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he moon, which he takes fur a cheese i 246 other gods. the formula' iinz loki ver&'r lauss(=imz riufaz regin, till the gods be destroyed, answers exactly to the greek irplv av ev heafiwv xax-ciadr] upofit^devq (aesch. prom. 176. 770. 991; the writhings of the fettered loki make the earth to quake (siem. 69. sn. 70, just as)(9(siv a-ea-axevrai in the case of prometheus (aesch. 1081. only the greek titan excites our noblest sympathy, while the edda presents loki as a hateful monster. loki was fair in form, evil in disposition; his father, a giant, was named farhauti (boatman, his mother lcmfey(]eaf-ea) and ndl (needle; thin and insinuating, mio ok ausjjreiflig, 355, all of them words easy to translate into ohg. as farpozo (remex, loupouwa, nadala, though such names are nowhere found. he is n

nd said he would have beaten the said giant dead with his fist, sn. 110 (see suppl. the shape of the gods is like the human (p. 105, only vaster, often exceeding even the gigantic. when ares is felled to the ground by the stone which athene flings, his body covers seven roods of land (etrra s' evecr^^e irekeopa ireaoiv, 1. 21, 407, a size tliat wiih a slight addition the od. 11, 577 puts upon the titan i'ityos. when here takes a solemn oath, she grasps the earth with one hand and the sea with the other (ii. 14, 272. a cry that breaks from poseidon's breast sounds like that of nine or even ten thousand warriors in battle (14, 147, and the same is said of ares when he roars (5, 859; here contents herself with the voice of stentor, which only equals those of fifty men (5, 786. by the side of

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ng great serpent. table v (continued) 30 clxvii. egyptian gods of zodiac (asc. decans. clxviii. egyptian names of asc. decans clxix. as col. clxvii (succedent) clxx. as col. cxviii (succendent. clxxi. as col. cxlvii (cadent) clxxii. as col. cxlviii (cadent) 15 aroueris assicean anubis lencher horus asentacer 16 serapis asicath helitomenos virvaso apophis aharph 17 taautus thesogar cyclops verasua titan tepistosoa 18 apoltun sothis hecate syth mercophta thuismis 19 typhon aphruimis perseus sitlacer nephthe phuonidie 20 isis thumis pi-osiris thoptius panotragus aphut 22 zeuda serucuth omphta aterechinis ophionius arepien 24 arimanius sentacer merota tepiseuth panotragus senciner 25 tolmophta eregbuo tomras sagen zeraph chenen 26 soda themeso riruphta epima monuphta homoth 28 brondeus oroasoe

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east, is the traditional interpretation. but there is a deeper design which may be expressed through the direction of rotation. certain forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation widdershins when it is executed with intent toward them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type, and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666) weh addenda: crowley is using the spelling tau-epsilon-iota-tau-alpha-nu in place of the more usual tau-iota-tau-alpha-nu or tau-alpha-iota-tau-alpha-nu to obtain 666 in place of 661 or 662. in the spiral the tread is light and tripping, almost approximating to a dance: while performing it the magician will usually turn on his own axis, either in the

nt practical magical secrets in the plainest language. no one, by virtue of being clever or learned, has understood one word; and those unworthy who have profaned the sacrament have but eaten and drunken damnation to themselves. one may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from heaven, as the master therion indeed has done in a way that no other adept dared to do before him. but the thief, the titan, must foreknow and consent to his doom to be chained upon a lonely rock, the vulture devouring his liver, for a season, until hercules, the strong man armed by virtue of that very fire, shall come and release him. the teitan<alpha-nu= 300+5+10+300+1+50= 666- whose number is the number of a man, six hundred and three score and six- unsubdued, consoled by asia and pant

e from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes> the true god 152 is man. in man are all things hidden. of these the gods, nature, time, all the powers of the universe are rebellious slaves. it is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the beast that hath availed them, the titan, the magus, the man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. iii the practice of rising on the planes is of such importance that special attention must be paid to it. it is part of the essential technique of magick. instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in liber o, that one cannot do better than quote verbatim (the "previous experiment" referred to in

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th deflower. and this is that which is written: malkuth shall be uplifted and set upon the throne of binah. and this is the stone of the philosophers that is set as a seal upon the tomb of tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of choronzon. terrible and wonderful is the mystery thereof, o thou titan that hast climbed into the bed of juno! surely thou art bound unto, and broken upon, the wheel; yet hast thou uncovered the nakedness of the holy one, and the queen of heaven is in travail of child, and his name shall be called vir, and vis, and virus, and virtus, and viridis, in one name that is all these, and above all these. desolate, desolate is the aethyr, for thou must return unto the

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would clasp her with his length, these are the spells by which to reassume an empire o'er the disentangled doom. to suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; to forgive wrongs darker than death or night; 54 to defy power, which seems omnipotent; to love, and bear; to hope till hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates; neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; this, like thy glory, titan, is to be good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; this is alone life, joy, empire, and victory [scorpio "plays in accordance<aries. hail to thee that sailest heavenwards! hail to thee in whose eye is a flame of fire! hail, lord of the destroying army! mars. hail, brethren. bro. aries. hail unto thee, that hast fought at the side of our lord in the great battl

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ant after death is identified with osiris. inasmuch as the candidate is dead already, unless osirified, he too must be slain. like christ, he must be stripped and flogged, and placed on the cross of suffering. but first, he enters. at this point, the second adept is still horus. the third adept is now anubis. hodos, or the introducing adept, is themis. themis is a greek goddess of justice. she is titan like, thus she fits better than maat. anubis now challenges the aspirant who exalteth his ego and lower self with proclamations. the aspirant is seeking the kingdom of heaven by horus and force. horus, the chief guardian of the sacred tomb will not allow him to enter the tomb. the sword and the serpent are presented unto the aspirant who is now clothed in black to show his uninitiated state

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e secrets (of land and sea) were divulged to the men of the secret science, but not to the geographers" the claim that physical man was originally a colossal pre-tertiary giant, and that he existed 18,000,000 years ago, must of course appear preposterous to admirers of, and believers in, modern learning. the whole posse comitatis of biologists will turn away from the conception of this third race titan of the secondary age, a being fit to fight as successfully with the then gigantic monsters of the air, sea, and land, as his forefathers- the ethereal prototype of the atlantean- had little need to fear that which could not hurt him. the modern anthropologist is quite welcome to laugh at our titans, as he laughs at the biblical adam, and as the theologian laughs at his pithecoid ancestor. th

sorcerers, as christian theology, which sees in every occultist a servant of the evil one, would have it; nor were they worse than many of "the faithful sons of the church" a torquemada and a catherine de medicis certainly did more harm in their day and in the name of their master than any atlantean giant or demigod of antiquity ever did; whether his name was cyclops, or medusa, or yet the orphic titan, the anguipedal monster known as ephialtes. there were good "giants" in days of old just as there are bad "pigmies" now; and the rakshasas and yakshas of lanka are no worse than our modern dynamiters, and certain christian and civilised generals during modern wars. nor are they myths "he who would laugh at briareus and orion ought to abstain from going to, or even talking of, karnac or stone

rary[[footnote(s "smithsonian contributions to knowledge" xviii "american journal of science" iii, xi, 456; and croll's "climate and time" lemuria was not submerged by a flood, but was destroyed by volcanic action, and afterwards sank[[vol. 2, page] 142 the secret doctrine. with agruerus, the great phoenician god (whom faber sought to identify with noah; further, it is suspected that the name of "titan" is derived from tit-ain "the fountains of the chaotic abyss (tit-theus, or tityus is "the divine deluge; and thus the titans, who are seven, are shown to be connected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same personage, and as the seven kabiri are said to be the

e- the portrait-statues, tradition tells us, of buddhas belonging to previous manvantaras; of those buddhas and heroes who are mentioned in the buddhist and hindu works, as men of fabulous size* the good and holy brothers of their wicked co-uterine brothers generally, as ravana, the giant king of lanka was the brother of kumbhakarna; all descendants of the gods through the rishis, and thus, like "titan and his enormous brood" all "heaven's first born" these "buddhas" though often spoilt by the symbolical representation of the great pendent ears, show a suggestive difference, perceived at a glance, between the expression of their faces and that of the easter isle statues. they may be of one race- but the former are "sons of gods; the latter the brood of mighty sorcerers. all these are re-in

uld simply show that the israelites repeated the story of vaivasvata manu, xisuthrus, and so many others, and that they only changed the name, to do which they had the same right as any other nation or tribe. what we object to is the literal acceptation of biblical chronology, as it is absurd, and in accord with neither geological data nor reason. moreover, if noah was an atlantean, then he was a titan, a giant, as faber shows; and if a giant, then why is he not shown as such in genesis* bailly's mistake was to reject the submersion of atlantis, and to call the atlanteans simply a northern and post diluvian nation, which, however, as he says, certainly "flourished before the foundation of the hindu, the egyptian, and the phoenician empires" in this, had[[footnote(s* this is shown by faber

a northern and post diluvian nation, which, however, as he says, certainly "flourished before the foundation of the hindu, the egyptian, and the phoenician empires" in this, had[[footnote(s* this is shown by faber, again a pious christian, who says that "the noetic family also. bore the appellations of atlanteans and titans, and the great patriarch himself was called by way of eminence atlas and titan (vol. ii. p. 285. and if so, then, according to the bible, noah must have been the progeny of the sons of god, the fallen angels, agreeably to the same authority, and of the "daughters of men who were fair (see genesis, chap. vi) and why not, since his father lamech slew a man, and was, with all his sons and daughters (who perished in the deluge, as bad as the rest of mankind[[vol. 2, page]

arth, tythea, so kronos at this second stage of creation destroyed his children from rhea- by devouring them. this is an allusion to the fruitless efforts of earth or nature alone to create real human men (see our stanzas iii- x, et seq, and also berosus' account of primeval creation) time swallows its own fruitless work. then comes zeus- jupiter, who dethrones his father in his turn* jupiter the titan, is prometheus, in one sense* and varies from zeus, the great[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] orientalist says "the attributes ascribed to varuna (in the vedas) impart to his character a moral elevation and sanctity far surpassing that attributed to any other vedic deity" but to understand correctly the reason of his fall, like that of uranos, one has to see in every exot

e text. now clement, an initiated neo-platonist, knew, of course, the origin of the word "dragon" and why the initiated adepts were so-called, as he knew the secret of agathodaemon, the christ, the seven-vowelled serpent of the gnostics. he knew that the dogma of his new faith required the transformation of all the rivals of jehovah, the angels supposed to have rebelled against that elohim as the titan-prometheus rebelled against zeus, the usurper of his father's kingdom; and that "dragon" was the mystic appellation of the "sons of wisdom; from this knowledge came his definition, as cruel as it was arbitrary "serpents and giants signify demons" i.e, not "spirits" but devils, in church parlance "what would you say to our affirmation that the chinese- i speak of the inland, the true chinaman

geologist, who assigned to it a foreign origin "most probably african" this is a strange coincidence, as irish tradition attributes the origin of her circular stones to a sorcerer who brought them from africa. de mirville sees in that sorcerer "an accursed hamite" we see in him a[[footnote(s* see, among others "history of paganism in caledonia" by dr. th. a. wise, f.r.a.s, etc* ham was no more a titan or giant than shem and japhet. they are either all arkite titans, as faber shows them, or myths[[vol. 2, page] 344 the secret doctrine dark atlantean, or perhaps even some earlier lemurian, who had survived till the birth of the british islands- giants in every and any case "men" says cambry, naively "have nothing to do with it. for never could human power and industry undertake anything of

end, and from fathering their distortions of truth, history, and legend upon one man. noah is either a myth along with the others, or one whose legend was built upon the kabirian or titanic tradition, as taught in samothrace; he has, therefore, no claim to be monopolized by either jew or christian. if, as faber tried to demonstrate at such cost of learning and research, noah is an atlantean and a titan, and his family are the kabiri or pious titans, etc- then biblical chronology falls by its own weight, and along with it all the patriarchs- the antediluvian and pre-atlantean titans. as now discovered and proven, cain is mars, the god of power and generation, and of the first (sexual) bloodshed* tubal-cain is a kabir "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; or- if this will plea

oint, almost the only one touched upon in the kabalistic esotericism. viewed from this aspect, the curse is undeniable, for it is evident. the intellectual evolution, in its progress hand-in-hand with the physical, has certainly been a curse instead of a blessing- a gift quickened by the "lords of wisdom" who have poured on the human manas the fresh dew of their own spirit and essence. the divine titan has then suffered in vain; and one feels inclined to regret his benefaction to mankind, and sigh for those days so graphically depicted by aeschylus, in his "prometheus bound" when, at the close of the first titanic age (the age that followed that of ethereal man, of the pious kandu and pramlocha, nascent, physical mankind, still mindless and (physiologically) senseless, is described as "see

the human heart, be left unrecognized and unthanked. they may, in our ignorance of the truth, be indirectly cursed for pandora's gift: but to find themselves proclaimed and declared by the mouth of the clergy, the evil ones, is too heavy a karma for "him "who dared alone- when zeus "ardently desired" to quench the entire human race- to save "that mortal race" from perdition, or, as the suffering titan is made to say "from sinking blasted down to hades' gloom. for this by the dire tortures i am bent, grievous to suffer, piteous to behold, i who did mortals pity" the chorus remarking very pertinently "vast boon was this thou gavest unto mortals" prometheus answers "yea, and besides 'twas i that gave them fire. chorus: have now these short-lived creatures flame-eyed fire? prom: ay, and by it

d to plant upon the earth a new race in their stead" we see the lords of being doing likewise, and exterminating the first product of nature and the sea, in the stanzas (v, et seq. prometheus represents himself as having frustrated this design, and as being consequently subjected, for the sake of mortals, to the most agonising pain, inflicted by the remorseless cruelty of zeus. we have, thus, the titan, the symbol of finite reason and free will (of intellectual humanity, or the higher aspect of manas, depicted as the sublime philanthropist, while zeus, the supreme deity of hellas, is portrayed as the cruel and obdurate despot, a character peculiarly revolting to athenian sentiment" the reason for it is explained further on. the "supreme deity" bears, in every ancient pantheon- including th

read between the lines, study ancient wisdom in the old dramas- the indian and the greek; read carefully the one just mentioned, one enacted on the theatres of athens 2,400 years ago, namely 'prometheus bound" the myth belongs to neither hesiod nor aeschylus; but, as bunsen says, it "is older than the hellenes themselves" for it belongs, in truth, to the dawn of human consciousness. the crucified titan is the personified symbol of the collective logos, the "host" and of the "lords of wisdom" or the heavenly man, who incarnated in humanity. moreover, as his name pro-me-theus, meaning "he who sees before him" or futurity, shows- in the arts he devised and taught to humanity, psychological insight was not the least. for as he complains to the daughters of oceanos "of prophecies the various mo

st. for as he complains to the daughters of oceanos "of prophecies the various modes i fixed, and among dreams did first discriminate the truthful vision. and mortals guided to a mysterious art. all arts to mortals from prometheus came[[footnote(s* from[[pro metis] pro metis "forethought "professor kuhn" we are told in the above-named volumes of "the dramas of aeschylus "considers the name of the titan to be derived from the sanskrit word pramantha, the instrument used for kindling fire. the root mand or manth, implies rotatory motion, and the word manthami (used to denote the process of fire kindling) acquired the secondary sense of snatching away; hence we find another word of the same stock, pramatha, signifying theft" this is very ingenious, but perhaps not altogether correct; besides

r this sacrilegious attempt he is struck down by kronos* and delivered unto zeus, the father and creator of a mankind which he would wish to have blind intellectually, and animallike; a personal deity, which will not see man "like one of us" hence prometheus "the fire and light-giver" is chained on mount caucasus and condemned to suffer torture. but the triform fates (karma, whose decrees, as the titan says, even zeus "e'en he the fore-ordained cannot escape- ordain that those sufferings will last only to that day when a son of zeus "ay, a son bearing stronger than his sire (787 "one of thine (io's) own descendants it must be"(791- is born. this "son" will deliver prometheus (the suffering humanity) from his own fatal gift. his name is "he who has to come" on the authority, then, of these

(the suffering humanity) from his own fatal gift. his name is "he who has to come" on the authority, then, of these few lines, which, like any other allegorical sentence, may be twisted into almost any meaning; namely, on the words pronounced by prometheus and addressed to io, the daughter of inachos, persecuted by zeus- a whole prophecy is constructed by some catholic writers. says the crucified titan "and, portent past belief, the speaking oaks by which full clearly, in no riddling phrase wast hailed as the illustrious spouse of zeus (v. 853. stroking thee with touch alone of unalarming hand; then thou dark epaphos shalt bear, whose name records his sacred gendering (870) this was construed by several fanatics- des mousseaux and de mir[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page]

overthrow him. where will he be born? prometheus traces him to his origin and birth-place in his prophecy to io. io is the moon-goddess of generation- for she is isis and she is eve, the great mother* he traces the path of the (racial) wanderings as plainly as words can express it. she has to quit europe and go to asia's continent, reaching there the highest of the mountains of caucasus (737, the titan telling her "when thou hast crossed the flood, limit betwixt two continents, fronting the burning east (810) that she must travel eastward, after passing the "kimmerian bosphorus" and cross what is evidently the volga and now astrakhan on the caspian sea. after this she will encounter "fierce northern blasts" and cross thither to the land of the "arimaspian host (east of herodotus' scythia)

ral, baltistan, and little tibet; but in olden times its area was far larger, as it was the birth-place of physical humanity, of which io is the mother and symbol[[vol. 2, page] 417 the mistake of arrian explained. ural, the arimaspi of herodotus being "the recognised inhabitants of this golden region" and here comes, between verses 825 and 835, a puzzle to all the european interpreters. says the titan "to these (arimaspi and grypes) approach not; a far border land thou next wilt reach, where dwells a swarthy race near the sun's founts, where is the aethiop "river; along its banks proceed till thou attain the mighty rapids, where from bybline heights pure draughts of sacred water neilos sends" there io was ordained to found a colony for herself and sons. now we must see how the passage is

. 830 et seq. it is there that a new race (the egyptians) will begin, and a "female race (873) which "fifth in descent" from dark epaphos "fifty in number shall return to argos" then one of the fifty virgins will fail through love and shall. a kingly race in argos bear. but from this seed shall dauntless heroes spring, bow-famous, who shall free me from these ills" when this hero shall arise, the titan does not reveal; for as he remarks "this, to set forth at large needs lengthy speech[[footnote(s* alexander, who was better acquainted with attock than with india (where he never went) could not have failed to hear the indus near its very sources called nil and nilah. even if a mistake, it is thus easily accounted for* that io is identical allegorically with isis and the moon is shown by her

d is "of one blood" but not of the same essence. we are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent* the philosophical view of indian metaphysics places the root of evil in the differentiation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, of the unit into plurality[[vol. 2, page] 422 the secret doctrine. and without any mind; while the divine titan stands for the spiritual creators, the devas who "fell" into generation. the former are spiritually lower, but physically stronger, than the "prometheans: therefore, the latter are shown conquered "the lower host, whose work the titan spoiled and thus defeated the plans of zeus" was on this earth in its own sphere and plane of action; whereas, the superior host was an exile from heaven, who

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a difference to be made between the cosmic, primordial opposing forces- guided by cyclic law- the atlantean human giants, and the post-diluvian great adepts, whether[[vol. 1, page] 418 the secret doctrine. of the right or the left hand. at the same time they show that michael "the generalissimos of the fighting celestial host, the bodyguard of jehovah" as it would seem (see de mirville) is also a titan, only with the adjective of "divine" before the cognomen. thus those "uranides" who are called everywhere "divine titans" and who, having rebelled against kronos (saturn, are therefore also shown to be the enemies of samael (an elohim, also and synonymous with jehovah in his collectivity, are identical with michael and his host. in short, the roles are reversed, all the combatants are confus

his is why the occultists and even some kabalists, whether they regard or not those creative forces as living and conscious entities- and one does not see why they should not be so accepted- will never confuse the cause with the effect, and accept the spirit of the earth for parabrahm or ain-soph. at all events they know well the true nature of what was called father-aether by the greeks, jupiter-titan, etc, etc. they know that the soul of the astral light is divine, and[[footnote(s* wilson's opinion that the "vishnu purana" is a production of our era, and that in its present form it is not earlier than between the viiith and the xviith) century, is absurd beyond noticing[[vol. 1, page] 424 the secret doctrine. its body (the light-waves on the lower planes) infernal. this light is symboliz

