and the fundamental idea of them all, from which anyone can evolve his own system. conditions, etc, or necessity subsequently evolve themselves. also a person has more power of cr

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the candles deosil, sending the energies to where they are needed. when you are not carrying out formal magick, keep on the altar any crystals that are of personal significance to you (see page 153. you might wish to have a clear crystal quartz for pure energy, a blue lapis lazuli flecked with gold for wisdom, a purple amethyst and rose quartz for healing and harmony, or a gleaming, golden-brown tiger's eye for grounding. you can also keep different herbs there according to your current focus (see page 110. empowering your altar you can further empower your special place as a reflection of the positive aspects of your changing life by placing on it other small items that carry happy memories for you. these might include stones or shells found on an enjoyable outing, presents from friends

ance the yang, or male, energies with the yin, or female. the god figure may be represented by a horn, and the goddess by a large conch shell. there are a great variety of deity figures in museum shops as well as new age shops and those selling goods from particular areas of the world. you may, however, feel more comfortable with a ceramic animal, bird or reptile for which you feel an affinity: a tiger for courage, an eagle for vision, a cat for mystery and independence, a snake for regeneration. this is what native americans call our personal totem or power creature. you may find some of these are, in some cultures, the symbols of divinities. there is, for example, bast, the cat-headed egyptian goddess who protected women- especially in pregnancy and childbirth- the home, pleasure and joy

aining situations [insert pic p149- collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over the millennia, from ancient babylon, egypt and the orient, acquired the reputation of possessing strong protective qualities and are also usually potent in strengthening and healing. these include amber, black agate, amethyst, bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, jade, black and red jasper, jet, lapis lazuli, tiger's eye, topaz and turquoise. however, as you work with crystals and stones, you may discover that a particular crystal or even a stone from the seashore fills you with calm and confidence; if you carry or hold this at times when you feel vulnerable, it will increase in power the more you use it. build up a collection of small protective crystals with which you can ring your bed for quiet slee

removing negative influences on the user. it can promote physical health and galvanise our shadow side, transforming anger and resentment into positive action, rather than leaving us to deny negative feelings or project them on to other people. it is a powerful stone to use when one's survival, either professional or personal, is an issue. smoky quartz also counteracts self-destructive impulses. tiger's eye a brown or red translucent stone (the green and blue versions are cat's, falcon or hawk's eyes, tiger's eye combines the powers of the earth with the deep instinctive ability to survive life's challenges. throughout the ages, tiger's eye has been a talisman against the evil eye. roman soldiers would wear engraved stones as protection from death and wounding. tiger's eye is also associa

eligious icon of your own. perhaps surprisingly, many witches do ask the blessings of mother mary and i believe that if you work in love, then you should use your own focus. if you prefer, just say: benign light, charge with honeyed fragrance this salt, to enfold-[insert the name of the person to be protected* next enclose your dish of salt in a square of small protective crystals such as jade or tiger's eye and one or two amber if you have any in your collection (rose quartz or glass nuggets in smoky brown and yellow make good substitutes) begin in the north and make sure the crystals are touching. the square is a sacred geometric form symbolising time and space and so is good for all protective rituals. the square should be just inside the candles. some practitioners create a symbolic sq

de sugilite, rhodonite and rhodoschrite. brown brown is for nurturing powers, for acceptance of frailty in oneself and others, and earthing power. brown heals stress, restores physical energy and gives the strength to go on under difficulty. it aids the healing of the feet, legs, hands, skeleton and large intestine. it also heals the earth and its animals. brown crystals include rutilated quartz, tiger's eye, fossilised wood, desert rose and leopardskin jasper. grey grey is the colour of compromise, adaptability and the ability to merge into the background, and keep one's own counsel. grey is good for healing the immune system and for calming stress and fears, giving peaceful dreams and helping the subconscious mind to work though conflicts. it is seite 106 wicca01.txt also good for bones

ns and the achievement of major life goals, especially those that change the world. gold is especially potent for overcoming addictions, obsessions and compulsions and relieving depression. gold is the most powerful healing colour of all, associated with long life and immortality, and will give a surge of healing energy in any chronic or debilitating illnesses. gold crystals include amber, golden tiger's eye, topaz and citrine. a colour healing ritual with candles candles of specific colours can help in the healing process. if you are not certain of the root of a problem, you can use a white or pure beeswax candle, plus, if you wish, one for the perceived area of pain. for your monthly major healing sessions, this ritual can be used after the names have been read, working with pink or whit

ck, and for all matters concerning fathers. i have listed various solar deities in chapter 4. though there are powerful sun goddesses, the sun's focus is mainly male/animus/ yang in both men and women. sun hour spells bring a surge of energy and vitality and so are excellent for personal empowerment and renewal. element: fire colour: gold crystals: amber, carnelian, diamond, clear crystal quartz, tiger's eye, topaz incenses: cloves, cinnamon, frankincense trees: bay, birch, laurel herbs and oils: juniper, rosemary, saffron, st john's wort metal: gold the sun rules leo, 23 july-23 august, and is most powerful for those born under this sign [insert sym14] the moon monday, the day of the moon, is for spells concerning the home, family matters and the influence of the family, especially the mo

. associations candle colours: dark green, silver and red symbols: fresh greenery, especially hawthorn; any flowers that are native to your region, placed in baskets; dew gathered on may morning (girls should bathe their faces in it, coloured ribbons, twigs from the three trees sacred to the festival (oak, ash and thorn) or any other woods from your own area crystals: clear crystal quartz, golden tiger's eye, rutilated quartz and topaz flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: almond, angelica, ash, cowslip, frankincense, hawthorn, lilac, marigold and roses for love. a beltain ritual for fertility and earth energies such a ritual can be used to encourage creativity and growth of all kinds. it may seite 157 wicca01.txt be performed either alone or in a group, with everyone present joining in the c

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

as the first historical dynasty of china.1 the chinese dragon is not an evil creature. on the contrary, he brings rain and guards the lakes and waterways. he is a composite creature with the horns of a deer, the ears of a cow, the eyes of a lobster, the head of a camel, the whiskers of a cat, the body of a snake, the belly of a frog, the scales of a carp, the talons of an eagle, and the paws of a tiger. dragons love to make vibrations in the sky by rolling huge pearls, creating thunder. lesser dragons are used as riding steeds by the gods of heaven. the ruling king in this story is the yellow emperor, a good leader who struggled with the mighty rivers that flooded the country each year. according to ancient myths, the yellow emperor had a pile of magic dirt that could absorb water. his gra

l status. therefore, although the archer and his wife loved each other deeply, they often quarreled. in order to keep their bodies in perfect condition, every three thousand years, gods must eat the peach of long life and drink the elixir of immortality from the garden of the western paradise. this garden is tended by the queen mother hsi wang mu [she wong muh, an old woman who has the fangs of a tiger and the tail of a panther. she lives alone and is protected by birds of prey and fearsome beasts. she also controls plagues and evil spirits. however frightful her appearance and her powers, hsi wang mu is a motherly figure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she plucks and serves at a sumptuous banquet for the gods. she is an alchemist, or a per

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acon and the french revolutionary, mirabeau.membership is only open to freemasons who have reached at least the 32nd degree orare members of the templar lodges of freemasonry.13 the order was allegedly foundedby a descendant of mohammed who based it on a secret society in medieval europewhich included jews, arabs, and christians.14 its symbol is a crescent moon representedby the claws of a bengal tiger, engraved with a pyramid, an urn, and the pentagram, acombination representing the universal mother: isis-semiramis-ninkharsag.15roosevelts secretary of agriculture, henry wallace, was also an occultist who wasinvolved in the decision to put the all-seeing eye symbol on the dollar bill.16 wallacehad a guru, the russian mystic and artist, nicholas roerich, who spent many yearstravelling throu

dwide fund for nature, funded in part by the mellons.lets get one thing straight here. the world wide fund for nature (wwf) was notcreated to save endangered species. its record on that front is quite appalling as asuppressed report by the oxford professor john phillipson revealed in 1989.42 a fewmonths before philip launched the wwf, he was with the queen on a royal tour ofindia. this included a tiger shoot in which a tiger was lured into range by tethered goatsto be shot dead by philip the conservationist43 this later caused worldwide outragewhen the story and a photograph of philip standing over the tiger found its way into thenewspapers. on the same tour, this time in kathmandu, philip was in a shooting party388with alec douglas hume (lord home, the conservative prime minister, bilderb

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rs, adept at the art, are able to utilize its rules as well as use divination to effect maximum control of situations, maximize health, effect longevity, protect homes and businesses from negative force and events, etc. feng-shui is based on 1 "li" roughly translated as the laws of nature, 2 "su" or the numerical proportions of nature, 3) the breath of nature, the yin and yang, the dragon and the tiger, or the positive and negative energies, and 4) nature's appearance and forms. it is in this latter aspect of feng-shui that we see how form and shape are viewed and utilized in feng-shui to control the chi. if the reader's interest is piqued by this short explanation, i would recommend reading some of the books listed in the bibliography for a more complete understanding of this ancient art

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congenial seed-bed. it is a simple matter to pull up a seedling nettle, but it is quite a different business to eradicate a thickset bank of tangled roots and stinging shoots, many years old. it has been said, and not untruly, that a person cannot be hypnotised into doing anything which is contrary to his real nature. but what is the real nature of each one of us? have we all overcome the ape and tiger, or are they merely caged? suggestion can unbar the cage of all our secret temptations and let them loose upon us. none but the saint is naturally immune. it is possible to reduce anybody to anything provided suggestion has unchecked scope for a sufficient length of time. the purest woman can be made a harlot, the noblest man a murderer under certain conditions. knowledge is necessary to pro

that things were not quite in the ordinary course of nature. we were getting near to the vernal equinox, which is always a difficult time for occultists; there was a sense of strain and tension in the atmosphere, and we were all feeling decidedly uncomfortable. coming upstairs after breakfast one morning, i suddenly saw, coming down the stairs towards me, a gigantic tabby cat, twice the size of a tiger. it appeared absolutely solid and tangible. i stared at it petrified for a second, and then it vanished. i instantly realised that it was a simulacrum, or thought- form that was being projected by someone with occult powers. not that the realisation was any too comforting, but it was better than an actual tiger. feeling decidedly uncomfortable, i asked one of my household to join me, and as

e, but to the astronomer as a natural phenomenon which he can forecast with accuracy. what is it that induces this change of control in our lives? we are familiar with the fact that the engine of a car has three speeds and a reverse. may it not be that our minds are also geared, and that it is a changing of gears which induces psychism? are there not times when we get into reverse and the ape and tiger within us take charge? 95 of 103 behind the physical plane lies the astral plane, and behind the astral plane lies the mental plane, and behind the mental plane lies the spiritual plane, each plane acting as plane of causation to the one beneath it, and each in turn being controlled from the subtler plane above it. when we "change gear" consciousness is shifted from a denser to a subtler pla

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ns, the astral world overlaps and projects into the physical world. it is possible for astral travelers, either in human or animal form, to interact with ordinary human consciousness, allowing the astral traveler to be seen just as clearly as though he or she was physically present. so, if on some dark night when you are lying asleep and a noise awakens you, do not be surprised to see a wolf or a tiger standing beside your bed, watching you with glowing eyes. return htu. 1500 to 1400. its rare vignettes, and hymns, and chapters, and its descriptive and introductory rubrics render it of unique importance for the study of the book of the dead, and it takes a high place among the authoritative texts of the theban version of that remarkable work. although it contains less than one-half of the