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eetings, and such like are great if they are designed to set free, to allow people to remember who they are and what they can do. but if they are structured as the 'enlightened one' teaching the less enlightened, it is another means of giving the mind away. i see people promoted as "britain's leading healer" or "britain's leading psychic" or even "maitreya, the christ and world teacher, a hero, a titan in men's midst. what is going on here? we are all healers and all psychic. who on earth can say that one is better than the rest and why do we feel the need to claim that anyway? we are all each other, all part of the same whole, all with the potential of tapping into the healing force and passing it on to others. i believe we should be working together, not claiming superiority. but parts o

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ge, the involvement of extraterrestrial beings was simply in the role of the observers. that is to say that they did not intervene, interject or become involved with the subjects of their study at that point in time. the development and progression of the human race on earth was under the observation and study of these relations from the stars. in 'the atlantis connection' i refer to this as the 'titan project. the three main extraterrestrial groups, which comprised the titan project, were those from sirius, the pleiades and orion, although there were indeed other extraterrestrial races, which also shared involvement. this is where the reptilian variety comes into play. as where sirians, pleiadeans and those from orion did interact in cooperation with each other under the mutually agreed u

indeed other extraterrestrial races, which also shared involvement. this is where the reptilian variety comes into play. as where sirians, pleiadeans and those from orion did interact in cooperation with each other under the mutually agreed upon conditions of the program, i would have to classify the reptilians as a renegade or rebel element which did not adhere to the 'rules' or doctrines of the titan research project as set down by the three main project participants."1 these two races, the blue-eyed blonds and the reptilians, would seem to have been at war in many parts of the galaxy with factions on both sides also joining together to create alliances for their mutual benefit. this reptilian race is the dominating force behind the illuminati (at one level anyway, but with considerable

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an researcher, winthrop palmer boswell, wrote a book called irish wizards inthe woods of ethiopia in which she showed the similarities between irish andethiopian folk stories. the baobab tree is held in great reverence by ethiopians andberbers and banba is an old name for ireland.73this reverence for trees in north africa was expressed in the british isles andeurope by the druids and the giant or titan race, the reptilian-human crossbreeds ofthe ancient near east, were often symbolised as trees because of their height. in his1833 book, phoenician ireland, joachim de villeneuve, insisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god baal,and the celebration

ipoli, the name of thecapital of libya today and home to that brotherhood frontman, colonel gaddafi. onceagain, troy relates to the extraterrestrial full-bloods and crossbreeds, hence the constantobsession with that name by the brotherhood. in the iliad epic, believed to have beenwritten by the greek poet, homer, it states that troy was founded by dardanus, the sonof the greek god zeus, who was a titan- the reptilian bloodline. zeus was depicted asboth an eagle and a serpent. he was said to have been born in arcadia, in sparta, andafter the trojan war many spartans migrated into what is now france. terms like newtroy, therefore, relate to centres for these same bloodlines.most people dont realise that london was founded as the new troy. after thedestruction of troy around 1,200 bc, the sto

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cal legend to guide research in these areas. the great storehouse of central american legend is the popol vuh, an early study published by lewis spence (1908, with some having appeared in more recent years. this fascinating work of mythological history states that some of the elder gods were regarded as magicians, and the hero-twins, xblanque and hun-ahpu, whom they sent to earth to rid it of the titan vukubcakix, were undoubtedly possessed of magical powers. as boys, the twins were equipped with magical tools that enabled them to get through an enormous amount of work in a single day. when they descended into xibalba (the kiche hades) for the purpose of avenging their father and uncle, they took full advantage of their magical propensities in combating the inhabitants of that drear abode

seen in the night sky. and such speculations have not been limited to prescientific cultures. early in the twentieth century, the leader of the group later known as the jehovah s witnesses suggested that one of the stars of the pleiades was actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story from the mythological cycles. pleiades, largely a concern for the astronomical community in recent centuries, broke into the news in 1975 when eduard albert billy meier, the leader of a smal

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of heroes, which was followed by the iron race our own the fifth and most recent creation.34 it is the fate of the bronze race that is of particular interest to us here. described in the myths as having the strength of giants, and mighty hands on their mighty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the rebellious titan who had presented humanity with the gift of fire.36 the mechanism the vengeful deity used to sweep the earth clean was an overwhelming flood. in the most widespread version of the story prometheus impregnated a human female. she bore him a son named deucalion, who ruled over the country of phthia, in thessaly, and took to wife pyrrha, the red-blonde, daughter of epimetheus and pandora. when

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o-saxons seem to have had no analogous ivrisa, as they confine themselves to j?yrs, gigant [and ent. the root of vrisa is unknown to me; it cannot belong to reisan surgere, therefore the ohg. riso does not mean elatus, superbus, excelsus.3 again, lubbe, lubbe seems in parts of lower saxony to mean 1 strange that the latin language has no word of its own for giant, but must borrow the greek gigas, titan, cyclops; yet italy has indigenous folk-tales of campanian giants. 2 the biblical view adopted in the mid. ages traced the giants to cain, or at least to mixture with his family: gigantes, quales propter iracundiam dei per filios seth dejiliabus cain narrat scriptura procreates, pertz 2, 755. for in genesis 6, 4 it is said: gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis; postquam enim ing

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den-girdled babylon" it was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. there had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in new england for some years; and wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected. upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters "cthulhu fhtagn" this verba

ests something wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. he said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality. johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oozy blocks which could have been no mortal staircase. the very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity. something very like fright had come over al

team had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheel and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of odysseus. then, bolder than the storied cyclops, great cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. briden looked back and went mad, laughing shrilly as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst johansen

esences, and of wilbur whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stretched from a dubious birth to a cloud of probable matricide, felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draught of the tomb's cold clamminess. the bent, goatish giant before him seemed like the spawn of another planet or dimension; like something only partly of mankind, and linked to black gulfs of essence and entity that stretch like titan phantasms beyond all spheres of force and matter, space and time. presently wilbur raised his head and began speaking in that strange, resonant fashion which hinted at sound-producing organs unlike the run of mankind's 'mr armitage' he said 'i calc'late i've got to take that book home. they's things in it i've got to try under sarten conditions that i can't git here, en' it 'ud be a mortal s

choes died away far down in cold spring glen. then, amidst the dismal moans from the stable and the daemoniac piping of the late whippoorwills in the glen, selina frye tottered to the telephone and spread what news she could of the second phase of the horror. the next day all the countryside was in a panic; and cowed, uncommunicative groups came and went where the fiendish thing had occurred. two titan swaths of destruction stretched from the glen to the frye farmyard, monstrous prints covered the bare patches of ground, and one side of the old red barn had completely caved in. of the cattle, only a quarter could be found and identified. some of these were in curious fragments, and all that survived had to be shot. earl sawyer suggested that help be asked from aylesbury or arkham, but othe

gainst the southwest, and a huge stone bulk rose darkly at the end of an alley. presently he stood in a wind-swept open square, quaintly cobblestoned, with a high bank wall on the farther side. this was the end of his quest; for upon the wide, iron-railed, weed-grown plateau which the wall supported- a separate, lesser world raised fully six feet above the surrounding streets- there stood a grim, titan bulk whose identity, despite blake's new perspective, was beyond dispute. the vacant church was in a state of great decrepitude. some of the high stone buttresses had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neglected weeds and grasses. the sooty gothic windows were largely unbroken, though many of the stone mullions were missing. blake wondered how the obscurely p

ending horizontally to angles of the box's inner wall near the top. this stone, once exposed, exerted upon blake an almost alarming fascination. he could scarcely tear his eyes from it, and as he looked at its glistening surfaces he almost fancied it was transparent, with half-formed worlds of wonder within. into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blacknesses told of the presence of consciousness and will. when he did look away, it was to notice a somewhat singular mound of dust in the far corner near the ladder to the steeple. just why it took his attention he could not tell, but something in its contours carried a message to his unconscious mind

ow- can hear- roderick usher- am mad or going mad- the thing is stirring and fumbling in the tower. i am it and it is i- i want to get out. must get out and unify the forces. it knows where i am. i am robert blake, but i see the tower in the dark. there is a monstrous odour. senses transfigured. boarding at that tower window cracking and giving way. i. ngai. ygg. i see it- coming here- hell-wind- titan blue- black wing- yog sothoth save me- the three-lobed burning eye. the lurking fear by h. p. lovecraft written november 1922 published january-april 1923 in home brew i. the shadow on the chimney vol. 2, no. 6 (january 1923, p. 4-10; there was thunder in the air on the night i went to the deserted mansion atop tempest mountain to find the lurking fear. i was not alone, for foolhardiness was

hey were never heard of again. ii. a passer in the storm vol. 3, no. 1 (february 1923, p. 18-23; for days after that hideous experience in the forest-swathed mansion i lay nervously exhausted in my hotel room at lefferts corners. i do not remember exactly how i managed to reach the motor-car, start it, and slip unobserved back to the village; for i retain no distinct impression save of wild-armed titan trees, demoniac mutterings of thunder, and charonian shadows athwart the low mounds that dotted and streaked the region. as i shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, i knew that i had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horrors- one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint demon scratchings we sometimes hear on the farthest rim of space, yet from w

as extremely vivid. the stormy vigil reminded me shudderingly of my ghastly night on tempest mountain. my mind turned to that odd question which had kept recurring ever since the nightmare thing had happened; and again i wondered why the demon, approaching the three watchers either from the window or the interior, had begun with the men on each side and left the middle man till the last, when the titan fireball had scared it away. why had it not taken its victims in natural order, with myself second, from whichever direction it had approached? with what manner of far-reaching tentacles did it prey? or did it know that i was the leader, and saved me for a fate worse than that of my companions? in the midst of these reflections, as if dramatically arranged to intensify them, there fell nearb

oughly cylindrical; like a mammoth soft blue-white stovepipe doubled in two, its largest part some two feet in diameter. still more i scraped, and then abruptly i leaped out of the hole and away from the filthy thing; frantically unstopping and tilting the heavy carboys, and precipitating their corrosive contents one after another down that charnel gulf and upon this unthinkable abnormality whose titan elbow i had seen. the blinding maelstrom of greenish-yellow vapour which surged tempestuously up from that hole as the floods of acid descended, will never leave my memory. all along the hill people tell of the yellow day, when virulent and horrible fumes arose from the factory waste dumped in the providence river, but i know how mistaken they are as to the source. they tell, too, of the hid

ngerly down vertical jenckes street with its bank walls and colonial gables to the shady benefit street corner, where before him was a wooden antique with an ionic-pilastered pair of doorways, and beside him a prehistoric gambrel-roofer with a bit of primal farmyard remaining, and the great judge durfee house with its fallen vestiges of georgian grandeur. it was getting to be a slum here; but the titan elms cast a restoring shadow over the place, and the boy used to stroll south past the long lines of the pre-revolutionary homes with their great central chimneys and classic portals. on the eastern side they were set high over basements with railed double flights of stone steps, and the young charles could picture them as they were when the street was new, and red heels and periwigs set off

pouring in and out of his hands, and for a moment felt an impulse to flee in panic from that cavern of hideous shelves with their silent and perhaps watching sentinels. then he thought of the "materia- in the myriad phaleron jugs on the other side of the room. salts too- and if not the salts of "guards, then the salts of what? god! could it be possible that here lay the mortal relics of half the titan thinkers of all the ages; snatched by supreme ghouls from crypts where the world thought them safe, and subject to the beck and call of madmen who sought to drain their knowledge for some still wilder end whose ultimate effect would concern, as poor charles had hinted in his frantic note "all civilisation, all natural law, perhaps even the fate of the solar system and the universe? and marin

nts in prague and in eastern transylvania; and after six months believed that he had found two very significant things amongst the multifarious items he received and had translated. one was the total wrecking of a house by night in the oldest quarter of prague, and the disappearance of the evil old man called josef nadek, who had dwelt in it alone ever since anyone could remember. the other was a titan explosion in the transylvanian mountains east of rakus, and the utter extirpation with all its inmates of the ill-regarded castle ferenczy, whose master was so badly spoken of by peasants and soldiery alike that he would shortly have been summoned to bucharest for serious questioning had not this incident cut off a career already so long as to antedate all common memory. willett maintains th

tment had worn off, and when- assuming that it came from a body vastly different from the great race's- it had lost its horror at its unfamiliar temporary form, it was permitted to study its new environment and experience a wonder and wisdom approyimating that of its displacer. with suitable precautions, and in exchange for suitable services, it was allowed to rove all over the habitable world in titan airships or on the huge boatlike atomic-engined vehicles which traversed the great roads, and to delve freely into the libraries containing the records of the planet's past and future. this reconciled many captive minds to their lot; since none were other than keen, and to such minds the unveiling of hidden mysteries of earth-closed chapters of inconceivable pasts and dizzying vortices of fu

n age which i was preparing- half voluntarily and half through promises of increased library and travel opportunities- for the great race's central archives. the archives were in a colossal subterranean structure near the city's center, which i came to know well through frequent labors and consultations. meant to last as long as the race, and to withstand the fiercest of earth's convulsions, this titan repository surpassed all other buildings in the massive, mountain-like firmness of its construction. the records, written or printed on great sheets of a curiously tenacious cellulose fabric were bound into books that opened from the top, and were kept in individual cases of a strange, extremely light, restless metal of greyish hue, decorated with mathematical designs and bearing the title i

haunting nightmares might i be on the brink of uncovering? it was only for a moment that i hesitated, for more than curiosity and scientific zeal was driving me on and working against my growing fear. i seemed to move almost automatically, as if in the clutch of some compelling fate. pocketing my torch, and struggling with a strength that i had not thought i possessed, i wrenched aside first one titan fragment of stone and then another, till there welled up a strong draught whose dampness contrasted oddly with the deserts dry air. a black rift began to yawn, and at length- when i had pushed away every fragment small enough to budge- the leprous moonlight blazed on an aperture of ample width to admit me. i drew out my torch and cast a brilliant beam into the opening. below me was a chaos o

e was a chaos of tumbled masonry, sloping roughly down toward the north at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and evidently the result of some bygone collapse from above. between its surface and the ground level was a gulf of impenetrable blackness at whose upper edge were signs of gigantic, stress-heaved vaulting. at this point, it appeared, the deserts sands lay directly upon a floor of some titan structure of earth's youth- how preserved through aeons of geologic convulsion i could not then and cannot now even attempt to guess. in retrospect, the barest idea of a sudden, lone descent into such a doubtful abyss- and at a time when one's whereabouts were unknown to any living soul- seems like the utter apex of insanity. perhaps it was- yet that night i embarked without hesitancy upon s

ust and debris and the desert. no need now, i thought with a shudder, to keep that faint blur of moonlight in view. i was torn betwixt a longing to flee and a feverish mixture of burning curiosity and driving fatality. what had happened to this monstrous megalopolis of old in the millions of years since the time of my dreams? of the subterrene mazes which had underlain the city and linked all the titan towers, how much had still survived the writhings of earth's crust? had i come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism? could i still find the house of the writing master, and the tower where s'gg'ha, the captive mind from the star-headed vegetable carnivores of antarctica, had chiselled certain pictures on the blank spaces of the walls? would the passage at the second level down, to th

ossal pedestals or tables of my dreams. what they could in truth have been, i dared not guess. i found the downward incline and began its descent- though after a time halted by a gaping, ragged chasm whose narrowest point could not be much less than four feet across. here the stonework had fallen through, revealing incalculable inky depths beneath. i knew there were two more cellar levels in this titan edifice, and trembled with fresh panic as i recalled the metal-clamped trap-door on the lowest one. there could be no guards now- for what had lurked beneath had long since done its hideous work and sunk into its long decline. by the time of the posthuman beetle race it would be quite dead. and yet, as i thought of the native legends, i trembled anew. it cost me a terrible effort to vault th

of febrile speed, and i literally raced along the low-roofed, monstrously well-remembered aisles beyond the archway. i was past being astonished by the familiarity of what i saw. on every hand the great hieroglyphed metal shelf-doors loomed monstrously; some yet in place, others sprung open, and still others bent and buckled under bygone geological stresses not quite strong enough to shatter the titan masonry. here and there a dust-covered heap beneath a gaping, empty shelf seemed to indicate where cases had been shaken down by earth tremors. on occasional pillars were great symbols or letters proclaiming classes and subclasses of volumes. once i paused before an open vault where i saw some of the accustomed metal cases still in position amidst the omnipresent gritty dust. reaching up, i

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o help to keep their possible scent away from the dogs, whose hostile unrest was really becoming a problem, even at their substantial distance and behind the higher and higher snow walls which an increased quota of the men were hastening to raise around their quarters. he had to weight down the corners of the tent cloth with heavy blocks of snow to hold it in place amidst the rising gale, for the titan mountains seemed about to deliver some gravely severe blasts. early apprehensions about sudden antarctic winds were revived, and under atwood s supervision precautions were taken to bank the tents, new dog corral, and crude aeroplane shelters with snow on the mountainward side. these latter shelters, begun with hard snow blocks during odd moments, were by no means as high as they should have

i will not be so naive as to deny that each of us may have harbored wild guesses which sanity forbade him to formulate completely. sherman, pabodie, and mctighe made an exhaustive aeroplane cruise over all the surrounding territory in the afternoon, sweeping the horizon with field glasses in quest of gedney and of the various missing things; but nothing came to light. the party reported that the titan barrier range extended endlessly to right and left alike, without any diminution in height or essential structure. on some of the peaks, though, the regular cube and rampart formations were bolder and plainer, having doubly fantastic similitudes to roerich-painted asian hill ruins. the distribution of cryptical cave mouths on the black snow-denuded summits seemed roughly even as far as the r

f apedom. here sprawled a palaeogaean megalopolis compared with which the fabled atlantis and lemuria, commoriom and uzuldaroum, and olathoc in the land of lomar, are recent things of today- not even of yesterday; a megalopolis ranking with such whispered prehuman blasphemies as valusia, r lyeh, ib in the land of mnar, and the nameless city of arabia deserta. as we flew above that tangle of stark titan towers my imagination sometimes escaped all bounds and roved aimlessly in realms of fantastic associations- even weaving links betwixt this lost world and some of my own wildest dreams concerning the mad horror at the camp. the plane s fuel tank, in the interest of greater lightness, had been only partly filled; hence we now had to exert caution in our explorations. even so, however, we cove

seeing. the black tunnel yawned indefinitely off at a steep, descending grade, its aperture adorned with grotesquely chiseled jambs and lintel. from that cryptical mouth we fancied a current of slightly warmer air, and perhaps even a suspicion of vapor proceeded; and we wondered what living entities other than penguins the limitless void below, and the contiguous honeycombings of the land and the titan mountains, might conceal. we wondered, too, whether the trace of mountaintop smoke at first suspected by poor lake, as well as the odd haze we had ourselves perceived around the rampart-crowned peak, might not be caused by the tortuous-channeled rising of some such vapor from the unfathomed regions of earth s core. entering the tunnel, we saw that its outline was- at least at the start- abou

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ever to change. he seemed calm even when he thought of that clawed grave and looked over his shoulder; even when he thought of the carnivorous thing that gnawed and pawed at sefton bars. the end of herbert west began one evening in our joint study when he was dividing his curious glance between the newspaper and me. a strange headline item had struck at him from the crumpled pages, and a nameless titan claw had seemed to reach down through sixteen years. something fearsome and incredible had happened at sefton asylum fifty miles away, stunning the neighbourhood and baffling the police. in the small hours of the morning a body of silent men had entered the grounds, and their leader had aroused the attendants. he was a menacing military figure who talked without moving his lips and whose voi

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dengirdled babylon' it was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. there had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in new england for some years; and wilcox's imaginations had been keenly affected. upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters 'cthulhu fhtagn' this verba

something wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. he had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality. johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oozy blocks which could have been no mortal staircase. the very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarizing miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance showed concavity after the first showed convexity. something very like fright had come over al

steam had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheels and engines to get the alert under way. slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of the indescribable scene, she began to chum the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of odysseus. then, bolder than the storied cyclops, great cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. briden looked back and went mad, laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst johansen was wandering deliriously. but

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left no trace, not even of a struggle. they were never heard of again. ii. a passer in the storm for days after that hideous experience in the forest-swathed mansion i lay nervously exhausted in my hotel room at lefferts corners. i do not remember exactly how i managed to reach the motor-car, start it, and slip unobserved back to the village; for i retain no distinct impression save of wild-armed titan trees, demoniac mutterings of thunder, and charonian shadows athwart the low mounds that dotted and streaked the region. as i shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, i knew that i had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horors-one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint demon scratchings we sometimes hear on the farthest rim of space, yet from whi

as extremely vivid. the stormy vigil reminded me shudderingly of my ghastly night on tempest mountain. my mind turned to that odd question which had kept recurring ever since the nightmare thing had happened; and again i wondered why the demon, approaching the three watchers either from the window or the interior, had begun with the men on each side and left the middle man till the last, when the titan fireball had scared it away. why had it not taken its victims in natural order, with myself second, from whichever direction it had approached? with what manner of far-reaching tentacles did it prey? or did it know that i was the leader, and saved me for a fate worse than that of my companions? in the midst of these reflections, as if dramatically arranged to intensify them, there fell nearb

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carter. chapter two the hills beyond arkham are full of a strange magic-something, perhaps, which the old wizard edmund carter called down from the stars and up from the crypts of nether earth when he fled there from salem in 1692. as soon as randolph carter was back among them he knew that he was close to one of the gates which a few audacious, abhorred and alien-souled men have blasted through titan walls betwixt the world and the outside absolute. here, he felt, and on this day of the year, he could carry out with success the message he had deciphered months before from the arabesques of that tarnished and incredibly ancient silver key. he knew now how it must be rotated, and how it must be held up to the setting sun, and what syllables of ceremony must be intoned into the void at the

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of babel was built as much by the direct descendants of shem as by those of the 'accursed' ham and canaan, for the people in those days were 'one' and the "whole earth was of one language; babel was simply an astrological tower, and its builders were astrologers and adepts of the primitive wisdom-religion, or again what we term secret doctrine. the berosian sibyl says: before the tower, zeni-an, titan, and ya- petoathes governed the earth. zeru-an wished to be supreme, but his two brothers resisted, when their sister, astlik, intervened and appeased them. it was agreed tiiat zeru-an should rule, but bis male children should be put to death; and strong titans were appointed to carry this into effect" sar (circle, aaroa) is the babylonian god of the sky. he is also assaros or asshur (the so

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s so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as to stretch across the sky and, with a snap, consume creation, yet slumbering, long and deep, since that time when archons were still young, become half-stone in their primal sleep. what they dreamt of, i know not nor would seek to know. i heard, too, such silence in that darkness and the thunderous music of titan cataracts, the lofty heights of which denied my sight. yet, not finding any prize i sought 56 in those lands without day, i departed the recesses of the earth and entered into twilit sheol, the land of shadows where mot holds court, where half-formed shades range, purposeless, a barrenness of mist and grey without end or outset, time-forsaken, boundless and eternal, yet empty. yet here, too

vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as to stretch across the sky and, with a snap, consume creation, yet slumbering, long and deep, 117 since that time when archons were still young, become half-stone in their primal sleep. what they dreamt of, i know not nor would seek to know. i heard, too, such silence in that darkness and the thunderous music of titan cataracts, the lofty heights of which denied my sight. yet, not finding any prize i sought in those lands without day, i departed the recesses of the earth and entered into twilit sheol, the land of shadows where mot holds court, where half-formed shades range, purposeless, a barrenness of mist and grey without end or outset, time-forsaken, boundless and eternal, yet empty. yet here, too, th

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eat serpent. table of correspondences 30 clxvii. egyptian gods of zodiac (asc. decans. clxviii. egyptian names of asc. decans clxix. as col. clxvii (succedent) clxx. as col. cxviii (succendent. clxxi. as col. cxlvii (cadent) clxxii. as col. cxlviii (cadent) 15 aroueris assicean anubis lencher horus asentacer 16 serapis asicath helitomenos virvaso apophis aharph 17 taautus thesogar cyclops verasua titan tepistosoa 18 apoltun sothis hecate syth mercophta thuismis 19 typhon aphruimis perseus sitlacer nephthe phuonidie 20 isis thumis pi-osiris thoptius panotragus aphut 22 zeuda serucuth omphta aterechinis ophionius arepien 24 arimanius sentacer merota tepiseuth panotragus senciner 25 tolmophta eregbuo tomras sagen zeraph chenen 26 soda themeso riruphta epima monuphta homoth 28 brondeus oroasoe

e been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is more usually spelt maat or ma at. lines 23, 31: auramoth and thoum-aesh-neith were never egyptian deities but were names constructed on qabalistic principles by the golden dawn to refer to water and fire; similarly the name tarpesheth (tharpesht) is unknown prior to g.d. material, although she appears to be a hybrid of bast and sekhet. line 24: typhon was a titan in greek myth (son of tartaros and gaia, probably a personification of destructive forces of nature, who was identified with set in late classical times. add selket, whose symbol was the scorpion. the attribution of khephra is explained by crowley s remarks on this line in the animals column. line 25: add neith (net) who is traditionally depicted with a bow and arrows. line 26: khem is ident

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were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the king fs bedchamber. 36. i smite. the whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak. 37. i know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar! 38. again the inhuman voice! 39. i rear my titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and i smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea. 40. there is a strange pale god, a god of pain and deadly wickedness. 41. my own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire. 42. that pallid god with face averted, that god of subtlety and laughter, that young doric god, him will i serve. 43. for the end thereof is tormet unspeakable. 44. b

LIBER SAMEKH

least is the traditional interpretation. but there is a deeper design which may be expressed through the direction of rotation. certain forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation widdershins when it is executed with intent towards them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666. h (for example, if invoking the powers of the constellation of the bear, associated with typhon-set in graco-egyptian magick, one might used widdershins motions, from the apparent motion of the stars about the pole star. as noted, while in section a. the entity invoked is hailed as gasar-un-nefer h, the opening of section c. is strikingly close to th

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ered in the atmosphere of mars, which could be a sign of bacterial life there. the search continues. a little less close to home, one of the large satellites of jupiter, europa, is thought to have a large ocean of liquid water under its outer ice crust. space probes are being designed to penetrate the icy surface of europa and search for life in its putative ocean. even farther away from earth is titan, the largest satellite of saturn. the huygens probe launched by nasa and the european space agency soft-landed there in 2005. the probe revealed the existence on titan of a brew of carbon-containing molecules and riverlike structures where liquid methane perhaps flows. even though titan is unlikely to harbor life because it is so cold, it may well be that it is a frozen example of what prebi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

er space (p. 134)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation187 appendix b: book abstracts men among mankind by brinsley le poer trenchnoah and the floodit is probable that the serpent people and not jehovah were the ones who warned of the coming cata-clysms and got mankind to build the ark. seen from outer space, the planet earth has a rainbow likehalo.olympian periodzeus overthrows the titan kronus, who ruled over the golden age. this act initiated the olympianage. kronus is said to have been banished from the city of the gods and was interred, chained, inbritain. same as saturn, who was said to have been sent in chains to albion. he was the oldest of thegods. could it be that this was one of the original galactic invaders that was captured by the serpentpeople. is this where th

foot-prints preserved in volcanic ash-flows uncountable years ago, we are faced with the obvious conclu-sion; in comparison with these and other early hominids, the australian aborigines, while theyundoubtedly evolved here, were mere latecomers on the australian landscape.inverell 1993on friday (september 1993, yet one more giant-sized hominid fossilized footprint was added to such alist of such 'titan tootsies' coming to light across the continent. my wife heather and i were exploringscrub country outside inverell in northern new england, about 140 kilometres east of moree, whenquite by accident we stumbled upon a shoal of weathered mudstone. here, embedded in the rock, wefound and measured a single large hominid footprint impression.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation301

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

he abode of coronzon is a dark place where those long dead gesture and stumble aimlessly; a place where hope is not to be found. hades sided with zeus and the other olympians in the war against the titans. in the night before a major battle between the olympians and the titans, hades put on his helmet of darkness that made him invisible, after which he crept into the enemy camp, and destroyed the titan s weapons. hades has a wife named persephone who dwells with him in the underworld. with the titans defeated, the three brothers zeus, poseidon, and hades divided creation between each other. zeus ruled the heavens, poseidon the seas, and hades would rule the underworld. and there hades rules today, upon a black throne. even the worst magicians will recommend against invoking or evoking hade

MORALS AND DOGMA

. seven amschaspands or planetary spirits were invoked with ormuzd: seven inferior rishis of hindustan were saved with the head of their family in an ark: and seven ancient personages alone returned with the british just man, hu, from the dale of the grievous waters. there were seven heliad, whose father helias, or the sun, once crossed the sea in a golden cup; seven titans, children of the older titan, kronos or saturn; seven corybantes; and seven cabiri, sons of sydyk; seven primeval celestial spirits of the japanese, and seven karfesters who escaped from the deluge and began to be the parents of a new race, on the summit of mount albordi. seven cyclopes, also, built the walls of tiryus. celsus, as quoted by origen, tells us that the persians represented by symbols the two-fold motion of

has been so long inert, that we believe its fires extinguished. round us hang the clustering grapes, and the green leaves of the olive tremble in the soft night-air over us. above us shine the peaceful, patient stars. the crash of a new eruption wakes us, the roar of the subterranean thunders, the stabs of the volcanic lightning into the shrouded bosom of the sky; and we see, aghast, the tortured titan hurling up its fires among the pale stars, its great tree of smoke and cloud, the red torrents pouring down its sides. the roar and the shriekings of civil war are all around us: the land is a pandemonium: man is again a savage. the great armies roll along their hideous waves, and leave behind them smoking and depopulated deserts. the pillager is in every house, plucking even the morsel of b

in his cavern, betokened the continuance of winter. the persian beacon on the mountain-top represented the rock-born divinity enshrined in his worthiest temple; and the funeral conflagration of hercules was the sun dying in glory behind the western hills. but though the transitory manifestation suffers or dies, the abiding and eternal power liberates and saves. it was an essential attribute of a titan, that he should arise again after his fall; for the revival of nature is as certain as its decline, and its alternations are subject to the appointment of a power which controls them both "god, says maximus tyrius "did not spare his own son [hercules, or exempt him from the calamities incidental to humanity. the theban progeny of jove had his share of pain and trial. by vanquishing earthly d

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

tice having abandoned mankind, no influence remained sufficiently powerful to preserve them from every kind of wickedness and sin. this condition grew worse as time went on, until at last zeus in his anger let loose the water-courses from above, and drowned every [24]individual of this evil race, except deucalion and pyrrha. the theory of hesiod,[8] the oldest of all the greek poets, was that the titan prometheus, the son of iapetus, had formed man out of clay, and that athene had breathed a soul into him. full of love for the beings he had called into existence, prometheus determined to elevate their minds and improve their condition in every way; he therefore taught them astronomy, mathematics, the alphabet, how to cure diseases, and the art of divination. he created this race in page 24

e leaves her couch before the break of day, and herself yokes her two horses, lampetus and phaethon, to her glorious chariot. she then hastens with active cheerfulness to open the gates of heaven, in order to herald the approach of her brother, the god of day, whilst the tender plants and flowers, revived by the morning dew, lift their heads to welcome her as she passes [68] eos first married the titan astraus,[29] and their children were heosphorus (hesperus, the evening star, and the winds. she afterwards became united to tithonus, son of laomedon, king of troy, who had won her affection by his unrivalled beauty; and eos, unhappy at the thought of their being ever separated by death, obtained for him from zeus the gift of immortality, forgetting, however, to add to it that of eternal you

cruelty, and the love of extermination. she is in full armour, her hair is dishevelled, and she bears a scourge in one hand, and a lance in the other. page 128 a temple was erected to her on the campus martius. before the entrance to this edifice stood a pillar, over which a spear was thrown when war was publicly declared [117] nike (victoria. nike, the goddess of victory, was the daughter of the titan pallas, and of styx, the presiding nymph of the river of that name in the lower world. in her statues, nike somewhat resembles athene, but may easily be recognized by her large, graceful wings and flowing drapery, which is negligently fastened on the right shoulder, and only partially conceals her lovely form. in her left hand, she holds aloft a crown of laurel, and in the right, a palm-bran

hat king aetes was extremely cruel, and, as the son of apollo, was possessed of superhuman strength. arrival at colchis..taking with them the four new-comers they journeyed on, and soon came in sight of the snow-capped peaks of the caucasus, when, towards evening, the loud flapping of wings was heard overhead. it was the giant eagle of prometheus on his way to torture the noble and long-suffering titan, whose fearful page 253 groans soon afterwards fell upon their ears. that night they reached their journey's end, and anchored in the smooth waters of the river phases. on the left bank of this river they beheld ceuta, the capital of colchis; and on their right a wide field, and the sacred grove of ares, where the golden fleece, suspended from a magnificent oak-tree, was glittering in the su

ed except odysseus, who, clinging to a mast, floated about in the open sea for nine days, when, after once more [317]escaping being sucked in by the whirlpool of charybdis, he was cast ashore on the island of ogygia. calypso..ogygia was an island covered with dense forests, where, in the midst of a grove of cypress and poplar, stood the charming grotto-palace of the nymph calypso, daughter of the titan atlas. the entrance to the grotto was entwined with a leafy trellis-work of vine-branches, from which depended clusters of purple and golden grapes; the plashing of fountains gave a delicious sense of coolness to the air, which was filled with the songs of birds, and the ground was carpeted with violets and mosses. calypso cordially welcomed the forlorn and shipwrecked hero, and hospitably m

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

lds their mitred-heads shall know the claws of doom. of kadath ye unknown what man knoweth kadath? for who shall know of that which ever abides in strange-time, twix yesterday, today and the morrow. unknown amidst ye cold waste lieth the mountain of kadath where upon the hidden summit an onyx castle stands. dark clouds shroud the mighty peak that gleams 'neath ancient stars where silent brood the titan towers and rear forbidden walls. curse-runes guard the nighted gate carved by forgotten hands, and woe to he that dare pass within those dreadful doors. earth's gods revel where others once walked in mystic timeless halls, which some have glimpst in sleeps dim vault through strange and sightless eyes. to call forth yog-sothoth for yog-sothoth is the gate. he knoweth where the old ones came f

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

(see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with goat s legs and horns. hercules hercules (see pp. 50 51) was a son of zeus by a mortal. hera hated him. he earned immortality by performing 12 impossible tasks. when he went to olympus he married zeus daughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being

produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typically shown, as here, carrying off a nymph. four winds the winds, zephyrus (see pp. 35 5, eurus, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another

he baby s stead. when zeus was grown, he asked to be made cronos cup-bearer. he mixed his father a powerful emetic, causing him to vomit up both the stone and the five older children. zeus then led his brothers and sisters to war against the titans whom they defeated and confined to tartarus in the underworld. thereafter, zeus reigned supreme among the gods. prometheus 24 prometheus prometheus, a titan, was the creator of humankind, whom he made out of clay and water. although he and his brother epimetheus sided with the olympian god zeus (roman jupiter) during the war of the titans (see box, prometheus relationship with zeus was uneasy because zeus thought him wily and, being mortal, more loyal to humankind than to the gods. in an argument over which parts of an animal should be sacrifice

heus model, was rather foolish and entirely without his brother s guile and cunning. turned into a monkey when prometheus was chained to the rock by zeus, epimetheus, his not-so-clever brother, was turned into a monkey and banished to the island of pithecusa. watched from above zeus, shown here in his chariot, did not trust prometheus and kept a watchful eye on his activities, suspecting that the titan s loyalties lay with mortals rather than immortals. jar of sorrows when the world first came into being, it was a happy place, all the sorrows and ills having been shut tightly into a jar (or box) never to be opened. but the enmity between zeus and prometheus jeopardized paradise. when zeus created pandora (see p. 25, she opened the jar and paradise was destroyed. the myth of prometheus by p

hephaestus (vulcan. sickness and misery prometheus passed on only good gifts to mankind; the ills of the world he shut up in a jar. until these were released by pandora, the first woman, men lived carefree lives with no sorrow, hard work, or disease. pandora by dante gabriel rossetti (1828-82) according to one greek tradition there have been five ages of man: the golden age during the time of the titan cronos, when humankind lived in ease and harmony; a silver age; two bronze ages (the second in the time of the heroes; and then the present iron age. prometheus steals fire when zeus was cheated out of the meat of sacrificial animals, he decided to withhold the gift of fire so that humankind would have to eat the meat raw. but prometheus, guided up into the sky by athena, stole fire from the

e birth to their daughter voluptas (pleasure. artemis and actaeon 36 dogs of death actaeon s faithful hounds did not recognize their master once the furious artemis had transformed him into a stag. true to their nature, they chased and killed him. artemis and actaeon artemis (roman diana) was goddess of the hunt and the moon. like her brother apollo (see pp. 38 39, she was a child of zeus and the titan leto. she was also the goddess of childbirth and, by extension, of all young creatures, because her mother gave birth to her without pain. the story of actaeon seeing her bathe and her revenge in turning him into a stag to be set upon by his own dogs, is best told in ovid s metamorphoses. this is a roman source, although the story is greek in origin. artemis reaction may be accounted for by

the whereabouts of the garden and reach it. on the way he had many adventures, which included freeing prometheus (see pp. 24 25) and killing the eagle that daily fed on his liver. cranes of vigilance cranes are a symbol of vigilance. however, as the hesperides seem to be asleep, and the apples that they are guarding are eventually stolen, the presence of the cranes may be ironic. daugh ters of a titan the hesperides were the daughters of the titan atlas (see p. 22) and hesperis, the daughter of the evening star hesperus (venus. they lived in a garden hidden in the far west; their name means daughters of the evening. this roman bronze shows the baby hercules killing two serpents with his bare hands an early indication of his superhuman strength, and a clue to his father s identity. the lab

lympians were led by zeus, who was essentially a sky god. his brothers hades and poseidon ruled the underworld and the sea the earth was held in common. zeus is also called father of gods and men, and his love affairs too many to list here resulted in the birth of numerous gods and heroes. europa (mortal) ariadne phaedra minotaur (half-bull, half-man) x bull of poseidon king minos m pasipha leto (titan) callisto (nymph) maia (nymph) alcmene (mortal) dana (mortal) leda (mortal) dione (goddess) themis (titan) mnemosyne (titan) metis (sea nymph) semele (mortal) apollo x coronis (nymph) artemis diana hermes mercury m daughter of dryops heracles hercules m hebe perseus m andromeda ares x pan faunus arco asclepius dionysus bacchus aphrodite x anchises helen m menelaus (mortal) x paris clytemnest