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. i have no more to say. they then gave him a dollar s worth of cloth, and every night they gathered together in the street and cried, i know that man who bewitched my brother. it is good for you to make him well. then the witch made him well. if the man did not recover they called the bush doctor from the shekani country. at night he went into the street; all the people flocked about him. with a tiger skin in his hand, he walked to and fro, until, singing all the while, he laid the tiger skin at the feet of the witch. at the conclusion of his song the people seized the witch and put him or her in chains, saying, if you don t restore our brother to health, we will kill you. western occultism in africa today more than 100 million africans follow a form of islamic faith, and an almost equal

ance is perhaps not fully understood by all. there are, in fact, three kinds of dragons, the lung of the sky, the li of the sea, and the kiau of the marshes. the lung is the favorite kind, however, and may be known when met by his having the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp, claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger. his special office is to guard and support the mansions of the gods, and he is naturally the peculiar symbol of the emperor. a less familiar beast is the chi-lin, which resembles in part a rhinoceros, but has a head, feet, and legs like a deer, and a tufted tail. in spite of his unprepossessing appearance, he is of a benevolent disposition, and his image on a vase or other ornament is an em

more widely known. chinese encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. china 281 astrology is over a thousand years old but has not been familiar in the west nearly as long. like the western zodiac, it comprises twelve signs. but it operates on a completely different system; it is based on a 12-year rather than 12-month cycle, and each year is symbolized by the sign of an animal.rat, bull, tiger, cat, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. the attributes of these animals differ radically from the pejorative associations of the west (for example, rats are intellectual, affable, generous, and fun-loving) and can be found in chinese astrological manuals. buddhism was known in china from the beginning of the christian era, and the ch an or zen school was established

ta on which mansion the moon is in on any given day. particular meanings are assigned to each of the 28 mansions that are grouped thusly: the green dragon of spring 1. the horn 2. the neck 3. the base 4. the room 5. the heart 6. the tail 7. the basket the black tortoise of winter (new moon) 8. the ladle 9. the ox-boy 10. the maiden 11. the void 12. the rooftop 13. the house 14. the wall the white tiger of autumn 15. astride 16. the mound 17. the stomach 18. the pleiades 19. the net 20. the beak 21. orion the red bird of summer (full moon) chinese astrology encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 282 22. the well 23. ghosts 24. the willow 25. the bird 26. the bow 27. the wings 28. the carriage. chinese astrology in general has two goals: the prediction of the future, and the dete

le, venus, the feminine planet in the west, is a very masculine planet in china. the 12 signs that lend their names to each year in the chinese calendar appear to be an addition to chinese astrology, possibly from lands to the west. they derive from the observation of the 12-year period that it requires for the planet jupiter to complete its orbit. each year is associated with an animal (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog, and pig. in chinese thought, animals such as the rat, snake, and pig do not have the negative association that dominates in the west. as with all things chinese, chinese astrology received the attention of westerners beginning with president nixon s opening of a new positive phase of united states-chinese relations in the 1970s. among

e evidence that they had tracked certain tigers to their lairs, which upon entering they had found tenanted by a notorious witch or wizard. for such witch-tigers the usual remedy was to knock out their teeth to prevent their doing any more mischief. strangely enough, the indian witch, like her european prototype, was very often accompanied by a cat. the cat, said the jungle people, is aunt to the tiger, and taught him everything but how to climb a tree. zalim sinh, the famous regent of kota, believed that cats were associated with witches, and imagining himself enchanted ordered that every cat should be expelled from his province. as in europe, witches were known by certain marks. they were believed to learn the secrets of their craft by eating offal of all kinds. the popular belief concer

tween ideas and speech, which is the first form and verbal realisation of ideas. the breath attracts or repels, according, as it is warm or cold. the warm breathing corresponds to positive and the cold breathing to negative electricity. electrical and nervous animals fear cold breathing, and the experiment may be made upon a cat, whose familiarities are importunate. by fixedly regarding a lion or tiger and blowing in their face, they would be so stupefied as to be forced to retreat before us. warm and prolonged insufflation recruits the circulation of the blood, cures rheumatic and gouty pains, restores the balance of the humours, and dispels lassitude. when the operator is sympathetic and good, it acts as a universal sedative. institut metapsychique international encyclopedia of occultism

otland it has been used as a touchstone to cure illness. the carving of jade into beautiful ornaments reached its peak in china, where even a small carving involved skilled and patient work over several months. there is still a large jade market in hong kong. sources: laufer, berthold, jade: a study in chinese archeology and religion. 2nd edition. south pasadena, calif: perkin, 1946. jadian a wer-tiger or human animal in malayan superstition (see malaysia) jadoo a hindu term for magic or wonder-working, usually applied to traveling conjurers, or jadoo-wallahs. the term was popularized in the united states by writer-magician john a. keel in his book jadoo (1958. keel traveled through india, where his skill as an amateur magician earned him the confidence of indian conjurers, who disclosed t

of souls. n.p, 1924. lycanthropy the transformation of a human being into an animal. the belief is an ancient one. the term derives from the greek words lukos, a wolf, and anthropos, a man, but it is employed regarding a transformation into any animal shape. it is chiefly in those countries where wolves are numerous that we find such tales concerning them. but in india and some parts of asia, the tiger takes the place of the wolf. in russia and elsewhere it is the bear, and in africa the leopard. such beliefs generally adhere to savage animals, but even harmless ones sometimes figure in them. there is considerable confusion as to whether such transformations were voluntary or involuntary, temporary or permanent. the human being transformed into the animal may be the physical individual or

spoke he scattered holy water on the head of the woman, and all those present saw her in her true shape. he had something given her to eat and sent her away safe and sound with her husband. modern beliefs in transformation belief in transformation of human beings into predatory animals persisted into relatively modern times in africa, india, java, malaya, and other countries. in africa there were tiger men and even a leopard society of wizards. it seems very likely, however, that many apparent cases of transformation were effected by wearing the skin of an animal when hunting victims. in some cases there may have been a perverse desire for blooddrinking or cannibalism, as in the celebrated sixteenth-century case of the french lycanthrope gilles garnier. in july 1919 the journal of the spr

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er. these were sometimes subdivided into faithful and infidel, and further into the jinns of the royal musical instruments, of the state, and of the royal weapons. the afrit was also known. angels also abounded and were purely of arabic origin. besides these, the principal supernatural beings were as follows: the polong, or familiar; the hantu pemburu, or specter huntsman; the jadi-jadian, or wer-tiger; the hantu, or ghost of the murdered; and the jemalang, or earth-spirit. the pontianak, the malaysian vampire, has become the most famous of the supernatural beings of folklore and the subject of many popular movies. minor sorcery the rites of minor sorcery and witchcraft, as well as those of the shaman, were widely practiced among the malays and were practically identical in character with

: 4.9. tree ghosts tree spirits of the indian subcontinent were among the many mythological spirit entities described by william crooke in his book religion and folklore of northern india (1926. these tree ghosts are, it is needless to say, very numerous. hence most local shrines are constructed under trees; and in one particular tree, the bira, the jungle tribes of mirzapur locate bagheswar, the tiger godling, one of their most dreaded deities. in the konkan, according to mr. campbell, the medium or bhagat who becomes possessed is called jhad, or tree, apparently because he is a favourite dwelling-place for spirits. in the dakkhin it is believed that the spirit of the pregnant woman of churel lives in a tree, and the abors and padams of east bengal believe that spirits in trees kidnap chi

l prominent authors. lane s well-documented charges caused much dissension within the movement and a reappraisal of twitchell s career. sources: lane, david christopher. the making of a spiritual movement. del mar, calif: del mar press, 1983. simpson, patti. paulji: a memoir. menlo park, calif: eckankar, 1985. steiger, brad. in my soul i am free. new york: lancer books, 1968. twitchell, paul. the tiger s fang. new york: lancer books, 1969. two see true world order two worlds (magazine) spiritualist monthly magazine, founded in 1887 as a weekly newspaper in manchester, england, by emma hardinge britten (another weekly paper under the same title was started in london in 1858 at the beginning of the movement in england but lasted for only a brief period) it was, for many years, the voice of s

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the medulla, the cerebellum, and the midbrain. this is where the automatic rom is stored, permitting automatic and semiautomatic physical functions. our brains have a pictorial readout similar to a tv scan. the reason for this is that logic, speech, and words formed recently in our evolution. access to information was needed immediately in the form of complete pictures e.g. this is a sabre tooth tiger, compare what you see with the inner brain picture recalled for a sabre tooth tiger, and run! this has to be done quickly in order to survive, so the people who were able to do it survived and those who could not died out. the usual picture unit is stored in a dissipated way throughout the cerebral cortex. the reason for this is that if a part of the brain is injured and its function impaire

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t will be left to another era to find different models of explanation, description and practice. how does spare proceed in practice? sigils are developed by fusion and stylization of letters (see figure 1. first of all, a sentence of desire has to be formulated. let us take the example spare himself gives in his book of pleasure, the declaration of intent: this my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger this sentence must be written down in capitals. next, all the letters which appear more than once are deleted so that only one of each letter remains. this my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger thus the following letters remain: t, h, i, s, m, y, w, o, b, a, n, e, r, g, f. the sigil is created from these letters; it is permissible to consider one part (for example, m) as a reversed w or

o, b, a, n, e, r, g, f. the sigil is created from these letters; it is permissible to consider one part (for example, m) as a reversed w or, seen from the side, as an e. hence, these three letters do not have to appear in the sigil three separate times. of course, there are numerous possibilities of representation and stylization. 8/ practical sigil magic gthis my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger. h sigilized this would be: this is my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger combined as one sigil or figure 1 austin osman spare and his theory of sigils/ 9 however, it is important that in the end the sigil is as simple as possible with the various letters recognizable (even with slight difficulty. the artistic quality of the sigil is irrelevant, but for simple psychological reasons it sh

gil constructed in 3b is simplified/ stylized. 5. the sigil is internalized/activated (specific tech- niques are discussed in the following chapter) 6. the sigil is banished and forgotten (specific tech- niques are discussed in the following chapter) further examples for constructing sigils using the word method a) using the same sentence as in chapter 1, gthis my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger, h the following letters remain after deleting all double or multiple ones: t, h, i, s, m, y, w, o, b, a, n, e, r,g, f. further exploration of the word method/ 17 this my wish (t, h, i, s, m, y, w) to obtain (o, b, a, n) the strength of a tiger (e, r, g, f) combined into one general sigil or: b) you may also form all the letters of the whole sentence (again without any repeats) into one gene

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ow wall) it signifiesearthly happiness. 20. the last judgment.anangel in the heavens blowing a trumpet, to which a standard with a cross thereon is attached. the dead rise from their tombs.itsignifiesrenewal, result.o.the foolish man.a man with a fool's cap, dressed like a jester, with a stick and bundle over his shoulder. before him is the butterflyofpleasure luring him on (while in some packs a tiger, in others a dog, attacks him from behind).itsignifiesfolly, expiation. 21. the universe.within a flowery wreath is a female figure nude save for a light scarf. she represents nature and the divine presence therein. in each hand she should bear a wand.atthe four angles of the card are the four cherubic animals of the apocalypse. above, the eagle and the man; below, the lion and the bull.itre

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be exhilarated by his call to arms. but a simple call is not all of evola s message, he does not leave us with theory alone. the doctrine of awakening re-evaluates the basic tenets of buddhism and ex-amines them in light of the warrior-priest ethos. rather than advocating a negative detachment whereby life is experienced at an arms distance, evola suggests we experience detachment by "riding the tiger, by flowing with the punches, rather than against them. there is no lifedenying here, more a transcendence achieved amidst the chaos. at the same time, evola does not wish to see partial. his approach is that there are many ways to "ride the tiger, one can ride slowly and with care, or struggle into the night, one can beat it into submission or lull it with song. evola other published works

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reported one spanish observer in the sixteenth century, they conducted him with great display. and placed him on the sacrificial stone. four of them took hold of his arms and legs, spreading them out. then the executioner came, with a flint knife in his hand, and with great skill made an incision between the ribs on the left side, below the nipple; then he plunged in his hand and like a ravenous tiger tore out the living heart, which he laid on the plate..3 what kind of culture could have nourished and celebrated such demonic behaviour? here, in chichen itza, amid ruins dating back more than 1200 years, a hybrid society had formed out of intermingled maya and toltec elements. this society was by no means exceptional in its addiction to cruel and barbaric ceremonies. on the contrary, all t

have survived in such a temperature. the same instant that these creatures were bereft of life, the country which they inhabited became frozen. 20 there is a great deal of other evidence which suggests that a sudden freeze took place in siberia during the eleventh millennium bc. in his survey of the new siberian islands, the arctic explorer baron eduard von toll found the remains of a sabre-tooth tiger, and a fruit tree that had been 90 feet tall when it was standing. the tree was well preserved in the permafrost, with its roots and seeds. green leaves and ripe fruit still clung to its branches. at the present time the only representative of tree vegetation on the islands is a willow that grows one inch high .21 equally indicative of the cataclysmic change that took place at the onset of t

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vision of his stradivarius, devoid of its magical strings, flashed before his eyes,throwing him into a cold sweat of mute and unspeakable terror. he made a superhuman effort to rid himself of the incubus that held him spell-bound. but as the lastsupplicating whisper of the invisible presence repeated "do, oh, do. help me to cut myself off" franz sprang to the case with one bound, like an enraged tiger defending its prey, and with one frantic effortbreaking the spell "leave the violin alone, you old fiend from hell" he cried, in hoarse and trembling tones. he violently shut down the self-raising lid, and while firmly pressing his left hand on it, he seized with theright a piece of rosin from the table and drew on the leather-covered top the sign of the six pointed star--the seal used by ki