PROMETHEUS

t [prometheus] had endured all pangs he merited, when, deep-burrowing, the eagle tare his liver aye renewed -quintus smyrnaeus 5.334 "and there [depicted on the shield of eurypylos son of herakles, at the world's end, were kaukasos' long glens, where herakles, rending prometheos' chains, and hurling them this way and that with fragments of the rock whereinto they were riveted, set free the mighty titan. arrow-smitten lay the eagle of the torment there beside -quintus smyrnaeus 6.269 "there [depicted on the quiver of herakles] was the titan iapetos' great son [prometheus] hung from the beetling crag of kaukasos in bonds of adamant, and the eagle tare his liver unconsumed- he seemed to groan -quintus smyrnaeus 10.190 "after creating men prometheus is said to have stolen fire and revealed it

esh that has just been cut, and the juice like the dark sap of a mountain oak. to make the ointment, medea, clothed in black, in the gloom of night, had drawn off this juice in a caspian shell after bathing in seven perennial streams and calling seven times on brimo [hekate, nurse of youth, brimo, night-wanderer of the underworld, queen of the dead. the dark earth shook and rumbled underneath the titan root when it was cut, and prometheus himself groaned in the anguish of his soul. argonautica 3.844f it [akhaia in greece] is a land ringed by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and pasture, and the birthplace of prometheus son, the good deukalion, who was the first man to found cities, build temples to the gods and rule mankind as king. its neighbours call the land haemonia, and in it stands iol

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

e life glorious! and not a sun that sets not somewhere on the silenced music, on the faded laurel! chapter 1.x. che difesa miglior ch' usbergo e scudo, e la santa innocenza al petto ignudo "ger. lib" c. viii. xli (better defence than shield or breastplate is holy innocence to the naked breast) and they buried the musician and his barbiton together, in the same coffin. that famous steiner primeval titan of the great tyrolese race often hast thou sought to scale the heavens, and therefore must thou, like the meaner children of men, descend to the dismal hades! harder fate for thee than thy mortal master. for thy soul sleeps with thee in the coffin. and the music that belongs to his, separate from the instrument, ascends on high, to be heard often by a daughter's pious ears when the heaven is

were to impart all our knowledge to all mankind indiscriminately, alike to the vicious and the virtuous, should we be benefactors or scourges? imagine the tyrant, the sensualist, the evil and corrupted being possessed of these tremendous powers; would he not be a demon let loose on earth? grant that the same privilege be accorded also to the good; and in what state would be society? engaged in a titan war, the good forever on the defensive, the bad forever in assault. in the present condition of the earth, evil is a more active principle than good, and the evil would prevail. it is for these reasons that we are not only solemnly bound to administer our lore only to those who will not misuse and pervert it, but that we place our ordeal in tests that purify the passions and elevate the desi

armony of the eternal spheres"'it is thy fault, it is thine' i exclaimed 'exorcise the phantom! take the haunting terror from my soul "mejnour looked at me a moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied"'no; fool of thine own senses! no; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the knowledge that is without faith climbs its titan way. thou pantest for this millennium, thou shalt behold it! thou shalt be one of the agents of the era of light and reason. i see, while i speak, the phantom thou fliest, by thy side; it marshals thy path; it has power over thee as yet, a power that defies my own. in the last days of that revolution which thou hailest, amidst the wrecks of the order thou cursest as oppression, seek the fulf

our ages of lore and life! to save her from peril i left her presence, and the peril has seized her in its grasp "chide not thy wisdom but thy passions! abandon thine idle hope of the love of woman. see, for those who would unite the lofty with the lowly, the inevitable curse; thy very nature uncomprehended, thy sacrifices unguessed. the lowly one views but in the lofty a necromancer or a fiend. titan, canst thou weep "i know it now, i see it all! it was her spirit that stood beside our own, and escaped my airy clasp! o strong desire of motherhood and nature! unveiling all our secrets, piercing space and traversing worlds! mejnour, what awful learning lies hid in the ignorance of the heart that loves "the heart" answered the mystic, coldly "ay, for five thousand years i have ransacked the

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

re of the sense-perceptible world, which is only to be comprehended by us as a manifold, dismembered domain. we might go still further into the spiritual processes underlying these images, but the intention here is only to indicate the principle underlying the formation of myths. special interest attaches from this point of view to the saga of prometheus. prometheus and epimetheus are sons of the titan iapetus. the titans are the children of the oldest generation of the gods, uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth. kronos, the youngest of the titans, usurped his father s throne and seized the rulership of the world. he was overthrown in his turn by his son, zeus, along with the other titans; zeus then became the supreme among the gods. in the titanomachy, prometheus sided with zeus, and it was on

s, uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth. kronos, the youngest of the titans, usurped his father s throne and seized the rulership of the world. he was overthrown in his turn by his son, zeus, along with the other titans; zeus then became the supreme among the gods. in the titanomachy, prometheus sided with zeus, and it was on his advice that zeus banished the titans to the underworld. nevertheless the titan disposition still lived on in prometheus he was only half a friend to zeus. when zeus was about to destroy humankind on account of their hubris, prometheus took up their cause and taught them numbers, writing, and that other prerequisite of culture, the use of fire.82 this provoked zeus rage against prometheus. hephaestus, a son of myth and mysteriosophy 77 zeus, was commissioned to make a f

senger-god hermes to prometheus to inquire about it, but prometheus refused to say anything. at this point the sagas of heracles and of prometheus are connected: in the course of his wanderings, heracles reaches the caucasus. he slays the eagle that gnawed at prometheus liver. and the centaur chiron, who cannot die, though he suffers from an incurable wound, sacrifices himself for prometheus. the titan is thereupon reconciled with the gods. 78 christianity as mystical fact the titans here are the force of will, a force of nature (kronos) originating from the primal spirit of things (uranus. they are not an abstraction personified as forces of will, but actual beings of will. prometheus is one of them, which indicates his nature, but he is not wholly a titan; he belongs in some ways on the

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

d and tears, thou who art virtue 64 itself, and the reward of virtue; force of resignation, belief of obedience, joy of sorrow, life of death, hail! salutation and glory to thee! if intelligence is a lamp, thou art its flame; if it is right, thou art duty; if it is nobility, thou art happiness. love, full of pride and modesty in thy mysteries, divine love, hidden love, love insensate and sublime, titan who takest heaven in both hands, and forcest it to earth, final and ineffable secret of christian widowhood, love eternal, love infinite, ideal which would suffice to create worlds; love! love! blessing and glory to thee! glory to the intelligences which veil themselves that they may not offend weak eyes! glory to right which transforms itself wholly into duty, and which becomes devotion! to

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

which lead over the mountains, the swamps, the forests of existence to that great road, the road of the soul. from the supernal flights of idealism, we now find crowley in the most infernal depths of realism striving through a sea of blood towards that flaming pentacle which flares on the dim horizon of hope. all is night, yet all is expectation; herculean is the task, yet the heart is that of a titan. blake saw that gprisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion, h and so does crowley. both in their sagacity perceive that the one great crime is that of exclusiveness. the christian failing to see this, worshipped the masculine power of wisdom and neglected the feminine power of intelligence, his god was as the god of most religions a veritable he-god, therein lay

field of aceldama: ii. cwhose red banners beat their radiant fire into my shrivelled head, to wither love fs desire *aceldama, vol. i, p. 2. the picture becomes grander still, the child of life becomes old in thought: iii. i was a child long years ago, it seems, or months it may be. i am still a child! they pictured me the stars as wheeling wild in a huge bowl of water; but my dreams built it of titan oak, its sides were piled of fearful wood hewn from god fs forests, paid with sweat and tears and blood. yet to what does this infinite yearning lead? the soul looks hout to the beyond, h and from the shapeless and unstayed there bursts the cry of gnothing, h gbut evermore came out by the same door wherein i went. h* in verse vi we find the mysticism of berashith gnothing was everything h; a

THE GOD SET

t by the twenty sixth dynasty it was a common practice to disfigure any representations of set. he became--for all practical purposes the christian devil. some scholars have even derived the name satan from set-hen, a cult title meaning the majesty of set, but i am dubious of this particular derivation. however set was not down for the count. during the ptolemaic period set, merged with the greek titan typhon, became the figure for the goes or sorcerer to use. after hermes the most often invoked god in the magical papyri is set-typhon. this entity was used to bring spirit helpers( bird would fly down and announce that the magician was now under the protection of a god- a popular typhonic practice outside of egypt as well se morton smith's jesus the magician. set was also the god to invoke

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

trating ever ardently upon the body of the great goddess, and let the offering be preserved in her consecrated temple or in a talisman especially prepared for this practice. and let no desire for any other enter the heart. then shall it be in the end that the great goddess will descend and clother her beauty in veils of flesh, surrendering her chaste fortress of olympus to that assault of thee, o titan, son of earth! or at the least, this being denied thee, yet all thy life in heart and spirit being hers, thy death shall be the consummation of these betrothals, an entry into the closed palace of thy lady. and of such espousals mayst thou read in liber ccccxviii, more especially in the ninth and in the second aethyrs. it is to be noted in all this that both god and the soul are male or fema

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

our points of the compass originally came into being. mankind could not conceive of the division into east and west until it had perceived the polarity of north and south. the cross is much older than christianity, indeed as old as time, for it is a uni- versal symbol that conveys an unchanging meaning to all peoples, whatever the outward interpretation that may be forced upon it. the pattern the titan prometheus took when bound to the pillar by zeus was a cross. the teutonic god woden, or odin, crucified himself on the eternal ash yggdrasill in order to peer into the mysteries of the timeless realm where magic is born. in other cultures the same mystical message is conveyed in slightly different forms. the sioux indians used to suspend their braves by their pectoral muscles so that they m

the knowledge of god. it may be described as the interior of the vessel that holds the first emanation. this is as close to god as any manifest thing can approach without itself becoming god. to stand within this temple spiritual is the goal of every true magus. the mys- tic wishes to dwell within it forever, but the magus seeks to come and go at will in order that he or she may carry, as did the titan prometheus, the fires from heaven to light the earth. no true magic is possible unless the inner temple is at least touched, no matter how briefly. through the doors of the inner temple the light of god issues forth to illuminate the outer circles of being. it is a fact of human nature that most aspirants after magical knowledge begin to practice the art before they understand what they are

flee back into heaven. mankind is an instrument whose sole purpose is the furthering, in its infinite complexity, of the desire of the all as expressed in the evo- lution of the universe. since humans were created in the creator's image, the desire of god is also the highest and best desire of human beings. mercury (hermes, the messenger of the gods, is an anthropomorphic symbol of the magus. the titan prometheus, who gave the secret of fire to humanity, is also symbolic of the magus. woden, who snatched the runes of power from the roots of the cosmic tree yggdrasill and bequeathed them as a gift to his people, is the magus in yet another mythic guise. all of the great teachers of wisdom, such as. thoth of egypt, zoroaster of persia, abaris of scythia, daedalus of crete, pythago- ras of sa

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assages of love, dimly liintcd at by saemund also 12^ 23^ 24, but we are nowhere told what heroes were begotten in the three nights that osiim passed with the giant's daughter. gunnloff belongs to the race of giants, not of men, which is also the case with ger&r whom freyr wooed, and perhaps with others, who are not reckoned among the asynjor. the greeks also held that from the union of gods with titans' daughters might spring a hero, or even a god (like tyr, p. 208. only saxo, p. m, and no other authority, tells us of a norwegian king and hero' frogcrus, ut quidam ferunt, otliino patre natus' to whom the gods gave to be invincible in fight, unless his adversary could grasp the dust from 1 ohg. wuotufjoz (zeitschr. f. d. alt. 1, utt, conf. wiietclii above, p. 132, and w'odel-beer, p. 156 (

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f serious trial in other ways. the toil of repopulation was excessive, and there was a revolt or rather strike of the servile races, which was ended by the substitution of 'bread from heaven' for those products of the earth on which they had formerly been fed, a diet which proved so adapted to their natures that no labour troubles ever recurred. the greek legends of the wars between gods, giants, titans are traditional of a real war or series of wars which continued with intervals over 200 years. the enemy had developed naval armament to an extreme. their tactics were these: 1. to wipe out the servile races and so to interfere with the production of zro. 2. to rush and destroy the high house. the first of these met with a great deal of success, the floating rock being struck with projectil

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tly rigid, both from fear of cracking the metal and the difficulty of bending it, i heard the rattle of the brazen contents shaken from side to side with feeling of the most supreme absurdity possible to the human soul. presently the leg was restored to its former state, but in the interim its mate had grown to a size which would have made it a very respectable totter for brian boru or one of the titans. elevated some few hundred feet into the firmament, i was compelled to hop upon my giant pedestal in a way very ungraceful in a world where two legs were the fashion, and eminently disagreeable to the slighted member, which sought in vain to reach the earth with struggles amusing from their very insignificance. this ludicrous affliction being gradually removed, i went on my way quietly unti

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(fearing bodily lust) isolate their acolytes from earth, no futility their doctrine of prana and the tamo-guna. 109 it is not mere faith healing, this hygiene of father kneipp, and his failures are those who retain decorum and melancholy, who follow the letter and not the spirit, cold-blooded treaders upon earth instead of passionate lovers of its strength. it is no accident of mythology that the titans made war upon the gods, and in prometheus overthrew them. it was when canute failed to drive back the sea that his dynasty was lost to that norman william who caught hold of mother earth with both hands. when i was a child i fell; and the scars of the earth are on my forehead at this hour. when i was a boy i was hurt by the explosion of a buried jar of gunpowder; and the scars of the earth

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ry sin committed on earth is felt by usanas-sukra. the guru of the daityas is the guardian spirit of the earth and men. every change on sukra is felt on, and reflected by, the earth" sukra, or venus, is thus represented as the preceptor of the daityas, the giants of the fourth race, who, in the hindu allegory, obtained at one time the sovereignty of all the earth, and defeated the minor gods. the titans of the western allegory are as closely connected with venus-lucifer, identified by later christians with satan. therefore, as venus, equally with isis, was represented with cow's horns on her head, the symbol of mystic nature, and one that is convertible with, and significant of, the moon, since all these were lunar goddesses, the configuration of this planet is now placed by theologians be

the leader of the celestial hosts- as lucifer, in milton's fancy, is of the infernal hosts- who has the best of satan. it is true that the nature of[[vol. 2, page] 63 who are the "flames? michael depends upon that of his creator and master. who the latter is, one may find out by carefully studying the allegory of the "war in heaven" with the astronomical key. as shown by bentley, the "war of the titans against the gods" in hesiod, and also the war of the asuras (or the tarakamaya) against the devas in puranic legend, are identical in all save the names. the aspects of the stars show (bentley taking the year 945 b.c. as the nearest date for such conjunction) that "all the planets, except saturn, were on the same side of the heavens as the sun and moon" and hence were his opponents. and yet

doctrine. fire- since hydrogen is found in the aqueous element of the atmosphere. it is three in one. if one studies comparative theogony, it is easy to find that the secret of these "fires" was taught in the mysteries of every ancient people, pre-eminently in samothrace. there is not the smallest doubt that the kabeiri, the most arcane of all the ancient deities, gods and men, great deities and titans, are identical with the kumaras and rudras headed by kartikeya- a kumara also. this is quite evident even exoterically; and these hindu deities were, like the kabeiri, the personified sacred fires of the most occult powers of nature. the several branches of the aryan race, the asiatic and the european, the hindu and the greek, did their best to conceal their true nature, if not their import

boat of the aztecs, and thus makes fifteen elect instead of the seven and the fourteen. this was written probably under some involuntary reminiscence of moses, who is said to have mentioned fifteen grandsons of noah, who escaped with their grandsire. then again xisuthrus, the chaldean noah, is saved and translated alive to heaven- like enoch- with the seven gods, the kabirim, or the seven divine titans; again the chinese yao has seven figures which sail with him and which he will animate when he lands, and use for "human seed" osiris, when he enters the ark, or solar boat, takes seven rays with him, etc, etc. sanchoniathon makes the aletae or titans (the kabirim) contemporary[[footnote(s "smithsonian contributions to knowledge" xviii "american journal of science" iii, xi, 456; and croll's

ected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same personage, and as the seven kabiri are said to be the sons of sydyk or kronos-saturn, the kabiri and titans are identical. for once the pious faber was right in his conclusions when he wrote "i have no doubt of the seven titans and kabiri being the same as the seven rishis of the hindu mythology, who are said to have escaped in a boat along with manu, the head) of the family" but he is less fortunate in his speculations when he adds "the hindoos, in their wild legends have variously perverted the history of the noachidae, yet it is remarkable that they seem to have religiously adhered to the number seven* hence ca

ven individual persons* the seven brahmadicas were prajapatis, or lords 'of the prajas or creatures' from them mankind was born, and they are probably the same with the seven manus. these seven grand ancestors of the human race were created for the purpose of replenishing the earth with inhabitants (asiatic researches, vol. v. p. 246; and faber adds that "the mutual resemblance of the kabirs, the titans, the rishis, and the noetic family, is too striking to be the effect of mere accident* faber was led into this mistake, and subsequently built his entire theory concerning the kabiri, on the fact that the name of the scriptural[[footnote(s* agruerus is kronos, or saturn, and the prototype of the israelitish jehovah. as connected with argha, the moon or ark of salvation, noah is mythological

kabiri, on the fact that the name of the scriptural[[footnote(s* agruerus is kronos, or saturn, and the prototype of the israelitish jehovah. as connected with argha, the moon or ark of salvation, noah is mythologically one with saturn. but then this cannot relate to the terrestrial flood (but see faber's "kabiri" vol. i, pp. 35, 43, and 45* see ibid, vol. ii, p. 240* sanchoniathon says that the titans were the sons of kronos, and seven in number; and he calls them fireworshippers, aletae (sons of agni, and diluvians. al-ait is the god of fire* of which seven, let us remark, the aryans, and not the semites, were the originators, while the jews got that number from the chaldeans* seven individual sons of god, or pitars and pitris; also in this case the sons of kronos or saturn (kala "time)

d seven in number; and he calls them fireworshippers, aletae (sons of agni, and diluvians. al-ait is the god of fire* of which seven, let us remark, the aryans, and not the semites, were the originators, while the jews got that number from the chaldeans* seven individual sons of god, or pitars and pitris; also in this case the sons of kronos or saturn (kala "time) and arkites, like the kabiri and titans, as their name "lunar ancestors- shows, the moon being the ark, or argha, on the watery abyss of space* see "kabiri" vol. i, p. 131[[vol. 2, page] 143 the arkite symbols. japhet is on the list of the titans contained in a verse of the orphic hymns. according to orpheus the names of the seven "arkite" titans (whom faber refuses to identify with the impious titans, their descendants) were koe

hom faber refuses to identify with the impious titans, their descendants) were koeus, kroeus, phorcys, kronos, oceanus, hyperion, and iapetus[[koion te, kroion te melan, phorkun te krataion, kai kronon, okeanon d 'huperioa te iapeponet (orph. apud proclum. in tim. lib. v. p. 295. but why could not the babylonian ezra have adopted the name of iapetos for one of noah's sons? the kabiri, who are the titans, are also called manes and their mother mania, according to arnobius (adversum gentes, lib. iii, p. 124) the hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the manes mean their manus, and that mania is the female manu (see ramayana) mania is ila or ida, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata manu, from whom "he begat the race of manus" like rhea, the mother of the titans, she is the eart

ed by the greeks and latins and disfigured by them. thus it is no accident, but the result of one archaic doctrine common to all, of which the israelites, through ezra, the author of the modernised mosaic books, were the latest adapters. so unceremonious were they with other people's property, that berosus (antiquitates libyae, i, fol. 8, shows that titea- of whom diodorus makes the mother of the titans or diluvians (see bibl. lib. iii. p. 170- was the wife of noah. for this faber calls him the "pseudo-berosus" yet accepts the information in order to register one proof more that the pagans have borrowed all their gods from the jews, by transforming patriarchal material. according to our humble opinion, this is one of the best proofs possible of exactly the reverse. it shows as clearly as f