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beckon me. by this time wonder and escape from the imperilled peninsula had largely dissipated my fear, but as i paused and sank fatigued to the path, idiy digging with my hands into the warm, whitish-golden sand, a new and acute sense of danger seized me. some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and i started up crying aloud and disjointedly "tiger? tiger? is it tiger? beast? beast? is it a beast that i am afraid of" my mind wandered back to an ancient and classical story of tigers which i had read; i strove to recall the author, but had difficulty. then in the midst of my fear i remembered that the tale was by rudyard kipling; nor did the grotesqueness of deeming him an ancient author occur to me; i wished for the volume containing th

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us that there is one multi-faceted goddess, always present, always sacred. then we have some of the hindu goddesses who the hindu s believe are all aspects of the one divine mother goddess. durga. also called devi in india where all goddesses are one as all are different aspects of the divine feminine. devi took the name of her enemy after she slew the evil demon durga in battle while riding on a tiger. lakshmi. goddess of abundance, the shakti force of vishnu. kali. the triple goddess of creation, the animating force of shiva, the destroyer. kali s role is to face our fears. shakti. the animating force of the universe, shakti unites us with the divine, cosmic, orgasmic energy of life. next we have some of the celtic goddess. the lady of the lake. celtic goddess of consciousness and revela

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an oak-shafted spear, upon their belts hung long swords, with decorated hilt and scabbard, a red tassel tied to the pommel, and a horn of ivory and gold, they stood their watch over the prize we sought. from the western approach we came, where the river flowed from the gardens, scented with the perfumes of exotic herbs, down to the storm-buffeted ocean of the west. baalzebub went before us like a tiger, having caught the deer's scent, going, stealthy, stalking, shadow-like amongst the shadows, dark within the darkness, silent, fatal, falling upon his prey. thus did baalzebub go forward. ebon-skinned, against the ebon night, 142 unseen, unheard, unknown death. now, like a terrible phantom, resolved from the darkness of the night the black form that was baalzebub descended upon the prey that

all save their infant dreams. now with strong sorceries he undid those charms that the shedim wrought to bind the beasts that held watch over the lovers' sleep. then, the sentries then dismissed from watch, he made approach unto the slumb'ring pair and, with a gentle hand, aroused them from their rest. now, appearing as a shining giant before them, clad in resplendent light and of awesome aspect, tiger-headed, eagle-wings spread so wide that it seemed that they would enfold the world, striking, with a burning gaze, awe and terror into their hearts, he addressed the trembling, naked creatures with a voice of thunder, like the lion's roar, breathing, with his words, incandescent flame "infant children, unknowing of the world, i have been dispatched by the king of heaven, benign and most merc

r else destroy it by his hand and with it you that rule. be swift and resolute in action that never does the child grow and become a man and king. thus are your kingship and israel preserved. what is to be a king who would not hold what is his? what is to be a potentate who would let his enemy grow strong against him? no time is this for weak pity for a new-born monster is yet monstrous and every tiger was once a cub. spare not the children in the land's defence but send forth your warriors and strike down the male children born within the year that this one shall not escape your wrath but know destruction that he shall never grow and oppose your most righteous kingdom" having thus spoken to the king and worked his base persuasions michael, fearing to tarry there, flew the earth and made f

stance did the jews accomplish, fruitful resistance they accomplished not. now upon the day of triumph gabriel, from the holy rock, cried out from earth to heaven with these words "do you see this, michael, what is become of the city, the city of shalem, beloved and most treasured of the elohim? now are her proud gates broken down and her walls are taken by the foe. titus goes about the city as a tiger and death he brings with him. the tears of isaac's children would fill oceans and their spilt blood would quench even the eternal fires of the sun. yet not the fires lighted here this night. shalem burns, my brothers, 355 and her edifices become ash and smoke. your kingdom is broken upon earth but mine grows great. even now are the temple's stones ground to dust and the treasures looted. eve

s bloody the bloodied streets and the blood of innocents stains three cities of the elohim. wars of the cross or holy struggle, it was butchery most foul, no more. now a star was rising in the east. a champion and a hero of the nephilim, never was there one amongst men who won so much glory and shame so great. never were voices raised in praise so loud or in lamentation. temuchin, you were as the tiger, proud and strong, cruel and terrible. did you think we would be deaf to the cries of so many that you killed. temuchin, king of the people under felt tents; temuchin, who conquered china from the back of a horse. a million human voices resound your name: temuchin, great king, genghis khan. time blinks and he is broken, temuchin, slayer of millions, he that eclipsed methuselah, lay dying in

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on metals. 209. gamong such phenomena, h asks professor bose, ghow can we draw a line of demarcation and say: ehere the physical process ends, and there the physiological begins f? no such barriers exist. h 210. psychic experience and trained clairvoyance add their testimony to this conclusion, and affirm that without a shadow of doubt the same kind of life can be seen pulsating in the body of a tiger or an oak tree or a fragment of mineral substance. as the secret doctrine expressed it: 211. with every day, the identity between the animal and physical man, between the plant and man, and even between the reptile and its nest, the rock, and man- is more and more clearly shown. the physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical 212. science may well say that

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ually received into it. the dress of the mystae was the dappled fawn-skin (nebris(*recherches sur les mysteres du paganisme. par m. le baron de sainte-croix. ed, paris, 1817. tome i, p. 347) a fitting emblem of the uncontrolled astral body, which in this 1 had to be trained and brought into subjection by the will. this dress corresponded with the leopard-skin worn by the egyptian priests, and the tiger or antelope skin so often used by the eastern yogis. 359. the greater mysteries 360. the greater mysteries were held at eleusis in the month of september (boedromion, and in connection with their celebration all greece went into holiday, and splendid public processions took place, in which the whole populace, both initiates and non-initiates, joined. these public processions have been descri

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into the underworld through which the teens fall after listening to the lyrics. they then turn into evil monsters and start killing family members. a na ve english teacher saves teens from their fate. blake, william the work of the english mystical poet and artist william blake (1757 1827) is full of visions of angels, including fallen angels( demons. blake, who is known to many for such poems as tiger, tiger, burning bright, was born in london. he attended henry pars s drawing school in the strand, and at the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the engraver james basire.after ending his apprenticeship in 1779, he went to the school of the royal academy, where he first exhibited a picture in 1780. in 1783 his friends paid for the printing of poetical sketches, and in 1784 blake married ca

LIBER 777

ba] 1010 sphinx willow, lily, ivy[[pomegranate, all cereals] 11 eagle, man (cherub of d[[ox] aspen 12 swallow, ibis, ape[[twin serpents, fish, hybrids] vervain, herb mercury, major-lane, palm[[lime or linden] 13 dog[[stork, camel] almond, mugwort, hazel (as, moonwort, ranunculus[[alder, pomegranate] 14 sparrow, dove[[swan, sow, birds generally] myrtle, rose, clover[[fig, peach, apple] 15 ram, owl tiger lily, geranium[[olive] 16 bull (cherub of e[[all beasts of burden] mallow[[all giant trees] 17 magpie, hybrids[[parrot, zebra, penguin] hybrids, orchids 18 crab, turtle, sphinx[[whale, all beasts of transport] lotus 19 lion (cherub of b[[cat, tiger, serpent, woman] sunflower 20 virgin, anchorite, any solitary person or animal[[rhinoceros] snowdrop, lily, narcissus[[mistletoe] 21 eagle[[prayi

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

son that the old slime of khem set up in the gates of amennti. 45. o my adorable, my delicious one, all night will i pour out the libation on thine altars; all night will i burn the sacrifice of blood; all night will i swing the thurible of my delight before thee, and the fervour of the orisons shall intoxicate thy nostrils. 46. o thou who camest from the land of the elephant, girt about with the tiger fs pell, and garlanded with the lotus of the spirit, do thou inebriate my life with thy madness, that she leap at my passing. 47. bid thy maidens who follow thee bestrew us a bed of flowers immortal, that we may take our pleasure thereupon. bid thy satyrs heap thorns among the flowers, that we may take our pain thereon. let the pleasure and pain be mingled in one supreme offering unto the lo

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

at thou knewest god in an horse? 29. for lo! we beheld the white horse of the saxon engraven upon the earth; and we beheld the horses of the sea that flame about the old grey land, and the foam from their nostrils enlightens us! 30. ah! but i love thee, god! 31. thou art like a moon upon the ice-world. svb figvra vii 25 32. thou art like the dawn of the utmost snows upon the burnt-up flats of the tiger fs land. 33. by silence and by speech do i worship thee. 34. but all is in vain. 35. only thy silence and thy speech that worship me avail. 36. wail, o ye folk of the grey land, for we have drunk your wine, and left ye but the bitter dregs. 37. yet from these we will distil ye a liquor beyond the nectar of the gods. 38. there is value in our tincture for a world of spice and gold. 39. for ou

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

he brahmin who boasted himself .ahimsa..harmless. so among the .rights. of a bhikkhu is medicine. he who takes quinine does so with the deliber-ate intention of destroying innumerable living beings; whether this is done by stimulating the phagocytes, or directly, is morally indifferent. how such a fiend incarnate, my dear brother ananda maitriya, can call him .cruel and cowardly. who only kills a tiger, is a study in the philosophy of the mote and the beam. far be it from me to sugest that this is a defence of breathing, eating and drinking. by no means; in all these ways we bring suffering and death to others, as to ourselves. but since these are inevitable acts, since suicide would be a still more cruel alternative (especially in case something should subsist below mere rupa, the command

il the editor himself falls from some broad and easy shelf, and in his death the journal dies. ah! bombast, footle, simple lies! where would you then appear in type? the poet retires up. his attitude undignified, his pleasure momentary, the after results quite disproportionate. he contemplates his end. therefore poor crowley lights his pie, maintains .the small-shot kills the snip, but spares the tiger. goes on joking, and goes on smirking, on invoking, on climbing, meditating,.failing to think of a suitable rhyme at a critical juncture, ah!.goes on working, goes on smoking, until he goes right on to woking. 637. no one supposes me a saint.54.on inquiry, however, i find that some do. 686. amrita.55.the elixir of life: the dew of immortality. notes 69 688. christ.56.see shri parananda .comm

LIBER LXXVIII

eror of salamanders. viii the princess of the shining flame; the rose of the palace of fire knave of wands a very strong and beautiful woman with flowing red-gold hair, attired like an amazon. her shoulders, arms, bosom and knees are bare. she wears a short kilt reaching to the knee. round her waist is a broad belt of scale-mail; narrow at the sides; broader in front and back; and having a winged tiger fs head in front. she wears a corinthian-shaped helmet and crown with a long plume. it also is surmounted by a tiger fs head, and the same symbol forms the buckle of her scale-mail buskins. a mantle lined with tiger's skin falls back from her shoulders. her right a description of the cards of the taro 15 hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with ram fs heads and with flame

borwn blue-grey blue blue blue grey or brown blue or brown dark grey dark blue dark dark dark dark hair red-gold red-gold yellow red-gold fair gold-brown brown brown dark-brown light-brown dark light-brown dark dark dark-brown rich-brown symbols black horse, waving flames, club, scarlet cloak leopard, steady flames, wand with heavy head or end waved and salient flames, fire wand of zelator adept. tiger, leaping flames, gold altar, long club, largest at bottom. white horse, crab issuing from cup, sea ibis, crayfish issuing from cup, river scorpion, eagle; serpent issuing from cup, lake dolphin lotus, sea with spray, turtle from cup winged brown horse, driving clouds, drawn sword head of man severed, cumulus clouds, drawn sword arch fairies winged, whirling hair, nimbi, drawn sword and sickl

ke, clouds, drawn sword light-brown horse, ripe cornland, sceptre with hexagram, pentacle as zelator adept barren land, fan, light one side only, sceptre with cube, orb of gold flowerly land, bull, sceptre with orb and cross, orb held downward grass, flowers, grove of trees, sceptre with disk, pentacle like that in ace crests winged black horse fs head leopard fs head, winged lion fs head, winged tiger fs head peacock with opened fan ibis eagle swan winged hexagram winged child fs head winged angel fs head medusa fs head winged stag fs head winged goat fs head winged bull fs head winged ram fs head cards king queen prince princess king queen prince princess king queen prince princess king queen prince princess herein are resumed the especial characteristics of the four court cards of the s

LIBER V

of power whereby the energies of the aeon of horus work his will in the world) the proclamation of the accomplishment. 1. let the magician strike the battery: 3-5-3, crying abrahadabra. the second gesture. the enchantment. 1. let the magician, still facing boleskine, advance to the circumference of his circle. 2. let him turn himself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complete one revolution thereof. 3. let him give the sign of horus (or the enterer) as he passeth, so to project the force that radiateth from boleskine before him. 4. let him pace his path until he comes to the north; there let him halt, and turn his face to the north. 5. let him trace with his wand the averse pentagram proper to invoke air (aquarius. 6