earth; and this[[footnote(s* aretia is the female form of artes (egyptian mars. thence the chaldean (and now hebrew) word[[hebrew (aretz "earth" the author of "beitrage zur kenntniss (art. under "artes" mars) quotes "addit cedrenus (salem i, 3: stella martis ab[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 144 the secret doctrine. identifies "titea" noah's consort, with rhea, the mother of the titans, and with ida- both being goddesses who preside over the earth, and the mothers of the manus and manes (or tit-an-kabiri. and "titea-aretia" was worshipped as horchia, says the same berosus, and this is a title of vesta, goddess of the earth "sicanus deificavit aretiam, et nominavit eam lingua janigena horchiam (ibid. lib. v. fol. 64) scarce an ancient poet of historic or prehistoric days w

ing more than a single thoroughly homogeneous particle of albumen in a firmly adhesive condition("journal of microscopical science" jan, 1869, p. 28[[vol. 2, page] 154 the secret doctrine. regions, and the universally common lizard- how can man alone escape the general law "there were giants on earth in those days" says genesis, repeating the statement of all the other eastern scriptures; and the titans are founded on anthropological and physiological fact. and, as the hard-shelled crustacean was once upon a time a jelly-speck "a thoroughly homogeneous particle of albumen in a firmly adhesive condition" so was the outward covering of primitive man, his early "coat of skin" plus an immortal spiritual monad, and a psychic temporary form and body within that shell. the modern, hard, muscular

still devoid of an individual ego, and having merely the passive capacities. brahma, therefore, commands him to create (in the exoteric texts; when, obeying the command, he made "inferior and superior (avara and vara) progeny (putra, bipeds and quadrupeds; and by his will, gave birth to females. to the gods, the daityas (giants of the fourth race, the snake-gods, animals, cattle and the danavas (titans and demon magicians) and other beings "from that period forward, living creatures were engendered by sexual intercourse. before the time of daksha, they were variously propagated- by the will, by sight, by touch, and by yoga-power* and now comes the simply zoological teaching- 29. animals with bones, dragons of the deep and flying sarpas (serpents) were added to the creeping things. they th

of genesis is found explained by the "sons of wisdom (or angels from higher spheres, though all and each pertain to the kingdom of satan, or matter) revealing to men the mysteries of heaven. hence, also, all the so-called myths of the hindu, grecian, chaldean, and jewish pantheons are found to be built on fact and truth. the giants of genesis are the historical atlanteans of lanka, and the greek titans. who can forget that troy was once upon a time proclaimed a myth, and homer a non-existing personage, while the existence of such cities as herculaneum and pompeii was denied, and attributed to mere fairy legends? yet schliemann proved that troy had really existed, and the two cities, though buried for long ages under the vesuvian lava, have had their resurrection day, and live again on the

al chronology, labours to prove that the atlanteans were a very ancient northern nation, long prior to the hindoos, the phoenicians, and the egyptians("a dissertation on the kabiri" p. 284) in this faber is in agreement with bailly, who shows himself more learned and intuitional than those who accept biblical chronology. nor is the latter wrong when saying that the atlanteans were the same as the titans and the giants (see "lettres sur l'atlantide) faber adopts the more willingly the opinion of his french confrere, as bailly mentions cosmas indico-pleustes, who preserved an ancient tradition about noah- that he "formerly inhabited the island atlantis (ibid. this island, whether it was the "poseidonis" mentioned in "esoteric buddhism" or the continent of atlantis, does not much matter. the

enalty; for it is those powers which cause the pitris to evolve primordial men from themselves- as, later on, these men evolve their progeny- without any sense or desire for procreation. the work of generation, suspended during a moment, passes into the hands of kronos* time, who unites himself with rhea (the earth in esotericism- matter in general, and thus produces, after celestial- terrestrial titans. the whole of this symbolism relates to the mysteries of evolution. this allegory is the exoteric version of the esoteric doctrine given in this part of our work. for in kronos we see the same story repeated again. as uranos destroyed his children from gaia (one, in the world of manifestation, with aditi or the great cosmic deep) by confining them in the bosom of the earth, tythea, so krono

decharme, who quotes him, are as right in saying that in the vedas kronan is a creative god, we have our doubts. breal probably meant karma, or rather visva-karma, the creative god, the "omnificent" and the "great architect of the world* the titanic struggle, in theogony at least, is the fight for supremacy between the children of uranos and gaia (or heaven and earth in their abstract sense, the titans, against the children of kronos, whose chief is zeus. it is the everlasting struggle going on to this day between the spiritual inner man and the man of flesh, in one sense* just as the "lord god" or jehovah, is cain esoterically, and the "tempting serpent" as well, the male portion of the androgynous eve, before her "fall" the female portion of adam kadmon; the left side or binah of the ri

the firstlings of his flock" to the lord. cain is the symbol of the first male, abel of the first female humanity, adam and eve being the types of the third race (see "the mystery of cain and abel) the "murdering" is blood-shedding, but not taking life[[vol. 2, page] 274 the secret doctrine. days (gen. vi; who become with the fifth race the kabirim: kabiri with the egyptians and the phoenicians, titans with the greeks, and rakshasas and daityas with the indian races. such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later hebrews for their tribal god. at the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. the lemurians gravitated toward the north pole

y to step ad libitum from one worn-out body into another (b) the first war that earth knew, the first human gore shed, was the result of man's eyes and senses being opened; which made him see that the daughters of his brethren were fairer than his own, and their wives also. there were rapes committed before that of the sabines, and menelauses robbed of their helens before the fifth race was born. titans or giants were the stronger; their adversaries, the wiser. this took place during the fourth race- that of the giants. for "there were giants" in the days of old, indeed* and the evolutionary series of the animal world is a warrant that the same thing took place within the human races. lower still in the order of creation we find witnesses for the same in the flora going pari passu with the

rejudice would carry science so far as to class all these men as either fools or liars? pliny speaks of a giant in whom he thought he recognised orion, the son of ephialtes (nat. hist, vol. vii, ch. xvi. plutarch declares that sertorius saw the tomb of antaeus, the giant; and pausanias vouches for the actual existence of the tombs of asterius and of geryon, or hillus, son of hercules- all giants, titans and mighty men. finally the abbe pegues (cited in de mirville's pneumatologie) affirms in his curious work on "the volcanoes of greece" that "in the neighbourhood of the volcanoes of the isle of thera, giants with enormous skulls were found laid out under colossal stones, the erection of which must have necessi[[footnote(s* there are critics who, finding no evidence about the existence of t

ncestor. thus the wisdom of the compilers of the old stanzas is vindicated by at least one eminent man of science, and the occultist prefers to believe as he ever did that "man was the first and highest (mammalian) animal that appeared in this (fourth round) creation. then came still huger animals; and last of all the dumb man who walks on all fours" for "the rakshasas (giant-demons) and daityas (titans) of the "white dwipa (continent) spoiled his (the dumb man's) sires (commentary) furthermore, as we see, there are anthropologists who have traced man back to an epoch which goes far to break down the apparent barrier that exists between the chronologies of modern science and the archaic doctrine. it is true that english scientists generally have declined to commit themselves to the sanctio

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entacle with a dot in the centre thus[[diagram, and some other variations, the kabalistic circle of the elohim reveals, when the letters of the word[[hebrew (alhim or elohim) are numerically read, the famous numerals 13514, or by anagram 31415- the astronomical (pi) number, or the hidden meaning of dhyani-buddhas, of the gebers, the geborim, the kabeiri, and the elohim, all signifying "great men "titans "heavenly men" and, on earth "the giants" the seven was a sacred number with every nation; but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the hebrews. with these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the male causative one, forming as shown by the kabalists the[[hebrew with numbers above] or otz "the tree of the garden of eden* the "double hermaphrodite rod"

isis unveiled" at the words "evolution "darwin "kapila "battle of life" etc. etc) but the idea was not ours, it is that of antiquity. even the puranic writers have ingeniously interwoven allegory with cosmic facts and human events. any symbologist may discern the astro-cosmical allusion even though he be unable to grasp the whole meaning. the great "wars in heaven" in the puranas; the wars of the titans, in hesiod and other classical writers; the "struggles" also in the egyptian legend between osiris and typhon, and even those in the scandinavian legends, all refer to the same subject. northern mythology refers to it as the battle of the flames, the sons of muspel who fought on the field of wigred. all these relate to heaven and earth, and have a double and often even a triple meaning, and

"hermetic fragments" just mentioned, by our late lamented friend, dr. anna kingsford. disfigured and tortured as these have been in their passage through sectarian greek and christian hands, the translator has most ably and intuitionally seized the weak points and tried to remedy them by means of explanations and foot-notes. and she says. the creation of the visible world by the 'working gods' or titans, as agents of the supreme god* is a thoroughly hermetic idea, recognisable in all religious systems, and in accordance with modern scientific research, which shows us everywhere the divine power operating through natural forces "that universal being, that contains all, and which is all, put into motion the soul and the world, all that nature comprises, says hermes. in the manifold unity of

, daityas, pisachas, and the rakshasas- are represented as extremely pious, following the precepts of the vedas, some of them even being great yogis. but they oppose the clergy and ritualism, sacrifices and forms- just what the full-blown yogins do to this day in india- and are no less respected for it, though they are allowed to follow neither caste nor ritual; hence all those puranic giants and titans are called devils. the missionaries, ever on the watch to show, if they can, the hindu traditions no better than a reflection of the jewish bible, have evolved a whole romance on the alleged identity of pulastya with cain, and of the rakshasas with the cainites "the accursed" the cause of the noachian deluge (see the work of abbe gorresio, who "etymologises" pulastya's name as meaning the "

ections in book ii, part ii. of this work. the present subject is touched upon and fresh explanations attempted for a very good reason. before we can approach the evolution of physical and divine man, we have first to master the idea of cyclic evolution, to acquaint ourselves with the philosophies and beliefs of the four races which preceded our present race, to learn what were the ideas of those titans and giants- giants, verily, mentally as well as physically. the whole of antiquity was imbued with that philosophy which teaches the involution of spirit into matter, the progressive, downward cyclic descent, or active, self-conscious evolution. the alexandrian gnostics have sufficiently divulged the secret of initiations, and their records are full of "the sliding down of aeons" in their d

g satanic pride, followed by their fall, jehovah permitting no worship to be lost save upon himself" in short, the beautiful planet-angels, the glorious cyclic aeons of the ancients, became henceforward synthesized in their most orthodox shape in samael, the chief of the demons in the talmud "that great serpent with twelve wings that draws down after himself, in his fall, the solar system, or the titans" but schemal, the alter ego and the sabean type of samael, meant, in his philosophical and esoteric aspect, the "year" in its astrological evil aspect, its twelve months or wings of unavoidable evils, in nature; and in esoteric theogony (see chwolson in nabathean agriculture, vol. ii, p. 217, both schemal and samael represented a particular divinity. with the kabalists they are "the spirit

symbolical form of saturn, chronos, the twelve wings standing for the 12 months, and the symbol in its collectivity representing a racial cycle. jehovah and saturn are also glyphically identical. this leads in its turn to a very curious deduction from a roman catholic dogma. many renowned writers belonging to the latin church admit that a difference exists, and should be made, between the uranian titans, the antediluvian giants (also titans, and those post-diluvian giants in whom they (the roman catholics) will see the descendants of the mythical ham. in clearer words, there is a difference to be made between the cosmic, primordial opposing forces- guided by cyclic law- the atlantean human giants, and the post-diluvian great adepts, whether[[vol. 1, page] 418 the secret doctrine. of the ri

period. chronos cuts down with his scythe even the longest and (to us) seemingly endless cycles, yet, for all that, limited in eternity, and puts down with the same scythe the mightiest rebels. aye, not one will escape the scythe of time! praise the god or gods, or flout, one or both, and that scythe will not be made to tremble one millionth of a second in its ascending or descending course. the titans of hesiod's theogony were copied in greece from the suras and asuras of india. these hesiodic titans, the uranides, numbered once upon a time as only six, have been recently discovered to be seven- the seventh being called phoreg- in an old fragment relating to the greek myth. thus their identity with the seven rectors is fully demonstrated. the origin of the "war in heaven" and the fall ha

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it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more."11 there were, and are, physical reptilians and other entities also within the earth, as i outlined earlier, and this biblical passage could relate to the references in the emerald tablets to the reptilians being "driven below to the place whence they came..and."out of the great deep were they called. it is said of the nefilim and the giant titans under their different names that they were banished into the earth and out of the sunlight. one mind-controlled survivor says he learned that the reptilians were the first to colonise the earth and that is why they consider it theirs. credo mutwa, from the african accounts, says precisely the same and i have heard this from many other sources. they suggest, along with other researchers, tha

"shakespeare" was lord draconis the works of shakespeare are part of this story, also. the texts are awash with esoteric and illuminati symbolism and codes. for instance, the "queen of the fairies (reptilian bloodline) in "shakespeare's" a midsummer night's dream, is another version of the universal goddess called titania. she was known in legend as the great goddess who ruled the "god-race, the titans. given the illuminati's staggering obsession with symbolism, i feel there was far more to the sinking of the titanic (titania) than ever we have yet realised. these goddesses are fundamentally associated with the sea and the underworld- the victims of the titanic tragedy in 1912 went to both. i don't buy the "hit an iceberg" line myself. in southern russia, titania (known there as rhea) was

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that he ruled the region that is now lebanon and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others inthe land of shinar (sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to build cities likenineveh where many of the sumerian tablets were found. nimrod and semiramis (orthe beings those names symbolised) were from the reptile bloodlines which also becameknown as titans, the genetic streams of the reptile-possessed humans and the full blood51reptilians. this race of giants or titans was said to have been descendants of noah,the baby described in the book of enoch (previously the book of noah) as being awatcher-human hybrid with extremely white skin. the father of nimrod in the text ofgenesis was cush, also known as bel or belus, who was the grandson of noa

osed to have survived. i think that pierre plantard, however,has misled the authors of holy blood, holy grail in many ways, and the idea that themerovingian bloodlines are the bloodline of jesus is without foundation. this isnothing to do with jesus. the reason you find so many references to arcadia in relationto rennes-le-chateau is because arcadia in sparta was the legendary home of zeus andthe titans- the reptilian bloodlines of troy. that is the origin of these bloodlines, notjesus, who did not even exist. pierre plantard, who knows the truth, but doesnt wantyou to know, was born in 1920 and, with the approval of the german oppressors, heedited a magazine in nazi-occupied france in 1942 called conquest for a youngknighthood.17 it was the journal of a paris based masonic-chivalric socie

behemoth. molech (moloch) seems to be one particularlyassociated with eating babies, and one called choronzon. these do seem to beparticularly involved with sacrificing babies.10choronzon relates to chronos, the greek version of nimrod. according to greeklegend, chronos swallowed his children as fast as they were born because he feared theywould overthrow him. chronos was the most powerful of the titans, the greek name forthe giants who resulted from the interbreeding of the reptilians with the human,daughters of men. greek myth symbolically referred to them as children of the unionbetween heaven (extraterrestrials) and earth (humans. chronos was the father of zeuswho survived because his mother hid him from her child-killing husband. zeus laterwaged a victorious war against his father and

the greek name forthe giants who resulted from the interbreeding of the reptilians with the human,daughters of men. greek myth symbolically referred to them as children of the unionbetween heaven (extraterrestrials) and earth (humans. chronos was the father of zeuswho survived because his mother hid him from her child-killing husband. zeus laterwaged a victorious war against his father and other titans and then ruled as the king ofgods over a dynasty awash with child sacrifice. as you connect the different peoplesacross the generations, so you find the same themes of human sacrifice. the cannanite-hebrews were seriously into the sacrifice of humans and animals, much as their spindoctors have tried to deny it over the years. the satanists among the jewish hierarchytoday still perform the s

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nting and fishing. from these descended two brothers, one of whom was chrysor (or hephaestus, skilled in words, charms, and divinations; he also invented boats and was the first to sail. his brother first built walls with bricks, and their descendants in the second generation seem to have completed the invention of houses by the addition of courts, porticos, and crypts. they are called aletae and titans, and in their time began animal husbandry and hunting with dogs. from the titans descended amynus, a builder, and magus, who taught men to construct villages and tend flocks, and of these two were begotten misor (perhaps mizraim, whose name signifies well-freed, and sydic, whose name denotes the just; these discovered the use of salt. from misor descended taautus (thoth, athothis, or hermes

onathan cape, 1975. gagates ancient term for jet (a velvet-black coal often used for jewelry, believed to be a black species of electrum or amber. the name derives from the area of gagas, in lycia, where the substance was found in classical times. various occult properties are ascribed to it. gaia pre-olympian greek earth goddess, worshiped as mother of all. she mated with her son uranus and bore titans, the cyclops, and hectoncheires. worship of gaia continued after the rise of the olympians, and she was regarded as a powerful influence in marriage, healing the sick, and divination. she was represented as a gigantic female form. earlier cultures also had religious concepts of a great earth goddess. the concept of gaia as earth goddess has been revived in new age ecological and mystical be

r. ufo missionaries extraordinary. new york: pocket books, 1976. rev. ed. as: inside heaven s gate; the ufo cult leaders tell their story in their own words. new york signet, 1997. wessinger, catherine. how the millennium comes violently. new york: seven bridges press, 2000. hecate a greek goddess, daughter of zeus and demeter, but of uncertain origin. she appears to have been one of the original titans, who ruled the heavens, earth, and sea and could bestow gifts on mortals as they pleased. later she was confused with other goddesses until she became known as a mystic goddess having all the magic powers of nature at her command. magicians and witches sought her aid, and sacrifices of dogs, honey, and female black lambs were offered to her where three ways met, at crossroads, or in graveya

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ottish working classes. the scottish verb, to girn (to pull grotesque faces or grin, may find its origin in the name of a medieval fiend, the last shadow of some teutonic or celtic deity of unlovable attributes. in sym skynar, we may have skyrnir, a norse giant in whose glove thor found shelter from an earthquake, and who sadly fooled him and his companions. skyrnir was one of the jotunn or norse titans, and probably one of the powers of winter, and he may have received the popular surname of sym in the same manner as we speak of jack frost. a great deal has still to be done in unearthing the minor figures of scottish mythology and demonology, and even the greater ones have not received the attention due to them. for example, in newhaven, a fishing district near edinburgh, we find the beli

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intimated as much, even as he less plausibly claimed to have lived in the caves with the embattled teros( integrative robots; again, like their enemies the deros, beings of flesh and blood. how long he supposedly lived there is also unclear. in any event, out of these elements came a complex, alternate history of the human race. long ago, according to shaver, extraterrestrials known as atlans and titans or the elder races colonized the earth (the atlans lived on atlantis, the titans on lemuria) these beings, who possessed fantastic technologies, lived extraordinarily long lives and never stopped growing, owing to the integrative (positive) energies cast out by the sun. some grew to fifty feet, a few considerably more. eventually, however, the sun changed and began to beam detrimental (nega

lives and never stopped growing, owing to the integrative (positive) energies cast out by the sun. some grew to fifty feet, a few considerably more. eventually, however, the sun changed and began to beam detrimental (negative) energy, causing, among other effects, aging and mortality. to block the deadly rays, the elders built an immense cavern world to house the earth s fifty billion atlans and titans. but the effort ultimately failed, and twelve thousand years ago the elders who survived fled to other stars, leaving behind a small population, which had fallen victim to the detrimental radiation. some wandered to the surface and in time forgot their history as they became the mortal and confused homo sapiens. the others stayed in the caves to become the sadistic, cannibalistic idiots cal

terrestrialism theories of yonah fortner (who wrote under the pseudonym y. n. ibn aharon, visitors from other worlds landed on earth and interacted with its most advanced ancient civilizations, notably those of the chaldeans and the atlanteans. the chaldeans, who possessed an advanced technology, were especially close to aliens, even intermarrying with one group, the elohim. another group was the titans, who helped the chaldeans vanquish the malevolent alien race known as the serpent people. eventually, warfare among alien races broke out on the earth s surface. in the midst of this conflict, one alien showed up around 1340 b.c. shaday elili athunu, otherwise known as y hova, befriended a local malcontent named abraham, whom he promised to protect if he, his family, and his people followed

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re in their places. seismos i, only, wrought this little matter as men will finally declare; but for my batter and my clatter how would this world be now so fair? how would your mountains stand above there in clear and splendid ether-blue, if them i had not worked to shove there? a picturesque, entrancing view! whenas (the primal sires surveying, chaos and night) i saw my honour lost, i, with the titans joined in playing, hurled ossa, pelion too, as balls are tossed. thus we raged on in youthful passion till vexed and weary at the last both mountains we, in wanton fashion, like twin peaks on parnassus cast. apollo gladly lingers yonder there in the muses blest retreat. for jove himself and for his bolts of thunder i heaved on high his lofty seat. thus i, by strainings superhuman, pushed fr

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onysiac legend was as follows:thetitans, children of uranus andge,255heaven and earth- having by the stratagem of juno, enticed dionysos to a variety of sports, at last captivated his attention by means of a mirror. they then tore him to pieces, boiled and roasted his limbs, and began to feed upon them. zeus, noticing the scent, and being incensed at the cruel deed, hurled his thunderbolts at the titans, who had killed his son, born of semele, and sent another son, apollo, the sun-god, to collect and inter the remains.theheart of dionysos had, however, been saved by pallas (minerva, and from it the god was re-born and restored to olympos. from the burnt remains of the titans all mankind was produced byzeusas the demiurgos, the fashioner of this earthworld.thedionysia, at their origin, were

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ction occurs in ginnungagap (1st c, an empty abyss, where the fire of muspellsheim mets of the icy rivers of niflheim and from this dynamic the giant ymir is born. odin and his brother, born from giants, carve up the body of ymir to create midgard. ymirs bones become the moutains, his teeth the rocks, his blood the rivers, his skull the vault of the sky, his hair the forests and grasses. like the titans, ymir's death creates mankind. hence midgard is a checkerboard on which fire and ice battle against each other until the game is completed. from the interaction of fire and ice within the great gap, the planes or worlds are formed. this model when examined critically (we will return to it in the next lesson) has a lot in common with the kabbalah and theosophical plane models. together they

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lated. votan, for example, was often referred to as the grandson of quetzalcoatl. itzamana and kukulkan were sometimes confused by the indians who transmitted their legends to spanish chroniclers shortly after the conquest. see fair gods and stone faces, p. 100. 12 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 347. 13 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 439. 14 james bailey, the god-kings and the titans, hodder and stoughton, london, 1972, p. 206. 15 fair gods and stone faces, pp. 37-8. 16 according to the sixteenth century chronicler bernardino de sahagun: quetzalcoatl was a great civilizing agent who entered mexico at the head of a band of strangers. he imported the arts into the country and especially fostered agriculture. in his time maize was so large in the head that a man might not

events, now known as tula, was not believed to be particularly old not much more than 1000 years anyway but the legends surrounding it linked it to an infinitely more distant epoch. in those times, outside history, it had been known as tollan. all the traditions agreed that it had been at tollan that tezcatilpoca had vanquished quetzalcoatl and forced him to quit mexico. 17 the god-kings and the titans, p. 57. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 111 tula fire serpents tula, hidalgo province i was sitting on the flat square summit of the unimaginatively named pyramid b. the late-afternoon sun was beating down out of a clear blue sky, and i was facing south, looking around. at the base of the pyramid, to the north and east, were murals depicting jaguars and eagles feasting on human hear

civilization capable of building a pyramid could have existed in mexico at such an early date. it is worth noting, however, that byron cummings, the american archaeologist who originally excavated the site for the national geographical society, was convinced by clearly demarcated stratification 19 genesis 11:1-9. 20 reported in maps of the ancient sea kings, p. 199. see also the god-kings and the titans, p. 54, and mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 207. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 120 layers above and below the pyramid (laid down both before and after the volcanic eruption) that it was the oldest temple yet uncovered on the american continent. he went further than the geologists and stated categorically that this temple fell into ruins some 8500 years ago .21 pyramids upon

ers and herbs; from her eyes, wells and springs; from her shoulders, 25 stephanie dalley, myths from mesopotamia, oxford university press, 1990, p. 326; jeremy black and anthony green, gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, british museum press, 1992, pp. 163-4. 26 gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, p. 41. 27 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 169; the god-kings and the titans, p. 234. 28 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 53-4. 29 ibid, p. 54. 30 ibid. see also gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, p. 177. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 148 mountains .31 are the peculiar parallels between the sumerian and mexican myths pure coincidence or could both have been marked by the cultural fingerprints of a lost civilization? if so, the fac

d, shows the same characteristics of melancholy and high intellect. he, too, is a son dedicated to avenge his father, a speaker of cryptic but inescapable truths, an elusive carrier of fate who must yield once his mission is accomplished. 11 in the crude and vivid imagery of the norse, amlodhi was identified 8 yucatan before and after the conquest, p. 82. 9 see, for example, the god-kings and the titans, p. 64. it may also be relevant that other versions of the bacabs myth tell us that their slightest movement produces an earth tremor or even an earthquake (maya history and religion, p. 346. 10 hamlet s mill, p. 2. 11 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 244 with the ownership of a fabled mill, or quern, which, in its time, ground out gold and peace and plenty. in many of the trad

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great potential of shaver s intense and striking imagery the stuff that makes true mythology. the shaverian mythos had it that our sun developed a form of detrimental radiation which horrified the elder races, as this type of radiation is the source of mutation, aging and death in this otherwise ageless and deathless race. abandoning the earth to mutants long ago, these beings, called atlans and titans and remembered now only as legends, rejoined the nortans, a race of beings who live only in deep space, avoiding nearness to all stars that have, like our own, a tendency to turn malignant. the surface of the earth was left to our comparatively short-lived species, existing in abject ignorance of our origins, while the highly mechanized interior caverns of the earth were inhabited by tero a

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rliest giants have sense and judgment ascribed to them (see suppl. on one side we see giants forming a close tie of brotherhood or servile dependence with human heroes, on the other side shading off into the type of schrats and woodsprites. there is a number of ancient terms corresponding in sense to our present word riese (giant. 2 1 not a trace of the finer features of gods is to be seen in the titans. mullet s proleg. 373. 2 some are mere circumlocutions (a counterpart to those quoted on p 450) der groze man, er. 5330. der michel man, er. 5475. der michel knabe, iw. 5056. 518 ezan, eoten. 519 the oldest and most comprehensive term in norse is idtunn, pi. iotnar (not jotunn, jotnar; it is backed up by an as. eaten, pi. eotenas, beow. 223 (eotena cyn, 836. eotonisc, 5953, or eten, lye sub

visits are paid on both sides. it is in this connexion that they sometimes leave on us the impression of older nature-gods, who had to give way to a younger and superior race; it is only natural therefore, that in certain giants, like ecke and fasolt, we should recognise a pre cipitate of deity. at other times a rebellious spirit breaks forth, they make war upon the gods, like the heaven- scaling titans, and the gods hurl them down like devils into hell. yet there are some gods married to giantesses: niorsr to skasi the daughter of thiassi, th6rr to larnsaxa, freyr to the beautiful ger3r, daughter of gymir. gunnlos a giantess is osin s be loved. the asin gefiun bears sons to a giant; borr weds the giant botyorn s daughter bestla. loki, who lives among the ases, is son to a giant farbauti

before us, giant and devil are convertible terms, especially where the former has laid aside his clumsiness. the same with a number of other resemblances between the two. the devil is described as many-headed like the giant, also, it is true, like the dragon and the hellhound. wherever the devil s hand clutches or his foot treads, indelible traces imprint themselves even on the hardest stone. the titans chased from olympus resemble the angels thrust out of heaven and changed into devils. the abode of the giants, like that of heathens and devils in general (p. 34, is supposed to be in the north: when freyr looks from heaven toward lotunheim (saem. 81) and spies the fair giantess, this is expressed in snorri 39 by( freyr leit i nor&rcett. in the danish folk-song of the stolen hammer, thorr a

rself brought forth uranus (sky) and seas and mountains, then other children by uranus, the last of them kronus the father of zeus and ancestor of all the gods. as the edda has a buri and borr before 03inn, so do uranus and kronus here come before zeus; with zeus and 03inn begins the race of gods proper, and poseidon and hades complete the fra ternal trio, like vili and ye. the enmity of gods and titans is therefore that of ases and giants; at the same time, there is just as much resemblance in the expulsion of the titans from heaven (theog. 813) to the fall of the rebel angels into the bottomless pit; so that to the giant element in the titans we may add a daemonic. when the works and days makes the well-known* five races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been

en, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in the mosaic account adam lives long before noah, and the flood is not followed by a new creation. the seven rishis in the ship, as bopp remarks, are of divine rather than human nature, sons of brahma, and of an older birth than the inferior gods created by manus or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so that in our german mannus (whence manna and manniskja, homo) we recognise precisely borr and his creator sons (p. 349. askr and embla are simply a reproduction of the same idea of creation, and on a par with deucalion and pyrrha, or adam and eve. i must not pass over t

t. erdpipa, erdbibunga, erdgiruornessi. reinardus 1, 780 puts in juxtaposition: fnec tremor est terrae, judiciive dies; and servian songs( ili grmi, il se zemlia trese? does it thunder, or does the earth shake (vuk 2, 1. 105. but the earth s quaking, like the deluge, is oftener represented as a past event, and is ascribed to various causes. the greek fable accounts for it by imprisoned cyclops or titans (ov. met. 12, 521; the norse by the struggles of chained loki when drops of poison fall upon his face (saem. 69. sn. 70, or by fafnir s journey to the water (fornald. sog. 1, 159. 160. the earth also quakes at the death of certain heroes, as heimir (for nald. sog. 1, 232, and of the giant (vilk. saga cap. 176. at roland s death there is lightning, thunder and earthquake, rol. 240, 22. to th

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l. he had concealed himself in the forests of the yogis. now, these forests had been inhabited by holy hermits, and devarata knew that there be would beunassailable and impregnable. he might be seen there, but no one could do him violence- not even the godvaruna himself. it was a simple solution. the religious austerities of the aranyakas (the holy men of theforests) several of whom were daityas (titans, a race of giants and demons, gave them such dominance thatall the gods trembled before their sway and their supernatural powers- even varuna, himself. these antediluvian yogis, it seems, had the power to destroy even the god himself, at will- possiblybecause they had invented him themselves. nightmare talesthe blue lotus22 devarata spent several years in the forests; at last he grew tired

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d. and he got an a, so there! and so, back to the cthulhu mythos. lovecraft himself was of the opinion that fear, particularly fear of the unknown, was the strongest emotion attached to the great old ones. the reason why i like to work with that mythos occasionally is that the great old ones are outside most human mythologies, reflecting the shadows of the giants in norse myths, the pre- olympian titans in greek myths, and other groups of universebuilders who are thought to be too chaotic for the polite company of the gods of the ordered universe. for me too, the nature of the great old ones as shadowy beings who can only be partially glimpsed is attractive- they can t be assimilated and bound into any orthodox systems of magick and i get much fun from working out suitable approaches for w

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h only ancient skies have looked on before, and at night on helicon the shepherds hear strange murmurings and half-remembered notes. woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons. the gods are patient, and have slept long, but neither man nor giant shall defy the gods forever. in tartarus the titans writhe and beneath the fiery aetna groan the children of uranus and gaea. the day now dawns when man must answer for centuries of denial, but in sleeping the gods have grown kind and will not hurl him to the gulf made for deniers of gods. instead will their vengeance smite the darkness, fallacy and ugliness which have turned the mind of man; and under the sway of bearded saturnus shall mort

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rvations (deep within their deep souls) upon the nature of themselves, and of the microcosm of a world in which they found themselves, had the magi transcended. they had arrived at a new world in their speculations and 80 the rosicrucians. deductions upon facts, upon all the things behind which (to men) make these facts. already, in their determined climbing into the heights of thought, had these titans of mind achieved, past the cosmical, through the shadowy borders of real and unreal, into magic. for, is magic wholly false? passing through these mind-worlds, and coming out, as we may figure it, at the other side, penetrating into the secrets of things, they evaporated all powers, and resolved them finally into the last fire. beyond this, they found nothing; as into this they resolved all

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cult knowledge given him by ariadne (who represents intuition, the higher self is enabled to slay the lower and escape safely from the web of illusion; yet there still remains for him the danger that, developing intellectual pride, he may neglect intuition, even as theseus neglected ariadne, and so failed for the time to reach his highest possibilities. the legend of the slaying of bacchus by the titans, the tearing of his body into fragments and his resurrection from the dead, was also taught, with the same interpretation as that given to the legend of osiris in the mysteries of egypt- the descent of the one to become the many, and the reunion of the many in the one through suffering and sacrifice. 375. the magic of the greater mysteries 376. in the eleusinian mysteries the initiates were

e were also highly-magnetized and richly jewelled statues, which had been handed down from a remote past, and were the physical basis of certain great forces invoked in the mysteries; and a lyre, reputed to be the lyre of orpheus, on which certain melodies were played and to which the sacred chants were sung. there were also the toys of bacchus, with which he was playing when he was seized by the titans and torn to pieces- very remarkable toys, full of significance. the dice with which he plays are the five platonic solids, the only regular polygons possible in geometry. they are given in a fixed series, and this series agrees with the different planes of the solar system. each of them indicates, not the form of the atoms of the different planes, but the lines along which the power works w

hat of the mysteries of dionysus (or as the romans called him, bacchus, which approached more closely to the egyptian scheme of initiation than the eleusinian rites. they were celebrated throughout greece and asia minor, but principally at athens; they were carried to rome, and afterwards formed a link in the chain of masonic descent. their central legend deals with the slaying of dionysus by the titans and his subsequent resurrection. 405. the mysteries commenced with the consecration of an egg, symbolizing the mundane egg from which all things came. the candidate was crowned with myrtle, clothed in the sacred robes, exhorted to have courage, and then led through dark caverns amid the howling of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparition

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well, 1997. rigaud,milo. secrets of voodoo. 1953. san francisco, ca: city lights books, 1985. hades in the contemporary period hades has become interchangeable with hell. however, the name originally referred to the greek god of the underworld and king of the dead. later hades became, by extension, the name of the land of the dead itself. hades was the son of rhea and chronos. after defeating the titans (the older gods, hades and his brothers, zeus and poseidon, divided the world among themselves. poseidon received the seas, zeus the sky, and hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for greek classical religion was set in the homeric p

g unjust actions. the judges have only to examine the marks on the soul to determine the appropriate judgment. the wicked are set on the road to tartarus to be rehabilitated or eternally punished. the good are sent to the isles of the blessed, and are pictured as having lived philosophic lives. in homeric mythology, tartarus was a region underneath hades where rebellious deities, particularly the titans, were sent for punishment. in this dialogue, it has been transformed into a general place of punishment. in the afterlife myth in the phaedo, the judgment of the dead is supposed to take place at the acherusian lake. the incurable evil ones will spend an eternity of punishment in tartarus. the curable evil may spend only a year there. if those whom they mistreated in life agree to pardon th

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acred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge the processional of the bacchic rites. from ovid's metamorphosis. in the initiation, of the bacchic mysteries, the r le of bacchus is played by the candidate who, set upon by priests in the guise of the titans, is slain and finally restored to life amidst great rejoicing. the bacchic mysteries were given every three years, and like the eleusinian mysteries, were divided into two degrees. the initiates were crowned with myrtle and ivy, plants which were sacred to bacchus. in the anacalypsis, godfrey higgins conclusively establishes bacchus (dionysos) as one of the early pagan forms of the christos

place of bacchus, called sabazius or sabaoth, was claimed by several places in greece; but on mount zelmisus, in thrace, his worship seems to have been chiefly celebrated. he was born of a virgin on the 25th of december; he performed great miracles for the good of mankind; particularly one in which he changed water into wine; he rode in a triumphal procession on an ass; he was put to death by the titans, and rose again from the dead on the 25th of march: he was always called the saviour. in his mysteries, he was shown to the people, as an infant is by the christians at this day, on christmas day morning in rome" while apollo most generally represents the sun, bacchus is also a form of solar energy, for his resurrection was accomplished with the assistance of apollo. the resurrection of bac

apollo most generally represents the sun, bacchus is also a form of solar energy, for his resurrection was accomplished with the assistance of apollo. the resurrection of bacchus signifies merely the extraction or disentanglement of the various parts of the bacchic constitution from the titanic constitution of the world. this is symbolized by the smoke or soot rising from the burned bodies of the titans. the soul is symbolized by smoke because it is extracted by the fire of the mysteries. smoke signifies the ascension of the soul, far evolution is the process of the soul rising, like smoke, from the divinely consumed material mass. at me time the bacchic rites were of a high order, but later they became much degraded. the bacchanalia, or orgies of bacchus, are famous in literature. p. 32 p

spiritual truths he promulgated will continue and will be taught by the illumined initiates of all future ages. the swan is the symbol of the initiates of the mysteries; it is a symbol also of the divine power which is the progenitor of the world. the bacchic and dionysiac rites the bacchic rite centers around the allegory of the youthful bacchus (dionysos or zagreus) being torn to pieces by the titans. these giants accomplished the destruction of bacchus by causing him to become fascinated by his own image in a mirror. after dismembering him, the titans first boiled the pieces in water and afterwards roasted them. pallas rescued the heart of the murdered god, and by this precaution bacchus (dionysos) was enabled to spring forth again in all his former glory. jupiter, the demiurgus, behol

ccomplished the destruction of bacchus by causing him to become fascinated by his own image in a mirror. after dismembering him, the titans first boiled the pieces in water and afterwards roasted them. pallas rescued the heart of the murdered god, and by this precaution bacchus (dionysos) was enabled to spring forth again in all his former glory. jupiter, the demiurgus, beholding the crime of the titans, hurled his thunderbolts and slew them, burning their bodies to ashes with heavenly fire. our of the ashes of the titans--which also contained a portion of the flesh of bacchus, whose body they had partly devoured--the human race was created. thus the mundane life of every man was said to contain a portion of the bacchic life. for this reason the greek mysteries warned against suicide. he w

to contain a portion of the bacchic life. for this reason the greek mysteries warned against suicide. he who attempts to destroy himself raises his hand against the nature of bacchus within him, since man's body is indirectly the tomb of this god and consequently must be preserved with the greatest care. bacchus (dionysos) represents the rational soul of the inferior world. he is the chief of the titans--the artificers of the mundane spheres. the pythagoreans called him the titanic monad. thus bacchus is the all-inclusive idea of the titanic sphere and the titans--or gods of the fragments--the active agencies by means of which universal substance is fashioned into the pattern of this idea. the bacchic state signifies the unity of the rational soul in a state of self-knowledge, and the tita

pattern of this idea. the bacchic state signifies the unity of the rational soul in a state of self-knowledge, and the titanic state the diversity of the rational soul which, being scattered throughout creation, loses the consciousness of its own essential oneness. the mirror into which bacchus gazes and which is the cause of his fall is the great sea of illusion- the lower world fashioned by the titans. bacchus (the mundane rational soul, seeing his image before him, accepts the image as a likeness of himself and ensouls the likeness; that is, the rational idea ensouls its reflection--the irrational universe. by ensouling the irrational image it implants in it the urge to become like its source, the rational image. therefore the ancients said that man does not know the gods by logic or by

nsouling the irrational image it implants in it the urge to become like its source, the rational image. therefore the ancients said that man does not know the gods by logic or by reason but rather by realizing the presence of the gods within himself. after bacchus gazed into the mirror and followed his own reflection into matter, the rational soul of the world was broken up and distributed by the titans throughout the mundane sphere of which it is the essential nature, but the heart, or source, of it they could not: scatter. the titans took the dismembered body of bacchus and boiled it in water--symbol of immersion in the material universe--which represents the incorporation of the bacchic principle in form. the pieces were afterwards roasted to signify the subsequent ascension of the spir

could not: scatter. the titans took the dismembered body of bacchus and boiled it in water--symbol of immersion in the material universe--which represents the incorporation of the bacchic principle in form. the pieces were afterwards roasted to signify the subsequent ascension of the spiritual nature out of form. when jupiter, the father of bacchus and the demiurgus of the universe, saw that the titans were hopelessly involving the rational or divine idea by scattering its members through the constituent parts of the lower world, he slew the titans in order that the divine idea might not be entirely lost. from the ashes of the titans he formed mankind, whose purpose of existence was to preserve and eventually to release the bacchic idea, or rational soul, from the titanic fabrication. jup

which he presides. disintegration takes place so that reintegration may follow upon a higher level of form or intelligence. the thunderbolts of jupiter are emblematic of his disintegrative power; they reveal the purpose of death, which is to rescue the rational soul from the devouring power of the irrational nature. man is a composite creature, his lower nature consisting of the fragments of the titans and his higher nature the sacred, immortal flesh (life) of bacchus. therefore man is capable of either a titanic (irrational) or a bacchic (rational) existence. the titans of hesiod, who were twelve in number, are probably analogous to the celestial zodiac, whereas the titans who murdered and dismembered bacchus represent the zodiacal powers distorted by their involvement in the material wo

discovery of his mutilated body, the parts of which had been found and gathered after much labor; and the third--accompanied by great rejoicing and happiness--his resurrection and the consequent salvation of the world. the temple of the cabiri at samothrace contained a number of curious divinities, many of them misshapen creatures representing the elemental powers of nature, possibly the bacchic titans. children were initiated into the cabirian cult with the same dignity as adults, and criminals who reached the sanctuary were safe from pursuit. the samothracian rites were particularly concerned with navigation, the dioscuri--castor and pollux, or the gods of navigation--being among those propitiated by members of that cult. the argonautic expedition, listening to the advice of orpheus, st