LIBER V VEL REGULI

e aon of horus work his will in the world) the proclamation of the accomplishment. 1. let the magician strike the battery: 3.5.3, crying abrahadabra. the ritual of the mark of the beast 5 the second gesture the enchantment. 1. let the magician, still facing boleskine, advance to the circumference of his circle. 2. let him turn himself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complete one revolution thereof. 3. let him give the sign of horus (or the enterer) as he passeth, so to project the force that radiateth from boleskine before him. 4. let him pace his path until he comes to the north; there let him halt, and turn his face to the north. 5. let him trace with his wand the averse pentagram proper to invoke air (aquarius. 6

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

mpossible for evolutionary science to conflict with buddhist texts. in other words, buddhism does not have the equivalent of genesis and its counterpart in the quran, or the equivalent of hindu sacred texts explaining our origins. there are, however, local origin myths in many of the areas to which buddhism spread and adapted. one interesting example is an origin myth from korea, where a siberian tiger and a bear sought to become humans. the son of the king of the eastern heavens (hwan-ung) told them he would bring this about if they could endure harsh austerities in a dark cave for a creationism and intelligent design 27 number of days. the tiger gave up before the deadline and left, so he remained a tiger, but the bear endured to the end. this bear was then transformed into a beautiful w

iful woman. when the woman went to thank hwan-ung, he was so struck by her beauty that he married her. their child was later the ancestor of a main branch of the korean people. while korean people know and enjoy this story, they understand it as a myth, not a literal account of their origin. it may actually be based on historical fact two clans, one worshipping a bear totem and the other having a tiger totem, may have fought in ancient times, with the bear clan winning. we saw that a literal interpretation of the bible and the quran must preclude any kind of evolutionary continuum between all life-forms: humans have a god-given soul whereas animals, plants and others do not. this belief is not held in buddhism (or hinduism, which, through the doctrine of reincarnation, posits that a mind (

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

o enter these states in peace, with no uninitiated people disturbing you. such workings require utmost concentration and would therefore be ruined if interrupted. these beginning rites are based on lycanthropy, however their real significance concerns finding ones individual animal atavism. lying dormant in the sorcerers brain is an animal power suitable for atavistic exploration. this could be a tiger, eagle, fox, raven, wolf or some other creature. you are encouraged to find which suits your own needs and desires. the most important thing in magick is that you learn from and of yourself through honesty. explore all and question everything. one should remember that all is subject to change and alteration as the sorcerer sees fit. nothing is sacred beyond the limits of acceptance and lies

recited: the invocation "hail, hail, hail great wolf spirit, hail! i invoke thee, o mighty shade within this circle i have made. make me thy werewolf strong and bold 117 117 dreams of terror and lust, behold! grant me a figure strong, tall and spare: with speed of the elk, the claws of a bear; the poison of snakes, the wit of a fox; the stealth of the wolf, the strength of an ox; the jaws of the tiger, the teeth of the shark; the eyes of the cat which sees in the dark! from the caverns of night and shade i call thee forth to enter my flesh and make me thy host we are as one in this web of dreams. for this is the manifestation of marchosias; phantoms of shadow and lycanthropic lust; this elemental i now invoke within my essence. from the home of the werewolf, the home of the dead; with thi

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

ility which they strive for failure. tiamat it all starts with the acknowledgement that you are alone and have the potential for self-deification (godhood. tiamat is the first power of draconian darkness, the vampire which is the primal union of lilith and samael, guided by leviathan. she is before all others. tiamat was in the form of a giant dragon, a sea dragon who had the head of a griffin or tiger, wings, claws and a scaly tale. she appears also as a giant serpent. tiamat resembles the legends of ahriman as the dragon. here is the adversary, she is the night and the abyss. tiamat can give life and create what she wishes, much like ahriman created the archdaevas to counter creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic femi

MORALS AND DOGMA

state, ought not to be punished. let them be so; and let the injured or the sympathizing be the instruments of god's just vengeance; but always out of a higher feeling than mere personal revenge. remember that every moral characteristic of man finds its prototype among creatures of lower intelligence; that the cruel foulness of the hyena, the savage rapacity of the wolf, the merciless rage of the tiger, the crafty treachery of the panther, are found among mankind, and ought to excite no other emotion, when found in the man, than when found in the beast. why should the true man be angry with the geese that hiss, the peacocks that strut, the asses that bray, and the apes that imitate and chatter, although they wear the human form? always, also, it remains true, that it is more noble to forgi

gs of others of its wretched kind furnish the most pleasurable sensations, and the mass of which care only to eat, sleep, be clothed, and wallow in sensual pleasures, and the best of which wrangle, hate, envy, and, with few exceptions, regard their own interests alone--with what right does it endeavor to delude itself into the conviction that it is _not_ an animal, as the wolf, the hyena, and the tiger are, but a somewhat nobler, a spirit destined to be immortal, a spark of the essential light, fire and reason, which are god? what other immortality than one of selfishness could this creature enjoy? of what other is it capable? must not immortality commence _here_ and is not _life_ a part of it? how shall death change the base nature of the base soul? why have not those other animals that o

ocritical[1] humanity, drunk with blood and drenched with gore, shrieks to heaven at a single murder, perpetrated to gratify a revenge not more unchristian, or to satisfy a cupidity not more ignoble, than those which are the promptings of the devil in the souls of nations. when we have fondly dreamed of utopia and the millennium, when we have begun almost to believe that man is _not, after all, a tiger half tamed, and that the smell of blood will not wake the savage within him, we are of a sudden startled from the delusive dream, to find the thin mask of civilization rent in twain and thrown contemptuously away. we lie down to sleep, like the peasant on the lava-slopes of vesuvius. the mountain has been so long inert, that we believe its fires extinguished. round us hang the clustering gra

be no more unresisted and unnecessary slaughter by infectious disease, no more general carnage, no more carnivals of terror and high festivals of death" the conceited boast would hardly have died upon the lip, when, from the mysterious depths of remotest india a spectre stalked forth, or rather a monster crept, more fearful than human eye had ever yet beheld. and not with surer instinct does the tiger of the jungles, where this terrible pestilence was born, catch the scent of blood upon the air, than did this invisible destroyer, this fearful agent of almighty power, this tremendous consequence of some sufficient cause, scent the tainted atmosphere of europe and turn westward his devastating march. the millions of dead left in his path through asia proved nothing. they were unarmed, ignor

a view to the general as well as to the individual interest. it is not a theoretical principle by which the very relations that god has created and imposed on us are to be tried, and approved or condemned. god has made this great system of the universe, and enacted general laws for its government. those laws environ everything that lives with a mighty network of necessity. he chose to create the tiger with such organs that he cannot crop the grass, but must eat other flesh or starve. he has made man carnivorous also; and some of the smallest birds are as much so as the tiger. in every step we take, in every breath we draw, is involved the destruction of a multitude of animate existences, each, no matter how minute, as much a living creature as ourself. he has made necessary among mankind

essity, his own necessity, the necessities of society, a plea for injustice. but this notion must not be pushed too far--for if we substitute this ideality for actuality, then it is equally true that we have within us an ideal rule of right and wrong, to which god himself in his government of the world has never come, and against which he (we say it reverentially) every day offends. we detest the tiger and the wolf for the rapacity and love of blood which are their nature; we revolt against the law by which the crooked limbs and diseased organism of the child are the fruits of the father's vices; we even think that a god omnipotent and omniscient ought to have permitted no pain, no poverty, no servitude; our ideal of justice is more lofty than the actualities of god. it is well, as all els

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine: he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of al

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

patron of the drama, and at the state festival of the dionysia, which was celebrated with great pomp in the city of athens, dramatic entertainments took place in his honour, for which all the renowned greek dramatists of antiquity composed their immortal tragedies and comedies. he was also a prophetic divinity, and possessed oracles, the principal of which was that on mount rhodope in thrace. the tiger, lynx, panther, dolphin, serpent, and ass were sacred to this god. his favourite plants were the vine, ivy, laurel, and asphodel. his sacrifices consisted of goats, probably on account of their being destructive to vineyards. bacchus or liber. the romans had a divinity called liber who presided over vegetation, and was, on this account, identified with the greek dionysus, and worshipped unde

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

e the third eye on shiva s forehead blazes with the fire of ten million suns, and can consume any creature with flame. shiva was so angry when kama, the god of love, pierced him with desire for parvati while he was meditating, that he opened his eye and reduced him to ash. so kama is now ananga, bodiless. crescent moon shiva wears the moon of wisdom in his hair. shiva shiva wears a leopard (often tiger) skin to represent his mastery over feelings of aggression and greed. vasuki, the cobra (see p. 109, is wrapped around his neck. dangerous child parvati cradles skanda, the god of war, who later restored peace to heaven and earth after he defeated the demon taraka. he is identified with the planet mars. agni, god of fire t he fire god agni, a god of sacrifice, is born anew whenever a fire is

a surya is the sun god and is usually seen traveling across the sky in a chariot drawn by seven mares. the brahmins saw rudra (shiva) dancing in the sky, that supreme liberator who instantly releases people from their ignorance, who is kind and benevolent to his devotees. kurma purana band of worshipers rishis, brahmin priests, gather at the bottom of mount kailasa to listen to shiva s teachings. tiger of shiva as rudra, the howler, shiva is revered as lord of the beasts. he is often shown wearing a tiger skin and is god of the forest and of hunting. mount kailasa mount kailasa means the silver mountain. from it, the great river brahmaputra springs, flowing through tibet before turning south to join the holy ganges in bengal and bangladesh. great god, supreme lord, what are you doing insid

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

or of salamanders. w. princess of the shining flame. the rose of the palace of fire. knave of wands a very strong and beautiful woman, with flowing red-golden hair, attired like an amazon. her shoulders, arms, bosoms and knees are bare. she wears a short kilt, reaching to the knees. round her waist is a broad belt of scale mail, narrow at the side, broad in the front and back, and having a winged tiger's head in front. she wears a corinthian shaped helmet, and crown, with a long plume. it also is surmounted by a tiger's head, and the same symbol forms the buckle of her scale-mail buskins <148> a mantle lined with tiger's skin falls back from her shoulders. her right hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar, ornamented with ram's heads, and with flames of fire leaping from it. her left

teristics of the 4 court cards of the suit: suit card crest symbols hair eyes king winged black black horse, waving flames. club. red-gold grey or horse's head scarlet gold doak. hazel queen winged leopard. steady flames. wand red-gold blue or leopard with heavy head or end. brown wands prince or winged lion's wand and salient flames. fire yellow blue knight head wand of z. a. m. grey princess or tiger's head tiger, leaping flames. gold al- red-gold blue prince tar, long dub, largest at bottom. king peacock with white horse, crab issuing from fair blue open wings cup. sea. queen ibis crayeish is issuing from gold- blue cups river. brown prince eagle scorpion, eagle-serpent is brown grey or issuing from lake. brown princess swan dolphin, lotus. sea with spray, brown blue or turtle from cup

ion of burning (the items which follow are quite open to discussion and are simply my own personal experience.-s.a) then pass through the tablets and try to 6 70 the go2den dawn: volume iv book nine see some sort of landscape. my experience of this particular plane was a dull red crumbling earth. i first found myself ina cave. asa symbol i was told that this square of omdi was like the roots of a tiger lily; the square mdio to the right, representing the life working in it. the square iomd to the left, represented the sap flowing through the stalk and the leaves, as it were; the square diom to the left of that, the orange flower with the black spots upon it, fitly representing air, fire and earth- yellow, red and black. afterwards i invoked the king and six seniors to explain the general b

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

etween ideas and speech, which is the first form and verbal realization of ideas. the breath attracts or repels accordingly as it is warm or cold. the warm breathing corresponds to positive and the cold breathing to negative electricity. electrical and nervous animals fear cold breathing, and the experiment may be made upon a cat whose familiarities are importunate. by fixedly regarding a lion or tiger and blowing in their face, they would be so stupefied as to be forced to retreat before us. warm and prolonged insufflation recruits the circulation of the blood, cures rheumatic and gouty pains, restores the balance of the humours and dispels lassitude. when the operator is sympathetic and good, it acts as a universal sedative. cold insufflation soothes pains occasioned by congestions and f

se persons, who are living and were dead, are a man, 138 the ritual of transcendental magic woman and child the triad of human life. c the sensitive principle, the flesh, eternal life. hieroglyph, the fool. a man in the garb of a fool, wandering without aim, burdened with a wallet, which is doubtless full of his follies and vices; his disordered clothes discover his shame; he is being bitten by a tiger and does not know how to escape or defend himself. t the microcosm, the sum of all in all. hieroglyph, kether, or the kabalistic crown, between four mysterious animals. in the middle of the crown is truth holding a rod in each hand. such are the twenty-two keys of the tarot, which explain all its numbers. thus, the juggler, or key of the unities, explains the four aces with their quadruple p

RUBY TABLET OF SET

the word thelema reached one of its pinnacles in lavey's word of indulgence. the church of satan was light years ahead of any esoteric organization of its time, because it viewed occultism as form of madness (quite correctly. it provided a space creating device for its practitioners. one could take on all of the false limits of society, burn away one's neurosis, and otherwise realize the healthy tiger within by killing the sick sheep without. the church of satan failed in that after this great moment of purification, it had nothing more to tell you. creating space is the first step to building something better on it. the working that communicated the word of xeper, occurred because of the success of other workings which created a space for growth. a working of communication, such as micha

r i shall suck the dragon's breath and it will be my oxygen! hear the voice of wonder, dark powers, and in his name come unto me [lift the graal in a saluting manner towards the pentagram above the altar, then turn to each cardinal point and call forth the powers of darkness, ending again facing the pentagram above the altar; then drink [call to anubis] anubis! hear plainly, anubis, for the black tiger calls your name! be you, anubis, guardian of that gate through which i seek entrance? indeed! and now, guardian of the gate, i call upon you this very instant to loosen the bolt and throw open the gate for my passage! open the gate, anubis, lest i spring over the pylon! open the gate, anubis! open it now [self passes the gate which allows entrance into the house of maat [recitation from the

gun. my human life has indeed been an unusual one, and at times a very painful one, but i now know all was in fact necessary to bring into being that which i am. what am i? i am tikkrr. that is indeed my name. set is my father and maat is my mother. i scratched and clawed for almost thirty-years to make my self known- just look at the scars left along the human trail- but now i am free. the black tiger is that by which most will continue to know me- especially those in the general populace, the profane flesh of humanity. yet, make no mistake, i am tikkrr- a most unusual and complex being. footnotes 1. see ruby tablet item v2-bne.r2b-1 the dragon's statement and commentary classification: v2- b6s- 1 glook upon me. no mere words shall suffice to say what i am. the great and treasured wisdom

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

y light of the mysterious institution, saladin was awakened by a hiss out of an indian bazaar "ssst. you, beelzebub. wake up" standing in front of him was a figure so impossible that chamcha wanted to bury his head under the sheets; yet could not, for was not he himself "that's right" the creature said "you see, you're not alone" it had an entirely human body, but its head was that of a ferocious tiger, with three rows of teeth "the night guards often doze off" it explained "that's how we manage to get to talk" just then a voice from one of the other beds- each bed, as chamcha now knew, was protected by its own ring of screens- wailed loudly "oh, if ever a body suffered" and the man-tiger, or manticore, as it called itself, gave an exasperated growl "that moaner lisa" it exclaimed "all the

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

e, and a morality is a projection by individual consciousness onto reality. nothing that is 'moral' or immoral exists. all morals are therefore artifice- they are abstractions. actions, by individuals, which are normally considered as 'evil' are things that are done by individuals against others- that is, evil acts are considered as belonging to us, as a species. it is not considered 'evil' for a tiger to kill and eat a person: that is natural, in the nature of the tiger. what has been and generally is considered to be evil, in humans, is in general nothing more than instinct- or rather, a feeling, a pre-conscious desire or desires. such instinct is natural- the actions which result from it can be either beneficial or not. that is, the actions are not `evil' in themselves. they should not

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

d the dao de jing was translated and reached india, japan, and tibet. in the early twelfth century the name of the celestial masters was changed to the way of the orthodox unity. declines in practice after the thirteenth century daoism went into decline. a popular rebellion in 1849 led to the destruction of daoist and buddhist temples throughout the country, including the temple complex at dragon tiger mountain, where the celestial masters had their center of power. the new life movement, begun in the early twentieth century by the chinese leader chiang kai-shek (1897 1975, also suppressed daoist centers. the movement was intended to return china to the path of reason and confucianism. to this end, students were recruited to go laozi, the founder of daoism, is said to have ridden a water b

ct the nickname the way of the five pecks of rice. with zhang daoling s death in about 156, control of his sect passed to his son, zhang heng, and then to his grandson, zhang lu, who established a daoist religious state in what is now sichuan province. the sect has survived for almost two thousand years. the current celestial master is considered to be a direct descendent of zhang daoling. dragon tiger mountain, home to sixty-three unbroken generations of celestial masters until the rise of the communist state, was destroyed during the cultural revolution (1966 76. now the celestial master is headquartered in taiwan. 186 world religions: almanac daoism in the concept of de, translated as virtue, virtuousness, and power. de is the second element in the dao de jing, the dao within people. nu

join him and his pupils. ramanuja agreed, but he brought along his cousin, govinda. after the party arrived at the site, yadava s students took govinda aside and told him of their plan to eliminate ramanuja. shocked, govinda informed his cousin of the plan and urged him to flee. govinda returned to the group and claimed that while he and his cousin were in the forest, they had been attacked by a tiger. the tiger, he said, had dragged ramanuja away. yadava and his fellow conspirators were relieved that the tiger had killed ramanuja for them. after govinda s deception ramanuja made his way back to kanchi. he later claimed that along the way he fell into a deep sleep, had a vision of god, and awoke on the outskirts of kanchi without knowing how he had arrived. he then resumed his life in kan

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

mpalpable to us as the animalculae in the air we breathe, in the water that plays in yonder basin. such beings may have passions and powers like our own as the animalculae to which i have compared them. the monster that lives and dies in a drop of water carnivorous, insatiable, subsisting on the creatures minuter than himself is not less deadly in his wrath, less ferocious in his nature, than the tiger of the desert. there may be things around us that would be dangerous and hostile to men, if providence had not placed a wall between them and us, merely by different modifications of matter "and think you that wall never can be removed" asked young glyndon, abruptly "are the traditions of sorcerer and wizard, universal and immemorial as they are, merely fables "perhaps yes, perhaps no" answe

ll i tell thee what i what the girls of this country are? daughters of men whom you call robbers, we aspire to be the companions of our lovers or our husbands. we love ardently; we own it boldly. we stand by your side in danger; we serve you as slaves in safety: we never change, and we resent change. you may reproach, strike us, trample us as a dog, we bear all without a murmur; betray us, and no tiger is more relentless. be true, and our hearts reward you; be false, and our hands revenge! dost thou love me now" during this speech the italian's countenance had most eloquently aided her words, by turns soft, frank, fierce, and at the last question she inclined her head humbly, and stood, as in fear of his reply, before him. the stern, brave, wild spirit, in which what seemed unfeminine was

thyself of the passports and the plan "and they "shall, before then, find their asylum in the conciergerie. the guillotine shall requite thy wrongs "do this, and i am satisfied" said fillide, firmly. and they spoke no more till they regained the house. but when she there, looking up to the dull building, saw the windows of the room which the belief of glyndon's love had once made a paradise, the tiger relented at the heart; something of the woman gushed back upon her nature, dark and savage as it was. she pressed the arm on which she leaned convulsively, and exclaimed "no, no! not him! denounce her, let her perish; but i have slept on his bosom, not him "it shall be as thou wilt" said nicot, with a devil's sneer "but he must be arrested for the moment. no harm shall happen to him, for no

spierre. he was known to be in the service of tallien, that hostile leader in the convention, whom the tyrant had hitherto trembled to attack. this incident had therefore produced a greater excitement than a circumstance so customary as an arrest in the reign of terror might be supposed to create. amongst the crowd were many friends of tallien, many foes to the tyrant, many weary of beholding the tiger dragging victim after victim to its den. hoarse, foreboding murmurs were heard; fierce eyes glared upon the officers as they seized their prisoner; and though they did not yet dare openly to resist, those in the rear pressed on those behind, and encumbered the path of the captive and his captors. the young man struggled hard for escape, and, by a violent effort, at last wrenched himself from

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

ent animal characteristics from those typical of classic western stereotypes. for example, while a rat fills a european with revulsion, the chinese zodiac sees the rodent as hard-working and industrious. in addition, there are five elements. wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.rather than the four of western astrology.earth, air, fire, and water. the animals of the chinese zodiac are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. according to tradition, when the buddha (c. 563.c. 483 b.c.e) lay dying, he called upon the animals to come to bid him farewell. the first 12 to arrive were the ones who are immortalized in the chinese zodiac. astrology has been an integral aspect of daily life in china for centuries and remains so today. although communist

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

der not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death- but never unto murder. brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own. crush him beneath your greatness: pardon him "but is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us "if it is a tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us- yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say "but if the tiger threatens my children "let nature herself reply to you" harmodius and aristogiton had festivals and statues in ancient greece. the bible has consecrated the names of judith and ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the holy boo

to speak, to be able to calculate the leaps of the animal, divining its stratagems, avoiding its claws, foreseeing its movements, to be in a word past-master in lioncraft, as the excellent la fontaine might have said. animals are the living symbols of the instincts and passions of men. if you make a man timid, you change him into a hare. if, on the contrary, you drive him to ferocity, you make a tiger of him. the wand of circe is the power of fascination which woman possesses; and the changing of the companions of ulysses into hogs is not a story peculiar to that time. but no metamorphosis may be worked without destruction. to change a hawk into a dove, one must first kill it, then cut it to pierces, so as to destroy even the least trace of its first form, and then boil it in the magic ba

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

eel, as we read, a ferocity of passion which burns into us like a hail of molten glass; aha! the veil is riven! beneath the smiling mask of a young bride languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed; beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, beneath the amorous mystery, i view the surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, a purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, a tiger snarling, or a grinning ape resolved by every devilish device upon my murder *rosa inferni, vol. iii, p. 91. a vampire she rises over her lover: i see below the beautiful low brow (low too for cunning, like enough) your lips, a scarlet splash of murder. from them drips this heart fs blood; you have fed your fill on me *rosa inferni, vol. iii, p. 92. further on in this same series of poems we

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

he barbed wire, cruel talons in the mind. the mighty mummu tiamat was called the bringer forth of them all, yet was equally horrifying to her enemies, gods she created tiamat in ancient assyria embodied all of that which was horrifying and violent to mankind, from the blackened oceans of the abyss did she first rise up, a great sea dragon who had partial elements of other predators, the head of a tiger, winged, four talons and a scale covered tail. this form was that which was from nightmares, which still copulates with our dreams and brings us visions of our vast possibility as living beings. tiamat was betrayed by her child, marduk and was joined with him in battle. in this battle did another plot with marduk to capture and slay her. when she was cut open, the north wind bore her blood t

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

i am persuaded, that in the ancient symbols, tigers, as well as lions, represent the destroying power of the god. sometimes his chariot appears drawn by them; and then they represent the powers of destruction preceding the powers of generation, and extending their operation, as putrefaction precedes, and increases vegetation. on a medal of maronea, published by gesner,2 a goat is coupled with the tiger in drawing his chariot; by which composition the artist has shown the general active power of the deity, conducted by his two great attributes of creation and destruction. on the choragic monument of lysicrates at athens, bacchus is represented feeding a tiger; which shows the active power of generation feeding and nourishing the active power of destruction.3 on a beautiful cameo in the coll

composition the artist has shown the general active power of the deity, conducted by his two great attributes of creation and destruction. on the choragic monument of lysicrates at athens, bacchus is represented feeding a tiger; which shows the active power of generation feeding and nourishing the active power of destruction.3 on a beautiful cameo in the collection of the duke of marlborough, the tiger is sucking the breast of a nymph; which represents the same power of destruction, nourished by the passive power of generation. 4 in the museum of charles townley, esq, is a group, in 1 liv. i, c. 3. 2 table xliii, fig. 26. 3 stuart s athens, vol. i, c. 4, plate x. 4 see plate xviii, engraved merely to show the composition, it not being permitted to make an exact drawing of it. of priapus 75

engraved merely to show the composition, it not being permitted to make an exact drawing of it. of priapus 75 marble, of three figures;1 the middle one of which grows out of a vine in a human form, with leaves and clusters of grapes springing out of its body. on one side is the bacchus difuhj, or creator of both sexes, known by the effeminate mold of his limbs and countenance; and on the other, a tiger, leaping up, and devouring the grapes which spring from the body of the personified vine, the hands of which are employed in receiving another cluster from the bacchus. this composition represents the vine between the creating and destroying attributes of god; the one giving it fruit, and the other devouring it when given. the tiger has a garland of ivy round his neck, to show that the destr

hat he was thought to be the strength and virtue of the gods, by which they destroyed the giants; and that, according to varro, the mars and hercules of the romans were the same deity, and worshipped with the same rites.3 according to varro then, whose authority is perhaps the greatest that can be cited, hercules was the destroying attribute represented in a human form, instead of that of a lion, tiger, or hippopotamus. hence the terrible picture drawn of him by homer, which always appeared to me to have been taken from 1 homer, odyss. o, ver. 414. 2 ed. gesner. 3 sat. lib. i, c. 20. of priapus 93 some symbolical statue, which the poet not understanding, supposed to be of the theban hero, who had assumed the title of the deity, and whose fabulous history he was well acquainted with. the de