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the giants away, how they suffered, and died, that race who hated the ruler of us all, and received judgement from his hands, surging waves that found them wherever they fled] beowulf, translated by burton raffel (mentor books u.s.a. 1963- we again find traces of this lore in the norse legend of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with the rebellious titans. it is a persistent theme. the zohar intimates, however, that though most of the giants yielded up their lives in the flood, many of their spirits partaking as they did of the angelic nature of their fathers, proved indestructible, and lived on, invisible yet powerful even in their disembodied state. on occasion, these shades are said to gain access to the world of men by reincarnating in h

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ether he can be regarded only as legendary or mythical; the point being not to teach a merely historical fact, but to enforce a spiritual principle. in egypt the prototype was osiris, who was slain by his malignant brother typhon, but whose mangled limbs were collected in a coffer from which he emerged reintegrated and divinized. in greece the prototype was bacchus, wh o was torn to pieces by the titans. baldur in scandinavia and mithra in greco-roman europe were similar prototypes. in masonry the prototype is hiram abiff, who met his death as the result of a conspiracy by a crowd of workmen of whom there were three principal ruffians. in the christian and chief of all systems, since it comprehends and re-expresses all the others, the greatest of the exemplars died at the hands of the mob

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maintain non-intervention as an inviolate edict. on the other hand, the bible and the book of enoch, in particular, relate that earth'ssovereignty was violated by one contingent of ancient visitors. these beings werenamed the nephilim (those who were cast down. there are many names that havecome down to us that were used to describe the visitors. some of these are: anakim,rephaim, djinn, giants, titans, fallen angels, the watchers, the els, the ari, elders,atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation3 from the end of heaven sons of zadok, sons of seth, the uranids, cyclopeans, promethians, olympians, theelect, asuras, the illies, fomorians, the necromancers, rayless ones, bent ones, thedogons, dagons, the ana, amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of

the formorian hybrids. he sub-sequently had his missing limb replaced with a silver arm. the astonishing accountof this limbs magical replacement clearly bespoke some form of advanced cyber-netics (see celtic myth and legend by charles squire.)the greeks and teutons, as so many others, also have records of hybrid beings thathad the countenance of either great beauty or ugliness (see clash of the titans, jasonand the argonauts, the odyssey, and the amazing v oyages of sinbad) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation43 the world falls dead the hindu srimad bhagavatam tells of a demon race which invaded the three plane-tary systems. opposing the demons was the god shiva, who, it is recorded, possessed apowerful weapon that he fired at the enemy airships from his own. in the ancie

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ahriman (angra mainyu. ahriman is an ancient persian god who, according to legend, is wholly wicked and at war with his righteous brother ahura mazda. this ahriman resides in a gloomy underworld, and leads many demons. and then you have hades, from greek mythology. hades is the ruler of the underworld, and the brother of zeus. after a conflict where hades, poseidon, and zeus team up to defeat the titans (the older gods, these younger gods divided creation into three; zeus would rule heaven, poseidon would rule the sea, and hades would rule the underworld, which was the land of the dead. although the greek traditions do not mention a conflict between the two brothers zeus and hades, satanists do. i suspect that this is just another god and his evil brother story. satanists also refer to sat

have been inverted; as though retold through the eyes of a modern day satanist. in greek mythology, zeus is the tyrant lord of mount olympus, who is promiscuous, jealous, and a rapist. whereas prometheus, who is azazel and lucifer, is the creator and champion of mankind, highly intelligent, and can easily deceive zeus. i can t believe it s not fiction: zeus and hades heracles (2001) clash of the titans (2010) hidden history [1.6] mythology isn t the only vector by which we can reconstruct history. evidence of a more temporal form exists for those whose tastes are more technical. this evidence involves the manner in which ancient civilizations rose and fell; it also involves what (how much) ancient man knew, and when he came to know it. ancient man, predictably, attributed their knowledge

lled the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defeated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war

and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war of the titans. although the greek mythology does not mention it, eventually a flaming rock was hurled to the earth from space, killing this race of terrible beasts, and casting their souls to tartarus. it is important to bare in mind that there were 2 wars, or en-masse desertions, in heaven. the first between the angels--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 77 and the spawn of tiamat, and the second heave

ace who were destroyed by a large falling rock, and this race we call the dinosaurs. perhaps these monsters of the past aren t the bumbling creatures we take them for, but an intelligent and powerful race that ruled and desecrated the earth. one of the best retellings of this story can be found in the literary works of h.p. lovecraft, who used the terms ancient ones and elder gods to refer to the titans and angels, respectively. a fact related in his novels, and echoed by a few in the occult, is that the ancient ones are chained in darkness, and that there is a certain celestial radiation arriving from space that is utterly toxic to these titans. there is a day coming, however, when the rays of the stars will no longer be toxic to the old ones, and this day will be marked by some kind of r

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

e battle. the mad god sits upon a black throne, where he rules the dead spirits of the outer void. the black man of the sabbat, baphomet is considered the messenger of azag-thoth and his will made fresh. when the stars assume the correct positions and the rays that come from them are no longer poisonous, azag--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 81 thoth will lead the old ones (the aforementioned titans) out of the abyss, and into the world of man; the old ones intend on ruling the earth as they once did. in this new age the human race will of coarse be reduced to slaves and food (we already are slaves and food, but in the future we ll know we re slaves and food. in egyptian mythology apep, called the chaos serpent, lurked in the tuat (also called duat, which was the egyptian underworld. t

haracter as a scapegoat for the evils that beset the heavens and the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 82 earth. perish the thought! this satan character has a name in every religion and mythology on the planet and, because of spiritual merging that i just spoke about, may be connected with multiple gods in the same tradition. satan is spoke of as he who was instrumental in the war against the titans, and once sat beside the throne of god, but desired it so much that he was cast out of heaven. satan is called shaitan and iblis by muslims, set and seker by the egyptians, samael by the hebrews, and ahriman by the persians. satan is the god who carries away the soul. a well-known symbol, that of the all-seeing eye, is related to satan and has been called the eye of set. satan is a god of t

did survive. these giants were warlike, brutal, and ruled over humanity. they also contended a lot with each other, and there was much in-fighting. upon dying a mortal death, these nephilim roamed the earth in spirit, and cause strife among mankind to this day. it is important to keep in mind that there were two separate races of giants that once ruled the earth; the first race of giants was the titans who were not of the angelic race, and the second was the nephilim, who were the offspring of the fallen angels and mortal women. many of these nephilim that were born to human women were brought forth by cesarean section, and would very often kill the mother who bore them. the fall of azazel is a parallel of the prometheus story. if you recall, prometheus defied zeus and stole fire from the

at war with the race of the angels and, in some cases, was spoke of as triumphing over the angels and even making slaves of them. gog was apparently the father and leader of this race, making magog his mother and consort. this race of giants which desecrated the earth was eventually defeated by the heroics of jehovah, satan, and the other arch-angels. after a massive rock was hurled to earth, the titans were destroyed and the angels seized dominion over the earth. the souls of magog, gog, and the dead race of giants are said to be locked in the earth, waiting to be released when the rays of the stars are no longer poisonous to them. dagon, he who allegedly bound leviathan, is also said to be the son of gog. a bit about me i m just a guy from florida who found out about 9/11 in spring of 20

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said to represent temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice. it was termed the indented trassel; but this is a misuse of words. it is a _tesserated_ pavement, with an indented border round it. the pavement, alternately black and white, symbolizes, whether so intended or not, the good and evil principles of the egyptian and persian creed. it is the warfare of michael and satan, of the gods and titans, of balder and lok; between light and shadow, which is darkness; day and night; freedom and despotism; religious liberty and the arbitrary dogmas of a church that thinks for its votaries, and whose pontiff claims to be infallible, and the decretals of its councils to constitute a gospel. the edges of this pavement, if in lozenges, will necessarily be indented or denticulated, toothed like a

s lips that he utter no profane word; let him be just and kind to the stranger, and to his neighbor; let him give way to no vicious excess, lest he make dull and heavy the organs of the spirit. far from the mystic dance of the thiasos be the impure the evil speaker, the seditious citizen, the selfish hunter after gain, the traitor; all those, in short, whose practices are more akin to the riot of titans than to the regulated life of the orphici, or the curetan order of the priests of id an zeus" the votary, elevated beyond the sphere of his ordinary faculties, and unable to account for the agitation which overpowered him, seemed to become divine in proportion as he ceased to be human; to be a d mon or god. already, in imagination, the initiated were numbered among the beatified. they alone

m his birth, his real elysium can exist only beyond the grave. dionusos died and descended to the shades. his passion was the great secret of the mysteries; as death is the grand mystery of existence. his death, typical of nature's death, or of her periodical decay and restoration, was one of the many symbols of the _palingenesia_ or second birth of man. man descended from the elemental forces or titans [elohim, who fed on the body of the pantheistic deity creating the universe by self-sacrifice, commemorates in sacramental observance this mysterious passion; and while partaking of the raw flesh of the victim, seems to be invigorated by a fresh draught from the fountain of universal life, to receive a new pledge of regenerated existence. death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the see

is feet on the threshold of the palace of pluto he ascended to the empyrean, to the bosom of the eternal principle of light of the universe, from which all souls and intelligences emanate. plutarch admits that this theory of two principles was the basis of all the mysteries, and consecrated in the religious ceremonies and mysteries of greece. osiris and typhon, ormuzd and ahriman, bacchus and the titans and giants, all represented these principles. phanes, the luminous god that issued from the sacred egg, and night, bore the sceptres in the mysteries of the new bacchus. night and day were two of the eight gods adored in the mysteries of osiris. the sojourn of proserpine and also of adonis, during six months of each year in the upper world, abode of light, and six months in the lower or abo

ice that the dead god was restored to life, and had by means of his sufferings secured their salvation. three months before, his birth had been celebrated, under the emblem of an infant, born on the 25th of december, or the eighth day before the kalends of january. in greece, in the mysteries of the same god, honored under the name of bakchos, a representation was given of his death, slain by the titans; of his descent into hell, his subsequent resurrection, and his return toward his principle or the pure abode whence he had descended to unite himself with matter. in the islands of chios and tenedos, his death was represented by the sacrifice of a man, actually immolated. the mutilation and sufferings of the same sun-god, honored in phrygia under the name of atys, caused the tragic scenes

opened but once in each year, and no stranger was ever allowed to enter it. night threw her veil over these august mysteries, which could be revealed to no one. there the sufferings of bakchos were represented, who, like osiris, died, descended to hell and rose to life again; and raw flesh was distributed to the initiates, which each ate, in memory of the death of the deity, torn in pieces by the titans. these mysteries also were celebrated at the vernal equinox; and the emblem of generation, to express the active energy and generative power of the divinity, was a principal symbol. the initiates wore garlands and crowns of myrtle and laurel. in these mysteries, the aspirant was kept in terror and darkness to perform the three days and nights; and was then made [greek: a?a??s, or ceremony r

ny things in the ancient allegories are referable to them. another and most important division of the stars was into good and bad, beneficent and malevolent. with the persians, the former, of the zodiacal constellations, were from aries to virgo, inclusive; and the latter from libra to pisces, inclusive. hence the good angels and genii, and the bad angels, devs, evil genii, devils, fallen angels, titans, and giants of the mythology. the other thirty-six constellations were equally divided, eighteen on each side, or, with those of the zodiac, twenty-four. thus the symbolic egg, that issued from the mouth of the invisible egyptian god kneph; known in the grecian mysteries as the orphic egg; from which issued the god chumong of the coresians, and the egyptian osiris, and phanes, god and princ

ren of thy people" the discords of earth were accompanied by a warfare in the sky; and no people underwent the visitation of the almighty, without a corresponding chastisement being inflicted on its tutelary angel. the fallen angels were also fallen stars; and the first allusion to a feud among the spiritual powers in early hebrew mythology, where rabab and his confederates are defeated, like the titans in a battle against the gods, seems to identify the rebellious spirits as part of the visible heavens, where the "high ones on high" are punished or chained, as a signal proof of god's power and justice. god, it is said "stirs the sea with his might--by his understanding he smote rahab--his breath clears the face of heaven--his hand pierced the crooked serpent. god withdraws not his anger;

gn triumphant and eternal. it teaches, as it feels and knows, that evil, and pain, and sorrow exist as part of a wise and beneficent plan, all the parts of which work together under god's eye to a result which shall be perfection. whether the existence of evil is rightly explained in this creed or in that, by typhon the great serpent, by ahriman and his armies of wicked spirits, by the giants and titans that war against heaven, by the two co-existent principles of good and evil, by satan's temptation and the fall of man, by lok and the serpent fenris, it is beyond the domain of masonry to decide, nor does it need to inquire. nor is it within its province to determine how the ultimate triumph of light and truth and good, over darkness and error and evil, is to be achieved; nor whether the r

by which all things attain to perfection. the candidate then said "i am established and redeemed; i am redeemed in my soul from this world, and from all that belongs to it, by the name of, who has redeemed the soul of jesus by the living christ. the assembly then said "peace (or salvation) to all on whom this name rests" the boy dionusos, torn in pieces, according to the bacchic mysteries, by the titans, was considered by the manicheans as simply representing the soul, swallowed up by the powers of darkness--the divine life rent into fragments by matter--that part of the luminous essence of the primitive man [the [greek: p??t??p [protos anthropos] of mani, the [greek: p??p [praon anthropos] of the valentinians, the adam kadmon of the kabalah; and the kaiomorts of the zendavesta, swallowed

ne curiosity the symbols which, if irreverently contemplated, were sure to be misunderstood. he was the same with the dismembered zagreus, the son of persephone, an ancient subterranean dionusos, the horned progeny of zeus in the constellation of the serpent, entrusted by his father with the thunderbolt, and encircled with the protecting dance of curetes. through the envious artifices of her, the titans eluded the vigilance of his guardians and tore him to pieces; but pallas restored the still palpitating heart to his father, who commanded apollo to bury the dismembered remains upon parnassus. dionusos, as well as apollo, was leader of the muses; the tomb of one accompanied the worship of the other; they were the same, yet different, contrasted, yet only as filling separate parts in the sa

test was embodied in allegories and fictitious histories: into which were ingeniously woven all the astronomical phenomena that accompanied, preceded, or followed the different movements of the sun, and the changes of seasons, the approach or withdrawal of inundation. and thus grew into stature and strange proportions the histories of the contests between typhon and osiris, hercules and juno, the titans and jupiter, ormuzd and ahriman, the rebellious angels and the deity, the evil genii and the good; and the other like fables, found not only in asia, but in the north of europe, and even among the mexicans and peruvians of the new world; carried thither, in all probability, by those ph nician voyagers who bore thither civilization and the arts. the scythians lamented the death of acmon, the

went forth to people parts of the earth with an impious race, forgetters and defiers of the true god. the other descendants of the common father of the race intermarried with the daughters of cain's descendants: and all nations preserved the remembrance of that division of the human family into the righteous and impious, in their distorted legends of the wars between the gods, and the giants and titans. when, afterward, another similar division occurred, the descendants of seth alone preserved the true primitive religion and science, and transmitted them to posterity in the ancient symbolical character, on monuments of stone: and many nations preserved in their legendary traditions the memory of the columns of enoch and seth. then the world declined from its original happy condition and f

the hebrews, at least after their return from the persian captivity, had their good deity, and the devil, a bad and malicious spirit, ever opposing god, and chief of the angels of darkness, as god was of those of light. the word "satan" means, in hebrew, simply "the adversary" the chaldeans, plutarch says, had their good and evil stars. the greeks had their jupiter and pluto, and their giants and titans, to whom were assigned the attributes of the serpent with which pluto or serapis was encircled, and the shape whereof was assumed by typhon, ahriman, and the satan of the hebrews. every people had something equivalent to this. the people of pegu believe in two principles, one author of good and the other of evil, and strive to propitiate the latter, while they think it needless to worship t

ight, fire, and splendor; the babylonians, bal and the gods; the chinese, shangti, and the six chief spirits; and the greeks, kronos, and the six great male gods, his progeny, zeus, poseidon, apollo, ares, hephaistos, and hermes; while the female deities were also seven: rhea, wife of kronos, here, athene, artemis, aphrodite, hestia, and demetei. in the orphic theogony, gaia produced the fourteen titans, seven male and seven female, kronos being the most potent of the males; and as the number _seven_ appears in these, nine by threes, or the triple triangle, is found in the three m ra or fates, the three centimanes, and the three cyclopes, offspring of ouranos and gaia, or heaven and earth. the metals, like the colors, were deemed to be seven in number, and a metal and color were assigned t

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ne and many! hence the 'error' lay readers should understand that when a.c. writes "here nuit appeals "what he actually means is "here aiwass, speaking as nuit, appeals" etc. aiwass, being an lpsissimus, can of course speak in name of infinite space. the fact that children is with c capital indicates a hidden technical meaning in the verse. those children are rather big children! they are giants, titans, gargantuas or pantagruels of legend in short, they are babes of the abyss. this is the "grade, or rather, the "going" in which the veil is rent and the mind receives the first impact of the infinite. in this sense, therefore, nuit is appealing to 666 to become the hierophant of the greater mysteries that is to say, the magus of the aeon, the initiator of the masters of the temple. obviousl