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

es of holy alchemy positive= negative active= passive osiris= isis baal bel= astarte ishtar shiva= parvati husband= wife father= mother sun= moon fire= water heat= cold volatile= fix sulfur= mercury chinese alchemy heaven is masculine, yang and its element is fire. the earth is feminine, yin and its element is water. in the taoist doctrine, we find white tantrism. the yin-yang, the dragon and the tiger are the axis of taoism. according to taoist interpretation, the yin- yang is the outcome of t ai chi, the prima matter of the universe and creation emerges from the sexual union of this pair of opposites. maithuna (sexual magic) exists within the white tantrism of india and tibet. the white tantrism of buddhism, chinese taoism and the legitimate tibetan yogas, practice the arcanum a.z.f. onl

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

d-daleth e, h-heh v,w-vav z-zain ch-cheth t-teth i, j, y-yod k, c-kaph l-lamed m-mem n-nun s-samech o-ayin p, f-peh tz, ts-tzaddi q-qoph r-resh sh-shin t, th-tau hebrew letters and corresponding incenses and tones incense adamant, acacia, galbanum, lavender, gum arabic, sage fenugreek, horehound, mastic, storax camphor, aloes, jasmine, pennyroyal myrtle, sandlewood, rose dragon's blood, geranium, tiger lily borage, mallow, periwinkle, storax orchid, wormwood anise, camphor, lotus, onycha catnip, frankincense, cinnamon lily, narcissis cedar, hyssop, saffron amber, hyacinth, galbanum fern, lotus, violet, myrrh benzoin, pine, opoponax aloes, dill, heliotrope, iris civit, hemp, musk, thistle capsium, dragon's blood, eyebright, rue cloves, galbanum, olive ambrigris, hibiscus, mugwort, poppy cin

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

perience of wisdom and knowledge. and i applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: i perceived that this also was a striving after wind. for in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. selections from: the american standard version of the holy bible. 235 sayings of the zen masters (two mice) buddha told this parable: a traveler, fleeing a tiger who was chasing him, ran till he came to the edge of a cliff. there he caught hold of a thick vine, and swung himself over the edge. above him the tiger snarled. below him he heard another snarl, and behold, there was another tiger, peering up at him. the vine suspended him midway between the two tigers. two mice, a white mouse and a black mouse, began to gnaw at the vine. he could see they

the matter is between him and the god. we did not see it. if we put ourselves between the god and his victim we may receive blows intended for the offender. when a man blasphemes, what do we do? do we go and stop his mouth? no, we put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. that is a wise action. chinua achebe every knot has an unraveler in god. egypt don t blame god for having created the tiger, but give him thanks for not having given the tiger wings. amharic if you are going to ask from god, take a big receptacle. hausa wisdom of the hindus& greeks origin of the fables of aesop these famous stories were taken from schoken book s 1966 reprint of the 1894 version translated by joseph jacobs. although i will not give a full history of the origins of these fables. most people that th

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

f the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see line 6. consider the whole course that is trodden& examine the presage which that gives. we still therefore invoke tahuti& read the record up to this point, then obtain illuminated wisdom as to our course. this operation was accordingly taken in hand at one o'clock, the afternoon on the day of jupiter. the formulation of the primum ens melissae was however difficult. the beast receiving

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

f the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see line 6. consider the whole course that is trodden& examine the presage which that gives. we still therefore invoke tahuti& read the record up to this point, then obtain illuminated wisdom as to our course. this operation was accordingly taken in hand at one o'clock, the afternoon on the day of jupiter. the formulation of the primum ens melissae was however difficult. the beast receiving

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

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, if necessary (3) to assist the dynamic qualities. the animal chosen should typify the qualities necessary: tiger= strength, fierceness, etc, or selected from one. s own totem or from face value, i.e, if you look like a horse or a snake, they are your nearest familiars. they are evoked by their secret name which should be inscribed on a strip of parchment, and burnt immediately after calling their name. except for the name, the evocation is expressed by wordsymbols. the familiar chosen is horus: or an o

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ing rays being sent to the rainforests. moss agate also protects against food cravings and obsessions. amber known as the honey stone, because of its great antiquity and soft, warm touch, amber is said to contain the power of many suns and has the power to absorb negativity and protect the user from harm. it will also melt any emotional or physical rigidity. in the chinese tradition, the souls of tigers pass into amber when they die and so it is also a gem of courage in the face of unfairness or hostility. above all, it protects children, especially from falls and bullying, and increases their self-esteem (coral also does this. brilliant for soothing anxiety and creating a golden shield of protection that mingles power with kindness and a sense of perspective, amber is said to protect wear

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ion, of conquest "within" usually implies safety. always we get back to that stage of history when the social unit, based on the family, was little less than condition no. 1 of survival. the house, the castle, the fortified camp, the city wall; the "gens" the clan, the tribe, the "patrie" to be outside means danger from cold, hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, wolves, and tigers. to go out was to take a risk; and, your labour and courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider "debauch" is simply "to go out of doors" st. john says "without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and idolaters and- so on. we of thelema challenge all this briskly "the word of sin is restriction (al i, 41. our formula, ro

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

point of the hindu "yama" is that breaking any of these would tend to excite the mind. subsequent theologians have tried to improve upon the teachings of the masters, have given a sort of mystical importance to these virtues; they have insisted upon them for their own sake, and turned them into puritanism and formalism. thus "non-killing" which originally meant "do not excite yourself by stalking tigers" has been interpreted to mean that it is a crime to drink water that has not been strained, lest you should kill the animalcula. but this constant worry, this fear of killing anything by mischance is, on the whole, worse than a hand-to-hand conflict with a griesly bear. if the barking of a dog disturbs your meditation, it is simplest to shoot the dog, and think no more about it. a similar d

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, the "pure fool" of act i of "

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

ak; so i spoke. he then revealed his divine self in an exceptionally able manner; i refrained from revealing mine. his divine self reminded one rather of a 'navvy's saturday night, by battersea burns" he further urged me to go and see the mahatma himself on the following sunday; and this i did. i arrived at 60, south audley street at seven o'clock. there were already about twenty sheepish-looking tigers present, and when the mahatma entered the room, i sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, i thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him. the mahatma opened the evening's discussion by saying "humph. i am agnostic, you are believers. i say 'i don't know' you contradict me" and during the next hour an

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sh thus; and all our wretched race shall finish with its cycle, and give place to other beings, with their own time-doom infinite aeons are our kind began; infinite aeons after the last man has joined the mammoth in earth's tomb and womb. we bow down to the universal laws, which never had for man a special clause of cruelty or kindness, love or hate: if toads and vultures are obscene to sight, if tigers burn with beauty and with might, is it by favour or by wrath of fate? all substance lives and struggles evermore through countless shapes continually at war, by countless interactions interknit: if one is born a certain day on earth, all times and forces tended to that birth, not all the world could change or hinder it. 17 i find no hint throughout the universe of good or ill, of blessing o

, insistent like to echo's voice persistent- hail! agave! autonoe [typhon "goes up stage" agave. evoe, ho! iacche! hail, o hail! praise him! what dreams are these? 35 autonoe. sisters, o sisters! agave. say, are our brothers of the rocks awake? autonoe. the lion roars. maenads. o listen to the snake! autonoe. evoe, ho! give me to drink! agave. run wild! mountain and mountain let us leap upon like tigers on their prey! maenads. crush, crush the world! agave. tread earth as 'twere a winepress! autonoe. drink its blood, the sweet red wine! maenads. ay, drink the old earth dry! agave. squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse like an old wineskin! autonoe. so the sooner sup among the stars! agave. the swift, swift stars! maenads. o night! night, night, fall deep and sure! autonoe. fal

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fact that all existence is set within the starlite mire. in the pages of the book of ugly ecstasy i came across a curious image, that of a flaming star that appears to be made of hair. a hairy star as if the fur of the animal were burning bright, and the bestial becoming celestial. beautifully realised animals swarm and stampede through the whole of spare s oeuvre: swans, owls, antelope, cattle, tigers, wart-hogs and giant tree shrews amongst them. he felt an affinity with all creatures and placed them as equals with mankind. he donated pictures to help raise money for horse charities at a time when their welfare was low in most people s agenda, and he kept an open house for cats in the various places he lived. in some earlier pictures it seems as if more than half the image is made up of

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

n bow case. he rides a black horse with white heels. on his head he wears a helmet of leather adorned with vulture feathers, and on his body he wears an armored coat covered with scorpion shells. assembled around him are a hundred thousand inexhaustible might demon soldiers, twenty thousand groups of serpent demon soldiers, countless sky demons as well as a limitless gathering of falcons, eagles, tigers, leopards, monkeys, and such. in front of him there are five hundred monks wearing lacquered hats, holding mendicant staffs and begging bowls, and speaking true words. on his right there are five hundred exorcists wearing black hats and exorcist robes, holding daggers and skull cups, and uttering fierce mantras. on his left there are five hundred armed men holding swords and shields and rec

rse the order of the essential syllables [310] even the violent obstacle demons, the emanating seven riders appear403 as manifestations which arise from me. one should know as one s own mind that ultimate non-duality is wholly perfect. the stages of the practice and vow: abandon the flesh of the strong magical emanation;404 do not rely on the chief wooden poker;405 and do not spread out bears and tigers as mats.406 do not conceal the sharpness407 of the sharp-pointed mantra. do not obstruct the path408 with one s own anger. do not break the arrow409 at the time of turquoise. do not change the vital breath410 which is the clearing away of symbols. do not give up the blue vapors411 of na grun.412 refrain 397 of a horse. 398 of a horse. 399 1. barley (nas, 2. rice( bras, 3. wheat (gro, 4. pea

e rides a black horse with white heels. on his head he wears an excellent helmet of leather adorned with vulture feathers and on his body he wears an armored coat covered with scorpion shells [assembled around him] are one hundred thousand inexhaustible might demon soldiers, twenty thousand groups of serpent demon soldiers, countless sky demons as well as a limitless gathering of falcons, eagles, tigers (3a) leopards, monkeys, and such. in particular, there are five hundred monks wearing lacquered hats and holding mendicant staffs and begging bowls; they [walk] in front of tsiu marpo and speak true words. there are five hundred exorcists wearing black hats and exorcist robes, and holding daggers and bandhas;522 they [walk] on the right side of tsiu marpo and utter fierce mantras. there are

BOOK OF PLEASURE

ains everything, hence you must believe in everything-if you believe at all! belief seems to exclude commonsense. the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 there is no doubt about it-this consciousness of "thee" and "me" is the unwelcome but ever ready torturer-yet it "need not be so" in any sense! is it not a matter of fear? you are fearsome of entering a den of tigers (and i assure you it is a matter of righteousness-(inborn or cultured)-whether you enter voluntarily or are chucked in, and whether you come out alive or not) yet daily you fearlessly enter dens inhabited by more terrible creatures than tigers and you come out unharmed-why? the allegory. great scientists are finding out the death-dealing properties of the microbes they discover we breathe

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ing rays being sent to the rainforests. moss agate also protects against food cravings and obsessions. amber known as the honey stone, because of its great antiquity and soft, warm touch, amber is said to contain the power of many suns and has the power to absorb negativity and protect the user from harm. it will also melt any emotional or physical rigidity. in the chinese tradition, the souls of tigers pass into amber when they die and so it is also a gem of courage in the face of unfairness or hostility. above all, it protects children, especially from falls and bullying, and increases their self-esteem (coral also does this. brilliant for soothing anxiety and creating a golden shield of protection that mingles power with kindness and a sense of perspective, amber is said to protect wear

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

e world was indeed a sparkling jewel. sturdy pine trees dotted the mountains, and weeping willows lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, crimson, and iridescent green feathers drifting in the wind. silverfish and carp splashed gleefully in the waterways. fierce beasts like tigers and gentle creatures like deer roamed with equal abandon across the rocky hills. nuwa, a goddess, stumbled accidentally upon this vibrant world during her travels. the earth was humming and teeming with life. she marveled at its many wondrous creatures. everywhere she looked, she found a creature more marvelous than the one before. she saw every type of fur and fin, feather and scale, horn

symbols are found on numerous bronze vessels from that period. during the qin dynasty (221 206 b.c, chinese writing became systematized and sophisticated. many of the symbols from that era closely resemble the chinese writing characters used today.4 fushi teaches the people 33 fushi watched the new humans stumbling about. these people did not have the supernatural powers of gods, the strength of tigers, or the speed of leopards. they did not have the protective armor of turtles, the leathery hide of water buffaloes, or the thick fur of foxes. people had thin skin, soft flesh, sparse hair, and moved about rather slowly. they had good hearts and cheerful laughter, but they were easily frightened and discouraged. fushi decided to help the new humans. first, fushi taught people how to twist p

string of coins, her meager earnings from selling embroidery in the market. she hoped to buy prayers, incense, and fruit for the temple goddesses. cheng had to dodge branches and avoid disturbing the rocks in the road. she was careful to tread lightly on the 87 the unicorn s prophecy ground because she wanted to make as little noise as possible. she did not want to attract the attention of hungry tigers that roamed the hills, ready to pounce on easy prey. even worse, bandits might find her. once, these robbers had been hardworking farmers, but greedy lords took their crops, taxed them, stole their wives, enslaved their children, and took their land. after years of humiliation and starvation, the farmers hearts turned to stone. desperate and famished, they turned into robbers who roamed the

e, and greedy, but monkey s magic tricks and saucy personality make him a beloved character. 96 on the mountain of fruit and flowers, a magic rock gave birth to a stone egg. from this stone egg emerged a monkey whose first act was to jump up and bow to the four directions. his eyes flashed like lightning, and his teeth glinted like the stars at night. he played with other monkeys and with wolves, tigers, and deer, but he had an enormous appetite and often gobbled up their share of grass, leaves, berries, and fruit. still, his joyful personality and curious nature made him the most popular animal on the mountain. one day, monkey jumped through the waters of a cascading waterfall and discovered behind it a cave furnished with stone bowls, cups, and chairs. delighted, monkey called all the ot

ror readily agreed to finance the journey to india. like the buddha and kuan yin, he was greatly concerned about the selfishness and greed of his people. if, as they hoped, the pilgrims were successful in their quest, the merit of the new religion could be proclaimed throughout the land. however, the emperor knew that wandering souls could easily be lost in the cold high mountains of the journey. tigers, panthers, and snakes lurked in every forest. stories of these fierce animals were terrifying, but people also trembled at tales of strange ghosts and spirits who could change their shapes at will. when the emperor asked for pilgrims, no one stepped forward. at last, a humble monk named san zang offered to fetch the scriptures. san zang s fellow monks from the monastery were astonished that

DONALDTYSON WEREWOLF

cient greek myth is essentially the form of the werewolf legend that was used by hollywood. however, the origins of the werewolf are lost in the mists of pre-history. werewolves are only one form of a whole host of were animals that exist in the mythology of cultures all around the globe. in northern europe there are tales of were-bears. the japanese had were-cats, the malaysians and indians were-tigers. almost every beast has been a were-beast to some culture. shape-changers in the east were usually said to be evil magicians or evil witches who used their magic to cause harm to others. shape-changing into animal form is a feature of shamanism, the oldest human religion. shamans are universally believed in their cultures to possess the power of transforming themselves into animals such as

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

to run down the hostiles on either side of the line. no matter where geronimo went, we should be after him, and, moreover, the forces of our sister republic would do all they could to help us. 32 low twelve we had no more than fairly started on our pursuit when news came that geronimo and his band had not gone to mexico, but had broken up into small parties, and were raiding, like so many jungle tigers, through southwestern arizona and northwestern sonora. lawton thereupon changed his original plan and took up the direct pursuit. lawton's command consisted of thirty-five men of troop b, my own fourth cavalry, twenty indian scouts, twenty men of company d, eighth infantry, and two packtrains. we left fort huachuca early in may, and pressed the pursuit with the utmost vigor in our power. it

h other on the deck. i had stepped nearer the captain, and my new friends followed me. he was somewhat bewildered by the suddenness of everything, but he kept his head pretty well "i don't believe there was a man in either party who did not own a pistol or bowie knife, and not a few displayed both. there were pale, resolute faces among those merchants, planters, and gamblers, and they glared like tigers at me, my friends and the captain 'god! this is awful' said the captain to me in a scared undertone `don't you fear' i assured him `this is our fight; you have nothing to do with it; leave everything to us "now, i think i may take credit to myself for seizing the psychological moment for executing a coup. as sure as the sun shines, there would have been one of the bloodiest and most despera

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

proof is demanded. obviously, the barking of dogs is not sufficiently expressive for the purpose. after-death communications, however, do assert that animals also survive. nevertheless, as an interesting specula- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. animals 57 tion, the direct voice communication given to h. dennis bradley should be registered. according to bradley, animals such as tigers and snakes, etc, go to an animal kingdom, there to be redrawn upon for physical life on earth. animals, such as dogs and cats, that are capable of love and loyalty live with the spirits in their plane. said andrew lang, knowing cases in which phantasms of dogs have been seen and heard collectively by several persons simultaneously, i tend to agree with the tribes of north-west central queen

d misfortune, or withhold some good. for instance, trees whose roots grow under a house bring bad luck to it. bamboo and cotton plants were also dangerous when planted near a house, for should they grow higher than the house, they would wish, out of a perverted sense of gratitude, to provide a funeral cushion and matting for the occupants. animals received their share of superstitious veneration. tigers were regarded as malevolent creatures whose whiskers were very poisonous. elephants were seen as sacred, and particularly so white elephants. monkeys they would on no account destroy. should a butterfly enter the house, it was considered extremely unlucky, while a grasshopper, on the contrary, indicated coming good fortune. sources: angkor wat. http//ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/ forgotten

loomy caves with their roar of subterranean waters the oracle of trophonius. innumerable instances of magical wonder-working are found in the stories of greek deities and heroes. the power of transformation is shown in a multitude of cases, among them that of bacchus who, by waving a spear, could change the oars of a ship into serpents and the masts into heavy-clustered vines. he could also cause tigers, lynxes, and panthers to appear amidst the waves and the terrified sailors leaping overboard to take the shape of dolphins. in the story of circe, the enchantress took her magic wand and with her enchanted philter turned her lovers into swine. the serpent-staff of hermes gave, by its touch, life or death, sleep or waking; medusa s head turned its beholders into stone; hermes gave perseus wi

one and the same. in india the archwitch ralaratri, or black night has the joined eyebrows, large cheeks, widelyparted lips, and projecting teeth, of the slavonic werewolf and is a veritable vampire. but she also possesses the powers of ordinary witchcraft.second-sight, the making of philters, the control of tempests, the evil eye, and so forth. witches also took animal forms, especially those of tigers, and stories of trials are related at which people gave evidence that they had tracked certain tigers to their lairs, which upon entering they had found tenanted by a notorious witch or wizard. for such witch-tigers the usual remedy was to knock out their teeth to prevent their doing any more mischief. strangely enough, the indian witch, like her european prototype, was very often accompani

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

nd a holy bible, printed or written in pure hebrew. thus attired, and standing within the charmed circle, the magician repeats the awful form of exorcism, and presently the infernal spirits make strange and frightful noises, howlings, tremblings, flashes, and most dreadful shrieks and yells before they become visible. their first appearance is generally in the form of fierce and terrible lions or tigers, vomiting forth fire, and roaring hideously about the circle, during which time the exorcist must not suffer any tremor of dismay, for, in the event the spirits gain the ascendancy, the consequences may endanger his life. on the contrary, he must summon up firm resolution and continue repeating all the forms of constriction and confinement until the spirits are drawn nearer to the influence

man temporarily or permanently transformed into a wolf, from the anglo-saxon wer (man) and wulf (wolf. it is a term used in the phenomenon of lycanthropy, which in ancient and medieval times was of very frequent occurrence. it was in europe, where the wolf was one of the largest carnivorous animals, that the superstition became prevalent. similar tales in other countries usually introduced bears, tigers, leopards, or other animals. origins the belief in werewolves may be a relic of early cannibalism. communities of semicivilized people would begin to shun those who devoured human flesh, ostracizing them and classifying them as wild beasts. the idea that they had something in common with animals would grow, and the concept that they were able to transform themselves into veritable animals w

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

there is a remarkable amount of evidence of excessive volcanism during the decline of the wisconsin ice cap.26 far to the south of the frozen alaskan mucks, thousands of prehistoric animals and plants were mired, all at once, in the famous la brea tar pits of los angeles. among the creatures unearthed were bison, horses, camels, sloths, mammoths, mastodons and at least seven hundred sabre-toothed tigers.27 a disarticulated human skeleton was also found, completely enveloped in bitumen, mingled with the bones of an extinct species of vulture. in general, the la brea remains( broken, mashed, contorted, and mixed in a most heterogeneous mass 28) speak eloquently of a sudden and dreadful volcanic cataclysm.29 similar finds of typical late ice age birds and mammals have been unearthed from asph

KETAB E SIYAH

et high stood the king of shurupuk, he was as a giant upon the earth, and his eyes burned as if on fire. thunderous was voice and thunderous his step and in his right hand he bore a mace with an iron-head that had fallen from amongst the stars of the sky; five feet long was the shaft of that rod, decorated with gold and smaragds. and the head was an orb of a foot's girth, bound with the sinews of tigers. upon his head he wore a high-crested helm of bronze, decorated in silver with the temple's seal and his breast was defended by the hide of a crocodile, made strong with scales of steel. thus arrayed he saddled and harnessed the charger, white like ivory, great in stature, on which he rode to battle. then, as the horns sounded the mustering of hosts, he ascended the high ziggurat to my shri

s the last remnants of germany's proud host 376 avenged their pride before they fell to the most potent guns of russia and the allies of the west. amongst the ruins of the city two angels met in combat: abbadon, bearing havoc the ruiner, bleeding with the blood of fallen knights, and the one that whirled the scythe with four dreaded blades, wet with the blood of men. they went about each other as tigers, contesting the frontiers of the hunting ground. they snarled and lunged but found nothing but the wind. casting his eyes about him the prince of the elohim perceived his capital in ruins and its sky black with the smoke of its burning. his courage forsook and he stretched his wings and made to fly to heaven. abaddon spoke a word of power and gabriel was bound to the earth. now wove gabriel

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ds of biologists have sequenced tens of thousands of dna segments to arrive at this result. the tree shows that life consists of three big domains: the eukarya, whose dna is enclosed in a structure called the nucleus, and the bacteria and archaea, whose dna is not confined in a nucleus. the domain eukarya harbors single-celled organisms such as fungi and multicellular organisms such as jellyfish, tigers, and humans. the bacteria and archaea are both single-celled microscopic organisms. the domain bacteria 66 evolution and religious creation myths is composed of what we call in everyday language germs. the archaea are more exotic. many of them live in environments that we consider inhospitable, such as boiling water in volcanic fumaroles; near-freezing water such as that found near the arct