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d of light, he being considered the source and fountain of all light, and their children were eos (aurora, the dawn, and hemera, the daylight. nyx again, on her side was also doubly united, having been married at some indefinite period to erebus. in addition to those children of heaven and earth already enumerated, uranus and gaa produced two distinctly different races of beings called giants and titans. the giants personified brute strength alone, but the titans united to their great physical power intellectual qualifications variously developed. there were three giants, briareus, cottus, and gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the page 12 name of the hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed. these mighty giants could shake the u

iants, briareus, cottus, and gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the page 12 name of the hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed. these mighty giants could shake the universe and produce earthquakes; it is therefore evident that they represented those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter. the titans were twelve in number; their names were: oceanus, ceos, crios, hyperion, iapetus, cronus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself

held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself. he therefore hurled them into tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranean dungeon of the gods. in order to avenge the oppression of her children, the giants, gaa instigated a conspiracy on the part of the titans against uranus, which was carried to a successful issue by her son cronus. he wounded his father, and from the blood of the wound which fell upon the earth sprang a race of monstrous beings also called giants. assisted by his brother-titans, cronus succeeded in dethroning his father, who, enraged at his defeat, cursed his rebellious son, and foretold to him a similar fate. cronus now became

one which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others of the titans, who had forsaken cronus on account of his oppressions. cronus and his brother-titans took possession of mount othrys, and prepared for battle. the struggle was long and fierce, and at length zeus, finding that he was no nearer victory than before, bethought himself of the existence of the imprisoned giants, and knowing that they would be able to render him most powerful assistance, he hast

visible power; we can, therefore, form but a faint idea of the impression which it produced upon the spirit of a people whose intellect was still in its infancy, and who believed, with child-like simplicity, that every power of nature was a divinity, which, according as its character was baleful or beneficent, worked for the destruction or benefit of the human race. helios, who was the son of the titans hyperion and theia, is described as rising every morning in the east, preceded by his sister eos (the dawn, who, with her rosy fingers, paints the tips of the mountains, and draws aside that misty veil through which her brother is about to appear. when he has burst forth in all the glorious light of day, eos disappears, and helios now drives his flame-darting chariot along the accustomed tr

martius, and the festivals commemorated in his honour were called neptunalia. sea divinities. oceanus. page 117 oceanus was the son of uranus and gaa. he was the personification of the ever-flowing stream, which, according to the primitive notions of the early greeks, encircled the world, and from which sprang all the rivers and streams that watered the earth. he was married to tethys, one of the titans, and was the father of a [108]numerous progeny called the oceanides, who are said to have been three thousand in number. he alone, of all the titans, refrained from taking part against zeus in the titanomachia, and was, on that account, the only one of the primeval divinities permitted to retain his dominion under the new dynasty. nereus. nereus appears to have been the personification of t

the precise torments which awaited him in tartarus. the wretched sinners were then seized by the furies, who scourged them with their whips, and dragged them along to the great gate, which closed the opening to tartarus, into whose awful depths they were hurled, to suffer endless torture. tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below hades as the earth is distant from the skies. there the titans, fallen from their high estate, dragged out a dreary and monotonous existence; there also were otus and ephialtes, those giant sons of poseidon, who, page 149 with impious hands, had attempted to scale olympus and dethrone its mighty ruler. principal among the sufferers in this abode of gloom were tityus, tantalus, sisyphus, ixion, and the danaides. tityus, one of the earth-born giants, had

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ed as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by cronos (saturn, seized power from uranus; and in turn were defeated by their own children, led by cronos son zeus. after the defeat of the titans, zeus and his brothers poseidon and hades drew lots for the governance of the sky, the sea, and the underworld. eros eros, the god of love, represented as a child or a youth, is usually said to be aphrodite s

hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another, eros was born from the cosmic egg and, as the first god, set the universe in motion. before that, all was chaos. gaia, mother earth, inspired by eros, then brought forth uranus, the sky, and mated with him, to produce the first immortals, the forefathers of the olympian gods. cronos, the child-eater cronos (saturn) was the youngest of the titans, the children of gaia and uranus (the earth and the sky. uranus hated his children and hid them in mother earth, causing her great pain. in revenge, she made cronos a sickle and encouraged him to kill his father. when he had done so, he then married his sister rhea, but fearful that his own children might rise against him, he swallowed them as soon as they were born: first hestia, then deme

to the later story of pandora s box. humankind the first human race lasted until zeus decided to send a great flood to destroy it. the only survivors were deucalion (prometheus son) and his wife pyrrha (daughter of epimetheus and pandora. zeus then offered them any gift they desired, so they asked for more people. each stone they threw over their shoulders became a new man or woman. clash of the titans t he 12 titans, children of uranus, the sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cronos (see p. 23, and sent to tartarus in the underworld, locked behind bronze doors guarded by three 100-armed giants. zeus and his siblings then became the gods of mount olympus. prometheus and epimetheus sided with zeus in this war; his older

e sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cronos (see p. 23, and sent to tartarus in the underworld, locked behind bronze doors guarded by three 100-armed giants. zeus and his siblings then became the gods of mount olympus. prometheus and epimetheus sided with zeus in this war; his older brothers, menoetius and atlas, supported the titans zeus killed menoetius and sent him to tartarus; atlas he condemned to support the heavens on his shoulders for eternity. prometheus 25 the first man prometheus shaped the first man in the image of the gods, by mixing earth and water into clay; athena, the goddess of wisdom, breathed life into him. whereas the other animals hung their heads to look at the ground, prometheus stood man upright

their journey, orpheus could not help glancing back to make sure his beloved was still with him, and as he looked she faded before his eyes, lost to him forever. orpheus never recovered and lived in misery until his death. orpheus sang in praise of the god dionysus (bacchus, see pp. 58 59) and founded orphism, a cult whose mysteries centered on the god dionysus zagreus, who was torn apart by the titans. human sacrifice may have played a role in orphism, and orpheus himself is said to have been torn apart by the maenads, who were punished by dionysus. the fates the three fates were the daughters of the night: clotho( the spinner, lachesis( the drawer of lots, and atropos( the inevitable. even zeus was not more powerful than the fates, who measured out each man s destiny like a length of th

prevented escape. hades had several entrances to the upper world and could also be reached by sea, as odysseus did (see pp. 64 -65. the majority of ghosts conceived of literally as shadows of their former selves stayed on the featureless plain of asphodel. a lucky few went to elysium, the islands of the blessed. an unlucky few were condemned to everlasting torment in tartarus among these were the titans (see p. 23; king tantalus, who killed his son, abused the gods friendship and was condemned to stand chin-deep in water that he could never drink (thus forever tantalized; and sisyphus, deceitful and disobedient, who was forced to roll a heavy rock uphill for eternity every time it neared the top, the rock rolled back down. the underworld cerberus by william blake (1757 1827) aphrodite and

enelaus (mortal) x paris clytemnestra m agamemnon castor polydeuces pollux fates athena minerva aeneas eros cupid the nine muses cadmus m harmonia (mortal (goddess) theseus m ariadne m phaedra demeter ceres poseidon neptune x aethra (mortal) hades pluto hestia vesta hera juno m persephone proserpine hebe m heracles hercules ares eileithya mars zeus jupiter aristaeus m autono actaeon gaia x uranus titans giants other sea nymphs cyclopes leto eos helios selene luna epimetheus m pandora mnemosyne coeus x phoebe themis crius thea x hyperion prometheau1 the order of phosphorus introduction booklet 2003 2 the order of phosphorus 2003 succubus publishing for the order of phosphorus members only. the purpose and intent of the order of phosphorus/toph. magick is elevation to ascend. the entire focu

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"white magicians" fear that their efforts will come back on them, and their confidence is impaired. bunk. real black magicians fear not the words of the mystics, nor do they give a fig for karma as they create their own realities day by day. then as they grow in stature (power) they create their own heavens out in the astral realms and become their own savioe prometheus prometheus was one of the titans who was given the task of creating mankind by zeus. he felt great compassion for his creations and stole fire from heaven and cheated the gods in the apportionments of the sacrifice to aide them. this incurred the wrath of zeus who had him chained to mount caucasus and sent the gigantic kaukasian eagle to feed on his ever-regenerating liver. many generations later herakles freed him from th

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

sented by the sun; hope, the enemy of avarice, by the moon; charity, in opposition to luxury, by venus, the bright star of morning and evening; strength, superior to wrath, by mars; prudence, hostile to idleness, by mercury; temperance, opposed to gluttony, by saturn, who was given a stone instead of his children to devour; finally, justice, in opposition to envy, by jupiter, the conqueror of the titans. such are the symbols borrowed by astronomy from the hellenic cultus. in the kabalah of the hebrews, the sun represents the angel of light; the moon, the angel of aspirations and dreams; mars, the destroying angel; venus, the angel of loves; mercury, the angel of progress; jupiter, the angel of power: saturn, the angel of the wilderness. they were named also michael, gabriel, samael, anael

SATANGEL

may pass. it matters little. the procedures and results are the same. through the study of the angelic and demonic forms, we can begin to see the traces of a strange evolution of belief. what began on the whole as spirits of nature grew to become the gods of the pagan age. these in turn were reinterpreted and demonised as one culture dominated another. the most ancient gods become the giants and titans, whilst younger conquering religions build new temples. these in turn became subjugated to monothiesm, and their nature is reinterpreted yet again. in our modern day we no longer like to speak of god or the devil, and perhaps even feel a slight embarrassment at the superstitions of our forebears. instead we are more comfortable to reduce such ideas to psychological concepts. modern magician

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

to become involved in human affairs. characteristics of the gods the odyssey provides modern readers with a rich portrait of the characteristics of the gods and the roles they play in human affairs as they were conceived by the ancient greeks. greek religion was polytheistic, meaning that the people believed in more than one god. chief among the greek gods is zeus, son of cronus, the king of the titans. on reaching adulthood, zeus leads a revolt against the titans and takes away the throne from cronus with the help of his brothers poseidon and hades. from his position on mount olympus, zeus observes the affairs of humans. he sees everything, governs all human actions, rewards good conduct and punishes evil, dispenses justice, and protects cities and homes. nonetheless, zeus recognizes tha

ne with trailing feet and shambling gait. and i will guide him to sparta and to sandy pylos to seek tidings of his dear father s return, if peradventure he may hear thereof and that so he may be had in good report among men. spake: spoke. perish: die. rent: torn; broken. happless: unlucky. affliction: torment. seagirt: surrounded by ocean or sea. naval: center. habitation: home. atlas: one of the titans, or giant gods who ruled earth until overthrown by zeus. assunder: apart. guileful: deceptive. wooing: convincing. yearning: longing. wroth: angry. girdler: supporter. quenchless: never satisfied. cyclops: one-eyed giant. unerring: unfailing. rouse: wake. might: strength. achaeans: greek armies. wooers: those hoping to marry odysseus s wife. thronging: large. kine: cattle. shambling gait: s

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

n your engineers can give to their mightiest instruments of war. can you guess that to these italian shores, to the old circaean promontory, came the wise from the farthest east, to search for plants and simples which your pharmacists of the counter would fling from them as weeds? the first herbalists the master chemists of the world were the tribe that the ancient reverence called by the name of titans (syncellus, page 14 "chemistry the invention of the giants) i remember once, by the hebrus, in the reign of but this talk" said zanoni, checking himself abruptly, and with a cold smile "serves only to waste your time and my own" he paused, looked steadily at glyndon, and continued "young man, think you that vague curiosity will supply the place of earnest labour? i read your heart. you wish

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

aces the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titans against dionysus, and they tear the child limb from limb. but pallas athene rescues the still-beating heart and brings it to zeus. out of it he engenders his son for a second time.69 the myth can be seen as representing a psychological process of an extremely inward character. let us interpret it after the fashion of the egyptian priest who instructed solon in the nature of myths. it is rel

still subject to time and earthly conditions; and as soon as the god, the dionysiac spirit, stirs within the soul, it experiences a longing for its real spiritual form. however, consciousness again imaged as a female deity, 62 christianity as mystical fact hera appears and becomes jealous of the offspring from a qualitatively higher consciousness. she rouses the lower aspects of human nature the titans and the unformed divine child is dismembered. the divine knowledge exists in humanity, but dismembered by the understanding that is bound to the senses. if on the other hand there is within the individual sufficient higher wisdom, this latter nurses and cherishes the unformed child until it is born again as a second son of god dionysus. and thus sense-derived understanding, the dismembered

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

et police in a soviet puppet government in kabul" 340 codex magica marc andreessen, computer scientist who in 1993 developed a program called mosaic while working at the national center for supercomputing applications. mosaic was the first web browser and made the internet possible (photo: newsweek, april 21, 2003, p. e6) triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 341 two media titans confer: viacom's chairman, sumner redstone (a jew redstone is not his real name, and viacom's president mel karmazin, also jewish. viacom owns cbs, mtv, disney, and many other media properties, all firmly in the zionist camp editorially and subject-wise (photo: u.s. news& world report, june 14, 2004, p. 70) this scene is set at the white house in march, 2001, with israeli prime minister ari

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1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. dionysus zagreus, the horned son of zeus (king of the gods) and persephone (daughter of zeus and demeter, was the great god of the orphic mysteries, who was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay

ile the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. orpheus preached that humankind was created from the ashes of the titans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant 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 34 afterlife mysteries war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titani

he initiation rites, orpheus of arpha, the one who heals with light. orpheus next changed the cult of bacchus/ dionysus and set about restructuring the spiritual soul of greece, recreating the mysteries by blending the religion of zeus with that of dionysus. orpheus taught that dionysis zagreus, the horned son of zeus and persephone, the great god of the orphic mysteries, was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay

ile the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. orpheus preached that humankind was created from the ashes of the titans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the divine essence within

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.c.e, king of macedonia, lydia was brought under greco-macedonian control, and then in 133 b.c.e. it became part of the roman province of asia. lydia was across the agean sea from greece. a legendary king of lydia was named tantalis: his name sounds similar to atlantis, and he shared many mythic attributes among lydians that the god atlas had among greeks. like atlas, tantalis was a leader of the titans, the group of gods who were overthrown by zeus. in greek mythology, zeus punished atlas by banishing him to the west and made to hold up the sky. a similar fate was shared by tantalis in myths of anatolia (an old name for the region in asia minor that includes turkey. according to that myth, tantalis ruled over a fabulously wealthy city he founded on mt. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i

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dark forces- and the alchemist had to find a way to discover, rescue, or raise the child from that state. again, mythology resoundingly backs this pattern- the forces of chaos always threaten the divine child, killing, stealing, or imprisoning him outside of time; through some means, the child is plunged into the unformed world, as was the baby dionysos plunged into dark chaos and hades when the titans attacked him, and as was the young son or child from celtic myths, the mabon or oengus, kidnapped or stolen away to imprisonment in the otherworld, before heroes could release him. this whole pattern was of the child being taken before being rescued from its timeless state, or of the child being found and rising again into perfection and bringing completion to the entire cycle of serial tim

anner that he disappears and is plunged into the chaos, the unformed darkness of the underworld/otherworld, or is simply hidden away. his rescue or rebirth, and subsequent preservation, only happens when the dame, in the form of dame wisdom, takes action to preserve him and assure his return- in greek mythology, the child dionysos, after being dismembered by the forces of chaos in the form of the titans, has his heart taken by athena (wisdom) and from her, the heart is given to safekeeping, where it is used to regenerate the baby boy, that he may grow up and return triumphantly to redeem and regenerate all. in this manner, the divine feminine acts as the assurance of the survival of the child, just as, in earlier times, only women could assure the survival of any child. the housle, mystery

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picture of the last judgment; they are clinging and tenacious like drowning men, and free spirits must struggle energetically against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to hell. this war is as ancient as the world; the greeks figured it under the symbols of eros and anteros, and the hebrews by the antagonism of cain and abel. it is the war of the titans and the gods. the two armies are everywhere invisible, disciplined and always ready for attack or counterattack. simple-minded folk on both sides, astonished at the instant and unanimous resistance that they meet, begin to believe in vast plots cleverly organized, in hidden, all-powerful societies. eugene sue invents rodin< churchmen talk of the illuminati and of th

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

higher intuitions, inspirations, latent psychic functions, and spiritual energies. it is here that the higher self expresses itself in various forms through archetypes. the ordinary person is usually unaware of these forces and archetypes until they are brought to light during the process of self-realization. archetypes of the superconscious include the first gods of a pantheon, such as the greek titans or the norse giants. 6. the middle unconscious is an inner region similar and accessible to that of the waking consciousness. this contains all t h g s in our field of awareness that we are not normally aware of, but that we can become aware of. it is an unconscious matrix that underlies the conscious mind where the mental activities are "incubated before their birth into consciousness. arc

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

e bastard children of his brain manifestations of the absolute. then hegel who, instead of sitting out on the universal stairs with berkeley fs gbishop, h waltzed wildly with some ethereal absolute, which, whether object or subject, was in no case existence, merely the skeleton of some phantom appearance, having no life in itself, but solely in the absolute mirror of its reflection. each of these titans, in his own manner, threw fresh fuel on to the berkeleyan conflagration, so hoping that, by piling up the blazing mass, they might illumine the entire universe. and how they failed the last five decades have only too directly shown, by their stagnation in the realms of a certain and unknowable absolute; and in the parasitic growths of scientific agnosticism, scientific positivism, scientifi

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

gic circle, the magus deliberately abolishes the personal circle of protection--or rather, modifies and expands it to accommodate his or her magical purpose-and must rely for protection on the larger circle of the art. the sole purpose of the magic circle is to create a miniature world in which the magus becomes the ruling god. the forces of chaos, mythically represented by frost giants and other titans, are excluded. little wonder they gather outside the border of the ring and wait their chance to make mischief. within the circle the magus temporarily upsets the natural balance of things. the circle becomes a magic sky palace, and he or she, the solar monarch around which everything revolves. in separating an area of space for a ritual working, the magus must exclude all potencies that ar

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ons of the soul, and consequently liable to pain as well as pleasure, and to such other appetites and affections, as flow from their various combinations. such affections, however, have a greater power and influence over some of them than over others, just as there are different degrees of virtue and vice found in these daemons as well as in mankind. in like manner, the wars of the giants and the titans which are so much spoken of by the greeks, the detestable actions of kronos, the combats between apollo and the python, the flights of dionysos, and the wanderings of demeter, are exactly of the same nature as the adventures of osiris and typhon. therefore, they all are to be accounted for in the same manner, and every treatise of mythology will readily furnish us with an abundance of other

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ek conscience, enabling it to comprehend the value of the christian message 'orphism was the most important of these deriving its name from its alleged founder. it was a particular form of that orgiastic and ecstatic religion which originated in the worship of dionysus and consisted in living over again his myth. zagreus, the son of zeus and kore (persephone, is slain at hera's instigation by the titans who tear him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had birth from the ashes of the titans smitten by the thunderbolt of zeus in punishment for their crime. this is why all men bear the burden of the titans' crime

ar him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had birth from the ashes of the titans smitten by the thunderbolt of zeus in punishment for their crime. this is why all men bear the burden of the titans' crime; but as the titans devoured zagreus, man has within him also the nature of dionysus. theologians said that it was the titanic nature innate in the body from which man must free himself to reunite with the dionysiac nature through the agency of the mysteries. thus the orphic mystery took a lofty moral and spiritual significance and exercised great influence on lofty souls such as heraclitus, pindar and plato

spherical case at which the youth gazes ecstatically is a magical mirror; he is fascinated and falls victim to a hallucinatory monoideism and, as happens in crystallomancy, sees in the mirror a series of visions which have their centre and starting point in the mask and life of dionysus. he sees unrolling itself in the mirror the life of the god, sees how he was rent to pieces and devoured by the titans, and, in short, sees the future destiny of the neophyte, who, if she would be born again as a new creature, must die together with zagreus. it is this dread dionysiac death which he announces to the maiden. it is a divination which is being wrought and it is silenus, first the pedagogue and then the mystagogue of dionysus, by whom it is wrought. besides including the annunciation of the fut

d it is silenus, first the pedagogue and then the mystagogue of dionysus, by whom it is wrought. besides including the annunciation of the future death of the neophyte, this scene includes further repetition of the most important gesture attributed by myth to the god: dionysus when a child beheld in a magic mirror, fashioned for him by hephaistos, his future destiny. another tradition is that the titans slew zagreus by showing him in a mirror his own misshapen face, so distracting his attention that they killed him. now as the sacramental drama consisted in the repetition of the actions of the god to obtain by this imitation communion with him, this explains why the neophyte, or the youth on her behalf, gazes on the mirror as dionysus did so as to become as dionysus and die with him '6. th

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