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

with his eyes open, and for this reason the animal was chosen as a symbol of vigilance. the figure of a lion placed on either side of doors and gateways is an emblem of divine guardianship. king solomon was often symbolized as a lion. for ages the feline family has been regarded with peculiar veneration. in several of the mysteries--most notably the egyptian--the priests wore the skins of lions, tigers, panthers, pumas, or leopards. hercules and samson (both solar symbols) slew the lion of the constellation of leo and robed themselves in his skin, thus signifying that they represented the sun itself when at the summit of the celestial arch. at bubastis in egypt was the temple of the famous goddess bast, the cat deity of the ptolemies. the egyptians paid homage to the cat, especially when

leave the cavern so that the youths were not dead but full of life when day dawned. even greater than before was the amazement of the princes of xibalba when hunahpu and xbalanque again entered the hall of assembly in the custody of their guardians. the fifth ordeal was also of a nocturnal nature. hunahpu and xbalanque were ushered into a great chamber which was immediately filled with ferocious tigers. here they were forced to remain throughout the night. the young men tossed bones to the tigers, which they ground to pieces with their strong jaws. gazing into the house of the tigers, the princes of xibalba beheld the animals chewing the bones and said one to the other "they have at last learned (to know the power of xibalba, and they have given themselves up to the beasts" but when at da

night. the young men tossed bones to the tigers, which they ground to pieces with their strong jaws. gazing into the house of the tigers, the princes of xibalba beheld the animals chewing the bones and said one to the other "they have at last learned (to know the power of xibalba, and they have given themselves up to the beasts" but when at dawn hunahpu and xbalanque emerged from the house of the tigers unharmed, the xibalbians click to enlarge midewiwin record on birch bark. courtesy of alice palmer henderson. the birch-bark roll is one of the most sacred possessions of an initiate of the midewiwin, or grand medicine society, of the ojibwas. concerning these rolls, colonel carrick mallery writes "to persons acquainted with secret societies, a good comparison for the midewiwin charts would

f mr. hoffman's article) a knowledge of directionalizing the forces moving through the vital centers of the human body. though the cross is an important symbol in the midewiwin rites, it is noteworthy that the mide priests steadfastly refused to give up their religion and be converted to christianity. p. 196 cried "of what race are those" for they could not understand how any man could escape the tigers' fury. then the princes of xibalba prepared for the two brothers a new ordeal. the sixth test consisted of remaining from sunset to sunrise in the house of fire. hunahpu and xbalanque entered a large apartment arranged like a furnace. on every side the flames arose and the air was stifling; so great was the heat that those who entered this chamber could survive only a few moments. but at su

and xbalanque are forced to pass he finds the following analogy with the signs of the zodiac as employed in the mysteries of the egyptians, chaldeans, and greeks "aries, crossing the river of mud. taurus, crossing the river of blood. gemini, detecting the two dummy kings. cancer, the house of darkness. leo, the house of spears. virgo, the house of cold (the usual trip to hell. libra, the house of tigers (feline poise. scorpio, the house of fire. sagittarius, the house of bats, where the god camazotz decapitates one of the heroes. capricorn, the burning on the scaffold (the dual phoenix. aquarius, their ashes being scattered in a river. pisces, their ashes turning into manfishes, and later back into human form" it would seem more appropriate to assign the river of blood to aries and that of

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ien visitation, and genetic manipulation new calendarsthe hindu, egyptian, and babylonian calendars start or commence a new cycle from the point of11,500 to 11,000 b. c, fairly close to the figure given by plato for the end of atlantis, or 9,500 beforehis time (p. 160)dinosaurs and manin peru, artifacts (round stones) have been found that show depictions of men fighting with dinosaurs,saber-tooth tigers, and all the other so-called extinct mammals. there are also images of persons wear-ing suits clothing, of performing surgery, and using telescopes. tyrannosaurus rexin california, found wall paintings were found, one of which showed a tyrannosaurus rex, with the tailresting on the ground for support.meteors and asteroidsthe carolina asteroid that hit earth would probably have weighed 200,0

MORALS AND DOGMA

apoleon, reigns of right. he is the wisest and the strongest. the incapables and imbeciles succeed and are usurpers; and fear makes them cruel. after julius came caracalla and galba; after charlemagne, the lunatic charles the sixth. so the saracenic dynasty dwindled out; the capets, the stuarts, the bourbons; the last of these producing bomba, the ape of domitian* man is by nature cruel, like the tigers. the barbarian, and the tool of the tyrant, and the civilized fanatic, enjoy the sufferings of others, as the children enjoy the contortions of maimed flies. absolute power, once in fear for the safety of its tenure, cannot but be cruel. as to ability, dynasties invariably cease to possess any after a few lives. they become mere shams, governed by ministers, favorites, or courtesans, like t

ke a sea around the courts of justice, and demanded the blood of those who, during the temporary fit of insanity and drunken delirium, had chanced to become odious to it, for true words manfully spoken, or unpopular acts bravely done, the masonic juror, unawed alike by the single or the many-headed tyrant, would consult the dictates of duty alone, and stand with a noble firmness between the human tigers and their coveted prey. the mason would much rather pass his life hidden in the recesses of the deepest obscurity, feeding his mind even with the visions and imaginations of good deeds and noble actions, than to be placed on the most splendid throne of the universe, tantalized with a denial of the practice of all which can make the greatest situation any other than the greatest curse. and i

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

n throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, and "pure fool" of act i of p

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

he countenance is gentle and winning; the limbs are supple and gracefully moulded; and the hair, which is adorned by a wreath of vine or ivy leaves, falls over the shoulders in long curls. in one hand he bears the thyrsus, and in the other a drinking-cup with two handles, these being his distinguishing attributes. he is often represented riding on a panther, or seated in a chariot drawn by lions, tigers, panthers, or lynxes. being the god of wine, which is calculated to promote sociability, he rarely appears alone, but is usually accompanied by bacchantes, satyrs, and mountain-nymphs. the finest modern representation of ariadne is that by danneker, at frankfort-on-the-maine. in this statue she [130]appears riding on a panther; the beautiful upturned face inclines slightly over the left sho

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

n another part of the tree, the sarpanch's wife khadija was consoling a weeping clown, who was finding it hard to accept that he had lost his beloved ayesha to a higher being, for when an archangel lies with a woman she is lost to men forever. khadija was old and forgetful and frequently clumsy when she tried to be loving, and she gave osman cold comfort "the sun always sets when there is fear of tigers" she quoted the old saying: bad news always comes all at once. soon after the story of the miracle got out, the girl ayesha was summoned to the big house, and in the following days she spent long hours closeted with the zamindar's wife, begum mishal akhtar, whose mother had also arrived on a visit, and fallen for the archangel's white--haired wife. o o o the dreamer, dreaming, wants (but is

ed in intensity, and the creature thrashed and tossed around the dancefloor, wailing most piteously; until, at length, granted respite, it fell asleep. when mishal, hanif and pinkwalla ventured into the clubroom several hours later, they observed a scene of frightful devastation, tables sent flying, chairs broken in half, and, of course, every waxwork- good and evil- topsy and legree- melted like tigers into butter; and at the centre of the carnage, sleeping like a baby, no mythological creature at all, no iconic thing of horns and hellsbreath, but mr. saladin chamcha himself, apparently restored to his old shape, mother-naked but of entirely human aspect and proportions _humanized- is there any option but to conclude- by the fearsome concentration of his hate. he opened his eyes; which st

SATANIC BIBLE

of an offbeat child prodigy. reserving his most serious studies for outside the school, he delved into music, metaphysics, and secrets of the occult. at fifteen, he became second oboist in the san fransisco ballet symphony orchestra. bored with high school classes, lavey dropped out in his junior year, left home, and joined the clyde beatty circus as a cage boy, watering and feeding the lions and tigers. animal trainer beatty noticed that lavey was comfortable working with the big cats and made him an assistant trainer. possessed since childhood by a passion for the arts, for culture, lavey was not content merely with the excitement of training jungle beasts and working with them in the ring as a fill-in for beatty. by age ten he had taught himself to play the piano by ear. this came in ha

SATANIC RITUALS

at last authentic word i bring, witnessed by every dead and living thing; good tidings of great joy for you, for all: there is no god; no fiend with names divine made us and tortures us; if we must pine, it is to satiate no being's gall. we bow down to the universal laws, which never had for man a special clause of cruelty or kindness, love or hate; if toads and vultures are obscene to sight, if tigers burn with beauty and with might, is it by favor or by wrath of fate? all substance lives and struggles evermore through countless shapes continually at war, by countless interactions interknit: if one is born a certain day on earth, all times and forces tended to that birth, not all the world could change or hinder it. i find no hint throughout the universe of good or ill, of blessing or of

cause trouble, given innocuous tasks, and assigned a day during which they might be allowed a perfunctory greeting. some were forcibly "forgotten" pyerun, the formidable one, whose martian image gave strength and power to those in battle, wielded the thunderbolt by which warriors pledged themselves. his comrade, volos, the shaggy one, was the god of the beasts. his snorting stallions and roaring tigers gave inspiration to their two legged brethren. the gentle christians confiscated pyerun's chariot and gave him a mill wheel to drag about. his last remaining altar was torn down and thrown into the dnieper in 988, when prince vladimir of kiev decided to convert to byzantine orthodoxy. volos suffered the indignity of being turned into a barnyard watchman and simple shepherd, and was assigned

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

thenope in the description of the haggard and savage visitor who had come to viola before she fled; but when i would have summoned his idea before me, it refused to obey; and i knew then that his fate had become entwined with viola's. i have tracked him, then, to this lazar house. i arrived but yesterday; i have not yet discovered him. i have just returned from their courts of justice, dens where tigers arraign their prey. i find not whom i would seek. they are saved as yet; but i recognise in the crimes of mortals the dark wisdom of the everlasting. mejnour, i see here, for the first time, how majestic and beauteous a thing is death! of what sublime virtues we robbed ourselves, when, in the thirst for virtue, we attained the art by which we can refuse to die! when in some happy clime, whe

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

dship continued after wallace went to washington. he found solace in a strange and protracted correspondence with roerich and certain of his disciples. the letters, some addressing roerich as 'dear guru' contained cabalistic references to 'the flaming one' or 'the wavering one' or 'the mediocre one' by which he seems to have -23- meant roosevelt 'the sour one (cordell hull 'the dark ones' or 'the tigers (the soviet union, and mystic allusions to the chalice with the flame above it and to the descent of america into the depths of purifying fires. henry wallace's deep interest in roerich's own symbol, three circles in a sphere, was indicated in his book, new frontiers, new york, pp. 11, 17, and 269; and his correspondence with his dear guru was reported on at length by westbrook pegler in ma

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

bly hurt! do what you will-belief is ever its own inconsistency. desire contains everything, hence you must believe in everything-if you believe at all! belief seems to exclude commonsense. there is no doubt about it-this consciousness of "thee" and "me" is the unwelcome but ever ready torturer-yet it "need not be so" in any sense! is it not a matter of fear? you are fearsome of entering a den of tigers (and i assure you it is a matter of righteousness (inborn or cultured)-whether you enter voluntarily or are chucked in, and whether you come out alive or not) yet daily you fearlessly enter dens inhabited by more terrible creatures than tigers and you come out unharmed-why? the allegory. great scientists are finding out the death-dealing properties of the microbes they discover we breathe

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ontemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

ontemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species many appearing more animal-like than human struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted

in order to gain awareness of suppressed subconscious experiences or memories that might be causing psychological blocks. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector lives in. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 56 ghosts and phantoms chapter 11 mysterious creatures stone age humans feared monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-toothed tigers stalked them; cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species struggled against them for survival. ancient nightterrors surface in the dreams and imaginations of present-day humans, and sometimes the monsters turn out to be real. 57 chapter exploration apelike monsters bigfoot orang pendek skunk ape yeti creatures of the night chupacabra ghoul golem imp incubus jersey devil succubus vampi

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

ontemporary men and women, and such individuals as john edward, james van praagh, and sylvia browne issue advice from the other side on syndicated television programs. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d xiv introduction monsters and night terrors stone age humans had good reason to fear the monsters that emerged from the darkness. saber-tooth tigers stalked man, cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species. many appearing more animal-like than human.struggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted

ful to also take serious notice of job 12:7.8: gask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or to speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. h although totems are most often associated with native americans, many cultures have at some time in their past used animal totems. local sport teams use names such as the tigers, lions, bears, cardinals, and falcons. various religions and sects use expressions like the lamb of god, the dove of the holy spirit, and the lion of judah. people through history have even had such surnames as bear, beaver, wolf, crane, crow, drake, finch, fish, fox, hawk, robin, pike, lamb, partridge, and salmon. for many centuries, humans have allowed animals to be both surrogates and te

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

re women, the frailer sex, are the unfortunate victims. man made god, and god made woman out of one of man fs wretched little ribs. regardless of manners, man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken, tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin. the masses are but sheep, following the bell-wether convention; deprive them of their initial, and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses. ahinoam in gjephthah h well described them when he addressed the assembled multitude as: ye are as children c i never hear your voice but know some geese are gabbling *jephthah, vol. i, p. 81. or again, in gthe nameless quest, h god fs heart! the antics, as they toil and shove! one grabs a coin, one life, another love. all shriek *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 1

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

gave a visible form to various atavistic urges and desires deep within the mind. he claimed that he had only to visualize one of these pictures for the atavistic impulse to surge up. an example which he gave was an occasion when he needed to move a heavy load of timber, with no one to help him. spare closed his eyes for a while and visualized a picture which symbolized a wish for the strength of tigers. almost immediately he sensed an inner response. he then felt a tremendous upsurge of energy sweep through his body. for a moment he felt like a sapling bent by the onslaught of a mighty wind. with a great effort of will, he steadied himself and directed the force to its proper object. a great calm descended, and he found himself able to carry the load easily. on another occasion, two peopl

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